The Most High God
The Most High God
(Jehovah Jireh)
David Wilkerson
And the king of Salem comes out to meet him. His name is Melchizedek (Genesis 14:18). He is a king and he is also the priest of the city, of course, a type of Christ. And he comes out to meet Abram. The Bible says that he blessed him.
Abram goes on his way after he meets the king of Salem after they have communion and Abram pays tithes to this king priest.
Further down the road he meets the king of Sodom and Abram is now the hero
of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, because he has delivered them.
He is their deliverer now.
The king of Sodom comes to Abram and he says,
“Look, you can have all the spoils.
Give me the people.”
(Genesis 14:21)
“You can have all that we possess.”
Abram didn’t even blink.
He said,
“I made a covenant with God.
I swore that I would not take a shoelace from you.”
(Gensis 14:23)
“There is nothing that you have that I want.
I won’t touch anything you have.”
He said,
“You can have the people.
You can have the spoils.
I’m keeping Lot.”
I want to show you something here. Where that Abram get this tremendous authority? Where did he get this power over temptation? Where did this man get this spirit of independence from materialism and the things of this world?
He was already a wealthy man, the Bible says. But he was detached from it at all. But now he’s placed before him the greatest temptation he’s ever had in a physical realm. And immediately he doesn’t even have to think twice.
Where did he get that power? He got it from his visit with Melchizedek. Because Melchizedek had given him a discovery of who God was, a new discovery.
Now he knew Him. In one way he knew Him. But he did not know Him in this way. There was new discovery. That was going to give him ‘power’ and ‘faith’
to face the temptation.
I want you to follow me very closely now.
He said,
“I have sworn to the Lord.
I will not take from you a thread or shoelace.
I will not take anything
lest you boast you made me rich.”
(Gensis 14:22-23)
The Bible said,
“When he met with the king of Salem, Melchizedek, Melchizedek blessed him.”
and said,
“Blessed be Abram of the Most High God.”
(Genesis 14:19-20)
“Blessed be Abram of the Most High God,
Possessor of heaven and earth.”
He introduced a new name of God.
That name was “El Elyon.”
God the Most High
Creator, Possessor of heaven and earth
This man is about to face the king of Sodom. He’s about to face a great temptation, to take on fame, to take on materialism, to take on riches,
and take on …. He could have cast aside the King of Sodom. He could have been a master of that all.
Where did he get this mighty authority that cause him to turn away from everything in this world that shall want nothing of it?
Because he just had a revelation from Melchizedek.
A wonderful revelation.
A new name of God.
Those society especially Hebrews, named their children with magnificent name
and they actually believed that naming their child with the glorious name gave them power to become what they were named. They really believed that it endued a power to become what they had named their children.
There’s a new name of God just now introduced. He raises his hands no doubt on Abram’s paid tithes and he says,
“Abram, a child of the Most High God, child of El Elyon.”
New name
A new revelation
A new discovery of who God is
Possessor of heaven and earth
who owns everything.
The cattle on a thousands of hills,
everything belongs to Him.
No wonder he could look at the king of Sodom
and all of his stuff and say,
“That’s trivia.
My Father owns the cattle on the thousand hills.
Why would I let you enrich me,
when my God owns all anyhow?”
He had a revelation.
Possessor of all things.
Abram leads Melchizedek convinced and pursuaded God has everything under control.
“If God is Possessor of heaven and earth,
possess me.”
Abram became ‘God possessed.’
His faith had wavering up to that time, but now he begins his faith starts rising. His faith becomes increased in the Lord.
Have you discovered “El El Yon” in your life yet that God has everything under control?
Abram could laugh now.
“Devil, you offer me trinkets
when I know in my heart that
I have a revelation now that God I serve,
He owns the universe?”
He’s the Creator.
It means that Creator, the Possessor of all things.
Everything was created by Him and for Him, speaking of Jesus Christ our Lord, our Jehovah God. Everything is in His hands.
Everything He possesses.
He owns it at all.
He is the Possessor.
He is the Owner of it all.
El Elyon.
You came in here in this morning caring some kind of burden.
God says
“I want you to come now lay that down.
I want you to trust in who I am, who I said I am.
I want to be everything that I said I am.
I want to be to you.”