Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Carly Anderson, Genesis 18 to 23.

We're going to skip to chapter 21 where the promise gets fulfilled.

So she got the promise, it had a little bit of laughter in it.

Then we moved to verse 1.

The Lord visited Sarah, as he had said.

And the Lord did unto Sarah as he had promised. That word visited,

it's pachad in the Hebrew. And it can be to visit, it can be to appoint. It has a specialness to it.

It marks it as a very important thing to be visited of the Lord to have that interaction,

but also to have a special appointment. I'm seeing that Sarah is going to be able to step into

her matriarchal power. The Lord visits Sarah. He pucods. It's a special ritual, moves her into a new

space.

And Sarah conceived and bare Abraham, a son in his old age at the set time that God had spoken.

Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him.

Whom Sarah bared to him.

Say it with me, Yitzhak.

Right?

We get down in verse 6, a little song that Sarah kind of sings to explain the naming.

Sarah said, God made me to laugh so that all that here will laugh with me.

Verse 7.

And she said, who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck?

For I have born him a son in his old age.

The laughter behind it, God has made me to laugh. So I want to bring in a Jewish tradition that sees in her song something special.

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