Sermon Tone Analysis
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Intro
Have you ever wanted something?
Job? House?
New Car?
The only thing worse is someone you love wanting something.
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
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-
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