6/12/22 - God’s Graces In Unexpected Places - Genesis 21 - Pastor Jason Fritz

Our text this week starts off on a high note. A specific promise from God to Abraham and Sarah is being fulfilled. Let’s just say it’s a big one that will change the course of human history... The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised. And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.  -Genesis 21:1-2 Can you imagine attending this baby shower? Sarah is 90 years old at this time. I can hear someone say, “Congratulations Sarah! Now enjoy this stroller for the baby…and here's a walker for you." God wanted there to be no doubt he was the one making this happen. He will be faithful to his word. This is stressed three times in the first two verses so we don’t miss it. Remember my friends, God still keeps his word today and every bit of it. You see our problem is with the timing. Don’t fall victim to your timeline. Wait on God to do what he says he will do. With this baby, Abraham and Sarah know that God is faithful in every detail of his promises. The birth of Isaac was the undisputable empirical data validating God’s voice. Therefore Jesus declares this... "For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished."  -Matthew 5:18 An iota is the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet and a dot is a tiny stroke of the pen. We would say today, “Make sure you dot every i and cross every t.” Because Jesus is God in the flesh we can trust and rely upon his words too. Jesus Himself is the greatest evidence of God keeping his promises because everything God said in the Old Testament about a forthcoming prophet was fulfilled in Jesus. If you ask me, “What is the Christian life?” I would say the Christian life is lived in faith upon every word that God speaks.