Faith Under Fire Genesis 22

We walk through Genesis 22 with Abraham and Isaac and slow down to see what the text actually says about love, worship, obedience, and God’s provision. We also challenge a work-based mindset by anchoring our confidence in freedom in Christ and the God who provides the sacrifice. 
• work-based guilt and spiritual pressure contrasted with freedom in Christ from Galatians 5 
• Genesis 22 set-up and why God calls this a test 
• the first biblical use of love as costly father-son sacrifice 
• the first biblical use of worship as bowing down and yielding our will 
• why Isaac is likely a young man and what that implies about willing obedience 
• “God will provide” as the core thread of sacrifice and surrender 
• the angel of the LORD and the case for a Christ-centered reading 
• substitutionary sacrifice shown through the ram in the thicket 
• why a ram matters and how it can point to power, authority, and unknown sins 
• Mount Moriah, the future temple site, and the larger redemption storyline 
• John 10 and Jesus laying down His life by authority 
• preview of Joseph and how typology helps us read Genesis 

Transcript

Freedom From Work-Based Faith

The Test On Mount Moriah

First Mentions Of Love And Worship

Isaac’s Age And Shared Obedience

God Will Provide The Lamb

The Knife Moment And The Angel

The Ram And Substitutionary Sacrifice

Resurrection Faith And The Temple Site

Why God Tests And What It Reveals

Jesus As The Good Shepherd

The Wood Jesus Carried To Die

Joseph Preview And Easter Closing

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Hello, fellow Bible lovers. So welcome back to Biblically Wired. I'm very excited about today because we are taking our hot air balloon farther along in Genesis to a monumental moment with Abraham and Isaac. And let me tell you, there is a lot going on in that chapter. So we're going to almost have to do a verse-by-verse type of discovery, but it's going to be awesome. And you guys are putting the grit where you want to put it. If you want spiritual muscle, this is heavy lifting, but it's worth it. So take a breath, stop the recording, take a note, maybe finish it tomorrow. Whatever it takes to get through Genesis, the story of Abraham and our hot air balloon ride to Mount Sinai. All right, before we sachet completely into chapter 22, our hot air balloon is going to drop down to a time God approached Abraham and gave him the orders for circumcision. And we're not going to land here long. It the only thing I want to emphasize for those of us who feel pressure really to this work-based kind of mindset. I have mentored people who have been so exhausted working double shifts and still feeling guilty for missing a worship concert 40 minutes away with their friends, believing that it says a lot about their walk with God that they're not going to that worship concert. I have talked to a lot of young people and I have just asked them, how do you feel like your walk with the Lord has been this week? And tons of them, tons of them will say, Well, I don't know if our relationship's so hot right now. I haven't been in the word. And they almost have this feeling that God is a balloon and they're trying to hold it close. And as soon as they take their eyes off that balloon, it flies away. And neither of those are true. Of course, we know that. We live that way. And we've been raised in the church and we've known the word. I'm jumping to Galatians 5, 1 and 2. It was for freedom. This is Apostle Paul. It was for freedom that Christ set us free. Therefore, keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. Behold, I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you. Now that, of course, taking out of context can send us down a lot of rabbit trails. But the context right here is telling us that our salvation is not about what we do, it is about what Jesus has done. And if we want to make it about what we do, then Jesus' death was no benefit to us because we are free in Christ. There is a verse in 2 Corinthians that says, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. And so often we sit here and we think, oh gosh, which way does God want me to go? Which which way does God want me to do? What does He want me to do today? Etc. And very often it's a good decision and a good decision. God is not just that big micromanager in the sky waiting to shame us and discount us. No, no, no. We are free in Christ. We have some liberty and definitely the liberty to worship our king. All right, we're gonna move on from circumcision. The hot air balloon has now landed on Genesis chapter 22, and it's gonna be a bangin' landing, and it's gonna be a rock and roll teaching today. All right, Genesis 22. Now it came about after these things that God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham, and Abraham replied, Here I am. Very fascinating. Now it came about after these things. We are just finishing off the birth of Isaac, Hagar and Ishmael going off on their own, and Abraham dealing with Abimelech about a well. All right. So after these things, and after many days have gone by and many years in the in the life of Isaac, we are going to now pick up the story by the pen of Moses. And Moses says that God said Abraham, and Abraham said, Here I am. That here I am is in a nutshell saying, Yes, sir. He said, Take now your son, your only son whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you. Very often Abraham is not getting this detailed GPS. I want you to go here. He can't take an Uber there. He's not exactly sure where God is taking him, but he is always obedient to go. Now, notice in verse 2, there are four descriptions for God to describe Isaac, and that is not a mistake. Take now your son, one, only son, two, whom you love, three, Isaac, four. Each of these is divided by a comma purposely. What is this foundationally setting up? Abraham is being asked to do something that will have some sort of teaching, presence, foundation, or emphasis on the world. Four is for the world. Verse three. So Abraham, what does he do? He rises up early in the morning, saddles his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac, his son. And he split wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. On the third day, Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance. So God kind of pointed this out. Now they're walking 50 or 60 miles. It's going to take three days to their destination. Abraham knows what he's been asked to do. Isaac is with him. They're carrying the wood, and rabbis say that it's interesting to them that Abraham did cut the wood and take it those full three days, because there would have been plenty of dry wood in the desert for a burnt offering. Now that is something that we can all chew on. I do find that fascinating. And they thought Isaac was probably like, Why did you schlep the wood from our house? And why did you schlep the firestone from our house? We could start a fire in the dry desert, no problem. So on that third day, Abraham sees Mount Moriah. Now, if you're coming from the south and you're heading north to Jerusalem right now, or especially back then, without you know stuff in the way, houses and businesses or whatever would be in the way, you would see three mounts. There's three mounts in Jerusalem. What Abraham would have seen is Mount Zion on the left, and then Mount Moriah in the middle, and the Mount of Olives on the right or eastern side. Now, Mount Moriah is going to be the place that they go. And what does Abraham say to his men in verse five? Abraham said to his young men, Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there, and we will worship and return to you. I've been trying to decide exactly how to lay this all out, but we're going to stop there after verse five because there are two massive words that we just read the first mention of. Two of the most massive words in Scripture, Moses saved for this moment, for this very moment. And it was not by accident. The first word in 2022 is the word love. This is the first time the word love is penned in all the writing, all the writing. This is the first time we use the word love, and it is foundationally regarding a father and son and sacrifice. So what is the foundational meaning of love? It's familial love that includes sacrifice, right? So foundationally, when we love our husband, when we love our children, often we're sacrificing in that relationship. And that is the foundation of God's love. The other word, you're not going to believe this, but this is the first time the word worship is used. And it's fascinating to me because there's been plenty of opportunities to use the word worship in the life of Abraham. As a matter of fact, in chapter 12, right after he received these promises, it says in verse 8 that Abraham proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west, and I on the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord. So right there, uh Moses could have used worship. So calling upon the name of the Lord, calling upon the essence of the Lord is worship. In this situation, in this foundational meaning of worship, what is Moses saying here? He is saying, bow down. Worshiping is bowing down. It is giving your will over to God. Now, here in the West, when we go to a worship concert or when we talk about worship, I was listening to worship music. Very often it's self-centered. It's like, oh, that just felt so good. It filled me up. I felt God's presence as in God is filling me up. And it might be in the process of the fact I'm bowing down and emptying myself so that the Lord could give to my spirit. I'm not saying that it's not evident and not real, but what I'm saying is the foundation is first that we bow down. And I find it interesting that Abraham said, We will worship and return to you. Not only because Abraham is already setting up for the fact that he believes Isaac will return, but also because it's almost like he's saying, We're going to leave you and worship and return. Like we're almost going into this spiritual space. And this is just me, but it just really hit me that, Lord, when do I walk away like from my physical earthly body? When do I in my in my spirit just bow down to your will, foregoing my will and emotions, foregoing anything I would call an abundant life, and just really want your will to be done. When I'm doing this, if I'm doing this in the life of my family, let's say I'm at the hospital and one of my children is in dire straits and I don't know what's going to happen. If I'm going to go worship, right, I'm going to go to that chapel and I'm just going to, I'm just going to bow down. Now, what I am doing physically, I'm sorry, what I'm doing spiritually is represented physically. I am going away from this earthly stuff and I am bowing down. And I think there's something that teaches us right here that when we are going to really set our mind on God, it's like phone off by myself, present as the best I can be, and possibly first bowing down. God, please let this time I am setting apart in my earthly life to step into the promise that I am before your throne, and I have access to the promised land where you are to heaven. I just think it's powerful, powerful picture here. So what happens? Abraham takes the wood of the burnt offering and he lays it on Isaac, his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together. That was verse six. What is fascinating here is the age of Isaac. So often in Sunday school, and I've seen it in even retakes on the life of Abraham, I've seen it in Christian mini-series in the life of Abraham, that Isaac is a young boy. But according to rabbis, scholars, theologians, the best commentators on this text, Charles Spurgeon, yada yada yada. No, he is a young man. He is not a lad, he is a man. Rabbis have said he is between the age of 33 and 37. I just listened to Rabbi Kendall, and I was listening to his talk on this, and he said 37. That is the highest age I have heard. They believe Abraham would have been 137 at this point. This group, anyways, does. Adam Clark, one of our good theologians that writes a huge commentary, a very well-respected man, gives the age of 33, which would have been the same age as Jesus Christ. Josephus, Josephus, I think I've explained to you, is a writer of a volume called The Antiquities of the Jews. Josephus was a Pharisee at age 19. Josephus was around in that first century. Josephus was a traitor to the Israelites. He became part of the Roman almost family. He literally changed his last name to Flavius, which was the name of the ninth emperor of Rome, Vespasian Flavius. I hope I said that right. I was looking it up last night. Anyways, so Josephus was asked by Rome to write this history. Rome loves history. The ancient world wanted history written down by an expert. So what I consider, and many pastors consider and scholars consider, is Josephus is like that boots on the ground. Like maybe it's not perfect, but it's probably what was going around the mind of the Israelites at that time because it was oral tradition. So what does Josephus say about Isaac's age? Josephus says Isaac was 25. If we can just hunker down there between age 30 and 33, I think we're doing pretty well. So what does that say to you about the whole scenario, right? This is crazy. What it's going to represent to us is the fact that Isaac laid his life down. Isaac laid his life down. If Isaac did not want to do this, he could have taken out his 137-year-old Abraham. Another thing that is stacked against an early age is the fact that Isaac carried the wood. And there's a reason now why, I guess it just occurred to me why Abraham brought the wood from home. And that is because Isaac is a type of Christ. And Christ also carried the wood for his offering. All right, so Isaac has the wood. There's no way Isaac, a seven or eight-year-old, nine, ten, eleven, twelve-year-old, could carry a bunch of wood up a mount. Now, I don't want to call this a mountain if you've been out west. It's considered a mount here in Jerusalem, but it's not like an all-day hike with this massive view of a valley. It's not like that. I guess I would almost call it a hill, a little bigger than a hill. That's about it. But still, carrying wood up that would not be fun. It would not be easy. On the way, as we notice in verse 6, it says the two of them walked on together. There was no reason they had to include that. Abraham just said, Hey, we're going to go over there and we're going to come back. What that reveals to us is this relationship, the solid relationship between Abraham and Isaac. Isaac kind of has this epiphany and says, Hey, dad, my father. And the father says, Abraham says, Here I am, my son. And he said, Behold the fire in the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? Now, if that isn't enough to give you the chills, and Abraham is going to answer incredibly a foundational teaching, foundational thread throughout all of the word and through our lives today, and that is God always provides the sacrifice. There is nothing we own, even our own time, the shirts off our back, the hair on our heads, our money, our finances, our home, our car, our driveway. There is nothing we own that isn't God's. God provides what we sacrifice. There is nothing we can give except for our will. Our will. When we give our will over to God, it's a beautiful thing. So Abraham says, God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son. And then it says it a second time. So the two of them walked on together. This is a dramatic emphasis. This is a dramatic emphasis to me. So then they came to the place of which God had told him, and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. All right, now it's getting dramatic, right? Holy smokes. Well, this is very fascinating because one, Isaac had to lay down his life. How did this go down? What is going on? Well, we know in Hebrews 11, verses 17 to 19, we know what was going through Abraham's mind. Well, we know he was sweating it out. This was not easy. This was very, very hard. But also it is revealed that he believed that Isaac would be resurrected. So he was believing not only in the promises of God, but in the promise keeper, the faithful God that keeps his promises generation after generation, it's not going to allow Isaac, a human, to be sacrificed because that is a pagan thing to do. We do not sacrifice people in the Jewish faith. That that is that something something's off, but God knows what's off and God knows what's on, right? So he arranges the wood. And according to Josephus, he looks at Isaac and says, God has not chosen for you to die in war or by disease. God has chosen for you today to die by sacrifice. All right. Isaac would have been bound, and rabbis believe he was bound hand to foot, hand to foot. I don't know if that really matters, but I find it interesting, very awkward and hard, really. You got to be flexible. And then in verse 10, it says, Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. Now, guess what, guys? Any picture you've ever seen of Abraham holding his hand above Isaac, ready to slam it through his heart, those are not true. Those are dramatic artistic renditions to kind of give us the spirit of what's going on. But it is not true. All it said here is Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife. So it's now in his hand to slay his son. It does not say that he raised the knife. As a matter of fact, Abraham was not supposed to slay his son in a way that would give him a blemish. A blemish would no longer deem him a proper sacrifice. So the way that they were ordered to sacrifice an animal is to bind them to make sure that they're calm. There's not a lot of anxiety, because anxiety would make a lot of blood rush to the meat. And they did not want live blood or whole blood. They did not want to eat the blood of animals, right? So what they would do is they would gently slice around the carotid artery, allowing it to bleed out almost without its knowledge. So Abraham probably, in my eyes, put his hands on the knife and was going to slit uh Isaac's carotid. But we see that God understood. And when Moses is penning this, he's saying that Abraham planned to slay him. And God knew that in his heart, Abraham was going to slay him. And now We have, but the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham. And Abraham said, What back? Yes, sir. I have to stop here in verse 11. And in your Bible, I would love for you to look at verse 11. That word Lord is it capitalized? And then all four letters are capitalized. Sometimes it's a big L and a smaller capital O R D, but the angel of the Lord is Jesus Christ. Rabbis aren't going to tell you this, but very interestingly, Rabbi Kaplan today said this is God. This is God. So this is very interesting to me. The angel of the Lord is Malek Yahweh, the angel of God, but no angel can carry the name of God without being God, if that makes sense. So this angel of the Lord is in the Old Testament 48 times, and all of them are considered by most scholars and theologians or recent scholars to be Jesus Christ. This is a whole different balled up emphasis that I'm bringing to you. And I realize even I have talked to people who've graduated with a not a master of divinity, but maybe a ministry degree of sorts, and they had never heard this. So they go do their own research and come back and say, Oh my goodness, I didn't realize that was Jesus in the burning bush. Well, here's the deal: if you go forward and you look at all the times the angel of the Lord is in your text, you will see this angel has the power to forgive sins. This angel is God. There's many things about this angel. You will realize the only thing that makes sense is it is Jesus Christ. And also Jesus himself says that Abraham looked forward to this day, to the day of Jesus. So he says again, Yes, sir, here I am. Do not stretch out your hand against the lad and do nothing to him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me. Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son. So we just got to review a few things here. Right here we have substitutionary sacrifice. And that is a big theological term that basically says and affirms that somebody could die in the place of me. Somebody could perform a sacrifice and it would cover me also. Somebody else can pay my debt. And this is done here in all bold letters, as far as I'm concerned, with the ram. So the ram has been something that I chew on, chew on here and there in the past. And as I have studied a lot through Exodus and the Tabernacle and other ancient kingdoms, I have realized this ram is quite a huge statement by God. Because if we were going to say this is a type of Christ, wouldn't we say it would be an unblemished lamb? It would be an unblemished blemished lamb, just like Jesus Christ. But no, it's a ram. And of course, you know, I'm so curious. I've been like, why a ram, why a ram, why a ram? There's one thing I can think of, and that is in Leviticus. And I could picture God being so detailed, he brought the very sacrifice that Abraham and Isaac needed at the time. And a ram was used to be sacrificed for unknown sins. Sins I have committed that I'm not aware of. So that ram is that big kahuna animal, very expensive animal. And it's a way of expressing and saying and redeeming these sins that I don't even know I do, right? The pride, the worry, the anxiety, etc., rather than giving it over to God. So I believe that was the most appropriate animal for Abraham and Isaac. Why would God bring them somewhere to sacrifice an animal not appropriate for the sins on the docket? So that makes sense. Also, a ram, you guys, is a symbol of power. So it occurred to me on my walk, and I don't even know if I can word this correctly because I tried a couple times. It occurred to me on my walk that, oh my gosh, Lord, this is a type of Christ because a ram is the symbol of power and authority. And what God is saying is in place of your son, a sacrifice is coming that will be a substitutionary sacrifice for the world, but also has power and authority. And that absolutely slayed me yesterday. Slayed me yesterday. Okay, about the resurrection. Notice that God had said to Isaac, or I'm sorry, to Abraham, don't even, don't even do anything to him. Because Abraham is all set on this resurrection deal, right? He's got his knife and it's Abraham. Abraham, it's like, stop. Stop what you're doing. That is dramatic. And he might be like, whoa, whoa, wait. I thought you were gonna resurrect him. Now, why would Abraham believe in resurrection? This will blow your mind because I oh my gosh, I could jump on a trampoline about this. Get this. The first resurrection in scripture happens in Sarai's womb. Isaac is also part of the first resurrection. Now that sounds crazy, but it's not, you guys. Sarai lived long enough for everyone in the world to know she has no eggs. That womb is a tomb, so to speak. And God had to resurrect her egg in order for Isaac to be born. So Isaac has already gone through a resurrection, so to speak. And so of course he thought, wow, okay, we're gonna do this again. We're gonna do this again. Okay. Now, when it comes to the place, we haven't discussed this yet. This place on Mount Moriah is the place that Solomon will later build the temple. Many believe the Ark of the Covenant, the Dome of the Rock, the place the blood was spilt on the Day of Atonement to cover the sins of the Israelites for another year. That place is believed to be the place or very close to the place Isaac was being sacrificed or almost sacrificed. So King David later buys this land. It is a threshing floor. Back in his time, he had allowed the Jebusites to live in the land, and the Jebusites owned this land, and King David went and paid for this land for the temple. His son Solomon eventually builds the temple. And this was a threshing floor. So a threshing floor was a place that everybody brought their wheat after harvest. And here they would thresh the wheat, and they needed this flat space on a mount or mountain that allowed the wind to pick up the grains of wheat, and that allowed the chaff to come off the grains. So the good wheat was separated from the chaff. Now later we will know that Jesus is someone who will separate the wheat from the chaff. There's so much here, like I said, and I'm probably missing a bunch you guys have questions about. But this land is where the temple will be built. Now, the test. A lot of people have asked questions about the test. Now, there is a belief in the Christian faith. I've heard many times, nope, God won't test you. But the truth is God will not tempt you, but you will be tested. You will be tested whether it is a problem you created, the world creates, or the enemy creates. There is going to be tests in your life, and some of them, I don't know how you will know, come from God. Okay. And what these tests are are a reveal. So a blacksmith, when he is making this big metal iron item, he removes the item from the flames and he can look at it and test it for impurities. He wants pure, pure iron. This act of revealing, of removing something from the fire to see and test and cause this reveal to the blacksmith is what is going on in our life when God is involved. The world is our problem. We are our problem, and the enemy is our problem. But God is not a problem. God is part of the process of revealing to us, people around us, that our faith is growing. Our faith is growing. Now, rabbis and scholars believe Abraham had 10 tests. He did not pass every test, but he did in the way that he kept growing in his faith. And it's a it's a beautiful thing. So those are some things that we missed. When it comes to the word lad, I wanted to say because I didn't say this, I realized, is in Hebrew, this could be anything from a baby to a servant. 2 Samuel 12 and Exodus 2 use it as a baby. But then 2 Samuel 14, penned by the same author, he uses it for man, the same word. In 2 Samuel 16, he uses the same word for servant. And then in further due diligence, I was looking up what some people think about this ram caught in the thicket, because it occurred to me if it's caught in a thicket, it shouldn't get a blemish. So we're trying to not like cut through its fur. But it's interesting how it says it's caught in the thicket by its horns. Its horns will not be cut by the thicket. Now we're thinking like Israelites here, guys. We're thinking like Israelites. Is this a worthy sacrifice that God provided? Yes. One person that I was looking into, and I so apologize. I thought I wrote his name down. He wanted to say that provision is not only provided for salvation, but what God is emphasizing here is God will control the sacrifice, and it will be subdued by God Himself, or I would like to say by the Trinity. And this is what I have to say about that. In John 10, Jesus gives this phenomenal talk about himself and his coming death. In John 10, starting in verse 14, I'm gonna read what Jesus says about his death coming up. And this is fascinating because we are in between Palm Sunday and Easter right now. Look at what he says. I am the good shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me. This is one of the IMs in the book of John. John has seven IMs in his book. Even as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sea sheep which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice, and they will become one flock with one shepherd. For this reason, the father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again. No one has taken it away from me, but I lay it down on my own initiative. I have authority, ram horn, right, to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from my father. So this sacrifice of Jesus Christ has power and authority to lay down his life and to raise it up again. Jesus' resurrection can be done by his own power elected to him by his father. Really, really, really neat stuff. And especially, you know how some people will say, Oh my gosh, someone killed him. They killed him. They killed him. No, no, no, no, no. Look at what Jesus is saying here. No one has taken it away from me. Nobody could take the life of Jesus if he didn't want it to be taken. He has the power and authority over life and death, period. So this is very monumental. This speech he gives in John 10 is incredible about being the good shepherd, especially because shepherds were not deemed good in the Israelite society. As a matter of fact, they were not even allowed to give testimony in court. They were not considered truthful. All right, lastly, and I think this is huge, and this is something some people have struggled with. We are gonna discover another artist's picture that isn't quite right, and that is that Jesus did not carry the entire cross to his death. All right, the Romans outside their cities had stacks of the horizontal boards called patibulums. This piece of wood was the horizontal portion of the cross. Now, criminals that were deemed or sentenced to death on the cross by crucifixion were beaten vigorously prior to the walk they took to the hill that they would be killed on, right? These criminals couldn't possibly survive a walk with a 300-pound cross as they dragged it through the streets of said city. But the criminal could possibly carry the 50-pound patibulum horizontal bar. So the vertical post was permanently on the place where they had crucifixions, and it was called a stipe, S-T-I-P-E. Jesus did not carry the whole cross, but he did carry the wood to his crucifixion. Now, when we think about the type of Christ that Isaac was, and that's why I'm mentioning this, both Jesus and Isaac carried the wood for their offering, for their blood offering. All right, both Jesus and Isaac were part of a resurrection. Both Jesus, Jesus and Isaac were long-awaited sons. They were long-awaited only sons in Scripture. And both of them were very obedient to their father. So you can see how Isaac is set up as a type of Christ. And I talked about that word before. It's called typology, the study of types of Christ. And that can be something simple like a lamb or a sheep, because obviously that turned out to be a type of Christ. But often it is about people, usually about people involved in sacrificial living. And Isaac is one of them. And Joseph is a huge one, probably one of the biggest ones in the Old Testament. And we're going to go through his story next. So if you want to go near the end of Genesis before our next teaching and read the story of Joseph, I think that that would be really fun for you to do and also add a lot to our teaching and the next teaching. The story of Joseph begins around chapter 37 and it ends at the end of Genesis. If you would like to do that, that would be, I think, beneficial for you because I am not going to do a verse by verse. We're going to just sachet through this story and look at the points and places where Joseph demonstrated a life like Jesus Christ. So it's very, very cool. We also just want to talk about why these people ended up in Egypt and talk a little bit about the amount of years that they were actually there. All right. So all is good. All is well. It is Easter week. I am so grateful for the cross. So, so grateful. So, what a wonderful time for us to have discovered so much majesty in the story of Abraham and Isaac. I hope you enjoyed this. I hope it was edifying. Bravo for getting through this. Bravo. We all gained a little spiritual muscle. Thanks a lot for joining me. Have a great Easter and keep your chin up out there in Jesus' name.