Threaded – Week 2

Genesis 22: Abraham and Isaac
Genesis 22:1-13
1 Some time later, God tested Abraham’s faith.

“Abraham!” God called.“Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.” 2 “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so
much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you. 3 The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had
told him about.

4 On the third day of their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.” 6 So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together, 7 Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.“We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering? 8 “God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham answered. And they both walked on together.

9 When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. 10 And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice. 11 At that moment the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”12 “Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”13 Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son. 14 Abraham
named the place “the Lord will provide”. 
Isaiah 53:7b

7b He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.
John 1:29

29 “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
1. Jesus is the Ultimate Sacrifice
Romans 8:32

8 He (God) did not spare even his only Son but gave him up for us all…
John 3:16

16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

2. Jesus is the Permanent Sacrifice

Next Steps:
1. Embrace What Jesus Has Done
2. Surrender to His Plan
3. Share the Good News with Others

Ephesians 2:4-5
4 But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, 5 that even though we were
dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead.