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DISCIPLESHIP VOLUME 2 Jesus in the Old Testament 5 ABRAHAM
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Introduction to Abraham and Series Context
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All right, guys. today we're going to take a look at Abraham. Abraham's a funny character. little bit like Job last week. People that I have mentioned or referenced in teachings I've given over the years.
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But I have never actually done full teaching on just Abraham. And up until last week, I'd never done one specifically on Job either.
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am But again, the focus of this series is on Jesus in the Old Testament. um So we will look at briefly at Abraham's life, just for context.
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And then we will look at the encounters that he had with Jesus and some of the names and identities by which he encounters him. If you want a fuller and scope, ah there is the actual Bible study, which costs 10 euros, which will be available just after this. But um this will give you a very good jumping pad or a launch pad.
Genealogy and Historical Context of Abraham
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So Abraham is a very significant individual in the Bible for a couple of reasons. One of them can be seen in Matthew 1, 1 to 17. one to seventeen And one of them can be seen in Luke 3, 21 to 38.
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thirty eight Matthew chapter one gives you the family tree of Joseph, the stepfather of Jesus.
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Luke 3, 21-38, some people say the Bible contradicts itself, it gives Joseph two family trees. But actually there's a little twist in the Luke 3 one where it is actually the family tree of Mary.
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Now when you get to the end, it kind of gives it connects Joseph with Mary's father because she had no brothers. um So it's kind of more like, you know, a son-in-law type and family tree in appearance, but actually it is the family tree of Mary.
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And Abraham appears in both of those. um So the family tree that led to Jesus coming to the earth. So the seed of life in the great redemption chronology of the Old Testament comes through Abraham. And we'll be looking a little bit at how that came about today.
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and then he's also very significant in that the Lord told him to take a walk and wherever he put his foot was to become the nation of Israel. Now that nation should be a lot bigger today if we compare it with the book of Genesis. um But he you could also effectively say that he was the first Israelite.
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He was the father of the nation of Israel.
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So some key events in his life. His father was named Terah. Now, Terah, his firstborn son, and was born when Terah was 70. Again, this is early Genesis. People did have an extended lifespan.
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This is after the flood, so people aren't living to the 900s anymore. They're living to their 200s and their three hundreds i When he was 130, Abram was born. And there's some people misread Genesis 11, 26, and they actually think that Abram was his firstborn son because his name comes before the other names of his sons. um But when you look at and sentences about, you know, children, if one of them had the seed of life, If one of them was in the family a tree of Jesus, that name tends to come first, even if they were not the firstborn.
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All right. So it's a little bit deceptive on the surface. It looks like Abraham was born first. He wasn't. um He was born when Tara was 130. And at the age of when Abram was years old.
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So Abram, which was Abraham's name before he was called Abraham. abraham He was born in the land of Ur, in the region of the Chaldeans.
00:04:34
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And the Lord told him in Genesis 12, 1 to 3, to cleave and to to cleve and to leave to get his wife, to walk away from his father's house, and to go on a journey to a land that the Lord would reveal to him, which was supposed to be the land of Canaan, or the promised land, or modern day Israel.
Abraham's Journey and Early Challenges
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However, that did not happen. Abram was in a state of disobedience. He decided not just to take his wife. Instead, he also took his nephew Lot, and he took his father Terra as well.
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His father was old, though they didn't get all that far. They got to a land called Haran, and they kind of just stayed there. And eventually, after however long it took...
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Terah died. And only then did Abram and his wife Sarai say, OK, let's let's continue on. Let's but let's keep on moving.
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But you did have a time there in which he was actually in rebellion, in which he was not doing what the Lord told him to do. He was not going with what told him to go. So the age of 75, his father Terah died and Abram left Haran. That's in Acts 7, chapter four.
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And that is when he actually entered the land of Canaan, as per Genesis 12, verses four to five.
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So the Lord told him, i am going to make you a mighty nation. You are going to conceive a son. Now, his wife was like ridiculously old. So we're talking about like a miracle here.
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And said, your wife's going to get pregnant and you're going to have a child. And I'm going to do something phenomenal and incredible through your people on the earth.
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So, you know, they you tried to have a baby. And they tried some more. And they tried some more. And they believed for a miracle and they tried some more. And they prayed really hard and they tried some more. And then they got a bit sadder, but they still kept on trying. And they got more and more depressed.
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They kept on trying. and they had no good days and they tried and they had bad days and they tried. But after 10 years, faith was gone.
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All the hope and what the Lord had said was depleted. And when he was 85 years of age, Sarai said to him, I've got a maidservant named Hagar.
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You don't see this crap in a soap opera. And she said, why not just have sex with her? Now, we're talking about a woman who Sarai believes to be fertile enough to have a baby. And Abram's like 85.
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Don't think about it it. was long time ago. If it gives her the ick, I won't judge you. And Sarai says to Hagar, listen, I want to have a child.
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I can't have a child. You can have a child. Your child will kind of be my child or something. I don't know what she was thinking. So Abraham and Hagar do the do.
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And next thing, Hagar gets pregnant. And Sarai is absolutely pregnant. furious. She's livid. She's ballistic.
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The very thing that she manufactured, now she's not happy with. So at the age of 86, Ishmael is born, Abram's firstborn son.
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And again, you can say that they're still in a state of disobedience. The Lord had said to Abram that he would have a son, And it was going to be a miraculous birth. um The Lord was going to be the one to pull it off. It was going to be through his wife, Sarai.
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And you have absolutely no reason to believe whatsoever that the Lord spoke to Abram again until he was 99 years of age. um His disobedience had wrought silence from God, radio silence, lips sealed.
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But eventually, because Jesus is Jesus and he's amazing and he loves us more than we could ever love him, he comes back and appears to Abram again in Genesis chapter 17, verse one.
God's Covenant and Changes in Identity
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And we know it's Jesus because in John 1 18, Jesus said that no one had ever seen God the Father. So when God is seen in the Old Testament, it is Jesus.
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And Jesus has a lot of names in the Bible. Here he calls himself l
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Shaddai, the God who is more than Enoch, the God who is more than Abel, the God who is your provision, he's your provider, whatever you need, he is your all-sufficient one. His grace is sufficient, some might say.
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And he reaffirms the promise he had given to Abram initially. And at this point, Abram is overcome and undone and falls to the ground, face down, prostrate, bows before the Lord and just says, is it possible for my wife Sarai to conceive? Even now, the woman must be pushing 90.
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And the Lord is like, all things are possible with me. At this point, the Lord gives them new names. You know, Abram means exalted father, exalted, high up, lofty.
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The Lord says, no, no, no, no. Your name is now Abraham. What is It's it's breathy. The Lord is.
00:10:51
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He's breathing on them. And the breath of God is the spirit of God. He's fusing his spirit to them, to the promise he had spoken over their life, the covenantal promise that they would carry the seed of life and bring it into the world.
00:11:10
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And he's saying, you're not an exalted father, Abram. You are Abraham, the father of many nations. Ishmael, yeah, that was that was a mistake. that You just shouldn't done that.
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But not only are you going to have one son, you're to have many. And from your kids, more nations are going to rise.
00:11:36
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And he turns to Sarai, which means quarrelsome. I remember when I was a child, um in primary school, we learned the alphabet through Letterland. You had Annie Apple. You had Bouncy Ben, Clever Cat, Dippy Duck. It was wonderful.
00:11:53
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I don't know why it school stopped teaching us. But for q you had Quarrelson Queen. And she just looked like she was perpetually sucking lemons. She had little pursed lips, like... That is how I picture Sarai.
00:12:09
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Every chapter of the Bible she's in, she's fighting with somebody. Normally over drama that she herself has started. I love the Bible. Because when I read it, I'm like, I know people like this. They create drama just so they can fight against the drama.
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And there's always someone else to blame. But they change. but They. The Lord changes her name from Sarai to Sarah.
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Again, H. Breath. And Sarah means princess. He's changing her identity completely.
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From one who was the queen bee, and she knew it, one who actually was royal, who had royalty. brand new DNA, a brand new identity.
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At the age of 100,
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Isaac was born, the child of the promise. Sarah got pregnant, had Isaac. Now when she, when the Lord had told her, gonna have a child, she actually laughed, probably in unbelief. She like, okay.
00:13:24
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And then the Lord had asked her, why'd you laugh? And she says, i didn't laugh. And he says, yes, you did laugh. And I always, when I read that, am i like I don't watch soap operas, but I do know the theme tunes for the shows. I always imagine like, you know, EastEnders, you know, dun, dun, dun, dun. It's the blandest, most ridiculous, most uneventful conversation in the Bible, but it's it reads like it's supposed to be really dramatic. Yes, you did laugh. I know you did.
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And that's why Isaac is called Isaac, and because it means he laughs. His name is Laughter. Now, personally, I think it's sick irony that his name is Isaac, because he later goes blind. You know, I-Zach, but, well, you know, that's that's a sidebar.
00:14:17
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But 33 and a half years later, and we're going to look at this in more detail later on, this will be the communion teaching. but but Abram offered Isaac, I'm missing the preposition asds and as, a sacrifice on Mount Moriah.
00:14:38
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Does he kill his child? Not telling you, you have to wait until the end. And at the age of 175, Abraham himself dies.
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right. Now, Abraham and Abraham abraham had a lot of encounters with the Lord in and those 175 years. We're going to look at some of them, okay? We're not going look at everything one of them, but we'll look at some of the main ones.
00:15:10
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And one of them takes place in Genesis 14, 17 to read it out gonna read it i be
00:15:22
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There has just been a big battle. And next thing it starts off with after Abram returned from defeating Kido Leomer, say these names of confidence and no one questions your pronunciation.
00:15:39
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And the king's allied with him. The king of Sodom, yes, that is the Sodom as in Sodomite and Sodom and Gomorrah, came out to meet him in the Valley of Sheva.
00:15:49
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That is the king's valley. Then Melchizedek, making sure with his name is spelled correctly on the screen, I do, yeah. Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. Hmm, an interesting combination of food elements.
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He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram, saying, Blessed be Abram by God Most High, creator of heaven and earth.
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And blessed be God most high, who delivered your enemies into your hands. Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything. tenth.
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Perhaps you're familiar with the word tithe. Oh my goodness, who is this guy? The king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.
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But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have raised my hand the Lord God Most creator of heaven and earth, and have taken an oath that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the thong of sandal, so that you will never be able to say, made Abram rich.
00:17:06
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I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me. To Anur, Eshgal, and Mamre, let them have their share.
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A lot of people would say Melchizedek is one of the single most mysterious figures to appear in the Bible.
Melchizedek and the Christ Connection
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He's in the Old Testament and he's in the New Testament. He just seems to pop up at random.
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But actually, Melchizedek is Christ. If we read this again, it says then Melchizedek. Let's stop there.
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Melchizedek means the king of righteousness. What is righteousness? It is Christianese for right with God.
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Holiness. Doing the right thing. Purity. Not sinning, not doing evil. This guy is the king of getting it right and never putting a foot wrong.
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That to me describes only one person in all of reality.
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It calls him the king of Salem. Salem is very closely related to Shalom. What is Shalom?
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The Hebrew word for peace. He's the king of righteousness and he's the king of peace. Think of that was a Cliff Richards Christmas song.
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um Wonderful counselor, almighty God, the everlasting father, the prince of peace. It's Jesus.
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Salem also means health. He's the king of health. The one who makes sick people well. Hello, a miracle worker.
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Salem is also short. If you look at the second half the word and imagine four letters at the start. The king of Jerusalem. Ada, J, E, or U. Keep Salem, you have the king of Jerusalem.
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The king of righteousness. whose kingdom is Jerusalem. Jerusalem did not exist as we understand it today, back then. But that's the wonderful thing about God. he is in time and outside of time. He's in time and he's above time. he can be each side of time at once.
00:19:50
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So this is the Lord prophetically saying that Jerusalem is going to be where he establishes his physical kingdom.
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Now it also says that he's the priest, of God Most High, and it says he blessed Abram.
00:20:10
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And then the very next line, he says, blessed be Abram by God Most High. So on one hand, he's saying that we're told that he blessed Abram and was the priest of God Most High.
00:20:25
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And now we see that he is the one who's God Most High blessing Abram. There's a certain way you can read it where he's actually just describing himself, saying, I am God most high, that Melchizedek is God most high, the God who's above every other God.
00:20:42
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There is no most or high in heaven. he's as He's as high as it gets. um But that he is a priest onto Father God.
00:20:54
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You know, in our first session, we looked at how Lucifer was a priest onto Jesus. You had this the morning star and you had the sun of the morning. Lucifer was a priest unto Jesus.
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Jesus is a priest unto Father God.
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And now he's saying that the king of righteousness, who's the king of peace and is the king of Jerusalem and is God most high. now he describes himself as the creator of heaven and earth.
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And again, in our first session, we looked very intensively for the full hour and a half. And how Jesus is the creator of everything. John chapter one, one to five. Says that.
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In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God and nothing has been made apart from what the word made. And he's the lifelight in all people.
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And if you look at Genesis chapter one you have a God who is speaking. That is the word that's Jesus. You've got a God who's making. That is Jesus. And then let there be light. Light be. He is the life light. He shone his own light.
00:22:09
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So he's saying that he is the God of Genesis chapter one.
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And Abram gave him tenth of everything.
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That's Abram creating the notion of a tithe, giving a tithe to this man. Why else would you give someone tithe other than if it's God himself? Because in the Old Testament, and the Lord commanded one-tenth. He would later officially command one-tenth of your firstfruits.
00:22:41
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The best are your best. Psalm 110, 1-7 about Jesus more
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It says, the Lord says to my Lord, because why make it easy when you make it difficult? Father God says to Jesus, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.
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This is Jesus being on the earth, ascending into heaven. You know, when supermaned his way into the sky. And his dad's like, hey, sit there beside me. It's a big throne. We've got two cushions.
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Make yourself comfy.
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The Lord will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, which is in Jerusalem. You will rule in the midst of your enemies.
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Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. This is the last day of the apocalypse. Arrayed in holy majesty from the womb of the dawn, you will receive the dew of your youth.
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The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek. So you are our a priest. And he's talking to the Lord. talking Jesus. the va So basically he's saying, Jesus, you are my priest.
00:23:59
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And then he says the Lord is at your right hand and he will crush kings on the day his wrath. And he's going to judge the nations as well. And last week, we looked at Jesus as a judge.
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You might recognize or remember the thumbnail where I was very heavily inspired by the TV show, Judge Judy. And then in Hebrews chapter seven, we're told that Melchizedek had no earthly mother and father, no earthly genealogy.
00:24:31
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There is only one person who is a priest unto father God, who has no real official mother and father, um besides, you know, supernatural help, um who's the king of righteousness, who's the king of peace, who's the king of Israel, the king of Jerusalem.
00:24:50
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It's Jesus. And even the fact that when he comes to Abraham, he's got wine and bread. That's a picture of communion. He's giving a prophetic picture that my body will be broken.
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And my blood will be poured out. OK, that's Jesus as Melchizedek.
00:25:18
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Now, also in Genesis 14, we have the title God Most High. You can read that name for Jesus 42 times in the Bible.
00:25:32
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It's a very common one. But in Psalm 89, 27, it associates God Most High or God the highest with my firstborn.
00:25:48
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I will indeed appoint him as my firstborn, the highest, God most high, of the kings of the earth. So this Melchizedek, this king of righteousness, this king of peace, this king of Salem, I'm going to make this guy the highest king of them all, and that will happen again On the day of the apocalypse, he's going to defeat the Antichrist, all the evildoers, and he will create a kingdom that lasts 1,000
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Imagine 1,000 years of world peace relative to everything we've ever had before. It'll be amazing. And we'll have the aerial heavenly view just looking down and what a great time having.
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While we are also living our best life, no doubt.
00:26:39
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um But the Lord specifically says that this will be his firstborn. Who is the only begotten son of God? It's Jesus. You could put John 3.16 beside this.
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For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, he gave his the firstborn of all creation, um that whoever believes in him shall not perish.
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but shall have everlasting life. Amen.
00:27:17
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Then we get to another revelation of the name of the Lord, the name of Jesus. And this is one a lot of people miss. There are some Bibles where they give them a capital A to make it really easy for you. And I dig those translators. Give those men a pay rise.
00:27:34
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This is the angel of the Lord. and We're not talking about an angel of the Lord. This angel is not a supernatural creature who might be your guardian, who might be a courier.
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This name is specifically the messenger of God, at the capital M, messenger of God.
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We can see this play out in Genesis 16, 7 13. seven to thirteen
00:28:08
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But you know what? This is a great story. I'm actually going to start at verse 1. Why not? This is after Sarai and Abram have been trying to conceive and it just hasn't happened. I've been inspired. We'll start at the beginning. It's all great.
00:28:22
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Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. Since the prophetic words had been given, they've tried for 10 years, nothing's happened.
00:28:35
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But... I love that there's supposed to say a correlation here. She had child, but she had a servant. And you're like, okay, how do those things go together?
00:28:46
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She had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar. So she said to Abram, the Lord has kept me from having children. Because, you know, it's always God's fault, apparently.
00:28:57
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Go sleep with my maidservant. Because, you know, Bible logic. Perhaps I can build a family through her.
00:29:09
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Yeah. Anyone could have told this chick that was a bad idea. Abram.
00:29:17
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He was a man Was he going to say no? Abram agreed to what Sarai said. Let's give her all the credit. oh I mean, responsibility and blame.
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and So after Abram had been living in Cain in ten years, Sarai, his wife, took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
00:29:40
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He slept with Hagar and she conceived. This family is nuts. And you know what? They're not even the craziest family in the Bible. But Abram's grandkids were kind of just as cray cray.
00:29:53
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But you see where they got it from. When she knew she was pregnant... She began to despise her mistress. All of a sudden, Hagar is walking around with this, you know, baby under her belly.
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i was going to stuff this up my shirt, but the way I'm sitting, you couldn't even see it anyway, so why damage my clothes? And she's like, oh, Sarai, mistress, I feel so thirsty.
00:30:22
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if only someone would get me water. then you've got this, like, you know, really old lady running around looking after, know, the one or 20s or 30s or whatnot. And she's the doctor said that my feet need a massage every hour on the hour.
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And Sarai is like, I never treated you this badly, you know, um when you were in my employment. And then Hagar is like, you know, Oh, if only someone would get me a chocolate sundae. And then Sarai gets her chocolate sundae. Ugh, I prefer vanilla. i Take it away. Ugh, your perfume. It's affecting my eyes. All this kind nonsense.
00:31:02
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This is how Hagar is behaving. Like a spoiled little tramp. um And when she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. I'm sure her mistress despised her too.
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Then Sarai said to Abram...
00:31:20
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Biologically, this is true. Morally, there was a lot of blame to go out. You are responsible for the wrong i am suffering. It's your fault. put my servant in your arms. At least she admitted that part.
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And now that she knows she's pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me. I'm going to give a word to the wise. That's not a sentence you ought to say unless you really, really, really, really really know you're innocent.
00:31:53
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Your servant is in your hands, Abram said. you think best? He's like, I've got two wives now. I'm not getting between them. Sort it out yourselves, ladies. Then Sarai mistreated Hagar.
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So she fled from her.
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The angel of the Lord, the capital A angel, the messenger of the Lord, found Hagar near a spring in the desert. So Hagar is carrying Abram's child and she's been forced the community.
00:32:28
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She is in the middle of nowhere. She's probably facing certain death. You know, maybe she packed a bag, you know, with a few bread rolls and cheese rolls. Who knows?
00:32:39
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But... She's at a spring in the desert, just hoping to get some water to drink and probably thinking. I'm just going to keel up beside the road somewhere and die.
00:32:52
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It was the spring that's beside the road to Shur.
00:32:57
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And he, the angel Lord said, Hagar, servant of Sarai. So, you know, the Lord knows who you are. He has got your number. Where have you come from?
00:33:10
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And where are you going? Isn't that a wonderful question we all need to ask ourselves more regularly? Look at her answer. I'm running away from my mistress, Sarai.
00:33:26
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How many questions did the angel of the Lord ask her? How many answers did she give? She knew what that she was running away from someone who had bullied her.
00:33:38
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Because she had bullied her first.
00:33:42
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She could very easily talk about her trauma, her anxiety, and her feces. Where was she going? She didn't have a clue.
00:33:53
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Because all she did was run, run, run, run. run run run run run But Brendan, how do you know that? Because Hagar's name means flight. And I'm not talking Ryanair.
00:34:05
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I'm talking run away, to take flight, to run away, to go from here to there, to here, to there, to here, to there, to here, to there. You're always on the run. There's always someone upsetting you. Someone else is always to blame. There's always someone hurting you. There's always someone abusing you. Someone always said this. Someone always said that. Someone's always mocking you. And you're constantly in motion. You're constantly on the run for your life.
00:34:31
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You cannot put down roots. You cannot get established. There's no planted in the house of the Lord, I flourish, because you're not planted. You're always running from the next thing, from the next threat, from the next issue, from the next concern, from the next drama that in this case she caused.
00:34:51
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Then the angel- Brendan, your voice keeps going. Oh no. It keeps going every now and then. e Is that happening for everybody?
00:35:02
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No, it's fine my side. No, mine's fine. who Okay, fine then. Sorry. Don't worry, ladies.
00:35:13
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hey If you're missing anything, maybe just re-watch the parts that are difficult on the YouTube version, yeah? Great. When you first started wagging your finger, I thought you were telling me Hagar's name didn't mean flight.
00:35:27
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And I was like, wow, got another Hebrew scholar on the chat. Excuse me. That's why I began speaking more quickly. It was time to fear and intimidation. Sorry. Like you don't want a guard wagging the finger at you or a police officer.
00:35:42
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No, I just couldn't hear you. Yeah. All right. Hopefully it's returned to normal soon.
00:35:50
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Then the angel of the Lord told her, go back to your mistress and submit to her. Notice this, friends. Jesus is not saying go back to your mistress and submit to abuse.
00:36:05
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He is not saying go back to your mistress and submit to bullying. And let's be honest, in terms of bullying, Hagar started. He's not saying go back to your mistress and submit to her taunts and send her mocking.
00:36:19
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By saying she is over you, you kind of screwed up her marriage and her family. Go back and do you're supposed to do. You're not running anywhere other than into the wilderness today.
00:36:32
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Go back, put down roots, get planted.
00:36:37
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And the angel added, I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count. There had been no prophecies regarding Ishmael up to this point, regarding the baby she was carrying. And now he might not be the child of the promise, the promised line of Jesus.
00:36:58
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But the Lord is saying, I'm going to bless you. And the angel of the Lord, the messenger of the Lord, also said to her, you are now with child and you will have a son.
00:37:10
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Spoiler alert, it's not a girl.
00:37:13
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You shall name him Ishmael. Which means God hears. God's listening to you. Think of that Santa Claus song at Christmas. Santa Claus is coming to town. you know and He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He's spying on you. It's God.
00:37:31
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He hears everything. He hears the cry of your heart. He hears every time you cry and he stores up your your tears is in a bottle. and He...
00:37:44
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knows what you're going to before you even say it. He knows what you're going think before you even think it. Every prayer you have comes before him.
00:37:56
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For the Lord has heard of your misery. He, meaning Ishmael, will be a wild donkey of a man. It's a mad description of somebody.
00:38:07
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His hand will be against everyone and to everyone's hand against him. And he will live in hostility toward all his brothers. Maybe that part's not so much a blessing, but it is prophetic. He has found the truth.
00:38:19
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And she gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her. And there is a snag. We're not talking about your typical angel messenger here, okay? We're not talking about the angel Gabriel. It says that the Lord, the master, the creator of everything, the Adonai, the one who is over the rulership of reality spoke to her.
00:38:42
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So there's a messenger angel speaking on behalf of God. But she's saying that it was God himself who gave the message.
00:38:54
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So this is a God who's a servant or a messenger of another God. This is Jesus. Jesus giving a message on behalf of the Father. So she gave this name to the Lord, Jesus, who spoke to her.
00:39:10
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You are the God who sees me. She's not talking to one of his servants. She's not talking to a guardian angel. She's not talking to host of heaven. She's not talking to a cherub. She's not talking to a seraphine.
The Angel of the Lord and Prophetic Parallels
00:39:22
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She's not talking to a living creature. She's not talking to one of heaven's population. She's talking to the one who created heaven. You are the God who sees me. For she said, i have now seen the one who sees me.
00:39:37
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That means she was looking at Jesus. talking to Jesus, and Jesus had said, i have heard your cries. I've been there with you. So the one who gave the message, the message to her was Jesus himself.
00:39:53
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And that is why the well was called Bir Lahai Roy, which means the well of the living one who sees me. You will see when we look at Moses in a very short number of weeks, and we look at the burning bush, that it's also the angel of the Lord, this enigmatic figure who's speaking to him, that will also be Jesus. We're going to see a lot of the angel the Lord as this series progresses.
00:40:29
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But our last big chunk for today will be the gospel Revealed in Genesis, chapter 22. And again, let's read this one full because it has got so much meat in it.
00:40:46
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And it's beautiful and it's amazing and it's wonderful. And the more I read it, the more I see things i hadn't even seen before.
00:41:03
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So Genesis 22 is called Abraham Tested.
00:41:09
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um until not very many Fridays ago, I was a professional teacher. I thought English was a foreign language. I had done that job for maybe nine and a half, 10 years.
00:41:22
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i was probably teaching professionally for 10, 11 years. And contrary to what most people might think, I absolutely despised giving tests.
00:41:35
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Most of my colleagues loved Fridays. It was your excuse to stand in front of the photocopier for 10, 15 minutes in the morning. bit annoying, but had to be done.
00:41:47
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And then about six hours of the working day, you could just put your feet up, sit back in your chair, relax, relax,
00:41:59
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What's your students suffer answering questions in reading texts, in listening tech, in grammar, vocabulary, writing essays, doing speaking tasks and pairs.
00:42:17
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And you would sit there on your mobile phone, on Instagram, on WhatsApp, on Tinder, on TikTok,
00:42:28
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And you could do you know your paperwork that you probably should have done five days earlier. And you could have a little browse to see you what you're gonna be douching on week after.
00:42:40
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And you could start texting the other teachers, you know, ha, you'll never guess what this student said. Their answers were so stupid. Take a photograph, send it on Like, you know, what feedback should I give this kid?
00:42:56
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That is how most teachers view Fridays. It is a cheat day when you get up early to travel to work, to do nothing and get paid. For me, I despised Fridays.
00:43:11
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I was not on those group chats looking at what students had written. I was not photographing their essays and sending them on i saw myself as a teacher and I was there to teach.
00:43:25
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i would much sooner be pacing up and down past the whiteboard, teaching something, doing something dynamic, imparting knowledge, sharing something with the students that they hadn't known before, and removing the scales from their eyes linguistically and teaching them how to actually speak and write.
00:43:44
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I'm a teacher. I love teaching. i hated tests. I was bored out of my freaking mind. The number of times I fell asleep sitting on my chair thinking, and for goodness sakes, hurry up.
00:43:57
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I intentionally made this as short as humanly possible. Please just finish and talk to me. I'm desperate. Test? I couldn't hack it. But why do we give them?
00:44:10
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Well, I'll be honest. For me personally, it was school policy. If teachers don't test, teachers don't get paid. Ha ha ha. Nothing would twist my arm quite like making money.
00:44:22
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But in an ideal world, you test to build the students' confidence in what they already know. And to highlight to the students gray areas where where they need to may knuckle down a bit more.
00:44:39
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Maybe they have the information in their heads. You're just creating a space where they can write it with a pen or a release it from their mouths. where they can see how much they're improving in a way that's measured, in a way that's accurate, in a way that's encouraging and builds their sense of self-esteem and accomplishment.
00:45:04
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When the Lord gives you a test, he knows what he has already put in you. He knows what he's already taught you. He knows what he's already filled you with.
00:45:18
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He knows he's already taken through. And a test from the Lord is your opportunity to put it into practice, to grow in the confidence, to grow in your authority, to grow in your anointing, to grow in your gifts, to put more faith in him, more trust in him, to see him do bigger, better, more amazing things.
00:45:47
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He's not testing you based on what you're not ready for. He's testing to bring out what's already true and deposited and in you.
00:45:58
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That's what we're going to see here.
00:46:02
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So chapter 22, sometime later, God tested Abraham. He said to him, Abraham! Just in case someone else what it was like, yes, it's me.
00:46:14
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You know, if he had said man or dude. He was very clear with who he wanted. Here I am, he replied. Then God said, take your son.
00:46:26
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Look at this. Your only son. Oh my goodness, is there a misprint in the Bible? No. There is not. Again, you could equate John 3.16 with this For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. Now you might say, we're all children of God.
00:46:45
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Yeah, but there's no one quite like Jesus. He is the ultimate promised son, the anointed one, the Messiah, the chosen one, the Christ. Ishmael was a son born out of rebellion.
00:46:59
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Ishmael was a son born out of unbelief. Ishmael was a son born out of sin. Ishmael was a son born out of God works too slowly.
00:47:13
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Ishmael was a son born out of God needs a helping hand. And I can do this better than he can and more efficiently than he can.
00:47:25
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Ishmael is a son born out of pride.
00:47:30
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Isaac was the child of the promise. Again, go back to Matthew 1, go back to Luke 3. The seed of life through which Jesus came was in Isaac.
00:47:44
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So when he says your only son, God's not making a mistake. He knows the Bible very well. He knows history better than anyone. But he's using prophetic language here. he's probably He's talking prophetically about the number one son, the one I had told you about in advance.
00:48:02
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Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love. And go to the region of Moriah. You know, we can stop there.
00:48:15
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When Jesus was getting water baptized by his cousin, John the Baptist, we're told that the heavens opened up and Father God spoke from the heavens, affirming the love that he had for Jesus.
00:48:33
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We're not talking about it weird, emotionally distant relationship here between an emotionally inarticulous father and a rebellious son. We're talking a relationship where there's deep affection.
00:48:50
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The region of Moriah. Jerusalem would later be established there, would later be built there. And Golgotha, Mount Calvary, which we'll be looking at a lot as we get closer to the Resurrection Sunday, was a hill just near the side of it.
00:49:09
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Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.
00:49:19
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Abraham's probably thinking, are you having a laugh? Are you messing? This is nuts.
00:49:30
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But he says yes. And early the next morning, Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son, Isaac. Isaac is not a toddler.
00:49:46
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Isaac's not a child. He's not a teenager. I know in all the the Vatican frescoes, and he looks very, very young. um Isaac at this point is 33 and a half years old.
00:50:01
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He is the age that Jesus was when Jesus died. And even the fact. They takes a donkey and saddle the donkey to Moriah, which will later be Jerusalem.
00:50:19
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Again, as we get closer to Resurrection Sunday, you see a lot of images of Jesus riding a donkey into Jerusalem.
00:50:29
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When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering. He sets out for the place God had told him about.
00:50:41
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And on the third day, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. So it's two days of traveling. And on the third day. Presumably, there's going to be a sacrifice.
00:50:57
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He said to his servants, and even that's interesting, actually. First Peter 3.8 says that in heaven's time, now there is no time in heaven, it's eternity, but in their understanding of time, 1,000 earth years is a day.
00:51:17
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So therefore, 2,000 earth years is two days in heaven. Between Abraham and Jesus,
00:51:29
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2000 years passed. So you could actually read this as. Abraham set out. And 2000 years passed.
00:51:41
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And on the third day, the sacrifice of the son is about to occur. You could look at that as prophetic. That 2000 years would pass for Abraham and then God would sacrifice his own son.
00:51:55
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Verse four, on the third day, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. He said to his servants, probably so they wouldn't stop him. He's like, no, master, don't do it. Put down the knife.
00:52:08
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Stay here with the donkey while I and the lad over there.
00:52:15
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We will worship and then we'll come back to you.
00:52:21
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I don't know if he's prophesying there or if he's lying. I believe he's prophesying. In Hebrews 11, we are actually told that even though no resurrection miracles had taken place in the first 22 chapters of the Bible, Abraham did believe that God was about to perform a resurrection miracle.
00:52:47
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He believed he was about to sacrifice Isaac. Stab him because we're told he has a knife. Set him on fire because we're told he's got firewood. And that the Lord was going to resurrect him from the ashes, make him a brand new body.
00:53:04
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And through that body, Isaac was going to get married someday and have lots of babies. That is actually what's going through Abraham's head right now.
00:53:16
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Phenomenal. That's how much you believe the word of God. For descendants. For ancestry. Sorry. For her her descendants. but For offspring.
00:53:28
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Abraham, look at this now, took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac.
00:53:38
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So that means Isaac is carrying the wood. You know, we see Jesus carrying the wood. In Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It was in the shape
00:53:54
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of a cross.
00:54:00
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And now that I've done that, I've lost my page. Give me a second.
00:54:10
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Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed his son Isaac. And he himself carried the knife and the fire.
00:54:20
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And as the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father, Abraham. Father? dad but but You just imagine what's going through this guy's head right now.
00:54:37
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Yes, my son. Abraham replied, listen to how Abraham talks about him. The one he loves. My boy, my lad, my son. There's deep, deep affection here.
00:54:50
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This how God talks about Jesus. This how God talks about you. Okay, if you're a lady, he doesn't call you a lad or a boy. He calls a daughter, girl, but with affection. The fire and wood are here, Isaac said.
00:55:07
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But where is the lamb for the burnt offerings?
00:55:12
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And Abraham answered, i love this, God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son. And the two of them went on together.
00:55:27
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When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. I wonder if the wood was arranged in a cross shape.
00:55:42
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and Perhaps. And maybe Isaac was lying down with his arms outstretched.
00:55:53
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He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the woods.
00:56:01
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Abraham was 133 and a years old. was 33 and half years old. isaac was thirty three and a half years old If he had wanted to, Isaac could have given him a black eye knocked every tooth out of his head, and pushed him down the cliff.
00:56:19
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But didn't. Even Isaac is exercising faith here. he He had been told his whole life, you're the child the promise, you're the miracle child, you're blah blah blah blah, God's got a plan for you, you're gonna get married, gonna have blocked and lots of babies.
00:56:32
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Even Isaac is submitting to this willingly, with trust in his father, And in God.
00:56:45
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Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But look who this is again. capital a But the capital a angel of the Lord, the messenger of the Lord, who Hagar has told us is the Lord, is Jesus, called out to him from heaven.
00:57:06
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Abraham, ah Abraham, like, you know, what are you doing? Here I am. He replied. Do not lay a hand on the boy, he said.
00:57:20
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Don't do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God. That you have a reverential awe for God. a deep holy respect for God.
00:57:33
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Because you have not withheld from me your son. Your only son. Again, Isaac... was not his only son, but he was the son in the covenantal line of the redemption program, in the lineage that Jesus would come from, in the prophetic, prophesied lineage.
00:57:58
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And Abraham looked up, and there, in a thicket, he saw a ram caught by its horns. Now, a ram can be a male sheep, can be a male goat,
00:58:10
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and But it's interesting that it's a male, because the sacrifice for us, for all sin, would be a male, would be Jesus, the firstborn son. And what is a thicket?
00:58:23
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A thicket is a thorn bush. Its head is stuck in a thorn bush. And what happened when Adam sinned?
00:58:37
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Thorns shot up from the ground, Genesis chapter 3.
00:58:42
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And what happened when Pontius Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified? He was beaten to a bloody pulp, spat stripped naked, and a thorn bush, thorns, were forced into his scalp, into his head.
00:59:05
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So this ram, whether a goat or sheep, got its head stuck in a thorn bush. And this is what they're going to kill instead now.
00:59:16
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And it's a beautiful picture of how Jesus would take thorns in his head for us.
00:59:25
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ah Abraham went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of a son.
00:59:33
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So Abraham called that place. Look at this now. The Lord will provide. That is not a reflection on what has happened in Genesis 22.
00:59:50
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If this was about Genesis 22, he would say the Lord has provided. Or the Lord provided today.
01:00:03
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That is not a declaration of God's goodness based on what he's done. That is a prophecy of something still to come. Will.
01:00:15
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Provide. Shall provide. Is going to provide. This is a prophecy about a future event. The Lord will provide another male lamb.
01:00:30
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The Lord will provide another ram whose head is stuck in a thorn bush. The Lord will provide. Another man who'll be sacrificed for a much greater reason, for much greater purpose, for much wider audience.
01:00:49
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And to this day, is said, on the mountain of the Lord, it here we go again, in case you missed it once, it says it twice, will be provided.
01:01:01
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So Mount Moriah is where Jerusalem was later built, the city.
01:01:09
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And outside the city is Golgotha. Is Calvary. The hill where Jesus would die. It's called the Place of the Skull. Because if you look at photographs and of on Google Images, it literally looks like a skull.
01:01:24
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I think it was them the original Peter Pan movie. The Disney one from, was it the 1950s maybe? um There's some island that they go to. Is it Skull Island? I don't know.
01:01:37
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But there's some... structure and it looks it's like hollowed eyes and a hollowed mouth and that's where the pirates go that is a pretty good description actually of what Golgotha looks like even today if you don't know what it looks like just look it up on google images Golgotha Mount Calvary place of the skull and it literally looks like a head you can actually see the eyes and the gaping mouth it's kind of scary actually
01:02:06
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And that is where the Lord provided a sacrifice for all of us.
01:02:12
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And the angel of the Lord, who Hagar has told us is the Lord, is Jesus, is the God who sees and the God who hears, called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said,
01:02:27
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I s swear by myself, declares the Lord. Booyah. Forget Hagar's testimony. She was a runaway. She was a homewrecker. If you want to trust her, whatever.
01:02:37
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Here, the angel of the Lord literally calls himself the Lord. He says, I'm the messenger of the Lord and I am the Lord. I speak on behalf of my father. Who am i I'm the son. I'm Jesus.
01:02:52
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I swear by myself. The angel of the Lord says, I s swear by the angel of the Lord, that because you have done this and not withheld your son, your only son.
01:03:07
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Again, that's three times in one chapter. Factually, not true. Prophetically, he's making a point. I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore.
01:03:25
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Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies. And through your offspring, all nations on earth will be blessed because you have a bad evening.
01:03:40
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And we were abundantly blessed with the coming of Jesus. Then Abraham returned to his servants and they set off together for Beersheba.
01:03:53
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and Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
01:04:02
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It's such a tremendously amazing chapter in the Old Testament. I'm going to finish off with just one more little story, and then we're going have some communion to together.
01:04:18
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To put all of this together, and like I said, there's a lot more in this that we could look at. And if you're interested, i do have the Bible study version ready to go out today for 10 euros.
01:04:31
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But John 8, 56 to 59 just joins this whole story, just solidifies all of it. i You know what? The more I look at this, it's all good. It's all amazing.
01:04:47
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Screw it. Let's start at verse 48.
01:04:51
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Just for the day to get the context in there.
01:04:57
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The claims of Jesus about himself.
01:05:03
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These were said during the earthly ministry of Jesus 2000 years later.
01:05:11
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The Jews answered him, his contemporaries, the descendants of Abraham. most of whom did not recognize the Lord when he appeared before them. Aren't we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?
01:05:29
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Let's stop there. Samaritans were seen as hybrids. They were seen as really, really weird. Not fully Jewish.
01:05:39
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You shouldn't really spend time with them. i You know, maybe they're... Their mother was Jewish, their daddy was somebody else. Now, you could say prophetically, yes, Jesus is the good Samaritan.
01:05:53
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His mother was Jewish, his father was someone else with a capital SE, was God himself. But they mean this as a racial slur. They're saying, you're not...
01:06:05
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The king of the Jews, you're not God, you're nothing special, you are dirt, you are vile, you are someone that we should shun, you are someone we should not spend time with, you're evil.
01:06:18
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And Jesus says, i am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my father, God Almighty, and you dishonor me. i am not seeking glory for myself, but there is one who seeks it, and he's the judge.
01:06:36
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I tell you the truth. If anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.
01:06:42
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At this, the Jews exclaimed, Now we know that you are demon-possessed. You're speaking crap. You're speaking evil. That doesn't make sense. That's stupid.
01:06:55
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To explain what he means there would take another lesson in and of itself, but we'll get there at some point. Abraham died and sowed the prophets.
01:07:06
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Yet you say that if anyone keeps your a word, he will never taste death. Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets.
01:07:16
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Who do you think you are? So they're bringing religion into it. They're fighting Jesus with the Bible. I think that's a fight they're going to lose.
01:07:30
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Jesus replied, if I glorify myself, My glory means nothing. My father, whom you claim as your God, so basically he's saying you're, you might be Jew by nationality, by biology, by blood.
01:07:49
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You are not of my father by faith.
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Is the one who glorifies me. Is the one who reveals himself through me. Just as Melchizedek did. Just as El Shaddai did.
01:08:05
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Just as the angel messenger of the Lord did.
01:08:12
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Though you do not know him. Oh, I'm sure that riled them up. Because they could quote all the Bible verses they wanted, but they didn't have the heart knowledge. They had religion, they didn't have relationship.
01:08:25
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They had head knowledge, they didn't have faith. Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said i didn't, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his words.
01:08:39
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I know his heart. I know his opinion. I know his mind. And I do what he says.
01:08:45
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Your father, Abraham. so now he's saying, you know, you're a Jew by nature. a You're a Jew by nationality. You're a Jew by blood. You're a Jew by genetics.
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But you are not a Jew by faith. You're not saved, Israel. Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day. He saw it and was glad.
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He was given a prophetic vision of me ruling and reigning, and it made his heart glad it did him some good on the inside.
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You despise me. Hmm. You're even out of alignment with the man that your you're claiming as your own heritage.
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And they said, you're not yet 50 years old. Because he died when he was 33 and a half. And you've seen Abraham. Good one. Are you having a laugh?
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And Jesus says, I tell you the truth. Now look at this. He doesn't say no. You've seen Abraham. He doesn't dispute it because it's true.
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I tell you the truth, Jesus answered. Before Abraham was born, I am. And at this they plug picked up stones to stone him.
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But Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds. So then they tried to stone him to death, but he got away.
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The name who I am. who i am is the name that he would use at the burning bush. Again, we're gonna look at Moses very soon. And in Exodus three, when Moses meets the Lord in the burning bush, we're told that the angel of the Lord was in the burning bush.
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But we're also told that Moses spoke to God face to face. So Jesus is saying, I am the angel of the Lord. I'm the one Moses met.
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I'm the one Hagar met. I'm the one who stopped the sacrifice of Isaac. He says, I am who I am i am the one who spoke to Moses. I'm the one who delivered the Israelites out of captivity and bondage in Egypt. Again, we're going to look at that in a week very soon.
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The fact that he does not dispute speaking to Abraham means he is identifying himself with Melchizedek. I am the one who had communion with him.
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The bread and the wine. I am the king of righteousness. I am the king of peace.
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I am the king of Salem. Shalom peace, the king of health. I am the king of Jerusalem, it's the king of Israel.
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What this story does is it brings all of those different strands together. Everything we've looked at in this last hour and a half. And Jesus says, Melchizedek.
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I am who I am. I'm the angel of the Lord. I am Shaddai. Again, there are other names he went by with.
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Abraham as well, which you can see in the Bible study. um i am the Lord. i am the master. Melchizedek likened himself to the creator of heaven and earth.
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He's saying, I am the God of Genesis chapter one.
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And that is the God who would die for us. That is the God, Jesus, who when his father said, I need to send you to the earth, he said, okay.
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Who when his father said, I don't want to punish every single person on earth. So I need to do a once and for all time sacrifice. We need to judge evil, but I don't want to judge the lot of them.
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They perish, but I need a willing participant, a willing volunteer. and said, okay, and stretched himself out on the wood as it had been lying down.
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One who was bound to that wood
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and forced to hang there with nails to his hands and his feet.
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He says, I need you to be the male lamb stuck in the thorn bush with your head stuck in it. I need the thorns that came up to punish Adam to be stuck into your head.
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And he said, okay. Adam and Eve had sinned while butt naked. He said, i need to hang there with everything on display.
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Humans that entertain such vile, carnal wickedness in their hearts, he said, I need you to take a spear through yours. It's gonna be bad, it's gonna blush, or gush blood and water.
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He said, everything that they've put their hand to in such a wicked way, I need nails through yours. For every trespass and transgressionate grant transgression, everywhere they've gone that they should not have gone, i need a nail through your feet.
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To every wicked thing they've chosen to carry on their backs. I need you to be lashed 40 times. Your back turned to bloody ribbons and stripes.
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For every wicked word they've ever spoken, I need you to drink vinegar. They're not going to give you water. or They're not going to give you wine. They're going to give you vinegar and they're gonna laugh at you as you thirst for more.
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but your blue bruises are gonna purge them of sin.
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Genesis 22 is not really a story about Abraham and Isaac at all. Isaac getting off scot-free.
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It's a story about Father God sacrificing Jesus in place of us.
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man So with your communion elements, we thank you, Lord, for the body that was broken for us. The hill beside Mount Moriah, Calvary, Golgotha, the place of the skull.
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And the cup. wine, milk, water, juice, whatever you've chosen to to have. The blood that was poured out to wash us clean.
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And we thank you, Lord. We thank you for what you've done, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
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Lord.
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Lord.
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You do that.
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Oh, yeah.
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and
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And amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.
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and then All right, everyone. Thank you so much for joining today. hope that you enjoyed that. Are there any comments, queries, or questions think shared tonight?
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Or that I'll A-OK.
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Amen. Powerful. Thank you, Mary. Amen, Lord.
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Thank you,
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Jesus.
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Amen. Amen. Amen. All right, everyone. um Thank you, Sophie, for the lovingness there in the chat box. Appreciate that.
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Hi everyone. So as always, if you would like the intensive Bible study version, a that is 10 euros. It goes into um just about everything we looked at tonight.
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I'll be honest, even as I'm teaching this tonight, God just began showing me new things I hadn't even seen before, even earlier today. but i am But a it looks at all the stories from today. but a lot more detail.
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It looks at additional names that and the Lord went by in his fraternizations with Abraham.
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and It has gist, gap fill, matching, and sentence have questions to see you understood the story. It has meditate on the word of God and personal reflection questions, especially regarding the tragic heroine of the piece, which is Hagar.
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And i also go into and timelines and um what age people were when different parts of the story were taking place all the way back to Adam to show you that between Adam and Abraham, and there was almost exactly 2,000 years of history. and Showing you what their births were like, and how old people were when they died and when other fathers were born and all this mad stuff.
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and So it's that's a tenner, you're interested. This teaching here will be put up on YouTube and on the WhatsApp groups, probably within an hour and a half or so. tends not to take too long.
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I know Discipleship Series 1 when I was teaching for two and two and a half hours at a pop-up. It's okay, it's just like midnight before I got them up. But capping it at an hour and a half, it actually works a lot better for YouTube.
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So it tends not to take too long to upload them. and Thanks Jamie for the lovely message today on the chat box, I appreciate that. and And I'll also put the PowerPoint presentation up as well, okay? So if you do want to have another look at the Bible citations, you can have them there too.
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So other than that, have a beautiful rest of your night with Jesus. May give your sweet dreams. May have a beautiful rest of your week. and Next week is the final Wednesday of the month. So again, we don't do discipleship on the final Wednesday of the month because it takes me a long time to make the Bible studies.
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and so that'll give me a chance to get a couple of weeks ahead. and so that I don't fall behind. um And thanks, Sophie. Yeah, great. I'll message you directly after this, okay? hey And other than that, have a lovely night and I'll see you all soon, okay? If you need prayer or encouragement during the week or just a little chit-chat, you'll have my number. Don't hesitate to reach out, okay? Or pop something on the group.
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God bless. my have Thank you. Brendan.
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yes friendndan Thank you. Thanks, Mary. Take care, everyone. best Talk soon. Love you. say You too.
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Good night, Lisa.