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Extreme Faithfulness
Genesis 13:1-18
Every person can see God’s faithfulness by noticing the events that kept God’s promise.
Introduction:
Chuck Colson writes of being invited to preach at tough old San Quentin Prison, an opportunity he greatly anticipated and carefully planned for.
Three hundred of the 2,200 inmates had agreed to come to the chapel to hear him.
But just days before his arrival, officials uncovered a hidden cache of weapons, and the prison was immediately locked down with inmates confined to their cells.
When Colson arrived at the prison chapel, he was disheartened to find that only a handful of men were able to be present, and they were mostly Christians.
His spirits flagged, for he had so hoped to preach the gospel to the unsaved.
Struggling with a lack of enthusiasm, he thought /Maybe I’ll just give a short devotional, ten minutes or so.
I can’t really preach my heart out to this crowd./
But spotting a video camera in the far end of the room, he said to himself, /Maybe this is being recorded for the chapel library.
Maybe I’d better give it my all.
/He felt convicted for basing his morale and mood on the outer circumstances rather than the inner impulse of the Spirit, and so he preached with great fervor, as though a thousand inmates were listening.
Later he mentioned to the prison chaplain how disappointed he had been to have missed sharing the gospel with the three hundred men who had originally signed up to attend.
“Didn’t you know?” asked the chaplain.
“Because of the lockdown, the administration agreed to videotape your sermon.
They’ll be showing it to all the inmates tomorrow on closed-circuit television in the morning and again in the afternoon.”
In fact, the sermon was aired not just twice, but nearly a dozen times over the following weeks.
Because of the lockdown, not just three hundred but all 2,200 prisoners heard the gospel.
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Look at how God arranged the circumstances to make sure everyone got a chance to hear the message.
We can see God working in similar ways in the life of Abram.
Event I. Abram returns
A. Abram had been promised a land and a name.
But a famine in the land had caused Abram to leave the land God had promised him.
He went from that land to Egypt.
As we read in the beginning of v. 1 Abram returns to the land God had promised him after the famine was over.
Egypt was obviously a nice place, or at the very least a place where people felt secure when they had to find refuge.
Many people were going to Egypt when things went bad in Israel.
God had even used this side trip as an opportunity to fulfill his promises to Abram.
While Abram was in Egypt he had acquired a great deal of wealth.
In chapter 12 we saw all the good things God had promised.
Now in v. 2 we are told that Abram had become very wealthy.
He had a lot of stuff that he was hauling around with him.
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God fulfills his promise by having Abram go to Egypt.
This was probably not in Abram’s plans.
You would think that if God takes you to a place and says this is where you will live, that is the end.
In the case of Abram God was working out some of his plan that Abram had not seen or perceived.
He eventually ended up back in the place God had brought him to.
He took a little detour, but he was still able to see God’s promise fulfilled.
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