Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption,

and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish

and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Hey, hey, welcome back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. Today we are talking about

Genesis 13 through 15. I'm your host for the Book of Genesis, Joanna Kimbrill. After God

rescues Sarah from the results of Abram's self-reliance and deception, Abram and Sarah

leave Egypt and go back to the land where God originally brought Abram. Now, Abram's

brother Lot was with them too, and between them and all of their possessions, there wasn't

enough room for the two of them. It got so bad that Abram's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen

were fighting over space, and so they decided it was time to part ways. Now, Abram gave

Lot the choice of land, and Lot chose the Jordan Valley. It was lush and fertile, and

seemed very promising from a worldly perspective, but it was not part of the land of blessing

and promise that God promised to Abram. See, Lot was more concerned with worldly success

than with God's everlasting blessings, and later he would reap the results of that decision.

Lot repeated his promise to Abram to give him the land of Canaan, and told him that he

would give him so many offspring that counting them would be like trying to count specs

of dust on the earth. Now, chapter 14 shows the results of Lot's unwise choice. Lot

finds himself in the midst of a huge battle, and he gets carried off along with all of

his possessions by this very powerful enemy. The worldly security he sought was gone in

an instant, but Abram heard that Lot was captured, and in great grace he brought his men

to rescue Lot. Abram points us forward to the true warrior king, Jesus Christ, who comes

to rescue us from the results of our own sin. After Abram's victory, two kings came to

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