How Needful-The Father Image

From the teaching 9/17/11

How Needful-The Father Image

Gen. 22:1:And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

Tempt (defined):

1. test
2. prove
3. tried

 2And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.



Exact parallel as what happened with Abraham and Issac and The Father and Jesus.
 3And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Abraham rose up early to be about The Father's business.
 4Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
Three days
 5And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
Abraham believed in the power of the resurrection
 6And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
The same as Christ having to carry his own cross.
 7And Isaac spake unto Abraham 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 a burnt offering?
 8And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Christ referred to as the Lamb of God
 9And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
Like Christ being nailed to the cross.

In the garden, Christ had the disciples with him but, they fell asleep. Abraham left his traveling partners and journeyed alone with Issac the rest of the way. It is just you and God in a situation like that.

 10And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
 11And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
 12And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
 13And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.



Abraham Passed The Test

Abraham, Father of Many Nations

Gen: 17:4: As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
 5Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.



Abram (Hebrew): high father
Abraham (Hebrew): Father of a multitude



 6And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
 7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
 8And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.



Abraham, Father of us All



Rom. 4:16: Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
Gal. 3:7: Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

Christ gave His body to produce a bigger Body

Mt.26:26; And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

 27And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;



Christ's Body is alive in His People-when He resurrected he begat a
another body.



I Corth 12:12: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

And...

:26: And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

 27Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.