Well, let me, invite you to turn in your Bibles, this morning to Genesis chapter 13. By the way, this is the last Sunday that we will be in Genesis, for a while, probably until about the middle of May. starting next Sunday, we will be doing a several week series on the topic of marriage, and, and then when we're done with that series, I'm gonna be, in Albania, for, a couple of weeks and then when we get back, we'll be able to get back to our series to the Book of Genesis. So this is our last stop in the Book of Genesis for, at least a couple of months, and I would encourage you to be here next week and in the weeks to come as we give focus to this most important topic of marriage.
But Genesis chapter 13, we're gonna be looking at the entirety of this chapter and if you wanna give A title to this chapter, it would be flourishing and faith after failure. Flourishing and faith after failure. How many of you have ever failed the Lord and sinned against Him? Before, raise your hand OK.
How many of you, this will narrow it down, how many of you have ever failed the Lord and sinned against Him since becoming a Christian? Raise your hand. Oh, no different. if so, and my hand would go up, then this message, our study of Genesis 13 will be a great encouragement to you.
when we studied the second half of Genesis 12 a couple weeks ago, we saw how Abraham failed miserably down in Egypt, right? He leaves the promised land during a famine and he goes down to Egypt, and while they're approaching Egypt, Abraham tells Sarah to lie. And tell people that she was only his sister. Abraham's goal was to save his own hide because he was fearful and anxious, but also he wanted to profit off the situation should it arise that someone would want to take Sarah as their husband....
