Answering Questions from the Beginning | What is the matter, Hagar?

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 21:7–18, looking at the question "What is the matter, Hagar?" Recorded October 8, 2023.

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Introduction - 0:00
1. Who would have thought it of you? - 7:34
2. Was this the first recorded bullying? - 11:43
3. Is being of one flesh ever easy? - 17:55
4. Have the ways of God ever distressed you? - 22:28
5. Does God often speak to one and not the other? - 34:14
6. Have you ever been called to make a heartbreaking decision? - 40:52
7. Have you ever been to a place where all hope is lost? - 46:53
8. Do we believe God hears our cries? - 52:09

7 And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

8 The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast. 9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking, 10 and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”

11 The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son. 12 But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. 13 I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.”

14 Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.

15 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. 16 Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she began to sob.

17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. 18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”