ALSO SARA
(Transcribed Message)

Sunday Morning:  February 3, 2002

Text:  Hebrews 11:9-11  "By faith he (Abraham) sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same [the] promise: 10. For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11. Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised."

SOJOURNED INTO EGYPT

Genesis 12:8-10  "And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD (no answer). 9. And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. 10. And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn (out of the land) there; for the famine was grievous in the land."

NOT SURE HE WOULD LIVE

Genesis 12:13  "Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee."

PROMISE CONFIRMED

Genesis 15:4  "And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This (Abraham's servant) shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir."

WE WILL HELP GOD OUT

Genesis 16:4-5  "And he (Abraham) went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5. And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee."

PROMISE CONFIRMED

Genesis 17:16-17  "And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her. 17. Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?"

PROMISE CONFIRMED AGAIN

Genesis 18:12-14  "Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? 13. And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? 14. Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son."

STILL NOT SURE

Genesis 20:1-2  "And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. 2. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah."

AT THE SET TIME

Genesis 21:1-2  "And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him."

YOU CAN COUNT ON IT

Numbers 23:19  "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?"

FAITH RECKONED

Romans 4:19-22  "And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: 20. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21. And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22. And therefore it (faith) was imputed [reckoned] to him for righteousness."

BE PATIENT

Hebrews 10:35-36  "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. 36. For ye have need of patience [upomenh, endurance], that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."

GOD WON'T FORGET

Hebrews 6:11-15  "And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12. That ye be not slothful, but followers of them [Hebrews 11] who through faith and patience [makroqumia, longsuffering] inherit the promises. 13. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14. Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15. And so, after he (Abraham) had patiently endured [makroqumew, aorist, to the end], he obtained the promise."

THE PROMISE

1 John 2:25  "And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal [aiwniov, (kingdom) age] life (of honor and glory)."

THE LORD WILL WAIT

Isaiah 30:18  "And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him."

HE WILL BEAR LONG

Luke 18:1, 7-8  "And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;. .

AT THE SET TIME

7. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long [makroqumew, present active] with them? 8. I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"

IT IS GOOD TO WAIT

Lamentations 3:25-26  "The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD."

BE OF GOOD COURAGE

Psalms 27:14 "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD."

WAIT AND BE EXALTED

Psalms 37:34  "Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land:"

THE LORD IS COMING

James 5:7-8  "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh."

HIS REWARD IS WITH HIM

Revelation 22:12  "And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be."