Good morning

mercies and I'm just going to be moreings with the masters. We're to devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We are picking back up with new morning mercies

and I'm just going to take it from here.

It says this, it is an incredible story, a clear case study in what faith is and what faith does.

Hebrews, 11 verses 17 through 19. By faith, Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises

was in the act of offering up his only son of whom it was said through Isaac shall your offspring be named.

He considered that God was able to even raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively

speaking, he did receive him back.

God had promised Abraham that his descendants would be like the stars in the sky,

and that through his descendants all the nations of the earth would be blessed.

But Abraham and his wife, Sarah, didn't have any children, let alone a clue about how he would

pass down the promise to the next generation. They waited and they waited.

Decade piled up on decade, but no son came.

Abraham was an old man and Sarah was decades beyond her childbearing years. Then in a miracle of God's faithfulness,

a son, Isaac, was born. There must have been some kind of celebration that day.

God was true to his promises.

He did have the power to deliver.

He would keep his covenant.

Blessing would come to this sin broken world. It seemed like the end of a beautiful story.

Then God came to Abraham and told him to sacrifice the promised son. It made no sense

whatsoever.

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