Isaac A Type Of Christ Series

INTRODUCTION

Outline.

1. Isaac a Type of Christ

Remarks.

1. In this lesson today, we will be discussing the theme: “Isaac a Type of Christ." This is the fourth lesson in the sermon-series entitled: "Re-digging in Old Wells." There will be many others bearing this title. We are re-digging in old wells, to receive what Isaiah promised: “With joy, you will draw water from the wells of salvation,” Isaiah 12:3. There are times we must re-dig in old wells to obtain the joy found in the: "waters of salvation." This sermon type is called "topical preaching." In this lesson, our goal will be: "to dig a little deeper" in the text of emphasis. We will allow the writer, the characters in the verses, and the Master's words to shed new meaning to “His words of eternal life,” John 6:63; John 6:67-69.

2. We will investigate the topic: "Isaac a Type of Christ.” Just as Christ is the only begotten Son of the Father, and was offered on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins, three days later, He rose from the dead triumphant over death and the grave. In a similar sense, so was Isaac, Abraham’s son. We will re-dig in old wells to bring out this truth of God. Ulysses Shields, called this kind of teaching: “digging a little deeper,” in the word of truth. He was my grandfather in Christ. Jim H. Warren was my father in the Lord, and mentor as a gospel preacher. We will use as a foundational text for this sermon-series: "And Isaac re-dug the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham...for the Philistines had stopped them (closed them up) after Abraham’s death,” Genesis 26:18. The Philistines: “Stopped them, and filled them with earth,” because they envied Isaac’s possessions, Genesis 26:14-15.

3. Our text of emphasis reads like this: “By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure,” Hebrews 11:17-19. We will consider how Isaac’s life, offering, and obedience, was a type of Christ. With God’s help, we will draw: “New water from old wells.” This is a follow-up lesson to my recent topic: “Justified by Faith Only?” That lesson emphasized Abraham’s faithful obedience, to Jehovah. This one examines Isaac’s faithful obedience, to his father, Abraham. You will notice the correlation immediately. With this brief introduction, let’s consider this topic carefully, with both our bibles and hearts opened unto the living God.

BODY OF LESSON

I ISAAC A TYPE OF CHRIST

A. Background scripture. Before we can get into the text of emphasis, we must do some background work to understand the word "type," and how we are using it in this lesson. Observe--

1. Adam, a type of Christ. Paul wrote: Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come,” Romans 5:14. Before moving forward, we must do a word study.

a. The word “type” in Gr., is typos or tü'-pos, which means, a model or instance:—en-(ex-) ample, fashion, figure, form, manner, pattern, or print. The NKJV translates the word "tupos" as “type.” The KJV translates this word as a “figure.” Each translation is a form of the Greek word “typos.”

b. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary catalogs: The word “type” is a person or thing (in the Old Testament) believed to foreshadow another (in the New Testament). A “type” then, is something that “foreshadows” the real thing. The type is not the “thing” but a representation of the “thing itself!”

c. In a doctrinal sense, therefore, a type, i.e., is a person or thing prefiguring a future (Messianic) person or thing. Adam was a type of Christ.

1) Where there is a "type," there is an “anti, or corresponding type,” Romans 5:14.

2) Where there is a “figure” there is also, a “like figure,” i.e., something in the Messianic times which is an answer to a type; said of baptism: the circumstances of the flood, the ark, and its occupants, formed a model, and baptism forms "a corresponding type,” alike figure, each setting forth the spiritual realities of the death, burial, and the resurrection of believers, into a union with Christ, Romans 6:3-7; Galatians 3:26-27.

3) The “ark” then, is a representation, or a “like figure,” of the spiritual act of “baptism,” 1 Peter 3:20-21. See Vine’s Expository Dictionary, page 856. We are digging a little deeper in the word of truth!

4) Do I have any help with this lesson? Is the Church with me?