Jan. 23, 2025

Abraham: Father of Faith and a Man of War - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 1 - From Abel to Elijah), Episode 06

Abraham: Father of Faith and a Man of War - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 1 - From Abel to Elijah), Episode 06

Send us a text Discover the fascinating journey of the biblical figure Abraham as we've never seen him before. What if the patriarch we know was also a formidable military strategist? You'll be taken through a riveting exploration of Abraham's life, revealing his strategic prowess and leadership in navigating lands filled with giants and adversities. Uncover how these traits were pivotal in fulfilling the destiny God had in store for him, and learn how his determination to pursue divine promi...

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Discover the fascinating journey of the biblical figure Abraham as we've never seen him before. What if the patriarch we know was also a formidable military strategist? You'll be taken through a riveting exploration of Abraham's life, revealing his strategic prowess and leadership in navigating lands filled with giants and adversities. Uncover how these traits were pivotal in fulfilling the destiny God had in store for him, and learn how his determination to pursue divine promises can inspire us today.

This episode promises to challenge traditional perceptions, spotlighting Abraham's role in the ancient conflict of the righteous lineage against forces like Nimrod and the spirit of Antichrist. We delve into his active engagement in God's promises, highlighting the necessity of faith-driven action. From assembling an army of 318 men to facing the giants, Abraham's journey showcases the importance of persistence and courage. By drawing parallels to our own challenges, we reflect on how these time-honored narratives serve as a guide for spiritual strength and resilience.

Join us as we examine significant events such as Abraham's encounters with Melchizedek and the consequential battles against ancient kingdoms. These stories not only illuminate Abraham's historical and spiritual legacy but also demonstrate the assured victory of the divine seed against the forces of darkness. Celebrate the enduring triumph of faith, and take inspiration from the ancient tales of courage and divine orchestration. Let's stand firm against today's giants, drawing strength from these ancient lessons.

00:00 - The Seed

07:15 - Abraham

18:28 - Pursuing God's Promises Through Persistence

31:18 - The Giant Battle

38:58 - God's Vengeance on Sodom and Gomorrah

47:16 - Melchizedek Blesses Abram's Victory

01:01:04 - The Battle That Changed History

01:09:37 - The Unbeatable Champion of the Universe

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Well, praise the Lord, hallelujah, we're going to depart from the confrontation between Nimrod, driven by the spirit of Antichrist, and by the seed of Seth, and then the seed of Noah, the seed of Shem, who were continually finding places to make altars to the Lord, calling on the name of the Lord.

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We saw how that conflict ended, with the Lord terminating the building of the city of Babylon, confusing the languages of the nations and scattering them abroad over the face of the earth.

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In that aftermath of that, several generations and several hundred years, emerged the next major person in the story of the seed, and that person is Abraham.

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The Bible says in Genesis 11, 31,.

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Well before that, the seed we know was prophesied back in Genesis 3, and we have a direct bloodline that flows from Seth to Noah, from Noah to Shem, from Shem to Abraham.

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We know that.

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The Bible says that.

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It shows that in the genealogy, that's in Luke, chapter 3.

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Amen, and so the seed.

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Again, the seed is the focus.

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The seed is what the Bible is all about.

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The seed is what the Bible is all about.

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You can draw a line from Abel to Revelation, and it's all about Jesus the seed.

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Amen.

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It's about Jesus the Messiah.

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It's about Jesus the Messiah, it's about Jesus the Redeemer, but most of all it's about Jesus the seed, because that defines the beginning of the second creation, hallelujah.

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And in the seed is all of the vision and promise of God.

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God put in the seed everything that he wanted to bring forth in the new creation and then caused that seed that had existed forever, caused that seed to be planted so that it could come forth.

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I've said this many times, but it bears repeating that this creation is not the end of things.

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This creation is the womb, if you will, into which the seed was planted and from that planting, another creation is going to come forth, that we call the second creation or the new creation, of which Jesus is the head, the body is that part of him that contains that new creation Amen and that is just going to grow and grow and expand, and expand until all of the old creation is swallowed up into the new creation.

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So it's not a stretch to say that from one end of eternity to the other end of the eternity is the story of the seed, because the seed is the single most important thing to understand.

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I never will forget the day that the Lord interrupted me and just told me this right out of the blue.

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He said if you don't understand the seed, you can never understand me, and if you don't understand the seed you'll never understand what I'm doing, praise God.

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So that's an important thing to have in your mind as we start this lesson tonight.

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In Genesis 11.31, it says and Teras took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Aaron took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Aaron and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans, to go to the land of Canaan.

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Ur was another city like Babylon, like some of the other, like Nineveh other cities that had been built by Nimrod and had started a civilization there in the plains of Shinar.

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They went out from Ur and they went to go to the land of Canaan.

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So they went out of the land of Cush.

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Cush was one of the sons of Canaan.

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Okay, ham had a son.

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One of his sons' name was Canaan.

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One of the sons' name was Cush Amen, amen, cush.

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And that offspring were settled over in Babylon.

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Canaan and his offspring were settled over in what is now Israel.

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We are in chapter 11, genesis 11, 31.

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So they went out of the land of Cush and into the land of Canaan.

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They went out of the land that was dominated by Nimrod, by his wife Seremirus, a land full of confusion, a land full of destruction, and they went out of that land and went to a land that was dominated by giants and genetic pollution.

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So I want to make this point we don't often think of Abraham as a military man.

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Think of Abraham as a military man.

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We, we mostly think of Abraham as kind of this old, long, white bearded guy, you know, who didn't really get started in life until he was about a hundred, you know, and then he had, you know, many sons.

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You know the song and uh, and that's what we think of Abraham.

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We have an idea of Abraham because of what we're told about Abraham.

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But if you carefully read the first introductory chapters of his story in the book of Genesis, which actually starts in chapter 11 and goes through for many chapters If you read those chapters carefully, you'll find out that Abraham not only knew how to wage war, he knew how to assemble an army and he knew how to keep that army mobile, fed, armed and at his disposal even while traveling long distances all around the land of the Canaanites.

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He actually took a troop of people into Egypt.

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All of this stuff is there, but if you're not looking for it, you'll miss it.

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Now, why is that important?

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Because God used that to set Abraham up with a confrontation that would set history on its ear.

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Now, remember, everything is about the seed, all right.

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So he got out of one place where giants had ruled and started to raise a tower and started to build an idol, to reach under the heavens and reach unto God, and transferred them, and God moved them by divine order.

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He told Abraham by divine order to get out of Ur, and his father packed up the whole family and started to move toward Canaan.

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They stopped at a place called Haran H-A-R-A-N and stayed there a good long while, and then God spoke to Abraham again and told him to get out of there and get on the way to Canaan, and his father stayed behind.

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Now, I don't know how many times I've heard these stories, but you get this impression.

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This is the impression you get that when Abraham was 75 years old, god spoke to him in Ur and told him to get out of Ur and leave his father and all of his family and go to Canaan Right.

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Next thing you find is that he's not leading the parade.

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The father, terah, is leading the parade and he's taking everybody out of Ur and going to a place called Haran and he stays there for a while and everybody assumes that in that place he died and then Abraham left.

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But that can't possibly be, because the numbers don't add up.

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If you read the numbers, abraham's father was 70 years old when he had Abraham.

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Abraham was 75 years old when God told him to leave his father and go to Canaan.

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But the problem is that only adds up to 145 years and Terah lived to be 205 years old.

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That's 60 years later.

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Terah lived to be 205 years old.

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That's 60 years later.

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So the fact of the matter is that he stayed.

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He just stayed behind in Haran and didn't go with Abraham.

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He just stayed behind 60 years and died.

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Abraham moved on when he was 75 years because God didn't speak to him until he had gotten to Haran.

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Jesus, hallelujah it's all there in the Bible, but that's not how the story's told.

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You know, if people start preaching about Abraham, they weave all this stuff in and it's not accurate.

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That doesn't make really any difference.

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But the point of the matter is that Abraham was sent out of Ur.

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He had already been trained and when they got to Haran, his training allowed him to start to assemble men into an army.

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He had 300 and some men, hello, you know, I don't know, in the military.

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I don't know how many men 300 men is, but it's a sizable number of men.

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That's like a I don don't know a company A little bit bigger than the company.

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So you know, they put what majors over that kind of group of people, or maybe even lieutenant colonels.

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You know, I don't know, I don't know anything about this stuff.

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All I know is that he had a sizable number of people and it is a major job.

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If you, if any of you, have had teenage boys, you know what what dinner looks like.

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You know it looks like half a cow, you know.

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And get all the milk out of it before you, you know, put it on the table.

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You know my mom used to.

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My mom just dispensed with glasses.

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She just set a quart of milk on the table.

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My mom just dispensed with glasses.

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She just set a quart of milk on the table to have at it.

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If you've had a teenage boy, you know what it's like to feed.

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Just imagine feeding 300 young men.

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What that's into and all of their livestock that it would take to support them and to arm them.

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You know, when we see Abraham arm 318 of his servants, we're thinking he just got them out of the field someplace, you know, and you know, got them out of the goat pack and, you know, just put a helmet on their head and a spear in their hand and said let's go fight guys.

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That was not what happened.

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He had these guys with him.

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I can show you in the Bible where he actually took them to Egypt and back, which is nothing more than a reconnaissance effort.

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He had to see what his southern flank was like before he went to war in the middle of what is now Israel.

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Amen, and take on armies of giants.

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They would have been mincemeat, don't you think, praise God, meat, don't you think, praise God.

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So we went out of a land dominated by Nimrod and into another land dominated by giants and genetic pollution, to receive an inheritance.

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Look at chapter 12, verse 1.

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And the Lord said to Abram get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house he was staying in Haran at the time that this word came to him Into a land I will show you and I will make you a great nation.

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I will bless you.

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I will make your name great and you shall be a blessing.

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I will bless those who bless you and I will bless you.

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I will make your name great and you shall be a blessing.

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I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you and in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

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Amen.

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This is a prophecy spoken by the Lord to Abraham, or to Abram in that day, concerning his destiny, concerning what was awaiting him, because Abram was the carrier of the seed and the promise.

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Remember what Paul says in the book of Galatians, chapter 3, and the promise was to Abraham and his seed.

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Now see, you'll see in your body and many of your translations you'll see that the word where God talks to Abraham about his seed, he talks to him.

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They'll translate that as descendants.

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But Paul says this that he made the promise to Abraham and his seed, not many seeds, but one seed, and that seed was Christ.

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So like, for example, my Bible has in I don't know, I'll find it here in a minute, okay, in verse 7 of chapter 12, it said the Lord appeared to Abraham and and said to your descendants I will give the land, give this land.

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But that's not the right translation, because Paul says the promises of God to Abraham were to him and his seed.

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Not many seeds, but one seed, and that seed is Christ.

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Okay, hallelujah, yes, yes, so your seed.

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I got a similar note.

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So it's it's the promises that God made to Abraham Are to him and to this one seed, who is Christ.

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This is very important because Abraham was the carrier of the seed.

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Now the song says that Abraham had many sons, and he did.

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He had a bunch, you know, but the seed was not transferred to any seed of the flesh.

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So we're not talking about those kinds of seeds, we're talking about a seed of promise.

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It had to be a seed of promise, otherwise it could have passed to Ishmael or it could have passed to any of the sons that were born to Abraham after Isaac was born.

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But the seed had to pass to a child of promise, and that was always the case down through the line.

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God, hallelujah.

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Now remember what we talked about sunday the kingdom of god suffers violence, and the violent take it by force, amen.

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Abraham was sent to receive an inheritance that god was going to give him, but he had to receive it by force.

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Now this is where a lot of Christians just miss it.

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They don't understand that when God promises you something, amen.

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If you're just going to sit back and just go bless God, hallelujah.

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If you're just going to sit back and just go bless God, hallelujah, it's coming.

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I'm just waiting on God.

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You're going to be waiting on God, you know, until the bus just passes you by, because it doesn't happen like that.

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You have to press toward what God told you by force, amen.

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You have to make every effort you have to.

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You have to lay down things, you have to pick things up, you have to do all sorts of things that you normally wouldn't do.

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I guarantee you that on a good day, brother Abraham did not wake up in the morning.

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You know what, sarah?

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I think I'm going to start an army today, glory to God.

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I just feel the Lord wants me to put together about 300, 400 guys.

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You know, hungry guys.

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You're going to feed them, aren't you?

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And you know we're just going to.

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You're not going to do that.

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You're not with this program.

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What's wrong with you?

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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You know.

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You just don't wake up doing that.

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That is a monumental task, you know.

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You can just see Abraham, or you can see Sarah.

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You know, I thought God told you you were just going to get this.

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That's what you told me.

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You didn't say nothing about an army.

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You didn't say nothing about 318 guys that I got to feed.

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You didn't say nothing about an army.

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You didn't say nothing about 318 guys that I got to feed.

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You didn't say anything about camels.

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You didn't say anything about any of that.

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We're just waiting on God.

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Praise God.

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The problem is that wherever God sends you according to his promise, there's going to be giants, and if you don't jump on it and understand that the kingdom of God comes through violent attack, you're going to have to mow down some stuff in order to make a way for your faith to build what God wants you to build.

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Hallelujah God.

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God in Exodus I believe it's in the 15th chapter says that Jehovah is a man of war and he had made Abraham a military man.

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He had taught him the principles of war, and that was necessary for Abraham to be able to lay hold of this thing that God had promised him, and the objective of that was to meet a man.

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Amen, hallelujah, praise God, let's go on.

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Verse four says that Abraham departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him.

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And Abram was 75 years when he departed from Haran See there, you go right there.

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And he took his wife, he took Lot, took their possessions and all the possessions that they had gathered and the people whom they had acquired in Haran.

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So he had already put a gathering together.

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And they departed into the land of Canaan and came to the land of Canaan and the Canaanites were in the land.

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Now the Canaanites were giants and they were not pleasant people.

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Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said to your seed, I will give this land.

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And Abram built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him.

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Now this is the first time that we're going to see Abram building an altar and calling upon the name of the Lord.

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Verse eight says he went to Bethel.

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He went to Bethel west and on the east, and he built another altar and called upon the name of the Lord.

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Then he turned to the south.

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Now see what is he doing?

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He's casing out the land, he's going to one spot, he builds an altar, he calls upon the name of the Lord.

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He goes to another place.

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He builds an altar.

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Now, these aren't portable altars, folks.

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This isn't a portable barbecue pit.

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He's building stone altars that will stay there.

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In fact, he goes back to them, and when he goes back to them he offers another sacrifice.

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What's he doing?

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He's staking out the land.

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He's telling anybody that wants to watch this is the God I serve, and you better watch what happens to me, because the God that I serve is going to show himself mighty.

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I don't know about the gods you serve.

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I don't care about them.

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I want you to notice what I'm doing.

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See, he didn't do this in a corner.

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He didn't do this someplace where they couldn't see him.

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He did it in broad daylight, he did it out in front of everybody and he made a big deal about it, hallelujah.

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And then he went someplace else and did it again.

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And he went someplace else and did it again, so that this whole area.

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You do realize that Abraham never had a place, never had a place to call his own.

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He lived in tents.

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Bible says in the book of Hebrews that if he had desired a city, he could have had one.

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He could have gone back to Ur, but he didn't desire that kind of a city.

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He had a better inheritance and he was looking for a city whose builder and maker is God, amen.

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Now he would live in tents, isaac would live in tents, jacob would live in tents until they moved to Egypt.

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When they came back to Egypt, when they came back from Egypt, they lived in tents for 40 years.

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So Israel was never really in their own place in their own country, in anything but tents, until they came back under Joshua and possessed cities and houses that they did not build, that they did not build, and so all of these things that the giants at that time, the giants were still in the land and they dispossessed them, the Canaanites, and took over their places.

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Amen, they finally had permanent possession.

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But that was what, nearly 500 years after all of this was spoken to by Abraham.

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Of course, god tells him that, hallelujah.

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So he goes into Egypt I'm not going to dwell on this story because it's not important but he goes in to eat.

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Well, it is important, it's very important, but it's it's too important to go into tonight.

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Let's put it that way.

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I stand corrected.

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He goes to Egypt and he takes his army with him, at least a contingent of it and he goes down there and there's no reason for him to go down there except there's a famine.

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So he goes down to escape the famine, maybe get some food down there.

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But the main reason he's going down is he's going down to check out whether or not he's going to be received or not.

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How he's going to be received, what kind of military operation is going on down there?

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Does he have to worry about these people attacking from the South?

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See, if you're a military strategist and you don't have spies, you need to do recognizance.

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You need to go down and find out what's happening on this side, this side, this side, this side, so that you know when the battle starts.

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Am I going to get waylaid from a side that I don't expect, or can I turn my back to that side and fight from that position and I don't have to worry about it?

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So you have to think like that.

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If you don't think like that, it's suicide.

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You know.

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If you think you're just going to go out on Monday morning, and you know, it's suicide, you know.

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Do you think you're just going to go out on Monday morning?

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And you know, throw a few spears and get all the women and kids and, you know, have a good time.

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That's not going to happen, because somebody who is trained will eat your lunch all day long.

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They may not have the forces you have, but if they have the training and they have the strategy, they can make you look foolish.

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Well, I get the impression that Abraham was nobody's fool when it came to this and he went down to Egypt to see what was going on.

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Now, what happened when he went to Egypt was that he won favor.

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It didn't sound like he won favor, but if he had not got favor with Pharaoh, won favor.

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But if he had not got favor with Abraham or with Pharaoh, pharaoh would have killed him and killed his wife, or taken his wife and killed all his men.

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As it was, he sent them all back and you know, egypt did not invade Israel for hundreds of years after that.

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Think about that for a moment.

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Praise God.

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So Abram in chapter 13, verse 1, says Abram went up from Egypt and his wife and all that he had and Lot with him.

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And Abram was very rich in livestock, in gold and in silver.

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Where did he get all this stuff?

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A lot of what happened to Abraham when he was in Egypt was the same thing that happened to Israel when they went there.

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He came out rich.

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He had favor with Pharaoh, doesn't sound like it?

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Because Pharaoh was upset with him.

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But he still recognized who Abraham was.

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Hallelujah, hmm, yes, feared him.

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Now the land was now.

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He went through this division with Lot and Lot went to live in the plain of Sodom and Gomorrah and Abram went back to the land of Canaan and the Lord verse 14, chapter 13,.

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Verse 14, the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him lift up your eyes now and look, from the place where you are, northward, southward, eastward, westward, for all the land which you see, I give to you and to your seed forever.

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So listen, folks.

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It is certainly old news by now since 1948, what the local neighbors have in plan for Israel.

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It is certainly old news by now that none of it works.

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And it is certainly old news by now that this promise right here trumps anything.

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No-transcript.

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There's one sentence in your Bible that matters.

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So you can just if you get you know, if you get tired of hearing all that stuff, just get out your Bible and read it one more time.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, all the land which you see, give to you and your seed forever.

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The problem is, nobody understands who the seed is.

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And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your seed also could be numbered, hallelujah.

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This is actually not a prophecy about Israel.

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It's a prophecy about the seed of the Messiah.

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Glory to God, because I mean you could assemble all the Jews that have ever lived and there wouldn't even be a thimble of dust Well, maybe more than a thimble, but not a whole lot more.

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Arise, walk in the land through its length and its breadth, and I will give it to you.

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And Abram moved his tent and went and dwelt by the tenebrous trees at Mamre and built an altar there to the Lord, the worthy God now.

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So all this training and all this assembly and all of this military maneuvering comes to a fruition that in the days of the king of Shinar, he assembled four other kings with him and they made war.

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That would be four kings from the land of Cush, over in Babylon, over in that area, and they made war with five kings that were Canaanites.

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So we have four kings of Cush coming in as five kings of the Canaanites, and they're all giants.

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So we got this.

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These are not some short guys and some tall guys.

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These are giant controlled societies that have come to form an alliance together and they're warring against each other, essentially two brothers, cush and Canaan, several generations removed.

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You with me on this.

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We got a battle of giants here and Abram's right in the middle of it.

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It's like that day I came over a mountain, the crest of a hill, to preach in this little house, church, in this place that nobody went to because it was just too dangerous.

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And I crossed over this, this ridge, and the lord it was just like the lord opened my eyes and I could see the whole valley was just infested with snakes and serpents and devils and just oozing with evil.

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And I go, I go, what are we doing here, lord?

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And he said where else would we be?

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Glory to God.

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So here's Abraham in the middle of nine kingdoms of giants.

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He's probably asking the Lord, what are we doing here?

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So the five giant kings that were in Canaan had been under domination by the four kings from Babylon for under a 20-year term of what do you call it subservience, and in the 14th year or 13th year, they decided to rebel.

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And so the kings in Shinar, in Babylon, they didn't like that very much.

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So they assembled armies, four kings, and they came over out of Cush and came into Canaan and decided we're going to settle accounts, remember that from the Godfather right.

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Today is the day we're going to settle accounts.

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We're tired of these guys.

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They owe us money they won't pay.

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So we're going to go collect.

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And they came up verse 5, in the 14th year, the kings that were with him, with the king of Shinar, came and attacked the Rephaim.

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Now, the Rephaim are giants.

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That's why I know that these are giants, because that's a term the Bible uses to describe giants In Ashtoreth that city's still there, it's over in the Gaza Strip and they attacked it was just a widespread attack on all of these cities.

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And so the king of Sodom, king of Gomorrah, king of Adma, and the king of Zebolim and the king of Bela, which is Zoar, went out and joined together in the battle of the valley of Zebolim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar, went out and joined together in the battle of the valley of Sidim.

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Okay, so we have this massive battle out there.

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The valley of Sidim is full of asphalt pits and some of the kings fled and fell there.

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The remainder went to the mountains and the kings of Shinar watch this the kings of Shinar sacked Sodom and they sacked Gomorrah and they took all of the goods and they took all of their provisions.

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And they took Lot and his goods and his provisions and departed.

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Now somebody came and told Abram that the kings of Shinar have your nephew Lot.

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When Abram heard that Lot had been taken, verse 14 says he armed his 318 trained servants who were born in his own house and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

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Now this verse tells you a whole lot that he had raised up enough servants that in the, when he was up in Haran, that the next generation of them gave him 318 men that he could train from childhood up to be warriors.

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They weren't giants but they were going to go out against the cream of the crop.

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Four kings had taken on five and sent them running.

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They had sacked walled cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and had looted them.

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They had taken their women, taking their children and taken Abram's nephew.

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They should have left lot alone.

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They should have left lot alone.

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They shouldn't have done that.

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Abram wouldn't have gotten involved.

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He'd have figured they deserved it.

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A bunch of heathens, you know, but they messed with his brother's son, glory to God.

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So here's what he did.

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Now, this is why I know he's a smart guy, he's a military guy.

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He divided his forces which you never do unless you want a surprise against them by night, and he and his servants attacked them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus, and he brought back all of the goods.

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He also brought back his brother Lot and his goods, as well as the women and all of the people.

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Now, in doing this, he saved the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah.

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He saved their bacon, he took care of them, he got their stuff back.

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He got their women back.

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He got the children back.

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He got all their livestock back.

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Amen, you know this wasn't going to be a longstanding thing for them, but here's the point.

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I'm going to condense this down.

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I'm going to maybe get to it a little bit later, but I'm going to condense it down while it's in my spirit.

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Listen to this.

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You know what God was doing here his best, his well-trained military general and 300 and some highly trained military men to take on the best of a giant military force that was on the planet, amen.

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And he was doing it for one reason, amen.

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And he was doing it for one reason he wanted to give Sodom and Gomorrah a chance to repent.

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He wanted them to see that this man, abraham.

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They didn't ask him to come, they didn't ask him to align with them, they didn't ask him to, they didn't even know he existed.

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More or less him to align with them.

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They didn't ask him that, they didn't even know he existed, more or less.

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You know, except that here's a lot and we he's somehow related to this guy we see every once in a while and builds altars and prays, and you know, and then goes off and you know we don't know much about him, but we see him from every once in a while.

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But you know, they didn't ask him to get involved.

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But he got involved because a lot.

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And when he got involved he saved their cities.

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He did not save their cities so that they could be destroyed.

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He saved their cities so that they could be saved.

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They had an opportunity to repent of their evil ways and turn to the God that Abraham was showing them how to worship him.

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They could have done that just as easy as what they ended up doing.

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And what they ended up doing was that they went back to their evil ways and their perversions and their, their abominations.

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And they went back to that and God had no choice.

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He said look, I gave you a chance, I gave you the best shot I had.

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I put all my faith in the one that's carrying the seed, and he carried the day.

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You owe him everything and you didn't do anything to honor me about it at all.

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You see him out there praying and sacrificing and doing all that, and you didn't do one thing to say thank you.

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It was no wonder that God came down and destroyed them, because not only did the cries of their perversion come up before him in heaven, but when they did, he sent his best.

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That's what God always does.

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I know how this works.

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You can get sent to a place and you can do the very best that you can, the very best that God enables you to do, and have it rejected.

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Just have mud thrown in your face and you just got to walk away from it.

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They didn't do it to me, they did it to him.

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I'm just a messenger boy here, you know, I don't.

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I wouldn't have got any credit if they'd all repented and I wouldn't have got.

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You know I'm not going to get any.

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Any disgrace because they don't.

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It's just the way it is.

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It's how it works.

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But God takes notice.

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He takes notice when you're rejected, like that amen takes notice.

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He takes notice when you're rejected, like that amen.

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The next time something happens and they cry out to God, it means what am I going to do?

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I've already sent you my best.

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You should have just repented.

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Ask me later.

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Okay, this is the way God works, and it's also a trigger for his vengeance.

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He is long-suffering and he is extremely patient.

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He is infinitely forbearing.

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But there's a place where you can flip the switch and he is no longer going to be that way.

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The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah crossed over.

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They had a chance.

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Lot was there.

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Lot was there.

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Um, what do you want to call it?

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Their their lightning rod.

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If they had a treated him well, amen, because he was the reason they got saved.

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But what did they do?

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They abused.

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They went out and abused him worse than they did before, and that's really what got them destroyed.

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God has a funny way of looking at things.

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If you want to do that stuff to yourselves.

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You know, he gave the Amorites in Canaan 450 years to fill up the magnitude of their sin, and they weren't bothering any God's people, they were just bothering themselves.

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They were just so degraded and he gave them 430 years to fill up the sin before he judged it.

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Get touched.

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You better watch out, amen.

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It's one thing for the seed of Satan to be sitting over there just pounding on each other and doing all kinds of unmentionable things and they will do that.

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I mean, they're good at it, it's what they do but you let that get over and touch one of God's people.

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When they touched Lot, when the kings from Shinar touched him and took him captive, that triggered a response from Abraham.

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And then when Sodom and Gomorrah turned around and abused Lot even worse than they were before, god said there's nothing I can do with these people.

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I think so.

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I mean they were abominable beyond belief.

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But when they were an abomination against Lot, against his daughters and then against angels that were sent there, glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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So the king of Sodom, verse 17,.

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The king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Sheveh, that is, the king's valley, after his return from the defeat of the king of Shinar and all the kings that were with him.

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So at this point Abraham comes back, or Abram comes back.

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Watch this.

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He's got everything that the four kings had with them.

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He's got their armies, he's got their gold, he's got their silver, he's got the livestock that they were bringing around with them to take care of their armies Four kings worth Amen.

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Plus he's got all the stuff that came from Sodom and all the stuff that came from Gomorrah, plus he's got all the stuff from the other kings that were with the king of Sodom that got defeated by the kings of Shinar.

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So the kings of Shinar had all the stuff that the losers had and Abram just turned around and took all that from him.

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Plus he took all of the stuff that they originally had.

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Amen, they, they, they.

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Somebody was reading that scripture about.

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You know the he who has more will be given.

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They were, he had.

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They think of it this way.

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Shinar took everything that Sodom had and their group, and then Abram took everything that Shinar had, plus everything that Sodom had in their group.

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And then Abram took everything that Shinar had plus everything that Sodom had.

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He had this.

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That's why I'm telling you when he started up the road to Jerusalem amen, don't.

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You know.

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Don't see little old Abraham, his little old cane, you know, don't see little old Abraham with his little old cane, you know his little old bag of money, you know.

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Coming up the hill, you know, out to meet some other old geezer, you know, who's got a plate full of bread and a cup, you know, and they're just barely making it in the road, you know, and they're just about to fall out under the weight of old age, you know.

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And he's spilling the wine all over the place and he has to bend over, pick up the bread out of the dust.

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And you forget all that.

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That's not what happened.

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That is not what happened.

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We're talking about a man that came out of the holy city, an eternal man that never gets old, full of radiant glory and splendor, meeting a man who's got more stuff behind him than can be counted.

00:49:46.260 --> 00:49:58.556
He has got the loot of nine cities, of nine kings, of nine kingdoms, with 300 guys.

00:49:58.556 --> 00:50:05.157
Do you not think that those people talked about that for hundreds of years?

00:50:05.157 --> 00:50:06.581
You remember that.

00:50:06.581 --> 00:50:07.237
You remember that day, you about that for hundreds of years.

00:50:07.237 --> 00:50:07.492
You remember that.

00:50:07.492 --> 00:50:08.250
You remember that day.

00:50:08.250 --> 00:50:10.811
You remember that guy named Abram?

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You remember that Lord, have mercy.

00:50:16.137 --> 00:50:23.853
So Sodom, king of Sodom, went out.

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He's trying to negotiate a return of at least his stuff and he gets interrupted.

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Verse 18 says then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine.

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He was the priest of God most high and he blessed Abram and said blessed be Abram of God, most high, possessor of heaven and earth, and blessed be God most high, who has delivered your enemies into your hands, hallelujah.

00:50:53.778 --> 00:51:04.018
Now I want you to know that you were there, because you were in the seed, amen.

00:51:04.018 --> 00:51:09.054
And when Melchizedek spoke that to Abram, you were there.

00:51:09.054 --> 00:51:17.396
If Abraham is not your father, we are in big trouble because the Bible is basically untrue.

00:51:17.396 --> 00:51:24.913
If that's not true, but unfortunately for you, abraham is your father, amen.

00:51:24.913 --> 00:51:30.972
And furthermore, paul says this that Sarah is the mother of us all.

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And he wasn't writing to Jewish Christians, he was writing to Gentile Christians.

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Hallelujah, praise God, and Hallelujah, praise God.

00:51:48.867 --> 00:51:57.673
And Abram gave him a tithe of all of that stuff, nine kings worth of stuff.

00:51:57.673 --> 00:52:00.773
He brought a tithe.

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Glory to God.

00:52:04.452 --> 00:52:08.704
Glory to God.

00:52:08.704 --> 00:52:13.336
What have you ever?

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You've probably never been in this situation that when God tells you I've taught you a long time that you need to let the Holy Ghost tell you how much you should tithe and how much offerings you should bring, and how you should bring them?

00:52:35.454 --> 00:52:37.130
Have I not taught you that?

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What are you going to do when he tells you to do more than you can do?

00:52:43.690 --> 00:53:01.103
Well, I ask him that Because he told me to do more than I could do.

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And I said well, how am I going to do that, lord?

00:53:04.090 --> 00:53:09.219
And he said you're going to start a business and I'm going to get the profits.

00:53:15.927 --> 00:53:21.315
In Abram's case, he had to spend a day chasing giants around the valley.

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Do you know where he chased these kings?

00:53:26.670 --> 00:53:28.856
He chased them in the valley of the kings.

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And do you know who the only king standing at the end of the day was?

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It wasn't Abraham, it was Melchizedek, the king of kings and the Lord of lords.

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I wish somebody would say amen.

00:53:45.177 --> 00:53:50.331
I wish somebody would shout Somebody, give God some glory, hallelujah.

00:53:50.331 --> 00:53:53.478
You think God orchestrates things like?

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And at the end of the day, when it was all done and the nine kings were, were you know, all of them were stripped of everything they had and it was all in the hands of God's man.

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And he says I'm going to go see a man.

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I said I'm going to go see a man.

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I'm going to go see, come see a man.

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I'm going to come see a man because he is the reason I'm here.

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I didn't come here to whip giants.

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I didn't come here to build armies.

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I didn't come here.

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These are just things that God wants me to do as I take this kingdom by force.

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But really, what he wants me to do is sit under this man's feet and be taught the gospel.

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Because the first thing that Abram did after he took possession of those nine kings' loot was he hiked up the hill to Jerusalem to bring his tithe.

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See, when he didn't have enough, the Bible said he was rich in gold, he was rich in silver, he was rich in livestock Amen.

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But he said you know what, lord?

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I don't have enough to bring you a tithe.

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God says I got a day job for you, abram, and I'll deliver all of these kings into your hand in the valley of the Kings.

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And I want you to show them who the king of kings is.

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And it wasn't Abraham, it was Jesus.

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Now the kingdom, verse 21,.

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The king of Sodom said to Abram give me the persons and take the good for yourself.

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See, he's trying to work a deal.

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He says you can have the loot, just give me my people back, because a king without people is not a king.

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You can start taxing your people again and get the loot back, amen.

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But if you don't have the people, you don't have a kingdom.

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So it's to give me the persons to take the good for yourself.

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But abram said to the king of sodom I have raised my hand to the lord, god most high, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will take nothing from a thread to a sandal strap.

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I will take nothing of anything that is yours.

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Lest you say I have made Abram rich, except only what the young men have eaten.

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I said I'm only going to take out of what is yours, the portion for my men to have done your work.

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Abram restored to the kings around where he lived.

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He gave them back their possessions, but he did send Babylon running.

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He just sent them back home with nothing.

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Amen.

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I don't know what happened to all that plunder.

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Probably end up in Melchizedek's hand.

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Glory to God.

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Here's the point.

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This battle changed everything.

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For hundreds of years.

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Because of this battle, the giant race in Israel and the giant race in Babylon continued, but they could not continue their domination of the seed of Abraham.

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Abraham existed as the ruling prince in what is now Israel.

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It was still called Canaan at that time, even though there were giants.

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Amen.

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Look at what happened.

00:58:10.070 --> 00:58:11.114
Look at what happened.

00:58:11.114 --> 00:58:14.152
Look at what happened several hundred years later.

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Amen.

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The Philistines, who were the direct descendants of the seed of Canaan, amen, and had giant blood in them, goliath amen.

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They stole the ark.

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They knew better than to do that, but Israel had been weakened through a weakened priesthood.

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That didn't change what God's covenant was with those people.

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That didn't change what God was doing with them.

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That didn't change at all what god was going to do with david amen, and he caused a plague to break out among them, amen, and they had to bring they had to bring the ark back over to god.

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Hundreds of years later, we see David cutting off the race of giants, cutting off his head and carrying it up to the gates of Jerusalem and saying you thought this guy was going to allow you to keep your city.

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I'm here to tell you this city is not yours.

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This city belongs to Melchizedek and I am here under his anointing.

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And I'm going to tell you one thing I'm going to be back, and if you're still here when I come back, then the same thing that happened when Abraham took charge in the Valley of the Kings is going to happen to you.

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I am going to eat your lunch.

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I'm going to make you a public spectacle.

00:59:59.373 --> 01:00:01.503
I'm going to sack this city.

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I'm going to take back God's possession.

01:00:04.275 --> 01:00:05.693
I'm going to restore the stronghold of Melchizedek Hallelujah.

01:00:05.693 --> 01:00:06.498
I'm going to take back God's possession.

01:00:06.498 --> 01:00:08.626
I'm going to restore the stronghold of Melchizedek Hallelujah.

01:00:08.626 --> 01:00:10.090
I'm going to build my house.

01:00:10.090 --> 01:00:12.315
I'm going to build God a temple.

01:00:12.315 --> 01:00:13.577
Glory to God.

01:00:13.577 --> 01:00:16.130
And there's nothing you can do about it.

01:00:16.130 --> 01:00:20.706
So I would advise you to get out of this place because I'm coming.

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It changed history.

01:00:25.735 --> 01:00:29.873
See, if Abraham hadn't done that, david could not have done that.

01:00:29.873 --> 01:00:58.014
But because Abraham did what he did, the walls of Jericho fell, the walls of IE fell, the walls in every city in Canaan gave way to the pressure of the armies of the Lord because of what Abraham did.

01:00:58.014 --> 01:01:11.682
Abraham fought the battle that set everything in motion so that when his seed came back amen.

01:01:11.682 --> 01:01:25.117
The giants had to acquiesce and move back into their allotted places.

01:01:25.117 --> 01:01:33.108
Why back into their allotted places?

01:01:33.108 --> 01:01:34.952
Why, because of what Abraham already did.

01:01:34.952 --> 01:01:37.340
They didn't want to mess with Abraham's family again.

01:01:37.340 --> 01:01:37.922
They had.

01:01:37.943 --> 01:01:45.998
No, I'm serious, if you don't think those, if you don't think those stories carried on for centuries, you don't know how people lived back then.

01:01:45.998 --> 01:01:55.697
Those stories were the stuff that campfires were made about, that men's meetings were made, that songs were sung, that all of this stuff.

01:01:55.697 --> 01:01:56.860
They didn't listen.

01:01:56.860 --> 01:01:57.824
I guarantee you.

01:01:57.824 --> 01:02:01.447
They didn't sit back and say we're gonna get them when they come across the River Jordan.

01:02:01.447 --> 01:02:02.878
We're gonna be waiting, we're gonna get them.

01:02:02.878 --> 01:02:04.565
This time we're gonna mess them up.

01:02:04.565 --> 01:02:06.490
Why, mama, we're gonna get back for what?

01:02:06.530 --> 01:02:18.469
They were scared to death, not of Abraham and not of his people, but of the seed and of this God who is God almighty.

01:02:18.469 --> 01:02:22.050
They knew they couldn't whip him.

01:02:22.050 --> 01:02:25.224
They had armies of giants and they couldn't whip him.

01:02:25.224 --> 01:02:27.807
You had armies of giants and they couldn't whip him.

01:02:27.807 --> 01:02:33.135
You know, you think Goliath held the army of Israel at bay.

01:02:33.135 --> 01:02:42.295
He said come on, send somebody out here, him and me, we don't have to fight this war, it'll just be him and me.

01:02:42.295 --> 01:02:43.911
Come on, send somebody out.

01:02:43.911 --> 01:02:44.943
They wouldn't send somebody out.

01:02:44.943 --> 01:02:48.585
Their knees would knock together together their teeth and start chattering.

01:02:48.585 --> 01:02:50.367
They were scared to death.

01:02:53.472 --> 01:03:00.666
But here comes this, the, the, what, the, the, the, the, the seed.

01:03:00.666 --> 01:03:13.590
Here comes the seed walking in David's body, the same seed that was walking in Abraham's body.

01:03:13.590 --> 01:03:14.992
Well, you can't mess with that.

01:03:14.992 --> 01:03:18.998
You think you can mess with that, but you can't mess with that.

01:03:18.998 --> 01:03:23.907
And they didn't know that, not, oh, you're going to love this.

01:03:23.907 --> 01:03:24.289
They didn't.

01:03:24.289 --> 01:03:25.211
The enemy didn't know that.

01:03:25.211 --> 01:03:26.755
Everybody had the seed.

01:03:26.755 --> 01:03:27.317
They didn't know.

01:03:27.317 --> 01:03:42.931
But they know now that all that are in him have the same DNA, they have the same seed, they have the same born of God stamped on them.

01:03:42.931 --> 01:03:44.617
Can't deal with it.

01:03:44.617 --> 01:03:45.875
You can't deal with it.

01:03:45.875 --> 01:03:46.485
You can't deal with it.

01:03:47.565 --> 01:03:51.947
The only way Antichrist gets away with what he gets away with is by sheer ignorance.

01:03:51.947 --> 01:04:06.494
Because the people, the people who should know that they are of the seed, don't know and they think that all the stuff that, whatever he wants to do, he can get away with, he's not going to get away with it.

01:04:06.494 --> 01:04:07.204
He's not going to get away with it.

01:04:07.204 --> 01:04:10.213
He is not going to get away with it.

01:04:10.213 --> 01:04:24.632
I guarantee you he's not going to get away with it, because the same genetic strand that is in the opposition now is the same genetic strand that was in the giants back in the days of Abram.

01:04:24.632 --> 01:04:29.556
And when Abram beat them, they knew they were beat.

01:04:29.556 --> 01:04:37.672
And when they come up against real seed, they know better.

01:04:37.672 --> 01:04:46.856
They go to find somebody that doesn't know who they are and try to intimidate them.

01:04:46.856 --> 01:04:49.952
Are you with me so far?

01:04:50.865 --> 01:05:04.672
This battle one day changed everything, because it made Abram a prince among people.

01:05:04.672 --> 01:05:10.056
In fact, his grandson would be called a prince of nations.

01:05:10.056 --> 01:05:13.353
It would be the name that God gave him.

01:05:13.353 --> 01:05:21.050
We call him Jacob, some call him Israel.

01:05:21.050 --> 01:05:23.333
God called him prince of nations.

01:05:23.333 --> 01:05:25.965
Oh hallelujah.

01:05:29.094 --> 01:05:38.056
Abram stood in the Valley of the Kings, took on nine giant kings.

01:05:38.056 --> 01:05:48.132
You see, everybody thinks, you know, everybody gets all worked up about David and Goliath, but we don't even tell the story about Abram and the nine kings.

01:05:48.132 --> 01:06:05.737
But he took all of that and then brought a tithe unto God that has set in motion the rules of financing the kingdom of heaven.

01:06:05.737 --> 01:06:09.940
Are you not hearing me?

01:06:09.940 --> 01:06:30.371
Abram's tithe was so dramatic that he has been honored by God as the archetype of how the kingdom of God is financed for all of these centuries and is held out as.

01:06:30.371 --> 01:06:32.697
This is how you do it.

01:06:32.697 --> 01:06:38.072
You don't divide by 10.

01:06:38.072 --> 01:06:40.811
You multiply by 9.

01:06:40.811 --> 01:06:42.208
You're not.

01:06:42.208 --> 01:06:43.110
You know, god.

01:06:43.110 --> 01:06:44.175
I wish I could preach this.

01:06:44.175 --> 01:06:49.166
You're not God.

01:06:49.166 --> 01:06:55.585
I wish I could preach this you multiply by nine and bring it all to the king of kings and the Lord of lords, who is still the Lord of the harvest.

01:06:58.469 --> 01:07:11.413
Praise God, hallelujah, one of the most singular days in all of history, because this battle is still being fought.

01:07:11.413 --> 01:07:20.155
We're in the middle of it, hallelujah, but Abram, who is the father of us all?

01:07:20.155 --> 01:07:23.230
He showed us.

01:07:23.230 --> 01:07:30.250
You don't have to be afraid of this, you don't even have to be intimidated.

01:07:30.250 --> 01:07:33.016
Amen.

01:07:33.016 --> 01:07:35.972
You know how many men he had.

01:07:35.972 --> 01:07:39.715
He had about the size of Gideon's army.

01:07:39.715 --> 01:07:47.211
You think that's by chance?

01:07:47.211 --> 01:07:49.235
I don't think so.

01:07:49.657 --> 01:07:54.708
Praise God, hallelujah, praise the name of Jesus.

01:07:54.708 --> 01:07:57.271
Glory to God.

01:07:57.271 --> 01:08:05.559
It doesn't matter how many giants there are, doesn't matter.

01:08:05.559 --> 01:08:13.172
Just build you an altar, just call upon the name of the Lord.

01:08:13.172 --> 01:08:16.818
Let everybody see what you're doing.

01:08:16.818 --> 01:08:21.730
Make a big thing about it, let it be known.

01:08:21.730 --> 01:08:32.631
Don't hide it away, don't make it out of disposable materials that you can just do away with it so nobody knows what you're doing.

01:08:32.631 --> 01:08:36.945
Make it out of rock, make it out of stone, make it tall, make it big, make it.

01:08:36.945 --> 01:08:39.835
You know, like Elijah did.

01:08:39.835 --> 01:08:44.170
You know, dig a trench, put some water on it.

01:08:44.170 --> 01:08:52.921
If you hold it back, then you don't some water on it.

01:08:52.921 --> 01:08:53.203
There you go.

01:08:53.203 --> 01:08:56.471
I'm sure a lot of that happened that day.

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Praise God, but it doesn't matter when the seed comes up.

01:09:07.952 --> 01:09:32.225
I'm going to say this, I'm going to say it and I'm going to keep on saying it whenever the seed comes up against Antichrist he is the undisputed and undefeated champion of the universe.

01:09:32.225 --> 01:09:41.617
He has never lost and it doesn't matter in which body he is in.

01:09:41.617 --> 01:09:46.331
He can be in Abel's body, he can be in Noah's body.

01:09:46.331 --> 01:09:48.136
He can be in Abel's body.

01:09:48.136 --> 01:09:49.402
He can be in Noah's body.

01:09:49.402 --> 01:09:50.627
He can be in in Abrams body.

01:09:50.627 --> 01:09:57.127
Hallelujah, we're gonna next.

01:09:57.188 --> 01:09:58.248
The next stop is in.

01:09:58.248 --> 01:10:03.493
Is is in with Moses and the children of Israel.

01:10:03.493 --> 01:10:19.993
And now and all that, this whole, this all is, is so that we understand that now the seed is in us and we have a responsibility for the fight.

01:10:19.993 --> 01:10:21.796
But the victory is already assured.

01:10:21.796 --> 01:10:29.208
But when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God is going to raise up a standard against him.

01:10:29.208 --> 01:10:30.833
He's always has, he always will.

01:10:30.833 --> 01:10:32.927
He doesn't lose, he can't lose.

01:10:32.927 --> 01:10:40.444
It's impossible for him to lose, can't lose something.

01:10:40.444 --> 01:10:43.150
You've already won and the and the and.

01:10:43.211 --> 01:10:46.057
Since that was all decided before time began.

01:10:46.057 --> 01:10:51.194
You know it has to work out that way.

01:10:51.194 --> 01:10:52.278
It has to.

01:10:52.278 --> 01:10:54.631
It can't work out any other way.

01:10:54.631 --> 01:10:57.230
There is no alternative to this.

01:10:57.230 --> 01:10:58.895
That's what you know.

01:10:58.895 --> 01:11:02.994
There really is not an alternative to this.

01:11:02.994 --> 01:11:13.436
It's just a question of how many of the in him ones are available to make the work happen.

01:11:13.436 --> 01:11:14.600
But it is going to happen.

01:11:14.600 --> 01:11:19.192
As long as it, as long as this seed is in one person.

01:11:19.192 --> 01:11:26.292
It is going to happen because that's all that took in all these other battles.

01:11:26.292 --> 01:11:27.547
It just had to be in one.

01:11:27.547 --> 01:11:30.234
Hallelujah.

01:11:30.234 --> 01:11:31.096
Praise God.

01:11:31.096 --> 01:11:34.456
Father, give us great insight and revelation and understanding.

01:11:34.456 --> 01:11:42.701
We give you all of the praise and all of the glory because you are great and you do great things in Jesus name.

01:11:42.701 --> 01:11:45.488
Amen and amen and amen.

01:11:45.488 --> 01:11:47.493
Praise the Lord, hallelujah.