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Successful Rescue Mission
Intro: Approximately 16 million men and women served in the US forces during WWII.
Roughly 124 thousand Americans were held as POWs in Europe and the Pacific.
Millions of Jews were held by the Germans.
While many tried to escape, but most had to wait until the end of the war to be liberated.
The Movies and Book Unbroken about Louie Zamperini details his ordeal and how he was finally.
The Great Raid is about a rescue in the Philippines.
The Great Escape with Steve McQueen is a true story about a prison break.
Article III of the Military Code of Conduct says - If I am captured I will continue to resist by all means available.
I will make every effort to escape and to aid others to escape.
I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy.
You are expected to escape if and when you can.
Have you ever felt trapped and need to be rescued?
Like you have no way out and no one cares enough to come get you?
Well there is a way out and that way out is God.
Read Verses:
MP: God Gives Blessings to His People
I. God Gives His Land (Chapter 13)
Chapter thirteen in a nutshell depicts Abram and Lot having so much livestock and wealth that the land can no longer easily support both herds and work forces.
The wealth they acquired continues on or picks up from the Egyptians in chapter 12. Instead turning it into an old west battle ground, with ranchers fighting over water and pasture, Abram knows there is enough to go around.
Lot wants to move somewhere else to have his own land and Abram blesses him and in verse 8, "So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.
Is not the whole land before you?
Let’s part company.
If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”"
Abram gives him the choice of land.
Why?
Because he, on some level trusts God with the promise that God made in chapter 12.
So being generous, because it is not His land to give away, he knows that peace with his relative is more important than trying to own or hold onto something that is not really his to begin with.
Here is what happens though; Lot chooses to go toward the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah which are most likely on the southern plain near the Dead Sea.
It is ouch and green and well-watered and as the author of Genesis tells us that it looked like the Garden of the Lord in verse 10.
Lot Is drawn to where the grass is literally greener on the other side.
But it is outside the land of Canaan and thus outside or on the edge of God’s land and thus at the edge of God.
Sodom and Gomorrah are looked at as the Gentiles or non-Jewish.
We know that this land was lush but this was before the land was destroyed.
This is foreshadowing a little but also telling things that have happened in the past as well.
So lot goes on his way, but Abram remains in the land of Canaan, in the land that God has given him and more importantly Abram Stays bear God essentially and God says that he will receive the Land.
god encourages Abram to walk the entire perimeter of the land.
However this is still future because the Canaanites still occupy the land and Abram has no offspring yet.
but Abram seems to trust God at his word.
God is showing his blessings to Abram and Abram expects them to be fulfilled.
If you have watched or read the Hobbit, the whole story is propelled by prophecy and promise.
The dwarves are returning to their homeland because they know it is foretold to happen.
They are propelled on this adventure because they trust the prophecy.
And so we as Christians should be similarly propelled with confidence of God’s prophecies.
Application # 1 You can have confidence in God that he will fulfill His promises and when he does His blessings are greater than we can imagine or produce ourselves.
In verse 18, we see Abram has complete confidence in God and "So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord."
Abram goes to a spot and just make Shia household and makes an altar and then waits on God.
He knows that God's blessing will be fulfilled so he is ok with waiting.
Abram was a rich man and in chapter 12 tires to handle matters on his own and not trust God with the Egyptians, but here we see what seems to be evidence of repentance and he now relies on God.
Abram is demonstrating faith.
Spurgeon says "Faith is getting right out of yourself and getting into Christ
and even though Christ has not made it onto the scene yet, Jesus is God and so Abram is resting in God's blessing.
For this instance it is demonstrated in the land, but it is really only a tangible example and fulfillment of God’s action.
Abram seems to be as Jonathan Edwards theology this scene depicts Abram delighting in The beauty of God’s character and he is also living for God and he served Lot by allowing him to pick the lands of his choosing.
Abram is developing faith enough to be sustained by God.
We glorify God by trusting him and the sacrifice that Jesus did on our behalf and turning our lives around and living for Him.
And this is what Abram seems to have done so far
says thus says the Lord cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes his flesh his strength and turns from the Lord.
Abram already learned his lesson and now has turned back to the Lord.
says Do not fear "fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
There is no magic pill or steps to trusting a God more and this.
Ay be why it is perhaps the most difficult portion of being a Christian.
It is something that you have to rely on for God to give you the faith and the.
You have to keep practicing relying on God and not yourself.
You have to trust the promises.
We can do the same thing.
Even after we are saved we fall back to our old ways sometimes and so we need to constantly lean On and rely on God.
Because God is bigger than us and he gives us things in exceeding abundance and best gift he gives us in that measure is His grace.
And we can rely on His grace to save us.
Almost all of Paul’s letters encourage the churches to carry on toward heaven in faith and walk with and by Faith.
TS when we exercise faith we get stronger and she.
We always need it we can receive God’s protection
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God Gives His Protection (14:1-13)
The author moves on to some historical aspects and tells us a of a war between two factions of Kings that fight a war.
Verse 1-11 deal with the war somewhat quickly.
it is inserted as a motivation and to ultimately to get Lot into a predicament from which he will need help.
We have the eastern kings fighting against Kings of a few kingdoms, namely Sodom and Gomorrah.
Abram wants no part of the fight initially and he does not seem to be involved.
The two sides go to war in the Siddim Valley and the Kings from the East, the side that has four kings beats the side that has five armies.
Picking the narrative up in verse 10, Now the Siddim Valley contained many asphalt pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, but the rest fled to the mountains.
11 The four kings took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food and went on.
12 They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, for he was living in Sodom, and they went on.
So we know what happened to Lot, he went and moved to the city.
an immoral city, a gentile city.
If it is to be believed, it was like he moved from his small town in Kansas to LA or Las Vegas.
all around the Siddim Valley there are tar pits or asphalt pits.
so think La Brea tar pits.
where I guess if you don’t know the area ort you are just running from a conquering army, you don’t see them and fall in.
In wars being taken prisoner is something that happens.
My grandfather was a POW in World War II. he helped build the Burma Road and then he was captured and taken to a camp or camps in Viet Nam, where the Japanese had many camps.
He did not talk about the 18-month ordeal.
but he did not eat rice or fish for the rest of his life.
In the Philippines during WWII many 512 soldiers were being held in the town Japanese prison camp near the town of Cabanatuan.
Some of these POWS had survived the Bataan Death March were and then three years in this camp.
The Japanese knew the end of the war was coming so they implemented a policy to kill the prisoners when they saw fit so the Japanese could escape, and also not care for the prisoners.
the Americans Knew they had to save these soldiers and they embarked on a rescue mission.
120 Army Rangers and Filipino guerillas had hours to prepare for the raid.
One article says this about the raid, Odds seemed overwhelming.
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