Part 8 Then what...?

Genesis 18:9-15 (NIV)

9 “Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There, in the tent,” he

said.

10 Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah

your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was

behind him.

11 Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of

childbearing.

12 So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is

old, will I now have this pleasure?”

13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and

say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’

14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will

return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”

15 Sarah was afraid, so

she lied and said, “I did not laugh.” But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.”

Part 7 Then what...?John 11:1-6

11 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)

3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”

4 When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”

5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days,

Part 6 Then what...?

Genesis 32:23-2923 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” 27 The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered. 28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.” 29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.