Welcome to a new
Carter Report Series,
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The Game Changers.
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These rare individuals
appear once in a lifetime
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like a blazing
meteor across the night sky,
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they change the
course of history,
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they show us the way forward.
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Welcome to The Game Changers.
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Welcome back.
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A special welcome to our viewers
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on Fox in Washington, D.C.
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and to our great
audience around the world.
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Today, we're talking
about the game changers
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and the hero of the story
today is the Prophet Elijah.
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In the last segment
we were talking about
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the times and the
prevailing sentiment.
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We're talking about
Ahab the king of Israel.
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We were talking
about what he did,
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Baal worship and
all of those things.
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Now we're going to talk
just a bit about Jezebel,
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the wife of Ahab
the weak king of Israel.
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Jezebel was the
daughter of Ethbaal,
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the king of the
pagans Sidonians.
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She was cunning,
scheming, unscrupulous,
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immoral, good-looking, vicious,
cruel, and without conscience.
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She wore the pants
and dominated Ahab.
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He was a weak man and
she was a strong woman,
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no scruples at all.
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What about Baal? Who was Baal?
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Baal was the god of
fertility, he was the sex god.
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The god of storms,
thunder and lightning.
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His worship was
full of sexual depravity,
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there were no rules.
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And a part of this worship
was the sacrifice of children,
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you believe it.
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So they engaged in
every sexual perversion
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and they murdered babies.
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Now, I want to give you
some texts out of the Bible
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that gives you an insight
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into the times of the
great prophet, Elijah.
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Come with me over now
to 2 Kings 23:5 and 6.
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This gives you the
context, 2 Kings 23:5 and 6,
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"Then he removed
the idolatrous priests
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whom the kings of Judah
had ordained to burn incense
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on the high places
in the cities of Judah
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and in the places
all around Jerusalem,
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and those he burned and those
who burned incense to Baal,
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to the sun, to the
moon, to the constellations,
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and to all the host of heaven."
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They were worshippers of
the sun, the moon, the stars,
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they worship
also Asherah, the six.
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"So he brought
out the wooden image
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from the house of the Lord,
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to the Brook
Kidron outside Jerusalem,
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burned it at the Brook
Kidron and ground it to ashes,
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and threw its ashes
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on the graves of
the common people."
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And it talks
about the wooden image,
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this is a great wooden sex god.
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Verse 7, "Then he tore down
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the ritual booths of
the perverted persons..."
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Read this in the margin.
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"The perverted
persons it says the sodomites
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that were in the
house of the Lord,
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where the women wove
hanging for the wooden altars."
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Let me see now,
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I think we'll
go to 23:10 and 11,
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"And he defiled Topheth,
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which is in the
Valley of the son of Hinnom,
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that no man might make
his son or his daughter
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pass through the fire to
Molech," human sacrifices.
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Verse 11, "Then
he removed the horses
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that the kings of Judah
had dedicated to the sun,
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at the entrance to
the house of the Lord,
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by the chamber of Nathan-Melech,
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the officer who
was in the court,
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and he burned the
chariots of the fire.
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Chariots of the sun with fire."
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So here you have
uttered depravity,
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it talks about the
blood of the innocents.
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If you come
over now to Jeremiah,
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come over a fair way,
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Jeremiah 19:4 and 5,
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dear hearts and gentle people,
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Jeremiah 19:4 and 5,
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"Because they have forsaken
Me and made this an alien place,
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because they burn
incense in it to other gods
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whom neither
they, their fathers,
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nor the kings
of Judah have known
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and they have filled
this place," notice it,
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"the blood of innocents,
with the blood of innocents.
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They have also built
the high places of Baal,
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to burn their sons with fire
for burnt offerings to Baal,
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which I did not
command or speak,
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nor did it come into My mind."
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They were so depraved,
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they thought they
were doing the will of God.
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This shows you how
bad religion can get,
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just because it's
religion doesn't make it right.
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This was the
religion of the devil.
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And then if you come now
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to 2 Chronicles 33:6.
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2 Chronicles 33:6,
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and notice these words.
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2 Chronicles 33:6,
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"Also he caused his
sons to pass through the fire
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in the Valley of
the Son of Hinnom,
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he practiced soothsaying,
used witchcraft and sorcery,
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and consulted
mediums and spiritists.
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He did much evil in
the sight of the Lord,
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to provoke Him to anger."
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Notice the state of
the nation, I pray you.
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Notice the state of the church.
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The state of the
church in the days of Elijah,
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soothsaying,
witchcraft, sorcery,
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mediums,
spiritists, perverted sex.
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The Bible says the word
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in the original is
sodomy, sins of Sodom.
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Orgies, religious prostitution,
the killing of babies,
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the rejection of
God's commandments.
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Does it sound familiar?
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So God raised up a man,
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and that man came and stood
before the king, and he said,
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"God has had enough of
you and your filthy ways."
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He said, "Judgment is coming."
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Of course, we would
never in this land of freedom,
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and religion, and piety
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practice these
abominations, would we?
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Notice the
religion of Baal today.
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Hollywood violence,
cruelty, pornography,
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millions and
millions, and millions,
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tens of millions
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up to their eyeballs
in filth, pedophilia.
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Pornography, the
glorification of lawlessness.
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A cult, Satan loves violence
and that loves bloodshed,
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glorifies bloodshed.
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Orgies,
perverted sex, drunkenness,
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the hatred of God,
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and the hatred of
Christ, spiritism.
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I may add hate speech.
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Anybody who disagrees
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is criticized and vilified.
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And 60 million babies killed.
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Sixty million babies
killed in recent times,
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in the United States of America.
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I would suggest to you
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and this is the
most unpopular thing
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that a preacher could ever say,
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this religion is
the religion of Baal.
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The modern religion of Baal.
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And do we think that God
is a benevolent old fogy,
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a benevolent old
grandfather or a Santa Claus.
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Now God's man back there
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was accused of
being the problem maker,
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would you notice 1
Kings 18:16 and 17.
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"So Obadiah went to
meet Ahab, and told him,
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and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
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Then it happened,
when Ahab saw Elijah,
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that Ahab said to him,
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'Is that you, O
troubler of Israel.'"
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You are the cause
of all of this trouble.
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You are to blame.
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In our society today,
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we condemn the innocent
and we praise the guilty.
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People who turn from God
believe that good is evil
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and evil is good.
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And look at verse 18,
"But he answered and said,
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'I have not troubled Israel,
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but you and your father's house,
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in that you have forsaken
the commandments of the Lord
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and have followed the Baals.'"
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The great problem is, he says,
"You've got away from Christ.
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You've got away
from the Word of God.
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You've got away from
the Ten Commandments,
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and you are following
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a counterfeit religious system."
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Verse 19, I think
is the next verse.
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Verse 19, "Now therefore,
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send and gather all
Israel to me on Mount Carmel,
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the four hundred and
fifty prophets of the Baal
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and the four
hundred prophets of Asherah,
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who eat at Jezebel's table."
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The preachers who were paid
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to preach lies.
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And here you've got one man
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against 850 demon
possessed prophets of Baal.
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Error is on the throne,
truth is on the scaffold,
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never believe the devil's lie
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that truth is on the
side of the majority.
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It is never
been true in history.
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Even though there are
preachers and there are teachers
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who are paid to tell you lies.
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Verse 20 and 21,
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"So Ahab sent for all
the children of Israel,
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gathered the prophets
together on Mount Carmel.
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And Elijah came to
all the people, and said,
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'How long will you falter.'"
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Hebrew word there is dance.
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How long will you
dance, or swagger,
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or stagger between opinions.
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"If the Lord is God, follow Him,
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but if Baal, follow him.
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But the people
answered him not a word."
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He said, "The time has
come for you to turn from this
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and to come to Christ."
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Then you notice verse 22, 23,
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"And Elijah said to the people,
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'I alone am left a
prophet of the Lord,
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but Baal's prophets
are four hundred fifty men.
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Therefore let
them give us two bulls,
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and let them choose one bull
for themselves, cut in pieces,
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and lay it on the wood,
but put no fire under it,
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and I will
prepare the other bull,
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and lay it on the wood,
but put no fire under it.'"
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So he says, "You go ahead,
you are the biggest number,
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you go ahead."
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And then verse 24 and
25 in the Word of God,
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"Then you call on
the name of your gods,
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and I will call on
the name of the Lord,
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and the God who
answers by fire, He is God.'
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So all the people answered
and said 'It is well spoken.'
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Now Elijah said to
the prophets of Baal,
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'Choose one bull for
yourself and prepare it first,
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for you are many, and
call on the name of god,
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but don't put
any fire under it.'"
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So, "Hey, get up,
bullock, put it on the altar."
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And then the shenanigan start.
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Verse 26 and 27,
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"So they took the
bull which was given them,
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and they prepared it,
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and called on the name of Baal
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from morning even
until noon, saying,
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'O, Baal, hear us!'"
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How can a dead God hear you.
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"But there was no
voice, no one answered.
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Then they leaped
about the altar..."
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I've seen some pretty demeans,
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people do a lot of
leaping, lot of jumping.
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But not a lot of
obedience to God.
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Anybody can leap,
a monkey can leap,
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a grasshopper can leap.
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Verse 27, "And
so it was, at noon,
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that Elijah
mocked them and said,
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'Cry aloud for he is a
god, either he is meditating,
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or he is busy, or
he is on a journey,
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or perhaps he is
sleeping and must be awakened.'"
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Now let me, folks,
tell you something,
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a little chuckle and
humor are never out of place.
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I won't tell you exactly
what the Hebrews says here.
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But it was a little
stronger than this, he said,
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"Well, Baal is
doing this, he may be...
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A little chuckle and
humor are never out of place
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even when in the
presence of your enemies.
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A merry heart does
good like a medicine.
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And Elijah was a prophet of God,
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but Elijah knew how to laugh.
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And then if you
look at 1 Kings 18...
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Let me see 28 and 29.
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"So they cried
aloud, and cut themselves,
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as was their custom,
with knives and lances,
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until the blood
gushed out on them."
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Big religious thing this.
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"And when midday was
past, they prophesied
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until the time of the offering
of the evening sacrifice..."
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That's three in the afternoon.
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"But there was no voice,
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no one answered, no
one paid attention."
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Listen to me.
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If you follow the
wrong god, my friend,
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they'll be nobody
to answer your prayers.
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And when the chips are down,
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and when people
have jumped around,
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and when they've gone
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through all the
religious rigmarole.
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When the chips are down,
the false gods are silent.
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And that's why we say
to you, believe in Jesus,
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follow Jesus,
follow Jesus, follow Jesus,
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keep His commandments.
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Verse 30 and 30... Let me see.
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We're down to verse 30
I think, is that right?
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We're doing okay.
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You're doing
even better than me.
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"Then Elijah said
to all the people,
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'Come here to me.'"
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All the people came near to him.
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"And he repaired
the altar of the Lord
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that was broken down."
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That's what you
and I need to do.
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We need to repair
the altar of the Lord.
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We need to come back to God.
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We need to set up the
altar to the true God.
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This is talking about
a religious reformation.
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And then, if you
come to verse 31.
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"And Elijah took twelve stones
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according to the number
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of the tribes of
the sons of Jacob,
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to whom the word of
the Lord had come, saying,
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'Israel shall be your name.'"
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So he repairs the altar,
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then he puts the
bullock on the altar,
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and he does something else
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because those evil priests
are watching his every move.
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He says, "Get me some water."
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And they bring
hundreds of gallons of water.
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And they pour the water
over the burnt offering.
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And then he says, "Do it again."
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And they do it again.
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He says, "Do it the third time."
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And so, they get
lots and lots of water.
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And then verse 38.
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Notice what happens.
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This is a prayer to God.
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He says, "God, hear me
God. I can't do any more."
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Verse 38, "Then the
fire of the Lord fell
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and consumed
the burnt sacrifice,
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and the wood and
the stones and the dust,
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and it licked up the
water that was in the trench.
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Now when all the people saw
it, they fell on their faces,
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and they said,
'The Lord, He is God!
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The Lord, He is God!'"
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What they said that day was,
we just made a mess of things.
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And Elijah said to them,
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"It's time for you
to come back to God.
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No more Baal worship.
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We will serve the Lord.
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We will keep His commandments.
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We will turn
from false religion.
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We will turn from
sexual immorality.
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We will turn from
breaking His commandments.
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And we will come to Christ."
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And that message of Elijah,
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I suggest to you
today is pertinent.
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These people lived under
an Old Testament theocracy
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where judgment was immediate.
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All those priests, 850
of them were put to death.
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God cut out the cancer.
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Eight hundred and fifty priests.
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In the New Testament,
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we don't have a theocracy
and judgment is delayed.
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It's delayed to the end,
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but it is just a certain,
there is a judgment day.
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God is now giving us
opportunity to repent.
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It is true that the God,
mills of God grind slowly,
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my friend, they
grind just the same.
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Now please notice
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1 Kings 18:41.
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So the fire has come.
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Evildoers have
been put to death.
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"Then Elijah said to
Ahab, 'Get up, eat and drink,
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for there is the sound
of abundance of rain.'"
00:20:01.13\00:20:06.17
It's amazing story.
00:20:06.20\00:20:07.70
The people had
repented and come back to God.
00:20:07.74\00:20:10.34
God is
gracious, God is merciful.
00:20:10.37\00:20:13.17
And Elijah says,
"I know it's coming.
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I hear the sound
of abundance of rain."
00:20:16.58\00:20:19.38
This is a message I want you
to take from this meeting today.
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If we come to God, if
we turn from our sins,
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if we turn from idolatry,
the message of God is this,
00:20:28.32\00:20:32.36
there is the sound
of abundance of rain.
00:20:32.39\00:20:36.16
God says, "I'm
going to bless you."
00:20:36.20\00:20:39.07
And then Ahab
does something amazing.
00:20:39.10\00:20:42.10
He's going to drive his chariot
00:20:42.14\00:20:44.11
with his horses about
20 miles to the palace.
00:20:44.14\00:20:48.48
But before he starts
out, Ahab comes and says,
00:20:48.51\00:20:52.05
"I will show you the way."
00:20:52.08\00:20:55.05
The King can't see
through the blinding rain
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and this man runs
with the power of God
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for 20 miles in front of horses.
00:21:02.22\00:21:04.59
Horses can't keep up with him.
00:21:04.63\00:21:07.06
You know why?
00:21:07.10\00:21:10.60
Because he had the wind of
God under his wings, you see.
00:21:10.63\00:21:17.67
You can do impossible things
if you have God in your life.
00:21:17.71\00:21:22.74
Jesus said, "With God
nothing shall be impossible."
00:21:22.78\00:21:25.58
I tell you, my
friend, it is the truth.
00:21:25.61\00:21:30.02
Then if you read
on in the scriptures,
00:21:30.05\00:21:31.65
there is the great let down.
00:21:31.69\00:21:33.29
If you stand on the mountain,
you will descend to the valley,
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he was totally, emotionally,
and physically exhausted.
00:21:35.99\00:21:39.13
Jezebel hears
about it and she says,
00:21:39.16\00:21:41.33
"You are a dead man.
00:21:41.36\00:21:43.23
You're a dead man."
00:21:43.26\00:21:45.00
And Elijah runs for
the fear of his life
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because the best
men are still men.
00:21:50.61\00:21:53.94
We are only animated
mud on the way to dust.
00:21:53.98\00:21:57.25
He runs, and he
runs, and he falls asleep,
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and somebody wakes him
up, he thinks is an enemy.
00:22:00.25\00:22:04.72
The person says,
00:22:04.75\00:22:06.09
"The journey is
too hard for you,
00:22:06.12\00:22:07.66
have something to eat."
00:22:07.69\00:22:10.06
Our God doesn't
rebuke him for running away.
00:22:10.09\00:22:14.00
God lifts him up,
God gives him a meal.
00:22:14.03\00:22:15.76
He doesn't give him a sermon,
He gives him something to eat.
00:22:15.80\00:22:20.84
Often people do
not need a sermon,
00:22:20.87\00:22:22.80
they need something to eat.
00:22:22.84\00:22:24.24
And then in the
strength of that meal,
00:22:27.28\00:22:30.48
he goes on, it's okay
to get down, my friends,
00:22:30.51\00:22:32.98
it's not okay to
stand down or stay down.
00:22:33.01\00:22:36.79
Elijah walks and
runs for 40 days.
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He comes to Mount Sinai.
00:22:39.39\00:22:41.59
And you read about
this in 1 Kings 19:9 and 10.
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At Sinai many miles away,
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"And there he went into a cave,
00:22:47.90\00:22:49.30
and spent the
night in that place,
00:22:49.33\00:22:51.00
and behold the word
of the Lord came to him,
00:22:51.03\00:22:53.03
and he said to him,
00:22:53.07\00:22:54.40
'What are you
doing here, Elijah?'
00:22:54.44\00:22:55.77
So he said, 'I
have been very zealous
00:22:55.80\00:22:57.77
for the Lord God of hosts,
00:22:57.81\00:22:59.44
for the children of Israel
have forsaken Your covenant,
00:22:59.47\00:23:01.78
torn down Your altars,
00:23:01.81\00:23:03.14
and killed Your
prophets with the sword.
00:23:03.18\00:23:04.78
I alone am left and
they seek to take my life.'"
00:23:04.81\00:23:09.25
And then he says, "Elijah,
I want you to go outside,
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stand on the mountain."
00:23:12.69\00:23:15.66
There comes a tremendous wind.
00:23:15.69\00:23:19.36
And then there
comes a tremendous fire.
00:23:19.39\00:23:24.33
A tremendous earthquake.
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God is not in
any of those things.
00:23:27.64\00:23:30.51
And then there is...
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You know what it
says, "A still small voice."
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God is in the still small voice.
00:23:36.88\00:23:40.82
The Almighty God says,
00:23:40.85\00:23:42.18
"Elijah, I'm not
finished with you,
00:23:42.22\00:23:45.85
go back, I've got
some work for you to do."
00:23:45.89\00:23:49.19
And so he goes back.
00:23:49.22\00:23:53.23
God has appointed him
to do some last duties.
00:23:53.26\00:23:57.23
Eventually, Ahab and
Jezebel die violent deaths.
00:23:57.27\00:24:00.94
Ahab bleeds to death
with the wound of an arrow.
00:24:00.97\00:24:04.71
Jezebel is
thrown out of a window
00:24:04.74\00:24:07.01
and trampled by the horses.
00:24:07.04\00:24:09.24
Good people
will have a good end,
00:24:09.28\00:24:11.11
bad people have a bad end.
00:24:11.15\00:24:13.01
The mills of God grind slowly,
but they grind exceeding small.
00:24:13.05\00:24:17.42
God is just and
justice cannot sleep for ever.
00:24:17.45\00:24:21.66
And Elijah also comes to an end.
00:24:21.69\00:24:25.83
You read about
it in 2 Kings 2:11.
00:24:25.86\00:24:30.57
Look at it please, 2 Kings 2:11,
00:24:30.60\00:24:35.47
"Then it happened,
00:24:35.50\00:24:37.64
as they continued on and talked,
00:24:37.67\00:24:39.77
that suddenly a chariot of fire
appeared with horses of fire,
00:24:39.81\00:24:45.78
and separated the two of them,
00:24:45.81\00:24:48.28
and Elijah went up by
a whirlwind into heaven."
00:24:48.32\00:24:54.49
Isn't it amazing?
00:24:54.52\00:24:57.63
Elijah unlike Moses never died.
00:24:57.66\00:25:03.60
It's amazing.
00:25:03.63\00:25:05.33
After all the things
00:25:05.37\00:25:06.70
he'd gone through, his
frailties, his weaknesses,
00:25:06.74\00:25:10.11
he was a man saved
by the grace of God.
00:25:10.14\00:25:13.17
And at last, God
sent down from glory.
00:25:13.21\00:25:16.91
Can you imagine it?
00:25:16.95\00:25:19.61
A bunch of fiery
horses pulling a fiery chariot
00:25:19.65\00:25:23.89
and Elijah went up
in a whirlwind to glory.
00:25:23.92\00:25:27.46
When Jesus comes, God's people
are going to be caught up.
00:25:33.06\00:25:37.57
Now listen to me,
00:25:37.60\00:25:40.50
God is looking for people
who will stand for the truth,
00:25:40.54\00:25:44.67
who will stand
out against iniquity.
00:25:44.71\00:25:48.24
They are the game changers.
00:25:48.28\00:25:50.98
They are the people
who change the world.
00:25:51.01\00:25:54.52
And therefore, my
message to you is this,
00:25:54.55\00:25:58.29
believe today
00:25:58.32\00:26:02.09
in the God of Elijah,
00:26:02.12\00:26:06.49
in Jesus' name, amen.
00:26:06.53\00:26:11.13
Amen.
00:26:11.17\00:26:12.50
Jesus said, "All
authority has been given to Me
00:26:19.27\00:26:22.54
in heaven and on earth."
00:26:22.58\00:26:24.91
Go therefore, and make
disciples of all the nations.
00:26:24.95\00:26:29.22
Baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and of the Son,
00:26:29.25\00:26:33.19
and of the Holy Spirit.
00:26:33.22\00:26:36.99
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