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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And 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 did not deceive the young men, he believed that he and Isaac would come to them again. He believed that though he might be compelled to say his son, “God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And 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; That knife was cutting into his own heart all the while, yet he took it. Unbelief would have left the knife at home, but genuine faith takes it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they went both of them together. And 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? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. Abraham here...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, See him pulling out the large, rough, unhewn stones that lay round about the place, and then fling them up into an altar.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. So that, in intent and purpose, he had consummated the sacrifice, and therefore we read in Hebrew 11:17, “By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. Abraham always gives the same answer to the Lord’s call, “Here am I.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And 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. The needful test had been applied, and Abraham’s faith had endured the trial. God knows all things by his divine omniscience, but now he knew by this severe test and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And 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. Here is another type of our Saviour’s great sacrifice on Calvary,-the ram offered in the place of Jesus. How often do you and I have our great...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen. God will foresee; “God will”-as we usually say,-“provide,” which is being interpreted, fore-see. He will have everything ready against the time when it will be needed. He who provided the ram for a burnt offering in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, “Because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the angel of the lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee,— “Whenever I am engaged in blessing, I will bless thee. I win not pronounce a benediction in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore;and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. See the result of one man’s grand act of obedience, and note how God can make that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So Abraham returned unto his young men, As he said that he would. Gen_22:19. And they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba. So the Lord bore his servant through this great trial, and blessed him more than he had ever blessed him before.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. Happy man that can say that, who has a blessing everywhere! And yet Abraham had his “but,” for as yet Isaac was unmarried, and perhaps he little dreamed that for twenty years afterwards he who was to build the house of Abraham was to remain childless....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: According to the Eastern manner of swearing.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, And the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: This holy man was careful of the purity of his family; he knew what an ill-effect a Canaanitish wife might have upon his son, and also upon his offspring. He was,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest? The servant was very careful. Those that swear too readily they know not what, will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again. He knew that God had called him and his kindred to inherit the land of Canaan, and, therefore, he was not willing that they should go back to their former dwelling-places.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence. What simple faith! This was the very glory of Abraham’s faith; it was...