1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,480 God, thank God, thank God, Hallelujah, thank you. 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:08,000 We love you Jesus, we love you. Jesus. 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,720 You may be seated tonight. Got just a few announcements 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,600 here this evening. A man resurrection Sunday this 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,360 coming Sunday man be in the House of Lord. 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,360 Only one service in the AMA man invite somebody to join you, to 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,160 sit with you. Amen on the Pew here on Sunday 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,840 morning family member, friend, stranger, it matters not Amen. 9 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:33,000 Invite them to come and be beside you on Sunday. 10 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,120 Also this week during this week is ministry appreciation for 11 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:39,440 Alex and Grace and baby Piper Amen. 12 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,720 And so let's be mindful of that. The event there is on Facebook 13 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,760 if you have any questions, you can see, well, Jen Cruz isn't 14 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,600 here tonight, but UNC Ree Singer, he is here, Amen. 15 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,680 And so you can talk to them if you have any questions 16 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:56,040 concerning that. So just be mindful of that. 17 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:01,400 And also, again, unless something changes, which it can, 18 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,400 it may. Don't forget, camp registration 19 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:09,000 is on the horizon as well to register for Indiana camp, 20 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,920 because you don't want to be late for that. 21 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:13,720 All right? Amen. 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,680 We're going to be turning to the book of Genesis tonight. 23 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:25,640 Book of Genesis. And we are in chapter #14 And 24 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,240 I'm probably you can stand. I'm going to read just a few 25 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,880 verses of Scripture and I'm going to allow you to be seated, 26 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:39,080 as is the case sometimes, and continue reading from where I 27 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:44,280 left off here this evening. It's Genesis chapter #14 and 28 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:48,640 we're going to try our our pronunciation. 29 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,000 All right, so we got kings and we got places and we got people. 30 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,600 It's not a genealogy, but nonetheless. 31 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:01,720 All right verse number one that came to pass in the days of Am 32 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:11,160 Rafael king of Shinar Arrok king of El Azar Cheddar la Omer king 33 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:17,280 of Elam entitled King of nations that these made war with mere 34 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:23,680 king of Sodom, the Versa king of Gomorrah, Shanab king of Adma 35 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:31,320 and Shim Ember King Zeboin the king of Bella which is Zor. 36 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:37,240 All these were joined together in the veil of Sedan, which is 37 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,200 the salt sea and we'll be able to pronounce some more of those 38 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,080 names here in just a moment after we pray and you're seated. 39 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:49,200 God, I thank you tonight, God, for the Lord, the ability to God 40 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,720 have mobility to come health of body to be here. 41 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:55,080 I pray God that you would touch us afresh. 42 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:59,160 The Lord our minds, our hearts. Let your word be open to us. 43 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:03,640 Help us to find a place, God, a place, Lord of invitation. 44 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:06,440 God of what you would have God into our lives. 45 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,880 Cleanse us, O Lord, wash us anew, make us whole. 46 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,520 God, you have to bring the Lord, enlightenment, revelation, God 47 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,160 direction. Lord, I pray, Lord, a word of 48 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,880 help from this eternal word, the lovely name of Jesus Christ, and 49 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,480 I pray. I love and thank you for it in 50 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:28,640 Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated as I continue 51 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:33,240 with verse #4. All right, and we'll trade off 52 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,920 and let each one read as we go. No, I'm joking as we go alone. 53 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:41,920 Amen. 12 years they served Chederla Omur. 54 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:46,960 In the 13th year they rebelled, and in the 14th year came 55 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:52,040 Chederla Omur, the kings that were with him and smote the 56 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:59,160 Rethaeums in Ashtaroth, Karnain and the Zuzheens in Ham, and the 57 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:06,560 Emems in Shiva in Karathem, and the Horites in their mounts here 58 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,640 unto El Paran, which is by the wilderness. 59 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:16,839 And they returned and came to in Mishpat, which is Kadish, and 60 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,760 smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the 61 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:25,560 Amorites that dwelt and has Zazon Tamar. 62 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,080 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, 63 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:35,000 and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboem, and the king of 64 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,280 Bella. The same is Zoar. 65 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:42,680 And they join battle with them in the valley of Acidum with 66 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:49,040 Chedorla Umar, the king of Elam and with title king of Nations 67 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:55,880 and am Rafael, king of Shinar and Arroch, king of El Azar. 4 68 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:59,760 kings with five. I gotta pause, all right. 69 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,280 And the veil Acidim was full of slime pits. 70 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:05,360 Slime pit. Why couldn't there be more words 71 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,960 in here like slime pits? I could say slime pits. 72 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,720 I know what that is. I can that rose off the tongue 73 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:16,960 easy Slime pits and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell 74 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:21,160 there and they that remain fled to the mountain and they took 75 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,680 all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their vittles. 76 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,200 Again, if you look that word up, I've looked it up before. 77 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,120 I used to call it victuals, but it's vittles. 78 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,960 That's how it's pronounced. It's in the dictionary and went 79 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:36,040 their way, you know, because listen, I had to look up a lot 80 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:37,400 of stuff to know how to pronounce. 81 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,280 I'm here to tell you right now, we, I'm say Genesis all day 82 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:41,520 long. That's where we're at in the 83 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,560 book of Genesis. Amen. 84 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,560 So that's our introduction to this. 85 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,880 So this, to say the least, this chapter has been challenging. 86 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:51,760 It's just not been pronunciation either. 87 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,720 All right, This chapter has been challenging for me personally. 88 00:05:56,280 --> 00:05:58,920 All right, again, it's not a genealogy. 89 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,320 It is, it's it's a narrative, it's a story. 90 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,200 So we're like, man, we're all about that, right? 91 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,760 When you come to something in scripture, that's a story. 92 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,480 And I might be able to listen to that relate to that. 93 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:13,360 You know, I can read that, you know, a story, but it's not just 94 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:17,040 like any story, right? It's it's like you got all it's 95 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:21,080 like some ancient war chronicle that's going on here in the 96 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,440 scripture. You know, sometimes about 97 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,440 everybody likes their little devotional books that, you know, 98 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,920 brings a little thought out and you know, this isn't this is not 99 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,240 like a daily devotional. All right, you would probably 100 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,040 already gave him said, let's go to John 10 and read Jesus web 101 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,560 and be done with it. All right, so this is not like 102 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,080 some little devotional passage where it's like left and right. 103 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,120 We're extracting all kinds of application out of this 104 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,520 particular chapter. For one, again, look at all the 105 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:56,080 names that we are littered with, of King's names and and place 106 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,560 names and people's names throughout here. 107 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,200 But so this is almost like a war chronicle. 108 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,840 I mean, we have, we have kings that are marching. 109 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,920 We have alliances that that are forming that are being made 110 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,960 among kings and among places. There's battles that's raging 111 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,120 here. There's spoils that's going to 112 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:19,800 be taken from from those who who lose and the victors are going 113 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,840 to be taking those home. But behind all of this conflict 114 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:27,240 that we see in the first few verses of this chapter, there's 115 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:31,560 also, I believe a, a, a spiritual revelation to this 116 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,720 chapter as well. And it really comes down to this 117 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,640 or what I believe the overarching thing of this 118 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:43,200 chapter being put after Genesis 13, before Genesis 15. 119 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,440 The overarching picture is it's going to come down to really 120 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,440 just two kingdoms. It's going to come down to just 121 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,120 two kingdoms really in this chapter. 122 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,640 And there's going to be 1 decisive choice that Abraham's 123 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,760 going to make that every individual that lives on the 124 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,520 earth has to make. All right. 125 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,960 And so this chapter, I know we read it, but it it's more on the 126 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:08,880 surface. It's not just about war, but 127 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:13,880 it's also about worship. It's not about just captives and 128 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:17,720 those being taken captive. It's also about character, all 129 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,360 right, And it's not just as we'll see you here in a little 130 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,760 bit even about this further degradation or failure or fall 131 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,520 of lot. It's also again highlighting, 132 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,520 even as we looked at some last week, the faith of Abraham. 133 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:38,159 Remember, Abraham has such a, a stamp of faith on his life that 134 00:08:38,159 --> 00:08:41,080 it's whenever you get to the New Testament Scripture, it talks to 135 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:45,600 us, it talks to the New Testament how we should walk in 136 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:52,040 the steps of his faith. So he has such that stamp of 137 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,840 faith upon him that he's used as an example for New Testament 138 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,040 believers that that's the type of faith you should pattern or 139 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:04,160 emulate your life after. And so the first 12 verses here, 140 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,080 oh, how exciting they are. Amen. 141 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:10,600 The 12 verses of this chapter, there's a lot of, there's a lot 142 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,560 of political instability that's going right on here within the 143 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:19,920 region of, of Israel and, and really within the region of the 144 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:25,040 plains of Jordan, which is where Lot had settled, which is where 145 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:30,200 Sodom and Gomorrah are. And so there's these four very 146 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:36,560 powerful Eastern kings, we might call them led by one by the name 147 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:39,920 of Cheddar La Omar. I mean, how many times you want 148 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,400 to say that, right? I mean, he had problem in 149 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,800 kindergarten writing his name. There's so many syllables in 150 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,480 that. He's, he's, they've been 151 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:49,680 dominating him. And these other 3 kings have 152 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:53,320 been dominating some other kings and regions. 153 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:56,000 The Bible tells us they've been doing this for 12 years. 154 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,560 They've been dominating. But in the 13th year, the 155 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:03,760 Scripture says that there's these 5 kings of the Jordan 156 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,160 Valley or the plains of Jordan, Sodom, Gomorrah, and some other 157 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:11,480 cities that are named and kings that are named, that on the 13th 158 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,000 year, they decided, you know what, enough is enough. 159 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,840 We're tired of being under the thumb of this king and these 160 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,280 others. And so we're going to rebel, 161 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:22,600 including the king of Sodom. We're going to rebel. 162 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,120 And as a result of that, guess what happened? 163 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:28,400 War, right? War then ensues. 164 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:33,280 And so the world of this generation of this time, at this 165 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,680 moment, they're really operating off of fear. 166 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:39,720 They're really operating off control because they've been 167 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,880 able to control a lot of other regions, cities and kings 168 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,480 through their power for 12 years, as it would typically be 169 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:52,640 for 12 years. King Chedorla Omar and those 170 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:56,280 that are with him have kept these other kings under a thumb 171 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:00,720 of oppression basically by making them prepay tribute, 172 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,040 right. They they give them some type of 173 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:08,720 tribute, whether it be through so much of their crops or money 174 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,600 or silver and gold or other things. 175 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,680 They pay tribute to these other kings for the sole reason, and 176 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:19,080 this is common even in just old history, they're going to pay 177 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,600 tribute for the purpose of receiving protection, right? 178 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,320 If anybody else would come to fight against them, it's like, 179 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:28,560 you know, we've already paid. We've already paid the hit men 180 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:30,000 off. We paid them, you know, every 181 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,080 month. So we have them on our side. 182 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:35,200 They can come and help fight along alongside of us. 183 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,480 So what they were paying this tribute for, it wasn't 184 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,720 necessarily they just had some type of voluntary generosity. 185 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:43,840 Oh, we just like you so much, we're going to pay you money. 186 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:49,040 No, they, they are, it's a coercion, a force, a force for 187 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:51,320 survival that they are doing with paying their tribute. 188 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,680 It's the way that they survive. It's the way that they have 189 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:56,800 protection. And so in many regards, it's 190 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,000 it's how the world still works today. 191 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,840 I mean, let's get on us. Someone's always wanting to give 192 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,480 some, some other country, some other place, something, the 193 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:09,760 value for the purpose of maintaining peace. 194 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:15,640 There's always this exchange. What's the bargaining chip, 195 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,360 right, For protection or for peace? 196 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:21,040 I mean, whenever you even look at some of the Conchords and you 197 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,520 look at the United Nations would be a great one, right? 198 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,640 You, you mess with one, you've messed with them. 199 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:27,960 All right? They kind of, that's just the 200 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,680 way it is. And so that they're just 201 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:33,480 maintaining peace by whatever they can give. 202 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,120 Here's the fact of the matter though, that we'll see in our 203 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,080 story. They're doing this even if it 204 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:41,240 means compromise on their part. But the Bible says that in the 205 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:46,360 14th year, Cheddar La Omer and the other kings that are in 206 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:50,360 alliance with him, they make their their way down to this 207 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,440 region of the five kings down here in the plains of Jordan. 208 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,880 They're making their way down there, right, because they have 209 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,920 rebelled against them and they're no longer pay pay paying 210 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:01,640 their tribute. So they make their way down 211 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:03,400 there. And on their way to that 212 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,280 location, you know, they pick fights with a few other 213 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,600 individuals. And the Bible describes to us 214 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,800 some of the other list of peoples that they have fights 215 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,440 with along the way and they conquer. 216 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:17,200 The Bible says that they come against some of the Refines and 217 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,080 the Zuzin and the memes and the Horites. 218 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,240 And those names may not mean much to you, but if you were to 219 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:25,960 start to trace some of these names and there are other 220 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:29,640 variations, we come to find out the the refaems and the Zuzins 221 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:33,360 and the memes, all of these are those are giant like people, 222 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:34,840 right? Giant like people. 223 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,560 And again, giant like people wasn't just the fact that they 224 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:41,240 were tall, but that they were bullies and tyrants and all this 225 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,080 others type of stuff. So each one of them that they're 226 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:46,240 going along, as they're travelling down to where they 227 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:49,280 want to get to men, they're plucking and off that stronghold 228 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,320 and they're doing away with these giants and they're 229 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:54,720 conquering those idolaters and that Pagan tribe. 230 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,040 They're stomping on and just snuffing out. 231 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,520 And so in the wake of their March to where they want to be, 232 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,640 they're leaving, they're leaving a body count behind them. 233 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,560 They're they're conquering the Amalekites, they're conquering 234 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:09,400 the Amorites. And so as they approach this 235 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:15,200 region of 5 kings, they have left a trail of victory, trail 236 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,160 victory behind it. So you got to start to think 237 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,240 about being one of of the five kings in the area of the plains 238 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,200 of Jordan. Whenever they see these men 239 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,800 approach, they got to look behind them and see everything 240 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:27,960 that they just conquered. Just getting to where they're 241 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,920 at. So you understand that the, the, 242 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:34,960 you know what, the sense of fear, what could come up on BMC 243 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:38,760 and just the record of what they accomplished just to get where 244 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:40,800 they are. And so the Bible says then that 245 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:45,160 these five local kings in the Jordan plane rise up and among 246 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,240 them are Sodom. Among them is Gomorrah. 247 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:51,760 And so they rise up to fight against these others that have 248 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,120 come down that they used to pay tribute to. 249 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:59,000 And lo and behold, we're not really surprised they lose. 250 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,120 Yeah, they lose. They have this long trail. 251 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,880 I know they have this long trail victory that has followed them. 252 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,360 And they're victorious now even once again. 253 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,640 But in this, in this victory that they have over the five 254 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,840 kings of the Jordan plains, Sodom and Gomorrah in these 255 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,200 different cities and peoples and goods are taken away. 256 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:24,400 And we then remember, oh, Lot pitched his tent towards Sodom. 257 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:30,000 And Lot, according to Scripture, is also swept up and taken 258 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,440 captive in this victory. He's taken, Sodom's taken. 259 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,400 The possessions of Sodom are taken. 260 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,160 The Bible specifically says that the possessions of Lot are 261 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:42,520 taken. And so here's the fact of the 262 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:44,320 matter, though. When we read this in Scripture, 263 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:50,240 as we get a little further into this, that Lot was taken in this 264 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:56,400 capture because he was living in Sodom at the time that it was 265 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,640 captured. Now, why is that important? 266 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:03,520 Because the last time we saw a lot, he had just pitched his 267 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:07,000 tent towards Sodom. But now the Bible's going to 268 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:13,200 tell us that he dewelt in Sodom. He's captured from Sodom because 269 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,800 he had become a dweller of Sodom. 270 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:21,480 So if you don't want to be taken in Sodom's capture, don't be 271 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:30,320 swallowed up with Sodom's ways. Hey, man, I, I, I don't know if 272 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,360 the story would have been different had he never become a 273 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:36,640 dweller of Sodom. This whole battle, this whole 274 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,560 capture thing could have taken place and he would have been 275 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,480 able to slip out, perhaps by the skin of his teeth, so to speak. 276 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,160 But that doesn't happen now because he's made full on 277 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:49,360 association, full on association with Sodom. 278 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:54,200 And when you associate with Sodom, you get Sodoms, huh? 279 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:56,880 You get the vengeance that comes to Sodom. 280 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:00,360 Amen. And so notice the transition 281 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,160 then that again, that's happened a lot of life. 282 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:06,880 Just in the last chapter in verse #12 of Genesis 13, he 283 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:12,240 pitched his tent toward Sodom. Now he dwells in Sodom. 284 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:17,319 Remember, whenever he looked toward the plains of Jordan, he 285 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:20,920 says that there looks like the garden of the Lord and the land 286 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:22,280 of Egypt. You remember that? 287 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:24,640 That's what he thought. That looks good. 288 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:28,160 Remember that looks like, that looks like striking a good 289 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:30,480 compromise. That looks like all the 290 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,760 materialism and everything that Egypt had that that also looks 291 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,400 like the garden of the Lord. That looks like where I want to 292 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,160 live, where I can live in both worlds. 293 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:43,200 That looks good. And he ends up not just pitching 294 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,240 his tent, but also the welling there. 295 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:49,440 And that which looked like an opportunity he finds out really 296 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:54,960 comes to be his oppression. And that is always, if we can 297 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,960 just take that and make a little parallel for sin right now, 298 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,400 let's just state emphatically that that's always the way of 299 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:05,240 sin. It looks opportune, but it ends 300 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:11,160 up being oppressive. Starts as a glance. 301 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:20,880 It ends as your residence. What began as a compromise for 302 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,480 Lot ended up being his captivity. 303 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:29,040 Now let's go on verse #13 I don't know why I put my glasses 304 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:30,680 up. We got some reading to do. 305 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,040 Never did even finish. Verse #12 I don't believe. 306 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,680 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in 307 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:46,120 Sodom, his goods, and departed. Verse 13. 308 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,200 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the 309 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:55,120 Hebrew, for he dwelt in the plain of Mamrie the Amorite, 310 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:59,040 brother Eschol, and brother of Ener. 311 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:02,240 And these were confederate with Abram. 312 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,200 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he 313 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:12,560 armed his trained servants born in his own house, 318 and 314 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:17,080 pursued them unto Dan. And he divided himself against 315 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,400 them, he and his servants by night, and smote them, and 316 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:26,480 pursued them unto Hoba, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 317 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:30,880 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again 318 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:36,840 his brother Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the 319 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,000 people. So when we read verse #12 how 320 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:45,720 they took Lot and all his goods, our minds are left lingering on 321 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:51,800 Lot and his predicament and what he had done, what he has chose 322 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:56,320 thus far in this story. But when we get to verse #13 our 323 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,960 attention is turned from Lot now to Abram. 324 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,280 All right. Not just Abram. 325 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:08,680 But there is a contrast here now between the captured Sodom and 326 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:13,720 the plain of memory that Abram had chose that isn't captured, 327 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:19,640 that isn't decimated, that he went and resorted to after Law 328 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:25,040 had his first choice of what he desired, and what he wanted for 329 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:28,160 that matter. It reverts in contrast, the 330 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:33,920 plain of memory again, this place that Abram also built 331 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,200 another altar. Because again, if we back up 332 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,600 again, when we look at what's captured, what wasn't, we're 333 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:44,280 looking at a man who went to a place alterless and a man that 334 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,360 went to a place and constructed an altar. 335 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:52,320 Right now they are in totally different flip flop sides of the 336 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,920 coin. But no, this is the first 337 00:20:54,920 --> 00:21:02,960 mention of Abram as Abram, the Hebrew, Abram the Hebrew. 338 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,200 And I know a lot of times we talk about the Scripture, we 339 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,000 talk about the Israelites. Sometimes we call them Hebrews, 340 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,320 the Hebrews. And when we do, we're really 341 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,960 talking to them about like a nation, right? 342 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:18,480 The Hebrews, the nation of Israelites, the Hebrews. 343 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:22,640 But we can't be talking about a nation right here because the 344 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,640 only one man here right now, he's had no children. 345 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,280 There's been no many descendants, all right. 346 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:33,000 They did not exist at the time, but it was used for just a 347 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:38,120 solitary person, Abram, the Hebrew, much like today, that 348 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:41,720 you would use another word for somebody almost as a nickname. 349 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,640 You know, there's no big ears over there. 350 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,760 You know, whatever characteristic it is that puts a 351 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,760 thumbprint on someone's life and they have a nickname. 352 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,920 You know, my dad has nicknames for all of us kids. 353 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:04,400 You know, it's Erde or Jean. It's Poo, Robert Eckerdon, Fuzzy 354 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:13,360 Susu nickname, The Septuagint, which is a Greek translation of 355 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:16,320 the Old Testament, which goes back hundreds of years. 356 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,360 Even before some of the things that we have that our Bibles are 357 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:24,680 translated from translates the Hebrew, that word as the man 358 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:31,640 from the other side, the man from the other side because 359 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:37,720 Abram is different. Abram is separated. 360 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:43,120 Abram has set himself apart. He doesn't belong to the old 361 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:49,080 Sodom and Gomorrah world system as the Lot had, not Sodom, not 362 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,240 as a Lot has chosen. Remember Abram, Yes, he had his 363 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,600 roots in adultery. His father did, he did, his 364 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,000 family did. But remember, he separated 365 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,520 himself from Earth. He separated himself from his 366 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,480 household. He separated himself from his 367 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,840 family, both place and people. We're talking about someone that 368 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:12,280 is a man from the other side and someone came to Abram and they 369 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,440 informed him they wanted him to know what happened to Sodom and 370 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,280 Gomorrah, predominantly what happened to Lot, his nephew. 371 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,080 And Abram. He has the confederacy of of 372 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,440 cities too, that he's kind of got in good graces with and they 373 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,920 form a confederacy together that he lives around. 374 00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:34,480 And upon hearing the news of his nephew Lot, the Bible says that 375 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,560 Abram, and I think this is important. 376 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:41,520 Abram armed his trained servants. 377 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:49,640 The Bible says there were 318 trained men that was born in his 378 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,320 own house. They were trained servants. 379 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,120 But at this moment in time of hearing what happened, Abram 380 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:01,280 arms his trained. Let me say like this, Abram 381 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:07,240 weaponized his trained servants. Let me tell you sometimes what 382 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,720 we get wrong. Today we weaponize untrained 383 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:21,080 ones. We, we put things in people's 384 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:25,280 hands that they don't even know how to function with what's been 385 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:29,160 given to them. And sometimes we cut the legs 386 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,600 off of them and like, shame on you. 387 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:35,240 No, it's shame on us. They never been trained. 388 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:44,120 But Abram put he armed his trained his trained servants. 389 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,880 Amen. He note, though, this is 390 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,640 important. It's not that he heard the news 391 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:54,480 and then he trained them. It's not that he heard of this 392 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,640 great calamity says all right, boys, let's go in training for 393 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,920 the next six weeks and then we'll I tell out here, we'll do 394 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,760 something about this. No, that wasn't the mindset of 395 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,680 Abram. He wasn't scrambling to prepare 396 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,920 for the battle. He already had men that were 397 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,200 trained. They just need to be armed. 398 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,280 All right. He didn't allow his opponents to 399 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:15,480 to to have all of this victory that had came and followed them 400 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:21,080 to intimidate him or intimidate the success of his trained men. 401 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:25,840 No, Abram had a forethought. He he might just be sitting in 402 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:26,960 the city. He said, you know what? 403 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:28,880 We seem to have this confederacy. 404 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,360 Everything seems to be well, everything things fine. 405 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,040 But you know what, he understood he didn't live in the perfect 406 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,960 world that although there may be no battle today, there could be 407 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,480 a battle tomorrow. And so I'm not going to wait 408 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,800 until the battle comes to us to get ready. 409 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,080 I'm going to ready men now pre adventure when there is a 410 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,040 battle, which there will be if you live this life, when there 411 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,240 is a battle in the future, we're not trying to figure it out. 412 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:57,520 We got it figured out. All we got to do is arm the 413 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,760 people that are trying. Well, let me tell you something. 414 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,480 The days that we are living in, this thing's not getting better. 415 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,840 It's getting worse. And it shall be. 416 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,120 You know where we need to be in preparation mode now. 417 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,680 Don't wait for the battle to come to you. 418 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,720 Prepare for the battle now. Be prepared now so that when the 419 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,960 hour comes, all we got to do is put the Armory into your hands 420 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:22,960 of trained men. Trained women. 421 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,200 Don't don't, don't start. Well, you know, it's getting 422 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:26,640 real bad. I'm start going to put some of 423 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,240 this word in my heart, my mind. I'm going to start reading my 424 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,320 Bible now. I'm going to start understanding 425 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:32,400 what's going on. No, no, no. 426 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,840 Don't you wait until we're on the verge of a peace treaty that 427 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,040 will reveal the Antichrist to start putting that self inside 428 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,960 of you. You become a trained person. 429 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,440 Now you read that, you invest, that you hide it upon your heart 430 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,840 so that then we can just weaponize a people that's 431 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:53,440 already trained don't want the, we don't want the the tail 432 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,360 wagging the dog. We want the dog wagging the 433 00:26:55,360 --> 00:27:01,400 tail, see with that. But we're not being proactive, 434 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,080 we're being reactive. We do that with a lot of things 435 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,320 in our life, right? Then we start praying hard when 436 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,520 troubles come, that's reactive. How about preparing with prayer 437 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,840 just in your life so that when the problem comes, you've 438 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:18,120 already been trained. Don't allow the problem have to 439 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:27,040 be your trainer for prayer. Trained men not going to be 440 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,520 intimidated. But I mean, listen, if he had a 441 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,200 bunch of trained individuals, you realize how intimidated they 442 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:37,360 could have been by the trail of victory of the other kings, huh? 443 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,360 If they didn't know how to stand, if they didn't know how 444 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:43,200 to March, if they didn't know how, if they didn't know any of 445 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,280 that, you realize how intimidated they could have 446 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,600 been? Their battle would have almost 447 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,080 been over before it was even started because no one would 448 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,320 want to go. They'd have no sense of 449 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,880 confidence because there'd been no trading in order to instill 450 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,160 that confidence in them. You give somebody a gun for the 451 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:00,400 first time that's never held a gun. 452 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,840 And they're kind of like, huh. Yeah. 453 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,480 But you give it to someone that's done this for 30 and 40 454 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,600 years, honey, they know exactly what they're doing. 455 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:09,920 They tear that thing apart, put it back. 456 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,080 Why? Because they've been trained, 457 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,520 huh? Listen, I don't want you all 458 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,240 fumbling around with the Apostolic doctrine just because 459 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:20,640 something came up and you need it. 460 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,320 We're going to teach it on Wednesday nights and on Sunday 461 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:24,840 mornings. Hopefully you'll get it so that 462 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,880 whenever the opportunity comes and you need it, you're not 463 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:33,560 fumbling around. Amen. 464 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,240 Why have glory? This was a challenging chapter. 465 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:39,280 Just deal with me here a little bit. 466 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,360 So he's he's, he's weaponizing, he's weaponizing these men. 467 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,120 And I believe God honors, I believe God honors readiness. 468 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,080 He honors discipline and discipleship. 469 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,560 One of his calls of New Testament scripture is that they 470 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,360 would make disciples. You know what that is? 471 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,960 Training. That's training. 472 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,400 Now, the 318 that don't seem like a massive number, but it's 473 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:08,840 a faithful number of people that went through the process, went 474 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,280 through, if you will, the program that Abram had for them 475 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:19,440 to be from untrained to trained. So Abrams trained men, no doubt, 476 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,760 and along with some of those of this confederacy that Abram is a 477 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:29,040 part of, they went in pursuit of these other kings. 478 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:35,440 They are chasing these 4 kings from the eastern region and they 479 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,040 have started now here, they're in the plain of Jordan. 480 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,560 Now they're S here. They're they're in the plain of 481 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,400 Jordan. They're at the South end of the 482 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,160 Jordan. They're they're down here by the 483 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:48,760 Dead Sea and they chased him. Look at the Bible says all the 484 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:54,040 way up toward Dan. Now this place is going to be 485 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,120 called Dan later in Scripture. But Moses is able to piece this 486 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,920 together and give us a little Intel early here because there's 487 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,320 the popular saying in Scripture. Well, they went from Dan to 488 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,800 Beersheba. Well, that meant from north to 489 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,560 South of Israel. Dan was the northernmost point 490 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,640 in Israel. These guys have been down South 491 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,200 in Israel around the Dead Sea, and they have pursued them all 492 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,520 the way almost to the northernmost part of the land of 493 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,320 318. And whatever else they had a 494 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:26,000 part of this confederacy have chased them to the northernmost 495 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,520 part of the promised land. And Abram pursues the enemy. 496 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,920 And this gets me. Even the Bible says they were. 497 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,320 They even did this at night, says they did it. 498 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:40,080 And even at night he divided his forces and at night he defeated 499 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,360 them. And he retrieves a lot. 500 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,360 He gets his nephew back, He gets his family back. 501 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,160 He gets the people of these other cities back and their 502 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,120 goods and all these goods back. But here's the fact of the 503 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,200 matter, concerning Moses or not Moses, we're not there yet. 504 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:55,480 Amen. That's Exodus. 505 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,720 But nonetheless, here's the motivation of Abram. 506 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,400 His motivation wasn't gain like, oh, I'm going to get all these 507 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,120 spoils. Yeah, we're going to get 508 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,600 everything that they took, plus we're going to get the spoils 509 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,720 from these kings. That wasn't his motivation. 510 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:16,200 His motivation was rescue. It wasn't goods. 511 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,560 It was rescue. Get the people. 512 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:26,440 Get my nephew back because in reality, here's a man remember 513 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,400 he's on that growth trajectory and process. 514 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,160 He's he's growing in his relationship with God. 515 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:35,360 And I believe this is a telltale sign of a man whose heart who is 516 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:40,120 desiring to walk with God. It's not about the goods, it's 517 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:44,680 about the people. And he uses his strength to save 518 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:49,240 and not to self-serve himself with just put more riches up on 519 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:53,880 the riches that he already had. Now look, let's continue in 520 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:59,400 verse #17 here, all right? I've turned a page here in my 521 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,920 Bible, got all wound up up here, then got us in Samuel. 522 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:10,360 We're not that far yet. Verse #17 And the king of Sodom 523 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,760 went out to meet him after his return. 524 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:17,080 So this is, this is Abram coming back home to the plains, to the 525 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,800 area of the plains of Jordan, bringing Lot and those back home 526 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,280 and the king of Sodom on their trip down. 527 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,480 The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from 528 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:31,360 the slaughter of Chederla Omur and of the kings that were with 529 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:35,680 him at the valley of Shiva, which is the King's Dale. 530 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:42,200 And Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, 531 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,040 and he was the priest of the Most High God. 532 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,840 And he blessed him and said, Blessed be Abram of the Most 533 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,760 High God, possessor of heaven and earth, and blessed be the 534 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,280 Most High God, which have delivered thine enemies into 535 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:59,280 thine hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 536 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:06,080 Let's just pause and savor the fact that 500 years about, 537 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,160 before there was ever a law about tithing, someone was 538 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:15,960 tithing. For that matter, let's savor the 539 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:20,760 fact that pagans even tied to their Pagan temples. 540 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:33,240 Just save that for a moment. And the king of Sodom and verse 541 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:37,040 21 and the king of Sodom and said unto Abram, Give me the 542 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,480 persons. It's the king of Sodom, give me 543 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:46,480 the persons and take the goods to thyself, Abram. 544 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:51,600 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand, 545 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,560 and to the Lord, the Most High God, the possessor of heaven and 546 00:33:55,560 --> 00:34:02,520 earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoe latchet, 547 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:08,199 that I will not take anything that is thine, lest thou should 548 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:13,600 I say I have made Abram rich, save only that which the young 549 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,080 men have eaten, the portion of the men which went with me. 550 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:22,520 And there S Cole and Mamrie, let them take their portion. 551 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,679 There's a pivot in the story here. 552 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,159 This is the hinge. Everything swings on in my 553 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,520 estimation. This is the heart of the whole 554 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:39,679 passage right here, because after Abram's victory, he's met. 555 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:47,480 Coming to meet him are two vastly different kings that are 556 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,280 approaching him. After his victory. 557 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,639 There is the king of Sodom that approaches Abram. 558 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:59,080 And remember whose people according to the last chapter, 559 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,920 were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly. 560 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,920 The Scripture says we have that king approaching on one hand, 561 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:12,640 and on the other hand we have the king of Salem, what would be 562 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:17,240 known as the king of Jerusalem, the king of peace, Melchizedek, 563 00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:24,840 whose very name Malek Zek means king of righteousness. 2 kings, 564 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:30,960 2 vastly different kings. And so now Abraham is standing 565 00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:40,160 among 2 kings that are giving him two offers, 2 kings with two 566 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,880 offers. And Abram has a choice. 567 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,320 The king of Sodom is saying, hey, you retrieved a lot of 568 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:52,760 goods that were taken from us. You take, you keep those goods. 569 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,960 Keep as much as those goods that you want, Abram. 570 00:35:58,320 --> 00:35:59,760 I mean, you ain't got them anyway. 571 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,080 Keep those goods that you have retrieved. 572 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,800 The only thing I asked for is the people. 573 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,880 Melchizedek comes. He offers Abram bread. 574 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,240 He offers him the fruit of the vine. 575 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:20,560 He offers him blessing. Blessed is Abram of the Most 576 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,280 High God, the possessor of heaven and earth. 577 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,600 He even blesses the Lord. Bless the Lord, bless the God 578 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,520 the Most High God, the possessor of heaven and earth. 579 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,320 And he really doesn't ask for anything in return. 580 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,360 He's giving him bread. He's eating through the vine. 581 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:39,000 He's giving him blessing. Ask for nothing in return. 582 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,280 And it's in this moment. And I would say it wouldn't take 583 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,480 a rocket scientist. But you know what? 584 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,680 The world system and sin and all that's very deceptive. 585 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,600 In a moment, Abram has a choice to make. 586 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:58,160 Do I get all the goods and let him have the people, or do I 587 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,320 receive the bread and the fruit, the vine and the blessing? 588 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,120 And he's not even asking for anything in return? 589 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,600 He discerns the difference. The reason why I know is because 590 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:17,040 he turns to Melchizedek and he gives, he gives to Melchizedek 591 00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:23,840 tithes of all. One king is really offering a 592 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,240 compromise. You take the goods, I take the 593 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:32,880 people, but the other, follow me here, the bread and the fruit of 594 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,800 the vine. He's offering him communion, 595 00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:45,720 Compromise or communion, Von Rad observed and said this. 596 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:53,040 He said Abraham bows only to Machesdek in a story that is 597 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:58,440 filled with kings, 5 kings against four, this king name, 598 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,960 that king name, this king name. But there's only the bowing, 599 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:05,320 there's only the acquiescing, if you will, to one of those kings. 600 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,320 That's Melchizedek, the king of Sodom. 601 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,440 Again he says give me the persons, take the goods thyself. 602 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:16,560 Literally, that first phrase of the Hebrew is give me the souls. 603 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,960 I see that that that just changes things a little bit. 604 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,720 I'm not just talking about giving me the flesh and the 605 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:30,040 blood and the bones. Give me that part of man that 606 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:34,920 will live forever. Give me that eternal part to the 607 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:40,880 people. Give me the souls or the trout. 608 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:46,000 It has been, is, and always will be the language of the 609 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,160 adversary. There's only he's, I don't know 610 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,880 if you realize this, but he's really after the same thing that 611 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,680 the Church should be after, and that's souls. 612 00:38:57,720 --> 00:38:59,960 And so the language of the enemy is still the same. 613 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,760 You take whatever goods you want to take, even personally for you 614 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,360 sometimes it's like Raven. You take whatever you want of 615 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:13,960 this world of Sodom. Just let me have your soul. 616 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:19,440 You can have the riches, you can have the notoriety, you can have 617 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,480 the fame, you can have whatever it is that you desire. 618 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,280 Just let me have the soul. You, You, because you can't have 619 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,720 the goods in your soul. But you, if you take the goods, 620 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,840 I get the soul. It is the language of the enemy, 621 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:37,160 and it always has been. He is wanting the souls of 622 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:41,560 humanity, folks. If he wants the souls of 623 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:46,800 humanity, how much more? How much more should the Mother, 624 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:55,920 the bride of Christ, want the souls of the people? 625 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:02,360 This isn't a battle over getting the bankers and the engineers 626 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,760 and the doctors. It's not a battle over that. 627 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,720 But behind every banker, an engineer and a doctor is a soul. 628 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,160 Yes, it's about getting those that are are on the on the on 629 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:16,600 the poorest section of town. It's about those that don't have 630 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,440 proper living conditions. Why? 631 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:23,440 Because it's the soul haven't like I don't I don't you you 632 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:27,040 keep the goods. You keep the goods. 633 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,920 He says I don't I don't I don't want a thread. 634 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,360 I don't want a shoe latch it. I don't want anything from you 635 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,320 Sodam. I don't want anything for you 636 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,320 pre adventure. You go away and say that I'm the 637 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:41,280 one that made Abram rich. I'm the one that brought him to 638 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,160 his place of status. I'm the one we understand in 639 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:48,280 scripture Lord that the Bible even says and Mchezdek even 640 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:52,040 pointed it out that it was the Lord that gave Abram the victory 641 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,640 even that he got in this battle. Abram says I don't want I don't 642 00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:59,360 want some some Sodom saying I made you what you are not 643 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,160 brought you to where you're at folks, let me tell you your 644 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:05,880 adversary just wants to have you or his hand over your fist to 645 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,040 tell you he's brought you to this place in life. 646 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,400 You have what you have because you paid attention to him and 647 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,920 and you you invested in the no, no, no, no, no, I'm here to tell 648 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:18,840 you today I am what I am because I am whose I am. 649 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,600 I belonging to the Lord today. It is by his hand. 650 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,560 We are where we are. I've got what I've got. 651 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,200 I'm living like I'm living. I don't want to. 652 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:32,600 By no means not a thread or a shoe latchet to be able to tell 653 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:38,280 the world or hell that they made me what I am or they enriched my 654 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:42,160 life 1000 times. No, I'm not going to take one 655 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,320 iota. I'm not going to take one 656 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,480 compromise. I'm not going to take one. 657 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:52,320 You're not going to have that voice in my life, not even a 658 00:41:52,720 --> 00:42:07,280 thread. Not even a thread. 659 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,160 So you can have your possessions, your success, your 660 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:21,080 whatever image of blessing as long as he can have the souls 661 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:28,080 and a lot of people have sowed their soul for goods. 662 00:42:33,750 --> 00:42:38,190 Picture Sodom really is a in essence somewhat of a satanic 663 00:42:38,190 --> 00:42:41,750 system because it's souls are for sale right for exchange, the 664 00:42:41,750 --> 00:42:46,470 bargaining tool. But did not Jesus himself say 665 00:42:46,470 --> 00:42:53,390 New Testament scripture? What does it profit a man if he 666 00:42:53,390 --> 00:43:01,640 gained the whole world and lose his soul? 667 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:09,760 Or what would a man give in exchange for his soul? 668 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,840 But it's littered in Scripture, even in the parable of the 669 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:21,400 sower, that there would be those that would enjoy pleasures, and 670 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,840 the enjoying the pleasures of this life would be at the 671 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:29,080 expense of choking out the seed in the ground. 672 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:34,120 In the parable of the soul, people selling their souls, as 673 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,240 Scripture tells us in Timothy, that they would be lovers of 674 00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:45,720 pleasure more than they would be lovers of God trading eternity. 675 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:47,320 Moses said he wasn't going to be a part of it. 676 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:48,800 And I have the right person. I'm talking about the right 677 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,120 person now. Moses said he wouldn't be a part 678 00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,680 of it. He said he would. 679 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,080 He would trade living in Pharaoh's house. 680 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,800 He would trade living in Pharaoh's house with all the 681 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,480 benefits of Egypt and the education of Egypt. 682 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:08,320 He would trade all of that. He would trade all that because 683 00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,520 he didn't even want just, even as just to enjoy even the 684 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,680 pleasures of sin for a season. Why? 685 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,120 Because he knew the bargaining tool and that it's not pleasure 686 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:22,280 at no cost. It's not pleasure at no 687 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,720 exchange. There's something on the table. 688 00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:29,720 It's a soul. It's a soul. 689 00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,760 So Abram, he, he says the Bible says he raises a hand. 690 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,320 He's not in class, but it's like swearing an oath. 691 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,280 He raises his hand. I won't have it. 692 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,880 I will not take a thread. I will not take a sandal 693 00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,400 latchet. None of this, not the small. 694 00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:48,960 Do you understand that? A thread in a sandal latchet 695 00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:52,080 that that's really small and he's trying to underwrite the 696 00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:54,960 I'm not going to take even the smallest or the tiniest, not the 697 00:44:54,960 --> 00:45:01,080 tiniest of compromise in this. I'm not going to allow Sodom to 698 00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:04,120 write my story. I see how it's already trying to 699 00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:11,280 write my nephew's story. Look pitch toward the well be 700 00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,440 captured by because that's where you're dwelling. 701 00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:23,280 So this, I mean, this is a, this is the showmanship of integrity 702 00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:27,560 on Abram's part. It's not going to benefit at 703 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:30,160 Sodom's hand. He's not going to be indebted to 704 00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:35,560 that wicked system, all right. And though that's one king, the 705 00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,960 other king he has over here is Melchizedek, right? 706 00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,400 And so we're not going into some deep study on Melchizedek right 707 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,520 now, all right? He's mentioned in Psalms, he's 708 00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:47,760 mentioned in Hebrews, but here, this is his debut, this is like 709 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,400 first time mentioned. We don't see anything about him 710 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,640 prior to this, All right? We haven't seen him before. 711 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,160 His name means king of righteousness. 712 00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:00,440 He reigns over Salem again, but what we would know as Jerusalem 713 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,160 he reigns over. He's the king of righteousness, 714 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,080 the king of peace. And so both of that kind of 715 00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:09,320 married into one. And so this king is quite 716 00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,880 different than than other kings in the sense that he's a king, 717 00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:18,760 but he's also a priest. For absolutely, whenever you got 718 00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,120 under Levitical law, you didn't see a king serve as a priest or 719 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,000 a priest serve as a king. Try to keep those two rows 720 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,000 separate. But Isaiah did prophecy 721 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,920 concerning the Messiah, Christ Jesus, and Isaiah 9, one of the 722 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,600 titles that was affixed to Christ, even among those of 723 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:39,760 wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of 724 00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,520 Peace. And the next verse tells us how 725 00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:47,480 he would rule in justice or in righteousness. 726 00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:52,720 Again, this marriage of peace and righteousness. 727 00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,240 You may remember this verse from Psalms 85 and 10. 728 00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:59,600 The psalmist says mercy and truth are met together. 729 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:04,520 Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 730 00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,440 That's what happened in the life of Christ Jesus. 731 00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:13,920 Righteousness and peace, king and priest came together. 732 00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:17,280 And so Machesadic brings, according here in the scripture, 733 00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:19,520 he brings bread and wine. Number one. 734 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:24,240 Bread and wine was known as main staples after a victory has been 735 00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:25,640 won. It's like if you have victory, 736 00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:30,000 it's like red wine for everyone, bread and fruit of the vine for 737 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,960 everybody. So he is no doubt acknowledging 738 00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:34,880 the victory that has came to Abram. 739 00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,480 But we also know that bread and the fruit of the vine is what we 740 00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:42,520 have in the Last Supper. That's what we have in the time 741 00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:46,800 of communion in John 13, and also in Corinthians is the 742 00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,360 breaking of the bread, which is his body, and the sharing of the 743 00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,800 fruit of the vine, which is his blood. 744 00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,040 So this may clearly also be foreshadowing something still, 745 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,880 yet you know in the future that there's the offering from the 746 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:04,400 king of righteousness, the king of peace, bread and the fruit of 747 00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,000 the vine, if you will, the body and the blood. 748 00:48:07,240 --> 00:48:10,520 And so he blesses Abram, He blesses the most high God. 749 00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:14,960 He acknowledges God even as the source of Abraham's victory in 750 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,080 verse #20 And here's some of the things we know about 751 00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:19,600 Melchizedek. Again, we're not going to get 752 00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,360 real deep in him because we could put a lesson just on 753 00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,400 Melchizedek. And I think Hebrews would 754 00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,080 probably be a better place for that than than Genesis is. 755 00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,880 But Hebrews chapter #7 verses one through 3, the Bible says 756 00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,160 for this Melchizedek, let me set the stage real quick. 757 00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:39,440 The book of Hebrews is written to Christians who had a 758 00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,200 background of being Jewish and they're contemplating whether or 759 00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:47,200 not they should re embrace their Judaism more so than their 760 00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,640 newfound Christianity that they have all right. 761 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,120 And so as they're struggling with this, the, the, the writer 762 00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:55,760 begins to write about a lot of Old Testament things and 763 00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,680 ceremonial things and about how those are fulfilled in Christ 764 00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,120 Jesus. And so he's given the the 765 00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:04,720 comparison really between in essence, the Judaic system and 766 00:49:04,720 --> 00:49:07,240 then the Christian system, right, and the correlation of 767 00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:09,320 the two. So this sets the stage because 768 00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,520 he's going to talk about priesthood and he's going to 769 00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:13,920 talk about the Levitical priesthood, but he's going to 770 00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,720 talk about the priesthood that's after the order of Melchizedek 771 00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:19,560 because he was a king priest. And so the Bible says for this 772 00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,720 Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God who 773 00:49:23,720 --> 00:49:25,200 met Abraham. So it's referring back to 774 00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:29,040 Genesis, Abraham during returning from the slaughter of 775 00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:32,800 the kings and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a 10th or 776 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:36,440 the tithe, part of all first being by interpretation king of 777 00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:40,080 righteousness, and after that also king of Salem, which is 778 00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,400 king of peace. Verse 3, Machesedec is still 779 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,960 Speaking of without father, without mother, without descent, 780 00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:51,640 having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like 781 00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:56,880 unto the Son of God abideth a priest continually. 782 00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,640 What Hebrews is telling us is that Melchizedek foreshadowed or 783 00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:04,920 was a type for the New Testament Christ Jesus. 784 00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:09,920 Melchizedek was both a king and a priest in the row of Christ. 785 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,720 You see him as the King of kings and Lord of Lords, but he is 786 00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:17,320 also being the mediator. He is being a in the row of a 787 00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,720 high priest even in his earthly ministry. 788 00:50:19,720 --> 00:50:22,280 He's the one that is forever making intercession for the 789 00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,120 Saints. That's a priest role. 790 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:26,600 So he's serving in both these capacities. 791 00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,400 And so this is unheard of because in the Levitical, in the 792 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,600 Levitical priest system, this did not happen. 793 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,400 You did not have a little vehicle priest who was also the 794 00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:37,920 king. Under the law. 795 00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:41,920 The priest could not also be the king, nor could the king be the 796 00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:43,480 priest. That's the reason why whenever 797 00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:47,080 you see Saul being the king of Israel that he got in trouble 798 00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:50,440 one time, he was supposed to wait on Samuel to come and offer 799 00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:51,880 burnt offerings. He was going to be there by 800 00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:54,960 specified time and and Saul thought he was running late and 801 00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,880 he'd know what he did. He entered the road of priests 802 00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:00,240 and said we'll all OfferUp the burnt offerings and the Lord. 803 00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:02,760 He got in trouble because he was king. 804 00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:07,360 He wasn't supposed to serve in the capacity of a priest. 805 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,360 In the Levitical law. They were supposed to stay 806 00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,680 separate. But also this whole fact that 807 00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,200 Melchizedek without father, without mother, without the sin 808 00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,080 having either beginning the days or ending the days. 809 00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,280 What they're saying is this, If a man was going to serve in the 810 00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:26,000 Levitical priesthood, he had to be able to prove his lineage 811 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,080 from Aaron. You got to be able to prove that 812 00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:32,120 it'll prove his lineage from Aaron. 813 00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:37,040 So you had to verify your Mama, you had to verify your daddy, 814 00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:40,240 you had to verify your family tree. 815 00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:43,320 For that matter, to serve as a priest, you at least had to be 816 00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,840 30 years old to start. And the extent of that you could 817 00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:50,800 only serve till you was 50. But describing that, there is no 818 00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,360 literary evidence of Machesdick with father and mother. 819 00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:59,160 There was no qualifications that said that he was a Levite or 820 00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:02,240 that he came from a Levite family or anything like that. 821 00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:06,200 So there was nothing to qualify or validate any of that. 822 00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,560 There is no record of his genealogy, no beginning, no 823 00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:13,080 ending, but likewise, Jesus Christ. 824 00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:14,720 Well, brother McGee, we have his genealogy. 825 00:52:14,720 --> 00:52:17,440 We do. We read of it in Matthew, we 826 00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:21,240 read of it in Mark, we read about his genealogy, his mother 827 00:52:21,240 --> 00:52:25,160 and his father and biological dad. 828 00:52:25,240 --> 00:52:28,520 You know, all the things, so to speak, you know, all these 829 00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:29,560 things. We read of that. 830 00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,840 But Jesus too, though, like Melchizedek didn't have a 831 00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:40,480 priestly lineage because he's of the tribe of Judah, not the 832 00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,360 tribe of Levi. And so this is where everything 833 00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,520 shakes up them for New Testament Christians. 834 00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:49,640 Here's #1A guy serving as King M priest. 835 00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:52,400 And his heritage isn't tied to the Levitical priesthood. 836 00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,560 That's so Judaism, it could only be a priest if you're a Levite. 837 00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,880 But Jesus comes in as a priest and he's of the tribe of Judah. 838 00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,240 And that's the reason. Then they come in to here, to 839 00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:05,720 Hebrews, and says he's not after the order of the Levites, he's 840 00:53:05,720 --> 00:53:08,560 after the order of Machesdek, right? 841 00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:13,360 Who has no necessarily heritage to a Levite, but he's still a 842 00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:18,520 king and he's still a priest. All right, and so Hebrews 843 00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:19,960 clarifies. Then look at it again, 844 00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:22,560 Melchizedek. I like the way well, it's it's 845 00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,720 God, right. It's like liking something God 846 00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:28,800 does goes without saying that Melchizedek know how the 847 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:33,680 scripture says it in Hebrews was made like unto the son of God. 848 00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:38,280 It's not flip-flopped around. It doesn't say that Jesus Christ 849 00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:42,560 was like Melchizedek. I think that's important. 850 00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:47,600 This Melchizedek was made like unto the Son of God. 851 00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:52,800 Jesus wasn't pattern after Melchizedek as much as in the 852 00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:56,680 mind of God he made a Melchizedek that would follow 853 00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:58,560 the pattern of the Christ that would come. 854 00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,760 Nobody can do that but my God. Huh. 855 00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:06,400 Nope. God in his mind already knew 856 00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:07,840 what he was going to have Christ do. 857 00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:11,560 He already knew what that that son born in Bethlehem's Manger 858 00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:13,240 was going to grow up and be king and priest. 859 00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,720 No lineage to the Levites, but the of the tribe of Judah, the 860 00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:19,240 lion of the tribe of Judah that would become the land. 861 00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:20,760 He already knew all that he says. 862 00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:22,960 I'm just going to give a little pattern back here in the Old 863 00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:26,040 Testament in Genesis, so that later whenever I need to, 864 00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:29,040 whenever I need to explain this to God's children, the 865 00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:33,280 Christians that were Jews, I can tell them machesedex like like 866 00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:37,560 Jesus, it seems like he has no parentage, no heritage in 867 00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:40,760 Levites, but it's the eternal order that will last forever. 868 00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:46,040 And so it is with Christ. He's still our king and he's 869 00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:51,440 still our priests, all right. And so like Christ, Melchizedek, 870 00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,880 he blesses Abraham. He blesses him not with goods, 871 00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:56,680 but with righteousness and peace. 872 00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:04,640 And in turn, Abram gives ties of all to this king priest with no 873 00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:08,920 parentage to a Levitical tribe. Not again. 874 00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:12,400 I said it paused earlier just because it just made me want to 875 00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:13,440 stop. Again. 876 00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:18,280 There was no commandment telling Abram to do this at this time. 877 00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:23,320 The law didn't yet exist. It's not till about 500 years 878 00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,360 later, whenever you get into a Sinai and the whole Levitical 879 00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:28,120 law, that then you'll have a law. 880 00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:31,840 You know what the law says. The law, the Levitical law told 881 00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:34,280 the people to tithe to Levitical priest. 882 00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:39,960 He's tithing here. No law is telling him to tie. 883 00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,600 He is tithing in response. Watch me here. 884 00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:47,760 He's tithing in response to the generosity that he has received 885 00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:53,000 from Melchizedek and honey, if you really want to cut it down 886 00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:55,960 to the quick of where it's at, that's where the very 887 00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,240 fountainhead of tithing really should be. 888 00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:04,680 Not the prescription of your scripture, but the understanding 889 00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,440 of the generosity that's been shown to you by Him. 890 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,960 You know, there's some things that whenever you get in tune 891 00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,360 with God's Spirit, you don't need a law for. 892 00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:27,640 I don't have to have it show me in black and light. 893 00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:32,480 The Spirit inside of me already gives evidences to things I need 894 00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,480 to do without a law being prescribed. 895 00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:40,400 For He is a law unto me. He is the Spirit of the law 896 00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:44,840 living inside of me. He didn't come to do away with 897 00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:46,200 it. The Bible says He came to 898 00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:49,520 fulfill it and the only one that did it perfectly and I had that 899 00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:53,720 perfect law keeper inside of me if I've received his spirit. 900 00:56:54,240 --> 00:56:57,320 So I don't need a black and a light and a Article 3 in Section 901 00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:06,440 2 and item B. Well look what the scripture 902 00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:09,600 says, Hebrews 7 verse 4 it says now consider I got to move on. 903 00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:11,080 Shoo. I've been dragging my feet, 904 00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:14,200 haven't I? Now consider how great this man 905 00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:15,960 was. Look at that. 906 00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:19,320 Look at that. Now consider how great this man 907 00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:22,160 wasn't to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave 10th of 908 00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:24,920 the spoils. Consider how great of a man this 909 00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:28,320 was for him to do that, our Kent Hughes wrote. 910 00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,440 And he says this, and he says this on the authority of 911 00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:32,760 culture. He said paying ties to another 912 00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:37,840 was recognition of the other superiority and a sign of 913 00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:42,640 subjugation or subjection to that person when they pay 914 00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:48,040 tithers saying I realize you're superior to me and I subject 915 00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:57,120 myself to you because the Bible even says there in Hebrews that 916 00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:03,120 it is the more the more that is blessed the more the one let me 917 00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:06,560 even find it. The more is the less is blessed 918 00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:10,160 by the more let me find it. Look, let's go to Hebrews 919 00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:13,560 chapter #7 it's right here still in all of this chapter here 920 00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:17,400 talking about Melchizedek. You know, Hebrews is after 921 00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:24,840 Matthew, Paul here it is verse number 777. 922 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,600 And without all contradiction, the less is blessed of the 923 00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:32,600 better. So the superior blesses the 924 00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:34,840 less. What did Melchizedek come? 925 00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:38,920 He came with his bread, He came with his through the vine, and 926 00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:43,200 he speaks blessing over Abram. Abram recognizes in that moment, 927 00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:47,280 you're superior. Here's my tithe, you're superior 928 00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:50,840 and I subject myself to you. Let's pause this. 929 00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:53,800 We could probably do another lesson on ties, but let's just 930 00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:55,200 pause for a moment. Take this in. 931 00:58:57,960 --> 00:58:59,880 Like I said, bring all your ties in the office, in the 932 00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:01,640 storehouse. When you don't, you rob, you rob 933 00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:07,080 God. Let's look at even lack of 934 00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:17,800 tithing is a subjection issue. Lack of tithing is a mix up in 935 00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:22,600 who's superior issue. Note when you failed to tithe, 936 00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:24,680 you're saying you're more superior. 937 00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:30,440 Now that's a different lesson, right? 938 00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,600 Because we could just stay there and we've already been up here 939 00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:34,600 54 minutes. But I'm just saying, considering 940 00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:38,080 what we have just taken in just tonight on these particular 941 00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:41,040 things. So what do we see here? 942 00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:47,400 I'm I'm hastening too close. We see Abram that has been met 943 00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,600 with two kings and he has a couple of choices. 944 00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:55,160 One king rules a wicked city full of sinners and he's seeking 945 00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:58,720 more so as to add to the city. And we see another man who 946 00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:02,760 brings bread and and through the vine and blessing and Abraham in 947 01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:06,040 this moment, he chooses, I say it like this communion over 948 01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,560 compromise. He bows only. 949 01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:13,960 Relinquishes only the Melchizedek and another thing we 950 01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,200 shouldn't forget look what's already happened here in this 951 01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:18,840 chapter. The promise of Abram is already 952 01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:22,360 unveiling what God said he said I'll bless you and make you a 953 01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:27,560 blessing I'll bless those that bless you and I'll curse those 954 01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:30,600 who what's happening right here in this chapter. 955 01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:36,720 There's some people losing because they have come against, 956 01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:41,680 entered in conflict with Abram. There's others being blessed. 957 01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:46,360 That's a part of his confederacy that's joined in him in a 958 01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:50,040 positive nature rather than a negative nature, blessed with 959 01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:52,080 blessed. And he would curse who he would 960 01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:53,160 curse. Stay with me. 961 01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:58,120 I'm coming too close. So when we start Genesis 14, all 962 01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:00,880 this chaos of war, but it ends with very much so clarity. 963 01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,080 There's worship really, that's taking place. 964 01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:06,200 And So what looks like a chapter of conflict is actually a 965 01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:11,360 chapter of contrast. 2 kings stand before Abram, 2 systems, 2 966 01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:15,440 voices, 2 authors. Sodom says give me the souls. 967 01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:19,480 Salem says take this bread and this fruit of the vine. 968 01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:23,560 All right, so one, one king is speaking the language of the 969 01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:25,320 world. The language of the world is all 970 01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:28,320 about transaction, control, corruption. 971 01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:31,440 But the language of the cross is communion. 972 01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:36,240 It's peace, it's righteousness. So Abram doesn't just win a 973 01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:42,920 battle, he passes a test. I say this. 974 01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:46,840 I'm waiting my words here. He he comes to a place where he 975 01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:51,720 proves that real victory is not measured by what you conquer on 976 01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:55,080 the battlefield, but what you refuse. 977 01:01:55,080 --> 01:02:03,280 When the enemy offers compromise and all of this echoes forward 978 01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:07,160 into eternity, it reminds us we're also faced with two 979 01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:10,440 kingdoms. One's asking for the sews. 980 01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:11,840 They take anything you want. All the goods. 981 01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:15,120 Give me the sews, another one that was trying to put blessing, 982 01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:20,240 try to put commune, trying to put the bread and the blood in 983 01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:22,440 our life. So I close tonight, let's bow 984 01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:25,040 our heads, close our eyes. I know you folks have been very 985 01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,800 good tonight with me on this this journey here. 986 01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:31,360 But I want to ask you a few questions as we as we end here 987 01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:36,920 tonight. Are you living in Sodom system 988 01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:42,080 or are you bowing before the King of Salem tonight? 989 01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:44,840 Are you trading your soul for stuff? 990 01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:48,720 Is that what you're doing? Or are you offering your tithe, 991 01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:51,320 if you will, of all, to the King of righteousness? 992 01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:55,240 Or where are you at in this mode tonight with these offers that 993 01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:57,360 are on the table? Are you going to be like Abram? 994 01:02:57,360 --> 01:03:00,440 Are you going to raise your hand and say I won't even take a 995 01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:03,320 thread? I won't even take a shoe latchet 996 01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:07,000 from Sodom? I'm not going to allow the world 997 01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:11,240 to say that it made me rich or it made me prosper, so and so 998 01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,320 forth. You got to choose tonight. 999 01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,920 You got to choose. Is it going to be the compromise 1000 01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:17,320 or is it going to be the communion? 1001 01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:19,800 Is it going to be the righteousness or is it going to 1002 01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:23,120 be some sort of recognition? What, what will it be tonight? 1003 01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:28,760 I urge you, I to pick the Lord. I urge you to pick the King of 1004 01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:32,360 righteousness and the King of peace, Amen. 1005 01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:37,040 The King whose peace passes. The Bible says all understanding 1006 01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:40,320 and it can keep our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 1007 01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:43,480 Can we begin to talk to our King tonight? 1008 01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:45,360 Father, I come to you this evening. 1009 01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:49,360 I pray, O Lord, and I know Lord, that there are offers on the 1010 01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:53,560 table every day of our lives. There are offers on our table 1011 01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:58,280 from 2 kingdoms and two kings. Lord Jesus God, there is the 1012 01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:02,560 offer, Lord of the exchange of my soul, the exchange of other 1013 01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:05,640 souls, God for anything that we would dare want. 1014 01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:09,560 It would seem whatever Lord money could buy, whatever Lord 1015 01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:12,040 God reputation and success could take. 1016 01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:15,040 Lord, it's on the table. It's vying for our attention. 1017 01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:18,320 But Lord, I understand there's another king and Kingdom that's 1018 01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:20,920 bestowing the bread and bestowing the fruit of the vine 1019 01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:22,800 there. He's bestowing everything that, 1020 01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:26,920 that that will show me, Lord, the brokenness, Lord of the body 1021 01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:29,720 and the shedding of the blood God that was for the remission 1022 01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:31,240 of my sins. It's blessing. 1023 01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:34,280 Lord of the Most High up on me, the possessor of heaven. 1024 01:04:34,280 --> 01:04:38,360 Or let me, God not falter, Lord, in this choice, help me God, to 1025 01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:41,200 choose wisely. Help me, O Lord, to be about my 1026 01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:43,680 wits. I pray, O God, not just do 1027 01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:46,440 things because it feels good for the moment. 1028 01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:49,200 I need to ask myself how will this feel for eternity? 1029 01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:52,960 I pray, O God, today God touches Lord, as we go our ways, tonight 1030 01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:55,120 God as we ponder, Lord, these things. 1031 01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:59,440 It's a life, it's an offer, it's a stance of being between 2 1032 01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:02,680 kings. God, we must be diligent Lord 1033 01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:05,520 and cautious Lord in how we choose. 1034 01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:07,200 God, we want to devote everything. 1035 01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:10,680 Lord, God, that we can to you. We want to acknowledge you as 1036 01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:12,880 the superior. We want the Lord to subject our 1037 01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:16,880 lives to your authority. God, every day, every moment. 1038 01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:20,200 God that we live in the lovely name of the Lord Jesus Christ 1039 01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:25,040 that I pray Hallelujah, the church say Amen, Amen. 1040 01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:26,840 I didn't. I really didn't expect to keep 1041 01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:29,120 you all that long, but I started talking slow. 1042 01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,880 See if I did that all time services would be very long. 1043 01:05:32,520 --> 01:05:34,280 You better be glad I'm micro machine talker. 1044 01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:36,720 Amen. God bless you in Jesus name.