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Audrey Hepburn: Do you remember the part about Isaac??? I’ve read that story too. God made a promise toAbraham and Sarah that he would give them descendants.They both were elderly and it was an impossible thing, inhuman terms, for Sarah to bear a child. So, instead ofwaiting for God to fulfill the PROMISE, they took mattersinto their own hands, and Sarah GAVE HER MAIDSERVANT to Abraham to bear the child FOR them. Bytheir human efforts, the woman did bear a child. But thiswasn’t GOD’S PLAN for them. God was asking them toTRUST HIM, and to allow Him to fulfill His PROMISE inHis own way and in His own time. When it was God’s time,He did allow Sarah to conceive and bear a child, Isaac. Hewas the child of the PROMISE, not the child of man’s OWNEFFORTS.Brett Weber: What do you mean ???Audrey Hepburn: God was asking Abraham and Sarah toTRUST HIM, even though things seemed IMPOSSIBLE!!!And in His own time, He did give them a son, Isaac. Butthere’s more. When Isaac, the PROMISED CHILD, was ayoung lad, God asked something MORE of him, somethingseemingly impossible, AGAIN. God asked Abraham toSACRIFICE this child to Him. In the Old Testament,animal sacrifices were common. But God was asking him toSACRIFICE HIS SON. Can you imagine ??? I can’t. ButGod was again asking Abraham to TRUST Him!!!