1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 1: And he said, take now thy son, thine only son, Isaac, 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Mariah, 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: of the mountains, which I will tell thee Genesis twenty 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: two too. Dear Lord, to day, I choose the ultimate 6 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: sign of worship. I choose to render my life to 7 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: the workings of your hand. Like Abraham and Isaac, I 8 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 1: choose to live in total obedience to the plans you 9 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: have for me, even when I don't understand your methods. 10 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 1: Even though it may look like I could lose everything, 11 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: I will trust your character, knowing that no eye can 12 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: see as far as you can see. Holy Spirit, give 13 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: me the understanding to know that once you give a promise, 14 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: you never go back on your word. With this truth, 15 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: I choose to understand that in order from my life 16 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 1: and dreams to go forward, they must first go upward. 17 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: I now know that the secret to my provision is 18 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: being able to give my dreams back to you, because 19 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: only in your hands will they flourish, multiply and be 20 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: given life. Thank you for providing the sacrifice needed for 21 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: me to hold on to my promise. Thank you for 22 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: giving me the ultimate gift in your son, Jesus, and 23 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: thank you for always providing a way when it seems 24 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: as though there is none. You are a miracle working 25 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: God in Jesus name. Amen. Listening to these daily prayers 26 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: strengthens your relationship with God. Continue hearing from the Lord 27 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: by listening to today's Bible in a Year, brought to 28 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: you by Bible in a Year dot com. God Testing Abraham. 29 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: Before this story, we heard the unfolding of God's great promises. 30 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: Abraham and Sarah finally bore a son, and his name 31 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 1: was Isaac. Now we learn of Abraham's true devotion to God. 32 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: Will he, after waiting decades to have a child, choose 33 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: his relationship with God over his son? Inspired by the 34 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 1: Book of Genesis. Hello, I'm pastor Jack Graham with today's 35 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: episode of the Bible in a Year podcast. Today's reading 36 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: is about a test, the most difficult test a parent 37 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: could imagine. In fact, just think about how you would 38 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: feel if you finally receive something you'd worked hard and 39 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 1: waited for so long to receive, and then in an 40 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: instant you're told to give this thing that God had 41 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: promised back. How devastating how confused you would be. That's 42 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: exactly where we find Abraham today. Isaac had finally arrived, 43 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: and all seems well in the world. But now, some 44 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: years later, God commands Abraham to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. 45 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 1: If he wanted to test Abraham's faithfulness and trusts, there 46 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: could be no better or a more painful way to 47 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: do that than what he is telling him to do. Now, 48 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: as you listen, pay attention to how Abraham responds. Are 49 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: we going to see the fearful Abraham who lied about 50 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: Sarah being his sister? Or will we see the faithful 51 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: Abraham who refused to align himself with the king of 52 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: Sodom but instead honored God with an offering and thanksgiving 53 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: for delivering him in battle. What could have possibly been 54 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: going through his mind as he climbed the mountain that 55 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 1: mountain with Isaac? And what must Isaac have been feeling, 56 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: probably now a teenager realizing the meaning of the events 57 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: that are about to happen to him. Notice how Abraham 58 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 1: is confident that God would provide even though he has 59 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: no idea how this passage is such a clear foreshadowing 60 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: of what will come later in scripture, as God the 61 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: father gives his own son to be sacrificed for our sins. 62 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,679 Speaker 1: So as you listen today, pay attention to the promise 63 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: that is yet to come, the promise that Jesus would 64 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: die on the cross for our sins. Let's listen now 65 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: to today's passage. At last, Abraham held his son in 66 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: his arms. Sarah and Abraham, after decades of falling on 67 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: their knees begging for a child, had finally seen their 68 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: prayers answered. Isaac was growing into a young man with 69 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: a love and affection of his parents. Abraham savored every 70 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 1: moment he had with Isaac, for he knew his days 71 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: were numbered. Already, being so advanced in years, Abraham and 72 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: Sarah experienced the joys of raising their child together and 73 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 1: the highs and lows of parenthood. Abraham held closely to 74 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: God's promises, remembering that God had promised to make a 75 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: great nation out of Isaac and his descendants. Hope glistened 76 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: in Abraham's eyes as he gazed upon his son, his miracle, 77 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 1: his namesake. One day God came to Abraham. Yet this 78 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: time he did not come with a promise, nor did 79 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: he come with a warning. Instead, he came with a command, 80 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 1: a command that would test Abraham's faith to its very core, 81 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: a command that would break him completely. Abraham, God called 82 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 1: out here, I am, replied Abraham. God, with no warning, explanation, 83 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: or promise, spoke plainly, take your son, your only son, Isaac, 84 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: whom you love, up into the mountains of Mariah, and 85 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: offer him there as a burnt sacrifice. Abraham was faced 86 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: with a command so devastating and seemingly cruel that it 87 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: could quite possibly be the end of him. Yet God 88 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: had shown Abraham his compassion, his power, and his faithfulness before. 89 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: God had promised Abraham that from Isaac would come a 90 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: great nation of people. If this was God's command, there 91 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: must have been something greater at work. So Abraham rose 92 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took Isaac 93 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: along with two of his men. Abraham began chopping wood, 94 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: the axe methodically and swiftly, cutting the kindling that would 95 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: burn his son at the altar. How painful it was 96 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: to prepare the altar at which your son would be murdered. 97 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 1: Sweat fell from his brow and tears from his eyes. 98 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: Abraham arose eyes towards heaven, and took Isaac to the 99 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: base of the mountain. Abraham turned towards his men and said, 100 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: stay here with the donkey, my son, and I shall 101 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: climb the mountain to meet with the Lord and worship. 102 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: Abraham and Isaac climbed to the face of the mountain. Isaac, 103 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: still unaware of what his father was asked to do, 104 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: helped carry the wood up to the altar. Abraham prepared 105 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: a fire and laid the wood on the altar beside 106 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: his son. Seeing the turmoil deep in his father's eyes, 107 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: Isaac spoke, my father, he exclaimed, here I am my son. 108 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: Abraham replied, looking down at the wood, refusing to meet 109 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: his son's gaze. We have the fire and the wood, 110 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering. Abraham 111 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: could hardly bear the words coming from his mouth. O, 112 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: my son, God will provide himself a lamb. I am 113 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: sure of it. Anguish filled Abraham's heart and mind. He 114 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: took ropes in his hands and bound them to his son, 115 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: tears streaming down his face, he laid Isaac down at 116 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: the altar. Abraham, God's chosen hero, stood over his son. 117 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: The supposed father of nations, poised to slay his only child, 118 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: raised the blade high in the air, with his eyes 119 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: looking toward heaven, and faith welling up within his heart 120 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: that God would make this right. Somehow, Abraham prepared the 121 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: descent of his knife towards Isaac. In that instant, the 122 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: heavens opened up violently, booming from the skies. A voice 123 00:08:53,440 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: of deliverance bellowed across the mountain tops. Abraham, abrah Am, 124 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: the voice cried. Trembling on the floor, with tears blurring 125 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: his vision, Abraham managed a response. Here I am, he whimpered, 126 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: Do not strike your child. God said, your faith in 127 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: Me will be spoken of for all eternity, for not 128 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: even your own son would keep you from worshiping me. 129 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: Abraham finally lifted his eyes, and there in the thicket 130 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: beside him was a ram caught by his horns. There 131 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: he and Isaac sacrificed the lamb to God on the altar, 132 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: and they named the mountain the Lord will provide, for 133 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: God is the one who would provide the ultimate sacrifice. 134 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: A second time, God spoke, since you did not withhold 135 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: your son from me, I will make his name great. 136 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 1: As the stars are adorned in the sky and the 137 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: grains of sand scattered across the shore, so I will 138 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: exp and your offspring. Greatness shall follow you. After that, 139 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: Abraham and Isaac left the mountain. God would not require 140 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: Abraham to sacrifice his own son. God most of all 141 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 1: knows the love one has for his children, For God 142 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: himself is love, and because of this love, God would 143 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: one day send his own son to be sacrificed for 144 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: all for the garden of Eden. The ark of Noah 145 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 1: and the son of Abraham were all pointing towards a 146 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: greater and more glorious promise, one that would truly bless 147 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:46,319 Speaker 1: all nations and generations to come. Isaac is finally born. 148 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: He is with his parents. He is growing in strength 149 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: and stature. Abraham and Sarah, as they watch their son play, 150 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: must have been filled with dreams for their child's future. 151 00:10:56,520 --> 00:11:00,199 Speaker 1: How he would grow strong and wise, working alongside his father, 152 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 1: fulfilling the promise of God. How he would meet a 153 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: woman one day and they would become one, producing grandchildren 154 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: from Abraham and Sarah. The great nation, God's chosen people 155 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: was coming to be, and it was growing up right 156 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 1: before their eyes. As Isaac became a man. God had 157 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: come through in a big way, and now the world 158 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: was brighter for it. So imagine, just imagine the suffering, 159 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: the pain, the agony that stabbed Abraham's heart as he 160 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 1: heard God tell him that a sacrifice was required. And 161 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: not the sacrifice of a bull or a ram, not 162 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: the first harvest of whet or a dove. No, it 163 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: was so much bigger than that, a devastating command. God 164 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: wanted Isaac back, and he wanted the full heart of Abraham, 165 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 1: and he wasn't just going to take him. Abraham would 166 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: be the one to take the life of his son 167 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: and give him back to God as a parent. I 168 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: wonder how Abraham was even able to function after hearing 169 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 1: God tell him to take the life of his son, 170 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: his only son, and offer him as a sacrifice on 171 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: a mountain. But Abraham, to his credit, did not question 172 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: God or even try to bargain with him. He very simply, painfully, 173 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: courageously obeyed without hesitation. When God calls us to do something, 174 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: how often do we do this? Do you respond in 175 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: obedience without hesitating or rationalizing your way out of things, 176 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: or do you, like Abraham, draw from your experience of 177 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 1: trusting God God's overwhelming faithfulness and love and step forward 178 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: and obey God, knowing that God will provide according to 179 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: his will and for your ultimate good. This is what 180 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: Abraham does. He knows God must have a reason beyond 181 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: his understanding, a reason for his own plan to be fulfilled. 182 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: He just can't fathom what it is like job he 183 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: recognized the truth God gives and God takes away. Blessed 184 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 1: be the name of the Lord. I can only imagine 185 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: the pain of each question. Isaac may have asked, where 186 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: are we going, Dad? What are we going to do there? 187 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: And then came the most painful question of all. In 188 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 1: Genesis twenty two seven, Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, 189 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: and said, my father, And he said, here am I 190 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 1: my son, And he said, behold the fire and the wood. 191 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: But where is the lamb for the burnt offering? How 192 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: is it possible for Abraham to answer the question of 193 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:44,479 Speaker 1: his son he loves so much. His answer shows immense 194 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: faithfulness in God Verse eight, Abraham said, God will provide 195 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son. 196 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 1: So the two of them walked on together. Abraham doesn't 197 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: know how his possible, but he trusts that God will provide, 198 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: and he remains obedient to the point of tying Isaac 199 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,679 Speaker 1: up and raising the knife to kill him, just as 200 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 1: God had commanded. But this would not be the day 201 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 1: when a father would sacrifice his son. God stays, stops 202 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: the hand of Abraham in the last moment, and provides 203 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: a sacrifice around. There will be blood shed that day, 204 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: but not on his only son, Isaac because of Abraham's 205 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: great faithfulness, because he held nothing back from God, he 206 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 1: and Isaac would be blessed in ways that we can 207 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: never fathom. They descended down the mountain, knowing God has 208 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: a special plan for them, and again reassured him. God 209 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: reassured them of his incredible love for his children, for 210 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: his family. I imagine Jesus looking down on these events 211 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: by his father's side, knowing that when it was his turn, 212 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: there would be no last minute cancelation, no reprieve from 213 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: the soldier's whipt, the nails in his flesh, the death 214 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: that he would die. God would indeed sacrifice his only 215 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: son to bring others to himself, to give them eternal life. 216 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: But the sacrifice is not Isaac. The sacrifice is Jesus, 217 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: the one perfect sacrifice, who would die once and for 218 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: all for those who would trust in him and believe 219 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: in his salvation. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for today's 220 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: story and how we see your mercy and love and grace. 221 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: Thank you that you spared Isaac from death, but you 222 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: chose not to spare your only son, Jesus as he 223 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: went to the cross and was put to death because 224 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: of our sins, so that we could be saved. Thank 225 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: you for how the story reminds us of the sacrifice 226 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: and the love that you share with each one of 227 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: us in Jesus Christ. Amen. Thank you for listening to 228 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 1: today's Bible in a Year podcast. I'm pastor Jack Graham 229 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: from Dallas, Texas. 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