Genesis 22:1-24
Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”
The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” But the angel of the
Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,[b] all nations on earth will be blessed,[c] because you have obeyed me.” and through your offspring
There is surely nothing in Abraham's previous experience of God to make him think that God would want child-sacrifice. For him, as for every reader from then to now, the devastating words with which the story begins come as a most dreadful shock: "Take your son, your only son, whom you love so much'. What kind of God is this God we thought we knew? The instruction is more puzzling still, since all God's promises are vested in Isaac. How could God require his death?
The end of the story enables us to breathe again. God does not want child sacrifice. God provides, and the two return together. The issue is clearly presented as one of trust. Is Abraham willing to offer up the one who is more precious to him than all the world? Will he trust God with Isaac? He has previously failed to trust God for his own safety: twice we have seen him selfishly put Sarah's life at risk. But now he trusts where he cannot understand, And in the offering of his only son, he mirrors the far more costly self-offering of God in Jesus.
And what of Isaac? Did he struggle or argue? In the telling, his tole is passive, not active; an acceptance of suffering - like that of the servant of the Lord in Isaiah 53: like Jesus who went willingly to death.
Why?
This the faith of Abraham shows God is top in his life more than his loved son, Isaac.
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亞伯拉罕信心的最高表現
1.奉獻最愛
奉獻如果不是我最愛的,唯獨某件東西不能奉獻的,就是神要的。真奉獻是給自己最愛的。神會預備,神如何預備,我們不知道,也不用去想。信心不是容易的事
2.放下反而得到更多。亞伯拉罕發現什麼都沒有失去。我們有什麼東西留下不給神。神不是要奪人所愛,神要人完全的愛神勝過一切。其實我們什麼也不會失去。如果我們不能放下,神就要我們繼續學這個功課。
3.為了試驗亞伯拉罕,所以有此作為。亞伯拉罕沒有和神討價還價
21章要放下比較容易,因為是人員的恩典、成就。22章放下神給的恩典。神的恩典為什麼要還給神。我們不能愛神的恩典,超過愛神。如果我們愛恩典,我們得到的只停留在這個恩典,以後就沒有了。不能因為愛恩典,忘了神。不能因為父母給錢,只愛錢,不要父母。
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How?
Abraham is a real father of faith to all of us.
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