Abraham

Isaac wants to know where
the Lamb for the sacrifice is.

The first guy we talked about of those after the flood was Abraham. The Lord called him from his home to travel to the place God promised to give his descendants. The Lord promised to make him into a great nation, a promise which must have required increasingly more and more faith as the years wore on, Abraham became an old man, and he remained childless.

We brought up this term “covenant” again with our guys. When Abraham was old, the Lord made a covenant with him stating that he would become father of many nations, God would greatly multiply his descendants. The Lord even changed his name from Abram to Abraham.

We also mentioned how God tested Abraham when his son Isaac was born. He instructed Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. On the way there Isaac asked Abraham where the lamb for the sacrifice was. Abraham's answer: “God will provide for Himself the lamb...” (Gen. 22:8) God stopped the sacrifice before it happened and provided a ram as replacement. Close to Easter is perfect timing for this post, even though the night we talked about Abraham with the kids was actually last fall. We pointed ahead at to God sacrificing His Son for us. He provided for Himself the Lamb (with a capital “L”).

I'm not sure what else you could want here. We've got a great picture of faith—Abraham “died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar...” (Hebrews 11:13). We've got God's promises, and we've got a fantastic picture of salvation.