The Sermon Abram Doubted The Truth by David McGee
Apr 14, 2013
Abram Doubted The Truth (35:35)
Referenced Scriptures: Genesis 12:7-20; Genesis 13:1-13; Genesis 14:17-24
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Genesis 12:7-20
7) Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
8) He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
9) Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
10) There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was sore in the land.
11) It happened, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look on.
12) It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.‘ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
13) Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
14) It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15) The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh‘s house.
16) He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.
17) Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram‘s wife.
18) Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn‘t you tell me that she was your wife?
19) Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,‘ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
20) Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.
Genesis 13:1-13
1) Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
2) Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
3) He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
4) to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
5) Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
6) The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
7) There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram‘s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot‘s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land.
8) Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
9) Isn‘t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
10) Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
11) So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot journeyed east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
12) Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
13) Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
Genesis 14:17-24
17) The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the vale of Shaveh (the same is the King‘s Vale).
18) Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.
19) He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:
20) and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.
21) The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."
22) Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
23) that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.‘
24) Except only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre: let them take their portion."
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Both morning. We are continuing our series on Abram will get the Abraham and weaker to buy the paper and were looking at Genesis, chapter twelve and last week we had a brim being Kirk called out of our own mythologies and very left his family and past and move to a country, a place that God would show him when he got there and we know that this trip took well over a thousand miles, so now they didn't get Amtrak for the train makeup in the camel and the and the donkey and they traveled north along the Euphrates River on till they came up near the beginning of a tour and then travel down by the new yacht Mediterranean Sea and came to this place that we know as Israel today and it was there that Abraham saddled Linda God brought to him. These promises again that he would have this. And in today's lesson four seven God appeared to Abraham and said I will give this land to you and to your children. So he built an altar there. It is this place called Bethel that Abraham has now arrived that and he is there celebrating God 's promises to him. It is important as they in the Old Testament, in these times they would erect altars. They were erect places up that not only were places of sacrifice. But they were places that commit commemorated how they they had established some type of communion with God that establish this relationship with God and with his promises and it's very important because always it throughout Abrams life and is later Odyssey name was changed to Abraham, it comes back to Bethel and his business. The mood Ann Arbor years ago. It even to the sermon on its back to Bethel going back to that place where we met and encountered God where God 's experience of Islam in his promise payment comes into our life, and it's important that we have these places know we have celebrations of Christmas, Easter the holidays and those are specialty occasions that are set up for our nation is aware and on our calendar yearly calendar, but as we celebrate birthdays Psalter. We should celebrate in our own lives times in which God moved on our life times in which we felt really close to God, and how they got touched our lives and that we need to always remember those places remember where God has touched their life and has brought us to that place and as always from that place been a focus of our life. I can remember a couple of occasions and in my young life when I was a teenager that God really spoke to my life release impressed upon my life, his spirit than he is his call that event I have whenever I was in college and playing football when it didn't in going to church. It was one one night in particular I was at church and up at the altar praying and it was that night that I felt this calling. That said, this is the party on calling you into the ministry. I want you to go to Bible school, go to school and become a minister. So from that moment on, it was like okay that's what I'm doing. There was like no second choice. There was no going on with my trusted endeavors of playing ball in play football and being coached all that none of that was in important anymore. It was this place and I can still remember the night for me to remember that's a good thing, but I can remember that night and the place that I was in that church at the altar, and there is where hearing that voice are hearing that still small voice within your voices but that kind of whispering your spirit. This is what I want you to do this is what you intended for an soul. From that moment on, it's been a twelve effect with the infringer. I thin it is to do what God has for us while vessel is this kind of place where Abraham has arrived at the promised land. And it is there that God renews this promise that he gave to him back in the Chaldees, whatever he had left there that God would bless Anthony would get to the land. When you get there, I'll tell you it's there. I'll tell you when you're there and this is what happened here at Bethel God shows up in Abrams life and tells them I will give this land to your children. So it's like this is this is what I'm supposed to be and so Abraham set up this apron set up this altar and very offers is worship the God verse eight, and I've gone from there with a well if that's such a wonderful place to be white to move on wagon to move away from their while he established the altar, and he moved on from there he moved southward in this land that God had given him, and he moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel, and pitched his tent toward Bethel to the West and AI to these he built an altar there, and he prayed to God. Verse nine and Abram kept moving steadily making his way south to the next. That's important is if you look at the region you find that are of a child, eases over by the black see that it's I forget which see it is anyhow, it's a long Euphrates River. Follow that up north while most of the northern tip of Mediterranean Sea and then down the coast of Israel down to almost where Jerusalem is an to that area and he built this altar and then he moved south of there down to the negative in the negative is bound by the DNC and it between the Dead Sea and agent, so he's moving down in that direction and whatever he gets to the negative verse ten that a famine came to the land and Abram went down into Egypt to live so as a romance traveled. He said he arrived at this place that God says this is going to get to you and your descendents, and then salmon comes while you would think that God has a plan for you. No more problems, anxiety problems illnesses. God has promised me out on this Olympics. My cat loves staying here well didn't happen that way ever little Don and he found that he was in the famine. So what do we do well in question, God knows, he just went on while this limited agent left around agent .com this far, what's, what's another four hundred five hundred miles in just a day 's journey by camel festival now and want to get from the just to Egypt so on. It was a hard famine. So he drew near to Egypt. He said his wife Sarah. I locally found now that you are beautiful women. A woman and lineage engines see that you're going to start going to say ha ha that's his wife, now ladies, you know that when your husband says to you, you know, honey, we both know you're really beautiful somethings, right we know that something 's up when I think I'm running now. We well know you're really beautiful. The Abrams transducer eyes widened as we all know that where you are really beautiful and we're going into another country, but I think I have an idea I will plan why don't you say you are my sister and I won't tell me because of your my wife, they'll kill me and take you because you're just too beautiful ladies, let your husband went to the analysis is done something here. I thought so do me a favor, tell them you're my sister because of you fell while me and let me live, though this is a brand now this is a guy who God has promised him that I'm going to bless you. I'm going to give you descendents. I'm going to bed the New York ascendant is going to bless the entire world, and this is a room with the doing is fear this caused them to doubt that he was never going to live and he doesn't have a kid yet, so how can the promise that God has given him, take him throw this difficulty is now in the promise doesn't invest in this case the promise that God has given him up. Bethel and the promise that a given him yell, fifteen hundred miles earlier in an hour of the counties suddenly goes out the window whenever he goes into falls off the camel is about when they filed off the camel out whatever he comes to agent and a Cel-Sci. You know what does say that you're my sister so and then he because you're so beautiful. And because you are going to represent me so well known. Let me live and everything was fine. So when I got here first, sixteen because of her apron got along very well. The accumulated sheep and cattle on male and female donkeys, men, women, sermons, camels, so you see Pharaoh blessed Abram because of Sarah. All I forgot verse fourteen, when a prince from arriving each of the Egyptians took one look and saw that his wife was stunningly beautiful, so Sarai was a beautiful woman and she had all the lovely appearances that other people would consider her a very lovely woman and pharaohs princess processes, princes, that the word princes raved over her to Pharaoh. She was taken to live with favorite, so she was taken to be part of pharaohs have now. We don't now how long she was in this hair we don't know if Pharaoh ever now took her to his dad and all that we don't know is that we just know that she was part of the harem. We know that Abraham and how long they were there. We don't know how long they were needed. We don't know. But we do know that because of she being in the the Heron part of Pharaoh 's court that Abram was blessed and God 's blessing continue to be upon him, and he was blessed by Pharaoh with many with many cattle and everything else that is kept accumulating and forsaking Pharaoh called for labor watchlist that you've done to me, the God does not allow things to continue when we are breaking his commands and the things are not as they should God has a way of interrupting God has a way of interrupting the process and interrupting what's going on and saying there's something else going on here, only interrupted and he came to Pharaoh and his Pharaoh and his whole court were sick and then Pharaoh Niles God talk to somehow revealed a role. What is that you've done to me. Why don't you tell me that she was or why why did you say she's my sister so that I take her as a wife, here's your wife back. Take care and get out. So Pharaoh he chastises a run for his live for his inability to laugh a any chastises a Berman told him to get out of the volatile and Abrams year made more out all the problem. The situation that needed to be Anglosphere that Pharaoh would tell him on your road Abrams promise from God. The God would take care if he is, we look at the life of April. Sometimes we'd start placing these individuals, these godly characters that we see in the Scriptures, and without them in supernatural settings in which they never really had to make in everyday life decision. While we can see how they fear is not that I'm a part of our life now, there are fears that we need to be afraid. There are things we need to be afraid of you. You don't go away in the middle the railroad tracks when the whistles blowing a guy that's a good here you stay off the track with whistleblower, I noticed you like your plans will the street while you could get with a car in. That's a good fear. There are some things we should be afraid up now. Fear is a good thing, but the fear we start making up fears as aware here is Abram coming into a new country. He's afraid that Farrell Donna still I am in think as life-size as you be my sister and everything be fine. He allowed here to cancel out the promise in our life, we have this core of who we are as the promise of God, and the promises of God live in our life and it is the promises of God that health costs deal with our everyday life. It gives us the strength of the promise overrides our fears while Verizon things that we are assuming will take place or what could take place how many scenarios can you come up with the situation now, Sunday book and plopped a hundred different things to go wrong, but a promise gives us a perspective that will go right a promise gives us a perspective on how things will go right and what happens whenever we have a prospective of how things do go right. We go in that direction we go towards the answer to that prayer and that's why it's so important. You and I has God 's children to allow the promises to direct us, not our fears to push us. God 's promises, directness, and so what happened. Pharaoh ordered his men to get Abram out of the country. They sent him and his wife and everything he owned on their way to kind of a similar accident on what will happen to Abrams grandson when he takes his family Abraham, Isaac, Jacob when Joseph goes the Pharaoh of Egypt becomes second-in-command to Egypt and Egypt and pharaoh and brings Jacob to live there. Israel and his children, his descendents and the children of Israel have the four hundred years of captivity in Egypt and what happens at the end of four years in a row in the place sends them out with everything here is China like the same thing happens to Abram. Take your family and get out of town for Chapter thirteen. So they left Egypt went back to the negative things of this is that three hundred fifty four mile journey from Egypt back to the negative, which is how weird Dead Sea. Somewhere between the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee that part. And so he returns to this problem. The bottom part of the beer is the negative, the density now. I was very rich in love with cattle, silver, and also the righteous, ungodly men are the fruit of God giving in the front of God 's blessing, the riches of good men are the fruit of God 's blessing and Abraham was very rich, and he was very as we would call religious, very deep in his faith and his commitment to God, so he went on from the negative move up into what is now McCain went camping along the way to Bethel. The place where he had first set up his own. He was going back to Bethel. The place regarded, said this is your way and baffle and AI built his first altar. He prayed that they are to God 's old vessel, then, is this place that apron continually comes back to sometimes I'm recently fought many years whenever you know, we were young in the ministry, always, I would always remember that night that place at the altar where I felt God called me to be a minister, and when you doubted that the South felt like, well, maybe I didn't dear God, well I would go back and revisit that night to revisit the place issued these are important times in our life where what God does. There are things or events. There are all clues. There are places that are very important to you in your life. It's important that you revisit that no, sometimes people read and visit the places of trauma and create paying God says, letting out. Go back to the places of all meaning the back to the places where God has touched your life and bless you a very specific way about those places because those are the places that are going to make a difference in how you live. Abram goes back to Bethel lot was traveling with Abram. The whole time watchmen with him, and he that is not. He was also rich in resurrection and sheep and cattle intense, but the land can't support both of them there too many possessions. They couldn't both live their quarrels broke out between Abram Shepherd and lots shepherds and the Canaanites and the parasite also lived on the land at the time, so what's happening is a berm is growing is with Egypt, and all the slaves and menservants and maidservants, and in cattle and you all the things are growing and the grazing pastures and then walked he has. He's been blasphemies growing and so there's conflict going on. Plus, there are other people living in these regions for what he edited while lots if bothered by, and he traveled with his uncle Abram and it was basically raised by a room in a Berlin a been a very strong role model for him, but lots he never did get lot never really had a sense of his own purpose. You can analyze the person who tagged along with uncle Abram and so throughout his life. Then he was kind of cop in the moment, and what was going on around him, and he was unable to see the consequences up on his actions and in what he was doing that he does not fall along with a rep to devote a review with last night. Is this the town lots in the tally Thomas and myself and you that everyone around. He was blessed because of your relationship with God. People around you are blast because of you and your relationship with God. Usually when God blesses you. It blesses those around you after the fact being out just as people who are people who are lost and caught up in problems. Everybody around them is affected, while the opposite is true when we are blessed. Everyone around you was affected by God 's blessing upon your life is, and while we're not really that was bullying me. God has blessed you he is giving you a perspective of life and about what's going on in your life that is changed. You and whether you notice that are not other people been affected by lots was affected by the blessing that came into Abrams life, and when lots and Abramson, servants and cattle could no longer be sustained on the same land. Abram has a solution comes lot to lot your choice. Where do you want to live you have this place around you have the hills on the valley. There you go anywhere you want on your choice. Well, why he thought verse ten, eleven, he looked, and he saw the whole plane of the Jordan spread out while water like God 's garden, like Egypt, stretching all the way to soar. It took the whole plane of the Jordan, and lots set out to the east, so he looked around me said you know what I'm a good businessman. I'm going to take where I know I'll prosper and he took his lands and his cattle never think anyone to the planes of Jordan and guess what was in the plains of Jordan. It was the people of Sodom was thirteen. They were flagrant sinners against God, and so Lott took his family where he could prosper, but he was camping now next to sinners instant he was and he was putting his life next, the people who were going to rob him, tell him and destroy him. He had lived his entire life around someone who is blessing and giving and supplying them see that it goes on to live by Sodom and chapter fourteen in Lebanon greeted by this one goes doable things here that while he was living down by Sodom. You see in those days it was it was like an area I King was there with the King of Johnstown, there was the King of Somerset. There is a king of Ebensburg. There was a King of Bedford. Okay, so I really only cities have their their kings and their armies that would protect them well. And there was the king, and there was this never these five cities that were paying tribute to one King one King had come from Indiana, and had conquered all five of these places and they all the places Evans Bergen, John Stalin Bedford, they all had to pay tribute to the King of Indiana because he ruled over them while Sodom, Johnstown and Ebensburg and all got together and said, without paying tribute with the donors for five years, twelve years as we were doing this for twelve years without paying, so they made a pact. They were verified against the King of Indiana. So when the King of Indiana found out about this, they come storming in and he does wipe them all out and he conquered all these areas, including Sodom and wanted to get me to watch and his family captive every down. He took them anyone off well that was not the right thing to do because Eber, Elizabeth God and Abram went to allow his nephew to be taken captive, Peter walked out of the house, but he wasn't of the drag away from him. So here are these five kingdoms fighting against one kingdom. They couldn't do anything about it. So what is able to he takes three hundred and eighteen thanks, three hundred and eighteen men and chases after the King and when I chased after the King Yukon and the three hundred and eighteen men did what five kingdoms five city states could Abram defeated them. God gave him a plan B defeated the enemy. We took all of the possessions we took everything at set his side, his nephew afraid took his wife and his cases families alone is good. Took them all back and knees line back home with the lot a lot all of the goods that he had conquered from this king were seventeen of Chapter fourteen after Abram returned from defeating the door Lamarr low lumbar work and his alien change the king of Sodom came out the gradient in the valley. As soon as and the Kings Valley, and so the king of Sodom, and downgrades, and then you talk to them about it, but the most important thing here is not Saturday, king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was a priest of the high God, and he blessed him in the book of Hebrews. It says now tested the to be without father, without mother, without descendent, having neither beginning of days more end-of-life. This king notes has a deck. Some feel there is different theories about the with some feel this was Jesus Christ. This priest of Salem is the descendent who is going to bless the entire Earth through Abrams lineage shows up. He represents the most high God. Blessed be Abram by the high God, creator of heaven and earth, and blessed be the high God, who handed your enemies, over to you. This king of Salem, King of peace. Jesus, the Prince of Gonzales and blesses Abram and Abram gave him a tenth of everything that he had taken a talk recently added to the list, multi- select one tenth of everything. It all because he recognized how that thought had blessed him. Now this Abram, know that this is Jesus incarnate business did Jesus does he know that this is a pre- incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ. I don't know. And again, you can go back and forth in their different what theologies and different theories as to who this guy is, but it talks about how that this trance misrepresentative this note has God came and blessed Abram again. And Abram took of everything that he had engaged as a sign of God 's provision. We go on verse twenty one, the king of Sodom said to Abram, give me back the people, but you keep all the plunder to yourself. If you bought everything that you captured is your sister. Many people the neighborhood told the king of Sodom, I swear to God, the high God, the creator of heaven and earth. This solemn oh I take nothing from you or from most other five kings. I take nothing of your prison not so much as a threat or a shoestring. I'm not going to have you go around saying I made Abram rich nothing for me. I know that what the young man a in the and the share of the man who went with me ever and says God who made the promise to my life is my sustainer. He is the one who is going to provide for me. He is the one who's going to see me through all of the difficulties of my life and all of the wealth that is going to come into my life is going to come by God himself, moving in my life and so usually we talk about how that in our life were faced with decisions we have to make something illegal, you know, maybe I should lie a little bit ABI should do this new initiative that Abram Glennie Bijan now Sarah. We both know you're beautiful to be my sister so I can live no-no. April is a promise on your life. It cannot be canceled by some king of Egypt. Some Pharaoh Nugent then he comes to this recovery in the battle. The neighbor and then the strategy that went into planning this battle, God gave them the strategy to conquering army. The five kings couldn't touch three hundred eighteen Concord took everything that is still plus more was back to his homeland has this wealth of things that France now tested at the priest comes with you. Do he takes a tenth of everything he owns and gives of his priests everything we own is represented in our tithes and offerings. Everything about our wealth but we are individual is represented in our giving and no one is ever going to be credited with making you who you are. God is going to be the one who received the credit for you. Becoming the person he created you to be in your mother 's will, and you're giving your living abiding in the promises living by the word brings about a security in you that nothing can destroy and no one will be able to take credit for, but God himself who is touched your life and made a difference in new. This is what happened away from this one happens to each of us every day of our life from walks with us. He promises us. We go back to those places where God has made a difference in our life. He's challenged us and he keeps on challenging us to trust him, he will make a way for us. He will bring the promises to the surface inside of a heart and we pray those promises and God will bless it is his blessing that we desire. It is God 's direction for our life that we desire. It is this protection. It is his purpose, he will be our God and we shall be his people, and he will bless us in this life and in this day and he will bless us tomorrow and he will bless us for an eternity because he is the God who created the heavens and the year. He is the God who spoke the apron, three thousand five hundred years ago is the same God speaks to our hearts today. He never changes shows a father. We are grateful to you how you have blessed us, we're grateful for your provisions were grateful low idea to make us wise stewards. No one is ever going to receive credit for making us who we are not we ourselves, nor other individuals. Is you and your blessing and your blessing of God tosses are live in a touches the lives of everyone around us, even those that don't believe Lord Art touched by your blessing through us. We thank you Lord that what you give to us as something of abundance and something of truth in the maternity, we thank you for hearing our prayers. We thank you God for touching our lives, our families. Thank you God for loving us, seeing hope and promise in us. We never saw when ourselves, God, you see you created you, touches you blessed be positive role in the Lord. We continue to become that person you created us to be, but your blessing be upon us. Now we pray God inspire our prayers for those who are ill for those who are hurting for those who are in need inspire our prayers. We may pray your thoughts and your work. We ask in Jesus name. Everyone said amen. RevelationBoth morning. We are continuing our series on Abram will get the Abraham and weaker to buy the paper and were looking at Genesis, chapter twelve and last week we had a brim being Kirk called out of our own mythologies and very left his family and past and move to a country, a place that God would show him when he got there and we know that this trip took well over a thousand miles, so now they didn't get Amtrak for the train makeup in the camel and the and the donkey and they traveled north along the Euphrates River on till they came up near the beginning of a tour and then travel down by the new yacht Mediterranean Sea and came to this place that we know as Israel today and it was there that Abraham saddled Linda God brought to him. These promises again that he would have this. And in today's lesson four seven God appeared to Abraham and said I will give this land to you and to your children. So he built an altar there. It is this place called Bethel that Abraham has now arrived that and he is there celebrating God 's promises to him. It is important as they in the Old Testament, in these times they would erect altars. They were erect places up that not only were places of sacrifice. But they were places that commit commemorated how they they had established some type of communion with God that establish this relationship with God and with his promises and it's very important because always it throughout Abrams life and is later Odyssey name was changed to Abraham, it comes back to Bethel and his business. The mood Ann Arbor years ago. It even to the sermon on its back to Bethel going back to that place where we met and encountered God where God 's experience of Islam in his promise payment comes into our life, and it's important that we have these places know we have celebrations of Christmas, Easter the holidays and those are specialty occasions that are set up for our nation is aware and on our calendar yearly calendar, but as we celebrate birthdays Psalter. We should celebrate in our own lives times in which God moved on our life times in which we felt really close to God, and how they got touched our lives and that we need to always remember those places remember where God has touched their life and has brought us to that place and as always from that place been a focus of our life. I can remember a couple of occasions and in my young life when I was a teenager that God really spoke to my life release impressed upon my life, his spirit than he is his call that event I have whenever I was in college and playing football when it didn't in going to church. It was one one night in particular I was at church and up at the altar praying and it was that night that I felt this calling. That said, this is the party on calling you into the ministry. I want you to go to Bible school, go to school and become a minister. So from that moment on, it was like okay that's what I'm doing. There was like no second choice. There was no going on with my trusted endeavors of playing ball in play football and being coached all that none of that was in important anymore. It was this place and I can still remember the night for me to remember that's a good thing, but I can remember that night and the place that I was in that church at the altar, and there is where hearing that voice are hearing that still small voice within your voices but that kind of whispering your spirit. This is what I want you to do this is what you intended for an soul. From that moment on, it's been a twelve effect with the infringer. I thin it is to do what God has for us while vessel is this kind of place where Abraham has arrived at the promised land. And it is there that God renews this promise that he gave to him back in the Chaldees, whatever he had left there that God would bless Anthony would get to the land. When you get there, I'll tell you it's there. I'll tell you when you're there and this is what happened here at Bethel God shows up in Abrams life and tells them I will give this land to your children. So it's like this is this is what I'm supposed to be and so Abraham set up this apron set up this altar and very offers is worship the God verse eight, and I've gone from there with a well if that's such a wonderful place to be white to move on wagon to move away from their while he established the altar, and he moved on from there he moved southward in this land that God had given him, and he moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel, and pitched his tent toward Bethel to the West and AI to these he built an altar there, and he prayed to God. Verse nine and Abram kept moving steadily making his way south to the next. That's important is if you look at the region you find that are of a child, eases over by the black see that it's I forget which see it is anyhow, it's a long Euphrates River. Follow that up north while most of the northern tip of Mediterranean Sea and then down the coast of Israel down to almost where Jerusalem is an to that area and he built this altar and then he moved south of there down to the negative in the negative is bound by the DNC and it between the Dead Sea and agent, so he's moving down in that direction and whatever he gets to the negative verse ten that a famine came to the land and Abram went down into Egypt to live so as a romance traveled. He said he arrived at this place that God says this is going to get to you and your descendents, and then salmon comes while you would think that God has a plan for you. No more problems, anxiety problems illnesses. God has promised me out on this Olympics. My cat loves staying here well didn't happen that way ever little Don and he found that he was in the famine. So what do we do well in question, God knows, he just went on while this limited agent left around agent .com this far, what's, what's another four hundred five hundred miles in just a day 's journey by camel festival now and want to get from the just to Egypt so on. It was a hard famine. So he drew near to Egypt. He said his wife Sarah. I locally found now that you are beautiful women. A woman and lineage engines see that you're going to start going to say ha ha that's his wife, now ladies, you know that when your husband says to you, you know, honey, we both know you're really beautiful somethings, right we know that something 's up when I think I'm running now. We well know you're really beautiful. The Abrams transducer eyes widened as we all know that where you are really beautiful and we're going into another country, but I think I have an idea I will plan why don't you say you are my sister and I won't tell me because of your my wife, they'll kill me and take you because you're just too beautiful ladies, let your husband went to the analysis is done something here. I thought so do me a favor, tell them you're my sister because of you fell while me and let me live, though this is a brand now this is a guy who God has promised him that I'm going to bless you. I'm going to give you descendents. I'm going to bed the New York ascendant is going to bless the entire world, and this is a room with the doing is fear this caused them to doubt that he was never going to live and he doesn't have a kid yet, so how can the promise that God has given him, take him throw this difficulty is now in the promise doesn't invest in this case the promise that God has given him up. Bethel and the promise that a given him yell, fifteen hundred miles earlier in an hour of the counties suddenly goes out the window whenever he goes into falls off the camel is about when they filed off the camel out whatever he comes to agent and a Cel-Sci. You know what does say that you're my sister so and then he because you're so beautiful. And because you are going to represent me so well known. Let me live and everything was fine. So when I got here first, sixteen because of her apron got along very well. The accumulated sheep and cattle on male and female donkeys, men, women, sermons, camels, so you see Pharaoh blessed Abram because of Sarah. All I forgot verse fourteen, when a prince from arriving each of the Egyptians took one look and saw that his wife was stunningly beautiful, so Sarai was a beautiful woman and she had all the lovely appearances that other people would consider her a very lovely woman and pharaohs princess processes, princes, that the word princes raved over her to Pharaoh. She was taken to live with favorite, so she was taken to be part of pharaohs have now. We don't now how long she was in this hair we don't know if Pharaoh ever now took her to his dad and all that we don't know is that we just know that she was part of the harem. We know that Abraham and how long they were there. We don't know how long they were needed. We don't know. But we do know that because of she being in the the Heron part of Pharaoh 's court that Abram was blessed and God 's blessing continue to be upon him, and he was blessed by Pharaoh with many with many cattle and everything else that is kept accumulating and forsaking Pharaoh called for labor watchlist that you've done to me, the God does not allow things to continue when we are breaking his commands and the things are not as they should God has a way of interrupting God has a way of interrupting the process and interrupting what's going on and saying there's something else going on here, only interrupted and he came to Pharaoh and his Pharaoh and his whole court were sick and then Pharaoh Niles God talk to somehow revealed a role. What is that you've done to me. Why don't you tell me that she was or why why did you say she's my sister so that I take her as a wife, here's your wife back. Take care and get out. So Pharaoh he chastises a run for his live for his inability to laugh a any chastises a Berman told him to get out of the volatile and Abrams year made more out all the problem. The situation that needed to be Anglosphere that Pharaoh would tell him on your road Abrams promise from God. The God would take care if he is, we look at the life of April. Sometimes we'd start placing these individuals, these godly characters that we see in the Scriptures, and without them in supernatural settings in which they never really had to make in everyday life decision. While we can see how they fear is not that I'm a part of our life now, there are fears that we need to be afraid. There are things we need to be afraid of you. You don't go away in the middle the railroad tracks when the whistles blowing a guy that's a good here you stay off the track with whistleblower, I noticed you like your plans will the street while you could get with a car in. That's a good fear. There are some things we should be afraid up now. Fear is a good thing, but the fear we start making up fears as aware here is Abram coming into a new country. He's afraid that Farrell Donna still I am in think as life-size as you be my sister and everything be fine. He allowed here to cancel out the promise in our life, we have this core of who we are as the promise of God, and the promises of God live in our life and it is the promises of God that health costs deal with our everyday life. It gives us the strength of the promise overrides our fears while Verizon things that we are assuming will take place or what could take place how many scenarios can you come up with the situation now, Sunday book and plopped a hundred different things to go wrong, but a promise gives us a perspective that will go right a promise gives us a perspective on how things will go right and what happens whenever we have a prospective of how things do go right. We go in that direction we go towards the answer to that prayer and that's why it's so important. You and I has God 's children to allow the promises to direct us, not our fears to push us. God 's promises, directness, and so what happened. Pharaoh ordered his men to get Abram out of the country. They sent him and his wife and everything he owned on their way to kind of a similar accident on what will happen to Abrams grandson when he takes his family Abraham, Isaac, Jacob when Joseph goes the Pharaoh of Egypt becomes second-in-command to Egypt and Egypt and pharaoh and brings Jacob to live there. Israel and his children, his descendents and the children of Israel have the four hundred years of captivity in Egypt and what happens at the end of four years in a row in the place sends them out with everything here is China like the same thing happens to Abram. Take your family and get out of town for Chapter thirteen. So they left Egypt went back to the negative things of this is that three hundred fifty four mile journey from Egypt back to the negative, which is how weird Dead Sea. Somewhere between the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee that part. And so he returns to this problem. The bottom part of the beer is the negative, the density now. I was very rich in love with cattle, silver, and also the righteous, ungodly men are the fruit of God giving in the front of God 's blessing, the riches of good men are the fruit of God 's blessing and Abraham was very rich, and he was very as we would call religious, very deep in his faith and his commitment to God, so he went on from the negative move up into what is now McCain went camping along the way to Bethel. The place where he had first set up his own. He was going back to Bethel. The place regarded, said this is your way and baffle and AI built his first altar. He prayed that they are to God 's old vessel, then, is this place that apron continually comes back to sometimes I'm recently fought many years whenever you know, we were young in the ministry, always, I would always remember that night that place at the altar where I felt God called me to be a minister, and when you doubted that the South felt like, well, maybe I didn't dear God, well I would go back and revisit that night to revisit the place issued these are important times in our life where what God does. There are things or events. There are all clues. There are places that are very important to you in your life. It's important that you revisit that no, sometimes people read and visit the places of trauma and create paying God says, letting out. Go back to the places of all meaning the back to the places where God has touched your life and bless you a very specific way about those places because those are the places that are going to make a difference in how you live. Abram goes back to Bethel lot was traveling with Abram. The whole time watchmen with him, and he that is not. He was also rich in resurrection and sheep and cattle intense, but the land can't support both of them there too many possessions. They couldn't both live their quarrels broke out between Abram Shepherd and lots shepherds and the Canaanites and the parasite also lived on the land at the time, so what's happening is a berm is growing is with Egypt, and all the slaves and menservants and maidservants, and in cattle and you all the things are growing and the grazing pastures and then walked he has. He's been blasphemies growing and so there's conflict going on. Plus, there are other people living in these regions for what he edited while lots if bothered by, and he traveled with his uncle Abram and it was basically raised by a room in a Berlin a been a very strong role model for him, but lots he never did get lot never really had a sense of his own purpose. You can analyze the person who tagged along with uncle Abram and so throughout his life. Then he was kind of cop in the moment, and what was going on around him, and he was unable to see the consequences up on his actions and in what he was doing that he does not fall along with a rep to devote a review with last night. Is this the town lots in the tally Thomas and myself and you that everyone around. He was blessed because of your relationship with God. People around you are blast because of you and your relationship with God. Usually when God blesses you. It blesses those around you after the fact being out just as people who are people who are lost and caught up in problems. Everybody around them is affected, while the opposite is true when we are blessed. Everyone around you was affected by God 's blessing upon your life is, and while we're not really that was bullying me. God has blessed you he is giving you a perspective of life and about what's going on in your life that is changed. You and whether you notice that are not other people been affected by lots was affected by the blessing that came into Abrams life, and when lots and Abramson, servants and cattle could no longer be sustained on the same land. Abram has a solution comes lot to lot your choice. Where do you want to live you have this place around you have the hills on the valley. There you go anywhere you want on your choice. Well, why he thought verse ten, eleven, he looked, and he saw the whole plane of the Jordan spread out while water like God 's garden, like Egypt, stretching all the way to soar. It took the whole plane of the Jordan, and lots set out to the east, so he looked around me said you know what I'm a good businessman. I'm going to take where I know I'll prosper and he took his lands and his cattle never think anyone to the planes of Jordan and guess what was in the plains of Jordan. It was the people of Sodom was thirteen. They were flagrant sinners against God, and so Lott took his family where he could prosper, but he was camping now next to sinners instant he was and he was putting his life next, the people who were going to rob him, tell him and destroy him. He had lived his entire life around someone who is blessing and giving and supplying them see that it goes on to live by Sodom and chapter fourteen in Lebanon greeted by this one goes doable things here that while he was living down by Sodom. You see in those days it was it was like an area I King was there with the King of Johnstown, there was the King of Somerset. There is a king of Ebensburg. There was a King of Bedford. Okay, so I really only cities have their their kings and their armies that would protect them well. And there was the king, and there was this never these five cities that were paying tribute to one King one King had come from Indiana, and had conquered all five of these places and they all the places Evans Bergen, John Stalin Bedford, they all had to pay tribute to the King of Indiana because he ruled over them while Sodom, Johnstown and Ebensburg and all got together and said, without paying tribute with the donors for five years, twelve years as we were doing this for twelve years without paying, so they made a pact. They were verified against the King of Indiana. So when the King of Indiana found out about this, they come storming in and he does wipe them all out and he conquered all these areas, including Sodom and wanted to get me to watch and his family captive every down. He took them anyone off well that was not the right thing to do because Eber, Elizabeth God and Abram went to allow his nephew to be taken captive, Peter walked out of the house, but he wasn't of the drag away from him. So here are these five kingdoms fighting against one kingdom. They couldn't do anything about it. So what is able to he takes three hundred and eighteen thanks, three hundred and eighteen men and chases after the King and when I chased after the King Yukon and the three hundred and eighteen men did what five kingdoms five city states could Abram defeated them. God gave him a plan B defeated the enemy. We took all of the possessions we took everything at set his side, his nephew afraid took his wife and his cases families alone is good. Took them all back and knees line back home with the lot a lot all of the goods that he had conquered from this king were seventeen of Chapter fourteen after Abram returned from defeating the door Lamarr low lumbar work and his alien change the king of Sodom came out the gradient in the valley. As soon as and the Kings Valley, and so the king of Sodom, and downgrades, and then you talk to them about it, but the most important thing here is not Saturday, king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was a priest of the high God, and he blessed him in the book of Hebrews. It says now tested the to be without father, without mother, without descendent, having neither beginning of days more end-of-life. This king notes has a deck. Some feel there is different theories about the with some feel this was Jesus Christ. This priest of Salem is the descendent who is going to bless the entire Earth through Abrams lineage shows up. He represents the most high God. Blessed be Abram by the high God, creator of heaven and earth, and blessed be the high God, who handed your enemies, over to you. This king of Salem, King of peace. Jesus, the Prince of Gonzales and blesses Abram and Abram gave him a tenth of everything that he had taken a talk recently added to the list, multi- select one tenth of everything. It all because he recognized how that thought had blessed him. Now this Abram, know that this is Jesus incarnate business did Jesus does he know that this is a pre- incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ. I don't know. And again, you can go back and forth in their different what theologies and different theories as to who this guy is, but it talks about how that this trance misrepresentative this note has God came and blessed Abram again. And Abram took of everything that he had engaged as a sign of God 's provision. We go on verse twenty one, the king of Sodom said to Abram, give me back the people, but you keep all the plunder to yourself. If you bought everything that you captured is your sister. Many people the neighborhood told the king of Sodom, I swear to God, the high God, the creator of heaven and earth. This solemn oh I take nothing from you or from most other five kings. I take nothing of your prison not so much as a threat or a shoestring. I'm not going to have you go around saying I made Abram rich nothing for me. I know that what the young man a in the and the share of the man who went with me ever and says God who made the promise to my life is my sustainer. He is the one who is going to provide for me. He is the one who's going to see me through all of the difficulties of my life and all of the wealth that is going to come into my life is going to come by God himself, moving in my life and so usually we talk about how that in our life were faced with decisions we have to make something illegal, you know, maybe I should lie a little bit ABI should do this new initiative that Abram Glennie Bijan now Sarah. We both know you're beautiful to be my sister so I can live no-no. April is a promise on your life. It cannot be canceled by some king of Egypt. Some Pharaoh Nugent then he comes to this recovery in the battle. The neighbor and then the strategy that went into planning this battle, God gave them the strategy to conquering army. The five kings couldn't touch three hundred eighteen Concord took everything that is still plus more was back to his homeland has this wealth of things that France now tested at the priest comes with you. Do he takes a tenth of everything he owns and gives of his priests everything we own is represented in our tithes and offerings. Everything about our wealth but we are individual is represented in our giving and no one is ever going to be credited with making you who you are. God is going to be the one who received the credit for you. Becoming the person he created you to be in your mother 's will, and you're giving your living abiding in the promises living by the word brings about a security in you that nothing can destroy and no one will be able to take credit for, but God himself who is touched your life and made a difference in new. This is what happened away from this one happens to each of us every day of our life from walks with us. He promises us. We go back to those places where God has made a difference in our life. He's challenged us and he keeps on challenging us to trust him, he will make a way for us. He will bring the promises to the surface inside of a heart and we pray those promises and God will bless it is his blessing that we desire. It is God 's direction for our life that we desire. It is this protection. It is his purpose, he will be our God and we shall be his people, and he will bless us in this life and in this day and he will bless us tomorrow and he will bless us for an eternity because he is the God who created the heavens and the year. He is the God who spoke the apron, three thousand five hundred years ago is the same God speaks to our hearts today. He never changes shows a father. We are grateful to you how you have blessed us, we're grateful for your provisions were grateful low idea to make us wise stewards. No one is ever going to receive credit for making us who we are not we ourselves, nor other individuals. Is you and your blessing and your blessing of God tosses are live in a touches the lives of everyone around us, even those that don't believe Lord Art touched by your blessing through us. We thank you Lord that what you give to us as something of abundance and something of truth in the maternity, we thank you for hearing our prayers. We thank you God for touching our lives, our families. Thank you God for loving us, seeing hope and promise in us. We never saw when ourselves, God, you see you created you, touches you blessed be positive role in the Lord. We continue to become that person you created us to be, but your blessing be upon us. Now we pray God inspire our prayers for those who are ill for those who are hurting for those who are in need inspire our prayers. We may pray your thoughts and your work. We ask in Jesus name. Everyone said amen. Revelation