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Genesis chapter 13 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 13, let us pray. Our Lord and our King and our
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  bosses and our everything. We thank you God for another
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  day. We thank you God for life
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  abundant. We thank you God for giving us
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  purpose and dignity and honor. God, thank you, Lord, that you
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  love us and that you chose us. Lord, thank you that where you
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  are we will be. God, we pray that you'll rain
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  down your Shekinah glory today. God, that you will be well
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  pleased with the reading of your text.
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  God, we pray for the world at large.
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  God, snatch those out of the fire.
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  Lord, I pray that we could snatch them out of the icy
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  waters. God, I pray that as we go
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  through this life, Lord, that we will be a blessing to others.
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  We'll be salt and light to others.
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  God, that we'll be able to put our hand to the plow.
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  Never look left or right, but always God locked eyes with you
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  in the harvest. Lord, I pray that we will see
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  that the fields are right. Lord, let us not leave anything
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  hanging on the branch. God, let us go and pluck.
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  God, let us go and share our testimony with every single man,
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  woman and child that we meet. God, I pray that our hearts will
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  be bent towards you, Father, that we will be marked by you
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  Lord, and that we will actually do the work that you've called
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  us into and that we will actually be found, God, doing
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  what it is that you have called us into.
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  God, you are so good. You are so holy.
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  You are so mighty and we love you Father, we love everything
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  about you and it's in King Jesus name that we pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And Abram went up out of Egypt,
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  he and his wife and all that he had and lot with them into the
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  South. So we have learned in the past
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  that Abraham's already gone down into Egypt and God's already
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  spoke to him and told him to go to Canaan and he was going to
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  make him into a nation. And here he's bringing along
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  some extra baggage in the fact that he has a lot with them.
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  And we're going to see that this relationships about to turn sour
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  too. And Abram was very rich in
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  cattle and silver and gold. So that was a byproduct of his
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  time down in Egypt. And you can see that God didn't
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  excuse it, but he's using three. And he went on his journeys from
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  the South even to Beth El unto the place where his tent had
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  been at the beginning between Beth El and high.
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  So this is the House of God, this Beth El friends, what an
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  amazing thought that God is in it.
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  He is working through all of the mess that Abram has made.
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  We see that this is where Sarai would have got her servant
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  Hagar, which is such a cantankerous woman in the faith
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  of God, not part of the plan. And you see that it was in the
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  disobedience of Abram. There's so much that's still
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  plaguing the world today, friends.
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  For unto the place of the altar which he had made there at the
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  1st, and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
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  So there he is, calling on God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and
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  Jacob. Yahweh is who we serve, the God
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  of Israel. Five And Lot also, which went
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  with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. 6 And the land was
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  not able to bear them, that they might dwell together, for their
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  substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
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  So they saw that there was so much fighting.
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  There was saw that there was so much animosity.
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  And here there's got to be a line in the sand, and there's a
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  division that's made. Seven And there was a strife
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  between the herd men of Abraham's cattle and the herd
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  men of of lots cattle, and the Canaanite and the Perizzite
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  dwelled then in the land. So they're looking upon these
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  two men who were supposed to be housing the faithfulness of the
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  Creator of the universe. And they look no different than
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  the rest of them, which is a call for us Christians to make
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  sure that our lives look different than the rest of the
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  world. 8 And Abram said to Lot, let there be no strife, I pray,
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  between me and you, and between my herdman and your herdman, for
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  we are brothers. So here Abrams trying to be the
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  voice of reason 9 is not the whole land.
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  Before you separate yourself, I pray you from me.
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  If you'll take the left, then I will go to the right.
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  If you go to the right, I will go to the left.
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  So here you can see that Abram stepping out on faith.
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  This is one of the first times that you see him activate this
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  father of faith status and he's trusting God here and he tells
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  lot. Whatever way you want to go,
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  I'll go the other way. That way we can still remain
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  copacetic, we can still remain fluid, so that we do not have to
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  depart from each other with a rock in our shoe.
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  Tin and Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of
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  Jordan that was well watered everywhere before the Lord
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  destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord,
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  like the land of Egypt as you come unto Zoar.
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  So there's a couple things that are pretty interesting here.
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  And you can see that Sodom and Gomorrah was like the city of
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  God. It was like paradise.
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  It was like the Garden of Eden, very watered.
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  And what an amazing thought. And so here Lot is, and he
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  chooses the better he's he sidesteps his uncle and he's
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  gone on to Sodom and Gomorrah. Let's see how it turns out. 11
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  Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan.
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  And Lot journeyed east and separated themselves from one
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  another. 12 And Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot
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  dwelled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent
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  towards Sodom. So we learned later that Lot
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  became even one of the elders in the city.
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  He would have been like a politician there.
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  And we know that later on in Hebrews it's going to say that
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  Lot's heart was grieved because of all the disgusting things
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  that he saw going on in Sodom and Gomorrah. 13 And the men of
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  Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
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  It sure didn't take us very long from the time that he flooded
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  the earth until you see Sodom and Gomorrah pop up and they're
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  going after strange flesh and it is an abomination to God
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  Almighty. 14 And the Lord said to Abram, after that Lot was
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  separated from him, lift up now your eyes and look from the
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  place where you are northward and southward and eastward and
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  westward. So he says, don't even worry
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  about Lot. I've made this promise to you.
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  It doesn't even matter what land Lot has gone to, it's all yours,
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  Abram, North-south, east, West. Now that Lot's gone, I can talk
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  to you, 15 for all the land which you see.
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  To you I will give it, and to your seed forever.
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  So the entire world, friends, every continent, every people
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  group, every nation, every tongue, every language is
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  blessed from the Jews because of Jesus.
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  That is what is referenced here. 16 And I will make your seed as
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  the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of
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  the earth, then shall your seed also be numbered.
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  Innumerable, friends, more than the stars, more than the sand on
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  the seashore, innumerable. This is the beauty of heaven.
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  And God knows the full number that will be there. 17 Arise and
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  walk through the land, and the length of it and the breadth of
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  it. I will give it unto you.
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  Nothing is impossible for a mighty God who created it and
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  sustains it by His very breath. We must come under the yoke of
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  the Lord Jesus. Burden nonetheless.
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  But it is easy. Do not trust your own senses.
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  Trust in the Word of God. It is trustworthy, it is true.
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  You'll never be put to shame. We'll end on 18.
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  Then Abraham removed his tent and came and dwelt in the plain
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  of Mamre, which is in Hebdon, and built there an altar to the
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  Lord. So he's finally starting to
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  understand the goodness of God. He's starting to get the
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  blessings from God. He's moving in obedience.
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  Friends, we see a turning point here.
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  We see that all of the garbage that has happened all the way up
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  to this point is taking a turning point and God's going to
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  start spelling out Jesus the solution to all the problems in
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  all the world for all time's sake, for all of eternity.
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  I pray that you've been blessed. I pray that you are saved.
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  I pray that Jesus Christ is your Lord.
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  I pray that the Holy Spirit dwells inside of you.
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  I pray that you know you're the temple of God.
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  I pray that you understand your worth in Jesus Christ and is all
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  that we need and that is all that we have.
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  And you can't take anything with you, but you can send it ahead.
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  Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
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  We're just passing through. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this chapter. 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.