06/04/23 Midtown Church Sacramento + Online
Series: What’s in a Name – What we call God Matters
Message: El Roi: The God Who Sees
Pastor Susie Gamez
Genesis 16:1-6 (NIV)
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; 2 so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”
Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. 4 He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.
When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. 5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”
6 “Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
Like Sarai, we are prone to:
Take matters into our own hands instead of waiting on God’s promise
Like Abram, we are prone to:
Be complicit and complacent
Like Hagar, we are prone to:
Run from our problems
God is faithful to…
- Hear us
- See us
- Seek after us
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