Petra Podcast

We are in the second week of a four-part series called Four Fathers—an intentional play on words recognizing the four main characters of the second part of Genesis who also would be the forefathers of our faith. We often refer to these men as the patriarchs. They were Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Last week Pastor Lester began our series taking a look at Abraham who is the main character in Genesis chapters 12 to 25. Isaac, Abraham’s son, is our focus this morning. Isaac doesn’t get nearly the print space that Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph have, but his story and the lessons we can learn from him are fascinating nonetheless. Many of you may be familiar with much of Isaac’s story—his long-promised and then miraculous conception, his date with destiny on Mount Moriah, finding Rebekah his wife, and then finally the embodiment of the term “sibling rivalry” with the births of the twins Jacob and Esau. As I dug into Isaac’s story, I was struck by something that I hadn’t really considered before: One of God’