1. God will put us into situations that contradict what He has promised. Genesis 22:2
2. God watches to determine if we will remain obedient even when our circumstances contradict His word. Genesis 22:12
3. God listens to our every day speech to test our faith in His ability to keep His word. Genesis 22:5,8
4. God has already provided our needs.
It is just our inability to perceive it. Genesis 22:13.
5. God's promises are conditioned upon us taking Him at His Word without waiving and remaining obedient in the apparent contradictions. Genesis 22: 15-18
6. God puts us through these contradictions to determine if we'll love Him whatever the cost. Genesis 22:12
7. God will come through in His time during impossible situations. Genesis 22:14
Keeping reading...
Genesis 12-17 God had promised Abraham to bless the entire earth through Isaac and his offspring.
Genesis 22:2. Before Isaac had children, God commanded Abraham to offer Issac as a burnt offering.
Genesis 22:5. Abraham knew that Isaac was to be killed.
He also believed that "we'll come back to you".
Abraham believed that God would raise Isaac from the dead. Hebrews 11:17-19.
Genesis 22:8. Abraham believed that God would provide Himself an offering.
Genesis 22:12. God was testing Abraham to determine if Abraham loved Him more than the son that He had given Him.
Genesis 22:13. God answered Abraham's promise to Isaac in Genesis 22:8.
He did provide Himself an offering.
In fact, God did it before Abraham said it.
Genesis 22:14. Abraham renamed the Place " The Lord will provide."
Read on...
God Tests Abraham (NIrV)
22 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am,” Abraham replied.
2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son.
He is the one you love.
Take Isaac.
Go to the place called Moriah.
Give your son to me there as a burnt offering.
Sacrifice him on the mountain I will show you.”
He is the one you love.
Take Isaac.
Go to the place called Moriah.
Give your son to me there as a burnt offering.
Sacrifice him on the mountain I will show you.”
3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey.
He took two of his servants and his son Isaac with him.
He cut enough wood for the burnt offering.
Then he started out for the place God had shown him.
4 On the third day Abraham saw the place a long way off.
5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey.
I and the boy will go over there and worship.
Then we’ll come back to you.”
He took two of his servants and his son Isaac with him.
He cut enough wood for the burnt offering.
Then he started out for the place God had shown him.
4 On the third day Abraham saw the place a long way off.
5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey.
I and the boy will go over there and worship.
Then we’ll come back to you.”
6 Abraham had his son Isaac carry the wood for the burnt offering.
He himself carried the fire and the knife.
And the two of them walked on together.
7 Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “Father?”
He himself carried the fire and the knife.
And the two of them walked on together.
7 Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said.
“But where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
“But where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.”
And the two of them walked on together.
And the two of them walked on together.
9 They reached the place God had shown Abraham.
There Abraham built an altar.
He arranged the wood on it.
He tied up his son Isaac.
Abraham placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10 Then he reached out his hand.
He picked up the knife to kill his son.
11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven.
He said, “Abraham! Abraham!”
There Abraham built an altar.
He arranged the wood on it.
He tied up his son Isaac.
Abraham placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10 Then he reached out his hand.
He picked up the knife to kill his son.
11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven.
He said, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Here I am,” Abraham replied.
12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said.
“Do not harm him.
Now I know that you would do anything for God.
You have not held back from me your son, your only son.”
“Do not harm him.
Now I know that you would do anything for God.
You have not held back from me your son, your only son.”
13 Abraham looked around.
There in a bush he saw a ram caught by its horns.
He went over and took the ram.
He sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
14 So Abraham named that place The Lord Will Provide.
To this day people say, “It will be provided on the mountain of the Lord.”
There in a bush he saw a ram caught by its horns.
He went over and took the ram.
He sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
14 So Abraham named that place The Lord Will Provide.
To this day people say, “It will be provided on the mountain of the Lord.”
15 The angel of the Lord called out to Abraham from heaven a second time.
16 He said, “I am giving you my word that I will bless you.
I will bless you because of what you have done,” announces the Lord.
“You have not held back your son, your only son.
17 So I will certainly bless you.
I will make the children born into your family as many as the stars in the sky.
I will make them as many as the grains of sand on the seashore.
They will take over the cities of their enemies.
18 All nations on earth will be blessed because of your children.
All these things will happen because you have obeyed me.
16 He said, “I am giving you my word that I will bless you.
I will bless you because of what you have done,” announces the Lord.
“You have not held back your son, your only son.
17 So I will certainly bless you.
I will make the children born into your family as many as the stars in the sky.
I will make them as many as the grains of sand on the seashore.
They will take over the cities of their enemies.
18 All nations on earth will be blessed because of your children.
All these things will happen because you have obeyed me.
M. H. Dennis
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