
Summer Road Trip
Scripture: Genesis 22:1-14
Pastor Dan Hamrick
August 27, 2023
“Trip to Mount Moriah”
A Successful Trip, to an Unknown Destination, Led by God…
1. Requires us to
“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.’”
2. Requires
“When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.”
Abraham showed 2 amazing signs of trust…
A. In verse 5 he tells his servants that “
“He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
B. In verse 8 he tells his son that
“Abraham answered, ‘God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.’ And the two of them went on together.”
“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, 18 even though God had said to him, ‘It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.’ 19 Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.” —Hebrews 11:17-19
3. Requires
“Abraham answered, ‘God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.’ And the two of them went on together.”
4. Requires
“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.”
5. Requires a new
“Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 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.’”
What is your Mount Moriah?
“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.’”