JESUS SAW HIMSELF IN GENESIS About Isaac To Know: ³Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him² (Gen. 21:1-5) Isaac means laughter. Humanly speaking, it is laughable that a 100-year-old man and his 90-year-old wife could have a son. When Jesus opened the Scriptures to the two walking back home to Emmaus, did he show them that ultimately Isaac was about him? Isaac was a source of laughter to those who laughed at the idea that there is a God who overrules nature. The proclamation that by dying on a cross Jesus saved sinners for all eternity to come is foolishness to unbelievers. Jesus is the son or seed of Abraham. So too are all those who are in Christ.ı Christians, being Abrahamıs seed, are Godıs sons and heirs. Writing to the Galatians Paul said, ³You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abrahamıs seed, and heirs according to the promise.² (3:26-29) To those who do not belong to Jesus Christ this towering truth is only a laughing matter. One of the finest minds ever granted to a human being was given to Saul of Tarsus who became the Apostle Paul. Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God, Paul admitted that, ³the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.ı² (1 Cor. 1:18,19) It is important to realize that by giving his son the name laughterı (Isaac), Abraham warned his spiritual family that the world would laugh at their faith. 012110$-012110 <{{{{{{>< Other posts:
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