“Who Do You Trust?”

1. If it’s not a God idea, it’s a bad idea!
2. Our response to trouble is to run.

(v. 7)
⁷The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.

(vs. 8–13)
⁸And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”
      “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.

⁹Then the angel of the LORD told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” ¹⁰The angel added, “I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count.”

¹¹The angel of the LORD also said to her:
      “You are now with child
      and you will have a son.
      You shall name him Ishmael,
      for the LORD has heard of your misery.

¹²He will be a wild donkey of a man;
      his hand will be against everyone
      and everyone's hand against him,
      and he will live in hostility
      toward all his brothers.”

¹³She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”

1. Christmas is a story of a lover in pursuit.
2. You and I were handicapped.
   1. ________________________
   2. ________________________

(v. 9)
⁹Then the angel of the LORD told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”

1. Blessings are positional and that position is obedience.

   (v. 10)
   ¹⁰The angel added, “I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count.”

(Gen. 15:6)
⁶Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.