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expense of family approval, family acceptance,

and family unity.

Abraham’s obedience

Being willing to sacrifice family acceptance

and family unity for the cause of Christ can be

compared, to a small degree, to Abraham’s

willingness to sacrifice his only son Isaac as a

burnt offering in obedience to God’s

command. It’s hard for us as parents to

fathom that kind of obedience, but Abraham’s

willingness to sacrifice his only son was a

picture of God’s plan of salvation which

would be fulfilled hundreds of years later

when God the Father would willingly

sacrifice His only begotten Son, the Lord

Jesus Christ, as a blood atonement for the sins

of the world so that “whosoever believeth in

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