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Genesis chapter 21 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 21. Let us pray.
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  Our God, our King, our Lord, our everything.
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  Hallowed be thy name, may your name be kept.
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  Holy Father, your Kingdom come, God, not our own, not our own
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  Kingdom built up with our own hands.
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  Father your Kingdom, Lord, we desire to be a Kingdom of
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  priests. Lord, I pray that you'll
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  continue to make us more like Jesus Christ every day.
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  Lord, thank you that even the least in the Kingdom God is
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  greater than those born of woman.
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  So Lord, we step into the bridal identity.
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  Lord, your will be done. Father, not our own, God, not
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  our selfish will, God not using you, Father, for our own selfish
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  advantage. God, but your will, Father, not
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  our own. Lord, we pray that we can
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  succumb. God, that we can operate within
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  the yielding, within the surrender, Father, of your
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  perfect and pleasing will for our lives.
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  Keep us, God, from sexual immorality.
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  God, keep us from vanity and pride.
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  Lord, I pray. Lord, I pray for daily bread
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  today. God, I pray you'll continue to
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  feed us the manna. God, continue to feed us the
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  quail. God, continue to feed us.
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  Lord, your flesh. God, as we break the bread,
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  Lord, I pray we can drink freely.
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  Lord of the living water, I pray that it'll gush from the rock.
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  God, help us not to live in a fence.
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  Lord, I pray, Lord, I pray for forgiveness for all the times
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  that we've fallen short, all the times that we've got it wrong,
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  all the times that we've leaned the ladder on the wrong house.
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  God, I pray that we'll be a forgiving people.
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  God forgiving 70 * 7 infinitely, our brothers and sisters in
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  Christ. Lord, I pray against the evil 1
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  the schemes of the enemy, the fiery darts.
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  God, I pray against the prowling lion.
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  God, I pray that you will form a hedge of protection around us.
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  Help us, Lord, to walk on coals and not be burned, to be in the
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  fire with you, Lord, and to not even smell like the smoke, God.
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  To not let the waves and the waters overtake us, Lord.
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  But you grab our hand, Lord, and you lead us by still waters,
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  Your rod, your staff, it comforts us, Lord.
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  We know that you're near and you're leading us on to greater
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  pastures. Father, thank you, God, I pray
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  that your Kingdom and your will and your power and your glory
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  will be on full display today for all of creation to see and
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  to marvel at God. And it's in Jesus Christ, holy
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  and precious and powerful name that I pray.
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did to
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  Sarah as He had spoken. You see the promises of God
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  being manifested and fleshed out.
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  Friends, even in the disbelief, even in the actions of
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  unfaithfulness, God's promises prevail because He's just that
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  good. Verse 2 For Sarah conceived and
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  bore Abraham a son in his old age at the set time which God
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  had spoken to him. God is a God who lives up to His
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  promises. When God says it, we believe it,
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  and that settles it. It's too bad that we do not
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  operate within that conviction most of the time.
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  God says it within His word. And the moment we close the
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  book, we forget the promises of God and operate within our own
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  reasoning and intellect and emotions and feelings, instead
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  of waiting upon the promises of God to actually happen.
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  Verse 3. And Abraham called the name of
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  his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bore to him.
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  Isaac, the child of laughter. He's turned the morning into
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  joy, friends, for an Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being
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  eight days old and as God had commanded him.
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  So we know here from medical advancements in the medical
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  community that the blood coagulates perfectly on the 8th
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  day and it would be the best. And God knows exactly how to
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  give advice that all matches up that we catch up with as time
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  goes on. And that's exactly what this
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  entire Bible from Genesis 2 Revelation is.
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  It's man trying to catch up with God's mind in the way that he
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  operates. Five, And Abraham was 100 years
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  old when his son Isaac was born to him.
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  Six. And Sarah said, God has made me
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  to laugh so that all that here will laugh with me.
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  This is a very jovial time for Sarah and Abraham.
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  This was a miraculous birth. She had already gone through all
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  of the menopause changes. It was completely unnatural for
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  the a woman of her age to be able to have a child and it is
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  ridiculous. And here she is saying share in
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  the ridiculous notion of God. He is unlimited, and He can do
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  anything that He pleases. And you can only imagine how
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  they waited 25 years for the promise of Isaac to come, and
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  now they hold in their hands the very promise that God gave to
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  them. Seven.
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  And she said, who would have said to Abraham that Sarah
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  should have given children suck, for I have borne him a son in
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  his old age. So she's nursing little Isaac.
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  And that is a miracle in and of itself. 8 And the child groom
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  was weaned, and Abraham made a feast the same day that Isaac
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  was weaned. Perhaps this little child is now
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  3 years old and weaned off of suck. 9 And Sarah saw the son of
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  Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
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  So here Ishmael and his immaturity is mocking little
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  Isaac. And Sarah noticed it. 10
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  Wherefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her
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  son. For the son of the bondwoman
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  should not be the heir with my son, even with Isaac.
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  You see the two sons of Abraham, the son of the flesh and the son
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  of promise. And you see that the son of the
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  flesh has no part in the promise of God.
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  It is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and Ishmael is still
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  cared for and he's still loved on and there's still a promise
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  that he'll be taken care of, that he'll survive and become a
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  mighty nation. But it is in no way going to be
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  in the same relation of the child of promise that Abraham,
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  he stepped out in unfaithfulness and disobedience, and he had
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  relations with Hagar and bore Ishmael thinking that he had to
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  manufacture the promises of God. And here God has to deal with
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  Abraham's failures. And it doesn't mean that God is
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  against Ishmael. It means that God has a specific
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  promise of the lineage of the Messiah in mind when it comes to
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  Isaac. And all the sons of Ishmael must
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  come through the lineage of the Messiah.
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  Friends, it doesn't work the other way around, and it doesn't
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  work any other way. It's not through Abraham that we
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  find salvation. God can raise up sons from the
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  stones to Abraham, Friends, it's through Yeshua.
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  Hamashiach is through, I deny is through our Lord Jesus Christ
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  the Anointed, that we find salvation.
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  His name means salvation, and no one comes on to the Father
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  except through Jesus, and that includes Ishmael and the sons of
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  Ishmael. 11 And a thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight
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  because of his son. Perhaps Abraham was wanting to
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  hold on to Ishmael just in case something happened to little
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  Isaac, but God wouldn't have him to have a back up plan. 12 And
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  God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your sight,
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  because of the lad, because of the bondwoman, and all that
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  Sarah has said unto you, listen to her voice, For in Isaac shall
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  your seed be called. So here he wouldn't let
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  Abimelech touch Sarah. He wouldn't let Pharaoh touch
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  Sarah. He wouldn't let Ishmael and the
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  failure that Abraham had with Hagar interfere with his promise
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  and what he was going to do. The miraculous birth of our
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  Savior. And here you can see that Isaac
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  is a type of Christ. This miracle birth of Isaac is
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  mirroring what you're going to find in the birth of Jesus, and
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  only Isaac is the seed of promise. 13 and also of the son
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  of the bondwoman. I will make a nation because he
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  is your seed. So here you can see that the
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  Muslim world is birthed out of Ishmael and they're still around
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  today. Kingdoms has have risen and
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  kingdoms have fallen and people groups have assimilated, but you
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  can still see they are a mighty nation and you can see that the
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  Arabian people group are a blessed people group and God has
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  a very special plan for them. But they must come through in
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  the same way that you and I have to, through Yeshua, God the
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  Father and God the Son and God the Holy Ghost.
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  Three in one. 14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning and
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  took bread, a bottle of water, gave it to Hagar, putting it on
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  her shoulder and the child, and sent her away.
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  And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
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  So here you can see that Abraham was a very wealthy man and could
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  have loaded a complete caravan up full of everything that she
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  needed, but if God didn't intervene, it was of no use.
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  So it was just some water and some bread and she sent, she was
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  sent packing 15 in the water was spent in the bottle and she cast
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  the child under one of the shrubs.
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  So here we can surmise that Ishmael is probably around 15
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  years old somewhere around in there.
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  And as it's a child, you can see that actually he would have been
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  old enough to somewhat understand all of the things
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  that were happening. 16 And she went and sat her down over
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  against him, a good way off, as it were, a blow shot, a bow
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  shot, for she said, let me not see the death of the child.
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  And she sat over against him and lifted up her voice and wept.
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  So here she's crying out to Elroy, the God who sees. 17 And
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  God heard the voice of the lad, and the Angel of God called to
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  Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, What ails you, Hagar?
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  Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he
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  is. So Ishmael's crying out to God,
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  And God talks to Hagar and says, Do not despair.
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  I hear him. 18 Arise, lift up the lad, hold him in your hand,
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  for I will make him a great nation, And you can see that
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  promise still today, friends. 19 And God opened her eyes, she saw
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  a well of water, and she went and filled the bottle with water
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  and gave the lad drink. She could have let him die out
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  there in the wilderness. Twice she's wandered off, twice
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  she has gone off into the wilderness.
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  Twice God could have let them die, but twice God has rescued
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  them and you can still see the promises of God outlined in our
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  world that we live in today. 20 And God was with the lad, and he
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  grew and he dwelt in the wilderness and became an Archer.
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  So you you remember from the prophecy that God told Hagar
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  last time he'd be a wild man and always in opposition with his
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  brothers. So he became this Archer, this
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  warrior. 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran, and his
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  mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
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  So we can see here that God has a very particular promise
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  towards this lad in his descendants, and they're still
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  around today. 22 And it came to pass at the time that Abimelech
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  and Filkol, the chief captain of his host, spoken to Abraham,
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  saying God is with you and all that you do.
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  So here we can see a Pagan ruler acknowledging that God is with
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  Abraham, and that everything that Abraham touches turns to
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  gold. 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God, that you
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  will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my
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  son's son, but according to the kindness that I have done unto
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  you, that you shall do to me and to the land where you have
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  journeyed. So here we can see that Abraham
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  is being tasked with promising a divine protection upon this
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  Pagan ruler. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And
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  Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water,
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  which Abimelech servants had violently taken away.
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  So here we're going to see this well that it has a very huge
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  significance in the story of the Bible and in the survival of
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  God's people because they were not near a river or a body of
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  water. This well would have been a life
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  source. And here Abraham is going to
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  flip the script and tell the Abimelech how he has noticed
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  something that is gone under his nose but is not missed on
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  Abraham. 26 And Abimelech said, I knew not who has done this
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  thing. Neither did you tell me, neither
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  have I heard of it, but just today.
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  So here Abimelech saying, Don't hold it against me of something
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  that I knew nothing about. 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen
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  and gave them to Abimelech, and both of them made a covenant.
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  Perhaps he cut a covenant with this, the sheep that would have
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  been splayed in two and laid out, and they would have walked
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  between the middle and swore by each other that the well
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  belonged to Abraham, and that Abraham would offer protection
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  unto Abimelech and his sons and his son's son. 28 And Abraham
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  set seven you lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 And Abimelech
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  said to Abraham, What do you mean by these seven you lambs
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  which you have set by themselves?
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  30 And he said, For these seven you lambs shall you take of my
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  hand, that they may be a witness to me, that I have dug this
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  well? So he's serious about getting
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  the rights to this well, and we're going to see this well
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  appear many times more in the Word of God, and we can see why
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  it is so important in the eyes of Abraham. 31 Wherefore he
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  called that place Beersheba, because they swore, both of
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  them, they would have passed through the middle of the
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  splayed out lambs, and they would have grabbed each other's
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  thigh, and they would have said, the blood that is spilled on the
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  ground here, if you do not hold up to your end of the bargain,
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  what happened to these lambs will happen to you. 32 Thus they
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  made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech rose up, and Phil
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  called the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the
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  land of the Philistines. 33 And Abraham planted a Grove in
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  Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord, the
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  everlasting God. And that is what God desires,
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  friends. He wants you to call out to him
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  today, acknowledge him today. Give them all of his glory and
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  grace. Give them all of the worship and
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  the due adoration today because he is so deserving of it.
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  And that is why he chose Abraham, because he knew he was
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  a man of worship. We'll end on 34 and Abraham
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  journeyed in the Philistines land many days.
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  We're going to see these Philistines pop up as a very
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  hostile, very abrasive group against the children of promise.
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  What an amazing book we hold in our hands.
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  Hope you've been blessed by this chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here to Morrow.
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  God bless you.