We are continuing our series on People in the Bible who have suffered abuse. Today we are diving into Hagar's story and her son Ishmael. Where did Hagar come from? What led up to the unfortunate events Hagar endured? Did God really tell Hagar to go back to her abuser? Find out why you should be encouraged by her story, and learn some fresh insights to a familiar tale.

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Transcript: The God Who Sees Me: Hagar

[00:00:00] Hello, come on in. Welcome everybody. Did you know that you are loved by God? You are precious in his sight.

[00:00:09] So that is a reminder for you today. I'm glad you're here. I hope that you enjoyed my interview with Eric Allen last week. He was a awesome conversationalist and had a powerful story. Now this week we're going back to our series on prominent people in the Bible, those who have suffered some abuse.

[00:00:31] The Bible has a lot to say about abuse, contrary to popular belief. So

[00:00:37] it took me a long time to decide who I was going to do this week because we have so many stories in the Bible that we can learn from, and I decided to pick Hagar because I'm familiar with the story. and I think there is some encouragement in there that people [00:01:00] don't always see. Now we're going to jump around a little bit in the scripture because that's what we do when we do a Bible study of any kind, is that we are looking at some of the surrounding passages.

[00:01:13] They get some context and clarity in maybe the backstory or some cultural information. So let's get started here. We're gonna start in Genesis chapter 12 and,

[00:01:27] and I'm reading from the E S V version, but you can choose any version that you are comfortable with that you enjoy reading.

[00:01:37] So who was Hagar? Hagar was a servant of Sarah in Abraham.

[00:01:43] So to get the context of where Hagar came from and what led up to what happened to her, then we are going to

[00:01:53] go over what Abraham was about.

[00:01:57] So just a quick background is [00:02:00] that Abraham was not born a Jew, he was born in a,