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What is faith?
Faith is something real.
Faith isn’t a feeling, or an emotion, it’s knowing something, it’s trusting something.
And within Christianity, it’s trusting in Someone.
So you are talking to someone, and he says he has faith in God.
How do you know that’s true?
It’s when you see that faith, that trust, demonstrated in their life.
says it this way, “So also faith by itself, if it does not have works is dead.”
What we will see today, is an instance, when Abraham’s faith was compromised, you might even say he didn’t have any.
Let’s open our Bibles to
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“10 Now there was a famine in the land.
So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, 12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’
Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.” 14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh.
And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
17 But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
18 So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me?
Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife?
Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.” 20 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
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God made a promise to Abraham, and in our text, we see that this promise was on the line, it was put to the test.
God had promised 3 things to Abraham.
He promised that He would:
Receive a land.
Become the father of a great nation.
And that God would bless him.
God had just physically appeared to Abraham, and promised to take care of him.
God Himself had promised Abraham he would bless him and do certain things for him.
It’s one thing to say that you believe that, but when those words are put to the test, it’s a different story.
Today, we will not only see that Abraham’s faith was tested, but we will see that these promises were almost sabotaged by Abraham, by his own sin.
If you’ve ever wondered about sin and it’s cost, and it’s danger, and it’s sneakiness; this is a great example of just how deadly it is, and how hard it is to manage.
The foundation of Abraham’s sin was fear.
It’s fear, but not of God, but that God won’t do what He’s said He will do.
It’s a fear that God can’t be trusted.
It’s a fear that God won’t be faithful
It’s a fear that God will fail.
It’s a fear of anxiety, filled with worry.
This is exactly why Jesus told us not to worry.
Because when we worry, we doubt that God is truly God, and able to provide.
And when we doubt like that what does it say about God?
It says God is weak.
It says God is not to be trusted.
And worry, opens the door to sinning, because we decide to take matters into our own hand.
And so, Abraham is living in the Promised Land.
A land that is later said to be flowing with milk and honey ().
We learn at the very beginning of our text, “Now there was a famine in the land.”
Now remember, God has already said He’s going to take care of Abraham.
But out of fear that they would starve, and without consulting God, Abraham took his family and left the Promised Land, Canaan, and went to down into Egypt.
There’s a lot of foreshadowing in this text.
It’s not going to be the last time that God’s people go to Egypt because of a famine.
As is often the case, sins aren’t alone, they don’t come just as one single sin.
They multiply.
Sin leads to more sin.
God promised Abraham that he would multiply, grow and be blessed.
But as Abraham enters Egypt, he doubts the promise that God would grow Him.
What I mean, is he doubts God’s ability to protect him, keep him alive, so that he will grow.
He looks at his beautiful wife and he sees a problem.
By now, she’s at least 65 years old, close to it.
But she looks like she’s only 35 years old.
She beautiful.
He thinks, that the Egyptians will see her beauty, and want her for themselves.
His fear is that God will not be able to protect them Himself, and thinks that the Egyptians will kill him, and take his wife.
Rather than trust God that He will do what He says, Abraham comes up with a lie.
Just as Abraham was about to enter Egypt
He sins in an attempt to preserve God’s promise.
He sins, thinking that his sin will keep the promise of God alive, as if God needs our help.
Sadly, this isn’t the last time he will do something like this.
One sin, adds to another.
Abraham, doubts God’s providence in the Promised Land and leaves it, and then as they enter Egypt, Abraham again doubts God’s security.
He lies.
He causes his wife to lie.
And in the end, compromises even his wife’s safety.
If there ever was a picture of the vileness of sin, here it is.
Men are to love their wives.
We are to treasure them.
We are to protect them.
We are to care for them with the same love and sacrifice that Christ did His own church.
But what did Abraham do?
Men, imagine you were in a similar situation.
You are scared.
Your life could be in danger.
What did Abraham do?
Abraham, sold his wife as a lie, to save his own skin.
To spare his life, he gave her to the Egyptians.
His life may have been spared, but now her’s was in danger.
In fact, this scene looks to be about as bad as it can get.
Because later in Genesis, something like this again happens, only then the text specifically says that she was not touched.
Here, Pharaoh says he made her his wife.
As if to say, the marriage was consummated, he touched her.
This all started with a lack of faith in God.
Worry and anxiety set off the mousetrap of sin in Abraham’s life.
And it climaxed, with him giving his wife away to another man, so that he would live.
It’s gross.
And yet, at the same time, we see Christ’s actions in Sarah’s life.
Abraham sinned, and who suffered?
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