Dr. Dean Alley PhD: All right, Chaplain Dean Alley. I had a moment. I hope you're doing well today. Today is Tuesday, yeah. Tuesday, and it's the 18th. And I am continuing the series with Genesis. I hope it's a blessing. I've had some pretty good feedback that makes me blush because I do not think of myself anything more than a student of the Bible. also learning what God has to say to us through his word. And chapter 14 is where we're gonna go. And if you remember, we're coming off of the chapter 13, and that's where Abraham, remember, and Lot they separate. We learned there. But we're gonna get into let me give you a survey. So we call it in theology a survey of this chapter, just to kind of give you set up some context for you. give you some understanding color I call it into this chapter. And so I just want to talk a little bit about the fact that the time frame that is happening is about 2000 to 1900 BC before Christ. It's considered in the secular world the middle bronze age is what they would say. The conflict Is the four Mesopotamian Eastern kings led by one king. His name is Chedor Lamar of Elam. And I'm gonna show you that here in a minute where where the context is so you get a better sense of what that is. So he is a king, Cheddarmi, let's see, Kedah Kedah or Lahamir is it's hard to say it. but he's also with Amaphral of Shiner, he's with Aroch of Elishar, and he's with Title of Goyim. So those those four Kings along with the king of Elam, he they're they're they're trying to go against and defeat this in this conflict the the five Canaanite state kings in the Valley of Siddham, including Sodom, Gomorrah, Amenia, Zopin, and Bel Azorah. So there's the conflict right there where they are Trying to defeat a rebel of five Canaanite city kings at the time. the other part of this would be where we see that Lot gets rescued. So just an overview from there is he gets taken by this raid, by these kings that are coming in. He's that Sodom, remember? And he gets captured, his family and everything during the raid. And Abram, upon hearing the word, what does he do? He takes and he mobilizes three hundred and eighteen of his trained household servants to pursue this eastern culture or coalition. Now these people that I'm gonna show you on the map will show where they are in in correlation to Babylon. So they are coming out of that area, they're taking in their pilgrim, I mean they're Pilferage, they're taking and grabbing people, they're they're stealing stuff. And they launched this. This this this raid was at night. And it was a surprise attack. They were not prepared for it. And it recovers Lot. So we know Abraham he'll eventually cover them, the captains and all the stolen goods. So there's a there's a happy glad story there. But the aftermath, upon returning, what we find is Abraham is met in the valley of Ashava, the King's Dale near the Salem, Jerusalem, by this Melchazedek, King of Salem, and Berah and King of Sodom. So he's gonna be met after that, and I don't want to spoil it, we'll we'll we'll read it. But I want to give you some doctoral context before we get into what this is kind of what what's going on here. So We're gonna get the first revelation, and they call it El Elan, which introduces God or God of the Most High. It's the supreme possession of heaven and earth. And we you we'll find that in verse nineteen. But Melchizedek holds a unique dual role, I would say, as a king of righteousness and a the king of Salem, which means peace. So the priesthood of the most high. So when we look at the topology of how does Christ play, he serves serves as an explicit type of Christ. So this Melchizedek gives us a type of Christ in the eternal. He's non Levitical, royal priest. And w if you want me to give you those verses, I can give it to you. It's in Psalms and Hebrew. But the next part of that was the sacramental memorial. Which is a provision. So, what does he hand him after he wins this battle? He gives him some bread and wine. It's a prophetic memorial of Christ's finished work. It's a royal refreshment and it's a resurrection of the priesthood, right? So he hands him bread. Who who is we learn in the New Testament about the bread and the wine, right? You notice where I'm going with this? This is 2,000 years ago. So We also learn the tithing and the separation part. we know that Abraham was he was a humble man, but Abraham he volunteered a tenth of everything that he took from these kings. And it predates any of the Mosaic law for the Jewish or Israel nations in tithing. So this is pre-Mosaic. Mo Mo Moses hadn't even been born. So he The his total refusal of Sodom's spoils, it's it's not a thread nor a shoelatchet. It demonstrates the unwavering faith. Separate from the worldly enrichments and reli and relents our and rely us on solely for God's wealth. So he shows us you know, he he declines it, and we he's relying on God's wealth for his his His needs and that's what we should be doing, right, folks? Easier said than done. So we also see a part of the covenant promise. He says, I will bre bless them that bless thee and curse him that curse thee. That's in Gen 12, 3. Historically, it demonstrates in a total defeat of these kings and their coalition. So that that would be some of the context there. So the other context I'd give you is some inspiration. So God breathed historical narrative. Second Timothy want chapter three. Now we'd like to drop drop down to sixteen. Now the promises that were spoken spoken to Abraham and to his seed, he does not say any two seeds as referring to many, but rather one seed. Did you catch that? And to your seed, that is Christ. So we pick that up out of the narrative here that the one the the the promises to Abraham. So the precise an ancient Near Eastern political names, places and alliances, they're kind of dynamic. Dynamic meaning moving around here. and it preserves under divine inspiration. So the Holy Spirit deliberately omits Melchizedek, his genealogy and birth. We don't even get that. Very little is said about this guy. or this type of Christ or king. Nothing about his birth, his death. Genesis records so that the author of the of deliberately omits it. Because remember everything that's written in the Bible is for us, not necessarily to us, unless you're in Paul's gospels. He's telling us that he didn't want us to focus on this Melchizedek other than what he said. So if it's in there, it's important. If you're reading it in scripture, scripture is king and context is king. That's the important. That's why I'm going over some of this context. So you get a sense of what 14, chapter 14 looks like. So in the death of Genesis, records in Hebrews that could later demonstrate a divine type. So without without a father, without a mother, without a descent, having neither beginning of the day nor the the day. It's almost just similar to what we learn about our son of God, right? We learn that about Christ, right? He's without a father, he's without a mother, he's without a descendant. It's giving us a setup to the New Testament, and that's in Hebrews 7, and it's in verse 3. So that would be some of the inspirational context. Let me give you a couple spiritual context, and then we're going to get into the actual line by line, precept by precept. So the faith walk, this is spiritual now. And versus the sight. So our faith versus seeing things, right? Contrast to Abraham's spiritual war warfare. We're all we all have spiritual warfare in this world, folks. And his dependence is shown on God. And with Lot's carnality or his sinfulness, he compromised the dwelling or staying in Sodom because of where he stayed. It was a bad choice to be in Sodom, but he chose it. He chose it through the sight of the eyes. Remember, we learned that he chose Sodom because it looked good to the eyes, opposed to Abraham, who relied on who? God and put his faith there. So it's important to note that the spiritual warfare in the intercession, Abraham's willing to risk his life to rescue a fallen brother, who's Lot, which is his nephew. From the enemy captivity. So he didn't even hesitate when he got word that he was captured. So the priorities in the victory. We know that Abraham receives a spiritual fellowship, bread, wine, blessings from the God priest before he's faced with a subtle worldly temptation of God of Sodom or the King of Sodom. The communion proceeds with the worldly no negotiation, and then I would say that the purity and promise, so Giving you types here. So, from a spiritual standpoint, the spiritual fellowship, the bread, the wine, the blessings from God before he faces any problems. It's important. We we always do that, and we should do it daily, not just when we're in trouble. I call it a spare-tired Christian. They pray on God only when they need him. When things are good, and he's on top of the mountain, and as you know, on top of the mountain, nothing grows, right? Everything grows in the valley. So when you're in that valley going in a trial, you're in a trial coming out of a trial, you're gonna grow in your spiritual sense into as a Christian. And that's where you do your most growing. And it can be difficult, it's not easy. Top of the mountain, you're up on the top of the mountain, there's nothing up there. You're not learning anything, you're not growing. You're you're enjoying, you're riding the the tides, if you will. So we learned that when he refuses the earthy gain and preserves God's purity of the covenant, he's ensuring that he has no worldly system that can come can claim, I have made Abraham rich. He's one of the richest guys that we'll learn about in the Bible. And I think we see this in the verses. so I'm not gonna go through those the words there. I want to give you the proper distinction. When we look at 2 Timothy and I want to go to 215 All the gi Here. We are Jews by nature, not sinners among Gentiles. Trying to figure where that came that comes from. We are That a man is justified by his works of laws. Okay, so we are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles. So this is again, they put the Jewish people, the culture put themselves above a Gentile. and when we start looking at distinctives, if we put it in a proper distinction of the covenant, Israel's physical unconditional land promise. This is where we learn that it'll be in the next chapter. He gets that unconditional land promise. And he remains it remains distinct from the heavenly calling of the church. So it's still distinct. I bring it up because there's Israel and there's the church. Do not fall into covenant theology where the church replaces Israel. Folks, don't do that. It's not a good place to be. the priesthood distinction here I want to call out is Mez Melchizedek, his priesthood is distinct from the higher than, and he is prior from the Levitical. Aaron. You know Aaron, the he's the priesthood, he's the first priest, he's the high priest. And that's where we you say Levitical or Leviticus is all about the the the priests and everything. They didn't get any land like the other siblings. they they were to take care of the tabernacle, the church, and all the things there, and everybody brought a tenth of a tithe to keep them and survive. eating and all these other things. So Christ is currently exercising this Melchizedek priesthood in the heavenly sanctuary on behalf of the believers. Why do you say that? Hebrews 7, chapter 7, verse 24 through 28, to the end of the chapter. And he says, continue, the death continuing, but Jesus, on the other hand, because he continues forever, holds his priesthood permanently. Who's a permanent priesthood? Jesus is. Therefore, okay, therefore, whenever you see therefore, you gotta go back to the previous verse, they're talking about Jesus as. Forever holds his priesthood, right? So therefore, he is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through out through him, since he's always and lives to make intercession intercessions for. So he is our prop propitiation. He takes the sin, and we pray through the Holy Spirit and through Jesus to God. And verse 26 says, For it is fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy. innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, he never sinned, and exalted above the heavens. This is Jesus who does not need daily like those who high priests that offer up sacrifices. A high priest, just so you know, in the in the old testament and even back then, they kings would go to their priests and ask them, Am I gonna win this, this, this, this war with whoever they're gonna fight? And if the priest said, No, you're not gonna win, they normally didn't fight. but the priests had a lot of power over kings because they would rely on them for their information prior to fighting. So when we talk about a high priest and sacrifices, sacrifices had to be given in the old testament for our sin for for for Israel's sin, right? It started with Adam and Eve. He had to cover them in in animal skins, he had to put an atonement. Over their bodies, so they could he could you know their sins would be taken away. We know that Christ is our propitiation, right? So the first for his own sins and then for the sins of people, because he did not he did once and for all when he offered up himself. This is where the Jews stumble a little bit. Once and for all, we find that Jesus goes to the cross, we preach the cross as Paul tells us to. We preach Christ crucified, and that is hard for the Jew to understand because they are used to giving sacrifices. The temple was destroyed in AD seventy, folks. They cannot offer up sacrifices like they did prior to AD 70. There is no there is no temple for them to go worship to worship, to sacrifice to or go once a year. They they they go to the wall. Of in Jerusalem that's near the temple. so that third temple has to be built for Christ to come back, rule, and reign. So they have all the infra they have all of the structures to build that. They have no issues there. they'll be able to put that together quickly, and they've done all the work that it won't take long to get there. So So we believe that Christ came, died, and he took our sins. He was on the cross. He was buried three days later, three three days. and he rose on the third day and he conquered death, hell, and the grave. That is the number one thing we I mean, most human beings don't want to die. In my profession, my part-time profession is the toughest part is going in, dealing with people that are dying. And when you see a priest at a h in a hospital, or not a priest but a chaplain, it's usually not good. And none of them want to die. All the all the big bad boys now that say there is no God, there is no Christ, there's nothing. Think right now they're big and tough. Let me tell you, when you're down to your last few breaths, I'll tell you what you'll do. You will call out. And it's not God, it'll be your mother. I hear that a lot. So so who does not need the daily hybrid? We don't need them. Jesus is our high priest. He's offered himself up to us, folks. And then the law appoints men as high priests. Notice how I go back to the law. Who who follows the law? The Jewish folks, the priests and all the folks there, they follow that still, who are weak, but the words of the oath which came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever. You know who the son is? Yeah, it's Jesus. So I I I just I read that just to give you context here. So the church position, you and I, since I would say eighty sixty five forward. So from eighty sixty-five around Paul's letter, mid-acts, either chapter eight or chapter ten or twelve, depending on where you land on this in your theology, I believe that's where the church started, not at Pentecost. I believe it started for the church, the Gentile for us, when Paul basically becomes the leader of you know, the apostles and everything takes over. You could really see he's the theme after that. Now, I'm not negating any of the doctrine or any of the gospels or any of the old testament. It is ri all scriptures written for inspiration and correction and reproof. It is it benefits us. I'm not discount, I'm not discounting it, but there's three people that get that it. If you look at the context, who is he writing to? Well, the gospel is written to the Jewish people. Paul's writing to the Gentile, you and me, us, the church. So from 8065 to today, 2026 of August, August 18th, we are all being written to these concepts, and we pull this out. Not, I mean, that now just stay with me on that. That's it's that's exactly where we are. So The position for us, which is the church, the body of Christ, that's who we are. We are going to be, we are the bride of Christ, operates under a dispensation of grace. You know my beliefs on dispensations. Folks, you can't study the Bible if you don't have dispensations or sections that break it down. And I'm gonna give it to you right here. there's seven dispensations. The sixth dispensation is the church age. The age of grace. That's what we're in today. Everything else has already transpired, and we have the seventh dispensation, which is the tribulation. So I I rightly divide the Bible and the Word with the dispensation. So I have a sense of direction because I think God is an orderly God and He doesn't He's not a God of confusion. You know, He writes the Bible to high school level people. He writes the Bible usually in two syllables. You ever notice that? Two syllables max, not five syllables like you're in seminary seminary school. So dispensation of grace, not the promise of the law. Now, this is back the when we're talking about Genesis 14, we're talking about that dispensation is the promise or the law. The believers share the spiritual blessings of the Abraham, Abrahamic covenant. Galatians three twenty nine says it that we are declared a royal priesthood. You are now you are grafted into Abraham's seed, folks. three drop down to verse twenty nine and if you belong to Christ catch that then you are Abraham's descendant comma heirs according to what the promise what promise the promise that God would make him a great nation folks I just I hope this is earth shattering for you so he declares the royal priesthood first Peter second nine he he talks about it, but do not inherit the Israel earthly mandates. We are grafted into Abra, but we are not inheriting any of the earthly or any of the mandates for the Israel people. We are part of the church age. We are the believers. We are the bride. Remember, Israel has rejected God at every corner. All right, so from a hermeneutical standpoint, which is just to explain, We must not allegorize, we should not transfer Abraham's physical warfare, his sword based rescue, or the physical Canaan land grants directly to the church age, as the warfare is spiritual, not physical. Ours is a physical spiritual. All right. When you study the Bible, you have to put context in. So, what's God's plan for the universe? He is the absolute possessor of heaven and earth. All things were created by him and for him. Colossians 1:16 through 17. His ultimate cosmic purpose is to unite all things in heaven and earth under who? His headship of Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1. Ephesians 1 verse 10. He reconciles and renews his creation through the blood of Christ where on the cross Colossians 1 20 and Revelation 21 1 through 5. Okay, so number one, God's plan for the universe. That's what he's planning. What is it for the earth? What's God's plan for the earth? Gotta have a plan. The land of Canaan is deeded unconditionally to Abraham's physical seed. Through who? Isaac. When you start studying real close to the Bible, when it talks about Isaac's seed, singular, not plural, not Ishmael, who is chad of the Arabs, but through through Isaac and Jacob, the seed, everlasting possession, we see that in Genesis, God's plan for earth involves establishing a physical, righteous and Messianic kingdom during the millennium, where Christ rules from Jerusalem as the king priest after the order of Melchizedek, fulfilling both the Davidic and the Abrahamic covenants. And you can find that in Zechariah and Isaiah Isaiah. Sorry. So the plan for us, the church age, we live today in the dispensational grace. I told you earlier. that's in Ephesians 3, 1 through 3. Please fact check me. Our calling is heavenly, spiritual, eternal, seated where? In the heavenly places. We are the body of Christ. We are brought into the union with our risen high prior priest after the order of Melchizedek, which is a type of Christ, while we are spiritually blessed through Abraham's seed. Who's who's the seed? Christ. We are not the heirs of the Israel nations or any of its earthly promises, but we look forward to where the heavenly home of heavenly. So all right. Let me show you the map of where this battle took place so you have a good sense. All right, so let me draft you over here. So Elam, there, there, you're tired. This is the Euphrates right here with my hands gone. Let's see if I get in there. See if they'll see if they'll list it. See Babylon, remember I told you out of Babylon? Sha Shine Shiner, that's Iraq. Elam, is and they're all eastern to Israel. So he comes out with this king, he comes out with a Shariner king, and then he comes out with another Elazar king, and they all trudge down here to Sodom and they go into the battle right here. Valley, this is the Sid Siddham Valley. See it, Valley of the Siddham. And in Sodom's right here. So they're here. and that's where the fight goes on. With he takes all he takes he ends up taking Lot. And that's where, remember, over here is where Abraham was, and over here is where Lot was. And Abraham heard about it, and he had to come out and chase him. Now, when we look at this, keep in mind. You're talking the 10 mile radius. I don't think I could do a draw a line, but say from this point to this point is 10 miles. This point to this point's 10 miles, there's 20 miles, this point to Tamar, 30 miles. So Tamar from Valley of Sym is probably less than 30 miles, give or take. All right. So just that's again to give you some con some context of where we're at. Okay. Let's go, right? Let's start reading. This is what we're here for. We're here for what? Okay, so we want to start. All right, so chapter fourteen. again, this is the battle of the four kings. This is where Abraham delivers lot and the first battle of that valley of Siddham, which is twelve years of servitude. So and it came to pass, verse one, to to to pass in that day of the Amphirel king of Shiner. Remember, we saw that in the east part. Era king of Elazar, we saw that as well as in the east. The Chetalarmer, king of Elam, we saw that also in the east. That was Iraq, and the title king of the nations, which was just a little north, I'd I'd call it Syria, or maybe maybe east of that. I'm not sure. These they of those nations and these made war, right? They made war and with Berah the king of Sodom, and with Bershe, king of Gomorrah, the king of and Sh Shinab, king of Admin, and Shemir, king of Zopiem, and the king of Bella, which was Zor. All these joined together in the valley of Sidon, which is in the Salt Sea. When you see Salt Sea, that's the Dead Sea. So, Yeah. So it's basically sixty miles, sixty miles, it would be sixty miles northwest going so west going towards the the the the Mediterranean to the west. Okay, that that's Damascus is about sixty miles from there. Okay, so all of these joined twelve years they served the the Chenormal Chelamar in the thirteenth year. They rebelled. So they served until they rebelled. The rebellion was a conquest of the giants. And verse five. And in the fourteenth year, Cheddar, the kings, were with him, and they smote the Rapha Raphans, Rephims in Ashtra, Karnum, Zuam, Ham. These are giants. These are these are like these are an anakin's. And they're giant people, they're like Goliath, the Philistines, kind of that that that backdrop. The Zuzims and Ham, so these are all part of Ham's offsprings, and they and the M's of the Shavim on the Kidaritham. Very important, you don't have a town hall to record where these things happen. So they did a really good job documenting genealogy locations. This is why I struggle with people that don't believe in the Bible. It's a bunch of fairy tales. Folks, I don't know what I have to say and do to tell people that this stuff is real. we have some of the greatest minds out there that are studying the Bible. It's it's it's it's deep. as a well you'll never never never never learn at all but we are told to study to show yourself approved at a work that a work with need not so this is not a fairy tale and the Horites in the Mount of Seir in Elifra Eliphram or Ella Param which is by the wilderness and they returned and came to Ishmet Pat which is in Kadesh And smote all the countries of the Amalites. Remember I said Anakin's Amalekites? But that's part of Ham. That's that's Ham's remember Ham was the one that was cursed, and he was cursed by Noah because of what he did when he was he uncovered him. And the Bible doesn't tell us what happened, but it had to be pretty bad to to condemn him. So they returned and came to this place. Well Kadesh. They smote all the Amalkalites and also the Amorites that dwelt in Heza Timer. The second battle in the valley of Sidem was, and there was a great king of Sodom, and a king of Gomorrah, and the king of Adama, and the king of Zep Zepoem, and the king of Bela, the same as Zor. And they joined the battle together. In the valley of Sidam. So this is the second battle. with the Chel Cheldoromir, king of Elam, the title king of the nations, Amaphil, King of Shiner, and Erik, the king of Elizar, Elizar, and the four kings with five. And the valley of Siddam was full of slime pit. Okay, so full of tar pits. So it's kind of a pitch. It's a it's a sticky residue substance, basically, is what when he says the slimy pitch, he's talking about tar ti pitch, almost like the same pitch that's used in in Noah when he was pitching and sealing up the boat that he was building, similar to that. So and they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, they took everything, didn't leave anything. And all their victals, everything they they considered a victory, and they went their way on the way home. So they this this talks about the captivity a lot, verse twelve says, and they took Lot, Abraham's brother's son, and brother's son, who passed, and dwelt in Sodom and his goods and departed and departed there. So they took they took along with I'm sure, other people of those Sodom and Gomorrah. And Abraham's only war, and it's kind of like the battle of Dan. And there came one that escaped and told Abraham that the Hebrew, this is the first time we hear we see the word. Remember, you always look for first mentions. This is the first mention of the Hebrew. Also, Melchizedek, a Christ archetype. That's a first mention. That's important, folks. There's a reason that God put it there. So the Hebrew. For he dwelt in the plain of Mamarin and, or excuse me, the Amorite brother of Eskol and the brother of Adnar, and all and these were the confederate with Abraham. So they were with him in this this retaking back lot. And they and when Abraham heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants that bore, and it was three hundred, the Bible says three hundred and eighteen of them. And pursued them. And then unto Dan. So the Bible calls out Dan. So this is the city north northern limits of Israel. And it's originally called Laesh. here's where Joab Jeh Joboam he basically set up an idol there in that area in that time frame. But we go on to see he takes these 318 with him and he divides himself amongst them. He and his servants by the night and smote them. And he pursues them unto Hobath. Hobath again, that's in around Damascus. So and left on its left hand to Damascus. So it's near that area. And he brought back all the goods, not just a little, but all the goods, which A Abraham was not a warrior by nature, folks. yet through God's help he did what? He was able to become the Sessor. successful in the conquering of getting all these victims back and he was a successful conqueror and he accomplished a great feat equal to Gideon. So he gets likened to Gideon. Gideon was great. So he brought back everything. He br again brought La his brother Lot, his goods, and the women also in the people. So he's bringing everybody back. this is special interest as it shows Abraham carried out his attack so quickly That all the wives and daughters were rescued from lis, which my gotta be there. I don't know exactly what that is off the top of my head. But of the it's not good, I can tell you that. So the victories in the soldiers, no beside Lot, they were rescued all the females, all the captives, and all the material goods. So you see him, he basically takes everything. And then in verse 17, the king of Sodom, let's keep going. A few more verses, meet with him after the return of slaughter and child Shaldor Lamir, which and the kings were with him at the valley of Shava, which is the King's Dale. And so Abraham is now going to have the blessing. Remember Melchizedek's? It's a new revelation coming on right here. So Melchazedek, the king of Salem, in nature, it's an ancient Salem's ancient Jerusalem, basically. You hear the word Salem? it's ancient Jerusalem. That's kind of what they're referencing here. And then he says of Salem brought brought forth the bread and the wine. these are emblems of the Lord's Supper, right? These are we this is where we pick up the emblance showing that Melchizedek is the patriarch, he fully understood the doctrine of atonement. So he clearly ain't doctrine is atonement, it's just another word for topic. The topic of atonement, the doctrine of is a fancy theology word that means the topic. The topic is so, anyways, the priest of the most high. And he blessed him and said, Blessed be Abraham, the Most High God, possessor of the heaven and the earth. And then he says, and blessed be the most high God, which delivers thine enemies, right? And then he says that he's delivered thine enemies into thy hand And he gave him all the tithes. So when we look at that, that's the first example where we see. Are you ready for this? Sitting down. Doctrine of tithing. The topic of tithing just came up, first mentioned. This is where we first see it in the New Testament. Then he goes on to say, last four verses, and the king of Sodom said unto Abraham, Give me the persons and take the goods to thyself. Just wanted the people back, you just wanted a lot. didn't want any money, didn't want any anything other than what was already given. And then and the and Abraham said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to the Lord and the most high God, the possessor of the heavens and the earth. So he's giving credit to who? He's giving credit to God. And let's see. He he's just basically it's a it's a way of mode or a modality of appealing to God and giving him the honor. Like like I always say, I like to give the glory to God. This is what he's doing here. He's giving the glory to God in the heavens. And it's a witness of the transaction. it was a way of taking maybe a solemn oath of what he was doing at the time. And Abraham, let's see, he lifted up the possessor of heaven, so he'd given credit that How many times we say thank you? How many times we say God thank you? We we probably need to do it more. I know I do. So that was that I will not take from a thread even a shoelatcher. That I will not take anything that is thine, lest thou should I have made Ab Abram rich. You'll hear the words shoe latch it with John the Baptist if you remember. the That we we hear that he basically quotes that he's not worthy to loosen the the the latchet. So save only verse twenty-four. Save only that which the young man have eaten and the portion of men which went with me. And they ainor yeah, ain't aner escol Mamri, let them take their portion. So he's not he's he's allowing the folks. To be able to take their own, the people that went with them to help rescue, to take their portion, but Abraham didn't. All he wanted was the people. And that's just the humble guy he was. And again, so this is a chapter that we learned. we're gonna learn about the covenant, Abraham's covenant, chapter 15. But as always, I hope it's a blessing. I hope you were able to get something from it. If you have any questions, please let me know. One more note. If somebody needs or wants a Bible study or something, let me know. We're doing one. I have one, I have one going on now, but I will try to make time to fit people in and try to be available all for God's glory. Folks, take care. Chaplain Dean Alley. Love you. Bye.