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Oh, let the Son of God enfold you

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With His Spirit and His love Let Him

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fill your heart and satisfy your soul Oh,

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let Him have the things that mold you

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And His Spirit like a dove Will descend

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upon your life and make you whole Welcome

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to The Word for Today Featuring the Bible

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teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith Of Calvary Chapel,

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Costa Mesa, California Pastor Chuck is currently leading

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us on a verse-by-verse study Through

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the entire Bible And on today's edition of

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The Word for Today We'll continue to look

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at God's promise to Abram As we pick

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up in Genesis, chapter 13, verse 17 So

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let's follow along As Pastor Chuck Smith exhorts

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us on the importance of Appropriation by faith

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Now the Lord said to Abram, Arise and

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walk in the land Through its length and

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its width For I give it to you

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Now the idea is, okay Abram, I've given

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it to you Now you step out and

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appropriate it Walk through the land because I've

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given it to you And there is always

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that appropriation by faith God gives us His

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promises But it's important that we then step

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out And appropriate the promises of God Where

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we lay hold to the promises Where we

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claim the promises of God You'll find that

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God is faithful He has given it to

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you It's yours, but it is not yours

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Until it has been appropriated by faith So

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Abram moved his tent And he came down

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really the center of the land Through what

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they call today the Jerusalem Mountains From Bethel

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on past Jerusalem Down that mountain ridge Through

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Hebron And he built an altar there To

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the Lord Now it came to pass In

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the process of time In the days of

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Amraphel, the king of Shinar Ariok, the king

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of Elazar And Shildilarmur, the king of Elam

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nations These are the kings actually from the

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area of Babylon Shinar is another name for

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Babylon That they made war With Berah, the

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king of Sodom And Bershah, the king of

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Gomorrah And Sheneb, the king of Adma And

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Shemeber, the king of Zebuam And the king

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of Bela, that is Zoar And so they

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joined together These five kings, they're near the

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Dead Sea, the Salt Sea And that Salt

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Sea is a In the Valley of Siddam,

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that is the Salt Sea The Salt Sea

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as it became later Twelve years, they have

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been in bondage to this Chidur Laomur And

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in the thirteenth year they rebelled This is

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the first mention of the number thirteen in

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the Bible And it is interesting that it

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is mentioned in the act of rebellion And

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thirteen becomes the number of rebellion in the

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scriptures And interestingly enough, it is the number

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of Satan In a biblical numerical sense And

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you give to the numbers a spiritual significance

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Thirteen becomes the number of Satan And interestingly

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enough, the names for Satan In the Greek

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or Hebrew Are always the numeric value of

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the name Is divisible by thirteen That is

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why thirteen is used so much in the

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realm of spiritism today If you've ever been

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through the Winchester Rifle House Up in San

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Jose The number thirteen was a very significant

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number Seven steps down, six up and so

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forth Always thirteen because she was a spiritist

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And it's a rather weird thing to go

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through because of that In the fourteenth year

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Chidur Laomur And the kings that were with

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him attacked The Rephraim and Asherah Actually they

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began an invasion These four kings, evidently they

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had a very powerful army For they came

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down Conquering many, many cities They went on

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down Into the Negev area And then coming

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back up they came to Kadesh And finally

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They came against the king of Sodom And

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these kings from the Jordan Valley And there

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they were joined together in battle In the

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Valley of Siddam And the valley was full

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of asphalt pits And the king of Sodom

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and Gomorrah fled Some fell there and the

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remainder fled to the mountains And then they

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took all of the goods of Sodom and

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Gomorrah And all of their provisions and they

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went their way And they also took Lot,

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Abram's brother's son Who dwelt in Sodom and

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his goods and departed That was their mistake

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Abram the Hebrew For he dwelt by the

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Terebinth trees of Mamre The Amorite, the brother

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of Eshcol and the brother of Ener And

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they were allies with Abram Now when Abram

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heard that his brother was taken captive He

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armed his 318 trained servants Who were born

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in his own house And he went in

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pursuit as far as Dan So a messenger

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came to Abram and told him the fact

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That Lot had been taken hostage By these

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kings with his family And these Canaanite kings

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who were there near Abram Joined together with

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him But you begin to understand now The

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vastness of Abram's wealth When he is able

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to arm 318 servants Who have been born

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in his house And trained for battle Now

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when you consider that they had wives and

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children and all You realize how many people

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were He had almost a little village or

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a community all of his own Just his

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own servants to take care of his goods

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God had blessed him and he was extremely

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prosperous And so he armed the 318 servants

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trained in his own house Born in his

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house And they pursued them up as far

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as Dan Now this actually is from Hebron

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A hundred and twenty miles or so From

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Hebron up to Dan And when they came

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upon them at Hebron Or at Dan Abram

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divided his forces And he attacked them at

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night And he and his servants attacked them

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And then they pursued them as far as

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Hobath Which is north of Damascus Now from

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Dan to Damascus is another Oh fifty sixty

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miles or so So they pursued them clear

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on up to Damascus And even north of

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Damascus to Hobath And he brought back all

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of the goods All of the spoils that

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these kings had made in this foray That

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they had come and captured all of these

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cities And so Abram came back with all

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of the goods And he also brought back

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his brother Lot and his goods As well

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as the women and the people So Abram

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was able to defeat these kings And no

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doubt It was as miraculous as Gideon's putting

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to flight the Midianites I am certain that

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Abram was outnumbered The fact that these kings

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were able to conquer The five kings who

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had federated together They were able to conquer

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all of these other cities They no doubt

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had a very powerful army They also were

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no doubt taken by surprise There at Dan

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at night When Abram had divided his forces

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and attacked them But I do not believe

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that you can omit the miraculous And I

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believe that Abraham recognized That it was God

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who had delivered them But again a man

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of faith coming out against these odds Trusting

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in God And so he brought back all

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of the goods And those that had been

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taken captive And the king of Sodom Went

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out to meet him in the valley of

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Sheba That is the king's valley After his

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return from the defeat Of Chedorlamor And of

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the kings who were with him And then

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Melchizedek The king of Salem Brought out bread

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and wine He was the priest of God

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Most High And he blessed him and said

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Blessed be Abram of God Most High Possessor

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of heaven and earth And blessed be God

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Most High Who has delivered your enemies Into

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your hand Now this person Melchizedek Is one

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of the mysterious persons of the Old Testament

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His name is significant Melchizedek the name means

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King of righteousness But we are told here

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that he is also The king of peace

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King of Salem, Salem is peace The Salem

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is thought by most scholars To be Jerusalem

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So here is the first mention of Jerusalem

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Within the scriptures Now if it is indeed

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Jerusalem Then he is living in a Jebusite

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city But whether or not he was a

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Jebusite We don't know There are some Bible

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scholars Who suggest that this was actually Shem

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One of the sons of Noah Who was

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still alive at this time Actually if the

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chronology charts in the Bible are correct In

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the genealogical charts if they are correct Abram

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actually died before Shem If you'll go ahead

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and figure out their ages and all So

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just in passing I personally do not believe

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it is Shem Because in Hebrews we are

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told That this man is without genealogy If

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it is Shem we have his genealogy But

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the fact that he is without genealogy To

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me would exclude it from being Shem And

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so though it is an interesting concept I

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do not think that it is biblical They

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have Shem going at the time of the

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Tower of Babel Moving to Jerusalem And becoming

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the patriarch there But I don't think that

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that is possible In that Melchizedek we are

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told in Hebrews 7 Is without genealogy Melchizedek

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king of righteousness Who was the king of

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Salem He brought bread and wine to Abram

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And he was the priest of God Most

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High Now this is the first mention Of

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a priest in the Bible Later on God

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is to establish a priesthood In the tribe

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of Levi But this is the first mention

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of a priest in the Bible The idea

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of a priest Comes from First of all

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the consciousness of the holiness And the purity

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of God And of the sinfulness of man

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God being absolutely pure And man being tainted

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by sin There is no way that a

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sinful man Could touch an absolutely pure God

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Without tainting him That is touch in an

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intimate way of fellowship Communion, oneness And so

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for a man to come into Contact with

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God Touching God Would be necessary to have

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a mediator A go-between Now Job who

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probably lived before Abram And as we pass

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through the genealogies in Genesis We came to

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Jobab and we suggested That that was possibly

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the Job of the Old Testament Job who

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lived in that period Before the priesthood When

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going through his great difficulties And his friend

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I believe it was Eliphaz Who said to

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him Hey just get right with God And

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everything will be okay He said You don't

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help me with that kind of advice I

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know God exists I see the vast universe

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that He has created But I can't see

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Him I turn but He's not there And

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when I realize how vast God is By

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looking at the universe that He has created

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Who am I that I could stand before

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God To plead my own case In order

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to justify myself You see Job's friends had

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concluded That his problems stem from his own

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sinfulness And Job was attesting to his own

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innocence So the friend said Hey get right

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with God And you're going to be okay

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And he said God I can't come before

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Him to justify myself He's too vast, He's

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too great And there is no days man

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between us Who can lay His hand on

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us both No priest, no mediator No go

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between And recognizing that This gulf between God

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and man was so great But he saw

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it not from the Sinfulness, righteousness aspect But

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he saw it from the vastness Of God

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to the smallness of man As David saw

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it when he said When I consider the

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heavens, the work of thy fingers The moon

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and the stars which you have ordained What

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is man that you are mindful of him?

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And the question What is man that God

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should even be mindful of him?

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He who Weighs the oceans in the palm

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of His hand The waters in the palm

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of His hand He who meted out the

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heaven with the span And the idea is

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measured the heavens With the span of His

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hand That should give you some concept Of

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the vastness of God As we improve our

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telescopes The size of the universe increases Ask

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God how big is the universe you created

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He'll say well I made it this big

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So how big is God?

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When I was a little boy I used

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to ask my mama How big is God?

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Is He as big as that telephone pole?

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About the biggest thing I knew Lived in

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a small city How big is your God?

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You know these people have this buddy buddy

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tummy You know the man upstairs or my

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pal or my buddy or whatever They have

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the wrong concept of God completely Oh the

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infinitude of God We can only comprehend it,

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understand it It is necessary to understand it

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To really see myself in the proper light

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Man who exalts himself Man who is lifted

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up in pride Man who walks around in

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haughtiness Is a man who has not yet

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really comprehended The infinitude of God When I

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see the heavens Who am I?

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That God should be mindful of me So

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the idea of the need of a priest

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arose And the ministry of the priest was

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twofold It was his duty to come before

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God Representing the people The people could not

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come directly to God They would come to

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the priest They would bring their offerings to

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the priest The priest in turn would go

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before God for the people Representing the people

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with their offering to the Lord And then

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he would return and come out to the

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people And as he spoke to the people

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he represented God They could not deal directly

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with God They had to deal through the

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mediator, the priest Who was the go-between

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And so Melchizedek, the first mention of a

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priest in the Bible But he is the

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priest of God Most High Or the Most

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High God, El Elyon And recognized by Abram

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as such For this man who is pointed

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always as the classic example To those who

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would believe We are always in the New

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Testament being shown Abraham and his faith And

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what was wrought by the result of his

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faith And he is given to us as

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the example of one who believed God And

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inherited the promises because of his faith And

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yet this man Abram, our example of faith

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Recognized the superiority of Melchizedek As a priest

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of God and offered unto him tithes And

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received from him a blessing And as we

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read in the book of Hebrews The lesser

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is always blessed by the greater And so

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the fact that he received the blessing from

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Melchizedek Is an indication of the superiority of

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Melchizedek over Abram Thus the superiority of the

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priesthood of Melchizedek Over that priesthood that was

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yet to come from Abram's seed Through the

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tribe of Levi For Levi was in Abram

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paying tribute to Melchizedek As Abram paid the

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tithes And that tenth may not be just

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of the spoil But it could be of

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everything that Abram had He gave him a

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tenth of all that he had So Levi

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in a sense was also paying tithe to

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Melchizedek in Abram Showing the superiority of the

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Melchizedek priesthood order We'll

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return with more of our verse by verse

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study Through the book of Genesis in our

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King of Salem And we do hope you'll

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the Lord bless you And cause you to

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grow in grace And in knowledge of our

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Lord and Savior Jesus Christ May you increase

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In Jesus' name Kids, I've got some exciting

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Goliath Just listen Smells delicious David had many

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older brothers His brothers were big and strong

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It's so much fun to read along with

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helped me to slay the lion and the

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bear So God will help me to slay

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this giant Lions?

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Bears?

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Goliath?

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