In The Mount of the Lord it Shall Be Seen

Q: What does the Bible say about God's testing of faith?

In Genesis 22, God tested Abraham's faith by asking him to sacrifice his son Isaac. Genesis 22 recounts a pivotal testing of faith where God commands Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice. This story illustrates that true faith is often tested through trials that challenge our deepest affections and loyalties. The supreme test is whether we love God more than anything else, including our own loved ones. In Abraham's case, his response to God's command illustrates a profound obedience that reflects his unwavering faith in God's promises. The trial does not mean that God desires harm but is a means to reveal and strengthen faith.

Q: Why is the concept of substitutionary atonement important for Christians?

Substitutionary atonement teaches that Christ died in our place, bearing the punishment for our sins. The concept of substitutionary atonement is central to the gospel and is clearly illustrated in the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22. Just as God provided a ram to be sacrificed in place of Isaac, Jesus Christ is the ultimate substitute, offering Himself as a sacrifice for our sins. This doctrine is essential for understanding God's justice and mercy, as it reveals that while God must punish sin, He also provides a means of salvation through Jesus Christ. This belief underscores the sufficiency of Christ's sacrifice, where He bore the wrath of God on behalf of His people, thereby securing their redemption.

Q: How do we know that God will provide for our needs?

Genesis 22 reveals that God is faithful and will provide what we need according to His will. Abraham's declaration in Genesis 22:8, 'God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering,' exemplifies the assurance of God's provision. This phrase not only expresses Abraham's faith but also foreshadows the ultimate provision of Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God. Throughout Scripture, God's faithfulness is evident in His provision for His people, demonstrating that He knows our needs and supplies them according to His will. The narrative emphasizes that God is sovereign over all situations and His timing and methods of provision may be different from our expectations, but they are always perfect.

Q: Why is Christ's sacrifice central to the Christian faith?

Christ's sacrifice is central because it fulfills God's justice while offering forgiveness and reconciliation to sinners. The sacrifice of Christ stands at the very heart of the Christian faith as it epitomizes God's plan for the redemption of humanity. In Genesis 22, Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac parallels God's sacrifice of His own Son, Jesus. This act not only avenges God’s justice—because sin must be punished—but it also highlights His mercy by providing a means for sinners to be reconciled to Him. Thus, the cross is not just a point of suffering; it is where the love of God and the requirement of divine justice intersect. For believers, understanding this central truth is vital for grasping the nature of their salvation and the depth of God's love.

Okay, go back with me to Genesis 22. Genesis 22, the title is taken from verse 14, which I saw so many things I've never really seen. I have seen, but I haven't. You know what I mean? Title taken from verse 14, in the mount of the Lord, it shall be seen. In Mount Calvary, in Mount Zion, the church where the gospel is preached, it shall be seen. What shall be seen? The glory of our Lord, the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel shall be seen.

Our Lord said in John 19, he said, Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it. And he was glad. Abraham saw Christ clearly after this story of substitution. He saw it. He and Isaac both. I hope we will. This is a story, a two-fold story. The story of God-given faith. A man, Abraham, chosen of God, called of God. whom God revealed himself to, the Lord revealed himself to, chose him, promised him all blessings in the seed, which is Christ. And how this faith given by God, all true saving faith, will be tried. It will be put to the test.

It will be always. And the supreme test is who do you love the most? God or self, which is family, your own son, your own daughter. Who do you love? That's the supreme test. That's how God knew right here. God knew, but this is how God tested, and this is how God will test every single person who professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

A tough trial, but it must be, and it's proven as well. It's a story of God-given faith tried, tested, triumphant, God's grace is sufficient, even in the death of your only child. And this is the story of Christ crucified. This is the story hidden within the story, which few people understand. All right, look at verses one through five. Let's read it again.

It came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham and said unto him, Abraham, And he said, behold, here I am. And he 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, unto the Lord that is, upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. And the Lord did not speak to him for days afterward. So Abraham arose early, in the morning, saddled his ass, took two of his young men with him and Isaac, his son, claimed the wood, split the wood for the burnt offering. This all took time, didn't it?

And he was thinking about this. Yet he was resolute. He was going to do this. The Lord told him to. He rose up again. It says he rose up early and went under the place of which God had told him. And on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said unto his young men, those two that he took with him, abide ye here with the ass and I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you.

Now, it came. God sent this trial. What God gives, faith, will be tried. God will try it. Though men and circumstances and troubles and all of that are the means, God is the one that sends them. God did tempt Abraham. Came to pass. Every word is significant in it. Every trial will come sent by God, but it too will pass. But another one will follow.

After these things, God had already tried Abraham greatly, hadn't he? And the greatest trial up to this point for Abraham was, he was told to cast out his firstborn son. Now isn't that something? Again, another trial. He loved that son, Ishmael, but God said, cast him out. And he did. He did. And here it comes again. Okay? After these things.

Scripture said, the trial of your faith, though it be tried, it's more precious than gold that perishes, will be tried with fire. Painful, difficult trial. That it might be found, that this faith might truly be found to be of God, because men went, we can't, Hebrews 11, a story of so many that endured these things, literally going to the state, to be burned with fire, watching their children die, not accepting women, not accepting deliverance, but this has to be of the Lord, man can't do this. That it might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing and the coming again of our Lord, whom having not seen, you love, do you? Do you really? You nod your head, do you really? Well, it will be tried. We'll find out. God knows, but we're going to find out. So, faith will be tried.

He rose up early. He rose up early. Arise, my soul, arise. Shake off thy guilty fears. The bleeding sacrifice. You like that song, John? They that seek me early shall find me, Scripture says. Oh, satisfy us early. Oh, Lord, reveal yourself to our children early. Isaac knew the Lord. He knew how to approach a holy God, a lamb. Faith will be tried. And he rose up early. It says, he lifted up his eyes. Every line, every word, God wrote this. He lifted up, Abraham lifted up his eyes. Lift up your head, your redemption drive.

And saw afar off the place. In Hebrews 11, it says, all these people saw the promises afar off. In the mouth of the Lord it shall be seen, Abel saw the Christ who was to come. Noah saw, though the whole world did not see, Noah saw that ark is Christ. Far off. We see these things that happen in many years past, don't we? We see it. And yet we look far off, don't we? to the future, to the coming again of our Lord.

He said this in verse five. He said to his young men, abide here with the ass. I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you. I and the lad will go worship. This father worshiped the Lord and his son did too. What a blessing. What a blessing. How did they worship?

There was a lamb slain. That's the only way you can worship God. Isaac knew that. Abraham knew that. I and the lad will go worship. Oh, may the Lord reveal himself to us, our children, that they may worship with us. Worship the Lord Jesus Christ. And he said, we're going to go and we're going to come again. We're going to come again. There's hope in Jeremiah 31. Verse 17, it says, there's hope that your children will come again.

And if you worship the Lord and you, and you sacrifice, as it were your children to the Lord, Lord, you gave them to me. You can save them or you can damn them. You gave them to me. You can take them away, they belong to you. Oh Lord, but may you come for them. May you reveal yourself to them. It's my greatest desire on this earth, is that you will come again, and when you do, you'll come for my children. Not just me, but for them. Is that your hope?

What happened here? There was a substitute. That substitute not only saved Isaac's life, he saved his father's. It was mercy upon his father's. Wouldn't it be the greatest mercy to you if the Lord saved your children? We'll come again. We'll come again.

But Abraham here in faith, in Hebrews it says he knew the promise of God that in his son Isaac he was going to have a seed as the sands of the sea and the stars of the sky. And so Isaac had to live and have children and the posterity of Abraham, he knew that, but how's Isaac gonna die and yet live? Well, that's what Hebrews 11 has said, that Abraham knew, he believed that God was able to raise him from the dead. And so he willingly, lovingly, Obediently, he was gonna sacrifice his only son to God, believing that if he's gonna live, God's gonna have to raise him. Is that what you believe about your children?

Now, first of all, you have to be willing, you need to be willing to say, Lord, they're yours. You can do with them as you please. They can live or die. You gave them to me, right? Do you believe that? And then do you believe that it's only God that can raise them from the dead? You can't do it. He must do it. So in a figure, you hope, you pray, you receive them from the dead to life again through the gospel of Christ.

So you see why I preach and do one thing? What do you do for your children, they ask? One thing. Because one thing is needful. Because children die just like grownups. And God forbid that I should be trying to just entertain our children and make them have fun when their souls are at stake. Do you hear me?

This is how you know the Mount of the Lord, in the Mount of the Lord, one thing shall be seen and done and take place. The preaching of the gospel, one thing, one thing. All right. That's the story of a man's faith. The story hidden within the story is the story of Jesus Christ and him crucified. That's the purpose of the whole Bible. Moses wrote of me, Christ said. Abraham rejoiced to see my day and was glad.

These two young men that went up the mountain, went to the foot of the mountain, these two young men represent the law and the prophets. To him give all the prophets witness, Christ. The law and the prophets, the prophets and the apostles, young men they were. They all bear witness of one thing.

This Bible, the Scriptures, bears witness of one thing. Jesus Christ and Him crucified. That's the story of this Bible from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22. That's the story of this Scripture. Early. When did this take place? Early in the morning. When did this gospel take place? Early. before the world began. Christ is called the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. God the Father and God the Son in covenant, in a purpose. All things were purposed in order before the world began around the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Early. Like Abraham rose early. The Lamb slain. Two young men.

It says in verse 3 that Isaac was to be a burnt offering, and he rose up and went to the place of which God had told him. And in Scripture it says the place is called Golgotha, the place of the skull, the place of death, the place of crucifixion. And this whole purpose of God from the beginning, before the beginning of the world, The purpose for Christ to come to this earth and give himself a sacrifice unto God, to provide himself as a sacrifice unto God for the salvation, the substitutionary burnt offering sacrifice of blood, his own blood, for the redemption of God's people. This was all purpose before. That's what this is all about. It's the reason God made the world. as a type, as a picture of Christ crucified. And the place to which Christ was to go was purpose before the world began.

Golgotha, the place of the skull, of death. Christ came to live, but yes, Christ came to do one thing, die as a substitute, as a sacrifice. In verse six, it says, Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac, his son. Christ carried his cross. Remember? They laid on Christ the very cross on which he was crucified. A tree. He had to die hanging on a tree. Why is that? Because scripture says so. Cursed is he that hangeth on a tree. And Christ was made a curse for his people, hung on a tree.

But he carried his cross up Golgotha's hill. There's the story, and it's told in three of the gospels, I think, of a man named Simon of Cyrene, who they took the cross off of our Lord and laid it on him. We looked at a whole message on that. Because when Christ said, you must deny yourself and take up the cross and follow me. And the cross which Simon, Cyrene bore was the cross on which Christ hung. Simon didn't hang on it. His substitute did. And he carried that cross. And here's the picture.

That the cross that we carry and the cause that we live for by faith is the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing we do can be called a cross. And I don't know why or when men started saying that. No, no, no. Nothing that happens to us can in any way be compared to the cross on which Christ hung. But the thing that which we will be persecuted for and afflicted for is our stand for the cross of Christ, for the truth of Christ. And so now they didn't put on Simon that cross because Christ couldn't bear it all the way. Do you understand? That's not in the scripture. It does not say anywhere that Christ fell beneath that cross because he couldn't carry it. That's not so.

He's able. Young Isaac carried this wood all the way to the top of that mountain. He's young, he's able, he's strong. He didn't fall beneath the load. He was able to bear the weight of that wood on his shoulders all the way until it was needed no more. Do you understand? Christ did not fall beneath the weight of his cross.

And yet as a type, as a picture, you laid it on another man. But Christ bore his own cross on which he hung on Calvary's tree. Only God got that. And look at verse six. So the father took the fire in his hand and a knife, and went both of them up together. Our God is a consuming fire. Do you know where that is? You need to know in order to give everyone an answer. God is not first and foremost love. No, sir. He's holy. He's just. He will by no means clear the guilty. He is righteous.

Our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12, 29, okay? Every single offering in the Old Testament was burnt You understand that? Every single lamb, every single bullock, every single turtle dove, every single sacrifice that was sacrificed unto God was burnt. Why? Because our God said, the soul that sinneth will surely die, perish, hell. Hell's fire. The Lord's the one that said that. Damnation. Very real. Very real. Okay, this is truth. This is not the word, these are not the words of some wild-eyed, crazy, long-bearded, so-called prophet standing on a street corner preaching hell's fire and damnation.

Jesus Christ said it more than anyone else. And when Christ went to the cross, You remember when he said, I thirst? He was enduring the fires of hell for his people, the equivalent of an eternity in hell. Like the rich man in hell said, I thirst. Christ on the cross for his people endured hell, the wrath of God, the fiery indignation and wrath of God against man's sin. God's gonna burn this whole place up someday and be done with it all. but not those in Christ because Christ endured that fire. He was the burnt offering for God's people. You understand that?

That's as clear as I can make it. The knife, the knife, who kills? God says, I kill. I kill, I make a lot. So they went to the place, a knife in his hand. Look at verse seven. Now, Isaac, a young man, about 18 or 20 maybe, young, strong, a believer. He knew something. He knew he cannot approach God, but one way. This is long before Exodus. You understand? Long before Exodus. It speaks of the lamb and the blood and all that. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said, my father. And Abraham said, here am I, my son. He said, behold the fire and the wood. But where is the lamb? For a burnt offering. Where is the lamb?

You know, this is the question of all questions, isn't it? Would to God that all men and women and people everywhere would ask this question wherever they go and sit and listen to the man preach or ask this question because you cannot approach this holy God who's a consuming fire without a lamb.

You can have wood, you can have your edifices, you can have your buildings, big elaborate buildings, wood, hay, and stubble is what that is. You can have the fire, acquire the fire, let your children acquire the fire, the Holy Spirit, but if there's no lamb, there's no worship, there's no, God's not there. He's not there. Because in the mount of the Lord, it shall be seen. The fire, yes, the wood of his cross, and the Lamb slain for his people.

Ask that question whenever you hear a man preach. I'm not hearing the Lamb. Where's the Lamb? Let me ask this question. Where is the Lamb? Well, before the world, he was waiting, wasn't he? Before the world, the Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world. It says, where is it? He's still the Lamb. He was the Lamb. He is the Lamb. He always will be the Lamb. He says, I am, what? The Lamb.

Genesis 22. Isn't that interesting? Genesis 22. Psalm 22. It's the psalm of the cross. Read it for yourself. Revelation 22. What everybody's going to see is a Lamb on a throne. as it had been slain. From the beginning to end, where's the Lamb? He's waiting. He's coming. He came, He's coming again. The Lamb. Where is the Lamb? He's on the throne. Where is the Lamb? He's on the cross. Where is the Lamb? He's coming again.

Verse 8, Abraham said, my son, Read this, you gotta look at this now. I want your eyes on verse eight, not me. Please don't look at me. I want you to look to Christ. My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. This is one of the greatest prophecies Promises, pictures, and all the Bible in it. 10 or 12 words. My son, God, will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. God will provide. Everything we need, God will provide. God will. Everything is after the counsel of His will. It's not up to man's will. Aren't you glad? Because you will not come. No man can come except the Father which hath sent Christ draw us. God will. Did He? Did you come to Christ? Do you? Will you? Will He come again? God will. God will provide. Jehovah-Jireh. God will provide. God will provide himself a lamb.

That sacrifice that Christ made on that cross, though it was in the stead of, the room of, the place of, substitution for his people, it was first and foremost for God. Christ offered himself to God as a sacrifice. God, Christ was not offered to man. No, no, no, no. That's the highest blasphemy that man can utter. That's what Methodism, that's their slogan, offer them Christ. Hold on now. Christ did not offer himself to human beings.

He offered himself to God. God will provide himself a lamb. For God to be holy, and just, and righteous, and yet justify unrighteous, holy sinners, such as we, he had to have a substitute. A lamb without spot, without blemish, a righteous substitute, and that's Jesus Christ alone. It's not you, it's him.

And Christ offered his whole life, a life of righteousness, of acceptance with God, and God was well pleased for his righteousness. And then God said, the soul that sinneth must surely die. Christ said, I'll die in their place, in their stead, as their substitute. God said, I'll accept that. And Christ offered himself to God and God accepted it on behalf of, in the stead of his people.

You and I had nothing to do with this. Those two men, remember Abraham said, you stay here at the foot of the mountain. I and the son will go up there, but we'll come again. There were 12 apostles with our Lord at all time and others. Then they went into the garden. Our Lord took three disciples into the garden. He said, pray with me.

But when Christ went to the cross, They all had to stay, stand back. Because the salvation of sinners was in the hands of the God, the father and God, the son. Man has nothing to do with it. It's all between the father and the son. For God, this purpose and Christ to fulfill that purpose. And he did. He did. God will provide for himself. God will provide himself a lamb.

God was in Christ reconciling the world or that is a people out of every tribe, kindred, nation and tongue in heaven. It was God manifest in the flesh who provided himself as the lamb. God became a lamb. God became man. God will provide himself the lamb. God is the lamb. Feed the church of God, Peter wrote to the elders, which he purchased with his own blood. Explain that preach. I can't, but it's so.

God will provide himself, the God man, a lamb. And lamb, every house must have a lamb. That's Exodus 12 in it. Every man must have a lamb. God said, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. Whose blood? The blood of the lamb, Christ, I'll pass over you. God will provide. Oh, listen, people, this is so marvelous, so glorious. Isaac must live.

He's the seed, isn't it? Isaac, yet Isaac must die as a type of Christ who died and all the scriptures speak of. And yet he's the son of promise, the seed, but God's not talking about Isaac, the seed or his posterity, but he's talking about Christ, the seed. In Galatians, it plainly says that, that all the blessings of God are not in seeds, but as it were one seed, which is Christ. Christ must live like Isaac, the son of promise. But Christ must die, he came to die. The son of promise, a substitute instead of. God will provide himself a substitute for all his people, and he did.

Now listen to this, this actually happened. This actually happened. At the foot of that mountain, days before this, There was a sheepfold, listen to it, this happened. At the foot of that mountain, days before this happened, there was a sheepfold down there and a shepherd who owned many sheep and he had this fold in which these sheep were found, okay. One night, in the middle of the night, an unseen hand opened the door of that sheepfold. And the prize lamb of that shepherd, one without spot, a male of the first year, without spot and without blemish, well pleasing to that shepherd, walked out of that fold willingly as guided by an unseen hand.

That ram, that male lamb, walked out of that fold and walked up that mountain. walked all the way up that mountain, that ram walked all the way up that mountain, this is days before this happened, and got to the top of that mountain, Moriah, and there was a thicket of thorns, a thorny thicket, and this young ram of the first year stuck his head in that thicket.

And those thorns surrounded his head and bound him in that thicket. And there he sits, there he sits waiting to die with a crown of thorns on his head. Waiting to die for someone else. And there he stands. And here came Abraham and Isaiah. And that ram is waiting.

Why didn't they hear that ram when they got up there? Why didn't they see that ram when they came up there? If you're a believer, why didn't you hear His voice years ago? Why didn't you see your need of Christ years ago? Huh? He was there all along. He died for you. long ago before you ever knew it. Why didn't you hear it? Why didn't you see it then?

Because you're going to have to see the knife of God ready to plunge into your own heart. Are you with me? You're going to have to see, like Abraham and Isaac, the wrath of God is going to come down on you or your sacrifice. And you're not gonna hear that, you're not gonna see that until God in his time preaches the gospel to you and your children and say, you're the one that's gotta die, unless there's somebody gonna die in your place. And I didn't know it, but one day, I heard just as clearly about the ram, about the lamb. I saw him, one hanging on a tree, for me. Isn't God good? And we're waiting, aren't we? Ed, Jeanette, we're waiting for the Lord to reveal Himself to our children. We pray that He will. They got to hear this gospel. And they heard it before now, but they don't deserve to. But God. Abraham. Verse 9, he took Isaac, his son, bound his son Isaac, laid him on the altar of wood. It was God that bound his son. It wasn't the chains of the Romans. It was God who bound his son. He was bound by love. He was bound by the law.

As said, our Lord was able, willing. Isaac was a young, strong man. He didn't have to be bound by that old man, by his 115-year-old father. Oh no, he could have rebelled, I'm not gonna do that. No, he willingly, he believed. Our Lord willingly, for the joy set before him, Scripture said, endured the cross, willingly bound. Like Samson of old, those chains, those fetters didn't bind our Lord, didn't it?

He was bound by a covenant, bound by the law. He agreed willingly to be bound. And it was the father that bound him. It was the father that laid on him the iniquity of all of God's people. Now Isaiah 53, 10 says it pleased the Lord to bruise him. Did Abraham get joy in doing it? Try to imagine what was going through Abraham's heart and soul right now.

Was this a laughing matter? Is there anything funny about this? Is there anything light or frivolous? This is terrible. This is horrible. This is life or death here. This is not playing games here. Somebody's life and soul is at stake. This was horrible. This was terrible. And they dress up the cross of Christ and they put Christ, these little graven images they have of Christ hanging there with a little loincloth. He looks like a Caucasian, a handsome Caucasian. That's blasphemy. That's a graven image. He was naked. He was naked. He was beaten beyond recognition. His blood covered his whole body.

He was repulsive to look at because that's what God thinks of sin. And this generation has made light and made it a pretty thing and made a cross on which they hang around their neck as jewelry to adorn their bodies. Goodness gracious. Religion is a seed of Satan. This was horrible, terrible. What it took for God to put away sin was for God to kill his son in cold blood, make his body unrecognizable, beat him with a fist of God's wrath. I can't put it any clearer.

Do you see what we owe our Lord Jesus? We watch sometimes shows or movies or whatever, and they're really bad people that do really bad things, and you want justice to be served. I tell her, I said, I want that fella, this bad fella who's doing all that, I want him to suffer bad. I want him to die a slow and painful death. Don't we, brethren? You men understand what I'm saying. I want his blood to be shed. This fella that shed other blood, that's done so wrong to everybody, I want him to hurt.

Justice, swift will slow and painful justice serve. Mankind has sinned against God, and sinned against God, and sinned against God, and sinned against God, and God says, I will repay. Vengeance is mine. It doesn't please the Lord to put anybody to death. It doesn't take pleasure and vengeance. But amazingly, it pleased the Lord to bruise his son. But what it took for God to put away sin was for God to have them just completely beat and The wrath of God poured out on a human body, but his soul was made an offering of sin.

Now, before this, Isaac had not spoken until they got to the place. And our Lord opened not his mouth, because as a lamb is done for her shearers, so he opened not his mouth. But when Isaac spoke, he said, my father, the first thing Isaac says, my father, Christ, before he went to the cross, in John 7, 10. Father, when hanging on a cross, he said, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

He knew, but we have to know that God was forsaking his son, or else he must forsake us. So, Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son. Bonnie, he took, Bonnie and I were just talking about that. He actually took that knife, bound his son, laid him there, probably tears flowing. He said, I don't understand. I don't understand. But I believe God. And he took that knife to plunge it in his own son's heart and shed his own son's blood. But God, and I've never seen this before.

The angel of the Lord called unto him. Verse 11, Abraham, Abraham. He said, here am I. The angel of the Lord said, lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything to him. Don't touch him. For now I know thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, From me!

Who is this angel standing there? Christ! Who's that man outside the ark door putting a pitch on it? Christ! Who's the one in the garden showing those first two sinners? Slicing the throat of that lamb and skinning it and covering it. Who is it? Christ! He's all and in all. He's the angel of God. He's the substitute. He said, My delights are with the sons of men. Rejoicing in the habitable parts of the earth. Proverbs 8. Christ came at every time that sinners needed a substitute. Every time it was a covenant to be confirmed, it was Christ that was doing it. It was speaking to them to confirm it because all the promises of God are in Christ. Yay and amen.

Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything to him. Brothers and sisters, if Christ was crucified for us, if we're in him, not one thing will There is therefore now no condemnation in their crime. Christ, the angel of the Lord says, Father, lay not one charge to his account, not one thing. Why? Because I died, Christ said. On me, let me bear his blame.

So Abraham lifted up his eyes and verse 13, he saw that ram caught in a thicket by his horn. You see that? That ram was already there. And he took that ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of, in the place of his son. And he called the name of that place, Jehovah-Jireh, as it is said to this day, in the mouth of the Lord, it shall be seen. We need to hear this. You need to hear this. In the mouth of the Lord.

Golgotha, Mount Calvary, Mount Zion, the church, the eternal purpose of God is seen. The Word of God fulfilled is seen. The holiness of God is seen. The righteousness of God is seen. The justice of God is seen. The goodness of God is seen. The mercy of God is seen. The grace of God is seen. The love of God is seen. The satisfaction of Christ is seen. The substitution of Christ is seen. Only in Mount Calvary, only in the church that preaches that is it to be seen. And it shall be seen, and it will always be seen in that mountain to this day.

And then our Lord said, now I know that you fear God. And the blessings of God, he's blessed Abraham, Isaac, verse 17, in blessing, I will bless thee, I'll multiply thy seed, thy seed, verse 18, thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. Do you understand people that the blessings of God are not in being a Jew outwardly, a son of Abraham, but in being a son of God. And he is a son of God, is a son by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

We're Gentiles here. We're all Gentile. Nobody here born in Israel. Were they? Or were we? Oh yeah. We're all Jews because salvation's of the Jews. Now, we read these names in the end of this, didn't we? What significance do these names have? Somebody said, Abraham came back and said, by the way, your brother's wife had some sons. Oh, and one daughter. What's the significance of that? Is there anything in significant inscription? If you've never seen this, hang on, okay?

Isaac has to live. He has to be married. He has to have a bride, has to have a wife, and have children for all the promises of God to be fulfilled, for the people of God to be as the sands of sea and the stars of the sky. Isaac has to marry, bear children, right?

Well, down in verse 23, there's one female mentioned, only one. They said, oh, by the way, a daughter was born named Rebecca. Who's that? That's Isaac's bride. While Isaac is being sacrificed, his bride is being born. Did you hear me? Maybe you didn't hear that. While the son is being sacrificed, his bride is being born.

When Christ was crucified on Calvary's tree, out of his side flowed blood and water. But that's not all. We became. We were born again by the travail of our Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's tree. In the mouth of the Lord, it shall be said, one thing. And in all eternity, we're going to think of and consider and hear about and praise and saying one thing. A lamb as it was slain. Okay. Number 129.

In The Mount of the Lord it Shall Be Seen

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Why is Christ's sacrifice central to the Christian faith?

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In The Mount of the Lord it Shall Be Seen

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What does the Bible say about God's testing of faith?

Why is the concept of substitutionary atonement important for Christians?

How do we know that God will provide for our needs?

Why is Christ's sacrifice central to the Christian faith?

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