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welcome to to Sunday school it’s um it’s a pleasure um to be back uh teaching Sunday school and um going through this fantastic series of um the Patriarchs in Genesis [Music] So today we’re going to lesson uh number two this is saam and and lot and uh before uh we start let me let me make a prayer Heavenly Father we thank you for this time that we can spend studing your word thank you for um all our brothers and sisters ER we ask that you bless this time that um we are blessed by your word and that we can learn and apply what we study this morning we ask your blessing for all of us here and for the ones watching online in Jesus name amen so um as I mentioned this is lesson uh number two this is about Abraham and lot so um we are um dividing kind of uh dividing this this lesson in two parts the first part is Abraham and L lot separate and that is in Genesis 13 from 1 to 18 that’s basically the that’s the full chapter and then we’ll go through the second part that is about rescuing lot in Genesis 14 vers 12 to uh for 24 now um before we start let me make a quick recap of what we saw last week we saw last week that um um God called Abraham to go to the promised land we saw that um God made several promises to Abraham and Abraham responded and he went to to that uh that land um when he started that Journey lot um left um his homeland and went with some other people he went with his father his uh nephew and his wife so along the way in the middle of the way his father passed away and he continued the the journey with his wife and with his um his nephew with with lot now ER lot had lost his own father so it seems like uh Abraham took over lot and was kind of a paternal figure towards lot we saw Abraham taking care of lot during these passages and um so there they arrive to the to the land of Canaan and there they settle um now once they are there and uh similar to us when we are called by God we respond we are now in God’s word and then we start to to walk in the ways of the Lord but um as we know walking in the ways of the Lord doesn’t mean that our life will be easy that we will have no trials no problems no difficult circumstances no adversities and aan that’s what he’s going to experience even though he’s in the promised land and he’s now following the Lord he will face all these different situations in his life and now we will see how he respond to these situations how he reacts to the uncertainty and the unexpected events that will go in uh his life and uh in the end of the previous chapter in the end of chapter 12 we see that um he fac the first the first Triad there was a famine in the land and he went to Egypt he decided to go to Egypt looking looking for food and um things didn’t um work out for for Abraham in in Egypt uh first um he lied about uh his wife because he feared that uh he was going to be killed uh because his wife was very beautiful and they said oh they will kill me to take you so tell everybody that you are my sister not my wife which was technically um true I mean it was true but it was not the the full true because she she was not only his sister she was also his wife uh so and faraoh discovered that because faraoh had taken um SAR and uh then God has to step in we see there God now stepping in because if faraoh takes San’s wife then the plan of in the sea to Abrahams is going to be disrupted and God cannot allow that so he steps in he sends a plague to to Pharaoh then Pharaoh then discovers what is going on and he returns Sarah to Abraham and he um confronts Abraham and he um literally kicks out Abraham out of Egypt so Abraham goes out of Egypt uh humiliated and then goes back to where he was before to the land of of Canaan and that’s where we are going to take over this um this first part of the lesson so we’re going to read now Genesis vers um 1 to so so Abraham went up from Egypt to The N he and his wife and all that belonged to him and L with him now Abraham was very rich in Livestock in silver and in Gold he went on his journeys from the ne as far as beel to the place where he stand had been at the beginning between beel and I to the place of the altar which he had made there formerly and there Aban call on the name of the Lord now lot went to Abraham also now lot went with Abraham also had flocks and herds and Tents and the land could not sustain them while delling together for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together and there was a Strife between the Hersman of Abraham’s livestock and the Hersman of Lot’s livestock now the Canaanite and the fite were dwelling in the land so Abram said to lot please let there be no Strife between you and me nor between my Hersman and your Hersman for me for we are brothers it is not the whole land is it not the whole land before you please separate from me if to the left then I will go to the right or if to the right then I will go to the left lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the Valley of the Jordan that it was well water everywhere this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and gomorra like the garden of the Lord like the land of Egypt as you go to S so lot choose for himself all the Valley of the Jordan and L Journey Eastward those they separated from each other aan settled in the land of Canaan while L settled in the cities of the valley and move his St as far as Sodom now the men of Sodom were weaked exceedingly and sinners against the Lord the Lord said to Abraham after Lord had separated from him the Lord said to Abraham after Lord had separated from him now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are northward and Southward and Eastward and Westward for all the land which you see I will leave it to you and to your descendants forever I will make you descendants as the do of the earth so that if anyone can number the those of the earth then your descendants can also be numbered arise walk about the land its length and bread for I will give it to you then Abraham moved his tent and came and dwelt by the O of MRE which are in heon and there he build an altar to the Lord amen so um we’ll be using basically the same techniques now that we used last week with Pastor day we’ll be analyzing the text through some questions um and to start that process let’s go to the next slides okay there it is so I just to make a um visualization of where we are this is the the map where um Abraham is um going into this journey we um saw that he went to Egypt and now he’s going back to where he was before to the land of uh Canaan and he settled he went through the ne ne Wilderness which is in the South next to Egypt then he moved North and sett again in in Beth which is like more or less in the middle we see to the south of Beal we see Jerusalem and then we see the the Dead Sea um to the to the right and uh we see there the probably prob location of of Sodom around the middle of the of the Dead Sea uh on the east side of of the sea um the location of the city Sodom s is um what um it the archaeologist think that um it could be based on discoveries but it’s cannot be as certain because those places disappear later on um but other places like Jerusalem it’s for sure that’s the the the place where it is because it’s obvious obviously there it is until until now um so that is the situation and we are talking in in terms of time it’s about the year 2000 200 100 before Christ so that’s where where this um story takes place so now let’s go to the questions to analyze the the text okay so now let’s review the text see what is in there so we going to start with the first questions what forms of wealth did aan have we can see that on chapter 13 uh verse two so he was very rich in livestock silver and gold right what is significant about theel so that’s the place where the Lord had appeared to Abraham when he first arrived in Canaan and Abraham built an altar in there we see that in chapter 12 verse 7 the Lord appeared to Abraham and said to your descendants I will give you this land so he bu an altar there to the Lord who had appear to him how did lot lot well compared to Abraham’s we see that Abraham had silver one and livestock but lot uh on verse five um we see that lot has flocks of and hers and Tents but uh we don’t see that he had silver and gold so his wealth was um not as as as big as uh Lots as s what was the source of conflict in this passage we see that there is a conflict between Abraham and lot so what was the the source of this conflict we see that in verse six the land right the land was not able uh to support all the flocks so how did Abram respond to this conflict then we see that on verse eight yeah he did what Jesus said in the parable he took the lower seat and he let lot choose where he wanted to go right right he did a proposal to L and in that proposal he was allowing lot to choose where he wanted to go now um what did lot notice about the land in the plain of the Jordan and we see that on verse 10 and we see that um what lot notic is that the land was good right it says it was well watered so and water is is is vital uh for the animals he had all his flocks so it was well water and um also the the passage um it says that um it was like the garden of the Lord now lot couldn’t have known The Garden of the Lord this is referring to the Garden in Genesis but it also mentions that it was like the land of Egypt as you go to so and lot has been in the land of Egypt with Abraham so they were coming from there so he has all that in his mind and he it’s well watered and it is like the like the land of Egypt now they comment like the the garden is more for us that we are reading this now from our perspective and and we know that the garden of the Lord was good very good so um the writer here is telling us that and was really really very very good so um we see that lot um choses that that part and um where did Abraham settle after they split company we can see that in verse number 12 uh he settled in the land of Canaan where of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea and later on on Verse 18 we see that he goes to heam um and he dwelt by The Oaks of mamre which are in heam now the first time I read about this I thought mamre was a place but mamre is not a place it’s a person so the those Oaks belong to this person mamre and abran went to to that part of the land and he settling there and uh now um is okay oh that was a that’s question sorry displaying the all the questions more than than one okay the next question is um where did lot um the lotary extended to we can see that on verse 12 as well verse 12 is telling us where Abraham went and he tell us also where lot went we saw that he choose the the land that was good and in verse 12 we have more details on this it says that lot settled in the cities of the valley and move his St as far as Sodom right now the next question um what we learn about Sodom in verse 13 so we see that um the people were Wicked exceedingly and see siners against the LA right that’s what verse 13 says now did lot know about this when he decided to go to that land I think we cannot tell for sure because the text doesn’t say he doesn’t explicitly say that lot knew about this but I think this remark is for us to see that he was going through a land that even though it was very good uh it had a problem the people were exceedingly Wicked and um then I have uh one more questions after they parted what experience did Aban have we see that in verses 14 through through 17 we see the Lord appears to him again right and what does the Lord tell Abraham um he reiterates the promise about the land and um he assures him that he and his descendants will have the land of of Canaan so after um L decided to take a what apparently was the good part god rais to Abraham hey don’t worry you will have all the land of of Canaan so these are the the points for observation um I don’t know if if you have any other point any other thing that comes up when you read this text any questions or comment yes M Glend thank you what I gather from this you know the whole question you asking I see the character of Abraham right he had his eyes focused on who not on on things around him lot had his eyes focused on the land the water but Abraham had his eyes focused on maybe he remember the promises that God has said to him the land is yours so what I’m see I’m seeing there Abraham’s character you choose you choose what you want and we see lot was looking all of the water the grass and everything for his livestock but Abraham as we if you go back to last week lesson Abraham was looking for who is giving him who had given him the promises God giv the promises the land is going to be yours so you setle L you choose M and this is sometime like us we look around and we see things looking good but behind the good things sometimes it’s not very good so we see love that went near to Sodom and they say Sodom was very Wicked so I was wondering if he know about that and he choose that to go so that’s what I see I see Abraham character there and lot character what lot wanted Earthly things but uh Abraham’s mind was set on the promise that God has given him yeah yeah right it seems like they are going they are pursuing different U different uh um wishes in their hearts right yes yeah a couple of uh observations is that in chapter 12 uh where God first appears to Abraham and he makes the promise to him that um besides the fact that uh in terms of his seed but also in terms of him being great then we see in Chapter 13 um where you had asked a question about Abraham’s possessions um and you see here while he was in uh living in the same area with his nephew lot that they had so much that um they had to separate because the land couldn’t sustain both of them so here we see uh that God is beginning to fulfill his promise that he made to Abraham because of his possessions and then he the other observation I wanted to make is that when lot shows um in terms of the land um that uh that was the issue for um you know for grazing their animals you know when lot saw when he looked towards uh Sodom and gomorah he saw that the land was rich there it’s interesting that yet um it says that the people in Sodom were very Wicked yet they were living in a land that was very prosperous and um we notice that lot what you asked the question um did lot know about the wickedness of Sodom the real issue here is that in spite of the fact that both Abraham and lot were being blessed there was something different about lot’s character that had no effect although we see in Hebrews where says that he was tormented by the wicked acts that were occurring inside yeah he was tormented by that but yet he had no impact on the city yet we see where Abraham where abra wherever Abraham went to Lodge he had an impact on the people around him there was something different about the people around him and I see us as Christians is that that we should regardless of how bad or whatever you know uh how bad the people or I guess the situation that we may find ourselves in um we should I believe we should have an impact there’s something about us that should have an impact on the area where we are that makes us different yeah thank you AR that’s a that’s a good point and um yes I think refer to something that Glenda said Abraham had his eyes set on the sovereignty of God no matter what was going to be picked he looked at the Eternal I maybe whether he knew it at that moment or not he wasn’t a perfect man but then you have lot who doesn’t even defer to the Elder the uncle that’s going to have to rescue him soon he thought he was doing what was right in his own eyes cuz he was looking at the temporal and if you look at whether it’s Israel or children or whatever when you you are making a decision based on what fits me right now it’s very selfish it’s very temporal when you’re not deferring I think when you’re not deferring to your elders like if we’re wrong as parents we’ll get smacked by God but they’ll get blessed and you see the same principles coming on down to keep your eyes on the end of where you’re focusing and God will work it out even if you make a wrong choice if you’re focused and your heart is right with him but if you’re seeking what I can get right now and you’re not deferring to those who have life experience and have gone on further you’re apt to make major mistakes in your life yeah right where do you put your eyes uh so these are all very good points and I would like to expand a little bit on on on some of what you have commented um so um the first point um I would like to mention that um when God um called Abraham he made a God made a promise to Abraham and to his descendants um and that promise ER was for for him and for his descendants so it’s a promise that cannot be spread to all other people God is making an exclusive promise for him and what we are seeing him now in this separation of Abraham and lot uh in some way is uh um God’s plan because he um wanted to make a very clear um who were going to inherit this promise and this land and who was not going to inherit uh that promise and that land um so the fact that uh they ended up separating uh I think that uh fulfills that part of God’s plan um and we see see that uh we can see that Express when Abra when God um talks again to Abraham after they are separated and reiterates the promise of the land and we will see this family separations later on on on the Patriarchs we will see that separation between Ishmael and Isaac we will see that separation between Jacob and Esau and um and that’s part of the same plan so um the plan of the Lord in his sovereignty and his wisdom was that only Abraham and uh their descendants were going to inherit that land and um this may seem a little bit harsh for us difficult to to understand uh but um we also see that even though God separates the people he still shows Mercy on the people that is separated we we uh see here that um we’ll see later on that God uh does not really abandon lot even though lot goes um away apparently goes just looking for his benefit God has Mercy on on lot and we see that also in later on when we see how people is separated God will also show Mercy on that people that is separated but the promise was very specific for Abraham and and uh his descendants and we see that now taking place into this separation now we have um mention here the two main characters Abraham and lot and and you have uh Express um good points on how they they reacting to this situation right so Abraham um when he sees this uh this conflict he takes the leadership in addressing the conflict I mean he uh doesn’t um pretend that um it do not sees he says okay well um we’ll see what happens and uh I do nothing no he takes the leadership and he goes and addresses and he him as an elder takes the responsibility he has to to look for a solution and the solution that he comes up with as um you were commenting is a solution that um where he even up he’s giving up his right as a fair choice in the land and he was the Elder so he had the right to choose to choose first he had the right to tell lot okay lot I mean you think with me uh but now we cannot be together so lot um you have to go and go and he’s not doing that he’s giving up really giving up his right and letting lot choose so I is demonstrating that he now after the disaster in Egypt he is now um growing in his faith and trusting that God will provide to to him now let’s talk about lot um lot is confronted now with um this decision and um when he receives the the promise I mean the the promise The Proposal of um of Abraham um he chooses the the best land and here um well we may see that um it’s probably um something that we could disapprove because in our culture in our current culture I mean when we are facing this sort of proposals uh I mean if I if I was aam and I do this proposal I would expect lot to take the not the best part but to take the the less part because that that’s how we work in a world culture I mean this is a Sil example but if we go to a par and we are offer two pieces of cake we tend to take the smaller one right we don’t go for the bigger one because that’s that’s that’s not correct that’s doesn’t look good in our in our culture but we don’t know if uh at that time um that was the the way that these people lived we don’t know if uh it is um was let’s say correct for lot to to take the the bigger part for for him um or not um and as I mention in in our in the way we live we would expect that lot would have said hey Uncle you have done so much for me and U no I’m you choose you choose or I choose the Lesser part that’s because that’s how we work but as you were also commenting um the decision if the decision itself may not be sinful the process that lot used to get to that decision is where we see the problem right how did he come up with this decision he lifted his eyes and saw that the land was good it reminds me um as um what Eve did in the garden when she was tempted by by the by the serpent what did she do she looked at the fruit and saw that it was good and that’s what lot is doing now he’s just lifting his eyes and he sees that the land is good and he says okay I am going there and in the end um because the people is is wicked as as the Bible mentions it will be a terrible decision for him and his family because things will end up pretty bad for him now as AR was also commenting I mean um interestingly the Bible calls lot a righteous man oh in Peter second Peter chapter 2 vers 7 8 it says and if he rescued Rous lot oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men for why for by what we for by what he saw and heard that righteous man while living among them fell his righteous Soul tormented day after day and the by their lowless deeds so he was right and that’s where we see the mercy of God that even though lot goes and uh only uses his eyes to go to the to the wood land still the Lord is showing Mercy on on lot and he’s called righteous but he is tormented according to this passage because he’s living in a place where people is exceedingly Wicked and as we saw last week uh with Pastor while the promis of God are um have an eternal um an eternal goal there are also promises that um that we can experience here on the earth or let’s say blessings that we can experience here on the earth there is joy that we are called to experience also where we are living here and lot is losing all that because he took a grown decision uh reminds me also what Pastor bik was commenting last week that um on that race that her daughter was running and um she realized that she could not run with a big backpack on her shoulders um I think that lot was running with that big backpack in his shoulders he never took off the backpack and because of that he’s running but he’s being oppressed he’s being tormented because he um doesn’t want to take off that uh heavy load from him so points for application I have here a couple of um Bible verses that can help us to reflect on that um if we are um facing a situation where we need to give up something um this passage of Philippians 2 from 5 to 8 can help us have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus who as he already existed in the form of God did not consider equally with God something to be grasped buted himself by taking the form of a bored servant and being born in the likeness of men and being found in appearance of a man he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death death on a cross so we see here the maximum example of someone who left everything for someone else see I I was thinking how Abraham um could have reacted when he heard about lot’s decision uh if um if I was Abraham I would have said oh this lot took the better part for him that’s how ungrateful he he is after all have I have made for him and now he goes to the best part of the land H probably I would be grumbling about that but we don’t see that in Abraham because he was really giving up his rights so when we do this type of um proposals I think one of the the things that um that happen is that we are not really giving up something now we say it and that happens in our personal interactions we say something to someone but uh we expect the other person to take the Lesser part because that’s how we work but in reality what happens inside us is that we are not willing to let that bigger part go we are not willing to give up our ride and we just say it outside but we don’t say it inside uh so look up for the example of Jesus and this may be a an easier thing for us and if we are like lot that um we are just making decisions based on our personal wealth on um our um financial interest and um and I don’t say it is not a relevant part because I mean it is it’s something that we have to take care but it’s not the only it’s not the only part we cannot just make decisions by lifting our eyes and see what’s out there so Matthew 63133 it says do not worry then saying what are we to eat or what are we to to drink or what are we to wear for clothing but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be provided to you so that’s the first part of our study now let’s go to the second part the second part is in chapter 14 from verses 12 to 24 but um before going into into this text um let me make a quick recap of what happened before on the verses from one to to 11 of chapter 14 so we see on this part of the text that um there is a war there is a war now in the in the land and um there is um the this is by the way the first part in in in the Bible where a is mentioned prior to the flood we had seen that um the Bible says there there was violence but um this is the first time that we see um this violence Express Express in a in a form of a war in a form of a formal war between between kingdoms and there are a Four Kings that come from the north from the land of Mesopotamia precisely where um the land where Abraham was coming from um we see those on the left side of the screen for four rulers from four cities and they are going to face five rulers from five cities of the land of of Canaan and the surrounding areas where Abraham and lot were living we see there also the names of the rulers and the cities the king of the city of Bella is not named however the Bible indicates that they were five five Kings and and five cities um and they will face each other in the valley of sidim which you can see there in the maps small but it’s basically like in the middle middle south of the south sea and uh it’s a part that the Bible also calls the sea salt and one of the points here is how can this be a valy and a sea at the same time and um according to Answers in Genesis uh this um part of of the of the Dead Sea if you see it in the map there are like two parts of the sea one to the North and the other to the South they are connected by a narrow piece of of water um which nowadays is in fact that is dry I mean the the two parts are are separate and um according to a geologist the South part uh at some times had a very low level of water so um when the water was so low this could become like a valley and um now that’s where these two armies are going to to face each other um the the land is um that that Valley the Bible mentions that it’s full of pits pits Tar Pits so that um um can also correlate to the situation that um there is we but then the the we um goes down and then the land is exposed but um because of the that humidity there there are this these pits forming there so let’s uh read now the the passage from um ver uh chapter 4 14 verse 12 to the end of chapter 14 so Chapter 14 verse 12 so they they took um lot Abraham’s nephew and his possessions and departed for he was living in Sodom so what happens here is that the armies that were coming to that land the four Kings defeated the F Kings and they took lot um with him as captive and then verse 13 then a fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew and told Abram the Hebrew now he was leaving by The Oaks of mamin the am Amorite brother of fesol and brother of anner and these were Alys with Abraham when Abraham heard that his relative had been taken captive he let out his strength men boarding his house 318 and went in Pursuit as far as then he divided his forces against them by night he and his servants and defeated them and pomed them as far as hobo which is not of Damascus he brought back all the go the goods and also brought back his relative lot with his possessions and also the women and the people then after his return from the defeat of K koler and the Kings who were with him the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of shave that is the King’s Valley and melchisedek king of Salem brought out Bread and Wine now he was a priest of the god most high and blessed him and said bless be Abraham of God most high possessor of Heaven and Earth and bless be God most high who was the lier who had deliver your enemies into your land he gave him a tent of all the king of Sodom said to Abraham keep the people to me and take the goods for yourself Abraham said to the king of Sodom I have swor to the Lord God most high possessor of Heaven and Earth that I will not take a threat or a sandal thong or anything that is yours for fear you would say I have made Abraham rich I will take nothing except what the young men have eaten and the share of the men who went with me and esol and mamre let them take their sh their share okay so we see here um as um was commenting the Four Kings that came from um the East defeat Ed these five Kings here and they took a lot uh captive and um then Abraham was notified of that and he went on to rescue his nephew and it says that he went as far as Dan and Damascus which you can see there in the map they are farther north and that’s about 150 miles from where he was living more or less so took on a on a long expedition to to go on this Rescue Mission so let’s analyze the the text and see what we find so how is Abraham describing verse 13 where vers 13 of chapter 14 so we see here that The Fugitive came and told Abraham the Hebrew so he’s mentioning here as a Hebrew and that’s the first time that this term appears in the Bible and where do this term come um this term comes from the genealogy of Aban in Chapter 11 in chapter 11 uh we see a the genealogy Abraham comes from uh Shem one of the sons of Noah so we can trace the genealogy back to to Noah and then um there were many many other people before sham and Abram and like in the middle of the genealogy in um verse 16 we see here a character we see here in verse he it says verse 16 ever Liv 34 years and became the father of Belo and never live 430 years after he became the father of Pac and he had other sons and daughters so this um term of Hebrew comes from from eever that is mentioned in the genealogy of of Aban that’s the origin of of this term and then we see that this term continues um to be applied in along the the scripture and even to to our days so next question was Lot the only one taken captive I think the answer is pretty obvious so ver 12 mentions only Abram but later on on verse um um 13 and um we see that um there were that lot not only rescu that ABR not only rescued lot but all the women and people that had also been taken captive so he was not the only one taken captive now how did Abram respond to the news we can see that in verse 14 what did he do he gathered his servants armed them and went after the Raiders so he build up small army based on the men that he had with him that work for him and when to to this Mission and what was the outcome of the battle well we know it lot won the the battle he had Victory and uh brought back lot um and the women and the people that were taking captive who met Abraham when as he first returned we see that on on verse 17 the king of Sodom right see that’s the the first one who meets um Abraham and later on we see another interesting and sort of mysterious character we see mikc now what do we learn about mikis sedc what we do know about of him this is kind of a mysterious character because we don’t really see more about melis sedc we do not see where he came from how come he was a priest of the god most high we don’t know we don’t know his origin um all we we know is that he was the king of Salem a priest of God uh Salem is um older name of Jerusalem it’s basically the same the same place and melis sedc er the meaning of this word is king king of righteousness we know he was a king of righteousness according to his name and he was also a priest um but we don’t know anything else about this mysterious character that comes up here comes from nowhere and greets uh Abram um in Hebrews chapter 7 we see a a big comment about melkisedek we see that the Bible um affirms that melkisedek was a priest a priest of God he was not a priest that was worshiping other gods canate gods or some other gods he was a real uh worshipper and priest of of um the Lord of of God um and it is a picture a portrait of what Jesus is later on going to be for us because MC is appears now to bless Abraham as a king of righteousness uh as a priest and then Jesus will come as the perfect the maximum um priest and the maximum blessing for us so it’s an interesting picture of this and of of of Jesus and uh a full uh a wider commentary on this you can see in in Hebrews in the book of Hebrews uh on chapter chapter 7 now what uh two things did MC do for Abraham um well he we see that he brought the breath and wine to feed him and he offer a blessing to him yeah and what did Abraham do in response to the blessing he gave a tenth of everything and that’s the first time that we see this act of giving it 10% of something to to God so Abraham by doing that he’s acknowledging the blessing of meis sedc as his Blessing and um last question what did This Ti signify about the relationship between Aon and MC well um as I was commenting I is uh recognizing the priest uh the role that MC is portraying and um he’s receiving the true blessing of meis sedc now analyzing uh reviewing this this text we see here again the character of Abraham because he’s notified about something and the stranger goes to Abraham and he tells him hey this happened and lot was taken captive and what does abam do he uh went on the mission right and I think was what um this person was expecting from him know why does he go to Abraham because Abram is a prominent person in that land he has been blessed he’s Rich he has over 300 people under his chch so he’s going to Abraham and he expects that Abraham Abraham at that time still ABR he expect that he does something and Abraham responds responds and he says okay yes I will do I will I will do something and I will go on this um on this Mission even though it’s a very dangerous and very risky Mission and to put this into perspective these uh Kings uh did not um these Four Kings had not only defeated the five Kings but prior to that we see on the first verses of uh chapter 14 they have been also defeating some other thbes they defeated the raim the susim emim horide amalekites the amorites they have been raiding all that area they have defeated these six tribes and they went on and defeated the vikins and they they were four against five and even though they defeated and they defeated them in their own land we would expect that these vikins know better the land and in spite of that they defeated and so what um Abraham was going to phase two was not a minor thing it was a really big big thing facing this powerful and mighty Army and in despite of the racek that did involved he went after them and rescue uh lot and and the other people and we see here also uh the mercy of God expressing lot because he’s rescued from from uh from captivity and we also see here the mercy of God extended to other people because not only lot is rescue but also the other people that have been taken captive with with lot they are all rescued so the mercy of um one believer sometimes um it goes to the people around him right and in that case that’s what happened um now um as we saw Abraham recognizes the the priesthood of madc and and honors madc by giving him the the tithe but um later on uh we see that the king of Solon makes him a proposal and the king of Solon tells Abraham hey Abram um just give me the back the the people and you keep all um what you took on on the battle and Abraham what does he do he rejects that proposal right because he was not going after um he was not going um to to become a richer person he was not going to for for the wealth and he is seeing the danger in becoming a partner with this King because we know Sodom and by that time probably Abraham knew that it was a wicked Kingdom it was a wicked King and he said no I’m not going to associate with you I mean um I will uh take only what I what I spend I will just take my my expenses and the rest is yours I don’t want it you can have it um and also the temptation to become um a king himself because after what he did nobody else could do it nobody could defeat this these Kings he was the only one he could have said he now I’m in charge I rescue you all now you all uh come to me and I going to be the king of you all but he didn’t do that he is now going back to his ways uh just trusting in God’s promises and happy with what he what he had what the Lord has given him so um points for our application I would like to express this this two Bible verses first one again in Philippians um 2 three 4 do nothing from selfish selfishness or empty conceit but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves do not merely look for your own personal interest but also for the interest of others and I think we can see Abraham doing this he went to rescue lot just for the goodness of lot without looking for his own benefit and finally I think with what we have read so far and what we will continue reading in um Genesis one thing that we can also see is the character of God how God is revealing to Abraham and how God is revealing to all of us as well um we can see the we can take lessons of how um the Lord how Abraham acted ER we can take lessons on how lot acted but we can also know the character of God and uh I would like to finish with this verse in Exodus 33 1819 then Moses said please show me your glory and he said I myself myself will make all my goodness pass before you and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and I will show compassion to whom I will show compassion that is the character of God and I think we can see part of that character reveal on these um passages that we have studied this morning so any would one would like a to make a final comment or question okay well thank you for your attention we’ll see you next 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