![]() And little Isaac looks to his father and says, “Father I see the knife and I see the fire and I see the wood” because he was carrying it, “but where is the sacrifice?” Fathers, what would you say to your son if he had to ask that question to you? But at the top of that mountain as Abraham raised his hand and prepared to take the life of his son, the Lord called out from heaven and told him, “Do not touch the boy.” And a ram caught in the thicket bush was substituted for Isaac and he was spared.Ī thousand years later, David had numbered the people of God. And you remember the poignant passage as the father and the son trudged their way up the slope of Moriah alone with a knife and a fire and wood. Two thousand years before Jesus stood with His disciples gathering in the upper room and preparing to recline at the table to take the Passover, four thousand years from our time today, God had told Abraham to take his son, his only son, Isaac, whom he loved, and go to the land of Moriah and to a mountain that He would show him and offer his son as a sacrifice. You understand the importance of that in the history of God's purposes of redemption with His people, don't you? ![]() Jesus and His disciples are in an upper room somewhere inside the city walls of Jerusalem, and you understand the theological significance of that. Let me remind you of where this is happening. When we looked at the first part of this chapter last week, we said that it was the last Passover, and it is. We’ll be looking at verses 14 to 19 today. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 22.
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