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our study of Genesis, and

Thank you.

Sorry about that guy Road right here.

Yapping.

They were continuing our study in in the Book of Genesis.

And, you know, I come to a different special occasions like this.

And I wonder, what else should I deviate and go to a different place in the scriptures and and do that or should I stay in in where we're at in?

As I came and was looking at a chapter 16 and consider what we were as celebrating today, in honoring our our graduate.

I thought about that and I'm like, you know, 16 Genesis 16 is is an amazing chapter for us to consider in just engaging in life.

Engaging in those new stages of life.

For today's message is going to kind of be well in honor of our graduates.

So it's going to be for the three of you, okay? but like all of us, I hope know by this stage in life that when we

when we look at some of the fundamentals of God's word, the truths that are shared and taught.

Bad girls go.

Well, beyond just the graduating senior from high school.

that these these truths are our valuable important for you and I to live by So as I was going through chapter 16 and recalling and just looking at this, I thought, you know, this is this is a wonderful place to stay.

Because with the question I want to pose for us today is who is it that you're listening to?

What voice are you listening to in this world?

And in as a graduate, you are going to be here, a lot of voices.

Is is you and I go throughout life.

You're going to have college professors.

You're going to have social media.

You're going to have the media, you're going to have powerful influential people.

You're going to have pastors, you're going to have friends co-workers peers, and each one of them is going to have a voice in your life.

so the question is posed to run a graduate with also to you and I What voice?

Are we listening to?

What boys are we eating in our lives?

Because amongst all the voices that are calling out to us and they will continue to call outs with day in and day out.

Who are you listening to?

Proverbs is an amazing book of voices that are calling out throughout the Book of Proverbs.

We see there on 1/4 wisdom, is calling a drawing us to to herself, then on the other corner is folly.

And it looks so appealing in the, to contrast throughout the Book of Proverbs.

I would encourage any of you.

Do this once a year, take the Book of Proverbs and read one proverb each day for each day of the month.

It's a, it's a wonderful study.

In a wonderful practice Joshua is he taste the nation of Israel into the promised land.

That was promised to table that we looked at last week as he takes them in there.

He, he challenges that people choose this day, whom you will serve, and it's fascinating that it's good.

For choice is who you will serve.

Not that you sir.

There's this voice is constantly calling out.

It is we come and approach chapter 16 in Genesis.

We find that Abram is is constantly bombarded with with others having influence and his wife, isn't he?

There's those voices that are calling out and and in striving to to get his attention.

In the midst of that, God himself is calling out.

My Hope Is we go through today?

That we will realize the importance.

I'm listening to God's voice in the midst of all those others.

I'm not standing here today telling you, that's all those voices.

You were here are wrong or will be wrong.

We need to listen to them, filtered through the voice of God, for the word of God.

That's one of the reasons we give our graduate with a Bible.

Because they are going to hear that.

And we all of us, myself included needs a filter that through the word of God.

So today would you join with me Genesis chapter 16?

And for today's purpose of a narrative.

I'm going to be reading from the New Living Translation graduates.

You have the New Living Translation.

I just gave you a copy of it.

So if you want some looking there, otherwise, you can follow on the screen as we read Genesis chapter 16, The Narrative begins this way now, Sarah Abraham's wife had not been able to Bear children for him, but she had an Egyptian named Hagar sister.

I said to Abram The Lord has prevented me from having children, go and sleep.

With my servant, perhaps I can have children through her and a broom agreed with surprise proposal to Sara Evans wife.

So, kedar the Egyptian serval and gave her to Abram as a wife.

This happened Ten Years After Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.

So Abram had sexual relations with no gar, or she became pregnant, but when she was pregnant, she began to treat him with contempt.

Then Sarah.

I said Abram.

This is all your fault.

Some tacos out there, huh?

Okay.

You love how God record the truth.

I mean it's fascinating.

This is all your fault.

I put myself into your arms, but now she's pregnant.

She treats me with contempt.

The Lord will show who's wrong you or me.

Abram Reply, look.

She is here serving so deal with her.

As you see fit then sorry, I treated Hagar.

So harshly that she finally ran away the angel of the Lord found her yard beside a spring of water in the wilderness along the road to shore.

The angel said to her Hagar Sarai servant.

Where have you come from?

And where are you going?

I'm running away from my mistress.

Are I see reply, the angel of the Lord said to her return to your mistress and submit to her Authority.

Then I will give you more Descendants.

The you can count.

And the angel also said, you are now pregnant and will give birth to a son.

You are to name him Ishmael, which means God hears.

For the Lord has heard your cry of distress.

This son of yours will be a wild man is empty.

And there's a wild donkey who raised his fist against everyone and everyone will be against him.

Yes.

He will live in open hostility against his relatives.

Therefore Hagar used another name to refer to the Lord who had spoken to her.

She said, you are the God who sees me.

She also said, have I truly seen the one who sees me?

So that well was named beer-lahai-roi, which means well of the living one who sees me.

He can still be found between kadish and the rain.

So, Hagar gave Abram a son in April named.