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b'Today, God calls Abraham to do something that most of us would consider unthinkable, especially because we have the privilege of knowing God\\u2019s character through the whole counsel of Scripture: He asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac as an offering to the Lord. Abraham trusts the Lord, and as the author of Hebrews later notes, \\u201cHe considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.\\u201d As you listen, consider the parallels between this sacrifice and the sacrifice of Christ, who did not have a ram to be His substitute, but who, instead, was the sacrifice Lamb who became our substitute.'