Genesis chapter 13 explains that Abram left Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan and gradually moved southward. He crossed the land of Canaan from top to bottom and went down to Egypt. And Abram returns from Egypt to the land of Canaan with great riches. This is the story in the beginning of chapter 13. But there is always one person with Abram on his journeys, aside from his wife, Sarai. It is his nephew Lot. At the end of Genesis chapter 11, it says that Abram's father, Terah, died after Abram left Ur of the Chaldeans, before he entered the land of Canaan. In accordance with the verse, "Get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you" (Genesis 12:1), the complete separation between Abram and his father is revealed.When we read such stories, we might bring to mind our past selves. As the Bible says, "... that our old man was crucified with Him" (Romans 6:6), it is through the words of the Bible that we come to consider our lives, where we once had the fate of sinner that could not be saved. As you read the word and contemplated it, your problem was solved, you discovered that all your sins have already been forgiven through Jesus, and you surrendered yourself to God. You refer to the experience of your old self being nailed to the cross as "being born again." This is described in great detail in Romans chapters 4, 5, and 6, which we enjoy reading. Just as Abraham left his father's remains and went far away to the land of Canaan in accordance with God's words, there was a day when each of us as individuals left our old selves and was born again as God's sons. Even though there is a verse that says, "... our old man was crucified," the apostle Paul says in Romans chapter 7, "O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?"(verse 24). When we were first saved, we thought that we became innocent, but as time passes, we find that we are the same as before. We commit the same sins we committed before. I too have asked myself, "I am definitely saved so how is it possible that I do this?" and I have agonized over it. When you first realize the gospel, your conscience becomes sharp. You reflect upon your active and living conscience in light of the words of the Bible, but as time passes, it becomes dull. Meanwhile, you come to see that your flesh is still alive and squirming in your heart.In the same way, Abram, who had submitted to God's words and was separated from his father Terah, had his nephew Lot that always followed him. Lot represents our flesh. Even though we have been born again through the words of the Bible, we still have thoughts of the flesh, which we inherited from Adam. This is represented through the person called Lot. Lot was captured in a war, and he was saved by the hand of an angel at the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Through Lot, we are able to see plainly an image of ourselves living in the world in the corruptible flesh. When Lot was with Abram, Abram said to Lot that the land was too small for the two of them to inhabit together.