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Show LESSONS AN OLD MAN LEARNED TO GRADUATE Genesis 22: 6-13 This text consists of that familiar t:4 N-J, s, 'r'pt h, story of Abraham having a son in an old taking him into the mountains as a offering to God. When God saw that he was willing to go all the way, He stopped Abraham's hand by offering him a ram caught in the thicket. I want to use this story to provide some fresh insight for these days. age and First, notice that you never old to learn. Several of our graduated students too colleges in their 70s and 80s with their children and graduating get at the same grand children time. In fact, its is often when you think you can't learn 1 that you learn the most. Abraham and his wife Sarah thought any more they they needed to know, knew everything including more than God and went about trying to help move the knew all timetable of God ahead of schedule. One lesson to learn if you don't learn anything else--- it is that God works on schedule. He will bless you when the time is right on His clock. His own Jesus was not born nor did He died according to The Bible until the time was right. "N 0 man know-s the day nor the hour that the Son of man will come." Second, God is word. We humans no shorter than His promise and never get keeping our word. W e commit but don't follow through. We claim but fail to live up to our professions and around to 2 claims. Not suffering so and long do just with God! He is soon or what He said. If He later will promised to deliver you out of the hands of Pharaoh, He is preparing a deliverer and If He said Goliath was not in growing was a him, God has up to overcome a delivery plan. liar and the truth an agent the win the battle. If God sent a giant and flood to destroy an of creation except a remnant, His grace is sufficient to dry up the flood waters and send fire next time. If God called you to stand up and eat the diet of pulse, He will shut the mouths of hungry lion and take the bum out of the . firey furnace. If He said the serpent would bruise man's heal and man would bruise the serpents head, He will send Jesus to do good and die on that old rugged cross. 3 He promised Abraham and and no father Sarah matter their age Isaac was a son born to Israel, the people of God. "Trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding." Then, when God tells you something, glory. WE to do do it and God will get the are always talking about what only to find out that maybe it wasn't God speaking after all. God told us to do The story of told of a farmer who announced that he had been called to go preach. He was so sure, that he left his telling everybody that God wanted him to go preach. Finally, somebody asked how he knew God wanted his to go preach and he responded that he saw "G P" written in the clouds. The inquirer said, Maybe "G farm and went about 4 P" meant go plow. God told Abraham to kill the son God promised would be the father of nations. So Abraham got wood and fire and a knife and headed for Moriah, the place of the sacrifice. When he got there and prepared the altar and lite the fire and drew the sword to offer his sacrifice unto God, God his hand and told him to look son as a stopped around and he would see a ram it horns in the thicket .. God Abraham was caught by saw not withhold his that son and God told him to withhold his hand. Abraham offered the and he and his with God son ram as a went on sacrifice back home getting the glory. When you God's commandments, He will be keeps glorified and you will have peace. 5 |
