Sacrificing Faith
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Hebrews 11:17-19 English Standard Version
Hebrews 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
Hebrews 11:18 of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”
Genesis 22:1 After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 21:10 So she [Sarah] said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman [Hagar] with her son [Ishmael], for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.”
Genesis 21:11 And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.
Genesis 21:12 But God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Genesis 22:2 He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
Genesis 22:3 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 22:4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
Genesis 22:5 Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.”
Genesis 22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:7 And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
Genesis 22:8 Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:9 When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Genesis 22:10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Genesis 22:11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 22:12 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
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Hebrews 11:19
1. He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead,
2. from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
a. Genesis 22:5 Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.”
b. Genesis 22:7 And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
c. Genesis 22:8 Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.
Sacrificing Faith considers:
1 God’s Promise(Hebrews 11:17)
a. Hebrews 11:17 he who had received the promises
2 God’s Character(Hebrews 6:13-18)
a. Hebrews 6:13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,
b. Hebrews 6:14 saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.”
1. Genesis 22:16-18
c. Hebrews 6:15 And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
d. Hebrews 6:16 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.
e. Hebrews 6:17 So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,
f. Hebrews 6:18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
3 God’s Faithfulness(Hebrews 11:11-12)
a. Hebrews 11:11 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
b. Hebrews 11:12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
c. Romans 4:17 as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
d. Romans 4:18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”
e. Romans 4:19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.
1. The apostle Paul observed that Abraham had already experienced God’s imparting life to the dead in the conception of Isaac from Abraham’s own “dead” body and the morbidity of Sarah’s womb (Rom. 4:19).[1]
4 God’s Goodness(Genesis 22:15-18)
a. Genesis 22:15 And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven
b. Genesis 22:16 and said, “By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
c. Genesis 22:17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,
d. Genesis 22:18 and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
1. Genesis 15:18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
2. Covenant = Because you offered your son, I will offer my Son
Romans 8:32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
· Most scholars find here an allusion to Abraham’s not sparing his son Isaac (the same verb, φείδομαι, is also used in the LXX of Gen 22:16), the difference being that in the case of Christ, the Son was in fact sacrificed. Cf. B. M. Newman and E. A. Nida, A Handbook on Paul’s Letter to the Romans(New York: UBS, 1973), 170.[2]
· In the background is the readiness of Abraham to give up his son Isaac (Gen 22). But whereas a substitute was found for Isaac and he was restored to his father without dying, no other than God’s own Son could take away the world’s sin and provide reconciliation.[3]
[1] Dennis E. Johnson, “Hebrews,” in Hebrews–Revelation, ed. Iain M. Duguid, James M. Hamilton Jr., and Jay Sklar, vol. XII, ESV Expository Commentary (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2018), 170.
LXX Septuagint
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[2] Robert H. Mounce, Romans, vol. 27, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1995).
[3] Everett F. Harrison, “Romans,” in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Romans through Galatians, ed. Frank E. Gaebelein, vol. 10 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1976), 98.