1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: And he said, take now thy son, thine only son, Isaac, 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Mariah, 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: of the mountains, which I will tell thee Genesis twenty 5 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: two too. Dear Lord, to day, I choose the ultimate 6 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:26,639 Speaker 1: sign of worship. I choose to render my life to 7 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: the workings of your hand. Like Abraham and Isaac, I 8 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: choose to live in total obedience to the plans you 9 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: have for me, even when I don't understand your methods. 10 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,599 Speaker 1: Even though it may look like I could lose everything, 11 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: I will trust your character, knowing that no eye can 12 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: see as far as you can see. Holy Spirit, give 13 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: me the understanding to know that once you give a promise, 14 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 1: you never go back your word. With this truth, I 15 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: choose to understand that in order from my life and 16 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: dreams to go forward, they must first go upward. I 17 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: now know that the secret to my provision is being 18 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,919 Speaker 1: able to give my dreams back to you, because only 19 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: in your hands will they flourish, multiply and be given life. 20 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: Thank you for providing the sacrifice needed for me to 21 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: hold on to my promise. Thank you for giving me 22 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: the ultimate gift in your Son, Jesus, and thank you 23 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: for always providing a way when it seems as though 24 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: there is none. You are a miracle working God in 25 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: Jesus name, Amen. Listening to these daily prayers strengthens your 26 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: relationship with God. Continue hearing from the Lord by listening 27 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: to today's Bible in a Year brought to you by 28 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: Bible in ayear dot Com. 29 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 2: God Testing Abraham. Before this story, we heard the unfolding 30 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 2: of God's great promises. Abraham and Sarah finally bore a son, 31 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 2: and his name was Isaac. Now we learn of Abraham's 32 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 2: true devotion to God. Will he, after waiting decades to 33 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 2: have a child, choose his relationship with God over his son? 34 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,799 Speaker 2: Inspired by the Book of Genesis. 35 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,519 Speaker 3: Hello, I'm Jack Graham with today's episode of the Bible 36 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 3: in a Year podcast. But before we began, I want 37 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 3: to let you know about a unique ebook that's yours 38 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:58,119 Speaker 3: to download absolutely free today. It's called Breaking Free from Stress, 39 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 3: and my prayer is that it will help you conquer 40 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 3: the daily task and pressures and burdens that bring stress 41 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 3: in your life. Download your free copy of Breaking Free 42 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 3: from Stress today by visiting Jack Graham dot org slash stress. 43 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 3: That's Jack Graham dot org stress. Today's reading is about 44 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 3: a test, the most difficult test a parent could imagine. 45 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 3: In fact, just think about how you would feel if 46 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 3: you finally received something you'd worked hard and waited for 47 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 3: so long to receive, and then in an instant you're 48 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 3: told to give this thing that God had promised back. 49 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 3: How devastating, how confused you would be. That's exactly where 50 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 3: we find Abraham today. Isaac had finally arrived and all 51 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 3: seems well in the world. But now some years later, 52 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 3: God commands Abraham to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. If 53 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 3: he wanted to test Abraham's faithfulness and trust, there could 54 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 3: be no better or a more painful way to do 55 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 3: that than what he is telling him to do. Now, 56 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 3: as you listen, pay attention to how Abraham responds. Are 57 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 3: we going to see the fearful Abraham who lied about 58 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 3: Sarah being his sister? Or will we see the faithful 59 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 3: Abraham who refused to align himself with the king of 60 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 3: Sodom but instead honored God with an offering and thanksgiving 61 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 3: for delivering him in battle. What could have possibly been 62 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 3: going through his mind as he climbed a mountain, that 63 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 3: mountain with Isaac, And what must Isaac have been feeling, 64 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 3: probably now a teenager realizing the meaning of the events 65 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 3: that are about to happen to him. Notice how Abraham 66 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 3: is confident that God would provide, even though he has 67 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 3: no idea how this passage is such a clear foreshadowing 68 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 3: of what will come later in scripture, as God the 69 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 3: Father gives his own son to be sacrificed for our sins. 70 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 3: So as you listen today, pay attention to the promise 71 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 3: that is yet to come, the promise that Jesus would 72 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 3: die on the cross for our sins. Let's listen now 73 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 3: to today's passage. 74 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 2: At last, Abraham held his son in his arms. Sarah 75 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 2: and Abraham, after decades of falling on their knees begging 76 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 2: for a child, had finally seen their prayers answered. Isaac 77 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 2: was growing into a young man with the love and 78 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 2: affection of his parents. Abraham savored every moment he had 79 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 2: with Isaac, for he knew his days were numbered. Already 80 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 2: being so advanced in years, Abraham and Sarah experienced the 81 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 2: joys of raising their child together and the highs and 82 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 2: lows of parenthood. Abraham held closely to God's promises, remembering 83 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 2: that God had promised to make a great nation out 84 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 2: of Isaac and his descendants. Hope glistened and abraham eyes 85 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 2: as he gazed upon his son, his miracle, his namesake. 86 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 2: One day God came to Abraham. Yet this time he 87 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 2: did not come with a promise, nor did he come 88 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,919 Speaker 2: with a warning. Instead, he came with a command, a 89 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 2: command that would test Abraham's faith to its very core, 90 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 2: a command that would break him completely. Abraham, God called 91 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 2: out here, I am, replied Abraham. God, with no warning, explanation, 92 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 2: or promise, spoke plainly, take your son, your only son, Isaac, 93 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 2: whom you love, up into the mountains of Mariah, and 94 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 2: offer him there as a burnt sacrifice. Abraham was faced 95 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 2: with a command so devastating and seemingly cruel that it 96 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 2: could quite possibly be the end of him. Yet God 97 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 2: had shown Abraham his compassion, power and his faithfulness before. 98 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 2: God had promised Abraham that from Isaac would come a 99 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 2: great nation of people. If this was God's command, there 100 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 2: must have been something greater at work. So Abraham rose 101 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 2: early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took Isaac 102 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 2: along with two of his men. Abraham began chopping wood. 103 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 2: The axe methodically and swiftly, cutting the kindling that would 104 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 2: burn his son at the altar. How painful it was 105 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 2: to prepare the altar at which your son would be murdered. 106 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 2: Sweat fell from his brow and tears from his eyes. 107 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 2: Abraham arose eyes towards heaven and took Isaac to the 108 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 2: base of the mountain. Abraham turned towards his men and said, 109 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 2: stay here with the donkey, my son, and I shall 110 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 2: climb the mountain to meet with the Lord and worship. 111 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 2: Abraham and Isaac climbed to the face of the mountain. Isaac, 112 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 2: still unaware of what is his father was asked to do, 113 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 2: helped carry the wood up to the altar. Abraham prepared 114 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 2: a fire and laid the wood on the altar beside 115 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 2: his son. Seeing the turmoil deep in his father's eyes, 116 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 2: Isaac spoke, my father, he exclaimed, here I am my son. 117 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 2: Abraham replied, looking down at the wood, refusing to meet 118 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 2: his son's gaze. We have the fire and the wood, 119 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 2: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? Abraham 120 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 2: could hardly bear the words coming from his mouth. Oh 121 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 2: my son. God will provide himself a lamb. I am 122 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 2: sure of it. Anguish filled Abraham's heart and mind. He 123 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 2: took ropes in his hands and bound them to his son, 124 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,319 Speaker 2: Tears streaming down his face. He laid Isaac down at 125 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 2: the altar. Abraham, God's chosen hero, stood over his son, 126 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 2: the supposed father of nations, poised to slay his only child, 127 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 2: raised the blade high in the air, with his eyes 128 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 2: looking toward heaven, and faith welling up within his heart 129 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 2: that God would make this right. Somehow, Abraham prepared the 130 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 2: descent of his knife towards Isaac. In that instant, the 131 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 2: heavens opened up violently, booming from the skies. A voice 132 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 2: of deliverance bellowed across the mountain tops. Abraham, Abraham, the 133 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 2: voice cried, Trembling on the floor, with tears blurring his vision. 134 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 2: Abraham managed a response. Here I am, he whimpered, Do 135 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 2: not strike your child. God said, your faith in me 136 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 2: will be spoken of for all eternity, for not even 137 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:54,839 Speaker 2: your own son would keep you from worshiping me. Abraham 138 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 2: finally lifted his eyes, and there in the thicket beside 139 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 2: him was a ram caught by his horns. There he 140 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 2: and Isaac sacrificed the ramb to God on the altar, 141 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 2: and they named the mountain the Lord will provide, for 142 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 2: God is the one who would provide the ultimate sacrifice. 143 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 2: A second time, God spoke, since you did not withhold 144 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 2: your son from me, I will make his name great, 145 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 2: as the stars are adorned in the sky and the 146 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 2: grains of sand scattered across the shore. So I will 147 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 2: expand your offspring. Greatness shall follow you. After that, Abraham 148 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:40,839 Speaker 2: and Isaac left the mountain. God would not require Abraham 149 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,559 Speaker 2: to sacrifice his own son. God most of all knows 150 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 2: the love one has for his children, For God himself 151 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 2: is love, and because of this love, God would one 152 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 2: day send his own son to be sacrificed for all 153 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 2: for the garden of Eden, the ark of Noah, and 154 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 2: the son of Abel. We're all pointing towards a greater 155 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 2: and more glorious promise, one that would truly bless all 156 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 2: nations and generations to come. 157 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 3: Isaac is finally born. He is with his parents. He 158 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 3: is growing in strength and stature. Abraham and Sarah, as 159 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 3: they watched their son play, must have been filled with 160 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 3: dreams for their child's future. How he would grow strong 161 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 3: and wise, working alongside his father, fulfilling the promise of God. 162 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 3: How he would meet a woman one day and they 163 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 3: would become one, producing grandchildren from Abraham and Sarah. The 164 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 3: great nation, God's chosen people was coming to be, and 165 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 3: it was growing up right before their eyes. As Isaac 166 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 3: became a man. God had come through in a big way, 167 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 3: and now the world was brighter for it. So imagine, 168 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 3: just imagine the suffering, the pain, the agony that stabbed 169 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 3: Abraham's heart as he heard God tell him that a 170 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 3: sacrifice was required. And not the sacrifice of a bull 171 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,719 Speaker 3: or a ram, not the first harvest of whet or 172 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 3: a dove. No, it was so much bigger than that, 173 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 3: a devastating command. God wanted Isaac back, and he wanted 174 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 3: the full heart of Abraham, and he wasn't just going 175 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 3: to take him. Abraham would be the one to take 176 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 3: the life of his son and give him back to 177 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 3: God as a parent. I wonder how Abraham was even 178 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,559 Speaker 3: able to function after hearing God tell him to take 179 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 3: the life of his son, his only son, and offer 180 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 3: him as a sacrifice on a mountain. But Abraham, to 181 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 3: his credit, did not question God or even try to 182 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:53,559 Speaker 3: bargain with him. He very simply, painfully, courageously obeyed without hesitation. 183 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 3: When God calls us to do something, How often do 184 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:02,559 Speaker 3: we do this? Do you respond in obedience without hesitating 185 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 3: or rationalizing your way out of things? Or do you, 186 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 3: like Abraham, draw from your experience of trusting God, God's 187 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 3: overwhelming faithfulness and love and step forward and obey God, 188 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 3: knowing that God will provide according to his will and 189 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 3: for your ultimate good. This is what Abraham does. He 190 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 3: knows God must have a reason beyond his understanding, a 191 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 3: reason for his own plan to be fulfilled. He just 192 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 3: can't fathom what it is like job he recognized the 193 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 3: truth God gives and God takes away. Blessed be the 194 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 3: name of the Lord. I can only imagine the pain 195 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 3: of each question. Isaac may have asked, where are we going, Dad? 196 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 3: What are we going to do there? And then came 197 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 3: the most painful question of all. In Genesis twenty two seven, 198 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 3: Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, my father, 199 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 3: And he said, here am my son. And he said, 200 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 3: behold the fire and the wood. But where is the 201 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 3: lamb for the burnt offering? How is it possible for 202 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 3: Abraham to answer the question of his son he loves 203 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 3: so much. His answer shows immense faithfulness in God. Verse eight, 204 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 3: Abraham said, God will provide for himself the lamb for 205 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 3: the burnt offering my son. So the two of them 206 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 3: walked on together. Abraham doesn't know how as possible, but 207 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 3: he trusts that God will provide, and he remains obedient 208 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 3: to the point of tying Isaac up and raising the 209 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 3: knife to kill him, just as God had commanded. But 210 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 3: this would not be the day when a father would 211 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 3: sacrifice his son. God stays, stops the hand of Abraham 212 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 3: in the last moment, and provides a sacrifice a ram. 213 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 3: There will be blood shed that day, but not on 214 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 3: his only son, Isaac because of ab Graham's great faithfulness, 215 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 3: because he held nothing back from God, he and Isaac 216 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 3: would be blessed in ways that we can never fathom. 217 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 3: They descended down the mountain, knowing God has a special 218 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 3: plan for them, and again reassured him. God reassured them 219 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 3: of his incredible love for his children, for his family. 220 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 3: I imagine Jesus looking down on these events by his 221 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 3: father's side, knowing that when it was his turn, there 222 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 3: would be no last minute cancelation, no reprieve from the 223 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 3: soldier's whipt, the nails in his flesh, the death that 224 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 3: he would die. God would indeed sacrifice his only son 225 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 3: to bring others to himself, to give them eternal life. 226 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 3: But the sacrifice is not Isaac. The sacrifice is Jesus, 227 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 3: the one perfect sacrifice, who would die once and for 228 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 3: all for those who would trust in him and believe 229 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 3: in his salvation. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for today's 230 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 3: story and how we see your mercy and love and grace. 231 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 3: Thank you that you spared Isaac from death, but you 232 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 3: chose not to spare your only son Jesus as he 233 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 3: went to the cross and was put to death because 234 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 3: of our sins, so that we could be saved. Thank 235 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 3: you for how the story reminds us of the sacrifice 236 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 3: and the love that you share with each one of 237 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 3: us in Jesus Christ. Amen. Thank you for listening to 238 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 3: today's Bible into Year podcast. Before we go, I want 239 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 3: to let you know about a unique ebook that's yours 240 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 3: to download absolutely free today. It's called Breaking Free from Stress, 241 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 3: and my prayer is that it will help you conquer 242 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 3: the daily task and pressures and burdens that bring stress 243 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 3: into your life. Download your free copy of Breaking Free 244 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 3: from Stress today by visiting Jack Graham dot org slash stress. 245 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 3: That's Jack Graham dot org slash ress.