Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies.

And it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So we'll go ahead and get started. We're going to get started

in just a moment. We will be picking up at the beginning of Genesis chapter 15. And by way of

recap, because for those sitting here, it's been a couple weeks.

Last time we talked about Melchizedek in particular, but of course,

Abrams meeting with Melchizedek came after his rescue of Lott and the other captives from Sodom in its neighboring cities who have been taken captive

by Kenner-Layomer and the other kings in the north in that war. Abram got his 318 men together

and as I mentioned at the time this last Saturday night at Vespers, we did read

that reading before the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council. And then it was

after that that Malkisadac, the king of Shalom, which would later become Jerusalem,

came and brought forth bread and wine as a sacrificial offering in which Abram shared and Abram gave his tithe.

And we talked about how Abram refused to take.

King of Sodom sort of offered a reward, right,

for having gotten all his stuff back and his people.

And Abra refused to take anything from Sodom.

We're going to see, of course, that Lot doesn't learn his lesson.

Lot doesn't learn a lot.

Over the course of his life.

I guess that was bad, I know.

But so that done now, right? That restored,

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