This document discusses the importance of Isaac to Abraham as his promised heir through whom God would bless all nations. It emphasizes that Isaac represents the promise God made to Abraham. The speaker urges the congregation to consider what God has promised them and what sacrifices they are willing to make to see those promises fulfilled. A key theme is finding "the place" of worship and sacrifice, suggesting there is a specific place where each person can truly worship God and access what has been provided and tied up for them by God.

1. What I'm trying to get you to see is Isaac is all Abraham'sgot. It's his
ticket to the promise. Isaac is to Abraham his access to everything else
God has ever done in his life. He has to have an heir to possess the land.
He has to have a son to procreate this new nationality, or ethnicity, in the
earth that would become the Hebrews. He has to have Isaac because God
will become the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob. And there won't be a Jacob if there's not an Isaac. He has to have
an Isaac because God has promised him, "Through thy seed shall all
nations of the world be blessed".
The world is counting on Isaac living, and he is riding up the hill to kill him.
Isaac is the promise.He absolutely is the promise of God. What has God
promised you? I said, what has God promised you? And what are you
willing to sacrifice to see it happen? I think being 100 years old was an
advantage when he had him, 'cause when you're older you don't have time
to play games.
You don't have time for foolishness.You don'thave time for he say,
she say, they say. You don't have time to chase down gossip.You
don't have time to respond to your critics. Is there anybody in here that's
old enough that you don't have time for the okie doke? You've got to go
where to gold and do what you gotta do? Type on the line, "I ain't got time
for it". "I'm not gonna live another 100-some years. I gotta do it now. If I'm
gonna do it, I'm gonna get it done now. And whatever sacrifice I have to
make, I'm gonna make it because it must have beennow".
Isaac is the promise.He is the heir of the promise."I can'tpossess it
without an heir.It was illegal to controlit without an heir".
And now God says, "Kill it. Kill your ticket". And he says, "Go". He just got
done talking to you about the promise.I'm going to talk to you about the
place.
The place is so important. Finding the right place is important. Over and
over in this text, you will see again, and again, and again, "Go to the place I
will show you. And when you get there, I will show you the place. And when
Abraham was a great ways off, he looked up and he saw the place. Three
days off,he saw the place". The place, the place. About four or five times
it's mentioned. The place is important. We get caught up on the ram, but
we ought to be focusedon the place.

2. The place is the critical thing becauseI can'tjust worship God
anywhere.
I have to worship God in the place. Me and the lad are going yonder to
worship. If I could just worship anywhere, I didn't have to go.
I could have stayed in the tent and worshipped at home. I have to find the
place. This won't work out of place. I got the right son, I got the right wood,
I got the right knife, but if I don't have the right place... and he won't tell me
ahead of time the place. He gives me no GPS. He gives me no address.
He gives me no map. He does not describeit. He says, You'll know it when
you see it. The place of worship is important. Now, not to you because you
think worship is just laying on the floor, and lifting your hands, and crying,
and doing all of that.
But Abraham knows thatworship,realworship,always includes
sacrifice.
Can I go deeper? Realworship isn'taboutemotionalspankatoraniums.
Real worshipis aboutsacrifice.It always has beenand it always will be.
And he says, "I don't want to make the right sacrifice in the wrong place".
I don't want to plant okra in a place where okra doesn'tgrow. I don't wanna
put palm trees in the Appalachian Mountains. I don't want to try to raise oak
trees on the beach. Because I can have the right seed and I could've paid
the right price, but if I don't put it in the right place, it will not work. That's
why the enemy's always trying to move you out of your place. That's why
the Bible says, "Put on the whole armor of God," not so you could travel,
but so you could stand. Because once you get in the right place, you can't
let no devil in hell move you out of your place. I don't care how you roll your
eyes. I don't care how you talk about me. I don't care how you gossip.
I came here 25 years ago.Theywere talkin' aboutme like I had a tail. I
would drive to churchlistening at the preachers preachingaboutme.
And I was just smiling 'cause I was seasonedenough to know not to
let your mouth run me out of my miracle. The devilis a liar. Say
whateveryou wantto say. Call me names.Cuss me out. Draw pictures
of me and throw darts at 'em and I'm still going to be rightat 6777
West Kiest Boulevardbecausethis is the place. I left West Virginia to

3. find the place.I traveled for miles to find the place and ain't no witch
gonna run me out. If you'resitting with your family and you can touch
anybody,touch them and say, "I gotta be in the place".I got to be in
the place. I'm too old not to be in the place.I'm too tired not to be in
the place. I'm too weary notto be in the place. I sacrificed too much
not to be in the place.I got to be in the place.If I have to be a
doorman, I just want to be in the place.If I have to sweep the floor, I
just wanna be in the place,the place,the place. It's all aboutthe place.
This whole story is all about the place. And I have no direction. All I have is
the instinct that I will know it when I see it. That's what God promised you.
When you get there, you'll know it. I'll tell you, you gotta walk in the dark.
You gotta walk stupid. You gotta walk blind. You gotta walk by faith and not
by sight. You gotta walk without an understanding. You gotta walk without a
word from the prophet. You gotta walk while you're still confused.When
you get there, I will show you.
The Bible said, "On the third day,Abraham looked up and he said,
'That's it.'" He didn'texplain how he knew it, he didn'tdescribehow
he knew it, but the ability... I'm aboutto feel like preachingnow.The
ability to discernwhen you are in the right place is the most important gift
you can have. Is there anybody in here that still has the gift of discernment,
that your spirit will let you know, "This is the right place. This is the right
person.This is the right preacher. I can worship right here"? That's why
you're watching this broadcast.That's why you're tuned in online. That's
why you got up and you're watching right now, because you found the right
place.
Josephus the historian says that Isaac was questioned what made him as a
young man old enough to fight his father, becomeobedientenough to climb
on the altar and die. And Isaac said, "It would have been better that I not be
born than I be born and not do the will of my Father". And Jesus said, "Not
my will, but thine be done," and he became obedientunto death, even the
death of the cross.And they hung him high, and they stretched him wide,
and the earth and the sun said, "This is private," and blacked it out. This is
between the Father and the, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani. Why has thou
forsaken me. Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. Mama, this ain't

4. about you. Go home with John. This is between me and Daddy". Because
this is the place. This is the place.
O God,I feellike preaching. It's bad, it's bad 'cause I feel like preaching
now. I want you to see this grown boy able to resist but becoming obedient
unto death. I want you to see this grown boy stretched out like this on the
altar like a lamb would be tied by the four horns to the altar, gap-legged,
vulnerable, nailed by his ankles and his hands like Jesus was nailed by his
feetand his hands to the cross.I want you to see it. I want you to see the
wood up under him. I want you to see the pan they put to catch the blood
when they slayed his son. And when Abraham raised his hand to slay his
son, to catch the blood in the pan and burn up his body, a voice spoke from
heaven and said, "Hey, Abraham, Abraham, stay your hand. Stop what
you're doing. Now I know that I can give you a gift and it won't becomean
idol," c'mon.
Now I know I can give you a car and you won'tstay home on Sunday
to wax it. Now I know I can put you in a house and it won'tbe so cute
that you won'tleave it. Now I know that you have finally come to the
place that it ain't aboutthe gift. It's aboutthe Giver.When God knows
how bad you want the gift, he knows the gift can becomean idol in your
life. And he needs to know that he can give you something without it
replacing him. I will give you what you want if it don't take over you. I will
give you what you want if it doesn't become your god. I will give you what
you want if you don'tstart worshiping it.I will give you what you want
if it doesn'ttake my place.And every now and then, I will test you to
make sure that if it comes down betweenthe gift and the Giver, the
Giver will always come first.
This was the test with the prodigal son.The problem with the
prodigal son is that he love the gift more than the giver. "'Father, I
can'twait on you to die. Give me the portion of goods that falleth to
me.' And he divided unto them his living". And he left the giver for the
gift and that's why it all fell apart.
And somebodylistening at me right now, the reason things keep falling
apart is that every time God gives you a gift, you get too busy for the Giver.

5. Every time God gives you a gift, you forgetthe Giver. The first time I began,
paying tithes was never a problem when I was broke. I'm honest to
goodnesstelling you the truth. It was $20 a month. It wasn't gonna make
no differenceanyway. I said, "If I'm down to my last $20,I'm broke anyway.
I might as well trust God".I had no trouble tithing off a welfare check. But
when that check got six zeros, I forgothow to do percentages.I act like I
didn't know where to move the decimal. 'Cause I told the Lord, I said, "Lord,
looks like to me I could give you half of this, you'd be good".He said, "If
that's too much to give to me, you keep it and I'll take the 90%".
See, when the gift gets biggerthan the Giver, God has to judge you
because you love his things more than you love him.
There are people watching me right now, the reason you don't sow, and the
reason you don't grow, and the reason you don't move forward into the next
dimension, you might have money, but you don't have peace.You don't
have joy.
You don't have health. You don't have family. The reason that your life is
withering is because you're worshiping the gift, not the Giver. Don't you
know every time I give, it hurts? Every time I give, I bleed.But every time I
give, I break the grip of success on my life 'cause I will let nothing separate
me from the love of God. And every time I offerit up to him, I am saying
that he is worth more than the it, and worth more than it is worship because
worship is what it's worth. Oh, come on. Stay with me. Daddy's home. Y'all
got to give me a minute. Y'all got to give me a minute.
So there he is with his knife up, and his son tied, and the wood ready to be
burned. And right in the middle of it, God says, "Stay your hand". And this
is why you gotta watch this. Behold,a ram, a ram, a way of escape is
already tied up in the thicket. If you'd've gone up on any other mountain,
there wouldn't've been a ram there. I only had one ram on one mountain so
you had to worship in the right place so that in your time of trouble, your
provision would already be provided.When you are in the right place, your
provision is already tied in the thicket. As I close,I'm gonna tell you God's
got some rams tied up for you. God's got some rams tied up for you, but
where they are is so deep in worship. Your ram is tied up in a deeperrealm
of worship. And if you go into that deeperrealm of worship, everything you

6. need is tied in the thicket. Somebody,say "tied in the thicket".
The reason I want you to know that it's tied in the thicket and not wandering
around in the thicket, because if it were wandering around in the thicket, it
could leave. But God tied it in the thicket because what God has for you
can't nobody else get it. And as soon as God knows that the Giver comes
first, every blessing you've beenpraying for is tied up in the thicket.
Suppose Abraham had gone up the wrong mountain. Any other mountain,
any other mountain would have killed his son. This was the only mountain
where the ram was provided.This is a word for somebody.Your ram is
waiting on you. It's tied in the thicket. It's waiting on you to find the place,
and the partnership, and the provision.
So watch this, Dr. Jill, I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna close. So when
Abraham stayed his handand looked over his shoulder, he saw a ram
tied in the thicket. And the Bible said, "So he said the name of the
place shall be called Jehovah-jireh".You heard that, didn'tyou? He
did not say that God shallbe called Jehovah-jireh.He said the name
of the place shall be called Jehovah-jireh.There is a place that is your
Jehovah-jireh.There is a place where your rams can'tget away.There
is a place where can'tnobodytake your job. There is a place where
can'tnobody haveyour anointing. There is a place where can't
nobody stealyour position. There is a place where everythingyou've
been prayingfor, God's gotit wrapped up and tied up in the thicket.
You are not waiting on the ram.The ram is waiting on you. Whoever
I'm preaching to, I just need 60 secondsof crazy praise.