When the circumstances of life collide with our faith, we have assurance that the promises are true.

Despite 2/3 of the passage being used to describe conflicts between nations, the chapter isn’t actually about the conflicts.  The conflicts are simply the circumstances that the Lord used to put the spiritual battle that Abram experienced on display. 

Genesis 13 has a tendency to get lost in the midst of Chapters 12, 15, and 17 that play such an important theological role in redemptive history.  But the pericope is actually packed full of lessons to learn or practical wisdom and applicable truth that shouldn’t be overlooked.

When we are more like Abram than we want to be, and we fail like he failed, there is hope for us, just as there was for him.

Father Abraham has many sons, many sons has father Abraham.  I am one of them, and so are all of those who are in Christ.  So let's just praise the Lord!

This text tells us the nations should be important to us.  Though there are things that differentiate us and divide us, we are, in some respect, all family.  

This part of the Genesis narrative shows us the flood did not totally eliminate sin.  Noah and his family brought sin with them into the new or re-creation.

We have a living hope because Christ has risen and we are united to Him by faith. (This sermon was given during our outdoor Easter worship service held at Blowing Springs Park.)

While the Noahic Covenant isn’t redemptive, it does undergird God’s plan of redemption in such a way that Covenant Theology as a whole suffers without it.  And that’s because Covenant Theology is incomplete without it. 

God remembered Noah and He remembers those in Christ as well!  He is mindful of us and His mindfulness led and leads Him to act on our behalf.