Week 2 | When God is First, it’s Never Cursed
From Genesis 14
📖 Genesis 14:17-18 (ESV) After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley). 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)
📖 Genesis 14:19-20 (ESV) And he (Melchizedek) blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; 20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
📖 Genesis 14:21 (ESV) And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself.”
The QUESTION in every :
has made me ?
📖 Genesis 14:22-23 (ESV) But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth, 23 that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
Passing the testing of my blessings:
1. I must that God is .
📖 Genesis 14:22 (ESV) “I have lifted my hand to the Lord”.
📖 Genesis 14:20 (ESV) And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
📖 Hebrews 7:2-3 (ESV) He (Melchizedek) is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. 3 He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.
📖 Hebrews 7:7 (ESV) It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.
The is a .
📖 Malachi 3:10-11 (ESV) Bring the full tithe (10th) into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. 11 I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts.
📖 Proverbs 3:9-10 (ESV) Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
When we honor God – we tell and this – God is .
Passing the testing of my blessings:
2. I must life with God is than .
Notice the line in Genesis 14:22
📖 Genesis 14:22 (ESV) “I have lifted my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,
3 big differences between Sodom and Melchizedek:
A. God brings , the world offers .
📖 Genesis 14:18 (ESV) And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine.
📖 Genesis 13:10 (ESV) And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
B. God brings , the world offers through .
📖 Genesis 14:18, 21 (ESV) And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine… 21 the king of Sodom said… take the goods for yourself
📖 Luke 22:15 (ESV) “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.
C. God brings , the world offers what is .
📖 Psalm 110:4-6 (ESV) The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” 5 The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. 6 He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.
📖 Revelation 18:2-3 (ESV) “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.3 For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”
📖 Revelation 18:9-11 (ESV) And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning. 10 They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, “Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.” 11 And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore
If I can Jesus with my , how can I not Him with ?
📖 Romans 8:32 (ESV) He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will He not also with him graciously give us all things?
Passing the testing of my blessings:
3. I must my according to God’s .
📖 Genesis 14:22-23 (ESV) Abram said… “I have lifted my hand to the Lord, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth, 23 that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.
📖 Philippians 4:19 (ESV) And my God will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
I can God because He never me .
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