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Genesis chapter 14 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 14 let us pray Lord God Almighty, who reigns on
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  high. Lord, we love you, we love
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  everything about you God, we love the way that you move and
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  speak. We love your words.
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  God, we love the fact that you are supreme.
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  You are moving everything in accordance with your plan.
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  God, heaven and earth shall pass away, but not one of these
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  words. Your word is alive and active
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  and sharper than any 2 edged sword.
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  So God, I pray Father, for the Shekinah glory to come God, and
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  come and dwell us all around Father.
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  Move us into heights God, and move us through the depths,
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  Father. The valleys, God and the peaks,
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  Lord, you are there. You are our peace.
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  You're the 4th man in the fire. So God, we get out of our own
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  way, we get out of our own understanding.
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  God, we yield and we bend towards you.
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  Father, I pray that the word will go into fertile soil and
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  produce a crop and produce a harvest.
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  Father, I pray that we will be fruitful, Lord, that we will
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  actually be found out in the harvest with our hand to the
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  plow, God spreading seed. Lord, I pray that the good news
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  of Jesus Christ will reach all people groups, all continents,
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  all across this globe. Father, I pray that you'll
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  continue to draw people towards yourself.
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  God, I pray that you'll save to the utmost.
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  Your arm is not too short to save.
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  And so, God, I pray that right now, in this moment for this
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  time, God, you'll rebuke the devourer from off of this time.
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  Rebuke the devourer from off of our families.
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  Rebuke the devourers for all from off of our bodies.
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  God, I pray that you'll bring the prodigals home.
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  God, I pray that you'll restore marriages.
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  God, I pray that fathers will rise up and be the spiritual
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  leader of their home. God, I pray that you will
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  continue to strengthen the family unit.
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  God, I pray for the capital C Church, the ekkles see of the
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  called out ones. Lord, I pray you'll strengthen
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  us in this hour. Lord, no weapon formed against
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  us shall prosper. It's all about King Jesus.
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  It's always been about King Jesus.
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  It'll always be about King Jesus.
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  So Lord, come, Maranatha, come teach us your ways.
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  Father, help us, God, to understand more of who you are.
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  Give us a new facet of your face.
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  God, we cry out, holy, holy, holy are you, Lord God Almighty
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  Holy Spirit, fill us, teach us, give us discernment, give us
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  conviction. God, let us lay down all the
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  weights that are entangling us. I decrease as you increase.
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  Teach us Marinatha in Jesus Christ, holy and precious name I
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  pray, Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  And it came to pass in the days of Arm Rifle, King of Shinar,
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  Arioch, King of Elasar, Cheddar Lama, King of Elam and title
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  king of nations. So here we are.
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  We're going to see this confederate of rulers and
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  they're going up against the king of Sodom and they're trying
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  to revolt against any kind of tyranny and the hard pressed
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  hand upon them. Verse 2 that these made war with
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  Bera king of Sodom, and with Bersha king of Gomorrah, Shinab
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  king of Admah, and Shem Eber king of Zeboim and the king of
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  Billah, which is or so here this Confederate army going up
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  against another one, you see war breaking out.
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  You see that even from the infancy of manhood, from the
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  infancy of mankind, humanity, you see that war, just like
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  whenever Cain picked up the rock to slay his brother, you see
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  that they're warring within themselves, and this is power
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  grabs and this is about control. And here they're finally having
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  enough of the King of Sodom and the King of Gomorrah, and
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  they're going to revolt against him.
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  Verse 3, All these were joined together in the valley of Sidim,
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  which is the Salt Sea, also known as the Dead Sea.
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  For 12 years they serve Cheddar Lama, and in the 13th year they
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  rebelled. So they got it.
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  They got sick of it, they got fed up.
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  They said no more, we will no longer take this heavy taxation
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  against us. And so they revolt.
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  Verse 5. And in the 14th year, Cheddar
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  Lamer and the kings that were with him and struck the Refim
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  and Ashtarat Car name and Zooms and Ham and the Englands and
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  Shava Keratim. So here you have these real
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  people in real places, real literal geographical places.
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  And archaeology proves that these kings, archaeology proves
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  that all of this actually happened.
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  And we will catch up with the Bible, friends, it's not the
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  other way around. It's not that the Bible will
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  catch up with our times. It doesn't work that way.
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  It is us getting out of our own understanding and us saying yes
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  and Amen to all the promises contained in God's Word and
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  building our whole life upon it, and actually never calling
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  anything into question, but saying yes to all of the things
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  that are written and then allowing time and space to prove
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  the very things that the Bible tells us.
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  Six in the Horites in their mount Cyr unto El Paran, which
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  is by the wilderness 7 And they returned and came to en Mishmat,
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  which is Kadesh, and struck all the country of the Amalkalites,
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  and also the Amorites that dwell, and Hezazan Tamar.
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  So here you can see that these people are actual literal people
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  and these are places. And when they say kings, it's
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  actually more of like a governor or even a mayor of a city.
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  That is what is mentioned here. It's not in the sense that we
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  think of kingdoms and kings of these large areas of swaths of
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  lands. These would have been more like
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  the leaders of a city. 8 And there went out king of Sodom,
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  and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Adbah, and the king
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  of Zeboim and the king of Bellah, the same as Zoar, and
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  they joined battle with them in the veil of siddim, that is the
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  salt sea in the valley. Nine with Cheddar Lamar, the
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  king of Elam, and with title the king of nations, and with
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  Aramfel king of Shinar and area king of LSR. 4 Kings with five.
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  So it's four on five, friends. Let's see how it fares.
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  And the valley of Siddhim was full of slime pits and the king
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  of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell there and they remained
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  fled to the mountain. So there was these slime pits
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  there and they got trapped in them.
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  And it was a reason for them to turn and tuck tail and leave,
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  because they saw that it was to no avail for them to continue in
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  the battle. They fled to the mountain 11 and
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  they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their
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  victuals and went their way. So this was a power grab and
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  they were going to take all of not just the goods, not just the
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  treasures, but they were also going to take the people and use
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  them as well. 12 And they took Lot Abrams brothers son who
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  dwelt in Sodom and his goods and departed.
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  So we remember from a few chapters ago that Sodom pitched
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  his tent towards Sodom, Lot pitched his tent towards Sodom.
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  And we see here that he's caught up in all of this disgusting
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  practices of Sodom and Gomorrah, of the strange flesh of going
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  after all of the disgusting practices that were happening in
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  that place. And we see also as later on, as
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  the time goes on, that we'll see that Lot was in the court.
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  He was in the highest official public office, and you can see
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  here that he is deeply embedded in with the city of Sodom and
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  all the practices that are there.
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  And if we did not have the book of Hebrews to tell us that Sodom
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  was a righteous man, there's really no proof within these
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  texts that tell us that. 13 And there came one that had escaped,
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  and they told Abram the Hebrew, for he dwelt in the plaintiff
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  Mamre the Amorite, brother of Escal, the brother of Aner.
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  And these were the confederate with Abram.
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  So you can see here that one got away and they came to Abram, and
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  they said, listen, your nephew has been captured.
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  And it wouldn't have made any matter to Abram if these four
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  against 5 confederate kings went against each other.
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  It wouldn't have actually affected him in any such way.
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  But because it involved Lot, now he's forced to act.
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  And there are so many things that Abram has done wrong.
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  He went down into Egypt. He got the slave girl there.
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  He took Lot when he wasn't supposed to.
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  God is silent whenever he's moving in disobedience.
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  But the moment that he comes out of Egypt and the moment that Lot
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  took off, God started talking to him.
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  And now here we are in trouble again.
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  Look at the trouble that's been caused by Abram's disobedience
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  of not listening to God. 14 And when Abram heard that his
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  brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants born
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  in his own house, 318 and pursued them into Dan.
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  So 318 trained men. That's not including all the
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  women and children or the untrained men.
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  Look how incredibly blessed Abram is.
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  And he came out of Egypt with lots of goods, and you can see
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  here that God is blessing him even in his disobedience. 15 And
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  he divided himself against them, he and his servants by night,
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  and he struck them and pursued them unto Haba, which is on the
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  left hand of Damascus. So divide and conquer.
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  And he actually went on the sneak attack.
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  He went at night, and he told one to go one side and the other
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  to go the other side. And while they were festive and
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  while they thought that everything was good and the
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  battle was over, here comes this rogue military unit in the form
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  of Abram and his 318 trained men.
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  And you can see that when they turn to fight against one side,
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  the other side was on their back on their six and actually was
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  able to overtake them. 16 And he brought back all the goods, and
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  he also brought again his brother Lot and his goods and
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  the women also, and the people. So look at all the things that
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  he recovered. He brought back the goods, He
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  brought back lot, He brought back the women, He brought back
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  the people. What an amazing victory.
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  And God is the rear guard. God is the front guard.
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  God is your side guard. And when God is for you, no one
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  can be against you. He can shut doors that no man
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  can open. He can open the doors that no
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  man can close. He can rain down fire from
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  heaven. He can send the Angel, the
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  destroying Angel, in there, and strike all the hundreds and
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  80,000 Assyrians in one night. There's nothing impossible for
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  our God. 17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after
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  his return from the slaughter of Cheddar Lama.
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  And the kings of that were with him in the valley of Shava,
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  which is in the King's Dale. So here comes the king of Sodom,
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  and he's coming out to meet Abraham, and he sees that he has
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  all his goods with him. 18 And Melchizedek, king of Salem,
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  brought forth bread and wine, and he was the priest of the
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  Most High God, El Elyon. You can see here that this
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  mysterious king of Salem has no beginning and no end, no mother
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  or father. He's a king and a priest, and
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  this sure fits the bill of our Messiah, Yeshua.
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  Perhaps this is a Christophany, as Jesus comes out with the same
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  elements of communion, of bread and wine, pointing towards the
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  cross, pointing towards the sacrifice that he will make one
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  day. And look at how he meets Abram
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  out there, and they share this bread and this wine. 19 And he
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  blessed him and said, blessed be Abram of the Most High God,
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  possessor of heaven and earth. So God possesses heaven, God
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  possesses earth. God is the one who's blessing
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  Abram, and he's going to form an entire nation out of Abram, the
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  father of faith. And he called him out of the
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  land of the Chaldeans in the land of earth.
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  And here you can see that Abram was not a nation at this point.
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  He did not even have his own son yet.
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  And he's already being blessed by this Christophany Jesus
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  coming and sharing the communion with Abram.
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  What an amazing thought. And we know that Abram was
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  pressing towards a city that was not built by man, it was built
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  by God. We look forward to the New
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  Jerusalem. 20 And blessed be the most High God, which has
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  delivered your enemies into your hand.
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  And he gave him tides of all. So here you could see that
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  Melchizedek is blessing Jesus, blessing Abram, and then what
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  does Abram do? He turns right around and he
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  gives him a 10th of everything that he had.
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  This is our rightful response. There is nothing in our hands
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  that actually belongs to us. It all belongs to God Almighty.
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  And when we give him the 10%, we say thank you for allowing us to
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  steward the 90%. And He can do more with the 90%
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  that is blessed than he can with the 100% that is.
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  And he'll rebuke the devourer from off of the 90%, friends.
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  And you'll be able to do the things that need to be done, and
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  you'll be able to actually have more leftover in the end than
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  trying to hold on to all of it. And look at Abraham's heart.
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  It's easy for him because he understands where it all comes
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  from. It's all from God.
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  And we can take nothing with us, but we sure can send it ahead.
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  21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the people,
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  and you take the goods for yourself. 22 And Abram said to
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  the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to the Lord, the Most
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  High God, the Possessor of heaven and earth.
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  Look at how he learned that from Melchizedek.
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  That was the title that Melchizedek used talking about
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  God Almighty, Elian, the Most High God.
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  And look how now Abram is starting to figure it out and he
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  doesn't just call him Lord and I deny, he calls him Elian, the
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  Most High God, the possessor of heaven and earth.
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  Praise God 23 I will not take from you even a thread of a shoe
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  latchet, and I will not take anything that is yours unless
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  you should say I've made Abram rich.
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  So he understood the game. Abram understood what the King
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  of Sodom was after. He was trying to pigeonhole him.
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  He was trying to back him into a corner.
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  He was trying to bribe him. He was trying to get him to take
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  something so that he could turn right around and claim some kind
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  of title and some kind of victory and some kind of
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  authority over Abram. And if you think about Israel,
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  you think about the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, you
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  think about Israel, friends, and you think about how they serve
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  God Almighty. They do not serve the Pagan
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  kings and the Pagan gods all around them.
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  We'll end on 24, save only that which the young men have eaten
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  in the portion of the men which went with me.
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  Ain't no that's called mom Ray. Let them take their portion.
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  So he's saying accept what we've already eaten.
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  We will not accept a single thing.
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  Take it all. Take the goods and take the
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  people. So here you can see that Lot got
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  himself into a lot of trouble and it took the Most High God to
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  get him out of it. And because Abram is connected
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  to the Most High God, he was victorious.
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  And he shouldn't have took Lot in the 1st place and he
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  shouldn't have went down into Egypt and got Hagar.
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  But we'll learn more about that as we go.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.