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INTRO
Have you ever been to a masquerade ball?
The Masque of the Red Death = Edgar Allan Poe - 1842
Masquerade ball?
What are you afraid of?
looking weak to others.
Main Character = Prince Prospero
loosing control of the situation.
The point of the masquerade ball was to forget the trouble outside and to live as if it did not exist!
being forced to change.
Illustration of need addressed.
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Title & Text
Deceived
Theme
Isaac sought to deceive Abimelech to secure his own safety.
Pray
God our father we so often seek to take matters into our own hands and secure our own safety just as Isaac did.
Help us to see today how to attain this safety and security in a way that is pleasing to you rather then pleasing to ourselves.
Context
Did you do your homework this week?
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It is important that we remember what just transpired in the last section 1-6 for us to be at this point.
THE SERMON BODY
Text
Structure
Isaac settles in Gerar (v6)
Isaac deceives the people about Rebekah (v7)
Isaac is found out (v8)
Isaac is rebuked by Abimelech (v9-10)
Isaac is placed under protection (v11)
Isaac prospers in the land (v12-13)
6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.
Just recieved these promises from God.
seeking faithfulness
following Christ is not for the faint of heart!
Are you under the false impression that Christianity is for the weak?
That following Christ is easy?
7 When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,”
Isaac lies to them...
right after receiving promises of God
What is it that makes us choose deception?
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for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,”
Fear God not men.
Gen 19.30
What do you fear?
Isaacs improper fear caused him to sin:
against his wife
against the people
against God
Fear God not men.
because she was attractive in appearance.
Abraham - Isaac
Sarah - Rebekah
Barren & Beautiful
Often 1 Sin leads to another!
Abraham - Isaac - Us
Even good men make bad choices.
8 When he had been there a long time,
Home free
the deceit of deceit
Devil promises us...
Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife.
Building our own burdens
married without enjoyment
unclear what Abimelech saw
unclear what Abimelech saw
Hebrew word for flirt!
There is a way that you laugh with your wife that you don’t with your sister!
9 So Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she is your wife.
A lying tongue is but for a moment.
Truth is the daughter of time; and, in time, it will come out.
the deceit of deceit...
we will be found out
Abraham / Isaac
Abimelech
When we lie to others we only lie to ourselves… Where are you living a lie?
God knows all our sin.
How then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?”
How then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?”
Fear
selfishness
When we lie to others we are not sparing them, we are sparing ourselves!
Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘Lest I die because of her.’ ”
Isaac was not serving his wife
Isaac was not serving his neighbor
Isaac was serving himself !
Selfishness is the birth place of Sin
Where in your life are you most apt to serve yourself?
How do you plan on being a better servant to others?
10 Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us?
One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
History is a Teacher!!
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no mention of divine intervention here
the lesson was learned!!
Sin is Sin is Sin
even those without the Law know this
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