AVOIDING WHO WE USED TO BE (28)
Scripture: Genesis 20
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Avoiding Who We Used to Be (28)
Series: Genesis
Robert Dawson
Genesis 20
I have always enjoyed the ''who done it'' books, movies and shows. I like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventures. I grew up watching the old black and white Perry Mason reruns and even liked the old Matlock shows starring Andy Griffith. My favorite ''who done it'' detective show of all time is Scooby Doo. I love Scooby Doo, the old ones. He's the best. Cowardly yet courageous and loves to eat.
One of the lessons you learn from watching all these super sleuths solve cases is that the criminal always returns to the scene of the crime.
Regrettably, spiritually, it is true in our lives as well. Just like a criminal who returns to the scene of a crime, sometimes we revisit those old sins of the past. We momentarily morph into the criminal we once were.
Unfortunately, in Genesis 20, we find Abraham, our model for faith-walking, display flashes of the man he used to be by making the same mistakes, and stepping into the same sins that ensnared him before.
Genesis 20.1-18 - Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev, and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he lived for a time in Gerar. 2 And Abraham said of his wife Sarah, ''She is my sister.'' So Abimelech king of Gerar sent men and took Sarah. 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, ''Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is married.'' 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, ''Lord, will You kill a nation, even though blameless. 5 Did he himself not say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.'' 6 Then God said to him in the dream, ''Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also kept you from sinning against Me; therefore, I did not let you touch her. 7 Now then, return the man's ...
Series: Genesis
Robert Dawson
Genesis 20
I have always enjoyed the ''who done it'' books, movies and shows. I like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventures. I grew up watching the old black and white Perry Mason reruns and even liked the old Matlock shows starring Andy Griffith. My favorite ''who done it'' detective show of all time is Scooby Doo. I love Scooby Doo, the old ones. He's the best. Cowardly yet courageous and loves to eat.
One of the lessons you learn from watching all these super sleuths solve cases is that the criminal always returns to the scene of the crime.
Regrettably, spiritually, it is true in our lives as well. Just like a criminal who returns to the scene of a crime, sometimes we revisit those old sins of the past. We momentarily morph into the criminal we once were.
Unfortunately, in Genesis 20, we find Abraham, our model for faith-walking, display flashes of the man he used to be by making the same mistakes, and stepping into the same sins that ensnared him before.
Genesis 20.1-18 - Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev, and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he lived for a time in Gerar. 2 And Abraham said of his wife Sarah, ''She is my sister.'' So Abimelech king of Gerar sent men and took Sarah. 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, ''Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is married.'' 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, ''Lord, will You kill a nation, even though blameless. 5 Did he himself not say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.'' 6 Then God said to him in the dream, ''Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also kept you from sinning against Me; therefore, I did not let you touch her. 7 Now then, return the man's ...
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