Genesis 21

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Dr. J. Vernon McGee

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Abraham has come home. He’s gone south for the last time, now he’s living in the land of promise, and God is ready to fulfill His promise of a son—when Abraham is 100 years old! Pull up a chair at Abraham’s celebratory feast and witness as Ishmael begins to mock Isaac. Together we’ll see how these events are full of symbolism for us today.

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0:00.0	Abraham
0:02.0	He saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.
0:17.0	Abraham has come home.
0:19.0	He's living in the land of promise and God is ready to fulfill his promise of a son when Abraham is a hundred years old.
0:26.9	Welcome to Through the Bible where our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, tells us more about this incredible story in Genesis Chapter 21.
0:34.0	I'm Steve Schwetz, inviting you to grab your seat on the Bible bus as we celebrate God's
0:38.6	work in the lives of our fellow listeners. And to help me do that, I've got Greg with us to talk
0:43.7	about what's going on with home groups in India. And let's talk a little bit about what's going on
0:48.7	with Chattisgari. Yeah, Steve, it's just, it never gets old. We love this, this picture that, that you and I have seen in real
0:58.9	flesh and blood of people sitting in a group with their Bible open, listening to the teaching of
1:04.3	Dr. McGee in one of hundreds of languages. In India, it's 150 languages. and then just responding and I mean that it really
1:14.8	doesn't get any more pure than that in terms of ministry yeah and it's such an encouragement
1:18.3	because people are growing in their faith people that are as we've talked about before
1:22.8	like mentioned in Bangladesh 30% ish of the people that are in those groups are not believers.
1:28.9	That's right.
1:29.4	They may be Muslims, maybe Hindu.
1:32.1	We met some Hindus when we were together in Bangladesh.
1:35.0	Yeah.
1:35.2	And it is.
1:36.0	It's what may be surprising to many of you who live here in the West is that even though it can be very hostile against Christianity,
1:45.8	there's also a lot more openness to discussing religious faith in other parts of the world.
1:51.0	So let's hear from this first person who started with a single home group and watch God
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