Genesis 16

Impatience

Sarai and Hagar

a. Remember the Covenant!

Genesis 15:18 ESV

18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

b. Sarai became impatient, trying to keep God’s promise by the “flesh”

c. Jealousy

Genesis 16:5 ESV

5 And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!”

Two Nations

a. Sarai dealt harshly with Hagar and Hagar fled

b. Angel of the Lord finds her on the way to Shur

c. Angel instructs her to return and to submit to her

d. This is the picture of two nations today: Isaac and Ishmael

e. We will look at Isaac later but first lets see Ishmael.

Hagar/Ishmael

Ge 17:20 “20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.”

a. Reference the Nation from Ishmael

Genesis 25:12–18

b. God has compassion

c. Ishmael will be as a wild donkey

The Well at Beer Lahai Roi

a. The meaning is “Well of the One who lives and sees me.”

b. Abram was 86 when Ishmael was born to Hagar

How do we handle the stress, discomfort, or doubt that God has this in our lives?