Genesis 22 | The Sacrifice of Isaac: The Lord Will Provide

Is God cruel to ask Abraham to sacrifice Isaac? Why would Abraham be willing to go through with it? 

In this sermon from Genesis 22, Pastor Mace Perez guides us as we wrestle with one of the most jarring and misunderstood stories in the Bible. In it, we find not a picture of cruelty, but a powerful portrait of trust, surrender, and divine provision.

Richard Dawkins once called this story “disgraceful,” a tale of child abuse and blind obedience. But a closer look reveals a God who isn’t demanding something He isn’t also willing to give and a man who has finally learned to trust Him fully.

📖 We’ll walk through:

• God’s purpose in testing Abraham’s faith, not to trap him, but to reveal and grow his trust.
• Abraham’s radical obedience and belief that God could even raise the dead (Hebrews 11).
• How this story points us forward to Jesus, the true and better Son, the ultimate substitute.

💡 Big takeaway: Because The Lord will provide, we can live lives of radical trust and surrender, lives that don’t make sense apart from the gospel.

Whether you’re wrestling with faith, struggling to trust God in a hard season, or just curious about why this story matters, this message is for you.

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