Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?
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… follow along in your own copy of God's word as I read Genesis chapter 22 after these things God tested Abraham and he said to him Abraham and he said here I am he said take your son your only son Isaac whom you love and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you. So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place which God had told him. On the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. And Abraham said to his young men, stay here with the donkey. I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and he laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together. And Isaac said to his father Abraham, my father. And he said, here I am, my son. He said, behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? Abraham said, God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son. So they went both of them together. When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac, …
… He said to his father, father, yes, my son. Abraham replied, the fire and the wood are here. We have those things for the sacrifice, Isaac said, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? We have everything else for the sacrifice, but where is the lamb? Where's the answer? Where's the provision? Where's the miracle? where's the lamb? And suddenly, if you see yourself in the story, it's not just Isaac's question, but it might be yours. God, where is the miracle when the diagnosis hits? Where are you, God, when the relationship is falling apart? God, what are you doing when it feels like the promise is dying before me? And in verse eight, Abraham answers more with faith than with understanding. Daddy, daddy, where's the lamb? And Abraham says, God himself will provide the lamb. Not just send a lamb, but God will provide the lamb. God will. God will provide the lamb. Abraham has no idea how, but he just knows who. God will. And so you can imagine the emotion, the promised son, the pinnacle of Abraham's answered prayers. …
… And he himself carried the fire and the knife as the two of them went on together Isaac spoke up and said to his father abraham father yes my son Abraham replied the fire and the wood are here but where is the lamb for the burnt offering Abraham answered God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering for that God had told him about Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it and he bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the wood then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son but the angel of the lord called out to him from heaven abraham abraham here i am he replied do not lay a hand on the boy he said do not do anything to him now i know that you fear god because you have not withheld from me your son your only son and abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns and he went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. …