1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,160 Things that broke out on their body and the question that they 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,680 asked those that were around them was what shall we do with 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,200 the Ark of the Covenant? It'd be at one town. 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,680 They pawned it off another town. Same thing that happened to 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:15,000 them. They're like pawned off your and 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:16,120 they're all, they're all like what? 7 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:18,360 What shall we do with the Ark of the Covenant, which is the 8 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,200 presence of the Lord in that day? 9 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,440 Amen. I'm glad that I'm not pawned it 10 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:24,440 off somewhere. Like what? 11 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,360 What should we do with it? I hope we're not ever in the 12 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,680 situation that he moves in and we're like what? 13 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:33,600 What should we do with this? I hope we know what to do with 14 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,400 it, right? Amen. 15 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:37,600 That we engage with it. Hallelujah. 16 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,880 Engage with the Spirit in the presence of the Lord. 17 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,040 He man. Just a few announcements 18 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,120 tomorrow night, ladies, night out. 19 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,760 You are leaving the church at 5:15 ladies night out. 20 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,160 You're leaving at 5:15. This coming Sunday is Mother's 21 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:53,440 Day. Just be 1 service in the AM and 22 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,720 the sister McGee will be speaking mothers on that Sunday 23 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,960 morning and there'll be no PM service again. 24 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:03,560 Those who there is a sign up sheet on the bulletin board If 25 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,680 you want to participate or help in bringing a dessert for 26 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,280 feeding the firemen then on Monday the 12th and bring that 27 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,760 on Sunday or then there's also time frame there on Monday that 28 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,440 the sister Milan and brother Reese would be your doors open. 29 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,280 You have any questions about that time frame You can see them 30 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:25,400 and such on the 12th also. This is very important if you 31 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,160 are going to camp. This is important on the 12th is 32 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,520 camp registration. So keep your eyes on Facebook. 33 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,960 I know brother Alex Mason keep things have posted things he 34 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:38,640 always post things on our church site district stuff. 35 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,520 Amen. About the particular time and 36 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:45,240 you want to be there before that time and you want to be sitting 37 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,560 at your computer of your phone. If you have a quick thumbs and 38 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,200 you want to be ready to go. It's like a race. 39 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,520 I mean, it's just like a race. So you want to be ready. 40 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:57,560 You don't want to. Oh, I'll do it at 30 minutes 41 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,440 later, 30 minutes later you might not be going to camp. 42 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,400 Well, let me say like you probably ain't going. 43 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,639 Yeah, and it's Eastern Time. All right. 44 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:16,680 Pardon me. OK, 6:00 PM Central, 7 Eastern. 45 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:23,320 So you 6:00 your time PM. So just kind of putting that out 46 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,840 there to kind of, you know, keep damage control down and by 47 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,480 coming to me crying on my shoulder about just a second, 48 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,040 it's seriously, I might be crying. 49 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:43,520 I go out there for my four man 10 pray God, my wife says she 50 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,680 ain't staying. I would if I had to game of 51 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:52,680 night the 23rd of of of May. That starts at 7:00 PM game 52 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:54,520 night. Then our summer kick off on the 53 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,240 25th of May. That's Memorial Day weekend one 54 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,720 service in the AM and then we're going to have food. 55 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,880 Our, our plan is to do and we'll have a menu up here shortly to 56 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,200 do like hot dogs and hamburgers and like potato salad and things 57 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,400 that just kind of like that springy, you know, start type of 58 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,280 aspect. And I'll be getting a menu up 59 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:18,120 for people to be able to sign up and be trying to talk to a few 60 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,880 men, see if they want to bring maybe two or three girls here at 61 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,400 the church that we can cook off of them such outside and such. 62 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,520 So we have a good time and have a good time. 63 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,000 And then June the 1st through the 4th, I'm stating this ahead 64 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,360 of time. So, you know, like a broken 65 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,600 record, that's OK, but it will be revival with Adrian Sanford. 66 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,680 That's a Sunday through a Wednesday, Sunday through 67 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:41,200 Wednesday. Amen. 68 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:46,000 Stamp me turn to the book of Genesis chapter 16 to where we 69 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,320 left off last week. We dug into 3 verses. 70 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,040 I'm going to finish out the chapter tonight. 71 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,760 How about that? How about that, Amen. 72 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:02,400 Also at the end of service, I got some books up here that I'm 73 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:04,440 ready to go on with, like pass on with. 74 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:09,280 So anybody that's interested in the book, you can come after 75 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,080 service, peruse, take it, take one or two. 76 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,640 I got one called a good man. That's really along the lines 77 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,120 for men from Baroness to Fruitfulness. 78 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,839 The end of me. This is a devotional. 79 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:22,120 All right. If you need a devotional for 80 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,600 next year, connect. And then this is a little bit of 81 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,080 a technical read on the science side that folks, I mean, I'm a 82 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,360 nerd. OK, This is very interesting. 83 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,200 Parasite Rex, it's all about parasites, even parasites in 84 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,800 your body that's there right now. 85 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:44,600 It's pretty interesting. So it is, it is a little bit of 86 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,040 a technical read though, on scientific side. 87 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:51,720 So for some it might be good reading material for going to 88 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:57,120 sleep for some of you. All right, Genesis 16, Genesis 89 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,080 16, and verse #4 is where we're starting. 90 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,960 All right. The Bible says, And he went in 91 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,000 unto Hagar. And she conceived. 92 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,320 And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was 93 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:13,360 despised in her eyes. And so I said unto Abram, My 94 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,800 wrong be upon thee, I have given my maid into thy bosom. 95 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,200 And when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her 96 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:22,800 eyes. And the Lord judge between me 97 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,680 and thee. But Abram said unto Sarah, I 98 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,400 behold, thy maid is in thine hand due to her as it pleaseth 99 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:31,840 thee. And when Sarah dealt hardly with 100 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:35,280 her, she fled from her face. I'll stop there and we'll pray, 101 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:37,560 and then I'll continue reading tonight. 102 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:42,120 The overall title for all of this is Shared space, Separate 103 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,960 Pain. Shared Space, Separate pain. 104 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,920 Amen. Lord I need you tonight God, 105 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,960 we're great for those that have gathered in on this Wednesday to 106 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,400 once again send our lives around your word. 107 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,520 I pray God it is a word. The Lord, these are the words of 108 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,880 life. Jesus said God and I know Lord 109 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,880 that they can be life giving for us even tonight in our personal 110 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,240 walks, relationship with you. We will not Lord fail to honor 111 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,320 you that I pray Lord Jesus with what we have learned and 112 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,240 understand from here this evening in Jesus name. 113 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,760 You may be seated and I'll continue with verse #7 I'm going 114 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,480 to go and read to the end of the of the chapter and then we can 115 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,880 go from there. And the Angel of the Lord found 116 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,240 her by a fountain. So she fled from Sarah face. 117 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:25,760 Okay. And so this is going on. 118 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,600 And the Angel of the Lord found her Speaking of Hagar by a 119 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,640 fountain of water in the wilderness. 120 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:32,680 By the fountain, and the way to sure. 121 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:37,440 And he said, Haggar, Sarah's maid, Whence camest thou, and 122 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,240 whither thou go? And she said, I flee from the 123 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,360 face of my mistress Sarai. And the Angel of the Lord said 124 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,280 unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit myself 125 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:48,760 under her hands. And the Angel of the Lord said 126 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,080 unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall 127 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,240 not be numbered for multitude. Let's just pause and think. 128 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,680 This is not being said to Abram, this is being said to Haggar. 129 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,360 And the Angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with 130 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,800 child, and shalt bearish, and thou shalt call his name 131 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,280 Ishmael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. 132 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,240 And he will be a wild man, and his hand will be against every 133 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,080 man, and every man's hand against him, and he shall dwell 134 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,200 in the presence of all his brethren. 135 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,960 And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou 136 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,280 God seest me. Or she said, Have I also here 137 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,240 looked after him? That seeth me. 138 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:33,360 Wherefore the well was called Behold, it is between Kadish and 139 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:38,520 bread, and Haggar bear Abram a son, and Abram called his son's 140 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,880 name, which Haggar bear Ishmael and Abram was 4 score. 141 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:48,560 Scores is 20 years all right and six years old when Haggar bear 142 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:53,840 Ishmael to Abram all right, so he's 86. 143 00:07:55,120 --> 00:08:01,200 Heaven Ishmael, God bless Abram. God bless Abram. 144 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:05,840 I was just the other day I was at a a doctor's office, actually 145 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:07,800 a dentist. They were talking about how a 146 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,280 friend of theirs were just having her second child and they 147 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:14,520 were like my age. I'm saying God bless him, God 148 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,320 bless him. I said I and that's fine. 149 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,840 They do that. I think the Lord allowed me to 150 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:24,800 do it a little younger so I'd have the energy for the kids 151 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,960 that came into my house. So Amen, Amen. 152 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,679 So most scholars, and I'm just going to kind of do this along 153 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,440 the way tonight because in my own personal notes, I always, I, 154 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,720 I don't just do title of the sermon, but I kind of head up 155 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,520 sections of my sermon. So I'm going to talk a little 156 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,080 bit for here to begin tonight about the womb, A womb, not a 157 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:52,760 woman womb, not a woman. Because Haggar, again, according 158 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:58,600 to verse #1 was an Egyptian. She was a maidservant of Egypt 159 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:03,160 before she was a handmaid or a maidservant of, of Sarah. 160 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:08,560 And so with that in mind, that basically means that that Haggar 161 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:13,360 was a female slave of, of some sort, or to some degree, that's 162 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,800 one of the reasons why. And, and note, she is really 163 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:20,720 Sarah's, Sarah's handmaid, all right, Sarah's slave, so to 164 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,360 speak. And whenever I, I feel like I 165 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,520 could do a whole lot of explaining right here, because 166 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,560 oftentimes we start talking about slaves in Bible, I think 167 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:33,160 we all think about our recent history in America of modern day 168 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,200 slaves. And that's not what it's like, 169 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:39,120 but nonetheless, So I don't have time to go into all that. 170 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:41,200 All right. But when your mind goes there, 171 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,160 that's not what it's like, all right. 172 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:47,320 But nonetheless, here she is a slave of sorts. 173 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:52,600 And that's one reason why that whenever Sarah is is concerned 174 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:58,280 here a little later after that, she is after Hagar has conceived 175 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,680 and she sees a little attitude. It would seem she picked up on 176 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:06,360 the attitude difference and how Hagar was was toward her that 177 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,880 that she goes to Abraham talking about or Abram talking about all 178 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:15,200 this and Abrams response to her was in verse number six that 179 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,200 basically your maid is in your hand. 180 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:23,440 Your maid is in your hand due due to her as as you please her 181 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:28,600 as you would want to do so again, tying that back to this 182 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:33,360 is really Sarah's made her slave, so to speak. 183 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,160 But in that there's something else we catch. 184 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:41,280 You remember that Abram wasn't too had much forethought where 185 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,920 they first went down into Egypt about what might actually happen 186 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,360 to his wife member. You know, say that you're my 187 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,400 you're you're you're my sister, not my wife. 188 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,200 You remember the whole scenario and we talked about that aspect 189 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,320 of of of him a little bit the consideration for his wife. 190 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,400 Well, here's really kind of a second time that Abram Abram 191 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:03,760 doesn't advocate for another woman his life, the one that now 192 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:07,040 carrying the seat of his first child, Hagar. 193 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:11,600 Let's do it for what you want. So this this almost gets a 194 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,560 little bit confusing to me, but the Hebrew term that that 195 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:20,200 describes Haggar's slavery identifies her as a non Jewish 196 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:25,640 female slave expected to perform difficult or menial tasks within 197 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:28,120 the household. And it's actually derived from a 198 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:33,960 root that specifically refers to this an extra appendage. 199 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:41,280 An extra appendage, something else, right. 200 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:46,160 And so it's like that's the viewpoint of Haggar within the 201 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:52,640 household of Abram and Sarah, the extra appendage, it's almost 202 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:56,360 like you have a complete nuclear family here and you're just 203 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:58,200 extra. I already got two hands. 204 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:02,000 I really don't need another one, but you know what I'm saying? 205 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:06,720 And so she's she's in this row then really supplementary, 206 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:12,680 supplementary to them, if I could say she's not essential. 207 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,440 Let's put it in modern day terms, Erica. 208 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:23,560 She didn't matter. She's the take it or leave it 209 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:28,600 type of option, you know. And so as a slave, though, 210 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,320 Haggar has no control over her fate. 211 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:35,640 She has no control over the places that she she would be 212 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,120 taken. She's considered by cultural 213 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,320 standards, she's considered property. 214 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,160 She's considered property. And so she appears to have no 215 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,080 control over her life or the events that happened around her 216 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,920 in her life. As a matter of fact, even her 217 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:55,840 sexual relations and activities are controlled by her mistress, 218 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,560 Sarah or Sarah. And so that's why we see Sarah 219 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:04,800 giving Hagar. She's giving Hagar to Abram, and 220 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:09,120 Abram has relations to her in, in verse #4 And so at this 221 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:14,360 point, Hagar has has no doubt again been drawn into a 222 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,440 situation here. She has been given to Abram. 223 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,760 She's been drawn into a situation she doesn't have any 224 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:23,240 control over. All right? 225 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:28,040 No control over it. Sarah is barren, all right, And 226 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:33,680 so Sarai sees Hagar as a womb. She's a womb. 227 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:39,000 And so Hagar assumes the role then that Sarai wants her to 228 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:45,120 play in, and she does fulfill the role she fulfills a role 229 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:49,000 that Sarai couldn't fulfill with Abraham herself. 230 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:56,680 Well, folks, you, you, you, you take a person that's an extra 231 00:13:56,680 --> 00:14:02,920 appendage that's non essential, that doesn't matter, and you let 232 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:09,720 them fulfill something that matters when the one that's her 233 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:15,440 Master couldn't. I mean, almost any human being, 234 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,400 almost any human being is going to have a little feelings come 235 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,720 up inside of them. I'm, I mean, I'm just being on. 236 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:25,280 I mean, I probably would have too. 237 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,080 I know I can't get pregnant, but I'm just saying, I probably, I'm 238 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,760 just saying the, the dynamics, I probably had a little bit of 239 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,960 that also. I mean, I've been subjected to 240 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,840 all these menial tasks. I'm, I'm, I'm, you know, I can 241 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,240 be present in the room, but I'm unseen, you know, I, I don't 242 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,040 really matter. I just viewed as extra 243 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,480 unnecessary appendage all these things. 244 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:54,760 So now though she's been given this task she's needed now, the 245 00:14:54,760 --> 00:15:00,440 non essential is essential now. And so she became what Sarah 246 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:05,040 couldn't pregnant, pregnant. And so the with this we have 247 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,200 some things that develop and this is my next setting. 248 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:13,440 They're in this shared space. Speaking of Sarai and Haggar 249 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:21,120 without shared understanding, according to Sarai, Hagar's 250 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:27,760 sense of worth now after she is conceived has somehow altered 251 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,440 her attitude to a certain degree towards Sarai. 252 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:34,800 We read in verse 5 and some of these verses that Sarai even 253 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,760 picks up on that she's she's despising me. 254 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,240 Sorry. She's saying she's despising me. 255 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,240 She's spiteful toward me. And maybe she felt Hagar was 256 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,080 trying to, you know, claim some type of equality with her now, 257 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:49,400 right? I don't know the whole 258 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:53,080 situation, but here's Sarah. I, we got to understand these 259 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:57,720 two lives, these two women, their two lives, Sarah is 260 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:02,120 dealing with a delayed promise in her life, or at least what 261 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,840 she feel like is delayed. She's barren. 262 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:11,120 She's aging, right? Bible says that Abram was 86 263 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:14,200 when Ishmael was born. She's aging. 264 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,880 She's desperate, all right. But then on the other side, 265 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:22,320 Hagar has been living with this reality of being property. 266 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:29,400 She's used. She's given to someone like, I 267 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:33,160 mean seriously given another human being to another human 268 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:39,080 being and she's controlled. So neither of these ladies are 269 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,440 really at peace. They have their own things that 270 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,200 they are contending with in this moment. 271 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:50,680 Sarah's identity, here she is. She has barrenness that has 272 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,520 marked her life. Hagar has ownership that's 273 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:56,720 marked her life, not hers, but someone else owning her. 274 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,520 And So what we see that happens in the Bible. 275 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:05,800 And I find this also true to life, that whenever pain isn't 276 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:13,599 processed correctly in our own lives, then it's projected into 277 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:21,960 other people's lives. Because now that Haggar has this 278 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:25,800 shift in row of being the concubine or the wife, so to 279 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,640 speak, to Abram, and she conceives, she's empowered by 280 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:34,120 that right. And she projects some resentment 281 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:39,480 towards Sarai, toward her mistress. 282 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:46,240 But Sarah seems to project her frustration right back, no doubt 283 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,760 largely connected to the fact she could get pregnant. 284 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:55,960 And I couldn't look at the Bible, says Genesis chapter 16 285 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,760 and verse number six. We are ready to look at it 286 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:00,800 again. Here's where Sarah goes and 287 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,920 consults Abram about what what she senses. 288 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:08,640 And it says that Abram said unto Sarah, I behold thy mate is in 289 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,640 thy hand due to her as it pleaseth thee. 290 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,560 And where Sarah, I dealt hardly with her. 291 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:20,800 She fled from her face the translation of that last phrase 292 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:24,080 there there's various various meetings from different 293 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,160 translations. Some of the translations read 294 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:32,760 that Sarah I dealt harshly or cruelly with Haggar, that she 295 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:37,960 oppressed Hagar or afflicted and mistreated Hagar. 296 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:42,120 The Message Bible even goes this far to say that Sarah I was 297 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:46,640 abusive to Hagar. Mr. Bruce and Fist says this. 298 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:50,920 He said if Sarah couldn't send her slave away, and the reason 299 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,880 why he says this is because there was some old Babylonian 300 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,960 law and code that that that said that you couldn't just send them 301 00:18:58,040 --> 00:18:59,560 away. You couldn't just send your 302 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,640 slave away. He says if she couldn't send her 303 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:07,000 away, he said then she could at least make things so ugly that 304 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,760 the poor girl would leave on her own. 305 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,360 So the scenario, the plot thickens for me. 306 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:18,200 I think it gets a little bit more interesting because here 307 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,040 Sarah has dealt with years of bareness and Hagar's dealt with 308 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:26,160 years of servanthood. And so they both each, each 309 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:32,000 woman has their own insecurity. They each have their own 310 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,680 insecurity and, and everything that it entails of being barren 311 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,600 for Sarah and everything it entails of being a slave or 312 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:44,280 owned for for Hagar. But fact of the matter is, this 313 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:48,760 one and the other may not understand what this moment 314 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,040 brings to the surface for the other one. 315 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,120 In other words, whenever the conception takes place, one may 316 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:59,040 not understand how the other one is feeling in this matter at 317 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,360 this particular juncture of time. 318 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:05,640 Because Sarah, she's no doubt seeing this girl's getting 319 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,720 rebellious. She's there's something rearing 320 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,120 up inside of her, right? But then Haggar's feeling 321 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:13,480 rejected by Sarah. Huh. 322 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,920 Sarah's feeling dishonored, right? 323 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:20,440 And then Haggard, she's, she's feeling quite discarded, 324 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:22,720 especially with the mistreatment and stuff that's coming. 325 00:20:23,360 --> 00:20:26,840 And so it's more than just Haggard serving in the role that 326 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:31,520 Sarah should have for Abraham. It's that these two ladies are 327 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:37,240 colliding because they both have some unspoken wounds in their 328 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,960 stories that they're both coming to the same table with. 329 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:48,560 They're both in pain, different, categorically different, but 330 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:52,960 they're both in pain. And so they're sharing similar 331 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:59,000 space, same household, but they lack empathy for one another. 332 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,240 Amen. They lack empathy. 333 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,640 And so Sarah gives Haggard, she gives her away to Abram as a 334 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:10,280 wife. She mistreats her. 335 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,240 Then after the conception, after everything that was performed, 336 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,720 here's the thing. She wanted what happened, 337 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:22,520 happened, right, Sarah? That's what Sarah was going for. 338 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,280 That's what she was hoping would be the end result. 339 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:30,680 But now she's mistreating her for what she wanted to happen, 340 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,120 and she sees she's misunderstanding. 341 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:37,320 Really the reflection in Hagar because she just doesn't 342 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:39,400 understand really where she's coming from. 343 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,320 Folks, the end of the day, it's this. 344 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,920 There's a lot of times even in church life, we share space, but 345 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:53,840 we don't share understanding. Your pain is not my pain, but we 346 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:57,360 all set in here to some degree with some portion or mount 347 00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:01,880 categorically of pain. And you interpret things that I 348 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:05,600 project from the unhealed stuff in my life, and you project 349 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,520 stuff from the unhealed stuff in your life. 350 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:16,840 And then we're more like this than like this, when a good dose 351 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:23,640 of empathy all around could really change the whole feeling. 352 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:32,400 Amen. And so Sarah, those remember 353 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,800 this whole thing because it's the promise, the promise. 354 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,800 They come in, you know, quick enough for them. 355 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:42,800 And so this situation is created and she goes through with it 356 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,520 with with giving Haggar. And then she can't handle the 357 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,640 consequences or she can't handle the consequences of all this. 358 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:55,240 So Sarah's insecurity is causing her to interpret Haggar as a 359 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,440 threat. And now Hagar's feeling a little 360 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,080 good because she was non essential. 361 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,040 Now she's essential. So there may be a little bit of 362 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,160 pride in there to make you, I mean, come on, you know, welling 363 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,400 up inside of her possibly, you know, And so she started to 364 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,480 interpret. Then this pregnancy is, you 365 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,000 know, superiority. Got a leg up on the mistress. 366 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:19,560 You know, I could bear children. So when it comes down to the 367 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,280 neither woman is fully seen, fully heard, fully understood. 368 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:29,080 But also it's important to note though, Haggar wasn't just a 369 00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:33,680 womb for hire. She was a person. 370 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,160 Not just a womb for hire, a person who has a breaking point. 371 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:43,160 She might have been quote UN quote A servant, but she had a 372 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,680 breaking point. Just because she was labeled A 373 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,200 servant didn't mean she wasn't human. 374 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,480 She had a breaking point. Look at your neighbor and say, I 375 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:57,800 have a breaking point. That is a very, very good thing 376 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:02,320 to admit. We all have a breaking point, 377 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,520 right? And so all of Sarah's bitterness 378 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,000 kind of blinded her from the consequences, even from the 379 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,080 consequences of her own cruelty that she's showing back, the 380 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,080 mistreatment that she's showing back toward Hagar. 381 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:19,160 And the Bible says that Hagar fled from her face. 382 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,400 Think with me, folks. I mean, just take a moment to 383 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,240 think. The promise is delayed. 384 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:29,040 I'm doing this so that maybe we can help the promise along. 385 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,760 This will still be a child from Abram's bowels. 386 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,240 She's pregnant with the child. Let's make it hard for her so 387 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,040 she'll leave. What? 388 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,280 Right. It's like the thing that you 389 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,040 thought you wanted, now you don't want. 390 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,880 Hey, man. So, well, you know what that all 391 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,120 really boils down to that. That boils down to the results 392 00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:55,480 of trying to push God's will through human means. 393 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,000 And so with that, let's go a little step further. 394 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:08,760 I want to talk to you about outcasts and covenant places. 395 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:16,880 Genesis 16 verse #7 So Haggar has fled, the Bible says and the 396 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:22,240 Angel of the Lord found her as found Haggar by a fountain of 397 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:30,120 water in the wilderness by the fountain in the way to sure I'm 398 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,360 you know, I'm not a woman, number one, I'm not pregnant #2 399 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,080 what is? Sometimes you're trying to 400 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:42,800 identify with characters in the Bible and stand in their shoes, 401 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:48,480 right? And so I'm thinking, oh, sweet 402 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,360 or sweet or not hack ours. Probably a little dish 403 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,760 disillusioned right here by the whole play out of things. 404 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,680 I mean, seriously, think of it for a moment. 405 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,840 So Egyptian slave, slave of another. 406 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,760 But here's the important thing. She's not just the slave or the 407 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,960 handmaid just to any other. She's the handmaid to someone 408 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:19,680 and in a household that's in covenant with God, that's 409 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,760 important. She has no personal possessions 410 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,760 of her own, but now she feels like she has part ownership 411 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:31,120 because of what's starting to grow in her womb. 412 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,200 And whether even if she don't own it, because that would 413 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,200 typically be than Sarah's kid, you know, she feels responsible, 414 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,120 feels responsible for what's growing there. 415 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,960 And she looks ahead. Future looks kind of bleak, 416 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,000 right? And so with all this Haggard's 417 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,200 like, mistreat me. You know, you gave me to him. 418 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,200 I didn't have to say so on that. Anyway, mistreat me. 419 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,960 I'm, I'm out of here. I'm I'm going to go back. 420 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,120 I'm going to go back. She goes into the wilderness, 421 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:00,920 the Bible says, on the way to Sure. 422 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,280 The way to Sure is the southernmost route from Canaan 423 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,520 to Egypt. In other words, the the land of 424 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:12,160 Sure itself is near Egypt. It seems as though that Haggar 425 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:17,280 is on her way back to where she was before she ever met Abram 426 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,080 and Sarai. It's as though she's going back 427 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,560 to Egypt. John H Walton said this. 428 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,080 He said if Abrams Camp is still in Hebron, which we read earlier 429 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,400 in the scriptures, that that's last one of the last places 430 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,080 we've seen him. If he's still there, then Haggar 431 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:38,240 traveled about 70 miles through inhospitable territory, and 432 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,760 she's been on the road for probably about a week. 433 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,520 So she's a pregnant woman. Come on, ladies. 434 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,200 Come on, Sister Grace. She is a pregnant woman. 435 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,320 The, the, the terrain is not. It is not. 436 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,640 It's not forgiving. It is difficult. 437 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,880 She's travelled 70 miles, more likely on foot for about a week. 438 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,880 You want to rub your feet at night, rub Hagar's feet. 439 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,520 This isn't good. She had a place, a household. 440 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:10,040 Now she's totally dis dis. You know, she's discarded from 441 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:11,400 there. She don't even have a place. 442 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,000 She don't even know going back to Egypt. 443 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,680 What's that going to be like? I was a handmade there as well, 444 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,480 right? And so so she's desperate. 445 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,600 She's walking back toward Egypt. The one and evidently listen to 446 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,320 me, she's walking back toward Egypt. 447 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,200 Evidently they didn't want her to begin with because they gave 448 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:34,360 her away to Abram and Sarah. I'm just saying, I don't know. 449 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,680 So what, what does it say? Let me put it in these terms. 450 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:43,560 What does it say when someone would rather return to the world 451 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,880 than stay near the people of promise? 452 00:28:52,470 --> 00:28:55,270 Because what I see in this picture can also be a church 453 00:28:55,270 --> 00:29:03,390 problem sometimes having insecure covenant people like 454 00:29:03,390 --> 00:29:09,880 Sarai and I'll name some others here in scripture, Saul and 455 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:14,000 Israel as a nation. And Ahab. 456 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,960 Let me point out to you what I'm getting at. 457 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,720 Outcast with or in covenant people. 458 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,960 First Samuel 27 and verse one, the Bible said, and David said 459 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,800 in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. 460 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:34,280 Saul was a Israelite, David was a Israelite, Saul was king. 461 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,960 All right. These guys know each other quite 462 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,280 well. He says, look what David says. 463 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:45,280 There is nothing better for me then that I should speedily 464 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,600 escape into the land of the Philistines. 465 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,960 And Saul shall despair. Saul shall despair of me to seek 466 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,080 me anymore in any coast of Israel. 467 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,520 So shall I escape out of his hand. 468 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:08,840 David, Saul, there's considered Israel covenant people. 469 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:13,880 But David said the way that things are right now with Saul, 470 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:18,560 there's nothing better for me than to resort and be a part of 471 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:23,480 someone that's known as the enemy of ours, then stay here 472 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,240 with someone that's supposed to be a covenant person with me, 473 00:30:32,150 --> 00:30:35,800 someone hearing me. So what we have here, he said 474 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,000 there's there's nothing better. OK, you might say, well, David 475 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,200 could probably go there and Saul wouldn't go there, you know, 476 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,240 because he that's the enemy territory. 477 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,080 Well, maybe so. But if that was the case, David 478 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,800 had to consider if he went there, that maybe he would be at 479 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,920 harm's way at two. But evidently he felt at less 480 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,240 harm's way being among his enemy than he did being among his 481 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:05,240 people. For David, he said if he's seen, 482 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,440 if I stay here with God's people, all I see there's a 483 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,960 death sentence on my life. But if I can go to Akesh, that's 484 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:17,560 where he went. Note now he went to gas. 485 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,560 Now, if you're a Bible reader, that should cause your mind to 486 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,000 think Gath, Gath, whatever. I heard Gath. 487 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,640 Oh, Gath, I tell you where you heard Gath, Goliath. 488 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:34,160 He was from Gath. Now the pot sweetens. 489 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,040 And this is after the Valley of Elah. 490 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,040 This is after David battled Goliath. 491 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,160 He's saying there's nothing better for me to go to the 492 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,200 hometown of the man that I slaughtered. 493 00:31:48,760 --> 00:32:00,040 I would be safer there than with the people of God. 494 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:07,040 Another case in point, the prophet Jeremiah you read in the 495 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,840 book of Jeremiah, he's the weeping prophet, right? 496 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,440 Israel never wanted to listen to him. 497 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:18,400 His own people beat him, his own people imprisoned him, and his 498 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:23,840 own people virtually hated him. But do you know who Jeremiah was 499 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,800 protected by? According to Scripture? 500 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:32,440 The invading empire that was coming into Jerusalem after 501 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,400 Jerusalem's fall. The Bible tells us that the 502 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,160 Babylonian king, which was Nebuchadnezzar, instructed his 503 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:43,640 captain to care for Jeremiah. This is what the Scripture says. 504 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,280 Jeremiah 39 and verse 12. This is what Nebuchadnezzar said 505 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,120 to the captain. Take him. 506 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,960 He's Speaking of Jeremiah. Take him. 507 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:57,760 Look well to him. Do him no harm, but do unto him, 508 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:03,400 even as he shall say unto thee. Jeremiah's got two different 509 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:08,400 scenarios among his own people. Beaten, imprisoned, among what 510 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,520 would be considered his enemy. Take care of him. 511 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:16,520 Do no harm. I know no one wanting to hear me 512 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,320 right now. We also see what happens. 513 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,920 Elijah flees from Ahab and Jezebel. 514 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:31,160 Those are Israelites. They're Israelites and he goes 515 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:36,680 to Zarapath. Zarapath is a Gentile town, not 516 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:41,400 an Israelite town. He goes to a Gentile town inside 517 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:48,040 and where the Bible says a widow woman sustained him there during 518 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,240 the famine. And Jesus uses this very example 519 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:58,240 in the New Testament of Luke 4 whenever he says there were many 520 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:06,000 widows in Israel during the days of Elijah, but he was sent to 521 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,719 none of them. He was sent to a Gentile widow. 522 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,080 God said I didn't send, I didn't send him to any widows of our 523 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:29,040 people. I sent him to a Gentile widow. 524 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,639 Why? Because sometimes you can be an 525 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:37,679 outcast in covenant places with covenant people. 526 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:46,120 And I say, Amen. It's warm up here. 527 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:51,120 Help me, Jesus, I want to talk to you a little bit about I have 528 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,560 some water over here somewhere. I want to talk to you about the 529 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:59,280 God that sees me or the God who sees me. 530 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,400 This is the first time in Scripture, and you can read it 531 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,840 there in verse #7 but this is the first time in Scripture that 532 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,920 the Bible mentions particularly the Angel of the Lord that 533 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,320 disappears. In Scripture, this label 534 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:17,040 typically identifies A theophany, which means God 535 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:22,080 manifest in himself in some way. Nonetheless, whenever we see 536 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,320 this the first time, it's mentioned other times in 537 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:25,920 Scripture, but this is the first time it's mentioned. 538 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,600 The first time it's mentioned, it's not because the Angel of 539 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,760 the Lord is appearing to Abram. It's not because the Angel of 540 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,400 the Lord is appearing to Sarai. The Angel of the Lord is 541 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,000 appearing to the Egyptian slave girl who's running away, 542 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:45,120 pregnant and alone. And that that holds weight for 543 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:50,760 me, that the first time we see it is with someone that wasn't 544 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,840 in covenant with God. And he didn't find her. 545 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,760 He didn't find her in the tent. He didn't find her there. 546 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,720 No, he found her in the wilderness. 547 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,760 She's a runaway at this point in time. 548 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:07,320 She's a runaway female slave, which for their culture was one 549 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,280 of the lowest of lows. That is number one, to be a 550 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:15,360 slave and secondly to be a female slave, yet he finds her 551 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:20,200 and he didn't he didn't speak to her through a patriarch. 552 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,480 He spoke directly to her and more more important than 553 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:30,320 anything else, he called her by name. 554 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,840 Look at verse 8 again. And he said this is the Angel of 555 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:39,080 the Lord. And he said, Haggar Sarah's Mae, 556 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,800 whence Camus thou whether wilt thou go? 557 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,120 And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 558 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,040 What's so important about that? Because all the verses prior, 559 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:53,440 when you read about Abram or Sarai talking about Hagar, it's 560 00:36:53,440 --> 00:37:01,120 always my maid and thy maid. They never call her by name, but 561 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:05,040 the aims of the Lord shows up in her life to this extra 562 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:09,360 appendage, this non essential. And when nobody else recognized 563 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:13,680 her by name, that's the first thing that he came to her with 564 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,360 was her name. He. 565 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,240 I know you've been called my maid. 566 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,080 I know you've been called the handmaiden. 567 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:20,840 I know you've been called a slave. 568 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,960 I know you've been called extra, he says. 569 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,480 But let me call you who you are, Hagar. 570 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:30,560 And he calls her by name. Though aren't you glad tonight 571 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:34,760 that you serve a personal God? He didn't call. 572 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,640 Listen, God could stand up here tonight, start calling some of 573 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,400 us by our mistakes and calling us by our past and calling. 574 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,880 But but he don't. He comes and he calls us by our 575 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,680 name because Haggar, he's saying, what are you always 576 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,360 doing, Haggar? You're not limited to what you 577 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,960 can do. You're not limited to what you 578 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,080 can do in society or such. Amen. 579 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,160 You're not limited by what? But the church world maybe even 580 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,200 calls you. I'm going to call you by name. 581 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,960 And so he want her to know. I see you. 582 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:09,560 I know you for that matter, if no one understands you, I 583 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,720 understand your circumstances. And he called her by name. 584 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,760 That's something very human. Us humans. 585 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,040 Listen, there's not a person in this building that doesn't like 586 00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:20,520 somebody that they met before coming up to them again and 587 00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,440 remembering their name. That's there's some there's a 588 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,920 feeling that comes up. They they remembered my name. 589 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,280 Yeah, they remembered my name. And so God shows up to this poor 590 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,240 Haggar and he calls her by name. There's there's just a sight of 591 00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:35,720 humanity that longs for that, that he knows your name. 592 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,240 And this is what Haggar realizes in the moment. 593 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,280 It's the reason why she named the welder as it does. 594 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:46,720 She said, thou God seest me. I've been in the court of Sarah 595 00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:49,560 and Abram and I've stood in a room and been unseen. 596 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,080 But God, you see me. I've left and I've from the 597 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,040 cruelty and the mistreatment of of these covenant people. 598 00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,080 But God used to me. I'm out here in the middle of a 599 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,600 wilderness trying to make my way back to Egypt. 600 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,040 Nobody might even care if I'm God. 601 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,600 But God, you showed up right here in the middle of this 602 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,640 wilderness and you called me by name. 603 00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:21,340 I mean, I've lived my life having no control over it, but 604 00:39:21,340 --> 00:39:26,840 you see me. I've been mistreated because I 605 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:32,960 was obedient. But you see me, I've run away 606 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,520 and I'm clinging to a small little fountain out here in the 607 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,680 middle of nowhere and you see me. 608 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,080 And listen, we have no record that anybody else is around. 609 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:50,840 So this is a very poignant, purposeful, narrowed out trip 610 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:57,760 for Haggar. I'm telling you folks, there's 611 00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,160 been times when I've not been with anybody not in the church 612 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,280 setting that God's come down and made himself known. 613 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,840 And it's at that point in time. It's not because there was good 614 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,000 service or good music that he just passed by, but because I 615 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:18,240 was important of the God. How is important enough to God, 616 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,320 essential enough to God that he said, you know what, there's 617 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:22,720 going to have to be anybody else there. 618 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:25,120 Don't have any music, no other worshippers or praisers. 619 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,320 You're important enough. I'm going to stop by and just 620 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:39,200 say Paul, because God sees me and God sees each one of you as 621 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,800 well. I got to go on, I got to hurry 622 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,480 and I said go get through the chapter and go get through 623 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,920 chapter. Now I want to talk to you about 624 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:54,240 this. When God names the pain, when 625 00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:58,800 God names the pain, I'm sharing these with you. 626 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,160 I usually just have these in my notes as indicators to me. 627 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,400 A transition's happening. I know where I'm going, but God 628 00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:08,040 names the pain. Verse 10. 629 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:14,960 So not only does he come to visit, and I'd point this out as 630 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,520 we was reading the text, God promised to multiply Hadgar's 631 00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:26,920 seed exceedingly. You might say, Well, wait for a 632 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:28,840 moment. Her son's not the son of 633 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:33,480 promise. That's true, He wasn't. 634 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:41,880 But there are aspects of Ishmael's life that flow from a 635 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:48,480 promised father. Abraham was promised that his 636 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:53,360 seed would be as the stars of the sky, as the sand along the 637 00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:57,160 shore. That which was in Hagar was 638 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:03,280 Abraham's seed. Maybe not the promised child, 639 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,800 but his seed nonetheless right back and we'll get to it later 640 00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,600 where Abram even has conversation with God says, oh 641 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,160 God, you know, you know, Ishmael let him. 642 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,560 He was thinking God, you know, Ishmael can be the one that God 643 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,160 like, no, I make my covenant with Isaac. 644 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:23,080 He said, but I'll bless Ishmael. Why? 645 00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,560 Because the seed that's going to come through Ishmael is still 646 00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:32,520 seed that came from Abraham. Someone say Amen. 647 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,080 And so we have no record. I read the Scriptures, I looked. 648 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,600 We have no record that Hagar had any other children beside 649 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:44,440 Ishmael. But the Bible tells us in 650 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,400 Genesis 17 that we'll get to that. 651 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:51,080 Ishmael had twelve sons. It's quite peculiar, honestly, 652 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:56,800 because we see later Jacob through the promised seed of 653 00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:01,480 Isaac. Through Jacob comes 12 tribes of 654 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,400 Israel. Through Ishmael comes twelve 655 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:10,120 sons, making him also a father of a great nation. 656 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,520 Now the Bible describes and I'm, I'm, I'm, I don't know, I'm 657 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:18,320 feeling like I'm moving slowly, but that's OK. 658 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,240 Some of you all probably are too. 659 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,000 Amen. Bible says Ishmael will be a 660 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,080 wild man. Another translation, say a wild 661 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,080 donkey. Either way, what the expression 662 00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:34,920 is is, is conveying is that he'll have a solitary existence 663 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:38,480 in the desert away from society. That's really what it's 664 00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,880 conveying. And that there would be friction 665 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,640 between him and others because of their different ways of life. 666 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,320 And yes, Brother Ethan, we could get into the fact right now that 667 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,800 you know, the, the, the, the, the Palestinian people and, and 668 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,480 the Jewish people and stuff. That's still a conflict today. 669 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:54,600 But I'm not getting into all that. 670 00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,720 I've brought that up several other times at other places and 671 00:43:57,720 --> 00:43:58,960 I would not get done this evening. 672 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:05,240 But it appears Ishmael is given to Haggar, particularly verse 11 673 00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:07,720 says, look at it now. This is the Angel of the Lord 674 00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:13,000 speaking to her. He says you should have a son. 675 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,600 Thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because the Lord hath 676 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:23,560 heard thy affliction. Ishmael's given to Haggar 677 00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:29,080 particularly because God has heard her affliction, and 678 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,000 Ishmael's very name means Anybody know what Ishmael means? 679 00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:40,840 God hears. Now that brings comfort to a 680 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:47,720 Haggar out in the middle of the wilderness, but when she goes 681 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:53,280 back home to submit herself to Sarai, that can bring comfort to 682 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:58,920 a sarai too. Every time that boy's name would 683 00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:06,000 be called, the interpretation of God hears is being brought up in 684 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,040 the emotions of a Sarai that that hasn't had a child yet. 685 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,920 Someone say Amen. So he's going to be born to a 686 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,160 very complex, a very painful situation. 687 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:22,920 Ishmael, if I may, becomes a living reminder that neither 688 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:28,760 woman's suffering when unnoticed by heaven, God hears. 689 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,440 For the haggard that fled into the wilderness under the weight 690 00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,600 of the mistreatment of despair. Boom, God hears. 691 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,840 He's heard your affliction. Here's Ishmael, sealed the 692 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:43,200 moment, sealed eternally, if you will, in memory. 693 00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,920 But even then, for Sarah, all the bareness, all the doubts, 694 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,640 couldn't find any, any peace, if you will. 695 00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,400 Even that child born through her maid, we're going to even be 696 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,000 proof for her from God that guess what, He's not ignoring 697 00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:02,760 anything. God hears God, God listens when 698 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,680 human understandings, even of each other fail. 699 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,560 Not only that, Ishmael is going to be there, that God has been 700 00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:16,720 hearing all alone, even in the silence of your struggle. 701 00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:33,560 So yes, God has a promise, Abram and Sarah. 702 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:39,400 Ishmael seems to be born out of impatience more so than divine 703 00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:46,320 timing, and although he will not fulfill the covenant with Abram, 704 00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:51,200 he will never. He was never outside of God's 705 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,480 compassion, presence, and plan. What are you saying? 706 00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,800 Because God still said He would care for Ishmael. 707 00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:00,400 We give him those descendants. We do XY and Z. 708 00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,400 He may have not been the fulfillment for the promise, but 709 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:09,000 he also wasn't outside of God's presence, compassion, or plan. 710 00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,280 I'm running, I'm running, I really AM. 711 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,720 We're doing all right. I know it's not 30 minutes. 712 00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:16,040 I've been doing, you know that 30 minutes. 713 00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:19,440 But this is teaching. If I preach this, it'd been 30 714 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,440 minutes. I want to talk to you about 715 00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,120 obedience in uncomfortable places. 716 00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,520 Obedience in uncomfortable places. 717 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,600 And this is kind of right at the very end, and I'm kind of going 718 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,880 back to a verse to talk about an uncomfortable verse. 719 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:39,880 And that's verse #9 when the reply to Haggar was that the 720 00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:44,080 Angel of the Lord said unto her, return to thy mistress and 721 00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:51,400 submit myself under her hands. That's a difficult verse because 722 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,160 we know whenever Haggar left, she was being mistreated, 723 00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:59,560 whatever that interprets by by Sarai. 724 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:04,800 And so we we have we have difficulty reconciling that God 725 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,560 would send Haggar back to someone that had been harsh to 726 00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:13,120 her. And I'm just going to read this 727 00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,640 to you exactly like I have it written down so I don't get it 728 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:20,280 wrong. Sometimes God calls us to return 729 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:25,040 to difficult places, not because they are ideal, but because he 730 00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,760 has a plan that one flowed through our obedience. 731 00:48:34,230 --> 00:48:37,350 Submission isn't. This is so important, folks. 732 00:48:37,670 --> 00:48:39,910 Submission isn't always about the person. 733 00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:42,440 Go back and submit yourself to Sarah. 734 00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,520 Submission isn't always about the person. 735 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:46,640 Sometimes it's about the purpose. 736 00:48:52,380 --> 00:48:58,460 God wasn't endorsing Sarah's harsh treatment, No, but He was 737 00:48:58,460 --> 00:49:01,220 calling Haggard to return so that the child that she was 738 00:49:01,220 --> 00:49:04,980 carrying in her Ishmael would grow up within that framework of 739 00:49:04,980 --> 00:49:09,860 Abraham's household. And Haggard's return was really 740 00:49:09,860 --> 00:49:14,960 a part of a larger plan that she couldn't even yet see, and that 741 00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:18,160 was a future for her descendants. 742 00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:25,560 And as we'll see, it positions her God's visitation in the very 743 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:31,480 near future in Genesis 21 when he meets her a second time in 744 00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,560 the wilderness. So I'll conclude with this, and 745 00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,840 you can stand with me tonight. See, we're doing good. 746 00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:45,160 So yeah. Genesis 16, Sarah's and Abrams, 747 00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:51,960 impatience, Sarah's Baroness. But it's not about all that. 748 00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:58,280 It's also about a God that sees sometimes people that's caught 749 00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,160 in the crossfire of human failure. 750 00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,880 And when, when people fail to see you, God sees you. 751 00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:11,920 When your identity is stripped from you, when you feel like 752 00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:14,160 that extra appendage, you'd rather trout, right? 753 00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:20,320 Like that third ear. You know, we got to understand 754 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:27,080 that God sees and he doesn't just see us, though he observes, 755 00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,720 he restores to a certain degree. He gives dignity. 756 00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:37,720 He gives dignity. He names our pain, names our 757 00:50:37,720 --> 00:50:40,800 pain, gives us promises in the wilderness. 758 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,400 And whenever Hagar went back, she didn't go back to the same 759 00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:48,720 woman that left. Do you understand that in that 760 00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:54,240 wilderness she got a promise? She left not with anything, but 761 00:50:54,240 --> 00:50:56,280 she got a promise in the wilderness that she could take 762 00:50:56,280 --> 00:51:03,960 back in submission and see a greater plan carry out if she 763 00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:08,160 hadn't, if it that she would see carried out that she may not 764 00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:14,680 have seen if she hadn't. So I guess the moral of the 765 00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:19,040 story is folks, we got there's I don't think it's just so cut and 766 00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,920 dry sometimes as we look at this chapter, so cut and dry. 767 00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,120 There's a lot of there's a lot of things going on with these 768 00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,320 two ladies. There's a lot of wounds, there's 769 00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,240 a lot of misunderstandings. There's a lot of like there's a 770 00:51:29,240 --> 00:51:32,480 lot of stuff. It's like a man field, a mine 771 00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:34,760 field. We need, you know, we need a 772 00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:38,280 licensed therapist to kind of deduce this whole thing. 773 00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:40,840 I'm serious. There would be some good content 774 00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:42,720 there. Amen. 775 00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:50,840 Let's pray tonight and let's pray this that we would be a 776 00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:59,280 church that wouldn't cause any of the covenant people trying to 777 00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:06,400 look for more security beyond this place and find it with 778 00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,400 their enemy more than with their friend. 779 00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:15,120 God, we come to you tonight. We need you, O Lord, in this 780 00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:18,160 place. God, I pray, O Lord, you ever 781 00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,160 anoint our hearts, touch our lives. 782 00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:27,520 God, help us, O Lord Jesus, God too, Lord, not to be a soul, not 783 00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:31,720 to be a Ahab, not to be Lord, the nation of Israel. 784 00:52:31,720 --> 00:52:35,760 Lord, toward the Jeremiah. I pray, O God today, help us, O 785 00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:40,120 Lord Jesus, today. God of all the widows, Lord, 786 00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,720 that their word Israel. Lord, you did not send Lord 787 00:52:42,720 --> 00:52:46,160 Elijah to any of them. You sent him to a Gentile widow. 788 00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,560 A pre old God minister has got all the different people with 789 00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,840 their pains and their woundings and all the different things of 790 00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:55,440 life that they contend with it I might not contend with. 791 00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:59,280 Help me God not to project God, the own pain of what I'm feeling 792 00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,360 on them or toward them or vice versa. 793 00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:05,160 God, Lord, we need your help. We need a God that sees us and 794 00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:08,360 each of us individually and that we would find a place the 795 00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:12,800 security and they even walk Lord God right there God as we walk 796 00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:17,560 with you, help us God to share this space and also share 797 00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:21,240 understanding. I pray God under this roof, help 798 00:53:21,240 --> 00:53:24,880 us God to be what you want us to be in the name of Jesus Christ 799 00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:29,560 that I pray Hallelujah in the church say Amen, Amen. 800 00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,720 Ladies night out tomorrow night leaving here at 5:15. 801 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:33,680 All right, if you're.