• Sunday Gathering – Genesis – The Danger of Underestimating – Jonny Greaves

  • Jun 2 2024
  • Duración: 27 m
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  • Summary of Sermon: The Danger of Underestimating This sermon explores Genesis chapter 20, a story where Abraham repeats a mistake from his past. The key takeaways are: Abraham's character: Despite being portrayed as a man of faith, Abraham acts out of fear, lying about Sarah being his sister to protect himself. God's character: Even though Abraham makes mistakes, God remains committed to his promises. God protects Abimelech, the king who unknowingly takes Sarah, from further sinning. God's faithfulness: The story emphasizes God's unwavering commitment to the covenant he made with Abraham, ensuring his offspring will bring blessings. Here's a breakdown of the sermon: Introduction: The sermon starts with an anecdote about accidentally popping confetti balloons and highlights the theme of underestimating situations. Scripture reading: Genesis chapter 20 is read, detailing how Abraham pretends Sarah is his sister, leading to her being taken by Abimelech. Connection to previous chapters: The story is linked to a similar incident in Genesis chapter 12, where Abraham makes the same claim about Sarah. Abraham's behavior: We delve into Abraham's motivations, driven by fear for his safety in a foreign land. God's intervention: God protects Abimelech from sinning further and reveals his commitment to the covenant with Abraham. Abimelech returns Sarah and is blessed. Difficulties in understanding God: The sermon acknowledges the challenges in reconciling God's actions with our expectations. God's unwavering promises: Despite Abraham's mistakes, God's commitment to his promises is the core message. This is reinforced by referencing Romans 4:18, which describes Abraham as the "father of many nations" due to his faith. Conclusion: The sermon emphasizes the importance of reading the Bible critically, even when it challenges our understanding of God. It highlights God's enduring love and commitment to his promises, even amidst human flaws. Biblical references: * Genesis 12:10-20 * Genesis 15 * Genesis 16 * Genesis 17 * Genesis 19:9 * Genesis 20 * Romans 4:18-23 Transcript Mm-hmm. Can you all hear me okay? Hello? Yes, it's great. Good morning, everyone. Over in 146 as well. Great to have you with us too. Um, has anyone here ever made the same mistake twice? You don't have to raise your hand. So just this week I was helping doing some tidy up. And there was a bit of a party going on around here this week. And there were some balloons that needed tidying away. I ended up helping out. There were some a whole big pile of balloons that were starting to look a little bit sad and sorry for themselves. And I was on the tidy up task and the easiest way to tidy up a whole big like bin bag full of balloons. Just get a pair of scissors and pop, pop, pop away. And I was happily popping away going, this is going to be such a quick and easy job. This is so easy. Unbeknownst to me, two of the balloons had confetti inside. And I realized when pop, pop, pop, one of them created a beautiful circle of little golden disks that all just appeared around me. And I thought, this job's not quite as easy as I thought it might be. And it was also around this time. I noticed there was a second one. And I thought to myself, when I pop the second one, I'm going to be really careful this time. Really careful, because this is just too much work, isn't it? This is such a lot of effort. I'm going to be sweeping all these up for the next five minutes. So when I pop the second one, I'm going to be really gentle, like really gentle. I'm going to make the tiniest, tiniest hole right near the top so that pop, it went. It just exploded. There was a second giant confetti circle around me. As I was thinking to myself, this is going to go way better than last time. I had even more sweeping up to do. And I had five minutes of sweeping up little golden circles bits, thinking to myself, there's a sermon in Alginess. Always, there always is. I think I'm not alone in saying that I've made more than one mistake. And I'm also not alone in making the same mistake more than one time. We're working our way through Genesis. And I'm going to read Genesis chapter 20. And when you read it, you'll probably think, haven't we read something like this before? And the answer is yes. So we will talk about that. But we're going to be reading from Genesis chapter 20. I'm just going to read through the whole thing. And then we're going to get stuck into it. Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the negative and lived near Kadesh and Shur, for a while he stayed in Garah. And then Abraham, said of his wife, Sarah, she is my sister. Then Abimalak, King of Garah, sent for Sarah and took her. But God came to Abimalak in the dream one night and said to him, you are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, she is a married woman. Now Abimalak had not gone near her. So he said, Lord, how will you destroy an innocent nation? Sorry, Lord, will you destroy an innocent ...
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