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Did it while it was a beautiful day.

I didn't say too much sun today at my house but it did Shine a timer 20.

Alright well we're glad that you are here tonight.

And remember last week we finished up the financial system of the church.

So what are we going to do tonight?

You say, well we move to another system.

Well, I would but I'm not ready to move to another one yet.

So what I'm going to do tonight is I'm going to preach the sermon that comes out of Genesis, and you can go ahead and turn the chapter 13 if you like and I think I do have the title of the sermon.

And there it is, givers and takers.

You know, we been talkin about financial stewardship And so tonight, I'm going to preach a sermon entitled givers and takers.

You know, when you look at this world and the people in the world, you can basically boil it down to two types of people, givers and takers.

That in the Bible say, is more blessed to do what to give than to receive.

And we're blessed in the in the Greek can actually mean happy or joyful.

And the Bible teaches that we find true Joy.

When we learn what it means to give.

So we can divide people up into two group, some people just seem to give their time in their treasure and their money, just wherever they are, and whatever they do.

They are givers and then you have others who are looking for something more.

They're waiting for someone to give them something and they just want to take, take take take, but they don't want to give when you in the reason I like this.

This subject in the Bible is because the Bible gives us contrast of givers and takers.

Now, just think about this for a second and a nice instafire They were takers.

Barnabas was a giver.

Mary was a giver.

And Judas was what he was a taker.

And look how each of those who were takers, how their lives ended.

And so tonight, what I want to do, if I want to contrast to other people in the Bible, Who were givers and takers and that is Abraham and locked remember lot, okay?

You probably remember the story a lot.

If, if not, we will, we will go over it a little bit here.

But if you remember a lot was Abraham's, nephew and when God called Abraham to leave earlier of the Kaldi's.

Well, he took his nephew with him.

And so lot went with Abraham and Abraham was very wealthy, and he was very rich and he had herds and he had flocks.

And he had men servants and maidservants and a lot of wealth.

But when faced with the decision of giving or taking Abraham, was always a giver and lot was always a taker, And we going to see this in this story tonight and this contrasts between lot and Abraham is kind of a clear picture of the difference between a giver and a taker and how God blesses one and does not the other.

So, givers and takers.

Genesis 13 to 19 will probably mostly be in 19, but we're going to start here in 13th.

So let me give you the first point tonight.

And we're going to look at lot first and the reason lot was a taker.

Number one is because he became interested.

In going in the wrong direction.

Now let's look at it in Genesis 13.

And so, let's start out in verse 1. April went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that.

He had a lot with him to the South.

It says Abraham was very rich in livestock and silver and gold and he went on his journey from the south as far as Bethel to the place where he can't have been at the beginning tween Bethel.

And AI to the place of the altar which he had made their at first and their Abraham called on the name of the Lord.

Now look what it says here in verse 5, lot also who went with a bomb had flocks and herds intense.

What how did he get those?

Well, they were Abraham's Abraham's and Abraham had given those to lock.

Now, look what it says in 6.

Now the land was not able to support them that they might dwell together for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together.

So, here we had Abraham and lot and a half.

So many flocks and herds and all, they didn't know.

There was not enough grass, not enough water, whoever they went.

So they had to disperse.

And look what it says in verse 7 in there is Strife between the husband of Abraham's, livestock, and herdsmen of locks livestock's in Denver state.

So Abraham said the lot please, let there be no Strife between you and me and between my husband and your husband for we are brethren.

Is not the whole land before you please separate from me.

And I watch what he says.

If you take the left, then I will go to the right or if you go to the right then I will go to the left was Abraham doing, he's giving lot W his choice.

Abraham was a giver Abraham said, well, he'll only reason you're wealthy is because of me.

So I'm going to take what I want and like you can have whatever.

I don't think that's not what he did.

He said lot.

He said there's no sense and these herdsmen arguing and it's not going to cause a strike between me and you.

So I tell you what you do, you take what you want and I'll take what's left.

Now look at verse 10 and lot lifted.

His eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan that it was well water everywhere.

Before the Lord destroyed, Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt.

As you go toward Zoar, then lot chose for himself.

All the plain of Jordan and lot Journey East in, they separated from each other Abraham, dwelt in the land of Canaan and lot, dwell in the cities on the plane, and pitched his tent, even as far as Sodom, But the men of Sodom were exceedingly, Wicked and sinful against the Lord.

So, light was given a choice.

He could stay close to Abraham, or he could kind of set out on his own.

He looked around.

He noticed the plains of Joy.

Wow, look at all that luscious grass.

Look at the water, just look at everything.

This is what I'm going to take.

I'm going to take the best for myself and so he forgot about Abraham's generosity, and he chose the land for himself in the Bible says that he decided to pitch his tent close.

To the city of Sodom.

Never heard about the city of Sodom, Sodom and Gomorrah.

We all know how that ended.

Well, the city of Solomon or Sodom had long been used to kind of symbolize evil and sexual immorality.

Matter fact, we get our word sodomy from this name of this city bottom and Genesis 13.

We read says that the men were exceedingly, Wicked and sinful against the Lord.

Now 2nd Peter verse chapter 2, verse 7 and 8.

This is what it says about Sodom.

It speaks of the filthy conduct of the wicked.

And in Jude chapter 7 says it's Solomon was such an evil city that was set forth as an example, suffering and Vengeance of Eternal fire.

That's what Jude says.

It was a vile place.

But who wanted to go and make his home there lot, he pitched his tent right outside the city of Sodom.

Well, you see what happened is.

A lot had been given all these wonderful opportunities he was wealthy, but he became enamored with Sodom and he settled into a life of wickedness and this was his first step in his downfall.

This is what I see from this story.

When you become comfortable with seeing that is often the first step in a downhill.

Slide away from God when you're comfortable with sin when it doesn't bother you anymore, not how much someone else is saying about your own sin, when it doesn't bother you anymore and sometimes we'll walk with God.

But then we'll notice something.

Looks good.

It sounds like fun, it entices us and pretty soon.

We've taken off our eyes off the Eternal things and we have become enamored with the things of this world.

And that's exactly what happened to lock.