In this episode we continue studying the Book of Genesis. In this episode Abraham is visited by three men, Christ and two angels.

Christ seals the promise with Sarah, telling her that this time next year you will have a son.

Sarah laughed and said, Will I now have the pleasure of having a child at my age.

Sarah’s response indicates she has lost hope. To have Hope is to live with expectancy, to live cheerfully expecting God to perform what he said, he would do. Websters says, an expectant person is one held in dependence by his belief of receiving good.

At the age of 90, Sarah had stopped hoping and expecting that she would experience the joy of giving birth to a child.

Although she had faith (she believed God could do anything) her hope was gone.

God told them they would have a son. This she believed for a very long time but it hadn’t happened, and now she thought it was too late, they were too old.

So often God gives us promises and we think they are going to happen right away, but they don’t.

This points us to what Solomon said, in Ecclesiastes chapter 8 verse 6 which says:

“Because to every purpose there is a time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon. For he knoweth not that which shall be, who can tell him when it shall be.”

God gives us a promise, we think it’s going to happen right away and it doesn’t and since we don’t know when it’s going to happen, we spend our days in misery.

But that’s not how God wants us to live, he wants us to go on living, He wants us to live in the present, and not neglect present tasks, joys or responsibilities, life should go on, while we are waiting for the promise to come to pass.


Abraham was a righteous man and Psalms chapter 92 verses 12 through 15 says, that the righteous shall flourish like the palm tree, they are planted in his house and flourish in his courts that they shall bear fruit in their old age and be fat and flourishing, to show that the Lord is upright and he is their rock and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Moses was saved at birth but was 80 years old when he returned to speak with Pharaoh and Aaron was 83.

God calls us by name, he knows how many hairs we have on our heads and is not surprised when we get old, he still wants to bless and use us to give glory to his name in the world.

So he says in Isaiah chapter 46 verses 3 and 4.

Isaiah 46:3  Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

Isaiah 46:4  And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

God has been with us since the day we were born, he’s been with us throughout our lives, and he'll even be with us when our hair turns grey, he will still carry us, he will help us, he will deliver us, and he enable us to bear fruit in our old age.

God revealed to Abraham what he was about to do to Sodom. Abraham interceded for Sodom and God agreed to spare the city if 10 righteous people were found in it.

After God left, Abraham went home, he didn’t go to Sodom to warn Lot that God was on his way, or that God was sending angels to investigate what was going on in the city.

He couldn’t intervene and save Lot this time as he had always done. If there were 10 righteous people in the city, Lot and his family would be safe, if not there was nothing he could do. God had spoken, blessed be his name.

Sometimes people become offended with God, because of how he deals with others. When he judges a person or nation, they deem God’s actions as unfair and rail against him. But scripture says, what a man sows he will also reap. Each person will be rewarded for their work. If that’s what they earned how can we get mad at God.

Abraham believed in God’s righteous judgment, he had interceded for Lot but after that, what happened to Lot was between Him and God and the inhabitants of Sodom.

All he knew was that he was going to continue to command his house to obey God. That was it, he wasn’t trying to make other people obey God. He was responsible for himself and those in his house.

We get in trouble when we start trying to make other people obey God, especially the wicked.

Jesus warns us about trying to preach the gospel to those who hold religion in contempt.

Matthew 7:6  Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Mounce says in this context dogs means a religious corrupter.

Thayer’s says, trample means to treat with rudeness and insult to spurn, treat with insulting neglect, to advance by setting foot upon, tread upon.


Evangelism starts at your own house. We must strive to secure our own Salvation, making sure we live right and lead our household to do the same.