Abraham and Isaac: Painful Obedience

Bible Stories

Matt Mullins

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, we explore one of the most heart-wrenching and faith-defining moments in all of Scripture—Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac in obedience to God’s command (Genesis 22). We reflect on the weight of Abraham’s obedience, the testing of his faith, and the foreshadowing of God’s ultimate provision. Why would God ask for such a sacrifice? What does this story teach us about trust, surrender, and the cost of following God? Join us as we unpack the theological significance of this passage, affirm God’s sovereignty and goodness, and draw encouragement for our own walk of obedience—even when it’s painful. Tune in and be reminded that God always provides—and that our faith, when tested, is refined for His glory. The Road to Kaeluma: Visit ⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/BSPKaeluma⁠⁠ to listen, learn more, or access discussion guides and other bonus content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Bible Stories. We're your hosts, Matt Mullen.
0:24.1	Hello.
0:24.9	My name is Todd Heymans, and we are two ministers slash butts who love telling the stories of the Bible.
0:30.4	Matt, we are in the classics of the Bible series. How are you doing? Tell us all about it.
0:36.4	I'm so good. Today we've got a bit of a tear
0:39.7	jerker. And before we get there, for those of you who aren't middle age, like Sweet Todd and
0:45.7	me, who weren't necessarily born in Baptist life like Todd and me, there used to be this line
0:52.7	of little figurines that moms and grandmas
0:55.2	collected called precious moments. Todd, do you remember these? I love them so much. What are they?
1:00.2	They're just that. They're figurines and my mom has probably 50 of them in our China cabinet and my
1:05.9	childhood home. And they're just sweet, sweet little little babies little children yeah they're in one
1:13.7	you know there's like kind gestures like there's a hug or they give each other a flower or
1:18.0	oh sweet things like that tell me what do you think about them you know what they do they capture
1:22.8	precious moments that's exactly right just and so and so my day, when I see a little precious moment,
1:28.8	I just closed my eyes and capture that moment. My daughter picking up her toys. And I just imagine
1:33.6	a little figurine. My daughter picking up her toys. They eventually went into Bible stories,
1:39.6	precious moments. So they had like a little David and Goliath. They had a little Noah. But today's story has no precious moments. So they had like a little David and Goliath. They had a little Noah. But today's story
1:47.0	has no precious moments figurine. Why do you think, Todd? Well, you know, this one's tough because
1:52.7	it's about a dad sacrificing his son. I don't know how you make that sweet. And I, I, you know, it's tough.
2:02.3	Can I share two quick things about precious moments?
2:05.6	Go for it.
2:06.5	Okay.
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