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Introduction:
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Back in 2015, I preached a Father’s Day Message from this passage, the main points being-
I. Getting Back to Bethel ().
A. The Problems of Carnality (vv1-2).
B. The Path of Confession (v3).
C. The Peace Communion (v4).
II.
Giving Up the Battle ().
A. Enter the Contenders (vv5-7).
B. Engaging the Contention (v8).
C. Entrusting our Commander (v9).
III.
Giving Place to the Devil ().
A. Pleasing the Lustful Senses (vv10-11).
B. Pitching the Tent to Look toward Sodom (v13).
C. Practicing a Life of Sin (v13).
Context - Abram’s Return from Egypt which Leads to Separation from Lot at Bethel [House of God]
I. Steps Back to Bethel ()
A. Departure with All Goods ()
Note - describe what it might have been like to travel north from Egypt and then down south toward the Negev desert.
Point out that in English, it should be Negev (as the signs in Israel even read today in English), rather than the text-critical Negeb.
Perhaps due to bringing a 22-letter alphabet into a 24-letter alphabet.
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very rich—compared with the pastoral tribes to which Abraham belonged.
An Arab sheik is considered rich who has a hundred or two hundred tents, from sixty to a hundred camels, a thousand sheep and goats respectively.
And Abram being very rich, must have far exceeded that amount of pastoral property.
“Gold and silver” being rare among these peoples, his probably arose from the sale of his produce in Egypt.
[Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, vol. 1 (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997), 24.]
B. Destination of Bethel ()
Note - Bethel Map
C. Devotion to God ()
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The patriarch, like a restored back-slider, made his way back to the old spot, on the highlands of Bethel, where his first tent and altar had stood.
Through his wanderings hitherto there had been a depressing element of worldliness in his camp, through the presence of Lot, who, like many more, was swept along by his uncle’s religion, but had little of his own.
[F.
B. Meyer, Through the Bible Day by Day: A Devotional Commentary, vol. 1 (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1914–1918), 22.]
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Struggle with Lot()
A. Substance ()
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...perhaps there is no Bible character that represents so many Chicago men at the present day as Lot of Sodom.
Where you can find one Abraham, or one Daniel, or one Joshua, you can find a thousand Lots.
He started very well; he got rich, and that was the beginning of his troubles.
Dwight Lyman Moody, New Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers (Cincinnati, OH: Henry S. Goodspeed & Co., 1877), 438.]
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Among the revelations which the great prophet Mohammed professed to have received from heaven, we have this saying which is as true as though his claim to inspiration were made good.
He says, “If a son of Adam had two rivers of gold, he would covet yet a third, and if he had three he would covet yet a fourth”.
Few writers have discovered a keener study of human nature, and clearer perception of fundamental truths and laws than Ruskin.
What he said of England and London has become true of America, and most of her important cities.
It was this:
England and London has become true of America, and most of her important cities.
It was this: “The first of all English games is money-making.
That is an all absorbing game; and we knock each other down oftener in playing at that than at football or any other rougher sport; and it is absolutely without purpose.
No one who engages heartily in that game ever knows why.
Ask a money-maker what he wants to do with his money—he never knows.
He doesn’t make it to do anything with it.
He gets it only that he may get it.
‘What will you make of what you have got?’ you ask.
‘Well, I’ll get more’, he says.
Just as in cricket you get more runs.
There is no use in the runs, but to get more of them than other people is the game.
So all that great foul city of London there—rattling, growling, smoking, stinking, a ghastly heap of fermented brickwork, pouring out its poison at every pore—you fancy it is a city of work?
Not a street of it!
It is a great city of play, very nasty play, very hard play, but still play.
It is only the Lord’s cricket ground without the turf, a huge billiard table without the cloth, and with pockets as deep as the bottomless pit, but mainly a billiard table after all”.
“The first of all English games is money-making.
That is an all absorbing game; and we knock each other down oftener in playing at that than at football or any other rougher sport; and it is absolutely without purpose.
No one who engages heartily in that game ever knows why.
Ask a money-maker what he wants to do with his money—he never knows.
He doesn’t make it to do anything with it.
He gets it only that he may get it.
‘What will you make of what you have got?’ you ask.
‘Well, I’ll get more’, he says.
Just as in cricket you get more runs.
There is no use in the runs, but to get more of them than other people is the game.
So all that great foul city of London there—rattling, growling, smoking, stinking, a ghastly heap of fermented brickwork, pouring out its poison at every pore—you fancy it is a city of work?
Not a street of it!
It is a great city of play, very nasty play, very hard play, but still play.
It is only the Lord’s cricket ground without the turf, a huge billiard table without the cloth, and with pockets as deep as the bottomless pit, but mainly a billiard table after all”.
Some may object to Ruskin’s view and say it is extreme, but of one thing this text and its subject is the sufficient illustration.
Lot could not get rich enough.
When the hills could not hold his own and his uncle’s cattle, he went to the wider and more fertile plains.
When he possessed them, then he set covetous eyes upon town lots and palaces and business blocks.
Think not to be satisfied at last if the hope of wealth determines your calling, your location, your life!
William Bell Riley, The Bible of the Expositor and the Evangelist, Old Testament, Genesis through Malachi, vol.
1–19, The Bible of the Expositor and the Evangelist (Union Gospel Press, 1925–1938), .
B. Strife ()
Note - the difference between riv and merivah
Note - “we be brethren...” notice later whom Lot considers to be his true “brethren”
Note - Highlights from Wiersbe -
Abraham determined to be a peacemaker and not a troublemaker.
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Abraham determined to be a peacemaker and not a troublemaker.
The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.
The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.
When Christians have disputes, it hurts the testimony of the Lord.
When Christians have disputes, it hurts the testimony of the Lord.
Abraham lived for others, not for self.
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