I. Introduction
A. Prayer Requests
II. Character Profile: Hagar, A Woman Who Raised a Wild Donkey of a Man
A. Who Was She? (read GEN 12:16,20; 16:1-16; 21:8-21; 25:12-18; GAL
4:24,25).
1. When Did She Live? In the time of the Patriarchs @1800 B.C.
2. Where Did She Live? GEN 16:1, she had lived in Egypt but had
lived in Canaan and other places with Sarah and Abraham after
becoming part of their household.
4. Who Were Her People? GEN 16:1, she was an Egyptian. If she was
given to Abraham as a gift (GEN 12:16) from Pharaoh she would
probably been one of the more cultured slaves.
5. What Did She Do For A Living? GEN 16:1; she was Sarah's
maidservant, "shiphchah"- a female servant or slave.
2) as purchased property:
WHAT IS A CONCUBINE?
GEN 15:4 "Then the word of the LORD came to him: '...a
son coming from your own body will be your heir.'"
*we are not told what Sarai did to Hagar but "harshly"
means "to afflict":
-- she called Him "You are the God Who sees me"
-- the well where she met God was called "Beer Lahi
Roi", or "well of the Living One Who sees me"
GEN 16:15,16 "So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the
name Ishmael to the son she had borne. Abram was eighty-six
years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael."
WHAT IS CIRCUMCISION?
GEN 21:9 "But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the
Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking"
GAL 4:29 "At that time the son born in the ordinary way
persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is
the same now."
GEN 22:2 "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you
love..."
GEN 21:10 "...and she said to Abraham, 'Get rid of that slave
woman and her son, for that slave woman's son will never share
in the inheritance with my son Isaac.'"
GEN 21:19 "Then God opened her eyes and she saw a
well of water. So she went and filled the skin with
water and gave the boy a drink."
GEN 21:20 "God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived
in the desert and became an archer."
WHY?
i] they lived in the wilderness of Paran near Egypt:
3. An unsaved person walks by the flesh and can only teach the
things of the flesh to others (1CO 2:14).
IV. Memory Verses: GAL 3:26 "You are all sons of God through faith in
Christ Jesus"
GAL 3:29 "If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and
heirs according to the promise."
All Scripture references are taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW
INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New York Bible Society, used by
permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
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