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Jesus- the Warrior of Rescuing Love and the Lost Brother

Genesis 13:8-12   ⁸ Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.  ⁹ Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.”  ¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)  ¹¹ So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other.  ¹² Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

Genesis 14:8-16   ⁸ Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim  ⁹ with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.  ¹⁰ Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the hill country.  ¹¹ So the enemy took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way.  ¹² They also took Lot, the son of Abram’s brother, who was dwelling in Sodom, and his possessions, and went their way.  ¹³ Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amo-rite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.  ¹⁴ When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.  ¹⁵ And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.  ¹⁶ Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people.

Genesis 15:7-11   ⁷ And he said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”  ⁸ But he said, “O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?”  ⁹ He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”  ¹⁰ And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half.  ¹¹ And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. Genesis 15:17 - 16:1   ¹⁷ When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.  ¹⁸ On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,  ¹⁹ the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,  ²⁰ the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,  ²¹ the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.” 

Psalm 22:7-8   ⁷ All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;  ⁸ “He trusts in the LORD; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”

Luke 23:35-43  ³⁵ And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!”  ³⁶ The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine  ³⁷ and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”  ³⁸ There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews.”  ³⁹ One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!”  ⁴⁰ But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?  ⁴¹ And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”  ⁴² And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”  ⁴³ And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Matthew 27:46   ⁴⁶ And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

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From Bad Paramedics and Bankruptcy to a Great Name

Genesis 11:26-32  ²⁶ When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.  ²⁷ Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.  ²⁸ Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.  ²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.  ³⁰ Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.  ³¹ Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.  ³² The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran. Genesis 12:1 - 20 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.  ² And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.  ³ I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”  ⁴ So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.  ⁵ And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,  ⁶ Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.  ⁷ Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.  ⁸ From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.  ⁹ And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.  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. 

Joshua 24:2-3   ² And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.  ³ Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.

Luke 19:9-10   ⁹ And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house [Zaccheus the Lying Tax Collector], since he also is a son of Abraham.  ¹⁰ For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Romans 4:2-3  ² For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.  ³ For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”

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Gen 6-9-Noah-We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

Tough truth of this fallen world and our wicked hearts and a picture of God who saves his people from judgment through an even bigger boat than Noah’s ark.

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