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Sad thing to lose a friend.
I.
A danger of drifting away: Trials come
A. After embracing the promises Genesis 12:7-8
(ESV) Genesis 12 7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.”
So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 … And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
1. Foundation of life / build your life around it
2. Will you trust?
B. Sudden intense trouble Genesis 12:9-10
(ESV) Genesis 12 Life goes on - A life journey of trust
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Out of nowhere
2. In conflict with promises
3. Growing intensity
C. In seeming conflict with the promises Genesis 12:10
(ESV) Genesis 12 10 Now there was a famine in the land.
… the famine was severe in the land.
II.
A danger of drifting away: Easy to move away
A. Left the place of blessing Genesis 12:10
(ESV) Genesis 12 10… So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
1. Promises in the land – the place the Lord wanted him to be
2. Almost never a good thing to leave
B. Did not seek the Lord Genesis 12:11a
(ESV) Genesis 12 11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, …
1. Hadn’t left yet – a possibility to stop?
2. Sought himself and his wife but does not seek the Lord as previous
3. Already decided not to let the promises drive his decision / not going to talk to God about it now
C. Let his ‘blessings’ shape his decisions Genesis 12:11-12
(ESV) Genesis 12 11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,
1. Left land to protect his Things – livestock, etc – leave the place of blessing to ‘protect’ them
2. Wife - because he was blessed with a beautiful wife he might be in trouble - use her to ‘protect’ himself
D. Let fear drive his life Genesis 12:12b
(ESV) Genesis 12 12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’
Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
1. Imagined worst
2. No concerned about her – only himself – she is more vulnerable
E. Depend on ‘schemes’ rather than the Lord Genesis 12:13a
(ESV) Genesis 12 13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.”
III.
A danger of drifting away: Failure leads to more failure
A. Life becomes self-focused Genesis 12:13b
(ESV) Genesis 12 13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.”
1. Lying that will lead to more lying – life style
2. Unconcerned about other’s safety
3. Using others to benefit oneself
B. Failures can lead to deeper sin Genesis 12:16
(ESV) Genesis 12 16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
a. Temptation to let things go – he prospered on the near term
C. Others negatively impacted * Genesis 12:13-15, 17
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Loved ones negatively impacted
(ESV) Genesis 12 13 Say you are my sister, … 14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh.
And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
2. Caused others to sin
3. Create danger for them
4. Put wife in grave danger
5. Suffering comes to the innocent
(ESV) Genesis 12 17 But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
6. Pharaoh and his house sick
D. Self schemes do not work Genesis 12:18-19
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In creating a worse mess than at the beginning
(ESV) Genesis 12 18 So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me?
Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife?
Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.”
2. No negotiations – just taken
3. Truth discovered – Now deal with original problem plus complications
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The ungodly have higher expectations than the Godly person
b.
Ungodly not shown a living God
E. Potential disruption of the Lord’s agenda
1. Plan is for Abraham to have a special seed through Sara
a. Taken by someone else for a wife
2. Could have nullified God’s promise
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In ruining one’s testimony for God – should be representing the Lord
IV.
A danger of drifting away: Failure can be overcome
A. Based on God’s grace Genesis 12:20
(ESV) Genesis 12 20 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
1. Abraham not destroyed / Sarah not defiled
2. Promises were uncorrupted
3. Promises were shown to be true / Abraham increased his riches
B. By returning to the place of blessing Genesis 13:1-3
(ESV) Genesis 13 1 So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb. 2 Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
3 And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
C. By returning to the Lord Genesis 13:4
(ESV) Genesis 13 4 to the place where he had made an altar at the first.
And there Abram called upon the name of the Lord.
D. Residual consequences may remain
A. Fall again to same sin later
B. His son Isaac would commit the same sin
C. Scheming rather than trusting would become a family bent
1. Isaac / Jacob / Son's of Jacob
D. Pharoh and Egypt would never be receptive to God
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