Walk the Walk (2 of 4)
Series: Make Us One
Jeff Ecklund
Ephesians 4:1-3
The motivation to do something is started and sustained by knowing and anticipating the benefits.
No one works out without expecting results
No one practices without hoping to get better
Committing to school=education
College=more education, training and job opportunities
Unity is a high biblical value
Taking the steps to be in unity brings a reward....
Discord destroys nations, families, relationships
I want to look quickly at the story of Abraham and Lot
Genesis 13:5-12 (ESV)
5And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, 6so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together, 7and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land. 8Then Abram said to Lot, ''Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.
So, Abraham basically threw the fight...And let Lot choose wherever he wanted to go...
He had the right to choose first....But he basically humbled himself and chose Lot....
Afterwards we see the ramifications...
Genesis 13:14-18 (ESV)
14The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, ''Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, 15for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever. 16I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted. 17Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.'' 18So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Yet he gave up his right...a ...
Series: Make Us One
Jeff Ecklund
Ephesians 4:1-3
The motivation to do something is started and sustained by knowing and anticipating the benefits.
No one works out without expecting results
No one practices without hoping to get better
Committing to school=education
College=more education, training and job opportunities
Unity is a high biblical value
Taking the steps to be in unity brings a reward....
Discord destroys nations, families, relationships
I want to look quickly at the story of Abraham and Lot
Genesis 13:5-12 (ESV)
5And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, 6so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together, 7and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land. 8Then Abram said to Lot, ''Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.
So, Abraham basically threw the fight...And let Lot choose wherever he wanted to go...
He had the right to choose first....But he basically humbled himself and chose Lot....
Afterwards we see the ramifications...
Genesis 13:14-18 (ESV)
14The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, ''Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, 15for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever. 16I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted. 17Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.'' 18So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Yet he gave up his right...a ...
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