Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies.

And it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So, chapter 21, verse 1.

Now the Lord visited Sarah as he said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had spoken.

For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in old age at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

So notice how this is referred to as the fulfillment of the statement God made at the Oak of Mamry, right?

Remember he said exactly when, right? Isaac was going to be born.

And it's saying, God did exactly what he said.

This is not implying Sarah had a virgin birth.

Getting back to that original question, right?

This is not like the Theotogo.

She did not have a virgin birth.

Isaac was conceived in the usual way.

Abraham did something.

Right.

But when this baby is born, especially at their age,

we can very clearly see that it's born in exactly the time God said,

this is God who gave her this baby.

Right?

This wasn't just, well, Abraham and Sarah kept trying,

even though they were like septogenarian,

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