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Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Hebrews 11:11
Flawed: The Heroes of the Faith
Sarah: A Flawed Heroine of the Faith
Hebrews 11:11
We decide that we will take over and do something because we are impatient with God’s timing.
Can you imagine how encouraging this must have been to Abram and Sarai? They were both getting old
But, for Sarai, the disappointment was crushing. Bearing children was the most significant thing a woman did.
She decided that she would give her Egyptian servant named Hagar to Abram to have a child with her.
As far as Sarah was concerned, the child that Abraham had with Hagar was the child that stopped the mouths of people talking about her disgrace.
Now, one could say, “Why didn’t God just enable Sarah to get pregnant by some supernatural means?”
The point is that the Lord was saying to Sarah, “Sarah, the reason you are laughing is that having a child would be too wonderful.”
Wonder. There it is. The believer recognizes that there is nothing too wonderful for God.
Well, Sarah’s laughter was the laughter of hopelessness. As far as she was concerned, there was no way she was ever going to be able to have a child.
God eventually gave her a child and changed her laughter of hopelessness to laughter of hope. She had come to believe in God and his word.