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Sorry 72 in the appendix, but though I cannot tell or sing or know the fullness of thy love while here below.
My empty vessel I may freely bring, O thou who art of love, the living spring, my vessel fill.
72 in the appendix.
127 as well, brother.
I'll bless the home, the Father's house.
There love divorce.
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Rainforests on God's Lord being in the heart of the heart, and I can't believe I'm not going to get.
We just say just give him 127. Two things that touch my heart in verse one that we're saying about his Father's love.
In the second stanza, we sang about the son. Who knows?
Is well beloved. I just like to make a suggestion that a portion that I'm sure we all very familiar with.
Genesis chapter 22.
Let someone else have something of their heart. Picking that portion speaks well of the Father and the Son.
Genesis chapter 22, verse one. The cage cops have released things that attempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham. And he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get the end of 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 and saddled his *** and took two of his young men with him.
And Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went under the place of which God had told him.
Then, on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off.
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the *** and 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's son.
And 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, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire in the wood, But where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a 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 in order.
And bound Isaac his son, and laid him on 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. And he said, Here am I.
He said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, 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 caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh, as is said to this day. In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
And the Angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and he said.
By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord. For because thou hast done this thing.
Thou hast not withheld thy son thine only son, that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore. And thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies, and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice. So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba.
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And Abraham dwelt at Beersheba, And it came to pass after these things that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milka, she hath also borne children unto thy brother Nehor us is first born, Buzzes brother Camuel the father of Aaron, and Chesed, and Hazzo, and Pildash, and Jidlaf, and Bethie. Well, and Beth, you all begat Rebecca. These eight Milka did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother and his concubine, whose name was Rumah. She bear also Tiba.
Gam Deash.
Reading Beating took up the New Testament passages and often the following doctrines. There is no reason that we can introduce many of those thoughts in this chapter.
I like to frame something in our mind too, before we get any deeper into this. We often think of the story of Abraham, the obedience one, and rightly so, and and Isaac, Justice, obedient to the Father's will.
But I'd like to add another thought to this here, and if we can focus on that, that is, This chapter is about God's mind, God's will, and God's commandment to Abraham.
So we have to think of this as is not about me first. We often have thought when we read Scripture is how does that apply to me? I believe that will come naturally. We need to see what does God have in mind. So we find in the very beginning it is is that God did tried Abraham or the King James used the phrase tempted. We'll find in Hebrews He used the word he tried them, it was God.
And what was he to do? He is to bring his son. We often think of that as an offering, but what does it say here? It's a special offering. It is a burnt offering we don't really know much about.
The four or five types of offerings until we get to the book of Leviticus, But here is mentioned, it is a burnt offering. It's an offering specifically.
For God, All of it is for God.
As a sweet smelling savior. So I like to just preference that. As we go through this now, you may see this is still Old Testament. Let me preference something a little bit further. How does the New Testament begin? You can look at it. We should know that it start off by saying the generation of Jesus Christ.
The son of David, the son of Hebron.
If you can't see or do it doesn't it God has this in mind. How does this chapter we read ends now I end interestingly because it applies to us. Well, I'm going to read let's jump down to verse 23 is close enough to the end is that end back duel he got Rebecca.
Why Rebecca? Because she's the bride. Here in this chapter we will read that Isaac was to work, was to be offered up as a third offering for God.
We don't read up Isaac coming back with him, he said. Abraham returned back to his young man. So in type, Isaac was offered up after the death and resurrection as if it were.
A bride was being prepared. So I hope you see where I'm trying to go through this trust of the Spirit of God will guide us to see more of how God has His plan for us.
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Is said in verse two. We have a sacrifice of degrees.
It's one thing.
To give up a son.
We think of families where there are several sons and to give up one of several would be at trial.
But then it says thine only son.
That makes it even stronger, doesn't it?
And then?
Whom thou lovers?
And we can't contemplate with our human minds.
What that meant for God the Father.
To send his well beloved.
I'd like to go back to verse one just a little bit, but we mentioned that God is trying Abraham. I thought perhaps we can take an application here for us too. Have we been tried?
Have there been time that we felt that we're going through trials and difficulties?
Don't know about you. I know I have. And I'm sure many in this room have gone through different trials. And as we grow a little bit in Greece, we learned that the Lord allowed that for our learning, for our strengthening of faith. But interesting to see here. When Abraham was tried, he said. And I thought this is interesting because often we crumble under trials here, Abraham said.
Behold.
Here I am, obedience to God's will.
Even though trying time is ahead of him. Can we say that when we're in difficulties and say to the Lord, here I am. He's basically saying, Lord, what would you have me to do? Can we truly say thy will be done? It may not be pleasant. And as Bruce mentioned, giving up a son, the only son. That's a great trial, that's a great testing, here I am.
And.
The fact that God is love is significant.
And so he says, Take now thy son, thine only son. You know, he had Ishmael, but he was not a son of promise. This was the son of promise.
And offer him up for a burnt offering.
I don't know if I'm right, but I think it's basically before Leviticus. It's only burnt offerings that were are mentioned, aren't they?
I don't remember for sure, but.
That's the predominant offering before the levitical order was given that.
Like you say, it's a picture of the Lord Jesus completely.
Dedicated to God the Father's glory, so he's going to be burnt to ashes.
And to think of how that Abraham. I just marvel, brethren, that.
Verse three it says he rose up early in the morning.
He didn't delay at all.
And we know in the New Testament what it says, that he knew that God could even raise him from the dead.
If God had given him a son when he was 100 years old.
And his wife was 90 years old.
Something that was miraculous, really.
Would there be anything too hard for God to raise him from the dead? And since God had already promised him that his seed was going to be like the stars of the heaven and as the sand by the seashore, why it was a matter of simply believing God. Would God forego? If we're going to burn him to ashes, would God forgo that promise? No.
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Abraham knew that and I think that's beautiful. That's that's faith tested, exercised.
Probably signify a sweet smell. We often associate things with words. So if we were to associate burnt. So if a house was on fire and you go there afterwards you smell the burnt smell of the house. But I do not believe that's the thought in connection with burnt. Awfully is a sweet smelling. Savour the Lord, look at that essence.
It was nice.
Is for him so here he was to offer that up even though he's testing Abrahams faith. We see Abraham have to fade. I'm going to jump ahead. We'll see look look at the latter part of verse five. He he said told the young man I and the lad will go Yonder and worship. Well that's nice. It's going to go where the Lord asked him to go, but then he said and come again to you.
He has that confidence, but yet his faith took him further than that. And I'm jumping ahead again. We find that he was ready with that knife, the thrust into his son. The Lord as it waited, waited and testing, and that as if it was still the last moment, they waived Abraham. Now I see your faith. So when we are in trials and difficulties, we have to remember that the Lord knows.
Because often things look so dim, looks like there's no way out. And actually when we read you the word of God, we often bring ones to the lowest point where we can see that there is no way out. Then we see his hand coming into the box because He knows how hard. If you don't like me, I will say, Lord, it's OK. There's one more thing I can try. I got this. And then when that failed, our hearts were, well, maybe I missed something. There's another thing I can try.
Instead of leaving it in the Lord's hand.
People to get ahold of that God's promises are true. You can trust God.
There is one thing.
That we do that God cannot do that is lie. So if he gives you a promise.
You can trust it. Well, maybe I don't understand. Well, that's a possibility. I don't understand very well the word of God, but.
Get to know the promises of God.
Exceeding great and precious promises.
And let me tell you, young people, if you believe them, the Lord may allow you to be tested how far your belief goes.
And it's something that is true in the life of faith.
That if you believe God, you're going to be tested. How?
Real is that faith, you say? And so here it is, the test of faith for Abraham. I can't think, like you say, of a harder task to do than to take your son and to go and offer him a burnt offering. But that was the test. And Abraham?
There is no sign of any back talk to God, no sign that he said, but Lord, you said this was to be the Son of promise. No back talk, simply obey. And that shows how much you really trust God. How much do you owe me?
Taking out the honorable form of connection.
Be leaving, he could say in Acts chapters 27 for I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me. That's confidence, isn't it? And it was clear. It was clear to him. God said it, I believe it. And as we say, that settled.
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Like to comment on two things have already been brought before us. As Bob said, this chapter is the first chapter in the Bible that brings love before us.
Also, David said one of the thoughts of the chapter is the purpose of God, What's in the mind and will of God. I'd like to connect those two thoughts with the chapter by what I believe the Spirit of God gave to us in hymn 127. I'm going to reread the first verse and a little of the second verse and then comment on these things. I'll bless the home, the Father's house.
Their love, divine death, rests. What else could satisfy the hearts of those in Jesus? Bless.
This home made ours His Father's love, our hearts full portion given the first portion of the first born Son, the full delight of heaven. Oh what a home, the Son who knows he only.
All His love and brings us to His well beloved, to that right rest of all.
Everything that's the purpose and will begins in the heart of God as to what will last. And here we have brought before us in this chapter the preeminent, I believe thought is what's in the heart of God.
And the heart of God is seen here in the way in which he tempts Abraham. He uses Abraham as a means to display a truth to us.
And.
We don't have the son's love in this chapter. Isaac is simply there and the father of Isaac is the one that makes all the decisions and Isaac is just simply passive, if you will in the chapter.
But the father?
As we talk about Abraham, what was he willing? Was he willing to obey? Yes, he was, and we see faith in Abraham. But what about the Father, our God? Was he willing to give? Was his love strong enough that he was willing to give?
And of course, we know the answer. He was. And so he takes, in reality his own son.
To be the burnt sacrifice. It's God's heart that produced that, in which His Son would give everything to himself and the Son here and type. For example, they clave the wood for the burnt offering. That's the manhood of both Son brought before us in figure, and so it's the two of them together.
That go alone.
For the offering.
And that's the truth of what it costs. The father, his son and he had to go together. We had nothing to do with it in purpose and thought, in heart or any other way. We were just get to see it, if you will, in picture here. And so the father's heart was satisfied.
But at the cost of his son giving everything to himself.
But.
The other side of it is.
And it's also the Father's heart, but it's the other side of it. The sun here is passive. We don't see anything of his love here, but we get it in John's Gospel. We get the sons heart displayed to us in the Gospel of John. And he says in the 14th chapter, I'm going to go to my father's house.
But what is his joy?
The Father wants the son to have his joy.
We sang 127. We sang in the in the appendix.
The 22 is it, and you find the word high in there a whole lot of times. Why? Because we're so fixed on our joy and we miss out on the greater joy. The Father's joy is preeminent, and we should learn to make it preeminent in our own hearts. But following that.
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What does the father do for the son? He says to the son, I want your joy, your joy, my son to be full. And how's his son's joy going to be full?
He says you've got to be with me in my father's house, and then I'll be satisfied. If I bring you to my father's house, my father's joy. And my joy will be fully, perfectly satisfied. And so when he's leaving us here on earth and John, he's returning to the father's house. But is his joy satisfying? Not yet, not yet. And it won't be until you're there.
And I'm there, and then he sees in us the fruit of the travail of the soul, his soul's love, and he's satisfied, and the father satisfied because he can't be satisfied unless the heart of his son is at rest and enjoy. And that's in my own soul. That's the preeminent purpose of this chapter.
We got faith tested and so on, and Abraham, and it's an important thing for us to learn. But Even so, if we talk about purpose, Abraham doesn't have a clue in this chapter what's going on. There's absolutely no intelligence in his soul except the question of obedience and submission. And Abraham is the father of faith to us because he submits and obeys even when he knows nothing.
And that's another purpose of the chapter. But we miss a lot if we if we don't see in a the purpose of the Father's heart for us and the satisfaction of the complementary satisfaction of the Sun.
There's a thought that.
What you're saying, Brother Dawn, with regards to Abraham's faith?
In that first verse.
A man of faith always answers the same way Abraham did here he said, behold, here am I. It's the way a man of faith answers. But to me, what really emphasizes.
Abraham's faith that there was number question here as to what he was going to do, but the burnt offering was a voluntary offering.
We don't get that until we get to Leviticus that.
God is not confined with time. The burnt offerings was a voluntary offer.
Burnt offering is mentioned at least three times. We find that we read that earlier in verse two that God said to Abraham to take his son. He said for a burnt offering.
What's your thought? And then Abraham said that as well in verse six. He took the word, this is Abraham took the word of the current offering.
Then we find Isaac in verse seven. He said behold the fire and the word, but where is the lamb for burnt offering? So we see the Godhead is working on this together.
What the university and Leviticus chapter one voluntary offering and I thought of that portion there and how one would might take their.
Their best lamb or their best animal without blemish, it says, and offered as a burnt offering. But.
This man was going to offer his only son, Isaac, and what it must have been for him to consider that and to obey it in complete dependence upon God and his authority and his guidance. And that's the picture for you and I. And, and when we consider that little portion in this chapter that says God will provide himself a lamb, we see that in our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't we behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world? And we often read that verse in first Peter.
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Chapter One. For as much as you know that you are not redeemed with corruptible things, such as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of Lamb, without blemish and without spot. And he offered Him up.
For us there, we even read it in Isaiah, don't we? When?
He wrote here am I send me And he voluntarily went to the Cross forest, didn't he?
I think if you look in John chapter 5, there's a little bit more there.
That speaks about the father and the Son.
Further rule is bringing out.
And.
John 5 and verse 19 it says the Son can do nothing of himself but what he sees the Father do for what things. So whatever he do, what things so ever he doeth these also do with the sun. Likewise for the Father loveth the Son, and show with him all things that himself do it, that he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
And so on. He says, verse 23, that all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.
He that honoreth, not the Son on earth, not the Father which hath sent him.
Verse 26. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have light in himself.
Participating in that expression to that was called the mind in verse 2.
For a burnt offering upon one of the mountains, which I will tell the other by contrast, and 2nd Kings chapter four we have name it and.
God told Naaman a specific river that he was to.
He submerged in but then he questioned that, didn't it? Aren't the rivers of Urbana and far Par those rivers in his own land?
Better.
He didn't accept the.
The provisions for his own blessing. And it was that river, the Jordans that he was to dip himself. He questioned it. But here Abraham does not question it doesn't. Here's a specific commandment. I don't question it. It's God's will.
Servants that.
Encouraged him, and he was encouraged to do it, to do what God had said. God didn't change his his instructions, did he? But naman.
In a gracious manner, too, didn't they? My father had gone.
Burnt offering being holy for God is connected with.
Fact that it's voluntary in a greater sense.
That God had a choice.
He could say I will or I won't.
He could send his son, he was not obligated to and the other offerings it was an obligation to offer. If it was a sin offering or a trespass offering the one who offered, there was no choice in it. It was a commandment.
It was an obligation to do what you had to do because of your sin.
You couldn't provide the offering really yourself. That is the lamb. There had to be a lamb for you to offer. But with God it's not. So God didn't have to.
Do it. But He voluntarily chose to send His Son. The Son likewise in deity could say, hear my, send me. And so with the Son there was that voluntary will, as in perfect unity with God the Father to do it. Having become a man, He puts aside His will completely to do the will of the Father.
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I do always those things which please the Father characterized his life perfectly. And so in that way he's passive as to will as we see him, the sun, passive as to will in this chapter. And yet it's a wonderful thing to recognize. It's another expression of the greatness of the love of God that's brought out in this chapter that he voluntarily chose.
To have a sin offering.
Army as well, I should say, have his Son the for himself a burnt offering, and we do well to, as it were in some sense, put aside our own needs and whatevers, and see the heart of God manifested even in the offering.
Like to perhaps look at a practical example. Brother mentioned Leviticus, one that give us a detail of the offerings of the burnt offering I'm thinking of. The smallest of it is the turtle Duff. Let's turn to that. There may be something we can learn from that. Leviticus chapter one.
When one is to bring in a turtle down, there is a set of things there to do. Now, of course there are other things. If you're rich, you can bring in an oxygen, a Bullock, and so on.
But this is the part I got in my heart there, verse 15.
Perhaps I'll start at verse 16. And this is for the turtle dot. And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers and cast it beside the altar on the east side by the place of the ashes. So the first thing, this offering, even though it was a willing offering coming in, what does this the priest have to do the crop?
What's the crop? Guess the gizzard and some of you who raised chicken would know what that is. Chicken eat almost anything. I remember we used to have chicken when we were young and I remember we used to tea stones. Not a good thing. You throw rubber bands on the ground and they would, they would just gobble it up thinking as it were and where does it go? It go into the gizzard and you go into the crop. A lot of undigested food.
So we have things that we haven't meditated on, but we know we can repeat it. Have you make it good for your own soul if it's just part of the crop, things that you are just repeating and echoing? Is that here? The Lord just said take it, cast it away into the ashes. So we need to make the word of God good to our own soul. But then what about the feather?
Again, how many of you have seen?
A chicken before the feather has been plugged, you look at the size of a chicken and once you pluck the feather off, the sides look a lot smaller. I think the feather as if it was something that, well today I guess we can use the phrase it's for the show. We fluff it up to look bigger. No Peacocks do that. There is a form of a hand and they flubbed up those big feather to make it look so huge.
Supposingly pretty, the Lord said all this fluffs, cast them aside. So when we come to the Lord now, there's more to it. I don't want to seek too much more of the time on that. You have to cleave it and so on, so that everything is exposed, so that it can't find any fault as if it were. But it's an interesting thought for me to think of even the simplest of the offering. The Lord wants reality. He wants that faith from our hearts, the obedience, like Abraham of old.
To do what he was asked to do.
I just want to make a quick comment about suffering.
In a first in Philippians chapter one and verse 29, it says unto you, it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. We may be called on to suffer in in unimaginable ways. And as you mentioned earlier, David, we've all suffered to different extents, but we can't choose our own Crucible.
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We can't decide how I'm going to suffer.
We've been talking about voluntary.
Suffering voluntary burnt offering. Are we willing?
To accept what God has given to us to suffer.
It may be very difficult.
But the Lord gives us the grace to go through the suffering, and there's just one verse I want to read in First Corinthians 10 and verse 13.
The temptation, the the testing.
1St Corinthians 10 verse 13 There hath no temptation taking you.
But such as is common to man, but God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that she may be able to bear it. Some people have to go through incredible suffering in difficult times, and we wonder how can they bear it?
Without the Lord, how can we bear? But the Lord? He goes through these difficult times with us, and He wants us to know that He's there for us.
We take 18 in the back, 18 in the appendix.
And.
I.
Believe Lord.
Genesis 18.
There are 17.
And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do both in prayer?