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Genesis chapter 12 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 12. Let us pray.
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  We thank you, Lord, for another day to come and worship you in
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  spirit and truth. We thank you for your eternal
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  words. We thank you that you have given
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  us life and life abundant. We thank you for the precious
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  blood of Jesus Christ covering us.
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  We thank you for the down payment of the Holy Spirit.
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  We thank you, God, for the promise of eternity.
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  We thank you that where you are we will be Father.
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  And we start that today. We live in the overflow.
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  We live God in the middle. We live between heaven and
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  earth, God, And we pray that you'll touch us today and make
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  us whole. God, make us holy as you are.
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  Holy Lord, we love you. Teach us your ways.
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  Teach us your thoughts. Teach us, God, what it is that
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  you want us to know. Today I get out of the way.
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  I give you center stage. It's all about you, Jesus.
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  It's not about me. Hide me.
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  Hide my words, hide my thoughts. You give us our doctrine.
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  You give us our theology. Holy Spirit, convict us.
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  Holy Spirit, teach us. Holy Spirit, teach.
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  We love you. And it's in your holy and
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  precious and powerful name of Jesus Christ that I pray.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  Now the Lord had said to Abram, get out of the country and from
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  your kindred, from your father's house into a land that I will
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  show you. So this is a very important
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  verse in the Word of God. To understand it all, you need
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  to lock in. He had told him this was
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  previous to this point. They were not supposed to stay
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  over in Haran. He was not supposed to be
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  traveling along with his dad and his brothers and his nephew.
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  He was only supposed to take his wife and go out of the land of
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  Ur, the Chaldees, when God had called him.
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  But he was living in sin and disobedience, and God's goodness
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  and faithfulness was still showering him.
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  What a lesson for us, friends. It does not mean that our
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  disobedience is without correction, but it does mean
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  that God is faithful and His promises remain true and
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  trustworthy, and He never goes back on His word.
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  And God cannot lie. He's wanting to take him into
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  Canaan. He's wanting to take him into
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  the promised land. And he keeps fumbling the ball
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  along the way. And that we have to get over
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  ourselves. We have to get rid of ourselves.
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  We have to quit trusting ourselves.
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  We have to stop relying on our own intellect.
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  And we must trust God. When he says go, we go.
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  When He says stop, we stop. When He says jump, we jump.
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  Even when we don't see where it's going to go.
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  We've must trust the Lord in all areas and arenas of our life.
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  When He speaks a word, we obey it, friends.
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  And if we don't, God disciplines those that He loves too.
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  And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and
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  make your name great. And you shall be a blessing.
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  Get out from your family. A prophet is without honor in
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  his own hometown. That is what he's telling Abram
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  right here. And he's telling him.
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  He's saying, listen, get alone. Go and search me.
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  You can't quit finding your identity and all the roles and
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  all of the labels that people stick on you.
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  God has called you to so much more, but you got to see it
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  yourself. You can't get stuck in the
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  patterns of life and the way that you've been doing life.
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  God wants to reinvent the wheel. God wants to take you and make
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  you into a great nation, to be a blessing to others when you come
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  back. It's kind of like whenever they
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  couldn't see Moses as God's mouthpiece and they were
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  murmuring and grumbling. It's kind of like when Jesus
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  walked the earth and they said he's just a carpenter's son.
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  Abram needed to understand his worth and what God was doing in
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  his life. And the fact that Yahweh
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  everlasting was actually having an A real conversation with a
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  human being is mind blowing and he could not see it in the
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  moment. 3 And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him
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  that curses you. And in you shall all families of
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  the earth be blessed. We are eternally blessed because
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  of Yeshua, because of the Messiah.
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  And it came through Abraham's lineage, It came through Shems
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  lineage, friends. And we serve a Jewish God, We
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  serve a Jewish Messiah, friends, whether we like it or not,
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  whether you can put it all together or not, friends, Jesus
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  Christ is fully man. And Jesus Christ came from the
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  Jewish people group. And when he tells us here that
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  he's going to bless those that bless him and curse those that
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  curse him, every single nation who has ever turned their backs
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  on the Jews have become a second rate nation, have completely
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  dissolved, friends. And far be it from us to ever
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  turn our back on the Jews. If you stand with them, you will
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  be blessed. And that's plain, that's
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  factual. Does not mean that you agree
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  with their policies and what they are doing, but it is a
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  biblical truth and the foundation of it all, that we
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  stand with Israel, we stand with the Jews, and you will be
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  blessed. We are a nation to bless the
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  Jews and by them we have our salvation because of Jesus
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  Christ and they must come the same way that we do through the
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  Lord Jesus Christ. But it does not change the fact
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  that Jesus Christ was born through the lineage and the
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  ancestry of the Jews. And we bless them so that we can
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  be blessed, and we do not turn our backs and curse them,
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  because it will result in demise and destruction.
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  Friends 4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and
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  Lot went with him. And Abram was 75 years old when
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  he departed out of Haran. So he was not supposed to take
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  Lot, and Lot's going to become a cankerous sore unto him.
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  And if Hebrews had not told us that Lot was saved and
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  righteous, it would be hard to pinpoint that through all of the
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  scriptures that we're reading today. 5 And Abram took Soraya's
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  wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that
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  they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran,
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  and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan, and into the
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  land of Canaan that came. So here he arrives there, and
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  he's got his caravan, and he's wasn't supposed to take Lot.
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  And perhaps here he's faithless because he's thinking that
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  perhaps the promises are going to come through.
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  His brother son 6 And Abram passed through the land unto the
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  place of Sikkim, unto the plain of Mora, and the Canaanite was
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  then in the land. So here you can see that this
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  Sikkim is very important. This is a literal geographical
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  place that God Almighty pinpointed to build the city to
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  put the well. And we see that this is actually
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  where the Phyllis or this is exactly where Jesus SAT whenever
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  he was talking to the Samaritan woman.
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  Friends, This is where that would have been in this Sikkim
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  in the plain of Mora and the Canaanite was in the land.
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  So we saw back there whenever Noah pronounced curse upon
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  Canaan and we see that they are going to be there enemies hand
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  is no different today. Seven in the Lord appeared to
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  Abram and said unto your seed, I will give this land.
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  And there he built an altar to the Lord, who appeared to him.
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  So God here again is faithful to show up in Abram's life and
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  speak to him. What an amazing thought, that
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  the God of the universe, who spoke everything into existence,
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  desires a relationship with us. 8 And he removed from there to a
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  mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having
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  Bethel on the West, high on the east.
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  And there he built an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the
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  name of the Lord. So here he's getting things
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  right. He's building the altar, He's
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  doing the things that the Lord has asked him.
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  He's in the land. He's actually so sojourning as
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  we all should. Christians should never try to
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  build their Kingdom on this earth.
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  We are just passing through a very strange land. 9 And Abram
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  journeyed, going on toward the S 10 and there was a famine in the
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  land, and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the
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  famine was grievous in the land. So this is where he messed up.
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  God called him there. He was trying his faith, and
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  instead of trusting God in his word, he took it upon himself to
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  travel down into Egypt. And anytime you see the
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  Israelites going down into Egypt is whenever they are in sin. 11
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  And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt,
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  he said unto Sir, I his wife, Behold, now I know that you are
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  a fair woman to look at. So here we can see that Sarai
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  was a very beautiful woman, and Abram was operating in the
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  spirit of fear. And here he's going to try to
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  put together some kind of plan to save his own skin. 13
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  Therefore it shall come to pass when the Egyptians will see you,
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  that they will say this is his wife and they'll kill me, but
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  they'll save you alive. Well, first and foremost, he
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  shouldn't have been down in Egypt.
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  Second of all, he should have been trusting in God Almighty.
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  And third of all, this is absolute ridiculous that he's
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  trying to come up with a plan to save his own neck. 13 Say I beg
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  you that you are my sister, that they may be well with me for
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  your sake, and my soul shall live because of you.
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  So here this obedient, submissive wife, she agrees to
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  go along with her husband's ridiculous plan. 14 And it came
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  to pass that when Abram was coming to Egypt, the Egyptians
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  beheld the woman that she was fair. 15 The Princess also of
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  Pharaoh saw her and commended her before Pharaoh, and the
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  woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
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  So here is Abram's wife. Here is the line that the
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  Messiah would be born through inside of a Gentile ruler's
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  house. Let's see how God feels about
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  it. 16 And he entreated Abram well, for her sake, and he had
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  sheep and ox donkeys and menservants and maidservants,
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  and female donkeys and camels. So here he's lavishing him with
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  all these gifts because he has taken Sarai into his house. 17
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  And the Lord plagued Pharaoh in his house with great plagues
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  because of Sarai, Abram's wife. So here we can see that it all
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  turns up on its head and he's showering Abram with these
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  gifts, but all of a sudden these plagues come upon him.
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  And I'm sure he went and he searched out all of his
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  magicians and all the soothsayers, and he's trying to
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  figure out what's going on. And it all points back to the
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  fact that Sarai is a married woman who's housing the seed of
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  the Messiah inside of her. 18 And Pharaoh called Abram and
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  said, what is this that you have done to me?
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  Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
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  So here it all comes to a head and he has to confess what he
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  has done. 19 Why did you say She's my sister?
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  So I might have taken her to be my wife.
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  Now therefore, behold your wife, take her, go your way.
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  He kicks him out of Egypt, says get out of here.
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  God shows up in a miraculous way and actually saves Abram's skin
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  and actually saves the day and causes Pharaoh to be the very
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  one that rebukes the father of faith.
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  What an amazing thought. Well end on 20 And Pharaoh
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  commanded his men concerning him and they sent him away and his
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  wife and all that he had. So God did not excuse it, but
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  God's going to use it. And here he's leaving the land
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  of Egypt, a very wealthy man. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this awesome, amazing, incredible chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.