For now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your only son from me.

And Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught in the thicket by its horns.

So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

In place of his son.

Substitutionary offering.

That's so critical for us to understand.

And Abraham named that place the Lord will provide.

So it is said today, it will be provided on the Lord's Mountain.

Turn with me now to Hebrews chapter 11 Hebrews chapter 11 that that portion in Genesis 22 they don't even have him saying a word till the third day. Now, I don't mean he didn't,

but isn't it something. I mean, can you think, I mean, I wouldn't even be able to talk.

It's like, have your own conversations. I can't even think. All I can think about is I've got to get

to that mountain, and this is what I've been told to do. How am I to do this? What in the world is going through his head? Well, probably a hundred different things,

and some of them we would find too painful to imagine. But I want you to look at one of them,

one of them. Look at Hebrews chapter 11 that's going to describe what is going on in his head.

Hebrews 11, 17. By faith, Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. So he did indeed offer him up he received the promises

and yet he was offering his one and only son in other words that he received this promise and now

every bit of it's going to be forfeited in his mind and his reasonable thinking the one to whom it had been

said your offspring will be called through Isaac, verse 19.

He considered God to be able even to raise someone from the dead.

Therefore, he received him back, figuratively speaking.

In other words, some of your translations say it better than that.

But what is part of what's going through his head?

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