GOD FAVORS THOSE HE LOVES
Gen 21:1-10
A NEW WOMAN IN CHRIST
1 Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.
A. Our past does not affect our future with the Lord.
1. Fifteen years earlier, Sarah stop trusting God’s
promise of a son to her and Abraham.
2. She decided to help God out by given Abraham her
maiden to have a son. Thus Ishmael was born.
3. Hagar, Sarah maiden, decided that her son Ishmael
would be the heir to Abraham.
4. For fifteen years, Sarah had been troubled by the
attitude of her maiden.
5. Sarah’s lack of faith caused her fifteen years of
agony.
B. Even though Sarah and Abraham went out side the will of
God, His promise of a son did not change.
1.90 year old Sarai was baren, but Sarah a new woman
in Christ conceived and had a son.
2. Any man in Christ is a new creation.
3. God changes our insides, so we function according to
His Will.
3. When God starts working in our lives, anything is
possible.
4. Like Jesus, Isaac was a miracle birth.
5. Abraham and Sarah needed to understand that they
served a God in whom all things are possible.
A MIRACLE BABY IS BORN
3 Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. 4
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham
circumcised him, as God commanded him. 5 Abraham was a
hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
A. God gave Abraham the name Isaac for his son which means
laughter.
When he and his wife was told they would have a son at
their old age,they laugh.
1. God has a way making us remember the miracles He
has done in our lives for a testimony to Him.
2. When we look back over our lives we can see our
mistakes and how God continued to correct and bless
us.
3. We are not perfect but God’s plan for us is
perfect.
B. Sometimes God allows us mess up so He can grow us up.
1. Sometimes our mistakes puts us in predicaments
where we have to call or wait on the Lord.
C. The circumcision of the baby at 8 days was a sign of the
covenant God made with Abraham of the blessing of many
nations and the Promise of the land of Canaan.
GIVING GOD THE CREDIT
6 Sarah said, \”God has brought me laughter, and everyone
who hears about this will laugh with me.\” 7 And she
added, \”Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would
nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old
age.\”
A. Sarah understood finally that the God she serves could
do anything to anybody He pleases, anytime He wants to.
1. When she look at her old and the fact that She and
Abraham had a child she saw the miracle work of God.
2. It was a matter she could discuss with her friends and
relatives with great pleasure.
B. The God we serve is an awesome God.
1. He keeps His promises regardless of our faithlessness.
2. He keeps His promises regardless of the errors of our
ways.
SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM YOUR DISTRACTIONS
8 The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast. 9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking, 10 and she said to Abraham, \”Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that slave woman\’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.\”
A. After the birth of Isaac, Sarah regained her confidence
in herself and the position as wife of Abraham.
1.It is obvious that Hagar, Sarah’s maiden had been
mocking her for her lack of a son for 16 years.
2. Hagar had been the thorn in Sarah side for the last
time.
3. Instead of blessing Sarah for the birth of Isaac,
Hagar continued to despise her.
4. It is oblivious that Hagar’s attitude had been passed
on to her son.
5. It was Ishmael who mocked Sarah in disrespect to her
position.
B. This time Sarah was justified in getting Hagar and her
son out of her camp.
1. Hagar wanted Ishmael to claim the birthright as
Abraham heir because he was the first born of
Abraham.
2. God had made it plain to Abraham and Sarah that Isaac
was the intended heir of the covenant with them.
WHAT GOD HAS FOR YOU IS FOR YOU
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
5510 West Sam Houston Parkway North
Houston, Texas 77041
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