1. Teaching the “whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27)
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2. Genesis 22: A Father sacrifices His Son
Why the test?
For Abraham’s sake
For our sake
The Father to offer His son
The Son in cooperation and obedience, unto death, to the will of The Father
Isaac fully mature
Could have walked away
Rose early – quick to obey, indicating trust
Saddled the donkey
Two men came with them

3. Genesis 22: A father sacrifices His Son
The Father prepared the wood
When Jesus was crucified it was on wood that the Father had created
He holds all things together by the word of His power (Colossians 1 v 17 & Hebrews 1 v 3)
He was holding together the wood of the cross and the bodies of Jesus’ persecutors – what mercy and grace
“Stay here while we go yonder to worship”
No one could go with them
It was a matter to be settled between The Father and The Son
It was an act of worship – not a sing-song, but a total commitment to God

4. Genesis 22: A father sacrifices His Son
God will provide, Himself, a lamb
Prophetic
He knew God would have to (and was able to) resurrect his son (Hebrews 11 v 19)
As it was a burnt offering, He knew God could raise his son from the ashes
There is also an inference that Abraham knew he was acting out a scene that had a future fulfilment – “As it is said even to this day, in the mount of The Lord it will be fulfilled”
What would be fulfilled? – A substitutionary sacrifice!

5. Genesis 22: A father sacrifices His Son
He built the altar
Demarcation of the sacrificial site
Laid His son on the wood
Took the knife to slay His Son
God intervened setting himself absolutely against:
Human sacrifice
The idea that there is any way we can pay for our own sins
A substitute was needed and it was established here on Moriah
The substitutionary lamb (Ram) was provided

6. Genesis 22: A father sacrifices His Son
The Lord Will Provide
The Lamb of God
In the mount of The Lord
The first mention of the lamb in the Old Testament “Where is the lamb”
The first mention of the lamb in the New Testament “Behold the lamb” (John 1 verse 29)

7. Genesis 22: A father sacrifices His Son
The four-fold promise
Blessings
Innumerable descendants
Possess the gates of your enemies
All the nations of the earth blessed through you – Messianic prophecy
And finally in the historic account
Where was Isaac in the return party
This is part of the creation of the similitude between Isaac and Jesus
We do not see him again until the servant gathers a bride for him from outside the Jewish Nation

8. Genesis 22: A father sacrifices His Son
The extent to which Isaac was a ‘type’ of Christ
Both were children of promise
The birth of both pre announced
Both named before their birth
Both born supernaturally
Both births received with scepticism
Both births occurred ‘at the appointed time’
Both called “Only Son”
Both Mocked by contemporaries
Neither had transgressed the law
Both carried the wood on which they were to die

9. Genesis 22: A father sacrifices His Son
Both went willingly to their fate
Both were forsaken of their father
Both were the subject of a resurrection (figuratively in Isaac’s case)
Both were to be the source of many descendants
In both cases The Father leads the Son to sacrifice
A donkey is involved in both of their journeys to sacrifice
A journey is involved for both
Both leave their homeland to go to a place of sacrifice
Both are descendants of Abraham
Both were sacrificed in the same place

10. Genesis 22: A father sacrifices His Son
In both cases their companions stayed behind
Both asked questions of the Father
The Father of both knew their callings
Both sons submitted to their Father’s will
Both Fathers were willing to sacrifice their son
Both Fathers believed in resurrection
Both Fathers loved their son
In both cases the son was laid on the wood
In both cases the son was bound to the wood
In both cases the son was to be pierced

11. Genesis 22: A Father sacrifices His Son
In both cases, The Lord provided the sacrifice
In both cases, blood was shed
Both sacrifices were a substitute
Both were a demonstration of God’s love
Both involved men of faith and obedience
There were two men involved on both occasions
Thorns were involved in both cases (the ram and the crown)
Both led to abundant blessings for the world
Both resurrected the 3rd day (Isaac figuratively, Jesus literally)
Both ultimately survived

12. Genesis 22: A Father sacrifices His Son
Last of all
1 Corinthians 15 verses 3 and 4 speak of Christ being raised on the third day, “according to the scriptures”
Abraham was told to sacrifice his son and then undertook a three day journey
Isaac was dead in the heart of Abraham for 3 days and on the third day he was given back to him.
The Bible refers to Jesus in the New Testament as, “Slain before the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13 v 8)
Jesus had been dead in the heart of the Father long before it actually happened
Just Like God the Father, Abraham got his son back on the third day

13. Teaching the “whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27)
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