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How do you exercise patience?
minutes/days/weeks/years
Illustration: Assembling flat-packed furniture.
When you disregard instruction, nothing comes together right.
Sarai has assumed that due to her advancing age she is barren.
After 10 years of waiting for an heir, Sarai proposes a faithless plan.
(She is not alone in a lack of faith.)
Hagar, the Egyptian servant, is given to Abram as a wife.
A legal practice of the time, but not a God-honoring practice.
Abram and Hagar conceive and Sarai’s jealousy flares up.
“May the wrong done to me be on you!”
So Hagar begins to look down on Sarai, Sarai is upset with Abram, and Abram tells Sarai to deal with Hagar however she pleases.
Every action is sin:
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Sarai & Abram doubt the promised heir will come.
“15:4 - your very own son shall be your heir.”
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Sarai gives Hagar, Abram accepts, Hagar consents
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Abram continues this action to the point of conception.
Hagar begins to look down on Sarai and consider herself to be Abram’s “true wife.”
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Sarai pours out her frustration onto Abram
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Abram does not deal with the situation but empowers Sarai to do what is right in her own sight.
Sarai “deals harshly” with Hagar.
Hagar flees.
Every action of man is sinful.
Every action of God is purposeful.
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How did Hagar come to be pregnant?
God opens and closes the womb at his will.
(Ge 16:2; Ge 20:18; Ge 21:2; Ps 139:13; Ps 51:5; Luke 1:7, 24; Luke 1:35)
Therefore we can determine that Ishmael is a fulfillment of God’s will and purpose.
The Hard Question: If the actions of Abram, Sarai, and Hagar in verses 1-6 are sinful and against God, then how can God use them?
God cannot sin.
Mankind is sinful from conception.
God ordains our sinful action to accomplish His sovereign purpose.
Does this mean that God acts in wickedness?
No! Man’s wickedness cannot overcome God’s purpose.
What response should we have to this truth?
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