Jason Hensley – Class 6: The Voice

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This is day.
Six 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.

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Today’s topic is the voice
brother.

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Jason.
Good morning everyone.

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All right, so first of all,
since it is the last day, I

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think it is appropriate for me
to say, thank you for having me,

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and thank you for having my
family.

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Particularly, because I have
been told that I was notoriously

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known as the Absolute worst
student at Idlewild and I was

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also told that my nickname by my
teachers at Idlewild was the

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spawn of Satan.
So so you know I like to think

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that it’s appropriate to open
with that when we’re talking

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about Elijah because it’s good
to remember that people can

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change.
So so there you go.

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Okay.
There’s also a couple of other

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things that I need to say at at
the beginning and that is I made

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two mistakes yesterday and
things that I said, first of

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all, I said that when Elijah was
talking to Obadiah that he told

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Obadiah that you know oh well
whatever you’re you’re just

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going to have to die too bad.
That’s not actually what he said

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and I had, I misspoke there.
Elijah did say, I would stay.

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And that way you will not get
killed by Ahab.

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So that’s an important thing to
note there.

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Correct the record and the
second thing is I said that God

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did not answer a lie just prayer
on caramel and and I think it

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kind of depends on how you
define answering.

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I’d said that before, because
somebody ants ask me.

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Well, how do you explain God
answering his prayer on caramel

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if you think, you know, Elijah
made mistakes there?

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And so my answer was well, he
didn’t, but I don’t think that’s

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the right way to describe it.
I think it’s probably better to

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say.
God, always answers prayers, but

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he answers them in ways that we
don’t expect.

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And in this case, the answer to
Elijah was Not today.

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But in the future.
So I think that’s an important

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thing to clarify.
All right, as we get started,

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now we are going to see
everything here.

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Fall apart for Elijah, we’re in
class number 6, on The Voice.

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We are going to see that God
does not relent.

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Here’s our sections will see the
converted Nation converted

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Nation.
We’re going to see Elijah

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becoming Moses, and then we’re
going to discuss the spirit of

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Elijah, which really brings us
to the end of his life and what

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he will do.
God willing in the future.

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God does not relent.
I think this is really

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important.
Some of you may have felt like

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I’ve been a little harsh on
Elijah, And I think there’s a

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few reasons for that.
Number one is because I think we

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so often hold them up as a
superhero.

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It’s important to be very clear
about the mistakes that do

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happen because scripture shows
those to us.

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The other piece though is, I
think when we recognize how God

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works and that’s what this core
message is all about, I’m not

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sure.
It actually is all that harsh on

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Elijah because God isn’t
necessarily looking at the sum

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of our actions.
God is looking at who we are and

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he transforms us so that those
actions do slowly become what he

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wants them to become.
And that’s really what we’re

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going to see today.
That Elijah had that base

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character that base not in a bad
way.

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The the the character that he
had was the kind of character

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that God looks at and says I can
work with that.

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That is what I need someone to
be God.

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Looks for someone who will hold
to him tenaciously, no matter

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how much things don’t make
sense.

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No matter how much our schema
doesn’t work, no matter how much

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we say, we don’t know what to
do, but we’re going to do

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something, right?
This is what God looks for and

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he says he can work with that,
because he can take your

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something that you do.
And even if it’s not right, he

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can use it.
So that I think is the key piece

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that we see here with Elijah.
So yes, I acknowledge I have

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been harsh on him but I think
it’s because over the last few

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days what we’ve seen is he is
slowly changing.

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And today we’re going to see the
final change.

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God is not concerned.
With all the little

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accomplishments we make the
things that seem like such a big

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deal to us.
Because he’s preparing us for

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what’s to come.
Right.

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It’s only the beginning and that
is the way that God sees things.

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He sees that we every day are
being prepared for that work of

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the kingdom.
And so when Elijah prays turn

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their hearts again.
God says, oh don’t worry, I will

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It’s going to be in thousands of
years. but for you, it’s just

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the beginning.
So why did Elijah run to Mount

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Horeb?
That’s our question here or

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Mount Sinai, so it appears like
the nation has converted, right?

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Elijah has gone through.
He kills all the prophets of

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Baal.
They’re gone.

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Doesn’t look like there’s going
to be any more problems.

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So, he goes to Ahab.
And First Kings, 18 41, to 42

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and he says, to Ahab, go and eat
and drink.

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Now, just think about that.
Because there was no rain yet.

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And yet he’s telling Ahab to eat
and to drink.

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So they still would have been
precious resources and it Elijah

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believes so strongly.
Here comes the rain.

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He says they have go eat and
drink, it’s coming. in verses 43

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to 44, you have an interesting
little situation, a few of you

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have talked to me about this,
Elijah goes and he prays for the

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rain.
How many times does he have to

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pray?
Seven times.

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So you’ve praised seven times
now that it will rain and

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there’s a few different
possibilities here as to why an

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hour.
Maybe I just didn’t even find

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one of them.
But here’s, here’s, here’s some

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of the thoughts I have as to why
perhaps Elijah had to pray the

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seven times first, it’s almost
like a question of do you really

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want this?
You know, you, you pray it for

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the drought to happen?
Prove to me, that this is what

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you really want.
One, two, three, four, five,

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six, seven.
And you sort of see this, by the

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way and James is commentary in
James chapter 5.

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When he says, the effectual
fervent prayer of a righteous

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man avails much, he refers to
Elijah praying that it won’t

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rain and then praying that it
will rain.

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If you look at that in the
Greek, I don’t know if you’ve

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ever noticed that it sounds sort
of redundant, the effectual

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fervent prayer of a righteous
man avails much that’s like

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saying Saying doing good, things
is doing good things, you know,

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something like that, that the
effective work you do is

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effective, right?
Like if you look at it in the

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Greek, it’s a little bit
different, your verb there is

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present tense which is typically
continuous.

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So what you get is the fervent
prayer, there’s that Zeal, the

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fervent prayer of a righteous
man.

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Is highly effective as it is
working.

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And you’ll notice that a lot of
newer translations, get that

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sense of that continuous idea as
it’s working or as it’s being

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prayed.
So you can see that.

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Here’s this idea of Elijah
having to pray multiple times

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for those, the one thing To get
across this idea.

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That here’s the prayer working.
Here is me showing how much I

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really want this So that’s one
possibility.

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One possibility is to why he had
to pray seven times.

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Okay.
The other could just be, does he

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really want it for the sake of
the people?

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Does he really want them?
Does he really believe that

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they’ve changed?
So finally, the rain comes

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Elijah tells Ahab get in your
chariot and go and he does

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something fascinating.
Lifts up his robe, you remember?

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And he runs in front of the
Chariot.

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We like that.
As, you know, one of our

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children’s stories, he runs in
front of the chariot.

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Now, what I think we might miss
though, is that running in front

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of someone’s Chariot?
Often meant something back then.

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Now, we tend to see it as, you
know, this amazing miracle and

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it probably perhaps was
depending on how fast they have

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was driving.
We don’t know if he was a

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reckless driver or not but but
this idea of running in front of

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a chariot is actually a fairly
biblical kind of thing.

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Anybody know who would typically
run in front of Periods.

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Don’t say fast people.
That’s not the that’s not the

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answer.
The answer is that it was

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typically the servants.
So, I’ll show that to you.

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But apparently, I got a little
excited here and I jumped a

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couple of slides.
So let’s talk about this one

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first, I want to just point out
to you that a have goes to

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Jezreel, which is not the
capital So keep that in mind.

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The capital is Samaria.
First king 1629.

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So he doesn’t go to the capital
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him to go and where he generally
seems to be.

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Instead he goes to Jezreel and
that appears to be were Jezebel

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was so it’s one of those things
that you start to maybe see a

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little bit of where ahab’s mind
is that we’re going to see more

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of it as he talks to Jezebel,
but he’s not going back to the

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capital to say, let’s make some
reforms.

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He goes back to his wife to say,
here’s all the bad things that

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happened, right?
So that’s what’s happening.

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He goes to her Jezebel is to
tell her now.

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Elijah is running as well.
And that’s because it’s what

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servants did and that is a
fascinating piece of this story.

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Elijah, all of a sudden.
I mean, wasn’t this what he

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condemned Obadiah?
For a few verses prior he

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condemns Obadiah for it and now
this is what he’s doing, why the

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change because Elijah is
convinced ah a Habs going to

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Jezreel because he’s going to
talk to Jezebel.

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We’re going to change this.
I’m going to convert Jezebel to

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And everything’s going to be
fixed.

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Finally.
What he’s been waiting for for

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years and years and years, it’s
all come together.

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So here’s some verses for you.
How about servants running

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before chariots?
So Elijah is very much

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presenting himself as a servant.
First Samuel 811.

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This is where Israel asks for a
king.

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God says that the king will take
your children to run before his

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chariots second, Samuel 15 verse
1, Absalom, got a chariot and

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horses and fifty men to run
before him first Kings wonders,

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51 adonijah, tries to take the
throne, he says, I will be king

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he prepared for himself.
Chariots and Horsemen and fifty

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men to run before him.
So this would have been a highly

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public Kind of spectacle. so,
when we look at Elijah’s, Frame

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of mind when he goes down to
Mount Sinai, I think this is an

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important piece of it.
He has stood so strong against

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Ahab for so many years and now
he runs in front of his Chariot.

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Can you picture the people
seeing that say, Hey, That’s

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Elijah.
You know, he’s in front of it

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has chair.
He’s a have servant now like

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looked at the, the king and the
Queen and Elijah they’ve all

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come together.
Okay, so Elijah thinks that Ahab

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has converted.
He thinks then he’s going to

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take part in Jezebel’s
conversion.

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However, when Ahab begins to
talk and First Kings 19, we

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realize it’s not quite what
Elijah expected.

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Notice, this a have told Jezebel
all Elijah had done and how he

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had killed all the prophets with
the sword.

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So that’s the summation by Ahab.
Just think about this.

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There are a lot of other things.
They have could have said,

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right?
Maybe something about like a

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miracle fire bail, didn’t do
anything rain, right?

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And steady says, Elijah did a
bunch of things and the craziest

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thing he did is he killed all
the prophets.

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You also notice that he
completely ignores all the

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prophets of Yahweh.
He just says he killed all the

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prophets now really he only
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in a halves mind what you get
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There was absolutely no
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He saw the prophets of Baal as
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He goes to Jezebel and he says,
let me tell you about my

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terrible day.
The miracle didn’t do anything,

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he doesn’t even talk about it.
He doesn’t talk about the fire.

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He doesn’t talk about the rain
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It’s now we gotta get some more
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Isn’t that fascinating?
This is, this is how we work,

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you know, sometimes we say
things like, if only, I could

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see a miracle, But that’s not
what miracles do right

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biblically, you?
Look at all the people who saw

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Miracles and then turn away,
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Miracles are not what create
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Miracles.
Confirm the belief that was

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already there.
They confirm the word.

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In fact, based on what Jezebel
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So may the gods do to me and
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Also if that if I do not make
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them by this time tomorrow.
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at Jezreel, right?
So he’s waiting for a messenger

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to come to tell him.
The queen will see you now,

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right?
Because he’s ready to give his

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Spiel on.
Why bail didn’t work?

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Why?
The rain had come all of this,

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he’s ready to bring about
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The messenger comes and Elijah
says oh is it my turn?

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And the messenger says you’re
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Just like Well, that wasn’t what
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That that’s not how it’s
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Now, we get that sense of where
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there, hearing this Val.
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probably a number of patriarchal
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The husband could hear his wife
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verses 6 to 15 and could say,
you know what I’m negating that

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vow.
Like I don’t want our family to

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be involved in that we’re not
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A have says nothing because this
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He came to tell Jezebel because
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Ahab was the whiner.
So Jezebel was the doer and he

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wanted to tell her so that
something could happen and it

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would Ahab was not converted.
Hey, Elijah is now going to die

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and so you can sense a lie to
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We talked about it on Tuesday.
He’s trying to his schema has

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just totally Fallen apart.
Why is there rain if Ahab didn’t

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convert?
Does this mean the people didn’t

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convert?
What, what is going on here?

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Did I ask for a drought?
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Did I ask for a drought and a
bunch of people simply died

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because of what I asked for now,
you can see him struggling to

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put this together and maybe you
have these kind of moments, you

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know, where just, it feels like
nothing makes sense.

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You can’t, you can’t make sense
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Like, like, you felt like it
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then something happens and now
it doesn’t anymore, and you’re

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trying to fit all the pieces you
have into the view that you have

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of the world and it doesn’t
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Work. and so sometimes in those
Jeffers desperate situations,

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you try to grab onto anything,
you can, anything that does make

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sense, I think that’s what we
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Elijah doing, not only that.
I would suggest there was

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probably some guilt to about
running in front of ahab’s

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Chariot.
You know, how could I have done

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that?
How could I have so

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misunderstood him and what he
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So, First Kings, 19 3, he
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So he runs 90 miles to
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That’s a big run, even for my
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He goes 90 miles to Beersheba
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He doesn’t know what he’s doing.
He just he runs and he’s not

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going anywhere, right?
He runs and he goes to a tree a

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broom tree and he sits there.
Not sure what to do.

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It’s almost like he’s gotten to
this point and he’s so

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frustrated that he’s going to
starve himself.

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Do you remember what happens
next?

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An angel appears and the angel
has to say, Elijah.

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Eat.
You need to eat this food,

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right?
It’s he just doesn’t know what

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to do.
He can’t.

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He can’t make sense of anything.
But as he gets this, As he meets

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with this angel.
I think, perhaps, He gets an

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idea.
So there he is sitting under the

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broom tree.
It’s this weird wrote em in

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Hebrew.
It’s only use four times one

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time.
It’s used in job, appears to be

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unrelated, maybe you can find a
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the final instance, in the
Psalms, I think might show where

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Elijah was at at the time, you
know, there’s got to be a reason

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that scripture tells us it was a
broom tree.

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So it’s interesting that the
instance in Psalms says, this in

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my distress, I called to the
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And he answered me.
Deliver Me O Lord from lying

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lips from a deceitful tongue.
What shall be given to you?

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And what more shall be done to
you.

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You deceitful tongue a warrior
sharp Arrows with glowing coals

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of the broom tree.
Woe to me that I sojourn in

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meshech that I dwell.
Among the tents of kedar keytar

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was known as a violent Society,
right?

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So this, you can imagine Elijah
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Have I hella had my dwelling
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I am for peace, but when I
speak, they are for war and

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there’s reflecting that feeling
of aliveness Just saying you are

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the troubler of Israel, right?
I want peace.

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This is what I’ve been trying to
bring out and I can’t make this

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work.
And so he’s sitting there with

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this, this feeling of despair.
Not sure what to do.

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And yet the irony is, if this
does reflect his thinking, he

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had been the one who just killed
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So just consider that.
Now again, God can work with our

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actions and he does, and he
teaches us, but I just think

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it’s interesting to see how
sometimes we see our own

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actions, the light in which we
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So the only thing that Elijah
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of as Moses.
Righteousness is Moses and I

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think it gets a little bit of a
hint like that as the angel

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speaks to him.
The angel tells him to eat,

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right?
And not only that he’s there in

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the wilderness.
And we touched on how perhaps

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he’d been thinking about Moses
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Then he offers his life to God
because of the people which is

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something that Moses had done.
You remember that, with the

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story of the golden calf and he
says if you will not Forgive

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them blot out my life from The
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He offers his own life as well.
So there’s a little bit of a

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sense there of what Elijah is
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And I think he gets this sort of
confirmed by what the angel is

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doing.
However, He’s not really acting

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like Moses because you know
what?

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Weird shows up again, when the
angel brings him food, he gets a

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cake.
On Lou gaw.

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So, he gets that cake, which
again, is a reference right back

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to the Mana.
Right back to the Manna in the

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wilderness and he gets a
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So you can see again, how he’s
being shown.

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Look, this isn’t Moses.
This is the Israelites you got

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to remember, you know, when the
Israelites were discouraged when

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they thought they were going to
die, I took care of them, right?

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I had a plan.
I was bringing them through.

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This is what God is showing him
through this provision here and

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I think, perhaps Elijah takes it
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Water.
Well, that’s what happened under

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Moses.
So, you know he he kind of puts

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these hints out, he runs to the
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He offers his life and he says,
you know, I’m thinking about

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Moses and then he sees the cake
and the water and he thinks aha.

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God understands.
I’m supposed to be like, Moses.

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And so bent on this idea because
the angel says arise and eat for

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the journey is too great for
you.

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Elijah says God knows where I’m
going.

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Because he’s headed to Mount
Sinai to be like Moses and what

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Elijah is going to do is he’s
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giving of the law at Sinai.
Now remember, God has slowly

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been teaching Elijah.
That it’s not about law.

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But these kind of things are
hard, right?

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Like, you know, I’ve known that
that it’s not about law.

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I’ve known it since I was like
10, right?

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We talk about it all the time
this christadelphians and yet

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here I am. 25 years later, still
talking about it because I still

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struggle with it, right?
We still want to create these

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rules and we still want to live
by them and still think this is

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how we can bring God glory.
This is how we can make God

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happy as by creating these laws.
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So I think Elijah, even though
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It’s not about the law, it’s eat
from the unclean, birds eat the

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thing, the stuff that’s dead
that they bring to you.

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Lay on that boy to resurrect
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Even though he starts to learn
it, it’s always a process.

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And so, here he is the world
falling apart around him.

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He goes to the one thing that
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And that is law.
He feels like God affirms it

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with this.
So he runs to Mount Sinai and he

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is going to recreate Mount
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To see the glory of God, like
Moses saw, the glory of God to

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remind himself.
Why this all matters to remind

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himself what he’s doing?
I mean, you can totally see,

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this is extremely biblical
thinking like what Elijah Elijah

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is going to start quoting
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When God says, why are you here?
And Elijah is going to be all

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over the Torah.
He’s going to quote it a bunch

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of times to God, you know, kind
of like God forgot or something.

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You know.
It’s like it’s like Elijah’s

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trying to remind him that this
is his biblical thinking, right?

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I don’t think we can condemn him
for it.

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I think instead we should
emphasize with him for it

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because we do this all the time
and amazingly our wonderful God

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puts up with it, right?
And he says, I see your zeal.

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Let’s just Channel it this way.
That’s what’s going to happen

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with Elijah.
So, He runs down to Sinai.

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He fasts then for 40 days and 40
nights, remind you of anyone.

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He faster, 40 days, 40 nights
only other person to have done

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that at this point.
Which is exactly what Moses did

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in Exodus 34 28.
He goes to Sinai, which is where

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Moses met with God, Exodus 34
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He is going to recreate the
giving of the law at Sinai.

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Now what happens is he gets
there and just in case you’re a

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little skeptical of this idea of
this recreating the law he gets

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there and in fact he goes into a
cave a cave.

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Hmm.
Now, what what had happened with

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a cave prior to this at Sinai
now I’ll put, I’ll be totally

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honest here.
The record does not say a cave

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and exodus.
It says a cleft of the Rock,

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right?
So it’s this outcropping,

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something like that.
However, I think scripture is

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telling us that it’s the same
place because if you look in the

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Hebrew, This is your word and
some of you may recognize that

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letter that is a.
Hey, and when it’s put on the

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front of a word, it means the it
is the definite article.

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So, in other words, First Kings
19, 9, you might want to just

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underline this here and add that
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It actually says there, he came
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Now, I think the reason that
most translators didn’t put that

429
00:26:26,600 –> 00:26:28,900
in is just because they were
like Like what?

430
00:26:29,400 –> 00:26:32,800
That doesn’t make any sense, the
cave, he was never at Mount

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00:26:32,800 –> 00:26:35,700
Sinai before, like why would it
be referencing a specific cave?

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00:26:36,000 –> 00:26:39,700
But when you look at this in
light of Moses, I think what you

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00:26:39,700 –> 00:26:44,100
see is scripture is telling us
he went up, he’s climbing up the

434
00:26:44,100 –> 00:26:45,400
mountain and he says, where is
it?

435
00:26:45,800 –> 00:26:49,300
Where is it?
I have to find it and he finds

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00:26:49,900 –> 00:26:53,700
the cave.
The one that Moses was in, when

437
00:26:53,700 –> 00:26:59,500
God’s glory passes by when God
proclaims, Yahweh, Yahweh,

438
00:26:59,500 –> 00:27:02,400
merciful, gracious,
long-suffering abundant in

439
00:27:02,400 –> 00:27:05,600
goodness and truth, right?
So, here is Elijah attempting to

440
00:27:05,600 –> 00:27:08,900
recreate the whole experience.
And he goes, and he stands in

441
00:27:08,900 –> 00:27:11,500
the cave and he waits, I’m
ready.

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00:27:11,900 –> 00:27:13,700
Right here.
It is.

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00:27:14,000 –> 00:27:15,500
You told me I should come down
here, right?

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00:27:15,500 –> 00:27:17,700
This is what he’s thinking, I’m
ready?

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00:27:19,700 –> 00:27:24,400
So then he stands in the cave
and God comes and says Elijah.

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00:27:25,600 –> 00:27:29,800
Why are you here?
Now, if that’s not deflating

447
00:27:30,100 –> 00:27:33,700
right, I don’t know what is
because it’s kind of like, well,

448
00:27:33,700 –> 00:27:35,300
isn’t it obvious?
You know, I’m standing in the

449
00:27:35,308 –> 00:27:37,300
cave.
I thought you told me to go here

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00:27:37,700 –> 00:27:40,200
and he’s there waiting.
So he says, okay, how about

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00:27:40,200 –> 00:27:43,700
this?
I have been very jealous for

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00:27:43,700 –> 00:27:46,200
Yahweh.
The god of hosts for the people

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00:27:46,200 –> 00:27:49,400
of Israel have forsaken, your
Covenant thrown down your altars

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00:27:49,600 –> 00:27:50,800
killed your prophets with the
sword.

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00:27:50,800 –> 00:27:54,000
And I even, I only am left and
they seek my life to take it

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00:27:54,000 –> 00:27:55,700
away.
Now, this is a fascinating

457
00:27:55,700 –> 00:28:01,000
conglomeration.
A versus he quotes himself right

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00:28:01,000 –> 00:28:03,800
here from the last chapter,
right?

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00:28:04,200 –> 00:28:08,400
I even, I only am left.
So, he quotes himself in

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00:28:08,400 –> 00:28:11,800
addition to that, this here,
I’ve been very jealous.

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00:28:11,900 –> 00:28:14,300
I’ve forsaken, or they have
forsaken, your Covenant.

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00:28:14,400 –> 00:28:16,400
This is a quotation of
Deuteronomy chapter 4.

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00:28:17,000 –> 00:28:19,000
Let’s just go back to
Deuteronomy 4.

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00:28:20,700 –> 00:28:25,800
Deuteronomy 4.
Verses 23 to 24.

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00:28:26,000 –> 00:28:32,000
See if you hear the echo.
Deuteronomy 4, 23 to 24 says

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00:28:32,600 –> 00:28:38,200
this is by the way Moses’s
rehashing of what happened at

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00:28:38,200 –> 00:28:40,900
Mount Sinai.
So Moses is telling the story

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00:28:40,900 –> 00:28:44,800
again to the Next Generation.
So Deuteronomy 4 verse 23.

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00:28:44,800 –> 00:28:49,200
Moses says take care.
Lest you forget the Covenant of

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00:28:49,200 –> 00:28:53,300
the Lord your God?
Which he made with you and make

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00:28:53,300 –> 00:28:57,000
a carved image, the form of
anything that the Lord, your God

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00:28:57,000 –> 00:29:00,400
has forbidden you for the Lord.
Your God is a consuming fire, a

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00:29:00,400 –> 00:29:04,200
jealous God.
And so here’s Elijah taking that

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00:29:04,200 –> 00:29:06,600
description of God and saying,
look, you’re a jealous.

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00:29:06,600 –> 00:29:10,800
God, I’m jealous for you.
You said don’t forget the

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00:29:10,800 –> 00:29:12,100
Covenant.
Well, that’s what everybody has

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00:29:12,100 –> 00:29:15,600
done.
So, he quotes Deuteronomy, and

478
00:29:15,600 –> 00:29:19,400
the reason that this is so
powerful, I think for us is

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00:29:19,400 –> 00:29:24,100
consider the way.
That Deuteronomy describes the

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00:29:24,100 –> 00:29:28,500
Covenant at Sinai.
You came near and stood at the

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00:29:28,508 –> 00:29:30,900
foot of the mountain, while the
mountain burned with fire.

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00:29:31,500 –> 00:29:34,500
Then the Lord spoke to you out
of the midst of the fire.

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00:29:36,000 –> 00:29:38,600
The Lord spoke to you at Horeb
out of the midst of the fire

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00:29:39,300 –> 00:29:42,300
verse 33.
Did any people ever hear the

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00:29:42,300 –> 00:29:44,000
voice of a God?
Speaking out of the midst of the

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00:29:44,000 –> 00:29:47,800
fire Deuteronomy 436 and on
Earth you let you see his great

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00:29:47,800 –> 00:29:50,700
fire and you heard his words out
of the midst of the fire, right?

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00:29:50,700 –> 00:29:53,400
We can’t blame Elijah for being
a man of fire.

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00:29:53,500 –> 00:29:56,900
This is where his mind was and
it was totally biblical.

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00:29:58,100 –> 00:30:00,100
Again chapter 5 says the same
thing.

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00:30:00,400 –> 00:30:02,500
The Lord spoke with you
face-to-face at the mountain out

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00:30:02,500 –> 00:30:04,500
of the midst of the fire.
I don’t know why I didn’t

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00:30:04,500 –> 00:30:07,500
underline that one that should
be these words.

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00:30:07,500 –> 00:30:09,100
Spoke the Lord to all your
assembly at the mountain out of

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00:30:09,108 –> 00:30:11,000
them.
It’s the fire burning with fire

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00:30:11,000 –> 00:30:14,000
out of the midst of the fire.
It is everywhere in this

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00:30:14,000 –> 00:30:17,900
description of Sinai.
Now in addition to that, Hebrews

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00:30:17,900 –> 00:30:20,300
tells us there were a few other
things so we got fire.

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00:30:20,300 –> 00:30:24,900
Alright, keep that in mind.
Hebrews chapter 12 says you have

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00:30:24,900 –> 00:30:28,700
not come to what may be touched.
He’s contrasting here, the

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00:30:28,700 –> 00:30:32,500
Covenant at Sinai with the New
Covenant you have not come to

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00:30:32,500 –> 00:30:37,600
what may be touched a blazing
fire and darkness and Gloom and

503
00:30:37,600 –> 00:30:42,600
a tempest.
In other words, read wind.

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00:30:44,800 –> 00:30:48,500
At that time, his voice shook
the Earth.

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00:30:49,900 –> 00:30:57,900
In other words, earthquake.
At Mount Sinai when Moses gave

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00:30:57,900 –> 00:31:00,900
the law.
There was an earthquake.

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00:31:02,200 –> 00:31:05,000
There was wind.
And there was fire.

508
00:31:06,600 –> 00:31:11,900
What do you think Elijah
expected when he stood in the

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00:31:11,900 –> 00:31:14,900
cave?
On Mount Sinai.

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00:31:16,500 –> 00:31:20,900
He’s waiting for the earthquake.
SO waiting for the wind, he’s

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00:31:20,900 –> 00:31:23,800
waiting for the fire.
He’s looking for a renewal here

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00:31:23,800 –> 00:31:26,100
of the Covenant and look at what
happens.

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00:31:27,900 –> 00:31:31,400
God says, leave the cave.
Go out and stand on the mountain

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00:31:31,400 –> 00:31:34,900
before the Lord.
Now, If you are Elijah and

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00:31:34,900 –> 00:31:38,800
you’re recreating Mount Sinai.
How would you feel when you’re

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00:31:38,800 –> 00:31:41,300
told this?
Go out and stand on the

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00:31:41,300 –> 00:31:46,900
mountain.
Keep in mind Moses was in the

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00:31:46,900 –> 00:31:50,600
cave the whole time, right?
Because if he saw the glory of

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00:31:50,600 –> 00:31:52,800
God, what would happen?
He would die.

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00:31:53,100 –> 00:31:55,600
God says no man can see me and
live so I will put you in the

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00:31:55,600 –> 00:31:57,800
cave.
I’ll cover you with my hand.

522
00:31:59,500 –> 00:32:02,300
And God says, Elijah get out of
the cave.

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00:32:04,000 –> 00:32:05,100
You know what’s interesting
about that?

524
00:32:06,900 –> 00:32:12,400
He doesn’t. because in the next
verse were told, then he left

525
00:32:12,400 –> 00:32:18,800
the cave, Elijah refuses to
leave This is where he’s at

526
00:32:18,800 –> 00:32:20,600
mentally and emotionally at this
point.

527
00:32:20,600 –> 00:32:23,000
He says, I will not let go,
right?

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00:32:23,000 –> 00:32:28,400
This is, this is who you are.
You are the earthquake, the

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00:32:28,400 –> 00:32:31,200
wind, the fire.
I am the prophet of fire.

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00:32:31,300 –> 00:32:33,200
I’ve been bringing your fire on
the people.

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00:32:33,400 –> 00:32:37,100
Show me who you are, right,
reaffirm this for all of me.

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00:32:37,200 –> 00:32:41,300
So Elijah does not leave.
And so, God passes by.

533
00:32:43,000 –> 00:32:45,500
And you can picture him standing
there watching the wind and

534
00:32:45,500 –> 00:32:48,300
Elijah thinking.
Here it is right?

535
00:32:48,400 –> 00:32:51,700
This is it.
The glory of God.

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00:32:53,200 –> 00:32:57,000
And then the wind stops.
And there’s nothing.

537
00:32:58,400 –> 00:33:00,400
And then the ground starts to
shake and Elijah thinks.

538
00:33:00,400 –> 00:33:01,600
This is it.
This is the one.

539
00:33:03,100 –> 00:33:06,900
And nothing and then finally
fire.

540
00:33:07,500 –> 00:33:10,200
And can you picture his mind?
Going through Deuteronomy out of

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00:33:10,200 –> 00:33:12,300
the midst of the fire out of the
midst of the fire and thinking?

542
00:33:12,300 –> 00:33:14,800
That’s right.
That’s that’s why God save this

543
00:33:14,800 –> 00:33:17,400
one for last.
This is where his glory will be

544
00:33:17,400 –> 00:33:21,300
revealed because the fire was
all over the mount.

545
00:33:22,500 –> 00:33:26,500
God spoke out of the midst of
the fire and here’s Elijah

546
00:33:26,500 –> 00:33:30,600
thinking finally I’ve waited to
see the glory of God.

547
00:33:32,400 –> 00:33:37,800
And the fire dies down.
And Elijah is standing there in

548
00:33:37,800 –> 00:33:41,200
the cave.
And you know what happens?

549
00:33:42,500 –> 00:33:47,500
He hears.
A gentle whisper.

550
00:33:49,300 –> 00:33:50,800
And, you know, it’s unfortunate
about that.

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00:33:51,700 –> 00:33:58,200
We’re not told what he heard the
whisper say. and I think, That’s

552
00:33:58,200 –> 00:34:02,200
because he would have actually
heard the words. if he had gone

553
00:34:03,100 –> 00:34:07,500
out of the cave, But he doesn’t
and he didn’t.

554
00:34:09,300 –> 00:34:14,100
So instead he hears something
and that’s when he comes out.

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00:34:14,199 –> 00:34:17,300
Look at the next verse after the
earthquake of fire, the Lord was

556
00:34:17,300 –> 00:34:20,300
not in the fire after the fire,
the sound of a low whisper.

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00:34:21,900 –> 00:34:26,100
Verse 13 and when Elijah heard
it, he hears something and he

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00:34:26,107 –> 00:34:30,100
goes scrambling out of the cave.
He wraps his face in his cloak

559
00:34:30,100 –> 00:34:32,100
and went out and stood at the
entrance of the cave.

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00:34:33,100 –> 00:34:35,800
So he runs out and he thinks
this is where God is.

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00:34:38,300 –> 00:34:41,500
The Whispers gone, though.
And you know what he hears.

562
00:34:43,100 –> 00:34:49,400
Elijah, why are you here?
and that’s because, In this

563
00:34:49,400 –> 00:34:53,600
opportunity that he had.
To be completely, transformed

564
00:34:54,199 –> 00:34:57,500
recognizing.
Where is the glory of God?

565
00:34:57,500 –> 00:35:00,600
Where is the presence of God?
Who is God?

566
00:35:00,600 –> 00:35:06,000
Really Elijah didn’t leave the
cave when he was told to Elijah

567
00:35:06,000 –> 00:35:09,200
clung to this Vision that he had
of Moses.

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00:35:10,100 –> 00:35:12,700
I mean, look at this, he wraps
his face in his cloak.

569
00:35:12,700 –> 00:35:14,800
Does that remind you of anyone
else, right?

570
00:35:14,800 –> 00:35:18,000
Even after seeing that God was
not in the wind that God was not

571
00:35:18,000 –> 00:35:21,300
in the earthquake, God was not
in the fire, Elijah puts a veil

572
00:35:21,300 –> 00:35:27,200
on His face when he leaves.
And here he is scrambling out of

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00:35:27,200 –> 00:35:29,600
the cave, and that’s what he’s
thinking about.

574
00:35:29,900 –> 00:35:32,800
Frank God is speaking to him in
this low whisper and he’s

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00:35:32,800 –> 00:35:34,100
running out.
Trying to get to it.

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00:35:34,100 –> 00:35:38,200
Oh, got to be like Moses, right?
He covers his face with the

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00:35:38,200 –> 00:35:42,700
Veil.
Okay, here’s the here’s the

578
00:35:42,700 –> 00:35:46,400
reference by the way.
Exodus 34 33 when Moses had

579
00:35:46,400 –> 00:35:48,600
finished speaking with them.
He put a veil over his face.

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00:35:49,900 –> 00:35:53,400
So even after seeing that, God
was not in the earthquake Wind &

581
00:35:53,400 –> 00:35:57,000
Fire.
Elijah still clinging to Moses.

582
00:36:00,500 –> 00:36:05,600
And yet.
Hadn’t Elijah.

583
00:36:07,100 –> 00:36:13,200
Always met with God.
And the word of Yahweh came to

584
00:36:13,200 –> 00:36:16,400
him saying the word of Yahweh
came to him saying, I mean, in

585
00:36:16,400 –> 00:36:20,300
this chapter three times, he met
an Angel and the voice of God

586
00:36:20,300 –> 00:36:23,700
spoke to him twice, right?
He had he had been meeting with

587
00:36:23,700 –> 00:36:28,700
God.
And yet through this encounter,

588
00:36:28,700 –> 00:36:31,900
his attitude didn’t change.
And I think this is the Crux of

589
00:36:31,900 –> 00:36:36,100
the story.
Before he sees the earthquake

590
00:36:36,100 –> 00:36:37,900
Wind & Fire.
He says, I’ve been very jealous

591
00:36:37,900 –> 00:36:40,400
for Yahweh.
The god of hosts, he says the

592
00:36:40,400 –> 00:36:42,800
exact same thing after the
earthquake Wind and Fire.

593
00:36:42,900 –> 00:36:44,900
I’ve been very jealous for
Yahweh, God of hosts.

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00:36:45,000 –> 00:36:47,700
Now, let that sink in a little
bit and think about this.

595
00:36:48,400 –> 00:36:51,000
How did Elijah want to transform
the people?

596
00:36:52,500 –> 00:36:56,200
He wanted to change the people
with earthquake, Wind Fire.

597
00:36:56,200 –> 00:36:58,400
He wanted to show them
pyrotechnics, right?

598
00:36:58,400 –> 00:37:03,800
That would change everything and
God says, but Elijah, that

599
00:37:03,800 –> 00:37:05,400
didn’t change.
Is you?

600
00:37:08,400 –> 00:37:12,100
That’s what this is all about.
I think that is why God brought

601
00:37:12,100 –> 00:37:15,700
him to Mount Sinai.
God didn’t bring him to Mount

602
00:37:15,700 –> 00:37:19,000
Sinai to recreate the law.
Although that’s what Elijah

603
00:37:19,000 –> 00:37:21,900
first.
Thought he brought him to Sinai

604
00:37:22,000 –> 00:37:26,600
to show him Elijah.
These things don’t work, you

605
00:37:26,600 –> 00:37:33,500
have been unchanged by them.
Why did he expect them to change

606
00:37:33,500 –> 00:37:38,000
the people?
And so because he refuses to

607
00:37:38,000 –> 00:37:40,800
change, this is what is amazing
about this.

608
00:37:42,400 –> 00:37:47,300
Even though he won’t change.
God.

609
00:37:48,700 –> 00:37:52,700
Continues to work with him.
Because Elijah was holding to

610
00:37:52,700 –> 00:37:55,600
him.
Because Elijah was willing.

611
00:37:57,000 –> 00:38:00,000
He was willing to hear it.
And even though change took a,

612
00:38:00,008 –> 00:38:04,000
while he would listen.
And so what God does, is God

613
00:38:04,000 –> 00:38:06,800
gets a little more drastic.
You’ll notice, he says, okay, I

614
00:38:06,808 –> 00:38:10,500
have a few things for you to do.
Go to Damascus annoyed, hazy out

615
00:38:10,500 –> 00:38:14,400
king of Syria, go to Israel and
anoint jehu, the king of Israel,

616
00:38:14,800 –> 00:38:18,900
and then go to Elijah and anoint
him to be profit.

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00:38:19,000 –> 00:38:23,600
Now, consider this in your
place.

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00:38:24,700 –> 00:38:27,500
They give you a little bit of an
idea as to where God was that

619
00:38:27,500 –> 00:38:32,800
with Elijah at the time. this
wasn’t a, we’re gonna have

620
00:38:32,800 –> 00:38:37,000
another Prophet who’s going to
work alongside you This was

621
00:38:37,400 –> 00:38:41,200
Elijah.
I know your zealous.

622
00:38:42,000 –> 00:38:45,600
I know you want nothing more
than to see me honored and so

623
00:38:45,600 –> 00:38:47,600
for that, you’re done being a
prophet.

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00:38:48,500 –> 00:38:54,300
Because I can’t teach you how to
really bring me Glory until

625
00:38:54,300 –> 00:38:58,000
you’re not a prophet anymore.
It’s God, says.

626
00:38:59,300 –> 00:39:02,600
Elijah is going to replace you.
And we’re going to do some

627
00:39:02,600 –> 00:39:05,800
intensive training.
Because he had a job for him.

628
00:39:06,600 –> 00:39:11,400
God had a job for Elijah in the
Kingdom that he was going to be

629
00:39:11,400 –> 00:39:15,500
prepared for and because Elijah
was so bent on serving God.

630
00:39:15,600 –> 00:39:18,500
God says, I know you will stick
with me through this.

631
00:39:19,200 –> 00:39:26,100
I know you will hold on.
So, I’m going to take you.

632
00:39:27,500 –> 00:39:30,000
Where it’s really hard.
But we’re going to get through

633
00:39:30,000 –> 00:39:34,800
this.
So, Overtime.

634
00:39:34,800 –> 00:39:37,900
God continues to work with
Elijah, he shows up two more

635
00:39:37,900 –> 00:39:42,000
times after this first Kings,
20, he’s not there to other

636
00:39:42,000 –> 00:39:45,200
prophets now.
First Kings 21.

637
00:39:45,200 –> 00:39:47,700
He shows up once to deliver a
final message to Ahab.

638
00:39:50,200 –> 00:39:54,700
He doesn’t show up in First
Kings, 22, first thing is 23 and

639
00:39:54,700 –> 00:39:58,100
he doesn’t show up at all.
The rest of the book instead.

640
00:39:59,100 –> 00:40:02,400
Second Kings, chapter 1.
He appears.

641
00:40:04,200 –> 00:40:08,700
He appears when those captains
of 50 are sent to come and

642
00:40:08,700 –> 00:40:11,500
capture him.
And that’s it.

643
00:40:12,700 –> 00:40:15,000
Until he’s taken in a chariot of
fire.

644
00:40:15,100 –> 00:40:21,000
He’s In the record.
As long as he’s working with and

645
00:40:21,000 –> 00:40:23,800
preparing Elijah and Elisha is
ready.

646
00:40:24,800 –> 00:40:31,400
Eli just taken.
And yet, that’s because he still

647
00:40:31,400 –> 00:40:36,300
had a lesson to learn.
Now, this is crucial Consider

648
00:40:36,300 –> 00:40:41,500
the strange language here when
Elijah has taken second Kings

649
00:40:41,500 –> 00:40:45,000
chapter to do you not know today
that Yahweh will take away your

650
00:40:45,000 –> 00:40:50,300
master from Over You?
From over you, that’s

651
00:40:50,300 –> 00:40:52,800
interesting.
It said again to Elijah take

652
00:40:52,800 –> 00:40:55,600
away your master from over you
and then Elijah says, before I’m

653
00:40:55,600 –> 00:40:59,400
taken from you.
In other words, implying he’s

654
00:40:59,400 –> 00:41:03,800
going to be working.
Somewhere else doing something

655
00:41:03,800 –> 00:41:06,700
with other people, he’s not
going to be with Elijah anymore,

656
00:41:06,800 –> 00:41:09,000
because Elijah is going to be
the main profit.

657
00:41:09,000 –> 00:41:12,800
But Elijah has another job and
we find that out in Chronicles.

658
00:41:13,900 –> 00:41:17,600
Because a letter comes from him.
This is all we know of what

659
00:41:17,600 –> 00:41:21,000
happens to Elijah but I think
the picture is awesome because

660
00:41:21,000 –> 00:41:27,100
here with the man a fire of
Miracles of Law and God says,

661
00:41:27,800 –> 00:41:31,500
I’m going to bring you to a
place where the only thing you

662
00:41:31,500 –> 00:41:35,500
can do.
Is use words.

663
00:41:38,100 –> 00:41:42,800
That’s it.
You from now on will write

664
00:41:43,300 –> 00:41:46,300
letters.
How do you think Elijah enjoyed

665
00:41:46,300 –> 00:41:48,200
that?
Probably not.

666
00:41:49,700 –> 00:41:52,400
This was, you know, reliving the
brook all over again.

667
00:41:53,800 –> 00:41:57,500
And yet, God does it.
Because Elijah wasn’t going to

668
00:41:57,508 –> 00:42:04,200
let him go and God wasn’t going
to let him go. and so, God says,

669
00:42:05,900 –> 00:42:08,800
I’m going to teach you this,
even if it takes.

670
00:42:09,900 –> 00:42:14,400
Your whole life.
And he does it.

671
00:42:15,500 –> 00:42:21,500
Because all of this life is just
a preparation for who we really

672
00:42:21,500 –> 00:42:25,300
are.
For who God is going to have us

673
00:42:25,300 –> 00:42:28,500
become right?
All of this time he is training

674
00:42:28,500 –> 00:42:32,900
us working with us for what he
is going to have us do forever,

675
00:42:33,100 –> 00:42:35,100
right?
So 80 years of training, 90

676
00:42:35,100 –> 00:42:38,800
years of training, you know,
that’s not bad.

677
00:42:40,800 –> 00:42:45,000
God will do it if we hold onto
him and that is what he does for

678
00:42:45,000 –> 00:42:47,200
Elijah.
And so what we find out is, the

679
00:42:47,200 –> 00:42:51,100
way that Elijah is characterized
in the New Testament is he is

680
00:42:51,100 –> 00:42:54,800
not the prophet of fire and that
is why when James, and John say,

681
00:42:54,900 –> 00:42:57,100
do you want us to call down fire
from heaven?

682
00:42:57,400 –> 00:42:59,600
Like Elijah, you remember what
Jesus says?

683
00:43:00,800 –> 00:43:04,500
You do not know what Spirit your
of.

684
00:43:05,200 –> 00:43:07,100
He says, why don’t you go back
again?

685
00:43:07,100 –> 00:43:09,900
And look at what the spirit of
Elijah actually is because it’s

686
00:43:09,900 –> 00:43:15,400
not that It’s not the fiery
judgment, it’s not the Miracles

687
00:43:15,400 –> 00:43:19,500
instead, the spirit and power of
Elijah is that prayer that he

688
00:43:19,500 –> 00:43:24,700
prayed, it was that feeling and
that way of life, that he lived

689
00:43:24,700 –> 00:43:28,300
when he stretched out on the
child, it was when he recognized

690
00:43:28,300 –> 00:43:31,500
that relationships matter that
the father’s will love the

691
00:43:31,500 –> 00:43:35,000
children.
That the disobedient.

692
00:43:36,000 –> 00:43:40,500
Will become obedient will become
wise to follow the just or the

693
00:43:40,500 –> 00:43:44,400
righteous.
That was the spirit of Elijah.

694
00:43:45,200 –> 00:43:48,200
It was turning people.
It was the answer to his prayer.

695
00:43:50,200 –> 00:43:54,200
And so that’s why we find out
that in Luke 1:16-17 that John

696
00:43:54,200 –> 00:43:56,700
the Baptist would come in the
spirit of Elijah.

697
00:43:58,500 –> 00:44:01,800
We find out that John never
performed any miracles.

698
00:44:03,600 –> 00:44:05,700
And instead when John was asked,
who are you?

699
00:44:06,300 –> 00:44:08,600
I thought the Pharisees sent men
to ask.

700
00:44:08,800 –> 00:44:10,600
Who, are you?
We need to give an answer to

701
00:44:10,600 –> 00:44:12,500
those who sent us.
What do you say about yourself?

702
00:44:13,100 –> 00:44:16,800
John’s words, are I Am The
Voice?

703
00:44:20,400 –> 00:44:25,700
That’s who I am.
He was the man all alone.

704
00:44:27,100 –> 00:44:33,200
In the wilderness who realized
the power of the word of God.

705
00:44:34,300 –> 00:44:41,800
that, that Is what turns hearts?
And so God prepared him for that

706
00:44:41,800 –> 00:44:45,000
God transformed him.
No matter how hard it got.

707
00:44:46,000 –> 00:44:49,000
He transformed him for what
Elijah will do.

708
00:44:51,100 –> 00:44:54,300
In the future.
He will turn the hearts of the

709
00:44:54,300 –> 00:44:57,900
fathers to their children.
And that will finally be the

710
00:44:57,900 –> 00:45:01,900
answer to the prayer.
Can you imagine What do you

711
00:45:01,900 –> 00:45:03,900
think it’s going to be like when
by the grace of God?

712
00:45:04,400 –> 00:45:09,100
We are in the kingdom and we
find out that all those

713
00:45:09,100 –> 00:45:11,900
struggles that we’ve had all
that frustration.

714
00:45:13,400 –> 00:45:18,300
That, that was God.
Getting us ready.

715
00:45:20,100 –> 00:45:22,500
God is saying, yeah, you went
through that because this is

716
00:45:22,500 –> 00:45:25,800
what you’re about to do.
Now, if this I had to experience

717
00:45:25,800 –> 00:45:28,400
that because I had to transform
you, I had to change your way of

718
00:45:28,400 –> 00:45:31,700
thinking so that now you’re
ready for this job.

719
00:45:32,000 –> 00:45:38,200
Now you’re ready to be here.
That’s what Elijah had to learn.

720
00:45:39,700 –> 00:45:45,400
And I think, that even though it
would have felt throughout his

721
00:45:45,400 –> 00:45:50,000
whole life, he would have looked
back on caramel and thought Did

722
00:45:50,000 –> 00:45:54,600
God not hear that prayer?
Just imagine what it will be.

723
00:45:55,400 –> 00:46:00,200
When Elijah is raised and God
says Elijah.

724
00:46:01,100 –> 00:46:05,500
I have a job for you.
You’re going to turn the hearts.