Oct. 1, 2024

Abraham, David, and the Eternal Priesthood (First Words 11)

Abraham, David, and the Eternal Priesthood (First Words 11)

Send us a text Can you imagine the profound impact of understanding the lineage of Jesus Christ and its significance in the New Testament? In this enlightening episode, we promise to walk you through the pivotal genealogy introduced in Matthew 1:1, linking Jesus to Abraham and David, and setting the stage for the entire biblical narrative. By exploring the seeds of God's promises from Genesis to Revelation, you'll gain a deeper appreciation of how Jesus reveals the full nature of God, fulfill...

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Can you imagine the profound impact of understanding the lineage of Jesus Christ and its significance in the New Testament? In this enlightening episode, we promise to walk you through the pivotal genealogy introduced in Matthew 1:1, linking Jesus to Abraham and David, and setting the stage for the entire biblical narrative. By exploring the seeds of God's promises from Genesis to Revelation, you'll gain a deeper appreciation of how Jesus reveals the full nature of God, fulfilling the ancient promises made to these key patriarchs.

We also delve into the cornerstone of faith exemplified by Abraham, as highlighted in Galatians chapter 3. Learn how Abraham's reception of the promise through faith, not works, foreshadowed God's divine plan to dwell within His people by the Spirit. Paul's post-conversion insights provide a rich historical and theological context, shedding light on the stark contrast between Abraham's faithful journey and the surrounding world of idolatry and corruption. Discover why Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac and his understanding of resurrection were crucial to the endurance of faith through generations.

Finally, we unfold the eternal priesthood of Melchizedek, connecting the dots through historical figures like Moses and Jesus. Understand why Jerusalem holds such a central role in biblical prophecy and its significance from Abraham to Jesus’ ultimate promise of eternal life. Reflect on the generational blessings bestowed upon the faithful and the ongoing fulfillment of God's promises. Through this powerful episode, celebrate the timeless and unwavering faithfulness of God, as we connect ancient promises to our spiritual lives today.

00:00 - The Importance of Abraham and David

12:56 - The Promise of Abraham's Faith

26:55 - The Covenant of Abraham

45:36 - The Eternal Priesthood of Melchizedek

56:20 - The Significance of Jerusalem

01:06:09 - Generational Blessings and Promises

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We have been talking about the first words of the New Testament, matthew 1.1, where it says the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of Abraham, the son of David, why that verse is so important and why it sets the tone for the entire New Testament.

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Because, as we talked about last week, the Bible is a book of the seed, from Genesis to Revelation.

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It is a book concerning the seed of God.

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The Old Testament foretells it, the New Testament tells of the manifestation of it.

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Amen, praise God.

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The Word, or the seed, was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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No one has seen God at any time, but the only begotten of the Son of the Father, who is in the bosom of the Father.

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He has been sent to reveal him.

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He has been sent to unveil him, to make him known, reveal him.

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He has been sent to unveil him, to make him known.

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What we have in the first five books of the Old Testament tell us about God introducing himself to men, first to Adam.

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First to Adam, then to all men through Adam and then through Noah.

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Amen.

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And then God began to choose for Himself a people through whom he would send this man Jesus, and this man Jesus would be the unveiler of God, and this man Jesus would be the unveiler of God.

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So you have a partial picture of who God is in the Old Testament, but you have a much fuller picture of who God is in the New Testament, because Jesus willed to reveal him and he revealed him.

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You can just read the Beatitudes Matthew 5, 6, and 7.

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And how many times Jesus said you have heard it said of old Thou shalt not kill, but I say to you.

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And then he gives an entirely unexpected explanation of what that means Amen.

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The Jews of that day were not ready for that.

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They really didn't want to hear it, but it was written down, we have it and we believe that Jesus was sent.

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He was the sent one, and he was sent with a specific mission and that was to reveal God to men in a way that the law did not do, in a way that the books of the Torah did not do.

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The stories in Genesis told a little bit about him.

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He gave us his names, we found out what he calls himself, amen.

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But those are just kind of letters of introduction.

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You know, like hello, I am the Lord that heals you.

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Hello, I am the Lord.

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That is more than enough.

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Hello, I am Almighty God.

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Hello, I am the everlasting God.

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Hi, I am the Lord, your sanctification.

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Hello, I am the Lord, your righteousness.

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You know, this is what God did in the Old Testament.

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He just introduced himself Hello, I am the messenger of the covenant, you know.

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And he just kind of handed out business cards that were on scrolls, that were the prophecies of the prophets and the books of Moses and the books of David.

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But you don't get to know somebody by a business card.

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And God knew that.

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And so what God did is that he came in the likeness of sinful flesh so that when he introduced himself to people, they may not recognize it right off the bat.

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But to Philip he said this Philip, how can you ask me to show you the Father?

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If you have seen me, you have seen the Father.

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And I'm telling you, if he told that to Philip, he told that to a bunch of folk, because that was his mission.

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That was why he came.

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He came to reveal the Father, two of the men to whom God revealed as much as to anyone, I mean you, can.

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You know?

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There are a handful of men that knew God like nobody else knew him Moses, elijah, elijah, david, noah, enoch, seth people like that that knew God and were able.

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I mean, you know, if you've got 900 years to devote yourself to knowing God, you're going to get to know Him.

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I can't, you know.

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That's just.

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That's one of those things that just you know.

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Noah had 900 years to get to know God.

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Seth had, you know, close to 900 years.

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Enoch had 325 years and he's still living where they caught hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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The one I want to talk about tonight is why did Matthew, why did the Holy Ghost, choose Abraham and David as picking them out of all the men that lived in the Old Testament?

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Why did he say that?

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And, more specifically, because we've talked about that extensively, we said last time that the reason they were chosen was because they were the two men to whom God gave promises concerning the seed.

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Other men received prophecies, but these two men received promises.

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What I want to look at tonight, for just a few minutes, is what did God promise them?

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Amen, and why is that important?

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And I'm going to give you the answer to that question at the beginning, so that you know that this is not just about you or not just about them, but this is about you, because we belong to Abraham and we belong to David.

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You can think about the things that you've read in your lifetime in the Bible.

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I would guess that there's a very good chance that you have read more out of the book of Psalms and the book of Proverbs than you have any other out of the book of Psalms and the book of Proverbs, than you have any other book of the Bible.

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That's how much David has spoken to you.

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We still sing songs that David wrote.

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You know, if you pull out a song, what's that guy's name?

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Stephen Foster, he wrote.

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You know, if you pull out a song, what's that guy's name?

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Stephen Foster.

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He wrote.

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You know, like Camp Town Races, you know, and things like that.

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You know, maybe 200, almost 200 years ago now.

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You know, if you go find somebody like Bach or Handel or some Mozart, that's written stuff that's 250, 300 years old.

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We just thought, wow, that's a long time.

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We're singing songs written of David that are 3,000 years old.

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I am not too sure there's anybody else on the planet that is having their songs sung 3,000 years later.

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That is how important David is.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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That's how powerful the revelation that David got and the promises that David received of God.

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That's how powerful they are because they got translated into the way that David wanted to the.

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How should I say this, lord, the way that the Holy Ghost wanted to communicate those to us down through the ages and retain them was in the form of music.

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Amen, if I, if I, if I say come, bless you, the Lord.

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What's the next thing you say?

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All you, servants of the Lord, who in the, lift up your in the and and how in the world?

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Do you remember that?

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So all I have to do is give you a couple of key words and you've got the whole thing.

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You know, and you know how many different tunes that song has been placed to.

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You know they sang it.

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They sang it differently in 3,000 years ago than they sang it 2,500 years ago.

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That they sang it differently in the days of Jesus.

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And they sang it differently in 3,000 years ago than they sang it 2,500 years ago, that they sang it differently in the days of Jesus and they sang it differently in the days of the early church.

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They didn't always sing it the way we sing it now we just think that, in our arrogance, that everybody's always sung it that way.

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But that's not how it was.

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It's always had a different tune, but the words are still there.

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Hallelujah, I will enter.

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Where's the Thanksgiving?

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I will.

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I will say that, that and I will.

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I will say that.

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And you guys are too good.

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Glory to God and everybody.

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You know.

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The Lord is I.

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He maketh See how this works.

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You know more of what David, the revelations that God gave to David, probably than any other man, and he was able to get those revelations because there's a link via Melchizedek to Abraham.

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Amen, praise God.

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So, the first thing, let's turn to the book of Galatians, chapter 3.

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We're going to look at Abraham.

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We may not get past Abraham today, and that would be just fine.

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Galatians, the third chapter.

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I've said this before most, I'm going to say it again you're not going to go to heaven, because you know this.

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But it is good information, to kind of put in your thinker, that there is evidence that the first accumulations or the first collections of letters that Paul sent out to the churches contained, as the first book, the book of Romans, as the second book, the book of the letters to the Corinthians.

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It wasn't necessarily divided into 1st and 2nd Corinthians.

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That happened later and that's really not to say that 1st and 2nd Corinthians are two separate letters.

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There's really several different letters in those two books.

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So first you had the book of Romans, then you had the book of the letters to the Corinthians, then you had the book of the letters to the Corinthians, then you had the book of Galatians, then you had the book of Hebrews, and that's what the first collections of letters that Paul sent out contained, what the first collections of letters that Paul sent out contained.

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Galatians is one of the most important books in the New Testament, and in Galatians 3.14, it says this the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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Right there in that one verse, you find out that the promise that was made to Abraham one of the promises that was made to Abraham, and perhaps the most important was the promise of the Spirit by faith, not by works.

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Now what does that mean?

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That means and we're going to see here in another scripture that God preached the gospel to Abraham, amen.

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So if you preach the gospel to Abraham, amen.

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So if you preach the gospel to Abraham.

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He had to preach to him that there was coming a time when God would dwell in his people by his Spirit.

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Now there are a handful of people on the planet that have come out of Noah that know God.

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At this day, most of them have been totally corrupted by the seed that came out of Ham, nimrod and all of that bunch.

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Okay, so here's Abraham, pretty much all by himself over in Canaan, and God's telling him that there's coming a day when I am going to live in flesh, and I'm going to do it two ways.

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I'm going to do it by the Spirit.

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In other words, I'm going to place my Spirit in men, but the only way they can receive my Spirit is by faith, and I'm going to give you, abraham, the gift of faith, that is, I'm going to give you the ability to hear me and believe me and then do what that hearing and believing say, and it is through that hearing and believing that people will be filled with my spirit, and this is how it's going to work.

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As far as I can tell, this may not be the absolute bottom line on this, but as far as I can tell, abraham was the first person to ever hear this gospel and he was the first person to whom it was given the promise that God was going to inhabit flesh.

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Now that I mean, just put yourself in Abraham's position, just put yourself in that you know you live in a world where it's pretty hard to find God anywhere.

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We've got giants, we've got degradation, we've got evil, we've got human sacrifices, we've got you know all kinds of stuff going on.

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We've got Sodom and Gomorrah times, a thousand all over the place.

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And here's Abraham trying to live righteously before God.

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And God says there's coming a day, abraham, and it's going to come through you.

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I'm telling you, because it's going to come through you, that I am going to come down from heaven and live in flesh.

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It has been my design from the beginning.

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And then he started to preach the entirety of the gospel to him.

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But the promise right here in Galatians now do you realize how we are?

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From Abraham backwards from David is another thousand years.

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So by the time Paul gets taken out into the wilderness of Arabia and taught by Jesus after he was converted, amen.

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It's 2,000 years backwards to Abraham.

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And Paul has to be taught everything that Abraham was taught, just so that he can write the book of Galatians and the book of Hebrews and the middle section of the book of Romans.

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All of that, the middle section of the book of Romans, these chapters here in Galatians and that whole section in the middle part of Hebrews is about the revelation that was given to Abraham in the presence of Melchizedek.

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And all of that had to be given to Paul so that Paul could write it down.

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Are you understanding what I'm telling you?

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That Abraham was given the gospel, moses was given the law.

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The number of prophecies that Moses was given as a prophet of God concerning Jesus were pinpoint precise.

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There is coming one after me that is just like me.

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You need to listen to him.

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But they weren't very numerous.

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But the Bible says, and it's not said of Moses that God preached the gospel to him.

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But it is said of Abraham that God preached the gospel to him.

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But it is said of Abraham that God preached the gospel to Abraham.

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Now, if he preached the gospel to Abraham amen do you think that he just preached part of it?

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I would not think so.

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I would think that he preached the whole gospel, the full gospel, the entirety of the gospel.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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And if he preached the entirety of the gospel, then he has to preach the entirety that.

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Jesus is the revealer of God.

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He's the revealer of what the plans and purposes of God, amen, and he is.

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He's also a the one who is going to baptize in the Holy ghost.

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So there had to be a discussion of what that is.

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All of this took a long time, and this is why Abraham was sent to Canaan, so that he could sit under this man, melchizedek, and be taught the gospel of God.

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Praise God, hallelujah, so the promise of the Holy Spirit.

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Now, getting back to this point, the world that Abraham lived in was not exactly the kind of world that you could imagine that God would come and dwell in these men.

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So there was obviously something that Abraham saw that we wouldn't be able to see because we don't live in that.

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He was living in a land populated by giants.

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He was living in a land that was totally co-opted by satan.

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You know, these people were abominable.

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You can't even it's not, it's not even polite in any kind of room of people to talk about these things, because the Bible tells us not to talk about this kind of stuff.

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It just you can't.

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You know.

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Just imagine your worst imaginations about Sodom, and that's just one instance of it.

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God would have been fully justified to rain fire and brimstone on the entirety of the planet, but he had another vision, and that vision was the vision of the Holy Ghost possessing the human race.

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Now I don't care how you cut it, if God comes and tells you I'm going to come down from heaven and I'm going to live in men, and that has always been my vision.

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I'm not too sure.

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He had that conversation with Adam.

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He may have had it with Seth and he may have had it with Abel, and he may have had it with Seth and he may have had it with Abel and he may have had it with Enoch and he may have had it along the line between Seth and Enoch.

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But I'm not too sure.

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But I do know this he had that conversation with Abraham.

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That I know.

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That is confirmed in your Bible, because it says that he preached the gospel to Abraham.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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Not only did he preach the gospel to Abraham, but verse 14 says that the promise of the Spirit is the blessing of Abraham.

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It is what God blessed Abraham to communicate.

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Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.

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In verse 8, it says this and here's the scripture that tells us that God preached the gospel to Abraham and the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith.

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God preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying in you, all the nations would be blessed.

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He promised Abraham through the preaching of his gospel, that through him there was a promise of endless generations.

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So Abraham was not limited to generations that were produced out of his loins, but he would be enriched with generations of into eternity that would come to him because they believe with the same faith that Abraham did.

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Abraham is the father of faith.

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Faith came to Abraham because he believed God and it was counted unto him as righteousness Amen.

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And through Abraham that faith was extended, and the promise of it to him was that it was going to be extended into endless generations, not only expanding out this way over the face of the earth, but expanding this way through time.

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And he, he.

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This is a tremendous promise that God gives Abraham.

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Not only has he promised that he is going to dwell in men, but that they are going to live by faith, the just live by faith, amen.

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They're going to live by faith and they're going to live in this endless line of generations.

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We're so used to reducing down to the bare minimum the promises of God that God made Abraham?

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Amen.

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But the man was taught by the incarnation of Jesus he came into, he left Haran and came to Canaan when he was 75 years old and began to be taught by Melchizedek.

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The man lived to be 175 years old.

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He was taught by God for 100 years, and before that he was taught by Noah, and before that he was taught by Noah, the man had some serious, serious amount of time to draw near to God and hear things that most men did not hear.

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Now, if you think well, so what I'm going to tell you.

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So what?

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Do you know?

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Why God picked Abraham?

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The Bible says because God knew that he would instruct his children.

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And so not only was Abraham a hundred years being taught by God, but for those hundred years he taught Isaac and Melchizedek taught Isaac and he taught Jacob and Melchizedek taught Jacob and Isaac taught Jacob.

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And so by the time that Jacob left Canaan and went into Egypt, time that Jacob left Canaan and went into Egypt amen.

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God was assured that what he had taught to Abraham would make it through the 400 years that they were going to be in bondage to Egypt and the 40 years that would come out before they came into Canaan.

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Are you hearing this?

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That's a lot to put on one man we had.

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Listen, you got to get rid of these ideas that Sunday school teaches.

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You know this kind of.

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You know a couple of occasional meetings, a couple of occasional visitations with God, a couple of little you know times that he spent with Melchizedek.

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The man was sent to Canaan to spend a hundred years being taught of God.

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Why?

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Because he's the father of faith.

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If faith doesn't make it through, can I preach here?

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If faith doesn't make it through a thousand years to get to David, we are in big trouble.

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Because if David I've taught you all this and we're going to go over it again If David doesn't defeat Goliath, we never hear about Abraham.

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We never hear about Moses.

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We never hear about Sinai.

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We never hear about the law.

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We never hear about Moses.

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We never hear about Sinai.

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We never hear about the law.

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We never hear about any of that.

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Israel is just wiped off the pages of history.

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I mean, you have to, you really do have to realize this that Israel is not this great populated nation and area in the world that everybody just pays attention to for centuries.

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It is only when David shows up and David builds that building up there and the presence of God hovers over that building that Israel becomes known.

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And the fact that David in his day, conquered many nations and plundered them, amen.

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And for 500 years that kingdom was a force to be reckoned with.

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It's because of that that we know about them.

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Amen, because that created.

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But still, I mean, if it hadn't been for Jesus, we still wouldn't have known about them.

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But Jesus is the link to all of those things in the past, but so is David and definitely is Abraham.

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Praise God, not only is there endless generations that they're going to go on forever, but these endless generations are populated with people who have eternal life.

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That's the third promise Now, and we talked about this, but it bears repeating.

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You know the story.

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One of the most famous stories about Abraham is the willing sacrifice of Isaac.

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Amen.

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And one of the most important stories about Isaac is the willing sacrifice of Isaac Because, you know, at that age he probably could have taken the old man in an arm wrestling contest and said you know, we're really not going to do this today, dad.

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You know, let's go find the ram, you know, and Abraham would have you know, had a hard time.

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You know, when he's a hundred and something years old, you years old, wrestling a young man.

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Anyway, praise God.

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Both of those stories are important from both sides, from Abraham's side, from Isaac's side.

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They are both defining for their lives, amen.

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However, it's not told in the book of Genesis, but it is told in the book of Romans, concerning Abraham, that he was willing to sacrifice Isaac because he figured that if God gave Isaac to him as a promise, as a child of promise, a miracle child, that if he required him as a sacrifice, he would raise him up from the dead.

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So I asked God, I said where did he learn about the resurrection of the dead?

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Because as far as I can see, nobody's been resurrected yet.

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We haven't got to those stories.

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Those stories happened with the coming of Elijah.

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We haven't got to those kind of stories yet.

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And he said what did I say?

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I preached the gospel to him.

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I cannot preach the gospel without preaching the resurrection, see the book of Acts.

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And furthermore, when Martha and Mary both wanted an explanation of why Jesus was late, jesus basically said I'm never late, I am the resurrection and the life.

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So you know, abraham did not get the Cliff Notes version of the gospel.

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He didn't.

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You know, he didn't get the little simple you know, squeeze the, squeeze a couple of points out of it and say, okay, you got it, praise God.

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He got a hundred years of it, taught to him by God himself, either in the form of visions and visitations or in the form of Melchizedek's presence.

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Melchizedek's presence, and the man was taught the gospel In.

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That gospel was the gospel of the resurrection.

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And so he fully expected that he wouldn't even get the knife out of Isaac before God had raised him from the dead.

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And in a way, god did raise him from the dead, because Abraham had his knife ready and was just inches away from plunging it into his heart.

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But since Abraham was taught so perfectly to hear and obey, all the angel had to do was say Stop, abraham, don't kill the lad.

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That was it.

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Knife was dropped, act was over.

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God said now I know you really believe me, love me, trust me, amen.

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And everything was changed.

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But the fact of the matter is that in that act, eternal life was transferred to all of these nations by faith, amen.

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Now it only gets activated when Jesus shows up.

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See, you have in everything that God did in the Old Testament.

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There was a first fruits, and then there was a reality of that, a headship, either in Jesus or in John the Baptist.

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I can't go into that.

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It takes too long to teach that.

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But Abraham is the firstfruits of the covenant of faith.

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We are under that covenant.

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The New Testament is the covenant of Abraham.

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It's the covenant that God made with Abraham concerning faith.

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Amen.

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And Jesus ratifies that.

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Jesus certifies that Jesus is the head of that, amen.

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He didn't just pick any old covenant out and say this is going to be my blood of the new covenant, amen.

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That covenant was new because it had never been canceled.

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The covenant of Abraham is still intact, just the way the covenant of Noah is still intact.

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Hello, praise God.

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If you don't come into Abraham's covenant, you are under Noah's covenant.

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So by Isaac, this gift of eternal life is passed to all these nations that are promised to Abraham.

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Now watch how this, watch how God did this when God walked with Enoch and the Bible.

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This is on the other side of the flood.

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Enoch was Noah's great grandfather and or grandfather, I can't remember, I had to look it up, but anyway, it doesn't matter when Enoch walked with God and the Bible says that he walked right past death and into eternity but before he did that, because he had spent so many years walking with God, and before he had offspring, god chose Enoch because of his faith.

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He chose him to be the one that he was going to change his DNA, and he changed his DNA to be able to receive eternity.

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See, by Adam, sin entered the world, yes, however, something happened in Enoch that his genetic code was restored, and not only restored, was made better than Adam's originally.

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How do I know that?

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Because he's the only one that walked off the planet, except for Elijah, and I've got a real strong inkling that Elijah was just Enoch coming back another time.

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That's another story.

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Not reincarnated, he just came back.

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You know the way Jesus came back several times in different forms, the way Jesus came back several times in different forms.

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We don't have any account of Elijah being born.

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We don't have any account of Elijah dying.

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He doesn't have a mother, he doesn't have a father.

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He just shows up and he's praying so strongly that he can keep the rain from falling for three and a half years.

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Next thing we know he's disappearing in a burning chariot, which is nothing more than an angelic host carrying him off over to God.

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Doesn't matter if he's Enoch or not.

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What matters about Enoch is that Enoch walked with God and God changed his DNA so the death couldn't touch him.

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And when that happened, that DNA went into Methuselah, it went into Noah, it came across the flood and went into Seth.

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Ten generations later it went into Abraham.

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And when God started to speak to Abraham concerning eternal life, because of Isaac Amen, oh, glory to God there was a DNA structure in Abraham that could respond.

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I believe that If he didn't believe that, he would have never lifted the knife against Isaac, but the Bible says that he reckoned that God could raise him from the dead.

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So it was that.

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It was the combination of Enoch's DNA transfer and change with the word of God, the preached gospel that God was preaching to Abraham.

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Those things working together enabled not only for Abraham to spare his son by his faith, but it passed on eternity to all who would believe, but as to many as received him.

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He gave them the power to become the sons of God, even them that believe upon his name.

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Now, what is that promise that's made to the sons of God?

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You're going to be like him.

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You're going to be eternal.

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You're going to be as he appears.

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You're going to be like him.

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You're going to be eternal.

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You're going to be as he appears.

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You're going to be like him.

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You're going to put on this eternity.

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Glory to God.

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Everything about Jesus is eternal.

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See, we're just so happy we had our sins forgiven and we get to go to heaven.

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You haven't even dealt with the fact that heaven is eternal.

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Heaven is forever.

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So the next time you think you know I'm going to heaven and we're going to be, you know hanging out with, with you know all the friends and everybody else.

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You didn't get along with them when you were down here.

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What do you want to go?

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Spend eternity with them for Glory to God?

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I mean, just schedule them a vacation every millennia or so, just check them out.

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That's not what eternity is about.

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Eternity is about being in Jesus forever and whatever Jesus wills for you to do.

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That's what you get to do, and you don't get to ask for hall passes to go do what you want to do.

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That's not permitted.

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That's exalting your will against his.

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You don't get to do that.

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You don't ever get to do that.

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I was listening to somebody who had been to heaven not one of your typical go to heaven things, but and he was talking to some of the ministering spirits and they were relating to him that when you get on the other side, you're going to find out that things aren't done here the way you think they are and that some of the people that you think will be in charge are not going to be in charge.

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They're going to be serving, and other people that you think are absolute nobodies are going to be in charge of things, because Jesus just runs things differently than than we do.

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And the man that was telling the story said aren't you, don't you ever?

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What about the guys that you know work so hard here?

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And now they're?

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They're not.

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They don't have big jobs in heaven.

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Does that, does that bother them?

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Or does it bother you that you're over them?

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And he said I know you think like that, but we don't ever think like that.

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That kind of jealousy and envy and just self-centeredness is not even an issue.

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The only thing that's an issue is what does he want?

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And that's what we do.

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That's all we do.

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That's all we can do.

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We have been made new.

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To be made new is to have your will completely redone, jesus.

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The same verse in John 1, 11 and 12,.

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He was sent to His own, but His own received Him not, but to them that received Him.

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He gave the exousia, he gave the will-bending power to become the sons of God, hallelujah.

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Now, all of that was preached to Abraham.

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Now, if you've got a hundred year private lessons with Melchizedek, you're going to find something else out, about something that was promised to Abraham, and that is this eternal priesthood, this eternal priesthood that the revelation of that was given to David.

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To write down you are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek, talking about Jesus.

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But if you think that that particular revelation did not come to anybody until it was given to David, then why in the world would Melchizedek be there for Abraham?

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The eternal priesthood of Melchizedek was preached to Father Abraham, and so that as he preached listen to me very carefully as he preached the same thing to his sons, isaac and his sons Jacob, amen and their sons, as many as were alive when he finally left, amen, they were taught about the priesthood.

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They were also taught that at some point another priest would come that was different than Melchizedek.

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It wasn't like it was a new priesthood or a new version of Melchizedek.

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It was just a priesthood that would govern the people of Abraham.

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Amen, you follow me.

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So when all of this came, when the law came into be in the wilderness of Sinai amen, this was not a surprise.

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There had always been a priesthood.

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Listen, who did Moses marry?

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Moses married a daughter of a priest of God in Midian.

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Midian is this place right around Israel.

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Amen.

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But if you read your Bible, midian is one of the sons of Abraham that he had with his wife after Sarah.

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So one of Midian's sons, one of his sons, was Midian.

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And that son, midian, was taught the ways of God.

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So that 400 years later, everybody say 400 and something years later, moses runs out of Egypt.

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Hundred years later, everybody say four hundred and something years later, moses runs out of Egypt.

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Everybody say this did not catch God by surprise.

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Moses is running across the desert and he's going to get out of Egypt right.

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And he ends up where, in Midian?

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And does what?

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Runs into another girl at the well.

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I don't know what it is about God and girls at the well, but here's another one, amen.

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And Moses Ends up marrying the girl.

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Her name is Zephora, and he marries her and, lo and behold, she is the daughter of the high priest of Midian.

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Now you know, if you don't study this out, you'll think that you know.

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This guy's just some wacko local priest guy.

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He's not.

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That he is flowing.

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Well, somebody might say hallelujah right here.

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The only priesthood he knows to imitate is the priesthood of Melchizedek.

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It's the only one he was taught.

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The law hasn't been given yet.

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There's only one priesthood of God on the planet at this point Amen, and it's still the priesthood of Melchizedek.

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And besides that, this nation was founded by Abraham.

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Well, somebody help me.

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This is what I'm talking about.

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We're talking about endless generations.

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We're talking about generations that just you know.

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This generation just sprung up over here.

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It's called Midian.

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This generation springs up over here.

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It's called this, it's called this.

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These are nations of Abraham's flesh, but we're talking.

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Add to that, then the nations that come in by faith, and they're all still learning about this endless priesthood that's tied to Melchizedek.

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So guess what Moses was trained in?

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For 40 years.

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He learned how to be an Egyptian for 40 years and he learned how to be a priest according to the order of Melchizedek for 40 years.

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Now, let me just throw this at you For those of you who want to still watch Charlton Heston in the Ten Commandments, which is a great movie, but it's a movie.

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Ask yourself this question why was Moses not made the high priest according to the order of Levi?

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Why did that fall to Aaron?

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And the answer is because, I I think because Moses was trained under a different order, aaron was not.

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And because Moses was trained under the order of Melchizedek, to go to the order of Levi, aaron would have been a down step, would have been a step down For Aaron.

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It was not, and so Aaron could be subservient to Moses in their roles.

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Amen, because Moses was trained in Melchizedek and Aaron was not.

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Aaron would then be the high priest of the law order, but it was always under Moses, and then it was under Samuel, and then it was under David, and then it was under Zadok.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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And then it was under John the Baptist, and then it was under John the Baptist and then it was under Jesus Hallelujah, praise God.

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And Jesus came in that order and everything was under him.

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Got one more point In Genesis 13, verse 17,.

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All of Israel is promised to Abraham.

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Now, at the time of Abraham, jerusalem was under the kingship of Melchizedek.

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He was the king of Salem.

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He was the king of righteousness.

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He was the king of peace.

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King of Salem means the king of Shalom.

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He is the king of peace.

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He is the king of righteousness, right?

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That's what the book of Hebrews says.

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So his kingship and his priesthood were based in Jerusalem.

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Are you with me?

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So if all of Israel, all of Canaan, up past the Golan Heights into Syria and down into the desert reaches of the Sinai, all of that was promised to Abraham.

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Amen, and right in the middle of it is Jerusalem.

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So Jerusalem was a promised possession of Abraham.

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Now, for the time?

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I believe that, for the time that Abraham was there and alive, melchizedek was there.

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I believe that Melchizedek was there until Jacob left and took all of his family into Egypt.

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I believe that.

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But the promise was given to Abraham that Jerusalem was his.

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Not only was that Jerusalem his, but the heavenly Jerusalem was his.

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Amen, because that was Sarah.

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Glory to God.

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Now, what does this all have to do with?

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We're going to study this a whole lot more, but this is what this has to do with.

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We're going to study this a whole lot more, but this is what this has to do with and why this is important.

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The promise was not only to give him all of the territory, but it was to give him dominion over Jerusalem.

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Now we're still fighting that, and if you think we're not, then you don't understand what's really going on.

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And it is not.

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It is not because either side in this situation understands the situation.

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They do not understand the situation because neither side is factoring Jesus into it.

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Amen, but there wasn't any way that God could not give Abraham Jerusalem.

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There was not any way that David could not repossess Jerusalem for both Melchizedek and for Abraham, amen and make it the city of David and essentially set Jerusalem up as the national capital of the Jews.

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Amen, so that when Jesus came, all of the prophecies concerning him and Jerusalem could be fulfilled, couldn't be falling into somebody else's hands.

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But then the Bible says in the book of Revelation that there's going to be a time of time a time times and half a time that Jerusalem will be given to the Gentiles to be trodden on.

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But then there's a time when that time ends, okay, and the promises made to Abraham and the promises made to David concerning Jerusalem have to come to pass, because there's still some serious prophecies concerning Jesus and His return that are hard to deal with.

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If you don't, if Jerusalem is in the hands of the infidels.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Now.

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See, you know this stuff, even though this stuff, could you know, takes better part of 4,000 years.

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You know it's only been 6,000 years since Eden, hello, and 4,000 that years of those years have been, either, have been under the shadow Abraham, david and Jesus, and all the time that all of that is going on, jerusalem is right in the middle of those 4,000 years.

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Hello, can I just give you a snapshot?

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Here's Abraham, here's Melchizedek, here's Abraham's private school of gospel theology for a hundred years, to which Isaac went, to which Jacob went, judah went.

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Are you hearing anything I'm saying?

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It's all done in Jerusalem, amen.

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When they come back, jerusalem's still in the middle.

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The Jebusites take it over from the Amorites and David has to repossess it.

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It takes a thousand years to repossess Jerusalem, but then it's in the Jews' possession for a thousand years until Jesus comes, amen.

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Jesus comes and repossesses Jerusalem by entering on a donkey and not a horse.

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He takes the authority of the king and enters into the king's dominion Both as priest and king, and repossesses Jerusalem.

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It costs him his life, but he's resurrected right there in Jerusalem.

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Amen.

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The Holy Ghost is poured out in Jerusalem.

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Jesus is ascended into heaven not far from Jerusalem.

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The basis of the of the of the new church is started in Jerusalem.

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Then it's moved out of Jerusalem because Jesus, because God, prophesies its destruction and they moved to Antioch, but it's still an important, foundational piece of the new church.

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Hello, a thousand years later, we talk a thousand years as a day and a day as a thousand.

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A thousand years later, half of Europe comes to Jerusalem to set it free again.

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And another thousand years goes by and God resettles the Jewish people in Israel.

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But they can't get their hands on Jerusalem until one war after another war, after another war, and now it's in their possession.

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Are you hearing me?

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This city, which is the geographical center of all land mass on the planet, graphical center of all landmass on the planet, god said it, is where I have decided to place my name.

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Well, you can do whatever you want.

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You can make a dome, you can make this thing, you can make that thing, you can raise this army, you can shoot this, this rocket, you can do whatever you want to do, but the God who introduced himself to Abraham is Almighty God, god who is enough, god who always, who always provides, god, who is the God, who was and is and is to come.

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That God has said I'm going to put my name in this city because I am the God of Abraham, I am the God of Isaac, I am the God of Jacob and I'm going to put their name in this city.

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I am the God of David and he's already the king of this city.

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Well, forever and ever.

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I've already said that, because what I have said establishes what I'm going to put my name on.

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This is why this is so important, because it all boils down to Jerusalem, and it all boils down to Jerusalem because that's where Jesus is going to come back.

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Hallelujah.

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Now.

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You may not like any of that and you may not want any of that and you may want something else, but I'm going to tell you that he's got a promise that he made to Abraham and he is going to keep that promise.

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And let me tell you something else On the day of Pentecost, there were 3,000 saved.

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Those 3,000 went all over the world and took this message that God originally preached to Abraham and took it everywhere.

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There will be another Pentecost on the Temple Mount and when that Pentecost happens, there's going to be an outpouring like we have never seen.

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Oh, glory to God.

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If you think he brought down Moses and Elijah down to witness what was about to happen at the top of the transfiguration mountain, wait until this one comes.

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And Abraham's there, and Isaac is there, and Jacob is there.

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Elijah comes back, moses comes back.

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Glory to God.

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It'll make the 3,000 look like a weak warm-up and all of Israel will be saved.

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That's what the Bible says.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise God.

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The promises that God made to Abraham are important because they were made to you.

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They weren't just made to him, they were made to you.

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You were in this.

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This is what God promised Abraham.

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What he promised Abraham was.

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He promised Abraham you, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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And in that promise to Abraham, he also promised you all of these things.

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The Holy Ghost, endless generations.

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Do you not know that?

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The Bible says that if you'll obey him, his faithfulness to you is for a thousand generations?

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Glory to God.

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The Bible counts 42 generations, from Abraham to Jesus.

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That's 2,000 years worth of generations, 42.

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42.

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But the 42nd one is an eternal generation.

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It can go on forever and forever and forever.

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That was promised to you.

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Eternal life is promised to you.

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Eternal priesthood is promised to you, an eternal promise to repossess Jerusalem.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord, son of Abraham, because promises were made and the promises were made.

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Amen, are promises that God's going to keep, not only to Abraham, but to you and to your generations.

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Hallelujah, remember that song we sang about the.

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The Lord bless you and keep you.

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The Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you.

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The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace To a thousand generations and generations upon generations, upon generations, upon generations.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Father, bless your Word prospering in our hearts.

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Let it reverberate in us.

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Oh God, in Jesus' name, we thank you and we praise you and we give you all the glory and honor.

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Blessed be the name of our God.

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Hallelujah.

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Thank you, jesus.

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Hallelujah, praise God.