Sermon #S021 - Standing
On The Lord's Side - Part 2)
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Welcome to The Breath of Life
Television Ministries broadcast
with Pastor Debleaire Snell.
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In today's episode, Pastor
Snell will share part two of the
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message entitled "Standing On
The Lord's Side" Now, lets dive
deeper in the word of God
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Pastor Snell: Saints, Elijah
calls for a congregational
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gathering. Now, the issue he's
about to confront is the issue
of idolatry or idol worship.
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Now, let me just pause and say
this. Idolatry, friends of mine,
is not just praying or paying
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homage to a block of wood or
stone. Idolatry is anything
personal situation that I
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prioritize above God. The
prophets of Baal are present.
Ahab and his people are present.
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Most importantly, the
people of Israel are present.
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Notice, my friends,
the question that is posed.
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He does not ask, "Why
have you forsaken, God?"
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The question he asked is, "How
long will you halt between two
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opinions?" In other words, he's
saying your problem is that you
are conflicted people trying to
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form a merger where there ought
to be a divorce. He's saying,
"You're trying to merge that
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which is, by nature,
incompatible." Are you with me
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today? Notice that the Bible
says that they don't even
respond to the prophet's
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question. There is no
repentance. There is no
contrition. There is no sorrow.
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There is no remorse. Why?
Because in the people's minds
they have not tried to abandon
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God. All they did was supplement
God. In other words, in their
minds, there was no theological
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conflict. While when we're in a
situation, well, guess what? We
serve God some of the time,
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but all they've done is
they've instituted an additional
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belief system to help sustain
them in the event that God does
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not come through. In other
words, they've kind of entered
into this very gray space of
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their religious experience,
where it doesn't really matter
what they did Saturday night as
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long as they were in church
earlier that morning. They have
a religion that does not require
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full devotion to God. They have
ascribed a belief system that
allows them to participate in
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every facet of culture.
Eventually, church, what they've
developed this segmented
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religion that puts God in a box
where God does not inform the
other areas of their life as
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long as God stays where I placed
Him. There are people of
conflict just like some in our
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time. They pray to God and they
pray to Baal. Just like in our
culture, we have some that pray
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to God and to the universe. We
have some that ask God for
direction in the morning, and
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then they're reading their
horoscope in the afternoon. We
ask God to fight our battles
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while simultaneously planning
our own personal retaliation.
Where we start Sabbath morning
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with Kirk Franklin, but we
finished Saturday night with the
weekend; where I ask for
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strength from heaven and from
Hennessy; where I asked God to
help and I still seek the hemp.
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You are all mighty quiet in this
place with me today. It's funny
because the worship of Baal and
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the worship of God is so
interwoven and so interlaced in
their life, so that when God
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moves and blesses, they don't
even know which God to glorify
because they are so interwoven
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in their life. This is why God
says, "I've got to break the
bowl of Baal over their belief
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system," because He's about to
end the drought that has been
over the land for three and a
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half years. If they don't know
who stops the drought, then they
will not know which God to
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praise. See, it's all woven
together in one little happy
religious experience without any
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conflict. Okay. Let me say
it like some of you will hear it
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today. In other words, what they
want to be in is they want to be
in an open relationship with
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God. In other words,
spiritually, they want the Will
and Jada kind of arrangements.
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[Congregation: Laughing]
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In other words, they want other
parties to be able to come in
and come out, and they wonder
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why they have so many
entanglements. Oh, God. Oh, God.
Are you all hearing the pastor
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today, church? See, the funny
thing about Baal is you realize
that Baal appealed to their
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flesh. Why? Because Baal didn't
mind sharing. Baal didn't get
mad if you serve other Gods.
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But understand, there was a
reason that Baal did not mind
sharing. Are you all still with
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me, church? The reason he didn't
mind sharing is because he
couldn't meet all their needs.
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In other words, Baal, in some
adaptations, was just a
fertility God who also was a sky
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God who made it rain. The reason
that Baal did not mind sharing
was because he had a number of
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limitations that would keep him
from requiring absolute and full
devotion just unto himself. Baal
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did not mind if you wind up
worshipping Chemosh, which was
the god of War. He didn't mind
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if you also shared with Dagon,
which was the god of grain or
the god of the harvest. He
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didn't mind if you also
worshipped the god of Astaroth,
which was the god of love. He
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wouldn't also mind if you start
worshipping the god of
[inaudible], who was the god of
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war or protection. The reason he
set it up in such a way is that
you would have to go to one god
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for water, another god for food,
another god for protection,
another god for this, and
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another god for that. The people
felt that god, that Baal didn't
mind sharing, when the truth is
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he was just outsourcing. In
other words, he's outsourcing
what he is unable to do because
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he knows that there are
limitations in what he is able
to provide. See, this is why God
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says, "I am a jealous God, that
you shall have no other gods
before me." See, the problem is,
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in our minds, jealousy connotes
in a very negative way. But the
reason God says, "I'm jealous,
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you don't need any other gods,"
is because we serve the God that
does not have to outsource our
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needs. He doesn't have to refer
you to anybody else. We serve
the God that says, "You can get
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your protection from Me. You can
get your provision from Me. You
can get your redemption from Me.
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You can get your blessings from
Me. Your food comes from Me.
Your redemption comes from Me.
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Your protection comes from Me.
I'm the God that shall supply
all your needs according to My
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riches and glory."
[Congregation: Applauding] See,
Baal has to be in an open
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relationship because he can't
satisfy everything. See, I need
somebody to understand, friends
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of mine, that Baal is the god
that cannot do it all. But God
is the God that does all things
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well. Are you all hearing me
today, saints? See, Baal said,
"Okay. Let me send them over
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here because all I can do is
this, but I can't do that over
there." See, this is the thing
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about the Baals that we worship
in our time. They could get us
through moments, but they can't
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keep us in seasons. Guess what?
Your weed will get you through
the next 10 minutes...
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[Congregation: Applauding] but
it can't get you through a
season of hell. Your alcohol
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will make you black out until
the next day, but guess what?
Those problems are still waiting
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for you in the morning. That
your covering partner will help
you sleep through the night, but
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guess what? The troubles of that
night season are going to still
be there the very next day. I
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need you to understand that your
problems and issues will numb
you, but guess what? They will
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never ever heal you. But God is
saying, "I don't have to
outsource it. I won't just get
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you through moments, but I will
get you through the seasons of
life." Is there anybody that
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knows that God is the God who
says, "I'll get you through the
season of your divorce. I'll
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keep you in the season of
infertility and miscarriage. I'm
the God that'll keep you when
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you lose your mother or your
spouse. I am the God that will
keep you when your world gets
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turned upside down. I don't have
to send you anywhere else. I
don't have to outsource my
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grace. I can have all your needs
met in who I am."?
[Congregation: Applauding] It's
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funny because this thing about
Godly jealousy is we don't even
realize it's a good thing. See,
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the reason that Baal doesn't
mind you sharing your attention
with others is because he's
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sharing his attention with
others. That's why Elijah mocked
them and said, "Maybe he's doing
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something else. He ain't got
time to focus on you." But see,
I need you to understand that
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God says, "I am the jealous God.
Thou shall have no other Gods
before me." Watch this. Not only
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guys, God is willing to require
a covenant of undivided
attention. He himself keeps the
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covenant and gives you his
undivided attention.
[Congregation: Applauding]
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Psalm, the 8th division.
Remember what the Psalmist says?
He says, "Man when I consider
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all the works of your hand and
the heavens and I see the works
of your fingers..." Notice what
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he says. "What is man? That thou
art mindful of him, or the son
of man that you visit him." In
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other words, the psalmist is
saying, "Man, I'm impressed by
the theory of the sun. I'm
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impressed by the infinite nature
of the stars. I'm impressed
about what you spoke and it was
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done. It commanded and it stood
fast. Yet, you spend all your
attention focusing on man. That
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what is the man that you visit
him, and the son of the man that
you focus on him?" See, the
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thing I love about God is that
not only does He require my full
devotion, but He is the God that
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also gives us His full devotion
so that we lack no good thing.
It's crazy, friends of mine,
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that, essentially, what they do
is they create a supplement for
God, in the event, that God
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doesn't come through. Do you
know what Elijah does? He calls
them to a place of decision.
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Understand that this is not like
this just reformed rebuked
thing. See, understand that you
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can never enjoy certain things
until you commit to it. See, the
reason for some of us that
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religion is a burden is because
we never committed to it. The
reason for some of us who are
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young adults, the reason
religion seems hard is because
you never really chose it. You
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inherited it. The reason
marriage is hard is because
you're vacillating between two
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lives, single life and married
life, but it ain't going to get
good until you just commit to
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it. What I'm saying is that God
is calling some of us to a place
where we stop halting between
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ideologies, but make a decision
to follow after Jesus. Are you
all hearing me today, friends?
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God is saying, "It's time for
you to get off supplements and
get on the real thing." Are you
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all hearing the word today? Have
you all ever met somebody who
refuses to have a good diet? And
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so, they got a cabinet full of
supplements. I mean, it's crazy.
They got vitamin C and vitamin
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D. They got to take this for
iron, and this for that, and
this for the other. It's so
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funny because sometimes just eat
right. Get on a good diet, eat
some oranges, you'll get Vitamin
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C. Go outside, let the sun hit
you, you'll get some vitamin D.
Eat some protein and you won't
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have an energy loss. If you just
get on some good meat, guess
what? You won't need all the
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supplements. Do I have anybody
that has tasted and seen that
the Lord is good? If I have a
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diet of His word, if I'm
drinking living water, I won't
need all these supplements.
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[Congregation: Applauding] Won't
you get a real diet? Are you all
hearing me today, friends? Third
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thing this teaches us, friends
of mine, is that sometimes what
God will do is He will create a
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circumstance designed to expose
the impostors in your life. Now,
friends, this situation is so
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foolish. Do you realize the
purpose of the drought? It is
because they have chased after
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Baal who is the god who sends
rain. They're going to
stubbornly follow the god of
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rain after three and a half
years of no rain. See, the
purpose of the drought was
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simply to turn their attention
to the God who created heaven
and earth. Are you all with me
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today, friends? It just shows
how committed we can be to
stupid sometimes because we're
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trying, like the piece of gum,
to get full over something that
cannot provide fullness. God
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says, "Okay. I mean, three and a
half years." After three and a
half years, when you see brooks
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dry up at some time, somebody
ought to be calling a prayer
meeting. God says, "Okay. I
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can't just expose them in a
gradual way. I've got to
publicly embarrass your belief
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system." He says, "Okay. You get
a bull. I'm going to get a bull.
You make a sacrifice. I'm going
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to make a sacrifice. Guess what?
The God who answers by fire..."
Now, Baal is the sky god. He
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sends rain and he should be able
to send lightning and fire to
come and consume the sacrifice."
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Are you all with me today,
friends? Understand that he sets
up his sacrifice, and guess
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what? They go and call on the
great name of Baal. They come
out with their calls, with their
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amulets, with all of their
vestiges of witchcraft, and they
call on the name of Baal, and
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nothing happens. They're like,
"Okay. Let's turn up a little
bit. Let's do a little dance
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around noon. Let's shake. Let's
gyrate. Let's get the
tambourines. Let's praise him a
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little bit harder." Guess what?
At noon, still no fire. See,
your boy Elijah's like, "Maybe
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he's taking a nap."
[Congregation: Laughing]
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"Maybe he's focusing on somebody
else. Maybe you don't have his
undivided attention like I do
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with the true and living God."
They call upon Baal from the
time of the morning to the time
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of the evening sacrifice. In
fact, this joint gets so vile.
In fact, they're just things
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that they do that I don't even
want to speak in the hearing of
children in order to get Baal to
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make it rain. But they get so
vile that they begin to try to
add something to the offer
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altar. They began cutting
themselves to the point that the
Bible says that blood gushes out
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of them. The only reason that
they stopped praying is,
literally, they're out of voice
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and if they keep moving, they're
going to bleed to death. See,
God creates a scenario and the
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situation that exposes the
impotence of what they've been
believing in. Can I suggest,
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friends of mine, that sometimes
God has to allow some things,
some circumstances to come into
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being to expose the things that
you've been putting trust and
hope in? In other words,
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friends, I need somebody to know
the reason certain relationships
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have unfolded in such a way is
to let you know that you cannot
draw strength and happiness from
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people. You've got to get it
alone from Jesus Christ.
Sometimes things have unfolded
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in such a way financially, so
that you stop trusting your
401(k), and start trusting your
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316. [Congregation: Applauding]
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Okay. Some of you all, John
3:16, for God... Okay. Amen. Are
you all with me today?
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In other words, God has allowed
some people to show you who they
really are, so that you realize
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who's for you and who's actually
against you. Sometimes God has
allowed some people to walk out
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of your life because sometimes
it is in the triflingness of man
that you come to discover the
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faithfulness of God. It is only
then that you realize when
mother and father forsake you,
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God is going to take you in.
Hear me, young folk, in the
balcony. When you won't listen
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to the preacher, when you won't
listen to your parents, when you
won't listen to a counsel, God
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makes your circumstance start
preaching to you. [Congregation:
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Yes.] See, be careful about
being that person that says,
"Oh, I don't want nobody always
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telling me what to do. I just
need to learn some stuff from
experience." Experience is a
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good teacher, but it's a cruel
teacher. It's better to learn
from instruction than from
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experience because the
experience will leave some scars
on your behind to let you know
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don't come down this
road anymore. [Congregation:
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Applauding] Give me a few more
minutes. Elijah goes to the top
of Mount Carmel. Understand that
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Carmel is not just a mountain
top. It is a ridge that extends
over with some autonomy from the
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mountain. It is one of the most
visible places in the whole
plain so much so that the people
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of Israel are able to see it at
the bottom and they're able to
see it all the way in Jezreel.
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Your girl, Jezebel, can look out
of the tower and see what's
going on. Elijah brings about
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some heavy conviction as he
picks up the 12 stones from the
altar of the Lord that was torn
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down. He puts together the 12
stones that represent the 12
tribes of Israel, and their
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heads dropped low as they are
reminded of the Covenant that
God made with the descendants of
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Jacob. As they see it go from
one to 12, they are chastened in
their hearts. God gets a
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sacrifice. He gets a sacrifice
and puts it on the altar. He
gets a sacrifice that had no
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offense. He makes a sacrifice
that does no wrong. He's got a
sacrifice that has no
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mal-intention, and he puts it on
the altar. It's crazy because
man, like Malcolm, like the
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eschatology and the soteriology,
man, is got my theological mind
exploding. Guess what your boy
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Elijah does? He says, "Listen, I
want you to take some pots of
water. Dig a ditch all the way
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around it. I want you to fill it
with water, not just one time,
not just two times, but I want
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you to fill it with water three
times. In other words, I want
you to fill it once for the
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Father." [Congregation:
Laughing] "Fill it again for the
Son, and fill it a third time
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for the Holy Ghost, that was
going to show up in the form of
fire." But then not only does He
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say, "Fill it three times,
[inaudible]." He says, "Each
time, I want you to take four
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pots of water and fill it each
time." So, you got four pots of
water filling it three times and
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four plus three equals seven. It
is the number of God's perfect
deliverance, so that after six
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days, God rested on the seventh
day. That [inaudible] six times,
but he got delivered on the
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seventh time. That the three
Hebrew boys were delivered when
he heated the furnace seven
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times hotter." I know I'm
geeking out. Stay with me. I'm
going to get back to you in a
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minute. But not only does he
have three plus four, which
equals seven. Three times four
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equals 12. Twelve is the number
of the kingdom. You got three
times four equals 12, then you
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got 12 stones, and 12 times 12
equals 144. The 144,000
represents the complete total of
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God's Kingdom. Your boy Elijah
literally begins to just pray a
simple prayer. He ain't got a
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dance. He ain't got gyrate. He
ain't got a cut himself. He just
says, "God, I want you to make
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and vindicate yourself so that
they know that I'm acting on
Your commands." The word says
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that from a distance, they see
fire penetrate the sky. It comes
down with so much authority,
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that not only does it consume
the sacrifice, it consumes the
altar. It consumes the stones.
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It consumes the water. It didn't
even leave dust behind. The
Bible says, "They all fall on
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their faces and they declare
that the Lord, He is God, the
Lord, He is God, the Lord, He is
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God." [Congregation: Applauding]
Hey, hey. He is the God that
answers by fire. Now, I've been
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taking my time just to get to
the good part. [Congregation:
Laughing] I believe, Lewis, that
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for too long, when we read the
story, we've been shouting over
the wrong thing. We don't shout
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until we see fire. Should we be
shouting that the God who spoke
and it was done, and commanded
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and stood fast? Should we be
impressed that God sends fire?
Are we shocked that God sends
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fire? But you know what I'm
talking about today is what the
fire represents. See, when God
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sends fire on Elijah's
sacrifice, the consuming of the
sacrifice is an indication that
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the sacrifice has been accepted
by God. In other words, it is
the proof of the outward
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demonstration that the sacrifice
has been accepted by the Most
High God. In other words, the
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people are not going to be
consumed because God had put it
on the sacrifice. [Congregation:
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Applauding] Pastor Snell: Hey,
watch this. Do you know what I
love about the sacrifice? Do you
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know who the sacrifice
represents? Oh, God. I need to
go preach this out of town. You
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all don't want it today. Listen.
Do you know who the sacrifice
represents? It represents Jesus.
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Where do you see Jesus? Because
you realize they didn't repent
until after they saw the fire,
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but guess what? The sacrifice
had already been made. The bull
had already died, not knowing if
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they were going to repent, not
knowing if they were going to
turn around, not knowing if they
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were going to get right. In
other words, he foreshadowed the
Christ who says that God
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commended His love toward us.
That, while we were yet sinners,
the Bible says that Christ died
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for the ungodly. He didn't wait
to see what you were going to
do. He didn't wait to see if you
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were going to turn around. He
loves you so much that He died
on credit. He made the guarantee
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that He just wanted to make a
provision just in case you got
it right, just in case you
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turned around, just in case you
repented, there would be enough
grace of available for those who
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turned unto Him. Are you all
hearing me today, friends?
[Congregation: Yes.] Watch this.
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See, I need you to know, at
first, why they fell to the
ground. In fact, put this quote
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up here. Prophets and Kings
1:52. Let me show you how good
God is. Listen. She literally
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says that the people on the
mountain prostrated themselves
in all before the unseen God.
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They dare not continue to look
upon the heaven-sent fire. They
feared, they themselves. Hey. Do
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you know why they fall to the
ground? Do you know what they're
scared of? It's that the fire is
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going to lit the sacrifice, and
after it was done with the
sacrifice, they thought God was
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going to send it to the people.
Why am I rejoicing today?
Because the fire never left the
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sacrifice. It stayed on the
sacrifice. The people got
pardoned because it went to the
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sacrifice. In other words, we
are forgiven because it wasn't
just a sacrifice. It was a
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substitute. He was wounded for
our transgressions. He was
bruised for our iniquities. The
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chastisement of our peace was
upon Him. By his stripes, we are
healed. Is there anybody
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thankful today that the judgment
never came our way? He never
pointed His wrath at you. He
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never pointed his anger at you.
He kept his fury on the
sacrifice. He kept the second
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death on the sacrifice. We are
free because Jesus made the
sacrifice. [Congregation:
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Applauding] (Breath
of Life Theme Music)
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[END]
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