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Voddie Baucham - Issac The Forgotten Patriarch · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: It's very important, just like it's important for us to
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  Speaker 1: understand Abraham in order to understand Isaac, it's important for
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  Speaker 1: us to understand Isaac in order to understand Jacob and
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  Speaker 1: vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: Because much of who Jacob is.
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  Speaker 1: Is really caught up in the identity of his father
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  Speaker 1: and the identity of his grandfather. Also, we don't have
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  Speaker 1: much information about Isaac, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: We know very few things about Isaac, and most of
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  Speaker 1: them are not very positive.
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  Speaker 2: You ever thought about that?
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  Speaker 1: You look at the information that we have about Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: tons of information about Abraham. A whole lot of Genesis
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  Speaker 1: is devoted to the life of Abraham. When it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the life of Isaac, there's just this small sliver
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  Speaker 1: as though he's a kind of speed bump to get
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  Speaker 1: us from Abraham to Jacob, if you will. And most
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  Speaker 1: of what we see in Isaac's life is an unfortunate
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  Speaker 1: repetition of many of the failures of the life of
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  Speaker 1: Abraham in the process.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a little foreshadowing here of what is yet
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  Speaker 2: to come.
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  Speaker 1: For Isaac's son. And Isaac prayed to the Lord for
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  Speaker 1: his wife because she was barren. Here's what's interesting. We
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  Speaker 1: already see a parallel and a distinction between the life
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  Speaker 1: of Abraham and the life of Isaac. Both of them
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  Speaker 1: are dealing with barrenness in their wives in light of
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  Speaker 1: a promise from God. God has made a promise to Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to make Abraham a great nation, the father
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  Speaker 1: of many nations, and yet.
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  Speaker 2: He has no son. His wife is barren.
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  Speaker 1: Right here, immediately, there's a distinction between Abraham and Isaac. Isaac,
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  Speaker 1: they're not able to conceive. What is his response? To
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  Speaker 1: get on his face before God. Not to try another route,
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  Speaker 1: but to get on his face before Almighty God and
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  Speaker 1: beg that God would bring forth a child through his wife.
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  Speaker 1: Not to find another woman like his father did, but
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  Speaker 1: to trust that God would provide the way God said
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  Speaker 1: he would provide.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible doesn't tell us this, but it's hard not
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  Speaker 1: to believe that that Isaac's experience with Ishmael, the older
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  Speaker 1: brother who despised him, may have had a little bit
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  Speaker 1: to do with this.
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  Speaker 2: Amen?
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  Speaker 1: He saw that friction between Hagar.
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  Speaker 2: And his mother. He did not want to do that
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  Speaker 2: to his wife.
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  Speaker 1: He saw the friction between Ishmael And him, the seed
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  Speaker 1: of promise, who came not from Hagar, but from Sarah,
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  Speaker 1: he did not repeat this.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to God. We're not going to mess this
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  Speaker 1: up like that. God's got to fix this. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.