Hebrews 11:11-12

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📖 Hebrews 11:11 ESV By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.

📖 Genesis 16:1–5 ESV Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. 4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress. 5 And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!”

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📖 Genesis 17:15–16 ESV And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. 16 I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”

1. Faith leaves the in God’s .

📖  Galatians 4:22–23 ESV For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

📖  Galatians 4:28–29 ESV Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

📖  Galatians 4:31 ESV So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.

2. Faith leaves the in God’s . 

📖  Genesis 18:10 ESV The LORD said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.

📖  Genesis 18:11 ESV Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.

📖 Genesis 18:12–13 ESV So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?” 13 The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’

📖 Genesis 18:14 ESV Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”

3. Faith receives God’s through the .

📖Hebrews 11:11 ESV By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.

📖 Psalm 33:6 ESV By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

📖 Romans 8:11 ESV If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

The Christian life isn’t for God. It’s God’s Spirit through .

📖 Hebrews 11:11 ESV she considered him faithful who had promised.

Faith stops looking and starts focusing on .

📖 Hebrews 11:12 ESV Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

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Faith trusts God’s and even when it can’t understand God’s .

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