Jason Hensley – Class 5: Carmel and Judgement

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This is day.
Five of the 2022.

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Idlewild Bible School.
Our first period teacher is

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brother.
Jason Hensley.

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

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topic is caramel and judgment
the Jason.

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I was I was ready for that.
All right, if you didn’t do it,

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I was going to remind you.
So Okay, well, good morning

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again.
I hope you are doing well.

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It’s good to see you here on day
5, and I am really looking

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forward to this class together
because for me, this was where

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my big Paradigm Shift kind of
happened with Elijah because

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Looking at the raising of the
Widow’s son as we did yesterday.

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And seeing that scripture shows
that essentially as the spirit

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of Elijah, this is the
emblematic event in Elijah’s

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life, it made me wonder.
Well then what’s happening with

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caramel?
You know that I thought this was

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the big deal.
I thought this was the time that

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Elijah showed everybody who he
was the man of fire and he

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showed he proved Yahweh is God,
right?

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So what is actually happening
here and that’s what we’re going

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to spend some time on.
You got a little bit of a hint

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caramel and judgment.
And I think what we’re going to

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see as we consider Elijah at the
time of caramel is that he’s

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very much like us by that.
I mean, That when he learns a

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lesson, it’s a few steps
forward.

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And a few steps backward.
Few steps forward few steps

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backward, right?
And hopefully, there is a

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constant progression although
it’s a lot slower.

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I think than we’d often like it
to be and I think that’s what

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we’re going to see with Elijah
that God at Carmel, is going to

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give him an opportunity.
To apply what he learned with

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the Widow.
And I’d like to suggest to you,

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that Elijah actually misses it.
He doesn’t realize, that’s

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what’s happening, and he doesn’t
apply the lesson.

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So, let’s, let’s take a look and
see what you think.

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Again, remember at any time, if
you disagree with me, that’s

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totally fine.
You can stand up and yell, I

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disagree with you.
You can tell me why if you don’t

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have a reason, why then that’s
just not a good idea to do so,

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but I’m happy.
I’m happy for you to, you know,

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tell me why you think it’s
wrong.

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That we can, we can chat about
it.

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All right, so what we got here
is number 5 caramel and

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judgment.
The main lesson is that God

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decides when it is time for
judgment.

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And I think that is what is
really being emphasized in this

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record.
It wasn’t wrong for judgment to

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come.
And this is what Elijah

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consistently had to learn.
Wasn’t wrong for judgment to

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come.
It wasn’t wrong for the prophets

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of Baal to be destroyed.
But God is the one who supposed

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to decide when that happens not
us.

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So that’s what we’re going to
see today.

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God is the one who decides when
it is time for judgment.

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So we’re going to look at the
preparation for this.

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And by the preparation, I mean
the meeting with Obadiah that’s

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sort of a funny little interlude
here between the raising of the

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Widow’s son and Mount Carmel.
So we’re gonna look at that.

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The preparation, the visit with
Obadiah, then we’re going to

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talk about the story or the
events that happen as we as

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Elijah sets up, Mount Carmel.
And then I want to present to

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you some of the problems with
this story.

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Again we don’t we don’t often
think about those but they’re

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very much there and I think
because we’re so familiar with

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it.
We don’t say wait a minute.

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That’s really weird that he says
that or that’s really not

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actually, okay, that he does
that So we’re going to see

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various events that happen here
that I think might spin this a

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little bit differently.
So God decides when it’s time

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for judgment and the question
is, why did God answer Elijah’s

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prayer now?
Give you a hint, you can

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cogitate on this one.
I don’t think God actually did.

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Think about that.
All right.

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Now he will just to make that
clear.

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God always answers prayers.
But I don’t think he answered it

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on caramel, but he will in the
future.

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Okay.
So Ally just time with the

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Widow, had made a big difference
for him and it was preparing him

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for what was coming next.
So that was the idea.

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God was building on the lesson
of the Ravens is building on the

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lessons of the Widow.
And now he has this big event in

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front of a lot of people where
there’s going to be immense

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pressure to go back to how he
was before.

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And is he going to generalize
those lessons just to bring out

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some proof here?
That what was happening with the

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Widow was really a preparation
or a foundation.

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For what was about to happen on
Mount Carmel.

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Take a look at this.
The Widow is a widow.

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Obviously, Israel is described
as a widow or Jerusalem is

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Described as a widow.
Now I recognize that the time

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period is not quite the same.
Okay?

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So I acknowledge that.
So if that doesn’t convince you

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and you feel like that’s a
stretch cross that one off, it’s

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fine.
Baal worship her.

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We know that the Widow is that
right?

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We talked about that yesterday.
She was a bottle.

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Ah Israel was Baal worshippers
at that time.

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It was a particular form of Baal
worship, so I don’t know if he’s

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recognized before when you’re
reading, there’s Baal peor,

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there’s various different Bales
and this is the cydonia on bail

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that we’re having an issue with
the same thing with that woman,

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right?
She lives in sidon and same

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thing with Israel, it’s the
cydonia on bail of, they’re

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having an issue with and Yet the
woman hasn’t Age of Yahweh,

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right?
Yahweh came and spoke to her.

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She, she is willing to
acknowledge when when Elijah

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says as Yahweh, the god of
Israel lives.

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Which is he has this knowledge
of Yahweh and so does Israel.

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But again, it’s not totally
complete, right?

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There’s some holes there.
It’s interesting that Elijah

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says as Yahweh lives to the
Widow And he also says Yahweh

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lives to Israel First Kings 17.
One, he references.

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The god of Israel, to the Widow
only other time.

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He does that, is in reference to
Israel and 17:1.

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And Elijah is seen as
responsible for her suffering.

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Right?
That’s what she says.

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Did you come to cause to bring
my sin to remembrance?

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So she sees Elijah is
responsible for her suffering.

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And well, Israel sees Elijah is
Will you remember a have, is it?

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You owe troubler of Israel?
And I mean really, I like to

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kind of is responsible because
he’s the one who said it’s not

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going to rain except by my word
so you can see these parallels

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here.
So that not even we’re not even

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talking about caramel here,
we’re just talking Israel that

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this Widow this Gentile Widow.
In fact, has a number of

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parallels to Israel so that God
is Not Just he’s not only

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teaching Elijah to care about
people in general.

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General.
But it’s a I want you to

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generalize this to recognize
that I care about Israel.

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These people that you have
spurned that you’re saying they

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deserve this.
Drought all of this.

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You have to recognize the way
you feel about this Widow right

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now.
The way you cried out for her

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son.
That’s how I feel about Israel.

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Okay, so we have this parallels.
Now let’s take a look at this.

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It’s not just Widow and Israel
that are parallel.

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But now what I want you to see
is a parallel between the Widow

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and Mount Carmel.
What’s fascinating about this?

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God knows the end from the
beginning, right?

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So I think it’s amazing that he
structures what Elijah goes

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through with the Widow knowing
what Elijah is going to create

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on caramel.
So that astonishing make, this

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is how this is, how God works.
He knows what Elijah is going to

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try and set up on Mount Carmel.
So notice remember, God did not

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command Mount Carmel.
What was the only thing God told

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Elijah to say to Ahab, it’s
going to rain, right?

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It was always all he was told to
say God did not command caramel

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so, God knows though that car
was going to happen, so he sets

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up the record of the Widow to
prepare, Elijah for what’s going

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to happen on caramel so Widow
blames.

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Elijah that is where at Carmel
Elijah is blamed by Ahab.

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The troubler of Israel.
The word severe here is used,

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the Widow is in a severe trial
first, king 1717 same word, the

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trial or the drought is severe
at Carmel.

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First Kings 18 to The Widow
needs to choose is she going to

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ba ba la or she going to serve
Yahweh?

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She’s got to choose first.
King 1724, Israel needs to

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choose.
Remember what Elijah says how

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long halt ye between two
opinions right depending on what

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translation you read, That’s the
King James.

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So Israel needs to choose
between the two.

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Now, in addition to that you
just have very similar language.

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The Widow is gathering wood.
That’s your word eights in

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Hebrew first king, 1710 and
Elijah.

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The prophet to Baylor Gathering
wood First Kings 1823.

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The Widow is preparing a meal
for Elijah first in 1713 and

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Elijah commands.
The people to prepare the altars

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First Kings 1823.
Same word.

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There is a jar used which if
you’re looking at it in your

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English translations, it’s not
going to say jar your Hebrew

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word cod, there are 35 37.
It shows up in First Kings 17,

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12, 14, and 16 and it is the
quote Cruse of oil.

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It’s that vessel that she puts
the oil in and when Elijah says,

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pour out water on the altar,
they bring these cruises or

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these barrels as with the King
James says, these barrels full

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of watered, same word.
So what you can see is that the

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record is specifically
paralleling these two events.

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I think in order to allow us to
recognize That everything Elijah

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had learned with the Widow.
When he stepped on Mount Carmel

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he was supposed to realize.
Wait, this is the same thing

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here?
I am think about this here.

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I am laughing at these.
People making fun of them.

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Getting ready to kill them.
What you have done that with the

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Widow?
What do you done that?

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When the Widow’s son died?
And I think that was the lesson,

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that’s what Elijah was supposed
to realize that everything up to

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this point was teaching him
about the power of relationship

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and how much God cared about
people and wanting to turn

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people, wanting to see people
change.

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And God was giving Elijah the
opportunity to connect.

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But Elijah goes back to how he
was before.

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And that’s what we do.
This is this is how we act.

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We learn the lesson we get in a
new situation and we forget to

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apply the lesson we go back.
But we get there eventually and

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so does Elijah to okay.
So First Kings 18, one God,

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eventually comes to Elijah the
word of God comes to him.

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And says it’s time for you to go
tell Ahab.

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It’s going to rain and remember,
Elijah thinking that therefore

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means what People are going to
converse, so that’s what he’s

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thinking, the people are going
to convert now.

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What’s fascinating is, as he
goes to Ahab to deliver this

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message, he randomly, randomly
runs into Obadiah.

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And I think when we have things
like this, this funny little

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interlude.
You look at it and you’re kind

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of like why why is that there?
You know, I thought we were

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doing the story of Elijah.
I thought we were talking about.

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Mount Carmel.
What’s the point of this?

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I think we need to ask.
Why did God want this little

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interaction in scripture?
Well, let’s just see what we

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notice as we read through it,
particularly in relation to the

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lesson Elijah’s, just learned
the lesson of relationship, so

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let’s see.
So Elijah went to show himself

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to Ahab.
Now, the famine was severe in

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Samaria.
A have called Obadiah who was

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over the household now, Obadiah
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And when Jezebel cut off the
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took a hundred prophets and hid
them by 50s in a cave and fed

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them with bread and water.
They have said to Obadiah, go

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through the land, to all the
Springs of water into all the

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valleys, perhaps we may find
grass and save the horses and

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mules alive, and not lose some
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So they divided the land between
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They have went in One Direction
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another Direction by himself
now, did you notice how Obadiah

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is described That’s a pretty
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And I think any of us would feel
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decides to describe us.
So this is the description now I

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don’t know if you noticed this.
I’m really into charts in this

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class so I don’t know if you I
don’t know if you noticed this

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but The way Obadiah is described
as actually the same way, the

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Widow is described.
So we’re specifically told that

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the famine was severe.
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We’re told it’s during the
famine, the Widow is searching

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for sticks.
She’s going and Gathering

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sticks.
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The Widow is about to die and
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Do you remember why?
Because Elijah shows up and says

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go tell a have that I’m here.
And over Daya says well great

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that’s the end of my life now
because you know I’m going to

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tell him that you’re here and
then you’re not going to be here

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and then you know I’m in trouble
they actually say the same thing

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or Elijah says the same thing to
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Sorry Elijah says the same thing
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lives, there’s this hesitation
there and Elijah’s trying to

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convince them by saying as
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okay.
She follows Elijah’s directions.

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So does Obadiah, even though
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wanted to and then provides
bread for profit The Profit,

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that’s what the Widow does.
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bread for profits.
So, once again, you can see the

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record is structured in such a
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So, as to say, what are you
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Elijah now’s your chance.
So I think that’s why the story

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of Obadiah is here because not
only are we being prepped for

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Mount Carmel.
But what you can see is God is

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giving him like, Stair steps.
You know, it’s like okay.

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I know you’ve had this rough
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So I’ll give you one faithful
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How will you treat him?
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So it’s this consistent.
What are you going to do in this

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situation?
What do you want to do in this

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situation?
Can you generalize these

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lessons?
Okay, now, just to prompt him

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even further.
I think look at obadiah’s

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greeting.
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behold, Elijah met him.
Obadiah recognized him and fell

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on his face and said, is it you
my lord?

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Elijah.
Because of my Lord, now quick

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question, important trivia.
There’s one other person who has

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the relationship with Elijah to
call him my Lord.

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Anyone know who it is?
Elijah.

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Yes it is Elijah.
So Elijah is repeatedly referred

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to as Elijah’s Lord.
So it’s interesting then that

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that’s what Obadiah calls him.
My Lord Elijah.

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So I think this is indicating
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A very big respect and perhaps
even some kind of Prior

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relationship or something along
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So Obadiah says, is that you my
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And what as Elijah Say he
answered him, it’s I Go tell

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your lord behold Elijah’s here.
Now that is true, right?

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Obadiah does work in a hats
household and in fact, in verse

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10, he does refer to Ahab as his
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So, what you can see is again,
how obadiah’s is representative

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here of Israel?
He’s got this faithfulness to

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God.
And yet, he’s still living and

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working.
Within the house of Ahab, and

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trying to trying to figure out,
how does he make this work?

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But Elijah won’t have it.
He can’t see past it, but you

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remember yesterday.
He was able to see past the by

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Allah, the fact that this woman
was a pagan and yet he can’t see

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past it with Obadiah.
And so this is what we are

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really going to be seeing today
that when we Embrace this

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attitude of judgment, it’s
fascinating because when we

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start to judge, will say things
like.

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Well, you have to be consistent.
Consistency is so important.

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You can’t ever let up, you know,
this is how we start to think

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when we judge and yet, you know
what we do.

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Oh, well, you know, I’ll I’ll
break the rules this time

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because I have a good reason,
right?

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And you know, I won’t be
consistent this time because of

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this and this and this we give
ourselves Mercy when we judge,

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but we never give it to anyone
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I mean, look at this.
Elijah is totally hammering,

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Obadiah.
And yet I couldn’t somebody have

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said, Elijah haven’t you just
been like living in sidon for a

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year like, you know, that’s kind
of weird, right?

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Like and you’ve been eating from
In birds, like you got some

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problems going on here, too.
But Elijah just, he won’t even

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have it.
He won’t say no.

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In his mind, you’re either here
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So, you can’t see past it.
So the record then makes the

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parallel with the Widow
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Right?
Obadiah says, do you understand

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that I am about to die?
I’m about to die because of you,

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right?
And this is the same thing that

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we do.
It said, So this was like God,

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you know, giving big flashing
lights, like are you getting

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this Elijah?
Like I’m giving you the

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opportunity here.
Are you going to recognize

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what’s going on?
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So after Obadiah, explains his
faithfulness, Elijah, totally

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ignores it.
Obadiah says, you know, maybe

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you didn’t hear Elijah, you
know, because it was secret,

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maybe you didn’t hear about it.
But there were a hundred

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prophets.
Jezebel was going to kill them.

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I saved them.
Do you think it’s easy?

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You know, to like steal bread
out of the palace for 100

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people?
It’s a drought.

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I got water for all of them.
I am not.

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The only word I can think of is
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Sorry, I am not this obsequious
servant of Ahab, okay.

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Anyway it’s sorry I would have
used something else but nothing

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came so so, yeah.
You know, that’s what he’s

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trying to say.
Like, I’m not, I’m not this guy

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that you keep portraying me as
and yet, do you remember

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Elijah’s answer?
Elijah just says yeah,

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obadiah’s.
Like look I’ve done all these

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good things.
I’m actually in faithful and I

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just like, yeah, go tell.
Your Lord that I’m here.

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In other words.
Yeah, I don’t care if you die.

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Right over the I just said I’m
gonna die.

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If I do this and Elijah’s like
yeah, well go get it over with

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It’s this is, this is rough,
right?

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Can you imagine Obadiah walking
back and being like, wow, I

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didn’t think he was like that,
you know, it’s it’s pretty bad.

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And in fact, maybe Obadiah was
there at Mount Carmel and he

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heard this first Kings 1822.
I don’t think we usually realize

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that Elijah said First Kings 18
22 because he says it twice

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later at Mount Sinai.
When he says, Everyone has

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forsaken you and I only I am
left.

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He says that on caramel and
who’s probably standing there,

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Obadiah who’s standing there and
thinking, no, actually I hit 100

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of them and me, right?
And Elijah’s like I’m the only

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one.
So you can just imagine how

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Obadiah feels right?
It’s this is like, you know,

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total hero deflation, okay,
never mind that Elijah himself

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was inconsistent and that’s the
problem, right?

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We get all bent on consistency
and I’m not saying consistencies

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bad, right?
It’s good.

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It’s a good thing to aim for,
but as humans, we just aren’t

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consistent.
And I think that’s what we have

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to recognize.
We can’t we can’t judge people.

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We can’t judge their character
for being inconsistent because

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that’s what we are to.
And so this is Elijah the guy

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who ate food from unclean birds
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Who’s out here.
Criticizing Obadiah.

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But scripture says that Obadiah
was righteous.

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Obadiah feared, Yahweh greatly.
And in fact, it’s almost like

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like there’s this emphasis,
because if you read it in the

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Hebrew, right?
You get to read obadiah’s name

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and his name means servant of
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So it’s like scripture is
saying, you know, we don’t want

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you to miss this.
Here.

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This guy is God’s servant, he’s
a good guy.

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His name means servant of
Yahweh, but this is what this

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is, what living by law does to
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It’s all about judgment.
Matthew 7, verses 1 to 5 the

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parable of the mountain.
The beam I don’t know if you’ve

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ever wondered what that Parable,
why Jesus says it’s a beam in

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your eye, right, you know,
couldn’t it have been couldn’t

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have said a beam in your face
or, you know, a beam through

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your hand or something like
that, but it specifically in

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your eye.
Meaning, you can’t see.

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Hey, when you start to judge,
you can’t see it all.

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And in fact the whole thing’s
kind of comical, I’ll just say

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this real quick.
You’re weird there in the Greek

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is do cos and it means if you
look it up in the Septuagint,

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it’s often used in reference to
the beam, used to build a roof.

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Think we often think of it, like
a two-by-four just they didn’t

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have them.
So you know that’s an important

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thing to think about But it was
a roof beam, right?

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So you like look up here and you
look at the beams that are used

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in, holding up a roof.
Those are really big, right?

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This is the kind of thing that
you wouldn’t be walking around.

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Like, oh, you know, I got this
thing sticking out of my eye,

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right?
You’d be down here like this and

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you can’t lift up your head at.
All right.

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So the whole thing in the
parable is Jesus is saying this

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is totally ridiculous, because
there’s absolutely no way you

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can see it’s impossible.
Not only do you have a big tree

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coming out of your head.
But like your head is stuck on

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the ground.
So you’re like this hey I saw

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you have something in your eye,
come here, I’ll just get it out

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right.
Like it doesn’t even, it’s

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totally outrageous.
And I don’t think we recognize

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that that is what Jesus is
bringing out in this Parable.

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That this is what judging this
is, what living by law does to

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us.
It makes us completely

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ridiculous.
We look at other people and we

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say, oh, don’t worry, I figured
out who you are based on your

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actions.
But I don’t want God to do that

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for me.
All right.

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So Elijah is going to be all
about judgment here.

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So gathers, Israel to Mount
Carmel, just sort of interesting

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because there’s there’s your
word in the Hebrew.

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It’s Carmel.
So basically caramel and it’s

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typically connected to
fruitfulness, it’s translated in

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Leviticus 214 translated as
fresh ears.

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That would be like you know,
plants not years, Isaiah 3215.

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A fruitful field is how its
translated At their Micah 7:14,

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it’s translated as Garden land,
which is interesting because by

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contrast, you’ll notice here in
Amos 1 verse 2.

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You have the top of caramel
withering.

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When judgment comes.
So you have this, this idea of

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this beautiful verdant Hill this
mountain and yet when judgment

427
00:25:51,100 –> 00:25:55,700
is brought to it, it Withers up
which I think is going to be

428
00:25:55,700 –> 00:25:58,800
again a picture of what’s about
to happen.

429
00:26:00,000 –> 00:26:01,800
Here’s Elijah taking the people
to Carmel.

430
00:26:01,900 –> 00:26:04,500
He thinks he’s going to fix
everything and instead.

431
00:26:05,700 –> 00:26:07,200
It’s actually just makes the
problem worse.

432
00:26:09,700 –> 00:26:12,600
So here’s what happens.
And again this is, It’s just

433
00:26:12,600 –> 00:26:15,100
fascinating to see the way that
he approaches this.

434
00:26:15,100 –> 00:26:16,200
Here’s this black-and-white
manner.

435
00:26:16,200 –> 00:26:19,300
Again, he’s doing all this off.
The cuff, right?

436
00:26:19,500 –> 00:26:21,800
There was no the word of Yahweh
came to him and told him to do

437
00:26:21,800 –> 00:26:24,000
this.
He was only told to say Make It

438
00:26:24,000 –> 00:26:26,800
Rain, so here he comes.
He says all right.

439
00:26:26,800 –> 00:26:30,900
Here’s what we’re going to do.
If Yahweh is God follow him, but

440
00:26:30,900 –> 00:26:35,100
if Baal then follow him.
Now, you will notice that one of

441
00:26:35,100 –> 00:26:38,300
the fascinating things with
Elijah is that most people don’t

442
00:26:38,300 –> 00:26:42,600
respond to him.
The people did not answer him a

443
00:26:42,608 –> 00:26:45,500
word.
So he says this, here’s what

444
00:26:45,500 –> 00:26:48,200
we’re going to do and the people
just stare at him, right?

445
00:26:49,100 –> 00:26:51,400
It’s the kind of thing where if
you were watching this, like, in

446
00:26:51,400 –> 00:26:54,800
a movie, you know, you’re going
to hear crickets and Elijah’s

447
00:26:54,800 –> 00:26:58,100
like.
Okay then, you know, let’s let’s

448
00:26:58,100 –> 00:27:00,500
go along and do this.
So, it’s important.

449
00:27:00,500 –> 00:27:04,500
I think to recognize that again,
because this sentence here, the

450
00:27:04,500 –> 00:27:08,400
people did not answer.
I think is indicative of the

451
00:27:08,400 –> 00:27:10,800
fact that this is what is
constantly happening.

452
00:27:10,800 –> 00:27:12,600
Oh, but He has like, hey,
Elijah.

453
00:27:12,600 –> 00:27:14,900
I saved people and Elijah says.
Yeah.

454
00:27:14,900 –> 00:27:17,300
Why don’t you go tell Ahab so
that he can kill you?

455
00:27:17,400 –> 00:27:19,900
And then, you know, we can all
be fine with this and obadiah’s

456
00:27:19,900 –> 00:27:23,400
just like Right.
And he leaves.

457
00:27:23,700 –> 00:27:25,300
He doesn’t say anything in
response.

458
00:27:25,800 –> 00:27:28,400
Right Ahab?
Elijah meets with him.

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00:27:28,400 –> 00:27:31,900
And says, let’s meet on the top
of caramel.

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00:27:32,000 –> 00:27:35,100
And Ahab says, oh, you’re the
trouble of Israel and Elijah’s

461
00:27:35,100 –> 00:27:38,400
like no, you are.
And it has like, okay, whatever.

462
00:27:39,400 –> 00:27:41,200
Right, like he doesn’t, he
doesn’t say anything back.

463
00:27:41,200 –> 00:27:44,900
The people don’t say anything in
verse 24, fine, verse 21.

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00:27:45,200 –> 00:27:47,500
Finally in verse 24.
Elijah says, here’s what we’re

465
00:27:47,500 –> 00:27:49,200
going to do.
Here’s the plan, what do you

466
00:27:49,200 –> 00:27:50,900
think?
And the people are like, yeah,

467
00:27:50,900 –> 00:27:53,400
sounds good.
That’s all they say.

468
00:27:53,900 –> 00:27:57,500
And I think that this is so
important for us to recognize

469
00:27:57,700 –> 00:28:00,700
that when we have this attitude,
this is what happens, you know,

470
00:28:00,700 –> 00:28:05,500
when we when we recognize that,
hey, I’ve just condemn this

471
00:28:05,500 –> 00:28:07,000
person and, you know, I’m
waiting for them to say

472
00:28:07,000 –> 00:28:09,600
something back and they just
they don’t, or they just walk

473
00:28:09,600 –> 00:28:12,500
away.
We got to realize, oh, wait a

474
00:28:12,508 –> 00:28:18,100
minute.
Maybe this is what Elijah was

475
00:28:18,100 –> 00:28:20,500
doing, right?
This this because eventually

476
00:28:20,500 –> 00:28:22,400
this is how people start to
respond and say.

477
00:28:22,400 –> 00:28:24,800
Oh yeah, I know that guy, you
know this is what he’s going to

478
00:28:24,800 –> 00:28:25,800
do is going to tell me I did
this.

479
00:28:25,808 –> 00:28:28,100
That was wrong.
Like etc, etc.

480
00:28:28,100 –> 00:28:30,400
And that’s it.
I what am I going to say back?

481
00:28:30,400 –> 00:28:32,700
Right.
I think this is what ends up

482
00:28:32,700 –> 00:28:34,400
happening.
The people did not answer a

483
00:28:34,400 –> 00:28:37,900
word, so we get Elijah standing
up once again and saying I’m the

484
00:28:37,900 –> 00:28:42,000
only one left right?
Which essentially negates

485
00:28:42,000 –> 00:28:43,400
everything.
All the other prophets were

486
00:28:43,400 –> 00:28:44,600
doing for three and a half.
Years.

487
00:28:45,300 –> 00:28:48,900
It’s kind of not so good.
It also shows where Elijah is

488
00:28:48,908 –> 00:28:53,900
mind was I think that’s huge.
We look at Elijah and we say,

489
00:28:54,300 –> 00:28:56,800
oh, you know, he fell into
depression at Mount Sinai.

490
00:28:58,300 –> 00:29:03,800
Well, Kind of, but I would
suggest you it happened before

491
00:29:03,800 –> 00:29:06,800
that.
Because he’s saying the same

492
00:29:06,800 –> 00:29:09,800
thing here.
Right.

493
00:29:09,800 –> 00:29:13,700
This is this is not an Elijah
who is on a spiritual high,

494
00:29:13,900 –> 00:29:15,500
right?
This is Elijah.

495
00:29:15,500 –> 00:29:19,100
Who’s got some major issues to
deal with and it’s more evident

496
00:29:19,100 –> 00:29:22,700
in Mount Sinai.
But I think it’s also evident

497
00:29:22,700 –> 00:29:25,000
here.
I’m on Carmel.

498
00:29:25,100 –> 00:29:32,800
He says the exact same words.
Now, Paul characterizes these

499
00:29:32,800 –> 00:29:35,800
words this I only I am left
right?

500
00:29:36,500 –> 00:29:38,600
Paul characterizes that in
Romans 11 verse 2.

501
00:29:38,600 –> 00:29:41,100
It’s very fascinating commentary
here.

502
00:29:41,800 –> 00:29:47,700
He says Romans 11 to Elijah
prayed to God.

503
00:29:48,000 –> 00:29:55,500
Anybody know.
Against Israel. so, when he was

504
00:29:55,500 –> 00:29:58,900
on caramel, That’s what he was
doing.

505
00:29:59,200 –> 00:30:01,700
This wasn’t a, I’m going to
rescue everybody.

506
00:30:02,300 –> 00:30:05,900
This was a I don’t know what’s
going to happen here, but I’m

507
00:30:05,900 –> 00:30:10,600
ready to destroy right.
That’s what’s going on, he’s

508
00:30:10,600 –> 00:30:14,300
prophesying or he’s praying
against Israel and you can kind

509
00:30:14,300 –> 00:30:17,400
of see it when he says, and The
God Who Answers by fire, he is

510
00:30:17,400 –> 00:30:20,700
God, that’s a really funny thing
to say, you know, it’s almost

511
00:30:20,700 –> 00:30:24,300
like Elijah is saying you guys
don’t even, you have no idea who

512
00:30:24,300 –> 00:30:26,800
the real God is.
You know, what’s funny about

513
00:30:26,800 –> 00:30:32,400
that first Kings, 18 17?
You remember what Ahab calls,

514
00:30:32,400 –> 00:30:36,100
Elijah.
The troubler of Israel.

515
00:30:36,200 –> 00:30:41,200
Now, if you thought, Yahweh had
no power at all.

516
00:30:42,800 –> 00:30:46,500
Would you admit that his profit
was causing a drought?

517
00:30:48,000 –> 00:30:51,600
Probably not right.
Like Ahab was Ahab was fighting

518
00:30:51,600 –> 00:30:54,900
against Yahweh, which bad idea,
but he seems to recognize

519
00:30:55,000 –> 00:30:56,100
there’s at least something
there.

520
00:30:58,500 –> 00:31:01,900
And yet Elijah seems bent on
this idea.

521
00:31:01,900 –> 00:31:04,800
Like, it’s like he’s totally out
of touch with the people.

522
00:31:04,900 –> 00:31:08,100
Like I’m going to prove to you
who is the real God?

523
00:31:08,100 –> 00:31:12,200
And the people are like, well,
didn’t you just do that in the

524
00:31:12,200 –> 00:31:16,100
last three and a half years?
We haven’t had any water.

525
00:31:16,700 –> 00:31:20,100
I didn’t make that happen.
Bailed and make it happen.

526
00:31:24,900 –> 00:31:26,900
Now, the reason you might be
wondering, you know, why am I

527
00:31:26,900 –> 00:31:28,600
hammering Elijah so hard on
this?

528
00:31:29,200 –> 00:31:34,500
Here’s the reason why.
I think at least for me and

529
00:31:35,100 –> 00:31:38,300
maybe our community has done
this to, we’ve often looked at

530
00:31:38,300 –> 00:31:41,600
this.
And at noon Elijah mocked them.

531
00:31:42,700 –> 00:31:46,100
And we’ve often said, oh, you
know, isn’t that funny like look

532
00:31:46,100 –> 00:31:48,600
at look at other churches and
how ridiculous they are you know

533
00:31:48,600 –> 00:31:51,600
when they are moved by the
spirit and you know all these

534
00:31:51,600 –> 00:31:54,200
kind of things and they run up
and down the aisles and and we

535
00:31:54,200 –> 00:31:56,400
laugh about it.
And we you know, and people say

536
00:31:56,400 –> 00:31:58,600
well I don’t know if that’s like
the nicest thing to do and we

537
00:31:58,600 –> 00:32:01,400
say oh yeah it is.
Elijah, did it right?

538
00:32:01,900 –> 00:32:05,000
I think it’s helpful for us to
recognize.

539
00:32:07,300 –> 00:32:09,500
This wasn’t actually something
we’re supposed to repeat.

540
00:32:09,800 –> 00:32:15,000
This is actually Elijah in a
moment of his life that probably

541
00:32:15,500 –> 00:32:20,800
was not a real good moment. the
good moment was raising the

542
00:32:20,808 –> 00:32:25,700
Widow’s son, that’s the moment
where Christ says, I’m following

543
00:32:25,700 –> 00:32:30,100
that example, I’m following that
example, there is no type of

544
00:32:30,100 –> 00:32:37,000
Christ at Mount Carmel.
I think that’s very powerful for

545
00:32:37,000 –> 00:32:41,200
us that I’m not sure that Elijah
supposed to be an example there.

546
00:32:42,100 –> 00:32:44,800
Now he then goes any repairs,
the altar of Yahweh which I just

547
00:32:44,800 –> 00:32:46,500
think is interesting that there
had been an altar on Mount

548
00:32:46,500 –> 00:32:48,000
Carmel.
At some point, just kind of keep

549
00:32:48,000 –> 00:32:50,000
that in mind.
We’re going to touch on that

550
00:32:50,000 –> 00:32:52,000
again later.
Okay.

551
00:32:52,100 –> 00:32:56,100
Now this shows us where Elijah
is mind was and this to me is

552
00:32:56,100 –> 00:32:59,800
also very helpful here.
Elijah took 12 Stones according

553
00:32:59,800 –> 00:33:01,600
to the number of the tribes of
the sons of Jacob.

554
00:33:02,200 –> 00:33:06,200
So he takes 12 Stones to repair
the altar which is a reference

555
00:33:06,200 –> 00:33:10,100
back to Exodus 24.
Moses took 12 Stones when he was

556
00:33:10,100 –> 00:33:14,100
making the Covenant at Sinai.
So he takes 12 Stones and that

557
00:33:14,100 –> 00:33:16,700
would be representative of all
12 tribes, right?

558
00:33:16,800 –> 00:33:18,400
Even though Elijah was just in
Israel.

559
00:33:19,200 –> 00:33:21,900
So he’s thinking about all 12
tribes.

560
00:33:21,900 –> 00:33:25,500
He’s thinking back to Moses.
It also says to whom the word of

561
00:33:25,500 –> 00:33:29,500
the Lord came saying, Israel
shall be your name now, God

562
00:33:29,500 –> 00:33:31,300
actually says that twice to
Jacob.

563
00:33:31,500 –> 00:33:35,000
Israel will be your name.
He says it in Genesis 32, 27 and

564
00:33:35,000 –> 00:33:37,800
28.
And in Genesis 35 verse 10.

565
00:33:38,700 –> 00:33:42,300
He says it twice there.
This is actually an exact quote

566
00:33:42,300 –> 00:33:47,500
of Genesis 3510.
So, right here first Kings, 18

567
00:33:47,500 –> 00:33:49,900
is an exact quote of Genesis, 35
10.

568
00:33:50,200 –> 00:33:53,600
So, it’s that instance, and the
reason that, that is significant

569
00:33:53,600 –> 00:33:58,900
is Genesis, 35 is when the
covenant made with Abraham is

570
00:33:58,900 –> 00:34:04,000
given to Jacob. so what we’re
being told here is that Elijah’s

571
00:34:04,000 –> 00:34:08,600
mind is all over scripture,
which let that sink in a little

572
00:34:08,600 –> 00:34:12,900
bit.
Here he is, in a period that

573
00:34:12,900 –> 00:34:17,900
appears to not be a hugely
spiritual time yet.

574
00:34:17,900 –> 00:34:22,699
His mind is on the covenant made
with Moses or would the

575
00:34:22,707 –> 00:34:26,500
Israelites at Sinai and the
covenant made with Abraham that

576
00:34:26,500 –> 00:34:33,199
sort of fascinating Okay.
In addition, here’s what he

577
00:34:33,199 –> 00:34:35,699
says, Elijah.
The prophet came near and said

578
00:34:35,699 –> 00:34:38,699
O, Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac
and Israel.

579
00:34:38,699 –> 00:34:42,199
Now, we’re semi used to this,
the god of Abraham, Isaac, and

580
00:34:42,207 –> 00:34:43,699
Jacob, right?
We use that a lot in our

581
00:34:43,699 –> 00:34:45,900
prayers.
Elijah says something different

582
00:34:45,900 –> 00:34:47,199
though.
He says, Abraham, Isaac and

583
00:34:47,199 –> 00:34:49,400
Israel.
In fact, there was only one

584
00:34:49,400 –> 00:34:52,500
other time when those three
names came together as a title

585
00:34:52,500 –> 00:34:56,500
for God before this It was
actually as 3213.

586
00:34:57,000 –> 00:35:01,000
Remember, Abraham, Isaac, and
Israel, your servants to whom

587
00:35:01,000 –> 00:35:03,500
you sworn by your own self.
And said to them, I will

588
00:35:03,500 –> 00:35:05,300
multiply your Offspring as the
stars of Heaven.

589
00:35:05,300 –> 00:35:07,500
Now, question for you, what’s
happened?

590
00:35:07,500 –> 00:35:10,700
What’s going on in Exodus 32 13,
any thoughts?

591
00:35:14,100 –> 00:35:20,900
Peter.
Moses is praying for Israel.

592
00:35:21,100 –> 00:35:25,400
He’s asking God to spare them
and he’s using this particular

593
00:35:25,400 –> 00:35:27,500
name.
So Ally, just thinking back and

594
00:35:27,500 –> 00:35:30,400
he almost seems to Totally Miss
what’s going on in this story

595
00:35:30,600 –> 00:35:32,600
and he still just thinking about
the Covenant at Sinai.

596
00:35:32,700 –> 00:35:35,800
And he quotes, what?
Moses says the god of Abraham,

597
00:35:35,800 –> 00:35:38,400
Isaac, and Israel.
So here’s Elijah with his mind,

598
00:35:38,400 –> 00:35:41,600
all over scripture.
Now this is an incredibly

599
00:35:41,600 –> 00:35:47,200
powerful lesson I think to us
because wait a minute.

600
00:35:47,800 –> 00:35:51,300
There.
Because he’ll I just motivation.

601
00:35:52,700 –> 00:35:56,700
Was biblical.
I think that’s huge.

602
00:35:57,200 –> 00:36:01,800
How often are we able to look at
scripture and say, oh, well, you

603
00:36:01,800 –> 00:36:06,300
know, I gotta do something to
this brother because clearly

604
00:36:06,300 –> 00:36:09,200
scripturally, what he’s teaching
is wrong.

605
00:36:09,700 –> 00:36:13,900
So, you know, I got, I gotta
just push him out or I gotta do,

606
00:36:14,000 –> 00:36:17,600
you know, I gotta make sure go
defend the truth and stop him

607
00:36:17,600 –> 00:36:20,500
from doing this kind of thing,
and that often ends up becoming

608
00:36:20,500 –> 00:36:24,600
an attack right or some kind of
judgment rather than hey, let’s

609
00:36:24,600 –> 00:36:26,800
sit down and talk about
Together, right?

610
00:36:26,800 –> 00:36:31,300
Which is what it should be.
I think this is so powerful for

611
00:36:31,300 –> 00:36:35,600
us that often times.
We can have the right

612
00:36:35,600 –> 00:36:38,800
motivation.
We can have the right biblical

613
00:36:38,800 –> 00:36:42,000
basis.
And That’s essential, we have to

614
00:36:42,000 –> 00:36:44,800
have that.
If we don’t, then we’re wrong.

615
00:36:45,900 –> 00:36:50,500
But we can still be wrong even
with it if our attitude is

616
00:36:50,500 –> 00:36:53,200
wrong.
And that’s the key.

617
00:36:55,300 –> 00:36:59,000
We want a Biblical motivation.
But we also want the right

618
00:36:59,000 –> 00:37:02,300
attitude and that’s the issue
here with Elijah.

619
00:37:02,800 –> 00:37:07,000
His motivation was biblical.
But his attitude, I think what’s

620
00:37:07,000 –> 00:37:09,600
wrong.
So let’s take a look at what

621
00:37:09,600 –> 00:37:14,400
happens.
Then the question is, Why did

622
00:37:14,400 –> 00:37:18,000
God then answer Elijah’s prayer?
Well, just read through the

623
00:37:18,008 –> 00:37:20,100
prayer here.
Already put you debt.

624
00:37:20,100 –> 00:37:22,700
I already put down here that I
don’t think God answered the

625
00:37:22,700 –> 00:37:27,500
prayer but just consider what
the prayer is and see if you

626
00:37:27,500 –> 00:37:31,800
notice how God didn’t answer, it
answer me.

627
00:37:31,800 –> 00:37:35,400
O, Lord answered me that this
people may know that you oh Lord

628
00:37:35,400 –> 00:37:39,700
Our God and that you have turned
their hearts back then.

629
00:37:39,700 –> 00:37:41,100
The fire of the Lord fell and
consumed.

630
00:37:41,100 –> 00:37:43,500
The burnt offering in the wood
and the stones and the Dust.

631
00:37:43,500 –> 00:37:45,400
I looked up the water that was
in the trench.

632
00:37:45,400 –> 00:37:47,800
When all the people saw it, they
fell on their faces and said,

633
00:37:48,000 –> 00:37:50,900
Yahweh.
He is God Yahweh, he is God.

634
00:37:51,100 –> 00:37:53,300
Now, what was the largest
prayer?

635
00:37:57,100 –> 00:37:58,700
I want the people to know that
you are God.

636
00:37:59,800 –> 00:38:05,200
And I want you to turn their
hearts. so, what’s the prayer

637
00:38:05,200 –> 00:38:10,800
answered?
kind of, But not really.

638
00:38:12,800 –> 00:38:15,900
The people appear to recognize
that Yahweh is God right now.

639
00:38:15,900 –> 00:38:17,900
Yell it out, Yahweh he’s God,
Yahweh he’s gone.

640
00:38:19,200 –> 00:38:22,200
But this part of the blue that
you’ve turned their hearts back,

641
00:38:22,800 –> 00:38:25,400
that wasn’t answered now.
I think we can prove that

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00:38:25,900 –> 00:38:27,200
because it’s going to be
answered later.

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00:38:27,700 –> 00:38:31,700
How do we know Malachi 4 verse
2.

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00:38:33,800 –> 00:38:38,700
Behold, I will send you Elijah
the prophet before the great and

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00:38:38,700 –> 00:38:41,100
terrible day of the Lord.
And what’s he going to do?

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00:38:42,200 –> 00:38:48,400
He will turn the hearts of the
father’s to the children and the

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00:38:48,400 –> 00:38:49,800
hearts of the children to the
father’s.

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00:38:51,800 –> 00:38:56,100
Elijah prayed turn the hearts.
God says.

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00:38:57,300 –> 00:39:00,300
No.
Because you’re not ready for it

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00:39:00,300 –> 00:39:04,000
yet.
But you will someday.

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00:39:07,300 –> 00:39:10,400
So, I don’t think the prayer was
answered prayer Was Heard.

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00:39:11,700 –> 00:39:15,400
God has a plan to answer the
prayer but I think when we say,

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00:39:15,400 –> 00:39:17,000
oh well look the fire came down
from heaven.

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00:39:17,000 –> 00:39:18,800
Look, it was God, you know,
validating all of this.

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00:39:19,000 –> 00:39:20,200
I don’t think that’s what’s
going on.

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00:39:20,200 –> 00:39:22,900
Yes, the fire does come down.
I think he’s allowing Elijah to

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00:39:22,900 –> 00:39:26,400
keep some of his authority.
But he doesn’t fully answer the

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00:39:26,400 –> 00:39:29,800
prayer.
Okay.

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00:39:30,900 –> 00:39:35,600
Now just again to emphasize
where Elijah’s mind is that.

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00:39:35,600 –> 00:39:38,300
Look at this.
Elijah said to them, seize the

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00:39:38,300 –> 00:39:40,600
prophets of Baal.
Let not one of them escaped and

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00:39:40,600 –> 00:39:43,700
they seize them so you’ll notice
plural, right?

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00:39:43,700 –> 00:39:46,100
They seize them.
Elijah brought them down to the

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00:39:46,100 –> 00:39:47,900
brook.
Keyshawn and slaughtered them

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00:39:47,900 –> 00:39:50,200
there.
Did you see what just happened?

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00:39:51,600 –> 00:39:56,100
They seize them.
Elijah brings them down and he

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00:39:56,100 –> 00:39:57,900
Slaughters them.
There’s your word for brought,

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00:39:57,900 –> 00:39:59,700
its masculine singular, and
Hebrew.

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00:40:00,200 –> 00:40:01,200
There’s your word for
slaughtered.

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00:40:01,200 –> 00:40:07,800
Its masculine singular.
In other words, Elijah kills

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00:40:07,800 –> 00:40:10,100
them.
All the people don’t.

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00:40:12,200 –> 00:40:15,400
All right, so let’s just talk
about the problems with a

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00:40:15,408 –> 00:40:20,300
capital P here.
So we got a few minutes there

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00:40:20,300 –> 00:40:24,600
have been hints that Elijah’s
attitude, had some issues.

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00:40:25,900 –> 00:40:30,800
So, what I want you to notice
is, we’re told twice that his

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00:40:30,800 –> 00:40:34,000
prayer takes place at the time
of the offering of the oblation.

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00:40:34,300 –> 00:40:36,700
Again, when scripture says,
stuff like that, you got to ask

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00:40:36,700 –> 00:40:38,700
why?
There’s some reason for us to

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00:40:38,700 –> 00:40:41,900
know?
Well, I would suggest that maybe

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00:40:41,900 –> 00:40:46,100
it’s because we’re supposed to
see this as an evening oblation,

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00:40:46,400 –> 00:40:49,500
as one of the evening offerings.
Now, let’s just read through the

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00:40:49,500 –> 00:40:52,400
requirements of the evening
offering and why don’t you tell

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00:40:52,400 –> 00:40:55,100
me?
If you notice anything different

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00:40:55,100 –> 00:40:58,100
between What God Says to do in
the evening offering and what

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00:40:58,100 –> 00:41:01,600
Elijah did, its numbers 28
verses 3 to 8, it says, you

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00:41:01,600 –> 00:41:03,700
shall say to them.
This is the food offering that

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00:41:03,700 –> 00:41:06,200
you shall offer to the Lord.
To mail Liam’s.

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00:41:06,200 –> 00:41:07,900
A year old without blemish day
by day.

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00:41:07,900 –> 00:41:10,400
As a regular offering, the one
lamb you shall offer in the

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00:41:10,408 –> 00:41:11,700
morning.
The other lamb, you shall offer

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00:41:11,700 –> 00:41:15,300
at Twilight also a tenth of an
ephah of fine flour for a grain

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00:41:15,300 –> 00:41:18,400
offering mixed with a quarter of
a hint of beaten oil, it is a

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00:41:18,400 –> 00:41:21,100
regular burnt offering, which
was ordained at Mount Sinai for

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00:41:21,100 –> 00:41:22,900
a pleasing.
Aroma a food offering to the

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00:41:22,900 –> 00:41:24,800
Lord.
It’s drink offering should be a

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00:41:24,808 –> 00:41:27,900
quarter of a hen for each lamb.
In the Holy place, you shall

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00:41:27,900 –> 00:41:29,300
pour out a drink offering a
strong.

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00:41:29,300 –> 00:41:31,700
Drink to the Lord, the other
lamb you shall offer at

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00:41:31,700 –> 00:41:33,000
Twilight.
Like the grain offering of the

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00:41:33,000 –> 00:41:35,700
morning and it’s drink offering
you shall offer it as a food

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00:41:35,700 –> 00:41:37,900
offering with a pleasing Aroma
to the Lord.

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00:41:38,000 –> 00:41:41,600
Do you notice?
It was supposed to be a lamb,

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00:41:41,700 –> 00:41:44,600
right?
What did Elijah offer, a bull

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00:41:44,900 –> 00:41:46,600
interesting?
Where was it supposed to be

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00:41:46,600 –> 00:41:49,700
offered?
Holy place which would be

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00:41:50,000 –> 00:41:52,400
Jerusalem.
That was not where Elijah was.

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00:41:52,900 –> 00:41:54,300
So there’s interesting pieces
here.

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00:41:54,300 –> 00:41:56,700
You can take a look at this.
I’m only going to leave this up

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00:41:56,700 –> 00:41:59,300
here for a brief moment since we
got two minutes right now.

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00:42:00,100 –> 00:42:02,200
So you can take a picture of it
real quick if you want.

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00:42:02,200 –> 00:42:05,600
But I would suggest to you that
basically scriptures telling us,

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00:42:05,600 –> 00:42:08,500
Elijah was essentially doing an
evening offering and it didn’t

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00:42:08,500 –> 00:42:10,800
cut it.
There was a lot of things that

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00:42:10,800 –> 00:42:14,200
didn’t actually match up and
yet.

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00:42:15,800 –> 00:42:19,700
Elijah felt like that’s okay
because Because I’m doing this

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00:42:19,700 –> 00:42:23,500
for God and that was a good way
to think, right?

717
00:42:23,500 –> 00:42:25,100
That’s, that’s the right kind of
attitude.

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00:42:25,200 –> 00:42:28,400
The problem is, is that attitude
didn’t generalize to anybody

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00:42:28,400 –> 00:42:32,200
else in existence.
That’s the problem.

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00:42:33,900 –> 00:42:40,800
And so what we see then is
Elijah puts the wood in order,

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00:42:40,900 –> 00:42:43,500
he cuts the bull and pieces.
These two words in Hebrew for

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00:42:43,500 –> 00:42:45,700
putting the wood in order,
cutting the bull and pieces,

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00:42:46,100 –> 00:42:48,900
Leviticus 1 verses 5 to 8.
Specifically applies.

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00:42:48,900 –> 00:42:51,200
Those to what the priests are
supposed to do.

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00:42:52,300 –> 00:42:57,000
Elijah was not a priest.
He breaks the law in doing this,

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00:42:57,500 –> 00:43:01,300
in performing the job of the
priests, which was that?

727
00:43:01,300 –> 00:43:04,600
Okay, well, I mean, David did it
to write but it was okay when he

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00:43:04,600 –> 00:43:07,600
had the right attitude, when he
understood what was behind it.

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00:43:08,300 –> 00:43:10,600
What about Elijah’s alter?
This is Wilbur finish.

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00:43:11,100 –> 00:43:14,200
Did you notice this?
He repairs the altar of Yahweh

731
00:43:14,200 –> 00:43:18,200
that have been thrown down like
what an altar of Yahweh on Mount

732
00:43:18,200 –> 00:43:19,700
Carmel, like what would that
have been?

733
00:43:19,800 –> 00:43:21,600
It would have to have been a
high place.

734
00:43:23,100 –> 00:43:28,900
Because the only, okay, Alters.
Where where Jerusalem?

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00:43:29,000 –> 00:43:32,100
That was the only place people
were supposed to worship.

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00:43:32,300 –> 00:43:36,300
So God says in Deuteronomy 12,
you will bring all that I

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00:43:36,308 –> 00:43:39,200
command you there, your burnt
offerings in your sacrifices,

738
00:43:39,400 –> 00:43:41,400
take care of that.
You do not offer your burnt

739
00:43:41,400 –> 00:43:44,500
offerings at any place you see,
but at the place the Lord you’re

740
00:43:44,500 –> 00:43:46,100
cute.
You look the Lord will choose in

741
00:43:46,100 –> 00:43:49,300
one of your tribes.
It could only be Jerusalem and

742
00:43:49,300 –> 00:43:51,600
Elijah repairs.
This in fact, if you’re feeling

743
00:43:51,600 –> 00:43:54,000
like I’m stretching this here,
this is actually the talmud the

744
00:43:54,000 –> 00:43:57,900
talmud sees this as a major.
Like against Elijah and they try

745
00:43:57,900 –> 00:43:59,400
and figure out some way to get
around it.

746
00:44:00,800 –> 00:44:02,600
The fact that he worships of
Mount Carmel.

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00:44:02,800 –> 00:44:06,000
So the Jerusalem talmud says as
it is written at the approach of

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00:44:06,000 –> 00:44:08,900
the afternoon, sacrifice Elijah.
The prophet stepped up and said

749
00:44:09,000 –> 00:44:11,900
Eternal God of Abraham, Isaac,
and Israel today, may it be

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00:44:11,900 –> 00:44:15,900
known and Elijah sacrifices when
local altars are forbidden.

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00:44:16,800 –> 00:44:19,100
Since the temple was already
built all other Alters, became

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00:44:19,100 –> 00:44:24,800
illegitimate rebbe symbol.
I said, the word said to him,

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00:44:25,000 –> 00:44:27,900
one must assume that he acted on
Divine command.

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00:44:28,400 –> 00:44:30,500
I acted on you’re saying, I
acted following your word.

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00:44:30,600 –> 00:44:34,000
And the gemara suggest coming
here another proof, the verse

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00:44:34,000 –> 00:44:36,800
states with regard to a true
Prophet to him, you shall listen

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00:44:37,300 –> 00:44:39,400
from here to derive that.
Even if a prophet says to you

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00:44:39,400 –> 00:44:41,100
transgress one of them, it’s
vote.

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00:44:41,200 –> 00:44:43,000
That’s Commandments of the
Torah.

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00:44:43,000 –> 00:44:46,600
For example, as is the case of
Elijah Mount Carmel.

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00:44:47,900 –> 00:44:49,700
Who brought an offering to God
on that mountain during a

762
00:44:49,707 –> 00:44:52,200
period?
When it was forbidden on pain of

763
00:44:52,200 –> 00:44:54,900
Korat.
That means being cut up to

764
00:44:54,900 –> 00:44:57,600
sacrifice, offerings outside the
temple, with regard, to

765
00:44:57,600 –> 00:45:00,000
everything that he permits, for
the requirement of the hour, you

766
00:45:00,000 –> 00:45:02,600
must listen to him.
This indicates that a Torah

767
00:45:02,600 –> 00:45:05,200
Mitzvah can indeed be uprooted
in an active manner.

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00:45:05,500 –> 00:45:08,100
In other words, they’re saying,
yeah, I just broke the law and

769
00:45:08,100 –> 00:45:09,700
we had to figure out some way to
justify it.

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00:45:11,300 –> 00:45:15,600
Here’s the point.
We often look at Elijah as

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00:45:15,600 –> 00:45:17,500
here’s the superhero.
Who brings down fire from heaven

772
00:45:17,500 –> 00:45:19,600
at Mount Carmel and I would put
to you.

773
00:45:19,600 –> 00:45:23,000
I think this is actually Elijah,
who’s really struggling with,

774
00:45:23,100 –> 00:45:26,000
what does it actually mean now?
To follow God, I’ve had this

775
00:45:26,000 –> 00:45:28,600
experience with the Widow, and
this was a totally different

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00:45:28,600 –> 00:45:31,000
piece of my life that I’ve never
opened up before.

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00:45:31,000 –> 00:45:36,000
And he defaults back to how he
had been, he goes to judgment,

778
00:45:36,000 –> 00:45:39,400
he goes back to law, and he
doesn’t realize that the whole

779
00:45:39,400 –> 00:45:43,400
time.
He’s breaking the law over and

780
00:45:43,400 –> 00:45:46,900
over.
But isn’t this how we are?

781
00:45:47,100 –> 00:45:50,100
When we judge, we’re happy to
forgive ourselves.

782
00:45:51,400 –> 00:45:54,700
But not other people.
So what we’re going to see.

783
00:45:56,000 –> 00:45:58,600
Is that even though Elijah goes
back, God doesn’t give up on

784
00:45:58,607 –> 00:46:00,900
him.
So he’s going to go to Mount

785
00:46:00,900 –> 00:46:04,600
Sinai tomorrow.
And he’s going to emphasize law

786
00:46:04,900 –> 00:46:10,500
law, law to God.
But God, our God.

787
00:46:10,900 –> 00:46:12,200
Who is a?
God of Mercy.

788
00:46:13,300 –> 00:46:18,200
Will not let him go.
And so he’s going to learn that

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00:46:18,200 –> 00:46:20,600
lesson and that God willing is
what we’ll see tomorrow.