"By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, 'It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.' Abraham reasoned that God could raise the d...
I set the stage for digging deeper into the story of Abraham and Isaac in The Story of Abraham and Isaac Revisited: Introduction. Abraham’s faith is the lesson we all learned in Sunday school. Faith is the basic place we start, but Abraham’s faith is o
By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son,
And in offering Isaac, and the ram in the room of Isaac, he saw a double type of the great sacrifice that was to be offered up in the fulness of time. And his calling the place Jehovah Jireh, "In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen," says, that he saw something more in ...
He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his serv...
Abraham was given a ram to deliver Isaac. Mary was given a son to deliver the world. Both spent time in the in-between, between death and life. But Mary reached the bottom. This might be way too personal (and is precisely why I will not be preaching this on Sunday), but the word...
from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;16but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.17By faith Abraham,whentried, offered up Isaac, and he who ...
21Our father Abraham offered his son Isaac on the altar. Wasn’t he considered to be right with God because of what he did?22So you see that what he believed and what he did were working together. What he did made his faith complete. ...
PauldeclaresthatAbraham,likealltruebelievers,wasjustifiedbyfaithapartfromworks.ForwemaintainthatamanisjustifiedbyfaithapartfromworksoftheLaw.…WhatthenshallwesaythatAbraham,ourforefatheraccordingtotheflesh,hasfound?ForifAbrahamwasjustifiedbyworks,hehasreasontoboast—butnotbeforeGod.Forwhatdoesthe...
For the race might remain distinct even if Isaac took a woman of Palestine to wife, though there would be the risk of religious deterioration; but if they returned to Padanaram they were certain to be absorbed, and could look for no higher lot than that attained to by Laban's descendants...