<TITLE>07. Par 54-63</TITLE>L-54 Now, the first thing taken place when they got down there, Lot got in trouble. Why? He was out of the will of God. And if you get in trouble when you're in the will of God, God will help you out. But if you're in trouble, out of the will of God, there's only one thing to do, get back in the will of God again.

L-55   Now, the kings all drew themselves together, and they figured that the plains down there was well watered, and they'd just go down and take this little old Sodom, Gomorrah, take it over. And they did. And when they went down and took it over, they took Lot with them.

L-56 Now I want you to notice the Spirit of Christ here in Abraham. Now notice the 14th verse.
And when Abraham heard that his brother... (Get it?)... his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

L-57 Oh, what a blessed thought of grace! Abraham, when his brother, though fallen from grace, though was in this backslidden condition; when he heard that the world had caught him up, and had captured him and took him away, to slaughter him, Abraham acted by the Spirit of Christ. He came and armed all of his men that was born in his house, and took after them, and pursued them all the way to Dan. And Dan is the uttermost parts of Palestine, "Dan to Beer-sheba," from one end to the other. And it's a type of Christ, when He saw that the world had took... was fallen, that He pursued the enemy to the end, to receive back the fallen race of Adam.

L-58   I want you to notice the next verse, how sweet here the Spirit speaks through him. All right, the 15th verse now.
And he brought back all (all) the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

L-59 When Abraham took after the enemy that had took his brother, he pursued him all the way across the nation, to Dan, and brought back everything that he lost in the fall.

L-60   What a beautiful picture of Christ, who heard from Heaven that we were lost and came and pursued the enemy, all the way to hell, and captured the lost souls and brought us back and restored us to everything that we had before the fall! We, backsliders, we that was born to be sons of God, that's perverted into the sons of the Devil, and made, went after the things of the world, and done wrong, and run greedily like Lot did, selling out our birthrights and going after the things of the world. Christ came down. Though fallen; God, knowing in the beginning who would be saved and who would not, therefore come down and pursued the enemy through life, through death, through paradise, into hell. And all the way from Glory to hell, and took over the--the powers of hell, and the keys away from the Devil, and rose again, and restored to mankind, that he can be sons and daughters of God again.

L-61 See the Spirit in Abraham there, the Spirit of Christ coming with him?

L-62   Now I want you to notice a little further, as we read.
And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after he returned from the slaughter of this king Chedortaomer, and... the kings... were with him, in the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.

L-63 They went out. King of Sodom was brought back. His brother was brought back. The children was brought back. And here went out the kings to meet him. And, also, here is where I want to get to, the message now. Watch here.
And--and Melchizedek, king of Salem (King of Jerusalem, King of peace) brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abraham of the most high God, possessor of heavens and earth:


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