Jason Hensley – Class 4: The Widow

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This is day four of the 2022.
Idyllwild, Bible School.

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Our first period teacher his
brother.

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Jason Hensley is General subject
is Elijah.

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A man of like passions.
Today’s topic is the Widow

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brother Jason Thank you.
James did any of you notice that

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we started James started like to
the second at 9:15.

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I was that was pretty good.
Wow.

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Well good morning.
I hope you’re feeling good doing

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good.
Today, we’re talking about the

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Widow and what I find really
exciting about this whole series

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is it’s almost like you can see
what God is doing with Elijah

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building on each thing, that
happens to him.

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So now as we talk about the
Widow, we’re going to build on

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On the story of the Ravens.
Now, before that though, I have

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a question, I want to ask you,
and that is this.

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Elijah is presented as a type of
the Lord Jesus in the New

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Testament.
Here’s the question.

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What is it that he does?
That is his first action?

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What is his first action?
That becomes a type of Christ?

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Interesting thing to think about
what is the first thing that

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Elijah does that makes him a
type of Christ.

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Your clothes.
Yeah.

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Yeah.
Reason son.

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It’s not the drought.
Yep.

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It’s not the Raven.
So yes, you know, you can see.

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We’re getting close here with
the raising the Sun.

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So yeah, it’s a little more
General.

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It’s when he sent to the Widow.
Yep.

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So in Luke chapter 4, do you
remember the Lord?

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Jesus goes in the synagogue.
He picks up the scroll of

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Isaiah.
The prophet to read it.

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Isaiah 61, he reads it.
He says this day is this

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fulfilled in your hearing and
people don’t Like it, they get

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mad and he says a prophet is not
without honour, save in his own

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country and then he says there
are a number of widows in

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Israel.
You remember that.

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But Elijah was only sent to the
Widow in Zarephath.

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So he parallels his own work,
and the fact that he was not

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accepted with Elijah.
So it’s interesting that

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Elijah’s doing all this work and
the first place where he gets

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paralleled with the Lord Jesus
is, when he goes to the Widow,

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that’s going to be interesting
to see because in fact, this

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time with the Widow becomes
explosive for Elijah’s, I don’t

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even know the word type of
facility type – but however you

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turn that into an adjective,
whatever you get what I’m

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saying.
It becomes huge for Elijah being

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a type of Christ and we’re going
to see that the Lord Jesus in

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fact patterns what he does
twice, after Elijah’s time with

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the Widow Elijah is going to
pattern what he does after

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Elijah’s time with the Widow and
so is Peter.

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So this becomes really Lee
almost almost like, the, the

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climax here, of where Elijah
starts to realize, this is what

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life is about.
This is what matters and he’s

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not gonna learn it fully, right?
Because he’s a human and that’s

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not, it’s not really how it
works.

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You know, we don’t we don’t just
say, aha.

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I learned the lesson.
Now, I don’t need to be taught

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at anymore, you know?
I just gonna have to learn this

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for the next rest of his life,
right?

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But he’s going to start to learn
it.

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And we see it a little bit when
he comes to the Widow.

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So, in First Kings 17, we’re
seeing Elijah start to soften a

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little bit.
Let me just read this to you

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first Kings 17.
Now, it’s not actually going to

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help that much when I read it to
you because I’m reading out of

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the ESV and the ESV doesn’t have
it.

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So I have to tell you what it
says in the King James and in

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the Hebrew.
So it’s First Kings 17, he comes

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to the Widow, And it says in
verse 10 1st Kings 17 verse 10.

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So he arose and went to
Zarephath when he came to the

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gate of the city Behold a widow.
Is there Gathering sticks?

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He called to her and said, this
is the important part.

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Bring me a little water in a
vessel that I may drink.

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Now, we talked already about how
that showed a little bit of the

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obtuseness of Elijah here.
But if you read it in the King

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James, you might notice there’s
a little bit of softening at

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least.
You will see the words, I pray.

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Where I pray these something
like that, which, you know,

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nobody says that today.
So when you read it in the KJV,

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you might just kind of not even
notice that, it’s there.

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It is there in the Hebrew
though, it’s the word Na and

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Hebrew.
Which if, you know, if you want

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to be polite, when you’re
talking to somebody in Hebrew,

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that’s what you say is a knob
which basically is the

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equivalent of please.
So kind of interesting, you know

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you don’t you don’t normally
picture Elijah.

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This like big Brash like man who
speaks and you know, three words

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sentences, you don’t typically
picture him being the guy that

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comes in and says please but in
fact he does.

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So that’s kind of interesting.
All right, let’s not let’s not

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make a huge deal of that but I
think it’s just intriguing to

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see that he does say that and he
says it again.

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When he asks for when he asked
for the bread Okay, so that’s

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just a little bit of background
as we get started.

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We are talking about the Widow
class for we have seen that God

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is in control.
We have seen that God hears

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prayers, that God gives lessons
that push us beyond our comfort

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zones.
And so today, what we are going

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to be noting Maybe.
Is that God gives lessons with

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fantastic blessings.
So even though they push us

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further than what we feel
comfortable, with the end

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result, Is good.
The end result is better than we

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could imagine.
God decides when it’s time for

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judgment, that will be tomorrow
and then we will finish with

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this idea that God does not
relent.

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Alright, here’s our sections
today we’re going to be talking

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about the Grain and the oil.
So the miracle here with the

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woman and Elijah’s interaction
with the woman, we’re going to

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talk about her son, his change,
then that happens, and this is,

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this is the most exciting part I
think as You see Elijah start to

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change.
Okay, the main lesson God gives

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lessons with fantastic blessings
and the why is why did Elijah

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raise the Widow’s son?
You might think, what do you

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mean, why?
Like he was dead?

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Elijah was living with her, he
wanted to be nice, but I think

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with what we’ve seen with
Elijah, That’s not really how he

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did things.
You can almost picture him

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saying, you know, she says, did
you come to bring my sin to

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remembrance you can almost
picture him saying?

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Yeah, I did the end, right?
So it’s interesting then in that

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light in that context, that
Elijah doesn’t say that.

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And what we’re going to see is
that he, in fact, goes all the

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way in the other direction.
Action.

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He initiates this whole raising
the sun, he decides what to do

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and keep in mind. who would
raise somebody from the dead

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before this No one.
Nobody had ever done that.

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This is the first time.
All right, so Elijah’s time with

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the Widow reflects Christ’s
ministry as we just said that’s

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the first time he becomes a type
of Christ.

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What I think is fascinating
about that is that as we go

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through this it’s probably as
Elijah is living this.

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It was probably one of the more
frustrating moments of his life.

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Elijah wanted to do big things,
he wanted to send, down fire

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from heaven, but You think about
this, he wasn’t in Israel,

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right?
That’s not.

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He didn’t want to be in sidon on
top of that.

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He’s in total poverty, living in
a place that has been struck by

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famine and drought and he can
only work with two people.

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And that’s it.
So again, I think it’s just

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fascinating to see things from
our perspective, versus God’s

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perspective.
This is where God wanted him,

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this is what God wanted him
doing. so, let’s spend some time

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thinking about the Widow.
If you open up to Second Kings

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17.
Sorry.

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First first Kings 17.
And verse 9.

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I want you to notice what is
unique about this Widow?

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There’s an inference.
I think that we can make from

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1st Kings 17 verse 9.
See, if you hear it, there’s

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something that we are told about
the Widow.

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First king, 17:9 listen for it.
Arise go to Zarephath which

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belongs to sidon and dwell
there.

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Behold.
I have commanded a widow there

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to feed you.
What do you infer about the

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Widow based on that verse she’s
God-fearing right?

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God there’s not really much of a
way around that God says, I

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commanded her to take care of
you.

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So that that shows us there’s
something going on with this

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woman.
That can you, can you picture

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Elijah hearing this right here?
He is this man who Wants to

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condemn sidon because that’s
where Baal worship came from.

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And God says, oh, and by the
way, I have a relationship with

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a woman there and she’s willing
to take care of you.

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I’ve talked to her, I’ve
commanded her to do this and

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she’s going to.
So, just keep that in mind

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because I think, as we, as we
read on, we can actually see

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some more things about this
Widow.

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Again, just listen for, what can
you tell about the Widow based

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on these verses?
Verses 10 to 12 says so he arose

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and went to Zarephath when he
came to the gate of the city

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Behold.
A widow.

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Is there Gathering sticks first
question What’s weird about

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that?
The Gate of the city to gather

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sticks and I feel like that’s a
little strange like usually

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sticks.
Don’t, you know, plants aren’t

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growing where a bunch of stuff
is built.

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So that seems a little bit odd.
She’s there Gathering sticks at

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the gate.
It’s almost like she is waiting

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for someone.
Right, interesting.

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He called to her and said, bring
me a little water in a vessel

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that I may drink and as she was
going to bring it, he called her

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and said bring me a morsel of
bread in your hand.

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What do you notice about that?
She actually listens.

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Now, we’d said earlier on Monday
that or on Tuesday, that if

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somebody had come to you during
a drought and said, hey, bring

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me some water, you’d be like,
yeah.

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Right, you know, I’m not gonna
do that and yet this woman does

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why?
I think because God told her to

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God said there’s going to be a
prophet, he’s going to come to

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you and ask for this.
I want you to be ready and I

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want you to bring it to him.
And so she’s there, waiting at

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the gate.
Waiting for Elijah and she’s

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willing to go get this.
Now there’s one other big

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indication.
Who this woman is.

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Do you see it?
She says to him.

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As the Lord your God lives.
Now, wait a minute, how did she

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know that he was an Israelite?
You could just say, oh well,

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everybody knew Elijah.
Yeah.

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Maybe like there are instances
where people say, oh, did did

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that guy?
You met?

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You know, have a big beard,
right?

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Aha.
It Was Elijah, right?

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But that was an Israel.
Okay, this was like random lady

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who probably never left
Zarephath.

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She’s not going to be like oh
that guy.

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I bet he’s Elijah.
She probably had no idea who

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Elijah was.
And so she sees and realizes

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this is what I was told.
Okay, so she says Yahweh your

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God Lives.
Now the other piece, there’s one

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more thing and that is that
she’s responsive to Elijah’s

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obtuseness.
So consider this Elijah said to

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her do not fear go and do as you
have said, but first make me a

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little cake of it and bring it
to me and afterward make

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something for yourself and your
son for thus, says the Lord the

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god of Israel, the jar of flour
shall not be spent.

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Now, I want you to think about
that phrase.

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The Lord, the god of Israel,
where is Elijah.

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Zarephath in sidon right now,
what did people back then

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believe about the power of their
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They were limited by geography,
right?

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So Elijah walks in and he’s
like, oh, don’t worry.

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The god of Israel says, You’ll
have food now.

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Random Pagan person is going to
be like hey guess what?

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I’m not in Israel, right?
Your God can’t do anything here.

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So you know that’s that’s one
thing on the other hand here, he

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is saying the god of Israel says
this is going to happen and you

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can just imagine the response of
oh that that God.

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Isn’t he?
The reason I’m in this problem

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in the first place, you know,
the God who brought the drought?

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Right?
She doesn’t say any of those

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things.
Things, which is interesting.

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Now just just to bring this out
a little bit as far as this

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idea.
The other times that this phrase

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the god of Israel is used with
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Let me show you a few of those
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X is five verses 1 and 2.
This is where Pharaoh says, who

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cares about the job?
The god of Israel.

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Right?
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This is the song of Deborah and
talks about Gentiles,

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recognizing the power of a god
of Israel.

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Ruth 212 is when Boaz says to
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herself to the god of Israel.
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11.
Again, this is Gentiles

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acknowledging the power of the
god of Israel.

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So you can see a few of the
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is use.
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when it’s used about this woman,
it’s her recognizing God’s power

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that it is not.
Limited.

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Two.
Geography.

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Which is how most people
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At the time here’s the
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The time of Ahab says the
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said to him, their gods are gods
of the hills and so they were

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stronger than we but let us
fight against them in the plane

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and surely we shall be stronger
than they, write.

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This woman doesn’t think that
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Now here’s another interesting
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So the woman is receptive to the
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So I think we can see.
This woman is open.

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To learning about God, beginning
to understand about him.

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Now, Elijah by contrast, we said
he’s starting to change a little

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bit, but I’ll tell you this,
there’s one other time when he

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uses the phrase the god of
Israel.

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And it is when he says. 1st
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As Yahweh, the god of Israel
lives there will be, neither do

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nor rain these years but by my
word so you can see him still

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clinging to this drought idea.
So that was the only other time.

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He used that phrase first king
17 one so he still holding onto

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this drought idea so you know
he’s changing but just like us

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he takes some time.
Okay, so the woman is prepared

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to accept the message that God
works in her land.

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And Elijah now is beginning to
change.

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All right.
This is what I think we’re going

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to see throughout this story
with the Widow Elijah starting

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to soften, but it’s not just
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It’s about realizing that people
are people here.

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He is walking to sidon seeing
all this death and destruction.

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That’s happen because of him.
and I think what God is going to

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teach him with the Widow, Is
that even though This Woman’s

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Gentile, he cannot treat her
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Indifference with which he had
treated Israel and he’s going to

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have to realize that God is
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And that God values
relationship.

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All right, so God has prepared
this woman.

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She hit rock bottom right, she’s
about to die.

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God tells her that she’s going
to have a vision if she takes

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care of the Prophet.
She goes to the city gate, to

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wait, the prophet comes.
And so what you can see, in

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fact, is that God throughout the
story is working with both

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Elijah, and with the woman, it’s
kind of an interesting thing

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about scripture, you know, a lot
of times, we’re following one

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specific character and we don’t
realize the breadth of what God

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is doing.
And so here we have God working

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with this woman and with Elijah.
Okay, So here we go.

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Here’s the miracle.
The woman.

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Begins to make the bread.
And I don’t know, you know, I’m

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not sure how this happens.
She takes some of the flower and

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maybe the flower grows a little
more in the jar.

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Something I had she pours the
oil out and the oil grows again.

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She is able to use as much as he
needs.

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So, what’s fascinating about?
This is it’s basically a daily

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miracle.
And if you thought about that

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before, but this woman every day
of her life, through till the

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three and a half years, ends
Witnesses, a miracle, Now, I

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think that’s fascinating because
remember, God is working with

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her.
So whenever we see stories like

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this or situations like this, we
have to ask ourselves.

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Why did God do it that way?
so, I want you to just think

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about God is going to prepare
food for this woman.

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He’s going to sustain her.
What else could he have done

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instead?
Of making her oil and flour.

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Increase, what could he have
done instead, any thoughts?

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Maybe maybe that questions a
little obscure here.

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I’ll give you some I’ll Prime
you.

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Yeah, Janae Write a spring of
water could have just grown up

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so that she could have provided
our own food.

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Yep.
Growing our own food.

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Then he could have done Mana,
right?

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I mean none of these are beyond
what God is able to do.

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He could have just had a cow up
here in her room, right?

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And then, you know, oh boy.
Look, we have food.

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Like there are a lot of
different things God could have

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done, but it’s interesting that
he decides this way, and I tend

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to think, That it’s because God
wants there to be this daily

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miracle and he slowly increasing
her faith.

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Right?
Here’s here’s the contrast that

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she has to go and make food for
Elijah first before the Miracle

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Works.
Take the last of what you have.

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Give it to the prophet and then
we’ll see what happens.

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This becomes a daily thing.
Now it’s also just intriguing to

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think about this when the
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She says to Elijah.
Have you come to bring my sin to

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remember?
She blames him.

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We’ll get to that a little more.
but, I don’t think we’ve often

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thought of this.
How do you think your health

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would be if for two years all
you ate was flour and oil.

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I mean I’m diabetic I wouldn’t
survive right.

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Like but but if if that’s all
you gave your kid, you can

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almost imagine her being like,
look, you know, I appreciate

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that.
You kept us alive longer but

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This is kind of your fault and
in the bigger sense of the thing

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hadn’t, he caused the drought.
So there’s another question,

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right?
Maybe maybe God performed the

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miracle that way in order to
lead to the child’s death

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knowing that Elijah would
resurrect the child its

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possibility.
Here’s another thought.

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Here’s what Elijah says to her,
do not fear.

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Go and do as you have said, but
first make me a little cake.

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Now let’s see if you remember
yesterday.

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We talked about how Elijah
wanted to be like who Yeah,

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Moses Moses was the big person
that Elijah wanted to be like he

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wasn’t a big person but you get
it.

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He really wanted to be like him
now.

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Who was he actually like
scripturally?

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Israel.
That’s right.

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Now again, it’s interesting in
this miracle that God says, I’ll

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give you oral and bread oil and
flour and Elijah then asks for a

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little cake because it’s almost
like Elijah is recognizing, wait

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a minute.
I’m not like Moses.

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I am like Israel.
Consider this this word cake

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doesn’t show up very often,
although interestingly it is the

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modern Hebrew word for cake as
well.

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It’s it’s a really awesome word.
You’re ready.

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Now.
You’re all gonna learn how to

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say, cake and Hebrew.
Here we go.

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Goes like this.
Ooh, gah Yeah, so you got so

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that is cake, and he Ruth Agha.
I actually tried it in Israel.

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Apparently, my accident wasn’t
very good, but I said a new year

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old say, yoga like I want a
cake.

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And anyway, the guy laughed at
me but I, then he wouldn’t give

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it to me, either.
He like he got it.

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He got it, ready?
You know?

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And Israel You’re supposed to be
a little more like forthright.

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So maybe that was my, maybe that
was my issue.

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I was I wasn’t being American
enough.

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So you know I had to go and say,
hey, that’s my Take give it to

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me and he was like, okay, you
know, you’ve shown that you’re a

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man.
So so that that kind of thing.

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So anyway, that’s that’s cake in
Hebrew, God.

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Okay, so it only shows up just a
few times in the Old Testament.

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Ooh, gah it occurs, three times
before this.

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Let me show you where Genesis 18
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You have the story of Abraham
and Sarah preparing food for the

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angels that show up at their
house and And they make cakes.

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But consider this Exodus 12:39
the Israelites make unleavened

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cakes in The Exodus numbers
1811, this is the story of the

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manna.
The people make cakes.

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So you’ll notice that in two of
the instances out of the three,

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where this word yoga is used
before the time of Elijah, it’s

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a reference to the Israelites.
That’s just kind of interesting,

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you know, Was Elijah thinking
realizing, you know, I’ve been a

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little more like the Israelites
actually than Moses, maybe.

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But what is intriguing about
this reference is that in

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numbers 1811?
Let’s just read it.

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The people went about and
gathered it, that is the Manna

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and ground it in.
And Mills or beat it in mortars

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and boiled it in pots and made
cakes of it.

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And the taste of it was like the
taste of cakes baked with oil.

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What do you notice about this?
Passage that similar to the

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Elijah story or yeah.
You got oil, right?

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You have God’s miraculous
provision.

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So, this is a very similar sort
of situation.

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So it’s just intriguing than
that, Elijah uses the word

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cakes.
Keep in mind as well.

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The people had said they were
starving.

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Have you brought us out in the
wilderness to die?

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And it was eaten until the end
of that Wilderness time period,

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just like this woman who would
have eaten it.

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So the three and a half years
ends.

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So just interesting that Elijah
specifically uses that word

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cakes, which connects it back to
the Mana.

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So maybe he was starting to
realize starting to recognize,

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you know, maybe I’m not the
superhero.

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I wanted to be Perhaps, okay.
Well, what we do know is that he

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begins to change and he is
learning, and this is all really

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demonstrated with the Widow’s
son.

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Now, I would put to you that
when you’re out there living in

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the wilderness with birds.
For however, long and you can’t

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talk to anybody that doesn’t
change your heart, a whole lot.

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In fact, it would probably just
kind of make you a little crazy.

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But what God then does, you
know, he’s teaching Elijah this

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lesson that it’s not about law
fact.

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You’re going to have to break
the law in order to survive with

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the Ravens.
But now, he’s going to put

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Elijah in the scenario with the
Widow and her son.

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Where he has to have a
relationship.

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There’s absolutely no way to
avoid it, right?

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He’s living in their house,
unless you just said, I’m never

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going to talk to you ever,
right?

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And just, you know, walked
around like, oh, I can’t see you

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or something like that, but,
but, you know, that that’s not

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going to happen.
So, God forces this relationship

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to exist, and it’s interesting
that now he’s going to bring it

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00:26:17,800 –> 00:26:22,800
to this climax.
To say Elijah, have you learned?

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00:26:24,300 –> 00:26:26,900
Have you learned the importance
of relationship?

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00:26:27,900 –> 00:26:30,600
1st Kings. 17, 17 18.
After this, the son of the

436
00:26:30,600 –> 00:26:33,000
woman, the Mistress of the house
became ill.

437
00:26:33,700 –> 00:26:36,400
His illness was so severe that
there was no breath left in him

438
00:26:36,600 –> 00:26:38,900
and she said to Elijah, what
have you against me?

439
00:26:38,900 –> 00:26:43,000
Oh man, of God, you have come to
me to bring my sin to

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remembrance and to cause the
death of my son.

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00:26:46,200 –> 00:26:51,000
Now, that’s dramatic already.
There’s actually a number of

442
00:26:51,000 –> 00:26:55,600
things in this story that adds
to the drama that I’m not sure

443
00:26:55,600 –> 00:26:59,700
we see.
Can you see the woman trying to

444
00:26:59,708 –> 00:27:04,800
make sense of what’s Happening?
God had miraculously provided

445
00:27:04,900 –> 00:27:09,100
for them.
Why did this happen hadn’t?

446
00:27:09,100 –> 00:27:13,700
He saved their life.
And wasn’t he saving their life

447
00:27:14,000 –> 00:27:16,600
every day through the drought
that this just didn’t make

448
00:27:16,600 –> 00:27:21,100
sense.
So you can see her trying to

449
00:27:21,100 –> 00:27:23,500
wrestle with, what is it that’s
going on?

450
00:27:25,400 –> 00:27:26,800
There’s an interesting word here
though.

451
00:27:28,000 –> 00:27:32,500
That I think very much.
Emphasizes.

452
00:27:33,600 –> 00:27:39,300
The drama of this event.
In site where their mistress.

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00:27:41,300 –> 00:27:45,800
The reason that this word
underscores, what’s happening

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00:27:46,500 –> 00:27:48,100
said, it’s only use three other
times.

455
00:27:48,100 –> 00:27:51,600
In all of scripture, this word
mistress, let me show you where,

456
00:27:53,000 –> 00:27:57,500
First, Samuel 28 verse 7.
It says then Saul said to his

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servants seek out for me a woman
who is a medium that I may go to

458
00:28:02,100 –> 00:28:04,800
her and inquire of her.
His servants said to him behold

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00:28:04,800 –> 00:28:07,400
there’s a medium at end or you
want to guess which word

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00:28:07,400 –> 00:28:11,500
mistress is.
It’s the word medium.

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00:28:13,000 –> 00:28:17,600
Now shows up one other time in
the prophecy of Nahum, Nahum 3

462
00:28:17,600 –> 00:28:22,800
verse 4 in the NIV reads, all
because of the wanton lust of a

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00:28:22,808 –> 00:28:25,500
prostitute.
Now, this is about Nineveh, the

464
00:28:25,500 –> 00:28:30,100
God’s prophecy against Nineveh
alluring, the Mistress of

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00:28:30,100 –> 00:28:34,700
sorceries who enslaved Nations
by her prostitution and people’s

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00:28:34,700 –> 00:28:37,900
by her witchcraft.
This is God’s prophecy against

467
00:28:37,900 –> 00:28:39,600
Assyria.
This is how he describes a

468
00:28:39,600 –> 00:28:42,100
Syria.
He says you were the Mistress of

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00:28:42,100 –> 00:28:47,100
sorcery. so, do you notice then
what this word mistress here,

470
00:28:48,100 –> 00:28:54,900
what it’s connected to This is
all about pagan Worship.

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00:28:55,600 –> 00:28:57,900
In fact, yeah, Peter you have an
idea.

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00:29:00,700 –> 00:29:02,900
Yes.
Now, pretend you didn’t hear

473
00:29:02,900 –> 00:29:04,700
that because I’m about to say
that in 30 seconds.

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00:29:06,100 –> 00:29:08,100
Huh?
All right.

475
00:29:08,200 –> 00:29:12,600
Yeah, that’s right.
So this word as Peter, very

476
00:29:12,600 –> 00:29:16,600
correctly, told us.
It’s Bala, it’s the feminine

477
00:29:16,600 –> 00:29:21,200
form of Baal.
So there it is up there.

478
00:29:21,500 –> 00:29:27,700
But Allah, it’s a feminine form
of bail. now, that is amazingly

479
00:29:27,700 –> 00:29:34,800
telling because Think about this
from Elijah’s perspective,

480
00:29:35,600 –> 00:29:41,600
Elijah was immensely angry at
Israel over, their worship of

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00:29:41,600 –> 00:29:44,600
Baal, and God tells him.
And this is how we normally

482
00:29:44,600 –> 00:29:47,900
understand that.
God tells him go up to the land

483
00:29:47,900 –> 00:29:51,300
where bail is worshipped, right?
But do you ever think about the

484
00:29:51,300 –> 00:29:54,400
fact that he doesn’t just go to
the land where bail is

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00:29:54,400 –> 00:29:59,400
worshipped, but God actually
brings him to the house of a

486
00:29:59,408 –> 00:30:03,500
woman.
Who is called a bell?

487
00:30:06,600 –> 00:30:10,700
This is a woman who was actively
involved in Pagan worship.

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00:30:11,700 –> 00:30:17,500
And she doesn’t change.
For at least a while.

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00:30:19,100 –> 00:30:23,000
Because he has to go and live
there and live there and live

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00:30:23,000 –> 00:30:28,000
there.
And she’s still that way, until

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00:30:28,000 –> 00:30:33,300
the point that her son dies.
So, here he is living in this

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00:30:33,800 –> 00:30:39,700
Pagan house.
With this woman now can you just

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00:30:39,700 –> 00:30:43,300
picture, Elijah?
He prayed for Israel’s

494
00:30:43,300 –> 00:30:45,600
destruction.
What do you think?

495
00:30:45,800 –> 00:30:47,400
Elijah?
Would have been praying for

496
00:30:47,400 –> 00:30:50,900
about this woman?
And can you can you just imagine

497
00:30:50,900 –> 00:30:53,800
that like like a lie?
Just typical thoughts, would

498
00:30:53,800 –> 00:30:57,200
have been something along the
lines of bring disaster on this

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00:30:57,200 –> 00:30:59,700
woman because this is what she
deserves.

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00:31:00,300 –> 00:31:04,000
And yet what’s amazing is God
says to him, right?

501
00:31:04,000 –> 00:31:06,300
That’s what Elijah probably
would have prayed before, God.

502
00:31:06,500 –> 00:31:07,700
Have been teaching him these
things.

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00:31:09,600 –> 00:31:11,600
And God says, to him, I want you
to go to this woman and I want

504
00:31:11,600 –> 00:31:14,600
you to tell her I’m going to
provide for her.

505
00:31:15,900 –> 00:31:18,800
Can you picture him wrestling
with that, what?

506
00:31:20,400 –> 00:31:23,700
This woman was going to die.
That’s what she deserved.

507
00:31:24,000 –> 00:31:24,900
She worshipped.
Idols.

508
00:31:26,600 –> 00:31:29,200
And God says, go to the woman
and tell her, I’m going to

509
00:31:29,200 –> 00:31:35,500
perform a miracle for her today
and tomorrow and the next day

510
00:31:36,400 –> 00:31:41,100
I’m going to keep performing
miracles for this by Allah.

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00:31:43,300 –> 00:31:45,100
What kind of Crisis?
Do you think that would have put

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00:31:45,100 –> 00:31:47,000
Elijah in?
You know, how does this make any

513
00:31:47,000 –> 00:31:49,800
sense, right?
What what is it that God’s

514
00:31:49,800 –> 00:31:51,600
doing?
What does this mean?

515
00:31:54,100 –> 00:31:59,200
But you know what’s interesting?
is that when she talks to him,

516
00:32:00,500 –> 00:32:04,200
You can tell that she has been
changed.

517
00:32:05,100 –> 00:32:08,000
By the fact that she was with
him, it’s not interesting.

518
00:32:10,900 –> 00:32:13,800
This is what I think is
beautiful about the way that God

519
00:32:13,800 –> 00:32:20,100
works.
God sees us where we can be, he

520
00:32:20,100 –> 00:32:25,400
sees what we can become and
that’s what he works with, what

521
00:32:25,400 –> 00:32:27,600
he calls, those things that are
not as though they are.

522
00:32:28,900 –> 00:32:32,200
He can recognize, I know you’re
going to get to hear and I’m

523
00:32:32,208 –> 00:32:34,800
going to be patient as I bring
you there.

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00:32:36,700 –> 00:32:39,900
And so he looks at this woman,
who is entrenched in Pagan

525
00:32:39,900 –> 00:32:42,400
worship and he says Elijah, I
want you to go be kind to her.

526
00:32:42,700 –> 00:32:48,800
I want you to take care of her
because Slowly every day, she’s

527
00:32:48,800 –> 00:32:51,500
going to start to change.
So, look at the change.

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00:32:51,600 –> 00:32:54,100
She comes to Elijah.
And she says, have you come to

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00:32:54,100 –> 00:32:56,700
call my sin to repentance like
is it?

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00:32:58,100 –> 00:33:00,000
What you recognize that?
I’m a pagan worship person.

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00:33:00,000 –> 00:33:02,900
Now you’re gonna hit me with
this right?

532
00:33:02,900 –> 00:33:05,200
So she comes and she blames him
first which you know, on one

533
00:33:05,200 –> 00:33:08,100
hand wasn’t true.
But again on another sense they

534
00:33:08,100 –> 00:33:11,900
had eaten flour and oil for days
and Elijah had caused the

535
00:33:11,900 –> 00:33:16,200
drought but then there’s a few
more things in her words.

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00:33:16,600 –> 00:33:19,200
Have you come to call my sin to
remembrance?

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00:33:20,000 –> 00:33:21,500
But there’s this acknowledgement
that.

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00:33:21,700 –> 00:33:27,000
Oh, actually I I have sinned.
Now, let me ask you this next

539
00:33:27,000 –> 00:33:31,300
question.
She clearly demonstrates Faith.

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00:33:31,300 –> 00:33:35,900
However, because why else do you
think she would come to Elijah?

541
00:33:38,600 –> 00:33:44,000
Yeah, she knows right.
She knows he can do something

542
00:33:44,000 –> 00:33:45,600
about this.
Now, that’s crazy.

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00:33:45,600 –> 00:33:50,000
Because, as we had said, nobody
had ever done this before,

544
00:33:50,500 –> 00:33:53,500
right?
And she says, Elijah.

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00:33:53,500 –> 00:33:55,800
I know you can do something
about it now.

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00:33:56,100 –> 00:33:59,200
Next question, this woman shows
up in the New Testament.

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00:33:59,700 –> 00:34:03,800
Anyone know where We know this
was faithful.

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00:34:04,900 –> 00:34:08,900
And here’s why.
Hebrews 11 35.

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00:34:10,600 –> 00:34:13,600
Women received back there dead
by Resurrection.

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00:34:14,699 –> 00:34:16,400
What?
Women in the Old Testament

551
00:34:16,400 –> 00:34:18,100
received their dead by
Resurrection.

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00:34:18,600 –> 00:34:26,800
It was this woman and shunammite
when Elijah raises her, son to

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00:34:26,800 –> 00:34:31,600
women there there Hebrews 11 in
the faith chapter so, this

554
00:34:31,600 –> 00:34:36,000
woman, Demonstrated her faith
said, do you see that

555
00:34:36,000 –> 00:34:39,199
progression here?
She first gets mad at Elijah and

556
00:34:39,199 –> 00:34:44,500
says, what are you doing?
And then she says, but I do have

557
00:34:44,500 –> 00:34:48,199
sinned.
And then she says, I know you

558
00:34:48,199 –> 00:34:52,000
can do something about this.
Interesting.

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00:34:55,400 –> 00:35:00,400
So what we’re going to see.
Is that Elijah has changed.

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00:35:02,900 –> 00:35:07,300
Not only has the woman changed
but he has to so he says give me

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00:35:07,300 –> 00:35:09,900
your son which you know I mean
he could have done things a

562
00:35:09,908 –> 00:35:13,100
little better.
Give me your son, he took him

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00:35:13,100 –> 00:35:15,900
from her arms, carried him, up
to the upper chamber where he

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00:35:15,900 –> 00:35:17,500
lodged and laid him on his own
bed.

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00:35:17,500 –> 00:35:21,100
But what I want you to notice
is, do you see the new Elijah

566
00:35:21,100 –> 00:35:26,700
there?
He carries him up into the upper

567
00:35:26,700 –> 00:35:30,200
chamber where he lodged and laid
him on his own bed.

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00:35:32,100 –> 00:35:38,500
This is like, a father.
So let’s see.

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00:35:38,500 –> 00:35:45,300
Elijah’s change.
This is the only time in

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00:35:45,300 –> 00:35:49,200
scripture where Elijah
repeatedly follows Elijah’s

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00:35:49,200 –> 00:35:51,400
example.
If I got a chart for you you

572
00:35:51,400 –> 00:35:52,600
might want to take a picture of
this.

573
00:35:55,000 –> 00:35:59,800
Elijah miraculously multiplies,
the Widow’s oil first king 1714

574
00:36:00,000 –> 00:36:01,200
it.
Like she does the same thing.

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00:36:01,300 –> 00:36:07,000
Second Kings, 4 verse 2.
And then, throughout the rest of

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00:36:07,000 –> 00:36:10,000
the record.
These stories parallel state of

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00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:15,300
woman’s home, the woman’s only
son dies, they’re blamed for the

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00:36:15,300 –> 00:36:19,400
death He stretches forth himself
on the child.

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00:36:21,000 –> 00:36:23,200
He then tries to revive the
child three times.

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00:36:25,600 –> 00:36:31,500
And it is ah that was that was
not right.

581
00:36:31,500 –> 00:36:32,200
Okay.
All right.

582
00:36:32,200 –> 00:36:36,100
Let’s now I alright let me push
this another you know, 25 times

583
00:36:36,100 –> 00:36:43,400
and will Okay, ha ha ha.
All right, all right.

584
00:36:43,400 –> 00:36:48,200
You ready there?
And it’s, these are the only two

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00:36:48,200 –> 00:36:49,800
resurrections in the Old
Testament.

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00:36:50,600 –> 00:36:58,000
So what you can see is Elijah
recognizes this was the moment

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00:36:58,000 –> 00:37:02,300
in Elijah’s life.
This is, you know, I want to

588
00:37:02,300 –> 00:37:07,600
follow in the spirit of Elijah.
I want to have a double portion

589
00:37:07,600 –> 00:37:10,200
of that spirit.
This is the event that I’m going

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00:37:10,200 –> 00:37:14,300
to follow this is the way that I
want to be like Elijah.

591
00:37:16,200 –> 00:37:19,400
So we see that with Elijah.
Now, on top of that, we also see

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00:37:19,400 –> 00:37:23,400
this with the Lord Jesus.
See, if you hear Echoes of the

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00:37:23,400 –> 00:37:26,600
story.
Soon afterward this is Luke 7

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00:37:26,600 –> 00:37:30,300
verses 11 to 16 soon afterward.
He went to a town called nain

595
00:37:30,700 –> 00:37:33,500
and his disciples and a great
crowd went with him as he drew

596
00:37:33,500 –> 00:37:35,200
near to the gate of the Town,
Behold.

597
00:37:35,200 –> 00:37:37,100
A man who had died was being
carried out.

598
00:37:37,100 –> 00:37:41,200
The only son of his mother and
she was a widow and a

599
00:37:41,200 –> 00:37:44,400
considerable crowd from the town
was with her when the Lord saw

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00:37:44,400 –> 00:37:45,700
her.
He had compassion on her and

601
00:37:45,700 –> 00:37:50,300
said to her do not weep Then he
came up and touched the Bier and

602
00:37:50,300 –> 00:37:53,200
the bear Stood Still.
He said, young, man, I say to

603
00:37:53,200 –> 00:37:57,200
you arise, the dead man sat up
and began to speak and Jesus

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00:37:57,200 –> 00:38:00,200
gave him to his mother, fear
seized them all.

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00:38:00,200 –> 00:38:04,000
And they glorified God saying a
great prophet has arisen Among

606
00:38:04,000 –> 00:38:08,700
Us and God has visited his
people to consider the parallels

607
00:38:08,700 –> 00:38:12,800
here between Elijah and Christ.
In fact, it’s not just

608
00:38:13,000 –> 00:38:16,600
similarities and what happens,
but it’s actually quotations in

609
00:38:16,600 –> 00:38:19,700
the Greek.
So you have this here, Kaya

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00:38:19,700 –> 00:38:21,700
goneto.
This is the words and it

611
00:38:21,700 –> 00:38:23,300
happened.
Both stories start with that

612
00:38:23,300 –> 00:38:24,800
phrase in the Greek and it
happened.

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00:38:25,000 –> 00:38:28,800
Obviously, the Kings record
would be in the Septuagint, not

614
00:38:28,800 –> 00:38:34,000
in the Hebrew.
It’s the only time that a

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00:38:34,100 –> 00:38:38,900
Widow’s son is raised in the Old
Testament in the New Testament.

616
00:38:40,100 –> 00:38:43,400
It’s the first resurrection in
the old and the New Testament,

617
00:38:44,000 –> 00:38:48,600
the sun is an only child They
are moved with compassion and

618
00:38:48,600 –> 00:38:52,500
pity.
That’s a new one for Elijah move

619
00:38:52,500 –> 00:38:56,300
with compassion and pity.
They connect with the dead.

620
00:38:56,300 –> 00:38:59,200
Elijah laying on top of him?
Lord, Jesus touching the beer.

621
00:39:02,400 –> 00:39:06,600
That phrase and delivered him to
his mother, his word for word,

622
00:39:06,600 –> 00:39:11,700
the same in the Greek.
First, king 1723, Luke 715 in

623
00:39:11,700 –> 00:39:15,900
other words, Luke, when writing,
this decides, to quote, the

624
00:39:15,900 –> 00:39:20,800
story of Elijah.
And then recognized as a profit

625
00:39:20,800 –> 00:39:22,200
for the work.
There you go.

626
00:39:22,200 –> 00:39:29,100
That’s the end.
There’s Elijah and Christ.

627
00:39:29,100 –> 00:39:32,100
Now, what’s fascinating about
this is, in fact, the Lord Jesus

628
00:39:32,100 –> 00:39:36,400
does it twice.
He this this record is so

629
00:39:36,400 –> 00:39:40,200
emblematic of who Elijah is that
the Lord follows it two times.

630
00:39:40,400 –> 00:39:45,200
So he does it here in nein and
then he does it again with the

631
00:39:45,200 –> 00:39:47,100
syrophoenician woman and her
daughter.

632
00:39:47,500 –> 00:39:50,900
So see if you here.
Elijah again, Matthew 15 21 to

633
00:39:50,908 –> 00:39:53,600
28, Jesus went away from there
and withdrew to the district of

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00:39:53,600 –> 00:39:56,800
Tyre and sidon and behold a
Canaanite woman from that

635
00:39:56,800 –> 00:39:58,200
region.
Came out and was crying.

636
00:39:58,400 –> 00:40:02,300
Have mercy on me O Lord son of
David my daughter is severely

637
00:40:02,300 –> 00:40:05,000
oppressed by a demon.
But he did not answer her a

638
00:40:05,008 –> 00:40:07,700
word.
Yeah, here.

639
00:40:07,700 –> 00:40:12,600
Elijah a little bit.
He did not answer her a word.

640
00:40:13,600 –> 00:40:16,300
His disciples came and begged
him saying, send her away for

641
00:40:16,300 –> 00:40:18,600
she is crying out after us.
He answered.

642
00:40:18,600 –> 00:40:21,100
I was sent only to the lost
sheep of the House of Israel,

643
00:40:21,300 –> 00:40:24,500
but she came and knelt before
him saying Lord help me.

644
00:40:25,200 –> 00:40:27,800
And he answered it is not right
to take the children’s bread and

645
00:40:27,800 –> 00:40:29,600
throw it to the dogs.
She said yes.

646
00:40:29,600 –> 00:40:32,400
Lord, yet even the dogs.
Eat the crumbs that fall from

647
00:40:32,400 –> 00:40:35,400
their master’s table.
Jesus answered her, a woman.

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Great is your faith be done for
you.

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Is you desire and her daughter
was healed, instantly.

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Yeah.
So, here’s the parallels in this

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00:40:45,500 –> 00:40:51,300
record.
They’re both in sidon only time.

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00:40:51,300 –> 00:40:55,400
The Lord Jesus goes up to sidon.
So, same location.

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00:40:55,900 –> 00:40:58,500
The woman is an idolater she
called a Canaanite.

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00:41:01,100 –> 00:41:04,200
She asks on behalf of an only
child, maybe, you know, we don’t

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00:41:04,200 –> 00:41:06,300
really know if it’s This Woman’s
only child, but we’re not told

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00:41:06,300 –> 00:41:10,300
about any others.
Supposed to provide food for

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00:41:10,300 –> 00:41:13,400
Israel.
First And it’s noted as an

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00:41:13,400 –> 00:41:17,100
example of faith.
Okay, that’s the end.

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00:41:19,100 –> 00:41:20,500
Now I’ll give you one other two
on.

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00:41:22,400 –> 00:41:23,900
There’s not, there’s not going
to be slides for this.

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00:41:23,900 –> 00:41:26,700
But, you know, it’s always fun
to have some homework Acts

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00:41:26,700 –> 00:41:30,600
chapter 10 with Peter.
You remember sheet comes down

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00:41:30,600 –> 00:41:32,100
full of unclean animals.
Lord.

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00:41:32,100 –> 00:41:33,600
I’ve never eaten anything
unclean.

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00:41:33,800 –> 00:41:40,400
Remind you of somebody.
Then he’s told go up to

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00:41:40,400 –> 00:41:44,000
caesarea, you know, where that
happens to me, it’s in the area

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00:41:44,000 –> 00:41:47,200
of sidon, and I want you to meet
with Cornelius.

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00:41:47,200 –> 00:41:51,700
Who is a gentile?
And Peter says the Lord has told

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00:41:51,700 –> 00:41:55,300
me.
Not to call any man unclean.

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00:41:57,200 –> 00:42:03,600
Think about it.
So this instance becomes the

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00:42:03,600 –> 00:42:07,200
defining moment of the life of
Elijah, which is amazing.

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00:42:07,200 –> 00:42:10,600
Because if somebody were to have
asked you before this week, what

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00:42:10,600 –> 00:42:12,800
was the most important?
Most amazing thing Elijah ever

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00:42:12,800 –> 00:42:13,500
did.
What you think?

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00:42:13,500 –> 00:42:15,700
You’d say?
Probably Mount Carmel.

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00:42:15,700 –> 00:42:19,800
Right?
But that’s not what we’re told

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00:42:19,800 –> 00:42:23,600
is the moment.
The moment.

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00:42:24,900 –> 00:42:30,600
Is the day when Elijah cares
about this woman?

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00:42:32,500 –> 00:42:41,200
When he has compassion on her.
So God is teaching Elijah.

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00:42:42,500 –> 00:42:46,600
About the power of relationship.
Versus the power of Miracles.

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00:42:47,800 –> 00:42:49,400
It’s not about doing something
amazing.

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00:42:50,200 –> 00:42:51,600
It’s not about changing the
world.

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00:42:53,200 –> 00:42:57,800
It’s about people.
That’s what God cares about

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00:42:57,900 –> 00:42:59,300
because God can change the
world.

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00:42:59,700 –> 00:43:02,500
He could just do it right now if
he wants, but instead, what he’s

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00:43:02,500 –> 00:43:05,800
decided to do is he says, I want
you to give of yourself, I want

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00:43:05,800 –> 00:43:08,200
you to feel compassion to other
people.

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00:43:10,100 –> 00:43:18,300
So Elijah had to have everything
turned around. so, here’s the

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00:43:18,300 –> 00:43:22,300
moment.
Now Elijah could have condemned

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00:43:22,300 –> 00:43:25,200
the woman.
She was still an idolator think

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00:43:25,200 –> 00:43:28,900
about what she had experienced.
God spoke to her.

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00:43:30,000 –> 00:43:33,000
God said a prophet is going to
come and she was faithful enough

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00:43:33,000 –> 00:43:37,000
to believe that.
But God had been providing for

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00:43:37,000 –> 00:43:40,300
her every day and she still
worship the idols.

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00:43:40,400 –> 00:43:47,900
She was still a bottle.
Ah, but what changes her is not

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00:43:47,900 –> 00:43:49,700
the miracle.
Is that interesting?

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00:43:51,600 –> 00:43:54,300
Because she’d been seeing those
Miracles all the time and I

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00:43:54,300 –> 00:43:56,800
would suggest you, it wasn’t the
miracle that her son was raised.

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00:44:00,000 –> 00:44:04,100
It was now her someone’s raised,
not by some random stranger.

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00:44:06,200 –> 00:44:10,800
But it was that her son was
raised by someone that she knew.

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00:44:11,800 –> 00:44:14,500
And she knew what he stood for.
Do you remember what the woman

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00:44:14,500 –> 00:44:18,200
says after the miracle?
She doesn’t say thank you.

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00:44:18,600 –> 00:44:20,600
I’m so glad to have my family
back together.

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00:44:20,600 –> 00:44:23,700
I mean clearly she would have
felt that but the words that we

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00:44:23,707 –> 00:44:25,100
have recorded you know what they
are.

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00:44:26,600 –> 00:44:32,500
Now, I know.
That you are a man of God.

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00:44:35,100 –> 00:44:39,000
What?
You don’t think she knew that

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00:44:39,600 –> 00:44:43,900
when he said?
The oil is not going to run out.

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00:44:45,000 –> 00:44:50,900
And it never did.
But it’s at this point that the

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00:44:50,908 –> 00:44:54,400
relationship comes together
because Elijah is going to do

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00:44:54,400 –> 00:44:57,400
something, he’s never done for
anyone.

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00:44:59,000 –> 00:45:00,600
I’m not talking about raising
her son.

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00:45:03,600 –> 00:45:09,100
Here’s what he does.
He said to her, give me your

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00:45:09,100 –> 00:45:11,700
son.
He took him from her arms and

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00:45:11,700 –> 00:45:13,800
carried him up into the upper
chamber where he lodged and laid

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00:45:13,800 –> 00:45:17,600
him on his own bed.
He cried to the Lord.

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00:45:19,100 –> 00:45:19,400
O.
Lord.

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00:45:19,400 –> 00:45:23,600
My God, have you brought
Calamity even upon the Widow

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00:45:23,600 –> 00:45:26,200
with who my sojourn by killing
her son?

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00:45:27,200 –> 00:45:30,400
Then he stretched himself upon
the child three times and cried

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00:45:30,400 –> 00:45:33,300
to the Lord O.
Lord, my God, let this child’s

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00:45:33,300 –> 00:45:35,000
life.
Come into him again now.

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00:45:38,000 –> 00:45:39,900
Do you think that this was all
totally silent?

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00:45:40,800 –> 00:45:43,400
Or do you think there was a
woman waiting?

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00:45:44,900 –> 00:45:48,000
She could hear this, right?
I mean, this isn’t Elijah just

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00:45:48,000 –> 00:45:52,500
saying Oh, Lord.
Please fix things.

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00:45:52,800 –> 00:45:56,600
It says he cried out there was a
woman you know, often another

728
00:45:56,600 –> 00:46:01,500
room hearing O Lord my God why
did this happen?

729
00:46:02,100 –> 00:46:04,200
You know.
And and she’s realizing this

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00:46:04,400 –> 00:46:06,300
this guy actually cares about
us.

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00:46:08,300 –> 00:46:10,200
Look at what he’s doing, listen
to what he’s saying.

732
00:46:12,800 –> 00:46:16,700
Now.
The boys in his bed.

733
00:46:17,800 –> 00:46:19,200
And he stretches himself out on
him.

734
00:46:21,600 –> 00:46:28,200
Why do you think he did that?
And I think that shows us Elijah

735
00:46:28,200 –> 00:46:31,900
has changed.
He didn’t need to, you know,

736
00:46:32,100 –> 00:46:35,600
again like Miracles Jesus was
able to heal people, like not

737
00:46:35,600 –> 00:46:38,400
even being in the same general
area as them.

738
00:46:38,600 –> 00:46:40,900
Right.
There was no need to lay on top

739
00:46:40,900 –> 00:46:44,400
of the boy and in fact, I think
Elijah.

740
00:46:45,200 –> 00:46:49,100
Well, it’s 1003, I got real
excited.

741
00:46:49,100 –> 00:46:53,300
Okay, here we go.
We’ll end it with this man.

742
00:46:53,300 –> 00:46:57,000
I always keep track of time.
Wow, I must have really been

743
00:46:57,100 –> 00:46:58,200
excited.
Okay.

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00:47:01,700 –> 00:47:03,600
If you touched a dead body, what
happened to you?

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00:47:04,900 –> 00:47:07,300
You’re unclean.
Elijah puts a dead body in his

746
00:47:07,300 –> 00:47:10,800
bed and then lays on top of it,
right?

747
00:47:11,100 –> 00:47:14,600
So not only is this bed unclean.
He is unclean, he didn’t need to

748
00:47:14,607 –> 00:47:17,500
do that.
But he did.

749
00:47:19,000 –> 00:47:23,000
And I think he did it.
Because that’s how much he

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00:47:23,000 –> 00:47:27,600
cared.
He was so desperate to do

751
00:47:27,600 –> 00:47:32,600
anything to change the situation
that he says, I don’t care if I

752
00:47:32,607 –> 00:47:35,000
get unclean.
I don’t care if I break the law.

753
00:47:35,200 –> 00:47:39,200
I love this boy.
Has he been living there?

754
00:47:39,500 –> 00:47:43,800
It was like a son and so he
prays bring his life back and

755
00:47:43,800 –> 00:47:45,500
Elijah’s not even knowing what
he’s doing.

756
00:47:45,600 –> 00:47:49,400
Just lays on the boy thinking,
maybe this will do something.

757
00:47:51,600 –> 00:47:59,600
and that woman, Realizes this.
This is what the god of Israel.

758
00:48:00,600 –> 00:48:07,500
Is all about the God of Israel.
Is about relationship.

759
00:48:08,400 –> 00:48:10,600
It doesn’t mean that he’s always
going to bring life.

760
00:48:10,900 –> 00:48:15,300
Doesn’t mean that he’s always
going to save, but it means is

761
00:48:15,300 –> 00:48:23,500
that we sure are going to try.
So, Elijah begins to change.

762
00:48:24,900 –> 00:48:28,400
And that change becomes the
defining moment of his life.

763
00:48:30,100 –> 00:48:34,400
It’s not caramel, it’s not the
fire from heaven, it’s the time

764
00:48:34,400 –> 00:48:39,800
that he looked at a boy.
And said, I love that boy, and

765
00:48:39,800 –> 00:48:43,100
I’m gonna do everything I can.
To save him.

766
00:48:44,300 –> 00:48:47,100
That is the spirit of Elijah.