Hagar and the Son

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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When people in the Bible have close encounters with God, in almost every situation they say, “I can’t believe I’m still alive,” and Hagar is one of them. In Genesis 16, we see the story of Hagar, the maidservant of Sarah. Sarah’s and Hagar’s experiences overlap. We’re told Sarah mistreats Hagar, and it’s so bad that Hagar, a pregnant woman, flees out into the desert. We have here a story that will tell you the gospel. This is the gospel according to Hagar. We’ll look at 1) how we can understand the narrative, and 2) a few important principles we can draw from here. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on December 1, 1996. Series: Daring to Draw Near. Scripture: Genesis 16:1-16. Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give and making a one-time or recurring donation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gospel in Life. As you may have heard recently, it is with sadness that we
0:08.0	share with you that our founder and friend Timothy J. Keller passed away in the morning of
0:12.5	May 19, 2023 at the age of 72, trusting in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection.
0:20.8	While our hearts are heavy with the news of Tim's death and our prayers are with his family
0:24.6	as they go through the grieving process, our spirits are also lifted because we know that
0:29.7	he has a new life and is with his Savior and that one day we will see him again.
0:35.3	And so with that hope in mind, we want to honor Tim's wishes and continue ministering
0:39.4	the gospel during this season because as you have heard Tim say many times, the gospel
0:45.3	changes everything. So listen now to his teaching and join us in praying for his family.
0:51.5	Thank you.
0:52.5	You're looking your bulletin, you'll find the passage that we're going to be looking
0:55.4	at tonight. It should be right where you are. If you're not asleep, if you're following
1:00.8	along, it's Genesis 16, verses 1 to 16. It's a story of Hagar and Sarah and Abraham.
1:13.4	Let me read it to you. By the way, all the way through here, Sarah and Abraham are called
1:23.0	Sarah and Abraham. Their names were changed later and just because I'm just going to get
1:31.2	confused, I'm just going to start right out from the very beginning calling them Sarah
1:34.5	and Abraham, okay? And so let's read it that way. Now Sarah, Abraham's wife had born
1:41.7	him no children, but she had an Egyptian maid servant named Hagar. So she said to Abraham,
1:48.5	the Lord has kept me from having children go, sleep with my maid servant. Perhaps I
1:54.2	can build a family through her. Abraham agreed to what Sarah said. So after Abraham had been
2:00.2	living in Canaan 10 years, Sarah, his wife took her Egyptian maid servant Hagar and gave
2:06.6	her to her husband to be his wife. He slept with Hagar and she conceived. And when she
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