Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. (John 8:56)
God the Father, Christ and his work revealed in Genesis 22 as had not been before.
1/ Confirmed to be Abrahams seed - v18 .
2/ Christ will be God's provision for fallen man - v8 & 13 .
3/ Christ the only Son of the Father - v2 & 16 .
4/ Christ whom the Father loves - v2 .
5/ The Father withheld him not - v16 & Romans 8:32 .
6/ Christ's offering would be a substitutionary sacrifice - v13 .
7/ Christ should rise from the dead - Hebrews 11:19 .
8/ The hope of the third day - v4 & Matthew 20:19 .
9/ The blessing in Christ would come through obedience - v18 & Philippians 2:8 .
10/ The promises of God to Abraham - Genesis 17:19 & Genesis 18:18 are not destroyed by obedience, but rather established - v15-18 .
This sermon was preached at Priory Chapel, Maidstone.