Title Sarah (Genesis 17:15-19)
Contents 1. Sarah as a woman.
1) The Bible records Sarah as Abraham's wife from the beginning, and after living as Abraham's virtuous wife, he died before Abraham and was buried in the cave of Machpelah.
2) Sarah was an ordinary wife who obeyed her husband, but it is known that she was exceptionally beautiful. This is because on two occasions Abraham was in crisis because of his wife (Gen. 12:13-20; 20:1-3).
3) Peter mentioned Sarah as an example of a wife adorning her submission to her husband beautifully before God (1 Peter 3:6). It was because she recognized not only her outward beauty, but also her submissive inner beauty, calling her husband Lord.
4) Sarah was a woman with a strong sense of responsibility. Even after ten years of entering Canaan, there were no children. As a woman, she did the unbearable thing to bear the responsibility. It was to give Hagar to Abraham as a concubine, and to have children (Genesis 16:1-3). This was also a sin committed by not being able to endure God's promises to the end.
5) Sarah was also jealous like most women. When she learned that Hagar was pregnant, she despised her and claimed her right as a wife, and God also sided with Sarah to Abraham.
2. Sarah, the mother of faith.1) Above all else, Sarah raised the status of a woman through faith and shows the beauty of faith.
2) Sarah's faith did not come from nature, nor from anything supernatural. The roots of her faith are in her ordinary daily life, and in fulfilling her duties as a wife, she is a valuable faith obtained by obeying God in an ordinary position.
(1) When they left their homeland and headed for an unknown world, they followed without a single complaint.
(2) He wandered in the land of Canaan and followed Abraham without complaint even though he was lonely and lonely without any friends.
(3) Even though she almost became Pharaoh's concubine, she resolutely remained faithful only to her husband.
(4) There were no complaints about the hospitality of strangers.
3) God gave these two kinds of grace to Sarah.
(1) He gave us unchanging faith until the end.
(2) He opened the womb, which was impossible with human power or common sense, so that he could conceive. Sarah, who was preparing food in the tent, laughed when she heard the promise that “there would be a son” (Genesis 18:10). This is because God's promise was fulfilled, "Not all the seed of Abraham are his children, but the one born of Isaac shall be called your seed" (Romans 9:7).