February 18, 2019
Genesis Chapters
16-21
Personal Slave
of SARAH
ABRAHAM and SARAH went down to
Egypt because of a famine when he was
about 75 years old.
About 10 years later, having
returned to the land of Canaan, Abraham
questions God about being childless.
Remember, Sarah is barren! The
Lord tells Abram that an heir will come from him and his offspring will be
numerous…more than the stars and the sand!
The Lord made a covenant with him.
The journey to Egypt got more
than wealth from there; they also acquired slaves…and SARAI owned an Egyptian
slave named, HAGAR!
Sarah, too assumes that God’s
idea of Abraham having offspring and her being barren meant that someone else
was to help Abraham father a child!
*EXAMPLE
OF RUNNING AHEAD OF GOD
~
Sarah said to Abraham: ”Since the Lord has prevented me from
bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family…And
Abram agreed.”
Genesis 16:16 ~ Abram
was eighty-six years old when HAGAR bore Ismael to him.”
HAGAR despises Sarah being her
Mistress after she becomes pregnant with Abraham’s child and shows her
disrespect and she’s rude to her. Sarah
consults Abraham and he tells her to do with her whatever she wants. Sarah begins to mistreat Hagar, so Hagar runs
away.
The Angel of the Lord appears to
HAGAR by a spring of water in the wilderness and tells her to return to her
mistress and submit to her mistreatment because her offspring would be greatly
multiplied.
He said she would have a son and
she would name him ISHMAEL for the Lord has heard your cry of affliction.
So HAGAR gave birth to Abraham’s
son and he gave him the name ISHMAEL.
We don’t hear any more about
HAGAR or ISHMAEL until he is 13 years old and God gives Abraham a new covenant
about circumcision and all the males in Abraham’s household were circumcised
that day.
This is also the year that SARAH
is told she is going to have a son by Abraham…when Abraham is 100 years old and
Sarah is 90 years old she gives birth to a son and his name is ISAAC.
When Isaac is weaned, Abraham
held a great feast and Sarah saw Ishmael mocking her son Isaac and she became
angry and told Abraham to send HAGAR away because her son would not be coheir
with her son Isaac.
God told Abraham to do as Sarah
said because his offspring would be traced through ISAAC.
God said not to be concerned
about ISHMAEL and HAGAR because He would make a nation of the slave’s son
because he is also his son. It was
difficult for Abraham because of his son; but early in the morning, he gave
HAGAR food and water and sent her and ISHMAEL away.
HAGAR wandered in the wilderness
until they ran out of water and she had Ishmael sit under some bushes and she
sat down and wept. God heard her and
told her to get up because He was going to make a great nation of her son. Her eyes were opened and she saw a well of
water and they filled their waterskin and the Lord was with them and they
settled in the wilderness. The boy grew
and became archer. His mother got him a
wife from Egypt…
…and they lived happily in the
Wilderness of Paran
near Sinai.
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