Today at church, I spoke about Abraham’s “almost sacrifice” of Isaac.  Of course, we know that a substitute would be provided, the ram in the thicket.  But Abraham did  not know this when he obeyed God.

My point today was that the God of the Bible does test.  And there are certain things that testing reveals.  For instance, it reveals the source of our reliance and the depth or maturity of our faith.  And God always has the perfect ability to challenge the things that emerge to be “god” to us.

The other big part of the passage is that testing revealed to Abraham that God is the one who “sees.”  He names the place on Mount Moriah, Yahweh Yi’Reh, meaning “the God who sees to it”, or “the God who provides.”  So the testing revealed as much to Abraham as it did to God.

I closed the service today with this video.  It is from a Chech film shot in 2003.  The film in Czech was titled “Most.”  But it was retitled in the US as “The Bridge.”

Remember before watching that for the Heavenly Father, there was no substitute.   He watched as His son was taken for the sins of the world.

Here’s the embed of the 4 minute short that I showed today.