Jason Hensley – Class 2: Elijah’s Drought

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This is day 2 of the 2022.
Idlewild Bible School.

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Our first period teacher is
brother Jason’s Hensley.

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His General subject is Elijah.
A man of like passions today’s

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topic is Elijah’s drought
brother Jason.

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Thank you for the Josh.
Good morning, everyone.

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I gotta tell you something
really exciting.

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I was accepted into the text and
picture this morning so there

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you go.
I feel I feel like I finally

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made it.
I’ve been trying trying for a

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year so there you go.
Okay, so today we’re going to be

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talking about Elijah’s drought
yesterday.

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We set up kind of the context
with what was going on with a

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have.
Why was he worse?

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And really, we saw this overall
message that God was the one who

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is in control and so we sort of
set up this Foundation to see

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that that’s really going to be
Elijah’s major struggle.

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It’s going to be this feeling
that he has to be the one to

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change everything.
I think it’s probably a feeling

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that a lot of us can relate to.
And what we’re going to see is

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that God is going to teach
Elijah in a very dramatic way,

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again that he is the one who’s
in control.

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It’s not about Shh, changing the
king.

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It’s not about Elijah changing
the people but that God is the

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one who has a plan and he knows
what he’s doing.

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But interestingly that plan is
flexible.

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And that’s the piece that we’re
going to see today, as we talk

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about Elijah’s drought.
So here we are in class number

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two and I just drought our main
message yesterday was God is in

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control and the message today is
that God hears prayers.

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So it’s going to be an
interesting relationship as we

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see the interaction between God,
Being in control and yet God,

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being flexible and hearing
Elijah’s prayer.

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So these two ideas are going to
to go back and forth and work

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with one another.
All right.

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Tomorrow, we’re going to see
that God gives lessons that push

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us beyond our comfort zone.
These lessons have fantastic

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blessings.
God decides what it’s time for

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judgment and God does not
relent.

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All right?
So that’s where we are.

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We’re going to have three
sections today, successes and

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challenges.
So this is what we’re just going

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to see.
As far as Elijah is concerned.

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This is sort of going to be like
an overview.

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Just now, as we begin to
introduce him as a character.

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So what is it that we see as an
overview?

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Then we are going to Spending
the entirety of the class on

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First Kings 17, 1, Josh asked me
if I wanted a reading and I told

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him, well, you could read 1st
Kings, 17 one.

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And he, he told me that I could
do that.

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So, there you go.
So that’s what I’ll do.

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I’ll go ahead and do it.
That’s, that’s what our class

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will be about First Kings. 17,
one.

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So the last part is then going
to be looking at how God works

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and God’s flexibility with
Elijah.

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Our main message is that God
hears prayers and the big.

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Why question is why did God
bring a drought on Israel?

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This is one of those.
Why questions that?

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I think probably seems really
easy to answer.

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But I don’t think it actually is
so let that kind of stew and

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sink in for a little bit and if
you come to a really quick

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answer, start to doubt your
answer.

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Okay, so so that’s a That’s what
I want you to take from that.

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Why did why did God bring a
drought on Israel?

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I don’t think it’s as easy as we
think.

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So, here’s our reading, First
Kings 17. 1, it says now, Elijah

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the tishbite of tishman Gilead,
said to Ahab as the Lord the god

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of Israel lives before.
Whom I stand there shall be

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neither do nor rain these years
except by my word, there’s a lot

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of things there.
And this is how we’re going to

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introduce Elijah.
Whenever I pictured, remember,

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Elijah with the flowing, beard
the wind and like, you know, the

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light behind him and all that
the, the triumphant music death.

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Okay?
It’s like it all happens, right

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here.
Can you picture it?

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Like, here’s Elijah.
He walks into the palace.

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He pushes open the doors.
So, the first thing he ever

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says, in the whole Bible, right?
There’s no, hey, I’m Elijah or

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anything like that, right?
He pushes open the and he says

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no rain and then he leaves Okay,
so it’s very dramatic, very

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superhero-ish, right?
All right, so I think there’s

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good reason just to put it out
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There is good reason, I think
for us seeing Elijah in this

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superhero, kind of light.
Now again scripture doesn’t give

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us these cardboard, one-sided
characters.

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So there’s also a good reason
for us, not seeing him that way.

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But I want to spend a little bit
of time on why we should and I

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think that’s a good way to
start.

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So his story starts with a
miracle.

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Now.
I want to ask you this question.

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What would you say, since his
story starts with this miracle?

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What would you say is the
difference between a miracle and

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Providence?
Anybody want to just Venture a

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definition here?
Ones ones more natural.

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More Supernatural.
Yeah ones more Supernatural.

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Making the other more natural.
Yeah. yeah, Peter Yeah, yeah.

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So both have divine intervention
and one is one is very clear,

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divine intervention?
You know, what’s funny?

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The only other time I’ve given
this class you gave that same

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answer you’re in the, that’s
pretty awesome.

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Look at that and I, you know, I
didn’t ask you to say that

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either so that it was good.
Thank you.

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Yeah.
So I agree.

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I think that’s the difference
between a miracle and Providence

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and the just biblically.
As far as, like our words.

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Here’s the Hebrew word for
miracle.

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It’s my fate.
That’s your strongest number

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4159, a lot of times it’s
translated as Wonder so you’ll

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see it like in regard to the
plagues and Exodus 7 verse 3,

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Exodus 1110 Deuteronomy 6 22 you
can see very much the

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supernatural element here that
these are things that people

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would say.
Whoa you know you can’t explain

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this a has a sundial do you
remember that story that that

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Hezekiah is going to be healed?
And so he asks for a sign and

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that is the a has a sundial will
go.

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Backwards.
That’s a miracle second

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chronicles, 32 24.
It’s also translated as the word

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sign so it’s what false prophets
are said to perform and

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Deuteronomy 13 verses 12 to
jeroboams altar.

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So jeroboam makes an altar as
he’s going to have this golden

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calf worship and it splits in
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That’s a miracle described in
First Kings chapter 13, verses 3

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through 5.
And then again you also get

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another sense of the word sign
in Isaiah’s children.

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And sorry, Ezekiel.
In Ezekiel chapter 12 verse 6,

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and Zechariah 3, verse 8, where
you have people being referred

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to as a sign or a miracle.
That’s just a quick overview of

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how Miracle is used in
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Versus Providence, which I think
tends to be more subtle as we

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kind of came to that conclusion.
The reason that this is

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significant, as it comes to the
story of Elijah is because when

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you look at Elijah, you’re
suddenly struck by the fact that

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the first thing he ever does.
And the first thing he ever

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says, is a miracle. and,
Miracles were not things that

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people did a whole lot.
They were things that God did.

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So you know, God God would cause
miracles to happen, but it was

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fairly rare for a human to say I
would like for this to happen

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and it happens.
So I’ll put out a couple of

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examples.
So Moses does that.

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I say we see it fairly
frequently and Moses his life.

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The plagues are an example of
that Moses prays.

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Like scum Joshua prays that the
sun will stand still see, see it

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in Joshua’s life.
Samson.

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You see it in his life when he
asked for the strength to come

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back.
But as far as anybody else

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before.
Elijah.

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That’s what I could come up
with.

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Now, you might be able to prove
me wrong and that’s okay.

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I totally don’t mind.
If you stand up and yell

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something out and say you know,
you miss somebody that’s fine

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with me.
But I got I got Moses Joshua,

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Samson.
As the only people who

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specifically request Miracles
before Elijah and they happen,

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Okay?
But I recognized, you know,

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maybe I’m missing somebody but I
don’t think that takes away from

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the point that this was a fairly
unique thing, you know, by

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Elijah’s time, if this had
happened with only three people

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in history, it’s kind of a big
deal that here he is being able

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to pray for a miracle to take
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So we have Moses Joshua, Samson,
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The only person interestingly
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Before Elijah was Moses.
So Elijah performs a number of

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them.
And I think that’s part of what

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brings that Superhero status,
you know, that that kind of

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thinking that you always think
of him as the guy that says

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fire, you know, and then fire
comes down and like burn stuff

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up, right?
This.

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That’s kind of how we see Elijah
and, you know, I think it’s kind

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of it kind of makes sense.
So here’s his catalogue of

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Miracles, he has a three and a
half year drought First Kings 17

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verse 1.
He multiplies flour and oil

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first king 1714.
He raises the Dead 1st Kings 17

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He calls down fire from heaven,

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at Mount Carmel.
First Kings, 1838.

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He calls down rain from Heaven
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First Kings, 1841, he calls
down, fire from heaven, twice

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and burns up the Commander’s
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12.
You might recall, he was going

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to call it down three times,
right?

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But the last guy says, please
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And so he doesn’t so you only
calls it down twice and then he

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divides the Waters of Jordan and
he walks through So, these are

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the Miracles of Elijah.
Again, the only person to have

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performed more than him before
him was Moses.

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Now.
On the other hand, what’s

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interesting about looking at
Elijah is he gets the superhero

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status.
I think, from all these

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Miracles, one thing, I think
though that we haven’t noticed,

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because we tend to portray him
in this way, is Elijah has a lot

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of interesting social struggles.
Now, I know there’s a lot of a

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lot of different ways that we
struggle as humans socially, so

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I’m not trying to like diagnose
him or anything like that.

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I’m not qualified to do that.
So so I’m not I’m not trying to

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do that but I think God does
when he portrays, Elijah it

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easy.
He’s actually trying to get us

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to see that here was somebody
who really struggled when

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relating to people It’s
fascinating to see if you look

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at when Elijah prays, you’re
going to see these beautiful

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long heartfelt prayers.
When you look at when he talks

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to people, you know what you
see.

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Like three words.
That’s it like no matter what

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you know the situation might
call for if somebody’s kid has

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died.
He walks up and he’s like

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where’s your kid?
Who would say that to somebody,

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right like that doesn’t make any
sense.

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So this is this is what we see
and I think that that’s an

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important thing to recognize.
He seems to struggle with

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communication particularly in
the.

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He just doesn’t say nice things
to people.

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It’s all you know I don’t know
what anybody would call that but

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that’s that’s sort of the what
we see it.

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He’s consistently speaking in
short sentences except when he’s

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talking to God.
So these are his first words as

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Yahweh.
The god of Israel lives before.

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Whom I stand there shall be
neither do nor rain these years

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except by my word.
Now that’s pretty long as far as

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Elijah is concerned.
But you think about this,

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there’s a lot of things that are
missing here.

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If some person just walked
through the door and said as God

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Lives it’s not going to rain
till I say it is and then they

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walk away.
How would you feel you’d

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probably be like well that was
weird right like you wouldn’t

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you wouldn’t think wow.
You know that’s definitely

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that’s going to change
everything for me.

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You’d be like, who is that?
Crazy guy, you know, and that

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and that I think is a helpful
piece to recognize that when

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Elijah talks to people, there
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You would expect that are
missing and I think we don’t

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notice it because we’re so used
to his story.

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So that’s the first example.
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This is when he meets the Widow
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So these are the next words that
he says, this is like a year

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later, right?
So, you know, I don’t know

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exactly how it works but maybe
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saying any words, but, you know,
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He was living at a brook by
himself, like he could have

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talked to the birds, I guess,
but like the there weren’t a

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whole lot of people to talk to.
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that he says in the biblical
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He rose and went to Zarephath
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city Behold.
A widow.

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Is there Gathering sticks?
You remember the background?

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What is going to die?
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food, right?
Okay, keep that in mind and

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consider what he says to her.
Because the famine, right?

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And a drought.
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bring me a little water in a
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That’s like an awesome
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Right.
You know in the middle of a

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drought, you walk up and you’re
like hey I want some water Now,

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what do you think would happen
if Southern California is in a

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drought, right?
But it’s not like that bad and

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as far as people are like, you
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Imagine that that’s happening
and you’re just walking through

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l.a., right?
And you walk up to some random

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person who doesn’t look so good,
she’s about to die, right?

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So you know all like shriveled
and hunched over or whatever and

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you walk up and you’re like hey
Give me some water, you know?

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She probably hit you, right?
Like that’s it’s, it’s fairly

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fairly amazing that the lady
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Okay, right?
And she goes, and then just to

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add to this, you’re ready.
Look at what happens as she was

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going to bring it.
So she goes and she’s gonna go

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like look for water.
He calls to her and says bring

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me a morsel of bread in your
hands, right?

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So.
Oh and by the way, I want bread

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too.
Right.

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Like this is you look at this in
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Wow.
Hike.

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It would have been good to get a
little training or something,

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you know, here on.
How is it?

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How is it good to talk to people
so that they like you?

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So, you know about this is this
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So then she turned to him and
she just says, like, you know,

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can I just tell you?
This is totally ridiculous.

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Like, what you’re asking me.
So she says, as the Lord your

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God Lives, I have nothing baked.
Only a handful of flour, and a

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jar and a little oil in a jug.
And we just read this normally,

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because it’s like a cute Sunday
School Story, right?

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But it’s not Not because she
says, and now, I’m gathering a

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couple of sticks that I may go
in and prepare it for myself and

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my son that we may eat it and
die.

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So she’s like, okay look you
asked me to bring you water and

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I was going to do it then you’re
like hey bring me bread.

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Well you want to know what I’m
gonna go die.

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Like that’s that’s what I’m
about to do because I don’t have

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any food so like this I think
just shows us like Talking to

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people was not like Elijah’s
favorite thing ever.

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Okay, it was, it was probably a
difficult sort of thing that he

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struggled through.
Okay?

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Now interestingly he goes and he
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for a while.
And so here’s the interaction

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there.
It doesn’t get better.

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After this, the son of the
woman, the Mistress of the house

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became ill.
His illness was so severe that

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there was no breath left in him.
She said to Elijah, what have

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you against me?
Oh man of God.

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You’ve come to me to bring my
sin to remembrance to cause the

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death of my son.
He said to her, give me your

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son.
Okay, he took him from her arms

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and carried him up into the
upper chamber, where he lodged

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and laid him on his own bed.
He cried to the Lord, look at

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what he says to god.
Notice the difference here, give

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me your son vs.
O Lord.

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My God.
Have you brought Calamity even

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upon the Widow with whom I
sojourned by killing her son?

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Then he stretched himself upon
the child three times and cried

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to the Lord O.
Lord, my God, let this child’s

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life, come into him again.
And the Lord listened to the

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voice of Elijah, the life of the
child came into him again and he

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revived ready for the contrast.
Here we go.

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Elijah took the child brought
him down from the upper chamber

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into the house.
Delivered him to his mother to

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the kids alive.
You know?

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You’d think.
Yes.

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Like this is so exciting.
And here’s what he says, see

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your son lives.
Give your kid he’s alive like

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whoa.
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So that’s what.
That’s what you get.

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And I think this is an important
thing for us really, to

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understand Elijah.
Now, let’s contrast all of this

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with Elijah’s first words.
See if you can feel the

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difference here.
Now, what’s really funny by the

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way?
Is anybody remember how Elijah

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calls Elijah?
Yeah, that’s right.

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He there’s no words he just
walks by and he like throws his

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jacket at him and he keeps
walking right?

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And, you know, Elijah gets
whacked by this and he’s like,

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all right, you know what I need?
He takes the jacket, but so what

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he says to him is let me kiss,
my father and mother and then I

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will follow you.
Do you see this?

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Do you sense the difference
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Elijah is like okay, I think
you’re telling me you want me to

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follow you.
Like this is your mantle, your

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special coat but like I got
Relationships here.

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I want to go kiss my father and
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So it’s a very interesting
contrast in the first words

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between Elijah and Elisha Okay,
now it goes on that way.

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And if you just read through the
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there’s a lot of similarities
except like their similarities

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in the Miracles except in terms
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So he has an instance of working
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And in this instance, the Widow
actually comes to him and

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amazingly says, can you help me
or she recognizes that he can

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help her?
Now, I don’t know if you know,

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Nobody ever comes and asks for
help from Elijah you want to I I

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think probably because he’d say
things like yeah, once you get

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your act together like I’ll help
you you know something along

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those lines but she comes and
she asks for help from Elijah,

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and this is what he says.
What will I do for you?

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Tell me.
What do you have in the house?

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Right.
Do you see how that’s so

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different than how Elijah talks?
Okay, so there’s that sense.

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Now, just just to be fair to
Elijah, okay?

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Just to be fair, and I think
it’s important to be impartial.

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Elijah also works with a child,
who’s died?

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That’s shunammite son.
And I want I want to bring this

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out to you.
Is that he does say, Call the

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shunammite and then he says to
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He says, pick up your son.
Okay, and that’s those are the

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only words so, you know, maybe
that was like, a cultural thing,

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somebody’s kid is died.
That’s what you say to them, I

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don’t know, but it does.
There does seem to be.

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There’s this, this contrast
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Elijah is almost always alone.
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Elijah rarely is ask for help.
Elijah is constantly approached

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for help.
Elijah seeks.

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God’s Wrath on.
Israel were specifically told

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that by the Apostle Paul in
Romans 11 that he prays against

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Israel, whereas Elijah is seen
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And I think that’s a really
important piece for us in

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understanding.
The story of Elijah because a

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lot of times we come to the him
with the superhero focus and,

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and this is crucial. and I think
we come to him with a new

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testament lens, what I mean by
that is by the time of the New

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Testament, Elijah’s a different
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Elijah has learned the lessons,
the spirit and power of Elijah

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are going to move John the
Baptist, but they’re going to be

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different than the Elijah that
we get in a lot of the Kings

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stories, because Elijah has
learned but that point.

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And so that’s why you have him
leading the second Exodus.

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That’s why you have Elijah
turning the hearts of the

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father’s to the children, all of
this kind of idea because he’s a

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learn, but he’s not there yet.
And what we’re going to see is

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the transformation.
So as we’re looking at the story

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of Kings, we are seeing on
Elijah who doesn’t like people

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who finds people frustrating,
because they never listen who

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causes a three-and-a-half-year
drought because the people can’t

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seem to figure it out how to
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That’s what we’re going to see
and we’re going to see God

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working with him to change him
and say, well you know, I will

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bring the three-and-a-half year.
Drought but, I’m going to have

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you learn from it.
You’re going to learn from this

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and realize.
You don’t know what manner of

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spirit.
Your of So these are all the

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requests for Elijah’s help
versus the none of requests for

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Elijah’s help.
So again, I think it’s a helpful

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contrast.
Elijah is not ask for help where

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as Elijah is constantly, ask for
help.

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Okay, now what God is constantly
teaching him then is how should

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he be treating others?
And I think we’re going to see

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this with that background.
Now we can approach this first,

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king 17 verse 1 again because
there’s a very telling phrase in

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First Kings 17, one that we
might not have noticed until we

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Branch out a little bit and
compare Some of the other

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passages about Elijah.
Here it is.

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First Kings 17 one.
Notice.

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Notice what brings the miracle.
Do you notice anything that’s

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missing in this verse?
Elijah the tishbite of Tish

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being Gilead.
Said to Ahab as the Lord the god

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of Israel lives before whom I
stand there shall be neither do

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nor rain these years except by
my word.

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What’s missing from this
Proclamation.

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Think about what you know the
prophets, right?

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Jeremiah stands up and he says
thus says the Lord.

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This is going to happen, Isaiah
gets up and he says thus says

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the Lord, so it’s going to be
what is Elijah not say?

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Thus says the Lord there’s no
that’s us Lord.

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You notice he says, as Yahweh
lives, you know, this is just a

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way of swearing back then.
Notnot, like cursing, you know

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what I’m saying?
This is, this is a way of

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saying, you know, I’m really
serious, right?

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As Yahweh.
The god of Israel lives there

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will be, neither do no rain
these years except by my word.

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That’s really interesting that
he says my word.

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You could say, you know, you’re
kind of stretching it.

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And if you feel that way, that’s
good.

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I want you to feel that way
because I’m gonna now in Ever to

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prove to you that this is very
much.

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What’s going on?
I’m not just reading in these

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verses.
This drought, I would suggest to

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you was Elijah’s request.
God, did not say bring this

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drought.
Elijah looking at the law said,

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if the people are Unfaithful,
God says, I’ll close up the

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Heavens, so therefore clearly
the people are Unfaithful.

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Ahab is the worst King bad, bad
bad, right?

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So clearly there Unfaithful, so
there should be a drought.

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So Elijah says It’s going to be
rain except by my word.

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Now, let me try and prove that
to you I think what’s missing is

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there is no thus says the Lord,
there’s nothing about this being

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God’s word and in fact I would
suggest the record itself

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emphasizes this because the very
next words are and the word of

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Yahweh came to him.
And in fact, what you will find,

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if you read through the story of
Elijah is that Elijah never does

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anything until the word of God
comes to him and says go do

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this.
The only time that Elijah says

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or does anything without the
word of Yahweh coming to him is

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when he stands up and says no
job except by my word, the only

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time.
So let me prove that here.

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First Kings 17 to the word of
Yahweh came to him.

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This is where he’s told to go
hide by the Brook.

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So he supposed to go by the
Brook word of Yahweh, tells him

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that first Kings 17, 89, then
the word of Yahweh came to him.

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Arise go to Zarephath, which
belongs to sidon, and while

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there.
So, he’s now going to The Widow

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according to the word of the
Lord.

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Where the Lord came to him first
Kings 17, 13 to 14.

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Elijah said to her, do not fear.
Go and do as you have said, but

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first make me a little cake of
it and bring it to me and

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afterward make something for
yourself and for your son.

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So he says, don’t worry.
I know that you’re scared.

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You’re not going to have any
food but guess what?

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Thus says the Lord right thus
says the Lord the god of Israel.

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The jar of flour will not be.
Spent the jug of oil shall not

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be empty.
This is what motivates?

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What empowers Elijah all the
time except The word of God is

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nowhere in the drought.
It’s fascinating.

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The jar of flour was not spent
first king. 1716 neither did the

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jug of oil become empty,
according to the word of Yahweh.

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1st Kings, 18 1, after many
days, the word of the Lord came

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to Elijah and the third year
saying go show yourself to Ahab.

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So, he’s told now leave, and now
I’m going to send rain.

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First Kings, 19, there are three
times that God meets up with

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him, an angel touches him and
tells him Elijah, you need to

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eat.
So, again, essentially, he’s

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commanded by God to eat.
Verse 9 again, the word of

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Yahweh says to him.
Why are you here?

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When he’s at Sinai, verses 11
and 12, Yahweh passes by and you

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remember how he passes by as the
still Small Voice, right?

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So you constantly have this
theme in Elijah’s life.

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The word of God is always coming
to him and telling him what to

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say.
And he’s always listening when

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he curses Ahab and Jezebel First
Kings, 21, 17 and 19.

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It’s because God told him to say
that word of God comes to him

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and says That one, he lightens
Ahab sentence.

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So he says, they have, you know,
dogs are going to kill you, lick

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your blood, all of this, a have
humbles himself and God says,

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you know what, good Ahab and
tell him because he humbled

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himself, it’s not going to
happen in his lifetime.

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So sentence is lightened.
And again, he’s told to do that

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by God, he’s told to respond to
the King’s Men, the ones that he

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lights on fire, right?
He’s told that by the word of

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God.
So, I hope you got the idea that

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when I say everything, that
Elijah does in his life, Is

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moved and planned by the word of
God.

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I really mean everything.
Like every single story is thus

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says the Lord, the word of God
came to him and said this, the

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one place is here.
The drought does not have that

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and so I would I would suggest
to you that I think scripture is

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really underscoring for us that
this drought was his idea. now,

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in case that doesn’t convince
you yet, This drought is

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referenced a handful of times in
the New Testament.

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And in one of those places
consider this Revelation 11

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verses 3 to 6.
See if you here Elijah.

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Revelation 11 326 listen for
Elijah.

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It says, I will grant authority
to my two witnesses.

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They will prophesy for 1260
days.

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Anybody know how many years that
is Yeah, well, if you do day for

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a year, sorry I mean if you take
the days and you and you turn it

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into how many days, yeah, it’s
three and a half but yes, 1260

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years to if you do day for a
year, yeah, three and a half.

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Three and a half years is what
is what’s made up by 1260 days,

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right?
Which is how long Elijah’s

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drought was three and a half
years.

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These are the two olive trees
and the two lampstands that

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stand before the Lord of the
earth, if anyone harm them You

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here.
Elijah fire pours from their

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mouth and consumes their foes
here’s a revelation.

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Fire portion their mouth if
anyone would harm them, this is

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how he is doomed, to be killed.
They have ready the power to

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shut the sky?
That no rain may fall during the

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days of their prophesying now,
how long do they prophesy?

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1260 days, which matches up with
the three and a half years of

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Elijah’s drought.
So, that’s interesting, right?

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You get these Echoes of Elijah
here and you will notice that it

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specifically says that they have
the power to shut the sky.

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Right?
And so I would put to you this

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is an illusion back to Elijah’s
drought.

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When Elijah himself said
drought, I want there to be a

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drought.
Because this is what the people

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deserve Revelation attributes,
the drought to Elijah.

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And if you read James chapter 5,
as well, talks about Elijah’s

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drought, again, I think you
might see some Echoes of it.

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You can see though, you can read
James 5 Echoes that this was

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Elijah’s idea.
Now I want to be really careful

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here with this line.
Elijah didn’t realize that his

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plan didn’t align with God.
Now, God’s plan is so much

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bigger than we can ever
comprehend.

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God has his plan and he makes
his plan work.

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So I don’t know if this is
strange for, you know, a speaker

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to say I’m not actually, I don’t
actually like the way I wrote

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that down.
So Don’t hold me to that line.

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Please.
What I what I mean by that is

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God accommodates, Elijah, but I
think humanly speaking the way

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that we would see this as humans
is we would say this was not the

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direction that God was going to
take things.

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And because Elijah requests, it
God says, okay.

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I’ll do it, I’ll do the drought
and I’m going to use it to

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further my plan, that’s how God
can work, right?

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I mean, he takes even sins, like
David and Bathsheba and he uses

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Solomon to further his plans.
Right?

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So, so we can’t destroy God’s
plan.

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There’s no way that we can
totally mess it up, but I would

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say, I would suggest to you that
here, what’s going on, is that

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when Elijah says, let there be a
drought God, says well, Because

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you’re a righteous person,
that’s how James describes him,

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right?
The prayer of a righteous man

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avails much because you’re a
righteous person.

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I’m gonna listen to The Prayer.
And I’m going to use it though

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to teach you that.
In fact.

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You didn’t quite understand what
I was doing when you prayed this

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00:32:06,800 –> 00:32:11,100
prayer.
Okay, I hope that makes sense.

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And if you want more
clarification from that, you

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know, raise your hand or
something, or, or come, and come

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00:32:17,200 –> 00:32:20,200
and ask me later.
Okay, he didn’t quite realize

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that this didn’t totally fit for
a long time.

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In fact, he thinks and he says,
this drought is what God wants.

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He says it at Carmel First
Kings. 1836, that, this is what

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God wants it, but I want to, I
want to bring us to a really

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interesting point.
This plant did I have scriptural

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backing Deuteronomy 11.
Makes it clear that if Israel

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did not worship, God, God would
bring a drought.

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So was Elijah.
Right in saying, idolatry brings

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a drought.
Yes, I think he definitely was.

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It was totally biblical, you
know?

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And if you said chapter and
verse Elijah, he could be like,

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well, Deuteronomy 11, you know,
it’s there.

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You’re on the 11 13 to 17.
It says it right down here at

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the bottom.
If you turn aside and serve

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other gods and worship them,
then the anger of the Lord will

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be kindled against you.
He will shut up the Heavens so

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that there will be no rain.
So was it biblical?

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Yes it was biblical Deuteronomy,
28 23 to 24 blessings and

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cursings.
One of the cursings is curses is

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if the heaven over your head
shall be bronze or sorry.

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The heavens over your head,
shall be bronze.

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The Earth under, you shall be
Iron, the Lord will make the

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reign of your land powder.
I said that was one of the

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curses, no rain.
So was it biblical?

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Yes it definitely was a Biblical
curse so the problem wasn’t

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necessarily the curse.
I would put to you that the

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drought was in line with God’s
word.

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The people had been warned that
it would happen. but, I think

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this is this is where things get
a little bit dicey. because, I

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think Elijah took the liberty.
Of deciding.

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When the people deserved what
was coming?

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00:34:12,000 –> 00:34:15,000
When the drought should happen.
So was it biblical that a

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drought would happen?
Yes, it was.

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Was it biblical that it would
happen at that time?

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And I would suggest, you know,
it wasn’t Because God does bring

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a drought.
And he brings it during the time

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of Elijah.
But he does, it not Elijah.

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00:34:35,000 –> 00:34:36,900
And I think that’s an
interesting contrast.

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An important thing to notice
that here Elijah almost sets

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himself up as the Arbiter
without having heard it from

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God.
I think this is something that

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00:34:48,100 –> 00:34:52,300
Elijah is going to learn that
God is going to teach him.

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He’s going to say, okay, I’ll
bring the drought, but I am

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going to show you without a
doubt.

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That you’re thinking was wrong.
Now, check it out.

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00:35:04,900 –> 00:35:09,400
Okay, so not quite that’s not
totally how God works and that’s

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what Elijah throughout his life
is going to learn.

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00:35:11,400 –> 00:35:14,700
So God listens to Elijah and
he’s actually going to use this

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00:35:14,700 –> 00:35:18,100
to teach him so for three and a
half years Elijah believes that

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00:35:18,100 –> 00:35:20,600
God had shut up the Heavens
because of the people’s evil and

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00:35:20,600 –> 00:35:23,800
God is going to be taking him
constantly constantly through

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00:35:23,800 –> 00:35:25,400
these.
Three and a half years slowly,

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00:35:25,400 –> 00:35:30,700
whittling away at this
understanding until everything,

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00:35:30,700 –> 00:35:34,000
all comes to a head at Mount,
Carmel, and Mount Sinai.

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Let’s take a look.
Now, I want you to notice this

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1st Kings, 18 1.
Let’s just look for what is it?

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That God tells Elijah to tell
Ahab.

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Okay.
This is really important because

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again, the Sunday School Stories
I think Sunday school is great.

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Obviously, I think so Sunday
school’s a good thing but, you

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00:36:01,100 –> 00:36:03,900
know, sometimes we read the
cutesy little kid books, right?

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And they’re wrong.
Like so this is, this is

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important.
Like notice what Elijah is

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00:36:12,100 –> 00:36:16,300
supposed to say First Kings. 18
one, after many days.

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The word of the Lord came to
Elijah and the third year

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saying, go show yourself to Ahab
and I will send rain on the

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Earth.
Okay, what’s he supposed to say?

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Hey AB, it’s going to rain.
Okay, what does he say?

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Anyone know.
Check it out.

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It’s I think this is just
fascinating.

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So God that supposed to say God
ended, the drought God, not the

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rain.
That’s kind of the opposite.

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00:36:46,100 –> 00:36:49,500
So got God, ended the drought
and he sends Elijah to Ahab.

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Why does he well?
Okay, because Elijah says it’s

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not going to happen by my word.
So I think Elijah God’s allowing

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00:36:56,800 –> 00:37:00,300
Elijah to keep a little bit of
his authority here with Ahab,

641
00:37:00,800 –> 00:37:04,500
okay?
So Elijah goes to Ahab and this

642
00:37:04,500 –> 00:37:06,500
is Ends up saying so you
remember what he’s supposed to

643
00:37:06,500 –> 00:37:10,700
say, very simple.
It is going to rain, right?

644
00:37:11,100 –> 00:37:13,600
Okay.
It’s not hard to say, you know,

645
00:37:13,600 –> 00:37:16,200
it’s an easy sentence.
Okay?

646
00:37:16,200 –> 00:37:20,300
1st Kings, 18, 17 and 18.
This is what he says a Absol.

647
00:37:20,300 –> 00:37:22,000
Elijah, it helps had to him, is
it?

648
00:37:22,000 –> 00:37:24,500
You you troubler of Israel?
He answered.

649
00:37:24,500 –> 00:37:26,800
I’m not troubled Israel, but you
have and your father’s house

650
00:37:26,800 –> 00:37:28,400
because you’ve abandoned the
Commandments of the Lord and

651
00:37:28,400 –> 00:37:30,900
follow the Bales now.
Therefore, send and gather all

652
00:37:30,900 –> 00:37:33,800
Israel to me at Mount Carmel,
and the 450 prophets of Baal and

653
00:37:33,808 –> 00:37:36,000
the four hundred prophets of
Astra who eat at Jezebel’s

654
00:37:36,000 –> 00:37:37,500
table.
Now, do you notice?

655
00:37:37,700 –> 00:37:42,300
What does Elijah not say?
It’s going to rain, right?

656
00:37:42,300 –> 00:37:45,200
The one thing God says, I want
you to say, he doesn’t say

657
00:37:46,300 –> 00:37:49,500
instead, he has this whole like
elaborate plan.

658
00:37:49,700 –> 00:37:51,500
So he goes up, and he says, okay
have.

659
00:37:51,600 –> 00:37:53,700
Yeah, you’re actually the
troubler of Israel, which I

660
00:37:53,700 –> 00:37:55,700
think is weirdly ironic, by the
way.

661
00:37:55,700 –> 00:37:58,700
Because Elijah was the one who
prayed for the trout, right?

662
00:37:58,700 –> 00:38:04,900
So you can kind of see this a
little bit of it, but He goes to

663
00:38:04,900 –> 00:38:08,300
Ahab and he doesn’t say it’s
going to rain instead.

664
00:38:08,300 –> 00:38:11,500
He has this whole thing of meet
me on Mount Carmel, bring the

665
00:38:11,500 –> 00:38:13,500
850 prophets.
Like we’re going to have a

666
00:38:13,500 –> 00:38:17,600
showdown all this God never told
him to do that.

667
00:38:17,800 –> 00:38:20,800
Is that weird?
Like we read about this in

668
00:38:20,800 –> 00:38:23,900
Sunday school or you know we
just we hear these stories and

669
00:38:23,900 –> 00:38:25,300
we think oh yeah you know, Mount
Carmel.

670
00:38:25,300 –> 00:38:27,700
Yeah fire.
You know, everybody learned.

671
00:38:27,700 –> 00:38:29,500
Everybody didn’t learn.
All right.

672
00:38:29,500 –> 00:38:32,600
Like it was basically a major
failure and it didn’t work.

673
00:38:33,500 –> 00:38:36,600
I’m not trying to be mean, I
mean, that’s what it says,

674
00:38:36,600 –> 00:38:38,600
right?
Like Elijah’s like, yeah,

675
00:38:38,600 –> 00:38:40,300
everyone knows.
And then the records.

676
00:38:40,300 –> 00:38:42,600
Like now they didn’t like they
didn’t learn, right?

677
00:38:42,700 –> 00:38:46,700
They didn’t get it.
Now, as we, as we kind of, see

678
00:38:46,800 –> 00:38:49,000
how this wraps up with this
story.

679
00:38:49,100 –> 00:38:52,600
I think it’s fascinating to
notice what he doesn’t say.

680
00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:57,900
So he doesn’t say it’s going to
rain as he supposed to.

681
00:38:58,100 –> 00:39:02,900
So the question then becomes,
Why did he not tell?

682
00:39:02,900 –> 00:39:04,000
He have.
It was going to rain.

683
00:39:05,300 –> 00:39:07,600
And when does he tell Ahab, it’s
going to rain.

684
00:39:10,200 –> 00:39:12,400
Okay.
Why did he not tell you have?

685
00:39:12,400 –> 00:39:15,800
It’s going to rain and when does
he end up telling him?

686
00:39:18,900 –> 00:39:21,700
I would suggest to you, he
doesn’t tell him it’s going to

687
00:39:21,700 –> 00:39:24,700
rain because in Elijah’s mind,
he requested the drought, right?

688
00:39:24,700 –> 00:39:31,400
Because The people were Wicked
people worshipped Idols, so in

689
00:39:31,400 –> 00:39:34,900
his schema, in his way of
thinking, if it’s going to rain,

690
00:39:34,900 –> 00:39:36,500
so God’s just come and said it’s
going to rain.

691
00:39:36,700 –> 00:39:40,300
So that means the people have to
repent.

692
00:39:40,600 –> 00:39:42,800
There’s got to be repentance.
You can’t have rain without

693
00:39:42,800 –> 00:39:45,500
repentance because that’s what
the law says.

694
00:39:45,600 –> 00:39:47,500
What the law says that must be
what happens.

695
00:39:48,000 –> 00:39:51,800
This is how I just seeing it.
So he says, well, what God

696
00:39:51,800 –> 00:39:55,600
really meant, when he says it’s
going to rain, is he really

697
00:39:55,600 –> 00:39:57,500
means that people are going to
turn And then it’s going to

698
00:39:57,500 –> 00:39:59,300
rain.
So he says, okay, let’s have

699
00:39:59,300 –> 00:40:00,700
Mount Carmel.
I’m going to convert the whole

700
00:40:00,700 –> 00:40:04,100
nation, the whole nation,
appears to change, right?

701
00:40:04,100 –> 00:40:07,300
And you know, what Elijah says,
hey have it’s going to rain.

702
00:40:08,800 –> 00:40:11,600
It’s very next thing.
He says, When he kills all the

703
00:40:11,600 –> 00:40:14,300
prophets of Baal, he turns to a
have, any says they have go back

704
00:40:14,300 –> 00:40:15,700
home.
Go as fast as you can because

705
00:40:15,700 –> 00:40:20,100
it’s going to rain.
So in his mind, this whole

706
00:40:20,100 –> 00:40:25,100
drought rain, all of this is all
about, are the people following

707
00:40:25,100 –> 00:40:28,000
God or not?
Now, if you ever wondered why

708
00:40:28,000 –> 00:40:32,700
Elijah, suddenly has this whole
big like his life falls apart at

709
00:40:32,700 –> 00:40:36,600
Mount Sinai, maybe we’re just
kind of familiar again with the

710
00:40:36,600 –> 00:40:39,400
story and we don’t we don’t
totally get what’s going on.

711
00:40:39,400 –> 00:40:42,400
But we say all, you know, he’s
struggled with their, there’s

712
00:40:42,400 –> 00:40:45,400
some emotional struggles going
on, there he was depressed.

713
00:40:46,100 –> 00:40:49,500
And you know, that very well
could be sometimes we blame it

714
00:40:49,500 –> 00:40:54,500
on Jezebel because she says
beginning First Kings 19, The

715
00:40:54,500 –> 00:40:57,600
gods do so to me and more also
if your life is not like the

716
00:40:57,600 –> 00:40:59,700
life of one of those profits by
this time tomorrow.

717
00:41:00,700 –> 00:41:05,300
But I want to ask you this.
When was Elijah’s life, not

718
00:41:05,300 –> 00:41:10,800
under threat from Jezebel.
It always was, right?

719
00:41:10,800 –> 00:41:12,400
This was who she was.
She kills the prophets.

720
00:41:12,400 –> 00:41:14,500
It was like her is this was her
job.

721
00:41:15,100 –> 00:41:18,400
So when she says, I’m going to
kill you, you know, Elijah hears

722
00:41:18,400 –> 00:41:22,600
that message and he’s like, well
yeah, you know, you’ve always

723
00:41:22,600 –> 00:41:25,400
wanted to kill me.
Like what’s what’s new?

724
00:41:25,900 –> 00:41:29,400
It’s and I don’t think it’s just
a recognition of.

725
00:41:29,400 –> 00:41:32,100
Oh, Jezebel’s not going to let
the people convert think it’s

726
00:41:32,100 –> 00:41:35,400
more than that.
This is when you see, Elijah

727
00:41:35,400 –> 00:41:38,500
falling apart on Mount Sinai.
When he says, only, I’m left,

728
00:41:38,600 –> 00:41:41,200
I’m no better than my father’s
kill me, right?

729
00:41:41,300 –> 00:41:44,800
This is more than somebody who’s
just a little sad, right?

730
00:41:45,000 –> 00:41:48,000
This is somebody who feels like
their whole life has fallen

731
00:41:48,000 –> 00:41:49,900
apart and why does he feel that
way?

732
00:41:52,300 –> 00:41:54,400
I think because it suddenly
Dawns on Elijah.

733
00:41:56,500 –> 00:42:00,100
That is whole schema for
understanding life.

734
00:42:01,100 –> 00:42:06,000
For understanding God has just
exploded.

735
00:42:06,800 –> 00:42:13,800
Because in his mind, The drought
came because the people were

736
00:42:13,800 –> 00:42:17,700
Wicked.
If rain comes, the people are

737
00:42:17,700 –> 00:42:21,500
going to have to turn and all of
a sudden he realizes God, just

738
00:42:21,500 –> 00:42:27,200
sent rain.
And the people didn’t change.

739
00:42:29,700 –> 00:42:36,600
And now he questions everything.
What were the whole last three

740
00:42:36,600 –> 00:42:41,800
and a half years all about?
How many people have died from a

741
00:42:41,808 –> 00:42:49,000
drought that I asked for?
But didn’t actually understand

742
00:42:49,000 –> 00:42:55,700
what I was asking for. and
suddenly, Everything comes

743
00:42:55,700 –> 00:43:03,500
Crashing Down.
So I think that what we see as

744
00:43:03,500 –> 00:43:09,400
we look at Elijah on Mount Sinai
is we see an Elijah who is being

745
00:43:09,400 –> 00:43:14,300
taught that lesson That God has
a plan.

746
00:43:15,600 –> 00:43:19,600
God knows what he’s doing and
yes, God does judge, the people,

747
00:43:20,300 –> 00:43:24,700
God will judge the people.
But it’s in his time.

748
00:43:26,100 –> 00:43:30,200
It wasn’t Elijah’s job.
And so for us, I think this is

749
00:43:30,200 –> 00:43:35,500
incredibly powerful because how
often does it happen that we see

750
00:43:35,500 –> 00:43:39,800
somebody doing something they’re
not supposed to do and Is it

751
00:43:39,800 –> 00:43:42,700
biblical that we say?
Oh yeah, they’re not supposed to

752
00:43:42,700 –> 00:43:44,200
do that.
Yeah, it’s totally biblical.

753
00:43:44,200 –> 00:43:46,300
You know, we can look at what
they’re doing and we can say

754
00:43:46,300 –> 00:43:48,900
yes, that’s wrong.
That is not a thing you’re

755
00:43:48,900 –> 00:43:51,800
supposed to do, but then we go
and we condemn them for it.

756
00:43:54,200 –> 00:43:58,500
And that’s when we’ve crossed
the line we can say you know,

757
00:43:58,500 –> 00:44:00,700
brother I don’t think you should
do that because it’s wrong,

758
00:44:01,200 –> 00:44:02,700
right?
And we can take action on it.

759
00:44:02,700 –> 00:44:04,600
This Fellowship is clearly a
Biblical thing.

760
00:44:04,600 –> 00:44:06,500
I want to make that clear, not
saying it’s not.

761
00:44:08,300 –> 00:44:12,500
But when we enter the point of
saying, I’ve now taken over

762
00:44:12,500 –> 00:44:15,900
God’s job as the judge and I can
decide.

763
00:44:16,900 –> 00:44:18,300
Are you righteous?
Are you not righteous?

764
00:44:19,800 –> 00:44:23,100
That’s when we have to realize
the lesson of Elijah and this

765
00:44:23,100 –> 00:44:25,500
is, in fact, I think what we’re
going to see as we go through

766
00:44:25,500 –> 00:44:29,300
this story.
That every one of these stories

767
00:44:29,300 –> 00:44:32,600
in Elijah’s life, Every one of
these events.

768
00:44:33,900 –> 00:44:37,500
Is him being taught.
God’s in control.

769
00:44:38,800 –> 00:44:41,000
You don’t need to one be the one
to bring judgment.

770
00:44:41,800 –> 00:44:44,200
God knows what he’s doing.
So that’s what we’ll see

771
00:44:44,200 –> 00:44:47,500
tomorrow when we look at the
story of Elijah and the Ravens