July 23, 2025 • 18 mins
Long ago, Isaac marched up a hill with wood carried on his back. In faith, he allowed his father to tie him to an altar as a sacrifice. Ultimately, he didn’t need to die. Another son would carry wood up a hill, and be the ultimate sacrifice.
Today's Bible verse is Luke 22:42, from the King James Version.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let us pray, Father, if you are willing remove this
cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done.
Luke twenty two forty two. Dear Heavenly Father, your ways
are higher than our ways, and your thoughts are higher
than our thoughts. Your wisdom far exceeds our own. Yet
(00:24):
still we sometimes wrestle with obedience. We want our way
and our desires to be put before yours. Lord. We
humbly pray today that you would conform our hearts to
yours so we can honestly echo the words of Jesus.
Not my will, but yours be done. We want holy
(00:46):
submission and a heavenly mindset forgive us when we stumble
and fall, prey to pride, and guide us daily to
fulfill your will, even when it's difficult. We you, and
we trust you in Jesus's name. Amen, Thank you for
(01:07):
praying with me today. Stay tuned now for another episode
of Stories of the Messiah with Rabbi Schneider.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
The cries of a tiny newborn echoed under the vast,
stolid canvas of Canaanite knight Sarah cradled the newborn child
in her arms, tears of joy cascading down her aged face.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
She laughed at her, said she.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Once scoffed at the idea of bearing a child at
her age. Yet here he was the fulfillment of God's promise,
packaged in a small child.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
His name will be Isaac, she sighed. God has made
me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh.
Who would have thought Abraham and Sarah would ever bear
a child.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
The boy's cries were a melody that turned bitter impossibilities
into sweet possibilities.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Abrahm entered the tent and gazed upon Isaac.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
He limped forward and knelt beside his wife. His trembling
hands reached for him. Isaac's tiny hand wrapped around Abraham's finger,
and a surge of fierce and overwhelming love engulfed him.
Abraham was not just holding his son. He was holding
the manifestation of the covenant between him and God, the
tangible evidence of his faithfulness. This child was not just
(02:32):
the fruit of his old age, the seed of the
great nation God had promised. As Isaac's soft breath warmed
Abraham's chest, the realization of his promise overwhelmed him. Abraham
vowed that night never to doubt God again, he would
obey him in everything, for he knew God always worked
things together for the good.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He always fulfilled his promises.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Jesus Podcast,
brought to you by Pray dot Com. I'm Ethan from
pray dot com and it's my sincere joy to be
here with you today. If you've been following this podcast
and found it a blessing, follow and subscribe so you
never miss an episode, and remember to download pray dot
(03:16):
com to hear the Bible come to life. And remember
to download pray dot com to hear the Bible come
to life. This series unpacks stories from some of the
most famous heroes of the Bible, like Adam, Noah, and Abraham.
Each time we take a closer look at these characters,
(03:37):
we realize that they are deeply flawed but mightily used
by God. We can see ourselves in their stories. Their
struggles mirror our own in many ways. Yet the most
remarkable thing about them is that they point us toward
a greater hero, someone more mighty and worthy of all honor, Jesus.
(04:03):
Today we meet the promised son of Abraham, Isaac. When
he was just a boy, he was asked to join
his father on a journey to Mariah. At first, he
doesn't realize that this journey may very well lead to
his death. Join me for this cinematic retelling of Genesis
chapter twenty two in ancient Canaan, where God gives a
(04:26):
seemingly impossible command to Abraham. Let's begin.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Years had passed since the birth of Isaac, and the
aged Abraham and Sarah slept soundly in their tent. The
night sky was covered in swirling dark clouds. The twinkling
lights of the stars were hidden from view, and the
cold eastern wind blew against the sides of the tent.
Abraham heard a whisper through the wind. The voice of
(04:54):
God beckoned him again. Abraham wrapped himself in wound and
left the tent. The frigidaire at his aged bones and
his legs shook as he sat on the stump of
a terebinth tree and listened for the sound.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Of the Lord Abraham.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The voice hushed. Years had matured Abraham's understanding of God.
He had accumulated enough moments of faith and failure to
better grasp the Lord's will. When God spoke, Abram replied
with a simple you are.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
His voice was raspy and tender.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
He was ready for whatever God had for him, but
he had not anticipated what would come next. God spoke
through the cool evening wind.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Take your son, Isaac, your one and only son, the
one whom you laugh, to the mountains of Moriah, Bring wood, oil,
and robe. There you will make him into a burnt
offering from me. The winds picked up, as did Abraham's
heart beat.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
His only son, the one God had promised to him.
Abraham thought about objecting, He considered running.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Yet he did not.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He paused, looked up at the starless sky, and shed
a few silent tears to God. What God asked was
too much for him, but he would obey. He closed
his eyes and nodded without a word. Abraham stood up
and retreated back to his tent. He was done questioning God.
He was a man of faith, bent on obeying even
(06:28):
when the task seemed impossible. He sobbed alone under his blankets,
waiting for the morning to come. The sun rose, and
Abraham began to chop wood, coil, rope, and poor oil.
Isaac emerged from his tent and looked at his father.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
He asked, innocently preparing to make a sacrifice. Isaac's eyes
had a youthful exuberance, especially when he spoke to his father.
The two of them had a tender and unbreakable bond.
Abraham looked at his trying to mask his sorrow.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
We are both going to the mountains of Moriah to
make a sacrifice, son, although I fear mine may be
a greater sacrifice than your horse.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Isaac did not question his father's cryptic answer. He helped
the servants, bundled the wood and strapped everything to his
father's donkey.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Abraham, Isaac, and a few.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Servants ventured to the hill country of Moriah. The skies
hovering above them were still swirling. Thunder rolled in the distance.
They came to the mountain's base, and Abraham dismounted the
donkey and unstrapped the wood. He placed the bundle in
Isaac's hands, gestured to the servants and said, stay here
with the donkey, my son, and I will go up
(07:45):
to worship. He paused for a moment and looked at
his son. He had faith that somehow God's promise would endure.
He turned back to his servants and finished saying.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
And then we were coming down the mountain.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Both of us, two of them, ascended the mountain. Every
step was a strain for Abraham. Age and sorrow took
his strength away, draining every.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Ounce of his energy.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Isaac, a boy who loved his father, marched behind him
with the wood. He propped up his father.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And the two continued to the summit.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Abraham lit the fire on a torch in his left
hand and held a knife.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
In his right hand.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Father, Isaac said, Abraham could barely look at his son.
The torchlight was slightly reflected in his teary eyes as
he replied, Oh, here, thy shadden.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
We have a flame and wood, But where's the lamb
for the sacrifice?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
God will provide a lamp, Abraham whispered. The clouds raged violently,
galloping across the skies. As they reached the top, a
solitary flat stone was there.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
To make a sacrifice.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Without a word, Abraham took the wood from his son
and placed them on the altar. He prepared the altar,
then turned to Isaac. He held his son's hands and
bound them with a rope. Memories of Isaac's birth came
flashing back in his mind. Those tiny hands wrapped around
his finger. Now he was tying his son with rope
(09:15):
to be sacrificed. Isaac, significantly stronger than his father, could
have struggled. He could have ran far to protested, but
he didn't. He had a quiet trust in his father.
Even as Abraham laid him down on the wood and
drew out his knife, Abraham stared.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Up at the heavens.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Storm clouds thrashed like the waves of the sea. The
supposed father of Nations raised his knife, prepared to kill
his only son. He drew his shoulder back, closed his eyes,
and screamed to the heavens. He tilted his hips to
thrust downward, but was interrupted by a sound brooming from
the sky.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Abraham Abraham.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Abraham dropped his knife and fell to his knees as
he heard the voice. Here I am, he replied, trembling
with anxious sorrow.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Do not lay a hand on the boy. I know
you fear me, for you will not even withhold your
son from me. I will not require his life from you.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Instantly, Abraham unbound his son and embraced him. He wept
with bellowing sobs. He held Isaac's face and smiled. Then
the two of them looked to the left and saw
a ram caught in the thicket. Then they sacrificed the
ram to the Lord, and God reaffirmed his blessing to
Abraham and Isaac.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
By myself, I have sworn to bless you, he said,
because you have done this and have not withheld your
only son from me, I will bless and multiply your
offspring to outnumber the stars in the heavens and sand
on the shore. Your offspring will possess the gait of
his enemies, and through him all the nations will be blessed.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
What a test God put Abraham through. If you think
about it, Abraham's entire life has been filled with tests.
Abraham's journey was marked by multiple tests of faith, from
leaving his homeland and saving his nephew to fathering a
child at an old age. Through this journey, God was
(11:22):
shaping Abraham into a conduit of his blessings, and God
then invited Abraham into the greatest test of all, sacrificing
his son. This command from God seems so harsh, and
do you know what it was harsh. That's the point.
(11:43):
God knew that the most difficult and brutal thing he
could ask was for Abraham to sacrifice his own son,
But there was always a plan, a plan to save
Isaac just in the nick of time. In his willingness
to sacrifice what was most precious to him, Abraham demonstrated
(12:04):
his unequivocal faith in God's wisdom over his own. This
story illuminates the principle of trust in God even when
things don't make sense. Abraham trusted in God's goodness and
somehow knew that Isaac's life would be spared. So he
stood there at the altar, poised and prepared to make
(12:27):
the ultimate sacrifice, hoping and praying God would come through.
Yet Abraham was not the only figure in this story.
Was he Isaac was also being tested. His willingness to
trust his father, even towards the point of being slain
on an altar, hearkens to a greater theme in the Bible.
(12:50):
He silently marched up the hill and willingly laid down
his life in submission to his father's will. Abraham's sacrifice
of faith was signific and the willingness of Isaac that
laid down his life was incredible. This event points to
another story. Jesus knelt before God on a different hell,
(13:11):
prepared to be sacrificed for the world's sins.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Jesus and his disciples scaled the winding path to the
garden of Gssemone. The full moon lingered over the trees
like a watchful eye. The frosty air pierced the disciples
lungs as they followed the shepherd. They all missed the
warmth of the upper room and wondered why he had
led them there. They arrived at the garden and paused
under a wooden glen. There was an ominous silence in
(13:40):
the garden, as if all the creatures of the night
were watching them with bated breath. Unbeknownst to the other disciples,
conspiracies had been made to arrest and execute Jesus. They
were blissfully ignorant of the impending peril Jesus was about
to face. So the son of Man carried that burden
alone with him. He knew what was coming, and he
(14:01):
knew it needed to be done. The wind picked up,
running through the trees like wolves, It blew towards a
far off stone underneath a break in the tree covering
it beckoned the Son of God forward.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
He left his.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Companions and retreated to be alone with his father. He
knelt beside the stone and poured his soul out to him.
Jesus considered the faith that awaited him, not just the
pain of crucifixion, but the separation he would have to
endure from the Father and Spirit. All the sins of
humanity were going to be thrust upon his shoulders. The
(14:36):
existential weight overwhelmed him. Blood sprang from his paws like
beads of sweat. The hero of Heaven was overcome with
anxious anticipation. He could have ran, fought, or protested, but
he didn't. He had a quiet trust in his Father.
Cutting through the silence, Jesus looked up to the moonlit
(14:58):
sky and prayed, Ah, if.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
It is possible, did this come pass from me?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He pleaded with God that there was no other way.
He was the prophesied sacrifice. Like Isaac long ago, Jesus
would be led up onto a mountain of carrying wood,
although there would be no sheep to take his place.
He was the sheep, the lamb of God, sent to
take away the sins of humanity. God would do what
(15:27):
he spared Abraham from kill his only son. Jesus, knowing
all these things bowed and whispered.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. He was
ready to die.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Not my will, but yours be done. Now there is
a prayer for all of us to cling to Jesus.
Abraham and Isaac, all demons, traded an important quality for
us to embody, trust, unwavering and devoted trust. They all
trusted in the will of God, even when the path
(16:12):
forward seemed treacherous. All of their faiths were put to
the test. The test given to Abraham and Isaac foreshadowed
the test God, the father and son would be put
through as the greater Abraham God. The Father would slay
his son as a sacrifice. God. The son would willingly
(16:33):
give up his life and submit to his Father's will.
Do you see how this powerful imagery is interwoven throughout scripture. Isaac,
the promised son of Abraham, was a mere image to
a greater son who had come into the scene. Genesis
chapter twenty two points forward to the ultimate test passed
(16:55):
by Jesus Christ. Like Abraham and Isaac, Jesus was tested
in the garden of Gassemone. He surrendered his will to
the Father's, saying, not my will, but yours be done.
Jesus ultimately did what Isaac didn't. His life was given
(17:16):
as a sacrifice which acted as the ultimate atonement for
the sins of humanity. You and I are beneficiaries of
the sacrifice made by Jesus Christ. While Isaac's willingness to
submit to his father was beautiful, it was only a
small picture of what Christ did when he submitted to
(17:38):
the Father and redeemed mankind. In this way, Jesus is
the greater Isaac. Join us next time to witness a
man struggling in the dirt, fighting tooth and nail with
God himself for a blessing. Our next episode will be
an epic journey to discover how Jesus is the greater
(17:58):
Jacob
Let us pray, Father, if you are willing remove this
cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done.
Luke twenty two forty two. Dear Heavenly Father, your ways
are higher than our ways, and your thoughts are higher
than our thoughts. Your wisdom far exceeds our own. Yet
(00:24):
still we sometimes wrestle with obedience. We want our way
and our desires to be put before yours. Lord. We
humbly pray today that you would conform our hearts to
yours so we can honestly echo the words of Jesus.
Not my will, but yours be done. We want holy
(00:46):
submission and a heavenly mindset forgive us when we stumble
and fall, prey to pride, and guide us daily to
fulfill your will, even when it's difficult. We you, and
we trust you in Jesus's name. Amen, Thank you for
(01:07):
praying with me today. Stay tuned now for another episode
of Stories of the Messiah with Rabbi Schneider.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
The cries of a tiny newborn echoed under the vast,
stolid canvas of Canaanite knight Sarah cradled the newborn child
in her arms, tears of joy cascading down her aged face.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
She laughed at her, said she.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Once scoffed at the idea of bearing a child at
her age. Yet here he was the fulfillment of God's promise,
packaged in a small child.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
His name will be Isaac, she sighed. God has made
me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh.
Who would have thought Abraham and Sarah would ever bear
a child.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
The boy's cries were a melody that turned bitter impossibilities
into sweet possibilities.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Abrahm entered the tent and gazed upon Isaac.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
He limped forward and knelt beside his wife. His trembling
hands reached for him. Isaac's tiny hand wrapped around Abraham's finger,
and a surge of fierce and overwhelming love engulfed him.
Abraham was not just holding his son. He was holding
the manifestation of the covenant between him and God, the
tangible evidence of his faithfulness. This child was not just
(02:32):
the fruit of his old age, the seed of the
great nation God had promised. As Isaac's soft breath warmed
Abraham's chest, the realization of his promise overwhelmed him. Abraham
vowed that night never to doubt God again, he would
obey him in everything, for he knew God always worked
things together for the good.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He always fulfilled his promises.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Jesus Podcast,
brought to you by Pray dot Com. I'm Ethan from
pray dot com and it's my sincere joy to be
here with you today. If you've been following this podcast
and found it a blessing, follow and subscribe so you
never miss an episode, and remember to download pray dot
(03:16):
com to hear the Bible come to life. And remember
to download pray dot com to hear the Bible come
to life. This series unpacks stories from some of the
most famous heroes of the Bible, like Adam, Noah, and Abraham.
Each time we take a closer look at these characters,
(03:37):
we realize that they are deeply flawed but mightily used
by God. We can see ourselves in their stories. Their
struggles mirror our own in many ways. Yet the most
remarkable thing about them is that they point us toward
a greater hero, someone more mighty and worthy of all honor, Jesus.
(04:03):
Today we meet the promised son of Abraham, Isaac. When
he was just a boy, he was asked to join
his father on a journey to Mariah. At first, he
doesn't realize that this journey may very well lead to
his death. Join me for this cinematic retelling of Genesis
chapter twenty two in ancient Canaan, where God gives a
(04:26):
seemingly impossible command to Abraham. Let's begin.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Years had passed since the birth of Isaac, and the
aged Abraham and Sarah slept soundly in their tent. The
night sky was covered in swirling dark clouds. The twinkling
lights of the stars were hidden from view, and the
cold eastern wind blew against the sides of the tent.
Abraham heard a whisper through the wind. The voice of
(04:54):
God beckoned him again. Abraham wrapped himself in wound and
left the tent. The frigidaire at his aged bones and
his legs shook as he sat on the stump of
a terebinth tree and listened for the sound.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Of the Lord Abraham.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The voice hushed. Years had matured Abraham's understanding of God.
He had accumulated enough moments of faith and failure to
better grasp the Lord's will. When God spoke, Abram replied
with a simple you are.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
His voice was raspy and tender.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
He was ready for whatever God had for him, but
he had not anticipated what would come next. God spoke
through the cool evening wind.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Take your son, Isaac, your one and only son, the
one whom you laugh, to the mountains of Moriah, Bring wood, oil,
and robe. There you will make him into a burnt
offering from me. The winds picked up, as did Abraham's
heart beat.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
His only son, the one God had promised to him.
Abraham thought about objecting, He considered running.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Yet he did not.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He paused, looked up at the starless sky, and shed
a few silent tears to God. What God asked was
too much for him, but he would obey. He closed
his eyes and nodded without a word. Abraham stood up
and retreated back to his tent. He was done questioning God.
He was a man of faith, bent on obeying even
(06:28):
when the task seemed impossible. He sobbed alone under his blankets,
waiting for the morning to come. The sun rose, and
Abraham began to chop wood, coil, rope, and poor oil.
Isaac emerged from his tent and looked at his father.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
He asked, innocently preparing to make a sacrifice. Isaac's eyes
had a youthful exuberance, especially when he spoke to his father.
The two of them had a tender and unbreakable bond.
Abraham looked at his trying to mask his sorrow.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
We are both going to the mountains of Moriah to
make a sacrifice, son, although I fear mine may be
a greater sacrifice than your horse.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Isaac did not question his father's cryptic answer. He helped
the servants, bundled the wood and strapped everything to his
father's donkey.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Abraham, Isaac, and a few.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Servants ventured to the hill country of Moriah. The skies
hovering above them were still swirling. Thunder rolled in the distance.
They came to the mountain's base, and Abraham dismounted the
donkey and unstrapped the wood. He placed the bundle in
Isaac's hands, gestured to the servants and said, stay here
with the donkey, my son, and I will go up
(07:45):
to worship. He paused for a moment and looked at
his son. He had faith that somehow God's promise would endure.
He turned back to his servants and finished saying.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
And then we were coming down the mountain.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Both of us, two of them, ascended the mountain. Every
step was a strain for Abraham. Age and sorrow took
his strength away, draining every.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Ounce of his energy.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Isaac, a boy who loved his father, marched behind him
with the wood. He propped up his father.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And the two continued to the summit.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Abraham lit the fire on a torch in his left
hand and held a knife.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
In his right hand.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Father, Isaac said, Abraham could barely look at his son.
The torchlight was slightly reflected in his teary eyes as
he replied, Oh, here, thy shadden.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
We have a flame and wood, But where's the lamb
for the sacrifice?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
God will provide a lamp, Abraham whispered. The clouds raged violently,
galloping across the skies. As they reached the top, a
solitary flat stone was there.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
To make a sacrifice.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Without a word, Abraham took the wood from his son
and placed them on the altar. He prepared the altar,
then turned to Isaac. He held his son's hands and
bound them with a rope. Memories of Isaac's birth came
flashing back in his mind. Those tiny hands wrapped around
his finger. Now he was tying his son with rope
(09:15):
to be sacrificed. Isaac, significantly stronger than his father, could
have struggled. He could have ran far to protested, but
he didn't. He had a quiet trust in his father.
Even as Abraham laid him down on the wood and
drew out his knife, Abraham stared.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Up at the heavens.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Storm clouds thrashed like the waves of the sea. The
supposed father of Nations raised his knife, prepared to kill
his only son. He drew his shoulder back, closed his eyes,
and screamed to the heavens. He tilted his hips to
thrust downward, but was interrupted by a sound brooming from
the sky.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Abraham Abraham.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Abraham dropped his knife and fell to his knees as
he heard the voice. Here I am, he replied, trembling
with anxious sorrow.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Do not lay a hand on the boy. I know
you fear me, for you will not even withhold your
son from me. I will not require his life from you.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Instantly, Abraham unbound his son and embraced him. He wept
with bellowing sobs. He held Isaac's face and smiled. Then
the two of them looked to the left and saw
a ram caught in the thicket. Then they sacrificed the
ram to the Lord, and God reaffirmed his blessing to
Abraham and Isaac.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
By myself, I have sworn to bless you, he said,
because you have done this and have not withheld your
only son from me, I will bless and multiply your
offspring to outnumber the stars in the heavens and sand
on the shore. Your offspring will possess the gait of
his enemies, and through him all the nations will be blessed.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
What a test God put Abraham through. If you think
about it, Abraham's entire life has been filled with tests.
Abraham's journey was marked by multiple tests of faith, from
leaving his homeland and saving his nephew to fathering a
child at an old age. Through this journey, God was
(11:22):
shaping Abraham into a conduit of his blessings, and God
then invited Abraham into the greatest test of all, sacrificing
his son. This command from God seems so harsh, and
do you know what it was harsh. That's the point.
(11:43):
God knew that the most difficult and brutal thing he
could ask was for Abraham to sacrifice his own son,
But there was always a plan, a plan to save
Isaac just in the nick of time. In his willingness
to sacrifice what was most precious to him, Abraham demonstrated
(12:04):
his unequivocal faith in God's wisdom over his own. This
story illuminates the principle of trust in God even when
things don't make sense. Abraham trusted in God's goodness and
somehow knew that Isaac's life would be spared. So he
stood there at the altar, poised and prepared to make
(12:27):
the ultimate sacrifice, hoping and praying God would come through.
Yet Abraham was not the only figure in this story.
Was he Isaac was also being tested. His willingness to
trust his father, even towards the point of being slain
on an altar, hearkens to a greater theme in the Bible.
(12:50):
He silently marched up the hill and willingly laid down
his life in submission to his father's will. Abraham's sacrifice
of faith was signific and the willingness of Isaac that
laid down his life was incredible. This event points to
another story. Jesus knelt before God on a different hell,
(13:11):
prepared to be sacrificed for the world's sins.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Jesus and his disciples scaled the winding path to the
garden of Gssemone. The full moon lingered over the trees
like a watchful eye. The frosty air pierced the disciples
lungs as they followed the shepherd. They all missed the
warmth of the upper room and wondered why he had
led them there. They arrived at the garden and paused
under a wooden glen. There was an ominous silence in
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the garden, as if all the creatures of the night
were watching them with bated breath. Unbeknownst to the other disciples,
conspiracies had been made to arrest and execute Jesus. They
were blissfully ignorant of the impending peril Jesus was about
to face. So the son of Man carried that burden
alone with him. He knew what was coming, and he
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knew it needed to be done. The wind picked up,
running through the trees like wolves, It blew towards a
far off stone underneath a break in the tree covering
it beckoned the Son of God forward.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
He left his.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Companions and retreated to be alone with his father. He
knelt beside the stone and poured his soul out to him.
Jesus considered the faith that awaited him, not just the
pain of crucifixion, but the separation he would have to
endure from the Father and Spirit. All the sins of
humanity were going to be thrust upon his shoulders. The
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existential weight overwhelmed him. Blood sprang from his paws like
beads of sweat. The hero of Heaven was overcome with
anxious anticipation. He could have ran, fought, or protested, but
he didn't. He had a quiet trust in his Father.
Cutting through the silence, Jesus looked up to the moonlit
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sky and prayed, Ah, if.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
It is possible, did this come pass from me?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He pleaded with God that there was no other way.
He was the prophesied sacrifice. Like Isaac long ago, Jesus
would be led up onto a mountain of carrying wood,
although there would be no sheep to take his place.
He was the sheep, the lamb of God, sent to
take away the sins of humanity. God would do what
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he spared Abraham from kill his only son. Jesus, knowing
all these things bowed and whispered.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. He was
ready to die.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Not my will, but yours be done. Now there is
a prayer for all of us to cling to Jesus.
Abraham and Isaac, all demons, traded an important quality for
us to embody, trust, unwavering and devoted trust. They all
trusted in the will of God, even when the path
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forward seemed treacherous. All of their faiths were put to
the test. The test given to Abraham and Isaac foreshadowed
the test God, the father and son would be put
through as the greater Abraham God. The Father would slay
his son as a sacrifice. God. The son would willingly
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give up his life and submit to his Father's will.
Do you see how this powerful imagery is interwoven throughout scripture. Isaac,
the promised son of Abraham, was a mere image to
a greater son who had come into the scene. Genesis
chapter twenty two points forward to the ultimate test passed
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by Jesus Christ. Like Abraham and Isaac, Jesus was tested
in the garden of Gassemone. He surrendered his will to
the Father's, saying, not my will, but yours be done.
Jesus ultimately did what Isaac didn't. His life was given
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as a sacrifice which acted as the ultimate atonement for
the sins of humanity. You and I are beneficiaries of
the sacrifice made by Jesus Christ. While Isaac's willingness to
submit to his father was beautiful, it was only a
small picture of what Christ did when he submitted to
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the Father and redeemed mankind. In this way, Jesus is
the greater Isaac. Join us next time to witness a
man struggling in the dirt, fighting tooth and nail with
God himself for a blessing. Our next episode will be
an epic journey to discover how Jesus is the greater
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Jacob
Host
Zak Shellabarger
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