216: Jason Hensley – The Ravens

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Hello and welcome back to
another talk this week.

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We’re listening to class 3 from
a series that brother.

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Jason Hensley gave at Idyllwild
this past year in 2022.

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On the subject of Elijah has
overall subject was a man of

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like passions, this particular
class is centering on the Ravens

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and you can kind of tell what
part of the story Jason is going

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to be focusing on.
But what I really enjoyed about

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this entire series, when I heard
it live and then also going back

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and re listening to, it was
Jason had a very different, look

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at Elijah and kind of made him
seem more real and more

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personable with the way he
approached it.

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And his overall all lesson,
which he hits on right at the

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beginning of this class.
So I’m not going to be spoiling

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anything is that God tends to
use the things that go on in our

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life, to push us to try to take
us outside of our comfort zone

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because given our own nature.
We would stick to what we know

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and what we’re comfortable with
but that is not necessarily what

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is necessary to build a Godly
character and even for someone

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like Elijah, there was growth
and learning that had to be

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done.
So these entire series is going

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to be put on the good Crystal
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listening to all six classes.
They’re all great.

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I just picked this one in
particular, because I felt like

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the lesson really fit in terms
of trying to push beyond your

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comfort zone and always trying
to do better.

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And then, he also summarizes a
little bit at the beginning of

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this class, where we are at up
to this point.

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So it makes it a little bit
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So like I already said, thank
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As always for listening and I
hope you enjoy this talk in

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particular as much as I did.
So with that, I will turn it

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over to brother Jason Hensley
for his class on Elijah with the

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subject the Ravens.
Okay, we are going to be talking

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about the Ravens today, so
that’s just kind of recap what

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we have gone over so far.
We have seen Elijah learning

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this lesson that God is in
control, or at least maybe we

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haven’t seen him learning it
yet, but we’ve seen him needing

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to learn this lesson.
So we have him needing to learn

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the lesson and we are now going
to see the beginnings of God

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teaching that to him as he goes.
And he spends time with the

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Ravens.
So here we are in class 3. and,

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Here are lessons.
We have seen that God is in

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control.
We have seen that God hears

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prayers, We have seen or we will
see today that God gives lessons

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that push us beyond our comfort
zones.

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And I think that’s a fairly we
understand that, we know that

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that’s how God works.
We can’t really learn anything.

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Unless we are pushed beyond our
comfort zones, but I think it’s

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still something that we need to
be reminded of consistently

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because we find ourselves
asking.

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Why is this happening?
Why does it have to be like

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this?
And the answer is It’s not

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always the answer, but a lot of
times the answer is because

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we’re growing, and this is how
we grow.

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We have to feel uncomfortable,
we have to be put in situations

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that make us Go outside of our
norm and so that’s what we are

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going to see here with Elijah.
He is going to be put in a

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situation with the Ravens that
would have.

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Made him feel incredibly
uncomfortable.

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All right, the plan you’ll
notice we have three sections.

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We will be talking about Elijah
at the brook.

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Then his journey to the Widow,
but we’re not going to talk

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about the Widow yet so you’ll
have to wait until tomorrow.

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So we’ll be at the brook, his
journey to the Widow and then

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we’re going to compare the brook
with the time with the Widow.

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We’re going to see that in fact,
God was doing the same thing

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both times, teaching him the
same lesson.

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That’s the idea God gives
lessons that push us beyond our

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comfort zones.
And the big question is, why

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Ravens Why is that a significant
thing to know and couldn’t

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couldn’t scripture have just
said Birds, right?

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Why does that make a difference?
Why is it?

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Why is it important that it was
Ravens and not parakeets, right?

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I mean, aside from, you know,
would have been cuter.

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It was parakeets.
But but you know what, why is it

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make a difference, right?
But scripture gives us the

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details and so we’re supposed to
wear supposed to know.

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That was a rhetorical question,
Peter.

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Well, we can talk after All
right, so at the, at the brook,

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you’ll notice that God tells him
twice that it was going to be

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Ravens that fed him.
So there’s a significance here,

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Ravens Ravens.
So again, Elijah is always

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commanded by God to do
essentially everything in his

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life.
And in this command, God gives a

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few particular details,
specifically here that it’s

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going to be Ravens.
So the question is why?

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Well I think first of all Ravens
would have presented a problem.

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The reason being the so you want
to say Peter, There you go.

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That’s right.
Ravens.

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Are unclean Birds?
Yes.

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So Ravens are unclean and this
would be an issue.

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So you see it you have it up
here.

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Leviticus 11, 13, to 15.
You shall detest every Raven of

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any kind.
Now, I think that this is

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helpful because we don’t we
don’t live under the laws of

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clean and unclean.
At least I assume none of you

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keep kosher, maybe you do, but I
don’t think so.

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So this, these are laws that we
often don’t think about so, in

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order to really get The strength
of what God is saying here.

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I want us to pay attention to
this word, detest.

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You shall detest every Raven of
any kind.

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The reason that we want to look
at that is because the same word

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shows up later in Leviticus
chapter 20 and now notice what

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God says, if you don’t detest
these things that I’ve told you

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to test look at what would
happen.

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You shall not make yourselves
detestable by Beast or by bird

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or buy anything with which the
ground crawls, which I have set

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apart for you to hold unclean to
see what God is saying.

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He says these animals are
detestable and if you don’t

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detest them then, guess what
happens to you?

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You become detestable, right?
It’s like the the detestable

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nurse of I was gonna say detest
ability.

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But anyway the detestable nurse
of these animals like transfers

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to you.
Almost if you don’t you don’t

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recognize that God says, don’t
be with these animals, don’t be

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with these Birds.
Now just to give you a sense of

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what’s meant by detest, right,
it wasn’t just a I don’t like

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that bird.
You know?

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It’s not good.
It’s unclean.

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I don’t like it.
Here’s your word.

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It shh cots in Hebrew.
This is the strongest number

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82-62.
It only shows up seven times but

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it’s a very charged word so it’s
not just a I don’t kind of like

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it very much.
Look at how God uses the word

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here in Deuteronomy. 7 verse 26.
He’s talking about Idols here

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and he says, you will utterly
Early detest and abhor it for.

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It is devoted to destruction.
So this is how they were

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supposed to feel about these
unclean animals.

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That when you see the unclean
animal coming, you say whoa I’m

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not getting near that right?
I’m not gonna touch it.

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I’m not gonna go anywhere close
where it might accidentally

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touch me.
Something along those lines.

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They were to detest, hate it up,
whore it right and and You can

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see with the description of the
idols here, God says, burn them

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up, right?
Totally, get rid of them.

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This is a serious word.
Now.

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Do you, are you beginning to
sense, here?

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The sudden moral dilemma that
Elijah would be feeling.

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So here he is the word of God
comes to him.

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And says, how are you go to the
brook cherith?

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Right.
No issue there.

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You’re going to have water
during the drought and by the

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way, Ravens will feed you.
Elijah, I’ve told Ravens to give

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you food, Here’s Elijah.
Just thinking Aren’t those the

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birds I’m supposed to detest?
I’m supposed to abhor these

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things.
How, how do I get the food

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right?
Are they going to drop it off

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over there?
And, you know, I just hang out

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over here until the bird flies
away and then I go get the food.

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Like how’s this totally supposed
to work so you can see that.

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Now, what’s fascinating about
this, in addition is I want us

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to think about the details.
That Elijah wasn’t told.

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There’s a lot of things that God
doesn’t say.

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He doesn’t say where he’s going
to sleep, you know, if I Was

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Elijah you kind of care about
that, right?

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Was there going to be an ice
cave or something?

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Where he could spend the night?
What was he supposed to do?

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If a wild animal came because
he’s just living in the

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Wilderness.
At a brook during a drought, he

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would assume he probably had a
number of run-ins with

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creatures.
He probably did not want to have

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run-ins with what was he
supposed to do.

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God doesn’t say anything about
that stuff, but he tells him

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twice Ravens Ravens Elijah.
The problem actually gets worse,

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though.
Let me ask you this question,

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anybody know?
I got rid of my transitions

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here.
So now you know all the secret

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questions I’m going to ask, you
does anybody know what ravens

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eat?
Don’t look at the screen.

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Ravens, eat dead stuff right now
you get one quick guess where

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you allowed to eat dead stuff
under the law of Moses.

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No, right.
That was a No-No because dead

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stuff was unclean.
So consider this God says,

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Ravens are going to give you
food, right?

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And the way that, you know, that
things are unclean within

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Judaism.
It’s a very quick quick way to

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know if an animal is kosher or
not.

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And that is, if that animal is
considered, A scavenger

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scavengers are not clean.
So a raven is a scavenger

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therefore imagine this.
God says to Elijah an unclean

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bird is going to give you your
food.

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Can you imagine Elijah’s next
question?

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Well, what kind of food is that
going to be right?

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Because probably, you know, it’s
going to be bringing today’s

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roadkill, you know?
And when Ahab was driving around

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or whatever and he runs into
something, they nuns at the

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Raven flies down and brings it
to Elijah.

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And here’s this dead thing.
And here’s Elijah.

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Just trying to figure out.
Well, I wonder where this came

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from.
Is this clean or not?

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I probably can’t eat this.
So it’s a fascinating sort of

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thing.
That God essentially is giving

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him like extra uncleanness and
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Now just to bring this home even
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There’s two words that just
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So this typically this is sort
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thing.
Anybody know how these words

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would be translated typically in
the King James they’re typically

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translated as meat but they
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I mean food, often times, they
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So, like, grain, this is your
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Oh, hell, and Mahal.
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Now, what’s fascinating about?
This is when God commands

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Elijah, he doesn’t use the
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that’s, because It could have
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impression.
Oh, you know, this is just kind

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of an accident that the law is
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Hebrew means flesh.
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Ravens are going to bring you
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you flesh.
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specifically told that he was
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It’s not just that he got food
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specifically being brought dead
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I don’t know if that like blows
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Because essentially what God is
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in a situation where it was
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Unless you know, and this is
what we do as humans, right?

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We get put in certain situations
and we can see, you know, well,

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there’s a commandment, I don’t
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I don’t think it’s going to
break the principal to break

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that command, but I don’t feel
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Anyway.
I’ve and, you know, we have

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these choices and we’re not sure
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law.
So maybe that’s what Elijah did,

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you know?
You can almost picture him

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saying, oh, oh, put that in the
pile of dead stuff, you know?

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And there’s just this pile, it’s
growing every day because Elijah

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won’t eat it, right?
He, it’s almost like he says,

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no, that’s breaking the law.
I’m not gonna do it.

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I don’t know, you know, maybe he
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of, I can’t break the law, maybe
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Whatever it was, God was
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situation where it he almost had
to break the law. now, the

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reason I want to talk about
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we often realize how often this
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This is one of my absolute
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scripture.
I’m gonna I’m gonna just ignore

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my slides for a little bit now
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about this because it’s so
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So, God, consistently throughout
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His people to break the law.
And I think that’s fascinating.

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Now, let’s just back up a little
bit to see it, right?

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The first commandment in the law
of Moses, anybody know what it

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was?
First come in the law of Moses.

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This is the commands of
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It’s Passover first
Commandments, right?

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Because there, they haven’t
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They’re they’re about to leave.
Egypt.

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Its Exodus chapter 12.
So, first Commandments, the law

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of Moses, Exodus chapter 12.
So you can, you can verify this

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if you want.
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Let’s back up one chapter.
We are at the final plague,

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right?
So we’re at the final plague.

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Exodus chapter 11, Moses goes in
front of pharaoh and here’s what

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he says tonight, at midnight The
firstborn in the land will die,

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okay?
Tonight at midnight firstborn in

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the land will die.
Therefore we’re going to have to

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to figure this out here.
See if we can do it.

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Anybody want to guess what day
of the first month it was What

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day of the first month?
It’s going to be the 14th 14th

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day of the first month.
Because that was Passover,

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right?
All the firstborn died, 14th day

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of the first month, okay?
Now you might be wondering, you

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know, why is this significant?
Okay, well, let’s now jump

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forward to chapter 12.
Get this chapter 12.

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God, comes to Moses.
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14th, the first month, right?
God comes to Moses chapter 12.

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Moses has already said today,
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will die at midnight.
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God says to Moses, you can check
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12, he says I want you to tell
the whole congregation to take a

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lamb, one land for each
household and I want you to do

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it on the what day of the month.
10th. now, your Moses What do

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you think you do if you hear
this?

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You think well God that was four
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How’s that supposed to work?
And you know what’s fascinating

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is if you keep reading the
chapter, you’ll notice Moses

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doesn’t say that to the
Israelites he doesn’t tell them

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go choose a lamb, hold on to it
for four days and on the 14th

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day will kill the lamb.
He doesn’t tell them that

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instead he says take a lamb and
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He couldn’t was supposed to have
been followed for days ago, but

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it wasn’t possible.
The first command in the law of

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Moses that God ever gives was
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Is that fascinating?
This is just what God

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continually does and you can
just picture Moses thinking,

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Well, I don’t know what to do
with this, right?

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And and this is how God is
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He puts his people into
situations where they cannot

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keep the law, because He wants
them to realize it’s about

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principle.
Not about law.

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The law was the Schoolmaster to
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It’s about principle not about
loss of the very first

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commandment impossible, to keep.
Now, there’s more, there’s more

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of these, I’ll tell you my
favorite one, okay?

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So you remember the story, when
the ark was taken from the

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Israelites, right?
9:30, Phineas take the ark.

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They go into battle, they’re
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The arc, gets stolen by the
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There you go, through this whole
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We’re not going to talk about it
a lot, but I’ll man, it’s like

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one of the best stories.
It’s first Samuel chapter 4 and

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5.
They are gets taken by the

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Philistines.
They put it in the house of

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Dagon.
You remember what happens to

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Dagon?
Yeah he falls over his hands.

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Chopped off his head.
Chopped off right and and the

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Philistines huh?
Oh do you know they put him back

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up they stick everything back on
the next day.

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The next day they come Dagon
falling over in front of the arc

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again.
So anyway, this all goes on

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right.
The arc gets brought back

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eventually.
Lee to Israel.

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The Arc is eventually brought
back.

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And it gets put into cure, Jess
jairam.

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Carriage after him and it stays
in a man’s house for over 40

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years.
We know that because we’re

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specifically told First
Chronicles 13.

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The Arc sat there during the
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Nobody did anything with it.
Saul rains for 40 years arc’s,

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it’s there now.
You might just be thinking, okay

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no big deal, the ark was just in
cured yet you’re in 40 years

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whatever.
Well it was a big deal because

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Every year the high priest.
Goes into the holy place.

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He takes his sensor with him,
right?

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He lights incense.
The incense fills the room and

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it fills up the most holy place.
High priest, then opens the veil

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to go into the most holy place
and what does he see?

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Nothing.
Nothing’s there.

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Now that was the absolute most
important day on the Hebrew

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calendar, it was the day of
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And the whole point of the day
of atonement was to, what

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forgive the people?
They were supposed to get

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forgiven on the day of
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So, can you imagine, here’s the
high priest walking to where the

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ark supposed to be and he
supposed to pray in front of the

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Ark, he opens up the There’s no
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What do you feel?
Like if you’re the high priest

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you feel like well this was kind
of a waste of time and then you

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think well here’s another here
where we’re not forgiving that’s

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awesome, you know?
Right like like what am I

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supposed to do?
You’ve closed up to fail and you

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walk away and this was 40 years.
Where the Israelites could not

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be forgiven through their love.
And so you get David coming

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along and realizing it’s not
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That God is constantly saying,
that’s not what I’m doing.

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I’m trying to teach you
principal. do you remember in

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the David Psalm that he writes
after his sin with Bathsheba,

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Psalm 51, right?
Right.

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At the end he says You do not
desire sacrifices.

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You remember that or else?
I would give them.

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He says, you don’t want
sacrifices or else I would give

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them instead the sacrifices of
God are a broken and contrite

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heart.
Now, we like to quote those

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verses to say wasn’t about the
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I think that’s good.
But let’s think about the

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context just a little bit.
Here’s David.

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We’re for a big chunk of his
life.

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There was no Arc, there was no
forgiveness and he’s thinking

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thinking thinking about all of
this and then God Helps him to

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realize.
That he has just committed

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adultery and murder now under
the law.

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What?
How do you get forgiven for

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adultery and murder?
You don’t write you just die.

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I mean, that was the situation.
You, you just get stoned the

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end, you know, your maybe you
get stone twice because that’s

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you know, adultery and murder.
So it was bad, right?

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And so David realizes, I can’t
give you anything.

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There’s no sacrifice I can
offer.

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So it’s not just that he’s
saying God didn’t want

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sacrifices, David is realizing
for me.

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Personally, I am dead according
to the law.

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There is nothing that I can do.
And this is what God is

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constantly doing.
And we are going to see this

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very powerfully in the life of
Elijah that God says Elijah.

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You want food?
You’re going to have to eat it

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from an unclean bird, and, you
know what?

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That food is actually probably
unclean too.

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What are you gonna do about
that?

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This is Elijah being pushed
Beyond his comfort zone.

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Okay.
Food from an unclean animal and

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food that was dead on its own
Deuteronomy. 14 21.

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You shall not eat anything that
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If you want those two references
as well, by the way, Ezekiel 414

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and acts 1014.
Those are two places in which

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faithful people Ezekiel and
Peter are both saying I have

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never eaten anything in my life.
That is unclean, right?

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So you can see now that was what
was typical Okay, so this is

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what God is doing for Elijah.
I think he’s reminding Elijah,

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you know, this is the, this is
the constant message that God is

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in control.
And I think what’s incredibly

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powerful about this is and I
don’t, I don’t mean this to be

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belittling in any kind of way.
But I think that this is

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actually a helpful thing for us
to recognize.

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Do you notice where God puts
Elijah?

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He puts him in a place that is
miles away from any other human.

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So Elijah has just said, you
know, essentially don’t worry,

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God, I got this.
I’m going to call down a

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drought.
I’ll convert the people.

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I’ll take care of your plan.
I got it all and God says, okay

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Elijah.
I actually have a plan.

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You go and you live out by
yourself for years.

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Now can you imagine how that
would feel right?

433
00:28:15,600 –> 00:28:19,800
You you think you’re taking care
of this whole thing and God says

434
00:28:19,900 –> 00:28:25,200
okay yeah you go take care of it
by yourself and the only thing

435
00:28:25,200 –> 00:28:30,700
you can talk to our unclean
Birds And that’s what Elijah has

436
00:28:30,700 –> 00:28:32,800
to do.
He just goes and he sits there.

437
00:28:34,600 –> 00:28:38,000
What’s he gonna do with the
Brooke for years and years and

438
00:28:38,000 –> 00:28:42,500
years?
God puts him in a place where he

439
00:28:42,500 –> 00:28:52,300
has to realize, oh, God’s plan.
Doesn’t depend on me.

440
00:28:53,900 –> 00:28:55,200
Now, have you ever felt that
way?

441
00:28:55,900 –> 00:29:01,000
Have you ever felt like, oh man,
you know, I have this the set of

442
00:29:01,000 –> 00:29:05,100
decisions in front of me, and if
I don’t make the right decision,

443
00:29:06,600 –> 00:29:10,100
God isn’t going to be able to
fulfill his plan.

444
00:29:11,000 –> 00:29:14,600
Or if I don’t make the right
decision, you know somebody who

445
00:29:14,600 –> 00:29:18,800
needs help won’t get helped.
Or that if I don’t say the right

446
00:29:18,800 –> 00:29:22,400
thing, when I’m preaching to
this person, well, maybe they’re

447
00:29:22,400 –> 00:29:25,900
going to turn away.
If I don’t reach out to this

448
00:29:25,900 –> 00:29:29,500
person right now and this, this
is the Elijah way of thinking,

449
00:29:29,500 –> 00:29:30,900
right?
I got a call down the drought

450
00:29:30,900 –> 00:29:33,300
right now because if I don’t do
it now, things are gonna work

451
00:29:33,300 –> 00:29:34,900
out God’s whole plan will fall
apart.

452
00:29:35,300 –> 00:29:36,600
Sorry.
I got excited and I talked a

453
00:29:36,600 –> 00:29:42,100
little fast, but this is a, this
is what we’re being told here

454
00:29:42,400 –> 00:29:44,900
that this is the way that Elijah
was thinking.

455
00:29:45,000 –> 00:29:50,400
And we so often think like this,
I remember before having to

456
00:29:50,400 –> 00:29:53,500
decisions in front of me and
feeling like I didn’t know what.

457
00:29:53,700 –> 00:29:55,300
Was going to glorify God the
most.

458
00:29:55,500 –> 00:29:57,800
So I said, I’d pray and flip a
coin.

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00:29:58,700 –> 00:30:03,600
Maybe you’ve done that before.
But I think what God actually

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00:30:03,600 –> 00:30:07,700
wants us to realize is he can
actually work with both.

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00:30:08,500 –> 00:30:12,400
It’s not a question of which
one’s better and if I don’t do

462
00:30:12,400 –> 00:30:14,500
the right, one things will fall
apart.

463
00:30:15,200 –> 00:30:21,800
It’s God saying actually you
have to realize you’re less

464
00:30:21,800 –> 00:30:23,400
important than you think you
are.

465
00:30:24,600 –> 00:30:27,000
And I can actually take care of
this without you.

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00:30:28,600 –> 00:30:32,300
The key thing.
That should amaze us.

467
00:30:33,600 –> 00:30:37,400
Is that God actually wants to
use us.

468
00:30:39,700 –> 00:30:43,200
It’s not that he has to.
But that he wants to.

469
00:30:44,600 –> 00:30:50,900
And so when we find ourselves
thinking, if I don’t do the

470
00:30:50,900 –> 00:30:53,400
right thing here, if I don’t
make the exact right choice,

471
00:30:53,500 –> 00:30:56,700
it’s not going to work.
I think we’ve forgotten.

472
00:30:58,000 –> 00:31:00,300
That.
Yes, we plant and we water.

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00:31:01,800 –> 00:31:05,500
But God gives the increase.
And oh man I’ve been Can You

474
00:31:05,500 –> 00:31:07,700
Feel the sense of relief in
that?

475
00:31:08,600 –> 00:31:11,600
I think there’s a major relief
acknowledging.

476
00:31:13,000 –> 00:31:16,400
God has his plan, God knows what
he’s doing.

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00:31:17,700 –> 00:31:22,300
And so sometimes I think God
will take us and like Elijah

478
00:31:22,600 –> 00:31:25,100
he’ll just put us in the desert
and say, you know, you got to

479
00:31:25,200 –> 00:31:28,800
you got to understand this.
I’m going to work out my plan.

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00:31:29,600 –> 00:31:35,400
Do you want to be a part of it?
Because I’d like you to be so,

481
00:31:36,900 –> 00:31:39,800
God is teaching Elijah with the
Ravens.

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00:31:39,800 –> 00:31:42,600
Not only are they an unclean
bird but there’s one other

483
00:31:42,600 –> 00:31:45,800
passage at the time.
That existed that mentioned

484
00:31:45,800 –> 00:31:48,500
Ravens.
It’s in the Book of Job.

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00:31:49,600 –> 00:31:56,000
Consider what it says job. 3841
says who provides for the Raven

486
00:31:56,100 –> 00:32:00,400
its prey when its young ones cry
to God for help and wanders

487
00:32:00,400 –> 00:32:05,000
about for lack of food.
Where was that food coming from

488
00:32:05,000 –> 00:32:09,000
that the Ravens head.
And that’s what God is showing

489
00:32:09,900 –> 00:32:12,100
Elijah.
I’ve got this.

490
00:32:13,200 –> 00:32:15,800
I’m taking care of you.
There’s a drought that you

491
00:32:15,800 –> 00:32:22,500
caused, but you’ll have water,
you’ll have food because I take

492
00:32:22,500 –> 00:32:30,400
care of the Ravens.
So as Elijah Waits The Brooke

493
00:32:30,700 –> 00:32:33,000
gets smaller and smaller and you
can just imagine again.

494
00:32:33,100 –> 00:32:35,500
Here’s somebody who likes to be
doing things.

495
00:32:35,800 –> 00:32:37,900
He calls down a drought because
he feels like things should be

496
00:32:37,900 –> 00:32:41,200
done and he’s sitting in a place
where he can do nothing.

497
00:32:42,000 –> 00:32:43,700
So there he is.
We don’t know how long he was

498
00:32:43,700 –> 00:32:45,700
there.
Maybe a year.

499
00:32:46,100 –> 00:32:48,900
I mean the drought lasted for
three and a half, right.

500
00:32:49,100 –> 00:32:52,700
The only two things he does is
he’s at the brook and he goes to

501
00:32:52,700 –> 00:32:55,500
the Widow’s house.
So somehow you know, you got to

502
00:32:55,500 –> 00:32:58,600
divide those two up amongst the
three and a half years so you

503
00:32:58,600 –> 00:33:00,800
could have been here for years,
right?

504
00:33:00,800 –> 00:33:03,300
Sitting there by himself talking
to birds.

505
00:33:04,600 –> 00:33:13,100
Okay, then the very next thing
that happens is the word of God

506
00:33:13,100 –> 00:33:16,300
comes to him.
And he’s told this.

507
00:33:17,800 –> 00:33:22,700
Now, you wonder and we’re not
told you wonder how would it

508
00:33:22,700 –> 00:33:26,800
have affected Elijah to be fed
by those unclean Birds?

509
00:33:26,900 –> 00:33:29,900
Would you have softened a little
bit but you have realized, you

510
00:33:29,900 –> 00:33:31,900
know, it’s not necessarily about
law.

511
00:33:34,100 –> 00:33:35,800
Well, God’s Gonna push him a
little further.

512
00:33:36,700 –> 00:33:41,300
He says, I’ll rise go to
Zarephath and I love this part

513
00:33:41,900 –> 00:33:46,600
which belongs to sidon just to
make sure, you know, in case

514
00:33:46,600 –> 00:33:51,900
Elijah didn’t know Apart.
So God says go to Zarephath.

515
00:33:53,100 –> 00:33:56,500
Which belongs to sidon.
Now he could have said go to

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00:33:56,500 –> 00:34:00,100
Zarephath, but he specifically
tells them, oh, by the way,

517
00:34:00,300 –> 00:34:04,600
zidan or Zarephath is in zeidan.
Now, why would that have

518
00:34:04,600 –> 00:34:07,600
mattered?
Why would anybody care that?

519
00:34:07,600 –> 00:34:14,300
Zarephath in sidon.
It’s a hostile place and that

520
00:34:14,300 –> 00:34:19,699
was where Jezebel was from.
So Jezebel was the one who

521
00:34:19,699 –> 00:34:22,600
brought in the worship of Baal,
right?

522
00:34:23,300 –> 00:34:26,199
So now, God is saying, okay,
you’ve been here at this Brook

523
00:34:26,199 –> 00:34:30,199
for years Now, I have a new
thing for you to do.

524
00:34:30,800 –> 00:34:35,800
I want you to go hang out with
Jezebel’s friends, right?

525
00:34:36,100 –> 00:34:41,699
And you can just imagine Elijah
being like Are you talking about

526
00:34:41,699 –> 00:34:44,500
the Zarephath?
That’s you know, in sidon and

527
00:34:44,500 –> 00:34:49,199
gods like at Zarephath which is
in sidon, that one, right?

528
00:34:49,199 –> 00:34:51,400
Go go to that zeroth.
I don’t want you to get

529
00:34:51,400 –> 00:34:54,300
confused, go to the bad one.
Elijah.

530
00:34:55,300 –> 00:34:59,700
So here’s Elijah just thinking,
you know, really, I was this

531
00:34:59,800 –> 00:35:01,200
seriously.
What I’m supposed to do.

532
00:35:04,200 –> 00:35:10,800
It’s a 60-mile journey from
cherith to sidon so we would

533
00:35:10,800 –> 00:35:13,100
have had a long time to think
about this and I think it’s

534
00:35:13,100 –> 00:35:16,000
helpful to just consider what he
would have seen.

535
00:35:16,600 –> 00:35:24,500
Now we know that the drought was
happening, not just in Israel

536
00:35:24,600 –> 00:35:31,700
but also in sidon because the
Widow said she had no food, So

537
00:35:31,700 –> 00:35:35,800
can you imagine what it would
have been like as Elijah?

538
00:35:35,800 –> 00:35:38,000
He had been sheltered from all
of this, right?

539
00:35:38,400 –> 00:35:43,300
He had been at a Brooke talking
to nobody but birds I know I’m

540
00:35:43,300 –> 00:35:45,100
really into this like talking to
birds thing.

541
00:35:46,200 –> 00:35:48,700
He was at a Brooke talking to
nobody, but birds, he gets up

542
00:35:48,700 –> 00:35:51,700
and he leaves and.
Can you imagine what the shock

543
00:35:51,700 –> 00:35:56,400
would be like?
As he begins to walk through and

544
00:35:56,400 –> 00:35:59,900
seas.
The devastation.

545
00:36:01,100 –> 00:36:07,200
That happened.
Because of him.

546
00:36:09,000 –> 00:36:11,700
Can you imagine that as he’s
walking down?

547
00:36:11,700 –> 00:36:16,800
And he sees I don’t an empty
house Another Empty House.

548
00:36:17,400 –> 00:36:22,000
Another one skeletons, right?
I mean, this is this is what it

549
00:36:22,000 –> 00:36:25,300
would look like.
This is a famine and then he

550
00:36:25,300 –> 00:36:32,300
gets to another country and he
sees the same thing there. and

551
00:36:32,300 –> 00:36:34,600
that would have been kind of a
weird experience, I think

552
00:36:35,100 –> 00:36:44,000
because As he goes.
To this woman.

553
00:36:45,800 –> 00:36:50,700
It’s fascinating.
To realize what God is doing.

554
00:36:52,200 –> 00:36:56,700
Want to ask you a question here.
Godliness is not measured by

555
00:36:56,700 –> 00:36:58,700
converts.
That wasn’t a question.

556
00:36:59,200 –> 00:37:01,200
Godliness is not measured by
converts, okay?

557
00:37:01,500 –> 00:37:03,200
Right.
We know that it’s not measured

558
00:37:03,200 –> 00:37:06,200
by how many baptisms, you know,
we bring about or anything like

559
00:37:06,200 –> 00:37:08,200
that.
Scott someone season who is in

560
00:37:08,207 –> 00:37:12,100
control.
But I do think it’s helpful to

561
00:37:12,100 –> 00:37:17,900
ask this question at this point
who throughout Elijah’s life.

562
00:37:19,200 –> 00:37:21,100
Learned the gospel because of
him.

563
00:37:22,300 –> 00:37:25,800
And he thought who learned the
gospel because of Elijah.

564
00:37:27,900 –> 00:37:29,700
It’s a really fascinating
answer, I think.

565
00:37:32,200 –> 00:37:34,900
It was this woman.
And her son.

566
00:37:36,400 –> 00:37:40,900
And that’s it. there were
absolutely as far as we know,

567
00:37:41,500 –> 00:37:45,000
they were absolutely no
conversions in the entire

568
00:37:45,000 –> 00:37:54,600
lifetime of Elijah except for to
gentiles I actually find that

569
00:37:54,600 –> 00:37:58,300
kind of Awesome.
Because you can see this

570
00:37:58,300 –> 00:38:03,600
overriding theme.
Elijah’s Big Goal was I’m going

571
00:38:03,600 –> 00:38:08,100
to convert the king I’m going to
convert the entire nation and

572
00:38:08,100 –> 00:38:11,800
God says No, Elijah, I’ll do
that.

573
00:38:13,200 –> 00:38:17,600
Actually.
I’m going to use you to convert

574
00:38:17,600 –> 00:38:21,100
somebody, you never would have
talked to before.

575
00:38:22,200 –> 00:38:24,900
I’m gonna put you in a situation
that makes you incredibly

576
00:38:24,900 –> 00:38:28,000
uncomfortable.
I’m going to use you there.

577
00:38:29,900 –> 00:38:33,900
Elijah was a big man with Big
Dreams, big goals.

578
00:38:34,400 –> 00:38:38,200
And God says, I want you to be
content to fill a little space.

579
00:38:40,400 –> 00:38:43,800
She takes him to Zarephath and
he has to learn.

580
00:38:44,000 –> 00:38:48,200
God was working with the unclean
Birds just like, God is working

581
00:38:48,500 –> 00:38:54,200
with these people now.
This is very interesting because

582
00:38:54,300 –> 00:38:58,600
I don’t think Elijah would have
had a schema for this again.

583
00:38:58,600 –> 00:39:01,700
We just read this story and we
think, oh yeah, he was sent to

584
00:39:01,700 –> 00:39:04,900
sidon and I probably would have
bothered him, but I don’t think

585
00:39:04,900 –> 00:39:08,300
we think about What a moral
dilemma.

586
00:39:08,400 –> 00:39:15,200
The whole thing would have cost
because What did the law say

587
00:39:15,200 –> 00:39:19,900
about gentiles?
What kind of interaction where

588
00:39:19,900 –> 00:39:22,900
you as a Jew supposed to have
with Gentiles?

589
00:39:22,900 –> 00:39:24,100
There were a couple of choices
here.

590
00:39:25,600 –> 00:39:27,200
Stay separate.
So that’s one choice.

591
00:39:27,200 –> 00:39:28,800
Right?
Stay separate.

592
00:39:28,800 –> 00:39:31,100
Which a lot of times meant you
go in, and you kill them.

593
00:39:32,500 –> 00:39:34,300
Okay.
So that was one option with

594
00:39:34,300 –> 00:39:39,200
Gentiles Peter.
See, you wouldn’t have a meal

595
00:39:39,200 –> 00:39:42,600
with them, that’s for sure.
Yep, she wouldn’t do that.

596
00:39:42,600 –> 00:39:45,200
And Elijah has been told to go
live in her house, right?

597
00:39:45,900 –> 00:39:50,500
Have a lot of meals.
Yeah, you wouldn’t marry them.

598
00:39:51,300 –> 00:39:55,900
What about if a gentile wanted
to know about God?

599
00:39:56,000 –> 00:40:01,000
What would you do?
You go through a whole

600
00:40:01,000 –> 00:40:06,400
conversion process and they
would become Jewish rights.

601
00:40:06,400 –> 00:40:08,100
And the law is pretty clear
about that.

602
00:40:09,700 –> 00:40:14,700
Check it out.
Exodus, 12 verse 49 says, there

603
00:40:14,700 –> 00:40:18,200
shall be one law for the native
and for the stranger, who

604
00:40:18,200 –> 00:40:21,100
sojourns among you.
In other words, those who are

605
00:40:21,107 –> 00:40:23,200
Gentiles, who want to know more
about God.

606
00:40:24,200 –> 00:40:28,800
They have to follow the law.
Leviticus 16 29 says, the same

607
00:40:28,800 –> 00:40:31,500
thing, it will be a statute.
This is about the day of

608
00:40:31,500 –> 00:40:33,800
atonement.
It shall be a statute to you

609
00:40:33,800 –> 00:40:37,200
forever in that seventh month,
on the tenth day of the month

610
00:40:37,200 –> 00:40:39,900
you shall afflict yourselves and
shall do no work.

611
00:40:40,000 –> 00:40:42,800
Either the native or the
stranger who sojourns among you

612
00:40:43,000 –> 00:40:46,800
so over and over and over.
God says if there is a gentile

613
00:40:47,100 –> 00:40:50,400
who wants to know about me
that’s fine.

614
00:40:51,900 –> 00:40:55,900
But they have to follow the law.
So these are the choices you

615
00:40:55,900 –> 00:40:58,400
stay separate from the Gentiles
which a lot of times meant you

616
00:40:58,400 –> 00:41:00,400
go in and you completely
obliterate them.

617
00:41:01,100 –> 00:41:05,100
Or if there’s ones who want to
know about God, you’re looking

618
00:41:05,100 –> 00:41:09,300
at a rave or Ruth, right?
A complete process

619
00:41:09,500 –> 00:41:13,900
proselytization.
Yeah, there you go conversion,

620
00:41:14,600 –> 00:41:17,600
complete conversion.
So that was the idea.

621
00:41:19,300 –> 00:41:22,700
Now, let me ask you this.
What did the law say?

622
00:41:24,100 –> 00:41:27,700
About when you went to live with
gentiles?

623
00:41:29,800 –> 00:41:34,200
Nothing.
Now, you’re Elijah.

624
00:41:36,200 –> 00:41:37,300
The law is very important to
you.

625
00:41:37,500 –> 00:41:39,900
You’ve called down a drought
because that is what the law

626
00:41:39,900 –> 00:41:44,600
said should happen, right?
Here you are for the last year,

627
00:41:44,600 –> 00:41:47,600
two years, whatever it is,
you’ve been eating food from

628
00:41:47,600 –> 00:41:52,300
unclean, birds food, which
itself was probably unclean or I

629
00:41:52,308 –> 00:41:55,300
don’t know, maybe you haven’t
touched that, I don’t know.

630
00:41:57,700 –> 00:42:02,500
And now God says, okay now you
can’t avoid it.

631
00:42:03,900 –> 00:42:12,300
Go live with this Gentile woman.
And by the way, There’s no

632
00:42:12,300 –> 00:42:15,300
provision for that in the law.
There’s nothing.

633
00:42:15,300 –> 00:42:16,600
The law will tell you to do
there.

634
00:42:17,000 –> 00:42:21,100
So here’s this fascinating, if
Elijah decided, you know what I

635
00:42:21,100 –> 00:42:25,400
want to go and see.
Let’s see.

636
00:42:25,400 –> 00:42:29,200
What does Scripture what kind of
advice to scripture give about

637
00:42:29,200 –> 00:42:38,000
this consider the possible
examples, so possible examples,

638
00:42:38,800 –> 00:42:41,400
who else lived under?
The law are who else under the

639
00:42:41,400 –> 00:42:42,900
law?
Lived outside of the land.

640
00:42:43,400 –> 00:42:46,400
Well David did.
Now let’s think about David’s

641
00:42:46,400 –> 00:42:49,200
experience outside of the land
of Israel.

642
00:42:49,500 –> 00:42:51,000
What do you think?
Good bad.

643
00:42:52,600 –> 00:42:55,800
Yeah, pretty bad, right?
Like this is how he describes it

644
00:42:55,900 –> 00:42:58,400
first Samuel 26, you see the end
there.

645
00:42:58,600 –> 00:43:01,800
David says it was like I was
being forced to go serve other

646
00:43:01,800 –> 00:43:03,400
gods.
Right?

647
00:43:04,200 –> 00:43:07,600
What do you do with that?
If you’re Elijah, here you are

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00:43:07,600 –> 00:43:12,100
thinking and I know that doesn’t
sound too good, right?

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00:43:12,100 –> 00:43:16,200
That’s that’s not real awesome.
Okay so you probably wouldn’t

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00:43:16,200 –> 00:43:19,700
have wanted to look to David.
Well if you ask okay what about

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00:43:19,700 –> 00:43:22,900
before the law there were a
handful of people Joseph or

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00:43:22,900 –> 00:43:26,000
Moses?
Now, let me ask you about

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00:43:26,000 –> 00:43:31,000
Joseph.
What was Joseph’s relationship

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00:43:31,300 –> 00:43:35,100
with Egypt?
Yeah, it was kind of like an

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00:43:35,100 –> 00:43:38,000
interesting 50/50 kind of like
hybrid thing, right?

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00:43:38,000 –> 00:43:41,800
We often call him Joseph but
most people probably would have

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00:43:41,800 –> 00:43:46,200
called him do.
You know his Egyptian name Zaf

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00:43:46,200 –> 00:43:50,600
nathania, right?
So anyway, you know, if you ever

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00:43:50,600 –> 00:43:52,500
go on Jeopardy or something, you
might need to know that.

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00:43:53,200 –> 00:43:57,900
So so that was that was Joseph’s
Egyptian name and that was

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00:43:57,900 –> 00:43:59,400
probably what most people knew
him.

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00:43:59,400 –> 00:44:03,700
As he had an Egyptian wife, he
had an Egyptian family, right?

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00:44:03,700 –> 00:44:07,100
And his life was and is the
daughter of an Egyptian priest.

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So you can imagine Elijah being
like yeah, okay.

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00:44:10,400 –> 00:44:13,100
Not gonna think about Joseph
either, right?

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00:44:13,100 –> 00:44:15,400
Like he’s, he wasn’t, you know,
Hardline enough.

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00:44:16,600 –> 00:44:21,600
So who else to think about?
Well, I think he probably found

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00:44:21,600 –> 00:44:25,000
some kind of solace in Moses,
right?

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00:44:25,400 –> 00:44:28,500
So let’s think about, let’s just
try and think like Elijah here.

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00:44:29,400 –> 00:44:32,000
If you’re Elijah, you could
probably find a few

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00:44:32,000 –> 00:44:35,200
similarities.
You could try and come up with

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00:44:35,200 –> 00:44:37,900
these and I don’t I’m going to
say right off the bat.

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00:44:38,300 –> 00:44:39,800
I don’t think these were real
legit.

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00:44:40,000 –> 00:44:42,900
I don’t think these are real
good but I’m trying to trying to

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00:44:42,908 –> 00:44:44,600
like put myself in Elijah’s
boots.

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00:44:45,200 –> 00:44:50,200
So the the idea here is this is
perhaps how Elijah could have

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00:44:50,200 –> 00:44:52,900
thought.
Elijah brought the drought to

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00:44:52,900 –> 00:44:54,700
save his people but was resented
for it.

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00:44:55,900 –> 00:44:58,900
Moses tried to save his people
but was also resented for it.

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00:44:59,200 –> 00:45:03,200
Maybe a parallel Elijah was just
obeying God’s commands as he

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00:45:03,200 –> 00:45:04,800
felt.
So was Moses.

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00:45:04,800 –> 00:45:08,200
He knew he was the deliverer.
So Elijah had to flee to a

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00:45:08,200 –> 00:45:11,000
foreign Nation to hide from the
King and sort of Moses.

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00:45:11,300 –> 00:45:14,300
You can see him kind of almost
feeling like, you know, Moses

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00:45:14,300 –> 00:45:17,000
was a martyr and I am too kind
of thing.

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00:45:18,500 –> 00:45:20,200
Okay.
And in that foreign Nation he

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00:45:20,200 –> 00:45:23,600
meets a woman and a sustained.
Just like Moses meet zipporah

688
00:45:23,600 –> 00:45:28,500
and is sustained now we’re these
parallels really valid?

689
00:45:29,200 –> 00:45:33,000
Yeah, you know if somebody if I
heard somebody giving a Bible

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00:45:33,000 –> 00:45:37,700
class saying these are these are
like good parallels.

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00:45:37,700 –> 00:45:39,800
I’d probably be like me and not
so much.

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00:45:41,100 –> 00:45:44,500
So maybe this is how Elijah was
thinking but where they

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00:45:44,500 –> 00:45:46,700
legitimate biblically, I don’t
think so.

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00:45:47,700 –> 00:45:52,000
Because biblically, I think this
is what we’re being told.

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00:45:53,300 –> 00:45:57,400
Elijah was not actually being
paralleled with Moses.

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00:45:59,000 –> 00:46:00,900
I think he was being paralleled
with the Israelites.

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00:46:01,800 –> 00:46:08,200
Think about this God says, I’ll
give you bread and meat that

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00:46:08,200 –> 00:46:10,900
remind you of anyone bread and
meat.

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00:46:11,100 –> 00:46:14,700
And not only that I’ll give you
water, right?

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00:46:15,100 –> 00:46:20,800
And eventually that bread meat
and water will run dry and so

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00:46:20,800 –> 00:46:22,800
you’ll have to go to a foreign
Nation to get it.

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00:46:22,900 –> 00:46:26,200
Do you remember that in the
Exodus that the Israelites had

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00:46:26,200 –> 00:46:29,900
to go to the foreign Nations and
say, can we purchase bread from

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00:46:29,900 –> 00:46:33,400
you?
Very similar kind of situation.

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00:46:35,400 –> 00:46:43,500
In fact, let’s just take a look.
Exodus 16, 8, you get meat bread

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00:46:44,200 –> 00:46:47,000
in the evening in the morning.
Same times by the way, as when

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00:46:47,000 –> 00:46:50,800
Elijah was given it.
Psalm 78 20.

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00:46:51,100 –> 00:46:54,200
You have the water gushing out
eventually God stops providing.

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00:46:54,600 –> 00:46:57,100
And so in Deuteronomy chapter 2
verses 1 to 6.

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00:46:57,400 –> 00:47:01,600
They get sustained by Foreign
Nations just like Elijah with a

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00:47:01,607 –> 00:47:04,500
widow at Zarephath.
Sustained by a foreign Nation.

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00:47:07,000 –> 00:47:08,500
Here’s what I think is
fascinating about this.

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00:47:10,200 –> 00:47:13,500
Elijah story wasn’t the story of
Moses, like he wanted it to be.

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00:47:14,800 –> 00:47:17,100
It was a lot less glorious than
that.

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00:47:18,000 –> 00:47:22,900
It was the story of the people
who didn’t get it, who

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00:47:22,900 –> 00:47:27,600
complained and who consistently
said, God, you’ve let us out

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00:47:27,600 –> 00:47:31,300
into the Wilderness to die
without recognizing.

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00:47:32,800 –> 00:47:37,300
That God was pushing them to the
next step of belief to the next

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00:47:37,300 –> 00:47:40,100
step of belief.
He was making them

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00:47:40,100 –> 00:47:44,200
uncomfortable.
To teach them and that’s what

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00:47:44,200 –> 00:47:47,900
he’s doing with Elijah.
And so in fact, as Elijah goes

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00:47:47,900 –> 00:47:50,800
to this Widow at Zarephath, I
want to show you one final slide

723
00:47:50,800 –> 00:47:54,500
here as he goes to this Widow at
Zarephath.

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00:47:56,800 –> 00:47:58,300
I’ll you know what?
I’ll show you this too just

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00:47:58,300 –> 00:48:02,500
because it’s a fun picture.
Okay, that’s not actually

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00:48:02,500 –> 00:48:04,600
relevant.
The idea is, you know, it’s to

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00:48:04,600 –> 00:48:07,900
like flamingos because the
stories are the same too.

728
00:48:08,200 –> 00:48:10,900
Anyway.
Okay, so the situations are

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00:48:10,900 –> 00:48:12,400
similar.
So, let me let me show you,

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00:48:12,400 –> 00:48:14,400
right?
You got Ravens and unclean bird.

731
00:48:14,500 –> 00:48:17,500
Like the Widow who’s an unclean
bail where shipper Ravens are

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00:48:17,500 –> 00:48:20,300
scavengers and it just so
happens that the Widow is

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00:48:20,300 –> 00:48:23,700
gathering sticks.
Scavenging, when he finds her

734
00:48:24,500 –> 00:48:28,700
and eating, its food is against
the law, with the Ravens and

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00:48:28,700 –> 00:48:31,200
eating the Widow’s food would
have been against the law.

736
00:48:31,600 –> 00:48:35,000
Same kind of thing.
And in fact, if we don’t, if you

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00:48:35,000 –> 00:48:37,800
don’t feel like the parallel
strong enough, it’s interesting

738
00:48:38,100 –> 00:48:43,300
that God even quotes himself in
1st Kings 17.

739
00:48:43,700 –> 00:48:47,200
Exact same words in the Hebrew.
He says they’re about the brook

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00:48:47,200 –> 00:48:49,600
in verse 4.
You will drink from the brook as

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00:48:49,600 –> 00:48:51,300
I have commanded the Ravens to
feed you there.

742
00:48:52,400 –> 00:48:55,300
And he says, in 1st Kings 17 9
rise, go to Zarephath, which

743
00:48:55,300 –> 00:48:59,700
belongs to side and dwell there.
Behold, I have commanded a widow

744
00:48:59,700 –> 00:49:01,300
there to feed you.
Same words.

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00:49:03,000 –> 00:49:06,000
And so God is taking Elijah and
saying Elijah, did you learn the

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00:49:06,000 –> 00:49:09,200
lesson with the Ravens?
Because now I’m going to put you

747
00:49:09,900 –> 00:49:14,200
in the same situation, but
there’s no escape from this one.

748
00:49:15,200 –> 00:49:16,900
And you know what?
We’re going to see and I think

749
00:49:16,900 –> 00:49:20,400
this is awesome.
The big lesson that Elijah has

750
00:49:20,400 –> 00:49:23,900
to learn his compassion,
compassion, compassion, and God

751
00:49:23,900 –> 00:49:25,800
begins to teach it to him with
the birds.

752
00:49:27,200 –> 00:49:31,600
And yet, when Elijah sees the
suffering that his drought has

753
00:49:31,600 –> 00:49:36,600
brought about when he sees the
suffering of this woman, You

754
00:49:36,600 –> 00:49:42,600
actually can tell Elijah begins
to be moved and as we’ll see in

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00:49:42,600 –> 00:49:49,900
the next class, he actually
purposefully knowingly breaks,

756
00:49:49,900 –> 00:49:54,400
the law.
For the sake of that woman and

757
00:49:54,400 –> 00:49:59,300
it’s at that point that the
widow woman turns around and

758
00:49:59,300 –> 00:50:15,400
begins to worship God,
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