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Sarah: A Study on Pride
by Miles Seaborn
INTRO. Hidden away almost unnoticed in Chapter 11:30 is the source of all the following eleven epoch-making chapters in Genesis. Canaan and Egypt; Hagar and Ishmael: The promise of Isaac and the birth, the circumcision, the sacrifice and the deliverance and his mother's faith; all their falls; all their failures; all their victories - all God's promises and all His providence's. All these and more spring from this same small verse, ''But Sarah was barren, she had no child.'' Galatians 4:22-31 used Sarah and her handmaiden, Hagar, as an allegory. Now an allegory is when one thing is said but another thing more important or meaningful is...
How to Be Strong in Faith
by Adrian Rogers
I want you to take God's word now and turn with me to genesis chapter 17. We're talking about faith. We're in the school of faith. Today we're talking about how to be strong in faith. Archimedes was a philosopher and physicist, and he said, 11 if you will give me a lever long enough; if you will give me a fulcrum something to rest it on,'' and he said, ''if you will give me a place to stand,'' he said, ''i can move the earth.'' and he was right. My dear friend, may I tell you for us that lever is faith, the fulcrum is the word of God, the place where we stand is in his grace, and with it not only can we move the earth, but we can move heaven as well. If we...
Sarah - A Receiving Faith (5 of 10)
by Brad Whitt
INTRO: I want you to take God's Word now this morning and be finding your place at Hebrews chapter 11 again if you would. We are continuing today in our series of sermons on the heroes, and as we'll discover this morning, the heroines of the faith, as well, that we have entitled, ''Walking With The Giants.'' Hebrews chapter 11 really is an amazing chapter. I know that I have said that virtually every week, but it's still true. As a matter of fact, it's one of the greatest chapters in the entire Bible. It's right up there with John chapter 3 and Romans chapter 8. I think that the reason that's so is because whereas John chapter 3 tells how...
God Promises Sarah a Son
by Tony Nester
When God called Abraham to leave his home in Haran and journey to the promised land of Canaan God promised Abraham that he would become the patriarch of a great and numerous family. This was a precious hope for Abraham and Sarah because they were old in years and had produced no children. Surely one of the reasons why Abraham and Sarah made that journey was their hope that their long years of childlessness would come to an end. They wanted a family of their own. Once in the Promised Land they hoped for the child that God had promised them. But the years passed by and Sarah did not conceive. It was a painful...
The Allegories of Sarah and Hagar
by Charles H. Spurgeon
These are the two covenants. There cannot be a greater difference in the world between two things than there is between law and grace. And yet, strange to say, while the things are diametrically opposed and essentially different from each other, the human mind is so depraved, and the intellect, even when blessed by the Spirit, has become so turned aside from right judgment, that one of the most difficult things in the world is to discriminate properly between law and grace. He who knows the difference, and always recollects it-the essential difference between law and grace-has grasped the marrow of divinity. He is not far from...
It's a Boy
by Ken Trivette
1. I want you mothers to imagine something. What if you went to the doctor and he told you that you were going to have a baby and you gave birth to that baby 25 years later. I know what some of you are thinking: 9 months seems like 25 years. 2. In the case of Abraham and Sarah, God told them they were going to have a baby and it was 25 years later when she finally delivered that baby. Furthermore, God gave Sarah a heavenly ultra-sound and told her it was going to be a baby boy 24 years before she was pregnant. 3. For 25 years Abraham and Sarah tried to have a child, prayed for a child, dreamed about a child, and waited for a...
You Can Count on God (15 of 31)
by Ernest Easley
We're continuing our series of messages this morning from the book of Genesis. So take your Bible and turn please to Genesis 21. You will remember from chapter 20 that Abraham and Sarah had lived a lie for 25 years. Abraham told his wife Sarah that every time they got into a difficult situation she was to tell whomever that Abraham was her brother and not her husband. Abraham thought that by telling a lie his life would be spared. Now, somebody says, ''But Sarah was his half-sister. He really told a half truth.'' It's true, Sarah was his half-sister! But a half truth is nothing more than a whole lie! And here's Abraham and Sarah...
Letter from Sarah
by Bob Wickizer
My dear cousin. You recall that my husband's concubine Hagar bore a son to him and that even though my husband desperately wanted a son in his old age, I couldn't stand the thought of him doting over Hagar's child. So I told Abram to get rid of Hagar and her son. Send them out in the desert. Send them somewhere, just don't keep them here with us. I told him it is better for us die in our old age without a child than to have this arrangement with Hagar and Ishmael. After Abram sent Hagar out into the desert to die she had some kind of encounter with the spirits there. She returned to us and apologized to me for holding me in such...
A Great Question from a Great God
by James Merritt
INTRODUCTION: 1. ''Is there anything too hard for God?'' That could be a very insulting question if puny man were to ask that of a powerful God, and it could receive a very embarrassing answer. 2. I heard about a Sunday School teacher who was examining her pupils after a series of lessons on the omnipotence of God. She asked, ''Now that we've studied all about the greatness of God, is there anything God can't do?'' 3. Well there was dead silence. Finally one little boy held up his hand. The teacher couldn't believe it. She had hammered for weeks and weeks about the omnipotent power of God. She looked at that young...
The Ishmaels and the Isaacs of Life
by Jerry Vines
It was red-letter day in the life of Abraham. I can imagine that the angels must have smiled that day as they saw that one hundred year old man hopping and skipping around the tent. From the inside of the tent there was the crying of a new-born baby because the baby boy that God has promised had finally been born. Years and years had passed. There were times when Abraham had wondered if God would ever do what he had promised he would do and yet God kept His promise. In fact, the Bible says here that the Lord did as he had said. Folks, I want to say to you that God can always be counted on to do what He says He will do....
Sarah and Her Daughters
by Charles H. Spurgeon
Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you. Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. I desire to thank God for having had the privilege of preaching in Exeter Hall yesterday to a large congregation from the whole of the second verse of the fifty-first of Isaiah-"Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him" (sermon preached on behalf of the Baptist Missionary Society on the morning of April 27, 1881). On that occasion I confined my remarks to Abraham...
The Prayer of Abraham (1 of 13)
by Clarence E. Macartney
Abraham is the loftiest character of the Bible, but for that very reason he is the loneliest, even as the loftiest mountains are the most isolated and solitary. In his great oration delivered at the unveiling of the Lincoln Memorial at Hodgenville, Kentucky, President Wilson said of Abraham Lincoln: ''I have read many biographies of Lincoln; I have sought out with the greatest interest the many intimate stories that are told of him, the narratives of nearby friends, the sketches at close quarters, in which those who had the privilege of being associated with him have tried to depict for us the very man himself 'in his habit as he lived'; but I have...
The Boldness of Faith (2 of 5)
by Steve Jones
ILLUSTRATION: In Orlando I belonged to a real estate investment club. A speaker came in who stood in front of the group and said, "Who here believes that I'll give $50 to the first person who stands up and walks to the front of the room?" We sat there. I was thinking that I "might" believe it, but I didn't want to embarrass myself by walking to the front of the room, just in case he was pulling some kind of trick. Because the last thing I wanted was to look silly in front of all those people. Finally, someone walked forward and collected the $50. Man! Then he said, "All right, who believes I'll give $20 to the NEXT person to walk to...
Four Keys of Intercessory Prayer (14 of 32)
by Zach Terry
INTRODUCTION: Percy Ray was a Pastor in rural Mississippi. He was known by many as God's spoiled child. It was said that he got everything he asked for in prayer. -Gift of Land - Once he was praying for land for a new Church, they had no money. He was led by God to go to a field and dig a footing for a new Church. He said, ''God we don't own that field'' But God told him to go so he went. At the same time God spoke to a business man in Memphis and told him to drive to that area and he would find a man in overalls digging the footer for a Church. He was to give him the land. It happened just as God said. -Death of Trouble - The story...
The Prayer Of Faith (27 of 48)
by Stan Coffey
INTRODUCTION: It was studying Genesis 18 that taught saintly George Mueller of Bristol, that modern giant of faith, one of the most important secrets of prayer. It taught him to use argument in pleading his case before God. He would remind the Lord that orphan boys and girls entrusted to his care were not his orphans but Gods. Had he not declared himself to be the father of the fatherless? It was God's work, not Mueller's. He was but the instrument. If it were God's work was not God bound to take care of it? Could God suffer His glory to be diminished? Thus, George Mueller prayed and thus he received truly astonishing...
Faith to Save a Nation (6 of 13)
by Stan Coffey
Series -- FAITH: HOW TO GET IT AND HOW TO GROW IT. Have you ever wondered, What could one person do? Have you ever thought, what can I, one person, do to help my country? What can I, one person do to help my city? What can I, one person, do to change my church? You know, the Bible is replete with stories of what one person could do. David was just a shepherd boy, just a teenager, but when he slew Goliath, he changed the course of his nation from defeat into victory. Joseph was just one person, but when he became second ruler in Egypt, he fed the entire world with grain. When Esther, a woman, seemingly alone, went...
Sarah - A Receiving Faith (5 of 10)
by Brad Whitt
INTRO: I want you to take God's Word now this morning and be finding your place at Hebrews chapter 11 again if you would. We are continuing today in our series of sermons on the heroes, and as we'll discover this morning, the heroines of the faith, as well, that we have entitled, ''Walking With The Giants.'' Hebrews chapter 11 really is an amazing chapter. I know that I have said that virtually every week, but it's still true. As a matter of fact, it's one of the greatest chapters in the entire Bible. It's right up there with John chapter 3 and Romans chapter 8. I think that the reason that's so is because whereas John chapter 3 tells how...
The Laughter Of Earth And Heaven (16 Of 17)
by Clarence E. Macartney
Why did Sarah laugh? Laughter is one of God's greatest gifts to man. At least two great gifts of God to man have survived the wreck and ruin of the fall: laughter, which for the moment, at least, causes man to forget his sorrow and his care; and beautiful, incomparable, invincible hope, which paints with the iridescent colors of the rainbow the horizon of man's ofttimes stormy and clouded life. We all like to hear a man laugh, and we all enjoy a good laugh ourselves. As the wise man said in the book of Proverbs, "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine."There are many kinds of laughter. There is the innocent laughter at the...
The Privilege of Prayer
by Jesse Hendley
"Our Father, we thank You today for this holy privilege of coming into Thy Presence, through prayer. We know, Lord, that there is no other way we can come but through the Blood of Jesus. We thank You, Lord, for the Blood that has paved the way into Thy Presence for us, gained access to Thee. We thank Thee for the Word of God that assures us of Thy love, of Thy con-cern, of Thy care, and that You invite us to come. And then we thank You, Lord, for the privilege of praying. God, how we have neglected prayer in our lives, the great neglect! How our loved ones have suffered, how our own lives have suffered, the world has suffered because...
Who's Laughing With You? (8 of 12)
by Jeff Lynn
TEXT: Genesis 16:1-6 Last week we saw where God ''cut a covenant'' with Abram, confirming to Abram that the land in which he was living would be given to Abram's offspring. God even showed Abram that his offspring would be enslaved in Egypt for 400 years. So the promise to Abram that this land, which today is known as Israel, would be given to his offspring was confirmed by a covenant God made with Abram; but it wouldn't take place until 700 years later. There are some who believe that this covenant for Israel is still in effect. That is why you have the turmoil in Israel today among the Jews and Palestinians. Back in verse 4...
