1. Teaching the “whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27)
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2. Genesis 21 – The son of promise
Hosea 12 verse 10
God speaks to us using similitudes
Acts 17 verses 22-34
God needs nothing
God does not need us
God is not someone with whom we can barter or that we can win over
Conversely God is someone we need
Someone from whom we need to hear
Someone who is loving enough and gracious enough to speak to us
And He uses similitudes – Genesis is rich with them!

3. Genesis 21: The son of promise
Isaac
Jesus
Birth foretold – Genesis 18
Named before birth – Gen 18
Born as a result of divine visitation – Gen 21 v 1
Born to a woman unable to conceive – Gen 21 v 2, Heb 11
Foretold a considerable time prior to birth – 25 years
Name given by divine intervention to mother, applied by father
Isaiah 7, 9 and elsewhere
Matt 1 v 21 & Luke 1 v 31
Luke 1 v 26 & following and Matthew 1 v 18
Isaiah 7 & Luke 1 as already shown
2000 years (Gen 3) and other periods
Matt 1 v 21 and 25

4. Genesis 21: The son of promise
The son of the flesh has to go when the son of promise takes up residence
When we are born of God we are a new creation – 2 Corinthians 5 v 17
The son of the bondwoman has to go when the son of the freewoman is born Galatians 4 V 23
It was for freedom that Christ has set us free – Gal 5 v 1
Isaac would be the source of freedom to the world – the line of the Messiah
Jesus would be the source of freedom for the world Matt 1 v 21 (saved from sin)

5. Genesis 21: The son of promise
Galatians 3 v 29
We who believe are all Abraham’s seed
Galatians 4 v 21 – 31
The process of finding Christ is one of ousting the son of the bondwoman and allowing the son of the freewoman to set up home.
It was grievous to Abraham to oust the son of the bondwoman
But God’s exhortation was to be pleased
The road to promise can be painful but ends in glory
In Isaac shall your seed be called
Remember we are ‘the seed’, called through Abraham’s seed (Christ)
If I be lifted up on the earth I will call all men to myself – John 12 v 32

6. Genesis 21: The son of promise
Prophetic fulfilment
God heard the voice of the lad
I will make of him a great nation
Gen 17 – twelve princes shall come from him
The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedmah. These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations." Genesis 25:12-16
Also given in 1 Chronicles 1 v 29-33
Ismael had an Egyptian Mother and then went to Egypt for a wife
Some of the Arab nations descended from Ishmael
A wild ass of a man whose hand will always be against his brother

7. Teaching the “whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27)
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