A Weekly Word
June 28, 2023
This Sunday, July 2, is the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost.
Verse of the Trinity Season:
145:1 I will extol
you, my God and King,
and bless your name forever and ever.
2 Every day I will bless you
and praise your name forever and ever.
3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
and his greatness is unsearchable.
This week’s sermon is: Not Peace But A Sword
This week's readings are:
Things You Didn’t Learn In Sunday School About … Isaac
Recap – Abraham – promised that all the world would be blessed through him
– his offspring (but he has none)
Sarah – decides to help God by giving Abraham her slave, Hagar, to have a
baby. Big mess!
Hagar – suffers but finds God faithful in her suffering, has a son,
Ishmael, and she names God El-roi – The God who sees.
Sarah did, at last, 25 years after leaving Haran, have a son – Isaac,
whose name means laughter.
Partly because both she
(Genesis 18:9-15) and Abraham (Genesis 17:17) laughed when God promised a son
to them.
Partly because of the
joy of the ridiculousness of the whole situation! (Genesis 21:6)
And Sarah
said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over
me.”
Arguably the most famous even to Isaac’s life - Genesis 22
After these things –
How long?
“The boy”
Isaac prefigures Jesus.
Moriah is the area that
will one day be Jerusalem
Carries the wood
Ram in the thicket – a place
of thorns
Three day journey
Tertullian – Early Church historian
Christ in His times,
carried His “wood” on His own shoulders, adhering to the thorns of the cross,
with a thorny crown encircling His head.
Michael Card
'Cause God has provided a lamb
He was offered up in your place
What Abraham was asked to do, He's done
He's offered His only Son
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