Sermon
Faith in the Famine
Center Church
Speaker: Josh Miller
September 14, 2022 · 30 min
Summary
Abraham's flight to Egypt during famine reveals three warnings for believers facing hardship: don't abandon your calling for comfort, don't live by fear, and remember God remains sovereign. Though Abraham failed grievously through deception and self-preservation, God's grace restored him—prefiguring Christ's redemptive work.
Highlights
When you became a Christian, you traded in comfort and personal autonomy and ease for meaning and purpose and glory and advancement.
Fear is a false prophet. It claims to know the future, but it doesn't.
No matter how good your circumstances are, you're never really in control. And no matter how bad your circumstances are, God is never out of control.