From Watergate, all the way to Monica Lewinsky scandal, from all the other public scandals by public officials.

You remember how is not the lying, but it's the cover-up of that lying that got them into deeper trouble.

While the Bible exhorts us again and again and again that the confession of sin brings about God's healing and God's

forgiveness and God's restoration. The covering up of sin, the rationalizing of sin, or blaming others

for our sin always cause us deeper pain. But perhaps there is no more powerful example of this

than the life of the great patriarch, Abraham. We saw the sevenfold blessing, the sevenfold promise

that God made to Abraham in the first part of chapter 12 of the book of Genesis. We saw on the

strength of these promises, on the strength of the seven-fold blessing, Abraham left the ear of

Chaldeans with all of its dear and near to him. Then in the last message, we saw Abraham diversion to

Haran. We saw that a pilgrim is someone who leaves home, but he's going to another home.

He has an aim. He has a purpose. He has a goal to reach. But a drifter is the one who leaves

home and he doesn't know where he's going or where she's going. And nothing more heartbreaking

than watching a pilgrim becoming a spiritual drifter. It's heartbreaking. And this is not pointing a finger at the great

patriarch. Trust me. Trust me when I tell you that is not the case, in my case at least. For I know

experientially how dreadful it is, how painful it is, does temporary detours from being a pilgrim to becoming a spiritual drifter.

Now I want you to turn with me, please, to Genesis chapter 12, beginning at verse 10 to 20.

Throughout the scripture, we see that Egypt is a symbol of going away from God.

Throughout the scripture, you see that Egypt is a symbol of trusting in human ingenuity,

in trusting in human resources, in trusting in ourselves. Egypt is always synonymous with lack of faith

and living by sight and not by faith. In the book of Isaiah chapter 31, verse one, woe to those who go

down to Egypt. There's nothing to do with being geographical location. Woe to you who go down to Egypt. There's nothing to do with being geographical location.

Woe to you who go down to Egypt for help instead of looking to the Lord. And I think every one of us,

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