The Lamb on Mount Moriah: How Abraham Saw the Cross | Genesis 22

God told a 100-year-old man to kill the son he'd waited 25 years to receive. At first it seems like one of the most disturbing stories in the Bible. But when you see what it's really about, it turns out to be one of the most beautiful.

On the fifth Sunday of Lent (known as "Judica"), this sermon walks through Genesis 22 in vivid detail.

But the sermon doesn't stop in the Old Testament. It traces a web of connections (only son, beloved son, wood carried up a hill, a crown of thorns) that link Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac to God the Father's actual sacrifice of Jesus on the very same mountain.

Mount Moriah, it turns out, is where Jerusalem was built, where the temple stood, and where a cross was raised on Good Friday. Abraham named the place "The Lord Will Provide," and that's exactly what God did.

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