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Hello, everyone, everywhere.

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Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

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Welcome to your 15 minute daily Bible walk.

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We're so blessed that you're joining us today as we continue our study through the book of Genesis.

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And today we're going to begin in chapter 16, Genesis, chapter 16.

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We'll begin in verse number one.

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Now, Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children.

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She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

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And Sarai said to Abram, behold, now the Lord has restrained me from bearing.

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I pray thee, go in unto my maid.

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It may be that I may obtain children by her.

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And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai and Sarai, Abram's wife took Hagar, her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt 10 years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband, Abram, to be his wife.

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Verse 4.

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And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived.

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When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

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And Sarai said to Abram, my wrong be upon you.

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I have given my maid into your bosom.

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And when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes.

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So the Lord judged between you and me.

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But Abram said to Sarai, behold, your maid is in your hand.

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Do to her as it pleases you.

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When Sarai dealt harshly with her, she, Hagar, fled from her face.

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I'll stop right there.

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I want to go in a little bit in depth here about what just happened.

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Abram was told by God him and Sarai would have babies.

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And it hadn't happened yet.

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She was told God said, through you, your descendants shall be numerous as the sand of the sea.

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And all that promise.

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Well, we can say that they tried.

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It just wasn't happening.

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It just was not happening.

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And here we see that, you know, they're getting up in years, all right?

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And we have the issue here of, you know, is the promise going to come to pass or not?

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And one day Abe's coming back from the market probably, and, you know, coming through town.

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And, you know, this is days before air conditioning, so it's probably warm.

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And she's sitting outside the tent trying to stay as cool as she can.

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And here comes April walking up the street towards the tent.

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And she's like, oh, God, he's got that look in his eyes again.

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Because, remember, this is not immaculate conceptions, all right?

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They had to physically try and take care of business.

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We'll just leave it like that.

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And here comes Abram walking up, and then she Says to Abram, a verse two.

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I've been talking to God and you can just see this, okay?

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Just picture this.

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Just put up with brother Bob and his folly here for a little bit.

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As Paul used to say, bear with me a little in my folly.

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I'm just trying to paint this picture here for you about what may have occurred here.

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And Sarai said to Abraham, you know, I know Abe, God told you that you were going to have a baby.

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And obviously it's not going to happen through me.

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It's just not happening.

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So I got an idea.

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Why don't you go in with my servant girl and have a baby by her and then we'll raise it together and you'll have your son and everything will be great.

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Now picture this now, okay, at this point in time, let's say Abram is, you know, 70 some years old.

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We know that, that over here in when Isaac was born, he was 99 years old.

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And that 13 years was when Ishmael, once he turned 13, is when God appeared to him again.

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Right?

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So go 13 years prior to that.

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And you got 87 a year for the nine months, you know, for the conception and all that.

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So he's about 86 years old at this point in time.

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All right?

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And they've been trying for a while.

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Just leave.

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I'll just let that hang there for a second.

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And she says, you know, this is my idea.

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And here's 86 year old, which means Hagar or Sarai was how old?

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About 76.

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Right.

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So here Abram's looking at, you know, Grandma Sarai over here.

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And it looks over here at, you know, let's just say 21 year old.

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Hagar looks back over here at Sarai, looks back over here at Hagar, says, you sure?

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She goes, yeah, yeah.

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This, I think, I think this is what God wants.

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Abram shrugs and shows, it sounds like God to me.

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And in they go.

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And out came Ishmael.

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Think about that.

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Ishmael basically means a compromise.

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A compromise where God gave you a promise and you compromised on it.

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You know, it could be an.

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On anything.

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Buying a new car, you know, nothing wrong with your old car.

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Yeah, it's three, four, five years old.

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It's not as shiny as it was when you drove it off.

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That car room, the new car floor, that showroom.

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But there's nothing wrong with it.

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I mean, you know, it's got some nicks and dings and might not be running exactly like it was when it was brand new, but there's nothing wrong Wrong with it.

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But yet you see his commercial for a brand new car and you still owe two, three years on this other one.

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He decided, you know what we got going and see what they'll give me for it.

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So let's say your car payment was 400amonth, $300 a month.

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Now it's gonna be $550 a month.

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But instead of only having a year, 18 months left on the note and it'll be paid off.

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Now you're in debt for another six, seven years at a higher amount.

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That's a compromise, folks.

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That's a compromise.

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Just, I'm just letting that there's nothing.

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You're not in sin, you're not going to hell over buying a car unless God told you exactly not to do it.

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But the point I'm trying to make here is if you're believing for a new car, wait for God to open the door for it.

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It will happen on his time.

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You know, we drove our car.

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This is, I'm just gonna put this out there before we wrap up for today.

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My car, I drove it for 17 years and it was, you know, we knew that it was about time.

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But it was nice not having a car payment and a very low insurance payment.

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I kept full coverage on it the whole time, even after it had been paid off.

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We financed it for seven years.

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I had it paid off in four.

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And we kept full coverage on it because if something happened, I wanted to make sure I had at least a down payment for a new one.

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Amen.

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And, you know, we knew it was getting on.

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I said, well, probably this summer we're going to be getting a new car.

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You know, we'll save up for a good down payment and we'll go in and we'll get a new car this year.

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And instead somebody ran a red light and totaled my car.

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Well, we had full coverage insurance.

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Guess what?

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We got a down payment for a brand new car now.

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Yes, we have a car payment.

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Okay, I'm not going to hell because of a car payment.

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But what I'm trying to say is all of this worked out where I didn't have to script and save and all that other stuff for a car payment because we had a car payment through the insurance program, even though it had been paid off.

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I kept it there just for that, just in case something happened.

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And it did, in God's timing on it.

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I didn't say God caused the accident, okay?

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I'm saying that the accident occurred because somebody made a decision to run a red light that's not.

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I'm not condemning nobody, anything like that.

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I'm just saying that's what happened.

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But the resources were there and God provided those resources so we could just walk right in, get a brand new car.

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Okay.

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Within a week we had our new car.

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So the point I'm trying to make is do not compromise.

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I could have gone in at any time and said, you know, what do you give me for this one?

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And it wouldn't have been worth much because it was 17 years old.

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And so let's say they give you a thousand bucks.

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Well, now you know, now I'm in debt even more unless I come up with a large down payment out of pocket which means we gotta take from our savings and all that other stuff.

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But instead it all worked out.

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You know, all things work together for good of them that love the Lord and are called according to his purpose.

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Same thing would have happened here with Abram.

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Instead he had a compromise.

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Ishmael.

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Ishmael is the compromise and the thing I want to leave you with today.

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I'm going to ask you this question and I want you to ponder it until we come back next time.

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What did God promise you that you've compromised on and how has that affected you?

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Because here we will see as we continue next time.

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Ishmael has been a thorn in Abraham's descendant sides ever since.

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It should not have been like that.

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He did not need Ishmael but because he is related to Abraham.

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God's toll.

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And we'll see this where as we get into this next time.

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God promised Ishmael's mom Hagar that he'd take care of them.

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Amen.

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But that has become a thorn in Israel's side that goes to even today.

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Amen.

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We're gonna leave it right there till next time.

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This Pastor Bob reminding you to be blessed in all that you and don't compromise trying to beat God at his own game.

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It just does not work.

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Amen.

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Be blessed.