12/06/2026
Sunday Sermon – 07 June 2026
Genesis 22:1–18 📖
• We read about the story of Abraham. We’ve seen other men like Joseph and David, but here we are taught about Abraham, and there is a difference between Abraham and other men. The difference is that the decision Abraham took won God’s heart to a point where God said he would be the father of many nations. God never spoke these words to anyone else.
• What did Abraham do? He offered his only son, the son he had prayed for all along. Now he was called to offer what he had prayed for all along.
• What hurts the children of God is to provide an offering without hearing from God. But the offering you provide once you’ve heard the voice of God comes from a pure heart.
• Abraham never promised to make such an offering. He prayed for a blessing but was then called to make an offering.
• There are things we pray for and promises we make to God that after He blesses us, we will give a certain offering.
• When Hannah conceived a child, she offered the child back to God.
• When Abraham took Isaac and decided to listen to God, in his heart he had already let go and accepted that he would not return with Isaac. In his heart, the offering had already been made.
• As they took the journey, on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw a place filled with mountains, and he saw the exact mountain where he was supposed to make his offering. He then took himself and his son to that mountain. No one else saw the mountain except Abraham. Those who did not see the mountain did not go with him. Isaac went with Abraham by virtue of being the offering, not because he saw the mountain.
• Know your point of lifting your eyes; don’t just lift your eyes anywhere.
• Abraham took wood and gave it to Isaac, but because Isaac understood the customs, he questioned: “Where is the lamb?” Abraham answered, “God will provide.” He did not tell him that he was the offering. This shows that Isaac also trusted his father and his God.
• According to customs, the one who makes the offering must build the altar.
• If you give to an altar that you did not build yourself, that offering will not be powerful.
• After building the altar, Abraham tied Isaac, because Isaac had now understood the life of the altar.
• When an offering is brought forward, it must be brought without hesitation in your heart. Abraham was old and Isaac had grown up. If Isaac had fought with Abraham, Abraham would not have won. Seeing that Isaac was tied down means he had also accepted to be offered. A stubborn offering will not bring blessing into your life.
• There are some offerings you will make that will go a long way. That offering did not only end with Abraham but continues even today.
John 3:16 📖
• For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.
• We’ve seen this kind of offering done by God, and it was also done by Abraham.
• There is no offering you can give without love. What drives offering is love.
• The aim of God’s offering was that whoever received the Son may have life in abundance.
• The life of a Christian is a threat to the devil, because man was created in the image of God, and man carries the Trinity of God. Satan tried to create a parallel structure to compete with God, but where Satan failed was that he was not Trinity. It was just him and his angels; he did not possess the power of being Trinity.
• Sin is when you try to compete with God. That is why Satan was cast out.
• Yes, the devil has power to be everywhere, but he will never have as much power as God.
• The only way the devil will fight you is by making you feel discouraged. He will make you feel lazy, especially when it comes to the things of God. The devil actually isn’t fighting you directly; his fight is with God, and he uses us. His fight is because he wants the Trinity that is within you, which he does not have.
• Do not allow the devil to take control of your life. His aim is to see you outside of God.
• Nothing makes the enemy happier than seeing a child of God siding with him.
• As God is, so we are. We are complete in Him.
