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Learning to Trust the God Who Promises · Episode 4

The Person Your Plan Might Overlook

Trace household power and responsibility in Genesis 16, and distinguish a particular instruction to Hagar from a universal command.

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Episode reference 43501-TV-263016

Overview

The conversation this episode opens.

Scripture: Genesis 16:1–16

What does trust look like when promise and circumstance do not agree?

By the end of this teaching: Trace household power and responsibility in Genesis 16, and distinguish a particular instruction to Hagar from a universal command.

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Pain does not settle what is right

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Who carries the consequences

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God meets Hagar in the wilderness

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Seeing people as Christ teaches us to see

A practice to consider: A manager repeatedly assigns unwanted shifts to the employee least able to refuse. The schedule works. What would you investigate and change?

Your next independent reading

Read Genesis 17 and 18. Record how Sarah is included and what Abraham asks concerning Sodom.

Content note: The season includes slavery, reproductive coercion, sexual violence, loss, and the threatened sacrifice of a child. Teaching uses restrained language. Personal disclosure is optional.

Will’s author-supplied ten-episode teaching and matched companions are prepared as publishing edition 02. Final publishing review, spoken timing, pilot use, recording, and release remain pending.

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