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Ed Young - Elijah: Blessings and Provision

April 15, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - Elijah: Blessings and Provision
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Elijah: Blessings and Provision | April 15, 2026
  • In that kind of environment, a blessing.
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  • Suddenly we take that which is supernatural,
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  • And we begin to treat it as if it were natural.
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  • You see believers,
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  • We see god, and then we see his blessings.
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  • But so many people, we begin to see his blessings,
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  • And we see god only through his blessings.
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  • Instead of seeing blessings
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  • Through god, that which is supernatural
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  • In his blessings with us soon become hoi polloi.
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  • You know, natural.
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  • And so we come to study elijah,
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  • And a lot of us get confused when we study this book.
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  • And the reason we do, we reread these chapters.
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  • You may have read them in first kings.
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  • I said, what in the world is going on?
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  • I don't understand this.
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  • I don't understand that that many times we do not understand
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  • The scripture is because we do not know the history,
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  • The context of that life or that event.
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  • You got it.
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  • You could not understand much of the bible
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  • Unless you know the context of what is going on.
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  • So it's important that we understand
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  • The historical context of this man,
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  • Elijah, before we look at his life.
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  • Now, most of us know that
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  • Israel had three kings.
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  • Saul, david, solomon.
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  • Each one had their own unique weaknesses.
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  • But the one who really brought the kingdom
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  • Down was solomon.
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  • His life story is a fabulous beginning
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  • And a tragic ending.
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  • That's the reason many times
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  • You hear people say, you
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  • Finish strong.
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  • This is where you are with god, but finish strong.
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  • Solomon did not finish strong.
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  • Many things brought his downfall, for most
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  • Would be the fact he to engage in political alliances.
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  • He married
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  • All kinds of foreign women who brought all of their idols
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  • And all their paganism into israel,
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  • And solomon tolerated that.
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  • And therefore when solomon died, the kingdom divided.
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  • Now, by the way,
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  • To understand the bible, the old testament,
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  • You have to understand what i'm saying and remember it,
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  • Because suddenly things
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  • You didn't quite comprehend will fit perfectly.
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  • So here we have the three kings.
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  • About 100 years plus they ruled.
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  • Then you have the death of solomon.
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  • The kingdom is divided, and the northern kingdom,
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  • Which is still called israel,
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  • And the southern kingdom that is called judah
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  • And jerusalem is a part of that. not.
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  • And the northern kingdom existed for about 200 years,
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  • And they had 19 different rulers
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  • And according to the bible, every one of them did
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  • What was evil in the sight of god.
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  • Every one of them godless,
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  • Pagan, demonic, profane,
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  • Bottomed out
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  • 19 rulers
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  • Over 200 years, until finally,
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  • In 722 b.c., the assyrians came in and
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  • Took out.
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  • The northern kingdom ceased to exist,
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  • And the southern kingdom existed
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  • For about 300 years.
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  • They had 17 kings, nine were bad,
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  • Eight were good,
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  • And so in the southern
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  • Kingdom of judah it was until 586 b.c.
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  • The babylonians came down.
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  • Remember the babylonian captivity?
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  • And they took most of the israelites,
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  • At least the better part of the population,
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  • Into exile, into babylon.
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  • This lasted for 60 or 70 years.
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  • And then you have ezra,
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  • Nehemiah, zerubbabel coming back,
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  • Bringing some israelites
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  • With them, gathering the jews who had remained.
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  • And they rebuilt the temple.
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  • It was sort of a
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  • One horse temple compared to the temple of solomon.
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  • And they reestablished monotheism
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  • And worship of jehovah, the true and living god.
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  • Now you got that?
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  • That's very important.
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  • You can't understand elijah until you understand that. bam!
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  • Right in the middle of the divided kingdom,
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  • The southern kingdom, the northern kingdom,
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  • When they'd had decades of godless people
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  • Leading them further and further into paganism,
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  • There was murdered.
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  • There was incest, there was violence,
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  • There was revolution, there was deception.
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  • I mean, you want to write down
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  • Every kind of tragic, heinous thing going on
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  • That would depict the northern and southern kingdom.
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  • Most of this period of time.
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  • And guess what
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  • God says to elijah,
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  • Hey, i want you to go and speak a word for me.
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  • Elijah could have said, you know,
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  • Don't you have some other people?
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  • God said, yeah, i have 7000 of them.
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  • And they're hiding in caves
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  • Because they know if they show their face
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  • And speak of jehovah, the true and living god,
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  • In the middle of all the paganism and decadence,
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  • They would be instantly killed,
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  • Because who was on the throne of the northern kingdom now
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  • You read in the 16th chapter there was a guy named omri.
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  • Omri.
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  • And it says he was the worst
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  • King yet in the history of northern kingdom.
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  • And he had a boy by the name of ahab,
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  • And it says he was worse than his daddy.
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  • I mean, it's like,
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  • Man, here is adolf hitler
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  • And gosh, mao follows him.
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  • And then 80, i mean, comes after him,
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  • Then osama comes after him.
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  • It's getting worse and worse and worse.
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  • And finally, ahab, he gets married
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  • And he marries a woman that we all know her name.
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  • There we have jezebel.
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  • Anybody here name jezebel?
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  • Oh. only two.
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  • No, no,
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  • Jezebel has come over
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  • Into the 21st century and we know he's a boy.
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  • She's a jezebel.
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  • Incidentally, this is the first time
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  • This far in the all the kings
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  • That the wife's name is even mentioned.
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  • Jezebel. verse one.
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  • Why would that be?
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  • Jezebel was the daughter
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  • Of the king of sidon
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  • And she worship baal,
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  • And belle's mother was ashtaroth.
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  • You know, all the, pagan,
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  • Mythology and law, and therefore she brought
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  • Baal worship.
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  • She brought ashtaroth worship.
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  • And what happened now?
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  • Israel was involved and sexual promiscuity
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  • And idolatry.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • Anytime there, sexual promiscuity, idolatry
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  • Immediately comes to pastor.
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  • I've never had anybody say to me, so what's your problem?
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  • Well, i'm guilty of adultery.
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  • Whoever that confessed to me.
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  • You have heard that. what? he said i'm guilty.
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  • But we're guilty of adultery.
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  • America is good.
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  • Anything we put in the place of the living god.
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  • Any person, anything ahead of god.
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  • And give this thing of this person preeminence.
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  • That thing becomes a dollar.
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  • Football can become a dollar.
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  • Trust.
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  • Your wife can become a dollar tree.
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  • Your kids can become a dollar.
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  • Your vocation can become a lot of things can become a dollar.
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  • And when we move into sexual promiscuity,
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  • We can't continue to worship the true and living god.
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  • We have to move in the place idols,
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  • Pagan gods, not the purity of the living god.
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  • This is what happened to israel.
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  • And so we have ahab on the throne.
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  • We have jezebel, his wife.
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  • We'll hear about her again.
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  • And she is mentioned because she dominated the kingdom.
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  • Ahab was a figurehead, bad enough in his own right,
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  • But it was jezebel, man.
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  • She was tough, mean, vicious,
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  • The perfect mother in law.
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  • No no no.
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  • This is jezebel.
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  • Now onto this scene.
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  • We have a guy coming out of nowhere.
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  • I mean, you talk about with no background.
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  • Look at it.
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  • First kings 17, verse one.
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  • Now elijah, the guy
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  • Who was of the settlers of gilead,
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  • Now elijah,
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  • When he just merely appeared before king ahab
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  • And he introduced himself, said, what is your name?
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  • I am elijah already there was,
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  • Quote by the king
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  • Because his name e-l, stands for elohim.
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  • God juh j h jehovah
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  • An i in the middle, meaning my.
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  • He was saying simply, my god is jehovah.
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  • That was enough for ahab.
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  • Just his name.
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  • My god is jehovah, the true god.
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  • Then he said, elijah is from a fish bite.
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  • Nobody yet has found out where
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  • Tish bar was a tish bite.
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  • Who is that?
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  • Nobody knows him this day.
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  • Archeologist, scholars they tried to find.
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  • Where was tish?
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  • But nobody's found tish by yet.
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  • So what they all say is from gilly, we know where.
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  • Gilly added.
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  • It was a a barren, rocky, tuff,
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  • Desolate place.
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  • So elijah appeared not with robes.
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  • He would have peered with the skins of animals with
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  • With the stench of the outdoors about him.
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  • Rough, rugged mountain guy,
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  • Tough as steel.
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  • So we know from his name where he comes from,
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  • What he believes we know from his background
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  • What he's about.
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  • And then we see something else about this man, elijah.
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  • We pick up and studying his life, his personality.
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  • What kind of guy was he?
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  • He was in your faith kind of guy.
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  • I mean,
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  • Elijah didn't mess around
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  • And beat around and sugarcoat and make it easy to.
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  • He just said, bam, this is it.
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  • And we see that immediately as we study this man elijah,
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  • We're going to see him as he speaks for god,
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  • As he hides with god,
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  • And as he depends on god.
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  • Watch this.
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  • Look as he speaks for god.
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  • He said, he said to ahab, as the lord, the god of israel,
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  • Lives before whom i stand, surely there shall be
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  • Neither do nor reign these years except by my word.
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  • Anybody have trouble understanding that?
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  • He said to ahab,
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  • There's not going to be any jew.
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  • There's not going to be any reign until i say so. it's
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  • Clear, isn't it?
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  • Clear?
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  • And notice, i says, as the lord lives.
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  • He went to the king.
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  • He said, i'm not talking about one of these dead idols.
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  • I'm talking about the living god.
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  • Let me ask you a question.
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  • Is god really alive in your life?
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  • It's built.
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  • Right now.
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  • He said,
  • 00:14:38.934 --> 00:14:39.935
  • As the lord lives, i'm worshiping a living god.
  • 00:14:39.935 --> 00:14:43.072
  • Not some groves, some trees, some idol,
  • 00:14:43.072 --> 00:14:46.408
  • Some some temple, some element.
  • 00:14:46.408 --> 00:14:48.844
  • I'm stand for the living god.
  • 00:14:48.844 --> 00:14:52.081
  • Then he says, and here i stand.
  • 00:14:52.715 --> 00:14:54.583
  • What do you say?
  • 00:14:54.583 --> 00:14:55.651
  • I'm god's representative.
  • 00:14:55.651 --> 00:14:58.487
  • I'm god's spokesman.
  • 00:14:58.487 --> 00:15:01.090
  • And then he goes and he pronounces upon them
  • 00:15:01.090 --> 00:15:03.425
  • The word of god.
  • 00:15:03.425 --> 00:15:04.526
  • He knew the word of god.
  • 00:15:04.526 --> 00:15:06.362
  • Where did he get the idea that it wasn't going to rain?
  • 00:15:06.362 --> 00:15:09.431
  • We know this.
  • 00:15:09.431 --> 00:15:10.399
  • It didn't rain for three and a half years.
  • 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:12.468
  • Where'd he get that idea?
  • 00:15:12.468 --> 00:15:14.136
  • He find it right back because he knew the scripture
  • 00:15:14.136 --> 00:15:16.972
  • In deuteronomy chapter 11.
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  • Listen,
  • 00:15:18.741 --> 00:15:20.642
  • Verse 16, deuteronomy 1116.
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  • Beware that your hearts are not deceived,
  • 00:15:23.345 --> 00:15:26.982
  • And that you do not turn away and serve other gods
  • 00:15:26.982 --> 00:15:29.284
  • And worship them.
  • 00:15:29.284 --> 00:15:30.452
  • That's what the people had done had they?
  • 00:15:30.452 --> 00:15:33.288
  • Or the anger of the lord will be kindle against you,
  • 00:15:33.288 --> 00:15:37.826
  • And he will
  • 00:15:38.160 --> 00:15:39.228
  • Shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain,
  • 00:15:39.228 --> 00:15:42.131
  • And the ground will not yield its fruit, and you will perish
  • 00:15:42.131 --> 00:15:45.501
  • Quickly from the good land which the lord has given you.
  • 00:15:45.501 --> 00:15:49.571
  • What is elijah saying?
  • 00:15:49.571 --> 00:15:50.806
  • He's saying that prophecy in deuteronomy 11.
  • 00:15:50.806 --> 00:15:55.110
  • It's coming true.
  • 00:15:55.544 --> 00:15:57.713
  • It's not going to rain.
  • 00:15:57.713 --> 00:16:00.516
  • No. do you?
  • 00:16:00.849 --> 00:16:02.651
  • Until i say so,
  • 00:16:02.651 --> 00:16:04.420
  • How profound would that be if someone stood today
  • 00:16:04.420 --> 00:16:07.790
  • And said, i have a word from god that there would be no oil
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  • Coming out of the ground until i say so.
  • 00:16:12.327 --> 00:16:18.333
  • Then what would happen?
  • 00:16:18.834 --> 00:16:20.903
  • We would know it in a couple of days.
  • 00:16:20.903 --> 00:16:22.571
  • You know, we have some more that we have to guess.
  • 00:16:22.571 --> 00:16:25.307
  • And then about a week, about a month,
  • 00:16:25.307 --> 00:16:28.510
  • And all of us would be living
  • 00:16:28.510 --> 00:16:30.479
  • In primitive conditions just that quickly,
  • 00:16:30.479 --> 00:16:34.583
  • Just that quickly.
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  • Don't misunderstand what i'm saying.
  • 00:16:36.185 --> 00:16:38.620
  • If i stood.
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  • There will be no more produce until i say so.
  • 00:16:39.621 --> 00:16:42.991
  • And let that happen for three and a half years,
  • 00:16:42.991 --> 00:16:47.062
  • The world would be closed.
  • 00:16:47.629 --> 00:16:49.965
  • The world would go back to a kind of lifestyle
  • 00:16:49.965 --> 00:16:53.368
  • That we knew in the 1800s.
  • 00:16:53.368 --> 00:16:56.605
  • Literally.
  • 00:16:56.905 --> 00:16:59.808
  • So i'm telling you, this
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  • Got the attention of the king ahab as this man of god,
  • 00:17:01.710 --> 00:17:06.882
  • This fearless prophet coming out of the boondocks.
  • 00:17:06.882 --> 00:17:11.386
  • So, so mississippi,
  • 00:17:11.854 --> 00:17:14.156
  • The backwoods.
  • 00:17:14.156 --> 00:17:16.191
  • And he stood there and said, this is what will take place
  • 00:17:16.191 --> 00:17:20.129
  • As a judgment upon the godlessness of the land.
  • 00:17:20.129 --> 00:17:24.500
  • So we see elijah speaking for god,
  • 00:17:25.267 --> 00:17:27.769
  • And then we see a strange verse here.
  • 00:17:27.769 --> 00:17:29.671
  • It sort of jumps out at you.
  • 00:17:29.671 --> 00:17:32.441
  • Verse number two, the word of the lord came to elijah saying,
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  • Go away from here and turn eastward
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  • And hide yourself by the brook cherith,
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  • Which is east of the jordan.
  • 00:17:42.317 --> 00:17:45.721
  • Now wait a minute.
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  • Elijah must have thought
  • 00:17:48.390 --> 00:17:49.892
  • I'm a palace guy.
  • 00:17:49.892 --> 00:17:52.861
  • I've been over there in nobody nowhere long enough,
  • 00:17:52.861 --> 00:17:56.465
  • And i have spoken
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  • To the people on behalf of god, to the king of the land.
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  • Don't i need to go all over israel
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  • And tell everybody what's going to happen
  • 00:18:03.005 --> 00:18:04.273
  • So i won't make any rain,
  • 00:18:04.273 --> 00:18:05.474
  • Because all the evil, the king and everybody's doing he's.
  • 00:18:05.474 --> 00:18:08.143
  • I need to go into several crusades.
  • 00:18:08.143 --> 00:18:09.912
  • I'm a palace spokesman.
  • 00:18:09.912 --> 00:18:11.446
  • Listen,
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  • Once you've been to paris, it's hard to go back to the farm.
  • 00:18:12.681 --> 00:18:17.786
  • I'm a palace guy.
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  • I spoke for god.
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  • I look the king right in the eye.
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  • I need to go tell the people what's going.
  • 00:18:24.259 --> 00:18:26.562
  • And god says, no, no, elijah, go.
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  • And heidi go hide yourself.
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  • Go to cherith or cherith means to be cut off.
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  • Cut yourself off from everybody.
  • 00:18:37.206 --> 00:18:39.575
  • He told elijah to hide.
  • 00:18:39.575 --> 00:18:41.310
  • Why? for his protection.
  • 00:18:41.310 --> 00:18:44.146
  • And because god wanted to do something with logic
  • 00:18:45.113 --> 00:18:47.683
  • That he couldn't do as long as
  • 00:18:47.683 --> 00:18:50.886
  • He was in the spotlight,
  • 00:18:51.420 --> 00:18:53.922
  • In the forefront,
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  • Fighting his own battles.
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  • Go hide yourself.
  • 00:18:59.161 --> 00:19:01.463
  • We see elijah hiding with god,
  • 00:19:01.463 --> 00:19:04.166
  • And then we see elijah depending on god.
  • 00:19:04.166 --> 00:19:07.603
  • Look what happens, what he said.
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  • This cherith cut off from everything and everybody.
  • 00:19:09.371 --> 00:19:12.908
  • Tremendous things happen.
  • 00:19:12.908 --> 00:19:14.276
  • Look what happens.
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  • Verse four, and it shall and it shall be with you.
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  • It shall be that you will drink of the brook.
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  • I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there.
  • 00:19:22.784 --> 00:19:26.655
  • And so he went and did according to the word of god.
  • 00:19:26.655 --> 00:19:29.157
  • He was obedient.
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  • For i went
  • 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:31.760
  • And live by the brook cherith, which is each of the jordan.
  • 00:19:31.760 --> 00:19:34.363
  • Verse six.
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  • The ravens brought him bread and meat
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  • In the morning, and bread and meat in the evening,
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  • And he would drink from the brook.
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  • Let me tell you something.
  • 00:19:42.137 --> 00:19:43.572
  • That something here is a bubbling brook,
  • 00:19:43.572 --> 00:19:47.542
  • Cool water,
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  • And the ravens who are unclean birds.
  • 00:19:49.344 --> 00:19:52.614
  • God use them supernaturally to bring to him
  • 00:19:52.614 --> 00:19:55.851
  • Sandwiches in the morning, meat and bread and
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  • And and dip and sandwiches every afternoon.
  • 00:19:58.487 --> 00:20:01.256
  • Meat and bread
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  • Bubbling brook meat and bread.
  • 00:20:03.325 --> 00:20:05.427
  • You see, the bubbling brook would be natural,
  • 00:20:05.427 --> 00:20:08.897
  • And the ravens bringing food would be supernatural.
  • 00:20:08.897 --> 00:20:12.501
  • You see, god sent elijah there
  • 00:20:13.101 --> 00:20:17.839
  • To hide himself, to teach him to be depended on him.
  • 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:23.612
  • Bubbling brook.
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  • Room service in the morning.
  • 00:20:27.115 --> 00:20:28.750
  • Room serving the evening.
  • 00:20:28.750 --> 00:20:30.252
  • Sleeping on grass.
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  • Protected from the animals because he was in
  • 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:34.456
  • The will of god.
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  • Boy, a bubbling brook right there.
  • 00:20:35.324 --> 00:20:38.226
  • Cool clear water.
  • 00:20:38.226 --> 00:20:39.895
  • What a wonderful setting, elijah.
  • 00:20:39.895 --> 00:20:42.664
  • Learning to depend on god.
  • 00:20:42.664 --> 00:20:45.567
  • It's a beautiful story, isn't it?
  • 00:20:46.301 --> 00:20:48.637
  • Hide yourself.
  • 00:20:48.637 --> 00:20:50.439
  • Watch god provide for you.
  • 00:20:50.439 --> 00:20:52.240
  • Watch god look after you.
  • 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:54.242
  • Watch god give this to you.
  • 00:20:54.242 --> 00:20:56.545
  • How are we? like bubbling brook?
  • 00:20:56.545 --> 00:20:59.181
  • We all like bubbling brook.
  • 00:20:59.781 --> 00:21:01.383
  • Todd i'd like to go to church this afternoon.
  • 00:21:01.383 --> 00:21:03.785
  • If there'd be a bubbling brook and there would be, you know,
  • 00:21:03.785 --> 00:21:06.788
  • The ravens bringing food and meat to me twice a day.
  • 00:21:06.788 --> 00:21:10.859
  • You see what happens to us, though,
  • 00:21:10.859 --> 00:21:13.628
  • In that kind of environment, a blessing.
  • 00:21:13.628 --> 00:21:16.598
  • Suddenly we take that which is supernatural,
  • 00:21:16.598 --> 00:21:21.470
  • And we begin to treat it as if it were natural.
  • 00:21:21.470 --> 00:21:25.574
  • You see believers,
  • 00:21:26.007 --> 00:21:27.676
  • We see god, and then we see his blessings.
  • 00:21:27.676 --> 00:21:31.213
  • But so many people, we begin to see his blessings,
  • 00:21:31.213 --> 00:21:34.182
  • And we see god only through his blessings.
  • 00:21:34.182 --> 00:21:36.752
  • Instead of seeing blessings
  • 00:21:36.752 --> 00:21:38.120
  • Through god, that which is supernatural
  • 00:21:38.120 --> 00:21:41.690
  • In his blessings with us soon become hoi polloi.
  • 00:21:41.690 --> 00:21:45.394
  • You know, natural.
  • 00:21:45.394 --> 00:21:48.563
  • And so we see the bubbling brook,
  • 00:21:49.264 --> 00:21:50.832
  • And then we run into an amazing verse.
  • 00:21:50.832 --> 00:21:54.169
  • Oh, here he is
  • 00:21:54.503 --> 00:21:56.638
  • Hiding with the lord god.
  • 00:21:56.638 --> 00:21:59.074
  • Teach him to depend on god.
  • 00:21:59.074 --> 00:22:01.176
  • Stand on him.
  • 00:22:01.176 --> 00:22:01.910
  • And look here at verse seven.
  • 00:22:01.910 --> 00:22:03.945
  • And it happened after a while that the brook dried up.
  • 00:22:03.945 --> 00:22:09.684
  • Hello,
  • 00:22:09.885 --> 00:22:11.620
  • The bubbling brook.
  • 00:22:11.620 --> 00:22:13.855
  • I like that
  • 00:22:13.855 --> 00:22:15.657
  • Now. the brook dried up.
  • 00:22:15.657 --> 00:22:17.993
  • Elijah said, lord, i'm in your will.
  • 00:22:17.993 --> 00:22:21.430
  • I've spoken before the king in confrontation.
  • 00:22:21.430 --> 00:22:25.333
  • And now i've gone in concealment and hiding,
  • 00:22:25.333 --> 00:22:28.236
  • And the bubbling brook and the ravens.
  • 00:22:28.236 --> 00:22:30.472
  • It's been super.
  • 00:22:30.472 --> 00:22:31.706
  • You've taught me some things.
  • 00:22:31.706 --> 00:22:33.108
  • But now
  • 00:22:33.108 --> 00:22:34.609
  • The brook's dried up.
  • 00:22:34.609 --> 00:22:38.447
  • Why in the world what is god doing when the brook dried up?
  • 00:22:38.447 --> 00:22:42.384
  • I'm going to tell you what he's doing. look at it.
  • 00:22:42.384 --> 00:22:44.753
  • Look at the rest of the verse.
  • 00:22:44.753 --> 00:22:45.754
  • I left it out, verse seven.
  • 00:22:45.754 --> 00:22:48.089
  • And it happened after a while that the brook dried up
  • 00:22:48.089 --> 00:22:51.193
  • Because there was no rain
  • 00:22:51.760 --> 00:22:53.628
  • In the land. oh.
  • 00:22:53.628 --> 00:22:58.767
  • The brook dried up in answer
  • 00:22:59.367 --> 00:23:01.069
  • To the prayer of elijah.
  • 00:23:01.069 --> 00:23:04.706
  • And it it
  • 00:23:05.006 --> 00:23:05.874
  • He think he was going to be exempt
  • 00:23:06.641 --> 00:23:08.243
  • From the judgment of god.
  • 00:23:08.243 --> 00:23:09.478
  • He was a part of the people.
  • 00:23:09.478 --> 00:23:11.947
  • It was an answer to his prayer.
  • 00:23:11.947 --> 00:23:15.317
  • What's this all about?
  • 00:23:15.784 --> 00:23:17.052
  • Ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:23:17.052 --> 00:23:19.721
  • God is teaching you and me.
  • 00:23:19.721 --> 00:23:22.057
  • When brooks dry up, when we're forced into hiding,
  • 00:23:22.057 --> 00:23:26.127
  • God is teaching you
  • 00:23:26.595 --> 00:23:27.796
  • And me to be depended on him.
  • 00:23:27.796 --> 00:23:30.532
  • What he's saying.
  • 00:23:30.532 --> 00:23:31.700
  • He wants us to understand there is nothing in this life
  • 00:23:31.700 --> 00:23:36.171
  • That is nailed down.
  • 00:23:36.171 --> 00:23:38.907
  • Do you think something's that.
  • 00:23:39.508 --> 00:23:40.675
  • Well, that's going to always be there? i've got this.
  • 00:23:40.675 --> 00:23:43.211
  • I don't want to.
  • 00:23:43.211 --> 00:23:44.012
  • There's nothing nailed down.
  • 00:23:44.012 --> 00:23:48.817
  • Have to understand that.
  • 00:23:49.351 --> 00:23:51.253
  • Also, he was teaching us, as he's teaching elijah
  • 00:23:51.253 --> 00:23:54.322
  • To set our affections
  • 00:23:54.823 --> 00:23:58.059
  • On things that are above
  • 00:23:58.059 --> 00:24:01.630
  • And not so much time and energy and affections
  • 00:24:01.630 --> 00:24:06.001
  • On all this stuff that is below.
  • 00:24:06.001 --> 00:24:09.137
  • Because nothing here, no relationship, no security,
  • 00:24:09.137 --> 00:24:13.108
  • No retirement, no job, no nothing.
  • 00:24:13.108 --> 00:24:15.911
  • None of it's nailed down.
  • 00:24:15.911 --> 00:24:20.148
  • He's teaching us with a bubbling brook
  • 00:24:20.982 --> 00:24:23.818
  • And with a dried up brook
  • 00:24:24.386 --> 00:24:26.922
  • To be dependent on him.
  • 00:24:26.922 --> 00:24:30.825
  • If we're to become something like jesus christ wants us
  • 00:24:31.927 --> 00:24:34.930
  • To be
  • 00:24:34.930 --> 00:24:37.065
  • There, be some dried up brooks with the bubbling brooks
  • 00:24:37.065 --> 00:24:39.868
  • To teach us to be totally reliant,
  • 00:24:39.868 --> 00:24:43.939
  • Dependent on god.
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  • That's what this is all about.
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  • Do you get it?
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  • You got it.
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  • I can guarantee you one thing.
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  • Live a little while and you will need
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  • Built in your life
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  • The principle of having to be dependent
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  • On him and him alone.
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  • Everybody wants a happy home.
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  • But let's be honest.
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  • A happy home doesn't just happen.
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  • It's built.
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  • It's shaped.
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  • Day by day by day.
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  • That's why i want to encourage you to read
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  • This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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  • This 90 day devotional is from
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  • Decades of real life pastoring,
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  • Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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  • In the page of this
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  • Book each day you will find a simple rhythm
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  • As of scripture,
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  • Practical, down to earth navigation,
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  • And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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  • Your home on what matters the most in christ
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  • Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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  • Your life.
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  • Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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  • Everything else changes.
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  • Conversations change.
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  • Take that first step today.
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  • Call the number or visit the website below
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  • And get cardinal rules for a happy home
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  • And begin your 90 day journey
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  • Right now.
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  • Whatever season you're in right now, no.
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  • One thing. no.
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  • This god is present.
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  • May his presence guide you and his word.
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  • Sustain you and his spirit empower
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  • You in the days ahead.
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  • Thrilling days
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  • As we walk with him.
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  • And may the good lord bless you
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  • And i'll see you next time
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  • On a winning walk
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  • With jesus christ.
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