Topic:Abraham who stood on the top of Moriah mountain.
(Genesis 22:1-19)
Today this text is the most dramatic climax in Abraham's whole life.
And it shows us about him who was on the point of top in his faithful life.
And it teaches us how high we Christian should grow up in our faith.
It says how we should live and what the result of life is.
 Today we see two things through this story that he offered Him his son as a sacrificial offering.
First. It is God's test of Him.
1-2 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!  "Here I am," he replied.  2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
 We can see in this text God tested him.
  2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
 Specially, God emphasized mightily to tell him His commandment correctly, seriously,
 So He expressed like this "your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love,"
 By the way, when we see the expression like this, we can get God knew how much Abraham loved his son.
Nevertheless, God tested him seriously because of his son.
God asked him to offer his son as a burnt offering on Moriah mountain.
It is that God said to him to kill his son and cut in pieces, and burn as a sacrificial offering.
 It came to Abraham like a bolt from the blue sky.
 Do you know what his son was ?
As God said, Abraham loved him too much ? He was his only son.
A poet, Seo Jeong-ju sang in his poetry, likewise you don't know how long the Chinese scops owl wept to flower just one national flower.
Abraham also got his only son, after he suffered a lot of frustrations and disappointments for getting the son for 25 years.
Moreover, he begot the son at 100 through the work of God's miracle.
And because of his beloved son he suffered the trial that had to give up Hagal and Ismeal.
So now there was barely getting good and safe in his family.
By the way, suddenly God tested him terribly, severely. Did He joke with the son ?
  God gave him the son, and God said to him to offer his son. What did it mean ?
 Most people may depart from God in such a case complaining God.
But I want you not to depart from God in any situation. I know the great will of God is hidden in the great test.
 By the way, his agony was so really big at that situation, but we find that this text did not talk about his agony with no one word in the text.
 But in verse 3 said, "3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. ......... he set out for the place God had told him about.
 Also verse4 said, "On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance."
And verse 6 said, "Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. "
 7verse said, "Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?"
      "Yes, my son?" Abraham replied.
      "The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
At that time he could not say that you are the very offering, instead of that he said that God will provide for Himself.
 Today this text wrote all about his actions correctly, but in fact he must have suffered from his inner heart.
 I also took officiating at the wedding for other daughters so many times. at that moment I was not sad. But after my daughter got married my mind was so hard during about one month.
You know I served as a chaplain for a long time in the army of Korea. At that time I saw soldiers without thinking to worry. But when my son entered the military, my mind was so really difficult.
Two years ago I went to my friend's church in Budapest. At that time when I was preaching the gospel there, as I saw many students attended, I wept so much to see my son at home.
This is the very heart of parents.
Now days I used to take an international call with my son in every Sunday night.
I used to wait for this time joyfully.
During that time we used to talk each other about self-concern.
When he told me that father, last week the anatomy test was so great. And next week I will have the test of disease embryology. 
I prayed diligently for him just as I take the test.
I felt as I was studying and testing instead of my son.
Maybe I think I will try to do so for sons and daughters like this.
 So I may understand about Abraham's mind that can not find in this text.
 Perhaps Abraham and his wife could not sleep entirely at that night that they should surrender their son to God.
Sarai might weep all night, and her husband might pray all night.
They had to obey the command of God, but it might not be easy for him to give up his son.
 He might complain God from his heart. And he might have a lot of conflict to give his son, or not to give.
So he got up early morning but his eyes might not so good.
 And he might feel like 30years distance to go to that mountain, but 3days are enough.
 At last he arrived at the foot of Moriah mountain, he might be weeping when he looked to that mountain.
And when Isaac asked his father about where the ram is, his mind might be very hard to hear his son's question.
 The amazing thing is that he obeyed God's word even in such inner anguish and conflict, and suffering and sorrow.
Isaac also obeyed just like his father.
Perhaps, at that time Isaac's age might be about 10, his father's age might be 120.
Nevertheless Isaac obeyed even though his father was going to slay his son with the knife.
So at that moment Abraham obeyed by faith, and then what was the meaning of Isaac's obedience ?
 Isaac's obedience was like Jesus' obedience who died on the cross.
Isaac also went up to the mountain taking the wood prepared for his death just as Jesus went up to the hill of Golgotha bearing the cross.
Likewise, they showed the example of their best obedience to God.
 Can we obey like them ?
 Specially can we obey like this when God asks us to offer ?
 Can we offer our sons to be the offering for martyrdom ?
Can you give your son to God as Hanna gave her son, Samuel ?
Can you surrender your property to the poor like Bannabas ?
1 Corinthians 13:3 Can I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames ?
Micah 6:7 Shall we offer thousands of rams and ten thousand rivers of oil to God ?
Mark 10:29 Like Jesus' word, can we give up our home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for Jesus and the gospel ?
 John 12:24-25 Like a kernel of wheat can we fall to the ground and die ? Can we hate our life in this world ?
 Can you confess like Job ? Job 1:21 The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away;
       may the name of the LORD be praised."
 I think it is very hard, but I want you to obey the word of God from the light things with a habitation.
1 Samuel 15:22  But Samuel replied:
       "Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
       as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD 
       To obey is better than sacrifice,
       and to heed is better than the fat of rams.
From now on I want you to be persons of obedience like Abraham until death.
Think about Abraham.
He did the best to obey the God's requirement with his all strength and his passion that could not do for himself.
As a result he took the best obedience.
If I will obey God's requirement in logic, who can not obey it ?
 And Abraham gave up his son and gave his best precious gift to God.
 So he was grown up to the best level of faith.
 And then What is the reason that he obeyed with this amazing faith and obedience?
 
Firstly. Abraham's faith and obedience was because he feared the Lord.
Genesis 22:12 "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."
In this verse we can see that God said to him that "I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."
Therefore we can know his faith and obedience came from fearing the Lord.
And then where did his fearing of God come from ?
It came from his knowledge about God.
 And then where did it come from ?
 It came from learning until now about what God is and what relationship I have with God.
 So as a result of his knowledge of God, he knew that God is bigger than his son's life.
So he could obey the word of God greatly.
Therefore today we also should know that we can obey in comparison with fearing God.
That is, the size of obedience is relative to the size of fearing God.
Therefore I want you to know He is God of greatness, and to fear Him greatly, and to obey Him radically.
 Secondly. His obedience came from the faith that God will save his son.
 So in 5 verse, He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you."
 He used "we" that is the plural form.
It is that he could say like this because of his faith that his son can be risen.
He already believed that God will save his son from the death.
 In Romans 4:17, he said that He is the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.
 Hebrews 11:17 said, By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son,
 His faith is that though he dies he will live again, though my son dies but God will raise his son, my son will be risen from the death.
Today we also have to get the faith like him.
We must be a person of such faith that though we die we can live, though we perish we can do again, though we fail we can succeed, though we fall we will rise, though we have nothing it does matter.
If we become the person of such faith, we can be the person of great obedience.
Secondly. His faith and obedience is the result.
 He got the good fruits as he overcame the terrible test of God.
 1) He received the great admiration from God because of his great faith.
  verse 12 " Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."
 verse 16 because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
2) His faith was proved by God.
 verse 12 "Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."
 He was proved by God about his faith fearing the Lord.
3) he experienced the Lord's Jirah.
 13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."
  God prepared for the real offering instead of his own son.
  Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns, so Abraham called the name of the place "Lord's Jirah". which means "the Lord will provide, the Lord will protect".
 Likewise. It is God's promise that God prepares all things for all those who obey by faith.
Through this event God taught him one more about Himself.
It is that He is God of "Lord's Jirah".
 4) He got the blessing of prosperity of descendants.
Genesis 22:17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore.
5)It said that his descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,
 verse 17, "Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,"  
 24:60 said, "your offspring possess the gates of their enemies."
It means the promise of victory for descendants.
So if they fought against enemy they became the victorious men.
As they entered the door of city was opened. when they went, enemies opened the door and escaped far away.
6) Your descendants will be a bridge of blessing for all nations. 
verse 18 said, "through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,"
 And the reason of this blessing is revealed once again to us. It was because of his obedience to the word of God.
 verse 18 said, "because you have obeyed me."
 Today these words are available to everyone.
Today, we will be blessed like these blessings, when we offer our precious lives to God in faith and obedience.
 I want all of you to be the persons of blessing like this.
May God bless you !

모리아산 정상에 선 아브라함(창22:1-19)
Topic:Abraham who stood on the top of Moriah mountain.
(Genesis 22:1-19)
 오늘 말씀은 아브라함의 일생에 가정 극적인 크라이막스에 해당되는 내용을 다루고 있는 말씀입니다.
Today this text is the most dramatic climax in Abraham's whole life.
그리고 아브라함의 신앙의 최고의 정점에 이른 모습을 우리에게 보여주는 내용입니다.
And it shows us about him who was on the point of top in his faithful life.
 그리고 모든 그리스도인들의 성장의 목표가 어디까지 되어야 하는 것을 가르쳐주는 말씀이기도 합니다.
And it teaches us how high we Christian should grow up in our faith.
그리고 우리는 어떤 삶을 살아야 하고 그 삶의 결과는 어떤 것인가를 보여주는 말씀입니다.
It says how we should live and what the result of life is.
 오늘 우리는 아브라함이 100세 낳은 아들 이삭을 제물로 바치는 일에 대하여 봅니다. 두 가지 내용을 봅니다.
Today we see two things through this story that he offered Him his son as a sacrificial offering.
1.하나님의 아브라함의 시험입니다.
First. It is God's test of Him.
 1-2절 ‘.......................
1-2 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!  "Here I am," he replied.  2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
 오늘 본문에 보면 하나님께서 아브라함을 시험하셨습니다.
We can see in this text God tested him.
 2절 ‘.................’
 2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
 특히 하나님은 아브라함에게 하나님의 명령을 정확하고 엄숙하게 전하려고 힘을 주어 강조하셨을 봅니다.
Specially, God emphasized mightily to tell him His commandment correctly, seriously,
 그래서 ‘네 아들’ ‘네 사랑하는 독자’ ‘이삭’이라고 표현했습니다.
So He expressed like this "your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love,"
 그런데 이 표현을 보면 하나님은 아브라함이 이삭을 얼마나 사랑하고 있음을 잘 알고 계신 것을 보게 됩니다.
By the way, when we see the expression like this, we can get God knew how much Abraham loved his son.
그런데도 불구하고 하나님이 이런 아들을 가지고 무서운 시험을 하신 것입니다.
Nevertheless, God tested him seriously because of his son.
모리아 산에서 번제로 드리라고 했습니다. 이것은 아들을 죽여서 각을 떠서 제물로 태우라는 말씀입니다.
God asked him to offer his son as a burnt offering on Moriah mountain.
It is that God said to him to kill his son and cut in pieces, and burn as a sacrificial offering.
 아브라함에게는 청천병력과 같은 소리입니다.
 It came to Abraham like a bolt from the blue sky.
 이 아들이 어떤 아들입니까?
Do you know what his son was ?
하나님이 말씀 하신 것 같이 아브라함이 ‘사랑하는’ 아들이잖아?
As God said, Abraham loved him too much ?그것도 독자잖아요? He was his only son.
한 송이 국화꽃을 피우기 위해서도 소쩍새가 얼마나 울었는지 모른다고 서중주 시인은 노래했는데,
A poet, Seo Jeong-ju sang in his poetry, likewise you don't know how long the Chinese scops owl wept to flower just one national flower.
 이 아들은 얻기 위하여 25년 동안 수많은 좌절과 절망을 겪고 낳은 아들이잖아요?
Abraham also got his only son, after he suffered a lot of frustrations and disappointments for getting the son for 25 years.
그것도 100세에 낳은 아들, 기적의 역사로 낳은 아들이잖아요?
Moreover, he begot the son at 100 through the work of God's miracle.
그리고 이 아들 때문에 하갈과 이스마엘까지 내어 보내는 아픔도 겪었잖아요?
And because of his beloved son he suffered the trial that had to give up Hagal and Ismeal.
그리고 이제 겨우 아브라함 가정에 모든 것이 정리가 되어가고 제자리를 잡아가는 단계잖아요
So now there was barely getting good and safe in his family.
 그런데 하나님께서 기가 막힌 최악의 시험을 하셨습니다. 하나님이 아들가지고 장난을 치는 것입니까?
By the way, suddenly God tested him terribly, severely. Did He joke with the son ?
 아들을 주었다가 아들을 번제로 바치라고 했다가 이것이 무엇입니까?
 God gave him the son, and God said to him to offer his son. What did it mean ?
 대부분의 사람들이면 이런 경우 하나님을 원망하면서 하나님을 떠나게 될 것입니다.
Most people may depart from God in such a case complaining God.
그러나 우리는 어떤 경우도 하나님을 떠나지는 마세요? 어려운 시험 일수록 하나님의 큰 뜻이 숨어있기 때문입니다.
But I want you not to depart from God in any situation. I know the great will of God is hidden in the great test.
 그런데 오늘 본문에 보면 이런 상황에서 아브라함의 고뇌가 대단 하였을 터인데, 본문 어디에도 아브라함의 고뇌에 대하여 한 마디도 언급을 하지 않고 있습니다.
By the way, his agony was so really big at that situation, but we find that this text did not talk about his agony with no one word in the text.
 다만 3절에 보면 ‘아브라함이 아침에 일찍 일어나. 하나님이 자기에게 일러준 곳으로 가더니’라고 했고,
But in verse 3 said, "3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. ......... he set out for the place God had told him about.
4절에 보면 3일 길을 가서, 하나님이 지시하신 장소에 이르자 ‘눈을 들어 그 곳을 멀리서 바라보았다’고 했습니다.
 Also verse4 said, "On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance."
그리고 6절에는 번제의 나무를 아들에게 지우고 아브라함은 불과 아들을 잡을 칼을 들고 갔다고 했고,
And verse 6 said, "Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. "
 7절에 보면 이삭이 아버지가 불과 나무는 가지고 가는데 제물이 없는 것을 보고 궁금하여 하나님께 드릴 양은 어디 있습니까? 묻자 아브라함은 너가 제물이다라는 말은 못하고 ‘하나님께서 자기를 위하여 친히 준비하신다.’고 대답을 했다고 했습니다.
7verse said, "Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?"
      "Yes, my son?" Abraham replied.
      "The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
At that time he could not say that you are the very offering, instead of that he said that God will provide for Himself.
 오늘 본문은 이렇게 아브라함의 모습을 담담하게 기록해 놓았으나, 사실은 그 이면에 아브라함의 마음은 새까맣게 타들어 가고 있었을  것입니다.
Today this text wrote all about his actions correctly, but in fact he must have suffered from his inner heart.
 저도 남의 딸들 주례를 많이 서보아서 남의 딸들 결혼 결혼하는 것을 볼 때 그냥 좋다고만 생각했습니다. 그러나 우리 사라 시집보내 놓고 나서 1달 정도 너무 너무 힘들었습니다.
I also took officiating at the wedding for other daughters so many times. at that moment I was not sad. But after my daughter got married my mind was so hard during about one month.
 저는 군생활을 많이 해서 젊은이들 그냥 군에 가는 것으로 생각했는데, 아들 현성이가 군에 갔을 때 참 힘들었습니다.
You know I served as a chaplain for a long time in the army of Korea. At that time I saw soldiers without thinking to worry. But when my son entered the military, my mind was so really difficult.
 2년 전에 부다페스트에 친구 교회에 부흥회에 갔을 때 학생들이 많이 참석 한 것을 보고 자식에 대한 이야기를 하다가 아들이 생각이 나서 눈물을 많이 흘렸습니다.
Two years ago I went to my friend's church in Budapest. At that time when I was preaching the gospel there, as I saw many students attended, I wept so much to see my son at home.
이것이 부모의 마음입니다.
This is the very heart of parents.
 요즈음 주일 밤마다 아들과 국제통화를 하는데 이 시간이 참 기다려지는 기쁜 시간입니다.
Now days I used to take an international call with my son in every Sunday night.
I used to wait for this time joyfully.
 그 시간에 저는 주일 설교 요약해주고, 아들은 자기 생활을 이야기 합니다.
During that time we used to talk each other about self-concern.
아빠 지난주 해부학 시험 몇 점 맞았어요? 다음 주 질병 발생학 시험 봐요 하면,
When he told me that father, last week the anatomy test was so great. And next week I will have the test of disease embryology. 
 내가 시험을 보는 사람 같이 열심히 기도합니다.
I prayed diligently for him just as I take the test.
그러니 아들이 공부를 하는 것인지 내가 공부를 하고 있는 것인지, 아들이 시험을 보고 있는 것인지 내가 시험을 보고 있는 것인지 모르겠어요.
I felt as I was studying and testing instead of my son.
아마 딸과 아들위해서 평생 이렇게 할 것이 아닙니까?
Maybe I think I will try to do so for sons and daughters like this.
 그래서 저는 본문에 기록되지 않은 아브라함의 심정을 조금은 헤아릴 수 있을 것 같습니다.
So I may understand about Abraham's mind that can not find in this text.
 아브라함 부부는 아들을 하나님께 바쳐야하는 전날 밤에, 아마 한 숨도 잠을 자지 못했을 것입니다.
Perhaps Abraham and his wife could not sleep entirely at that night that they should surrender their son to God.
사라는 밤새도록 울었을 것입니다. 아브라함은 밤새도록 기도 했을 것입니다.
Sarai might weep all night, and her husband might pray all night.
 이들은 하나님 명령을 생각하면 순종을 해야 하고, 아들 생각하면 불쌍하고 가슴이 찢어지는 진퇴양난에 빠져있었을 것입니다.
They had to obey the command of God, but it might not be easy for him to give up his son.
 그리고 속으로 하나님을 원망을 했다가, 아니야 자식보다 하나님이 더 중요하지 했다가, 또 절대로 자식을 바칠 수 없어 했다가, 아니야 그래도 바쳐야지, 하기를 수 백 번도 더 했을 것입니다.
He might complain God from his heart. And he might have a lot of conflict to give his son, or not to give.
 그래서 아침 일찍 이러나기는 했지만 눈이 붉게 충혈이 되었을 것입니다.
So he got up early morning but his eyes might not so good.
 그리고 모리아까지 3일 오는 길이 30년은 더 걸린 것 같았을 것입니다.
And he might feel like 30years distance to go to that mountain, but 3days are enough.
 그리고 드디어 모리아 산 밑에 이르렀을 때, 두 눈을 들어 산을 바라볼 때 한숨이 절로 나왔을 것입니다.
At last he arrived at the foot of Moriah mountain, he might be weeping when he looked to that mountain.
그리고 이삭이 아브라함에게 아버지 양은 어디 있어요? 했을 때 이 한 마디 말이 아마 가슴에 대못 같이 박혔을 것입니다.
And when Isaac asked his father about where the ram is, his mind might be very hard to hear his son's question.
  놀라운 것은 아브라함이 이런 내면적 번민과 갈등 속에서도, 고통과 아픔으로 몸부림을 치면서도 순종하였다는 것입니다.
The amazing thing is that he obeyed God's word even in such inner anguish and conflict, and suffering and sorrow.
 이 순종은 이삭도 마찬가지입니다.
Isaac also obeyed just like his father.
아마 이 때 이삭의 나이가 10대 중후반으로 보이는데 이 나이면 아버지는 120세에 나이입니다.
Perhaps, at that time Isaac's age might be about 10, his father's age might be 120.
그런데도 불구하고 아버지가 자기를 묶고 죽이려고 칼을 들고 달려들지만 가만히 순종을 합니다.
Nevertheless Isaac obeyed even though his father was going to slay his son with the knife.
그러면 이 때 아브라함은 믿음으로 순종했다면 이삭은 무엇으로 순종한 것입니까?
So at that moment Abraham obeyed by faith, and then what was the meaning of Isaac's obedience ?
 이삭의 순종은 영락없는 십자가에 죽으시는 예수님의 순종입니다.
Isaac's obedience was like Jesus' obedience who died on the cross.
 예수님이 십자가를 지고 골고다 언덕을 올라갔듯이 이삭도 같이 자기가 죽을 나무 짐을 지고 올라갔습니다.
Isaac also went up to the mountain taking the wood prepared for his death just as Jesus went up to the hill of Golgotha bearing the cross.
 이렇게 이들 부자는 하나님께 최고의 순종의 본을 보였습니다.
Likewise, they showed the example of their best obedience to God.
 우리도 이런 순종할 수 있겠어요?
Can we obey like them ?
 특히 하나님께서 바치라고 하는 것을 이렇게 순종하여 바칠 수 있겠어요?
Specially can we obey like this when God asks us to offer ?
 내 아들을 순교의 제물로 바칠 수 있겠어요?
Can we offer our sons to be the offering for martyrdom ?
어린 사무엘 같이 자신을 하나님의 종으로 바칠 수 있겠어요?
Can you give your son to God as Hanna gave her son, Samuel ?
 바나바 같이 자기 밭을 팔아서 가난한 자들을 위하여 바칠 수 있겠어요?
Can you surrender your property to the poor like Bannabas ?
 고전13:3절 ‘내게 있는 모든 것으로 구제하고 또 내 몸을 불사르게 내어 줄 수 있겠어요?’
1 Corinthians 13:3 Can I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames ?
 미6:5절 ‘하나님께 천천의 수양과 만만의  강물 같은 기름을 드릴 수 있겠어요?’
Micah 6:7 Shall we offer thousands of rams and ten thousand rivers of oil to God ?
막10:29-31의 예수님 말씀 같이 ‘예수님과 복음을 위하여 집이나 형제나 자매나 어머니나 아버지나 자식이나 전토를 버릴 수 있겠어요?’
Mark 10:29 Like Jesus' word, can we give up our home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for Jesus and the gospel ? 요12:24-25절 말씀 같이 ‘한 알의 밀알 같이 땅에 떨어져 죽을 수 있겠어요?..... 세상에서 자기 생명을 미워할 수 있겠어요?’
John 12:24-25 Like a kernel of wheat can we fall to the ground and die ? Can we hate our life in this world ?
 욥같이 모든 것을 다 잃고도 ‘주신 이도 여호와시오 거두신 이도 여호와시오니 여호와의 이름이 찬송을 받으실지니이다.’(욥1:21) 할 수 있겠어요?
Can you confess like Job ? Job 1:21 The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away;
       may the name of the LORD be praised."
 이런 것을 우리가 지금은 못하여도, 그러나 우리도 삼상1:22절 같이 ‘여호와께서 번제와 다른 제사를 그의 목소리를  청종하는 것을 좋아하심 같이 좋아하시겠나이까? 순종이 제사보다 낫고 수양의 듣는 것이 수양의 기름보다 나으니’라고 한 것 같이 하나님의 말씀에 작은 것부터 순종을 습관화 하는 자들이 되기를 바랍니다.
 그래서 우리가 세월이 지난 뒤에나, 혹은 노년에 이르렀을 때는 아브라함 같이 이런 위대한 순종을
I think it is very hard, but I want you to obey the word of God from the light things with a habitation. From now on I want you to be persons of obedience like Abraham until death.
1 Samuel 15:22  But Samuel replied:
       "Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
       as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD ?
       To obey is better than sacrifice,
       and to heed is better than the fat of rams.
 아브라함을 보세요.
Think about Abraham.
말이 안 되는 하나님의 요구에 순종하기 위하여 자신의 온 정성을 다하여 온 힘과 열정을 다하였습니다.
He did the best to obey the God's requirement with his all strength and his passion that could not do for himself.
그러니까 최고의 순종을 하였습니다.
As a result he took the best obedience.
 하나님의 요구가 논리에 맞고 내가 할 수 있는 것이라면 누가 순종하지 못하겠어요?
If I will obey God's requirement in logic, who can not obey it ?
 그리고 아브라함은 자기의 최고의 귀한 것을 하나님 앞에 포기하고 드렸습니다.
And Abraham gave up his son and gave his best precious gift to God.
 그러니까 아브라함은 지금 최고의 믿음의 수준 상태에 이른 것입니다.
So he was grown up to the best level of faith.
 그렇다면 아브라함의 이런 놀라운 믿음과 순종을 할 수 있었던 원인이 무엇일까요?
And then What is the reason that he obeyed with this amazing faith and obedience?
 
첫째, 아브라함의 이 믿음과 순종은 하나님을 경외하였기 때문입니다.
Firstly. Abraham's faith and obedience was because he feared the Lord.
 12절 ‘..................’
Genesis 22:12 "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."
 오늘 말씀을 보면 하나님께서 아브라함에게 너가 너의 독자도 아끼지 않는 것을 보니 너가 정말 나를 경외하는 것을 알았다는 하셨습니다.
In this verse we can see that God said to him that "I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."
 그러니까 아브라함의 순종은 하나님을 경외 하는 것에서 나온 것임을 보여주고 있습니다.
Therefore we can know his faith and obedience came from fearing the Lord.
그러면 아브라함의 하나님 경외는 어디에서 왔을까요?
And then where did his fearing of God come from ?
그것은 아브라함의 하나님에 대한 지식에서 왔습니다.
It came from his knowledge about God.
 그러면 아브라함의 하나님에 대한 지식은 어디서 왔을까요?
And then where did it come from ?
 그것은 지금까지 하나님이 어떤 분이며 하나님은 자기와 어떤 관계가 있는 것을 배운 것에서 왔습니다
It came from learning until now about what God is and what relationship I have with God.
 그래서 아브라함의 하나님에 대한 지식의 결과 ‘하나님’은 ‘아들의 생명’보다 더 크다는 것을 알았습니다.
So as a result of his knowledge of God, he knew that God is bigger than his son's life.
그래서 그는 위대한 순종을 할 수가 있었던 것입니다.
So he could obey the word of God greatly.
 그러므로 오늘 우리도 하나님을 경외하는 크기만큼 순종하게 돤다는 것을 알아야 합니다.
Therefore today we also should know that we can obey in comparison with fearing God.
 즉 순종의 크기는 하나님의 경외의 크기와 비례합니다.
That is, the size of obedience is relative to the size of fearing God.
그러므로 우리도 하나님을 큰 하나님으로 알아서, 크게 하나님을 경외의 사람이 되어, 큰 순종을 할 수 있는 자들이 되기를 바랍니다.
Therefore I want you to know He is God of greatness, and to fear Him greatly, and to obey Him radically.
 둘째, 아브라함의 순종은 하나님께서 이삭을 살리실 것이라는 믿음 때문입니다.
Secondly. His obedience came from the faith that God will save his son.
 그래서 5절에 보면 종들에게 너희들은 여기서 기다리라. 우리가 저기 가서 제사를 드리고 오겠다고 하면서 ‘우리가 너희에게로 돌아오리라.’고 했습니다.
So in 5 verse, He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you."
 복수형 ‘우리’입니다.
He used "we" that is the plural form.
이것은 아들이 살아 날것을 믿었기 때문에 이렇게 말 할 수 있었다고 봅니다.
It is that he could say like this because of his faith that his son can be risen.
 아브라함은 벌써 하나님은 자기 아들을 살려줄 줄을 믿고 있었음을 봅니다.
He already believed that God will save his son from the death.
  롬4:17절에 보면 아브라함은 ‘하나님은 죽은 자를 살리시며 없는 것을 있는 것 같이 부르시는 이시니라.’고 했고
In Romans 4:17, he said that He is the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.
 히11:17절에서도 ‘아브라함이 시험을 받을 때에 믿음으로 이삭을 드렸으니... 저가 하나님이 능히 죽은 자 가운데서 다시 살리실 줄 생각한지라.’라고 했습니다.
Hebrews 11:17 said, By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son,
 아브라함의 믿음은 죽어도 다시 산다. 내 아들 죽어도 하나님은 다시 살린다. 내 아들은 죽음에서도 부활한다. 그래서 그는 순종 할 수가 있었습니다.
His faith is that though he dies he will live again, though my son dies but God will raise his son, my son will be risen from the death.
 오늘 날 우리도 이런 믿음을 가져야합니다.
Today we also have to get the faith like him.
우리도 죽어도 산다. 망해도 재기 한다. 암 걸렸어도 낫는다. 실패해도 성공한다. 넘어져도 일어난다. 없어도 있게 한다. 이런 믿음의 사람이 되어야 합니다.
We must be a person of such faith that though we die we can live, though we perish we can do again, though we fail we can succeed, though we fall we will rise, though we have nothing it does matter.
 우리도 이런 믿음의 사람이 되면 놀라운 순종을 할 수 있는 사람이 됩니다.
If we become the person of such faith, we can be the person of great obedience.
2. 아브라함의 믿음과 순종이 결과입니다.
Secondly. His faith and obedience is the result.
 아브라함은 하나님의 무서운 시험을 합격함으로 많은 좋은 결과를 얻었습니다.
He got the good fruits as he overcame the terrible test of God.
 1)하나님께 그의 행위에 대하여 큰 칭찬을 받았습니다.
1) He received the great admiration from God because of his great faith.
  12절 ‘네가 네 아들 네 독자까지도 네 아끼지 아니하였으니’
verse 12 " Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."
  16절 ‘네 이같이 행하여 네 아들 네 독자도 아끼지 아니하였은즉’
verse 16 because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
 2)하나님께 그의 신앙을 인정받았습니다.
2) His faith was proved by God.
  12절 ‘이제야 네가 하나님을 경외하는 줄을 알았노라’
verse 12 "Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."
  아브라함은 하나님 경외의 신앙을 인정받았습니다.
He was proved by God about his faith fearing the Lord.
 3)여호와 이래를 체험하였습니다.
3) he experienced the Lord's Jirah.
  13-14절 ‘..............’
13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."

  하나님께서는 이삭 대신에 진짜 제물을 예비해 두셨습니다.
God prepared for the real offering instead of his own son.
 아브라함이 뒤를 돌아보았더니 수양이 수풀에 뿔이 걸려 있었습니다. 그래서 아브라함이 그 땅 이름을 ‘여호와 이레’라고 불렀다고 했습니다.‘여호와 이래’의 뜻은 ‘여호와께서 준비하신다.’ ‘여호와께서 돌보신다.’는 뜻임.
 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns, so Abraham called the name of the place "Lord's Jirah". which means "the Lord will provide, the Lord will protect".
 . 이렇게 믿음으로 순종하는 모든 사람에게 하나님께서 모든 것을 준비하신다는 약속입니다. 
Likewise. It is God's promise that God prepares all things for all those who obey by faith.
 이 사건을 통하여 하나님은 아브라함에게 하나님에 대하여 또 한 가지를 가르쳐주셨습니다.
Through this event God taught him one more about Himself.
그것은 하나님은 ‘여호와 이래’의 하나님이라는 것입니다.
It is that He is God of "Lord's Jirah".
 4)자손의 번성의 복을 약속 받았습니다.
4) He got the blessing of prosperity of descendants.
 17절 ‘내가 네게 큰 복을 주고 네 씨가 크게 번성하여 하늘의 별과 같고 바닷가의 모래 같게 하리니’
Genesis 22:17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore.
 5)자손들이 대적의 성문을 얻게 된다고 했습니다.
5)It said that his descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,
  17절 ‘네 씨가 그 대적의 성문을 차지하리라.’
verse 17, "Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,"  
  24:60절 ‘네 씨로 원수의 성문을 얻게 하리라’
24:60 said, "your offspring possess the gates of their enemies."
 자손들이 승리를 준다는 약속입니다.
It means the promise of victory for descendants.
그래서 이들은 싸우면 이기는 자가 되었음. 이들이 가면 성문이 열림. 이들이 가면 적들은 성문을 열고 항복함.
So if they fought against enemy they became the victorious men.
As they entered the door of city was opened. when they went, enemies opened the door and escaped far away.
 6)자손들이 천하 만민의 복의 통로가 된다는 것입니다.
6) Your descendants will be a bridge of blessing for all nations. 
  18절 ‘네 씨로 말미암아 천하 만민이 복을 받으리니’라고 했습니다.
verse 18 said, "through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,"
 그리고 이 복의 원인을 다시 한번 아브라함이 하나님의 말씀에 순종했기 때문이라고 밝히고 있습니다.
And the reason of this blessing is revealed once again to us. It was because of his obedience to the word of God.
 18절 ‘이는 네가 나의 말을 준행하였음이니라.’
verse 18 said, "because you have obeyed me."

 오늘 말씀은 누구에게나 유효합니다.
Today these words are available to everyone.
믿음과 순종으로 자신의 귀한 것을 바치는 일을 잘 하는 사람은 오늘 날도 이런 복을 받게 됩니다.
Today, we will be blessed like these blessings, when we offer our precious lives to God in faith and obedience.
 우리도 이런 약속의 축복의 사람이 되기를 바랍니다
I want all of you to be the persons of blessing like this.
May God bless you !

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