Answering Questions from the Beginning | Where have you come from, and where are you going?

Join Pastor Tony and Bob in this week's Journey Class, continuing the series Answering Questions from the Beginning. This week's scripture is Genesis 16:7–16. Recorded August 27, 2023.

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Introduction - 0:00
1. Why does the Lord ask questions? - 12:24
2. Is our reasoning the same as God's? - 19:40
3. Have we lost the blessing of family? - 33:37
4. Does God hear some prayers more than others? - 40:28
5. Have we lost the significance of names? - 47:28
6. Are we too old to be used by God? - 54:33

7 The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. 8 And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”

“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.

9 Then the angel of the LORD told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 10 The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”

11 The angel of the LORD also said to her:

“You are now pregnant
and you will give birth to a son.
You shall name him Ishmael,
for the LORD has heard of your misery.
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward all his brothers.”

13 She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.” 14 That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

15 So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.