Jehovah Jireh: How Knowing the Provider Changes Your Perspective

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Even if this is your first time ever in church, you are probably aware, probably know this book that I am holding some of you maybe have read every single verse from beginning to end. Others of you maybe have never seen a reason in your entire life to pick up a Bible special hands little Bible to be here how many verses do you think are in this Bible front to back Genesis to Revelation. 66 books of you think there are at least 1000 versus all of Arkansas you think, or at least a thousand verses in here) Lisa thousand, okay, majority of at least 10,000 10,000.

Any takers a little bolder little bolder about 20,000 anybody 20,000 okay last group 30,000 anybody think 30,000, Dr. Jones, you still don't count your seminary professor you'll get to guess on the side. There are 31,102 verses in the Bible, at least in the English language. The Bible is approximately 611,000 words long recorded or somewhere upwards of 185 songs this book that was written over three different continents by over 40 different authors, most of whom have never met one another is the number one best-selling book of all time and to this day still sells over hundred million copies. You know what I tell you that all of that to say in some way it it's still pretty awesome book pretty popular book. Some might say a pretty controversial book in this book. There's a whole lot to take him this weekend and all of our locations were starting a new sermon series called this verse change my life, you ask any believer.

Anybody that calls themselves a Christian how they met God, and you'll often hear about a single story or single passage or single verse that they said, ultimately led them to know and to love and to understand Jesus. All of these verses. All of these books. All of these chapters and yet as one famous pastor said it's usually not books that change people. It's often sentences or paragraphs someone this morning as we come to church as we get our coffee as we get our families ready and we come in.

Are we really expecting as I open the word of God for God to change somebody's life today.

We really believe this has the power to go forth and that God says when my word goes forth that accomplishes that which I purpose, so I'm not here to give you my word come here to give you this word comes a spiritual type talk this morning I that's what you want to some a church is not the church for you.

Anybody still believe God's word changes and works powerfully in your life. This is what I believe and so for me there's a handful of verses that I personally always end up going back to you if you been around Christianity for a while you might call these your life versus defendant were to do the series not like boom.

This is awesome. The sad part is my actual life verses. Matthew 1128 come to me, all you were wearing Burnell get dressed. Love Artie preached on that study come up with a new life. Verse touching the life okay but nonetheless that's neither here nor there. This week is to happen, but life is a verse that you come back to to encourage you that you can lean on in tough times. It's a verse that reminds you of what's most important about God. Ultimately, the types of verses that you feel like were written specifically to and for you this morning. I like to invite you to turn to Genesis chapter 22 first book of the Bible Genesis chapter 22 and I want to invite you to look at one of my favorite verses together because again I believe this verse the story has the potential to change your life in the same way it has my Genesis chapter 22 is the famous story of Abraham and his son Isaac. It's also the story and this is why it's one of my life verses we get one of the most famous names of God in all of Scripture.

Jehovah Gyro the Lord is my provider is a fun fact when I when I preach.

Obviously I get lots of questions some good some bad. But inevitably at least once over the course of the weekend. Somebody will come up to me or somebody will email me your incident or something and when the question they asked me as hey random pastor what your tattoos of okay can help. I have about half my tattoos are from let's just call my pre-Jesus day so baseball box covered in that I have a handful from post-Jesus days after my first tattoo.

Here is the first I got after I got saved.

And so it's kind of the creation of Adam's about the father on the inside.

I have a lien for the lion of Judah. So God the son, and then there's a dove represent in the Holy Spirit go to Trinity in big letters that you can't see it, it says Jehovah Gyro my favorite name of God. I've experience God in my life as provider in more ways than I could ever count. I've experience him when my wife and I first got married and we had upwards of $15,000 in debt. We made a combined $16.75 an hour. Amen. Praise God for Dave Ramsey okay. I've experience them financially as provider I've experienced him emotionally as provider when I fell I was all alone and had nobody to turn to and there was a time when I first became a believer I thought man I had better friendships before I was a believer that I do now experience God as provider and in health and in good things in God's just been so amazing and I'm not just saying that he's made this life all easy. We've been through some really hard times.

What is often in the hard times I've gotten to know him as provider. The most that's why want you to meet this morning Jehovah Gyro once you leave this morning believing that God is also your provider and suggested chapter 22. Let me give you cabala crash course, if you will, on on what's happened in the book of Genesis up to this point so straight that was in the upright and locked position. Book your seatbelts that's going to quit right Genesis chapter 1 through 11 essentially sets up the basic storyline of the Bible basic storyline of the Bible is God has existed forever. He creates all things. He makes humans to rule the world and to live in relationship with him.

But instead of rule and relationship we decide we like sin and rebellion, more worlds went out of control and the violence and death, all leading to rebellion and scattered about. Want to Genesis chapter 1111 chapters okay so the big question we get to Genesis chapter 12 is what in the world is God going to do to rescue and redeem the world were met with a massive problem at the beginning of Genesis chapter 12 natural wonder what God can do to fix it. Insert Abraham. This man called Abraham. God promises to bless this man name Abraham with land and a family and to make his name into a great nation, by giving him a son and through his son, who will eventually become Isaac the entire world is to be rescued and blessed because through his sons lineage would eventually come Jesus the Messiah sounds amazing right. The sounds incredible, but in Genesis chapter 12, when he receives this blessings is awesome.

There's two big problems were dealing with when he gets this promise number one.

Sarah, Abraham's wife is unable to get pregnant. You have a son. His wife can't get pregnant. Problem number one, number two. They're both super old Abraham's about 75 at the time he receives this promise, and so godlike. No biggie.

Watch me go to work in 25 years later, as God always does boom sign. He makes good on his promise and Abraham and Sarah have a son which again is pretty insane at this point because Abram and Sarah both around 100 when he's born in so yes, I know you're Artie thinking that your for their birthdays Abraham and Isaac both got diapers. Pretty exciting stuff. Okay so here we are, we arrive at Genesis chapter 22. This is one little happy family that settled in the plaintive words that been blessed Abraham and Sarah met the miracle child life's good 21 chapters Cliff notes death row story picks up right Genesis chapter 22 beginning in verse one is after these things God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham said here I am the pause for one second as well be real for moment to very quick things. Your first it says that God tested Abraham very simply, this is not something we talk about a lot in church. In fact what's often and am biblically taught is that if God loves me and I love him. Then nothing bad will ever happen to me that if I love God and God loves me him to be blessed and highly favored him to live a life full of health and wealth and prosperity and happiness, and whether we know it or not, at least in the western evangelical church.

We often think that God's love and comfortable life are synonymous and friend that could not be farther from the truth. Second, up to this point. Abraham's Artie shown some radical obedience to God between chapters 12 and 21 he's left everything and everyone that was comfortable. He has followed faithfully he's attempted the impossible, for God is made plain mistakes along the way but he has stepped out in faith, over and over and over again. He's promised to sign it takes 25 years that promise to come to fulfillment and yet he still believes so here Genesis chapter 22. At this point in life. I can't help but think that if our Abraham and God came knocking at my door be like babe. Turn off the TV, turn the lights down, act like were not home is the guy who was always asking for stuff I feel like Bilbo Baggins from a Lord of the rings RAM Gandalf doors come knocking. Bilbo tells a note use for adventures nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things and they make you late for dinner. Amen. And sure enough it's exactly what God does. Again verse two he said Abraham I want you to take your son, your only son, your only son, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you, not just want to make sure we understand what's at stake here, as if sacrificing your own child isn't bad enough, the child who represents your hopes and your dreams and your affections. As if being commanded to murder him isn't bad enough on top of that your child survival is what the entire human race is dependent on because through Isaac is going to eventually come who geez always Jesus okay search and so God comes knocking at his door and says I want you to offer up that child.

That blessing that inheritance to me as a burnt offering. Now the obvious question here is how in the world could God ask something like that when I read this week that service level I feel like God is being a capricious God, he's being hypocritical he is, Willie Millie, he's he's almost evil innocence and that's an entire sermon in and of itself.

I promise you the simple answer for us this morning is that God knew he was never gonna let Abraham kill Isaac for now we are to have an immediate action application point what the way, we should read this is that Isaac represents the one thing in your life that you love the most.

The one thing that you treasure the most.

The one thing that you trust the most thing in your life that makes life worth living for. You ultimately what God is asking Abraham here pieces are you prepared to love me completely and unconditionally. Are you willing to give me access to what you love the most is there anything or anyone that you love it if I asked you for you would tighten your grip and you would say no because he whatever you feel yourself tightening your grip on is an idol and idles very simply something that you love more than you love and obedience to God's will.

God often does when we make something out to be an idol Jos� Jos� take that kid you love so much. Take that relationship that you love so much. Take that career that you love so much. Take that that that status that you love so much. Get off Instagram for the rest of the year. Take those followers that you love so much.

God says take that good thing that you have turned into a God thing and offered up to me because if you don't, you're going to end up destroying your own life and destroying the idol because you're gonna put on it awake that it was never meant to hold that only God was supposed to have in your life. Abraham is to offer his one and only son.

His blessing the future hope of the nation and the entire world. The future hope of the summit church today, many, many years later. Look at verse three.

So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac. I was remiss this would cover the story hundred times and everybody including me.

Let loves that that phrases are Abraham rose early in the morning. We'll talk about like his own need immediate obedience and wake up early to do this and well treated this week is like maybe he was just trying to avoid having explained.

His wife was going to. What is the timeframe you just woke up earlier than her legs give a really awkward conversation interesting arts or mixup relates says he cut the wood for the burnt offering arose and went to the place of which God told him verse four on the third day Abraham, lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar and Abraham said as young men stay here with me or with the donkey on the board will go over there and worship and come again.

You and Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son took his hand. The fire and the knife so they both went both of them together, and Isaac said to his father Abraham. My father said here I am, my son and he said, behold, the fire in the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt offering verse eight Abraham said God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son, so they went both of them together. Verse nine when they came to the place of which God told them Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son to lay them on the altar on top of the wood and Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, and said Abraham. Abraham said here I am. He said only hand on the boy or do anything to him.

For now, I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son for me and Abraham, lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns and Abraham went and took the ram and offered up as a burnt offering instead of the son and in verse 14.

My life verse so Abraham called the name of that place. The Lord will provide as it is said to this day on the mount of the Lord shall be provided know this is a story about great faith. I've heard I was wanted to preach a sermon on the great faith of Abraham, but ultimately it's not a story about Abraham's great faith. It's a story about God's great provision here.

The story is not Abraham it's God.

The theme that dominates Genesis chapter 22 is Jehovah Gyro the Lord will provide the Lord will show his love the Lord will show his faithfulness. The Lord will prove his promises are true. Jehovah Gyro the Lord will provide.

In the original translation of Genesis.

In Hebrew it more directly, says the Lord will see to it Lord will provide.

He'll see to it.

Just think about that attribute. Think about that name of God. He's seeing to it he seeing you he's seeing your needs. He sees what's going on in your life. He knows what you need and whatever he sees he is acting.

God is actively always at every moment forever more. Seeing and providing, and acting in your life. So again I over the last 12 years of being a believer. I've experienced God is Jehovah Gyro in my life and I believe some of you are have a personal word from Jehovah Gyro today all right with that. My don't share three ways. This name is changed my life in three ways. I believe it can change yours to someone knowing God is Jehovah Gyro means that I can focus on God's promises even when I don't know the particulars, but I can focus on God's promises even when I don't know the particulars of her to said that faith is often doing what God says. Even when we don't have all the details and stuff. How many of you would would consider yourself a planner planner you like to plan things in time I would consider myself a planner. My wife is like your planner okay and so what ways is played out recently also double for real for young kids and we've just started, going on some family trips, vacations, message eligible me like three days to the beach and drive back and I'm realizing very quickly why families large families like traveling to get the pack like hash out your house it's it's insane and so am leaving only trips and one thing alive does is she she likes the pack like three days before relief. She literally has like notes upon notes upon notes of everything we need to take and she packed like three days in advance like they were leaving Saturday morning at 1015 and you have not packed yet I know I don't like. I know it's Tuesday at 1030 I'll be ready by Saturday at 1015 I promised and so the closer it gets the more detailed her list gets and so it's like there's inches like based on the pact and you you got it you got your work you do things you sleep like they are prominent and she could not by Saturday at 1015. My back will be in the car will be ready to go okay but this is not ROI more the like. I'm in a pack that morning.

Okay. And so again, the closer we get the more detail she starts getting so she starts get nervous and so calm like Friday night the night before relief. Your ears become sick using it. She's like babies� Like what I'm relieving hundreds and think I'll be ready hundred and 50 she's like babe you've waited so long and then the list just she's like, here's what you have to happen you your never to be ready in time. You have to walk up the stairs Walked down the hall you have to open the door and the governor really going to cause enough to close out the club. Yet the full because, put them in the background to zip the bag up the tilt the backup you have a plan to go back down there for what comes into Mike that you're making it seem like every step is like 15 minutes but it's not like I'll be ready. Okay so not my wife's amazing by the way, she's incredible, but I love you I don't speak for my life but all I know is that if she were Abraham. This story is like her worst nightmare. Okay, if you are planner and God says go like okay God I love you where my going. He's like just take a step and I'll show you like don't like that God like hey you can't get pregnant him to give your son like house that can happen. He's like just follow me, I'll take care of it. Just follow me. Got to sacrifice your son in your like first off, why but I love you so how is like to start walking.

I'll show you later just climb fresh planners.

This is incredibly hard, but following God often means doing what God says. Even when we don't have all the details before we go any farther I need to hear something very very very very very very very very very very very very very clearly for me. My message today here. This is not you need to have more faith and just believe God better. You need to exercise more faith you need to trust more because if I'm here simply telling you to conjure up more of something inside of yourself. You are destined to be disappointed.

I am not here to give you a pep talk to the fervency of your faith, your faith should never be in the amount of your faith, the strength of your faith rests in the object of your faith, and so I'm here to make sure that the object of your faith is the Lord Jesus Christ Jehovah Gyro the one who is provider because then and only then will you experience peace even when you don't have all the particulars. This is why Abraham is so confident in his obedience because he knew who he was obeying even when he didn't know the entire what it's actually fascinating look back in verse two. God says take your son early size of whom you love and look at us go to the land of Moriah, and often there's a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you so me all that just makes you anxious reading that vagueness of that the word I went to seminary. This is super important that you need to see this because I think this is it instantly weighs exactly how God still operates with us today we want to know exactly when and where and why and how and in all God gives us sometimes as he says I just want you to go to the land of Moriah land could also be translated region go to the region.

I tell you and what you get to the region, then I'll tell you which mountain gents, I go to this place, he says, go to this region and then I'll show you this is hard.

How often do we open our Bibles wanting God to give us a final destination. When all he gives us is a general direction. How often do we desire to know the place God is taking us. But all he'll give us his promises about who is how often does God operate by saying go to the region and then I'll give you the specific place church. How much more would God show us if we just took one step and began to walk on the pathway of obedience. John 1415 Jesus said if you love me you will keep my commandments where his commandments found what Jehovah Gyro what God has provided for us is his work, his word, which lays out principles and promises and parameters to live by, and it's often only when we choose to focus on these promises and live by these parameters and obeying even when we don't have all the details. Often it's then and only then that God is going to reveal to us the place that he is destined for us. It's right here in verse four on the third day Abraham, lifted up his eyes. He was in the region and Saul the place from afar. He was only able to see the place because he was already in the region of obedience. Many of you have never scaled the mountain to experience God's great provision because you've never first taken the step of obedient faith and ventured to the region. He is calling you to. You want to know what step 100 is when God just want you to take step one. You want so badly to know the particulars but God just want you to take the first step in trust him as provider friend. I have to ask, are you even in the region of obedience today or has God called you to obedience now what area of your life are you holding on to so tightly and rationalizing, saying, surely God would never call me to give that up for honest with ourselves today.

Are you searching for a place. When you haven't even obeyed and going to the region because if you are, we have no right to expect the provision of God.

If we are not first in the will of God and in the will of God is found not in the details or directions or circumstances, but in the principles and promises and parameters that are found in this book the word of God. So you want to know the will of God study the word of God, though the place God has for you study his promises and first venture to the region of obedience also church we have his promises right here. You probably have a handful of my home you got it on your phone. They are readily available at your fingertips, so we should pray his promises we should pour over his promises we should proclaim his promises over our lives, believing that he is provider and he will show us the place if we first venture to the region of obedience.

Knowing God is Jehovah Gyro means I can trust his promises found in the word of God and obey instead of being paralyzed by my lack of particulars and understanding. That's number one number two knowing God is Jehovah Gyro means that problems are opportunities for God to prove his faithfulness. Problems are opportunities for God to prove his faithfulness see from Abraham's perspective, he faced a pretty big problem. What God has promised to do through Isaac and what God has commanded him to do to Isaac stand in very stark contradiction to one another and remember this is a three day journeys on and I don't about you but I just can't imagine the doubts and the fears and the questions that filled his mind.

During that journey. We three days. This is plenty of time to change your mind when it's time to turn around to devise another scheme to think of a loophole to justify why this whole thing makes zero cents. I mean honestly, how many of us have stepped out on a spiritual journey of faith who to turn back within three days if you will.

We we don't know a ton about this three-day journey. What we do know, however, is that over the course of three days. At some point Abraham decided that this problem was an opportunity for God to prove his faithfulness and the come through on his promises.

We know that if we were to flip over the New Testament. Hebrews Chapter 11 skull, the whole of faith. Hebrews chapter 11 verse 19 tells us this is during the three-day journey. Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead. Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead. Abraham didn't know how he did know why he did know when he didn't know what but instead, even in all those unknowns instead of disobeying God's instructions and doubting God's promises. Abraham was focused on who he knew God to be provider so he did.

As he got busy brainstorming how God might work all this out together for his good right and so the best solution. He comes up with is resurrection she's like I don't know how this can work, but perhaps this will God limited. I mean after the sacrifice, God cannot not going to raise him from the dead, because God always keeps them in his promises. Okay, so that's like the best.

Abraham comes up with the reason that God could raise him from the dead and now I do think it's important that being said for us as we consider this consider Abraham's posture here in faith. I think it's important that we hold these.

Let's call him like holy brainstorms if you will, in our minds really likely Abraham. For instance, it wasn't right in the way that he imagined God working God didn't ultimately raise Isaac from the dead because Isaac was never killed and often when we try to figure out how God works out work to be wrong to that's okay. What I love about the Hebrews Chapter 11 verse 19 verses that Abraham is commended for his faith even though he made the wrong guess about what God would do next. Sounds really simplistic, but this is the type of sure assurance. You can have in life. If you come to know God as Jehovah Gyro you can believe that God will work. A seemingly impossible problem out and in the end, prove his faithfulness.

Even if he does it in a way that you don't anticipate what that means is for those of you who feel like you are walking up that mountain today with Isaac. I don't know how it's all gonna turn out.

I can't tell you how it's going to end. I can't promise that things are gonna be easy.

I can't tell you it's all gonna go your way. In the end what I can promise you is that God is with you that God has you, but he's promised to see to it and you may not know how. You may not know when you may not know why but what I do know is that God is Jehovah Gyro that he is there and he will provide. It's that knowledge about God that drove Abraham up the mountain is not Abraham strength of his own faith was in Abraham, marching up this mountain. I can do this I can do this I can do this was the strength of God's character and faithfulness Ray Brent Martinson. God is faithful.

I know he's provider and that's what I think he was doing during this three-day journey.

I think as he was marching up this mountain with his son that he was rehearsing the promises of God he think I know what you promised me in Genesis 12 in chapter 15 and chapter 18 he saying.I know your character.

You shown yourself is provider you show yourself. It's faithful you show yourself as loving you show yourself as true he's he's rehearsing the faithfulness of God. God, you've given me this family have given me the son you given me to this land. You've done all these things. So when Isaac says hey dad, where's the offering. All of Abraham's thoughts and ponderings and contemplations and faith are summed up in three words when he says son God will provide. See if you truly believed in God is provider and you can have peace even during life problems because your to see problems actually is portals for God to prove his faithfulness, your faith, rest in his great name and on his promises not on your picture of how you believe everything should turn out to such a freeing way to live and cannot say some specifically right here to parents this this is amazing this blew my mind. This week I told you were my favorite Bible Bible stories and this just a never saw.

Still, this week I'm call from the Ritz is our very own Dr. Binder it's it's Pastor Brian's dad I was pastor for a long time just retired actual call for the Ritz is the greatest thing we can do as parents about two things he sets up the day was down our job number one is to heighten the word of God and help our kids keep their minds filled with truth from Scripture reminder to be filled with all sorts of things outside heighten the word of God, your family, and the number two. This was incredible. He says talk about God's ability to step into every situation in their lives that God is sovereign talk about God's ability to step in every situation of their lives. In verse six. Give us an example of why this is so important whatever sex in verse six we read that with its Isaac. Not Abraham that carried the wood know why this important because often we think about the story we think about this young little scrawny boy right we think about like a chubby toddler that he ties down. This is no chubby top of the snow scrawny boy this is a big strapping teenager. In fact, some scholars believe he was anywhere from age 16 to 34. What you should see from that is that Isaac could've easily outran out wrestled or flat out got out of this situation if he wanted to know about you from Batman. I'm back on the 20-year-old, not the hundred and 20-year-old in a fist fight. Okay so that gives us a picture. What's really happening here. Abraham was only able to tie Isaac down to the altar because Isaac was willing to be tied down to the altar.

Why was Isaac willing here this.

I have to believe it's because his father's faith in the God of the impossible had rubbed off.

He believed what his father had said in verse eight, when he said son God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering and if God was choosing him to be the land and God knows best. Parents hear me very clearly. Kids like that do not come out of nowhere. Kids like that do not come out of families that are thoroughly moral but only marginally Christian kids like this come from families where Christ has come to have first place in absolutely everything kids like this come from families who follow the Holy Spirit and trust God's promises families like the boys that we just commissioned to go overseas, and they follow God's promises even when they don't have all the particulars. Young Isaacs do not come out of nowhere Isaac come from parents whom they observe obeying the Lord even when it's tough. They come from parents who believe and live as though they believed that the Lord will provide.

There's a small part of me that that believes this test was actually more for Isaac than it even was for Abraham that it was to show Isaac that no matter what his daddy would rely on God but his daddy really did believe and trust in God as his Savior is provider and Lord of his life and he was willing to follow him wherever God sent him. This is so convicting because it begs the question what is my life teaching me teaching my kids about the character of God in the way that you lead your household doesn't truly declare Jesus as Lord of your life was sovereignly in control and providentially providing exactly what you need exactly when you need it. Moms and dads we have such an incredible opportunity to demonstrate faith, especially during crisis and hardship and conflict and confusion for our children every single day. We are gifted with the opportunity and the responsibility of demonstrating to our kids, who and what is really Lord of our household and so when crisis hits your kids see you running toward Jesus or away from when there's conflict in your schedule does your schedule say that Gyro is more important or the gym when you are excited about things, even things God has blessed you with you spend more time at the dinner table, giving praise and talking about the Messiah, or about the created material things Young Isaacs do not come out of families that are thoroughly moral but only marginally Christian to come from families where Christ were Jehovah Gyro has come to have first place in everything. And lastly, this war will end the plane knowing God is Jehovah Gyro means that no matter what happens in this life. My eternity is secure. Yorty said it once, but you see there's something more important than Abraham's impressive obedience that's demonstrated to us here. It's God's commitment to us church just as Abraham is about to drop the knife on Isaac at the last moment, God shall stop and supplies a sacrifice, a ram so verse 14 Come Full Cir. So Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Gyro the Lord will provide.

It said to this day on the mount of the Lord shall be provided.

Jehovah Gyro God will provide. God will see to it and seeing to it. God will be seen, God sees a need in your life. God supplies the provision for that need and then supplying the need. He is seen as having been seen to our need and then we see him some accents. So Abraham does as he names this anonymous mountaintop, not by a name that's to remind him of his problem or his trials or even his own obedience, but by a name that proclaims God's faithfulness and provision in his life he calls the mountain Jehovah Gyro see what God provided for Abraham and Isaac is a picture of the provision and sacrifice that God would one day make on our behalf because of our sin with his son Jesus.

If you think about it. Isaac and Jesus Isaac and Jesus were both sons of a promise given many years before their birth, both born of miracles. Both were firstborn's who are loved by their fathers, Isaac and Jesus both embark on a three day journey to arrive at a place of sacrifice, and they carried the very sacrificial would on their own back Isaac and Jesus both willingly lay down their lives to their fathers.

At the time of sacrifice Isaac and Jesus both ask a question Isaac like we saw in Hebrews 11 was brought back from the dead figuratively. When Jesus was brought back from the dead, literally see Abraham promised Isaac that a lamb would be provided for the sacrifice and friend Jesus Christ is that lamb. But that's where the similarities between Isaac and Jesus and because for Jesus. There was no ram in the thicket for Jesus, there would be no substitute God the father would go through with his son with Abraham, the father didn't have to God sacrifice his son.

His one and only son for the sake of sinners, God did not spare his own son, but delivered him up on a cross for us all. For all of our sin for all of our shame for all of our doubt for all of our guilt and for Jesus there couldn't be a substitute because Jesus was our substitute. Jesus took my place on the cross, Jesus took your place on the cross he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities the punishment that brings us peace was placed upon him, and is, by his wounds we are healed.

And he did it church because he loves you.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only gotten son, that whosoever would believe in him will not perish but have everlasting life.

He did it because of our sin because of our guilt because of our shame. He did it because we were the ones that rebelled, we need to hear this bad news because it doesn't matter how much faith you have.

It doesn't matter how much could you do it doesn't matter what your attendance record at church is we cannot erase the fact that we are sinners who stand guilty before a holy God, which means that apart from Jesus Christ. You and I sit in the place of Isaac in verse 10, with God's knife of judgment raised above is ready to come down our throats as a just penalty has a right penalty for our sins against his holiness and justice that is the bad news that is also what the gospel such good news because God showed his love for us in this, that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us, not when we started coming to church more, not when we had more faith, not even when we started obeying salvation that leads us to obey not obedience that leads to salvation but God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses and sins, made us alive together with Christ.

For by grace you have been saved through faith. Faith given to you by Jesus. And this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God not a result the work so that no one may boast. That's why the gospel is such good news.

Sin is like anything else it can't be in two places at one time.

So if God takes my sin places it on Jesus. That means I don't have the sin anymore. And what Jesus did. If you do not take your sin on the cross. You can have my righteousness take it now.

When God looks at me God sees me, not even as a forgiven sinner is a look at the first 21 years of my life. It's okay that was bad enough. 21 you started living good in either 34 and your say about God looks at my life sees me through the lens of his son Jesus was perfect and righteous and holy God sees me as one who is never said that is the good news for God so loved the world that he gave his son to bear the wrath that you and I just he gave church he provided we needed a Savior and he sent his son as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world.

Jehovah Gyro the Lord is our provider, we can only have them. If we like Abraham stop trying to create our own solutions and just submit ourselves to God he done that. If not then today you can know who God is and how he has provided and you can believe and behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

Normally this would be the time that I tell you to bow your heads and close your eyes and the whole thing still give you an opportunity to respond this weekend at all the locations we might do this little bit differently like in so many ways. The spirit was leading me this week that that almost everybody falls into one of three categories in the story number one for the first time you have realized when it comes to your salvation when it comes to your eternity that God has provided for you. For the first time you've truly seen God is your provider in giving you Jesus to save your life from the condemnation that you deserve, because he laid it on Jesus and so today you're somebody that wants to receive Jesus and start new life in a new walk with him. I think there's a second group that hears me talk about obeying God even when you don't have all the details and or something in your life that that you've yet to take a step of faith because you're waiting on God to give you more of the particulars today. God: you be obedient or maybe you are being obedient and something and you're still scared to death. Such second group and then there's 1/3 group you hear me talk about God is provider but over the last 1218 months you felt like God is been anything but provider in your life here in your life.

After this all sounds incredible, but does been anything but odd experience loss of expense financial officers experience health, loss of expense, relational loss, all these things I've no idea what I was doing and I would give anything to feel him as provider today and ask you to him and asked to be bold decision to be weird. I promise you I'm asked to be both. You fall into any one of those three categories that for the first time you've seen Jesus as your provider and salvation. If you need to step out on faith or you're stepping out in faith, but you're still anxious about it or number three. If you need to experience something on your behalf or something in your life or from Colchester to stand at all of our locations.

Would you to stand say I need to experience God as provider I'm I'm nervous. I'm anxious about something that God is calling me to sound stepping out in faith but but I still need to since God is provider at all the locations. Could you just stand thing for honest are so many of us that need to stand.

Here's the way I want to end this is church prayer shouldn't surprise you.

Okay I'm not can ask anybody to you.

But ask your name or what you need prayer for, but if you were sitting around one of these people don't touch them. I just want you to cut a turn toward them. Extend your hand like we do when we commission somebody can we end by just praying for our brothers and sisters. Can we end by just encouraging one another in the faith, believing that when we call upon God's ears not too deaf to hear that his hand is not too short to say. Can we do that don't have that set all of our locations. Right now I just want you to turn toward anybody that standing don't ask them anything. I want you just extend your hands. Pray for them.

Another name you don't know their need, God does just pray for them to sickness. For a moment and that someone at all of her cash.

Someone at your campus will come and lead you can stand still stands.

Let's pray together some church let's go to our Lord together for one another)