"Faith...the Conviction of Things Not Seen" So the question today is: What is faith? Perhaps one of the most disconcerting stories in all of the Bible is the story of God directing Abraham, to take his much beloved son Isaac, up on a mountain and offer him as a sacrifice. If you will recall the full story Isaac is not just Abraham's son. Abraham and Sarah have been childless for their entire lives. And, they have longed for a child with their every wish, but they have remained childless into their advanced old age. The very idea of this elderly couple, Abraham and Sarah, conceiving and Sarah bearing a child was absolutely laughable. Take the oldest person in this room right now...conceiving a child...at that age. Abraham was over one hundred and Sarah was not much younger. The Bible literally describes her as, "...dried up and barren."  

Then, wonder of wonders, Sarah conceives, and their child Isaac is the result. Never was there a child more longed for by both parents. Never was there a child more cherished than Isaac. And now, in his even older age, Isaac is the center of Abraham's world...and now, after the promise of a child that would have more descendants more numerous than the sand of the sea or the stars of the sky...God has made Abraham this promise, flowing out through Isaac. And now, Abraham is being asked to sacrifice the one thing, the one child that he values above all else? 

Yet, without a single word of resistance that's recorded in the Bible, Abraham proceeds to honor what God has called him to do. Abraham has such faith in God that he heads to the mountain with fire, and fuel, and his most cherished son.

The Bible marks it as an act of absolute faith. Let's be honest we generally think of it as...Worship Video HERE.

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