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Introduction: Background of
story – Hagar’s emotions
I.
GOD SEES
A.
He Formed the Eye (Psalm 94:7-9)
B.
He Has Searched Us (Psalm 139:1-7)
C.
He is a God at Hand (Jeremiah 23:23-24)
D.
The Eyes of the Lord
1.
He sees the ways of man (Proverbs 5:21)
2.
He sees the evil and the good (Proverbs 15:3)
II.
GOD SEES THE EVIL
A.
The Stiffnecked People (Exodus 32:9)
B.
The Shedders of Blood (2Kings 9:26)
C.
The Desecrators of God’s House (Jeremiah 7:11)
D.
The Folly of the Prophets (Jeremiah 23:13-14)
III.
GOD SEES THE GOOD
A.
Our Affliction (Genesis 31:42)
B.
Our Tears (2Kings 20:5)
Where are the Tears?
“The Bible was written in tears and to tears it will
yield its best treasures. God has nothing to say to
the frivolous man. It was to Moses, a trembling man,
that God spoke on the mount, and that same man later
saved the nation when he threw himself before God
with the offer to have himself blotted out of God’s
book for Israel’s sake. Daniel’s long season of
fasting and prayer brought Gabriel from heaven to
tell him the secret of the centuries. When the
beloved John wept much because no one could be found
worthy to open the seven-sealed book, one of the
elders comforted him with the joyous news that the
Lion of the tribe of Judah had prevailed.
“The psalmists often wrote in tears, the prophets
could hardly conceal their heavy heartedness, and
the apostle Paul in his otherwise joyous epistle to
the Philippians broke into tears when he thought of
the many who were enemies of the cross of Christ and
whose end was destruction. Those Christian leaders
who shook the world were one and all men of sorrows
whose witness to mankind welled out of heavy
hearts.” –from God Tells the Man Who Cares by
A. W. Tozer (p.9).
C.
Our Heart (John 1:50)
D.
Our Ways (Isaiah 57:16-18)
IV.
GOD SEES ME
A.
Our Favor with God (Luke 1:28-30)
B.
The Regard of God for our Low Estate (Luke 1:46-49)