Hagar, Sarai, Abram, and God
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Intro
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Have you ever wanted something?
Job? House? New Car?
The only thing worse is someone you love wanting something.
Sarai’s Plan
Sarai’s Plan
It is interesting to note where Hagar was from. Remember back at the end of chapter 12 when Abram and Sarai journeyed down into Egypt and they lied (or rather with held the entire truth) of their relationship? Perhaps Hagar was a peace offering given to Sarai by Pharoah on their way out of the land? We don’t really know, but if so it shows how, while sins can be forgiven, their effects are often suffered for a long time to come.
Was it sinful? Perhaps not according to the time and culture. Many allege that because adultery had not yet been condemned by God that there was nothing wrong with this arrangement.
2 Way covenant.
Violated God’s blueprint for monogamous marriage as outlined in .
Was a sinful use of a slave girl, who was in no position to deny her master’s requests.
Took charge of God’s promise, failed to wait on His timing.
God’s Promise to Hagar
God’s Promise to Hagar
Consequences
Consequences
“Little could Abram and Sarai have known what a Pandora's box of perpetual troubles for all mankind they opened by the little maneuver recorded here.” - Coffman
Galatians 4:21-
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written,
“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband.”
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.” So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.