Title Most Precious Inheritance / Genesis 21:8-21
Content Most Precious Inheritance / Genesis 21:8-21
Title: Most Precious Legacy
Text: Genesis 21:8-21
2003.10.12 Sunday Worship
A child lost 60,000 won for a school trip. So I carefully told my parents that I lost money. My mother said: “No, how the hell did you come into being? Are you pouring out my fictitious days? If you buy a pencil and eraser, you lose it quickly, and you lose your umbrella. So how did you get home? great great Nothing else is great, but your head is great. This is a stone head!”
Human dignity sprouts in the home. If you go out and do something unfair and come in, you have to release it at home. Children who are not recognized at home do not value themselves outside.
Do you not hear these words from time to time in our house?
“Don’t squeak.”
“On a subject that I can’t even study”
“What do you know?”
“You’re making crazy noises”
“I don’t even want to look.”
“If you don’t want to study, leave school.”
“Play as you see fit.”
“Where are you going to use it?”
“The money I spent on you is not worth it.”
“What is this? You are my cross.”
“Because I gave birth to that and ate seaweed soup”
“Go out and get away.”
“It will be dug out of the family register.”
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These words belong to the curse. Many parents curse their children without thinking. If it is not enough to bless you for the best of luck, how will your child grow up if you keep cursing?
In today's text, we see the scene where Hagar gives up on her son Ishmael. But God gave me courage and strength again so that I could raise my son well.
Ishmael is the son of Abraham. But he is not the son of his wife Sarah. He was the son of Sarah's servant Hagar. Sarah had no children. So, I gave birth to a son through Hagar, my maid, in order to pass it on. However, Ishmael obtained in this way is not the son God promised.
After 14 years, God opened Sarah's womb. After a long wait, Sarah turned 90 and gave birth to a son. The son he obtained was Isaac. It is the day Isaac is weaned and the first birthday party is celebrated. 15-year-old Ishmael played with Isaac. But when Sarah saw it, it seemed to be a mockery.
When Sarah gave birth to a son, Ishmael looked like a thorn in her eyes. Because there is an inheritance problem. Ishmael is also clearly the son of Abraham. He also had a share of inheritance. So Sarah encouraged her husband Abraham.
This is verse 10 of the text. “And he said to Abraham, Cast out this maidservant and her son. The son of this servant shall not inherit with my son Isaac.”
Sarah's jealousy drove Hagar out. He left with bread and a leather bag of water on his shoulder. Then, in the Beersheba fields, they lost their place and wandered. The water ran out in the wilderness. Hagar fell from exhaustion. I put my 15-year-old son under a bush. Then, saying that he would never see his child die, he went about a year old and sat facing each other. A piece of flesh refers to the distance an arrow hits. See the arrow distance about 200 meters. That distance means that they are sitting very far apart. Hagar was there and wept.
Then God heard the voice. Verse 17 says, “God heard the boy’s voice.” The Bible says that Hagar did the great song, but God actually heard the child's voice.
Perhaps Ishmael cried as well. Hagar wept and Ishmael wept. Among them, God only hears Ishmael's voice and responds. Hagar and Ishmael had the strength to weep. If you fall down from exhaustion, you shouldn't even have the strength to cry. It takes a lot of strength to do a bangseongdaegok. Then it is still too early to give up. He's not a newborn baby, he's about the size of a middle school student. Then I had to somehow find a way to live.
But Hagar had given up on her son. Water has fallen from the desert, and there is no point in moving further. No, I was kicked out of the Abraham family, whom I relied on more than that, but I had no hope of living any longer. Hagar lost her urgency to live and was pushed to the brink of death.
Then God heard the child's voice.
“Get up, raise the child and hold him with your hands.”
In no case can parents abandon their children. God commanded him to get up and raise the child. Hagar, 200 meters away, had to be with Ishmael.
God heard Ishmael's voice and responded. Then, God can directly arrest Ishmael. But God did not do that. Her mother Hagar commands her to kill her son and raise him up. That's the parent's role.
“Hold it with your hands.” It was Ishmael who was driven out without receiving his father's inheritance. I need consolation. But what if your mother is more sad and wants you to die? A mother should not fall with her children when they are discouraged. You have to hold it with courage and strength until the end.
God made Hagar see a spring of water. If you move a little, there is a spring water nearby. If you drink water and feel refreshed, then there is a way to live.
God blessed Ishmael to become a great nation. When he grew up, he dwelt in the wilderness and became an archer. He got an Egyptian woman and married him.
The Hebrew word for blessing is veraka. Veraka has the meaning of conveying the power of God's goodness and grace as it is. This beraka can be transmitted by mouth or through laying on of hands.
So, once the Jews had said a word of blessing, they could never pick it up.
Isaac was about to bless Esau. The second Jacob deceived his blind father to receive the blessing of the firstborn. After returning home, Esau found out that his younger brother had been blessed. I begged my father to bless me again, but to no avail. Because you have already done all the good blessings
It is a privilege for parents to bless their children. No one can follow. When parents bless their children, they act as priests.
God's blessings are not cash.
The seeds of Chinese bamboo are unique. Unlike other seeds, they do not sprout even when planted in the ground. It goes into a sleep state for 5 years or so. No matter how much care is put in providing good nutrition, it will not wake up for 5 years. However, after 5 years of buds, it grows rapidly during the year to become a large tree up to 18 meters. So the farmer knows this, so he continues to take care of the seeds for five years. If you neglect to take care of the seed because you can't see the sprout, the seed will never become a tree.
Our children are like this too. Raising children, I look forward to one day becoming a mature tree. You must constantly pluck the weeds around you. You can not give up a child in any crisis.
What is the difference between a child who grows up with blessings and a child who does not?
What will a child who grew up in fear and fear grow up to be?
There are three kinds of blessings.
First, parents pray to God for their children.
The second is for parents to pray with their children.
Third, parents directly bless their children.
When you bless your children, place your hands on your head.
Hug your children as you bless them.
When you bless, leave it to God who always blesses you.
It is a sin for parents not to bless their children.
Before giving a blessing, we need words of praise.
Your child's name already contains a blessing.
Please give me a precious nickname full of blessings.
Jesus gave a disciple named Simon the nickname Peter. Peter means rock.
Praise is a blessing, slander is a curse.
Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Jesus said. “Everyone who is angry with his brother will be judged; whoever calls him raga against his brother will be put in prison, and whoever calls him a fool will be thrown into the fire of hell.”
If we promise to be parents who bless our children, we must not curse and curse them at the same time.
To bless my children, I must first get rid of the bitter root of the curse within me.
I must be freed from the cursed bonds I have been subjected to.
I must forgive those who cursed me.
These are the first words Jesus said on the cross.
“Father, forgive them. I don’t know what they are doing.”
Then we need to correct our bad speech habits.
Negative words - you can't
Don't make negative comparisons. - Look at me.
Negative titles - you idiot, you idiot
Fire - kill with words. “Have you seen such a killer?”
There is one word in the Bible to defend children.
“And fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.”
We need to care for the wounds we've inflicted on our children. I have to apologize.
Blessings are like perfume, and when you touch them, their scent is released.
Jesus took the children in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.
“Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” He took the little children, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.”
Before his death, Jacob blessed his 12 sons and grandchildren.
What is the most precious legacy your parents leave behind? If I leave a lot of money, will my children live comfortably? There are times when you leave money and ruin your life.
A father took his teenage son on a tour of a small privately owned airfield. There he met a pilot, a close friend and a seasoned stuntman. A seasoned pilot and father boarded a two-seater plane. The veteran pilot began performing aerobatics using skills he had built up over the years. After the dive, it was time for the plane to soar again into the sky. The plane suddenly lost speed and lost focus. Moments later, the plane crashed near the runway and exploded.
The first person to arrive on the plane was his son, whom he had been watching. The teenage boy managed to drag his father's friend out of the plane that exploded. He seemed to be able to survive. Then the boy hastily pulled his father out. But my father seemed to have no hope of living.
It was a rural village, so it took a long time for an ambulance to arrive. When the medical staff arrived at the scene, they witnessed an astonishing sight. For a few minutes, the father was blessing his son in great pain. The son also blessed his father. The father died just a few miles from the hospital, but that day the father's blessings were with his son's life for the rest of his life.
Let me ask you one question.
If you only have 40 minutes to live, can you articulate words of blessing to your children?
What kind of blessing would you give with your most precious gift?
Entering the temple is an opportunity for all members of the church to receive God's blessing.
When Solomon blessed the people during the inauguration ceremony of the temple, God granted all their needs.
We hope that you will learn how and when to bless your children through this early morning prayer meeting.
From “Turn off the lights and sleep!~”
A bed to bless the child.
Let's pass on our most precious legacy to our children.