Class 3 from this series was used for GCT Episode 245<\/p>\n
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\nfurther delay, I’ll invite or
\nbeloved Brother Ryan to come and<\/p>\n
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\ndeliver to us his first class
\nfor our study or fraternal <\/p>\n
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\nweekend, which is entitled The
\nVoice of 1 Crying in the <\/p>\n
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\nWilderness, Brother Ryan.
\nThank you very much for the <\/p>\n
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\nNigel and good afternoon,
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s nice to be here.
\nAnd I thank you for the <\/p>\n
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\ninvitation to to join you and to
\nshare what I think is a <\/p>\n
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\nwonderful study, one of the
\ngreatest characters that has <\/p>\n
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\never lived and.
\nI’m sure you’re thinking as I <\/p>\n
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\nsay those words.
\nWell, you know, every speaker <\/p>\n
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\nwho gets up here starts off by
\nsaying that the study you’re <\/p>\n
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\nabout to hear or the study that
\nhe’s just done is the greatest <\/p>\n
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\nwhatever that you’ll ever hear.
\nLet me let me give to you <\/p>\n
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\nanother statement among those
\nborn among women there have not <\/p>\n
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\nrisen.
\nA greater prophet than John the <\/p>\n
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\nBaptist.
\nAnd that statement is given by <\/p>\n
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\nour Lord Jesus Christ himself of
\nall of the prophets. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you think about the great
\nprophets that God has sent to <\/p>\n
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\nmen down through time.
\nHe’s the greatest of them all. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the man that we have
\nbefore us this weekend. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was never anyone like John
\nthe Baptist. <\/p>\n
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\nIt wasn’t just the statement of
\nour Lord, but his own father, in<\/p>\n
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\ndescribing him, called him the
\nprophet of the highest in Luke <\/p>\n
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\nchapter one.
\nIt’s in that same chapter where <\/p>\n
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\nthe Lord Jesus Christ is
\ndescribed as the Son of the <\/p>\n
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\nhighest.
\nNow, has there ever been any <\/p>\n
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\ngreater son than that?
\nWell, here’s his prophet, the <\/p>\n
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\nprophet of the Highest.
\nYou know, his influence had <\/p>\n
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\nspread far and wide.
\nThis man who was a nobody. <\/p>\n
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\nIt is spread all the way down to
\nAlexandria and Egypt. <\/p>\n
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\nAlexandria was the great
\nuniversity city where the <\/p>\n
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\nPtolemys had collected all of
\nthe writings from all over the <\/p>\n
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\nworld.
\nThere was a man down there named<\/p>\n
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\nApollos, and Luke’s record and
\nact says that he was skilled in <\/p>\n
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\nwhat the teachings of John.
\nThe Baptist and the word skilled<\/p>\n
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\nis a word that’s used of one of
\nour pieces of literature <\/p>\n
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\ncatachesis.
\nHe had categorized John’s <\/p>\n
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\nteaching, he was all the way
\ndown in Egypt, and of course <\/p>\n
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\nlater he made his way to
\nCorinth. <\/p>\n
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\nAn eloquent man mighty in the
\nscriptures. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd knowing what the baptism of
\nJohn in the next chapter of Acts<\/p>\n
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\nwe read of certain disciples who
\nhad had separated themselves <\/p>\n
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\nfrom the law and what did they
\nknow? <\/p>\n
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\nThey knew the teachings of John
\nthe Baptist in Asia Minor. <\/p>\n
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\nIn Ephesus, which was the
\ncapital of Asia Minor. <\/p>\n
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\nHis teaching had spread all the
\nway down there to the to the the<\/p>\n
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\nfar-flung regions of the empire
\nat that time. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so you you look at those
\npoints and you ask yourself the <\/p>\n
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\nquestion, well, who was John?
\nYou know? <\/p>\n
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\nWas he a great man?
\nWas he a CEO? <\/p>\n
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\nWas he a millionaire?
\nLee was a nondescript living in <\/p>\n
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\nthe wilderness.
\nAnd eating grasshoppers. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if I if I said that to you
\nand you didn’t know who he was, <\/p>\n
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\nyou would laugh.
\nBut that’s who he was. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was nobody like him, a man
\nwho came into this world as a <\/p>\n
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\nmonument of difference and a man
\nwho wore his message in his <\/p>\n
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\nperson.
\nThere was never anybody quite <\/p>\n
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\nlike John the Baptist, except
\nfor maybe one. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that, of course, was Elijah.
\nIn whose spirit and power he <\/p>\n
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\ncame, dressed almost exactly
\nlike John in the the clothing of<\/p>\n
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\nnature and living on sparse food
\nin the wilderness. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there was a single message,
\nbrothers and sisters, that <\/p>\n
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\nemerges from John the Baptist
\nlife. <\/p>\n
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\nHere.
\nThe point of these studies is <\/p>\n
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\nnot really going to be hard to
\ngrasp. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s really just one single
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\nlife.
\nSo let’s begin in Luke chapter <\/p>\n
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\none and verse 17 and see the
\nmotivation and the reason why <\/p>\n
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\nJohn was sent into the world.
\nLuke chapter one and verse 17. <\/p>\n
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\nHere’s a statement which helps
\nus to introduce our study and <\/p>\n
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\nthis encapsulates really all
\nthat John the Baptist was about <\/p>\n
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\nverse 16 of Luke chapter one and
\nmany. <\/p>\n
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\nOf the children of visual shall
\nhe turn to the Lord there God, <\/p>\n
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\nand he shall go before him in
\nthe Spirit and in the power of <\/p>\n
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\nElijah.
\nNow there is the principle of <\/p>\n
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\nJohn’s life.
\nIf we can grasp the essence of <\/p>\n
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\nwhat this is all about, then we
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\nJohn’s work.
\nWhat did Luke mean when he said <\/p>\n
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\nthat he came in the Spirit and
\nthe power of Elijah? <\/p>\n
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\nWe don’t turn some of these
\nreferences up just to save our <\/p>\n
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\ntime, but you may remember that
\nin Luke Chapter 9 the Lord Jesus<\/p>\n
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\nChrist was making his way
\nthrough the village of the <\/p>\n
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\nSamaritans and they wouldn’t
\nreceive him. <\/p>\n
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\nThe two sons of Thunder, James
\nand John, said, shall we not <\/p>\n
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\nbring down fire from heaven and
\nconsume them like Elijah did? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Jesus answer was, you know
\nnot what manner of spirit you <\/p>\n
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\nare of, so the spirit of Elijah
\nbells and sisters. <\/p>\n
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\nWas not terrible awe inspiring.
\nIt was persuasive. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus said the Son of Man came
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\nto save.
\nThe spirit of Elijah is all <\/p>\n
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\nabout saving, not destroying.
\nWhat about the power of Elijah? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat was the power of Elijah
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\nWe know in John chapter 10,
\nverse 41 that John did no <\/p>\n
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\nBut he came in the power of
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\nThe the power of John the
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\nIt was his voice They asked him,<\/p>\n
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\nWho are you, John?
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\nSo he came in the spirit and in <\/p>\n
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\nthe power of Elijah.
\nIt was the voice of Yahweh to <\/p>\n
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\nsave.
\nAnd that’s going to be the <\/p>\n
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\nHe was nothing else but a voice.<\/p>\n
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\nBut what a powerful voice that
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\nmen and women, getting all of us
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\nthat the Kingdom of God is
\nalmost here and we need to be <\/p>\n
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\nready.
\nNow, that doesn’t sound like the<\/p>\n
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\nElijah that I know.
\nThe Elijah that I know is <\/p>\n
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\nfamous, of course, for bringing
\ndown fire from heaven twice on a<\/p>\n
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\ncaptain and his 50.
\nSo what we’ve got to do, <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters, and what
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\nis we want to go back to where
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\nThat it wasn’t about destroying,
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\nBecause that was the reason why
\nJohn was sent to exercise this <\/p>\n
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\nspirit and power that God fully
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\nnever did.
\nIn which we will see John will <\/p>\n
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\ndo as he goes forth to proclaim
\nthe voice of Yahweh to save. <\/p>\n
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\nFirst, King’s Chapter 19.
\nLet’s see what it was that <\/p>\n
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\nElijah was meant to do but but
\nnever ever did, But which One <\/p>\n
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\nday he will again come and stand
\non this earth to practice the <\/p>\n
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\nvoice of Yahweh to save.
\nAnd 1st King’s Chapter 19. <\/p>\n
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\nWe know the story.
\nElijah thought the nation was <\/p>\n
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\nHe saw the sacrifice consumed <\/p>\n
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\nupon Mount Carmel.
\nHe heard them screaming in his <\/p>\n
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\nears his own name, the Lord, he
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\nHe ran before the charity of
\nAhab, believing Ahab had been <\/p>\n
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\nconverted.
\nAs he followed or ran before <\/p>\n
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\nAhab into the gates of Jezreel,
\nthat imperious woman Jezebel <\/p>\n
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\nsaid, God do more to me, God do
\nso to me, and more also if I <\/p>\n
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\ndon’t have his blood by
\ntomorrow. <\/p>\n
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\nElijah went away depressed.
\nDejected, he thought the nation <\/p>\n
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\nhad changed.
\nHe thought the nation was <\/p>\n
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\nrepentant as he saw the
\nsacrifice being consumed upon <\/p>\n
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\nMount Carmel, but he just runs
\naway from Jezebel. <\/p>\n
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\nDepressed, the man who had stood
\nin Tribe upon Carmel was next <\/p>\n
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\nfound beneath the juniper tree,
\nsaying, I want to die, I’ve had <\/p>\n
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\nenough and I want to die.
\nAnd so he went, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters, inexorably, to Mount
\nSunny Eye. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s the only time in his life
\nElijah ever moved without that <\/p>\n
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\ncommandment.
\nHe’s going to tell God he’s been<\/p>\n
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\nlet down.
\nHe’s going to tell God he’s <\/p>\n
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\nfrustrated.
\nAnd when he gets down here in <\/p>\n
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\nFirst Kings 19, we’ll pick up
\nthe record. <\/p>\n
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\nNow he had to learn a tremendous
\nlesson. <\/p>\n
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\nFirst Kings 19 and verse 9.
\nAnd he came, sit there unto a <\/p>\n
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\ncave, and lodged there.
\nAnd behold, the word of Yahweh <\/p>\n
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\ncame to him.
\nAnd he said unto him, What doest<\/p>\n
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\nthou hear?
\nElijah, now in that ninth verse,<\/p>\n
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\nFrozen.
\nSisters, the emphasis in the <\/p>\n
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\nHebrew is on the word here.
\nWhat are you doing here, Elijah,<\/p>\n
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\nin this place in Sania?
\nWhat is it that you associate <\/p>\n
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\nwith me here?
\nAnd of course, Elijah had <\/p>\n
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\nremembered that place, hadn’t
\nhe? <\/p>\n
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\nWhen when the mountain was all
\non fire, when the law was given,<\/p>\n
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\nand the sound of the trumpet and
\nthe voice of words, which voice <\/p>\n
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\nthey that heard were unable to
\nwithstand. <\/p>\n
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\nThat even an animal approaching
\nthe mountain, they couldn’t, <\/p>\n
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\nthey couldn’t spear it with an
\narrow. <\/p>\n
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\nThey had to to stand back.
\nAnd that was what Elijah <\/p>\n
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\nassociated with God.
\nWhat are you doing here, Elijah?<\/p>\n
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\nAnd he came to a cave.
\nYou know the Hebrew has the <\/p>\n
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\ndefinite article there in verse
\nnine. <\/p>\n
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\nHe came unto The Cave.
\nNow it was either in that cave <\/p>\n
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\nor beside it.
\nThen another man stood and said,<\/p>\n
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\nDon’t destroy Israel, Block me
\nout of the book. <\/p>\n
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\nBut save that.
\nAnd of course Elijah had had <\/p>\n
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\ntotally missed that spirit,
\nhadn’t he? <\/p>\n
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\nIn his depression, in his
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\nthe history of the man who had
\nstood there so, so many years <\/p>\n
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\nbefore, and when the question
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\nIt all comes out, doesn’t it?
\nHere is what Elijah was <\/p>\n
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\nthinking.
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\nto Mount Sonii.
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\nsays for the Lord God of armies.
\nAnd there it is. <\/p>\n
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\nIf he just said Lord God Yahweh
\nElohim, you know we would have <\/p>\n
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\nsaid well the covenant name God
\nwriting his his name upon the <\/p>\n
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\nhearts of men and women.
\nBut Elijah adds to it the word <\/p>\n
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\nfor.
\nArmies. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s only the second time the
\nwhole Bible that that name <\/p>\n
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\nappears.
\nThe Lord God of armies. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see, Elijah felt, brothers
\nand sisters, that God should <\/p>\n
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\ntake Israel by the scruff of
\ntheir neck, shake the lifeout of<\/p>\n
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\nthem, and wake them up to to see
\nthat they have to obey the <\/p>\n
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\ntruth.
\nBut what good is that, brothers <\/p>\n
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\nand sisters, without the heart?
\nWhat good is is, is shaking <\/p>\n
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\npeople.
\nAnd forcing them to do what God <\/p>\n
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\nwants.
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\ntheir whole heart, what good is
\nit? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not worth anything.
\nYou know. <\/p>\n
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\nGod will never brothers and
\nsisters, forces, covenant or his<\/p>\n
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\nways upon any of us.
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\nJohn came in the spirit and <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not that. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we know what happened here
\nat Sania. <\/p>\n
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\nIn verse 11, Elijah was made to
\nfeel the the sting of the the <\/p>\n
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\nunleash upon Israel, and he <\/p>\n
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\nGo forth and and stand upon the <\/p>\n
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\nmount, says verse 11.
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\nrevealed to him in wind,
\nearthquake, and fire. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, Elijah would have been
\nabsolutely terrified as he as he<\/p>\n
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\nfelt the effects of all of those
\nthings, the earthquake, the <\/p>\n
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\nwind.
\nOf the fire. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know there.
\nThere’s nothing at Sinai Bros <\/p>\n
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\nand Sisters.
\nReally, that’s combustible. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can’t burn anything.
\nIt’s solid granite. <\/p>\n
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\nBut but fire burnt that granite
\nas though it was temper, and <\/p>\n
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\nElijah would feel the steering
\nheat. <\/p>\n
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\nYou went back into The Cave, but
\nyou notice what it says there in<\/p>\n
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\nin both in verse 11 and in verse
\n12 says God was not in those <\/p>\n
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\nthings.
\nGod was not in the wind. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was not in the earthquake.
\nHe was not in the fire. <\/p>\n
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\nIn other words, God doesn’t
\nchange, you or me, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters, by dramatics, by
\nmiracles. <\/p>\n
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\ntell you that you’re in the <\/p>\n
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\npresence of divinity.
\nBut that’s that’s all they can <\/p>\n
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\ndo.
\nHe uses a different method. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was not in any of those
\nthings. <\/p>\n
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\nHe changes us by another method,
\nand that method is there at the <\/p>\n
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\nend of verse 12.
\nAfter the fire, a still small <\/p>\n
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\nvoice, and it’s that voice we
\nknow that gets Elijah out into <\/p>\n
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\nthe open.
\nIt’s that voice that gets him to<\/p>\n
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\nsee what his problem was.
\nA thin, crushed voice is what <\/p>\n
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\nthe Hebrew is.
\nIt’s that which changes us the <\/p>\n
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\nunobtrusive influence of the
\ndaily readings. <\/p>\n
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\nThe humble and and simple
\nprinciples that are put forward <\/p>\n
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\nWhen we go home and we think <\/p>\n
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\nabout those things and we
\nmeditate upon them, it’s it’s <\/p>\n
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\nthose things that change.
\nIt’s not the dramatics, not the <\/p>\n
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\nearthquake, wind and fire.
\nBut what fixes the heart, <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters, is the
\nstill small voice getting to the<\/p>\n
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\nheart of the issue.
\nThat’s what Elijah had to learn.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd when Elijah saw that he was
\nashamed, you know, he he wraps <\/p>\n
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\nhis face, says verse 13 in his
\nmantle. <\/p>\n
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\nNow the mantle was a symbol of
\nthe prophetic office. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s ashamed of it because he
\nrealizes now that that that <\/p>\n
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\nstill small voice that he heard
\nthere from the Angel was nothing<\/p>\n
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\nlike what he had been doing in
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it was the voice, brothers
\nand sisters, that got him out in<\/p>\n
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\nthe open.
\nIt was the voice, the gentle <\/p>\n
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\nwhisper, as the Hebrew has it.
\nIt’s the gentle whisper of God’s<\/p>\n
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\nword that perfects us, that
\nchanges us, that got Elijah out <\/p>\n
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\nof that cave and made him
\nrealize that that is what God <\/p>\n
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\nuses to save men and women.
\nHe’d gone down to Soni I to to <\/p>\n
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\nbring judgment upon Israel.
\nThat look, if if they’re not <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to do this willingly, then
\nyou should force it upon them. <\/p>\n
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\nGod says no.
\nI use a different method. <\/p>\n
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\nI use the still small voice
\nwhich gets to the heart of the <\/p>\n
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\nissue.
\nThere’s a subtle difference here<\/p>\n
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\nin the record.
\nIn verse 13 you see what the <\/p>\n
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\nAngel does is repeats the same
\nquestion as verse nine. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know in verse 9 the word of
\nthe Lord came unto him. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat are you doing here, Elijah?
\nBut in verse 13 the question <\/p>\n
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\ncomes again from God, but with a
\ndifference. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd note that difference.
\nVerse nine said the word of the <\/p>\n
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\nLord came, but in verse 13 there
\ncame at the end of the verse. <\/p>\n
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\nA voice unto him, What are you
\ndoing here, Elijah? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he’s absolutely shaken.
\nAnd he repeats his prepared <\/p>\n
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\nstatement in verse 14, and I
\nthink he would have done so this<\/p>\n
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\ntime with a little bit less zeal
\nand a little bit less fervor. <\/p>\n
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\nI have been very jealous for the
\nLord God of Host. <\/p>\n
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\nIt would have been said with
\nwith much less gusto. <\/p>\n
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\nIs verse 10 and the Angel
\ndoesn’t even answer him. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Angel says in verse verse 15
\nyou go back on your way. <\/p>\n
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\nYou go back on your way to
\npractice the spirit and the <\/p>\n
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\npower of that voice.
\nElijah, I want you to return to <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael and practice a different
\nspirit. <\/p>\n
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\nNot a spirit that wants to call
\ndown 5 from heaven, but my <\/p>\n
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\nvoice.
\nStill small voice. <\/p>\n
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\nRotherham has the voice of a
\ngentle whisper and speak to the <\/p>\n
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\nhearts of your brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s what converts us, that’s
\nwhat changes us. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s the goodness of God, says
\nthe apostle Paul, that leads us <\/p>\n
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\nto repentance, not law driving
\nus to obedience, but the <\/p>\n
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\ngoodness of God.
\nRomans 2 verse four that leads <\/p>\n
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\nus to repentance.
\nYeah, What is it that’s more <\/p>\n
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\nuseful?
\nDo this or I’ll belt you or, you<\/p>\n
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\nknow, we choose this principle,
\nbrother, because this is what <\/p>\n
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\nhappens.
\nHere’s an example from the <\/p>\n
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\nOr here’s an example young <\/p>\n
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\nperson of of of why we do what
\nwe do. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is why this is the best
\ncourse of action. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we entreat and we appeal
\nbased on that. <\/p>\n
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\nWe get to the heart of the
\nmatter. <\/p>\n
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\nElijah, I’ve got 7000 in Israel
\nthat desperately need your <\/p>\n
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\ninput.
\nThey could really use this <\/p>\n
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\ncouncil, the voice of God, to
\nsave. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, Elijah, both and
\nsisters never really did <\/p>\n
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\nexercise that during his
\nlifetime. <\/p>\n
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\nHe struggled with that even
\nafter this point. <\/p>\n
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\nBut we know one day Elijah will.
\nAnd how do we know that? <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s come to the last words of
\nthe Old Testament. <\/p>\n
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\nMalachi Chapter 4.
\nHere is the still small voice <\/p>\n
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\nnow being practiced by Elijah.
\nHe’s now learned from his <\/p>\n
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\nexperience at Mount Sania what
\nit is that changes the hearts of<\/p>\n
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\nmen and women.
\nNot the earthquake, not the <\/p>\n
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\ndramatics, but the still small
\nvoice. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s just read this carefully.
\nMalachi chapter 4 and verse 4. <\/p>\n
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\nRemember ye the law of Moses, my
\nservant, which I commanded unto <\/p>\n
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\nhim in hora for all Israel with
\nthe statutes and the judgments. <\/p>\n
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\nBehold, I send you Elijah.
\nWhy send us, Elijah? <\/p>\n
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\nTo remember, Moses?
\nWhy not send Moses? <\/p>\n
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\nWouldn’t it be better that’s the
\none he’s talking about? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, for this reason, brothers
\nand sisters, Elijah is far <\/p>\n
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\nbetter educated.
\nRemember he the law of Moses, my<\/p>\n
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\nservant.
\nHe had gone to Sania to stand in<\/p>\n
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\nMoses shoes.
\nAnd God showed him what really <\/p>\n
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\nchanges the hearts of men and
\nwomen, what what the law was <\/p>\n
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\nreally about, what God was
\ndriving at, the spirit of the <\/p>\n
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\nstill small voice.
\nAnd so he doesn’t send the Moses<\/p>\n
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\nwhen he goes back again to to
\ngather the Jews out of all lands<\/p>\n
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\nin in in the few coming years.
\nWho does he send? <\/p>\n
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\nHe sends Elijah.
\nBecause here is the man who now <\/p>\n
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\nunderstands what really changes
\nthe hearts of men and women. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd This is why John the Baptist
\nwas sent to speak to their <\/p>\n
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\nIt was the still small voice of <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the other interesting thing <\/p>\n
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\nabout this, this passage here,
\nis that there are two keywords <\/p>\n
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\nin verses 5:00 and 6:00, and we
\nhave them highlighted here on <\/p>\n
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\nthe the screen for you.
\nHe says, Behold, I send you a <\/p>\n
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\nlie to the prophet before the
\ncoming of the great and dreadful<\/p>\n
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\nday of Yahweh.
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\nthe heart of the children to <\/p>\n
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\ntheir fathers, lest I come and
\nsmite the earth with a curse. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the two words that stand up
\nthere like monuments on the <\/p>\n
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\nearth are before.
\nAnd lest you know, Elijah went <\/p>\n
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\ndown to sonii.
\nTo procure a curse upon Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nTo bring that curse upon them
\nbecause of their disobedience to<\/p>\n
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\nAnd Paul and Romans 11 picked <\/p>\n
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\nthat up and he said what she not
\nwhat the scripture sent of <\/p>\n
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\nElijah, how he went to make
\nintercession against Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat’s he going to do in the
\nfuture? <\/p>\n
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\nGod sends Elijah to Israel to
\nprevent it. <\/p>\n
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\nTo prevent that curse, he went
\nto Sania to bring the curse. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the future Elijah will come
\nand. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’ll try to prevent it, and he
\nwill. <\/p>\n
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\n00:22:08,680 –> 00:22:12,640
\nAll Israel will be saved.
\nDespite a few rebels in the <\/p>\n
338
\n00:22:12,640 –> 00:22:14,640
\nwilderness.
\nElijah will speak to their <\/p>\n
339
\n00:22:14,640 –> 00:22:17,160
\nhearts.
\nHow ironic that he was the one <\/p>\n
340
\n00:22:17,160 –> 00:22:19,360
\nwho went down to Sunni eye to
\nbring the curse. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:22:20,400 –> 00:22:23,000
\nThe last words of the Old
\nTestament say I’m sending Elijah<\/p>\n
342
\n00:22:23,000 –> 00:22:26,760
\nback, not Moses.
\nI’m sending Elijah back to <\/p>\n
343
\n00:22:26,760 –> 00:22:29,280
\nprevent the curse.
\nNow how is Elijah going to do <\/p>\n
344
\n00:22:29,280 –> 00:22:31,840
\nthat?
\nWell, he’s going to speak to <\/p>\n
345
\n00:22:31,840 –> 00:22:35,210
\ntheir hearts, isn’t he?
\nYou can imagine Elijah leading, <\/p>\n
346
\n00:22:35,490 –> 00:22:38,690
\nleading that nation back as they
\nthey go up into the Judean hills<\/p>\n
347
\n00:22:38,690 –> 00:22:41,650
\nto meet their Messiah with with
\nall the eloquence that, you <\/p>\n
348
\n00:22:41,650 –> 00:22:44,770
\nknow, a man like Elijah could
\nbring to bear to talk about the <\/p>\n
349
\n00:22:44,770 –> 00:22:48,170
\ngoodness of God that that leads
\npeople to repentance. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:22:48,410 –> 00:22:49,930
\nHe says.
\nI want to tell you, my people, <\/p>\n
351
\n00:22:49,930 –> 00:22:53,130
\nabout the Law of Moses.
\nI’m going to tell you, not <\/p>\n
352
\n00:22:53,130 –> 00:22:54,730
\nMoses.
\nI’m going to tell you because <\/p>\n
353
\n00:22:55,010 –> 00:23:00,210
\nI’m now equipped, because I
\nunderstand really what the <\/p>\n
354
\n00:23:00,210 –> 00:23:02,890
\nSpirit.
\nOf the truth is all about it’s <\/p>\n
355
\n00:23:02,970 –> 00:23:05,490
\nit’s talking to people.
\nIt’s appealing to them, it’s <\/p>\n
356
\n00:23:05,490 –> 00:23:08,050
\nspeaking to their hearts.
\nAnd that’s what motivates them <\/p>\n
357
\n00:23:08,050 –> 00:23:12,610
\nto change the goodness of God
\nthat leads men and women to <\/p>\n
358
\n00:23:12,610 –> 00:23:14,050
\nrepentance.
\nYou know, what is it that gets <\/p>\n
359
\n00:23:14,050 –> 00:23:16,490
\nyou to break an old habit in
\nyour life, brothers and sisters?<\/p>\n
360
\n00:23:17,650 –> 00:23:20,290
\nIs it when somebody reads you
\nthe Ryan act? <\/p>\n
361
\n00:23:20,290 –> 00:23:22,170
\nI mean, that might get your
\nattention. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:23:23,010 –> 00:23:24,610
\nIs it when somebody gives you a
\nlecture? <\/p>\n
363
\n00:23:26,450 –> 00:23:28,570
\nOr is it when you think about
\nall the things that God’s done <\/p>\n
364
\n00:23:28,570 –> 00:23:31,520
\nfor you?
\nAnd he’s think about how good <\/p>\n
365
\n00:23:31,520 –> 00:23:35,040
\nhe’s been to you, how he sent
\nhis Angel to to guide your life.<\/p>\n
366
\n00:23:35,880 –> 00:23:37,600
\nAnd you think about all the
\nthings that he’s given you that <\/p>\n
367
\n00:23:37,600 –> 00:23:40,920
\nyou don’t deserve.
\nIsn’t isn’t that which changes <\/p>\n
368
\n00:23:40,920 –> 00:23:42,280
\nyou.
\nIt makes you better. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:23:43,280 –> 00:23:44,680
\nThat’s what Elijah is going to
\ndo. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:23:45,400 –> 00:23:49,680
\nBehold, I send you Elijah the
\nprophet before the coming of the<\/p>\n
371
\n00:23:49,680 –> 00:23:50,880
\ngreat and dreadful day of the
\nLord. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:23:51,040 –> 00:23:53,800
\nAnd he’d gone to Sony I down
\nthere to bring it. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:23:54,840 –> 00:23:58,120
\nSo all that was a real to Elijah
\nas we saw in First Kings 19 by. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:23:58,570 –> 00:24:00,330
\nThe voice.
\nIt was the voice that drew him <\/p>\n
375
\n00:24:00,330 –> 00:24:03,570
\nout into the open.
\nIt was the voice that let him <\/p>\n
376
\n00:24:03,570 –> 00:24:06,490
\nmove out of that cave and and
\nwrap his face at his mantle, <\/p>\n
377
\n00:24:06,490 –> 00:24:09,050
\nbecause he knew he could see the
\npoint that God was getting at. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:24:09,050 –> 00:24:13,850
\nIt was the voice, and you win.
\nJohn the Baptist voice sounded <\/p>\n
379
\n00:24:13,850 –> 00:24:17,130
\nin the wilderness.
\nFrozen sisters, the record of <\/p>\n
380
\n00:24:17,130 –> 00:24:24,770
\nMatthew Chapter 3 says, and all
\nJudea went out to hear him. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:24:24,770 –> 00:24:27,570
\nThey were drawn inextively to
\nthat man they came from. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:24:28,010 –> 00:24:32,210
\nFrom Judea they came.
\nFrom Galilee, they came from <\/p>\n
383
\n00:24:32,210 –> 00:24:34,930
\nbeyond Jordan.
\nThey all went out to hear him. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:24:34,930 –> 00:24:38,610
\nIt was the voice that drew them,
\nthe golden voice that drew them <\/p>\n
385
\n00:24:38,610 –> 00:24:43,650
\njust like like bees on honey.
\nNow, where is the great prophecy<\/p>\n
386
\n00:24:43,890 –> 00:24:47,050
\nin your Bible about John the
\nBaptist? <\/p>\n
387
\n00:24:48,170 –> 00:24:53,810
\nAnd the voice, of course, it’s
\nit’s Isaiah 40, Isaiah, chapter <\/p>\n
388
\n00:24:53,810 –> 00:24:57,050
\n40.
\nHere it was a voice. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:24:57,750 –> 00:24:59,670
\nIn the wilderness.
\nAnd of course, where did Elijah <\/p>\n
390
\n00:24:59,670 –> 00:25:01,950
\nhear it?
\nIt was at the very apex of the <\/p>\n
391
\n00:25:01,990 –> 00:25:04,070
\nthe wilderness in in Mount
\nSonia. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:25:04,270 –> 00:25:07,990
\nHere is the voice.
\nOf course John had quoted this, <\/p>\n
393
\n00:25:07,990 –> 00:25:11,790
\ndidn’t he, About his own work?
\nHe said, I’m the voice, They <\/p>\n
394
\n00:25:11,790 –> 00:25:14,950
\nsaid, Who are you, John?
\nAnd he quoted the 40th chapter <\/p>\n
395
\n00:25:14,950 –> 00:25:18,830
\nof Isaiah to say I’m the voice.
\nAnd what kind of voice was it? <\/p>\n
396
\n00:25:20,110 –> 00:25:25,870
\nWas it the voice that Elijah
\nwent to Sonia with the verse one<\/p>\n
397
\n00:25:25,870 –> 00:25:30,160
\nsays.
\nComfort ye, comfort ye, my <\/p>\n
398
\n00:25:30,160 –> 00:25:31,520
\npeople.
\nHere’s the voice. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:25:32,080 –> 00:25:35,320
\nElijah didn’t go to Sinai to say
\ncomfort ye, comfort ye my <\/p>\n
400
\n00:25:35,320 –> 00:25:37,600
\npeople, but this is what the
\nvoice will do. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:25:37,760 –> 00:25:40,920
\nSpeak ye comfortably to
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:25:40,920 –> 00:25:43,720
\nNow if you have a margin, the
\nmargin of the the Authorized <\/p>\n
403
\n00:25:43,720 –> 00:25:50,880
\nVersion says, speak to the heart
\nof Jerusalem, getting to their <\/p>\n
404
\n00:25:50,880 –> 00:25:54,320
\nhearts, speaking to them in in
\ncomfortable words. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:25:55,220 –> 00:25:59,900
\nJust like you do in a thin,
\ncrushed voice, which is is the <\/p>\n
406
\n00:26:00,140 –> 00:26:02,300
\nthe Hebrew meaning of that voice
\nat Sonyeye. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:26:03,380 –> 00:26:10,580
\nIt’s a thin, crushed voice.
\nThat’s how you change men and <\/p>\n
408
\n00:26:10,580 –> 00:26:12,700
\nwomen.
\nThat’s how you change hearts. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:26:13,420 –> 00:26:16,500
\nThis is what John the Baptist,
\nComing Brothers and Sisters was <\/p>\n
410
\n00:26:16,620 –> 00:26:19,820
\nall about.
\nBut where is the voice heard? <\/p>\n
411
\n00:26:21,980 –> 00:26:24,140
\nWhere do we hear that voice?
\nDo we hear it out on the streets<\/p>\n
412
\n00:26:24,140 –> 00:26:29,340
\nhere today?
\nWhere is the voice heard? <\/p>\n
413
\n00:26:30,540 –> 00:26:36,060
\nWell, Josea said.
\nI will allure her and bring her <\/p>\n
414
\n00:26:36,060 –> 00:26:42,380
\nwhere into the wilderness, and
\nI’ll speak to her heart, which <\/p>\n
415
\n00:26:42,380 –> 00:26:44,820
\nis the same expression in the
\nHebrew as Isaiah 40. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:26:45,500 –> 00:26:48,700
\nNow Josea too is all about
\nGomer, you know, the the <\/p>\n
417
\n00:26:48,700 –> 00:26:53,660
\nunfaithful wife of Josea, who’s
\nreally a symbol, isn’t she of. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:26:54,730 –> 00:26:58,010
\nWayward Israel.
\nAnd how did Jose I get her to <\/p>\n
419
\n00:26:58,010 –> 00:27:01,650
\ncome back?
\nWasn’t by reading or the riot <\/p>\n
420
\n00:27:01,650 –> 00:27:06,690
\nact, was by alluring her and
\nspeaking to her heart. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:27:06,850 –> 00:27:10,810
\nThe persuasive voice of God is
\nwhat changed Gomer, and that <\/p>\n
422
\n00:27:10,810 –> 00:27:16,010
\nvoice was heard where it was
\nheard in the wilderness. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:27:17,010 –> 00:27:19,090
\nWe’ve got to get out into the
\nwilderness, brothers and <\/p>\n
424
\n00:27:19,090 –> 00:27:22,810
\nsisters, if we want to hear the
\nvoice of God. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:27:23,700 –> 00:27:27,180
\nGod or Hosea took Gomer.
\nOr God took Gomer, but he did it<\/p>\n
426
\n00:27:27,180 –> 00:27:30,300
\nthrough Hosea took Gomer out
\ninto the waters, where she had <\/p>\n
427
\n00:27:30,300 –> 00:27:36,500
\nnothing.
\nNo distractions, no cell phones,<\/p>\n
428
\n00:27:37,100 –> 00:27:41,620
\nno Wi-Fi, none of that.
\nAnd when she was out there, <\/p>\n
429
\n00:27:41,620 –> 00:27:44,540
\nisolated and alone, God was able
\nto speak to her. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:27:45,100 –> 00:27:47,820
\nAnd that’s the great message of
\nJohn the Baptist life. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:27:48,520 –> 00:27:50,480
\nThat is the point of these
\nstudies. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:27:50,480 –> 00:27:53,040
\nWe’ve got to get out into the
\nwilderness, pros and scissors. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:27:53,200 –> 00:27:57,320
\nIf we’re ever going to hear the
\nvoice of God, because it’s not <\/p>\n
434
\n00:27:57,320 –> 00:28:03,600
\nheard anywhere else, you know we
\ncan’t escape our society, can <\/p>\n
435
\n00:28:03,600 –> 00:28:05,640
\nwe?
\nYou know, we we’re all like rats<\/p>\n
436
\n00:28:05,640 –> 00:28:08,480
\ncaught up in a trap.
\nBut unless we can create within <\/p>\n
437
\n00:28:08,480 –> 00:28:11,640
\nour minds a wilderness
\natmosphere, then we can never <\/p>\n
438
\n00:28:11,640 –> 00:28:17,920
\nhear God speaking to our hearts.
\nBut hear it we must. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:28:19,480 –> 00:28:21,120
\nAnd Gomer stood in the
\nwilderness, where she had <\/p>\n
440
\n00:28:21,120 –> 00:28:24,800
\nnothing and God was able to get
\nthrough to her, that <\/p>\n
441
\n00:28:24,800 –> 00:28:27,480
\nillegitimate, wicked woman God
\nwas able to get through to her <\/p>\n
442
\n00:28:28,160 –> 00:28:31,000
\nby speaking to her heart in the
\nwilderness. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:28:31,000 –> 00:28:33,240
\nAnd that’s why John is in the
\nwilderness. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:28:33,880 –> 00:28:37,640
\nThat’s why he wore a camel skin.
\nThat’s why he ate grasshoppers. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:28:37,640 –> 00:28:39,600
\nBecause he’s telling us, Clear
\nyour mind. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:28:40,000 –> 00:28:43,600
\nCome out here and listen to the
\nwhisper. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:28:44,880 –> 00:28:49,670
\nIt’s only in the wilderness.
\nWhere the voice of God can be <\/p>\n
448
\n00:28:49,670 –> 00:28:57,070
\nheard.
\nSimplify our lives, narrow down <\/p>\n
449
\n00:28:57,070 –> 00:29:01,750
\nyour influences and open the
\nword in peace and in quiet. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:29:02,830 –> 00:29:06,510
\nYou know many, many years ago at
\nShippensburg Bible School <\/p>\n
451
\n00:29:07,070 –> 00:29:12,870
\nwhether John Martin was there
\nand after the Class A bunch of <\/p>\n
452
\n00:29:12,870 –> 00:29:16,430
\nus young guys went up to him and
\nand we said, you know. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:29:17,670 –> 00:29:20,510
\nBrother John, you know, where do
\nyou find all these amazing <\/p>\n
454
\n00:29:20,510 –> 00:29:22,910
\npoints that you’re sharing in
\nyour classes? <\/p>\n
455
\n00:29:24,270 –> 00:29:28,070
\nAnd he said, boys, they’re not
\ndown at the mall. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:29:30,390 –> 00:29:33,270
\nWell, this is back when we had
\nmalls in the late 90s. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:29:34,070 –> 00:29:36,310
\nThey’re not down at the mall, he
\nsaid. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:29:36,590 –> 00:29:42,350
\nThey’re in the wilderness.
\nThat’s where you find the voice <\/p>\n
459
\n00:29:42,350 –> 00:29:44,870
\nof God.
\nYou’ll never hear him in the <\/p>\n
460
\n00:29:44,870 –> 00:29:49,050
\nhustle bustle of this world.
\nYou have to go out into a <\/p>\n
461
\n00:29:49,050 –> 00:29:51,570
\nwilderness.
\nAnd when we get out into a <\/p>\n
462
\n00:29:51,570 –> 00:29:54,690
\nwilderness where there’s
\nnothing, it’s remarkable When <\/p>\n
463
\n00:29:54,690 –> 00:29:58,690
\nyou get out there, how clear
\nGod’s voice is and it’s <\/p>\n
464
\n00:29:58,690 –> 00:30:01,370
\ncomfortable.
\nWords, it’s soothing words. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:30:01,370 –> 00:30:03,530
\nIt’s not the the gong of this
\nworld. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:30:03,530 –> 00:30:05,890
\nIt’s soothing.
\nIt’s peaceful. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:30:06,610 –> 00:30:10,490
\nIt filters the heart.
\nAnd when there’s no incessant <\/p>\n
468
\n00:30:10,490 –> 00:30:16,810
\ndinging, it’s absorbed.
\nThey said to John, who are you? <\/p>\n
469
\n00:30:17,050 –> 00:30:20,210
\nThey said, well, I’m the voice
\nin the wilderness. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:30:20,690 –> 00:30:22,850
\nPrepare you the way of Yahweh.
\nIf the people wanted to hear <\/p>\n
471
\n00:30:22,850 –> 00:30:25,610
\nJohn, where did they have to go?
\nThey had to go out into the <\/p>\n
472
\n00:30:25,610 –> 00:30:30,010
\nwilderness.
\nJohn wasn’t in the Judean Hills <\/p>\n
473
\n00:30:30,010 –> 00:30:33,290
\ngoing shopping.
\nHe wasn’t mingling on Mount <\/p>\n
474
\n00:30:33,290 –> 00:30:37,930
\nGarazine with the Samaritans.
\nHe was in the wilderness. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:30:38,730 –> 00:30:42,050
\nAnd if they wanted to hear that
\nwhisper, they had to go out and <\/p>\n
476
\n00:30:42,050 –> 00:30:45,320
\nlisten to him.
\nI just come back a few pages to <\/p>\n
477
\n00:30:45,400 –> 00:30:49,240
\nto Isaiah 32.
\nWhile we’re in Isaiah here, this<\/p>\n
478
\n00:30:49,240 –> 00:30:51,840
\nis the same sort of of idea
\nabout getting out into the <\/p>\n
479
\n00:30:51,840 –> 00:30:54,120
\nwater, and it’s getting away
\nfrom society. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:30:55,200 –> 00:30:58,320
\nThere is the the great lesson of
\nthis man’s life. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:30:59,520 –> 00:31:05,320
\nVerse 13 of Isaiah 32, upon the
\nland of my people shall come up <\/p>\n
482
\n00:31:05,320 –> 00:31:08,840
\nthorns and briars.
\nYeah, upon all the houses of joy<\/p>\n
483
\n00:31:08,840 –> 00:31:11,890
\nand the joyous city.
\nBecause the palaces shall be <\/p>\n
484
\n00:31:11,890 –> 00:31:14,970
\nforsaken, this this 14th verse
\nis talking about the cities of <\/p>\n
485
\n00:31:14,970 –> 00:31:18,210
\nour present world.
\nOkay, New York, Philadelphia, <\/p>\n
486
\n00:31:18,210 –> 00:31:23,730
\nThis is what’s about to happen.
\nThe cities will be forsaken, The<\/p>\n
487
\n00:31:23,730 –> 00:31:27,650
\nmultitude of the city shall be
\nleft, the forts and the towers <\/p>\n
488
\n00:31:27,650 –> 00:31:31,250
\nshall be for dens forever a joy
\nof wild asses, a pasture of <\/p>\n
489
\n00:31:31,250 –> 00:31:38,330
\nflocks, until the spirit be
\npoured upon us from on high and <\/p>\n
490
\n00:31:38,330 –> 00:31:41,970
\nthe wilderness.
\nBecome a fruitful field. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:31:42,170 –> 00:31:45,290
\nYou know, that verse isn’t just
\nsaying that one day God’s going <\/p>\n
492
\n00:31:45,290 –> 00:31:49,250
\nto change this world to be an
\nAgricultural Society, whereas <\/p>\n
493
\n00:31:49,250 –> 00:31:51,730
\nnow it’s an urban one.
\nYou know, it’s saying that <\/p>\n
494
\n00:31:51,730 –> 00:31:54,450
\npeople that live in these
\nconcrete jungles like New York, <\/p>\n
495
\n00:31:55,090 –> 00:31:59,490
\nlike Philadelphia, where the
\nwhisper of God’s word today is <\/p>\n
496
\n00:31:59,490 –> 00:32:02,370
\nnever picked up.
\nOne day God will shape this <\/p>\n
497
\n00:32:02,370 –> 00:32:03,570
\nworld.
\nBrothers and sisters with an <\/p>\n
498
\n00:32:03,570 –> 00:32:06,730
\nearthquake, you know, they say
\nin that 14th verse there that. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:32:07,560 –> 00:32:10,640
\nYou find every single Hebrew
\nword for a city that you can <\/p>\n
500
\n00:32:10,640 –> 00:32:14,120
\nhave.
\nEvery single word for a city or <\/p>\n
501
\n00:32:14,120 –> 00:32:19,320
\ntower is in that 14th verse.
\nEvery conceivable thing you can <\/p>\n
502
\n00:32:19,320 –> 00:32:21,640
\nthink of when you think about a
\ncity is there in that 14th <\/p>\n
503
\n00:32:21,640 –> 00:32:22,600
\nverse.
\nBut what’s it going to be? <\/p>\n
504
\n00:32:22,600 –> 00:32:25,720
\nSoon?
\nIt’s going to be a joy of wild <\/p>\n
505
\n00:32:25,720 –> 00:32:28,760
\nasses.
\nThey’re all going to be empty. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:32:29,440 –> 00:32:32,000
\nWhen Zechariah 14, when the
\nearthquake of that chapter <\/p>\n
507
\n00:32:32,000 –> 00:32:35,640
\nhappens, there is not going to
\nbe a city on this earth. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:32:36,070 –> 00:32:39,230
\nLeft standing, and that’s not my
\nopinion, That’s the opinion of <\/p>\n
509
\n00:32:39,230 –> 00:32:43,110
\nseismologist in Australia.
\nThey have said that people that <\/p>\n
510
\n00:32:43,110 –> 00:32:45,070
\ndon’t believe the Bible have
\nlooked at the earthquake of <\/p>\n
511
\n00:32:45,070 –> 00:32:48,790
\nZechariah 14 and said if that
\nhappens, there will not be a <\/p>\n
512
\n00:32:48,790 –> 00:32:50,350
\ncity on this earth left
\nstanding. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:32:51,430 –> 00:32:52,590
\nWell what?
\nWhat’s it going to be? <\/p>\n
514
\n00:32:52,590 –> 00:32:54,830
\nWhat are people going to do when
\ntheir cities are gone? <\/p>\n
515
\n00:32:55,670 –> 00:32:58,750
\nWell, verse 15 says they’re
\ngoing to go out into the <\/p>\n
516
\n00:32:58,750 –> 00:33:03,030
\nwilderness.
\nThey’re going to go out where <\/p>\n
517
\n00:33:03,030 –> 00:33:05,270
\nGod’s spirit has been poured
\nupon high. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:33:05,680 –> 00:33:09,280
\nAnd the wilderness will become a
\nfruitful field. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:33:09,680 –> 00:33:13,800
\nAnd when that earthquake levels
\nevery city in this world, and it<\/p>\n
520
\n00:33:13,800 –> 00:33:17,960
\nbecomes a joy of wild asses,
\npeople will drag themselves, and<\/p>\n
521
\n00:33:17,960 –> 00:33:20,280
\nthey’ll have their families and
\ntheir children, and they will go<\/p>\n
522
\n00:33:20,280 –> 00:33:25,880
\nout into the wilderness where
\nthere’s nothing, and there God <\/p>\n
523
\n00:33:25,880 –> 00:33:29,920
\nwill speak to their hearts.
\nThat was why John the Baptist <\/p>\n
524
\n00:33:29,920 –> 00:33:33,400
\nwas sent to get people out of
\nthis world where there’s <\/p>\n
525
\n00:33:33,400 –> 00:33:36,020
\nnothing.
\nAnd there he will speak to our <\/p>\n
526
\n00:33:36,020 –> 00:33:37,580
\nheart.
\nNow, what generation that has <\/p>\n
527
\n00:33:37,580 –> 00:33:40,700
\never lived in human history has
\ngot to hear this lesson more <\/p>\n
528
\n00:33:40,700 –> 00:33:43,980
\nthan ours.
\nThere are so many distractions <\/p>\n
529
\n00:33:43,980 –> 00:33:47,380
\ntoday.
\nThe attention span of people is <\/p>\n
530
\n00:33:47,380 –> 00:33:49,020
\nonly until they hear the next
\nDing. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:33:50,820 –> 00:33:53,300
\nWe’ve got to get out of that.
\nWe’ve got to create a wilderness<\/p>\n
532
\n00:33:53,300 –> 00:33:58,380
\natmosphere in our minds. close
\nthe door, turn the Wi-Fi off and<\/p>\n
533
\n00:33:58,380 –> 00:34:03,140
\nopen this book and allow God to
\nspeak to our hearts. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:34:04,110 –> 00:34:05,390
\nAnd we’ll leave Isaiah 40 for
\nnow. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:34:05,390 –> 00:34:07,710
\nBut in each session this
\nafternoon we’re going to have to<\/p>\n
536
\n00:34:07,710 –> 00:34:10,510
\ncome back here because this is
\nJohn’s chapter all the way back <\/p>\n
537
\n00:34:10,989 –> 00:34:15,949
\nin the prophecy of Isaiah.
\nI’d like to just end this first <\/p>\n
538
\n00:34:15,949 –> 00:34:19,310
\nsession where we we started off
\ncoming back to Luke, chapter one<\/p>\n
539
\n00:34:19,909 –> 00:34:27,270
\nand verse 16.
\nSo the spirit and power of <\/p>\n
540
\n00:34:27,389 –> 00:34:31,230
\nElijah was the the still small
\nvoice of Yahweh to save men and <\/p>\n
541
\n00:34:31,230 –> 00:34:33,550
\nwomen to to speak to their
\nhearts. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:34:34,540 –> 00:34:37,659
\nIsaiah picked that up
\nbeautifully in chapter 40. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:34:38,060 –> 00:34:43,060
\nA voice crying in the wilderness
\nprepare ye the way of Yahweh at <\/p>\n
544
\n00:34:44,380 –> 00:34:47,260
\nthe end of his life and on the
\nmouth of transfiguration. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:34:47,260 –> 00:34:50,460
\nElijah learnt that.
\nAnd now John is going to go <\/p>\n
546
\n00:34:50,460 –> 00:34:53,620
\nforward in front of us in our
\nstudies over the next two days <\/p>\n
547
\n00:34:53,620 –> 00:34:59,300
\nand show us that still small
\nvoice, Luke, chapter one in <\/p>\n
548
\n00:34:59,300 –> 00:35:03,940
\nverse 16 and many.
\nSpeaking of what John would <\/p>\n
549
\n00:35:03,940 –> 00:35:09,100
\naccomplish, many will he turn to
\nthe Lord their God, and he shall<\/p>\n
550
\n00:35:09,100 –> 00:35:13,700
\ngo before him in the Spirit and
\nthe power of Elijah. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:35:14,020 –> 00:35:19,900
\nLet’s just solidify the Elijah
\nJohn connection, because this <\/p>\n
552
\n00:35:19,900 –> 00:35:22,540
\nthis is incredible.
\nBoth men came at a time of <\/p>\n
553
\n00:35:22,540 –> 00:35:26,820
\nextreme wickedness, a time when
\nthe fathers had had filled up <\/p>\n
554
\n00:35:26,820 –> 00:35:31,660
\nthe measure of their iniquity.
\nAhab’s father means to fill up. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:35:32,960 –> 00:35:36,400
\nAmra means to fill up and Ahab
\nmeans his father’s brother. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:35:37,160 –> 00:35:39,400
\nSo they had filled up the
\nmeasure of their fathers. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:35:39,880 –> 00:35:41,840
\nSo had the men of Israel when
\nJohn came. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:35:42,880 –> 00:35:46,480
\nBoth men, as we’ll see, were
\ndressed in nature, very, very <\/p>\n
559
\n00:35:46,480 –> 00:35:49,360
\nsimilar in appearance.
\nHe was. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:35:49,360 –> 00:35:52,400
\nElijah raced down the the valley
\nof Jesreel in front of Ahab, <\/p>\n
561
\n00:35:52,400 –> 00:35:54,080
\nbelieving Ahab had been
\nconverted. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:35:55,240 –> 00:36:00,240
\nSo John raced before the royal
\nmajesty of the Kingdom, our Lord<\/p>\n
563
\n00:36:00,240 –> 00:36:04,570
\nJesus Christ.
\nElijah had to give way to the <\/p>\n
564
\n00:36:05,210 –> 00:36:11,530
\ngentler Elijah and John, as
\nwe’ll see, had to decrease. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:36:11,530 –> 00:36:14,810
\nHe had to stand outside.
\nAs John chapter 3 uses a <\/p>\n
566
\n00:36:14,810 –> 00:36:19,570
\ndescription, he had to stand
\noutside as he made way for the <\/p>\n
567
\n00:36:19,570 –> 00:36:25,010
\ngreater Jesus.
\nElijah means the salvation of <\/p>\n
568
\n00:36:25,010 –> 00:36:29,290
\nGod.
\nJesus means the salvation of <\/p>\n
569
\n00:36:29,290 –> 00:36:31,650
\nGod.
\nThey had very similar names. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:36:32,060 –> 00:36:36,180
\nAnd the mantle, as we’ll see,
\nchange in exactly the same <\/p>\n
571
\n00:36:36,420 –> 00:36:41,140
\nlocation.
\nElijah’s career, you could say <\/p>\n
572
\n00:36:41,140 –> 00:36:43,940
\nas an effective career, was
\nbrought to an end when he dared <\/p>\n
573
\n00:36:43,940 –> 00:36:48,820
\nto denounce the unholy alliance
\nof Ahab and Jezebel. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:36:50,100 –> 00:36:53,660
\nAnd John was brought tragically
\nto death, as we’ll see in our <\/p>\n
575
\n00:36:53,660 –> 00:36:57,500
\nexpectation, God willing on
\nSunday when he dared to denounce<\/p>\n
576
\n00:36:57,500 –> 00:37:01,220
\nthe unholy alliance, the unholy
\nmarriage of Herod. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:37:02,030 –> 00:37:05,430
\nTo A Rhodius, his brother
\nPhilip’s wife, you imagine just,<\/p>\n
578
\n00:37:05,990 –> 00:37:08,270
\nyou know, doing that with some
\nsort of fictitional book. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:37:09,070 –> 00:37:11,590
\nYou’re just taking bits and
\npieces of it and and lining it <\/p>\n
580
\n00:37:11,590 –> 00:37:12,790
\nall up.
\nThis is the word of God. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:37:13,190 –> 00:37:18,110
\nHe will go before him in the
\nspirit and in the power of <\/p>\n
582
\n00:37:18,830 –> 00:37:20,190
\nElijah.
\nYou know, it’s a remarkable <\/p>\n
583
\n00:37:20,190 –> 00:37:23,870
\nparallel, but but it’s also a
\nreally interesting difference <\/p>\n
584
\n00:37:23,870 –> 00:37:29,350
\nbecause verse 16 here says and
\nmany of the children of Israel <\/p>\n
585
\n00:37:29,350 –> 00:37:31,390
\nshall he turn.
\nTo the Lord their God. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:37:31,430 –> 00:37:38,310
\nYou know Elijah turned nobody to
\nthe Lord their God, I mean true <\/p>\n
587
\n00:37:38,310 –> 00:37:40,670
\nhe he left an indelible
\nimpression upon that nation. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:37:40,670 –> 00:37:42,190
\nHe shook them to their
\nfoundations. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:37:42,190 –> 00:37:45,350
\nThey didn’t know what hit him,
\nbut apart from the widow of <\/p>\n
590
\n00:37:45,350 –> 00:37:47,910
\nXerafath, there wasn’t even a
\nJew. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:37:48,590 –> 00:37:53,150
\nElijah turned nobody to the
\nLord, their God of John. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:37:53,150 –> 00:37:55,990
\nHere it said in verse 16 that he
\nwould turn many. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:37:56,710 –> 00:38:03,340
\nHe would turn many to.
\nThe Lord their God, so none in <\/p>\n
594
\n00:38:03,340 –> 00:38:06,860
\nthe first instance, when Elijah
\ncame the first time. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:38:07,740 –> 00:38:10,900
\nMany in the second instance,
\nwhen John was sent at the first <\/p>\n
596
\n00:38:10,900 –> 00:38:14,540
\nAdvent, and then his equal 20
\nand Malachi force, say that <\/p>\n
597
\n00:38:14,540 –> 00:38:17,860
\nElijah shall turn the hearts of
\nthe fathers to their children <\/p>\n
598
\n00:38:18,460 –> 00:38:21,700
\nwhen he sent before the Lord at
\nhis second Advent. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:38:22,860 –> 00:38:24,620
\nAnd what would he do?
\nHe would turn the hearts of the <\/p>\n
600
\n00:38:24,620 –> 00:38:28,390
\nfathers to the children.
\nAnd the heart of the children to<\/p>\n
601
\n00:38:28,390 –> 00:38:29,990
\ntheir fathers.
\nNow what’s that saying? <\/p>\n
602
\n00:38:30,670 –> 00:38:32,990
\nWell, the heart of the fathers
\nthere is. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:38:32,990 –> 00:38:34,950
\nThe fathers are Abraham, Isaac,
\nand Jacob. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:38:35,910 –> 00:38:39,750
\nIf they were around today, and
\nif they were around in Christ <\/p>\n
605
\n00:38:39,750 –> 00:38:42,470
\nday, and they look at their
\nchildren, they would be ashamed.<\/p>\n
606
\n00:38:43,550 –> 00:38:45,910
\nWhen Abraham sees that
\ndisgusting display at the <\/p>\n
607
\n00:38:45,910 –> 00:38:49,750
\nWestern Wall of of an open show
\nof righteousness, he would be <\/p>\n
608
\n00:38:49,750 –> 00:38:54,110
\ntotally ashamed of his children.
\nBut what? <\/p>\n
609
\n00:38:54,560 –> 00:38:57,080
\nElijah And what John would do is
\nhe would turn the heart of <\/p>\n
610
\n00:38:57,080 –> 00:39:01,760
\nAbraham to his children and in
\nturn the heart of the children <\/p>\n
611
\n00:39:01,840 –> 00:39:04,000
\nwho really don’t understand
\ntheir fathers. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:39:04,080 –> 00:39:06,520
\nThey don’t really know what
\nAbraham, Isaac and Jacob taught.<\/p>\n
613
\n00:39:06,760 –> 00:39:09,000
\nIf they did, they would accept
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:39:09,560 –> 00:39:13,040
\nThe heart of the children will
\nlook up to their fathers. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:39:13,600 –> 00:39:17,280
\nThey will go out to their
\nfathers, as Luke says, the <\/p>\n
616
\n00:39:17,280 –> 00:39:21,120
\ndisobedient to the wisdom of the
\njust. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:39:22,310 –> 00:39:25,150
\nThey’ll see that their fathers,
\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob, were <\/p>\n
618
\n00:39:25,150 –> 00:39:29,750
\nwise.
\nAbraham rejoiced to see my day. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:39:29,750 –> 00:39:32,990
\nHe saw it and was glad.
\nAnd one day they will see that, <\/p>\n
620
\n00:39:32,990 –> 00:39:36,070
\nwell, it’s John now who’s going
\nto be sent forth to make that <\/p>\n
621
\n00:39:36,070 –> 00:39:38,270
\nhappen, That the heart of
\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob will <\/p>\n
622
\n00:39:38,510 –> 00:39:43,350
\nwill be proud of his children,
\nand the heart of the children <\/p>\n
623
\n00:39:43,350 –> 00:39:46,270
\nwill look with honor upon their
\nfather and see that in being <\/p>\n
624
\n00:39:46,270 –> 00:39:51,630
\njustified by faith, he was wise.
\nThat is the work that John. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:39:52,170 –> 00:39:55,250
\nIs now going to do And he said,
\ndon’t you tell me you’ve got <\/p>\n
626
\n00:39:55,250 –> 00:39:59,130
\nAbraham as your father.
\nYou bring forth fruits meat for <\/p>\n
627
\n00:39:59,130 –> 00:40:02,930
\nappentance like he did that’s
\nexactly what John is going to do<\/p>\n
628
\n00:40:03,690 –> 00:40:08,290
\nto make ready a people prepared
\nfor the Lord And and I don’t <\/p>\n
629
\n00:40:08,290 –> 00:40:10,730
\nknow brothers and sisters of
\nanother study that is as <\/p>\n
630
\n00:40:10,730 –> 00:40:15,050
\nrelevant to us.
\nWe’re on the edge of the return <\/p>\n
631
\n00:40:15,050 –> 00:40:19,410
\nof Christ.
\nWe’re about to gaze into the <\/p>\n
632
\n00:40:19,410 –> 00:40:21,370
\nblue eyes of divinity very
\nshortly. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:40:23,680 –> 00:40:28,200
\nAnd John was sent right on the
\nvery edge of the Lord’s <\/p>\n
634
\n00:40:28,200 –> 00:40:32,760
\nappearing to get the people
\nready for his coming. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:40:34,320 –> 00:40:37,040
\nThe disadvantage for you and I
\nis, is that we don’t have a John<\/p>\n
636
\n00:40:37,640 –> 00:40:41,880
\nto walk in that door and to tell
\nus he’s coming. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:40:42,680 –> 00:40:45,680
\nSo what we’ve got to do is we
\ngot to tell ourselves, we’ve got<\/p>\n
638
\n00:40:45,680 –> 00:40:49,680
\nto tell ourselves he’s coming,
\nhe’s coming, and we’ve got to be<\/p>\n
639
\n00:40:49,680 –> 00:40:52,130
\nready for it.
\nSo what are we going to do? <\/p>\n
640
\n00:40:53,330 –> 00:40:56,050
\nWell, we’re not going to learn
\nreally many new lessons in this <\/p>\n
641
\n00:40:56,050 –> 00:40:58,970
\nstudy.
\nI just want you to learn one. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:41:00,330 –> 00:41:02,890
\nAnd it might be the most
\ndifficult of all ages to learn <\/p>\n
643
\n00:41:02,890 –> 00:41:05,490
\nit.
\nBut learn it we must, and that <\/p>\n
644
\n00:41:05,490 –> 00:41:07,970
\nis we have to learn to listen to
\nGod’s voice. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:41:09,010 –> 00:41:11,250
\nAnd in order to do that, in
\norder to allow it to penetrate <\/p>\n
646
\n00:41:11,250 –> 00:41:14,530
\nour hearts, we have to make,
\nbrothers and sisters, the <\/p>\n
647
\n00:41:14,530 –> 00:41:18,690
\ncircumstances of our lives
\nconducive to it, Conducive to <\/p>\n
648
\n00:41:18,690 –> 00:41:22,910
\nhearing the voice.
\nTo go out there where there’s <\/p>\n
649
\n00:41:22,910 –> 00:41:26,710
\nnothing to turn the Wi-Fi off or
\nor even better, get it out of <\/p>\n
650
\n00:41:26,710 –> 00:41:31,030
\nour house so that we have a calm
\nand quiet atmosphere in which to<\/p>\n
651
\n00:41:31,470 –> 00:41:37,190
\nto give ourselves to this book
\nand allow his voice to speak to <\/p>\n
652
\n00:41:37,190 –> 00:41:39,590
\nour hearts.
\nThat is the great lesson of John<\/p>\n
653
\n00:41:39,590 –> 00:41:43,390
\nthe Baptist life and it’s really
\nthe only one allowing that voice<\/p>\n
654
\n00:41:43,390 –> 00:41:47,390
\nto speak to our hearts and and
\nmaking our lives conducive so <\/p>\n
655
\n00:41:47,390 –> 00:41:50,550
\nthat we can hear it.
\nAnd hear it very, very clearly. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:41:51,590 –> 00:41:54,070
\nNow God doesn’t ask us to leave
\nhouse and home. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:41:54,070 –> 00:41:57,750
\nHe doesn’t ask us to to go out
\nand and to to buy a camel skin <\/p>\n
658
\n00:41:57,750 –> 00:42:01,630
\nand live like John did.
\nBut what he is saying in that <\/p>\n
659
\n00:42:01,630 –> 00:42:03,390
\nman is that we’ve got to get out
\nof this world. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:42:04,430 –> 00:42:07,390
\nWe’ve got to leave our
\nenvironment and listen to the <\/p>\n
661
\n00:42:07,390 –> 00:42:13,710
\nvoice of Yahweh, which we’ll
\nmake ready a people prepared for<\/p>\n
662
\n00:42:13,710 –> 00:42:15,950
\ntheir God.
\nWell, the good news is, brothers<\/p>\n
663
\n00:42:15,950 –> 00:42:18,790
\nand sisters, there’s still time.
\nIt’s not too late. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:42:20,190 –> 00:42:24,430
\nAnd to that end, this weekend we
\nhad before us the example of He <\/p>\n
665
\n00:42:24,430 –> 00:42:30,390
\nwho is the greatest prophet born
\namong women, and in stark <\/p>\n
666
\n00:42:30,390 –> 00:42:32,990
\nreality, he’s going to lay U.S.
\nOpen. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:42:32,990 –> 00:42:35,510
\nHe’s now going to be brought
\nforth before us as we see His <\/p>\n
668
\n00:42:35,510 –> 00:42:39,790
\nspirit and power, the voice in
\nthe wilderness which will speak <\/p>\n
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\n00:42:39,790 –> 00:42:40,630
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