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If you are just joining us, we are in a summer message series about the names of God.
Our theme verse is taken from .
Read it with me.
I have said this before, but it is a good reminder.
When you see the word “LORD” in small caps, the writer is using the proper name of God “Yahweh”.
God’s name is Yahweh.
The reason the translators used the small caps “LORD” is because of the holiness and reverence they have for God’s name.
In , God reveals His covenant name as
YHWH or Yahweh - יהוה
This Hebrew verb for “to be,” expresses the absolute and ultimate nature of God.
This word is transliterated into English characters as YHWH, which is the tetragrammaton, or combination of four letters without vowels used to represent the name of God.
The word was likely mispronounced as the word “Jehovah”.
We don’t use Jehovah as the name for God for that reason.
When we see LORD written in all caps, this a reference to Yahweh, the name for God’s true and complete “to be” nature, both sovereign and divine.
This word expresses God in His fullness, Lord and Creator.
This is the closest rendering to the original Hebrew Old Testament.
This morning, we are going to look at a name of God that uses the tetragrammaton in combination with another word to further reveal God’s nature and character to us.
Open your Bibles to .
This story may be a familiar story to you, but just in case you are unfamiliar with the story, let me give you a quick re-cap.
God had promised Abraham that he would become the father of many nations.
There was a major challenge to this promise becoming a reality.
Abraham had no children with his wife Sarah and they were well pass the baby making years.
Then, a miracle happened and God fulfilled his promise to Abraham and Sarah.
Isaac was born to them when Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 91 years old.
Honestly, I couldn’t imagine having another child right now, much less if I were 100 years old!
In any case, it was a miraculous event and Issac, the son of promise, was born.
Then, one day, God spoke to Abraham.
Most likely, Isaac is a teenager at this point.
He was at least old enough and strong enough to carry firewood on his back, as we will soon read.
The story is recorded for us in .
Open your Bible’s to .
God spoke to Abraham and gave him a very disturbing command.
I can’t even imagine receiving this command from God, could you?
You might think, “But God, you just gave me a miracle child and now you want me to offer him as a sacrifice to you?”
You might think, “God, I can’t believe you are demanding human sacrifice.”
In the worship of many false gods, human sacrifice was part of the rituals.
It was not uncommon for people at this time to offer their children as sacrifices in exchange for prosperity.
Sounds much like why so many abortions are performed today.
The second most common reason for abortion is that they can’t afford a child.
In essence, the child is sacrificed for economic reasons.
Not too go too far down the rabbit’s hole this morning, but this is why we as believers need to put our dollars and votes where our beliefs are.
We believe abortion is wrong; therefore, we need to fund and vote for people and organizations who are helping support and care for these vulnerable women.
Back to Abraham.
So many thoughts could have been plaguing Abraham’s mind, but do you know what he did?
He obeyed God.
He got up early the next morning and made preparations for the journey to Mount Moriah.
It was a three days journey from where Abraham was to Mount Moriah.
Three days to think about what was going to happen.
Three days to be full of stress and anxiety.
This was no impulse decision.
This is not a knee-jerk reaction.
Abraham had plenty of time to think about what he is going to have to do.
Then Issac, who by this time understood how sacrifices work, asked his father a question while they were traveling up Mount Moriah.
Genesis 22:7
Look at Abraham’s response.
You might be thinking, “How could he say that?
He knew what God had told him to do.”
To understand what Abraham is really saying, you need some knowledge of the Hebrew language.
When Abraham said, “God himself will provide”, he is literally saying “God will see to it”.
We might say it this way, “Don’t worry about it.
God is going to take care of it.”
Abraham was completely convinced that God would take care of it.
God will take care of the details.
He didn’t know exactly what God was going to do, but he fully trusted in God.
He made the will-full, conscious, and physical decision to be obedient.
Abraham had so much faith in God, he thought that if he was obedient to the heavenly command, God would raise his son from the dead.
Hebrews 11:1
This story is so full of drama, sometimes we read it quickly and miss the tension in the story.
Genesis 22:
Picture it in your head.
Abraham had the knife in his hand and has made the mental and emotional commitment to slaughter Isaac.
He would cut his throat and watch his son bleed out.
Get this, Isaac allowed himself to be put on the altar.
He was at least a teenager, if not a young adult.
He could have run or fought his father, but he submitted to his father.
At this point, as far as Abraham knew, he was going through with it.
He loved his son and he was completely confident in God’s power.
He knew that he had to obey God and if he did, God had the power to raise his son from the dead.
He had never seen God do that before, but he had no doubt whatsoever in what God could do.
To be able to have this much confidence that God will see to it, you must first know you are doing God’s will and be completely confident in God’s power to provide.
God is Yahweh Jireh - Yahweh will provide or Yahweh will see to it.
I am not sure how many of you are aware of this, but this event was a preview.
Solomon would build the temple of the site of Mount Moriah.
Herod would rebuild the temple on the site of Mount Moriah.
Some 2,000 years later, Jesus, the Son of God, would submit to the will of Father God and be offered as the sacrifice for our sins on that very mountain.
Jesus would be crucified on the north east side of the mountains of Moriah.
This is a very special and holy site.
Abraham feared the God.
Fearing God means to acknowledge him as Lord, trust him implicitly, and obey him without question.
God will provide.
God will always provide.
God will see that what you need is done.
This story provides us with some important realities about how God works in our lives.
The first thing I want you to remember is that God will see to it.
You need to have faith in him.
God will see to it.
You need to have faith in him.
I don’t know where you are in life or what your needs are, but God knows what you need.
He knows exactly was you need.
What you think you need might not really be what you need.
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