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All right, guys, this week I'm taking you on a journey to Golgotha.

Yesterday, we discussed the life of Abraham and Abraham and Isaac traveling to Mount Moriah,

as described in Genesis 22. So we ended with Isaac asking his father where the lamb for their

burnt offering was, and Abraham answering that God was going to provide one. So let's go ahead

and pick back up in Genesis 22, verse one. So let's go ahead and pick back

up in Genesis 22, verse 9. When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the

altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on top of the

wood. Okay. So, you know, even right now, as a man with sons, that's, this is just very hard for me to read. Okay. Since having sons, this is just all very, very hard for me to kind of look at and get through even though I know how it ends. And so yesterday, we talked about the fact that Isaac is likely a teenager, if not older at this point, and Abraham is well over 100 years old.

So, Joby actually pointed this out in a recent sermon, that Isaac was certainly old enough

to where if he couldn't whoop his dad, he probably could whoop his dad, but at the very, very

least, he could outrun his, you know, beyond elderly father. Because, you know, let's say,

let's say he was the wimpiest young man of all time, the wimpiest teenager or early 20 year old,

whatever dude, of all time, he was capable of outrunning a man that's well over 100 years old,

right? He could get away. So why is that fact important? Because this implies that Isaac was willing to be sacrificed,

even if he did not understand why, because his father told him to. Think about that.

First 10, then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. Now remember,

guys, Abraham had previously handed this knife to Isaac to carry,

knowing full well that he planned to use it very soon to cut his promised son's throat at the altar.

So verse 11.

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