Sarah, Matriarch of the Faith, March 19, 2025
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This week we will look at “Sarah, Matriarch of Our Faith.”
By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised. Therefore there was born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.
1. Who is Sarah?;
1. Who is Sarah?;
Sarah- Sarai began her life in the pagan world of Ur, in the land of the Chaldees. She was the half-sister, as well as the wife, of Abram. Sarai and Abram had the same father but different mothers.
“Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife;
Sarah was 65 years when God called Abraham [75 yrs. old] to go to Canaan.
According to Adams Syn Chronological Chart and Maps it took 2 years to make the trip from Ur to Canaan by way of Haran.
From Ur to Haran is 600 miles, and from Haran to Schechem is 400 miles
The call took place in 1921 BC and they arrived in Schechem in 1919 BC. A famine drove them to Egypt in 1917 BC and they returned in 1916 BC and Abraham and Lot separate. [5 total years from leaving Ur to actually settling in Canaan].
Let me ask you a question, what kind of woman was Sarah? Holy woman, trusted God, submissive wife of beautiful countenance.
For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands; just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.
It came about when he came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman;
Sarah willingly left her home and stepped out into the unknown to follow Abraham, as he followed the direction of God with whom she was unfamiliar at the time. She endure much to try to provide an heir for her husband and keep her husband safe in dangerous lands. She lived in a world of danger and confusion, but remained faithful.
2. Sarah’s Faith; 11
2. Sarah’s Faith; 11
The true test of Sarah’s faith comes in trusting God with the ability to conceive a child at the age of 90.
You’ve heard many people say that “A faith that is not tested is not much faith at all.”
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
Beyond all the tests of following her husband to an unknown land, and trusting a God they didn’t know much about, her biggest step of faith was with child bearing.
When Sarah left Ur with Abraham, she was 65 years old and barren, but she recieved the same promise Abraham did.
And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing;
A nation is a country considered as a body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular area or territory:
Since they were going to be a nation under God, they had to start fresh and that means Abraham and Sarah had to have children of their own.
How would you feel at the age of 65 and being barren, hearing God’s promise that you were going to have a child?
Now lets go ten years down the road and you are 75 and still childless. You trust God but are getting worried that time is running out for you to have children to start the new nation God promised 10 years ago. So what do you do?
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar. So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Sarah stepped ahead of God and tried to handle His business on her own by foolishly sending her handmaid, Hagar, to Abraham to bring forth the child God had promised. In so doing, she ignited a feud that has lasted 4,000 years!
Sarah made mistakes in her faith just like we do, but in the end her faith prevailed! Renewal of God’s Covenant 24 years after it was first given
Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; Walk before Me, and be blameless. “I will establish My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly.” Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying, “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, And you will be the father of a multitude of nations. “No longer shall your name be called Abram, But your name shall be Abraham; For I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.
Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. “I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.” Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”
“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There, in the tent,” he said. Then the Lord said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. Abraham and Sarah were already old and well advanced in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?” Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son.” Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, “I did not laugh.” But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.”
Then the Lord took note of Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had promised. So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him. Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.” And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.” The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Sarah stood firm in her commitment to her husband and to God, and her faith was rewarded with blessing as she gave birth to the promised child 25 years after God gave His promise. Sarah lived another 30 years after the birth of Isaac and died at the age of 127.
Close;We’ve all heard the old saying “that behind every good man there is a better woman.” That is often the case, and especially with Abraham and Sarah.
