Sept. 28, 2024
The Eternal Priesthood of Jesus/Melchizedek and Its Modern Relevance (First Words 14)
Send us a text How can the genealogy in Matthew 1:1 hold the key to understanding the New Testament? Join us as we unlock the profound significance of Jesus' lineage, tracing His roots back to Abraham and David, and uncover how it fulfills ancient promises. In this podcast episode, we explore the profound significance of Jesus' genealogy and priesthood, particularly in the context of spiritual preparedness. The genealogy of Jesus as outlined in Matthew 1:1 is more than a mere list of names; i...
How can the genealogy in Matthew 1:1 hold the key to understanding the New Testament? Join us as we unlock the profound significance of Jesus' lineage, tracing His roots back to Abraham and David, and uncover how it fulfills ancient promises. In this podcast episode, we explore the profound significance of Jesus' genealogy and priesthood, particularly in the context of spiritual preparedness. The genealogy of Jesus as outlined in Matthew 1:1 is more than a mere list of names; it holds the key to understanding the New Testament and the fulfillment of ancient promises made to patriarchs like Abraham and David. By delving into the lineage of Jesus, we can appreciate how He addressed the issue of sin, becoming the promised seed that had to die to create a new, sinless creation. This transformation through His death and resurrection is a cornerstone of Christian faith, emphasizing the rebirth believers experience in Christ.
The metaphor of the Kingdom of God as a house built on stilts illustrates the resilience required to withstand spiritual storms. Just as these stilts support a house against floodwaters, our spiritual foundations must be strong to resist the Antichrist's attempts to weaken them. Historical revivals, such as those led by George Whitefield and Charles Wesley before the American Revolution, and by Charles Finney before the Civil War, demonstrate how God prepares His people for impending spiritual battles. These revivals were not just random events but strategic moves by God to fortify His followers for the challenges ahead. The episode underscores the necessity of spiritual warriors who are ready to defend the faith and prevent the old order from being replaced by a new, ungodly one.
The podcast also delves into the themes of priesthood and kingship, focusing on the unique roles of Samuel and David. Samuel's controversial priesthood, despite not being a descendant of Aaron, highlights the fluidity and adaptability of God's plans. David's anointing from the Melchizedek order, in contrast to Saul's anointing with oil, signifies a higher spiritual calling. This dual role of David as both king and priest prefigures the ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ, whose eternal priesthood in the Melchizedek order renders the Aaronic priesthood obsolete. Jesus' miracles, performed even during times of personal grief, illustrate the divine anointing that culminated in Him, offering a deeper understanding of faith and spiritual authority.
00:42 - The Significance of Matthew 1
10:15 - The Importance of Spiritual Preparedness
29:06 - The Priesthood and Kingship Anointing
36:04 - The Priesthood of Melchizedek
44:53 - The Power of Melchizedek's Anointing
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well.
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Praise the Lord, hallelujah, glory to God.
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We're going to continue on to talk about Matthew 1 and 1, first words of the New Testament.
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First words are important words because they set the tone.
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Set the tone, set the direction.
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Like I've said many times, you could just preach on these few words in Matthew 1.1, and you would have a basic outline of what the New Testament is all about.
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Praise God.
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And it says the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of Abraham, the son of David.
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We have been looking at why that verse is so powerful, why that verse is so necessary.
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Why Abraham?
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Why David?
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The answer to that is because great and precious promises were made to them.
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Promises were made to them.
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Amen, that.
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That really sets the whole basis of the new Testament in place so that when Jesus comes as the son of Abraham and the son of David, he came to fulfill so many promises that God made to those two men.
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Hallelujah, that it is not a surprise, it is not a stretch to say that most of your New Testament falls into those promises.
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Praise God, most of your New Testament falls into those promises, praise God.
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So, as we talked about them, we talked about the promises that were given to Abraham, the promises that were given to David and the promises that were given to Jesus, and that Jesus had to come finally, as the promised seed, and the promised seed had to fall to the ground and die.
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Amen, that's as we were discussing earlier.
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That's the sin issue.
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The seed had to fall to the ground and die in order to produce a new creation that was incapable of sinning, that was incapable of sinning.
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When God made Adam, he made Adam capable of disobeying him.
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Amen.
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Knowing now you say okay, well, that's kind of weird, but knowing that Jesus would come as the seed in that creation and produce another generation or another creation that would be incapable of sinning.
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Let's put it this way you have to look at it from before, during and after.
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Before you were in God and you were incapable of disobedience, but, just like Jesus, you had to be sent here to earth in seed form so that you could learn obedience by the things you suffer and eventually, by way of death, you could put on a new creation which was incapable.
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Not only did you die, but sin died in you.
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Is anybody hearing this?
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This is why the Bible says that he condemned sin in the flesh, because when he did that in Jesus.
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He did it in you.
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And when you died, when Jesus died, sin died with him, and when you participate in his death, it dies in you so that when you are resurrected, in his resurrection, just as he came up out of the grave victorious over sin, death and the devil amen.
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When you come up out of the grave, sin is no longer attached to you the way it was when you came from heaven or came out of God and came here.
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You participated in Adam's sin.
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That was the power that Adam had.
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Adam had a power given to him by God to literally impose himself on all of his seed and when he sinned, all sinned.
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See, not everybody has that thing.
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If you sin, it doesn't necessarily mean that all your children are going to do that.
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There is such a thing as generational curses and all that kind of stuff.
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I understand that.
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But there's no guarantee you could be an abject drunk, you know, and there's no guarantee that your children are going to do that.
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But if Adam sinned, there was a guarantee that all would sin in him.
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That had to be broken.
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That's the sin issue.
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That's why Jesus had to fall to the ground and die, so that you could die with him and, consequently, the sin that Adam gave to you could die with you.
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You understand this.
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This is basic gospel.
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This is not real deep.
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This is just basic gospel.
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This is how sin works, but but the issue is that when Jesus came, amen.
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He dealt with that sin issue as the seed, so that the new creation that he bore in himself would be free from sin.
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Amen.
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You don't have to worry about going.
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When you, when you get, when you get resurrected into him, you don't have to worry about sinning anymore.
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You're in.
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You're in a new creation where that doesn't exist.
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Hello, praise God.
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Somebody may be sinning someplace, but not in that creation.
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Hallelujah, glory to God.
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So when Jesus came, all those promises to David and Abraham were fulfilled and Jesus fulfilled his destiny as the very seed of God in the flesh to produce this new race of men, a new creation.
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Amen.
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That has never been seed before God in flesh.
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Hallelujah, praise God.
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God in flesh, hallelujah, praise God.
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So there are some examples that I want to give you concerning how this works, why this is important and how we see this ministry of David, of Abraham, of Jesus, of Melchizedek, of Samuel, all of these people that we've talked about how we see them coming together to give us more light as to how this works.
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We are raising this issue because we raised it up with David, talking about that when the Spirit of God, when the enemy comes in the Spirit of God like a flood, will raise up a standard against him.
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And we are looking at, time after time after time, some of the greatest miracles that are in the Bible.
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We're looking at how those actually were pitched battles between our God and the spirit of Antichrist over some particular aspect of Jesus' ministry that the Antichrist was trying to attack and trying to take that out of the foundation of who this Christ is, amen.
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For example, through Cain, he tried to attack the blood sacrifice.
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In the days of Noah, he was attacking the righteousness of God.
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In the days of Nimrod, he was attacking the works, righteousness of men, etc.
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Etc.
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Okay, and so this is important because if he can pull those out of the kingdom of God and say I have usurped that, I have taken that, I have taken that away from your kingdom, amen, then he can attack men on that.
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He can attack men who are coming to God on those bases.
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But if the Spirit raises up a standard against him and says you think you can do that, but I'm going to show you that you cannot.
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You cannot take the props out of this house.
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Let's take an example If you go to a place where the houses are up on stilts, the more stilts you make and the stronger those stilts are, the stronger the house is going to be against the storms.
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The reason you build a house up on stilts is because floodwaters come in from the ocean or the rivers and they wash against those stilts.
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But if they're strong, anchored into rock and thick, they'll withstand the storms right, the wind and the waves and all of that.
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We understand that principle, okay.
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So if I, let's say I want to destroy this house, okay, I could bring my you know my chainsaw and I could start cutting away the props.
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So if I cut one prop away, the house may still stand, but it's weaker.
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Amen.
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If I cut two props away, two stilts, amen, it's going to be weaker still, but it still may be standing.
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If I cut three away, it may stand, but the next time there's a storm it's going to rock, it's going to sway and it's going to put too much pressure on the other stilts.
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Okay, you cut another one out next storm that comes along, amen, it may just blow the whole house over.
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You see how this works.
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This is what the Antichrist was trying to do trying to cut down the props that hold up this thing that we call the kingdom of God, amen, and we've talked about those at great lengths.
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This is why this is important.
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I'm going to give you three examples today, if I get this far, of why these things are important.
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Okay, we're going to touch on several things that we've touched on before, but I'm going to tie them together.
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Here's something that you need to know as decisive spiritual battles approach the ministry and we are in such a time, the ministry and we are in such a time, are we not, where a spiritual battle is all around us the ministry of the sons of God must be ready, or they will be replaced and the old order will be altered or abolished.
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Now, you don't see this very much talked about Amen, because we are very much about fulfilling and not abolishing Amen, but God has abolished some things.
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Whenever you get a chance sometime, go talk to some of the people that lived on the other side of the flood.
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They will tell you that God just flat abolished some things.
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Just get a chance to talk to some people that lived in Babylon in the days of Nimrod, you would find out that God just flat abolished some things.
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Talk to some Amorites, you can find them.
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Amen, you'll find out that God just flat abolished some things.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah.
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And the reason is that when God tests the generation and he knows there's some serious things coming.
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Let me give you an example.
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Over the dog, when the American Revolution was still 25 years away, god sent a man by the name of George Whitefield from Britain to the United States and he brought such a revival to the United States that that period of time became known as the first great awakening.
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And out of that came a preparation into holiness that would sustain the American people through the Revolutionary War.
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It came about 25 years before the war actually happened, but God knew it was coming, so he sent a people, he sent a man.
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You know who else came with Whitefield, a man.
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You know who else came with Whitefield.
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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.
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I'll think of it here in a minute Charles Wesley, john Wesley's brother, who wrote some of the great hymns of the church.
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Charles did, and he came with Whitefield and they worked together because they were working out of that same revival that had taken over in England.
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It's called the First Great Awakening.
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There was a Second Great Awakening.
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I bet you can guess when it happened.
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It happened right before the Civil War.
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This is the revival of Finney and others that swept the United States.
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It was a revival of prayer.
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It was a revival of sanctification and holiness.
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Glory to God.
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There was another one right before World War I.
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That was called Azusa Street.
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Is anybody paying attention?
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Glory to God.
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Right before World War II, amy Semple McPherson built the biggest church in North America.
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Hallelujah, is anybody paying attention?
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God sends a generation of warriors in front of major battles, just the way he sent Judah in front of the armies of Israel as praisers.
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Amen.
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God sends spiritual warriors.
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Amen, according to the revelation that is given in that day.
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Amen.
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They don't know everything that.
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Maybe we know today, but I'm telling you what.
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If you were in Whitefield and Wesley's day, they knew how to pray.
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Finney knew how to pray.
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He didn't have to go to prayer school.
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He didn't have to have anybody teach him to pray.
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If it were to God, he'd just get somebody and they'd go out under some tree and they'd start to praying.
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Listen to me.
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The man could pray.
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People would start to crawl on their hands and knees into the city saying what must I do to be saved?
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Bars were closed, brothels were closed, jails were open, just because Finney and some old grandmother that knew how to pray get out under some tree and just bombard heaven until God did something, and then a move of God would happen, and this happened all over the country.
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He wasn't the only one, he was just one of them that was very famous.
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God knows how to send his people in front of his army, but if they're not ready if I say they're not ready, if they're not ready, he will move the old order aside and bring in a new order.
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They were not ready for the revolution in the colonies.
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He had to send somebody from England, where the fire had already been started, and send somebody to light the fire in the colonies.
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Glory to God.
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Are you hearing me praise God the people after the civil war?
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They didn't know what they were praying for, but they were praying for the Holy Ghost to fall.
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And the Holy Ghost had to come because of the carnage that was going to happen in the next 20 years on a worldwide basis, hallelujah, praise the Lord.
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In the next 20 years, on a worldwide basis, hallelujah, praise the Lord.
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They weren't ready, the churches were not ready.
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I said the churches were not ready.
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And so God reached from the most obscure place and got a blind black man, a former, whose heritage was in the plantation fields, and brought him up, virtually uneducated and untrained, and put him in the pulpit that touched the planet.
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I'm telling you that if the current generation and the current order is not ready and the battle is imminent, god will find somebody to lead the battle out of the most unexpected places God brought listen to how ridiculous this is.
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There was going to be a revolution against Britain and God brought an evangelist from Britain with a song leader from Britain to come and ignite the colonies into rebellion against Britain.
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Glory to God.
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I'm going to tell them.
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I'm going to get to the first point today.
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You see what I'm saying.
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God listen.
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If you think that God is a novice at this stuff, you've got to be kidding.
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He's been wreaking great damage into the kingdom of darkness for millennia using the same battle tactic Amen.
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The enemy attacks and God checks and sees the resilience of his people Amen.
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If his people are not prepared, he gives them opportunities to get prepared.
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If they still don't get prepared, he will move them aside, along with their priesthood, amen, and he will bring in another order of priests and other people who will hear his voice and do what he says.
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Glory to God.
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We are in such a place.
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We are in such a place.
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Somebody, god, we are in such a place, we are in such a place.
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Somebody said we're in such a place in the days of Melchizedek, with with Abraham.
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Amen, abraham was brought to sit under Melchizedek, but you know, abraham was not this passive, you know, just just, you know, meditative, you know, get close to God kind of person.
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When he came, he came into Canaan and he was under orders to assemble an army.
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He assembled an army of almost 400 men, which in that day was a sizable group, amen.
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With that army, he took on five kings, five Amorite kings, and defeated them and then brought the plunder from those kings to the feet of the man of God.
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Amen, abraham answered the bell in his day.
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Amen, lot not so much.
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If it wasn't for Abraham, lot, you know, would have been, you know, who knows what would have happened to Lot.
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But God had mercy on Lot and his family and his inheritance because of faithfulness of Abraham.
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Amen, praise God.
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When it was time for Moses to bring forth a people out of Egypt and give them a law that would accompany them for 1,500 years, amen.
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God gave him a priest, he gave him Melchizedek, and out of that they formed the law age.
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But together, moses and Aaron stood before Pharaoh, time after time after time after time, and did not fail God.
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Amen.
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They stood firm, they stood with the rods in their hand and they stood even when the Egyptian magicians could do the same things they were doing.
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Amen.
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They stood firm and kept obeying the word of God.
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Hello.
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And because they did that, god honored them with miracle after miracle, after miracle after miracle, until finally Pharaoh said get these people out of here, amen.
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And then he changed his mind and chased after him, trying to bring them back.
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That was probably not a good idea, because God then he would you know he said okay, you finally got.
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He finally did what I asked you to do and let him go.
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But since you did, persisted and wanted to take them back, now everybody's going to be destroyed.
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The whole army was destroyed Because God had raised up a standard and God had raised up a man of war, and that man of war answered the bell.
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However, in David's day, as David was about to come on the scene he hadn't come yet, he hadn't even been born yet God knew that there was going to be a war with the Philistines.
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He knew that there would be giants that would intimidate the armies of the Lord.
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He knew these things and he looked down at these people and he said these people, especially the priesthood, is not ready for this task.
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They are weak, they are impotent, they are drunk, they are licentious, they are fat, they swindle my people, they lie to them, they're an abomination to me.
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And he knew that Eli and his sons would not be the warriors that were going to take the day in the day of the battle.
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Amen.
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He had to raise somebody else up, and so he sends a woman named Hannah, barren at the time, and she's breaking her heart before the Lord.
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And this weak, fat, impotent, corrupt priest named Eli accosts her at the door of the temple and says Woman, why are you here, drunk, before the Lord?
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She said Nay, I am not drunk, but I am here because I am barren and my reproach is upon me, hallelujah, and I'm seeking the Lord for a son, and if he gives me a son, I will give him to the Lord.
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And so she returned with her husband and the Lord gave her the request of her heart, gave her a son, and when the boy was weaned, the Bible says she took him to Eli, the same priest, and gave him to Eli.
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Hallelujah, you know the story?
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Amen.
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The one who had prophesied the downfall of Eli was given to Eli as a gift from the Lord, because Eli was incapable of standing in the next wave of attack that was going to happen.
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Praise God, hallelujah.
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And so this Samuel, at a young age, began to hear the voice of the Lord.
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And here's the key Amen In all of these people, whether it's Noah, whether it's Abraham, whether it's David, whether it's Samuel, all of these people heard the voice of the Lord, as opposed to others who did not hear the voice of the Lord.
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Those who will stand in the day I said, those who will stand in the day of battle, are going to be those that hear the voice of the Lord and obey it.
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Amen.
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It has never changed.
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It has always been the case.
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The one thing that distinguished Noah from everybody else on the planet was that Noah heard the voice of the Lord, praise God.
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If the others had heard the voice of the Lord, they would have known it was going to rain, they would have known there was coming a flood, but they didn't hear and they wouldn't listen to the one who could hear, praise God.
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So, samuel, in order to be a high priest to this David had to come out of the law and back into the faith of Abraham and back into the priesthood of Melchizedek.
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I need you to see this.
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There is a high priest called Melchizedek, who was on the planet in the days of Abraham, Amen.
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And there is an eternal priesthood named after him.
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It is an order of priesthood that has various people in it before Jesus took it and made it his when he came up out of the grave.
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Are you hearing what I'm talking about?
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Amen, and I'm going to show you that Samuel, even though he was given to Eli and was an adoptive son of Eli, was not a Levi, nor was he a son of Aaron.
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He had no right to be the high priest.
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He had no right to minister in the temple Amen.
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He shouldn't even have been in the grounds.
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He was an Ephraimite, he was of the tribe of Ephraim or of the tribe of Joseph, amen.
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There's nothing written about them being in the line of Aaron.
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Eli was a son of Aaron through many generations, but Samuel was not.
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And yet Samuel became the priest.
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He was not of Levi, he was not of Aaron, he was of Joseph.
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But they were not ready.
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He and his sons were not ready for this decisive battle.
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They were not ready to confront the Antichrist.
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They were compromised, they were complacent, they were lazy, they were corrupt and they had to be replaced.
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I think you're seeing right now, in this day, I think you're seeing priests all over this country being replaced.
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I think you see them being replaced.
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I think you see them stepping down.
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I think you see them stepping away from the day of the battle.
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Amen, for whatever reason.
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But the reason, the way God looks at it, is that they're not fit for the battle.
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Glory to God.
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