The Son
“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” (Genesis 22:2).
What a wonderful picture Abraham and Isaac are of God the Father sending His only Son into this world to go to the cross and offer Himself as that supreme sacrifice. It is summed up in the statement made by the Apostle John in the New Testament, when he states,“And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world” (1 John 4:14). Yes, it was more than just God sending Jesus; it was the Father sending the Son.
As we think of this wonderful relationship it makes us realize something of the cost, what it must have meant for the Father to send the Lord Jesus knowing what the cost would be.
We have everything of eternal value through the Son as a result of that great sacrifice. “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things” (Romans 8:32).
