This message contrasts the lives of Abraham and Lot in the context of God being enough. It’s a powerful and convicting study that ultimately shows that God not only is enough, but that we can experience that truth for ourselves. 

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Heritage Academy

Dee Casper

Is God Enough?

Father, thank you for this privilege to be able to come into your presence just now.

And I'm asking that you would give us a bountiful blessing as we read your word.

I'm praying that we would be convicted, that we would be reminded that this world is not our home and that you have something vastly better to offer us.

And I'm praying that we would just hear the pleading of a God of love in everything that is shared.

Keep me from getting in your way, I pray, and I ask this in Jesus' name.

It's just helpful for me to refer to a few things here and there.

So this message is based upon a battle that I myself have fought.

I say that knowing that you have had this battle, but I'm just trying to make you feel better.

That many are wrestling with trust issues because they're just sure of the fact that God is going to ask things of them that they just don't wanna deal with.

You know, like don't touch that in this season of my life.

I had God place a call on my life that caused me to leave here.

And it's something I ran from for like 6 weeks, if not longer, and it was a really difficult decision.

And I see why God called me to make that decision and I'm happy in what I'm doing.

I certainly miss all of you, but I love the fact that there is this relationship that still exists.

But I've been there, I know what that feeling is like.

We talked about that on my testimony right earlier this week that the call of God is leading 1 way but then my dreams are going another direction.

When those intersected I really didn't know what to do with that and I made the wrong choice unfortunately and delayed my calling by 3 years.

So with that being the case I'm of the mindset that our number 1 priority is to find out what God wants for our lives.

To find an answer, what is it that you want from my life, and then to unreservedly do just that.

And there's actually a quote that we have from the upward look that says this very thing.

She says, our first lesson is to learn the will of God, even though we pass through trying circumstances.

Unquestioningly, and then she goes on to say that such obedience will how often?

That means that when we seek to know what God wants and we do it unquestioningly, we're always rewarded for this.

We never have to worry if we're going to be provided for or if we're going to be cared for.

We never have to worry about that, we're told.

Now, so we don't need to be afraid of God, that's the point, right?

When God lets man have his own way, it is the darkest hour of his life.

And as we contrast the lives of Abraham and Lot this evening we'll understand just what that means.

And maybe we have our own life situations where we can vouch for that already without needing any illustration.

But I think through looking at the lives of Abraham and Lot, it contrasts quite nicely to make this very point.

So as we go into the story of Abraham and Lot, the first section is going to be in Genesis chapter 12.

I'm going to summarize for the sake of brevity, because I'm actually going from Genesis 12 all the way through Genesis 19.

We're not gonna read all of that, I promise.

We're familiar with the story of Abraham, correct?

Yeah, we hear that a lot growing up in the church.

We've been around it, so I'm banking on the fact that we have some familiarity.

And even the story of law, I'm sure we have some familiarity with this as well.

So Abraham gets a call, he's actually Abram at this stage, he gets a call and this call costs him something immediately, right?

God gives him the call, God shows up in a vision and tells him, go leave your country and your family and come to a land that I will show you." So there's already a cost involved here.

Now some of you may rejoice over that call.

I don't know your home situations and your environments, but in those Eastern cultures, family is a close-knit thing, and so is religion tied to family.

And yet, Abram is given this call to leave his family and to go to a land that I will show you.

Abram doesn't even know where he's going, right?

God did not give him an address to put in his iPhone.

He has no idea where this is going to lead him.

He's leaving the things that he's always known for the uncertainty, but the only certainty he does have is that God is leading, which should be enough for him, right?

And in most instances it is, but it gets difficult for him soon after because when he gets to the place that God calls him to, there's famine in the land.

Now, you ever had a situation like this that you follow the call of God in your life and you go, you obey unquestioningly, and so you're assuming it's going to be rewarded, and then you get there and what you thought it would be, Doug's shaking his head, of course it was.

How many kids did you have when you guys showed up to this campus?

So, you know, like, hey, you got this job for you at Heritage Academy.

So, you have those questions sometimes, right, of is this what I thought it's gonna be or not?

And certainly Abram has grounds to doubt right now.

Now not good grounds because God called him and where God calls God provides, but certainly in a worldly sense Abram has good reasons, you would think, to question this.

So Abram ends up having to go south to Egypt for a span to have his needs cared for, and when he gets to Egypt, something happens.

And as Doug says, she has the hotness, right?

She's a beautiful woman, an absolutely beautiful woman.

And anyway, he gets there and he says something that's not true.

And some of you may be saying, no, no, no, no, but it is true, but I have a really good answer for you and I can't wait to use it but I had to explain it first.

So yes, technically Sarai is Abram's half-sister.

He tells everyone, he says, look just tell everybody you're my sister or they're gonna kill me and they're gonna take you.

But if you're my sister, they won't do anything to me." So Abram wrestles with trust here right now, right?

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