So many people think like oh, I'm a Christian I'm blessed,
You know, God will never let anything bad happen to me and I'm just here to tell you,
Delayed obedience is disobedience.
And if you think that you're going to partially obey God and that it's all going to work out for good
For those who love Him remember all things work together for the good, of those who love Him who do according to his plan,
according to his will and
Obedience is God's plan and if you think that you are going to be able to skirt by
Half doing what God told you to do
I'm here to tell you Genesis 14 shows us that's gonna blow up in your face
Now before we get started make sure you hit subscribe, with a bell, with the parentheses
So you're notified have a new gospel message because of course Satan and YouTube and Google. They're one of in the same
But they do not want you to know the gospel and they will never notify you of a new gospel message unless you hit subscribe,
with bell, with a parenthesis.
So let's get it started people think that I'm being facetious when I say that no, I'm not being facetious
for example
there is a
community tab
where if there's new videos that I want to show you that are not from my channel, if I want to run a poll, if
I want to ask you guys a question
It would go into the community tab and you would get a notification just like a new video pops up and the baseline
Requirement for that is 10,000 subscribers. Well, as of today I have over thirty five thousand subscribers
I contacted YouTube and they said, you know, there's nothing wrong with your channel, but we are not rolling out that feature to your channel
Okay, interesting. And the reason that I would love to have this community tab is because yesterday October 1st
2018 I actually did a
two-and-a-half hour
interview with
spirit wars that podcast and
when that goes live it's currently being edited cuz you know two and a half hours is a lot of time to listen to
We're gonna have that chopped down to a couple hours and a couple
Episodes so when those links go live, I will be sharing those on my social media both on Twitter and Instagram
Which you check out it at
@RachelNStevens, or you can just see it on my website at RachelNStevens.com
And UGH
I wish I could share that stuff with you here on YouTube, but I can't cuz Satan's in charge of YouTube
But you know today I want to talk about Genesis 14
And I know that so many people who have been with this family from the very beginning. They've been like Rachel
When are you getting back into doing the verse by verse of the Bible because yes
It's important to answer questions about the things that you guys wonder about that have biblical
implications like talking about holidays
I mean Halloween's coming up and I know I know your churches are gonna be celebrating Halloween and I am very disappointed
With the people who I see on social media who are Christians and they know better in their decorating their houses for Halloween
You know exactly who I'm talking to right now. I love you I care about you. But what are you doing?
Don't don't bring a curse on yourself, please again. I love you. Please don't do this
but I you know, this is for everybody this is for
everybody
Don't be celebrating these holidays you guys you don't want to bring a curse upon yourself
And it's important to talk about these topics, you know, we talked about praying in the spirit. We've talked about the Jezebel
Jezebel spirit we've talked about tithing during this entire summer where we took a hiatus
from doing verse by verse through the Bible because
What's what's about to happen in Genesis
14 and 15 is pretty controversial and I want you guys prepared for this stuff so that you're not surprised so that you're not
angry so that you're not confused because a lot of bad doctrine comes out of the
twisting of both Genesis 14 and 15 we're talking about
People who are saying tidiness for today and they will use Genesis 14 as their basis
You'll see people make all sorts of wild claims about a certain person in
Genesis 14 and I've already showed you through nathan h 83s videos what happens in Genesis 14?
disproves
the
Excellence of the KJV only movement it completely destroys their movement and it's important to know these things
this is why I have been trying to share this information with you before we get into Genesis 14 instead of
trying to
Put out fires from all the people that are confused about these issues
I want you to have this knowledge before we get in to Genesis 14, and I want to say one thing
You all know that I teach from Scripture only
66 books of the Bible that is all that I teach from any extra biblical text. We're talking about Enoch,
Jasher, Jubilees, Tobit any of these other extra biblical books
I don't care if it's from the Catholic canon. I don't care, what oh it's from some magical hidden
Treasure chest I don't care if it is not from Scripture
I do not teach from it as if it is God-breathed Scripture
and this is something that I need to stress because I know going into Genesis 14 people are gonna be like
Well the Midrash, well the book of Jubilees
Doesn't matter if it is not Scripture if it is not God breathed Scripture. It is irrelevant.
Because so often I will see people
They'll put Jasher or Jubilees or Enoch above Scripture and they'll say well in this book it says this, okay
Well, if that book disagrees with Scripture that proves that book is not valid and you know
I see people that treat Enoch as if it's the only book of the Bible and it's ridiculous because yes
Jesus quoted
From Enoch and yes, he mentioned Jasher but they also mentioned the annals of the kings of Israel the annals of the kings of Judah
Paul himself
quoted the Greeks own
Prophets he quoted pagan philosophers. He even called them prophets, but does that mean that they are biblical prophets?
Does that mean any of their writings are God breathed Scripture? No, just like a history book like okay, so you watch the news
Yeah, people are aware of these stories, but does that make it Scripture? No, and it's the same with Enoch.
It's the same with Jubilees or any of these extra biblical texts that are mentioned
They are not God-breathed Scripture
and today we don't even know if Enoch and
The book of Jasher and all these extra biblical texts are even the same books that Jesus quoted
So I want people to stop telling me "Well Bla
Well bla....Well Bla...Well Bla
Says this if it is not God-breathed Scripture It is irrelevant.
Nothing supersedes Scripture, like that's it. So, you know
Let's just set the stage because I know a lot of you have not been here for the other
chapters that we've already gone through so I go verse by verse sometimes one verse sometimes a couple verses and then
After I finished going verse by verse through that chapter
I ended up with a
Kind of an overview and I know a lot of you have seen my overview for Genesis 38
I had just skipped forward a lot to tell the story of Judah and Tamar because the Catholic Church
Twist that and uses that as their basis for not how not allowing
Sex for non-procreative reasons, that's why they say oh you can't be on birth control. Oh, you can't use condoms. They
misuse Genesis 38 so you guys have already seen my retelling of Genesis 38, but
Genesis 14 is important in that it shows us that when you don't obey God fully
Fully we're not know partially not with half heart with my whole heart
You have to follow God and when you don't bad things happen not because God doesn't love you
But because you didn't listen to God in the first place God loves you
This is why he warns you so often people say, oh I haven't heard from God. I don't know what to do
You've heard from God you are putting on blinders
You don't want to follow God because you see things here in the natural and you're like this doesn't make sense to me
This doesn't make sense. But what about this? What about this instead of like I'm going to rest in what Jesus is done
I trust that he's going to do the things that he has told me to do and
Because you don't fully trust God all of a sudden you start trusting in your own ability
And if you want we've already talked about that
I will the link right up here for everybody on desktop and mobile and links are always in the description box below
But we've already talked about do you want to drive or do you want to take the wheel from Jesus?
Jesus, take the wheel. Cuz if you all are fightin y'all are gonna end up in a tree trunk. So let jesus take the wheel
Rest in what he has promised you and obey him fully
People we need to worship Him in spirit and in truth with our whole heart and we need to just
Walk by faith not by sight and we see Abram, you know, he is a righteous man
he came from a pagan family in what is
called Mesopotamia
It later became Iraq
So he was from a city called Ur of the Chaldees and then there's a bigger area that eventually became
Mesopotamia but in the scripture this area called Mesopotamia
used to be called Shinar
So Abram bounced up out of there when God said leave your people
your country in your father's household and go to the land that I'm showing you but
Abram didn't fully obey and his name is Abram at this time. It's not Abraham yet
but
Abram brings his nephew Lot with him
And this is where things get dicey because he was supposed to leave lot behind and we've already discussed in the other videos
About Abram about how yeah, it's understandable, but that he did this. But again, the Bible is full of cautionary tales
From people who have done so many stupid things every single person in the Bible other than Jesus Christ other than God has sent
Everybody the Apostles messed up. They are sinful people in need of a savior
Abraham he messed up and Adam He messed up clearly he messed up so I don't want you to say like
Oh, it's in the Bible. So clearly God condones
It know these are cautionary tales and before we can even get into Genesis 14 1
I want you to understand. This is a cautionary tale
This is hey
This is what happens when you don't obey God fully because you know
you can have your reasons like oh, but God, I thought I thought that
obey God fully when he tells you to do something just
Obey it and do it the way that he told you to do it the first time he did it because delayed obedience is disobedience
Partially
following what God told you to do is
disobedience we see this with we already talked about this in our Jezebel series about how King Saul you know,
He's supposed to wipe out everybody. But what does he do?
He holds some of this back and then when Samuels like why do I hear the bleating of sheep?
All the sudden Saul is like oh, well, I was gonna dedicate this to God over here
And what happens he loses his kingship God removes him as king because of this
partial
obedience what it is is
Disobedience partial obedience is disobedience
and
Abraham
He walked with God and yeah
He made some really tough choices in moving his entire family and it's not just his entire family where it's Sarai his wife
Lot
It's the entire corporation of people that he had behind him Abram is like a king
He really is like one of these small vassal kings and we are going to see this in Genesis 14
So I want you to keep this in mind. This is a man who left everything behind he came from a very wealthy
Pagan family his brothers were named after pagan deities and
just different attributes of pagan deities and
It took a lot of courage to do what Abraham did
But at the same time he makes a lot of mistakes, so don't do what Abraham did
Don't disobey God by only
partially obeying him because we're going to see in Genesis 14 coming up later this week that
These things have consequences again. Not because God doesn't love you
But because he warned you and you didn't heed his warning because you decided you were going to do your own way
You were going to disobey Him
And if you are sitting there wondering you know, what does God want me to do with my life. I've never heard from God
Yes you have
Everybody has heard from God. God makes himself known through his creation, but I see so many people
If they don't want to hear a message
They will put blinders on I have had people tell me I am actively avoiding a video that
Continuously pops up because I do not want to hear
What you have to say about this issue because I am afraid that you are going to tell me
it's X instead of Y and
You know
God uses
Channels. I'm not just talking about mine
but God will put people in your in your life to give you warnings to tell you certain things and
people actively choose to ignore or
Actively choose to get as far away from these messages as possible
so yes, God does speak to you but you have to be willing to listen and
obey
That is important. You have to listen and obey not just hearers of the word but doers also
otherwise you deceive yourself and
Abraham he suffers the consequences of deceiving himself by being
Herer of the word, a doer of the word
But only partially and I don't want you to I don't want you to live like that. So just
For future reference because this is getting a little long. We are going to be talking about Genesis 14 one later in this week
I just want you to realize that just because it's in the Bible does not mean that God condones it. This is a cautionary tale
Abram did some things that are so admirable and they take so much faith to step out and do this stuff
But at the same time there are consequences for disobeying
The prompting of the Holy Spirit for disobeying God when he tells you to do something
so I want you to keep this in mind and recognize that this is not a
Nomad with wife in his nephew and their one donkey and they're just nomads
Going throughout the desert know these people are rolling in cash. This is like the Saudi royal family
going through the desert with a
Convoy of luxury vehicles Abraham's rolling up in a Lambo. It's it's actually a camel but that's like the Lambo of their day
They are so wealthy
it's like
like Mark Zuckerberg
level wealthy Abraham
Just keeps us in mine in Genesis 14 has his own army
He has his own army that was born in his household. That's how wealthy he is
How many people do you know who have private armies?
Probably they are in some sort of political power. They are a king. They are some sort of you know
Political entity Abram was a political entity
He was like a king and I want you to keep this in mind because so many people they sell the people in the Bible
Short like oh this is just this is some crazy nomad with one tooth. Na na no
No, this was a smart businessman who dealt with kings. He did shady stuff
God loved him, but God also allowed him to suffer the consequences of his disobedience
So we are going to see that there are going to be four kings from a land
Called Shinar that Abraham had just left years before and they're going to go to war with
Five kings and they're going to defeat them. But you know who defeats those four kings coming up?
Abraham.... Abraham alone
Abram and his army alone are able to knock out these four kings
so keep this in mind as we go into Genesis 14 later this week and
If you guys want to read ahead just so that you are prepared for the story
Definitely do that. I always advocate
Cracking your Bible for yourself. Don't just trust me. Crack your Bible and
Make sure to LIKE subscribe and share and I will see you later this week. Bye