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Hello, everyone, everywhere.

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Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

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Welcome to your 15 minute daily Bible walk.

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We're so blessed you're joining us today.

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We just left off with chapter 14 and Genesis, and we're beginning chapter 15 today.

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But I want to just review a little bit about what just happened in chapter 14.

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Abraham had just defeated four kings with 318 servants, okay?

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And we know that Melchizedek got wind of this.

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He had been looking for one of his descendants that obviously had the blessing of God on his life.

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And he said, that's my guy.

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And he came down, met Abram, blessed him, and passed on the anointing to him, the blessing to him.

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And, you know, now he.

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Abram was so blessed.

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You know, he'd heard all about Shem.

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And we talked about how Melchizedek is probably Shem.

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And you know, he was so blessed with that that he gave him ties of all he had, right?

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That blessed him immediately.

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The king of Sodom seen what was going on and said, well, here, you know, and now he was worried that Abram had every right, every right to claim to be king over the people now, because obviously the king had no army.

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They were killed off.

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They were done.

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And he had no way.

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He proved he couldn't protect the people.

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And here Abram, with 318 servants, took care of four armies and got everything back.

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They.

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He could have said, make me your king.

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And they would have said, okay, all right, well, here we see now the king of Sodom, he's trying to figure out how he can keep his kingdom.

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So he said, look, just keep all the money, everything you recover, you can have.

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Just give me the people.

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Now, he wasn't saying, you know, give me the people.

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He was saying, keep me as king, okay?

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And Abram told him, you know, I don't need anything.

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You know, he just been blessed by Shem, the son of Noah.

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And he knows Shem is considered the high priest of the most high God, right?

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He said, I don't need your stuff.

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I got a blessing on me now that is just going to impact me and my family for generations.

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And he said, I don't want.

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I'm not even going to take a shoelace from you because I don't want you to be able to claim in any way that you made Abram rich, right?

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So that's where we left it off with.

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And as chapter one, verse 15, chapter 15, verse one says, after these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, do not fear, Abram I am your shield and your exceeding great reward.

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In other words, there's a promise there.

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Promise number three.

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And we cover promise one was, you know, he'd be blessed, and two, to have descendants as numerous as a sand.

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And.

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And now here's three.

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I'm your shield and your exceedingly great reward.

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And Abram said, lord God, now we know that means you know.

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Yahweh Almighty, Yahweh Elohim.

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Yahweh Elohim, the most high God, the triune God.

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Yahweh Elohim, what will you give me, seeing I go childless and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.

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And Abram said to me, you've given no see, no descendants, so that one born in my house will end up being my heir.

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Why did he ask God about that?

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Go back to chapter 14.

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And we see down here.

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Let me find it here.

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Because the Lord came to him and I just had it here a second ago.

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Where was it?

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Where God told.

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Maybe it's: 13:13

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That's what it is, Genesis 13, verse 14.

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The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated himself from him, remember he finally got rid of Lot.

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Now he's in obedience to God's word.

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He said, lift up your eyes, look from the place where you are, north, south, east and west, all the land you see, I'll give it to you and to your descendants fore.

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And I'll make your seed, your descendants as the dust of the earth.

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So if so, a man could number the dust of the earth.

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That's how many people will be numbered.

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And Abra's like hasn't happened yet, okay?

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And that's what he's asking God here, you haven't given me any of these descendants you keep talking about.

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I don't even have a son born into my household yet.

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And this servant guy here from Damascus, Eleazar, he has a son.

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He's going to end up inheriting everything.

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Now here's where down in chapter 15, verse 4.

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Now behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, this will not be your heir, but he that should come forth out of your own bowels, out of your own bloodline, will be your heir.

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There's another promise.

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Praise God.

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And he brought him forth abroad, said, look now towards heaven.

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So obviously this is his evening prayer time.

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Okay?

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Is look towards heaven.

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Count the stars.

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If you're able to number them, they said, that's how numerous your descendants will be, your seed will be.

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There's another promise.

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Praise God.

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And remember, there's no written word at this time.

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There is no Bible, there was no Talmud.

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There was no writings at all about all this going on.

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So God had to show him a way that he could.

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You know, we talk about reading your Bible every day.

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That's what this podcast is about, right?

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Your 15 minute daily Bible walk, just going into the scriptures for at least a little bit each day.

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That's the whole purpose of what we're doing here.

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So they didn't have that back then.

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So God had to give them something he could see.

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And he said, come outside at night, look at all those stars.

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Now, you know, we look at the heavens and we.

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Oh, so many stars.

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Open it, folks.

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I grew up in Michigan.

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It was rural.

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We were well away from all of the city lights.

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And you could actually see the Milky Way, okay?

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That's.

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I mean, how expansive the heavens were.

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And it had to be even better in Abrams Day because it was really dark.

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There were no city lights anywhere to reflect anything.

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And so he said, if you are able to count them, count the stars, that's how many your descendants will be.

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Verse 6.

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And he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteous.

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He believed what Yahweh said.

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He believed what Yahweh said would come to pass.

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And that is what was counted to Abram as righteous.

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Believing what God says.

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If Abram was counted as righteous just because he believed by faith, you can do the same exact thing.

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It belongs to you when you just believe what God said by faith.

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If you see a promise in the Bible and the Lord puts it on your heart, this is for you.

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And you just believe it by faith with nothing else to back it up but faith.

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God says that's what makes you righteous, because you believe.

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Amen.

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Praise God.

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Don't shout Pastor Bab down when he's preaching.

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Good.

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Praise God here.

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And he said to him, I am the Lord, I am Yahweh, I am Elohim, that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees.

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I brought you here to give you this land to inherit it.

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And he said, lord God, how shall I know that I'll inherit it?

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How do I know that you're going to give me all this land?

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You know, I mean, there's people here that have been occupying this land for many, many years.

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They won't take too kindly for me coming in, laying claim to it, okay?

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And he said to him, take me a heifer three years old, a she go three years old, a ram three years old.

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A turtle dove and a young pigeon.

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And he took him all these and divided them in the midst and laid each one against the other.

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But the birds, he did not divide.

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Now this is entering into a covenant sacrifice.

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Amen.

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And I want to stop right there because I want to spend some time on this in the next episode.

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Glory to God.

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I just don't want to rush through this, but in a little bit of time we have left.

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I want to let you understand when he says divide of the Jewish writings, the ancient Jewish writings, and what the Jewish scholars say happened is he split these things right down the backbone so they basically in two halves, okay?

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That's what it means.

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Divide them in the.

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He divided them in half right down the spine.

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All right?

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And then that obviously, you know, the area of the sacrifice is where he's cutting these up at.

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So the whole ground was covered in blood.

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Okay?

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He probably had blood on him too, because it's not a clean job.

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You know, I haven't been hunting and 40 plus years, okay?

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But when I did, and you got a deer, I mean, you're all up in there and I mean, you're.

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You have blood on you.

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You can't help but have blood on you.

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And that was nothing like what Abram had to do here because he's taking them and, you know, cutting them right down the middle.

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Entrails and all was hanging out and all that.

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Folks, this is serious stuff when it comes to a blood covenant.

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There is blood everywhere.

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All right?

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And the birds, he did not divide.

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He just laid them down whole.

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And that's where we're going to stop at right there in verse number 10.

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So we'll take it up beginning in verse 11 next time.

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Amen.

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