Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Yesterday, we saw God fulfilling his 25-year-old promise to Abraham by giving him a son, Isaac.

Today, we had a pretty important story in Abraham's life.

There are some really unique language things happening here that we need to pay attention to.

So first, we started out with God's call on Abraham to offer Isaac as a sacrifice.

This is crazy, right? Human sacrifice? That's not the God we know, is it?

No, you're right, it isn't. God does not delight in human sacrifice.

This becomes obvious later, but it's even hinted at here.

Abraham is called to offer Isaac as a sacrifice, not to sacrifice him.

It's an offer God rejects, fortunately.

God also refers to Isaac as Abraham's only son, which we know isn't literally true because of Ishmael,

but in terms of the uniqueness of God's covenant with Abraham, it certainly is true.

You may remember that when God commanded Abraham to be circumcised, he immediately obeyed,

and we see the same thing happening here. They set out on their journey early the next morning.

Some of the toughest assignments in all of scripture are given to Abraham,

and he doesn't seem to hesitate with any of it.

First of all, Abraham knows that God is not going to make him kill Isaac,

or that if he does, God will raise him from the dead, which by the way is something we have no biblical record of prior to this.

According to Hebrews 11, Abraham's faith was a huge faith.

It was one that believed in something that had never yet been done.

But it's not the size of our faith that makes things happen.

It's the plan of God, and God's plan was for Isaac to live, but for Abraham to be tested.

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