Class 3 from this series was used for GCT Episode 216.<\/p>\n
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\nOur first period teacher is
\nbrother Jason’s Hensley. <\/p>\n
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\nHis General subject is Elijah.
\nA man of like passions today’s <\/p>\n
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\ntopic is Elijah’s drought
\nbrother Jason. <\/p>\n
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\nThank you for the Josh.
\nGood morning, everyone. <\/p>\n
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\nI gotta tell you something
\nreally exciting. <\/p>\n
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\nI was accepted into the text and
\npicture this morning so there <\/p>\n
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\nyou go.
\nI feel I feel like I finally <\/p>\n
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\nmade it.
\nI’ve been trying trying for a <\/p>\n
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\nyear so there you go.
\nOkay, so today we’re going to be<\/p>\n
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\ntalking about Elijah’s drought
\nyesterday. <\/p>\n
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\nWe set up kind of the context
\nwith what was going on with a <\/p>\n
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\nhave.
\nWhy was he worse? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd really, we saw this overall
\nmessage that God was the one who<\/p>\n
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\nis in control and so we sort of
\nset up this Foundation to see <\/p>\n
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\nthat that’s really going to be
\nElijah’s major struggle. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s going to be this feeling
\nthat he has to be the one to <\/p>\n
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\nchange everything.
\nI think it’s probably a feeling <\/p>\n
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\nthat a lot of us can relate to.
\nAnd what we’re going to see is <\/p>\n
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\nthat God is going to teach
\nElijah in a very dramatic way, <\/p>\n
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\nagain that he is the one who’s
\nin control. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not about Shh, changing the
\nking. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not about Elijah changing
\nthe people but that God is the <\/p>\n
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\none who has a plan and he knows
\nwhat he’s doing. <\/p>\n
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\nBut interestingly that plan is
\nflexible. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s the piece that we’re
\ngoing to see today, as we talk <\/p>\n
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\nabout Elijah’s drought.
\nSo here we are in class number <\/p>\n
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\ntwo and I just drought our main
\nmessage yesterday was God is in <\/p>\n
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\ncontrol and the message today is
\nthat God hears prayers. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s going to be an
\ninteresting relationship as we <\/p>\n
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\nsee the interaction between God,
\nBeing in control and yet God, <\/p>\n
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\nbeing flexible and hearing
\nElijah’s prayer. <\/p>\n
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\nSo these two ideas are going to
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\nwith one another.
\nAll right. <\/p>\n
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\nTomorrow, we’re going to see
\nthat God gives lessons that push<\/p>\n
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\nus beyond our comfort zone.
\nThese lessons have fantastic <\/p>\n
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\nblessings.
\nGod decides what it’s time for <\/p>\n
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\njudgment and God does not
\nrelent. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right?
\nSo that’s where we are. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to have three
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\nchallenges.
\nSo this is what we’re just going<\/p>\n
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\nto see.
\nAs far as Elijah is concerned. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is sort of going to be like
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\nJust now, as we begin to
\nintroduce him as a character. <\/p>\n
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\nSo what is it that we see as an
\noverview? <\/p>\n
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\nThen we are going to Spending
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\nFirst Kings 17, 1, Josh asked me
\nif I wanted a reading and I told<\/p>\n
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\nhim, well, you could read 1st
\nKings, 17 one. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he, he told me that I could
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\nSo, there you go.
\nSo that’s what I’ll do. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll go ahead and do it.
\nThat’s, that’s what our class <\/p>\n
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\nwill be about First Kings. 17,
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\nSo the last part is then going
\nto be looking at how God works <\/p>\n
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\nand God’s flexibility with
\nElijah. <\/p>\n
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\nOur main message is that God
\nhears prayers and the big. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy question is why did God
\nbring a drought on Israel? <\/p>\n
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\nThis is one of those.
\nWhy questions that? <\/p>\n
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\nI think probably seems really
\neasy to answer. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I don’t think it actually is
\nso let that kind of stew and <\/p>\n
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\nsink in for a little bit and if
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\nOkay, so so that’s a That’s what
\nI want you to take from that. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy did why did God bring a
\ndrought on Israel? <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t think it’s as easy as we
\nthink. <\/p>\n
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\nSo, here’s our reading, First
\nKings 17. 1, it says now, Elijah<\/p>\n
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\nthe tishbite of tishman Gilead,
\nsaid to Ahab as the Lord the god<\/p>\n
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\nWhom I stand there shall be <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this is how we’re going to <\/p>\n
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\nintroduce Elijah.
\nWhenever I pictured, remember, <\/p>\n
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\nElijah with the flowing, beard
\nthe wind and like, you know, the<\/p>\n
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\nlight behind him and all that
\nthe, the triumphant music death.<\/p>\n
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\nIt’s like it all happens, right <\/p>\n
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\nhere.
\nCan you picture it? <\/p>\n
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\nLike, here’s Elijah.
\nHe walks into the palace. <\/p>\n
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\nHe pushes open the doors.
\nSo, the first thing he ever <\/p>\n
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\nsays, in the whole Bible, right?
\nThere’s no, hey, I’m Elijah or <\/p>\n
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\nanything like that, right?
\nHe pushes open the and he says <\/p>\n
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\nno rain and then he leaves Okay,
\nso it’s very dramatic, very <\/p>\n
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\nsuperhero-ish, right?
\nAll right, so I think there’s <\/p>\n
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\ngood reason just to put it out
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\nThere is good reason, I think
\nfor us seeing Elijah in this <\/p>\n
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\nsuperhero, kind of light.
\nNow again scripture doesn’t give<\/p>\n
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\nSo there’s also a good reason
\nfor us, not seeing him that way.<\/p>\n
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\nBut I want to spend a little bit
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\nthink that’s a good way to
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\nSo his story starts with a
\nmiracle. <\/p>\n
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\nNow.
\nI want to ask you this question.<\/p>\n
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\nWhat would you say, since his
\nstory starts with this miracle? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat would you say is the
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\nProvidence?
\nAnybody want to just Venture a <\/p>\n
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\nOnes ones more natural. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah ones more Supernatural. <\/p>\n
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\nMaking the other more natural.
\nYeah. yeah, Peter Yeah, yeah. <\/p>\n
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\ndivine intervention?
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\nThe only other time I’ve given
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\nI think that’s the difference
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\nHere’s the Hebrew word for
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\nIt’s my fate.
\nThat’s your strongest number <\/p>\n
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\n4159, a lot of times it’s
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\nsee it like in regard to the
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\nExodus 1110 Deuteronomy 6 22 you
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\nsupernatural element here that
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\nWhoa you know you can’t explain <\/p>\n
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\nthis a has a sundial do you
\nremember that story that that <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah is going to be healed?
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\nBackwards.
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\nchronicles, 32 24.
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\nsign so it’s what false prophets
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\nDeuteronomy 13 verses 12 to
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\nSo jeroboam makes an altar as
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\ncalf worship and it splits in
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\nThat’s a miracle described in
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\nthrough 5.
\nAnd then again you also get <\/p>\n
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\nanother sense of the word sign
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\nAnd sorry, Ezekiel.
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\nand Zechariah 3, verse 8, where
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\nto as a sign or a miracle.
\nThat’s just a quick overview of <\/p>\n
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\nhow Miracle is used in
\nScripture. <\/p>\n
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\nVersus Providence, which I think
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\nkind of came to that conclusion.
\nThe reason that this is <\/p>\n
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\nsignificant, as it comes to the
\nstory of Elijah is because when <\/p>\n
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\nsuddenly struck by the fact that<\/p>\n
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\nthe first thing he ever does.
\nAnd the first thing he ever <\/p>\n
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\nsays, is a miracle. and,
\nMiracles were not things that <\/p>\n
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\npeople did a whole lot.
\nThey were things that God did. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you know, God God would cause
\nmiracles to happen, but it was <\/p>\n
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\nfairly rare for a human to say I
\nwould like for this to happen <\/p>\n
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\nand it happens.
\nSo I’ll put out a couple of <\/p>\n
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\nexamples.
\nSo Moses does that. <\/p>\n
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\nI say we see it fairly
\nfrequently and Moses his life. <\/p>\n
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\nThe plagues are an example of
\nthat Moses prays. <\/p>\n
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\nLike scum Joshua prays that the
\nsun will stand still see, see it<\/p>\n
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\nin Joshua’s life.
\nSamson. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see it in his life when he
\nasked for the strength to come <\/p>\n
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\nback.
\nBut as far as anybody else <\/p>\n
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\nbefore.
\nElijah. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s what I could come up
\nwith. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, you might be able to prove
\nme wrong and that’s okay. <\/p>\n
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\nI totally don’t mind.
\nIf you stand up and yell <\/p>\n
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\nsomething out and say you know,
\nyou miss somebody that’s fine <\/p>\n
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\nwith me.
\nBut I got I got Moses Joshua, <\/p>\n
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\nSamson.
\nAs the only people who <\/p>\n
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\nspecifically request Miracles
\nbefore Elijah and they happen, <\/p>\n
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\nOkay?
\nBut I recognized, you know, <\/p>\n
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\nmaybe I’m missing somebody but I
\ndon’t think that takes away from<\/p>\n
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\nthe point that this was a fairly
\nunique thing, you know, by <\/p>\n
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\nElijah’s time, if this had
\nhappened with only three people <\/p>\n
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\nin history, it’s kind of a big
\ndeal that here he is being able <\/p>\n
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\nplace. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we have Moses Joshua, Samson,
\nand then Elijah. <\/p>\n
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\nThe only person interestingly
\nwho had performed more miracles.<\/p>\n
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\nBefore Elijah was Moses.
\nSo Elijah performs a number of <\/p>\n
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\nthem.
\nAnd I think that’s part of what <\/p>\n
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\nbrings that Superhero status,
\nyou know, that that kind of <\/p>\n
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\nof him as the guy that says <\/p>\n
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\nfire, you know, and then fire
\ncomes down and like burn stuff <\/p>\n
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\nup, right?
\nThis. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s kind of how we see Elijah
\nand, you know, I think it’s kind<\/p>\n
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\nof it kind of makes sense.
\nSo here’s his catalogue of <\/p>\n
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\nMiracles, he has a three and a
\nhalf year drought First Kings 17<\/p>\n
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\nverse 1.
\nHe multiplies flour and oil <\/p>\n
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\nfirst king 1714.
\nHe raises the Dead 1st Kings 17 <\/p>\n
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\n22.
\nHe calls down fire from heaven, <\/p>\n
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\nat Mount Carmel.
\nFirst Kings, 1838. <\/p>\n
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\nHe calls down rain from Heaven
\nat Mount Carmel. <\/p>\n
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\nFirst Kings, 1841, he calls
\ndown, fire from heaven, twice <\/p>\n
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\nand burns up the Commander’s
\nSecond Kings, 1 verses 10 and <\/p>\n
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\n12.
\nYou might recall, he was going <\/p>\n
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\nto call it down three times,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nBut the last guy says, please
\ndon’t burn me up. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so he doesn’t so you only
\ncalls it down twice and then he <\/p>\n
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\ndivides the Waters of Jordan and
\nhe walks through So, these are <\/p>\n
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\nthe Miracles of Elijah.
\nAgain, the only person to have <\/p>\n
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\nperformed more than him before
\nhim was Moses. <\/p>\n
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\nNow.
\nOn the other hand, what’s <\/p>\n
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\ninteresting about looking at
\nElijah is he gets the superhero <\/p>\n
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\nstatus.
\nI think, from all these <\/p>\n
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\nMiracles, one thing, I think
\nthough that we haven’t noticed, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause we tend to portray him
\nin this way, is Elijah has a lot<\/p>\n
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\nof interesting social struggles.
\nNow, I know there’s a lot of a <\/p>\n
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\nlot of different ways that we
\nstruggle as humans socially, so <\/p>\n
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\nI’m not trying to like diagnose
\nhim or anything like that. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m not qualified to do that.
\nSo so I’m not I’m not trying to <\/p>\n
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\ndo that but I think God does
\nwhen he portrays, Elijah it <\/p>\n
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\neasy.
\nHe’s actually trying to get us <\/p>\n
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\nto see that here was somebody
\nwho really struggled when <\/p>\n
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\nrelating to people It’s
\nfascinating to see if you look <\/p>\n
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\nat when Elijah prays, you’re
\ngoing to see these beautiful <\/p>\n
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\nlong heartfelt prayers.
\nWhen you look at when he talks <\/p>\n
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\nto people, you know what you
\nsee. <\/p>\n
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\nLike three words.
\nThat’s it like no matter what <\/p>\n
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\nyou know the situation might
\ncall for if somebody’s kid has <\/p>\n
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\ndied.
\nHe walks up and he’s like <\/p>\n
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\nwhere’s your kid?
\nWho would say that to somebody, <\/p>\n
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\nright like that doesn’t make any
\nsense. <\/p>\n
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\nSo this is this is what we see
\nand I think that that’s an <\/p>\n
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\nimportant thing to recognize.
\nHe seems to struggle with <\/p>\n
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\ncommunication particularly in
\nthe. <\/p>\n
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\nHe just doesn’t say nice things
\nto people. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s all you know I don’t know
\nwhat anybody would call that but<\/p>\n
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\nthat’s that’s sort of the what
\nwe see it. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s consistently speaking in
\nshort sentences except when he’s<\/p>\n
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\ntalking to God.
\nSo these are his first words as <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh.
\nThe god of Israel lives before. <\/p>\n
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\nWhom I stand there shall be
\nneither do nor rain these years <\/p>\n
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\nexcept by my word.
\nNow that’s pretty long as far as<\/p>\n
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\nElijah is concerned.
\nBut you think about this, <\/p>\n
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\nthere’s a lot of things that are
\nmissing here. <\/p>\n
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\nIf some person just walked
\nthrough the door and said as God<\/p>\n
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\nLives it’s not going to rain
\ntill I say it is and then they <\/p>\n
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\nwalk away.
\nHow would you feel you’d <\/p>\n
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\nprobably be like well that was
\nweird right like you wouldn’t <\/p>\n
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\nyou wouldn’t think wow.
\nYou know that’s definitely <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s going to change
\neverything for me. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’d be like, who is that?
\nCrazy guy, you know, and that <\/p>\n
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\nand that I think is a helpful
\npiece to recognize that when <\/p>\n
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\nElijah talks to people, there
\nare very much things. <\/p>\n
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\nYou would expect that are
\nmissing and I think we don’t <\/p>\n
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\nnotice it because we’re so used
\nto his story. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s the first example.
\nNow, take a look at this. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is when he meets the Widow
\nof Zarephath. <\/p>\n
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\nSo these are the next words that
\nhe says, this is like a year <\/p>\n
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\nlater, right?
\nSo, you know, I don’t know <\/p>\n
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\nexactly how it works but maybe
\nElijah went a whole year without<\/p>\n
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\nsaying any words, but, you know,
\nit, we don’t know. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was living at a brook by
\nhimself, like he could have <\/p>\n
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\ntalked to the birds, I guess,
\nbut like the there weren’t a <\/p>\n
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\nwhole lot of people to talk to.
\nSo these are the next things <\/p>\n
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\nthat he says in the biblical
\nrecord. <\/p>\n
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\nHe rose and went to Zarephath
\nwhen he came to the gate of the <\/p>\n
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\ncity Behold.
\nA widow. <\/p>\n
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\nIs there Gathering sticks?
\nYou remember the background? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat is going to die?
\nBecause she doesn’t have any <\/p>\n
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\nfood, right?
\nOkay, keep that in mind and <\/p>\n
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\nconsider what he says to her.
\nBecause the famine, right? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd a drought.
\nAnd he called to her and said, <\/p>\n
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\nbring me a little water in a
\nvessel that I may drink. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s like an awesome
\nintroduction. <\/p>\n
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\nRight.
\nYou know in the middle of a <\/p>\n
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\ndrought, you walk up and you’re
\nlike hey I want some water Now, <\/p>\n
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\nwhat do you think would happen
\nif Southern California is in a <\/p>\n
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\ndrought, right?
\nBut it’s not like that bad and <\/p>\n
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\nas far as people are like, you
\nknow, collapsing on the streets.<\/p>\n
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\nImagine that that’s happening
\nand you’re just walking through <\/p>\n
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\nl.a., right?
\nAnd you walk up to some random <\/p>\n
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\nperson who doesn’t look so good,
\nshe’s about to die, right? <\/p>\n
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\nSo you know all like shriveled
\nand hunched over or whatever and<\/p>\n
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\nyou walk up and you’re like hey
\nGive me some water, you know? <\/p>\n
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\nShe probably hit you, right?
\nLike that’s it’s, it’s fairly <\/p>\n
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\nfairly amazing that the lady
\nactually says. <\/p>\n
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\nOkay, right?
\nAnd she goes, and then just to <\/p>\n
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\nadd to this, you’re ready.
\nLook at what happens as she was <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to bring it.
\nSo she goes and she’s gonna go <\/p>\n
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\nlike look for water.
\nHe calls to her and says bring <\/p>\n
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\nme a morsel of bread in your
\nhands, right? <\/p>\n
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\nSo.
\nOh and by the way, I want bread <\/p>\n
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\ntoo.
\nRight. <\/p>\n
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\nLike this is you look at this in
\nyour life. <\/p>\n
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\nWow.
\nHike. <\/p>\n
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\nIt would have been good to get a
\nlittle training or something, <\/p>\n
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\nyou know, here on.
\nHow is it? <\/p>\n
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\nHow is it good to talk to people
\nso that they like you? <\/p>\n
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\nSo, you know about this is this
\nis what he says. <\/p>\n
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\nSo then she turned to him and
\nshe just says, like, you know, <\/p>\n
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\ncan I just tell you?
\nThis is totally ridiculous. <\/p>\n
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\nLike, what you’re asking me.
\nSo she says, as the Lord your <\/p>\n
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\nGod Lives, I have nothing baked.
\nOnly a handful of flour, and a <\/p>\n
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\njar and a little oil in a jug.
\nAnd we just read this normally, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause it’s like a cute Sunday
\nSchool Story, right? <\/p>\n
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\nBut it’s not Not because she
\nsays, and now, I’m gathering a <\/p>\n
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\ncouple of sticks that I may go
\nin and prepare it for myself and<\/p>\n
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\nmy son that we may eat it and
\ndie. <\/p>\n
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\nSo she’s like, okay look you
\nasked me to bring you water and <\/p>\n
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\nI was going to do it then you’re
\nlike hey bring me bread. <\/p>\n
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\nWell you want to know what I’m
\ngonna go die. <\/p>\n
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\nLike that’s that’s what I’m
\nabout to do because I don’t have<\/p>\n
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\nany food so like this I think
\njust shows us like Talking to <\/p>\n
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\npeople was not like Elijah’s
\nfavorite thing ever. <\/p>\n
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\nOkay, it was, it was probably a
\ndifficult sort of thing that he <\/p>\n
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\nstruggled through.
\nOkay? <\/p>\n
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\nNow interestingly he goes and he
\nends up living with this woman <\/p>\n
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\nfor a while.
\nAnd so here’s the interaction <\/p>\n
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\nthere.
\nIt doesn’t get better. <\/p>\n
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\nAfter this, the son of the
\nwoman, the Mistress of the house<\/p>\n
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\nbecame ill.
\nHis illness was so severe that <\/p>\n
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\nthere was no breath left in him.
\nShe said to Elijah, what have <\/p>\n
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\nyou against me?
\nOh man of God. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’ve come to me to bring my
\nsin to remembrance to cause the <\/p>\n
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\ndeath of my son.
\nHe said to her, give me your <\/p>\n
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\nson.
\nOkay, he took him from her arms <\/p>\n
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\nand carried him up into the
\nupper chamber, where he lodged <\/p>\n
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\nand laid him on his own bed.
\nHe cried to the Lord, look at <\/p>\n
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\nwhat he says to god.
\nNotice the difference here, give<\/p>\n
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\nme your son vs.
\nO Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nMy God.
\nHave you brought Calamity even <\/p>\n
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\nupon the Widow with whom I
\nsojourned by killing her son? <\/p>\n
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\nThen he stretched himself upon
\nthe child three times and cried <\/p>\n
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\nto the Lord O.
\nLord, my God, let this child’s <\/p>\n
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\nlife, come into him again.
\nAnd the Lord listened to the <\/p>\n
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\nvoice of Elijah, the life of the
\nchild came into him again and he<\/p>\n
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\nrevived ready for the contrast.
\nHere we go. <\/p>\n
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\nElijah took the child brought
\nhim down from the upper chamber <\/p>\n
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\ninto the house.
\nDelivered him to his mother to <\/p>\n
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\nthe kids alive.
\nYou know? <\/p>\n
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\nYou’d think.
\nYes. <\/p>\n
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\nLike this is so exciting.
\nAnd here’s what he says, see <\/p>\n
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\nyour son lives.
\nGive your kid he’s alive like <\/p>\n
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\nwhoa.
\nYeah, okay. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s what.
\nThat’s what you get. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I think this is an important
\nthing for us really, to <\/p>\n
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\nunderstand Elijah.
\nNow, let’s contrast all of this <\/p>\n
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\nwith Elijah’s first words.
\nSee if you can feel the <\/p>\n
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\ndifference here.
\nNow, what’s really funny by the <\/p>\n
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\nway?
\nIs anybody remember how Elijah <\/p>\n
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\ncalls Elijah?
\nYeah, that’s right. <\/p>\n
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\nHe there’s no words he just
\nwalks by and he like throws his <\/p>\n
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\njacket at him and he keeps
\nwalking right? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd, you know, Elijah gets
\nwhacked by this and he’s like, <\/p>\n
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\nall right, you know what I need?
\nHe takes the jacket, but so what<\/p>\n
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\nhe says to him is let me kiss,
\nmy father and mother and then I <\/p>\n
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\nwill follow you.
\nDo you see this? <\/p>\n
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\nDo you sense the difference
\nhere? <\/p>\n
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\nElijah is like okay, I think
\nyou’re telling me you want me to<\/p>\n
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\nfollow you.
\nLike this is your mantle, your <\/p>\n
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\nspecial coat but like I got
\nRelationships here. <\/p>\n
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\nI want to go kiss my father and
\nmother goodbye. <\/p>\n
336
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\nSo it’s a very interesting
\ncontrast in the first words <\/p>\n
337
\n00:18:11,100 –> 00:18:17,000
\nbetween Elijah and Elisha Okay,
\nnow it goes on that way. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:18:17,000 –> 00:18:19,900
\nAnd if you just read through the
\nstory of Elijah versus Elijah, <\/p>\n
339
\n00:18:19,900 –> 00:18:23,100
\nthere’s a lot of similarities
\nexcept like their similarities <\/p>\n
340
\n00:18:23,100 –> 00:18:27,800
\nin the Miracles except in terms
\nof how Elijah’s talks to people.<\/p>\n
341
\n00:18:28,400 –> 00:18:30,900
\nSo he has an instance of working
\nwith a widow. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:18:31,600 –> 00:18:34,500
\nAnd in this instance, the Widow
\nactually comes to him and <\/p>\n
343
\n00:18:34,500 –> 00:18:40,100
\namazingly says, can you help me
\nor she recognizes that he can <\/p>\n
344
\n00:18:40,100 –> 00:18:42,200
\nhelp her?
\nNow, I don’t know if you know, <\/p>\n
345
\n00:18:43,000 –> 00:18:48,900
\nNobody ever comes and asks for
\nhelp from Elijah you want to I I<\/p>\n
346
\n00:18:48,900 –> 00:18:51,400
\nthink probably because he’d say
\nthings like yeah, once you get <\/p>\n
347
\n00:18:51,400 –> 00:18:54,500
\nyour act together like I’ll help
\nyou you know something along <\/p>\n
348
\n00:18:54,500 –> 00:18:57,700
\nthose lines but she comes and
\nshe asks for help from Elijah, <\/p>\n
349
\n00:18:57,800 –> 00:18:59,800
\nand this is what he says.
\nWhat will I do for you? <\/p>\n
350
\n00:19:00,200 –> 00:19:01,400
\nTell me.
\nWhat do you have in the house? <\/p>\n
351
\n00:19:02,500 –> 00:19:03,600
\nRight.
\nDo you see how that’s so <\/p>\n
352
\n00:19:03,600 –> 00:19:09,000
\ndifferent than how Elijah talks?
\nOkay, so there’s that sense. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:19:09,000 –> 00:19:12,700
\nNow, just just to be fair to
\nElijah, okay? <\/p>\n
354
\n00:19:13,300 –> 00:19:15,800
\nJust to be fair, and I think
\nit’s important to be impartial. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:19:17,400 –> 00:19:21,700
\nElijah also works with a child,
\nwho’s died? <\/p>\n
356
\n00:19:21,800 –> 00:19:26,000
\nThat’s shunammite son.
\nAnd I want I want to bring this <\/p>\n
357
\n00:19:26,000 –> 00:19:31,000
\nout to you.
\nIs that he does say, Call the <\/p>\n
358
\n00:19:31,000 –> 00:19:34,000
\nshunammite and then he says to
\nher kid has died. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:19:34,000 –> 00:19:36,800
\nHe says, pick up your son.
\nOkay, and that’s those are the <\/p>\n
360
\n00:19:36,800 –> 00:19:39,200
\nonly words so, you know, maybe
\nthat was like, a cultural thing,<\/p>\n
361
\n00:19:39,400 –> 00:19:41,700
\nsomebody’s kid is died.
\nThat’s what you say to them, I <\/p>\n
362
\n00:19:41,708 –> 00:19:44,800
\ndon’t know, but it does.
\nThere does seem to be. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:19:44,900 –> 00:19:47,400
\nThere’s this, this contrast
\nbetween Elijah and Elijah. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:19:47,400 –> 00:19:50,600
\nElijah is almost always alone.
\nElijah works with gehazi. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:19:51,600 –> 00:19:54,900
\nElijah rarely is ask for help.
\nElijah is constantly approached <\/p>\n
366
\n00:19:54,900 –> 00:19:57,300
\nfor help.
\nElijah seeks. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:19:57,300 –> 00:19:59,800
\nGod’s Wrath on.
\nIsrael were specifically told <\/p>\n
368
\n00:19:59,800 –> 00:20:03,600
\nthat by the Apostle Paul in
\nRomans 11 that he prays against <\/p>\n
369
\n00:20:03,600 –> 00:20:07,400
\nIsrael, whereas Elijah is seen
\nas someone who cares. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:20:07,500 –> 00:20:10,500
\nAnd I think that’s a really
\nimportant piece for us in <\/p>\n
371
\n00:20:10,500 –> 00:20:15,000
\nunderstanding.
\nThe story of Elijah because a <\/p>\n
372
\n00:20:15,008 –> 00:20:19,100
\nlot of times we come to the him
\nwith the superhero focus and, <\/p>\n
373
\n00:20:19,400 –> 00:20:23,800
\nand this is crucial. and I think
\nwe come to him with a new <\/p>\n
374
\n00:20:23,800 –> 00:20:29,900
\ntestament lens, what I mean by
\nthat is by the time of the New <\/p>\n
375
\n00:20:29,900 –> 00:20:32,800
\nTestament, Elijah’s a different
\nperson. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:20:33,900 –> 00:20:38,700
\nElijah has learned the lessons,
\nthe spirit and power of Elijah <\/p>\n
377
\n00:20:39,000 –> 00:20:42,100
\nare going to move John the
\nBaptist, but they’re going to be<\/p>\n
378
\n00:20:42,100 –> 00:20:45,200
\ndifferent than the Elijah that
\nwe get in a lot of the Kings <\/p>\n
379
\n00:20:45,200 –> 00:20:48,900
\nstories, because Elijah has
\nlearned but that point. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:20:49,300 –> 00:20:51,300
\nAnd so that’s why you have him
\nleading the second Exodus. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:20:51,600 –> 00:20:53,800
\nThat’s why you have Elijah
\nturning the hearts of the <\/p>\n
382
\n00:20:53,800 –> 00:20:56,900
\nfather’s to the children, all of
\nthis kind of idea because he’s a<\/p>\n
383
\n00:20:56,908 –> 00:21:01,800
\nlearn, but he’s not there yet.
\nAnd what we’re going to see is <\/p>\n
384
\n00:21:01,800 –> 00:21:05,800
\nthe transformation.
\nSo as we’re looking at the story<\/p>\n
385
\n00:21:05,800 –> 00:21:10,700
\nof Kings, we are seeing on
\nElijah who doesn’t like people <\/p>\n
386
\n00:21:11,400 –> 00:21:15,500
\nwho finds people frustrating,
\nbecause they never listen who <\/p>\n
387
\n00:21:15,500 –> 00:21:19,700
\ncauses a three-and-a-half-year
\ndrought because the people can’t<\/p>\n
388
\n00:21:19,700 –> 00:21:22,600
\nseem to figure it out how to
\nfollow God. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:21:24,000 –> 00:21:26,100
\nThat’s what we’re going to see
\nand we’re going to see God <\/p>\n
390
\n00:21:26,100 –> 00:21:31,100
\nworking with him to change him
\nand say, well you know, I will <\/p>\n
391
\n00:21:31,100 –> 00:21:37,200
\nbring the three-and-a-half year.
\nDrought but, I’m going to have <\/p>\n
392
\n00:21:37,200 –> 00:21:41,100
\nyou learn from it.
\nYou’re going to learn from this <\/p>\n
393
\n00:21:41,100 –> 00:21:44,500
\nand realize.
\nYou don’t know what manner of <\/p>\n
394
\n00:21:44,600 –> 00:21:50,400
\nspirit.
\nYour of So these are all the <\/p>\n
395
\n00:21:50,400 –> 00:21:54,300
\nrequests for Elijah’s help
\nversus the none of requests for <\/p>\n
396
\n00:21:54,300 –> 00:21:59,300
\nElijah’s help.
\nSo again, I think it’s a helpful<\/p>\n
397
\n00:21:59,300 –> 00:22:04,000
\ncontrast.
\nElijah is not ask for help where<\/p>\n
398
\n00:22:04,000 –> 00:22:07,000
\nas Elijah is constantly, ask for
\nhelp. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:22:07,800 –> 00:22:13,400
\nOkay, now what God is constantly
\nteaching him then is how should <\/p>\n
400
\n00:22:13,400 –> 00:22:15,600
\nhe be treating others?
\nAnd I think we’re going to see <\/p>\n
401
\n00:22:15,600 –> 00:22:18,900
\nthis with that background.
\nNow we can approach this first, <\/p>\n
402
\n00:22:18,900 –> 00:22:25,100
\nking 17 verse 1 again because
\nthere’s a very telling phrase in<\/p>\n
403
\n00:22:25,100 –> 00:22:29,300
\nFirst Kings 17, one that we
\nmight not have noticed until we <\/p>\n
404
\n00:22:29,500 –> 00:22:31,600
\nBranch out a little bit and
\ncompare Some of the other <\/p>\n
405
\n00:22:31,600 –> 00:22:35,500
\npassages about Elijah.
\nHere it is. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:22:35,500 –> 00:22:38,900
\nFirst Kings 17 one.
\nNotice. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:22:41,500 –> 00:22:48,000
\nNotice what brings the miracle.
\nDo you notice anything that’s <\/p>\n
408
\n00:22:48,000 –> 00:22:51,600
\nmissing in this verse?
\nElijah the tishbite of Tish <\/p>\n
409
\n00:22:51,600 –> 00:22:54,000
\nbeing Gilead.
\nSaid to Ahab as the Lord the god<\/p>\n
410
\n00:22:54,000 –> 00:22:57,600
\nof Israel lives before whom I
\nstand there shall be neither do <\/p>\n
411
\n00:22:57,600 –> 00:23:00,300
\nnor rain these years except by
\nmy word. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:23:00,400 –> 00:23:02,000
\nWhat’s missing from this
\nProclamation. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:23:02,700 –> 00:23:05,000
\nThink about what you know the
\nprophets, right? <\/p>\n
414
\n00:23:05,800 –> 00:23:09,200
\nJeremiah stands up and he says
\nthus says the Lord. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:23:10,600 –> 00:23:13,400
\nThis is going to happen, Isaiah
\ngets up and he says thus says <\/p>\n
416
\n00:23:13,400 –> 00:23:16,500
\nthe Lord, so it’s going to be
\nwhat is Elijah not say? <\/p>\n
417
\n00:23:18,700 –> 00:23:20,600
\nThus says the Lord there’s no
\nthat’s us Lord. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:23:21,900 –> 00:23:25,100
\nYou notice he says, as Yahweh
\nlives, you know, this is just a <\/p>\n
419
\n00:23:25,100 –> 00:23:28,500
\nway of swearing back then.
\nNotnot, like cursing, you know <\/p>\n
420
\n00:23:28,508 –> 00:23:31,300
\nwhat I’m saying?
\nThis is, this is a way of <\/p>\n
421
\n00:23:31,300 –> 00:23:33,600
\nsaying, you know, I’m really
\nserious, right? <\/p>\n
422
\n00:23:34,100 –> 00:23:36,800
\nAs Yahweh.
\nThe god of Israel lives there <\/p>\n
423
\n00:23:36,800 –> 00:23:41,600
\nwill be, neither do no rain
\nthese years except by my word. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:23:42,200 –> 00:23:44,900
\nThat’s really interesting that
\nhe says my word. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:23:45,000 –> 00:23:47,200
\nYou could say, you know, you’re
\nkind of stretching it. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:23:47,200 –> 00:23:48,500
\nAnd if you feel that way, that’s
\ngood. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:23:48,500 –> 00:23:52,100
\nI want you to feel that way
\nbecause I’m gonna now in Ever to<\/p>\n
428
\n00:23:52,100 –> 00:23:54,800
\nprove to you that this is very
\nmuch. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:23:54,800 –> 00:23:56,700
\nWhat’s going on?
\nI’m not just reading in these <\/p>\n
430
\n00:23:56,700 –> 00:23:59,900
\nverses.
\nThis drought, I would suggest to<\/p>\n
431
\n00:23:59,900 –> 00:24:06,600
\nyou was Elijah’s request.
\nGod, did not say bring this <\/p>\n
432
\n00:24:06,600 –> 00:24:10,400
\ndrought.
\nElijah looking at the law said, <\/p>\n
433
\n00:24:11,500 –> 00:24:14,500
\nif the people are Unfaithful,
\nGod says, I’ll close up the <\/p>\n
434
\n00:24:14,500 –> 00:24:18,500
\nHeavens, so therefore clearly
\nthe people are Unfaithful. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:24:18,600 –> 00:24:21,400
\nAhab is the worst King bad, bad
\nbad, right? <\/p>\n
436
\n00:24:22,000 –> 00:24:24,900
\nSo clearly there Unfaithful, so
\nthere should be a drought. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:24:25,500 –> 00:24:29,300
\nSo Elijah says It’s going to be
\nrain except by my word. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:24:29,300 –> 00:24:33,700
\nNow, let me try and prove that
\nto you I think what’s missing is<\/p>\n
439
\n00:24:33,700 –> 00:24:37,000
\nthere is no thus says the Lord,
\nthere’s nothing about this being<\/p>\n
440
\n00:24:37,000 –> 00:24:40,800
\nGod’s word and in fact I would
\nsuggest the record itself <\/p>\n
441
\n00:24:40,800 –> 00:24:47,500
\nemphasizes this because the very
\nnext words are and the word of <\/p>\n
442
\n00:24:47,500 –> 00:24:51,100
\nYahweh came to him.
\nAnd in fact, what you will find,<\/p>\n
443
\n00:24:51,100 –> 00:24:55,200
\nif you read through the story of
\nElijah is that Elijah never does<\/p>\n
444
\n00:24:55,500 –> 00:25:00,100
\nanything until the word of God
\ncomes to him and says go do <\/p>\n
445
\n00:25:00,100 –> 00:25:05,400
\nthis.
\nThe only time that Elijah says <\/p>\n
446
\n00:25:05,400 –> 00:25:09,500
\nor does anything without the
\nword of Yahweh coming to him is <\/p>\n
447
\n00:25:09,500 –> 00:25:14,700
\nwhen he stands up and says no
\njob except by my word, the only <\/p>\n
448
\n00:25:14,700 –> 00:25:16,800
\ntime.
\nSo let me prove that here. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:25:16,900 –> 00:25:19,200
\nFirst Kings 17 to the word of
\nYahweh came to him. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:25:19,200 –> 00:25:21,200
\nThis is where he’s told to go
\nhide by the Brook. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:25:22,100 –> 00:25:24,500
\nSo he supposed to go by the
\nBrook word of Yahweh, tells him <\/p>\n
452
\n00:25:24,500 –> 00:25:28,300
\nthat first Kings 17, 89, then
\nthe word of Yahweh came to him. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:25:28,300 –> 00:25:30,600
\nArise go to Zarephath, which
\nbelongs to sidon, and while <\/p>\n
454
\n00:25:30,600 –> 00:25:32,400
\nthere.
\nSo, he’s now going to The Widow <\/p>\n
455
\n00:25:32,700 –> 00:25:34,800
\naccording to the word of the
\nLord. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:25:36,500 –> 00:25:39,200
\nWhere the Lord came to him first
\nKings 17, 13 to 14. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:25:39,500 –> 00:25:42,600
\nElijah said to her, do not fear.
\nGo and do as you have said, but <\/p>\n
458
\n00:25:42,600 –> 00:25:45,100
\nfirst make me a little cake of
\nit and bring it to me and <\/p>\n
459
\n00:25:45,100 –> 00:25:47,100
\nafterward make something for
\nyourself and for your son. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:25:47,200 –> 00:25:49,700
\nSo he says, don’t worry.
\nI know that you’re scared. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:25:49,700 –> 00:25:52,000
\nYou’re not going to have any
\nfood but guess what? <\/p>\n
462
\n00:25:53,900 –> 00:25:58,900
\nThus says the Lord right thus
\nsays the Lord the god of Israel.<\/p>\n
463
\n00:25:59,800 –> 00:26:02,100
\nThe jar of flour will not be.
\nSpent the jug of oil shall not <\/p>\n
464
\n00:26:02,100 –> 00:26:05,000
\nbe empty.
\nThis is what motivates? <\/p>\n
465
\n00:26:05,000 –> 00:26:11,600
\nWhat empowers Elijah all the
\ntime except The word of God is <\/p>\n
466
\n00:26:11,600 –> 00:26:14,300
\nnowhere in the drought.
\nIt’s fascinating. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:26:16,500 –> 00:26:19,600
\nThe jar of flour was not spent
\nfirst king. 1716 neither did the<\/p>\n
468
\n00:26:19,600 –> 00:26:22,600
\njug of oil become empty,
\naccording to the word of Yahweh.<\/p>\n
469
\n00:26:25,300 –> 00:26:28,500
\n1st Kings, 18 1, after many
\ndays, the word of the Lord came <\/p>\n
470
\n00:26:28,500 –> 00:26:31,500
\nto Elijah and the third year
\nsaying go show yourself to Ahab.<\/p>\n
471
\n00:26:32,700 –> 00:26:35,400
\nSo, he’s told now leave, and now
\nI’m going to send rain. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:26:38,100 –> 00:26:41,200
\nFirst Kings, 19, there are three
\ntimes that God meets up with <\/p>\n
473
\n00:26:41,200 –> 00:26:44,700
\nhim, an angel touches him and
\ntells him Elijah, you need to <\/p>\n
474
\n00:26:44,700 –> 00:26:47,000
\neat.
\nSo, again, essentially, he’s <\/p>\n
475
\n00:26:47,000 –> 00:26:53,800
\ncommanded by God to eat.
\nVerse 9 again, the word of <\/p>\n
476
\n00:26:53,800 –> 00:26:55,700
\nYahweh says to him.
\nWhy are you here? <\/p>\n
477
\n00:26:55,900 –> 00:26:59,400
\nWhen he’s at Sinai, verses 11
\nand 12, Yahweh passes by and you<\/p>\n
478
\n00:26:59,400 –> 00:27:06,100
\nremember how he passes by as the
\nstill Small Voice, right? <\/p>\n
479
\n00:27:06,800 –> 00:27:09,800
\nSo you constantly have this
\ntheme in Elijah’s life. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:27:09,800 –> 00:27:12,400
\nThe word of God is always coming
\nto him and telling him what to <\/p>\n
481
\n00:27:12,400 –> 00:27:14,300
\nsay.
\nAnd he’s always listening when <\/p>\n
482
\n00:27:14,300 –> 00:27:17,300
\nhe curses Ahab and Jezebel First
\nKings, 21, 17 and 19. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:27:17,800 –> 00:27:20,700
\nIt’s because God told him to say
\nthat word of God comes to him <\/p>\n
484
\n00:27:20,700 –> 00:27:23,600
\nand says That one, he lightens
\nAhab sentence. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:27:24,100 –> 00:27:27,700
\nSo he says, they have, you know,
\ndogs are going to kill you, lick<\/p>\n
486
\n00:27:27,700 –> 00:27:31,300
\nyour blood, all of this, a have
\nhumbles himself and God says, <\/p>\n
487
\n00:27:31,300 –> 00:27:34,700
\nyou know what, good Ahab and
\ntell him because he humbled <\/p>\n
488
\n00:27:34,700 –> 00:27:37,600
\nhimself, it’s not going to
\nhappen in his lifetime. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:27:38,600 –> 00:27:41,200
\nSo sentence is lightened.
\nAnd again, he’s told to do that <\/p>\n
490
\n00:27:41,200 –> 00:27:45,100
\nby God, he’s told to respond to
\nthe King’s Men, the ones that he<\/p>\n
491
\n00:27:45,100 –> 00:27:48,100
\nlights on fire, right?
\nHe’s told that by the word of <\/p>\n
492
\n00:27:48,100 –> 00:27:50,400
\nGod.
\nSo, I hope you got the idea that<\/p>\n
493
\n00:27:50,400 –> 00:27:55,400
\nwhen I say everything, that
\nElijah does in his life, Is <\/p>\n
494
\n00:27:55,400 –> 00:28:00,000
\nmoved and planned by the word of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:28:00,000 –> 00:28:04,200
\nI really mean everything.
\nLike every single story is thus <\/p>\n
496
\n00:28:04,200 –> 00:28:06,700
\nsays the Lord, the word of God
\ncame to him and said this, the <\/p>\n
497
\n00:28:06,700 –> 00:28:12,800
\none place is here.
\nThe drought does not have that <\/p>\n
498
\n00:28:13,200 –> 00:28:16,600
\nand so I would I would suggest
\nto you that I think scripture is<\/p>\n
499
\n00:28:16,600 –> 00:28:23,100
\nreally underscoring for us that
\nthis drought was his idea. now, <\/p>\n
500
\n00:28:23,900 –> 00:28:29,300
\nin case that doesn’t convince
\nyou yet, This drought is <\/p>\n
501
\n00:28:29,300 –> 00:28:31,800
\nreferenced a handful of times in
\nthe New Testament. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:28:32,700 –> 00:28:36,400
\nAnd in one of those places
\nconsider this Revelation 11 <\/p>\n
503
\n00:28:36,400 –> 00:28:39,300
\nverses 3 to 6.
\nSee if you here Elijah. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:28:40,300 –> 00:28:42,700
\nRevelation 11 326 listen for
\nElijah. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:28:42,700 –> 00:28:46,500
\nIt says, I will grant authority
\nto my two witnesses. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:28:47,300 –> 00:28:50,300
\nThey will prophesy for 1260
\ndays. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:28:50,500 –> 00:28:56,100
\nAnybody know how many years that
\nis Yeah, well, if you do day for<\/p>\n
508
\n00:28:56,100 –> 00:28:58,700
\na year, sorry I mean if you take
\nthe days and you and you turn it<\/p>\n
509
\n00:28:58,700 –> 00:29:03,500
\ninto how many days, yeah, it’s
\nthree and a half but yes, 1260 <\/p>\n
510
\n00:29:03,500 –> 00:29:06,200
\nyears to if you do day for a
\nyear, yeah, three and a half. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:29:06,200 –> 00:29:09,800
\nThree and a half years is what
\nis what’s made up by 1260 days, <\/p>\n
512
\n00:29:10,200 –> 00:29:12,200
\nright?
\nWhich is how long Elijah’s <\/p>\n
513
\n00:29:12,200 –> 00:29:14,200
\ndrought was three and a half
\nyears. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:29:14,600 –> 00:29:16,800
\nThese are the two olive trees
\nand the two lampstands that <\/p>\n
515
\n00:29:16,800 –> 00:29:20,800
\nstand before the Lord of the
\nearth, if anyone harm them You <\/p>\n
516
\n00:29:20,800 –> 00:29:23,300
\nhere.
\nElijah fire pours from their <\/p>\n
517
\n00:29:23,300 –> 00:29:27,200
\nmouth and consumes their foes
\nhere’s a revelation. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:29:28,600 –> 00:29:31,200
\nFire portion their mouth if
\nanyone would harm them, this is <\/p>\n
519
\n00:29:31,200 –> 00:29:35,600
\nhow he is doomed, to be killed.
\nThey have ready the power to <\/p>\n
520
\n00:29:35,600 –> 00:29:38,800
\nshut the sky?
\nThat no rain may fall during the<\/p>\n
521
\n00:29:38,800 –> 00:29:43,500
\ndays of their prophesying now,
\nhow long do they prophesy? <\/p>\n
522
\n00:29:44,300 –> 00:29:48,100
\n1260 days, which matches up with
\nthe three and a half years of <\/p>\n
523
\n00:29:48,100 –> 00:29:51,000
\nElijah’s drought.
\nSo, that’s interesting, right? <\/p>\n
524
\n00:29:51,000 –> 00:29:54,700
\nYou get these Echoes of Elijah
\nhere and you will notice that it<\/p>\n
525
\n00:29:54,700 –> 00:29:58,300
\nspecifically says that they have
\nthe power to shut the sky. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:29:58,900 –> 00:30:02,000
\nRight?
\nAnd so I would put to you this <\/p>\n
527
\n00:30:02,000 –> 00:30:03,800
\nis an illusion back to Elijah’s
\ndrought. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:30:03,800 –> 00:30:09,100
\nWhen Elijah himself said
\ndrought, I want there to be a <\/p>\n
529
\n00:30:09,108 –> 00:30:12,500
\ndrought.
\nBecause this is what the people <\/p>\n
530
\n00:30:12,700 –> 00:30:16,000
\ndeserve Revelation attributes,
\nthe drought to Elijah. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:30:16,100 –> 00:30:20,200
\nAnd if you read James chapter 5,
\nas well, talks about Elijah’s <\/p>\n
532
\n00:30:20,200 –> 00:30:23,700
\ndrought, again, I think you
\nmight see some Echoes of it. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:30:24,500 –> 00:30:27,700
\nYou can see though, you can read
\nJames 5 Echoes that this was <\/p>\n
534
\n00:30:27,700 –> 00:30:31,600
\nElijah’s idea.
\nNow I want to be really careful <\/p>\n
535
\n00:30:31,600 –> 00:30:34,300
\nhere with this line.
\nElijah didn’t realize that his <\/p>\n
536
\n00:30:34,300 –> 00:30:41,100
\nplan didn’t align with God.
\nNow, God’s plan is so much <\/p>\n
537
\n00:30:41,100 –> 00:30:42,800
\nbigger than we can ever
\ncomprehend. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:30:43,600 –> 00:30:48,000
\nGod has his plan and he makes
\nhis plan work. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:30:48,600 –> 00:30:52,200
\nSo I don’t know if this is
\nstrange for, you know, a speaker<\/p>\n
540
\n00:30:52,200 –> 00:30:54,900
\nto say I’m not actually, I don’t
\nactually like the way I wrote <\/p>\n
541
\n00:30:54,900 –> 00:30:59,300
\nthat down.
\nSo Don’t hold me to that line. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:30:59,300 –> 00:31:03,600
\nPlease.
\nWhat I what I mean by that is <\/p>\n
543
\n00:31:04,800 –> 00:31:10,100
\nGod accommodates, Elijah, but I
\nthink humanly speaking the way <\/p>\n
544
\n00:31:10,100 –> 00:31:14,000
\nthat we would see this as humans
\nis we would say this was not the<\/p>\n
545
\n00:31:14,000 –> 00:31:16,200
\ndirection that God was going to
\ntake things. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:31:16,600 –> 00:31:20,000
\nAnd because Elijah requests, it
\nGod says, okay. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:31:21,200 –> 00:31:23,700
\nI’ll do it, I’ll do the drought
\nand I’m going to use it to <\/p>\n
548
\n00:31:23,708 –> 00:31:26,500
\nfurther my plan, that’s how God
\ncan work, right? <\/p>\n
549
\n00:31:26,500 –> 00:31:32,200
\nI mean, he takes even sins, like
\nDavid and Bathsheba and he uses <\/p>\n
550
\n00:31:32,200 –> 00:31:34,900
\nSolomon to further his plans.
\nRight? <\/p>\n
551
\n00:31:34,900 –> 00:31:37,800
\nSo, so we can’t destroy God’s
\nplan. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:31:37,900 –> 00:31:40,100
\nThere’s no way that we can
\ntotally mess it up, but I would <\/p>\n
553
\n00:31:40,100 –> 00:31:43,100
\nsay, I would suggest to you that
\nhere, what’s going on, is that <\/p>\n
554
\n00:31:43,100 –> 00:31:47,200
\nwhen Elijah says, let there be a
\ndrought God, says well, Because <\/p>\n
555
\n00:31:47,200 –> 00:31:50,200
\nyou’re a righteous person,
\nthat’s how James describes him, <\/p>\n
556
\n00:31:50,200 –> 00:31:52,200
\nright?
\nThe prayer of a righteous man <\/p>\n
557
\n00:31:52,300 –> 00:31:55,200
\navails much because you’re a
\nrighteous person. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:31:55,700 –> 00:31:59,000
\nI’m gonna listen to The Prayer.
\nAnd I’m going to use it though <\/p>\n
559
\n00:31:59,900 –> 00:32:02,700
\nto teach you that.
\nIn fact. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:32:03,400 –> 00:32:06,800
\nYou didn’t quite understand what
\nI was doing when you prayed this<\/p>\n
561
\n00:32:06,800 –> 00:32:11,100
\nprayer.
\nOkay, I hope that makes sense. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:32:11,300 –> 00:32:14,300
\nAnd if you want more
\nclarification from that, you <\/p>\n
563
\n00:32:14,308 –> 00:32:17,200
\nknow, raise your hand or
\nsomething, or, or come, and come<\/p>\n
564
\n00:32:17,200 –> 00:32:20,200
\nand ask me later.
\nOkay, he didn’t quite realize <\/p>\n
565
\n00:32:20,200 –> 00:32:22,600
\nthat this didn’t totally fit for
\na long time. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:32:22,600 –> 00:32:26,500
\nIn fact, he thinks and he says,
\nthis drought is what God wants. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:32:26,500 –> 00:32:30,000
\nHe says it at Carmel First
\nKings. 1836, that, this is what <\/p>\n
568
\n00:32:30,000 –> 00:32:35,000
\nGod wants it, but I want to, I
\nwant to bring us to a really <\/p>\n
569
\n00:32:35,200 –> 00:32:39,500
\ninteresting point.
\nThis plant did I have scriptural<\/p>\n
570
\n00:32:39,500 –> 00:32:43,100
\nbacking Deuteronomy 11.
\nMakes it clear that if Israel <\/p>\n
571
\n00:32:43,900 –> 00:32:47,400
\ndid not worship, God, God would
\nbring a drought. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:32:47,900 –> 00:32:52,400
\nSo was Elijah.
\nRight in saying, idolatry brings<\/p>\n
573
\n00:32:52,400 –> 00:32:56,200
\na drought.
\nYes, I think he definitely was. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:32:56,200 –> 00:32:58,100
\nIt was totally biblical, you
\nknow? <\/p>\n
575
\n00:32:58,100 –> 00:33:00,600
\nAnd if you said chapter and
\nverse Elijah, he could be like, <\/p>\n
576
\n00:33:00,600 –> 00:33:02,600
\nwell, Deuteronomy 11, you know,
\nit’s there. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:33:02,900 –> 00:33:05,600
\nYou’re on the 11 13 to 17.
\nIt says it right down here at <\/p>\n
578
\n00:33:05,600 –> 00:33:07,400
\nthe bottom.
\nIf you turn aside and serve <\/p>\n
579
\n00:33:07,400 –> 00:33:09,700
\nother gods and worship them,
\nthen the anger of the Lord will <\/p>\n
580
\n00:33:09,700 –> 00:33:12,200
\nbe kindled against you.
\nHe will shut up the Heavens so <\/p>\n
581
\n00:33:12,208 –> 00:33:16,100
\nthat there will be no rain.
\nSo was it biblical? <\/p>\n
582
\n00:33:16,200 –> 00:33:21,000
\nYes it was biblical Deuteronomy,
\n28 23 to 24 blessings and <\/p>\n
583
\n00:33:21,000 –> 00:33:23,700
\ncursings.
\nOne of the cursings is curses is<\/p>\n
584
\n00:33:23,900 –> 00:33:26,300
\nif the heaven over your head
\nshall be bronze or sorry. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:33:26,300 –> 00:33:28,100
\nThe heavens over your head,
\nshall be bronze. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:33:28,300 –> 00:33:30,800
\nThe Earth under, you shall be
\nIron, the Lord will make the <\/p>\n
587
\n00:33:30,800 –> 00:33:34,200
\nreign of your land powder.
\nI said that was one of the <\/p>\n
588
\n00:33:34,208 –> 00:33:37,300
\ncurses, no rain.
\nSo was it biblical? <\/p>\n
589
\n00:33:37,500 –> 00:33:42,700
\nYes it definitely was a Biblical
\ncurse so the problem wasn’t <\/p>\n
590
\n00:33:42,700 –> 00:33:46,700
\nnecessarily the curse.
\nI would put to you that the <\/p>\n
591
\n00:33:46,700 –> 00:33:48,700
\ndrought was in line with God’s
\nword. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:33:48,900 –> 00:33:54,600
\nThe people had been warned that
\nit would happen. but, I think <\/p>\n
593
\n00:33:54,600 –> 00:34:03,200
\nthis is this is where things get
\na little bit dicey. because, I <\/p>\n
594
\n00:34:03,200 –> 00:34:07,700
\nthink Elijah took the liberty.
\nOf deciding. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:34:08,900 –> 00:34:10,600
\nWhen the people deserved what
\nwas coming? <\/p>\n
596
\n00:34:12,000 –> 00:34:15,000
\nWhen the drought should happen.
\nSo was it biblical that a <\/p>\n
597
\n00:34:15,007 –> 00:34:16,400
\ndrought would happen?
\nYes, it was. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:34:17,400 –> 00:34:19,800
\nWas it biblical that it would
\nhappen at that time? <\/p>\n
599
\n00:34:21,400 –> 00:34:24,900
\nAnd I would suggest, you know,
\nit wasn’t Because God does bring<\/p>\n
600
\n00:34:24,900 –> 00:34:28,400
\na drought.
\nAnd he brings it during the time<\/p>\n
601
\n00:34:28,400 –> 00:34:33,600
\nof Elijah.
\nBut he does, it not Elijah. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:34:35,000 –> 00:34:36,900
\nAnd I think that’s an
\ninteresting contrast. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:34:37,199 –> 00:34:42,400
\nAn important thing to notice
\nthat here Elijah almost sets <\/p>\n
604
\n00:34:42,400 –> 00:34:46,000
\nhimself up as the Arbiter
\nwithout having heard it from <\/p>\n
605
\n00:34:46,000 –> 00:34:48,100
\nGod.
\nI think this is something that <\/p>\n
606
\n00:34:48,100 –> 00:34:52,300
\nElijah is going to learn that
\nGod is going to teach him. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:34:52,300 –> 00:34:55,300
\nHe’s going to say, okay, I’ll
\nbring the drought, but I am <\/p>\n
608
\n00:34:55,300 –> 00:34:57,200
\ngoing to show you without a
\ndoubt. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:34:59,300 –> 00:35:03,200
\nThat you’re thinking was wrong.
\nNow, check it out. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:35:04,900 –> 00:35:09,400
\nOkay, so not quite that’s not
\ntotally how God works and that’s<\/p>\n
611
\n00:35:09,400 –> 00:35:11,400
\nwhat Elijah throughout his life
\nis going to learn. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:35:11,400 –> 00:35:14,700
\nSo God listens to Elijah and
\nhe’s actually going to use this <\/p>\n
613
\n00:35:14,700 –> 00:35:18,100
\nto teach him so for three and a
\nhalf years Elijah believes that <\/p>\n
614
\n00:35:18,100 –> 00:35:20,600
\nGod had shut up the Heavens
\nbecause of the people’s evil and<\/p>\n
615
\n00:35:20,600 –> 00:35:23,800
\nGod is going to be taking him
\nconstantly constantly through <\/p>\n
616
\n00:35:23,800 –> 00:35:25,400
\nthese.
\nThree and a half years slowly, <\/p>\n
617
\n00:35:25,400 –> 00:35:30,700
\nwhittling away at this
\nunderstanding until everything, <\/p>\n
618
\n00:35:30,700 –> 00:35:34,000
\nall comes to a head at Mount,
\nCarmel, and Mount Sinai. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:35:36,100 –> 00:35:41,300
\nLet’s take a look.
\nNow, I want you to notice this <\/p>\n
620
\n00:35:42,900 –> 00:35:48,500
\n1st Kings, 18 1.
\nLet’s just look for what is it? <\/p>\n
621
\n00:35:48,500 –> 00:35:51,700
\nThat God tells Elijah to tell
\nAhab. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:35:52,600 –> 00:35:54,900
\nOkay.
\nThis is really important because<\/p>\n
623
\n00:35:54,900 –> 00:35:58,000
\nagain, the Sunday School Stories
\nI think Sunday school is great. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:35:58,100 –> 00:36:01,100
\nObviously, I think so Sunday
\nschool’s a good thing but, you <\/p>\n
625
\n00:36:01,100 –> 00:36:03,900
\nknow, sometimes we read the
\ncutesy little kid books, right? <\/p>\n
626
\n00:36:04,000 –> 00:36:06,600
\nAnd they’re wrong.
\nLike so this is, this is <\/p>\n
627
\n00:36:06,600 –> 00:36:12,100
\nimportant.
\nLike notice what Elijah is <\/p>\n
628
\n00:36:12,100 –> 00:36:16,300
\nsupposed to say First Kings. 18
\none, after many days. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:36:16,400 –> 00:36:18,300
\nThe word of the Lord came to
\nElijah and the third year <\/p>\n
630
\n00:36:18,300 –> 00:36:21,300
\nsaying, go show yourself to Ahab
\nand I will send rain on the <\/p>\n
631
\n00:36:21,300 –> 00:36:23,800
\nEarth.
\nOkay, what’s he supposed to say?<\/p>\n
632
\n00:36:25,800 –> 00:36:31,300
\nHey AB, it’s going to rain.
\nOkay, what does he say? <\/p>\n
633
\n00:36:32,600 –> 00:36:36,800
\nAnyone know.
\nCheck it out. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:36:37,200 –> 00:36:38,900
\nIt’s I think this is just
\nfascinating. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:36:39,200 –> 00:36:43,800
\nSo God that supposed to say God
\nended, the drought God, not the <\/p>\n
636
\n00:36:43,800 –> 00:36:45,800
\nrain.
\nThat’s kind of the opposite. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:36:46,100 –> 00:36:49,500
\nSo got God, ended the drought
\nand he sends Elijah to Ahab. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:36:49,500 –> 00:36:54,000
\nWhy does he well?
\nOkay, because Elijah says it’s <\/p>\n
639
\n00:36:54,000 –> 00:36:56,800
\nnot going to happen by my word.
\nSo I think Elijah God’s allowing<\/p>\n
640
\n00:36:56,800 –> 00:37:00,300
\nElijah to keep a little bit of
\nhis authority here with Ahab, <\/p>\n
641
\n00:37:00,800 –> 00:37:04,500
\nokay?
\nSo Elijah goes to Ahab and this <\/p>\n
642
\n00:37:04,500 –> 00:37:06,500
\nis Ends up saying so you
\nremember what he’s supposed to <\/p>\n
643
\n00:37:06,500 –> 00:37:10,700
\nsay, very simple.
\nIt is going to rain, right? <\/p>\n
644
\n00:37:11,100 –> 00:37:13,600
\nOkay.
\nIt’s not hard to say, you know, <\/p>\n
645
\n00:37:13,600 –> 00:37:16,200
\nit’s an easy sentence.
\nOkay? <\/p>\n
646
\n00:37:16,200 –> 00:37:20,300
\n1st Kings, 18, 17 and 18.
\nThis is what he says a Absol. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:37:20,300 –> 00:37:22,000
\nElijah, it helps had to him, is
\nit? <\/p>\n
648
\n00:37:22,000 –> 00:37:24,500
\nYou you troubler of Israel?
\nHe answered. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:37:24,500 –> 00:37:26,800
\nI’m not troubled Israel, but you
\nhave and your father’s house <\/p>\n
650
\n00:37:26,800 –> 00:37:28,400
\nbecause you’ve abandoned the
\nCommandments of the Lord and <\/p>\n
651
\n00:37:28,400 –> 00:37:30,900
\nfollow the Bales now.
\nTherefore, send and gather all <\/p>\n
652
\n00:37:30,900 –> 00:37:33,800
\nIsrael to me at Mount Carmel,
\nand the 450 prophets of Baal and<\/p>\n
653
\n00:37:33,808 –> 00:37:36,000
\nthe four hundred prophets of
\nAstra who eat at Jezebel’s <\/p>\n
654
\n00:37:36,000 –> 00:37:37,500
\ntable.
\nNow, do you notice? <\/p>\n
655
\n00:37:37,700 –> 00:37:42,300
\nWhat does Elijah not say?
\nIt’s going to rain, right? <\/p>\n
656
\n00:37:42,300 –> 00:37:45,200
\nThe one thing God says, I want
\nyou to say, he doesn’t say <\/p>\n
657
\n00:37:46,300 –> 00:37:49,500
\ninstead, he has this whole like
\nelaborate plan. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:37:49,700 –> 00:37:51,500
\nSo he goes up, and he says, okay
\nhave. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:37:51,600 –> 00:37:53,700
\nYeah, you’re actually the
\ntroubler of Israel, which I <\/p>\n
660
\n00:37:53,700 –> 00:37:55,700
\nthink is weirdly ironic, by the
\nway. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:37:55,700 –> 00:37:58,700
\nBecause Elijah was the one who
\nprayed for the trout, right? <\/p>\n
662
\n00:37:58,700 –> 00:38:04,900
\nSo you can kind of see this a
\nlittle bit of it, but He goes to<\/p>\n
663
\n00:38:04,900 –> 00:38:08,300
\nAhab and he doesn’t say it’s
\ngoing to rain instead. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:38:08,300 –> 00:38:11,500
\nHe has this whole thing of meet
\nme on Mount Carmel, bring the <\/p>\n
665
\n00:38:11,500 –> 00:38:13,500
\n850 prophets.
\nLike we’re going to have a <\/p>\n
666
\n00:38:13,500 –> 00:38:17,600
\nshowdown all this God never told
\nhim to do that. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:38:17,800 –> 00:38:20,800
\nIs that weird?
\nLike we read about this in <\/p>\n
668
\n00:38:20,800 –> 00:38:23,900
\nSunday school or you know we
\njust we hear these stories and <\/p>\n
669
\n00:38:23,900 –> 00:38:25,300
\nwe think oh yeah you know, Mount
\nCarmel. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:38:25,300 –> 00:38:27,700
\nYeah fire.
\nYou know, everybody learned. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:38:27,700 –> 00:38:29,500
\nEverybody didn’t learn.
\nAll right. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:38:29,500 –> 00:38:32,600
\nLike it was basically a major
\nfailure and it didn’t work. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:38:33,500 –> 00:38:36,600
\nI’m not trying to be mean, I
\nmean, that’s what it says, <\/p>\n
674
\n00:38:36,600 –> 00:38:38,600
\nright?
\nLike Elijah’s like, yeah, <\/p>\n
675
\n00:38:38,600 –> 00:38:40,300
\neveryone knows.
\nAnd then the records. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:38:40,300 –> 00:38:42,600
\nLike now they didn’t like they
\ndidn’t learn, right? <\/p>\n
677
\n00:38:42,700 –> 00:38:46,700
\nThey didn’t get it.
\nNow, as we, as we kind of, see <\/p>\n
678
\n00:38:46,800 –> 00:38:49,000
\nhow this wraps up with this
\nstory. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:38:49,100 –> 00:38:52,600
\nI think it’s fascinating to
\nnotice what he doesn’t say. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:57,900
\nSo he doesn’t say it’s going to
\nrain as he supposed to. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:38:58,100 –> 00:39:02,900
\nSo the question then becomes,
\nWhy did he not tell? <\/p>\n
682
\n00:39:02,900 –> 00:39:04,000
\nHe have.
\nIt was going to rain. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:39:05,300 –> 00:39:07,600
\nAnd when does he tell Ahab, it’s
\ngoing to rain. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:39:10,200 –> 00:39:12,400
\nOkay.
\nWhy did he not tell you have? <\/p>\n
685
\n00:39:12,400 –> 00:39:15,800
\nIt’s going to rain and when does
\nhe end up telling him? <\/p>\n
686
\n00:39:18,900 –> 00:39:21,700
\nI would suggest to you, he
\ndoesn’t tell him it’s going to <\/p>\n
687
\n00:39:21,700 –> 00:39:24,700
\nrain because in Elijah’s mind,
\nhe requested the drought, right?<\/p>\n
688
\n00:39:24,700 –> 00:39:31,400
\nBecause The people were Wicked
\npeople worshipped Idols, so in <\/p>\n
689
\n00:39:31,400 –> 00:39:34,900
\nhis schema, in his way of
\nthinking, if it’s going to rain,<\/p>\n
690
\n00:39:34,900 –> 00:39:36,500
\nso God’s just come and said it’s
\ngoing to rain. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:39:36,700 –> 00:39:40,300
\nSo that means the people have to
\nrepent. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:39:40,600 –> 00:39:42,800
\nThere’s got to be repentance.
\nYou can’t have rain without <\/p>\n
693
\n00:39:42,800 –> 00:39:45,500
\nrepentance because that’s what
\nthe law says. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:39:45,600 –> 00:39:47,500
\nWhat the law says that must be
\nwhat happens. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:39:48,000 –> 00:39:51,800
\nThis is how I just seeing it.
\nSo he says, well, what God <\/p>\n
696
\n00:39:51,800 –> 00:39:55,600
\nreally meant, when he says it’s
\ngoing to rain, is he really <\/p>\n
697
\n00:39:55,600 –> 00:39:57,500
\nmeans that people are going to
\nturn And then it’s going to <\/p>\n
698
\n00:39:57,500 –> 00:39:59,300
\nrain.
\nSo he says, okay, let’s have <\/p>\n
699
\n00:39:59,300 –> 00:40:00,700
\nMount Carmel.
\nI’m going to convert the whole <\/p>\n
700
\n00:40:00,700 –> 00:40:04,100
\nnation, the whole nation,
\nappears to change, right? <\/p>\n
701
\n00:40:04,100 –> 00:40:07,300
\nAnd you know, what Elijah says,
\nhey have it’s going to rain. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:40:08,800 –> 00:40:11,600
\nIt’s very next thing.
\nHe says, When he kills all the <\/p>\n
703
\n00:40:11,600 –> 00:40:14,300
\nprophets of Baal, he turns to a
\nhave, any says they have go back<\/p>\n
704
\n00:40:14,300 –> 00:40:15,700
\nhome.
\nGo as fast as you can because <\/p>\n
705
\n00:40:15,700 –> 00:40:20,100
\nit’s going to rain.
\nSo in his mind, this whole <\/p>\n
706
\n00:40:20,100 –> 00:40:25,100
\ndrought rain, all of this is all
\nabout, are the people following <\/p>\n
707
\n00:40:25,100 –> 00:40:28,000
\nGod or not?
\nNow, if you ever wondered why <\/p>\n
708
\n00:40:28,000 –> 00:40:32,700
\nElijah, suddenly has this whole
\nbig like his life falls apart at<\/p>\n
709
\n00:40:32,700 –> 00:40:36,600
\nMount Sinai, maybe we’re just
\nkind of familiar again with the <\/p>\n
710
\n00:40:36,600 –> 00:40:39,400
\nstory and we don’t we don’t
\ntotally get what’s going on. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:40:39,400 –> 00:40:42,400
\nBut we say all, you know, he’s
\nstruggled with their, there’s <\/p>\n
712
\n00:40:42,400 –> 00:40:45,400
\nsome emotional struggles going
\non, there he was depressed. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:40:46,100 –> 00:40:49,500
\nAnd you know, that very well
\ncould be sometimes we blame it <\/p>\n
714
\n00:40:49,500 –> 00:40:54,500
\non Jezebel because she says
\nbeginning First Kings 19, The <\/p>\n
715
\n00:40:54,500 –> 00:40:57,600
\ngods do so to me and more also
\nif your life is not like the <\/p>\n
716
\n00:40:57,600 –> 00:40:59,700
\nlife of one of those profits by
\nthis time tomorrow. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:41:00,700 –> 00:41:05,300
\nBut I want to ask you this.
\nWhen was Elijah’s life, not <\/p>\n
718
\n00:41:05,300 –> 00:41:10,800
\nunder threat from Jezebel.
\nIt always was, right? <\/p>\n
719
\n00:41:10,800 –> 00:41:12,400
\nThis was who she was.
\nShe kills the prophets. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:41:12,400 –> 00:41:14,500
\nIt was like her is this was her
\njob. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:41:15,100 –> 00:41:18,400
\nSo when she says, I’m going to
\nkill you, you know, Elijah hears<\/p>\n
722
\n00:41:18,400 –> 00:41:22,600
\nthat message and he’s like, well
\nyeah, you know, you’ve always <\/p>\n
723
\n00:41:22,600 –> 00:41:25,400
\nwanted to kill me.
\nLike what’s what’s new? <\/p>\n
724
\n00:41:25,900 –> 00:41:29,400
\nIt’s and I don’t think it’s just
\na recognition of. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:41:29,400 –> 00:41:32,100
\nOh, Jezebel’s not going to let
\nthe people convert think it’s <\/p>\n
726
\n00:41:32,100 –> 00:41:35,400
\nmore than that.
\nThis is when you see, Elijah <\/p>\n
727
\n00:41:35,400 –> 00:41:38,500
\nfalling apart on Mount Sinai.
\nWhen he says, only, I’m left, <\/p>\n
728
\n00:41:38,600 –> 00:41:41,200
\nI’m no better than my father’s
\nkill me, right? <\/p>\n
729
\n00:41:41,300 –> 00:41:44,800
\nThis is more than somebody who’s
\njust a little sad, right? <\/p>\n
730
\n00:41:45,000 –> 00:41:48,000
\nThis is somebody who feels like
\ntheir whole life has fallen <\/p>\n
731
\n00:41:48,000 –> 00:41:49,900
\napart and why does he feel that
\nway? <\/p>\n
732
\n00:41:52,300 –> 00:41:54,400
\nI think because it suddenly
\nDawns on Elijah. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:41:56,500 –> 00:42:00,100
\nThat is whole schema for
\nunderstanding life. <\/p>\n
734
\n00:42:01,100 –> 00:42:06,000
\nFor understanding God has just
\nexploded. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:42:06,800 –> 00:42:13,800
\nBecause in his mind, The drought
\ncame because the people were <\/p>\n
736
\n00:42:13,800 –> 00:42:17,700
\nWicked.
\nIf rain comes, the people are <\/p>\n
737
\n00:42:17,700 –> 00:42:21,500
\ngoing to have to turn and all of
\na sudden he realizes God, just <\/p>\n
738
\n00:42:21,500 –> 00:42:27,200
\nsent rain.
\nAnd the people didn’t change. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:42:29,700 –> 00:42:36,600
\nAnd now he questions everything.
\nWhat were the whole last three <\/p>\n
740
\n00:42:36,600 –> 00:42:41,800
\nand a half years all about?
\nHow many people have died from a<\/p>\n
741
\n00:42:41,808 –> 00:42:49,000
\ndrought that I asked for?
\nBut didn’t actually understand <\/p>\n
742
\n00:42:49,000 –> 00:42:55,700
\nwhat I was asking for. and
\nsuddenly, Everything comes <\/p>\n
743
\n00:42:55,700 –> 00:43:03,500
\nCrashing Down.
\nSo I think that what we see as <\/p>\n
744
\n00:43:03,500 –> 00:43:09,400
\nwe look at Elijah on Mount Sinai
\nis we see an Elijah who is being<\/p>\n
745
\n00:43:09,400 –> 00:43:14,300
\ntaught that lesson That God has
\na plan. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:43:15,600 –> 00:43:19,600
\nGod knows what he’s doing and
\nyes, God does judge, the people,<\/p>\n
747
\n00:43:20,300 –> 00:43:24,700
\nGod will judge the people.
\nBut it’s in his time. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:43:26,100 –> 00:43:30,200
\nIt wasn’t Elijah’s job.
\nAnd so for us, I think this is <\/p>\n
749
\n00:43:30,200 –> 00:43:35,500
\nincredibly powerful because how
\noften does it happen that we see<\/p>\n
750
\n00:43:35,500 –> 00:43:39,800
\nsomebody doing something they’re
\nnot supposed to do and Is it <\/p>\n
751
\n00:43:39,800 –> 00:43:42,700
\nbiblical that we say?
\nOh yeah, they’re not supposed to<\/p>\n
752
\n00:43:42,700 –> 00:43:44,200
\ndo that.
\nYeah, it’s totally biblical. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:43:44,200 –> 00:43:46,300
\nYou know, we can look at what
\nthey’re doing and we can say <\/p>\n
754
\n00:43:46,300 –> 00:43:48,900
\nyes, that’s wrong.
\nThat is not a thing you’re <\/p>\n
755
\n00:43:48,900 –> 00:43:51,800
\nsupposed to do, but then we go
\nand we condemn them for it. <\/p>\n
756
\n00:43:54,200 –> 00:43:58,500
\nAnd that’s when we’ve crossed
\nthe line we can say you know, <\/p>\n
757
\n00:43:58,500 –> 00:44:00,700
\nbrother I don’t think you should
\ndo that because it’s wrong, <\/p>\n
758
\n00:44:01,200 –> 00:44:02,700
\nright?
\nAnd we can take action on it. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:44:02,700 –> 00:44:04,600
\nThis Fellowship is clearly a
\nBiblical thing. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:44:04,600 –> 00:44:06,500
\nI want to make that clear, not
\nsaying it’s not. <\/p>\n
761
\n00:44:08,300 –> 00:44:12,500
\nBut when we enter the point of
\nsaying, I’ve now taken over <\/p>\n
762
\n00:44:12,500 –> 00:44:15,900
\nGod’s job as the judge and I can
\ndecide. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:44:16,900 –> 00:44:18,300
\nAre you righteous?
\nAre you not righteous? <\/p>\n
764
\n00:44:19,800 –> 00:44:23,100
\nThat’s when we have to realize
\nthe lesson of Elijah and this <\/p>\n
765
\n00:44:23,100 –> 00:44:25,500
\nis, in fact, I think what we’re
\ngoing to see as we go through <\/p>\n
766
\n00:44:25,500 –> 00:44:29,300
\nthis story.
\nThat every one of these stories <\/p>\n
767
\n00:44:29,300 –> 00:44:32,600
\nin Elijah’s life, Every one of
\nthese events. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:44:33,900 –> 00:44:37,500
\nIs him being taught.
\nGod’s in control. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:44:38,800 –> 00:44:41,000
\nYou don’t need to one be the one
\nto bring judgment. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:44:41,800 –> 00:44:44,200
\nGod knows what he’s doing.
\nSo that’s what we’ll see <\/p>\n
771
\n00:44:44,200 –> 00:44:47,500
\ntomorrow when we look at the
\nstory of Elijah and the Ravens<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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