The Blessing
By William M. Self, Sr.
Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as
righteousness
He left everything in pursuit of God
“Seek ye first the
Kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you
Seek God for eternal blessing and they will rain down for
your earthly needs
The Lesser Person Who is Blessed by
the Greater One
Melchizedek according to Hebrews 7:3
had no beginning and
no end.
He was the priest of the Most High God.
One who interceded on behalf of people,
connecting people with God.
Melchizedek’s name means King
of Righteousness.
Then he is also King of Salem meaning government
of peace.
This is the one who blessed Abraham.
The Scriptures tells us why Abraham received the blessing…
"He believed God, and it was credited to
him as righteousness."
Abraham left his family, culture everything to find the
blessing of God.
It is Jesus Christ who has been made to be our
High Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
In Galatians 3, we are told…
“So
those who have faith are blessed along
with
Abraham, the man of faith.”
You and I can receive the same blessing Abraham received…
“He redeemed us in order that the
blessing given to Abraham
might
come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by
faith
we might receive the promise of the Spirit.”
What is the blessing?
“By faith we might receive the promise of the
Spirit.”
You and I, like Abraham, are called to pursue
greater blessings than earthly possessions.
Greater faith than to believe our mortgage will be paid.
The blessing of receiving the Spirit of God is a spiritual
blessing.
First the promise of eternal life.
The spiritual blessings are described in Matthew 6…
"Do not
store up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves
break in and steal.
But
store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do
not
destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where
your
treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:19-21 NIV
The “Greater”
Jesus Christ blesses the “lessor”.
When the lessor
puts faith in God…
God empowers us to
live in a way
that stores up treasures in heaven.
It is from those treasures He opens the windows of
heaven so we can get a taste now of the blessings to come.
Abraham got it right.
He lived for the spiritual blessing first
and he was rewarded in earth.
Abraham’s blessing are still raining from heaven…
“Seek
ye first the Kingdom of God and all
these
things will be added unto you” Matthew
6:33
Scripture Reading
Hebrews
7:1-8 AMP
met Abraham
as he returned from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
2 And
Abraham gave to him a tenth portion of all [the spoil].
He is
primarily, as his name when translated indicates, king of righteousness,
and then he
is also king of Salem, which means king of peace.
3 Without
[record of] father or mother or ancestral line,
neither with
beginning of days nor ending of life, but, resembling the Son of God,
he continues
to be a priest without interruption and without successor.
4 Now
observe and consider how great [a personage] this was to whom even Abraham the
patriarch gave a tenth [the topmost or the pick of the heap] of the spoils.
5 And it is
true that those descendants of Levi who are charged with the priestly office
are commanded in the Law to take tithes from the people — which means, from
their brethren —
though these have descended from Abraham.
6 But this
person who has not their Levitical ancestry received tithes from Abraham
[himself] a
nd blessed
him who possessed the promises [of God].
7 Yet it is
beyond all contradiction that it is the lesser person who is blessed by the
greater one.
8
Furthermore, here [in the Levitical priesthood] tithes are received by men who
are subject to death; while there [in the case of Melchizedek], they are
received
by one of
whom it is testified that he lives [perpetually].
Galatians
3:1-14 NIV
3 You
foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ
was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2 I would like to learn just one thing from
you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you
heard? 3 Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now
trying to attain your goal by human effort? 4 Have you suffered so much for
nothing — if it really was for nothing? 5 Does God give you his Spirit and work
miracles among you because you observe the law, or because you believe what you
heard?
6 Consider
Abraham: "He believed God, and it was credited to him as
righteousness." 7 Understand,
then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. 8 The Scripture foresaw
that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance
to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you." 9 So those who have faith are blessed along
with Abraham, the man of faith.
10 All who
rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: "Cursed is
everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the
Law." 11 Clearly no one is
justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by
faith." 12 The law is not based on
faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by
them." 13 Christ redeemed us from
the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written:
"Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing
given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus,
so that by
faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
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