Primary and secondary revelation.  Importance of any book’s self-claims. Brief history of preservation. Not a human endeavor (the essential claim of every passage about revelation).

We make the law dangerous because 1) We instinctively know we need it, so we are attracted  2) It restricts so we feel we have earned some right  3) Obedience to law can too easily satisfy without saving.

We often wonder how God can love and bless us with all our sins/mistakes.  Here He blesses Hagar despite the fact that Ishmael and his conception was not God’s will.  God does not sugarcoat the outcome of Ishmael’s birth.