“And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.”
One of the visitors says: 'I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.' The announcement is specific — a year, a son. The same promise God made to Abraham in Genesis 17:19 is now made in Sarah's hearing for the first time. Sarah hears this from behind the tent entrance — the promise is reaching her where she is, not waiting for her to come out. Romans 10:17 declares that faith comes from hearing the message. The promise is reaching Sarah's ears; what she does with it is the question. The application: the covenant promise has a specific timeline and a specific recipient. 'I will surely return' — the double emphasis of the Hebrew is intensifying: this is not conditional, not approximate, not general. Receive the specific promises of God with the same specificity with which they are given.
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