Preach Jesus

He Is the Sacrifice

Genesis 22:1-14, Hebrews 11:17-19

Sacrifice—giving up something you value for something you value more.

Ever feel: “I am not enough” 

A story in four parts …

1) Part 1: Something is MISSING

Genesis 22:1-7.

El-Olam­­—The Eternal God, The Enduring God.

“God tested Abraham’s faith”.

2) Part 2: Something is NEEDED.

Genesis 22:7-12.

See Hebrews 11:17-19.

3) Part 3: Something is GIVEN.

Genesis 22:13.

Hebrews 10:11, “Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.”

2 Corinthians 5:21, “For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.”

Romans 8:32, “Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?”

John 1:29, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”

Romans 5:8, “But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.”

4) Part 4: Everything CHANGES.

Genesis 22:14.

“On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

Hebrews 10:19, 23; “And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.”

“Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.”

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only son (his son—that he loved so much); that whosoever believes in Him will NOT perish, but will have everlasting life.”