Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries
When problems are solved in the wrong way, much greater problems are created.
Tuesday, November 20, 2001
qal imperfect bo wayyavo a euphemism for the fornication of Abram with Hagar. imperfect tense – “he kept going into or kept having sex with Hagar.”
Adultery is one of the very bona fide basis of divorce, MAT 5:32; MAT 19:9, LUK 16:18, MAR 10:11-12.
Pre-salvation divorce and remarriage is not an issue. Marriage is dissolved by the death of a spouse.
Adultery is a legitimate basis for divorce and remarriage by the innocent party. If the guilty party remarries that is adultery, and causes the second husband or wife to be living in adultery.
Desertion is a legitimate basis for divorce and remarriage. The divorce gimmick is a legitimate basis for divorce and remarriage.
The man is warned not to be bitter against his wife, COL 3:19.
Jealousy wipes out all her normal responses to Abram whereby they have had a great sex life for fifty years – now the sex life is gone.
When problems are solved in the wrong way, much greater problems are created.
Sarai thinks she is going to solve the problem by giving her husband another sex partner, a slave, but in doing so, she will destroy her own libido.
The sacredness of marriage has invisible walls which isolate husband and wife in marriage and cause their relationship to be unique – the sexual relationship.
Sex outside of marriage is always classified as a sin in the Bible, Lev 18; 20:10-23; NUM 5:12-13; DEU 5:22-23, COL 3:5.
Sex is the monopoly of marriage. It is designed by God for the expression of unity, virtue, privacy, intimacy, and personal care for the other spouse.
The filling of the Holy Spirit. Metabolized doctrine circulating in the soul. The ten PSD’s. The power for the execution of the PPOG.
Sex will be the means of bringing the heir of the new race into the world, and Sarai’s sex with Abram is going to be the means of the birth of Isaac.
Bitterness and jealousy is going to set in and affect the most important sexual apparatus of the human body – The Soul
In trying to solve the problem, Sarai will destroy the true means of solving the problem, the sexual relationship between her and Abram.
Sex between Abram and Sarai – not Abram and little Egypt, Hagar.
By Sarai giving Hagar to Abram she is going to destroy her libido and not want sex with him anymore.
GAL 4:16 “Have I therefore become your enemy by telling you the truth?”
She destroys the very vehicle that God is going to use, and never again during the normal sex part of their life are they going to have sex.
When she is past menopause, and Abram is impotent and has gone 13 years without sex, God will intervene and they will have sex for the rest of their lives, and have Isaac.
In trying to solve the problem, Sarai will destroy the true means, the divine solution.
God is the solution, but the means is sex.
There are no short cuts in God’s plan.
He has to perform two miracles; He’s going to have to bring back their sexual ability and then open up her womb.
1CO 1:29 – no flesh should glory before God.
Human viewpoint solutions only complicate the function and operation of God’s grace.