The Master‘s Class, LifeChange Church Wichita
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
In today’s message we will discuss a meeting between Abram and Melchizedek, the King of Salem, and then we will see a particularly seductive temptation of Abram when the meeting between Abram and the king of Sodom occurs. God will always prepare us for the temptations or trails that we will face, and in this case, He brings Melchizedek out to meet Abram first.
As I read these verses, several questions just jump right out at me. To begin with, where did this man Melchizedek come from? He just walks out onto the page of Scripture with bread and wine, he blesses Abram, and then he walks off the page of Scripture. It makes me want to know where he came from, then I wonder where he is going, and I wonder what his business is when he is not out greeting Abram.
The Scripture tells us that he is the king of Salem, but it also tells us that he is a priest of the most high God. Which brings up another question: How did he find out about “the most high God”? Melchizedek describes God as the most high God, which means the Creator of heaven and earth. In other words, the living God, the God of Genesis 1, the God of Noah, and the God of Enoch. This is the One true God that this king, named Melchizedek, is the priest of.
Click on the link below to hear a message that gives us the answers to these questions. Learn that the Bible describes Melchizedek as a type of Christ, or an illustration of Christ. Melchizedek compares to Christ in that the Lord Jesus comes out of eternity, and He moves into eternity. He has no beginning and no end. He is the beginning. He is the end. You can’t go beyond Christ in the past, and you can’t go beyond Him in the future. He encompasses all of time, and all of eternity.
This is a live recording of The Master’s Class Bible Study at LifeChange Church Wichita, KS.
Amen.
JACOB'S LADDER-PART I (Genesis 28:1 to 13)
A FAMILY OF LIES AND LIARS (Genesis 27:1-46)
ISAAC'S STRUGGLE WITH FAITH (Genesis 26:1-35)
THE MEANING OF THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD
THE BATTLE WITHIN PART II (Genesis 25:1-27)
THE BATTLE WITHIN-PART I (Genesis 25:1-27)
THE BRIDE FOR THE BRIDEGROOM (Genesis 24:28-67)
THE WORK OF THE SERVANT
THE FAITH THAT CANNOT BE TESTED, CANNOT BE TRUSTED (Genesis 22:1-18)
A DRESS REHEARSAL FOR CALVARY (Genesis 22:1-14)
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC (Genesis 20:1 to 21:34)
GOD'S JUDGEMENT OF PERVASIVE SIN (Genesis 19:1-29)
TO PRAY AS AN INTERCESSOR (Genesis 18:1-21)
THE LAUGH OF FAITH
THERE IS NO PROBLEM GOD CANNOT SOLVE (Genesis 17:15-17)
TO BE STRONG IN FAITH (Genesis 17: 15-17)
THE PROMISE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (Genesis 17:1-8)
GOD’S TESTIMONY TO HAGAR AND ABRAHAM (Genesis 16:7 to 17:14)
ABRAHAM’S RIGHTEOUSNESS (Genesis 15:6 to 16:6)
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