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| Posted: 26 Apr 2011 11:00 AM PDT El Elyon By David Platt El Elyon means He is God Most High. This emphasizes God’s power. What happens is - this is in Genesis 14, Sodom and Gomorrah get into a battle and they lose, and Lot, who is Abram’s nephew, is taken away in that. And so Abram gets his pals together and said, “Let’s go get Lot back.” And so they go and they win a battle, and they bring Lot back. And they’re bringing all the goods and the people back from the defeat of Sodom and Gomorrah. What happens when he comes back, he meets two kings. One of them is Melchizedek, the king of Salem - he’s the guy who confuses us, really, throughout scripture - and then you’ve got the king of Sodom. And what happens is in this conversation with Melchizedek, Abram gives him a tenth of everything, that’s a whole nother sore. But then the king of Sodom comes to Abram, and listen what happens - middle of the way through this passage you’ve got listed here, “The king of Sodom said to Abram, ‘Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.’” So he said keep the goods for yourself, all the goods, all the spoils of war, you can have those, and there’s a lotta goods that he’s talking about there. “But Abram said to the king of Sodom, ‘I have raised my hand to the LORD,’” here it is El Elyon, “‘God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, and have taken an oath that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the thong of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’ I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me.’” The picture is Abram says to the king of Sodom, “My God is most high, and He owns all things. And I’m not gonna take one thing from you so that you would be able to say, ‘You gave this to me.’ God owns everything and what I need, he will give to me.” This is a picture of confidence in El Elyon as the God Most High. It’s a picture of the fact that God alone is high and exalted. El Elyon, that’s what it literally means, highest, uppermost. And you see this in Daniel 4, this is a great, great verse. This is from the lips of a pagan king, Nebuchadnezzar, listen to what this pagan king says. He says, “I raise my eyes,” “I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation. All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: ‘What have you done?’” You got pagan king praising God as El Elyon, God Most High. He alone is high and exalted. And second, God alone is able to meet all of my needs. Ladies and gentlemen, if this God possesses all things then we need nothing from this world. If this God possesses all things then we need nothing from this world. Now, you remember that God was their rock, the El Elyon, God Most High was their redeemer, Psalm 78. ________ To subscribe to the Secret Church Blog click HERE |
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