Why God Tested Abraham - Bro Jamie Ellington 2-2-2025

And glad to die for you know, wait me here

to have for Christ. He's been so good to me.

And when you saved the broad me out a sea

in taking down through the years, and I'm so thankful

for that. And it is a great honor to be

here tonight. Appreciate Pastor for five it's this opportunity and

uh always being very generously this polkd and I appreciate

that so much.

Brother.

If I had to pull fid out, share it with you, okay, amen,

But we appreciate you and your family so much. Appreciate

the church. Uh my girls teased to sing here. I

won't say thank you for being so good to my

daughter and taking care of her, watching after and uh

my grand babies, thank God.

And so I to pray on the sun and bat.

I appreciate the son in law you says, it's best

me a man.

That's why you behaved.

I tell you that when I was raising our girls,

from the time they were old enough to understand anything

about church and God, and even before them, we pray, Lord,

you have a companion for them.

Lord, you know where they need to be and who

they even married.

I I feel in my heart that God uh brought

these both of my son in laws into my daughter's lives,

and I am so thankful. I still miss them, both

of them live and live course, live's ten hours from us.

Race is about three, and I miss them dearly. But

there's comfort in nowhere where they're moving from. Got a

good husband to take care of. Appreciate that, good churches

to go to, the good pastors. Both of my daughters

have good pastors.

And I appreciate your pastime and appreciate by my son

in law so much as well as my daughters are.

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Don't get hear them sing much together anymore, but I

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So you play to be here once again, out says

here and there the players about this morning, about the

Lord keeping me and helping me. At has to come

to me now, It said, it looks like the.

Lord to give me a hundred percent of recovery. And uh,

I thunna pretty much there, Uh praised.

God, thankful for that.

Things could have been a whole lot different, but God

had mercy. And I remember pastor how when I was

they were and I don't know if I told this

here or all, I can't remember, but I felt it

this morning when they had put me on I don't

know what you call that thing, that stretcher, and they

was wheeling me out, they had brought me, was taking

me through the thevesticuele of the church, and I remember

at that moment, if I've ever experienced a.

Panic attack, I believe that was the one and only

time that I had.

And I remember my heart beginning to race extremely fast,

and uh course I didn't need that on top of

the stroke that had was taking place or had tookn

place taking place, and uh just all kinds.

Of questions and uncertainties begin to flood my mind. You know,

when you're at really at dead store. And I didn't

realize that that you're at dead store when you're in

that situation. Doctor said that, and all these things begin

to go through my mind. First and foremost, I just

worried when I get to see my family again.

Worried about not getting to see my grand babies and

uh children and my wife.

Uh.

Then I was thinking, if I do live, I'm probably

gonna have problems. And you know, you've seen some.

Folks that's had strokes that right, uh just they come

completely uh unable to do anything for themselves.

And that fegure was in my mind and probably one

of the biggest things I reckon. I fought going out

that church. From the front door of that.

Church was the thought come in my mind, I will

never preach again. And uh, I tell you, I understand.

Without the Lord, none of us can do anything. Oh God,

And I know that I don't feel like i'm very much.

But God called me and uh, it's it's not it's

not a it's not a career for me, it's a calling.

And uh and I was thinking I may never preach again,

and that thing just disturbed me so much. And thinking

about all of that, my heart began to race.

And you know, just I I felt like just I was.

I can't explain anybody ever had a panic attacking for it.

I I can't explain it.

I mean, it was. It was terrible.

And brother, if God's ever spoke to me, he spoke

to me that night. And it wasn't anybody that was there.

It was the Lord spoke to me.

And I heard the words calm thing. And I failed

the touch of God because I laid his hand on

my chest.

I leave you.

Literally laid his hand on my chest and he said,

Tom damn brother. Immediately my heart rate brought with dad.

I began to relax and I believe God spoke peace

to me, and uh, you know I got to see

my family again.

Thank God.

Allo.

When I see that you'reful. Ride and mine come through

the hospital door. Man, I was so happy to see her.

My lady boy came with her, and I was so

glad to see him, and thank God. And you know,

the Lord's helped me and I've been able to pretty.

Much do for myself.

And on top of all of that, the Lord's allowed

me to preach again. Thank hey, man, I tell you,

if the Lord takes me home. Now, I had to say,

I've been blessed. I've been blessed, and I'm so thankful

for what God has done. I thank you for your

prayers because I know you prayed for us, and I

appreciate that.

So much.

Tonight, and man, if you have your Bibles, I want

to read uh in Genesis chapter number twenty two. Pray

for my voice and have a lot of trouble with

it for a long time. That maybe gonna help us here.

I Pastor had text me last night and told me

to be ready for tonight.

And I tried to pray and tried to find the

mind of the Lord about maybe what I would preach

tonight at the Lord will and I felt like he

dealt with my heart about.

These passage this passage of scripture.

Uh.

And it seems like things that were said this morning

in Sunday school, things that were said even Friday night, and.

And Pastor exhorting us this morning so wonderfully about being

an exhibited for Christ, and not not just.

A past dead exibit, but a living exiit.

Amen.

And it just goes along with what I feel like

the Lord has laid on my heart. And I'll try

to be brief as possible here tonight. I want to

read in Genesis chapter twenty two. Genesis chapter twenty two,

just for the sake of time for our texts, We're

gonna read.

The first.

And then a couple of verses here, But just just

fall along with me, if you will. Genesis twenty two.

And it came to pass after these things that God

did tempt Abraham and said them to him Abraham, and

he said, behold.

Here I am.

He said, take now thy son down, only son is

that whom thou.

Lovest, And give thee into the land of Mariah, and

offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of

the mountains, which I will tell the.

Will stop there. Notice what it says here.

And it came to pass after these things that God

did tempt Abraham.

That word literally means God tested Abraham. The Lord. Have

me here just for a little while, all the preacher

on why God tested Abraham. If you went past the

rich of Jesus on that morning and want to commends

you over work, you get.

On the same sway.

Actually put it through the nice excused everything.

Why God tested Abraham. The Bible tells us in the

Book of James chapter one. I believe verse twelve, blessed

is the man that endure temptation, but when he has tried,

he shall receive a crown of law.

Amen. He's got I'm not getting all that just right,

you know.

Scripture, and he says, let not man say with his

tempt that I am tempted of God, For God cannot

be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.

I think I got that right. Didn't get right? Amen.

I don't believe that Genesis chapter twenty two is a

contradiction of James chapter one, verse thirteen.

Amen, God cannot be tempted.

With evil, which means that God has never been enticed

to be wrong. I know there's a group of people

that claim to be Christians and claim to be Oh

it is that would preach or.

Teach that Christ could have sein.

Amen.

And I know the Baba said he was tempted in

all points, like as we are.

But that ain't all he said. In that portion he said,

yet without sin.

It don't mean that he could have sinned, but it

means that it's impossible. It would have been impossible for

the son of God to sin. He Amen is Deity,

thank God.

And he could not have seen.

God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempted any man

with evil.

Amen.

But in our text, I right answer to you where

the Bible says, and it came to pass after these

things that God did tempt Abraham.

As I've said already, that word tempt means to test.

You know along this way, as Christians, there's gonna be

some tests any man, there's gonna be some tests. And

if we've been listening to God and paying attention amen

to the pastor and the preaching of the Word of God,

and if we've been faithful to study the Word of God,

study those things we've heard preach from the pulpit, hide

them in our hearts, then we can pass the test.

Right.

But if we don't, we won't thank God.

Amen.

But God tested Abraham.

There's a reason for this tonight, that there's a part

is behind this test that Abraham went through. And I

really believe that we could probably say tonight that the

test that Abraham went through may not be exactly the.

Test we go through, but the purpose of the test

is the same.

Praise God.

I don't like test. To me, it's not pleasant.

It's not something that we enjoy, but it's necessary and

it makes us better. Praise God, and we should learn

from these things. Notice what this test was. God tested

Abraham and said to him Abraham. Abraham said, behold here

I am. And God said, take now thy son, thine

only son, Isaac, who thou lovest, and get thee into

the land of Mariah, and offer him therefore a burnt

offering upon one of the mountains, which I will tell

now this is that same acid that God spoke to

Abraham when he was I think seventy five years old,

and told him that from his scene with all.

The families of the earth he blessed.

It was at that time that his wife was there,

and Sarah was faring and kidnot their children they mat

him for twenty five years. Faith waited for the promise,

even trying to help God out in the process. Oh,

he to complicate things like we do sometimes, they like,

sometimes we try to hurry the hand of God and man,

and we don't need to hurt God's hand. He's got

a time, he said, God has a divine appointment. I'm believing,

praised God. Oh, but they waited for twenty five years.

And finally, after twenty five years, I believe that's right.

And God spoke to Abraham, had seventy five call him

out randomic commies, made a promise that he would multiplies

seen a man in twenty five years later, Isaac is born.

Abrahams I'm one hundred years old.

Sarah's ninety years old, haymen, and Isaac is bored.

This is that promised child. This is the one that

God promised the Amen, the child of promising. That promise

would be fulfilled through Isaac Amen.

And I don't know exactly how old he was.

I trying to look that up this afternoon, and some

say it was between the age of This actually happened

the age of thirteen and in thirty seven years old.

And this happened in the life of Isaac Amen.

I don't know how old he.

Was, hey, remember it happened around between those years apparently.

And the Bible said, God tells him, I want you

to take it, boy.

And notice, funny, whom thou willestou?

Abraham?

I know you love that boy. Why are you would

die for that boy? Heyn You're standing the way of harm.

For that boy.

And who thou take now thy son?

Thine only son, Isaac, who thou wills and offer him

there for a bird offering upon one of the mountains,

which I will tell the of. So I'm gonna say,

God is contradicting himself. Why would he required for Abraham

to slay his son? But I believe it's a spiritual

meaning here. I believe this is what Jesus spid in

move Tempter fourteen, when there with great multitudes with him,

and he turned and said, unto them, if any man

come to me and hate not his father and his mother,

and his wife, and his children, and his brethren and

his sisters, he hate in his own life. Also he

cannot be by disciples. And when they were following him

from former fishes, and the loads and the healings and

the benefits and the blessings. But Jesus turns to them

and said, and you're gonna come out to me, ay man,

You gotta ay man if you don't hate your father

and listen, he wasn't saying, hey, but that loves.

Me means and if you don't love him less.

Then you love me.

I hain't man, I at you say thank.

You either loved father or mother more than me.

It's not worthy of me. You heard of love son

or daughter more than me? It's not worthy of me.

He said, you.

Gotta love me most.

I've gotta be thirst and I've gotta beat form most.

Hey, man, in that place that I desire in your

heart cannot be challenged, not anything or anybody. He man

come to me and hate not his father and his

brother and his brethren, our wife and his children, and

his brethren and his sister.

Hey, here's where it really gets telling in his own life. Also,

he cannot be my disciple. And man, that don't seem

like sound like a naming claiming gospel to me.

That don't sound like a secularised prosperity gospel of me.

Oh No, he's.

Gonna be sacrifice. Heyman, there's gonna be commitment. There's gonna

miss some things. Hey man, that God's gonna require you,

that's gonna go against this flesh. That's gonna go against

what you want and want you dead. Oh yes, that's

what Jesus said. And I believe that's what God was Saturday, Abraham,

I know you love that boy, unless he asked the

one I made a promise that you would had.

But how much do you love me?

Abraham?

Oh?

Yeah, the off as they burn offringer.

But to me, amen, that was this.

And Abraham rose up early into the morning. He didn't delay,

he didn't put it off.

Like we knew.

When God said, ah, it's time to move, it's time

to do this, it's time to do that, we kind

of drag our feet.

Come on, man, you know what it is when we

get up early in the morning. You gotta go to work.

He's kind of drag ma'am.

You kind of look for a reason the prolong you

go to what I'm talking about. Hey, what Abraham did?

He rose up early in the morning, He.

Waved, the Bible said, and he sat on his eyes

and took two of his young men with him and

Isaaca's son, and claimed the wood for the burnt offering,

and rose up and went onto the place of which

God had told him of.

And the Bible said in verse four.

Then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his.

Eyes and saw the place so far off.

And it's saying, I'm believing that this same place, Mountain Mariah,

was the same place where Christ.

What mean is that right past her he would need

crucified something of what's.

Two times minion thousand made?

However wrong, it was many years later Christ would die

on that very same mountain.

Oh hell, that wasn't by accident.

That was by the mine.

And the Bible said he saw the place of war off.

And I cannot help but feel that even though there

was a love in Abraham's hearts, amen for young Isaac,

and he would here gladly laid himself down, he would

have gladly down.

In his stand.

But that's not what God said.

God said, whom Isaac.

We weard preaching many times there lives. There's something that

God is doing with us. Heymen, God's required of us,

but we have not yet sold out.

Ayman, no, listen, I'm not tu ask this.

I'm not trying to preach a pastoral message and on

my heart.

But Brother, that's ten times I'm pastored, and even as

a internal pastor, and I see folks and I'm a

love for God, but.

I see there's reservation. I see there's some days, Brother, holy.

To God's dealing with the heart about that they're not

quite willing to turn it looser and let it go or.

Kick it up or can't whatever the case may do

you Oh yes, And I wander tonight, is there Elizac

in your life?

And that is there a thing?

And I staling with your heart about but you just

can't seem to turn loose out?

Can I be honest tonight? I can't take the time

I really got to.

Him.

There's been some Isaac's in my life. God about can

I say this, you know, if you lose confidence in me.

I want to be transparent, maybe not too transparent, but

transparent enough for given.

Though, but I'm human too.

And they's been things even in recent days.

I say days, And he said, bunks Amen.

The God said, hey, this is what I expect of you,

and you need to improve in this area in your life,

and you need to do matter in this area and

you're no.

The only one.

Julia Paul said, I count not myself to an apprehended.

In other words, I have not made it yet. But

he said to what I do in the place, and said,

I keep under my body and bring it into some

hay that there's time, sir, this flesh don want to

do what Gone wants me to go.

I don't cow safe.

And sat the mind as Holy God's feels you are,

and that's gonna come.

Times in your life that you may now this flesh

to the cross said I didn't got a lad on

the art tod.

Jesus freed that prayer and said, nevertheless, if it be

possible to let this come pass from me, nevertheless, not as.

I will, but as thou Hilton.

We're gonna have to do that from time to time.

Amen. Oh yes, God said I won't. Isaac, he sees

the place. There's a fear. There's a hey man, there's

a dread, some one of my dread. Does that make

sense tonight? Even though he loved God with all his heart,

there was a dread. I'm gonna have to actually do this.

Verse five, and Abraham said, unto his young man, a

bye ye here with the ass and I and the

lad will go yonder and worship.

Oh, I like that. You've heard it many times, no doubt.

He didn't say, A and the lad's going yonder, and

I'm gonna swail on the altar.

I'm gonna offer a circle.

And I have said. He said, I and the ladder.

Are going yonder to worship. But the old brother, I

don't want what.

God expectsing me only to be a sacrifice. I wanted

to be a I want to have an attitude under worship. Better,

God expect something of me. I don't want to look

at him like why they're selling out to me. I

just want me to do anyone I want to down

sending their sending answer.

I'm allowing.

And he there's another.

Opportunity to worship God in my edding. The lad will

go yonder and worship. And look here this is faith,

and come again.

To you.

Now he was the only one that was pretty to

what God said, not even understood what was going on.

Fully, amen, the boss said. Abraham took the wood of

the burnt offering.

Lady upon Isaac's son.

He took the fire in his hand and a knife,

and they went, both of them together.

And Isaac, I like this.

You can always tell when.

There is a parent and that is trying to raise

their children and the fear and the admonition of the Lord,

because they don't ask the right questions. Hey man, this

question that Isaac asked is the reflection of a godly father.

Isaac spake to am Raham and his father and said,

my father, and he said, here am I my son.

And he said, behold the fire and the wood. But

where is the lamb for of earn authoring?

Why would he asked that? Because he's saying the first

time he went hand.

To hand with Daddy to the altar of God, we

had Russian team of the altar, prays God.

And I tell you, brother, how I want to know it?

Then that so when that time comes, got you to

ask me Christ is really God?

Gods?

The Super Bowl?

Wh is the last escala players?

The biggest issue ever? Called a b never much?

She would saying, Hey, Dad, what does it mean to

be saved?

How do I go to do that? Same? I want

you to ask her?

Right, Chris, I met even in this conversation the gardenness

of Abraham Listen exhibited.

Anything I like it, I'm gonna take it back, y'all.

Don't use anything today. Dan, I've do this before. And

I notice we're missing something.

And I can imagine as they're walking together, they're getting

closer to that place and nails. Especially after Ozazi says, hey, Dad,

where's the burn off? Where's he all right? I just

had to imagine that Abraham turned his head in the

other direction and looked on the other way.

Because there was tears running down his face.

God, Oh that was weeping.

Amen. And Abraham with it, without giving it away.

Simply said, heymen, my son God, we'll provide himself. You're

a sacrifice.

Amen.

Amen, God, We'll provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.

God.

So they both up.

Them and went together.

Hey man, now we come.

Down to versnine. And they came to the place which

God had told him of.

Hey man, here it is.

There's no more tolay, there's no more putting this all.

There's no more Procrastina said Heaven.

Now it's time.

And I wonder, I wonder if God brought.

You to a place like that.

Hey, not for the preaching of the word of God.

Hain't been for the sun of school teaching. He make

for the ministry and pastor, has God brought.

You to that place?

Ain't the where It's now time to make a choice.

It's now time to.

Make a decision, a amy.

I'm preaching.

Simply hold, why God tested Abraham. They came to the place,

Abraham building all to there.

He laid the wood in order.

Hey, when I heard that message, mother said, Lord put

on heraes of home of stacking right in the firefall.

Everybody put the wood in order. And the Bible says,

let me read it again.

He built an altar in there, and he laid the

wood in order, and he bound Isaac, his son.

At this point, Now Isaac understands, oh, oh.

Amen.

And now I don't know exactly what happened here, Hey man,

there might have been a little a little bit of resistance,

but the Bible don't tell us that. But I mean,

he takes Isaac and he bunds him, and the Bible said,

he's lazy, hey man. He stretched he stretched forth, or

he laid him on the altar upon the wood, and

Abraham stretched.

Forth his hand.

Hey, those one said, he stradch forth his hand, and he.

Took the knife to slay his son.

I don't know if it was here or here, or

exactly where it was. But I do not read where

there was any hesitation. Hello, No, I don't read where

there was any procrastination. But he took forth his hand

and took the knife to slay his son. And in

the midst of that process, the Angel of the Lord

called out under him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham.

And he said, here am I praise God? Well, yeah, sir,

And he said, lay not down hand upon the lad

need do nout.

Anything under him.

For now I know that thou fearest God che let

us not without God, Son, that only son from me.

The first thing you want to talk to me about,

I will preach much longer. I don't think the first.

Reason why God tested Abraham. We saw that Abraham could

see how dedicated he was. How many believe here tonight?

God knows everything. Now, I know what the scripture saved.

But it was the Angel of the Lord, heymen, which

makes me believe it wasn't the Lord himself but a messagery,

divine messenger.

That's said.

Now I know that thou hast not been held down

son down, only son, Isaac.

Hey. Remember, I believe God knowing everything. God know him

again from the beginning. Heymen, brother, God knew Abraham.

Was gonna do it.

Amen, don't believe that, just like you knew Joe wasn't

feeling Joe would.

Give me a lest somebody to God do that, Amen,

so that Abraham could see you exactly how far he

was willing to go. I tell you there's many times,

and I say this to my own shame, that God

has expected.

Things of me and asked things of me.

And I found out I wasn't near as the dedicator

that sought out as I thought I was.

And I even that test really came. I found out, haymen, that.

I was not ready.

He said this, brother, Amen, Jeremiah seventeen.

Now the heart is deceitful above all things and disperately wicked.

Who can do it?

Now?

I already believe it.

He's talking about the heart of men we are saved

or not outside of the grace of God.

It's desperately wicked. Amen. It's deceitful above all things and

desperately wicked. Amen.

And who can know it?

Amen?

Oh, I know my heart, Preacher.

I love him with everything.

I die if I know my heart, Preacher, he no

matter what he asking me, Brother Cadom, I'm willing do

whatever he says. Has been time I said there and

it's net and in a revival service. So oh, in

this mining I was moving and a tremendous way. You

and I begin to make gods some promises.

Oh God, I'll never do that.

I'm gonna do that.

I'll do it this way from now older. And I

found out later on, hey man, that I wasn't nearly

as committed. I really mean what I said then, Oh,

when I wasn't.

On that spiritual high I found God.

So you've done that. I said, you've heard it, you've

seen it.

They still testified, I'll never do so and so and

this and this and that moment when God was blessing

him and they.

Slipped right back here the same thing though. Were they

insincere in what they said?

No, that were not.

They knew what they said. And so I may consist

to that God says this kind of tests so that.

We can see ourselves because God knows what we're gonna

do it right, And sometimes we think we know, But

when we don't past the test, and timely, when we

don't pass the test, Lord, you know that wasn't in

my heart to do that. But God loves me enough

to test me, and even when I fail, it's God's

way of showing me, Son, You're not where you need to.

Oh, yes, you remember the Lord told Simon Peter Satan

desired to.

Have you, that he may sit you as we without

pray for Thee that thy faith fell not with God converted.

Strengthen thy brethren. And notice what Peter said.

What me without converted it?

God?

I'm sold out because notice what he said next to Lord,

I am ready to go with THEE, both in the

prison and to death.

Now that he mean that?

Did Simon Peter mean that?

How believe you did?

I believe it was just as real as sincere as

he had ever.

Got in with the heart.

It's deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can

do it?

The Lord said, I tell Thee, Peter, the cop shall

not crow this day before thou shalt thrist.

Nah.

They don't know a steep, and I ready don't remind you.

Even after the Lord told him that, he just kept

on to not know.

No, no know, heymen, though I mean though I.

Die with you or be putting to death with the

eye'll never deny the Hey that oiens because he really

felt that way.

But when the test came, and I see when the

test came, man, and he found the testa.

And I believe when the Lord looked at him.

But hey, man, the Bible city turning looked at him,

I don't believe he saw eyes of hatred and and

in anger.

But I made the eyes of compassion in love.

And he was sent the sad.

See there, Peter, you it wasn't nearly where you thought

you should have been. And this testa, it's only to

revealed to you where you really are.

I tell you, brother, I want to.

See myself ask God says right.

Amen, God tested Abraham so that Abraham could see.

That's right now dedicated he was or was an obo.

But that's another reason. Amen, you got a picture all this.

You gotta imagine this.

After that night is coming down and the angel little

Lord stays the hand of Abraham he made in.

Isaac realizes I'm not gonna die, right, yeah, I'm gonna live.

Not only this is popoly, I'll look after all this.

Abraham looked back and he plumb sick, you know, walk,

I'm gonna.

I I was gonna right right.

Right, huh. And you know what, not only to Abraham,

see Isaac, Amen said, Dad was really gonna do that, right,

he was really, hey man, want to do that in

other words, not only to God test Abraham so that

Abraham can see how dedicated he was, but God test

in Abraham, so Isaac can see you I have guaranteed

and consecrated. It's Daddy was and brother as a pard.

Hey man, it's a great honor to be a pastor

and a preacher of the gospel. But there's no great

honorer than God in trust in us.

But sons and daughters, hey man. And the one thing

God wants, sister, well, it's name.

In such a way that our children.

Know that God is real, God is live, and all

this is live.

Rise and you agree with what was going on about.

There's one thing that he did not doubt. Then he

loves God more than he loves me.

And then that's when our children and they shilling right,

and we say.

Oh, not in my home, not in my house, not

in my room, and then we do it because we

love him. Yes, we want to spend in a lifetime

until ain't And.

Right, why don't we more than that?

We do it because we love God. I said, we

love God that we're wanting to be that sample. I said,

we're wanting to be that sample.

Now are children?

Now that's chaw Then what.

That a case? I want that contract Christ means. And

I say this with all due respect, I've said this.

I said, thank you so much. And you're blessed to

have a man to call the love you children enough

to teach the truth.

I'm God, all right.

They need more than a God wants, right. They need

more than a pastor, yes, sir, mother's a dedicated life. Amen.

They need a mom and a.

Dad that leaves are amen.

Oh, they need an example of faithfulness and dedication.

Heymen.

Oh yes, haymen, You moms and dancer ultimately will have

more influenza over there.

We are children.

Awaiting be taught the God or whether it be torn.

The man heave of a god.

Yester Abraham, Hey, my son, that Isaac can can go

what it means to be sold out to God? Body

train up a child in the weather, he should go.

Bro Daniel, you always done it right? Absolutely not? Have

you always been faithful? No, sir, I speak to myself right,

always been.

In my heart to do it right. Amen. Oh yeah, olmn,

praise God.

Oh yes.

Train up a child the greatest part of training.

It's not what they do wrong. We pull that belt off, brother,

were unlisten it and it comes out with the belt

straps and it makes.

That familiar said amen, and we begin to administer.

Yeah.

I want to say this right.

Corporals the capitals.

Amen. Because he that spirits his rod, you don't say.

That's for the child.

You know what he says to he is fead it off,

hate it.

It's son. And that's part of it.

Heymen, that disciplinary part of corporal persona. Heymember the most,

the most influential part of that scripture.

He's a trained up a child. That it show how

you want to be para lawyers.

Somehow, well you ought to be worshipers of God. So

you already ways of God. Show up how you already

so listen to the authority that God places over them,

show them how Sometimes a little Susie, little Johnny, it's

disobedient to mom and dad. You're not submitted to moment dad,

cause mam and dad ain't first of all submitted to God.

Right, and just manute to God. You won me so

many time many.

Woo boy?

Can I can I be honest with you? Hear it

out here a while back.

I'm i'm'nna get to that the details. But I was

worried about one of my children. I'm in trouble. He

may there were some things I was breaking my heart.

I'm riding down the road and I hope you don't

these companies. The man, I'm thinking about these things, and

my heart's grieved and I'm hurt. Amen, and God speaks

to me.

Yeah.

But the thing when he says, now, you see.

How I feel right when you do this right?

Well, I'm preaching slow to mine. It's different from it

this morning. But God tested Abraham, so that Isaacs right. God,

if we walk into no how we gotta show up.

We gotta give you. There's gotta be heads on trade.

We got shore.

And show that, Isaac. He said, one.

Generation shall praise Thy words unto another.

And shall declare Thy mighty acts.

There's no better way of declaring the mighty acts of

God than by living holy and sanctified and submitted to

to the word of God, the will of God.

Hein't ben the plan of God. Oh yeah, one generation

shall praise thou word.

Here's to another.

Lastly, then, and and you can say without a doubt,

Abraham knew you that day. Yeah, he was sold out.

Yeah he made his mistakes. He surely did, just like

you and I at that time. Have you ever once

in a while week?

And there was no doubt in Isaac's mine, No doubt

in Isaac's mine.

Daddy loves God right more than he loves me.

And I read over there in in in I think

it's Genesis twenty six, where where where Isaac was falling.

In the footsteps of Daddy.

There's three things that There's three things that I Abraham did, Hayman.

First of all, Amen, he built altars, and everywhere he

went he built altars. The next thing he did he

he he pitched tents. In other words, he said, this

world is not my home. Hey man, this is not

where I am put to stain. I'm just a pilgrim

and a stranger. And the third thing he did, he

dug wales.

And then in Genesis chapter twenty six, what do I

find Isaac doing?

Hey?

When I find Isaac building an altar, I find him

digging whales, cleaning out the whales.

And Devil stopped up and I found him pitching tents. Heymen,

he don know how I knew that. I'll tell you

how he knew how to do that, because he had

a dad god mother.

He he hello you, oh brother, I tell.

You I don't want to fail a test.

Amen.

Thank you.

But the third reason why God tested Abraham, and really

probably the most important. Do y'all remember the question that

Isaac asked, the wood the fire, but where is the helm?

And after all this transpirers and God stays his head.

The Bible says, Amen, he lifted up his eyes and looked,

and behold behind him.

A ram coat in the thicket by the horns.

And Abraham went and took the ram and offered him

for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

Amen.

The last reason why God tested Abraham, hey amen.

And I want to say it like this, and the

Lord allow me to you, so that the world would.

See the lambs. I tell that's nothing more imported as

a child of God.

That's nothing, nothing more imported as a blood bought son

or daughter of God, heymen.

Than nothing the world would see Jesus, heymen.

Lord, Yes, in the world, and see Jesus, hey man,

that we mean that ecented of Christ, Oh Hell, lo

Jah into.

A lost and dye world.

He up and be held a ram.

Called him the thinking all the messing of the old novel.

Is where is the lamb?

Where is the lamb coming? John the Bada seen it coming.

He said, Abe, look yonder, behold my Lamb of God,

God taken the white that seeing up the world. God, Amen,

lo one more, one more scripture to you. God tested

Abraham so that the whole world could see the lamb.

And this is what he meant in Hebrews eleven and seventeen.

By faith.

Abraham, when he was tried or tested, and noticing was

willing to off Risicah, it.

Says by faith Abraham, when he was tried offered up.

It was just as good as if.

The knife went into that boy. In the eyes of God,

it was just like he went. He went all the

way through me. He offered up Isaac. And he that

had received the promises offered up his only Begoden, son

of whom it was said that in Isaac shall I

see be called, accounting that God was able to raise

him up.

In other words, Abraham believe him.

I gotta go all the way through it there.

God's gonna race out, yeah, everywhere.

Gonna come back.

Yeah, told in young men.

Notice what he said, even from the dead, from whence

also hen seved him in a figure of This was

a foreshadow of Jesus, hey man, This was a message

in the Old Testament that there's coming today, that the

Lamb of God's.

Gonna come and he's gonna take away.

The sin of the world.

I thought about this today. I think it's in Matthew

where Jesuss and I, if I be lifted.

Up from the earth, will draw in.

And I believe, and I've always been told that that

what that means is he was if he would be lifted.

Up from the earth on the cross. And he was.

But this is a three four, A three died.

He was buried in the Bible saying that he is

seated in the lower parts of the earth. And on

the third day, after there was a revival, hey man,

and Abraham doesn't. On the third day he rose and

I and I be lifted up thrice lifted, heymen, he

was lifted up on the cross. He rose from the

dead on the third day. And not only that, hey,

nobody has sending back. He has sending back to.

The right hand of God.

And the Baba said, he ever liveth he ever live,

he ever live, to make the assessing.

For all about Hey man, he rose thrice.

Hamn on the cross from the dead, and he's sending

back to the Father.

And man.

Testing. God sends our way he knows, so that the

world can see Jesus.

There's no doubt I that that was a phenomenal s

I I I asked my mona sent its true heart.

What would you have.

Camp The chair used to pull the dictat and said, hey,

can you see me? I'd have stuttered or when I

started when.

I'm preaching you man, that they see something right right?

I tell you this equally is important. Brother, you won't

contact fresh story all that opportunities arise. Hey man, that

that test that comes, it is God's way of giving

you the ability to let.

The world see Jesus, that he would shine through the light.

I don't like the test.

I don't like what I'm going through, But I tell

you that's why. That's why the Bible says, and we

know that all things work together for good. Right to

them who love God. Aaymen, to be more than call

according to his purpose.

That's right, they been. Why did God test Abraham? Aymen?

I tell you I don't want it, and I know

I sound like a pro record, but I just I

just want you to get it.

So that Abraham can see how dedicated he was, that's right,

So that Isaac can see how dedicated.

That it was. So that the world could see Jesus

they could send a Lamba God and taken away the sins. Hey,

thank you back. I wondered tonight, would you like to pray?

When you talk about who have y'all? Would you like

to pray? Wouldn't you like to pass the test? Wouldn't

you like to pass the test? Hang it? Oh? God

help us here tonight?

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