Evidence of God’s Faithfulness Genesis 21:8-21 Every person can know God better by learning some lessons about Him. Introduction: A young American engineer was sent to Ireland by his company to work in a new electronics plant. It was a two-year assignment that he had accepted because it would enable…

I have always enjoyed watching shows or movies with a good courtroom plot. Growing up Matlock was one of my favorites! The way he handled himself in the courtroom was just fun to watch... Paul himself was one who was comfortable in a courtroom... A skilled and well trained man in law (a pharisee) Skilled…

Old Testament Encounters with Christ Part 7: The Runaway Who Ran into God Genesis 16:1-16 Sermon by Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - Jan. 4, 2012 *Have you ever felt like running away? -- Oh yeah. Some of us may have felt like it today! *I still remember running away in the first grade. I have…

Introduction The birth of Isaac was a time of great joy. But the birth of Isaac also would have important implications. I would suppose that Hagar and Ishmael rejoiced in the birth as well, at least outwardly. But is would not be long before their standing in Abraham’s household will be challenged. Exposition…

Even in the middle of our trials and suffering, we can know God hears us, cares for us, and is with us. We grow our faith best when we lean on God in tough times and trust His promises.

It's never wise to get ahead of God.

REJOICE! BREAK FORTH AND CRY ALOUD! For we are no longer slaves! But we are children of Christ and He has loved us by giving his life to set us Free!

Introduction In the last lesson, Abram asked the LORD for a pledge of his promise of the land. The answer he had gotten seems discouraging, especially for one whose worldview does not extend past this life. For someone with a “Live your best life now” it was no promise at all. Abram would never have…

Here is an undeniable truth – each one us here has a mother who gave us life. This is reason enough - although for most, there are a myriad of other blessings you have received from and through your mother - to honor your mother; to honor her on a particular day, but also to honor her throughout your life and by giving of that life she gave you to the world around you.

The Galatians have been told that to truly be God's children, they have to become children of Abraham. But the fallacy of the false teachers was forgetting that Abraham had two circumcised sons and that only one of them was free. In our text Paul gives an historical, an allegorical, and an applicational argument against legalism and the religion of works, calling believers everywhere to stand firm in the freedom Christ bought us with his blood!

Big Idea: God truly loves you, Mother. He sees. He hears. He knows.

Keys to fighting legalism

In Genesis 15 God promises Abraham (and Sarah by association) that he would have a child and more descendents than stars in the sky. However, ten years later when Sarah still hadn't become pregnant she took matters into her own hands. She gave her slave, Hagar, to Abraham to bear him a child. Which Hagar did. But that action created a lot of strive and conflict between Sarah and Hagar, and Sarah and Abraham. We'll talk about patience and trust, and what happens when we try and accomplish the promises of God by our own timetables and hands.

God fulfills His promises in His way, in His time.

Welcome/ Series Intro/ Prayer Good Morning Church! How is everyone doing this morning? I hope everyone got enough sleep last night. This morning we will be starting a series for the season of lent called: IN THE WILDERNESS. IN THE WILDERNESS: as we have changed our worship space to represent this somber…

In the final sermon of the series, Joy, Pastor Clay shares how Hagar, a non-Jewish servant woman heard from God. God still sees, hears, and speaks to those who call out to Him. How can you hear Jesus more clearly? Listen to find out how to develop your communication with God. Details on hearing from God referred to in the sermon are on a Word file attached below under "Notes" here on Faithlife.

Paul explains how God's people are children of the promise, not of the law. he uses the story of Hagar and Sarah from Genesis 16 and 21 to show how the law is a covenant of slavery and Jesus' grace is a covenant of freedom. We'll hear the joyful declaration of that freedom in Galatians 5:1: "For freedom Christ has set us free."

Human solutions never fix divine problems! Sarai's shortcut to help God fulfill his promise falls short as do our attempts to help God out. there are no shortcuts to God's blessing.

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God sees you. He sees you when it feels like no one else does. He sees your afflictions; your disobedience; your past, present and future; and he sees what you need.

Opening Comments: Please meet me in your copy of God’s Word in Galatians 4:21-31 . As always, if you do not have a Bible, we will put every verse we reference today up on the screens for you to follow along. Also, Id love to gift you your own Bible so please see me after church and I will give you one.…

Matthew Balentine continues his series on "God Is," by looking at the name El Roi--the God who sees.

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