Genesis chapter 22. Psalm 9 verse 10 says this, They
that know thy name will put their trust in thee. Psalm 9, verse
10, "...they that know thy name shall put their trust in thee."
Now, the Lord reveals himself to his people in several different names. The
Lord, most of the time in scripture, The word Lord, capital L, is
Jehovah. The Lord reveals himself to his
people by several names, which each one tell us who he is, what
he did, what he's like, what that means to us. We're starting
to look at these seven names of Jehovah that are revealed
in scripture. Each one has a particular meaning,
and each one is the basis of a story. Each one of these names,
Jehovah, is the basis of a story. The first name mentioned in scripture
is Jehovah Jireh, and this is the name that Abraham
attributed to his God after something happened. May the Lord open our understanding.
The story is of Abraham and his son Isaac. It's a story of how God provided. The name Jehovah-Jireh means
the Lord will provide, the Lord will see to it. This is a story
of how the Lord provided something that Abraham and Isaac needed
desperately. a substitute. Oh my, as this story unfolds,
we see that Abraham and Isaac needed more than anything else
a substitute. And Jehovah-Jireh. All right? And we need it too,
whether we realize it or not. Every person in this room, whether
we know it or not, We need more than anything, as one thing,
but we need a substitute. Like every story in God's Word,
there is a story within a story. This is a story of a man named
Abraham. Abraham represents every believer.
Every believer is like Abraham, chosen by God. We read that in
Hebrews 11. God called him. He wasn't calling
on God, was he, Stan? Uh-uh. He was seventy-five years
old, worshiping idols. But God chose him. God called
him. God gave him faith to believe
a God he'd never seen. Yea, the trust of Christ that
he'd heard about, but didn't fully comprehend, and he was
tried by God. God tried Abraham, as all true
faith is, tried by God. Whatever God gives, he confirms
it through trials. But in the story, the story within
the story, this is not the story of Abraham's great faith. This
is not the story to exalt and brag on Abraham his great faith. No, no, no, no. The story within
the story is of God Almighty taking his son and making him the sinner's substitute. The gospel story. Now look at
it. Genesis 22, verse 1. Let's read
verses 1 and 2. after these things, that God
did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham. And he said, Behold,
here I am. And he said, God said, Take now
thy son, thine only son, Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee
into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering
upon one of the mountains, which I will tell thee how." After these things, you know,
God did try Abraham. All trials are from God. It says,
after these things, after several severe trials, comes the toughest
one of all. This is the toughest trial that
Abraham is going to endure. but it's going to be the most
blessed one. After this trial, Abraham is
going to believe God for the rest of his days on earth, without a shadow of a doubt. Toughest trial he ever went through,
heart-rending, agonizing, testing and trying, the toughest trial
in his old days. A hundred and twenty years old
Abraham was, the toughest trial of his life, yet it's going to
be the most blessed one. That he, after it's over, wouldn't
take anything for it. Get a hold of that, because
this thing ain't over yet. You know, faith means nothing
unless it's tried. We say we trust God, that means
zip unless we have to trust God. You understand that? It means nothing
to say, I trust God, until the time comes when we have to trust
God. And then when we trust him, and
after it's over, we say, he is God, isn't he? He is. All he says he is. Jehovah-Jireh. Well, like I said, while this
is a great story of Abraham's God-given faith, God gets the
glory for Abraham's faith. And this is how God blessed Abraham,
by Abraham trusting him. The man that trusts him will
see great things out of God. He said, Trust me. Didn't I say? He said to Martha and Mary. He
said, Didn't I say? If you believe me, you'll see
the glory of God. Just trust me. Just trust me
in the face of the greatest difficulty, and stand back and behold. But
like I said, this is not the story
of Abraham. It is the story of how God took
his son up on a mountain and slew him as a substitute. Just like every story in the
Bible is not a story of man, it is a story of God taking what
he did with his son and what that means to us. It says verse
3 and 4. Now, you know, verse 2, it says,
God told Abraham to take his son, his only son, Isaac, whom
he loved. And God said he had one only
begotten well-beloved son, Jesus Christ, whom he loved. Well,
verse 3, it says, Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled
his ass, took two of his young men with him, and Isaac with
his son. and claimed the wood for the
burnt offering and rose up and went unto the place of which
God had told him. And on the third day, Abraham
lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off." So Abraham rose early, it said,
got up early in the morning. There was much to do in preparation
for this journey. I don't believe really he slept
a wink that night. Do you? Do you think he slept
for one moment? Abraham didn't sleep, but he
got up early for the break of dawn, break of day. There was
much preparation for this three-day journey, not only for the journey,
but everything he did was in preparation to kill his son. Do you understand that? Everything
he did was in preparation to take his son up on a mountain
and kill him. He had to split the wood with
every blow of that axe. He thought, this is going to
burn my son's body. And what does this tell us? Way before time began. See, our Lord doesn't slumber
or sleep. Way before there was ever a planet,
the whole purpose of God was going to be fulfilled in the
crucifixion, the death of his son. And everything, every purpose
on the top side of this earth, everything pointed to Mount Calvary, when God would kill his son.
Every act of God's providence was pointing to that. Yes, it
did. Everything in this book points to that. Known unto God
are all his works from the beginning. It says he took two young men.
Abraham took two young men with him. Who does that represent?
The law and the prophets. These two young men, you see,
were to serve Isaac and Abraham's purpose. Are you with me? Come
on, stay with me now. Come on. We're on holy ground
and this will thrill your soul. Ask the Lord right now. Give
me ears to hear. Abraham took two boys with him
to serve Isaac and to serve his purpose of killing his daughter. Two young men. Who do they represent? The law and the prophets, all
of which bear witness of the Lord Jesus Christ, all of which
serve the Lord Jesus Christ, all of which serve the purpose
of beholding Christ crucified. He took his two young men with
him. Everything from the beginning
points to Christ. Verse 5, it said, And this thing
was seen from afar off, Christ crucified. And Abraham, verse
5, said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the axe. You stay
here. I and the lad will go yonder
and worship. As I always said. Now, God said, take your son. take him up on a mountain, and
kill him, and burn his body. That's all God told him. God didn't say, I'm going to
raise him, did he? But now, wait a minute, now the
word of God doesn't contradict himself. God's word doesn't contradict
itself. God told Abraham, he said, of
your seed, not Ishmael, but Isaac, of thy seed, Isaac, I will raise
up a seed as the stars of heaven and the sands of the seashore.
Out of Isaac shall thy seed be called Isaac." Abraham believed God. Take him and kill him, kill Isaac. But now, what's his hope? Joe,
what's his hope? He's going to kill his boy. What's
his hope? God promised. He didn't understand,
Joe. He didn't understand. Well, I
don't understand. You told me Isaac, and now you're telling
me to kill him. He didn't understand, Joe, but
he believed God. And God said back then, this,
Isaac. And now he says, kill him. Well,
I'm just going to have to kill him. evidently God's going to raise
him from the dead. That's what Hebrews 11 read,
didn't it? He accounted, he believed God,
he accounted that God was able to raise him from the dead. But he said to these two young
men, and I'm getting ahead of myself, He said to these two
young men, now they got to the mountain, they got to Moriah,
and Abraham told these young men, that y'all stay here, stay
here. I and the lad going up on that
mountain, me and the boy, just me and Isaac, I'm alone. There's something between Isaac
and myself, and you've got to stay here. You can't go with
us, but we'll come back. We'll come back. We're going
to go to worship. That's why we're here. That's
what we're going to do. That's what we'll be doing. And
then we'll come back. You stay here. What a wonderful
picture. This is a picture of how the
law can't save us. The law doesn't enter into our
salvation. No, sir. The preacher, the prophet,
he can't save us. Salvation is of the Lord. God and his Son will offer up
that one sacrifice for every faith for our sin. Nobody else
enters into the picture. Nobody can ascend Mount Sinai,
and nobody went to Mount Calvary. There were twelve with Christ
in the upper room, weren't there? Twelve men, eleven apostles and
Christ. Twelve. Just thought of something. and that apostle, the apostle and high priest of
our profession. Twelve in the upper room, all
right? Well, when they went into the garden right before Christ
died, they went into the garden and Christ's hand chose three
young men, Peter, James, and John. All right, they went into
the garden with him. But now when Christ went to Calvary,
Nobody was with him. It was between God the Father
and God the Son. They all forsook him. Nobody
has a hand in our salvation. This thing between God the Father
and God the Son, of which the Holy Ghost later will apply,
where God the Father and God the Son were alone in saving
their people. And what this thing of, when
Christ went to the cross, what this was about was worship. You
know that? Just like Abraham said, we're
going up to worship. Christ said, I must be about
my father's business. Worship. Man must worship God. And Christ gave, Christ did the
ultimate sacrifice of worship. He gave himself. He gave his
body to be burned, Sherry, but he had love. Remember when Paul
said that? If I give my body to be burned,
I have not love. What does it profit me? All he
did, he loved God more than himself, and therefore gave his body to
be burned. The sacrifice, the greatest worship
service ever held on the face of this earth was on Mount Calvary. is between God the Father and
God the Son. John, God was worshiping his
Son, and the Son was worshiping his Father. They were worshiping
each other. You see, God's every character—oh,
the gospel's right here. All the character of God is on
display at Calvary. It's never seen before, and it
will never be seen since. It's always seen in light of
Calvary. God's justice, God's holiness.
God won't spare the guilty. God won't spare the guilty. God is so holy that he found
his son with sin and killed his son. You remember that story
of that judge in that county in Ireland? That the people wouldn't hang
his guilty son because they loved him so much, but the judge himself
hung his own son. God killed his son. The holiness
and justice of God. You see the justice of God there,
Dan? The justice of God. He will by no means clear the
guilty. Do you think if there's a way
that God could spare his son such a death? Do you think there's
a way? If there was a way that God could
spare his son from going through that, don't you think he would? God said there's no other way,
and that's what he's saying from the beginning. Blood, blood,
blood, blood, blood. And lambs won't do it. Behold
the Lamb of God. It's His Son. The love of God is seen here.
Oh, behold what manner of love the Father shall bestow upon
us. Even while we were yet sinners,
Christ died, killed His Son. For me, for the likes of me,
let a murderer and a robber and a thief go free for his lovely
son? Switch places? Nobody, Jeanette, nobody's ever
preached or talked about her son of the love of God. Can't
do it. You can't do it. We're going
to do it in heaven. One day we're going to do it
finally. We're going to say, this is the
song, isn't this the first thing unto him that loved us and washed
us from our sin in his own blood? The mercy of God is saying, oh,
mercy, mercy, mercy. Give us Barabbas. The rabbis went free. I mean
a worthless, no good, bum of a man that doesn't deserve to
live went free. And the only one who deserved
to live was killed. Mercy. Never seen mercy like
that. Power. Something happened on
Calvary's tree. I mean something powerful. All
the sins of all of God's people from beginning to end. were taken
care of by this one man. What power! Power! We sing that song, Power in the
Blood. We don't know the half of it.
We don't have a clue. The power that took place here,
the glory! Oh, man. All seen it go. Well, we were going to worship. You see, worship, God is only
worshipped at Calvary. God is only known at Calvary.
It's all centers. The whole universe of time revolves
around Jesus Christ and him crucified. The whole purpose of God from
the beginning and all things in the end point, it all revolves
around that man hanging on that tree two thousand years ago. just like Abraham did. That's
all he had on his mind from the time God told him this. That's
all he had on his mind. Somebody bring up his wife and
say, Abraham, are you going to fix the tents leaking? Okay. But he had his mind on killing
his son. Abraham, we need some deer meat. Okay. But he had his mind on
killing his boy. And so it is with God Almighty. So it is. It all points to Christ. And so
it is with the believer who has Christ revealed to him. They
see that nothing else matters. It all points to him. Let's read on now. It says
in verse 6, oh, I like this. Verse 6, Abraham took the wood
of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac, his son." He laid the burden on his son, the whole load on
his son. He laid the instrument which
was going to kill him on his own son. What does that tell
you? The scriptures tell us, God hath laid on him the iniquity
of the soul. Christ carried his own cross
to Calvary, carried his own cross. And what man has ever preached
from this? Laid on him the iniquity of the soul. Laid it on Isaac
his son, and he, Abraham, took the fire in his hand and a knife,
and they went both of them together. The fire and the knife, the fire
represents God's purity, God's holiness. The fire represents God's holiness.
Our God is a consuming fire. It must be holy to be accepted. Our God is a consuming fire,
and this life is his justice. He will by no means clear the
guilty. God is a just God in the minute we are going to see
a Savior. He is holy. Abraham represents God. He had
the fire in his and a sword in his hand, a knife in his hand. All right? So they went, both
of them together. Verse 7, And Isaac spake unto Abraham his
father, and said, My father, I couldn't help but think of right
before, in the garden, right before the cross. What did Christ, who did Christ
call in the garden? What are the first words out
of his mouth? Father, if it be possible. Isn't this wonderful? Isn't this
a glory? Isn't this God's word? Isn't this God's word? Men could
have sat for thousands of years and tried to make it, and they
couldn't have done it. It's too glorious. Well, Genesis
22 tells us what Revelation 22 said. Well, Isaac spoke unto
Abraham, my father, and Abraham said, Behold, here am I, my son. Behold, my son. And he said,
Behold, father, the fire and the wood Where's the lamb for the burnt offering? We've got fire, we've got wood. Father, where is the lamb for
a burnt offering? Isn't this the question of all
questions? Isn't this what it's all about?
Isn't this why we meet here today? The Lamb of God? Oh, like somebody said, there's
a lot of fire in religion today. Oh, a lot of fire. Oh, if you'd
turn on your TV or if you'd just go down somewhere close by, you'd
see a head jumping and shouting, there's wildfire going on. Wildfire! They call it Holy Spirit fire,
you know. It's just getting wild all over,
as Johnny Bell would say. fire going on, and lots of wood,
hay and stubble, lots of wood, lots of things, you know, going
on. But here's the question, because
God won't be approached. God can't be worshipped. God
won't look upon anybody or anything. God won't hear one prayer. God
won't look on one human being without the Lamb. God's not in
any message. Let's preach any service that's
held apart from the Lamb. Where is the Lamb? I see the
fire, I see the wood, I see all this going on, I see all the
trappings of religion. Where's the Lamb? We've got to
have a Lamb. Where is Christ crucified in
all this? This boy knew more than Average seminary professor. Where's the man? Huh? Where's
the man? And then Abraham. He spoke these words. I don't
think that he really knew what he was saying. He did, but he didn't. Because
you understand, what I was in this one phrase he spoke here. I know, man, this was the Spirit
of the Lord speaking through Abraham right there. Abraham
said this. Now, look at this. Look at verse
8. Here's the heart and soul of the gospel. All right? Abraham said, verse 8, My son, God will provide himself a lamb
for a I'll never forget the first time
I heard this. It's like I just heard it for
the first time. My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a
burnt offering. My son, get this through your
head. My son, God will provide himself
a lamb for a burnt offering. Three things here I want you
to see. God will provide. Jehovah-Jireh, we're going to
see. You and I need something that we can't provide it. We need everything we need. We can't provide it. Our Lord
said, man, it's impossible. Man can't get to God. God's spirit. Man's flesh. That which is flesh
is flesh. That which is spirit is spirit.
We can't see God. We can't hear God. God is hidden. God will provide. God will show
us. God will give us eyes to see.
God will give us ears to hear. God will give us a heart to receive.
God will give us faith to believe. God will keep us by His power.
God will provide. We need mercy. God will provide.
We need grace. We need salvation. Abraham said this. Now listen.
Abraham is about to kill his son. This is a true story. This is not some parable, not
some fable. This is a true story. Abraham's
about to kill his son. Now, listen to Abraham's profession
of faith. He's about to kill his boy. Tell his boy he's going to take
that knife and stick it in his son's chest. This is a real story. What do you say, Abraham? My
son, God will provide. This is all my hope. You understand that? This is
real. Abraham, he didn't have any hope whatsoever. He's going
to kill his boy. His boy's going to die. What's
his hope? Jehovah-Jireh. You understand
that? My only son. God will prepare. He didn't understand. He couldn't
fully grasp it. He's going through later. Whoo! He's going through later. Do you see that? God will provide. We say salvation is over the
Lord. We don't have a clue. It is. But it is, from start
to finish, Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord will see to it. Now, thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace, whose mind is staying on thee. Who? Jehovah-Jireh. There's nothing we'll ever face
like Abraham faced this thing. Never. Unless we have an only son and
lose him. Abraham said, Jehovah-Jireh. My hope. That is my hope. And,
Isaac, it's your hope. You don't know it yet, Isaac.
Isaac's going to know it in a minute. Isaac's going to know it in a
minute. You don't know it, but you need Jehovah-Jireh. Oh, does he need Jehovah-Jireh.
He's going to die. He's going to die. That boy needs
a substitute. He's going to die. His only hope is Jehovah-Jireh. You understand that, Isaac? God will provide. Now, look at
this. Oh, these three are one. God will provide Himself a lamb
for a burnt offering. God's going to provide Himself.
We need something that we can't do. With man, it's impossible. became a man. God was manifest in the flesh. God came down. Can't do it, can't
care. Hopeless, isn't it? Yeah. So
God came down. Scripture says, and by himself. God will provide himself. And Scripture says in Hebrews
1 and 3, when he had by himself and purged Isaiah. God will provide
himself the lamb, the sepulcher. And God, and this is probably
the most important thing of all, God will provide himself a lamb
for a burnt offering. We need a lamb. We don't have
one. God became the lamb, but this
lamb was for God. You see? This lamb was for God. God is just. God is just. And God loved the people. God
loved me. If you're a believer, God loved
you. And He determined to set you
free. Determined to save you. But He
can't let you go scot-free. For a sinner, those sins have
got to be paid for. God needed a lamb. He needed
a substitute for that. And that lamb was for Him. That
God might be just. And yet let me go free. You see,
not the wisdom of God, not the love of God to us. God will provide
Himself this land to be just and justify us. Let us go. See, do you understand that?
Do you understand that? Why Christ had to die? Do you
understand that? Everybody, do you understand
that? He had to die. He had to for us to go free. He had to. Either I have to die,
or Christ did it for me. So it's for himself. All right,
let's go on, all right? Verse 9. Oh, it just gets better. Verse 9. All right, they came
to the place which God had told him of. And Abraham built an
altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his
son, and tied his hands up behind his back. And he laid that boy on that
altar upon the wood. They came to the place, towed
out. Three days earlier, Abraham had
been towed. Here it is. Here's the place.
This is it. This is it. This is where you've been journeying
toward. You know, Calvary is an old,
old story. God's been telling about it since
the first sinner. There's a woman's seed, and it
all ends right there on that mountain. It ends, all right. It ends, and it begins. Well, he bound his son, laid
him on that Alternate before we go any further, I want you
to consider something, something else taking place here. Well,
even before this thing, I want you to consider this. You can't
get a blessing out there. Before. Well, before. Abraham and Isaac
even started that trip. Down in the valley below Mount
Moriah, there was a herd of sheep. As in every herd of sheep, there
are male and female sheep and ewes and rams. A herd of sheep
down there in the valley. Well, God looked out in that
herd of sheep and he saw a ram without spots or blemish. All right, he saw a ram in the
midst, and so he chose a ram out of the midst of that herd
of sheep there in that valley, okay? And he separated from the
rest. And he scooted that little ram
toward that mountain. He said, now get up there, get! Now, rams, they don't live long. But God had that little ram in
his Jehovah Jireh, you see, Had that little lamb scoot up that
mountain. Now, you get up that mountain by yourself. All alone. You get up that mountain, little
ram. OK, you keep that in mind. All right? Now, look at verse 10. So Abraham
stretched forth his son, and he took the knife to slay his
son. Now something happens here, right
here. Something happens. It's the whole thing changes. This whole story changes. Isaac, Abraham, the whole thing
changes right here. Something happened right here
because Isaac now becomes you and me. This is you and me here at the
hands of God's justice, under the wrath of God, if you will,
at the hands of God's justice. The whole type changes. This
is you and me. Abraham represents a holy and
righteous God, a sovereign God who will by no means carry the
guilty. And his knife and his justice and his holding must
be plunged in the sinner's breast. The soul that sinneth must surely
die. God can't kill a righteous man,
can He? Christ was untouchable. I thought
about this. This is interesting. This is
wonderful. Christ was untouchable. They
tried to grab Him many times. Do you remember that? Several
times in the course of thirty-three years, they sought to lay hold
on Him. None of the job. So they sought
to lay hands on him, but they couldn't. He passed right through.
They couldn't touch him. Don't touch the ark. You can't touch
the ark. They sought to lay hold on him. All right? But in the garden,
something began to happen in the garden of Gethsemane. Remember
when Christ started sweating blood, praying to his Father?
And then a herd of soldiers and chief priests and all that came
to the garden, and Christ offered these words. They said, Jesus,
I am. One last reminder, you're seeking
a man, but he's more than a man. Well, then he said this, if you
seek me, let them go. One of us is going to go free. All right, before that, now,
he was untouchable. But now he says, lay hold on
me. But they go free. Don't you touch him! You can't
touch my anointed. Lay hold on me. And they grabbed
him and smacked him and took him off. You know what all they
did to the Lord of Glory? Huh? Scripture says here that
Abraham took his knife and was going to plunge it in the heart
of his son. But something happened here now. I'll tell you what
happened. Abraham heard the gospel. Look
at verse 11. The angel of the Lord called
unto Abraham. The angel of the Lord called
unto Abraham. People, if you've heard the gospel,
you've heard an angel of the Lord. He said, Abraham, Abraham. He said, who am I? He said, Lay
not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto
him. Don't touch him. Don't do anything
unto him. Loose him. Don't kill him. Loose him. Take the burden off
of him. Don't do anything to him. absolutely
free. Don't leave a stick on him. Don't
leave a knot tied. Let me see. Look at verse 12. And now I know that thou fearest
God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy Son, thine only Son, from
me. And lo and behold, Abraham lifted
up his eyes and looked. And there's that little ram that
God had chosen out of that flock down there before this whole
journey started. Had that ram wandering all over
that mountain. Got him up there on top of that
hill and stuck him in a thicket waiting to be a substitute. Had you ever thought of that?
Where did my ram come from? God had it waiting. Had it waiting. a substitute that Isaac needed. You see? A substitute. There's
that ram. And Abraham laid down that knife,
and I can't tell it's like it happened. Abraham laid down that knife,
and he said, Son, look. Son, look. Look, right there's your salvation.
Son, look. Look! Right there's your salvation. It's in that ram. He's going
to take your blood. Look. And he loosed his son.
Cut him loose, buddy. He found a substitute. A ransom
had been found. And Abraham and I, I believe
they both did this. I believe not only Abraham, but
I believe Isaac. I believe they both went over
there and laid hold on the ram, the horns of that ram, laid hold
on both of them. Got him back? You see, this is
Isaac's salvation. See that? If they lose this lamb
now, Isaac got to be killed. You got him back? Yeah, I got
him. Nothing going to get him out of my head. And I got him
too. And they both laid hold on that,
and they both together slew that lamb. That's exactly what God
did to his son. Both of them together, for my
sake. And offered him in the stead
of. You see it here, verse 14. In
the stead of his son. That's substitution. And Abraham called the name of
that place, Jehovah-Jireh. That's where that name came from,
Jehovah-Jireh, as it shall be said, as it is written, and as
it is this day. It said this day that in the
mount of the Lord, it will be seen. You're only going to see
it in the mount of the Lord. I'm not finished. Blame this
on Jenny Weil, because she said for me to take my watch off.
She did, didn't you? She said, take your watch off.
Don't look at your watch again. How shall we escape if we neglect
so great a salvation? This is the day of salvation.
If you don't look, you need a substitute. Our Lord said this much later
on. Our Lord said this one day. He said, Abraham, rejoice to
see my day. He said, Abraham, he's talking
to these Jews. He said, Abraham, rejoice to see my day. He saw
it. He was glad. I believe, Stan,
that Abraham had been killing lambs and killing lambs and killing
lambs and killing lambs. He'd heard from his father. He'd
heard, not his father, but he'd heard of others, all the way
back to Adam, who'd been killing lambs, killing lambs. I know it has something to do
with salvation. I know that it's in the blood
of all that day. This thing is substitution. This
thing is substitution. Isaac, this thing is in substitution,
son. Isaac, salvation, our salvation,
your salvation is having a substitute. Somebody to take your place. Isaac, son, God's going to, I
believe God's going to send his son down here someday and do
just what That landed for you. Now I know. Now I know. And they
went down to that mountain singing Jehovah Jireh. Jehovah Jireh. But like I said, there's another
story here. Just in passing. Just in passing.
Want this little story in passing? They got down from the mountain.
Okay. They got down from the mountain.
Oh, they were skipping. God made their feet like hind's
feet. You reckon? They was dragging
Joe up that mountain. They was skipping coming down,
buddy. They didn't touch the ground. When they got down to the bottom
of the mountain, look at verse 20. It came to pass after these
things, it was told Abraham. Somebody came up and said, Well, because your sister-in-law
has borne children under your brother, Naho. Hey, good news,
your sister-in-law has had a bunch of babies. Okay, Abraham. "'Huz,' his fourth born, "'Buzz,'
his brother, and Camule, the father of Aram and Chesed and
Hazel and Pildash and Jitlap.'" Like I said, I'm so glad we have
names like Joe, Rick, John, Steve. Well, they've got a bunch of
moors down here, but wait a minute. There's more, verse 23. The third
will get Rebecca. It's a girl. You see, Isaac had to come down
from that mountain. His bride was waiting. His bride had been born while
he was up on that mountain. Just a little story in passing.
He said, Oh, by the way, Abraham, bunch of boys and one girl in
the middle, Rebecca. Abraham said, I'm going to remember
that name. Say it's Nahor's daughter? Yeah. Granddaughter? Yeah. Where is
she? Okay, I'll remember that. Isaac
is going to be marrying age real soon. All right. I hope that's been a blessing.
All right. Joe, you got a hem picked out?
What is it? 252? 252. Number 252. Stand with
me.