God Will Provide

Q: What does the Bible say about God's provision?

The Bible affirms that God will provide for our needs, as demonstrated in Genesis 22:14 where Abraham names the place 'Jehovah-Jireh', meaning 'the Lord will provide'. In Genesis 22, we find Abraham's faith tested as he is commanded by God to sacrifice his son Isaac. Through this extraordinary event, Abraham declares, 'My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering' (Genesis 22:8). This profound statement highlights the belief that God is the ultimate provider. When God intervenes, preventing Abraham from sacrificing Isaac, He provides a ram instead, emphasizing that He is attentive to the needs of His people and faithful to His promises. This theme of God's provision continues throughout scripture as we are reassured of His sovereignty and care in all circumstances.

Q: How do we know that God is sovereign in our trials?

Scripture teaches that God uses trials to strengthen faith, as seen in James 1:2-4, where we are told to count it joy when we face trials. The Bible clearly presents the concept of God's sovereignty in the trials of believers. In James 1:2-4, we are instructed to 'count it all joy when you fall into various trials' because these trials produce steadfastness and maturity in our faith. This indicates that God ordains trials as part of His sovereign plan, allowing believers to grow and demonstrate the authenticity of their faith. Moreover, Hebrews 12:6 affirms that 'the Lord disciplines those He loves', further illustrating how trials serve God's purpose to refine and strengthen us.

Q: Why is it important for Christians to trust in God's provision?

Trusting in God's provision strengthens our faith and reassures us of His sovereignty, especially in difficult times. For Christians, trusting in God's provision is crucial as it anchors our faith during trials and tribulations. According to Romans 8:28, God works all things together for the good of those who love Him. This assurance not only provides comfort but cultivates a heart of gratitude and reliance on His grace. It teaches believers to look beyond immediate circumstances and seek God's ultimate purpose in every situation. As seen in the story of Abraham, genuine faith is displayed through reliance on God's promises, allowing us to navigate life's uncertainties with peace and confidence in His faithful provision.

Q: How does Abraham's faith demonstrate God's provision?

Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac illustrates his deep faith in God's provision, believing that God could raise Isaac from the dead (Hebrews 11:17-19). Abraham's story is a profound testament to faith in God's provision. When commanded to sacrifice Isaac, Abraham obeyed, fully expecting that God would fulfill His promise that Isaac would be the heir. Hebrews 11:19 reveals that Abraham believed God could even raise Isaac from the dead, showcasing his unwavering trust. This faith parallels the ultimate provision of Jesus Christ as the Lamb given for our sins. By raising a ram in place of Isaac, God revealed that He is both the provider and the means of salvation, confirming that true faith trusts in God's sovereign plans even when circumstances seem impossible.

I want you to turn with me to
a passage of scripture in the book of Genesis, chapter 22. Now while you're finding Genesis,
chapter 22, I'll tell you that tonight I'm going to preach from
the book of 1 Peter, chapter 2. Verses 1 through 9. Our subject tonight is a chosen
generation. A chosen generation. God said
you're a chosen generation. You are a royal priesthood. You
are a holy nation. You are a special people. That's our subject tonight. Now
let's read Genesis 22. I want to read about 14 verses. Genesis 22. It came to pass after
these things, after these things, that God
did, that word tempt is test or try Abraham. And said unto
him, Abraham, he said, behold I, behold I, behold me, 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 upon
one of the mountains, which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose
up early in the morning, saddled his ass, took two of his young
men with him, and Isaac his son, and cut the wood for the burnt
offering, and rose up and went unto the place of which God had
told him, Mount Moriah. Then on the third day, it was
a three-day journey, on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes
and saw the place far off. And Abraham said to his young
men, Abide ye here with the ice, I and the lad will go yonder
and worship, and come again to you. And Abraham took the wood
of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son. He took
the fire in his hand and a knife, and they went both of them together.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father.
And he said, Behold, or here am I, my son. And he said, Behold,
father, the fire and the wood. Where is the lamb for burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God
will provide. My son God will provide himself
a lamb for burnt offering." So they went, both of them, together.
And they came to the place which God had told him of, and Abraham
built an altar there, and laid the wood and altar, and bound
Isaac his son, and laid him upon the altar, upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his
hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the
Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. He
said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand
upon the land, neither do thou anything unto him. For now I
know that thou fearest God. seeing thou hast not withheld
thy son, thine only son, from me." And Abraham lifted up his
eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram was caught in
a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the
ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his
son. And Abraham called the name of
that place Jehovah-Jireh. you look in your margin, it says,
the Lord will see, the Lord will see to it, or the Lord will provide. My son, God will provide. He called that name of that place
Jehovah-Jiva. As it is said to this day, in
the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. Now our text begins
in verse 1 with these words, it came to pass After these things. After these things. Now, after
what things? Well, after many trials. Many trials. I tell you, most
of us would think that God had already tried Abraham, his servant. It says after these things that
God did really try him. God had already tried him. Many
times. Severely. The Jews said that
Abraham had ten great trials. Maybe you could take that assignment
and find out what those ten great trials were. I'll give you a
few hints. You know, when he was 75 years
of age, God called him out of his father's house. He was living
very comfortably down there in the land of idolatry. with his
father and all his kinfolks. And God came to him and said,
Abraham, get thee out of thy father's house and away from
thy kindred unto the land I shall show you. And Abraham had to
leave all that he counted dear and precious to him because God
was more precious. He believed God. And then, you
know, Abraham, another trial, he had no certain dwelling place.
It says Abraham dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob. And then
Abraham had that confrontation with Lot. That's another trial,
great trial. He took his nephew Lot with him.
And they were very, very prosperous. The Lord had blessed Abraham
and blessed Lot, and they just had an abundance. And it wasn't
Abraham and Lot that got into a conflict, but their servants.
They were crowded. They were all in the same place,
two or three families, and there was conflict between their servants.
So Abraham finally told Lot, said, just to avoid any problem
between us, just take what you want. Just take what you want,
and I'll take what's left. Choose the land you want to go
to. Choose your homestead. Just take it and go. And they
did. And then they had the battle
of the kings when he had to go down and rescue Lot. Got in trouble. Abraham had to go to war and
rescue his nephew. And then when they came back
from that battle, another trial is the kings of that great powerful
empire, Sodom and surrounding areas, offered to make Abraham
rich. All different kinds of trials.
Trials come in different forms and shapes and fashions, but
they wanted to make him rich. And he said, no, no, he said,
I've lifted my hand to God, and he'll supply my needs, and leave
it there. And then, you know, God told
him he's going to destroy Sodom. Abraham's nephew was down there,
his wife and daughters, and sons-in-law, and God said, I'm going to burn
Sodom to the ground. prayed, interceded for Sodom.
He agonized, didn't he, for Sodom. Do you remember how he agonized?
That was a trial. He agonized. He knew it was an
awful place, but he had an interest in it. And he agonized. And then
he had that confrontation with Abimelech. Do you remember the
wicked king about him? The king wanted his wife. And
he had that confrontation with him. Along came Ishmael, born
to Abraham of Hagar, and when he was a teenage boy, God made
him send Ishmael away from home. He said, Ishmael is the law. Ishmael is the bond son. He's
born of the bond woman. He's not the heir. Isaac's the
heir, born of the free woman. Isaac's the gift of God. Ishmael
is your work, your doing, not God's doing, so get rid of him.
And Abraham had to send away that son whom he loved. That
was a terrible trial. And then it says here, and you
can find more of them, but it says after these things. Here Abraham is 115 years old. Seems like God has reserved the
most difficult time, the greatest trial for these last years. That's the mystery. You know,
John Fleming quoted me a song the other night after the service,
a song we love very much, a hymn. God moves in mysterious ways
his wonders to perform. Now you just take that opening
line, God moves. God always moves. God is always
working. God is always fulfilling his
purpose. God moves, and he moves in a
mysterious way. I can't explain this to you,
I'm just going to read it and preach it. I can't explain to
you the hand of God and the work of God and the purpose of God
and the will of God and the life of this man. It seems like to
me he's a pretty true, pretty faithful man. Why the Lord was
pleased to put him through these things, I don't know. I don't
know. God moves in a mysterious way.
Don't you try to explain God now. You're getting out of your
realm when you start trying to comprehend God. That's what these
preachers are trying to explain God. Forget it. Proclaim Him, don't explain Him. Somebody asked Barnard one time,
he said, explain this to me. He said, I'm not in the explaining
business. I'm in the proclaiming business. I can't explain it.
Can you explain God? Explain this to me. I can't explain
it, I'm proclaiming it. God moves in mysterious ways
to perform what? His wonders. And I'll tell you,
wonders are mysterious. If it's wondered, I can't perform
wonders. But the one who performs wonders
is the one who can move in a providential and mysterious way. See that?
And the greater the wonder, the greater the ways. That's right. And I can't explain. I do know
this. Faith must be tried. Faith must
be tried. And it will be. It will be. If
you are a believer, God will try you. Let me show you that
whole scripture. I'm coming back to that. Here's
something we need to look at, because everybody here, turn
to James 1. Everybody here has trials. When
I was opening a service in prayer a while ago, I had a lot of you
on my mind. You who are in the midst of,
I think of a family right back here, a couple of families I'm
looking at back here, and a great wife and mother in a rest home,
been there for years. I think of them, this trial.
I think of, I think of, This beautiful little blonde-headed
girl this week had a difficult time. I think of you. I think
of some of you facing trials. And we're going to be tried now. We're going to be tried. And
don't listen to the preacher who stands up and says, it's
fun being saved. It's a joy to be saved, but it's
not always fun. In other words, there's some
trials. There's some heartaches, some
real heartaches. But it's got to be. It's got
to be. Look at James 1, verse 2 through
4. My brethren, count it joy when
you fall into different trials. The word temptation is trial.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. Patience, maturity, confidence,
There are a lot of things, this trying of your faith. And then
verse 4 says, let patience have her perfect work, that you may
be perfect, mature, entire, wanting nothing. God is trying us. He has tried us. He is trying
us. And it may be that the toughest
time is ahead, Jim. I don't know. Abraham's toughest
time was ahead when he was old. God will not suffer us to be
tried above that which he can give us strength to bear. Let
me show you another scripture, 1 Peter 1, verse 6 and 7. Listen to this. He talked about that salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time, but verse 6 says, wherein
you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, for a season,
if need be, you are in heaviness. through many trials, through
many trials, that the trial of your faith, being much more precious
than a gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might
be found to the praise and honor and glory at the appearing of
Jesus Christ. Hebrews 13 says, Whom the Lord
loveth, he chasteneth. There's no son that the father
doesn't discipline. If he loves him, he's got to. And let me give you some reasons.
Number one, faith is trial. I'll take this from Job. If I believe God, if I believe
Christ, God's going to try that faith. And He tries it, number
one, to reveal it, to reveal it. You know, Job said when all
of this happened to him, he said, well, the Lord gave and the Lord
has taken away. Job said that after all of this
had happened. So it's evident he believed God. He could say it even under the
most difficult circumstances. God gave it and God took it away.
You know, it's not hard for me to stand up here. My stomach's
full. I've got a suit on and I've got a home over there, a
nice warm house. Darcy's got a roast already ready
for dinner and my children all sitting around here. It's not
hard to say that now the Lord gave and the Lord take it away.
Is it? I could say it and not mean it.
You understand what I'm saying? Tom, the Lord's blessed you to
death, hasn't he? He just blessed you. And it's
easy to say it right here. But now wait a minute. Suppose
that arm there was empty this morning. And right next to you
that one was gone. And right next to you that one
was gone. And you're sitting there with balls all over you.
Now, if Tom says and I say, well the Lord gave and the Lord took
it away, he must believe it. See what? He must believe it. Now that's why, isn't that right?
I'm telling you the truth. God will try your faith, my faith,
to reveal it. Secondly, to strengthen it. That's right, to strengthen it.
Old Job, the longer he went along, the stronger he got. He finally
said, well though he slayed me, I'll trust him. Let him kill
me. I'll still trust him. And another thing it does, it
assures faith. He finally came down in chapter
19, he said, well, worms are going to destroy this body. But
in my flesh, I'm going to see my Redeemer. Got stronger. Got stronger, got confident.
And then he uses that trial so we can be a blessing to others.
That's right. So we can be a blessing to others.
Let me read you something over here. Don't turn to it. Let me
just read this. I'll tell you where I'm finding
it. I'm finding it in 2 Corinthians chapter 1. Blessed be God. Even the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of comfort, all comfort,
now watch it, who comforteth us, who comforts us in our trials
so that we may be able to comfort them which are in any kind of
trouble by the comfort which we ourselves have been Could
that be said any clearer? Bless God, the Father of mercy
and God of comfort, who comforts me in my trouble, that I might
help you in your trouble. Back years ago, 23 years ago,
our son Robbie had just been killed in Vietnam, and I was
down south in a meeting. And I have an aunt. She's gone now. She's dead now. But she has always
been the religious one in our family. This goes back 70 years
ago, that she was a Southern Baptist
president of the WMU. on the pulpit committee of the
church, she was the most religious, religious person I knew. And
a nice lady, a lovely, she kind of helped raise me. I lived just
a mile and a half when I was a poor little old country boy
during the depression from her, and they were kind of rich. They
had a car and stuff like that, you know, and indoor plumbing
and started living in a mansion, I thought. But she was nice to
me and took me to church Taught me into a profession of faith
when I was nine years old, made a profession, got baptized, you
know, at her church, First Baptist Church, Wilton, Alabama. But
I was kind of her pet. And that went on for years until
I came to the knowledge of this gospel of grace. And I wasn't
a pet no more. My theology crossed hers too
badly. But anyway, I was back down there
23 years ago after Robbie had been killed when her daughter-in-law
had gotten polio. This was back there before the
shots. Her husband, her son was a doctor,
a physician. And his wife, she was a beauty
queen in the Miss Alabama contest and all that sort of thing. Mother
of two or three children. She got polio and became a wheelchair
Helpless. Helpless. Beautiful, beautiful
woman. And she lived. My son died, but
Jean lived in a wheelchair. And I was at my aunt's house.
Just went by to pay my respects and to see them, the family and
all. And she cornered me. And she said, now what have you
got to say about your son's death? in light of what you believe."
I said, the light of what I believe gives me a joy and comfort and
assurance about my son's death. I said, God took him. God willed
it. God purposed it. God did it on
purpose for my good and his glory and that's what I believed then
and that's what I believe now. And I can rest and rejoice in
that comfort that God took him when he pleased him. And it will
all be for my good and God's glory." I said, don't you believe
that? She said, no, I do not. I said, what do you believe about
Jean in the wheelchair, your daughter-in-law? I said, you
say you're a believer, and she says she's a believer, she's
a child of God, and you're a child of God, and Lester's a child
of God, and all these people are children of God. What do
you believe? She said, I'll tell you what I believe. Gene was
in the wrong place at the wrong time and ran into a germ. And that's the reason she's like
she is. I said, well, Aunt Lois, that won't comfort anybody. I'll
have to go back and tell our folks, just be sure you don't
get in the wrong place at the wrong time. Because God's not
there. If you get in the wrong place
at the wrong time, something awful might happen to you. And
I said, I'm usually in the wrong place. And about everything I
do is the wrong time. And I'd stay in constant fear.
There'd be no peace. Would there have been peace?
No rest, no joy, no comfort. But when you believe that your
Heavenly Father reigns and rules and controls all things, past,
present and future, seen and unseen, good and bad, and everything
that enters your door or stands around your house or touches
you, it can't, no power, no force, no evil, no one can touch you
without His permission. And if He gives that permission,
grants that permission, it's for His glory and for your eternal
good. Every ache, every pain, every
heartache, every trouble, every trial, every disappointment,
every failure, every success is ordered of my God. Not a sparrow
falls to the ground without our Father. Not a hair of my head
is not numbered. My name is in the palm of his
hand and on his breastplate next to his heart and whatever happens
for his good. I told her, I said, you don't
have any comfort. I do. I can go out here singing. Y'all don't have anything to
sing about. That was the end. But that's all I see, so that's
what I believe. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, others,
maybe, if there's someone here, I don't believe there is because
I know all of you, but if there's someone here that believes that
free will foolishness, I feel sorry for you. I really do, because you don't
have any comfort. The comfort's in God, who's the first cause of all
things, and God doesn't. All right, God Almighty says
here He, after these things, He did try Abraham, and He said,
Abraham! He said, I'm here. Verse 2, Now
you take your son, your only son, whom you love, and you get
him up there to Mount Calvary. Myriah, I'm told, is the same
mountain on which our Lord Jesus died. And you offer Him there
for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains, I'll tell you
how. And when Abraham heard these words, I know many questions
raced through his mind. Now, Brandon, let me tell you
something. We believe God's sovereign in
everything. We accept his will. Not always without objections. Huh? Best be honest. Not always. We may not say it, but it comes
through the mind. Now, don't tell me. I know Abraham
was thinking several things. How in the world could I ever
put a knife through my son's heart and burn his body? Now how am I going to do that?
I know that bound of God. Don't you think he did? How am
I going to explain this to him? How am I going to explain this
to Sarah? This is her only son. How am I going to explain this
to my neighbors who offer their children to false
gods? Well, he didn't say anything.
He didn't explain it to anybody. He just listened to God and believed
Him. Just believed God. Don't get in too big a hurry
to go explaining things. All right, let's just wait on
God. I wish I could right there cross my head here and keep pounding
in it, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, on God. Don't get in a
hurry. And God didn't speak to him again
for three days. Just gave that order and didn't
speak again. And he says, Abraham, verse 3,
he believed God, so he rose up early in the morning. I can see
him. I don't imagine he slept a whole
lot that night, do you? I don't believe he did. The very
fact that God spoke to him was enough. These preachers tell
me that God is always talking to them. You know, I don't find
God speaking to these people in the Old Testament too often,
but when he did, he said something. Abraham got up early that morning
and went out and cut wood. Went out and cut wood. He cut
wood. He got a couple of servants and they cut some wood to build
a fire to burn Isaac. And he sharpened his knife. I
can see him out there getting one of those big wheels, you
know, and he was sharpening that knife on that wheel. Wanted it
good and sharp. Going to have a sacrifice. Saddled
his eyes and went to the place God showed him. On the third
day, verse 4, brother of mine, how do you know it's three days?
It says it's three days right here. On the third day, Abraham
lifted up his eyes and he saw the place. And Abraham said to
the young men, I want you to listen to this man of faith.
You stay here. Down at the foot of the mountain.
You two boys stay here. I and the lad, now Abraham was
an old man at that time, 115 years old. I and the lad are
going up yonder and worship God. Now watch it. And we'll come
again to you. Who will? He didn't say, I'll
be back. He said, we'll both be back. Let's turn to Hebrews
chapter 11 and it will show you why Abraham said that. Hebrews
chapter 11. You see, Abraham believed God.
Abraham couldn't explain what God was doing. He couldn't, didn't
try to. Hebrews chapter 11, verse 17. Abraham didn't try to explain
God to these young men. He just, he just believed God.
He knew that Isaac, God told him, in Isaac your seed will
be called. And Abraham knew that if he killed
Isaac, God would raise him from the dead. Listen, Hebrews 11,
17. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, he offered up Isaac. You see, he didn't offer him
up. God stopped him. He offered him up in his heart
for three days. Didn't he? Three days he offered
him up in his heart. He'd already given Isaac up. And he that had received the
promises offered up his only begotten son, he's a picture
of the father given Christ, of whom it was said in Isaac, shall
thy seed be called Abraham, accounting that God was able to raise him
up even from the dead. From whence he also, he did receive
him in a figure. He was literally given to God. and raised, and that man's heart
was at peace about this thing. He just went through, he told
his young friend, he said, you stay right here, the lad and
I go up there and worship, whatever God does will be fine, and we'll
both be back. That's faith, that's what I want.
Believe God. Well, let's read on a little
bit more before I quit. Verse 7, and Isaac spake unto
Abraham his father, Well look at verse 6, Abraham took the
wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. Now
this will give you some idea of how big Isaac was. My guess
is he was about like Luke or Jeremy or Jason, one of these
boys here. About that big. 12, 13, 14, 15
years old. Because Abraham laid the wood
on his back to carry up a mountain. And Abraham himself took the
knife, and the fire was that whatever they had on there, they
didn't have matches, whatever they had on the end of a stick,
they kept a fire going and carried the fire burning with them. Some
kind of oil or whatever they had. But they're walking up that
mountain, and Isaac, listen, you boys and girls, listen to
me a moment. And I know church services get
long, You sit and you look at the Bible and you don't have
a great deal of spiritual interest, but you'd rather, a whole lot
rather be out playing right now than in here listening to me.
And I know you'd say, oh no preacher, oh yes, I was, I know, I know. And I ain't mad at you about
it either because I used to, I went to sleep in church one
time and the preacher really worked me over. I could, well if he'd been a
little more interested I wouldn't have gone to sleep maybe, I should
have, I wouldn't have told him that. But anyway, you sit there
and listen, but let me tell you something, you're hearing, I
know you're hearing something, and you're hearing enough someday
to save your soul, to make you wise to salvation. So just sit
and get what you can and listen when you can and be patient with
us older folks insists you come because it's for your good and
for God's glory. And you sit and listen. I'll
tell you the truth. I'm telling you the truth. I'm
going to read it from God's Word. I'm going to tell you the truth.
I'm not going to lie to you. I'm going to tell you the truth.
See, Isaac here was about your size, and here he was going with
his granddaddy up a mountain to worship God. And that boy
knew enough about worship and about God and about life and
salvation that he knew you had to have a lamb. Isn't that right? He saw the fire and the knife
and he carried the wood and he said, Grandpa, Father, Father,
he's going to be a grandpa, he said, Father, going up there
with his father, he said, Father, we're going up here to worship
and we don't have a lamb. And I know without the shedding
of blood, there's no remission. And you boys and girls, when
you're listening to preachers someday and you get a little
older, and that preacher doesn't tell you who God is in his holiness
and sovereignty, and doesn't tell you who Christ is in his
blood and righteousness, you question him. You say, where's
the lamb? Where's the lamb? Without a lamb,
there's no salvation. And that's what Abraham said,
my son, My son, listen to verse 8, Abraham said, My son, God
will provide. Now that would be a pretty good
thing for you to live by, those five words. Just say that. When
things get dark and things get difficult, I don't care what
the circumstances, you just turn and say, My son, God will provide. God will provide. God will provide. God will provide. You know that
Frank, he always has had that, and he always will. God will
provide. My son, take this and learn it. God will provide. But especially
in regard to salvation, in regard to redemption, in regard to life,
in regard to heaven, in regard to sin, in regard to what our
need is in our souls. My son, God will provide. himself a lamb. Now, there are three things there.
I'm going to wind it down with this. If you learn these three
things, you'll learn the gospel. Number one, God provides the
lamb. God provides the lamb. The lamb
that taketh away the sin of the world, the lamb that sheds his
blood to put away our guilt and our iniquity, that lamb came
from God. God provides the lamb. You don't. The church doesn't. The water
doesn't. God does. God provides the lamb. He provided the lamb from the
foundation of the world. Lamb slain. He provided the lamb
out of love. He provided the lamb according
to his own purpose. He provided the lamb. Here's
the second thing. God provides himself the lamb. He is the lamb. He gave himself. Christ came himself. He, by himself,
he perished. I said, He's the Lamb that died. The Lamb stood, John said, out
of the midst of the throne, a Lamb as it has been slain. God provides
the Lamb and provides himself. He's the Lamb. John pointed to
Christ and said, Behold the Lamb of God. Here's the third thing. God provides that Lamb for himself. You got it now? In other words,
he's the one that provides the Lamb, he is the Lamb himself,
and he's the offended God to whom the Lamb is offered and
sacrificed. It's his law the Lamb fulfills. It's his justice
the Lamb satisfies. It's his wrath the Lamb puts
away. It is him that the Lamb enables
to be just and justified. Is that the gospel, Cecil? If
I've worded that, that's it, isn't it? My father, where's
the lamb? My son, God will provide you
a lamb. He provided the lamb. Himself
is the lamb, and he provided the lamb for himself. Now, they
came to the place, verse 9, which God had told him of. And Abraham
built an altar there, and laid the wood on the altar, and bound
his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar. A lot of questions
here, aren't there? I can't explain. This is a unique
scene. But how did he ever talk that
boy into letting him bind him? Abraham was an old man. That
boy was strong and young. It may be that they sat down
and had a talk, like the Father and the Son in eternity. The
Father said, My son, I give you a people. I make you their servant. You're going to have to die that
they live." And Abraham may have said to Isaac, Isaac, all he
told him, he took him on back where God had promised him a
seed, that it would be through Isaac, a Redeemer would come
through him. But he said, Isaac, he said,
Isaac, I must give you up to receive you forever. Something of that type. I believe
something like that went on. But that boy willingly laid down
on that altar. But of course it can't be. It
never was intended. Abraham would never kill his
son. God would never require him to kill his son. No. No. It was a trial of his fate. But Abraham saw that ram caught
in the thicket, brought that ram over and took his son off
the altar and put that ram in the stead of his son, in the
place of his son. And that's when Christ said,
Abraham saw my day and rejoiced. Abraham saw another lamb taking
his place in his stead on that altar. Substitution. That's what
the gospel is all about. And he just named that place. He named it fittingly, didn't
he? He named it, God will provide. God will see to it. And you can
take that as your motto, as your watchword from now on. God will provide. God will see
to it. My hope is built, let's sing
that, Mike, on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame. I wholly lean on Jesus'
name. My son, God will provide. Now you depend on that. You rest on that, you build on
that, you trust in that, God will provide. A lamb, himself
the lamb, and a lamb for himself. And you'll be accepted in that
lamb. Oh, what's that number? 272. Let's sing that, we'll worship
the Lord with our morning offering and be dismissed. 272, let's stand while we sing.

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