Category: Genesis Chapter 12
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Protected in a Foolish Season – Genesis 12:17-20
Genesis 12:17-20 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife. And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have…
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The Cost of Compromise – Genesis 12:14-16
Genesis 12:14-16 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had…
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Half Truth, Whole Lie – Genesis 12:13
Genesis 12:13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. Abram was not inventing something out of thin air here. Sarai really was his half sister. But that is exactly what makes this so searching. A half…
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Faltering Where We Feel Strong – Genesis 12:11-12
Genesis 12:11-12 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his…
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Going Down – Genesis 12:10
Genesis 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. No sooner had Abram come into the land than trouble showed up. A famine hit. The place of promise suddenly became the place of pressure. And Abram, instead…
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Altars and Tents – Genesis 12:7-8
Genesis 12:7, 8 … and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent… … having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and…
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Standing Where God Said – Genesis 12:5-7
Genesis 12:5-7 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. And Abram passed through the land…
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Grace for the Delayed – Genesis 12:4
Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. There is a lot of comfort in that one sentence. Abram departed. At last, he moved. At last, he obeyed. At last, after all…
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Blessed to Be a Blessing – Genesis 12:2-3
Genesis 12:2-3 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. What a contrast…
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Called Out of Ur – Genesis 12:1
Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee. There is something very moving about the way this begins. The Lord had already spoken to Abram. This call did not first come…