2024-03-17AM- Preserving the Sacrifice

Abram is visited by God in a vision and is reassured that God is with him and will reward him. Abram expresses his concerns about not having any children and his servant potentially inheriting his estate. God assures Abram that his heir will come from his own descendants and takes him outside to look at the stars, telling him that his descendants will be as numerous as the stars. Abram believes in God's promise and it is counted as righteousness. Abram asks God for a sign to confirm that he will inherit the land and God instructs him to bring certain animals for a sacrifice. Abram prepares the sacrifice but drives away the birds that try to eat the carcasses. The sermon focuses on Abram's obedience and trust in God, leading up to his ultimate test of sacrificing his son Isaac. All right, turn with me, please, to Genesis chapter 15, and we're going to begin reading in verse 1, Genesis 15 and 1. After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir, but he that shall come forth out of thine own boughs shall be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness. And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon. And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another, but the birds he divided not. But when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. Will you help me to pray? Lord, thank you for our meeting this morning. Thank you for a Lord's Day gathering. I thank you for this Bible and that which we've heard from it so far today in lesson and in testimony, and giving you the glory, and that we were able to sing of your glory. God, I'm asking you to touch my mouth today that I may speak as you would have me to. Help me to preach this Bible like you wrote it. And I ask for encouragement for the church today that every hearer get what they need out of this message today. And to God be the glory, in Jesus' name. Amen. Praise the Lord. I want to try to preach for a title this morning, Preserving the Sacrifice. Preserving the Sacrifice. And I'm getting that from right there in that 11th verse, the last verse that we read there, that when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. He was preserving his sacrifice. Now, we're in Genesis chapter 15 this morning, but if we were to turn back just a few chapters, we get introduced to Abram in the 11th chapter of Genesis, right there in the last few verses. We just basically find his name, who his dad is, who his brothers are. He gets married. And that's all that we know until we jump right into chapter 12. And the Bible tells us that God speaks to Abram. And immediately, immediately, this is the first thing that we find out about Abram's personality, is that immediately Abram obeys God. Because God tells him, I want you to come out from where you are, away from all that's familiar. I want you to step away from your family. Now, I want to say this too. God doesn't tell everybody that. I wish we had more young people in the house this morning that God doesn't call everyone away from home and family. But God had spoken to Abram at that time, and He said, look, I've got a promise for you. I've got something bigger than you can imagine. I just need you to come away. He didn't even tell him where he was going. Didn't tell him everything that was going to happen. All He said, at Abram's age of 75 years old, God speaks to him and says, I want you to pick up and I want you to move on. And the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 8 concerning Abraham, by faith he obeyed and he went out, not knowing whither he went. Now, that's awesome trust. That's amazing. And that's the first thing that we find about Abraham. This is the very beginning of the record of Abram's obedience to God. Brother Joseph preached to us Wednesday night concerning Abraham's sacrifice, that he was called into a mountain in the land of Moriah. Sacrificed thine only son Isaac. Well, that was some 35 years later after God begins to speak to Abram. When God speaks to Abram, it's something a lot smaller. So He builds over the years. God speaks to Abram. He obeys God. Time after time, God speaks to Abram and He obeys so that He gets to a point some 35 or more years later that God is able to ask something so huge that's out of our imagination. Brother Joseph said Wednesday night, he brought Robbie up here and he said, I couldn't do it. I could not do that. I don't believe that Abram could have done it in the beginning either. But time after time, lesson after lesson, slowly and surely he trusted God and he obeyed God through the years to where he could be brought to a place that whatever God said, even if it meant to sacrifice his own son, he was able and he was willing and thought this is going to work out because I have learned to trust God. All those smaller obediences would eventually lead one day to this huge task. Now as Abram, as you go through chapters 12, 13, and 14, there's different escapades that Abram has, different adventures that he launches out on, all in obedience to God. But God speaks to him specifically at times and while he's journeying, He tells Abram, I brought you into this place and your seed is going to inherit all of this land. This is God promising what we know today to be the land of Israel. That how it would come years and years later, hundreds of years later, that God would plant those people. He said, I'm bringing you out because this is where your generations are going to follow and it's going to be yours. It's going to be your families. It's going to be of your seed. And He said that your offspring, He said they're going to be so innumerable. Just imagine all the dust of the earth. Just try to figure out how much that is. That's how your seed is going to be. It is going to be spread far and wide and no one will be able to count those that will come from your loins. And so over time, God walks him through the land. He points to it. At one point there was a letdown, a disappointment. He and Lot part ways and it looks like that Lot has gotten the better advantage of the land. And Abram stands there and God speaks to him again and said, don't forget, I made a promise. Your seed is going to be innumerable. He said, and you look as far as you can in every direction, this is the land that you're going to leave for your inheritance. He even invited him, take a tour. Go walking through the length and through the breadth of the land and you'll see I'm giving all of this to you. So God makes that promise repeatedly to Abraham throughout his time here as he's following and obeying God. And we get to the text today and it opens up, God telling Abram. He just appears to Abram in a vision and he says, fear not Abram, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. Now we don't have up to this point any conversation that Abraham has ever asked before. I don't see how this can happen. I mean, by this time he's about 85 years old. God just appears to him in a vision and he says, I'm thy great reward. I am thy shield. I'm with you Abram. And so Abram brings up the question that no doubt has been plaguing him. I wonder how many times he's wondered that when Sarah comes up to him and he's hoping she's going to say, I've got news Abram. I've got news, but it never happened. Time after time. She doesn't come up expecting 85 years old or older right now. And God comes to him and says, I'm still on your side. I've still got this under control. So Abram brings up and he says to the Lord, I don't get it. I'm not understanding here. These things that you've promised to me, how's this all going to work out? Abraham is now voicing his concern. I don't know this. I don't have a child. God, I know you know this, but I don't understand how this is going to work out. You said this, but I don't see anything yet. I don't believe that Abram was accusing God. I don't believe he was calling him out and saying, you said, but obviously that's not going to happen. I believe that he was genuinely concerned. Lord, I don't know how this is going to work out. Here I am. I'm supposed to be the father of a great nation and I don't have one child. I don't see how this can happen. And so he begins to ask God, how's this going to be? All I have is I've got a servant in my house and as best I know, I'll leave everything to that servant. That's not really what I thought I heard. And God comes through and He says, I want you to know, I've got it all under control. Everything is going right according to plan. No, it doesn't look right at the moment. No, it doesn't seem like that things are going to work out like I told you that they were, but nobody else needs to get involved. Nobody else needs to step in and try to take over this and make it work like I said, because I've got it exactly how I said it's going to be. And He brings the promise again to Abram. Look into the sky, Abram. Look at the stars and see if you can count them. I'm telling you that your generations, your seed is going to be just like that. You can't count them. Nobody's going to be able to come up with the number that will come forth from you. He said, and they are going to inherit this land upon which you stand right now. But something became different at this point in time. God left Ur of the Chaldees. He left Terah, His father. He had moved away from the things that were familiar and the things that were known to him, and he obeyed God time after time. He built altars. He prayed. He knew how to live. He knew how to humble himself before God. But there came at this particular time, something happened within Abram, because it says in verse 6, and he believed the Lord. He believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness. This is a defining moment in Abram's life. Everything before, it was works. Everything before, it was actions. Everything before, it was Abram trying to do just exactly what he ought to do. But he still did not have righteousness until that spark of faith blew up within his soul. And he said, I believe it God. I believe it against all odds. I don't see how it can be. I've never heard of anything like it before in my life. I've never known anybody to experience that. But God, You've spoken to me, and now I believe it. And the Bible says that he believed in the Lord, and God did something miraculous for him. If you believe me, I will take away your unrighteousness, and I will clothe you in my righteousness. The Bible says he counted it to him for righteousness. Now look, I mean, my Bible right here, we have got, I mean, just a tiny, tiny portion. We're 15 chapters into the Bible, this whole book itself. We're in the opening pages of the Word of God. And what do we find? If you'll believe God, God will change everything for you, and He will take away unrighteousness, and He will replace it with His own righteousness. All we need is to have faith in God for us to be counted righteous in God. Abram had a great faith, and he served to be a great example to us. God even uses this very instant multiple times in the New Testament to demonstrate to us our necessity to have faith in God, in Jesus Christ, that the only way that we can have righteousness imparted unto us is to have faith in God and in His Word. The Apostle Paul wrote to the church at Rome, For what saith the Scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. This was such a defining moment for Abram that Paul used it later when he was preaching and teaching and writing to the Roman church. He said, It worked for Abraham back then. It'll work for us today. He went on to say that Abraham was fully persuaded that what God had promised he was able also to perform. And therefore, it was imputed to him for righteousness. Paul said, Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. If you want righteousness, you'll do what Abram did. Believe God. And that's what the Apostle Paul was preaching in the Gospel, that we'll have to believe God. Now it was right here, this interaction between Abram and God, that Abram was able to finally find himself completely and totally trusting God. Right here at this certain interaction. Now I do want to point out that Abram did not get this sudden burst of faith because Sarah came to him and said, Guess what? He didn't get this faith to believe God because he saw the promise is being fulfilled before my eyes. I believe you now, God. No, he was not in some state of excitement because he had just come through some fantastic victory and he was on cloud nine. He had not been pulled up from some pit. He was not given some great victory or just pulled away from certain defeat and then said, Now I believe God. But it says in verse one of my text, After these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision. It was God dealing with Abram. It was just God and it was just Abram. They weren't in a crowded auditorium. They were not in some big gathering of faithful believers where everybody is encouraging one another. There was not some inspirational song by some amazing singer bringing it down. There was not some stirring message by a motivational speaker. But it was just God and Abram all alone and God spoke the word and Abram was a believer. Abram believed God just like us, just where we are today. We've got a place where we believe God. Abram didn't receive even clarity on how all this was going to work out. God didn't say, Look, this is how it's, let me give you a clue here. He just said, Trust me, Abram. And Abram believed God. And because he believed God, it was given to him the gift of righteousness. And this is demonstrated in our own Christian experience. God has spoken to us in these last days, Hebrews chapter one says, by His Son. And we are able to listen to the voice of the Son through His holy Bible. And if anyone is ever going to be truly saved, they will be saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. Romans 3 and 25 says that through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past. The Apostle Paul wrote to the Galatian church. He said that the scriptures had already seen that God would justify the heathen through faith. Paul wrote to Timothy in 2 Timothy 3, 15 and talked of the salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. And he said this, So then, they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. What did Abraham get out of it? Well, we can say he got wealth, we can say he got riches, he got servants, and he got a reputation. But I'll tell you what he got. He got the righteousness of Almighty God because he believed God. And that is the same way we'll ever be made righteous in God's sight is simply to trust and to believe God. But now, after verse 6, after Abraham has received righteousness, after Abraham, Abraham believed God, now, now Abram, all them works before the God, they're washed away. The bad ones and the good ones. They're referred to in the New Testament as dead works. No matter how good they were, they really amounted to nothing. But now, now, since you believe God, now is your turn, Abram. Now you get to do something that's going to matter. Righteousness had been provided for Abram by faith. And this is the proper way to follow after. Once one has been saved by grace through faith, saved by grace, through faith in Jesus Christ, there is a response. There's a follow-up. There's something now that we have to do. I read to you Ephesians 2, 8 and 9. Verse 10 says, For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Works have a place. Works have a place. Works are proper. Works are valuable. But they cannot be mistaken the one for the other. Faith in Christ first, then must follow the response and the works of man. So Abram, in response to receiving righteousness, makes a sacrifice. I get to do something for God. Now I think it's very important here to mention, Abram didn't come up with an idea on the work that he would do. He got his instructions. They were plain and they were clear. Abram's sacrifice was not conjured up in his own mind. Abram's sacrifice was not a relic of his past life. There are those today that they're rising up and they'll attend church. They'll begin to go and do things like church people do. But they'll bring those old things and say, this is how I'll worship God. Can you imagine somebody changing the name of the tattoo parlor in town and saying, well, I used to tattoo for the world, but now I'm tattooing for Jesus. You might talk to somebody who said, well, I design jewelry for the world, but now I'm making religious jewelry. And I'm just making that sacrifice to God. Can you imagine this? Brother Michael had talked this morning about people deciding that they were going to drink contrary to the Scriptures. That a man being a bartender gets saved. And then he says, well, now I'm serving for Jesus. And I'll just tell people about Jesus while I serve them up their mixed drink. That doesn't work. Those are relics from the past. And those are sacrifices which will not be accepted by God. Abram didn't try it. Abram didn't try it. There was a specific request by God. There would be a specific heifer. There would be a specific she-goat. There would be a specific ram. There would be a turtle dove. And there would be a young pigeon. And it wouldn't be what Abram thought. He asked God, what do You want? How do You want me to do this? Now I don't know how Abram did this. We don't really have it written down. But as he's listening to God, whether he's gathering it in his mind and repeating it over and over again, a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old she-goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtle dove, and a pigeon, you've got to make sure. Maybe he wrote it down. I don't know. But I know this much, that Abram was intent on putting forth a sacrifice and a work that would be acceptable to God. And the only way he knew what would be acceptable to God was to follow God's instructions for it. Brother Michael read this morning in Romans 12, verse 1, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service, not conformed to this world, not shaped by the ideas and opinions of this world, but according to God's good, acceptable, and perfect will. That will be the sacrifice that is acceptable to God. And if we're going to offer any sacrifice, any work that's going to be acceptable to God, it'll have to be according to His specifications. Many have tried to offer their own ideas of works and sacrifices without even regarding what God has asked of us. You can make a sacrifice. You can do something for the kingdom of God. You can work in this kingdom of Almighty God. But it has to be according to God's guidelines. God is not vague in His requirements. We can look all the way back to the Old Testament when God was setting up the worship in the tabernacle. There were specific dietary laws. There were specific laws on sacrifices, when, how, where, just exactly what was to be sacrificed for what purpose. He said this is what the clergy will be. This is what they'll wear. This is how they'll do it. This is when they'll do it. And everything came with its own specifications. We fast forward to the New Testament. We find that there are qualifications for bishops, elders, and deacons. God laid it all out there. We find that there are qualifications for all the offices that we would look, all the works that God would have us to do that we would like to prepare a sacrifice for our God. God lays it out for us. We don't have to go it alone. We don't have to go blind. And that's why our church has been set up with bylaws that call out what the Bible says, that says this is how it's going to be because God already said this is what His demands are for these offices. Now, as soon as Abraham put that sacrifice together, he slaughtered these animals. The Bible says that he divided them in the midst, laid each piece one against another, and he put the birds up there too. But as soon as he laid that sacrifice out, there appears a threat to his work. Immediately the fowls of the air begin to notice what it is that Abraham is doing. Abraham had carefully followed God's instructions, prepared the sacrifice according to God's specification. Everything had been chosen carefully. Everything had been prepared and offered. And then the scavengers appear to ruin what he wants to do for God. Now, I can ask our little congregation here, just a handful of us that are here, has anything like this ever happened to you? That you attempted to do something for God? You tried. You wanted to. You made up your mind. I'm going to present a sacrifice. It's going to be holy. It's going to be acceptable to God. And you made the effort only to find out something has come along to spoil your plans. For us preachers, sometimes it will be the message that we feel like just flopped and didn't go anywhere. And there's that fowl coming down to spoil the sacrifice that we were making. Maybe for someone, it was because they finally decided I'm going to speak up. And I'm going to witness to somebody. And it completely backfires. And you feel like you said all the wrong words. And somebody leaves offended and angry at God and angry at his church. Somebody might try to sing. Somebody might try to teach. Somebody might try to do a work somehow for God. And then for some reason, it just doesn't go right. I thought I laid it out right. I thought everything was going to be fine. But here we see Abram's frustration at the fowls that were moving in to destroy the sacrifice that he had made between him and God. Now I'm going to tell you today that the enemy of your soul has sent vulture-like spirits down into this world so that he might discourage the work that you want to do for God. Efforts have been launched and they are underway as I speak to keep your sacrifice from staying intact. Devils have been employed to keep your sacrifice from being acceptable to God. There are things that will spoil your sacrifice. And it comes from hell itself. Sin. Make no doubt about it. Sin. Whatever work you're trying to do. Whatever efforts, as nice as they are and as well-intentioned as they are, when sin gets added into the mix, it is going to ruin what you're trying to do for God. You might be in a place where you feel like everything's going great. But when the tempter comes, it's all to mess up that sacrifice. It's all to just rearrange things and make you feel like it's still there. It's not like God wanted it, but it's still there and I'm still doing something. There are disappointing situations in our lives that arise from time to time that might trigger bitterness against somebody. And bitterness will destroy the sacrifice that you are making for God. If you allow jealousy in, if doubt begins to overwhelm you, if depression comes in and hits you like a ton of bricks, it is there to destroy the work that you have that has been commissioned by God Almighty to interrupt what God has allowed for you to do. But I want you to notice here what Abram did. First of all, what he didn't do. He didn't pout. After all I did, and here somebody comes in and messes up my sacrifice. The Bible doesn't say that he stood back and folded his arms all frustrated and said, there's just no use anymore. I tried. Everything was going well at first. There's just no reason to even try anymore. Abram didn't walk away from that sacrifice, wave at it and say, well at least I tried. No. What happened was Abram noticed the opposition. Abram saw something was awry and he knew that them fowl coming down was going to spoil his sacrifice. And it says there in verse 11, and when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. Literally means he scattered those fowl that had come down. Here's what I picture in my mind. Here's a man somewhere around 85 years old making his sacrifice, laying it all out there, putting it down and lining it up, one touching the other, putting the birds where they are and thinking I'm getting it all together. And then he notices a shadow pass over his sacrifice. And then another shadow passes over his sacrifice and another comes over and he looks up in the sky and he sees one of those birds of prey coming down, a scavenger coming down, diving down to mess up the work that he was doing. And so what he does. I'm not taking this. I'm not putting up with this. An 85 year old man all of a sudden gets this rush of adrenaline and he says, I'm not giving up here. I've come too far. I am not surrendering to the frustration that I have found. I am not giving up to where these birds are coming in to destroy the work that I'm doing. I know they're just hungry. I know they're just looking for an easy meal. But I know that if I allow them in my sacrifice, they're going to rearrange it. They're going to turn it over. They might carry something else off and my work, my sacrifice will be incomplete. So he drives away the fowl that would ruin his sacrifice. I don't know if he picked up rocks and started throwing them. I don't know if he picked up a stick and started waving at them. But he did what he could to take that and keep it away. I think it's a really good example of James chapter 4 and verse 7 where he says, Submit yourselves therefore to God. That's where he started. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. He didn't have that verse back then, but if he had, he could have been quoting it the whole time. I've submitted myself to God. I'm resisting the devil and watch him flee from me. And when you get to the place, when you get to the place where you've made a work for God and you've made sure that you're lining up according to the Scriptures, when you're teaching it right, when you're preaching it right, when you're living it right, when you're putting your hands to the work, and when you feel those shadows coming about you and you don't know what it is, but you hear the devil whisper in your ears, you'll never accomplish anything. Drive him away. Drive it away. The Apostle John wrote, Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. When temptation comes your way, drive it away. Don't let it get a part of your sacrifice. Don't let it interfere with your work. If unforgiveness of another individual pokes its ugly head, you drive it away. Do not give it the time. If doubt creeps in, if you get frustrated, if depression comes and hovers over you and all you see is that big shadow, you begin to speak to it and say, I'll not have you spoil my sacrifice. I am here to preserve this sacrifice. I've done it according to the will of God. He's done much for me. I'm sticking with it. And I'll not allow bitterness in. I'll not allow jealousy to come in, because I know it's going to ruin the work that I have been doing for God. I want to encourage you today to be determined, just like Abram was. If you teach, continue to teach. If you preach, continue to preach. Stay within this Bible. Musicians, play for the glory of God. Don't let anything get in your way. Don't let jealousy or covetousness or unforgiveness or anything else get in the way. Do your work for God. Make up in your mind, I am making this effort for God, and I'm not going to let anything spoil what I'm doing for God. And I'll tell you, I have seen the shadows. I've been preparing, and I feel the swooping in of a ravenous bird to take away out of my heart the ability and the desire to work. But I've made up my mind. I'm protecting this sacrifice. I've made up my mind. I've got into this for God, and I'm doing it to the best of my knowledge, like Brother Michael was saying this morning. And I'm not going to let anything get in my way. If you get criticism from man, just remember, that heifer, that seagoat, that ram, that turtle love, that young pigeon, it wasn't for any man anywhere around. It was for God. Somebody might come and say, I wouldn't have done it like that. Maybe I ought to quit. No, I didn't do this for you. I did not make this sacrifice so that you would be pleased. My sacrifice is to be pleasing to God. Will you stand with me this morning? So when the opposition comes, I encourage you, drive it away. Don't hope it doesn't happen. Don't just close your eyes and say, well, I hope that this all just works out. Stay active. Submit yourself, therefore, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. It will take effort to preserve your sacrifice. It's just not going to fall all into place every time. There's going to be work involved. And when you think you've laid it all just right, then comes the trouble, protect it. Protect your sacrifice. Let's all come in. Let's find us a place, and let's talk to the Lord. Let's talk to Him. And what is it that you do for the name of the Lord? Think about what it is that you have been called into. Consider how... Consider how you were sincere when you volunteered. Consider how you were sincere when you said, yes, Lord, there's going to come opposition. There is an enemy of the soul that's going to send somebody, something to keep you from it. So I want to encourage everyone today, preserve your sacrifice. Do what it takes. Give us the strength, O God, to drive it away. There's a good way to do it. There's a good work, sisters. There's a good work to be done. Oh, yes, there's a good work to be done. God will be pleased when it's done according to His plan. When it's all done, let us present it to Him as intact as we can, all according to His plan. O God, touch our people today. 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