chapter 21 and last week in Genesis 20 it was on the back of the destruction of
Sodom and Abraham if you remember is suddenly living in the wilderness and
then dwelling in Gerar which he himself described as an ungodly place and we
talked about how it seemed to be right on the back of this this destruction of
Sodom and we said he didn't know you know what happened with Lot or anything
else and suddenly he's dwelling in the wilderness and for me that was a clear
picture of of a backsliding Abraham sorry a picture of a backsliding
Christian and it was back to the old sins of claiming that he and Sarah were
just brother and sister if you remember and that was something that he'd
previously done as well and this was a lie this was deception the King of Gerar
Abimelech took Sarah into his home and ends up with God telling him that he's
about to commit adultery if you remember and and he's he's pretty upset with
Abraham and Sarah saying why didn't either of you tell me right so on earth
why are you making up these foolish lies and we saw obviously how serious
adultery was didn't win and should be and still is right but but there is like
this is a grievous sin right and and having having Sarah in his home and and
how close that was to being adultery now Abraham's excuse was well basically you
lot are ungodly you know and which is probably a common excuse I was thinking
about this one I just wrote these kind of this little summary a common excuse
that believers have for how we treat the unsaved isn't it you know it's just like
well you lot are ungodly so so be it type thing you know but it's not okay
is it oh well I'm dealing with the unsaved so I could be a bit dishonest
and do this no we should we should be treating everyone the best way we
possibly can right it begs the question what what were you doing there Abraham
if it was because they were so ungodly and also no surprise that that he slipped
back into the old routine sin was it the chapter ended with Abimelech
reproving Sarah possibly insinuating that she was no better than an harlot is
how I saw that however he he's in fear of Abraham and gives him animals and
servants at the end of the chapter with Abraham having responsibility for the
healing of his household through prayer chapter 20 in verse 14 said him and
Abimelech took sheep and oxen and men servants and women servants and gave
them unto Abraham restored him Sarah his wife and Abimelech said behold my
land is before thee dwell where it pleases thee and unto Sarah he said
behold I've given my brother a thousand piece of silver behold he is to thee a
covering of the eyes unto all that are with thee and with all other thus she
was reproved so Abraham prayed unto God and God healed Abimelech and his wife
and his maid servants and they bear children for the Lord had fast closed up
all the wounds of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah Abraham's wife and
Genesis chapter 21 then in verse 1 begins with this and the Lord visited
Sarah as he had said and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken for Sarah
conceived and bare Abraham a son in his old age that the set time of which God
had spoken to him I'd like to pray before we continue with this chapter
father thank you for your word thank you this great chapter the Bible and just
just you know the the lessons we can get especially the big picture that we can
see in this as well help me to preach that accurately and and clearly Lord in
a way that people are able to follow and just see exactly what your word
saying please fill with your spirit Lord and help everyone as well to just be
full of your spirit with attentive ears listening to what you weren't sent in
this evening in Jesus name proless Amen okay so the Lord visited Sarah as he had
said when did he say that when did he say that well turn back to Genesis
chapter 17 Genesis 17 where God told Abraham that it would be at this set
time he said at this set time in Genesis 17 God speak to Abraham before he
ordains the Covenant of circumcision and in verse 19 of Genesis 17 verse 19 it
says then God said Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed and thou shalt
call his name Isaac and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting
covenant and with his seed after him and as for Ishmael I have heard thee behold
I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him
exceedingly 12 princes shall he beget and I will make him a great nation but
my covenant will I establish with Isaac which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this
set time in the next year which I assume is the same time that he's speaking to
Abraham here and then after that the Lord if you remember appeared unto him
in the plains of Mamre showing him what's going to happen to Sodom Sodom
gets wasted Abraham backslides in Geron and I believe that it's after this that
she conceives the conception by the way being a miracle and a picture of Christ
miraculous conception a picture obviously okay she's not obviously
Sarah's not not a virgin here like Mary however it's a picture of that being
miraculous conception and then in Genesis 18 Genesis 18 the Lord tells
Sarah that he will return in order for her to conceive so Genesis 18 and verse
9 says Genesis 89 they said unto him where is Sarah thy wife and he said
behold in the tent and he said I will certainly return unto thee according to
the time of life and lo Sarah thy wife shall have a son and Sarah heard it in
the tent door which was behind him now Abraham and Sarah were old and well
stricken in age and it ceased to be with Sarah after the man of women so she was
beyond childbearing age however God said that he would return according to the
time of life which is referring to conception then Genesis chapter 21 in
verse 1 and 2 we see that this is now this is a point when that's happened and
then we we kind of jump forward nine months I think in these couple of verses
it says the Lord visited Sarah as he had said okay so that's that's for her to
have this miraculous conception and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken for
Sarah conceived and bear Abraham a son in his old age at the set time of which
God had spoken to him so for me the Lord visited Sarah like I said a picture of
Mary okay it's a picture now it didn't say that she was with child of the Holy
Ghost so don't start jumping to funny conclusions they're obviously not Isaac
was Abraham's seed however the Lord had a hand in her being able to conceive
because she was well stricken in age she was beyond childbearing age now we
talked about this last week bearing in mind they lived a lot longer so it's not
that she is as we would probably see a 90 year old woman she lives 127 I think
in the end she you know I was saying yeah maybe not quite half it but the
best part of she's obviously beyond childbearing age but she's you know a
middle-aged woman here in our view I would say but a little bit more it's a
miracle okay but no doubt about that they are well stricken in age but it's
not that they're like I said last week wandering around on a zimmer frame or
something you're just thinking how on earth did any of this happen right okay
however it's still a miracle and and verse 3 then says and Abraham called the
name of his son that was born unto him him Sarah bear to him Isaac now Isaac
means laughter and again with that picture and that picture of Christ that
picture with that miraculous conception similar to the joy associated with the
birth of Christ right I mean constantly if you read the early early chapters of
the gospel you just seeing joy joy you know we even sing songs about joy unto
the world and everything else right and there's this laughter this immense joy
obviously this happiness that comes with with bearing Isaac or at least you know
if we remember she laughed when she found out that she was going to verse
4 then says in Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old as God
had as God had commanded him now I was thinking about this how many commands in
the Bible right okay many commands that each and every one of us know in the
Bible some we find easier some we find harder but is there much that would
compare to this by the way Abraham circumcised his son he didn't like take
him to the doctor and kind of look the other way or something else Abraham did
I don't want to dwell on this too much it's not the most pleasant thought for
us but but Abraham just did as God had commanded him and maybe like maybe
that's a good thing to think about sometimes God commands a lot of things
and some things we think oh that's very difficult that's very difficult that's
pretty difficult isn't it take your eight-day-old son and personally
performing a circumcision and what did he do well it says Abraham circumcised
son Isaac being eight days old as God had commanded him it's almost matter of
fact isn't it well God commanded him so he did it and that's how we should be
shouldn't we when you know there's a clear command in the Bible something you
should clearly do you should just go and do it shouldn't you like Abraham here
there's no kind of well yeah he knew he should and by the way you notice as well
there's no there's no what Abraham did as God commanded him however Sarah
wasn't too happy about it there's no like Sarah trying to scupper it is there
either like Moses wife for example yeah who seemed to not be so happy about the
idea of circumcision Sarah's seems to be on you know she she was a good godly
woman there regardless of the blitz that we saw in the last chapter where she's
like yeah let's get on with that right she obviously didn't have any issues or
at least we don't see any issues recorded there so he just did as God had
commanded in verse 5 says and Abraham was an hundred years old when his son
Isaac was born unto him look that is a miracle still right regardless of the
fact they lived a lot longer that's a miracle 100 years old and Sarah said God
has made me to laugh so that all that here will laugh with me and she said who
would have said unto Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck for I
have borne him a son in his old age now you can understand a joy here okay she's
gone her whole life barren and then suddenly at 90 years old with Abraham
100 she's having a child that must be absolutely overjoyed right just cannot
believe it just what what an amazing miracle what an amazing thing and now
that's just to build up to what for me the you know the big part of the chapter
of these next sort of several verses and we're going to read the next passage in
one and I'd like to break it down afterwards so we're just going to read
these next several verses together okay from verse 8 it says and a child grew
and was weaned and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned
and Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian which he had born unto Abraham
mocking wherefore she said unto Abraham cast out this bond woman and her son
for the son of this bond woman shall not be heir with my son even with Isaac and
the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son and God said
unto Abraham let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because
of thy bond woman in all that Sarah has said unto thee harken unto her voice
for in Isaac shall thy seed be called and also of the son of the bond woman
will I make a nation because he is thy seed and Abraham rose up early in the
morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it unto Hagar putting it
on her shoulder and the child had sent her away she departed and wandered in
the wilderness of Beersheba when the water was spent in the bottle and she
cast a child under one of the shrubs and she went and sat her down over
against him a good way off as it were a bowshot for she said let me not see the
death of the child and she sat over against him and lift up her voice and
wept and God heard the voice of the lad and the angel of God called to Hagar out
of heaven and said unto her what aleth thee Hagar fear not for God hath heard
the voice of the lad where he is arise lift up the lad and hold him in thine
hand for I will make him a great nation and God opened her eyes and she saw a
well of water and she went to fill the bottle with water and gave the lad drink
and God was with the lad and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and became
an archer and he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran and his mother took him a wife
out of the land of Egypt right so firstly on the surface we got what is a
sad story here isn't it Ishmael is 14 years old we're a year on from the
covenant of circumcision when he was 13 okay
Genesis 17 25 said you know you could turn a few on but I'm just gonna quote
it quickly and Ishmael his son was 13 years old when he was circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin and we've seen it we're about a year later now is the set
time so he's 14 now he's mocking the the somewhere around two-year-old Isaac
Sarah and Abraham get angry and kick him and his mum Hagar out and if you
haven't been up to date with this you kind of you know joining this late or
something Hagar was was Sarah's you know she was her bondmaid she was she was
serving her and then she was given to Abraham as a wife by Sarah because Sarah
felt well I'm not gonna get pregnant you know this will be the only way for
Abraham to have children through Hagar so that's who Ishmael is here now
she goes off into the wilderness she thinks they're going to die and God
helps them survive they end up living in that south area near the Red Sea by Mount
Sinai so down in the south of that kind of wilderness area there and and however
turn to Galatians chapter 4 because this story you know that's kind of the
surface of this story but this story is actually a picture of something else and
it's one of those pictures unlike some where you kind of you're trying your
best to interpret it this is one of those pictures where you can hang your
hat on okay you can hang your hat on this picture because the New Testament
shed sheds light on this picture explaining what the allegory is okay in
Galatians chapter 4 which is where you're turning Paul is addressing this
attempt to push work salvation on the Galatian Church and believe me you this
is something that we will have to deal with in time here and it will come down
again and maybe it already has and it has to be honest in the past in subtle
ways before where people will just try and slowly start to push work salvation
on on a church okay and they'll do it in various different ways well here in
Galatians 4 Paul's dealing with this in the Galatian Church says in verse 21
tell me ye that desire to be under the law do ye not hear the law for it is
written that Abraham had two sons the one by a bond made the other by a free
woman so that's Ishmael of Hagar the bond made and then the other son is Isaac
of Sarah the free woman verse 23 says but he who was of the bond woman was
born after the flesh but he of the free woman was by promise which things are an
allegory for these are the two covenants the one from the Mount Sinai which
gender to bondage which is a gun a gar just being the Greek there for Hagar who
we've just spoken about the bond woman he said these things of an allegory a
picture if you like for these are the two covenants he said the one from the
Mount Sinai which gender to bondage which is a gar for this agar is Mount
Sinai in Arabia an answer to Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with our
children that's where the old covenant came from Mount Sinai but Jerusalem
which is above is free which is a mother of us all that's the new Jerusalem verse
27 for it is written rejoice our barren that barest not break forth and cry thou
that travailest not for the desolate hath many more children than she which
had an husband so yep those in bondage to some some form of law ultimately
vastly outweigh those that are free that are saved don't know I mean I don't know
I was knocking doors today and you know how many people various versions of
Christianity in general answered some form of work salvation you've got to be
good you've got to do this well I think I'm a good enough person to go to heaven
well I think I've done it you just got to live a moral life you just got to do
it and it's I mean they're ten a penny aren't they that's the other religion in
the world that's a false religion he said now we brethren as Isaac was are
the children of promise okay who's he talking to here the
Galatian Church brethren he's talking to believers but as then he that was born
after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit even so it is now
so that was Ishmael mocking Isaac and look just quickly yeah it's not it's not
quite you know sort of gangs of all sorts outside churches you know throwing
things at you but mocking is still persecution okay it is still persecution
for some people that could be hard to deal with gone it as well and sometimes
when there's mockery and people mocking you the flesh kind of wants to deal with
it in certain ways and you can't and you know and it's persecution right and it
could be hard and sometimes some of that stuff can be difficult and here we see
that that that mocking is a is a persecution here that that's giving us a
picture here nevertheless what saith the scripture cast out the bond woman and
her son for the son of the bond woman shall not be heir with the son of the
free woman so then brethren we are not children of the bond woman but of the
free okay that's the new covenant and you'd have to turn it but Romans 9 8
says that is they which are the children of the flesh these are not the children
of God but the children of the promise accounted for the seed so those of the
flesh okay those that are basically of the physical seed are not the children
of God but the children of the promise account for the seed and we've just seen
that Isaac represents a new covenant as opposed to Ishmael who represents those
under the old covenant now just to make it clear okay it's not that everyone
under the old covenant was unsaved okay some people get a bit confused about
this but there was no salvation till Christ or something else okay however
verse 24 said which things are an allegory for these are the two covenants
the one from the Mount Sinai which gender to bondage which is agar so the
old covenant gender it bred bondage it resulted in the majority of a nation
ultimately eventually following the works of the law for salvation now it's
not that God wanted that to happen it's that people choose that don't they
people choose work salvation all over this world and they were no different
the Jews were no different they chose the nation of Israel those 12 tribes so
many of them chose work salvation it gender if it bred that bondage but that
wasn't the purpose of the law was it Galatians 3 24 says wherefore the law
was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by
faith the purpose of the law was to show us that we need a Savior okay that's
what the law should do you should look at the law and go man I ain't good
enough to get to heaven I could never be good enough to get to heaven it was a
schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ it should have showed them that they can
justify themselves that they need a Savior however as with today the
majority choose what self-justification that's what you see everywhere people
wanting to justify themselves it never ceases to amaze me and I'm sure all of
you soul winners out there that have these times as well when you're
literally you're talking to someone and they're kind of they're happy to talk
with you and they kind of they might say something along the lines of okay well
what was it you're they kind of just want a snippet of what you're gonna
tell them and as soon as you say that salvation is a free gift or maybe you're
just trying to say well actually what you believe is wrong there so and and
they're alright they're okay they're okay well you know the Bible actually
says that you cannot work your way salvation is a gift how many people
that's a point where they're where that's you pretty much the end of the
conversation you see the countenance change don't you the thought that you're
daring to tell them that they're not good enough that they can never be good
enough that they have to receive a gift it's bizarre it's bizarre really isn't
it you're saying it's so easy receive a gift but how many people that's that's
a close for that that's the closer that's it conversation done now I don't
want to hear about a gift I want it I want you to tell me that actually I am
yeah my morals are right enough to get to heaven I was good enough and it's
bizarre isn't it it's bizarre now return to Genesis 21 with that in mind as it
now helps us to learn more from this passage so hopefully you've seen what
the allegory is but therefore we can now look at the passage with the allegory in
mind and hopefully learn some more from the passage with that in mind so verse
8 says here in Genesis 21 Genesis 21 of verse 8 says and the child grew and was
weaned and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned now I
would say that this allegory was being fulfilled from as early as came
persecuting Abel when we're looking at work salvation versus faith in the coming
Christ and will continue to be fulfilled until the return of Christ okay isn't
going to change however I would say that the mass spread of the gospel to
the Gentiles in the first century AD is an obvious major fulfillment of this
allegory okay with the great feast here for me representing the Gentiles getting
saved that's what I think we're seeing here God's Word is often represented by
both food and water and you have to turn there but for example Hebrews 5 12 use
it interchangeably where it says for when for the time you ought to be
teachers you have need that one teacher again which be the first principles of
the oracles of God that's the Word of God and it becomes such as have need of
milk and not of strong meat so they just there's clearly he's referring to milk
and strong meat as if that's the Word of God that we see that picture time and
time again in the Bible now here we have the child of promise representing the
New Covenant as we've seen Isaac being weaned receiving that Word of God okay
so he's receiving that Word of God being weaned being the food being the meat
verse 9 says and Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian which he had born
unto Abraham mocking so this is the child of bondage those in bondage to the
Old Covenant mocking and in the first century especially that kind of great
en masse sort of converting of the Gentiles of the gospel going out
everywhere who are we representing here the Jews the Jews and didn't they mock
and scorn and persecute the Gentiles when they received en masse the Word of
God I mean that's just a constant theme in a book I mean I'm thinking do I need
to give you don't even need to give a quote here right because there's just so
many places you could go in acts it just it's the old say us this is a preacher
recently where they were just kind of highlighted this point but the Jews
that's the common theme isn't it but the Jews but the Jews but that's what we see
constantly in the book of Acts okay they're going out to preach the gospel
but the Jews you know and then there's the persecution there's a scorn there's
a mockery and everything else now the book of Acts is full of basically the
Jews just following around Paul and causing trouble wherever he preached I
mean that's kind of a major theme in this at least the second half of the
book of Acts well verse 10 says wherefore she said unto Abraham cast out
this bond woman and her son for the son of this bond woman shall not be heir
with my son even with Isaac and that is exactly what happened to these Christ
rejecting Jews didn't it okay so we've just seen in in in Galatians 4 this
clearly an allegory about that and and in here look we none of us here I don't
think you're in any doubt about this I hope not that they had the choice to be
the children of the promise but they put their trust in the flesh didn't they now
they put their trust of the flesh in two ways both in their genetics because many
and even unto this day which I mean we're going to talk about that in a
minute because it's even more bizarre we'll say well I'm a Jew of course I'm
going to heaven oh yeah it's like forget the works of the law just the fact that
I am of the so-called seed and then there are those that obviously had their
trust in their maintaining of the law so again their trust was in the flesh right
which by the way they then chopped and changed to suit themselves okay so was
it even like oh you know I trust in my keeping the law but we've got a
made the law suit us a little bit more and adds a bit more head banging and a
bit more you know other weird things which side of the bed to get out of in
the morning and which hand to wash first and everything else right okay so turn
to Matthew chapter 21 Matthew 21 we just read in verse 10 wherefore she said unto
Abraham cast out this bond woman and her son for the son of this bond woman shall
not be heir with my son even with Isaac we've seen we've we've had Galatians
chapter 4 tell us it's an allegory Matthew 21 Jesus tell what he's talking
to the chief priests okay and elders of the people he tells them the parable of
the wicked husband men if you remember that parable he ends it with a question
where he says in verse 40 when the Lord therefore the vineyard cometh what will
he do unto those husband men they sound him he will miserably destroy those
wicked men and will let out his vineyard unto other husband men which
shall render him the fruits in their seasons Jesus saith unto them did ye
never read in the scriptures the stone which the builders rejected the same is
become the head of the corner this is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in
our eyes and he's referring to himself being the head of the stone which the
builders rejected verse 43 therefore say unto you the kingdom of God shall be
taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof that's
pretty clear isn't it pretty clear scripture there right a word you could
use to describe this it's off the top of my head could be they were replaced yeah
yeah couldn't you couldn't you just use the word replace it yeah that's quite an
obvious word for it isn't it they were replaced the kingdom of God shall be
taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof does
anyone think that Jesus got it wrong did Jesus get that wrong he said shall be
taken didn't he he didn't say might be depending he said shall be taken the
same word that's for example in Romans 10 13 for who serve shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved you know that one you know that shall that
definite yeah he said here the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given
to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof when Paul said in Galatians 3
26 for year all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus was he wrong was
he mistaken there does anyone think he was mistaken maybe you know he's just
got it a little bit wrong he just didn't understand things Paul was a bit bit no
wonder the Jews hate Paul you know but it's scripture isn't it he wasn't lying
he wasn't mistaken he didn't just overlook the fact that God's not done
with the Jews okay that wasn't Paul if only he'd realized that God's not done
with the Jews if only realized that Jesus Christ got it wrong when he said
that the kingdom shall be taken right and one of the biggest frauds in case
anyone is wondering you see now what are you going on about probably or sorry
pastor taverna I'm gonna get used to it one day or a few years time well one of
the biggest frauds in fundamental circles is Zionism okay it is an
absolute nonsense it's ridiculous and it is a thing that I know that we've all
had to tolerate some of this before in the past many of us here at least have
you know maybe just have to part with this because at least it seems like they
might have the gospel right here or something else it's it's it's lunacy it
is because it just ignores so many clear clear verse of the Bible isn't it if
you're going well what you talking about Zionism isn't that you know something
just about Israel and a nation everything else isn't that kind of isn't
that the thing where anyone who doesn't agree with that must be an anti-semite
isn't isn't that no no well basically it's such a con that it's not only
infiltrated Bible believing churches around the world it's and and obviously
then there's look there are churches where they got the gospel right and they
believe this nonsense okay let alone obviously a load of false church believe
it as well but it's such a con that it's even infiltrated the secular West who
who honestly there are people that don't even believe in God who'd be like yeah
but is it that God's people they're all out there aren't they they'd be like
yeah but but didn't they I mean that's their land isn't it from the Old
Testament you don't even believe the Bible yet you're trying to say these
people should just be able to go out there and kick the Palestinians out at
home and take this down but but that's not I mean that's that's you know kind
of political Zionism basically isn't it it's like support for this kind of this
bizarre just suddenly popped out of nowhere state of Israel on the back of
we won't even go into how they managed to pull this one off yeah and all these
people that formerly lived there it's like tough you're not one of God's
people even though we don't believe in God how am I wrong that's what you see
out there however then there's Christian Zionism and Christian Zionism has
there's varying scales of what I would call the retardation of Christian
Zionism so you've got you've got you got the lowest level you've just got yeah
well you know I think at some point at some point in the future you know maybe
the Jews you know something will work out and they'll suddenly realize it
Jesus you know it was right and and when I say the Jews that whole thing we'll
get into that in a minute okay that's ridiculous as well then you've got at
the upper end then you've got your John Hagee types anyone heard of this clown
out there yeah these guys a lot of people like these guys it's like full
on stars of Ren fan on their on their pulpits behind them when they preach
Israel flag stars of Ren fan Moloch whatever you want to call it everywhere
and these guys are like those guys are automatically saved in fact these guys
are like holy people they're borderline gods walking the earth that we need to
worship we need to like pray to we need to get them in here to tell us like
everything about the Bible even though they don't believe in Christ everything
it's it's like I mean it's over there right it's like off the wall stuff and
you know what a lot of people people believe that stuff as well and then
you've got somewhere everywhere in between haven't you and many of us have
been somewhere in between I've been at I was at a church previously where where I
counted it was four times a service that prayers were made for Israel that was
the evening service at least at Bethel Baptist Church in Wimbledon okay it was
I we've guys we need another prayer another prayer for Israel guys you know
those poor guys anti-semite anti-semite see I'm praying for them you know it was
like that right okay see you kind of got every version of this right okay but he
said in verse 43 therefore sound to you the kingdom of God shall be taken from
you and given to a nation bearing forth the fruits thereof didn't he and back in
Genesis 21 and verse 10 it said wherefore she said unto Abraham cast out
this bond woman and her son for the son of this bond woman shall not be heir
with my son even with Isaac anyone think that what we call Jews today have their
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation in him alone no sir have you
heard of this term like Messianic Jews they're basically Jews that believe in
work salvation but also try and add a bit of Jesus to it as well I've never
met a Messianic Jew type or seen any of this online well I actually believe the
gospel and faith alone in Christ alone okay anyway now here where she said for
the son of this bond which should not be here with my son even with Isaac
that was the actual bona fide a physical seed okay the children of the flesh
being represented here in this allegory by them okay that was people that
actually were of the genetic line of Abraham it's like they're not air with
with the son of the promise okay let alone converts to a wicked religious
false religion sorry let alone converts to it I mean that is beyond crazy so and
again if you're like what's he talking about now okay okay take your head out
of kind of the world's kind of yeah yeah Jews if you kind of got like long
sideburns or you wear yamaka you must be like you must be some sort of genetic
Jew okay it's a lie it's a load of nonsense no one you and I are just as
much Jew as any of in fact in fact you and I are a hundred times more Jew than
any of that because we're Jews by faith in Christ with spiritual Jews but
regardless even genetically if you wanted to go to the physical seed it's
an absolute sham because most of these people and that this is admitted the
world over as well whenever they do genetic DNA tests everything else the
vast majority I mean you're talking like 80 90 plus percent come from an
Ashkenazi genetic line which were a load of converts in the eighth century so how
on earth they're claiming there's some sort of physical seed of Abraham is
against just lunacy it's completely ridiculous because where does that end
then because they'll go well no no no because actually actually you're a Jew
if your mother's a Jew this is what they claim they call it like a matriarchal
whatever they call it matriarchal something like that okay but the thing
is is that is that look that person that's a Jew because their mother's a
Jew maybe their father wasn't and maybe the next one they had and they're as
watered down as you or I and in the fact that most of them come from converts
means that none of them none of them are tracing their line back to Abraham it's
complete nonsense absolute nonsense and like I said where does that stop then
oh well I've you know my great-great-great grandmother converted to
Judaism so I I'm as I'm a physical seed aren't I it's I mean and that's what
we're talking about here and you know what you and I and everyone in here has
probably got as much Abraham genetics as any of the rest of it it's nonsense
absolute nonsense so what's their response so so like I said that when it
comes to the world and when it comes to just the lunacy the political stuff in
the world we just you know you take it with a pinch of salt don't you used to
craziness there's craziness everywhere they've got all sorts of craziness going
on but when it comes to so-called Bible believing Baptists when it comes to
independent fundamental by believing Baptists that that cling to this stuff
that hold on to it so tight it's kind of really to them a lot of them it's like
the gospel in fact now it's more important than a gospel because they're
like we don't care about all the repent your sins but you know and everything
else what's their response to these verses for example we could go to a
hundred of us but what's their response just to these verses should I tell you
their response anti-semite that's a response you must be an anti-semite
they're not even Semitic it's madness it they're not even semites but the
response is you're an anti-semite because you're daring to say what the
Bible says that these people aren't Jews according to the Bible they are in fact
they are those that say they're Jews and they're not but other what synagogue of
Satan madness okay and by the way if Isaac represented the children of
promise and Ishmael represents the children of the flesh who does Abraham
represent here God Abraham is representing God in this allegory with
Sarah representing heavenly Jerusalem and verse 11 says and the thing was very
grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son so that persecuting of God's
children by and at this point they were the physical seed by the physical seed
then let alone now by people who have nothing to do the physical seed that
just converts to a false religion to a Christ rejected Christ blaspheming false
religion God's response was it was very grievous in his sight very grievous I
mean these not not just the fact that they reject Christ the fact that they
persecute and still do to this day those that believe anyone ever heard of people
trying to preach the gospel in Israel okay much of a good reception for that I
mean I think it's illegal isn't it it's illegal in in Israel to even preach the
gospel talk about persecution no you preached up you can't even preach the
Bible you can't even go to someone and show them how to get saved in Israel
that's persecution do you know what that is in God's sight very grievous very
grievous oh but we must pray for them I'll send some more money there and God
said unto Abraham let it not be grievous in our sight because of the lad now I'll
tell you why he's saying that because he's offering the solution saying let it
not be grievous under the site because Aladdin because I bond woman in all
that Sarah said unto thee hearken unto her voice for in Isaac shall I see be
called so he's basically saying don't worry because look do what she said get
rid of the bond woman get rid of the Sun now look at this and also have the son
of the bond woman will I make a nation because he is I seed now we saw in
chapter 17 that Ishmael ended up with 12 sons representing the physical seed of
course there was a physical nation wasn't there so he's representing that
physical nation yeah he's because he's Abraham's son so he's basically say look
don't worry he's gonna survive cast him out he's gonna he's gonna survive verse
14 I'm gonna show you what happens with him in a minute and Abraham rose up
early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it unto Hagar
put it on her shoulder and a child and sent her away and she departed and
wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba now remember we're still looking at an
allegory here aren't we it's a real story don't get me wrong this happened
these are real events but they're also an allegory of events to come or at
least well whether they're to come or even events pass as well because
ultimately you could also argue that it's a picture of work salvation versus
faith but but especially I would say massively fulfilled in the first century
AD so I believe that we're seeing continuing of that here as well with the
physical nation having the Word of God okay turn of Romans chapter 3 and of
course they were given the Word of God as the physical nation as those 12
tribes as well you're turning to Romans chapter 3 Abraham representing God gave
the physical nation the bread and water what does the bread and water represent
the Word of God okay so he Abraham rose up early in the morning took bread and a
bottle of water and gave it unto Hagar put it on her shoulder and the child is
sent away she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba now that was a
massive massive advantage to them wasn't it he didn't just kick him up the bum
and say get out he gave them the bread and water that was a an ability to
survive wasn't it well look at Romans chapter 3 and verse 1 what advantage
then has the Jew or what profit is there of circumcision talking here about these
physical Jews much every way chiefly because that unto them were committed
the oracles of God so the physical nation had a massive advantage and were
able to become the children of promise if if they were willing to do that to
put their faith in Christ due to the Word of God so they're given that
advantage they were given the oracles those tribes the physical seed were
given the Word of God weren't they Romans 10 17 says so then faith cometh
by hearing and hearing by the Word of God they need the Word of God to get
saved in there but sadly they didn't all get saved because where you are Romans
3 then says verse 3 for what if some did not believe shall their unbelief make
the faith of God without effect God forbid yea let God be true but every
man a liar as it is written that thou mightest be justified in us sayings he
mightest overcome when thou art judged judge so look some did not believe right
they didn't all get saved however they had the ability okay they were sent off
with the what they needed to survive yeah is the picture the allegory so back
in Genesis 21 we're seeing a picture of this committing of the oracles of God
verse 14 said and Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a
bottle of water and gave it unto Hagar put it on her shoulder and a child a
central way she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba however they
still wandered in the wilderness didn't they so they were given what they needed
but they're wandering in the spiritual wilderness because eventually ultimately
the majority didn't get saved right verse 15 says and the water was spent in
the bottle and she casts a child under one of the shrubs now here you could
argue even here look they had their chance right they had their chance she
casts a child the the Lord she couldn't keep him alive the law couldn't make
them live spiritually right remember she represents a law and she went and sat
her down over against a good way off and in case you're wondering how she casting
his 14 year old around well for me it's just showing ultimately that that he is
he's helpless here at this point okay he's not at this point he's representing
the unsaved in the law he's helpless he's obviously like for me he's probably
on his last legs right now he's he's massively dehydrated she went and and set
her down over against him a good way off as it were a bow shot for she said let
me not see the death of the child and she sat over against him and lift up
her voice and wept look at verse 17 and God heard the voice of who of the lad
and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said unto her what aleth
he Hagar fear not for God have heard the voice of who the lad where he is so
notice how Hagar lifted up her voice but verse 17 says it's a lad who God hears
well Hagar represented the bondage of the law which couldn't the bondage of
the law couldn't get that access to God could it the bondage of the law couldn't
reconcile you with God however those born off the flesh can still access God
they can still be graft back in so that's what the allegory here is
continuing here is that even though he was of the flesh even though he was
under the bondage of the law he ultimately could still access God by
faith Romans 11 23 says and they also referred to the physical seed if they
abide not still in unbelief shall be graft in for God is able to graph them
in again now in case you're kind of looking at this going alright so those
like kind of curly-haired you know reprobates down the road and everything
else you know they can get say no no ultimately here we're talking about
those at the time who were physical seed right we're not looking about people
that are like blaspheming the Holy Spirit and stuff okay but these were
people at this point that were physical seeds of Abraham and they were able to
get saved weren't they in fact many of them did get saved in fact many of like
much what they do is go to synagogues and preaching the gospel and stuff right
and of course look that also happened with the gospel going around the world
as well because they weren't all centered in Jerusalem were they so the
gospel was going out around the world and there were Jews getting saved with
the Gentiles as well many of the physical seed also ended up getting
saved that's why here God heard the voice of the lad representing the
physical seed and not the law so God had God heard that voice of the lad
that's someone who's the physical seed calling out to God and getting saved
that's what the picture is here and look look at verse 17 and God heard the
voice of the lad and he ain't even though she's the one calling out it
seemed but but obviously he has as well the angel of God called to Hagar out of
heaven and said unto her what aleth thee Hagar fear not for God have heard the
voice of the lad where he is her eyes lift up the lad and hold him in thine
hand for I'll make him a great nation and God opened her eyes and she saw a
well of water and she went and filled the bottle with water and gave the lad
drink so it was the lad calling out to God that resulted in for me a picture of
the water of life represented salvation it had nothing to do with the law or his
genetics did it it had to do with him calling out to God yeah and but
whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but ever last in life right and
God was with the lad and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and became an
archer and he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran and his mother took him a wife out
of the land of Egypt for me represented the fact that even those of physical
seed that got saved they never reclaimed the land he dwelt in the wilderness they
were out in the wilderness and eventually he's merging with the world
and of course his mother already is Egyptian anyway he she takes her wife
out of Egypt represented the world and that's ultimately what happened to the
remnant that got saved the Jews they just merged into the world because there
is no nation anymore okay that's it that's a it's a bogus nation it's a
nonsense there is no in God's eyes there is no physical nation of Israel but there
is a spiritual one and if those people those people that were of the physical
see that like I said that's pretty much everyone and anyone nowadays anyway but
those people who were could get saved okay and anyone is born into the world
with the ability to get saved okay what happens after that is a separate issue
right okay but everyone has the ability but they will never have that
land as a physical nation that's long done and that's what you're seeing there
is just that going back merging back with the world okay let's move on from
that okay but I hope anyway hopefully you've kind of got with my train of
thought with that verse 22 then says and it came to pass at that time the Abimelech
of Fichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham saying God is with
thee in all that thou doest now therefore swear unto me here by God that
thou wilt not deal falsely with me nor with my son nor with my son's son but
according to the kindness I have done unto thee thou shalt do unto me and to
the land wherein thou hast sojourned so although they can see that he's a prophet
he's a man of God his behavior with the Sarah sister stuff is still hanging over
him here isn't it notice that they're saying to him look you need a swear by
us they'll not deal falsely with me nor with my son nor with my son son this guy
is a slippery character look and and look just the point here you know when
we when we do something like that when you as a as a man of God when you make a
big error like that you do something like you got a big sin that's that's
obviously publicly known like that hangs over you doesn't it and here like this
is hanging over him you you just choose to go and be dishonest and do something
that's a dishonest act or anything else that's gonna hold that's gonna be held
over you by people people are gonna look at you and just not want to trust you
here they like they would they need him to swear to them because they're like I
can't believe you know you had pretending that your sisters your sorry
your wife's your sister and everything else and letting us take her into our
like what a crazy thing it was and that's still he's still basically paying
for that isn't he now for those 20 in verse 11 you have Turner says even a
child is known by his doings whether his work be pure whether it be right we're
known by doings aren't we and how we behave and what we do and look here
Abraham is still here he's still being judged by what he was guilty of and
Abraham said I will swear and Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of
water which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away now maybe Abraham
is saying okay well yeah there was a sister thing but what about this then
you know it's like okay right okay well how about then you guys have been
nicking our wells but it seems like Abimelech's men have stolen a well that
that Abraham and his men had dug yeah you know if you want to you can jump
forward to Genesis 26 I'm gonna read verse 18 Genesis 26 18 says and Isaac
digged again the wells of water which they had
digged in the days of Abraham his father so it seems that they're digging these
wells okay they're they're they're putting the work in for the Philistines
to stop them after the death of Abraham and he called their names after names by
which his father had called them talking about the wells so they're there he said
they digged again in verse 18 there Genesis 26 which they had digged in the
days of Abraham his father so they're doing work they're trying to dig out
wells and obviously that's a lot of digging right a lot of work the
Philistines are stealing it from them they're putting the effort in the
Philistines are dealing it's stealing it and if the wells of water represent you
could argue the distribution of God's Word or at least God's Word with
Ephesians for example 526 talk to Jesus cleanses at church he might sanctify
and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word yeah just to give you one of
many examples there over the years those Philistine types have attempt to
violently take away God's Word haven't they? I don't know if that's the meaning of that but you
could apply that couldn't you I mean there's a lot of there's a lot of people
out there that try to violently take away God's Word take away the
distribution of God's Word I mean it's country see there's something I've
thought about in the last few weeks because obviously we had our American
tourists here and their tour guide took them to some cool places and one of
which is Hampton Court Palace and we were at Hampton Court Palace where
obviously the commissioning of the King James Bible was and just you know and
then seeing obviously you know the they have like all these amazing I mean
there's something that I noticed by the way when you go to Buckingham Palace and
when you go to Hampton Court you know what what the artwork isn't all over the
wall it's not a load of impressionism sort of dot dot dab dab and everything
else not like the Royals and all these people going just so amazing you know
Picasso no no they actually look like things yeah they're actually good they're
like amazing artwork amazing artwork all over the walls they've got all these
like original from like hundreds and hundreds of years go all over the wall
like it's really impressive stuff yeah and some of that is portraits of like
Henry VIII things like that and just thinking about you know for example
Henry VIII and William Tyndale and you know he'd call the outlord open the King
of you know the King of England's eyes and you know all that stuff and they
were people violently ultimately trying to take away the Word of God weren't
they trying to prevent the Word of God getting out think about all the
persecution of people just trying to translate the Bible trying to print the
Bible trying to get the Bible out and here if the if the water represents
God's Word well they're trying to violently take it trying to violently
destroy it they violently end up filling them up we see later in chapter 26 just
find a way of stopping it and it's something I I feel will probably return
here as well I think we're starting to see and not to I hope no one gets
fearful about this stuff you know it is just what it is and you stay close to
God you'll be alright but they're starting to be little little whispers of
obviously King James while being hate speech and you'll have this sort of
stuff there'll be this out in the u.s. there's a couple of times now this
people trying to campaign that the reading of the King James Bible in the
I think it was in a library it's actually hate speech and trying to get
it banned and things like that from schools I think it was maybe there's a
few of these stories starting to come out and I think you know it would just
start to test the water and start to try and push that agenda and ultimately
maybe we'll get to a point where the Bible's banned where they'll try and
violently take it away from the people but what are we gonna do get the NIV
might as well get the message right no we're gonna keep reading and we're gonna
keep preaching King James Bibles amen for sure but I think that might come
again but we'll see what happens but verse 26 says said and Abimelech said I
what not to have done this thing neither did thou tell me neither yet heard I of
it but today so he's saying I don't even know what you're talking about what
happened and Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech and both
then made a covenant and Abraham set seven you lambs of the flock by
themselves you lambs of female lambs and verse 29 says and Abimelech said unto
Abraham what mean these seven you lambs which they are set by themselves and he
said these seven you lambs shout thou take of my hand that they may be a
witness unto me that I have digged this well wherefore he called that place
Beersheba because there they swear both of them and Beersheba being the southern
boundary of Canaan and meaning well of the oath or well of seven apparently now
seven being a sort of complete number and if you're sitting there going right
you know brother sorry pastor tavern I'll get there you're about to explain
what the seven you lambs represent unfortunately not I'm unsure okay if
anyone does have a good explanation I'd love to hear it I was looking at this
for a while this morning I'm not sure I didn't have anything that I really kind
of could go there's a lot we know that there's there's sevens of everything
that's like one of those needle in a haystack I felt like because we see a
lot of sevens in the Bible right and you know you could imagine from seven is
seven hours seven spirit seven days seven years they're just sevens
everywhere right so I'm unsure if anyone's got any views I'd be really
interested in that and maybe they don't maybe it's just it's a complete number I
don't know I feel like there probably is a good good there's something good in
there but I haven't got there the seven you lands being a complete number for
this I think I'm what you mean by complete no no maybe in English where
we'd possibly talk about a dozen or something that sort of thing but more so
seven is just everywhere it's completion is at seven days you know it's seven
days a morning seven days of the weeks it's just seven seven seven throughout
the Bible it seems really sort of complete number he makes this oath with
these seven you lambs verse 32 says us they made a covenant at Beersheba then a
bimlech rose up and fire coal the chief captain of his host and they returned
into the land of the Philistines and Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba
and called there on the name of the Lord the everlasting God now just quickly on
this he planted a grove okay which although groves are used to worship
false gods later like some sort of hippie woodland nonsense I'd imagine
something like that it probably all running around the trees going here it's
likely that Abraham just planted some trees and was calling on God in this
place that he planted these trees okay so I don't think we've got any reason to
think it was some sort of weird like kind of worship hippie worship service
going on however he brought the grove and then he called there on the name of
the Lord the everlasting God and this is a talk about salvation I think I
mentioned this on Sunday morning calling on the name of the Lord isn't can be for
salvation but it's not always okay so he's praying to God he's calling on him
for you know for many things I'd imagine in life like we should all be and in
verse 34 says and Abraham sojourned in the Philistines land many days so yeah
he carries on hanging around in the Philistines land he's basically on the
border here it seems of the Philistines land and you know kind of Canaan here or
at least they're kind of going into that he hangs around there a bit longer that
was Genesis chapter 21 I hope you all got something from that I'm going to
finish up in a word of prayer father I thank you for your word thank you for
well the fact that Lord we are children of the promise here we put our faith in
the Lord Jesus Christ and him alone for salvation that we accounted children of
the promise as Isaac was Lord and we thank you for that truth in the Bible of
truth which I suppose is clear to us but maybe for those without maybe the Holy
Spirit it could be harder for maybe for those that maybe just being brainwashed
and and and so you know convinced of Zionism for so many years they just find
it hard to kind of see it for what it clearly says Lord help us to to just you
know stand on those promises to know that that we can receive all those
promises that you gave to you know Abraham to his seed after him and help
us to appreciate that Lord helps to appreciate that you know that just it's
just about faith in you and what an amazing gift that is not only not only
salvation but also the many blessings that we have as your children we thank
you please help us to remember that as we finish off this week Lord and help us
to all get back here on Sunday for another day in your house Jesus name