Back to the Beginning

Genesis 13:1-18

a. Abram and Lot separate

Matthew 5:23–25 ESV

23 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25 Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.

b. It is important to have peace with your brother.

c. The land could not contain both Lot and Abram’s flocks and herds.

d. Abram went back to where his tent was pitched before. Back to where he built an altar.

d. Lot chose the Jordan Valley

Ezekiel 28:13 ESV

13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.

Lot Chose the Beauty of the Land

a. Sometimes we get carried away by the lush situations of the world.

A Righteous Man, to close to the World.

a. See the area Lot chose again. It had water, beauty, and protection. Smart choice.

b. Abram knew that God had already promised the land.

God’s Promise

Genesis 13:14 ESV

14 The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

Genesis 13:15 ESV

15 for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.

Abram Moved his tent to the Terebinth trees of Mamre

a. He built another altar there to the LORD.

Hebrews 11:8–10 ESV

8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.

What are YOU looking to by “FAITH?”