MAIN VERSE: 1 Samuel 15:22 (New International Version – UK)

22 But Samuel replied:

‘Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices

as much as in obeying the Lord?

To obey is better than sacrifice,

and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

Abraham Was A 100yrs Old

THE STORY OF ABRAHAM - Genesis 21:5-10 (New International Version – UK)

5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6 Sarah said, ‘God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.’ 7 And she added, ‘Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.’

8 The child grew and was weaned, and on the day, Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast. 9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking, 10, and she said to Abraham, ‘Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.’

ISAAC ASKS HIS FATHER - Genesis 22:7-9 (New International Version – UK)

7 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?’

8 Abraham answered, ‘God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.’ And the two of them went on together.

9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

JESUS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF OBEDIENCE, Matthew 26:41 (New International Version – UK)

New International Version - UK

41 ‘Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.’

Caution

1 John 1:9 (New King James Version)

But if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Corinthians 10:13 (New International Version)

Because no temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted[b] beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.