Title: Sarai, Abram, Hagar! / Genesis 16:7-16
Content Title: Sarai, Abram, Hagar!
Bible: Genesis 16:7-16
Date: 1997. 1. 12 (Sunday) Sunday afternoon at Mission Church
Now, the three people who appeared here in Chapter 16 have no better or worse. None of them deserve to inherit the promises of God. They are not worthy of God's great covenant at all.
Let's think about it here! What would have happened if Abram had passed through the pieces of meat? He had already been destroyed by using the curse of the covenant he had broken, and he would have become a stranger who had nothing to do with the covenant. That is why God did not allow Abram to pass through the pieces of meat, but He passed through alone, so He bore the curse on all the covenants that Abram broke.
Therefore, what we show today in this chapter is that no one, including Abram, can fulfill or keep that covenant. That is why Jesus Christ bore the cross of his own curse. For the sake of the everlasting covenant that I have broken.... If all human beings could save themselves, Jesus Christ would never have taken up the cross. And since all human beings cannot save themselves or become heirs of the eternal kingdom of heaven, God sent Jesus Christ to bear the cross and bear all those curses.
(Isa 53:4) Indeed, he hath borne our afflictions and carried our sorrows; but we thought that he was chastised, struck by God, and afflicted (Isaiah 53:5); He was bruised for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace; with his wounds we are healed (Isaiah 53:6) We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way. He laid upon him the iniquity of our multitude.
(John 14:6) Jesus said to them, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.
(Acts 4:12) There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
God's concrete comfort and faithfulness are shown in looking back at Hagar, a pregnant woman who was expelled.