Genesis Chapter 12:4-20

By faith, Abram understood and obeyed God’s call to leave his homeland and go to a land that was promised to him (Gen. 12:4-6; cf. Acts 7:2-4). By faith, Abram received the promise that his “descendants” would inherit the Promised Land, and he openly worshiped God. Once in the land of Canaan, God tested Abram’s faith with a famine, and Abram failed by looking to Egypt rather than God (Gen. 12:10-20; cf. Isa. 31:1). Abram was driven by fear of being physically hurt rather than by faith in God’s promises. In his failure to live by faith in God, Abram practiced deception which resulted in the wrongful accumulation of wealth (which later caused him problems), and judgment on the house of Pharaoh (Gen. 12:11-20).