Far too often we read the Word
of God with a terribly carnal eye, dwelling far too much on
the letter of the Word and missing the Spirit. I mean by that missing
the message of the Spirit in the Word. Dwelling too much on
the literal and missing the spiritual. the spiritual application to
our own souls, dwelling too much on the type and missing Christ
the great antitype of whom the types speak. Multitudes, multitudes
of religious people, people who read the Bible regularly, people
who study the Bible in detail, people who memorize large portions
of scripture, multitudes miss that which a passage is intended
to teach because they are consumed with the desire to define words
and understand words by which the person and work of Christ
are revealed, rather than seeking to know him of whom the book
speaks. Multitudes, multitudes miss the
message of this book because They naturally are, as we all
are, and because they are taught to do so, because they look for
carnal things in the book, look for carnal applications to their
own lives. Most churches preach nothing
but morality in the name of Jesus. And folks get a little religion
and they quit drinking and quit smoking and quit cussing and
quit stealing and whatever else they quit. And that may be alright
in some sense because it may keep them going to the penitentiary.
But it will do their souls no good. The mere preaching of morality
is nothing but the destruction of men's souls and dishonoring
to God and an abuse of this word. Whenever we open the scriptures,
we ought to consciously open God's Word, seeking to see Him
of whom the Word speaks. If you see Christ in this book,
you see what the book intends to teach. And if you don't see
Christ in the book, you don't understand anything in the book
of Now be sure you understand what I'm saying. If you see Christ
in the passage that we're going to look at tonight, you see the
intent, the message of the passage. If you don't see Christ in the
passage, it doesn't matter what else you may see. It doesn't
matter what else you may apprehend. It doesn't matter what else you
take from the passage. You have not understood the passage. God help us to understand that.
May He continually open the Scriptures to us and cause our hearts to
burn after Him. Let me see if I can illustrate
what I'm telling you. There's a lady in Washington
State. A few years ago, she began getting
some of our tapes from someone, I think it was her nephew, down
in Southern California, and she's since then been getting them
from us, sorting them every little bit. I received a letter from
her a few months ago. She said she'd been in church
all her life. And this is what she wrote after
listening to a good many messages. For the first time in my life,
I'm seeing Christ in the Old Testament. For the first time
in my life, the Old Testament has come alive for me. Ah, that's what I want to do
in preaching. I want to show you Christ in
the book. Not just point to a passage that
talks about Christ, it doesn't run off. I want you to see clearly
how the passage we look at speaks of Him. And I want you to leave
here rejoicing in Him, believing Him, and honoring Him with worship
and confident faith. With that in mind, let's turn
to Exodus chapter 3 again. Tonight I want us to look at
verses 15 through 18, and I want you to see, oh may God the Holy
Spirit, who penned these words, cause us to see something of
the grace and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ as the God of Israel,
and draw comfort from that fact. The one who speaks to Moses in
this passage, the one who appeared to Moses in the burning bush,
is Jesus Christ, who is called the Angel of the Lord. Throughout
this chapter, however, this one who is called the Angel of the
Lord is called God, spoken of as God, and worshipped as God. When Moses drew near to the angel
of the Lord who spoke to him out of the bush, he pulled off
his shoes and worshipped him. He is the one who describes himself
as the Great I Am, saying, I am that I am. Now this appearance
of our Savior, one of the most enlightening and instructive
appearances, pre-incarnate appearances of Christ in all the Old Testament. So we're going to spend a little
more time here than you might otherwise think we should. Exodus
chapter 3, verse 15. And God said moreover unto Moses,
thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the Lord
God of your fathers, now watch how he describes himself, the
God of your fathers, not just physical fathers, though that's
what he was to that physical nation, but the patriarchs, spiritual
fathers, the fathers in the house and family of God. The apostle
tells us that we who believe on the Son of God, we who trust
Christ, we are the children of Abraham. Abraham is held before
us not because he's the first believer, but he is that one
who is held before us in scripture as the eminent father of Israel,
the physical nation. And as such, he's held before
us as our father spiritually, because we walk in the faith
of Abraham, doing the works of Abraham, trusting and worshiping
the Lord Jesus Christ. He says, Thus shalt thou say
to the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent
me unto you. This is my name. What? I am that I am. Yes, maybe. No. Distinctly, this is my name. The God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob. the God of your fathers. This
is my name forever and this is my memorial unto all generations. This is how I will be remembered.
By the works that I did for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. By the things
I performed for them and revealed to them and in them. Go and gather
the elders of Israel together and say unto them, The Lord God
of your fathers, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God
of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me saying,
I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you
in Egypt. And I have said, I will bring
you up out of the affliction of Egypt, unto the land of the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk
and honey. And they shall hearken to thy
voice. And thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto
the king of Egypt, And you shall say to him, speak to the king
of Egypt, you, Moses, leading this band of Egyptian slaves,
you're going to go to the mightiest king on the earth and say to
him, the Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us, now let us
go. Now let us go. How come God met
with us? As far as Pharaoh was concerned,
that'd be like some Muslim saying to us, Allah met with us, now
you do what we tell you. Stick it in your ear. What difference
does that make? Who is Allah? Nothing. Nothing. What difference does
that make? Oh, but here's something. This one who spoke to Moses,
and commands Moses to lead Israel to speak to Pharaoh. He is the
God of Allah. He's the God of Gods. Read on. The Lord God of the Hebrews hath
met with us. Now let us go. We beseech thee
three days journey into the wilderness for this purpose, that we may
sacrifice to the Lord our God. The psalmist said, Thy name,
O Lord, endureth forever, and thy memorial throughout all generations." What is it that the Lord uses
to inspire Moses with confidence when he's about to embark upon
an impossible task? He says, My name is the God of
your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Well, what
is there in that to inspire him? What is it that God sent Moses
to tell Israel that would inspire these people who had for 400
years served as slaves to the pharaohs of Egypt? What would
now inspire these people afflicted so long to go to Pharaoh and
demand release from him? The Lord God, the God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has sent us
to you. Now let's see what that means.
The one who commissioned Moses at the burning bush declares
his name in this remarkable way, I am that I am. He calls himself
Jehovah. And then, lest there be any question
about what he's saying, our Lord Jesus Christ declares himself
to be the God of our fathers, specifically the God of Abraham. That man he called while he was
an idolater in Ur of the Chaldeans. Isaac, that child of promise
born to God by electing grace and covenant mercy. And Jacob,
whom God loved and not his brother Esau. Jacob, that snake of a
man that God turned into a prince with him. First, go back to the
book of Genesis, if you will. Genesis chapter 14, we'll start
there. I just told you a place there. He is called here, no, he calls
himself here, the God of Abraham. Our Lord Jesus is that one of
whom Stephen spoke when he was dying, when he said, the God
of glory appeared to our father Abraham. We know that it was
not God the Father, God the Spirit, or God the Son in their essential
being that appeared to Abraham, for no man has seen God at any
time. The only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him. So the
one who comes to speak to Abraham, who appeared to Abraham, this
God of glory, is none other than Jesus Christ the Lord, the angel
of the Lord, the mediator. Our blessed Redeemer in one of
His many, many, many pre-incarnate revelations of Himself. He is
that One who is the brightness of the Father's glory and the
expressed image of His person. He is called in the Scriptures,
the Lord of glory. Now look how Abraham speaks of
Him who appeared to him in Genesis 14, 19. And He blessed him and said,
Blessed be Abraham of the Most High God. Possessor. Possessor. The solitary possessor. The only possessor of heaven
and earth. Now without question, he possesses
all things in heaven and in earth because he's God. There's no
question about that. But this one who is the God-man,
our mediator, he is that one to whom the Father gave possession
of all things in heaven and in earth as a result of his mediatorial
accomplishments as our substitute in surety. And this glory is
the glory which he had with the Father before the world was. Even before Abraham was made,
he comes and he now appears to Abraham and says, I am the most
high God, the possessor of heaven and of earth. Now let me show
you that this is what he possesses by virtue of his mediatorial
accomplishments. Turn to John chapter 17. You
remember in Psalm 2, the Lord God said of him in covenant mercy,
ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance
and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. In
Matthew, our Lord sends his disciples out to preach the gospel and
he says, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Someone
asked me, what does that mean, all power? Does that mean all
physical power? All moral power? All authority? Yeah, that's what it means. All
power, whatever kind of power there is, it is given to him,
the possessor of heaven and earth, to save his people from their
sins. Look at John 17, verse 4. The
Savior says, I have glorified thee on the earth. I have finished
the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify
thou me with thine own self. with the glory which I had with
thee before the world was." Now, Father, give me publicly that
glory that was given to me privately in the covenant of grace, that
glory I had with you before the world was. In Romans chapter
14, To this end Christ hath died,
and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord of the dead and
of the living. Now turn to Philippians chapter
2. Philippians 2. Our Lord Jesus, we're told in
verse 8, being found in passion as a man humbled himself and
became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Now look
at verse 9. That is for this reason, because he became obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross. God also hath highly
exalted him and given him a name which is above every name. Now
God did not exalt his son as his son. The Son of God is in
all things equal with and one with the Father. He cannot be
given anything. But as the God-man, our mediator,
as our covenant surety for the reward of His obedience, the
Father has exalted Him, given Him a name that is above every
name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things
in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth, and
that every tongue should confess. that Jesus Christ is boss of
everything and boss of everybody, all the time, in heaven, earth,
and hell, that he is Lord to the glory of God the Father. For he must reign, Paul tells
us in 1 Corinthians 15, till he hath put all enemies under
his feet. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the possessor
of heaven and earth, the Most High God, reigns upon His throne
of absolute sovereignty everywhere, and will continue to do so until
He's put everything under His feet, either by grace or by judgment. Every knee is going to bow to
Him, you and me too. Every tongue is going to confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord because he deserves to be Lord. Satan,
who challenged him in the beginning, and every son of Adam who challenges
him today, every demon of hell, and every man shall confess Christ
is Lord, either in mercy and grace, being compelled to confess
him, by his grace, or in the day of judgment, when all shall
be compelled to confess his Lord, and it is right for him to be.
Look in Genesis 15. In John 1, verse 1, we're told
that the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. That's how our Lord revealed
himself to Abraham in Genesis 15, verse 1. After these things, the word
of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision. In former days, God
spoke to men by visions. Now He speaks by revelation,
by His Spirit through the word. The Lord spoke to Abraham in
a revelation, saying, Don't be afraid. Can you imagine? You remember how Manoah and his
wife, the Lord Jesus appeared to them And Manoah and his wife
were terrified. They said, we've seen the Lord,
we're going to die. That's exactly what Abraham must have thought.
And the Lord said, wait, don't be afraid, Abraham. Fear not.
Fear not. I am, not I want to be, not I
might be, not I'm going to be. I am thy shield and thy exceeding
great reward. The word of God comes to Abraham
not as the word revealed, but rather as the word revealing. God didn't send a book down,
or a tablet, or a piece of paper to Abraham. God himself came
down to Abraham. The word that was later made
flesh here appears to Abraham in the form of flesh. The angel
of the Lord, God incarnate, appears to Abraham to make God known
to Abraham. He came to Abraham in a revelation. And that's exactly how he comes
to sinners today. The only way Abraham could ever
have known God was for God to make himself known to Abraham.
Canst thou by searching find out God? Never. How did this
man come to know God? God stepped into his life. God
stepped in his way and made himself known to him as God, his Savior. This is the one that Abraham
worshipped and trusted. This is the one represented in
the sacrifice that was parted, that Abraham protected and cared
for. This is the Word of God. Paul
said in Galatians 1, when it pleased God, who separated me
from my mother's womb and called me by His grace to reveal His
Son in me. How is it you came to know the
Son of God? He revealed Himself in you. To you, yes, but knowing all
about Him is not knowing Him. This is life eternal that they
might know thee, the only true God in Jesus Christ whom thou
hast sent. Look in 1 John 1. This is exactly what John describes
as his experience. That which was from the beginning,
which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which
we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the word
of life. For the life was manifested,
and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that
eternal life which was with the Father, and was manifested unto
us. That which we have seen and heard
declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with
us, and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His
Son, Jesus Christ. The Word who appeared to Abraham
is God who was the Word from the beginning. Look in chapter
15 of Genesis again. Just keep your Bible marking
Genesis. We're going to be there all evening. In verse 7 of this 15th
chapter, He said unto him, I am the Lord. He who is the Word,
who appeared to Abraham, he said, I am the Lord that brought thee
out of Ur of the Chaldees to give thee this land to inherit
it. And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit
it? And God showed him. While you're here in chapter
15, look back at verse 1 again. The Lord here declares to Abraham,
I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. He did not come
in order to become Abraham's shield and reward. He did not
reveal himself to Abraham in order that he might be Abraham's
shield and reward. He was not made Abraham's shield
and reward by Abraham's faith in Him. These days folks talk
about you making Jesus something. Just exactly what do you think
you're going to make Him? Just exactly what does a man
think he's going to make the Most High God to be? We don't make Him anything. He
comes and reveals Himself to Abraham. as his shield and his
exceeding great reward. And that's exactly what he does
for his people wherever he makes himself known. He reveals himself,
and as soon as Abraham believed God, by the experience of his
grace, Abraham found him to be his shield and his exceeding
great reward. Oh, what a shield our Lord Jesus
Christ is. He hides us behind His blood,
just like on that day when God sent judgment upon Egypt and
brought Israel out of Egypt. He told the Jews to hide inside
their houses and told the father of every house to take the blood
of the Lamb and sprinkle it on the doorpost and the lintel.
And He said, when I see the blood, I will pass over you. And so
it is that we are shielded from wrath and judgment and death
behind the precious blood of Christ on the mercy seat. Every
year, the high priest was required of God to take the blood of the
Passover lamb and sprinkle it in the holy place on the mercy
seat. That mercy seat, the propitiatory,
that mercy seat covered the ark of the covenant in which was
contained God's broken law. A picture of what Christ with
His own blood did when He entered into the holy place, not made
with hands, and He obtained eternal redemption for us. And now our
sins being covered by the blood are atoned. But they're more
than covered. By His blood, He's put them away.
He shields us with His own righteousness, clothing us with salvation. Our
Lord Jesus shields us by encompassing us with Himself. He holds us
in His hands, He carries us in His bosom, and He intercedes
for us perpetually. Listen to this, I will abide
in thy tabernacle forever. I will trust in the cover of
thy wings. No matter what comes, no matter
what opposition, no matter what trial, no matter what heartache,
I will hide in the cover of thy wings. The name of the Lord is
a strong tower. The righteous runneth into it
and is safe. Turn to Isaiah chapter 4 for
a second. Hold your hands in Genesis. Isaiah
4. or six. There shall be a tabernacle for
a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of
refuge, and for a coveret from the storm and from the rain. Look in chapter 32. Look who this coveret And to man, the same man who
stood before Abraham, the same man who stood before Moses, the
God of Israel, the Lord Jesus, a man shall be a hiding place
from the wind, and a cover from the tempest, as rivers of water
in a dry place, as a shadow of a great rock in a weary land. And then he says to Abraham,
not only am I your shield, I'm your exceeding great reward. I can't spend much time on that. Folks these days talk about earning
rewards in heaven. Bobbi Estes, I'm not the least
bit interested in getting anything from God that I've earned. Nothing. Because that's just hell. What
do you earn by your righteousnesses which are just filthy rags? You
mean preachers that folks don't get stars in their crown by doing
good on earth? No. No. You get fire in hell
by what you think is good that you do. That's all. Christ is
our exceeding great reward. The Lord is my portion, saith
my soul. He is my kinsman, my redeemer,
my friend, my brother, my helper, my husband, my God. He is our inheritance, our portion
forever, our exceeding great reward. And what a reward He
is. Ye are Christ, and Christ is
God's, and Christ is yours, and Christ is all. Abraham, when
he was called of God, the Lord said, Abraham, you forsake your
father and your father's house and your land and your gods and
follow me. Follow me. And you know what
Abraham did? There he forsook everything.
And even the things he was unwilling to forsake, God graciously made
him forsake. And he'll do it. He says, if
you're going to come after me and be my disciple, you must
forsake all and follow me. Hating father and mother and
brother and sister, husband or wife, son or daughter, yea, and
your own life also. Well, that can't be reasonable.
It's not. It's not reasonable at all. to
a man or woman to whom Christ has made himself known in the
fullness of his grace and glory. And for those, should it be asked,
what are you lacking? We answer with Peter, nothing,
nothing Lord. I have Christ. Christ is all. Look in Genesis 17. Here again, the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob reveals himself to Abraham as the Almighty God. The word is El Shaddai. Genesis
17 verse 1, And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the
Lord appeared to Abram and said unto him, That's a pretty good
thing for a 90-year-old man to hear. 99-year-old. I am the almighty God. El Shaddai. Walk before me and
be thou perfect. Now this name, El Shaddai, emphasizes
our Lord's omnipotence. He who demands that we walk before
him and be perfect is God who possesses all power. The God-man
to whom all power has been given. That means many things, but none
are sweeter than this. He is able to make us what he
demands that we be. Perfect. He's able to do it. El Shaddai. really means much
more, however, than just power, omnipotent power. The name means
God All-Sufficient. It expresses the sufficiency
of God to bestow His grace and fulfill His promises. El Shaddai
is God able to save, able to take such things as He finds
among heathen men and women. like those in Urbicality, worshipping
stumps and stalks and wood and images, all things of their own
making, raised up by heathen, inclined toward nothing but heathenism
and idolatry, take that man whom he's loved with everlasting love,
chosen to himself a sinful wretch, and cause him to walk before
him in faith, and make him perfect before him. perfect by His decree,
by His blood, by His righteousness, and by His grace. You read it
back in the office. He puts that holy thing in us, Himself, that
cannot sin. Then in Genesis 18, verse 25,
Abraham extols our God and Savior as the judge of all the earth,
saying in the last sentence, Shall not the judge of all the
earth do right? Christ is that man whom God has
appointed by whom he will judge the world. We must all appear
before the judgment seat of Christ, the great white throne judgment,
and receive exactly that which is our due. Well, how on this
earth can we stand before this judge and receive what's our
due and yet hope for everlasting life? We receive our due because
our due is His due. He obeyed God for us, even unto
death. And His obedience is ours. I've
got to hurry. Look in chapter 21, verse 33. We're told here, Abraham planted a
grove in Beersheba. and called there on the name
of the Lord the everlasting God. That's our Savior. The true God
and eternal life. That One who is from the beginning. That One who is before all things. That One which is from old, whose
goings forth have been of old, from everlasting. Now, look in
chapter 22. He's the God of Abraham, but
that's not all. He's the God of Isaac. The God of Isaac. God chose Isaac
and said, cast out Ishmael. The God of all grace, that's
the God of Isaac. This One who is God Almighty,
Most High God, Possessor of Heaven and Earth, God All-Sufficient,
He is the God of all grace. And here He's portrayed in that
which most clearly sets forth His grace and His glory. Isaac
and Abraham are on the mount. And Isaac asked his father, he
said, Daddy, we've got the wood for a burnt offering, and we've
got fire in our hands, but where is the lamb? Where are we going
to get a sacrifice? Isaac understood from his father
Abraham, who understood by God's revelation that you can't worship
God without a blood sacrifice, without that Lamb represented
way back in Genesis chapter 3. Got to have Him. Isaac said,
Daddy, where's the Lamb? And Abraham said, my son, God
will provide Himself a ram for Bert Offred. strapped Isaac to the altar,
drew back the knife, and the angel of the Lord, the Lord Jesus
Christ, said to Abraham, don't touch that boy. I see you've
not withheld your son from me. There's a ram right over yonder.
Caught him a thicket. Take him and sacrifice him in
his stead. And Isaac got up off the altar of death and walked
home with his daddy. What a picture of God's saving
grace. Now look at verse 14. And Abraham
called the name of that place Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord will
provide. As it is said to this day, in
the mouth of the Lord it shall be seen. Abraham said, son, let's
go home and worship God. We've learned something about
Him today we've never known before. His name is Jehovah Jireh. You see how He provided everything
for you? Everything? He provided life
for you. I call that everything, don't
you? He provided for you. And He's going to be seen in
His provision. Did you see Him in that ram that I killed there
when I took you off the altar? Did you see Him? That's who's
coming to redeem us. He will provide, and He shall
be seen in that which He provides. His name is Jehovah Jireh, the
Lord who is both our provider and our probation. Now, look
in Genesis chapter 32, verse 31. He's the God of Abraham. The
God who performs all things for His own. The God of Isaac, the
God of all grace, who performs all grace and redemption for
His own. And He's the God of Jacob. And I'll be honest with you,
I have a difficult time trying to decide which of these I like
best. I think I'd have to say all of
them. He's God of a covenant. And he's
the God of omnipotent grace that he performs. And he's the God
of such worthless, sinful wretches as Jacob. Jacob said, I have seen God face
to face and my life is spared. This is the God who as a man
wrestled with Jacob, we're told in verse 24. The angel who comes in the form
of a man, the God who wrestled with Jacob, and he wrestled with
him. Folks, talk about, and I don't
want to be too demanding in precise language, but we ought to speak
of things in scripture as they're revealed in scripture. Folks
talk about wrestling with God. You know, I get calls all the
time and I just, you know, I try to be nice to folks. They have
trouble and they start calling preachers. They want us to bombard
heaven and get God by the arm and twist his arm and somehow
wrestle with God until he does what we want him to do. That's
not what the scripture teaches, and that's not what happened
with Jacob. Jacob didn't wrestle with the angel of the Lord. The
angel of the Lord wrestled with Jacob. He's the one who initiated
this thing. He came to Jacob to wrestle him. I never was much at track and
field. I did a few things in that, but
you can look at me and tell I didn't run real fast. But I was a pretty
good wrestler. Now in high school I wrestled
a good bit. Whenever I didn't win by default because there
wasn't anybody else around big as I was, but I wrestled a good bit. And
I'll tell you what my object was every time I wrestled. Every
time I wrestled. My object was to pin my opponent
to the ground. And our Lord Jesus comes to David
Burge and Don Fortner in his saving grace who are by nature
his enemies. And his object is to pin us to
the ground and conquer us by his grace. Oh, wondrous conquest
that forces Jacob when the Lord says, what's your name? My name
is Jacob. I'm a tricky scoundrel. I'm in
the mess I'm in because of my deceit and my cunning. And the
Lord wrestled him to the ground, and as soon as Jacob acknowledged
his sin, the Lord said to him exactly what Nathan said to David. When David said, I've sinned,
Jacob said, my name's Jacob. The Lord said, not anymore. Not
anymore. Your name's Israel, a prince
who prevails with God. I've made all things new for
you. And that's what he does for his own. This is the same
one that Jacob saw. as a ladder with God at the top
reaching down to the earth from heaven and the angels of God
descending to him and ascending back up to God. Oh, hear me,
you Jacobs, whom God has made princes with him. Christ is the
ladder By whom God in all his blessedness comes down to you
with all the bounty of his grace. And he is the latter by which
we with the grace that he himself gives ascend back to him and
find acceptance with God. He's the God of Israel. Look at chapter 33. Genesis 33
verse 20. He erected an altar there. He
erected there an altar and called it Elohi Israel, the God of Israel. Now, God commands you, walk before
Him and be perfect. I can't. I can't. God says, Abraham, you leave
your daddy now. And Abraham kept hanging on to
him. I can't leave him. I can't leave him. Yes, you can. Just watch me. Yes, you can. Abraham, you forsake everything.
Cast Ishmael out. I can't. Yes, you can. Watch me. Abraham, take your
son, your only son, whom you dearly love, Isaac. Think about
it for three days and then kill him as a sacrifice to me. I can't. Yes, you can. Watch me. I'm the God of Israel. And that
which I require, I perform. And so it is written, and so
all Israel shall be saved. He who redeemed Israel from all
Israel shall sure enough save Israel. from all Israel to the
praise of the glory of His grace. Amen.