Genesis 12. Genesis 12. Abraham. Abram, as it's called
now, before the Lord changed his name. Abram is an example
of every sinner the Lord saves. Abram. The story of Abram is
a story of salvation. A story of how the Lord, in His
great, sovereign mercy and electing grace, chose He chose Abram. He didn't choose Nahor. He didn't
choose Haran, his brother. He chose Abram, didn't he? I'm
sure Abram never got over that. He chose Abram to reveal himself
to Abram, to bring him into the promised land. He didn't leave
Abram to himself. He could have left him to die
in his idolatry, but he chose him. And I thought about this
in the course of this story we've been looking at. Lot's father
died, Herod. That was the Lord's purpose.
Had he not, Lot would have probably stayed with his father and missed
Christ. But he took his father so that
Lot would go with Abram and the Lord would spare him. That was
great mercy. But the story of Abram is the
story of God's sovereign electing grace and choosing a people.
Every one of His people chosen by Him. The story of God's sovereign
grace in calling out His people. The Lord said, Get out, Abram. Get out. Scripture calls the
calling of God. And throughout the epistles,
throughout the Scriptures, He said, among whom you are also
called of God. Called, to be sane. Called of
God. Scripture calls the calling of
God a high calling, because it's God that does calling. God who's
called His people. It's called a holy calling. Call us out of idolatry. Call
us out of sin. Call us out of this wretched
world into His kingdom, holy and righteous kingdom. It's holy
calling. It's called a heavenly calling because it takes us out
of the dung heap to set us among princes. Like old Mephibosheth,
called out. It's the story of God's calling
out His people. The story of Abram is the story
of God's exceeding great and precious promises to His people. He promised Abram, He said, I'm
going to show you I'm going to show you everything you need
to know. I'm going to bless you. I'm going to give you a name. I'm going to protect you. I'm
going to provide for you. I'm going to keep you. I will,
I will, I will, I will. The story of Abram is the story
of God's sovereign mercy and grace and exceeding grace and
precious promise. The story of Abram is the story
of the Lord's precious gift of faith. Faith, Scripture says, is more
precious than gold. More precious than gold. Abram
departed. Abraham believed God. Scripture
says Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Why did he believe God? Because God gave him faith. It's not yourself, it's the gift
of God. He believed God and he departed. Why did he depart? It said there, as the Lord said,
Abraham departed just like the Lord commanded him, told him.
So he did. And he's 75 years old when he
left. 75 years old. Mindy's grandmother,
her father's mother, was 75 years old when the Lord revealed himself
to her, wasn't she? And she was a dyed-in-the-wool
religionist. Dead set in her ways. A good,
moral woman. Self-righteous woman in religion. Seventy-five years old. And the
Lord revealed Himself, called her out through the gospel. Seventy-five
years old. And she fell in love with the
Lord, didn't she? And believed that gospel. And
she was ninety-seven, ninety-eight when she died? still listening
in her acute nursing home, still listening to CDs and tapes and
reading those commentaries. We looked at the commentaries.
She loved Dad's commentary. Every single page was marked.
Every page underlined. Every word. She believed it. She loved it. Seventy-five years
old. The story of God's gracious It's
a gift of faith. It's not of yourselves. It's
a gift of God and it's a precious gift to those who have obtained
life, precious faith through the righteous God. It's a story
of God's gracious provisions. The Lord gave Abram a wife, a
good wife, for a long time. Sarah. We're going to see her
in a minute. He didn't deserve her. But those
that obtain a wife, Scripture says, a good one, obtain the
favor of the Lord. Do you have a good wife, a believing
wife? You're a blessed man. A blessed man. And vice versa. The Lord gave Abram a wife and
gave him a son. He didn't have a son, but he
gave him a lot. He's a nephew. You can have a nephew. You love
him, don't you? He didn't have a son, but gave him a nephew.
And he loved that boy a lot like his own son. The Lord gave Abram
souls. See that where it said souls
that he'd gathered? Do you know how many there were? 318. 318 friends and acquaintances
and servants and people that just loved Abraham. Minnie and
I were talking the other day. We're so thankful for those that
love us. We're just so thankful. It's
just amazing. 318. Before it was all over,
he had a lot more than that. It's 72 descendants. But the
Lord gave him great substance, all that he could carry, and
put in his tent. His tent was full of substance,
overflowing. What mercy, what grace, what
grace. The Lord's gracious presence. Look at verse 7, up there in
verse 7. The Lord appeared unto Abram
again. This is the second time the Lord appeared to him. The
Lord appeared and spoke not once to him, but twice. The Lord kept
speaking to him. The Lord kept appearing to him
and speaking to him. And the Lord keeps speaking to
us, too. He hasn't left us alone. He keeps showing himself to us
and appearing to us and showing us his glory and speaking his
word to us. What mercy, what grace that the
Lord keeps speaking to us. We're going to see in a minute,
Abram didn't deserve that because he's a sinner. So Abraham now
is the Abram. The Lord has given him this precious
faith and He's given him assurance based on His promises. He's grateful. He has hope. He's on this journey,
yet he's got hope that there's going to be a good end. And it
says he built an altar and he called upon the name of the Lord.
He was rejoicing in the Lord. He was rejoicing in His Word,
rejoicing in His presence, rejoicing in His promises. And he went
on his way, verse 9, Journeyed, going on, and I just believe
he was journeying, rejoicing while he was walking with the
Lord. Walking with God like Enoch, like Noah, like all of God's
saints did. Walking with the Lord. Rejoicing
in the Lord. Rejoicing in His Word. Rejoicing in His great
salvation. Rejoicing in His call and His
election. Rejoicing. Full of assurance.
Full of faith. Full of hope. Full of peace. No doubts. But faith will be tried if you've
got it. True faith must be tried to know
that you have it. I was amazed, and I want you
to turn with me to 1 and 2 Peter. I was amazed how these passages
go with our story. I shouldn't be amazed. It's all
the same story. Old and New Testament. of God's
electing grace, keeping grace, calling grace. It's all the same,
whether it's Abram or Zerubbabel, whether it's Abel or the last
elect. Look at 2 Peter 1. Oh, my, this goes so well. Think about the story of Abram
when you read this. to them that have obtained like precious faith
with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied
unto you through the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord." Abraham,
Christ said, Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it. He
saw it. It was the Lord Jesus Christ
that appeared to Abraham that day. He said, what? Read on. according as his divine power
hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness
through the knowledge of him who hath called us to glory and
virtue, and are given unto us exceeding great and precious
promises, that by these we might be partaker of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through
love." That's Abram 1. Did you read it with me? That's
Abram. That's us. That's all of God's
people. 1 Peter. Look at 1 Peter 1. How
amazing how this goes with it. 1 Peter 1, he says, we are elect,
verse 2, strangers first, and then elect according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father through setting apart of the Spirit unto obedience
and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ's grace unto you.
Peace be multiplied. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His abundant mercy,
have begotten us unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead to an inheritance." The Lord kept telling Abraham
about an inheritance he was receiving. Undefiled, incorruptible, undefiled,
that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you who are kept
by the power of God. Abraham was kept by the power
of God through faith. Ready to be revealed. But there
in 2 Peter, the Lord said, this precious faith that we receive,
it's more precious than gold, that it would be tried with fire.
It's going to be tried. It's going to be tried with fire
that it might be found under praise, honor, and glory. Not our praise, honor, and glory. Abraham brought shame upon himself
here in this story. There was nothing praiseworthy
in what he did. To God belonged praise. Nothing honorable about
what he did, shameful what he did. Nothing gloriful, but nothing
but shame. The fact that Abraham, the Lord
spared Abraham and brought him through and had mercy upon him
was to the praise and the honor and glory of the God who is faithful. That's why we sing that song.
Great is thy faith. Look at our text. There was a
famine in the land. Genesis 12, verse 10. There was
a famine in the land. Trial of his faith. Must be trial. Must be trial. This man of faith, Abram, called
the father of the faith. This is his first trial. This is his first trial. A real
trial. Because the Lord called him out.
We saw how we were considered, anyway, to journey and leaving
home. That wasn't, to him, he didn't
consider that a trial, because he believed God and he was rejoicing. He faces this first real trial,
this famine in the land. His first real trial, and he
fails miserably. There's a famine, and I don't
know how long it lasted, but famine is always a result of
the Lord withholding rain. And it was in Canaan, it was
in the promised land, it was in the place that the Lord had
given him, so-called promised land. It didn't look too promising
to him now, did it? He thinks, has the Lord
forsaken me? This land that's supposed to
be flowing with milk and honey, it's drying up. Now he begins to be full of doubts
and fears. A man who is called the father
of the faithful is now full of doubts and fear, not faith. This
man who was full of courage left his home, his family, now he
is going to be full of cowardice. This man who had heard the word
of the Lord, not once but twice, heard the blessed promises of
a God who could not lie, saw the Lord, saw His glory. He soon forgets everything he
heard. He forgets everything he heard. All those promises in the face
of this first real time. Hammond, as I said, is always
from the Lord. It's always from the Lord withholding
rain. Rain is called the water of life.
The Lord, throughout the Scriptures, frequently judged a sinful world
and nations because of their idolatry by withholding the rain. And God is still doing that.
And men don't see it. In Romans 1 it says, the wrath
of God is revealed from heaven. How's that? By withholding the
rain and famine and pestilence and so forth. It's always against
an ungodly, idolatrous people, but God's people are right in
the middle of it. Aren't they? But do God's people
ever have cause to fear a famine? A bread? Do we? Do God's people ever have cause
to fear that we're going to do without bread? Anybody in here worry about that
things are going to be provided for you? Everybody in here worries
about this. Though we've heard from the Lord
time and again, seen His glory, heard these exceeding great and
precious promises, our Lord said this. Remember what He said?
He said, Behold, the fowls of the air. They don't reap, nor
do they gather into barns, but your heavenly Father feedeth
them. Are you not worth more than a minute's prayer? David. Remember what he said? He said, I've been young. David
had seen a lot. David lived in a time when there
were enemies all around and there was great dearth and famine and
judgments of God. He saw a lot. He said, I've been
young and I've lived to be an old man. He said, I have never.
He said, I have never seen the righteous, not one single righteous
person forsaken by the Lord, nor his seed ever begging bread,
not once. Can we believe David? David wrote
as God moved him. Holy men wrote as the Lord moved
them. Oh my, listen to this, I want
you to listen, I'll just read this for you, Isaiah 49, unless
you want to turn with me, but this is wonderful, listen carefully.
Isaiah 49, this is greatly, bless me, this is what the Lord God
told the Lord Jesus Christ to say to His people. In Isaiah
49.8, he said, I have heard thee in a day of salvation have I
helped thee. I will preserve thee and give thee for a covenant
of the people to establish the earth, the cause to inherit the
desolate heritage that thou mayest say to the prisoner. He's telling
Christ to say this to his people. Go forth to them that are in
darkness, show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways,
and their pasture shall be in all high places. They shall not
hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them.
For he that hath mercy on them shall lead them. Even by the
springs of water shall he guide them." The Lord is our Shepherd. We shall not want. The Lord Jesus
Christ is a good Shepherd. He always makes His people to
lie down in green pasture and gives them their daily We need
not worry about daily bread. We thank Him for it. We need
to thank Him for it. But now there is a famine. I
thought about that. There is a famine that now is, that Amos
talked about. It won't be the famine of bread,
but it will be the famine of hearing the Word. And we're in
that famine right now. And there have been many times
down through history where there's been a famine of the hearing
of the Word. And we're in that time. But like,
well, Abram, the Lord, Abram shouldn't have left Bethel. We're
going to see in a minute, he went back there. Some people
stayed there. I don't know. Somebody stayed
there, didn't they? The Lord fed them. Abraham lived. If the Lord has
put us where in Bethel, and I believe he had, the house of the Lord,
the house of bread, oh, it's better to have a little with
fear of the Lord and great treasure and trouble therewith. It would be better to have just
a morsel of bread and have this bread in abundance. We'll never go without this bread. This is what we truly live on.
But many have failed miserably in this test. Many have gone
back to Egypt because of the treasures in Egypt. Many have esteemed the riches
and treasures of Egypt more than the reproach of crime. Unlike
Moses. I love that story. Moses esteemed
the reproach of Christ greater than all the riches of Egypt,
the treasures of Egypt. So Abraham was full of doubt
and fear and unbelief and worry. There's no mention of him seeking
the counsel of God. There's no mention that he sought
the will of the Lord. What shall I do now, Lord? No
mention that he called on the Lord. No mention. He just saw
this famine. He's worried about his famine.
So he said, I'm leaving. I'm going to go and try to find
something. No mention of seeking God's will.
This is what I'm going to do. Where does he go? Egypt. I want you to turn to Isaiah
30 with me. Isaiah 30. He goes to Egypt. Scripture says he went down to
Egypt. He went down. It's Egypt. Egypt was beneath the promised
land. Egypt was down. You know, Mount
Zion, John, you read in Psalm 48, Mount Zion. All through the
psalm, all through Scripture, it's called Mount Zion. Those
that go up to Mount Zion. Peter and James, it says they
went up to the temple. To get to the temple of the Lord,
to get to Mount Zion, you had to go up. Whenever you went to
the temple, you were ascending. You were coming out of the miry
clay and ascending up to the hill of the Lord. But when you
go back out into the world, you're going down, aren't you? You're
going back down into this cesspool of iniquity. Look at Isaiah 30. We've looked at this many times.
We've looked at 30 and 31. Oh, woe unto them, verse 2, that
walk to go down into Egypt and have not asked at my mouth. They
go to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, to trust
in the shadow of Egypt. Abraham looked and he saw Egypt
with all of its resources, with all that it had to offer. And
he thought, that's where I'm going to go. That's where I'm
going to take my family. Oh, he ended up in trouble. He looked
to Pharaoh. He thought, Pharaoh is the most
powerful man on earth with influence and I'll go down there and I'll
be fine under his leadership. Ooh, he about perished. Look
at verse 3. The strength of Pharaoh will
be your shame. A trust in the shadow of Egypt is your confusion.
Down in verse 7, Isaiah 30. Egyptians help in vain to know
purpose. So I cried concerning their strength
is to sit still, be still and know that I am the Lord. Go over
to chapter 31 here of Isaiah. Look at that same thing. It says,
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, to stay on horses that
trust and cherish in our day the technology, because they
are very strong. They look not unto the Holy One
of Israel, neither seek the Lord. Verse 3, the Egyptians are men,
they're not God. They're men, not God. So Abram
went down to Egypt. When he left Bethel, he went
down. And it was a descent into unbelief and into sin. Now, unbelief, distrust in the
Lord, not seeking the Lord's will will always wind up in a horrible fall. Abraham did the unthinkable.
I thought about what Abraham did and I thought, would I do
that? Save my neck? Would I do that? I'll tell you in a minute why
this happened. As I said, he's not trusting the Lord. He's not
calling on the Lord. He's not seeking the Lord. He's
not remembering the Lord's Word. He's not remembering His promises.
He forgot it all. He's worrying. He's looking at
the world around, and he's looking at the famine, and he's looking
to Egypt and says, now there's hell. No, it's not. Now look at verse 11 in our text.
He came to pass, he came near to enter into Egypt, and he looks
around and he starts getting scared now. He didn't have any
fear at Bethel. He didn't have any fear. You know, he traveled on foot
600 miles to get to Bethel. 600 miles with 300 and some people
living in tents. How long do you reckon that took
him? Any enemies around? Any dangers? There's no sign that he was ever
afraid. Then he gets into Egypt. He's
left the house of the Lord. He's afraid. He's worried. You
know what he's worried about? That's what will happen to him.
He'll get selfish. He's not worried about God's
honor, which he broke great reproach upon. He's not worried about
Sarah. He's not worried about Lot. He's
worried about himself. That's what unbelief will do.
That's what not seeking the Lord will do. It will cause you to
become selfish. And he said, I pray thee, just
tell them you're my sister. Unbelievable. You saved my neck. You know, the Lord records the
sins and the failures of the chief, the greatest men and women
in Scripture. Unthinkable sins. Sins that we
think, would I do that? I can't believe we use that term,
unbelievable. Unbelievable. Why does the Lord
record these sins? And I'm glad He does. I'm glad
He does. Here are several reasons why
the Lord records these sins and failures of the chief saints.
The first one, Abram. Noah. We saw Noah. My, my. After a great deliverance and
great mercy, how Noah ended up. My, my, my, my. Number one, here's
why the Lord records these failures and sins of His chief saints,
is to show that every person on this earth is a sinner, and
nothing more than a sinner saved by God's grace. That's it. Abraham
was not... He was an idolater. Peter denied
the Lord. How could he do that? Because
he was nothing but a low-down fisherman when the Lord found
him. And he's still got that old man in him. We're all nothing
but sinners. Every man and woman at their
best state, what does the scripture say? Vanity. Altogether, vanity. Everything about us is vanity.
Our minds, our hearts, our lives, our deeds. And he wrote the sins and recorded
them for us to read to show what every single son of Adam is capable
of except for the restraining grace of God. Unless the Lord
restrains us, we are capable of doing anything, anything. And the minute we think we're
not, we probably will. And the Lord writes these down
and shows us these things to show us his great mercy and great
grace, even to the chief of sinners. Abraham, how could he be such
an ungrateful fellow? Because this is a faithful Sam,
that Christ came to save the chief of sinners. And he writes these things to
show us how we are kept by the power of God. We're not kept
by anything we do. We're not kept by... it wasn't
Abraham's faith that kept him, it was Abraham's Lord that kept
him. Very plainly, here we see, Abraham
failed miserably. David said, my heart faileth
me, but the Lord will keep me. Show us we're kept by the power
of God. To humble us. These things are written to humble
us. Elijah, remember the story of Elijah? Elijah went running
from a woman, so courageous in the face of the world, so bold,
and yet a woman said, I'm going to take your head off. And he
went running, scared like an unbeliever. Let alone a prophet. And he sat under that juniper
tree. Remember that? He sat under that
juniper tree. He said, Lord, just kill me. I know better than
my fathers. I know better than any of them. I know better than
Abram when he denied his wife. I know better than Noah. I know
better than any of them. Just take my life. Humblest. The Lord wrote these
things down for our learning, for our admonition, for our learning,
to tell us, to show us to trust Him. Trust Him. Tell us, beware of Egypt. Stew evil. Don't go there. Don't
go there. Sit still. That's what we read.
Sit still. The Lord wrote these things down to make us more compassionate
toward our brethren that follow. Lot's down there and later is
down in Sodom. He shouldn't have been there.
They had strife in the next chapter. They had strife. The very next
chapter. And Abram, I bet you, blamed
himself a great deal for what happened between him and Lot.
If I had been a better example, hadn't drugged him down into
Egypt, maybe this all wouldn't have happened. Lot got a taste
of that, I guess. And Lot ended up in Sodom, choosing
Sodom over staying with Abram. And it tore him asunder. And
Abram, I bet you, blamed himself. Well, he is partly to blame.
We're all to blame for a lot of things. And many things we
offend on. But it should make us more compassionate
with our brethren. Abram had mercy on Lot, didn't
he? Abram prayed for Lot later on.
And so should we. We shouldn't come down too hard
on Abram. Nobody in here has left anything like Abram did.
Nobody in here has journeyed as far as Abram did to get to
the house of the Lord. Nobody in here has left all like
he did. Nobody in here has gone through
the things he did at that point to get to where he is. But he denies his wife. Not once. Like I said, this is to show
the Lord's great mercy. Sinners we are and sinners we
will be to the day we die. And it's of the Lord's mercies
that we're not consumed. Why? Because of His compassions.
They fail not. He denied his wife. And in doing
so, who he really denied was the Lord. He brought great reproach
upon his Lord. David, he said. David's sin was
great, but unthinkable. I had a man killed to take his
wife. Are you capable of that? Yes, you are. David. David. But David, my, my. The Lord had mercy on David,
didn't He? But here's what David said after he did that horrible
sin to that man and his wife, and everybody around him suffered
the consequences. What did he say? Our favorite
song. Against thee and thee only have
I sinned and done this evil in your sight. And you're going
to be judged justly, you gentlemen, and clear when you speak. Ain't
it unbelievable? It's unbelievable. And so should
we. But bless God, and I wish John were here to hear this verse. If we believe not, yet he abided
faithful. He cannot deny himself. The Lord
had promised Abraham. He said, I'm going to bless you.
I'm going to give you a name. I'm going to bring you to the
Lamb. And nobody's going to touch you. I'm going to make your seed
as the stars in the sky. I will, I will, I will, and you
shall. In spite of everything you do
against me, in spite of all your unbelief, in spite of all your
sins, in spite of where you go, I will come and get you and bring
you back because I am your Lord. We believe not. He about to say
he cannot deny himself. And old Abram looked at the world
around him. He came to pass, verse 14. He
came into Egypt. They saw his beautiful wife.
The princes and pharaohs saw her, and they commended her.
Well, it didn't all turn out too bad. Abram got rich there. He got rich there, didn't he? But
like we said, we quoted the proverb, Little were the fear of the Lord
in great treasure and trouble therewith. He had a lot of stuff. But man, he's not happy. He's
in Egypt. He's a fish out of water. He
doesn't belong here. There are no believers here.
It's an ungodly place. What's he doing there? Huh? He
about lost his wife. And the Lord gave him favor inside
the Egyptians. And the Lord gives us favor.
in the sight of the Egyptians. But remember, like the children
of Israel, we're just borrowing things. Borrowing things. We have here no continuing city,
though we live in Egypt. And you hear what happened. Pharaoh
found out. The Lord plagued Pharaoh and
his house. The Lord told him that, didn't
He? He told Abram, He said, I'm going to curse them that curse
you, bless them that bless you, and curse them that curse you.
If anybody touches your own, I'm going to deal with them."
And he did. He warned and plagued Pharaoh and his house with great
plagues because of Sarah Abram's wife. And that's the type of
Christ right there. His bride in this Egypt, in this
world. The Lord won't let the world
touch His people except He But Pharaoh called Abram and said,
What have you done? Why didn't you tell me she was
your wife? Why did you say she was your sister? I would have
taken her to my wife. Now, therefore, behold, I will
take her and get out of here. Get out of here, he said. He
came in and had favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and that
didn't last long. Now Pharaoh says, Get out. I
don't want you around here. Isn't that the way the world
is? You may receive favor, but then the Lord said, if you were
of the world, the world would love its own, because you're
not of the world. Even as I'm not of the world, the world will
hate you and tell you, you're not one of us. Get out of here.
Like they did a lot. Oh, my. Abraham, so he left. Chapter 13. He sent him away,
his wife and all that he had. He didn't lose a thing. By the
grace of God, he didn't lose a thing. And Abram went out of
Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, a lot with him into
the south. Abram was very rich in cattle and silver and gold.
He went on his journey from the south even to Bethel, the place
where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and
ruin, unto the place of the altar where he made there at the fir.
And there Abram called on the name of the Lord. He went back
to where he was, where he should have stayed. He went back to where his tent
had been in the beginning, worshiping and calling on the Lord. He went
back to the place where the Lord first revealed Himself to him,
and he found peace, and he found safety, and he found help, and
he found grace in the eyes of the Lord. In spite of him, the
Lord was faithful. We leave Him, He has promised
to never leave us a forsaken. We forget His Word. He remembers
for us His covenant and His mercy. We leave off worshiping Him,
but the altar is still there. You come back and the blood is
still on the mercy seat. And God brings us back to Bethel. That's a great story. Jacob,
we're going to get to that. Lord, I want to read this in
closing. A wonderful end of this story. You know, the Lord tells us about
Abram's terrible fall there. Unthinkable sin. Great reproach
on the Lord and danger for his family and so forth. And it's
of the Lord's mercies that he wasn't killed in Egypt and his
wife and family and so forth. But the Lord mentions that. The
Lord records that. But when we get to Hebrews 11,
the story of the people of God, And Abram's there. His name is
there. And here's what it says about
Abram. It says, By faith, Abraham, when he was called to go out
into a place which he should have to receive for an inheritance,
obeyed. And he went out, not knowing whether he went. By faith,
he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling
in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of
the same problem. For he looked for a city which
had foundations as builder and maker as God. The Lord does not
mention his sin. It doesn't bring it up. After
Christ died, after the blood was shed for the remission of
sin, Abram's sin is gone. Forgotten. Pardoned. Blotted
out. It will never be brought up again
by the Lord. But I'm glad the Lord recorded
it. Aren't you? It gives me comfort. It gives
me comfort, hope, and the Lord's mercy. That was Abraham. Hope. Alright.