This week Teressa kicked off our new message series: 'Summer Heros.' In this new series, we will be looking at our speaker's favourite figures from the Old Testament and what learning we can take from their stories to help us in our own walk with Jesus. Teressa kicks us off this week in a somewhat unlikely place - the story of Abraham, Sarai and Hagar...
We had an issue in recording this week so we are missing the first few moments of the message. This is the entirety of the reading Teressa is speaking from when the podcast begins:
Genesis 15:18 to 16:6
So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River… 1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had no children. So Sarai took her servant, an Egyptian woman named Hagar, and gave her to Abram so she could bear his children. "The Lord has kept me from having children," Sarai said to Abram. "Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her.” And Abram agreed. So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian servant and gave her to Abram as a wife. (This happened ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.) So Abram slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar knew she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress Sarai with contempt. Then Sarai said to Abram, “This is all your fault! Now this servant of mine is pregnant, and she despises me, though I myself gave her privilege of sleeping with you. The LORD will make you pay for doing this to me! Abram replied, “Since she is your servant, you may deal with her as you see fit.” So Sarai treated her harshly and Hagar ran away.
