Lord's Day Sermon

March 23, 2014

Abraham Faces a Threat to Go..

Genesis 20:1-7 Michael Mang Series: The Life of Abraham

Sermon Details

Title
Abraham Faces a Threat to Go..
Scripture
Genesis 20:1-7
Preacher
Michael Mang
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Abraham and Abimelech

20 From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife.” Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, “Lord, will you kill an innocent people? Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.” Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her. Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”

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Cross references

Genesis 20:1 : ch. 16:7, 14 Genesis 20:1 : ch. 26:3 Genesis 20:1 : ch. 26:6 Genesis 20:2 : See ch. 12:13-20; 26:7-11 Genesis 20:3 : Ps. 105:14 Genesis 20:3 : Job 33:15, 16; Matt. 1:20; 2:12 Genesis 20:4 : ch. 18:23; [1 Chr. 21:17] Genesis 20:6 : ch. 39:9; Ps. 51:4 Genesis 20:7 : 1 Sam. 7:5; Job 42:8 Genesis 20:7 : [Num. 16:32, 33]

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