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*Genesis 12:1-13:4** – The Right Response To Faith* 
 
*Thomas** S. Myers*
 
            They said he was a Christian.
He was a very successful and prominent Christian and business man.
And everything pointed that way.
He worshipped God.
He had faith.
He was highly involved in his church.
Then the police began to investigate his wife's death.
The deeper the investigation went, the more certain the police thought he was involved.
Finally the evidence was stacked against him.
And he confessed how he had harried a hit man to murder his wife for the insurance money.
Everyone wondered, "How in the world could it have happened?"
How could a prominent Christian be involved in such a crime?
At the time of his wife's murder, for his city, he was chairmen of the very successful Billy Graham Crusade.
People wondered, how could God use a man like that?
As I thought about that I have wondered, How in the word does god use people like us?
As a matter of fact as I think about that, I have wondered, How in the world has God this congregation?
But do you know what puzzles me more?
It is how in the world has God used me?
By the grace of God I stand here.
And as we look at Genesis chapter 12, we will see a man by the name of Abram.
He is very prominate in the Bible.
His name occurs 230 times.
As you read the life of Abram, you find that he did not always trust God, there are times that he lied, and 2 occasions he gave his wife away to protect his own life.
And yet he is regarded as a man of faith.
How is that God used him?
There is another question:  How can someone who has gotten so far from God, get close to God?  How can someone who once walked with God, get close to God? 
 
            Turn to Genesis 12 and lets look at the life of Abraham.
*FIRST -- THE RESPONSE TO FAITH.**
GENESIS 12:1-9.*
I notice 2 things about faith.
*First -- Faith always responds to God.* 
 
            Have you discovered that?
Faith always responds to God.
 
Look at verse 1-4 and notice that when God spoke, Abraham responded.
*Genesis 12:1-4*
*/1 /**Now the Lord said to Abram,*
*“Go forth from your country,*
*And** from your relatives*
*And** from your father’s house,*
*To the land which I will show you;*
*2 And I will make you a great nation,*
*And** I will bless you,*
*And** make your name great;*
*And** so** you shall be a blessing;*
*3 And I will bless those who bless you,*
*And** the one who curses you I will curse.*
*And** in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”*
*4 So** Abram went forth as the Lord had spoken to him; and Lot went with him.
Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
NASV*
 
            God spoke and Abraham responded.
That's what faith is.
Some has said that faith is belief with legs on it.
Faith doesn't respond to a set of circumstances around you, it doesn't wait until everything appears to be good to make a decision.
or until your are absolutely sure everything is going to turn out.
Instead, faith always responds to God. 
Verse one says,
           
*Genesis 12:1-4*
*/1 /**Now** the Lord said to Abram,* *“Go forth*...
 
Verse 4 says,
 
*4 So** Abram went forth...*
 
            In the 19th century there was an acrobat (Jean Francois Gravelet) who was know by the stage name of Blodin.
Blondin had an incredible reputation in Europe before coming to America.
But once he arrived in the United States, he gained even greater fame by walking across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
On one occasion he pushed a wheelbarrow across.
On another he paused to eat an omelet.
Once he carried his manager on his back.
And on his way back he turned to a man in the crowd and asked him, "Do you believe I cold do that with you?"  "Of course," answered the man.
"I've just seen you do it."
"Well, then, hop on,' and I'll carry you across."
"Not on your life!" replied the man.
Do you really want to grow in your Christina life?  then you must trust God.
The Bible says, "By faith they passed through the Red Sea.
The Bible says of Joshua, By faith they conquered kingdoms.
Let me give you an easy way to remember what faith is.
For Saking All I Trust Him
 
            I'll tell you something else about faith.
*Second -- Faith Always Responds In Worship.
Genesis 12:6-8*
 
*Genesis 12:6-8*
*6 And Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh.
Now the Canaanite **/was /**then in the land.
7 And the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.”
So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
8 Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
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            Abraham comes to a place called Bethel.
Bethel means, "House of God."  Now I have never been to Bethel.
But in the time of Abrham it was a barren place.
There were no trees, no bushes, just rocks.
The reason I know that is because of Genesis 28:10-11.
*Genesis 28:10-11*
*10 Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
11 And he came to a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his*
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*Genesis 28:19*
*19 And he called the name of that place **Bethel**; however, previously the name of the city had been Luz.
NASV*
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*                The fact that Faith Always Responds in Worship tells me something.
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