Class 3 from this series was used for GCT Episode 216.<\/p>\n
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\nBible School.
\nOur first period teacher is <\/p>\n
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\nbrother.
\nJason Hensley, as general <\/p>\n
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\nsubject is Elijah.
\nA man of like passions. <\/p>\n
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\nToday’s topic is the Ravens.
\nThank you, Brian. <\/p>\n
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\nGood morning, everyone.
\nOkay, so I was asked to talk a <\/p>\n
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\nlittle bit slower, so I’m going
\nto try But if I see any of you <\/p>\n
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\nasleep, I’m gonna talk fast
\nagain. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, so that or I might
\ncome, you know, sit next to you <\/p>\n
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\nso.
\nSo we’ll see how it goes. <\/p>\n
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\nOkay, we are going to be talking
\nabout the Ravens today so that’s<\/p>\n
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\njust kind of recap what we have
\ngone over so far. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have seen Elijah learning
\nthis lesson that God is in <\/p>\n
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\ncontrol.
\nOr at least maybe we haven’t <\/p>\n
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\nseen him learning it yet, but
\nwe’ve seen him needing to learn <\/p>\n
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\nthis lesson.
\nSo we have him needing to learn <\/p>\n
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\nthe lesson.
\nAnd we are now going to see the <\/p>\n
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\nbeginnings of God teaching that
\nto him as he goes, and he spends<\/p>\n
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\ntime with the Ravens.
\nSo here we are in class 3. and, <\/p>\n
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\nHere are lessons.
\nWe have seen the God is in <\/p>\n
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\ncontrol.
\nWe have seen that God hears <\/p>\n
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\nprayers, we have seen, or we
\nwill see today that God gives <\/p>\n
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\nlessons that push us beyond our
\ncomfort zones. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I think that’s a fairly we
\nunderstand that, we know that <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s how God works.
\nWe can’t really learn anything. <\/p>\n
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\nUnless we are pushed beyond our
\ncomfort zones, but I think it’s <\/p>\n
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\nstill something that we need to
\nbe reminded of consistently <\/p>\n
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\nbecause we find ourselves
\nasking. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy is this happening?
\nWhy does it have to be like <\/p>\n
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\nthis?
\nAnd the answer is It’s not <\/p>\n
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\nalways the answer, but a lot of
\ntimes the answer is because <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re growing, and this is how
\nwe grow. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have to feel uncomfortable,
\nwe have to be put in situations <\/p>\n
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\nthat make us Go outside of our
\nnorm and so that’s what we are <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to see here with Elijah.
\nHe is going to be put in a <\/p>\n
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\nsituation with the Ravens that
\nwould have. <\/p>\n
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\nMade him feel incredibly
\nuncomfortable. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, the plan you’ll
\nnotice we have three sections. <\/p>\n
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\nWe will be talking about Elijah
\nat the brook. <\/p>\n
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\nThen his journey to the Widow,
\nbut we’re not going to talk <\/p>\n
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\nabout the Widow yet so you have
\nto wait until tomorrow. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we’ll be at the brook, his
\njourney to the Widow and then <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re going to compare the brook
\nwith the time with the Widow. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to see that in fact,
\nGod was doing the same thing <\/p>\n
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\nboth times, teaching him the
\nsame lesson. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the idea God gives
\nlessons that push us beyond our <\/p>\n
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\ncomfort zones.
\nAnd the big question is, why <\/p>\n
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\nRavens Why is that a significant
\nthing to know and couldn’t <\/p>\n
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\ncouldn’t scripture have just
\nsaid Birds, right? <\/p>\n
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\nWhy does that make a difference?
\nWhy is it? <\/p>\n
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\nWhy is it important that it was
\nRavens and not parakeets, right?<\/p>\n
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\nI mean, aside from, you know,
\nwould have been cuter if it was <\/p>\n
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\nparakeets.
\nBut but you know what, why is it<\/p>\n
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\nmake a difference, right?
\nBut scripture gives us the <\/p>\n
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\ndetails and so we’re supposed to
\nwear supposed to know that was a<\/p>\n
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\nrhetorical question, Peter.
\nWe can talk after All right, so <\/p>\n
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\nat the, at the brook, you’ll
\nnotice that God tells him twice <\/p>\n
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\nthat it was going to be Ravens
\nthat fed him. <\/p>\n
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\nSo there’s a significance here,
\nRavens Ravens. <\/p>\n
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\nSo again, Elijah is always
\ncommanded by God to do <\/p>\n
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\nessentially everything in his
\nlife. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in this command, God gives a
\nfew particular details, <\/p>\n
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\nspecifically here that it’s
\ngoing to be Ravens. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the question is why?
\nWell I think first of all Ravens<\/p>\n
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\nwould have presented a problem.
\nThe reason being the so you want<\/p>\n
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\nto say Peter, There you go.
\nThat’s right. <\/p>\n
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\nRavens.
\nAre unclean Birds? <\/p>\n
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\nYes.
\nSo Ravens are unclean and this <\/p>\n
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\nwould be an issue.
\nSo you see you have it up here. <\/p>\n
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\nLeviticus 11, 13 to 15.
\nYou shall detest every Raven of <\/p>\n
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\nany kind.
\nNow, I think that this is <\/p>\n
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\nhelpful because we don’t we
\ndon’t live under the laws of <\/p>\n
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\nclean and unclean.
\nAt least I assume none of you <\/p>\n
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\nkeep kosher, maybe you do, but I
\ndon’t think so. <\/p>\n
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\nSo this, these are laws that we
\noften don’t think about so, in <\/p>\n
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\norder to really get The strength
\nof what God is saying here. <\/p>\n
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\nI want us to pay attention to
\nthis word, detest. <\/p>\n
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\nYou shall detest every Raven of
\nany kind. <\/p>\n
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\nThe reason that we want to look
\nat that is because the same word<\/p>\n
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\nshows up later in Leviticus
\nchapter 20 and now notice what <\/p>\n
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\nGod says, if you don’t detest
\nthese things that I’ve told you <\/p>\n
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\nto test look at what would
\nhappen. <\/p>\n
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\nYou shall not make yourselves
\ndetestable by Beast or by bird <\/p>\n
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\nor buy anything with which the
\nground crawls, which I have set <\/p>\n
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\napart for you to hold unclean.
\nDo you see what God is saying? <\/p>\n
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\nHe says these animals are
\ndetestable and if you don’t <\/p>\n
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\ndetest them then, guess what
\nhappens to you? <\/p>\n
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\nYou become detestable, right?
\nIt’s like the detestable nurse <\/p>\n
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\nI was going to say, d <\/p>\n
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\ntestability.
\nBut anyway, the detestable nurse<\/p>\n
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\nof these animals like transfers
\nto you. <\/p>\n
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\nAlmost if you don’t, if you
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\ndon’t be with these animals.
\nDon’t be with these birds. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, just to give you a sense of
\nwhat’s meant by detest. <\/p>\n
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\nRight, it wasn’t just a oh, I
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\nIt’s not good.
\nIt’s unclean. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t like it.
\nHere’s your word. <\/p>\n
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\nIt shh cots and Hebrew.
\nThis is the strongest number <\/p>\n
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\n82-62 only shows up seven times
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\nit’s not just a I don’t kind of
\nlike it very much. <\/p>\n
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\nLook at how God uses the word
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\nSix.
\nHe’s talking about Idols here <\/p>\n
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\nand he says, you will utterly
\ndetest and abhor it for? <\/p>\n
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\nIt is devoted to destruction.
\nThis is how are they were <\/p>\n
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\nsupposed to feel about these
\nunclean animals that when you <\/p>\n
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\nsee the unclean animal coming,
\nyou say whoa I’m not getting <\/p>\n
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\nnear that, right?
\nI’m not gonna touch it. <\/p>\n
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\ntouch me.
\nSomething along those lines. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were to detest, hate it up,
\nwhore it right and and you can <\/p>\n
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\nsee what the description of the
\nidols here. <\/p>\n
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\nGod says, burn them up, right?
\nTotally get rid of them. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is a serious word.
\nNow. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you, are you beginning to
\nsense, here? <\/p>\n
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\nThe sudden moral dilemma that
\nElijah would be feeling. <\/p>\n
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\nSo here he is the word of God
\ncomes to him. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd says, how are you go to the
\nbrook cherith? <\/p>\n
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\nRight.
\nNo issue there. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’re going to have water
\nduring the drought and by the <\/p>\n
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\nway, Ravens will feed you.
\nElijah, I’ve told Ravens to give<\/p>\n
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\nyou food, Here’s Elijah.
\nJust thinking Aren’t those the <\/p>\n
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\nbirds I’m supposed to detest?
\nI’m supposed to abhor these <\/p>\n
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\nthings.
\nHow, how do I get the food <\/p>\n
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\nright?
\nAre they going to drop it off <\/p>\n
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\nover there?
\nAnd, you know, I just hang out <\/p>\n
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\nover here until the bird flies
\naway and then I go get the food.<\/p>\n
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\nLike how’s this totally supposed
\nto work so you can see that. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, what’s fascinating about
\nthis, in addition is I want us <\/p>\n
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\nto think about the details.
\nThat Elijah wasn’t told. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s a lot of things that God
\ndoesn’t say. <\/p>\n
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\nHe doesn’t say where he’s going
\nto sleep, you know, if I Was <\/p>\n
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\nElijah you kind of care about
\nthat, right? <\/p>\n
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\nWas there going to be an ice
\ncave or something? <\/p>\n
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\nWhere he could spend the night?
\nWhat was he supposed to do? <\/p>\n
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\nIf a wild animal came because
\nhe’s just living in the <\/p>\n
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\nWilderness.
\nAt a brook during a drought, he <\/p>\n
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\nwould assume he probably had a
\nnumber of run-ins with <\/p>\n
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\ncreatures.
\nHe probably did not want to have<\/p>\n
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\nrun-ins with what was he
\nsupposed to do. <\/p>\n
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\nGod doesn’t say anything about
\nthat stuff, but he tells him <\/p>\n
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\ntwice Ravens Ravens Elijah.
\nThe problem actually gets worse,<\/p>\n
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\nthough.
\nLet me ask you this question. <\/p>\n
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\nAnybody know.
\nI got rid of my transitions <\/p>\n
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\nhere.
\nSo now you know all the secret <\/p>\n
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\nquestions I’m going to ask you
\nif anybody know what ravens eat,<\/p>\n
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\ndon’t look at the screen.
\nRavens, eat dead stuff right now<\/p>\n
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\nyou get one quick guess where
\nyou allowed to eat dead stuff <\/p>\n
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\nunder the law of Moses know,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nThat was a No-No because dead
\nstuff was unclean. <\/p>\n
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\nSo consider this God says,
\nRavens are going to give you <\/p>\n
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\nfood, right?
\nAnd the way that, you know that <\/p>\n
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\nthings are unclean within
\nJudaism. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a very quick quick way to
\nknow if an animal is kosher or <\/p>\n
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\nnot.
\nAnd that is, if that animal is <\/p>\n
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\nconsidered, A scavenger
\nscavengers are not clean. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I’ll Raven is a scavenger
\ntherefore imagine this. <\/p>\n
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\nGod says to Elijah an unclean
\nbird is going to give you your <\/p>\n
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\nfood.
\nCan you imagine Elijah’s next <\/p>\n
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\nquestion?
\nWell what kind of food is that <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to be right?
\nBecause probably you know it’s <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to be bringing today’s
\nroadkill, you know? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd when Ahab was driving around
\nor whatever and he runs into <\/p>\n
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\nsomething they nuns at the Raven
\nflies down and brings it to <\/p>\n
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\nElijah.
\nAnd here’s this dead thing and <\/p>\n
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\nand here’s Elijah, just trying
\nto figure out. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, I wonder where this came
\nfrom. <\/p>\n
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\nIs this clean or not?
\nI probably can’t eat this. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s a fascinating sort of
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\nlamb one lamb for each household
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\na lot, but I’ll man, it’s like
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\nAnd the Philistines huh? <\/p>\n
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\nOh do you know they put him back
\nup. <\/p>\n
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\nChronicles 13.
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\ndon’t want sacrifices or else I
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\nsacrifices of God, are a broken
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\nofferings, I think that’s good.
\nBut let’s think about the <\/p>\n
336
\n00:22:08,600 –> 00:22:12,400
\ncontext just a little bit.
\nHere’s David. <\/p>\n
337
\n00:22:14,100 –> 00:22:16,500
\nWe’re for a big chunk of his
\nlife. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:22:17,100 –> 00:22:21,600
\nThere was no Arc, there was no
\nforgiveness and he’s thinking <\/p>\n
339
\n00:22:21,600 –> 00:22:29,000
\nthinking thinking about all of
\nthis and then God Helps him to <\/p>\n
340
\n00:22:29,000 –> 00:22:33,000
\nrealize.
\nThat he has just committed <\/p>\n
341
\n00:22:33,800 –> 00:22:38,300
\nadultery and murder now under
\nthe law. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:22:39,600 –> 00:22:43,000
\nWhat?
\nHow do you get forgiven for <\/p>\n
343
\n00:22:43,000 –> 00:22:47,500
\nadultery and murder?
\nYou don’t write, you just died <\/p>\n
344
\n00:22:48,300 –> 00:22:50,300
\nthat.
\nI mean, that was the situation. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:22:50,600 –> 00:22:53,500
\nYou, you just get stoned the
\nend, you know, your maybe you <\/p>\n
346
\n00:22:53,500 –> 00:22:56,400
\nget stone twice because that’s
\nyou know, adultery and murder. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:22:56,600 –> 00:23:01,000
\nSo it was bad, right?
\nAnd so David realizes, I can’t <\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:01,000 –> 00:23:03,900
\ngive you anything.
\nThere’s no sacrifice I can <\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:03,900 –> 00:23:05,300
\noffer.
\nSo it’s not just that he’s <\/p>\n
350
\n00:23:05,300 –> 00:23:09,000
\nsaying God didn’t want
\nsacrifices, David is realizing <\/p>\n
351
\n00:23:09,100 –> 00:23:12,900
\nfor me.
\nPersonally, I am dead according <\/p>\n
352
\n00:23:12,900 –> 00:23:16,300
\nto the law.
\nThere is nothing that I can do. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:23:18,100 –> 00:23:21,200
\nAnd this is what God is
\nconstantly doing. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:23:21,300 –> 00:23:24,900
\nAnd we are going to see this
\nvery powerfully in the life of <\/p>\n
355
\n00:23:24,900 –> 00:23:28,500
\nElijah that God says Elijah.
\nYou want food? <\/p>\n
356
\n00:23:29,600 –> 00:23:32,900
\nYou’re gonna have to eat it from
\nan unclean bird. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:23:32,900 –> 00:23:36,600
\nAnd, you know what?
\nThat food is actually probably <\/p>\n
358
\n00:23:36,600 –> 00:23:39,700
\nunclean too.
\nWhat are you gonna do about <\/p>\n
359
\n00:23:39,700 –> 00:23:44,500
\nthat?
\nThis is Elijah being pushed <\/p>\n
360
\n00:23:44,900 –> 00:23:48,700
\nBeyond his comfort zone.
\nOkay. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:23:50,600 –> 00:23:55,000
\nFood from an unclean animal and
\nfood that was dead on its own <\/p>\n
362
\n00:23:55,100 –> 00:23:58,700
\nDeuteronomy. 14 21.
\nYou shall not eat anything that <\/p>\n
363
\n00:23:58,700 –> 00:24:03,300
\nhas died naturally.
\nIf you want those two references<\/p>\n
364
\n00:24:03,300 –> 00:24:07,100
\nas well, by the way, Ezekiel 414
\nand acts 1014. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:24:08,000 –> 00:24:11,700
\nThose are two places in which
\nfaithful people Ezekiel and <\/p>\n
366
\n00:24:11,700 –> 00:24:16,300
\nPeter are both saying, I have
\nnever eaten anything in my life.<\/p>\n
367
\n00:24:16,300 –> 00:24:21,200
\nThat is unclean, right?
\nSo you can see now, That was <\/p>\n
368
\n00:24:21,200 –> 00:24:29,100
\nwhat was typical.
\nOkay, so this is what God is <\/p>\n
369
\n00:24:29,100 –> 00:24:34,200
\ndoing for Elijah.
\nI think he’s reminding Elijah, <\/p>\n
370
\n00:24:34,200 –> 00:24:37,800
\nyou know, this is the, this is
\nthe constant message that God is<\/p>\n
371
\n00:24:37,800 –> 00:24:40,400
\nin control.
\nAnd I think what’s incredibly <\/p>\n
372
\n00:24:40,400 –> 00:24:44,800
\npowerful about this is and I
\ndon’t, I don’t mean this to be <\/p>\n
373
\n00:24:44,800 –> 00:24:48,300
\nbelittling in any kind of way.
\nBut I think that this is <\/p>\n
374
\n00:24:48,300 –> 00:24:50,300
\nactually a helpful thing for us
\nto recognize. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:24:51,200 –> 00:24:55,200
\nDo you notice Where God puts
\nElijah. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:24:57,100 –> 00:25:04,400
\nHe puts them in a place that is
\nmiles away from any other human.<\/p>\n
377
\n00:25:06,600 –> 00:25:10,300
\nSo Elijah has just said, you
\nknow, essentially don’t worry, <\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:10,300 –> 00:25:13,300
\nGod, I got this.
\nI’m going to call down a <\/p>\n
379
\n00:25:13,308 –> 00:25:15,600
\ndrought.
\nI’ll convert the people. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:25:16,000 –> 00:25:19,600
\nI’ll take care of your plan.
\nI got it all and God says, okay <\/p>\n
381
\n00:25:19,600 –> 00:25:21,500
\nElijah.
\nI actually have a plan. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:25:21,600 –> 00:25:24,300
\nYou go and you live out by
\nyourself for years. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:25:26,200 –> 00:25:28,700
\nCan you imagine how that would
\nfeel right? <\/p>\n
384
\n00:25:28,700 –> 00:25:32,800
\nYou you think you’re taking care
\nof this whole thing and God says<\/p>\n
385
\n00:25:32,900 –> 00:25:38,200
\nokay yeah you go take care of it
\nby yourself and the only thing <\/p>\n
386
\n00:25:38,200 –> 00:25:43,100
\nyou can talk to our unclean
\nBirds and that’s good. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:25:43,100 –> 00:25:45,800
\nElijah has to do.
\nHe just goes and he sits there. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:25:47,600 –> 00:25:51,000
\nWhat’s he gonna do with the
\nBrooke for years and years and <\/p>\n
389
\n00:25:51,000 –> 00:25:55,600
\nyears?
\nGod puts him in a place where he<\/p>\n
390
\n00:25:55,600 –> 00:26:05,300
\nhas to realize, oh, God’s plan.
\nDoesn’t depend on me. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:26:06,900 –> 00:26:08,200
\nNow, have you ever felt that
\nway? <\/p>\n
392
\n00:26:08,900 –> 00:26:13,900
\nHave you ever felt like Oh, man.
\nYou know, I have this this set <\/p>\n
393
\n00:26:13,900 –> 00:26:17,400
\nof decisions in front of me, and
\nif I don’t make the right <\/p>\n
394
\n00:26:17,400 –> 00:26:24,900
\ndecision, God isn’t going to be
\nable to fulfill his plan or if I<\/p>\n
395
\n00:26:24,900 –> 00:26:28,000
\ndon’t make the right decision,
\nyou know somebody who needs help<\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:28,500 –> 00:26:32,300
\nwon’t get helped or that if I
\ndon’t say the right thing, when <\/p>\n
397
\n00:26:32,300 –> 00:26:35,600
\nI’m preaching to this person,
\nwell, maybe they’re going to <\/p>\n
398
\n00:26:35,608 –> 00:26:40,400
\nturn away or if I don’t reach
\nout to this person right now and<\/p>\n
399
\n00:26:40,400 –> 00:26:42,700
\nthis is the Elijah way of
\nthinking, right? <\/p>\n
400
\n00:26:42,700 –> 00:26:45,000
\nI got a call down the drought
\nright now because if I don’t do <\/p>\n
401
\n00:26:45,000 –> 00:26:46,500
\nit, now things are going to work
\nout. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:26:46,500 –> 00:26:47,600
\nGod’s whole plan will fall
\napart. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:26:48,000 –> 00:26:50,300
\nSorry, I got excited and I Talk
\na little fast. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:26:51,800 –> 00:26:56,000
\nBut this is a, this is what
\nwe’re being told here that this <\/p>\n
405
\n00:26:56,000 –> 00:26:58,000
\nis the way that Elijah was
\nthinking. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:26:58,100 –> 00:27:03,400
\nAnd we so often think like this,
\nI remember before having to <\/p>\n
407
\n00:27:03,400 –> 00:27:06,600
\ndecisions in front of me and
\nfeeling like I didn’t know which<\/p>\n
408
\n00:27:06,600 –> 00:27:08,300
\none was going to glorify God the
\nmost. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:27:08,500 –> 00:27:10,800
\nSo I said, I’d pray and flip a
\ncoin. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:27:11,700 –> 00:27:16,700
\nMaybe you’ve done that before.
\nBut I think what God actually <\/p>\n
411
\n00:27:16,700 –> 00:27:20,800
\nwants us to realize is he can
\nactually work with both. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:27:21,500 –> 00:27:25,400
\nIt’s not a question of which
\none’s better and if I don’t do <\/p>\n
413
\n00:27:25,400 –> 00:27:27,600
\nthe right, one things will fall
\napart. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:27:28,300 –> 00:27:34,800
\nIt’s God saying actually you
\nhave to realize you’re less <\/p>\n
415
\n00:27:34,800 –> 00:27:36,500
\nimportant than you think you
\nare. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:27:37,600 –> 00:27:40,100
\nAnd I can actually take care of
\nthis without you. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:27:41,600 –> 00:27:45,300
\nThe key thing.
\nThat should amaze us. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:27:46,700 –> 00:27:50,400
\nIs that God actually wants to
\nuse us. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:27:52,800 –> 00:27:58,100
\nIt’s not that he has to.
\nBut that he wants to. and so, <\/p>\n
420
\n00:27:58,100 –> 00:28:04,300
\nwhen we find ourselves thinking,
\nIf I don’t do the right thing <\/p>\n
421
\n00:28:04,300 –> 00:28:06,900
\nhere, if I don’t make the exact
\nright choice, it’s not going to <\/p>\n
422
\n00:28:06,900 –> 00:28:09,700
\nwork.
\nI think we’ve forgotten. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:28:11,000 –> 00:28:13,300
\nThat.
\nYes, we plant and we water. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:28:14,900 –> 00:28:18,700
\nBut God gives the increase.
\nAnd oh man I mean can you feel <\/p>\n
425
\n00:28:18,700 –> 00:28:23,700
\nthe sense of relief in that?
\nI think there’s a major relief <\/p>\n
426
\n00:28:23,800 –> 00:28:28,800
\nacknowledging.
\nGod has his plan, God knows what<\/p>\n
427
\n00:28:28,800 –> 00:28:33,200
\nhe’s doing.
\nAnd so sometimes I think God <\/p>\n
428
\n00:28:33,200 –> 00:28:37,000
\nwill take us and like Elijah
\nhe’ll just put us in the desert <\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:37,000 –> 00:28:39,400
\nand say, you know, you got to
\nyou got to understand this. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:40,600 –> 00:28:44,300
\nI’m going to work out my plan.
\nDo you want to be a part of it? <\/p>\n
431
\n00:28:44,900 –> 00:28:52,200
\nBecause I’d like you to be so,
\nGod is teaching Elijah with the <\/p>\n
432
\n00:28:52,200 –> 00:28:53,800
\nRavens.
\nNot only are they an unclean <\/p>\n
433
\n00:28:53,800 –> 00:28:56,700
\nbird but there’s one other
\npassage at the time. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:28:56,800 –> 00:28:59,400
\nThat existed that mentioned
\nRavens. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:29:00,500 –> 00:29:03,600
\nIt’s in the Book of Job.
\nConsider what it says. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:29:04,700 –> 00:29:10,700
\nJob 3841 says who provides for
\nthe Raven its prey when its <\/p>\n
437
\n00:29:10,700 –> 00:29:14,100
\nyoung ones cry to God for help
\nand wanders about for lack of <\/p>\n
438
\n00:29:14,100 –> 00:29:18,000
\nfood.
\nWhere was that food coming from <\/p>\n
439
\n00:29:18,000 –> 00:29:22,100
\nthat the Ravens head.
\nAnd that’s what God is showing <\/p>\n
440
\n00:29:22,900 –> 00:29:25,200
\nElijah.
\nI’ve got this. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:29:26,200 –> 00:29:29,400
\nI’m taking care of you.
\nThere’s a trout that you caused,<\/p>\n
442
\n00:29:30,600 –> 00:29:35,700
\nbut you’ll have water, you’ll
\nhave food because I take care of<\/p>\n
443
\n00:29:35,700 –> 00:29:43,400
\nthe Ravens.
\nSo as Elijah Waits The Brooke <\/p>\n
444
\n00:29:43,700 –> 00:29:46,000
\ngets smaller and smaller and you
\ncan just imagine again. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:29:46,200 –> 00:29:48,500
\nHere’s somebody who likes to be
\ndoing things. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:29:48,900 –> 00:29:50,900
\nHe calls down a drought because
\nhe feels like things should be <\/p>\n
447
\n00:29:50,900 –> 00:29:54,200
\ndone and he’s sitting in a place
\nwhere he can do nothing. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:29:55,000 –> 00:29:56,700
\nSo there he is.
\nWe don’t know how long he was <\/p>\n
449
\n00:29:56,700 –> 00:29:58,700
\nthere.
\nMaybe a year. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:29:59,200 –> 00:30:01,900
\nI mean the drought lasted for
\nthree and a half, right. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:30:02,200 –> 00:30:05,700
\nThe only two things he does is
\nhe’s at the brook and he goes to<\/p>\n
452
\n00:30:05,700 –> 00:30:08,500
\nthe Widow’s house.
\nSo somehow you know, you got to <\/p>\n
453
\n00:30:08,500 –> 00:30:11,600
\ndivide those two up amongst the
\nthree and a half years so you <\/p>\n
454
\n00:30:11,608 –> 00:30:13,800
\ncould have been here for years,
\nright? <\/p>\n
455
\n00:30:13,800 –> 00:30:16,400
\nSitting there by himself talking
\nto birds. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:30:17,600 –> 00:30:26,100
\nOkay. then the very next thing
\nthat happens is the word of God <\/p>\n
457
\n00:30:26,100 –> 00:30:29,300
\ncomes to him.
\nAnd he’s told this. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:30:30,900 –> 00:30:35,700
\nNow, you wonder and we’re not
\ntold you wonder how would it <\/p>\n
459
\n00:30:35,700 –> 00:30:39,800
\nhave affected Elijah to be fed
\nby those unclean Birds? <\/p>\n
460
\n00:30:40,000 –> 00:30:42,900
\nWould you have softened a little
\nbit but you have realized, you <\/p>\n
461
\n00:30:42,900 –> 00:30:44,900
\nknow, it’s not necessarily about
\nlaw. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:30:47,100 –> 00:30:48,800
\nWell, God’s Gonna push him a
\nlittle further. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:30:49,700 –> 00:30:54,300
\nHe says, I’ll rise go to
\nZarephath and I love this part <\/p>\n
464
\n00:30:54,900 –> 00:30:59,600
\nwhich belongs to sidon Just to
\nmake sure, you know, in case <\/p>\n
465
\n00:30:59,600 –> 00:31:04,900
\nElijah didn’t know that part.
\nSo God says go to Zarephath. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:31:06,100 –> 00:31:09,500
\nWhich belongs to sidon.
\nNow he could have said go to <\/p>\n
467
\n00:31:09,508 –> 00:31:13,100
\nZarephath, but he specifically
\ntells them, oh, by the way, <\/p>\n
468
\n00:31:13,400 –> 00:31:17,600
\nzidan or Zarephath is in zeidan.
\nNow, why would that have <\/p>\n
469
\n00:31:17,600 –> 00:31:20,600
\nmattered?
\nWhy would anybody care that? <\/p>\n
470
\n00:31:20,600 –> 00:31:26,400
\nZarephath in sidon.
\nThe Hostile place. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:31:27,000 –> 00:31:30,100
\nAnd that was where Jezebel was
\nfrom. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:31:31,100 –> 00:31:34,400
\nSo Jezebel was the one who
\nbrought in the worship of Baal, <\/p>\n
473
\n00:31:35,100 –> 00:31:37,900
\nright?
\nSo now God is saying, okay, <\/p>\n
474
\n00:31:37,900 –> 00:31:39,800
\nyou’ve been here at this Brook
\nfor years. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:31:41,000 –> 00:31:43,200
\nNow, I have a new thing for you
\nto do. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:31:43,800 –> 00:31:48,800
\nI want you to go hang out with
\nJezebel’s friends, right? <\/p>\n
477
\n00:31:49,100 –> 00:31:54,700
\nAnd you can just imagine Elijah
\nbeing like Are you talking about<\/p>\n
478
\n00:31:54,700 –> 00:31:57,500
\nthe Zarephath?
\nThat’s you know, in sidon and <\/p>\n
479
\n00:31:57,500 –> 00:32:02,200
\ngods like yeah Zarephath which
\nis in sidon, that one right. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:32:02,200 –> 00:32:04,400
\nGo go to that Zarephath.
\nI don’t want you to get <\/p>\n
481
\n00:32:04,400 –> 00:32:07,300
\nconfused, go to the bad one.
\nElijah. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:32:08,300 –> 00:32:12,900
\nSo here’s Elijah just thinking
\nyou know, really Is this <\/p>\n
483
\n00:32:12,900 –> 00:32:14,200
\nseriously?
\nWhat I’m supposed to do? <\/p>\n
484
\n00:32:17,200 –> 00:32:23,800
\nIt’s a 60-mile journey from
\ncherith to sidon so he would <\/p>\n
485
\n00:32:23,800 –> 00:32:26,100
\nhave had a long time to think
\nabout this and I think it’s <\/p>\n
486
\n00:32:26,100 –> 00:32:29,000
\nhelpful to just consider what he
\nwould have seen. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:32:29,700 –> 00:32:35,800
\nNow we know that the drought Was
\nhappening. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:32:35,900 –> 00:32:42,000
\nNot just in Israel but also in
\nsidon because the Widow said she<\/p>\n
489
\n00:32:42,000 –> 00:32:48,000
\nhad no food, so can you imagine
\nwhat it would have been like as <\/p>\n
490
\n00:32:48,000 –> 00:32:51,000
\nElijah had been sheltered from
\nall of this, right? <\/p>\n
491
\n00:32:51,400 –> 00:32:56,000
\nHe had been out of Brooke
\ntalking to nobody, but birds I <\/p>\n
492
\n00:32:56,000 –> 00:32:59,400
\nknow I’m really into this like
\ntalking to birds think he was <\/p>\n
493
\n00:32:59,400 –> 00:33:01,900
\nout of Brooke talking to nobody,
\nbut birds he gets up and he <\/p>\n
494
\n00:33:01,900 –> 00:33:05,600
\nleaves and can you imagine what
\nthe shock would be like? <\/p>\n
495
\n00:33:07,200 –> 00:33:10,100
\nAs he begins to walk through and
\nseas. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:33:11,700 –> 00:33:15,400
\nThe devastation.
\nThat happened. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:33:16,700 –> 00:33:23,900
\nBecause of him.
\nCan you imagine that as he’s <\/p>\n
498
\n00:33:23,900 –> 00:33:27,200
\nwalking down?
\nAnd he sees I don’t an empty <\/p>\n
499
\n00:33:27,200 –> 00:33:33,500
\nhouse Another Empty House.
\nAnother one skeletons, right? <\/p>\n
500
\n00:33:33,800 –> 00:33:35,500
\nI mean, this is this is what it
\nwould look like. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:33:35,500 –> 00:33:42,900
\nThis is a famine and then he
\ngets to another country. and he <\/p>\n
502
\n00:33:42,900 –> 00:33:46,000
\nsees the same thing there and
\nthat would have been kind of a <\/p>\n
503
\n00:33:46,000 –> 00:33:53,200
\nweird experience I think because
\nAs he goes. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:33:54,800 –> 00:34:00,000
\nTo this woman.
\nIt’s fascinating. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:34:02,000 –> 00:34:06,600
\nTo realize what God is doing.
\nWant to ask you a question here.<\/p>\n
506
\n00:34:08,300 –> 00:34:10,400
\nGodliness is not measured by
\nconverts. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:34:10,699 –> 00:34:13,400
\nThat wasn’t a question.
\nGodliness is not measured by <\/p>\n
508
\n00:34:13,400 –> 00:34:14,699
\nconvert.
\nSo K, right? <\/p>\n
509
\n00:34:14,699 –> 00:34:18,000
\nWe know that it’s not measured
\nby how many baptisms you know, <\/p>\n
510
\n00:34:18,000 –> 00:34:19,699
\nwe bring about or anything like
\nthat. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:34:19,900 –> 00:34:23,900
\nIt’s God’s the One season who is
\nin control But I do think it’s <\/p>\n
512
\n00:34:23,900 –> 00:34:26,900
\nhelpful to ask this question at
\nthis point. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:34:28,000 –> 00:34:33,800
\nWho threw out Elijah’s life.
\nLearned the gospel because of <\/p>\n
514
\n00:34:33,800 –> 00:34:36,000
\nhim.
\nAny thoughts? <\/p>\n
515
\n00:34:37,100 –> 00:34:38,800
\nWho learned the gospel because
\nof Elijah. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:34:40,900 –> 00:34:42,699
\nIt’s a really fascinating
\nanswer, I think. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:34:45,199 –> 00:34:47,900
\nIt was this woman.
\nAnd her son. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:34:49,400 –> 00:34:53,900
\nAnd that’s it. there were
\nabsolutely as far as we know, <\/p>\n
519
\n00:34:54,500 –> 00:34:58,100
\nthey were absolutely no
\nconversions in the entire <\/p>\n
520
\n00:34:58,100 –> 00:35:07,600
\nlifetime of Elijah except for to
\ngentiles I actually find that <\/p>\n
521
\n00:35:07,600 –> 00:35:11,300
\nkind of Awesome.
\nBecause you can see this <\/p>\n
522
\n00:35:11,300 –> 00:35:16,700
\noverriding theme.
\nElijah’s Big Goal was I’m going <\/p>\n
523
\n00:35:16,700 –> 00:35:21,100
\nto convert the king I’m going to
\nconvert the entire nation and <\/p>\n
524
\n00:35:21,100 –> 00:35:24,800
\nGod says No, Elijah, I’ll do
\nthat. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:35:26,200 –> 00:35:30,600
\nActually.
\nI’m going to use you to convert <\/p>\n
526
\n00:35:30,600 –> 00:35:34,100
\nsomebody, you never would have
\ntalked to before. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:35:35,200 –> 00:35:37,200
\nI’m going to put you in a
\nsituation that makes you <\/p>\n
528
\n00:35:37,200 –> 00:35:41,000
\nincredibly uncomfortable.
\nI’m going to use you there. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:35:42,900 –> 00:35:46,900
\nElijah was a big man with Big
\nDreams, big goals. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:35:47,400 –> 00:35:51,200
\nAnd God says, I want you to be
\ncontent to fill a little space. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:35:53,400 –> 00:35:56,900
\nShe takes him to Zarephath.
\nAnd he has to learn. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:35:57,000 –> 00:36:01,200
\nGod was working with the unclean
\nBirds just like God is working <\/p>\n
533
\n00:36:01,500 –> 00:36:03,700
\nwith these people.
\nNow. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:36:05,000 –> 00:36:08,400
\nThis is very interesting because
\nI don’t think Elijah would have <\/p>\n
535
\n00:36:08,400 –> 00:36:13,600
\nhad a schema for this again.
\nWe just read the story and we <\/p>\n
536
\n00:36:13,600 –> 00:36:16,200
\nthink oh yeah, he was sent to
\nsidon and I probably would have <\/p>\n
537
\n00:36:16,200 –> 00:36:20,700
\nbothered him but I don’t think
\nwe think about what a moral <\/p>\n
538
\n00:36:20,700 –> 00:36:22,700
\ndilemma.
\nThe whole thing would have cost <\/p>\n
539
\n00:36:23,600 –> 00:36:29,200
\nbecause what did the law say
\nabout gentiles? <\/p>\n
540
\n00:36:31,200 –> 00:36:35,100
\nWhat kind of interaction where
\nyou as a Jew supposed to have <\/p>\n
541
\n00:36:35,100 –> 00:36:36,800
\nwith Gentiles?
\nThere were a couple of choices <\/p>\n
542
\n00:36:36,800 –> 00:36:39,400
\nhere.
\nStay separate. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:36:39,400 –> 00:36:40,700
\nSo that’s one choice.
\nRight? <\/p>\n
544
\n00:36:41,000 –> 00:36:43,100
\nStay separate.
\nWhich a lot of times meant you <\/p>\n
545
\n00:36:43,100 –> 00:36:45,900
\ngo in, and you kill them.
\nOkay. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:36:46,100 –> 00:36:48,200
\nSo that was one option with
\nGentiles Peter. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:36:51,200 –> 00:36:52,500
\nSo, you wouldn’t have a meal
\nwith them. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:36:52,500 –> 00:36:54,100
\nThat’s for sure.
\nYep. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:36:54,700 –> 00:36:56,500
\nSee what you do?
\nThat and Elijah’s been told to <\/p>\n
550
\n00:36:56,500 –> 00:36:58,100
\ngo live in her house.
\nRight. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:36:58,900 –> 00:37:03,500
\nHave a lot of meals.
\nYeah, you wouldn’t marry them. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:37:04,400 –> 00:37:08,900
\nWhat about if a gentile wanted
\nto know about God? <\/p>\n
553
\n00:37:09,000 –> 00:37:14,000
\nWhat would you do?
\nYou go through a whole <\/p>\n
554
\n00:37:14,000 –> 00:37:18,100
\nconversion process and they
\nwould become Jewish. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:37:19,100 –> 00:37:21,100
\nRight Said, the law is pretty
\nclear about that. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:37:22,700 –> 00:37:27,800
\nSo, check it out.
\nExodus, 12 verse 49 says, there <\/p>\n
557
\n00:37:27,800 –> 00:37:31,300
\nshall be one law for the native
\nand for the stranger who <\/p>\n
558
\n00:37:31,300 –> 00:37:34,100
\nsojourns among you.
\nIn other words, those who are <\/p>\n
559
\n00:37:34,100 –> 00:37:38,000
\nGentiles, who want to know more
\nabout God, they have to follow <\/p>\n
560
\n00:37:38,000 –> 00:37:41,800
\nthe law.
\nLeviticus 16 29 says, the same <\/p>\n
561
\n00:37:41,800 –> 00:37:44,500
\nthing, it will be a statute.
\nThis is about the day of <\/p>\n
562
\n00:37:44,508 –> 00:37:46,900
\natonement.
\nIt shall be a statute to you <\/p>\n
563
\n00:37:46,900 –> 00:37:50,200
\nforever in that seventh month,
\non the tenth day of the month <\/p>\n
564
\n00:37:50,200 –> 00:37:52,900
\nyou shall afflict yourselves and
\nshall do no work. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:37:53,000 –> 00:37:55,900
\nEither the native or the
\nstranger who sojourns among you <\/p>\n
566
\n00:37:56,000 –> 00:37:59,800
\nso over and over and over.
\nGod says if there is a gentile <\/p>\n
567
\n00:38:00,100 –> 00:38:03,400
\nwho wants to know about me
\nthat’s fine. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:38:04,900 –> 00:38:08,900
\nBut they have to follow the law.
\nSo these are the choices you <\/p>\n
569
\n00:38:08,900 –> 00:38:11,700
\nstay separate from the Gentiles
\nwhich a lot of times met you go <\/p>\n
570
\n00:38:11,700 –> 00:38:13,400
\nin and you completely obliterate
\nthem. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:38:14,100 –> 00:38:18,200
\nOr if there’s ones who want to
\nknow about God you’re looking at<\/p>\n
572
\n00:38:18,200 –> 00:38:22,300
\na re have or Ruth, right?
\nA complete process <\/p>\n
573
\n00:38:22,500 –> 00:38:26,100
\nproselytization.
\nYeah, there you go. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:38:26,200 –> 00:38:30,600
\nConversion complete conversion.
\nSo that was the idea. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:38:32,400 –> 00:38:35,800
\nNow, let me ask you this.
\nWhat did the law say? <\/p>\n
576
\n00:38:37,100 –> 00:38:40,700
\nAbout when you went to live with
\ngentiles? <\/p>\n
577
\n00:38:42,800 –> 00:38:47,200
\nNothing.
\nNow, you’re Elijah. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:38:49,200 –> 00:38:50,400
\nThe law is very important to
\nyou. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:38:50,500 –> 00:38:52,900
\nYou’ve called down a drought
\nbecause that is what the law <\/p>\n
580
\n00:38:52,900 –> 00:38:57,700
\nsaid should happen, right?
\nHere you are for the last year, <\/p>\n
581
\n00:38:57,700 –> 00:39:00,700
\ntwo years, whatever it is,
\nyou’ve been eating food from <\/p>\n
582
\n00:39:00,700 –> 00:39:05,300
\nunclean, birds food, which
\nitself was probably unclean or I<\/p>\n
583
\n00:39:05,308 –> 00:39:08,400
\ndon’t know, maybe you haven’t
\ntouched that, I don’t know. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:39:10,700 –> 00:39:15,500
\nAnd now God says, okay now you
\ncan’t avoid it. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:39:16,900 –> 00:39:25,300
\nGo live with this Gentile woman.
\nAnd by the way, There’s no <\/p>\n
586
\n00:39:25,300 –> 00:39:28,400
\nprovision for that in the law.
\nThere’s nothing. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:39:28,400 –> 00:39:29,600
\nThe law will tell you to do
\nthere. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:39:30,000 –> 00:39:34,100
\nSo here’s this fascinating, if
\nElijah decided, you know what I <\/p>\n
589
\n00:39:34,100 –> 00:39:38,400
\nwant to go and see.
\nLet’s see. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:39:38,400 –> 00:39:42,200
\nWhat does Scripture what kind of
\nadvice to scripture give about <\/p>\n
591
\n00:39:42,200 –> 00:39:51,000
\nthis consider the possible
\nexamples So possible examples, <\/p>\n
592
\n00:39:51,800 –> 00:39:54,600
\nwho else lived under the law are
\nwho else under the law? <\/p>\n
593
\n00:39:54,600 –> 00:39:57,500
\nLived outside of the land.
\nWell David did. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:39:58,400 –> 00:40:01,700
\nNow let’s think about David’s
\nexperience outside of the land <\/p>\n
595
\n00:40:01,700 –> 00:40:03,300
\nof Israel.
\nWhat do you think? <\/p>\n
596
\n00:40:03,300 –> 00:40:06,900
\nGood bad.
\nAnd yeah, pretty bad, right? <\/p>\n
597
\n00:40:06,900 –> 00:40:11,100
\nLike this is how he describes it
\nfirst Samuel 26, you see the end<\/p>\n
598
\n00:40:11,100 –> 00:40:13,200
\nthere.
\nDavid says, it was like I was <\/p>\n
599
\n00:40:13,200 –> 00:40:15,400
\nbeing forced to go serve other
\ngods. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:40:15,900 –> 00:40:18,000
\nRight?
\nWhat do you do with that? <\/p>\n
601
\n00:40:18,000 –> 00:40:24,000
\nIf you’re Elijah, here you are
\nthinking and I know that doesn’t<\/p>\n
602
\n00:40:24,000 –> 00:40:26,900
\nsound too good, right?
\nThat’s that’s not real awesome. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:40:27,600 –> 00:40:30,800
\nOkay so you probably wouldn’t
\nhave wanted to look to David. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:40:31,100 –> 00:40:34,000
\nWell if you ask okay what about
\nbefore the law there were a <\/p>\n
605
\n00:40:34,000 –> 00:40:36,400
\nhandful of people Joseph or
\nMoses? <\/p>\n
606
\n00:40:37,700 –> 00:40:39,700
\nNow, let me ask you about
\nJoseph. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:40:40,300 –> 00:40:45,200
\nWhat was Joseph’s relationship
\nwith Egypt? <\/p>\n
608
\n00:40:46,900 –> 00:40:49,800
\nYeah, it was kind of like an
\ninteresting 50\/50 kind of like <\/p>\n
609
\n00:40:49,800 –> 00:40:53,400
\nhybrid thing, right?
\nWe often call him Joseph but <\/p>\n
610
\n00:40:53,400 –> 00:40:56,100
\nmost people probably would have
\ncalled him do. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:40:56,100 –> 00:41:01,100
\nYou know his Egyptian name Zaf
\nnaphtha, Nia right. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:41:01,300 –> 00:41:04,700
\nSo anyway, you know, if you ever
\ngo on Jeopardy or something, you<\/p>\n
613
\n00:41:04,700 –> 00:41:09,500
\nmight need to know that.
\nSo so that was that was Joseph’s<\/p>\n
614
\n00:41:09,500 –> 00:41:12,300
\nEgyptian name and that was
\nprobably what most people knew <\/p>\n
615
\n00:41:12,300 –> 00:41:14,600
\nhim.
\nAs he had an Egyptian wife, he <\/p>\n
616
\n00:41:14,600 –> 00:41:18,500
\nhad an Egyptian family, right?
\nAnd his wife was, and it’s the <\/p>\n
617
\n00:41:18,500 –> 00:41:22,200
\ndaughter of an Egyptian priest.
\nSo you can imagine Elijah being <\/p>\n
618
\n00:41:22,200 –> 00:41:24,300
\nlike yeah, okay.
\nNot gonna think about Joseph <\/p>\n
619
\n00:41:24,300 –> 00:41:27,800
\neither, right?
\nLike he’s, he wasn’t, you know, <\/p>\n
620
\n00:41:27,800 –> 00:41:31,400
\nhard line in the Enough.
\nSo who else to think about? <\/p>\n
621
\n00:41:31,400 –> 00:41:36,600
\nWell I think he probably found
\nsome kind of solace in Moses, <\/p>\n
622
\n00:41:37,500 –> 00:41:39,900
\nright?
\nSo let’s think about, let’s just<\/p>\n
623
\n00:41:39,900 –> 00:41:43,300
\ntry and think like Elijah here.
\nIf you’re Elijah, you could <\/p>\n
624
\n00:41:43,300 –> 00:41:45,900
\nprobably find a few
\nsimilarities. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:41:46,800 –> 00:41:49,600
\nYou could try and come up with
\nthese and I don’t I’m going to <\/p>\n
626
\n00:41:49,600 –> 00:41:52,200
\nsay right off the bat.
\nI don’t think these were real <\/p>\n
627
\n00:41:52,200 –> 00:41:54,000
\nlegit.
\nI don’t think these are real <\/p>\n
628
\n00:41:54,000 –> 00:41:57,200
\ngood but I’m trying to trying to
\nlike put myself in Elijah’s <\/p>\n
629
\n00:41:57,200 –> 00:42:02,000
\nboots.
\nSo the the idea here is this is <\/p>\n
630
\n00:42:02,000 –> 00:42:03,800
\nperhaps how Elijah could have
\nthought. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:42:04,800 –> 00:42:07,200
\nElijah brought the drought to
\nsave his people but was resented<\/p>\n
632
\n00:42:07,200 –> 00:42:10,400
\nfor it.
\nMoses tried to save his people <\/p>\n
633
\n00:42:10,600 –> 00:42:14,700
\nbut was also resented for it.
\nMaybe a parallel Elijah was just<\/p>\n
634
\n00:42:14,700 –> 00:42:16,900
\nobeying God’s commands as he
\nfelt. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:42:17,100 –> 00:42:19,100
\nSo was Moses.
\nHe knew he was the deliverer. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:42:19,900 –> 00:42:22,300
\nSo Elijah had to flee to a
\nforeign Nation to hide from the <\/p>\n
637
\n00:42:22,300 –> 00:42:26,200
\nKing and sort of Moses.
\nYou can see him kind of almost <\/p>\n
638
\n00:42:26,200 –> 00:42:29,500
\nfeeling like, you know, Moses
\nwas a martyr and I am too kind <\/p>\n
639
\n00:42:29,500 –> 00:42:32,000
\nof thing.
\nOkay. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:42:32,100 –> 00:42:34,900
\nAnd in that foreign Nation, he
\nmeets a woman and a sustained. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:42:35,200 –> 00:42:37,400
\nJust like Moses, meet zipporah
\nand is sustained. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:42:38,600 –> 00:42:44,900
\nNow we’re these parallels really
\nvalid. you know, if somebody, if<\/p>\n
643
\n00:42:44,900 –> 00:42:49,700
\nI heard somebody giving a Bible
\nclass saying these are These are<\/p>\n
644
\n00:42:49,700 –> 00:42:51,900
\nlike good parallels.
\nI’d probably be like me. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:42:51,900 –> 00:42:56,200
\nNot so much.
\nSo maybe this was how Elijah was<\/p>\n
646
\n00:42:56,200 –> 00:42:59,100
\nthinking, but where they
\nlegitimate biblically, I don’t <\/p>\n
647
\n00:42:59,100 –> 00:43:03,200
\nthink so.
\nBecause biblically, I think this<\/p>\n
648
\n00:43:03,200 –> 00:43:07,200
\nis what we’re being told.
\nElijah. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:43:08,300 –> 00:43:10,400
\nWas not actually being
\nparalleled with Moses. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:43:12,000 –> 00:43:13,900
\nI think he was being paralleled
\nwith the Israelites. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:43:14,900 –> 00:43:21,200
\nThink about this God says, I’ll
\ngive you bread and meat that <\/p>\n
652
\n00:43:21,200 –> 00:43:23,900
\nremind you of anyone.
\nBread and me. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:43:24,100 –> 00:43:27,700
\nAnd not only that, I’ll give you
\nwater, right? <\/p>\n
654
\n00:43:28,100 –> 00:43:33,800
\nAnd eventually that bread meat
\nand water will run dry and so <\/p>\n
655
\n00:43:33,800 –> 00:43:35,900
\nyou’ll have to go to a foreign
\nNation to get it. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:43:35,900 –> 00:43:39,200
\nDo you remember that in the
\nExodus that the Israelites had <\/p>\n
657
\n00:43:39,200 –> 00:43:42,900
\nto go to the foreign Nations and
\nsay, can we purchase bread from <\/p>\n
658
\n00:43:42,900 –> 00:43:45,800
\nyou?
\nIt’s very similar, kind of <\/p>\n
659
\n00:43:45,800 –> 00:43:50,700
\nsituation.
\nIn fact, let’s just take a look.<\/p>\n
660
\n00:43:52,900 –> 00:43:58,200
\nExodus 16, 8, you get meat bread
\nin the evening in the morning. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:43:58,200 –> 00:44:00,900
\nSame times by the way, as when
\nElijah was given it. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:44:02,700 –> 00:44:05,500
\nPsalm 78 20.
\nYou have the water gushing out <\/p>\n
663
\n00:44:05,500 –> 00:44:09,000
\neventually God stops providing.
\nAnd so in Deuteronomy chapter 2,<\/p>\n
664
\n00:44:09,000 –> 00:44:12,200
\nverses 1 to 6.
\nThey get sustained by Foreign <\/p>\n
665
\n00:44:12,200 –> 00:44:15,900
\nNations just like Elijah with
\nthe Widow at Zarephath. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:44:16,200 –> 00:44:20,500
\nSustained by a foreign Nation.
\nHere’s what I think is <\/p>\n
667
\n00:44:20,500 –> 00:44:24,100
\nfascinating about this.
\nAnd I just story wasn’t the <\/p>\n
668
\n00:44:24,107 –> 00:44:26,500
\nstory of Moses, like you wanted
\nit to be. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:44:27,800 –> 00:44:30,100
\nIt was a lot less glorious than
\nthat. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:44:31,100 –> 00:44:34,600
\nIt was the story of the people
\nwho didn’t get it. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:44:35,800 –> 00:44:40,200
\nWho complained and who
\nconsistently said, God, you’ve <\/p>\n
672
\n00:44:40,200 –> 00:44:41,800
\nlet us out into the Wilderness
\nto die. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:44:43,100 –> 00:44:48,200
\nWithout recognizing.
\nThat God was pushing them to the<\/p>\n
674
\n00:44:48,200 –> 00:44:51,100
\nnext step of belief to the next
\nstep of belief. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:44:52,100 –> 00:44:53,900
\nHe was making them
\nuncomfortable. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:44:55,200 –> 00:44:58,100
\nTo teach them and that’s what
\nhe’s doing with Elijah. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:44:58,900 –> 00:45:02,400
\nAnd so in fact, as Elijah goes
\nto this Widow at Zarephath, I <\/p>\n
678
\n00:45:02,408 –> 00:45:04,100
\nwant to show you one final slide
\nhere. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:45:05,400 –> 00:45:07,500
\nAs he goes to this Widow at
\nZarephath. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:45:09,800 –> 00:45:11,300
\nI’ll you know what?
\nI’ll show you this too just <\/p>\n
681
\n00:45:11,300 –> 00:45:15,600
\nbecause it’s a fun picture.
\nOkay, that’s not actually <\/p>\n
682
\n00:45:15,600 –> 00:45:17,700
\nrelevant.
\nThe idea is, you know, it’s to <\/p>\n
683
\n00:45:17,700 –> 00:45:20,900
\nlike flamingos because the
\nstories are the same too. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:45:21,200 –> 00:45:23,900
\nAnyway.
\nOkay, so the situations are <\/p>\n
685
\n00:45:23,900 –> 00:45:25,400
\nsimilar.
\nSo let me let me show you, <\/p>\n
686
\n00:45:25,400 –> 00:45:27,400
\nright?
\nYou got Ravens and unclean bird,<\/p>\n
687
\n00:45:27,500 –> 00:45:29,100
\nlike the Widow who’s an unclean
\nbail. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:45:29,100 –> 00:45:32,500
\nWorshiper Ravens are scavengers
\nand it just so happens that the <\/p>\n
689
\n00:45:32,500 –> 00:45:36,700
\nWidow is gathering sticks.
\nScavenging, when he finds her <\/p>\n
690
\n00:45:37,600 –> 00:45:41,700
\nand eating, its food is against
\nthe law, with the Ravens and <\/p>\n
691
\n00:45:41,700 –> 00:45:44,300
\neating the Widow’s food would
\nhave been against the law. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:45:44,700 –> 00:45:48,000
\nSame kind of thing.
\nAnd in fact, if we don’t, if you<\/p>\n
693
\n00:45:48,008 –> 00:45:50,900
\ndon’t feel like the parallel
\nstrong enough, it’s interesting <\/p>\n
694
\n00:45:51,100 –> 00:45:56,400
\nthat God even quotes himself in
\n1st Kings 17. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:45:56,700 –> 00:46:00,200
\nExact same words in the Hebrew.
\nHe says they’re about the brook <\/p>\n
696
\n00:46:00,200 –> 00:46:02,700
\nin verse 4.
\nYou will drink from the brook as<\/p>\n
697
\n00:46:02,700 –> 00:46:04,300
\nI have commanded the Ravens to
\nfeed you there. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:46:05,400 –> 00:46:08,300
\nAnd he says, in 1st Kings 17 9
\nrise, go to Zarephath, which <\/p>\n
699
\n00:46:08,300 –> 00:46:09,700
\nbelongs to Satan and dwell
\nthere. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:46:10,000 –> 00:46:13,600
\nBehold I have commanded a widow
\nthere to feed you. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:46:13,700 –> 00:46:17,700
\nSame words.
\nAnd so God is taking Elijah and <\/p>\n
702
\n00:46:17,700 –> 00:46:20,000
\nsaying Elijah, did you learn the
\nlesson with the Ravens? <\/p>\n
703
\n00:46:21,000 –> 00:46:25,400
\nBecause now I’m going to put you
\nin the same situation, but <\/p>\n
704
\n00:46:25,400 –> 00:46:28,600
\nthere’s no escape from this one.
\nAnd you know what? <\/p>\n
705
\n00:46:28,600 –> 00:46:30,700
\nWe’re going to see and I think
\nthis is awesome. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:46:32,000 –> 00:46:34,600
\nThe big lesson that Elijah has
\nto learn his compassion, <\/p>\n
707
\n00:46:34,800 –> 00:46:38,100
\ncompassion, compassion, and God
\nbegins to teach it to him with <\/p>\n
708
\n00:46:38,100 –> 00:46:42,300
\nthe birds.
\nAnd yet, when Elijah sees the <\/p>\n
709
\n00:46:42,300 –> 00:46:46,800
\nsuffering that his drought has
\nbrought about and when he sees <\/p>\n
710
\n00:46:46,800 –> 00:46:51,800
\nthe suffering of this woman, You
\nactually can tell. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:46:52,900 –> 00:46:55,900
\nElijah begins to be moved.
\nAnd as we’ll see in the next <\/p>\n
712
\n00:46:55,900 –> 00:47:03,500
\nclass, he actually purposefully
\nknowingly breaks, the law. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:47:05,100 –> 00:47:09,100
\nFor the sake of that woman and
\nit’s at that point that the <\/p>\n
714
\n00:47:09,100 –> 00:47:13,400
\nwidow woman turns around and
\nbegins to worship God.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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