<TITLE>09. Par 73-80</TITLE>L-73   Now let's read just a little further about Him here, and the 18th verse.
And Melchisedec king of Salem brought forth bread and wine:... (You get it?)... 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:
And he blessed him,... And he blessed...
And blessed be the most high God, which has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of all.
He paid tithes to Melchisedec. Abraham give Him a tenth of the spoils.

L-74   Now I want you to notice here as Paul goes on, giving a background for the coming lesson now.
And the king of Sodom said unto Abraham, Give me the persons, and take thou the goods to thyself.
Now, the king of Sodom said, "Now, you just give me back my subjects, and you take the goods to yourself."
And Abraham said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto the LORD, the most high God,...
El Elyon, "the possessor of heavens and earth," there.
... most high God, the possessor of heavens and earth,
That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatch,...
He didn't have a great campaign to take up money. He only wanted his fallen brother.
... and that I will not take any thing of thine, lest thou shall say, I have made Abraham rich:
Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me,...

L-75   Now, I want you to notice, Abraham said, "I'll not take from a thread to a shoelatch." He didn't fight the war, to make a lot of money. And real true battles are not made with selfish motives. Wars are not fought for money. Wars are fought for--for motives, for principles. Men fight war for principles. And when Abraham went out to get Lot, he didn't go out because he knowed he could whip the kings and take all their possession, he went out for the principle of "saving his brother."

L-76 And any minister that's sent out under the inspiration of the King of Heaven, will not go for money; neither will he go to make big churches, neither will he go to inspire denominations. He'll only go for one principle, and that is, "To bring back his fallen brother." Whether he gets a dime in the offering or whether he doesn't, it won't make a bit of difference to him.

L-77 As I say, "Real wars are fought and waged for principles and not for money." And men and women who join church and come into church, to be popular, because the Joneses belong there, or they change their church from a little church to a big church, you're doing it for a selfish motive and the right principle is not behind it. You should be willing to stand at the battle front.

L-78   In this tabernacle here, when things go wrong, and you men and you women will run and go over somewhere else, or lay out till the little fuss or the stew is over, there is something wrong with your experience. Right.

L-79 We have a custom here. We have a--we have a order here. This church is based upon the principles of the Bible. If there is somebody in here not doing right, and you think they're not, you go to him and talk to him. If you can't reconcile him, then take some brother with you, one or two more. If he won't be reconciled then, then tell it to the church. And the church will dismiss him, have no more fellowship with him. And Jesus said, "Whatever you loose on earth, I'll loose in Heaven."

L-80 That's the reason you have so much troubles, because you don't follow the Bible principles. If somebody in the church is causing a disturbance, or something going wrong, it's not your duty to go talk about that man or that woman. It's your duty to go to that man or woman, and tell him his error. And if he won't hear you, take some other one with you. He won't hear that, then the church looses him. Jesus said, "What you loose on earth, I'll loose in Heaven. What you bind on earth, I'll bind in Heaven." That's the power of the church.


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