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 “Where is your wife, Sarah?” they asked him. “There, in the tent,” he said. Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.”

(Gen. 18: 9-10)

Do you think they already knew where Sarah was, when they asked this question? Of course, they knew where Sarah was. She was right behind them in the tent. They were outside the tent under a tree she was just inside the tent preparing the meal. I believe, they knew exactly where she was not least because of her close proximity to them, but also because of the fact of who they were. It would also have been the custom of the day for the wife to be in the tent, so they called her by name. So, they knew who she was, and they probably knew where she was. You can't help but read this and think of Adam in the Garden of Eden when God said, where are you, Adam. In Genesis 3: 9. God knew where Adam was of course, and the Lord also knows where Sarah is this time. So, it's a rhetorical question to get attention Look agai at verse 10 they say to him, ‘I will return to you about this time next year’, did you did you catch that. That means by this time next year Sarah and Abraham are going to have had a baby. I'm going to come back to you about that time next year and Sarah, your wife, will have had a son. Sarah was listening in the tent door, and she could hear all this.

“Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing”.

(Gen 18: 11)

Abraham is 99 years old which means he will have a son when he's 100 years old he and Sarah is 90 years old, and she’s going to have a child. She is no doubt thinking, are you kidding me, that is impossible.

“So, Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

(Gen. 18: 12)

Sarah laughed, now please note this doesn’t necessarily mean she laughed out loud. Bible experts say the words use here suggest this means she laughed within herself. This is important if you recognize she was hidden from them, and which means they can’t hear her or read her body language. She just laughs and this is what she askes herself the question, How, when we are both worn out how shall we finally experience this joy.

So, Sarah is thinking we're too old for this childbearing thing, so she laughs within herself and thinks, “come on, that's not gonna happen”.  Then verse 13 says 

“Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?”

(Gen. 18: 13)

She hadn't said anything out loud. She didn't even laugh out loud. Abraham probably hadn’t realized she laughed at all. But now he did now because the Lord told him she had laughed. You may recall a few episodes back when we looked at chapter 17 The Lord told Abraham that he was going to have a son via Sarah, and he laughed as well. If recall those episodes you may remember I suggested that I agreed with the bible commentators who said this was the laugh of incredulous joy. Not a scornful laugh, because we noted he fell face down in front of the Lord upon doing it. Most Bible commentators who know about these things say the use of the words here suggest this time the laugh of Sarah is a laugh of doubting the Lord can do this. A laugh of unbelief. I don't think it's a scornful laugh as some suggest. I don't think she's ridiculing God, or even her husband I think she's just saying something like “really, yeah right” and laughing because of her situation incredulous unbelief that this could happen. 

So how does the Lord address this. We shall see next time.