(MUSIC)
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>>NOW THE MESSAGE TODAY IS GOING
TO BE DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT
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OF OPENING OUR HOMES TO CHRIST.
AND SOME OF YOU PROBABLY HAVE
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HEARD THE VERY
FAMOUS MOTEL 6 COMMERCIAL.
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HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT THE
TAG LINE IS IN THAT COMMERCIAL?
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>>WE'LL LEAVE
THE LIGHT ON FOR YOU.
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>>WE'LL LEAVE
THE LIGHT ON FOR YOU.
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IT BECAME ONE OF THE MOST
FAMOUS ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.
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WHAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW
IS THE ANNOUNCER IN THE INITIAL
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COMMERCIAL, TOM BODETT, THE VERY
EXPENSIVE MARKETING COMPANY HAD
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COME UP WITH A SCRIPT FOR
HIM TO DO THIS RADIO COMMERCIAL.
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THE PHRASE 'WE'LL LEAVE THE
LIGHT ON FOR YOU' WAS NOWHERE IN
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THE SCRIPT. AS
HE WAS RECORDING THE
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ANNOUNCEMENT FOR MOTEL 6, HE SAW
THE CLOCK STILL HAD LIKE THREE
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SECONDS LEFT ON
IT AND HE THOUGHT,
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'WOW, THAT'S
GOING TO BE DEAD TIME.
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I OUGHT TO SAY SOMETHING.'
AND SO, AD-LIB, HE SAID, 'WE'LL
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LEAVE THE LIGHT ON FOR YOU.' AND
NO ONE EVEN REMEMBERS WHAT THE
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MARKETING AGENCY WROTE.
WHAT THEY KEPT WAS WHAT BODETT
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WROTE HIMSELF BECAUSE IT JUST
SORT OF EMBRACED THE WHOLE IDEA.
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YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN
TRAVELING ACROSS DARK COUNTRY
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AND YOU SEE THE PORCH LIGHT
SORT OF REPRESENTS HOME AND THAT
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SOMEONE'S WAITING UP FOR YOU AND
THERE'S A LIGHT ON IN A WINDOW
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AND ALL OF THAT WAS SORT OF
ENCOMPASSED IN THAT ONE BRIEF
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PHRASE - A DOOR THAT'S
OPEN. I KNOW OUR BODIES ARE LIKE
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TEMPLES - THEY'RE HOMES.
THE QUESTION IS: IS IT A HOME
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WHERE CHRIST IS A RESIDENT? IS
HE A GUEST? DOES THE LORD LIVE
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IN OUR LIVES? THIS IS WHERE
WE GET THE WORD 'HOSPITALITY' -
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HOUSE-PITALITY - SOMEONE WHO
OPENS UP THEIR LIVES AND INVITES
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PEOPLE IN. BUT THE MOST
IMPORTANT GUEST THAT WE CAN
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INVITE INTO OUR LIVES IS, OF
COURSE, THE LORD. NOW I'M GOING
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TO START WITH WHAT IS A FAMILIAR
VERSE AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO
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JUMP TO SOME VERSES
THAT MAY NOT BE AS FAMILIAR.
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LUKE CHAPTER 2, VERSE 4, "JOSEPH
ALSO WENT UP FROM GALILEE, OUT
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OF THE CITY OF NAZARETH, INTO
JUDEA, TO THE CITY OF DAVID,
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WHICH IS CALLED BETHLEHEM,
BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE HOUSE AND
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LINEAGE OF DAVID, TO BE
REGISTERED WITH MARY, HIS
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BETROTHED WIFE,
WHO WAS WITH CHILD."
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NOW BOTH JOSEPH AND MARY
WERE FROM THE LINEAGE OF DAVID.
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YOU CAN TRACE - LUKE TRACES THE
GENEALOGY OF JESUS BACK THROUGH
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THE MOTHER - IT'S THROUGH THE
MATRIARCHAL OR THE - ACTUALLY
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THROUGH MARY'S FATHER, WHICH
IS JOSEPH'S FATHER-IN-LAW AND
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MATTHEW TRACES IT BACK THROUGH
JOSEPH - THAT'S WHY YOU'LL SEE
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A SMALL DISCREPANCY
BETWEEN THOSE TWO GENEALOGIES.
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THEY WERE BOTH OF THE HOUSEHOLD
OF DAVID. BUT THE CAESAR HAD
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WANTED EVERYONE TO COME TO
THEIR HOMETOWN SO THEY COULD BE
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REGISTERED. THERE
WAS A CENSUS THAT WAS
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BEING TAKEN - AND THE REASON
HE WAS DOING THIS WAS FOR TAXES.
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AND IT SAYS THAT WHEN THEY CAME
TO THE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM THE
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DAYS WERE DELIVERED FOR -
THE DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED - OR
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COMPLETED - FOR
HER TO BE DELIVERED.
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"AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER
FIRST-BORN SON AND WRAPPED HIM
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IN SWADDLING CLOTHS AND LAID HIM
IN A MANGER," - SWADDLING CLOTH
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IS JUST STRIPS OF CLOTH -
"AND LAID HIM IN A" - TROUGH - A
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MANGER WHERE ANIMALS WERE FED.
AND SOMEONE WHO READS THIS IS
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GOING 'WHY ARE THEY PUTTING HIM
IN AN ANIMAL TROUGH?' AND THEN
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LUKE GOES ON AND SAYS,
'WELL, THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR HIM
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IN THE INN. FIRST OF
ALL, JOSEPH AND MARY,
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THEY MAYBE HAD FAMILY BUT
EVERYBODY HAD COME AND SO THE
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FAMILY SPACE WAS RUN OUT.
AND THEN THE OTHER NATURAL PLACE
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YOU'D GO IS TO THE LOCAL MOM
AND POP BED AND BREAKFAST - THEY
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WERE THE HOTELS OR THE INN, AND
THERE'S NO ROOM THERE - AND YOU
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JUST THINK IT'S AMAZING
THAT WHEN CHRIST CAME INTO THIS
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WORLD THERE'S NO ROOM FOR HIM.
YOU CAN READ IN JOHN 1, VERSE
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10, "HE WAS IN THE WORLD, AND
THE WORLD WAS MADE THROUGH HIM,
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AND THE WORLD DID NOT KNOW
HIM. HE CAME TO HIS OWN, AND HIS
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OWN DID NOT RECEIVE HIM."
HIS OWN PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW HIM.
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NOW WOULDN'T IT BE SAD IF YOU
HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO INVITE THE
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LORD INTO YOUR HOME OR INTO YOUR
HEART AND YOU MISSED IT BECAUSE
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YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE
WAS? THAT SIGHTING FROM THAT OLD
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SPIRITUAL, 'WE
DIDN'T KNOW WHO YOU WAS'.
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HE CAME TO HIS OWN AND
HIS OWN DIDN'T KNOW HIM.
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NO ROOM IN THE INN. NOW
THE LORD, NOT ONLY WANTS TO
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KNOW US, HE WANTS TO BE IN
OUR LIVES. HE WANTS TO HAVE A
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PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH
US. WHAT IS THE LORD GOING TO
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DECLARE TO THOSE THAT ARE LOST?
'I NEVER KNEW YOU. DEPART FROM
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ME.' AND THE BIBLE GOES ON
TO SAY, 'MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED
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FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE' - IN
THE BOOK OF HOSEA. WHAT IS THAT
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KNOWLEDGE THAT IS DEVASTATING?
TO NOT KNOW THE LORD.
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TO NOT HAVE A
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
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HAVE YOU INVITED THE LORD INTO
YOUR HOME AND INTO YOUR HEART?
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IS HE PART OF
YOUR LIFE EVERY DAY?
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YOU KNOW, WHAT DID
JESUS SAY TO ZACCHEUS?
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HE SAID, 'COME DOWN, FOR TODAY
I MUST ABIDE AT YOUR HOUSE.
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I WANT TO BE WITH YOU.
I WANT TO ABIDE WITH YOU.'
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NOW, INSTEAD OF SPENDING OUR
TIME TALKING ABOUT A FAILURE, I
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WANT TO SPEND SOME TIME
TALKING ABOUT A SUCCESS.
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YOU CAN READ - IF YOU TURN
IN YOUR BIBLE - WE'RE GOING TO
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SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME NOW
IN THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS - 2
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KINGS CHAPTER 4 - AND THERE'S
A STORY AND THE STORY IS OF THE
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SHUNAMMITE WOMAN - 2 KINGS
CHAPTER 4 - AND WE'RE GOING TO
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BE GOING FROM VERSE 8
AND READING ABOUT 30 VERSES.
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NOW THIS IS ABOUT THE STORY
OF ELISHA AND IT TELLS US ABOUT,
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NOT SOMEONE WHO DID NOT RECEIVE
THE LORD, BUT SOMEONE WHO DID
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RECEIVE THE LORD INTO THEIR
HOME. AND IF YOU LOOK IN 2 KINGS
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CHAPTER 4, VERSE 8 IT SAYS, "NOW
IT HAPPENED ONE DAY THAT ELISHA
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WENT TO SHUNAM, WHERE THERE
WAS A NOTABLE WOMAN, AND SHE
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PERSUADED HIM TO EAT SOME FOOD.
SO IT WAS, AS OFTEN AS HE PASSED
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BY, HE WOULD TURN IN
THERE TO EAT SOME FOOD.
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AND SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND,
'LOOK NOW, I KNOW THAT THIS IS A
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HOLY MAN OF GOD, WHO
PASSES BY US REGULARLY.
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PLEASE, LET US MAKE A SMALL
UPPER ROOM ON THE WALL; AND LET
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US PUT A BED FOR HIM THERE,
AND A TABLE AND A CHAIR AND A
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LAMPSTAND; SO IT WILL BE,
WHENEVER HE COMES TO US, HE CAN
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TURN IN THERE.'" NOW SEE, ELISHA
- WELL, I SHOULD ACTUALLY BACK
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UP A LITTLE BIT - DURING THE
TIME OF SAMUEL THE PROPHET, HE
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ESTABLISHED THE
SCHOOLS OF THE PROPHETS.
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AND THE SCHOOLS OF THE PROPHETS
WERE SET UP IN ABOUT SIX
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LOCATIONS AROUND
THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.
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DURING THE TIME OF SAMUEL, THERE
WAS A LOT OF APOSTASY IN THE
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KINGDOM AND SO HE ESTABLISHED
THIS SCHOOL THAT WOULD BE
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TRAINING MEN IN MINISTRY.
THEY WEREN'T ALL RELATED.
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THEY DIDN'T CALL THEM THE SONS
OF THE PROPHETS BECAUSE THEY
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WERE ALL GENETICALLY RELATED,
IT WAS SORT OF A TITLE FOR THOSE
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WHO WOULD BE STUDYING THE WAYS
OF THE LORD WHO COULD ALSO HELP
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TEACH THE PEOPLE. AND,
DURING THE TIME OF ELISHA,
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THERE WAS A REVIVAL OF THAT.
YOU REMEMBER, DURING THE DAYS OF
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ELIJAH, THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS
- THEY HAD TO HIDE IN CAVES
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BECAUSE JEZEBEL WAS
TRYING TO KILL THEM ALL.
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AND ELISHA SPENT SOME TIME -
THEY WERE BUILDING A SCHOOL DOWN
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BY JERICHO - THAT'S WHEN
THE AX HEAD FELL IN WATER.
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HE SPENT HIS TIME
WORKING WITH THEM.
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THEY WANTED TO BUILD ONE THERE
BY JERICHO AND THE SPRING WAS
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BAD. AND SO HE PUT SOME SALT IN
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THE SPRING TO TRY
TO HEAL THE WATERS.
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AND SO HE SPENT QUITE A BIT
OF TIME RAISING UP THESE PLACES
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WHERE THERE WERE DISCIPLES.
AND SO ELISHA WENT IN A CIRCUIT,
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ON A REGULAR BASIS, TEACHING,
ENCOURAGING THE PEOPLE, TRYING
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TO FORTIFY THE REVIVAL
THAT REALLY STARTED DURING
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THE TIME OF ELIJAH.
SO THIS WOMAN, WHO'S A
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SHUNAMMITE -
SHUNAMMITES WERE NOT
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ISRAELITES, THEY
WERE FROM ANOTHER TRIBE.
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THEY WERE ACTUALLY LEFTOVERS
FROM THE CANAANITE PEOPLE.
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AND SHE SEES THAT HE'S A MAN OF
GOD - YOU KNOW, ELIJAH DID A LOT
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OF MIRACLES AND THEY KNEW
THAT HE HAD THE POWER OF GOD - I
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MEAN, HE HITS THE
WATER AND IT PARTS.
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HE HEALS THE WATERS - AX HEAD
FLOATS - OIL MULTIPLIES FOR THIS
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LADY. ELISHA ENDS
UP DOING TWICE THE
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MIRACLES OF ELIJAH - GETS A
DOUBLE PORTION OF HIS SPIRIT.
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AND SHE SAYS TO HER HUSBAND,
'YOU KNOW, HE STOPS BY AND I
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KNOW HE'S A MAN OF GOD AND WE
WANT TO DO SOMETHING FOR HIM SO
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WE FEED HIM. AND I
CAN TELL THAT THERE'S
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JUST THIS - HE KNOWS THE LORD -
THERE'S AN ATTRACTION - THERE'S
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A CONNECTION WITH GOD THAT
HE HAS.' AND SHE SAID, 'IT'S NOT
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ENOUGH THAT WE FEED HIM.' SHE
SAID, 'LOOK, THE LORD'S BLESSED
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US.' IT SAYS THAT
SHE'S A NOTABLE WOMAN - THAT
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MEANS THEY ARE WEALTHY.
SHE - 'LET'S MAKE A PLACE FOR
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HIM SO THAT HE CAN BE A
GUEST HERE WHENEVER HE COMES BY.
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HE IS GOING TO SEE THIS AS A
HOME AWAY FROM HOME.' SORT OF
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SOMETHING LIKE WHAT MARY
AND MARTHA DID FOR JESUS.
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WHENEVER JESUS WAS AROUND
JERUSALEM, HE WOULD END UP
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STAYING, IF NOT IN THE GARDEN OF
GETHSEMANE, HE WENT TO BETHANY
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AND HE STAYED WITH MARTHA AND
LAZARUS AND THEIR YOUNGER SISTER
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MARY. SO THEY SAID, 'WE WANT TO
MAKE A PLACE FOR HIM HERE - WANT
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TO MAKE HIM COMFORTABLE.' NOW
THE SHUNAMMITES, THEY WERE NOT
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ISRAELITES. THEY
SPOKE A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE.
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YOU'LL NOTICE THROUGH THE STORY
THAT ELISHA DOES NOT SPEAK TO
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HER DIRECTLY BECAUSE THEY
DON'T SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE.
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HE KEEPS SPEAKING TO HER
THROUGH GEHAZI HIS SERVANT, WHO,
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EVIDENTLY, SPOKE SOME
OF THE LANGUAGE OF SHUNAM.
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NOW, DOES ANYONE KNOW - WHO ARE
SOME OTHER SHUNAMMITES IN THE
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BIBLE? CAN YOU
NAME SOME? >>ABISHAG.
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>>ABISHAG, THE PRETTY YOUNG
VIRGIN THAT WAS FOUND WHEN DAVID
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WAS OLD - HE HAD CONGESTIVE
HEART FAILURE AND HE WAS SHAKING
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ALL THE TIME AND THEY PUT
BLANKETS BUT HE COULDN'T GET
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WARM SO THEY SEARCHED THE
LAND. THEY FOUND SOME BEAUTIFUL
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YOUNG VIRGINS THAT HAD GOOD
CIRCULATION AND THEY HAD ONE OF
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THEM BECOME A WIFE OF DAVID AND
SHE WOULD, BASICALLY, SNUGGLE
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HIM TO KEEP HIM WARM BECAUSE
THEY DIDN'T HAVE ELECTRIC
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BLANKETS BACK THEN SO THEY
HAD TO GET A LIVING BLANKET.
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AND THEY - ONE OF THE MOST
BEAUTIFUL GIRLS WAS ABISHAG.
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NOW THERE'S SOME - THERE'S A
RUMOR - YOU EVER READ THE SONG
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OF SOLOMON? THERE'S THIS
LOVE STORY TO THE SHUNAMMITE.
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AND MANY WONDER - DAVID NEVER
KNEW ABISHAG - THEY WONDERED IF
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THIS SHUNAMMITE THAT SOLOMON
FELL IN LOVE WITH WAS ABISHAG.
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SHE WOULD HAVE
BEEN YOUNGER THAN HIM.
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BY THE WAY, SOLOMON'S BROTHER
ADONIJAH WANTED TO MARRY HER
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AFTER HIS FATHER DIED, SO IT
WASN'T UNTHOUGHT OF, BUT THERE'S
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ANOTHER SHUNAMMITE.
SO THEY WERE A PEOPLE
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THAT WERE LIVING AT PEACE.
MANY OF THEM WORSHIPED THE GOD
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OF ISRAEL BUT THEY WERE
REALLY HELDOVERS - HOLDOVERS
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- FROM THE CANAANITES. SO
IT'S INTERESTING THAT THIS
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MAN OF GOD, WHO'S BRINGING
REVIVAL TO THE NORTHERN TRIBES,
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HE IS ON A CONSTANT CIRCUIT
AMONG HIS PEOPLE, BUT WHO IS IT
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THAT ENDS UP
INVITING HIM TO STAY?
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NOT ONE OF HIS OWN PEOPLE,
BUT ONE OF THE CANAANITES.
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DOES ELIJAH, DURING THE TIME OF
FAMINE, WHO DOES HE STAY WITH?
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DOES HE STAY WITH AN ISRAELITE
OR DOES HE STAY WITH A WOMAN OF
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TYRE UP IN THE NORTH?
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
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AND THE MESSIAH ENDS UP COMING
THROUGH RUTH, THE MOABITESS, AND
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TAMAR AND RAHAB AND HERE
YOU HAVE ANOTHER CANAANITE WOMAN
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SHOWING KINDNESS
TO THE MAN OF GOD.
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SHE SAID, 'LET'S MAKE A ROOM.'
SHE TELLS HER HUSBAND - YOU READ
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ON YOU'LL FIND OUT - HE'S A
LITTLE OLDER THAN HER, BUT SHE
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RESPECTS HIM. THROUGH
THE STORY SHE DOES THESE
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THINGS IN CONCERT WITH HER
HUSBAND. 'LET'S MAKE A SMALL
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UPPER ROOM ON THE WALL.' NOW,
ANY OF YOU EVER READ THIS STORY
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IN THE CHILDREN'S STORY
BOOKS? MY BIBLE FRIENDS?
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IT'S IN THERE AND IT MAKES IT
SOUND LIKE THEY PUT THE ROOM FOR
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ELISHA RIGHT ON TOP OF THEIR
HOUSE. IT'S ACTUALLY TALKING
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ABOUT THE WALL OF THEIR
COMPOUND, JUST LIKE RAHAB'S
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HOUSE WAS IN THE WALL. AND
SO THESE PEOPLE ARE WEALTHY,
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THEY'VE GOT A WALL AROUND THEIR
COMPOUND, AND SOMEWHERE NEAR THE
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WALL WHERE HE COULD
HAVE HIS OWN PRIVATE SPACE.
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THEY BUILT UP - THEY MADE A ROOM
- BUILT IT UP OFF THE GROUND -
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THEY SOMETIMES HAD - THE ANIMALS
WOULD STAY UNDERNEATH AND HAD A
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DESK IN IT, A BED, A TABLE
- MAYBE HAD A COT ALSO FOR HIS
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SERVANT, GEHAZI, WHO'S ALWAYS
WITH HIM - A TABLE AND A CHAIR
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AND A LAMPSTAND - "SO IT WILL
BE, WHENEVER HE COMES TO US, HE
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CAN TURN IN THERE." SHE
IS DOING EVERYTHING SHE CAN
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TO MAKE STAYING WITH HER FAMILY
ATTRACTIVE TO THE MAN OF GOD.
00:12:49.40\00:12:53.67
NOW WHY DOES
SHE WANT TO DO THAT?
00:12:53.67\00:12:55.90
WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S A GOOD IDEA
TO HAVE HOLY PEOPLE STAY WITH
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YOU. SHE'S
CREATING THESE CREATURE
00:13:00.78\00:13:05.35
COMFORTS BECAUSE SHE
WANTS HIM TO STAY WITH HER.
00:13:05.35\00:13:11.55
SHE WANTS THE
BLESSING OF GOD IN HER HOUSE.
00:13:11.55\00:13:14.46
DO YOU DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO
INVITE THE LORD INTO YOUR HOME?
00:13:14.46\00:13:18.26
AND IT SAYS, YOU KNOW, IN THE
FIRST PART OF THE VERSE, IT SAYS
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SHE CONSTRAINED
HIM. SHE URGED HIM.
00:13:21.63\00:13:26.03
IT KIND OF MAKES IT SOUND LIKE
WHEN THOSE TWO DISCIPLES WERE
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WALKING DOWN THE ROAD TO EMMAUS
AND JESUS WAS TALKING TO THEM,
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THEY SAID, 'THIS MAN
KNOWS THE WORD OF GOD.
00:13:33.24\00:13:35.11
THIS MAN KNOWS THE LORD.' AND
WHEN THEY CAME TO A FORK IN THE
00:13:35.11\00:13:37.48
ROAD AND THEY'RE ABOUT TO TURN
INTO THE TOWN OF EMMAUS, THEY
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SAID, 'PLEASE ABIDE
WITH US.' THEY URGED HIM.
00:13:40.98\00:13:44.25
THEY CONSTRAINED
HIM. THEY PLED WITH HIM.
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WERE THEY GLAD THEY DID? >>YES.
00:13:47.49\00:13:50.29
>>TURNED OUT THAT
IT WAS JESUS HIMSELF.
00:13:50.29\00:13:52.59
THEY DIDN'T KNOW. SOME
HAVE ENTERTAINED ANGELS UNAWARE.
00:13:52.59\00:13:56.56
AND THEN YOU CAN READ IN
THE BIBLE THE STORY ABOUT LOT.
00:13:56.56\00:14:01.34
WHEN THE MESSENGERS CAME FROM
THE LORD TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH,
00:14:01.34\00:14:03.77
THE ANGELS SAID, 'WE'LL STAY OUT
IN THE STREET.' BUT LOT SAID,
00:14:03.77\00:14:06.37
'NO, NO, YOU COME INTO
MY HOUSE.' HE URGED THEM.
00:14:06.37\00:14:10.71
AND DID LOT KNOW HE WAS BRINGING
MESSENGERS FROM GOD INTO HIS
00:14:10.71\00:14:14.62
HOUSE? ENDED UP
SAVING HIM AND HIS FAMILY.
00:14:14.62\00:14:18.59
AND SO THEY'RE
URGING THIS ON THEM.
00:14:18.59\00:14:22.96
AND SHE DOES EVERYTHING SHE CAN
TO MAKE THEM COMFORTABLE - PUTS
00:14:22.96\00:14:26.63
ALL THESE CREATURE
COMFORTS IN THE HOME.
00:14:26.63\00:14:29.16
NOW IS THERE A BLESSING PROMISED
ON THOSE WHO ARE CARING ABOUT
00:14:29.16\00:14:34.24
THE NEEDS OF OTHERS?
DID JESUS PROMISE SPECIAL
00:14:34.24\00:14:37.37
BLESSINGS ON THOSE WHO
WOULD CARE FOR HIS MESSENGERS?
00:14:37.37\00:14:41.51
YOU CAN READ IN MARK 9:41, WHEN
HE SENT OUT THE DISCIPLES HE
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SAID, "FOR WHOEVER GIVES YOU
A CUP OF WATER TO DRINK IN MY
00:14:46.15\00:14:49.92
NAME, BECAUSE YOU BELONG TO
CHRIST, ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU,
00:14:49.92\00:14:54.09
HE WILL BY NO
MEANS LOSE HIS REWARD."
00:14:54.09\00:14:56.99
AND THE OTHER THING THAT'S
HAPPENING IS SHE REALIZES GOD IS
00:14:56.99\00:15:00.73
WITH ELISHA AND SO SHE
IS SEEKING GODLY FRIENDS.
00:15:00.73\00:15:04.57
PROVERBS 13:20, "HE WHO WALKS
WITH WISE MEN WILL BE WISE, BUT
00:15:04.57\00:15:09.37
THE COMPANION OF
FOOLS WILL BE DESTROYED."
00:15:09.37\00:15:12.01
PSALM 119, VERSE 63, "I AM A
COMPANION OF ALL WHO FEAR YOU,
00:15:12.01\00:15:18.28
AND OF THOSE WHO KEEP YOUR
PRECEPTS." 2 CORINTHIANS 6:14,
00:15:18.28\00:15:23.15
"DO NOT BE UNEQUALLY
YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS.
00:15:23.15\00:15:26.55
FOR WHAT FELLOWSHIP HAS
RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH LAWLESSNESS?
00:15:26.55\00:15:29.76
AND WHAT COMMUNION HAS LIGHT
WITH DARKNESS?" AND SO SHE GOES
00:15:29.76\00:15:34.10
TO ALL THIS CARE AND ONE
DAY ELISHA IS GOING THROUGH THE
00:15:34.10\00:15:37.23
CIRCUIT OF THE LAND AND ALL
OF A SUDDEN HE COMES BACK AND HE
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SAYS, 'SOMETHING'S DIFFERENT
ABOUT THE SHUNAMMITE'S HOUSE.'
00:15:40.44\00:15:42.77
HE'S TALKING TO GEHAZI.
HE SAYS, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD?
00:15:42.77\00:15:44.87
SHE'S GOT THIS CONSTRUCTION
PROJECT GOING ON.' AND THEY SEE
00:15:44.87\00:15:47.61
HIM COMING AND THEY RUN OUT TO
THE GATE AND THEY MEET HIM AND
00:15:47.61\00:15:51.68
SHE SAYS, 'WE'RE
SO GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
00:15:51.68\00:15:53.11
LOOK, WE WANT TO SHOW YOU
SOMETHING.' THEY BRING HIM UP
00:15:53.11\00:15:55.38
THE STAIRS. THEY
SAID, 'SEE THIS ROOM?
00:15:55.38\00:15:57.09
SEE THE WINDOW? GOT A
FLOWER ON THE TABLE THERE.
00:15:57.09\00:15:59.09
GOT A LAMP ON THE TABLE IN CASE
YOU WANT TO READ SOME SCROLLS.
00:15:59.09\00:16:03.53
GOT A BED - A FEW PIECES OF
FRUIT IN A BOWL ON THE TABLE.
00:16:03.53\00:16:07.86
SEE THIS? THIS IS YOUR PLACE.
00:16:07.86\00:16:10.57
WHENEVER YOU COME BY HERE, THIS
IS YOUR PLACE.' YOU KNOW, IT WAS
00:16:10.57\00:16:14.74
KIND OF NICE, WHEN I WAS
FIRST PASTORING IN COVELO, I DID
00:16:14.74\00:16:19.77
SEVERAL MEETINGS
IN THE UKIAH CHURCH.
00:16:19.77\00:16:22.04
HAVE ANY OF YOU BEEN TO THE
CHURCH IN UKIAH, CALIFORNIA?
00:16:22.04\00:16:25.58
ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE
CHURCH THEY'VE GOT A CARETAKER'S
00:16:25.58\00:16:27.38
HOME AND IN THE CARETAKER'S
HOME, THEY HAVE A GUEST HOME FOR
00:16:27.38\00:16:31.29
WHENEVER THEY HAVE A GUEST
SPEAKER. AND IT WAS SO NICE
00:16:31.29\00:16:34.12
BECAUSE, ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS,
I GOT TO STAY AT THAT HOUSE.
00:16:34.12\00:16:37.73
AND I KNEW THE FAMILY THERE
AND WHENEVER I NEEDED A PLACE TO
00:16:37.73\00:16:40.36
STAY THEY SAID, 'THIS IS YOUR
PLACE.' AND BECAUSE IT WAS ABOUT
00:16:40.36\00:16:43.60
70 MILES FROM COVELO, IT WAS
KIND OF NICE TO HAVE - JUST A
00:16:43.60\00:16:47.17
LITTLE ROOM FOR THE
PROPHET THAT WAS THERE.
00:16:47.17\00:16:49.37
(LAUGHTER) I'M SAYING THAT
TONGUE-IN-CHEEK, OF COURSE.
00:16:49.37\00:16:53.01
SO THEY SAID THEY WANT YOU TO BE
COMFORTABLE HERE - 'MI CASA, SU
00:16:53.01\00:16:58.05
CASA.' NOW THEY HAD TO SAY THAT
THROUGH GEHAZI - AND SO HE'S
00:16:58.05\00:17:04.42
JUST OVERWHELMED BY THEIR
KINDNESS AND HE SAYS TO GEHAZI,
00:17:04.42\00:17:08.62
HE SAYS, 'LOOK, THEY'RE CARING
FOR US WITH ALL THIS CARE.
00:17:08.62\00:17:12.26
THIS JUST - THIS IS TOO MUCH.
THEY'VE GONE THE SECOND MILE.
00:17:12.26\00:17:15.83
THAT IS SO KIND. IT'S
NOT JUST THAT THEY FEED
00:17:15.83\00:17:17.70
US' - THEY WERE FEEDING THEM
WHENEVER THEY TRAVELED BY - 'NOW
00:17:17.70\00:17:20.07
THEY'RE NOT ONLY GIVING US FOOD,
THEY'VE MADE A ROOM FOR US - OUR
00:17:20.07\00:17:23.74
OWN PLACE.' NOW ELISHA
WAS A PROPHET THAT, YOU
00:17:23.74\00:17:28.51
KNOW, HE KNEW HARDSHIP. HE
TRAVELED AROUND WITH ELIJAH
00:17:28.51\00:17:31.68
AND ELIJAH, SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW,
HE STAYED OUT WITH THE BIRDS
00:17:31.68\00:17:34.48
IN CAVES AND MOUNTAINTOPS.
IT DOESN'T SAY THAT HE HAD
00:17:34.48\00:17:39.92
ANYTHING REAL FANCY SO IT'S NICE
TO GET AN UPGRADE LIKE THAT AND
00:17:39.92\00:17:46.59
THIS IS NOT EVEN
COMING FROM HIS OWN PEOPLE.
00:17:46.59\00:17:49.46
SO HE CALLS GEHAZI AND
HE SAYS, 'WHAT CAN BE DONE?'
00:17:49.46\00:17:53.07
YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK IN YOUR
BIBLE HERE - I'M IN CHAPTER 4 -
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AND IT SAYS, "WHEN HE CAME"
- VERSE 11 - "...ONE DAY...HE
00:17:58.34\00:18:03.55
TURNED IN TO THE UPPER
ROOM AND LAY DOWN THERE."
00:18:03.55\00:18:06.38
IN THE MORNING HE SAYS TO
"...GEHAZI, HIS SERVANT, 'CALL
00:18:06.38\00:18:09.35
THIS SHUNAMMITE WOMAN.'" BECAUSE
HE KNEW THAT SHE WAS BEHIND IT.
00:18:09.35\00:18:13.29
SHE WAS THE HOST - "WHEN HE
HAD CALLED HER, SHE STOOD BEFORE
00:18:13.29\00:18:16.39
HIM. AND HE SAID
TO HIM," - ELISHA
00:18:16.39\00:18:20.23
SAYS TO GEHAZI BECAUSE HE'S
SPEAKING THROUGH HIM - "'SAY NOW
00:18:20.23\00:18:23.26
TO HER, 'LOOK, YOU
HAVE BEEN CONCERNED FOR US
00:18:23.26\00:18:25.97
WITH ALL THIS CARE.
WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?
00:18:25.97\00:18:29.44
DO YOU WANT ME TO SPEAK ON YOUR
BEHALF TO THE KING OR TO THE
00:18:29.44\00:18:32.04
COMMANDER OF THE
ARMY?''" - THE GENERAL?
00:18:32.04\00:18:34.14
- NOW YOU REALIZE THAT ELISHA
HAD A LOT OF CLOUT WITH THE
00:18:34.14\00:18:36.48
KINGDOM. WHEN
ELISHA GOT OLD AND HE WAS
00:18:36.48\00:18:39.85
DYING, THE KING CAME TO SEE HIM.
HE HAD A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP.
00:18:39.85\00:18:43.39
ONE TIME ELISHA MANAGED
TO SINGLE-HANDEDLY CAPTURE AN
00:18:43.39\00:18:48.39
ENTIRE ARMY. HAVE
YOU READ THAT STORY?
00:18:48.39\00:18:51.46
THE GENERAL THOUGHT, 'I
CAN'T DO WHAT ELISHA DOES.
00:18:51.46\00:18:55.90
ELISHA SAYS A PRAYER, THE WHOLE
ENEMY ARMY IS STRUCK BLIND AND
00:18:55.90\00:18:58.97
HE LEADS THE WHOLE ENEMY ARMY
INTO THE CITY OF SAMARIA.' AND
00:18:58.97\00:19:02.20
SO ELISHA HAD THE EAR OF
THE KING, HE HAD THE EAR OF THE
00:19:02.20\00:19:05.64
GENERAL, AND HE SAID, 'ARE YOU
BEING BOTHERED BY ANY OF YOUR
00:19:05.64\00:19:09.11
NEIGHBORS OR MAYBE THERE'S SOME
BOUNDARY DISPUTE OR SOMETIMES
00:19:09.11\00:19:14.65
BECAUSE YOU'RE A CANAANITE
AND NOT AN ISRAELITE THEY DON'T
00:19:14.65\00:19:17.09
TREAT YOU RIGHT. IS
THERE SOMEBODY I CAN -
00:19:17.09\00:19:18.95
WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU? I'M NOT
RICH AND - BUT MAYBE I CAN TALK
00:19:18.95\00:19:22.19
TO SOMEONE. I DO HAVE SOME
CONNECTIONS.' AND HE'S SAYING,
00:19:22.19\00:19:25.26
'WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?'
YOU KNOW WHAT HE'S SAYING?
00:19:25.26\00:19:29.00
'YOU HAVE INVITED
ME INTO YOUR HOME.
00:19:29.00\00:19:32.00
I WANT TO ANSWER
YOUR PRAYER. PRAY.
00:19:32.00\00:19:35.50
ASK ME SOMETHING.' NOW, WHEN YOU
INVITE CHRIST INTO YOUR LIFE AND
00:19:35.50\00:19:41.74
YOU SAY, 'LORD, YOU ARE - WE
WANT YOU TO NOT JUST VISIT, WE
00:19:41.74\00:19:44.91
WANT YOU TO DWELL IN OUR HEARTS
- IN OUR HOME.' THE LORD, WILL
00:19:44.91\00:19:50.49
HE DO LESS FOR YOU?
OR DOESN'T GOD SAY, 'ASK.
00:19:50.49\00:19:55.16
UP TILL NOW YOU'VE
ASKED NOTHING IN MY NAME.
00:19:55.16\00:19:56.59
ASK THAT YOUR JOY MIGHT
BE FULL.' AND SO HE'S SAYING,
00:19:56.59\00:19:59.86
THROUGH GEHAZI,
'WHAT DOES SHE WANT?'
00:19:59.86\00:20:02.30
BY THE WAY, THE LORD SOMETIMES
SAYS TO US, THROUGH OTHERS - HE
00:20:02.30\00:20:04.77
SPEAKS TO US THROUGH
OTHERS - 'WHAT DO YOU WANT?
00:20:04.77\00:20:07.17
WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?'
00:20:07.17\00:20:09.14
AND SO SHE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW,
I LIVE AMONG MY OWN PEOPLE.
00:20:09.14\00:20:12.41
WE'VE GOT A BIG YARD AND OUR
RELATIVES LIVE AROUND US.' AND
00:20:12.41\00:20:16.54
SHE SAYS, 'WE'RE OKAY.
WE HAVE NO DISPUTES WITH
00:20:16.54\00:20:18.61
ANY OF OUR NEIGHBORS. THANK YOU.
00:20:18.61\00:20:19.98
THAT'S VERY NICE.'
SHE'S VERY GRACEFUL.
00:20:19.98\00:20:21.78
SHE DOESN'T WANT - SHE SAYS, 'I
DIDN'T GIVE YOU THIS BECAUSE I
00:20:21.78\00:20:23.72
WANTED SOMETHING, I GAVE YOU
THIS BECAUSE YOU'RE A MAN OF GOD
00:20:23.72\00:20:27.12
AND IT JUST MAKES US
FEEL GOOD HAVING YOU AROUND.
00:20:27.12\00:20:30.03
WE KNOW THAT YOU WALK WITH GOD
AND WE LOVE GOD AND WE JUST WANT
00:20:30.03\00:20:32.23
TO BLESS YOU AND YOU DO A LOT OF
THINGS AND YOU SACRIFICE FOR GOD
00:20:32.23\00:20:36.23
SO WE'RE WANTING
TO TAKE CARE OF YOU.'
00:20:36.23\00:20:39.33
AND THEN GEHAZI, HE READS
BETWEEN THE LINES AND THEN GO TO
00:20:39.33\00:20:42.80
VERSE 14, ELISHA SAYS,
'WHAT IS TO BE DONE FOR HER?
00:20:42.80\00:20:46.61
WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING
FOR HER.' AND GEHAZI SAYS,
00:20:46.61\00:20:49.21
'ACTUALLY, SHE HAS NO
SON AND HER HUSBAND IS OLD.
00:20:49.21\00:20:53.82
ELISHA, HAVEN'T YOU NOTICED THAT
THEY'RE GETTING TO BE AN OLDER
00:20:53.82\00:20:57.55
COUPLE? THERE'S NO
CHILDREN.' NOW, THE
00:20:57.55\00:21:01.99
WAY THIS IS WRITTEN IT SAYS,
'NO SON.' AND THAT WORD, IN THE
00:21:01.99\00:21:05.19
ORIGINAL HEBREW
MEANS 'NO MALE OFFSPRING.'
00:21:05.19\00:21:08.63
BUT IT MAY MEAN THAT THEY
HAD JUST NO BOY, WHICH WAS
00:21:08.63\00:21:12.10
VERY IMPORTANT IN THAT CULTURE
BECAUSE THE FAMILY - THEY OFTEN
00:21:12.10\00:21:15.94
HAD BIG FAMILIES AND
USUALLY PLENTY OF BOYS.
00:21:15.94\00:21:18.47
SOME OF YOU REMEMBER IN THE
STORY OF THE EXODUS, THERE WAS A
00:21:18.47\00:21:21.74
NATIONAL CRISIS WHEN THIS ONE
MAN HAD FIVE DAUGHTERS AND NO
00:21:21.74\00:21:24.78
SONS. THEY
WEREN'T SURE WHAT TO DO.
00:21:24.78\00:21:27.38
HOW DO WE PASS
ON THE INHERITANCE?
00:21:27.38\00:21:29.08
DO YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY?
SO IT MAY MEAN THAT, BUT IT
00:21:29.08\00:21:33.25
SOUNDS LIKE, FROM THE
CONTEXT, SHE HAD NO CHILDREN AND
00:21:33.25\00:21:36.93
THERE WOULD BE NO HEIR.
AND HE SAYS, 'CALL HER.' AND SO
00:21:36.93\00:21:41.46
HE CALLS - SHE COMES
AND STANDS IN THE DOOR.
00:21:41.46\00:21:45.43
NOW SHE'S
STANDING IN THE DOORWAY.
00:21:45.43\00:21:48.40
PROMISES ARE OFTEN MADE THERE.
SHE DOESN'T WANT TO INTRUDE.
00:21:48.40\00:21:51.17
AND HE DECLARES TO HER, "'ABOUT
THIS TIME NEXT YEAR YOU SHALL
00:21:51.17\00:21:55.58
EMBRACE A SON.' AND
SHE SAID, 'NO, MY LORD.
00:21:55.58\00:21:59.95
MAN OF GOD, DO NOT
LIE TO YOUR MAIDSERVANT!'"
00:21:59.95\00:22:03.32
NOW WHAT IS SHE
SAYING? SHE DOESN'T BELIEVE IT?
00:22:03.32\00:22:06.19
OR IS SHE SAYING THAT
WOULD BE TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?
00:22:06.19\00:22:08.32
OR 'DON'T TEASE ME LIKE THAT'?
THIS HAD BEEN THE LONGING OF
00:22:08.32\00:22:11.49
HER HEART THAT THEY
MIGHT HAVE CHILDREN.
00:22:11.49\00:22:15.26
SHE NEVER EVEN DREAMED
THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN.
00:22:15.26\00:22:18.57
BUT HE MAKES A PROMISE
TO HER. AND YOU KNOW WHAT
00:22:18.57\00:22:20.60
ELSE HE'S MAKING?
HE'S MAKING A PROPHECY.
00:22:20.60\00:22:23.74
AND SHE SAID, 'DON'T LIE TO YOUR
MAIDSERVANT.' WHAT DOES MARY
00:22:23.74\00:22:28.04
CALL HERSELF WHEN THE ANGEL SAYS
'YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A PROMISED
00:22:28.04\00:22:32.05
SON'? HE SAID, 'BE IT UNTO
YOUR MAIDSERVANT.' SO HERE'S A
00:22:32.05\00:22:38.65
PROPHECY OF A SPECIAL SON THAT'S
GOING TO COME AND YOU'LL FIND
00:22:38.65\00:22:42.02
OUT LATER THIS BOY ENDS
UP BEING A TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:22:42.02\00:22:46.13
'DON'T LIE TO ME.' "BUT THE
WOMAN CONCEIVED," - VERSE 17 -
00:22:46.13\00:22:51.27
DOES GOD KEEP
HIS PROMISE? >>AMEN.
00:22:51.27\00:22:53.30
>>NOW I EXPECT THAT SHE AND HER
HUSBAND COOPERATED, BUT IT SAYS
00:22:53.30\00:22:57.17
THE WOMAN CONCEIVED. I
MEAN, EVEN AFTER GOD TOLD
00:22:57.17\00:22:59.07
ABRAHAM, 'YOU'RE GOING TO END UP
HAVING A SON - NOT WITH HAGAR -
00:22:59.07\00:23:03.95
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE ONE WITH
SARAH.' GOD WORKED A MIRACLE,
00:23:03.95\00:23:07.42
BUT ABRAHAM AND SARAH
COOPERATED WITH THAT MIRACLE.
00:23:07.42\00:23:11.25
"BUT THE WOMAN CONCEIVED, AND
BORE A SON WHEN THE APPOINTED
00:23:11.25\00:23:14.89
TIME HAD COME, OF
WHICH ELISHA HAD TOLD HER."
00:23:14.89\00:23:18.09
SO THIS IS ONE YEAR
LATER, SHE HAS A BOY.
00:23:18.09\00:23:20.96
NOW SHE IS SO THRILLED.
SHE WANTED TO BE A BLESSING.
00:23:20.96\00:23:25.87
BY THE WAY, IF ANY OF YOU
ARE THINKING ABOUT CHILDREN, IT
00:23:25.87\00:23:28.00
DOESN'T MEAN YOU INVITE THE
PASTOR OVER FOR DINNER AND THAT
00:23:28.00\00:23:30.24
EVERYTHING IS GOING TO
BE TAKEN CARE OF. (LAUGHTER)
00:23:30.24\00:23:33.34
THAT COULD BE MISUNDERSTOOD
IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE.
00:23:33.34\00:23:35.38
BUT I'M JUST SAYING THAT THIS
WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST AND THIS IS
00:23:35.38\00:23:38.81
A TYPE OF JESUS
IN THIS PROMISE HERE.
00:23:38.81\00:23:43.28
"AND THE CHILD
GREW." EVERYTHING WAS WELL.
00:23:43.28\00:23:46.02
SHE'S HAPPY. YEARS
WENT BY. ELISHA CONTINUES TO
00:23:46.02\00:23:49.12
GO ON HIS
CIRCUIT. HE'S TEACHING.
00:23:49.12\00:23:51.16
ALL IS WELL. UNTIL ONE DAY.
00:23:51.16\00:23:55.46
YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE GOD
BLESSES YOU AND YOU INVITE THE
00:23:55.46\00:23:57.27
LORD INTO YOUR LIFE, DOESN'T
MEAN YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO HAVE
00:23:57.27\00:23:59.20
CHALLENGES OR
TEMPTATIONS OR TRIALS.
00:23:59.20\00:24:04.81
AND IT SAYS THAT,
"AND THE CHILD GREW.
00:24:04.81\00:24:07.84
NOW IT HAPPENED ONE DAY THAT HE
WENT OUT TO HIS FATHER, TO THE
00:24:07.84\00:24:10.91
REAPERS." HE'S ON HIS
OWN. HE'S RUNNING AROUND.
00:24:10.91\00:24:14.12
HE'S BEEN WEANED.
HE'S BIG ENOUGH WHERE HIS
00:24:14.12\00:24:16.28
FATHER'S OUT IN THE FIELD AND
HE SAYS, 'MAMA, CAN I GO OUT AND
00:24:16.28\00:24:19.25
BE WITH DADDY AND THE REAPERS?'
SHE SAID, 'GO AHEAD.' HE RUNS
00:24:19.25\00:24:21.79
OUT TO THE FIELD AND HE'S MAYBE
PLAYING OR HELPING A LITTLE BIT.
00:24:21.79\00:24:25.16
AND HE SAID TO HIS
FATHER, "MY HEAD, MY HEAD!"
00:24:25.16\00:24:31.37
AND HE GRABS HIS HEAD AND HE
DROPS HIS SHEAF HE'S CARRYING
00:24:31.37\00:24:33.90
AROUND AND - WE DON'T
KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS.
00:24:33.90\00:24:38.14
IT GETS VERY HOT IN THAT PART OF
THE COUNTRY DURING THE HARVEST
00:24:38.14\00:24:41.11
TIME, IT COULD
HAVE BEEN SUN STROKE.
00:24:41.11\00:24:43.95
IT COULD HAVE BEEN SOME
RAPID ONSET OF SOME SORT OF
00:24:43.95\00:24:46.25
MENINGITIS. IT COULD
HAVE BEEN AN ANEURYSM.
00:24:46.25\00:24:49.05
I MEAN, WE COULD SPECULATE ALL
DAY LONG WHAT WAS DOING IT, BUT
00:24:49.05\00:24:51.29
HE WAS OVERCOME WITH A
SUDDEN PAIN IN HIS HEAD.
00:24:51.29\00:24:54.42
THE FATHER, NOT KNOWING WHAT
TO DO, HE MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT,
00:24:54.42\00:24:56.56
'WELL, I DON'T KNOW,
HE GOT STUNG BY A HORNET.
00:24:56.56\00:24:59.19
WHO KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED?'
00:24:59.19\00:25:00.43
AND YOU KNOW WHAT FATHERS
DO WHEN THE KIDS ARE HURT, THEY
00:25:00.43\00:25:02.90
SAY, 'GO SEE MOM.' AND - NOW, IF
HE HAD BROKEN A TOY, DAD WOULD
00:25:02.90\00:25:09.60
SAY, 'I'LL SEE IF I CAN FIX
IT.' BUT WHEN HE'S SICK HE SAID,
00:25:09.60\00:25:11.67
'YOU GO SEE YOUR MOTHER.' AND SO
A SERVANT BRINGS HIM - HELPS HIM
00:25:11.67\00:25:15.18
TO THE MOTHER - AND "WHEN HE HAD
TAKEN HIM AND BROUGHT HIM TO HIS
00:25:15.18\00:25:20.12
MOTHER, HE SAT ON HER KNEES"
- SHE'S ROCKING HIM, TRYING TO
00:25:20.12\00:25:24.02
FIGURE OUT WHAT'S WRONG - MAYBE
FANNING HIS FACE AND MOPPING HIS
00:25:24.02\00:25:28.46
FEVER WITH A WET CLOTH OR
SOMETHING AND HE SITS ON HER
00:25:28.46\00:25:31.96
KNEES "TILL
NOON, AND THEN DIED."
00:25:31.96\00:25:37.07
SHE WATCHES HER SON
DIE. DOES MARY SEE JESUS DIE?
00:25:37.07\00:25:42.60
SHE HAS THIS PROMISED
SON - AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:25:42.60\00:25:45.97
THEY - WHEN MARY BROUGHT JESUS
TO THE TEMPLE, YOU KNOW WHAT
00:25:45.97\00:25:48.64
SIMON SAID TO MARY? HE
SAID, 'A SWORD IS GOING
00:25:48.64\00:25:51.58
TO PIERCE YOUR OWN
SOUL.' YES, YOU'LL HAVE JOY AND
00:25:51.58\00:25:55.35
THERE'LL BE GLADNESS, AND EVEN
THE ANGELS DECLARED PEACE ON
00:25:55.35\00:25:59.35
EARTH, JOY TO THE WORLD, BUT
MARY NOT ONLY HAD THE JOY, IT
00:25:59.35\00:26:03.69
LATER TURNED TO
SADNESS BECAUSE THAT BOY DIED.
00:26:03.69\00:26:07.10
AND HERE SHE'S HOLDING HIM
IN HER ARMS AND SHE HEARS HIM
00:26:07.10\00:26:09.50
BREATHE HIS
LAST. AND THAT HAD TO
00:26:09.50\00:26:12.67
BE HEARTBREAKING. AND HE DIED.
00:26:12.67\00:26:16.57
NOW, IT DOESN'T
SAY HE WAS ASLEEP.
00:26:16.57\00:26:18.41
IT'S VERY CLEAR. I
WANT YOU TO NOTICE.
00:26:18.41\00:26:19.64
HE DIED - IS THE WORD
- VERSE 20 - THAT'S USED.
00:26:19.64\00:26:23.75
"AND SHE WENT UP AND LAID HIM ON
THE BED OF THE MAN OF GOD, SHUT
00:26:23.75\00:26:28.78
THE DOOR UPON
HIM, AND WENT OUT."
00:26:28.78\00:26:31.49
SHE DOESN'T PUT
HIM ON THEIR BED.
00:26:31.49\00:26:33.36
SHE DOESN'T PUT
HIM ON HIS OWN BED.
00:26:33.36\00:26:35.36
SHE BRINGS HIM UP AND PUTS HIM
ON THE BED OF THE MAN OF GOD.
00:26:35.36\00:26:38.26
WHY DOES SHE DO THAT? >>FAITH.
00:26:38.26\00:26:41.66
>>SHE'S SORT OF
CLAIMING A PROMISE.
00:26:41.66\00:26:44.13
SHE'S SAYING, 'LOOK, THIS
HAS BEEN A CHILD OF PROMISE.
00:26:44.13\00:26:47.60
YOU PROMISED ME THIS
SON. YOU DID IT WHEN I WAS IN
00:26:47.60\00:26:50.84
YOUR ROOM IN YOUR DOORWAY.
I'M GOING BACK WHERE I FIRST
00:26:50.84\00:26:54.48
HEARD THAT PROMISE AND I'M GOING
TO REMIND GOD OF WHAT HE'S DONE.
00:26:54.48\00:26:58.21
SHE PUT HIM ON ELISHA'S BED.
SHE'S STILL - DID SHE START TO
00:26:58.21\00:27:01.32
DOUBT THAT
ELISHA WAS A MAN OF GOD?
00:27:01.32\00:27:03.22
NO, SHE JUST DOESN'T UNDERSTAND
WHY THIS HAS HAPPENED.
00:27:03.22\00:27:05.85
SO SHE'S GOT TO GO AND GET AHOLD
OF THE SOURCE OF THE MIRACLE AND
00:27:05.85\00:27:10.39
SHE'S GOING TO
NEED ANOTHER MIRACLE.
00:27:10.39\00:27:12.96
SHE PUTS HIM ON ELISHA'S BED,
SHE SHUTS THE DOOR, AND SHE WENT
00:27:12.96\00:27:17.63
OUT. SHE DOESN'T
TELL HER HUSBAND.
00:27:17.63\00:27:19.67
SHE CALLS HER HUSBAND - VERSE 22
- AND SHE SAYS, "...'SEND ME AND
00:27:19.67\00:27:23.74
ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN AND ONE OF
THE DONKEYS, THAT I MAY RUN TO
00:27:23.74\00:27:27.18
THE MAN OF GOD AND COME BACK.'"
I NEED TO GO ON AN ERRAND.
00:27:27.18\00:27:30.31
THAT'S 14 MILES AWAY.
HE'S UP IN MOUNT CARMEL.
00:27:30.31\00:27:33.78
SHE'S WAY DOWN IN SHUNAM -
SHUNAM IS IN THE FOOT OF MOUNT
00:27:33.78\00:27:37.32
TABOR. IT'S IN NORTHERN ISRAEL.
00:27:37.32\00:27:39.32
IF YOU KNOW YOUR BIBLE MAP, YOU
KNOW WHERE THE TRIBE OF ISSACHAR
00:27:39.32\00:27:42.36
WAS, THE SHUNAMMITES LIVED
WITH THE PEOPLE OF ISSACHAR.
00:27:42.36\00:27:45.49
SO IT'S ABOUT A 14-MILE JOURNEY.
NOW 14 MILES ON A DONKEY - THOSE
00:27:45.49\00:27:49.30
ARE ROUGH MILES -
AND IT TAKES AWHILE.
00:27:49.30\00:27:55.20
AND THE HUSBAND'S GOING,
'I DON'T UNDERSTAND.' HE STILL
00:27:55.20\00:27:56.84
DOESN'T KNOW HOW
SERIOUS THE SON WAS.
00:27:56.84\00:27:58.77
HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
SHE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING TO HIM.
00:27:58.77\00:28:00.68
SHE DOESN'T WANT TO BE
STOPPED. 'WHY ARE YOU GOING
00:28:00.68\00:28:03.78
TO HIM TODAY? IT'S
NEITHER NEW MOON NOR THE
00:28:03.78\00:28:06.48
SABBATH.' I WON'T TAKE A
DETOUR HERE, JUST A LITTLE ONE.
00:28:06.48\00:28:10.75
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT
IMPLIES? HE SAYS, 'WHY WOULD
00:28:10.75\00:28:14.92
YOU GO TO HIM TODAY?
IT'S NOT THE SABBATH.' THAT
00:28:14.92\00:28:18.56
WOULD MEAN, IF IT WAS ANOTHER
DAY OF THE WEEK, IT WOULD HAVE
00:28:18.56\00:28:20.70
BEEN NORMAL FOR THEM
TO GATHER ON THE SABBATH.
00:28:20.70\00:28:24.10
SO WERE THEY STILL KEEPING THE
SABBATH DURING THIS TIME, EVEN
00:28:24.10\00:28:26.50
IN THE NORTHERN
KINGDOM? IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
00:28:26.50\00:28:29.00
AND YOU KNOW WHO SAYS THIS IS
A SHUNAMMITE, NOT AN ISRAELITE.
00:28:29.00\00:28:32.84
SO, FOR THOSE WHO WONDER
'WAS THE SABBATH IMPORTANT STILL
00:28:32.84\00:28:35.58
THROUGH THIS TIME PERIOD?'
THEY WERE KEEPING THE SABBATH.
00:28:35.58\00:28:38.95
SHE SAID, 'IT'S
OKAY. DON'T WORRY.' SHE
00:28:38.95\00:28:40.95
DOESN'T EXPLAIN IT. SHE
SAYS, 'IT IS WELL.' AND YOU
00:28:40.95\00:28:42.82
KNOW WHAT THAT WORD IS - IT IS
WELL? SHE SAYS, 'SHALOM.' SHALOM
00:28:42.82\00:28:47.09
IS SORT OF A UNIVERSAL WORD.
IT'S LIKE WHEN KAREN AND I WENT
00:28:47.09\00:28:49.76
TO FIJI, THEY SAID
'BULA' FOR EVERYTHING.
00:28:49.76\00:28:53.16
BULA WAS HELLO, BULA WAS
GREETINGS, BULA WAS HAPPY, BULA
00:28:53.16\00:28:56.80
WAS GOODBYE. IT WAS
JUST ALL BULA VINAKA - BULA.
00:28:56.80\00:28:59.57
IT'S LIKE IN
HAWAIIAN THEY SAY WHAT?
00:28:59.57\00:29:03.30
>>ALOHA. >>ALOHA.
00:29:03.30\00:29:04.67
YOU CAN SAY ALOHA - HELLO
AND ALOHA - GOODBYE. AND SO SHE
00:29:04.67\00:29:10.35
SAYS, 'SHALOM - PEACE - IT'S
OKAY, DON'T WORRY.' "THEN SHE
00:29:10.35\00:29:14.05
SADDLED A DONKEY, AND SAID
TO HER SERVANT, 'DRIVE, AND GO
00:29:14.05\00:29:18.29
FORWARD; DO NOT SLACKEN THE PACE
FOR ME UNLESS I TELL YOU.'" NOW,
00:29:18.29\00:29:22.26
WHEN SHE SAYS 'DRIVE AND
GO FORWARD', THE WORD THERE IS
00:29:22.26\00:29:26.29
'MAKE HASTE'. NOW HOW
MANY OF YOU HAVE RIDDEN
00:29:26.29\00:29:29.63
A HORSE IN YOUR LIFE? HOW MANY
OF YOU HAVE RIDDEN A DONKEY?
00:29:29.63\00:29:34.90
WILL YOU AGREE THAT RIDING A
DONKEY IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM
00:29:34.90\00:29:38.84
RIDING A HORSE? >>YES.
00:29:38.84\00:29:40.71
>>YOU CAN RIDE A HORSE AND,
I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS ABOUT
00:29:40.71\00:29:42.84
THEIR SIZE OR SOMETHING,
BUT THERE'S A SMOOTHER GAIT OF
00:29:42.84\00:29:45.95
A HORSE WHEN IT'S GALLOPING.
00:29:45.95\00:29:47.55
IF YOU'RE TROTTING IT SHAKES YOU
UP PRETTY GOOD, BUT WHEN A - A
00:29:47.55\00:29:49.95
HORSE HAS GOT A GAIT AND THEY'RE
MOVING ALONG, YOU CAN STAY
00:29:49.95\00:29:53.46
PRETTY SMOOTH ON THEIR
BACK. A DONKEY'S NOT LIKE THAT.
00:29:53.46\00:29:58.56
IF YOU GET ON A DONKEY - A
DONKEY'S SORT OF - YOU DON'T SEE
00:29:58.56\00:30:00.56
A DONKEY GALLOP.
DONKEYS JUST RUN REAL FAST.
00:30:00.56\00:30:05.03
AND YOU EVER SEE SOME
OF THESE POWER RUNNERS?
00:30:05.03\00:30:07.80
KIND OF LOOKS WEIRD
WHEN YOU SEE A POWER RUNNER.
00:30:07.80\00:30:10.14
YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT A PERSON
TO RUN, YOU JUST BREAK INTO A
00:30:10.14\00:30:11.71
RUN, THERE'S
SOMETHING SMOOTH ABOUT IT.
00:30:11.71\00:30:13.48
BUT THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE POWER
WALKING...WELL, A DONKEY SORT OF
00:30:13.48\00:30:16.61
POWER RUNS. AND IF
YOU'RE ON THE BACK OF A
00:30:16.61\00:30:19.21
DONKEY AND HE'S GOING FAST,
HE'S LIKE (LAUGHTER) - REALLY,
00:30:19.21\00:30:23.72
THAT'S WHAT IT'S LIKE. AND
SO SHE SAYS TO THE SERVANT,
00:30:23.72\00:30:29.52
"DO NOT SLACKEN THE PACE FOR ME"
- HE MIGHT BE THINKING, 'YOU'RE
00:30:29.52\00:30:32.99
GETTING BEATEN TO
DEATH.' SHE SAYS, 'I DON'T CARE.
00:30:32.99\00:30:34.66
THIS IS URGENT. GO FAST.
00:30:34.66\00:30:37.23
DO NOT SLOW DOWN UNLESS I TELL
YOU.' "AND SO SHE DEPARTED, AND
00:30:37.23\00:30:41.30
WENT TO THE MAN OF
GOD AT MOUNT CARMEL.
00:30:41.30\00:30:44.44
SO IT WAS, WHEN THE MAN OF GOD
SAW HER AFAR OFF," - DOES GOD
00:30:44.44\00:30:48.81
SEE US AFAR OFF
WHEN WE'RE COMING TO HIM?
00:30:48.81\00:30:50.78
>>YES. >>DID THE FATHER SEE THE
00:30:50.78\00:30:52.91
PRODIGAL SON FROM
AFAR WHEN HE WAS COMING?
00:30:52.91\00:30:56.82
DOES THE LORD SEE US
IF WE DRAW NEAR TO HIM?
00:30:56.82\00:30:59.82
HE SEES US WHEN
WE'RE DRAWING NEAR.
00:30:59.82\00:31:02.66
AND SO, FROM AFAR OFF HE SAYS
TO GEHAZI, "'LOOK, THAT'S THE
00:31:02.66\00:31:06.56
SHUNAMMITE WOMAN!'" - YOU KNOW
WHY HE RECOGNIZED HER AFAR OFF?
00:31:06.56\00:31:09.50
BECAUSE HE USED TO
SEE HER COME FOR SABBATH.
00:31:09.50\00:31:12.37
THAT'S WHY THE MAN - HER
HUSBAND SAID, 'IT'S NOT SABBATH.
00:31:12.37\00:31:14.67
WHY ARE YOU GOING
TO THE MAN OF GOD?'
00:31:14.67\00:31:17.04
SO SHE WAS A WORSHIPER.
IS THAT CLEAR TO EVERYBODY?
00:31:17.04\00:31:20.34
HE RECOGNIZED HER WHEN SHE WAS
COMING, RECOGNIZED HER SERVANT,
00:31:20.34\00:31:23.01
RECOGNIZED HER DONKEY, AND
HE SAID, 'LOOK, THE SHUNAMMITE
00:31:23.01\00:31:25.58
WOMAN! PLEASE RUN
NOW TO MEET HER,'" -
00:31:25.58\00:31:29.35
SO SHE'S DRAWING NEAR, HE RUNS
TO MEET HER. THAT'S THE SAME
00:31:29.35\00:31:33.42
KIND OF STORY THAT YOU
HEAR IN THE PRODIGAL SON.
00:31:33.42\00:31:37.23
WHEN THE PRODIGAL SON IS COMING
HOME, NOT ONLY DOES THE FATHER
00:31:37.23\00:31:40.26
SEE HIM FROM AFAR OFF,
IT SAYS HE RUNS TO MEET HIM.
00:31:40.26\00:31:45.83
AND HE RUNS TO MEET HER AND
HE SAYS, CHECK WITH HER AND ASK
00:31:45.83\00:31:50.57
HER, 'IS IT WELL WITH YOU?
IS IT WELL WITH YOUR HUSBAND?'"
00:31:50.57\00:31:53.71
- IT'S NOT THE SABBATH OR A
NEW MOON, WHAT ARE YOU DOING
00:31:53.71\00:31:55.71
HERE? - "IS IT
WELL WITH THE CHILD?"
00:31:55.71\00:31:57.51
- YOU KNOW WHAT HE'S ASKING?
HE'S SAYING, 'IS IT SHALOM?'
00:31:57.51\00:32:00.55
'IS IT SHALOM?'
AND GEHAZI GETS THERE -
00:32:00.55\00:32:02.85
HE SAYS, 'IS ALL WELL?'
HE'S SAYING, 'IS ALL SHALOM?'
00:32:02.85\00:32:06.96
AND SHE ANSWERS, 'IT IS SHALOM.'
NOW WHY DOES SHE NOT TELL GEHAZI
00:32:06.96\00:32:11.36
THERE'S A PROBLEM?
FOR ONE THING, I THINK SHE
00:32:11.36\00:32:14.76
RECOGNIZED THAT
GEHAZI DIDN'T HAVE THE FAITH.
00:32:14.76\00:32:18.27
YOU READ THE STORY OF GEHAZI
FURTHER ON, YOU'LL KNOW THAT
00:32:18.27\00:32:20.27
TOO. NEXT CHAPTER TELLS YOU THAT
00:32:20.27\00:32:22.87
GEHAZI WAS SERVING
ELISHA WITH ULTERIOR MOTIVES.
00:32:22.87\00:32:28.18
THAT'S IN CHAPTER 5,
IN THE STORY OF NAAMAN.
00:32:28.18\00:32:30.35
SHE THOUGHT, YOU KNOW,
GEHAZI'S NOT THE ONE I WANT.
00:32:30.35\00:32:32.75
I NEED TO GO DIRECTLY TO ELISHA.
I NEED TO GET INTO HIS PRESENCE.
00:32:32.75\00:32:37.12
SHE SAID, 'IT'S FINE.' "NOW WHEN
SHE CAME TO THE MAN OF GOD AT
00:32:37.12\00:32:41.39
THE HILL, SHE CAUGHT HIM BY THE
FEET," - SHE LUNGES FOR HIS FEET
00:32:41.39\00:32:46.93
AND SHE CLINGS TO HIS FEET.
00:32:46.93\00:32:48.76
BUT GEHAZI - HE
THOUGHT, 'WHAT'S GOING ON?'
00:32:48.76\00:32:50.87
HE LIKE - YOU KNOW - HE'S NOT
ONLY THE APPRENTICE FOR ELISHA,
00:32:50.87\00:32:54.07
HE'S SORT OF THE BODY GUARD AND
HE'S WONDERING WHY SHE'S GRABBED
00:32:54.07\00:32:57.54
HIM BY THE FEET. NOW
IF YOU'RE GOING TO HURT
00:32:57.54\00:32:59.41
SOMEONE, YOU USUALLY
DON'T GO FOR THEIR FEET.
00:32:59.41\00:33:01.91
THIS IS AN ACT OF
PLEADING AND WORSHIP.
00:33:01.91\00:33:05.51
AND SHE GETS AHOLD OF HIS
FEET AND SHE HANGS ON TO HIM AND
00:33:05.51\00:33:09.35
GEHAZI IS GOING TO THRUST
HER AWAY, BUT HE SAYS, "LET HER
00:33:09.35\00:33:13.25
ALONE; FOR HER SOUL IS IN
DEEP DISTRESS, AND THE LORD HAS
00:33:13.25\00:33:16.93
HIDDEN IT FROM ME, AND HAS NOT
TOLD ME.' SO SHE SAID," - TO THE
00:33:16.93\00:33:21.10
MAN OF GOD - "'DID I
ASK A SON OF MY LORD?'"
00:33:21.10\00:33:24.13
- 'I DIDN'T PRAY FOR A SON' -
"DID I NOT SAY, 'DO NOT DECEIVE
00:33:24.13\00:33:28.64
ME'?'" - NOW
SHE HASN'T SAID WHAT
00:33:28.64\00:33:31.01
HAPPENED, BUT RIGHT AWAY
ELISHA KNOWS THAT THERE'S BEEN
00:33:31.01\00:33:33.04
SOMETHING TERRIBLE THAT
HAS HAPPENED TO THE BOY.
00:33:33.04\00:33:36.68
ALL HE HAS TO DO IS LOOK AT THE
MOTHER'S FACE AND REALIZE THAT
00:33:36.68\00:33:40.25
SHE'S LOST HER SON.
00:33:40.25\00:33:42.98
AND ELISHA SAYS, 'THE LORD
HAS HIDDEN THIS FROM ME.' AND HE
00:33:42.98\00:33:48.86
SAYS TO GEHAZI, VERSE 29,
"GET YOURSELF READY, AND TAKE MY
00:33:48.86\00:33:53.03
STAFF IN YOUR
HAND, AND BE ON YOUR WAY.
00:33:53.03\00:33:56.50
IF YOU MEET ANYONE, DO NOT GREET
HIM; AND IF ANYONE GREETS YOU,
00:33:56.50\00:34:01.14
DO NOT ANSWER HIM;" - NOW I WANT
YOU TO NOTICE SOME THINGS THAT
00:34:01.14\00:34:03.24
ARE HAPPENING HERE. I'M
RUSHING ALONG WITH THE STORY.
00:34:03.24\00:34:06.91
HE INVITED HER
REQUEST. SHE PRAYS.
00:34:06.91\00:34:09.61
SHE HAS A MIRACLE BIRTH - THIS
IS WHAT MARY DOES - HER SON DIES
00:34:09.61\00:34:15.42
IN THE FIELD. NOW WHO DOES
THIS MIRACLE SON REPRESENT?
00:34:15.42\00:34:19.15
>>JESUS. >>HE'S A TYPE OF JESUS.
00:34:19.15\00:34:21.39
WHAT IS THE FIELD?
CHRIST SAYS, 'THE SOWER IS
00:34:21.39\00:34:25.33
SOWING THE GOOD SEED,
RIGHT? THE FIELD IS THE WORLD.
00:34:25.33\00:34:29.56
JESUS IS OUT
WORKING IN THE FIELD.
00:34:29.56\00:34:32.13
AND WHEN SHE GETS TO ELISHA SHE
GRABS HIM BY THE FEET AND SHE
00:34:32.13\00:34:36.20
CLINGS AND SHE WILL NOT LET GO.
WHAT DOES MARY DO WITH JESUS?
00:34:36.20\00:34:41.48
AT THE RESURRECTION?
SHE LUNGES FOR HIS FEET - TO
00:34:41.48\00:34:44.31
GRAB HIM - TO WORSHIP HIM - AND
HE SAYS, 'DO NOT CLING TO ME FOR
00:34:44.31\00:34:48.55
I HAVE NOT YET ASCENDED TO
MY FATHER.' BUT SOMETIMES YOU'VE
00:34:48.55\00:34:52.35
GOT TO GET AHOLD OF THE
LORD - WHAT DID JACOB DO?
00:34:52.35\00:34:56.83
HE SAID, 'I WILL NOT LET YOU
GO UNLESS YOU BLESS ME.' SO WHEN
00:34:56.83\00:35:00.93
ELISHA SAYS TO GEHAZI,
'LOOK, I WANT YOU TO RUN AHEAD.
00:35:00.93\00:35:04.37
HERE'S WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO.
GO NOW AND TAKE MY STAFF IN YOUR
00:35:04.37\00:35:12.84
HAND' - I'M IN VERSE 29 - "IF
YOU MEET ANYONE" - ALONG THE WAY
00:35:12.84\00:35:16.28
- DO NOT GREET HIM; IF ANYONE
GREETS YOU DO NOT ANSWER HIM,
00:35:16.28\00:35:20.72
BUT LAY MY STAFF ON
THE FACE OF THE CHILD."
00:35:20.72\00:35:24.09
IT'S URGENT. THE BOY HAS
DIED. YOU DON'T WANT TO WAIT TOO
00:35:24.09\00:35:26.69
LONG IF YOU'RE GOING
TO HAVE A RESURRECTION.
00:35:26.69\00:35:29.66
THAT'S WHY IT WAS SUCH A
MIRACLE WHEN LAZARUS WAS RAISED.
00:35:29.66\00:35:32.43
MOST OTHER RESURRECTIONS THAT
JESUS PERFORMED - WASN'T THAT
00:35:32.43\00:35:34.93
LONG AFTER. NOW,
ISN'T IT INTERESTING
00:35:34.93\00:35:39.07
THAT WHEN JESUS SENT OUT
THE DISCIPLES, HE ACTUALLY SAYS
00:35:39.07\00:35:42.80
TO THE DISCIPLES WHEN THEY'RE
PREACHING - LUKE 10, VERSE 3,
00:35:42.80\00:35:47.58
"GO YOUR WAY; BEHOLD, I SEND
YOU OUT AS LAMBS AMONG WOLVES.
00:35:47.58\00:35:51.85
CARRY NEITHER MONEY BAG,
KNAPSACK, NOR SANDALS; AND GREET
00:35:51.85\00:35:55.98
NO ONE ALONG THE ROAD." WHY
DID JESUS SEND THE DISCIPLES
00:35:55.98\00:35:59.19
OUT AND SAY 'GREET
NO ONE ON THE ROAD'?
00:35:59.19\00:36:01.96
WOULDN'T YOU THINK CHRISTIANS
WOULD BE TOLD 'BE FRIENDLY TO
00:36:01.96\00:36:03.76
PEOPLE ON THE ROAD'? WHAT
JESUS IS SAYING IS 'AS YOU
00:36:03.76\00:36:07.23
GO FROM TOWN TO
TOWN, YOU'VE GOT A MISSION.
00:36:07.23\00:36:10.63
DO NOT GET DISTRACTED ALONG THE
WAY WITH IDLE CHATTER, BUT BE
00:36:10.63\00:36:15.37
FOCUSED ON GETTING
TO YOUR NEXT MISSION.
00:36:15.37\00:36:18.51
AND THE DEVIL'S GOING
TO TRY TO DISTRACT YOU.
00:36:18.51\00:36:21.01
HE'S SAYING TO GEHAZI, 'DON'T
LINGER.' WHEN PEOPLE WOULD PASS
00:36:21.01\00:36:24.41
EACH OTHER ON THE ROAD - NOW,
YOU DON'T DO IT IN OUR CULTURE
00:36:24.41\00:36:27.25
BECAUSE YOU DRIVE BY AND YOU
DON'T EVEN GIVE A PERSON A LOOK.
00:36:27.25\00:36:29.98
EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU'LL, YOU
KNOW, WAVE TO ANOTHER DRIVER -
00:36:29.98\00:36:33.32
HOPEFULLY YOU'RE WAVING
TO ANOTHER DRIVER (LAUGHTER).
00:36:33.32\00:36:36.62
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE
COMING AND GOING SO FAST.
00:36:36.62\00:36:38.53
BACK IN A LITTLE MORE RURAL
LIFE, WHEN PEOPLE PASSED EACH
00:36:38.53\00:36:41.90
OTHER, THE POLITE THING WAS
YOU'D STOP AND YOU'D VISIT AND
00:36:41.90\00:36:45.30
THEN YOU'D GO ON YOUR WAY TO THE
MARKET OR ON YOUR WAY BACK TO
00:36:45.30\00:36:48.04
THE RANCH. AND SO
GEHAZI'S SAYING - OR
00:36:48.04\00:36:50.67
ELISHA SAYS TO
GEHAZI, 'DON'T EVEN SLOW DOWN.
00:36:50.67\00:36:54.34
BUT MAKE HASTE AS YOU GO.'
AND GEHAZI WENT AHEAD OF THEM.
00:36:54.34\00:36:59.31
BUT THE MOTHER SAYS, IN VERSE
30, "AS THE LORD LIVES, AND AS
00:36:59.31\00:37:03.45
YOUR SOUL LIVES, I
WILL NOT LEAVE YOU."
00:37:03.45\00:37:06.65
SHE SAID, 'YOU MIGHT BE SENDING
YOUR SERVANT, BUT I'M NOT GOING
00:37:06.65\00:37:09.72
ANYWHERE WITHOUT
YOU. YOU'RE THE ONE THAT
00:37:09.72\00:37:12.26
PROMISED ME THIS CHILD. I
NEED YOU TO COME.' AND SO HE
00:37:12.26\00:37:16.36
TELLS GEHAZI, HE SAYS, 'WELL, DO
WHAT I'VE SAID.' SO GEHAZI RUNS
00:37:16.36\00:37:20.04
OFF AHEAD AND SHE
AND ELISHA FOLLOW AFTER.
00:37:20.04\00:37:24.24
YOU CAN SEE THAT - SHE SAYS,
'I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU.' AND
00:37:24.24\00:37:28.01
IT SAYS, "SO HE
AROSE AND FOLLOWED HER."
00:37:28.01\00:37:30.81
- ELISHA SAID, 'I WILL GO
WITH YOU.' - "NOW GEHAZI WENT ON
00:37:30.81\00:37:34.02
AHEAD OF THEM," - HE'S RUNNING
ON AHEAD - HE'S YOUNGER - AND HE
00:37:34.02\00:37:37.32
COMES TO THE RANCH AND HE GOES
UPSTAIRS IN THE ROOM AND, SURE
00:37:37.32\00:37:40.06
ENOUGH, THERE'S THE BOY ON THE
BED STONE COLD - SILENT - AND
00:37:40.06\00:37:45.16
GEHAZI TAKES THE STAFF AND
HE LAYS IT ON THE FACE OF THE
00:37:45.16\00:37:47.30
CHILD, PULLS IT
OFF, NOTHING HAPPENS.
00:37:47.30\00:37:51.60
MAYBE HE TRIES IT A
SECOND OR A THIRD TIME.
00:37:51.60\00:37:54.24
THERE'S NOTHING. THEREFORE
HE GOES BACK AND NOW HE MEETS
00:37:54.24\00:37:57.04
ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN
EN ROUTE AND HE SAYS, "THE CHILD
00:37:57.04\00:38:01.94
HAS NOT AWAKENED." WHAT DID
THEY - WHAT WORD DID THEY USE TO
00:38:01.94\00:38:05.78
REFER TO DEATH? >>SLEEP.
00:38:05.78\00:38:08.42
>>SEE, EVEN BACK THEN
THEY REFERRED TO IT AS 'SLEEP'.
00:38:08.42\00:38:11.32
NOW WHY - DIDN'T ELISHA TELL
HIM WHAT TO DO WITH THE STAFF?
00:38:11.32\00:38:15.86
WHY DIDN'T IT WORK?
DID JESUS SEND OUT THE
00:38:15.86\00:38:19.13
DISCIPLES TO CAST OUT DEVILS?
DID IT WORK MOST OF THE TIME?
00:38:19.13\00:38:23.33
CAN YOU THINK OF AT
LEAST ONE TIME IT DIDN'T WORK?
00:38:23.33\00:38:25.37
>>YES. >>THEY
SAID TO THE LORD, 'WHY
00:38:25.37\00:38:27.54
COULDN'T WE CAST THE
DEVIL OUT OF THAT BOY?'
00:38:27.54\00:38:30.11
- THAT'S IN MARK CHAPTER 9 -
AND JESUS SAID, 'THIS KIND COMES
00:38:30.11\00:38:33.68
FORTH BY NOTHING
EXCEPT PRAYER AND FASTING.'
00:38:33.68\00:38:37.18
THIS IS A SERIOUS CASE.
NOW, IT DOESN'T EVEN HAPPEN
00:38:37.18\00:38:41.22
FOR ELISHA RIGHT
AWAY. AND SO THIS BECOMES A
00:38:41.22\00:38:44.92
REAL SPIRITUAL BATTLE.
AND ELISHA CAME INTO THE HOUSE
00:38:44.92\00:38:48.36
WHERE THE CHILD WAS - VERSE
32 - "LYING DEAD ON HIS BED.
00:38:48.36\00:38:54.03
HE WENT IN THEREFORE, SHUT THE
DOOR BEHIND THE TWO OF THEM," -
00:38:54.03\00:38:57.30
THE TWO OF THEM BEING HE AND
THE BOY - "AND HE PRAYED TO THE
00:38:57.30\00:39:01.17
LORD. AND HE
WENT UP AND LAY ON THE
00:39:01.17\00:39:04.84
CHILD," - HE PROBABLY COULDN'T
DO IT ALL AT ONCE BECAUSE HE -
00:39:04.84\00:39:07.88
YOU KNOW - HE'S A LOT
BIGGER THAN THIS LITTLE BOY.
00:39:07.88\00:39:11.68
AND IT SAYS HE "PUT HIS MOUTH ON
HIS MOUTH," - AND IN ONE COMMENT
00:39:11.68\00:39:14.42
HERE I READ IT SAID HE MAY HAVE
BREATHED INTO HIM, TRYING TO
00:39:14.42\00:39:17.15
INFLATE HIS LUNGS. THEY
USED TO DO THAT SOMETIMES,
00:39:17.15\00:39:20.29
EVEN IF A PERSON DROWNED BACK
THEN - HE PUT "HIS EYES ON HIS
00:39:20.29\00:39:24.59
EYES, AND HIS HANDS ON HIS
HANDS; AND HE STRETCHED HIMSELF
00:39:24.59\00:39:30.30
OUT ON THE CHILD, AND THE
FLESH OF THE CHILD BECAME WARM."
00:39:30.30\00:39:34.94
IT'S NOT - ISN'T IT INTERESTING
THAT THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN WARMED
00:39:34.94\00:39:40.01
DAVID AND YEARS LATER, NOW
YOU'VE GOT THE PROPHET - THE
00:39:40.01\00:39:43.91
ISRAELITE -
WARMING THE SHUNAMMITE BOY?
00:39:43.91\00:39:46.65
BUT HE'S NOT ALIVE - "HE
RETURNED AND WALKED BACK AND
00:39:46.65\00:39:50.35
FORTH IN THE HOUSE," - HE WENT
BACK DOWNSTAIRS AND HE'S PACING
00:39:50.35\00:39:52.79
BACK AND FORTH. WHAT
DO YOU THINK HE'S DOING?
00:39:52.79\00:39:54.92
>>PRAYING. >>HE'S PRAYING.
00:39:54.92\00:39:56.42
YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE
I THINK HE'S THINKING?
00:39:56.42\00:39:58.29
ELISHA REMEMBERED
WHERE ELIJAH RAISED A BOY.
00:39:58.29\00:40:03.77
GOD PROMISED ELISHA WOULD HAVE
A DOUBLE PORTION OF ELIJAH'S
00:40:03.77\00:40:07.40
SPIRIT. ELIJAH
LIVED WITH A WIDOW WOMAN
00:40:07.40\00:40:10.71
WHO BUILT - WHO PUT HIM IN AN
UPPER ROOM - AND HER SON DIED -
00:40:10.71\00:40:15.98
VERY SIMILAR - AND SHE WAS
NOT AN ISRAELITE, SHE WAS A
00:40:15.98\00:40:18.95
CANAANITE - AND HE HAD TO PRAY
AND STRETCH HIMSELF UPON THE
00:40:18.95\00:40:23.52
CHILD SEVERAL TIMES AND
THEN THERE WAS A RESURRECTION.
00:40:23.52\00:40:26.82
WHEN THE RAIN CAME FOR ELISHA,
DID THE ANSWER COME RIGHT AWAY
00:40:26.82\00:40:29.69
OR DID HE HAVE TO PRAY AND
PRAY? SEVEN TIMES HE PRAYED.
00:40:29.69\00:40:34.93
AND HE WENT UP AND HE STRETCHED
HIMSELF ON THE CHILD AGAIN, LIKE
00:40:34.93\00:40:39.37
ELISHA - LIKE ELIJAH DID - AND
HE'S PRAYING AND HE'S CLAIMING
00:40:39.37\00:40:44.01
THE PROMISES OF GOD. AND
YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE HE'S
00:40:44.01\00:40:46.27
SAYING, 'LORD, YOU INSPIRED
ME TO TELL THIS WOMAN SHE WOULD
00:40:46.27\00:40:49.71
HAVE A CHILD - LIKE
ABRAHAM AND SARAH HAD ISAAC - A
00:40:49.71\00:40:53.08
MIRACLE HAS HAPPENED.
YOU'VE GOT A PLAN FOR THIS
00:40:53.08\00:40:54.95
CHILD AND NOW HE'S
BEEN GONE. RESURRECT HIM.
00:40:54.95\00:40:58.19
WHAT'S GOING TO
HAPPEN TO YOUR NAME?
00:40:58.19\00:40:59.25
THEY'RE GOING TO THINK
YOU FAILED, LORD.' I CAN JUST
00:40:59.25\00:41:01.06
IMAGINE ALL THE THINGS THAT
ELISHA WAS SAYING TO THE LORD.
00:41:01.06\00:41:04.23
BUT HE CONTINUES TO
PRAY. HE INTERCEDES.
00:41:04.23\00:41:08.56
THIS ANSWER DOESN'T COME
EASY. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE
00:41:08.56\00:41:10.70
MOTHER'S DOING
DOWNSTAIRS? SHE'S PRAYING TOO.
00:41:10.70\00:41:14.34
BUT FINALLY, THE CHILD REVIVES
AND THE FIRST THING HE DOES IS
00:41:14.34\00:41:19.34
HE SNEEZES SEVEN TIMES.
00:41:19.34\00:41:22.34
NOW, YOU MIGHT SEE SOMEBODY
TWITCH THEIR EYES, YOU SAY, 'DID
00:41:22.34\00:41:24.61
THEY MOVE?'
'WAS THERE A FLINCH?'
00:41:24.61\00:41:29.05
BUT WHEN SOMEONE SNEEZES -
YOU EVER TRIED TO HIDE A SNEEZE?
00:41:29.05\00:41:31.35
(LAUGHTER) A SNEEZE IS
SOMETHING THAT'S FULL OF LIFE.
00:41:31.35\00:41:35.29
IT'S SOMETHING
THAT IS VERY AGGRESSIVE.
00:41:35.29\00:41:38.06
IT'S VERY ANIMATED. AND
WHEN SOMEONE SNEEZES SEVEN
00:41:38.06\00:41:40.93
TIMES, IT MEANS, 'WOW, I
GUESS THEY'RE REALLY ALIVE!'
00:41:40.93\00:41:44.87
AND IT'S - ANOTHER THING THAT'S
HAPPENING IS WHEN YOU SNEEZE YOU
00:41:44.87\00:41:49.30
BREATHE DEEPLY AND YOU
KIND OF CLEAR YOURSELF OUT.
00:41:49.30\00:41:54.58
WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE
PROBLEM WAS THAT CAUSED THIS
00:41:54.58\00:41:57.08
DEATH, BUT
SEVEN'S ANOTHER NUMBER.
00:41:57.08\00:42:00.65
IT SYMBOLIZES THAT HE IS
VERY ALIVE. HE'S EXPELLING -
00:42:00.65\00:42:05.72
JESUS CAST SEVEN
DEVILS OUT OF MARY MAGDALENE.
00:42:05.72\00:42:09.59
DO YOU KNOW WHY THEY SAY
'GESUNDHEIT' WHEN YOU SNEEZE?
00:42:09.59\00:42:12.53
BECAUSE THERE WAS A BELIEF THAT
YOU HAD SOME GERM OR SOMETHING
00:42:12.53\00:42:15.63
IN YOU AND YOUR
SNEEZING CLEARS IT OUT.
00:42:15.63\00:42:19.57
THERE'S AN
ELEMENT OF TRUTH TO THAT.
00:42:19.57\00:42:22.14
SNEEZING IS SUPPOSED TO EXPEL
THINGS THAT ARE NOT HEALTHY FOR
00:42:22.14\00:42:25.61
YOUR SINUSES - WHETHER IT
BE POLLEN OR GERMS OR WHATEVER.
00:42:25.61\00:42:29.04
SO HIS SNEEZING SEVEN TIMES IS A
SIGN OF THE EVIL BEING SENT OUT
00:42:29.04\00:42:33.75
AND HE'S HEALED. HE'S CLEANSED.
00:42:33.75\00:42:36.15
AND HE OPENS HIS EYES AND
HE CALLED GEHAZI AND HE SAYS TO
00:42:36.15\00:42:41.16
HIM, 'GO CALL
THIS SHUNAMMITE WOMAN.'
00:42:41.16\00:42:44.59
SO HE CALLED HER,
AND SHE CAME IN TO HIM.
00:42:44.59\00:42:47.50
HE SAID, 'PICK UP YOUR SON.
LAST TIME YOU SET HIM ON MY BED.
00:42:47.50\00:42:51.37
HE WAS DEAD. NOW HE'S ALIVE.
00:42:51.37\00:42:54.37
RECEIVE YOUR SON.' AND SHE
WENT IN AND WHAT DOES SHE DO?
00:42:54.37\00:42:58.01
BEFORE SHE PICKS UP HER SON?
SHE FALLS AT HIS FEET AGAIN AND
00:42:58.01\00:43:01.68
BOWS TO THE GROUND AND
THEN SHE PICKED UP HER SON.
00:43:01.68\00:43:04.91
SHE WORSHIPS HIM, SHE PICKS
UP HER SON, AND SHE WENT OUT.
00:43:04.91\00:43:09.78
NOW THAT'S THE STORY.
THIS IS A WONDERFUL STORY THAT
00:43:09.78\00:43:13.46
HELPS ILLUSTRATE THE
PROMISES OF GOD IN THE BIBLE.
00:43:13.46\00:43:19.36
YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT THE LAST
TIME THE SHUNAMMITE APPEARS IN
00:43:19.36\00:43:22.86
THE BIBLE ACCOUNT. A
FEW YEARS LATER, ELISHA THE
00:43:22.86\00:43:27.97
PROPHET COMES TO THE SHUNAMMITE
WOMAN AND YOU READ IN 2 KINGS 8
00:43:27.97\00:43:32.47
- YOU HAVE TO JUMP
AHEAD A FEW CHAPTERS.
00:43:32.47\00:43:34.58
THIS IS THE SAME ONE - YOU KNOW
WHAT'S AMAZING ABOUT THIS WOMAN?
00:43:34.58\00:43:36.81
WHAT'S HER NAME?
IT'S NEVER GIVEN.
00:43:36.81\00:43:41.12
IT JUST CALLS HER
'THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN'.
00:43:41.12\00:43:43.72
PEOPLE WERE OFTEN NAMED BY THEIR
PLACES - LIKE JESUS WAS CALLED
00:43:43.72\00:43:46.79
'JESUS OF
NAZARETH'. AND THIS IS THIS
00:43:46.79\00:43:49.42
WEALTHY WOMAN OF
SHUNAM. DON'T YOU WISH YOU
00:43:49.42\00:43:51.69
KNEW WHAT HER NAME WAS? I
THINK ONE REASON HER NAME'S
00:43:51.69\00:43:53.63
NOT GIVEN IS BECAUSE
SHE REPRESENTS SOMETHING.
00:43:53.63\00:43:56.30
I'LL GET TO THAT
IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:43:56.30\00:43:59.10
ELISHA SPEAKS - 2 KINGS 8, VERSE
1 - "THEN ELISHA SPOKE TO THE
00:43:59.10\00:44:03.81
WOMAN WHOSE SON HE HAD RESTORED
TO LIFE, SAYING, 'ARISE AND GO,
00:44:03.81\00:44:08.51
YOU AND YOUR HOUSEHOLD, AND STAY
WHEREVER YOU CAN; FOR THE LORD
00:44:08.51\00:44:12.28
HAS CALLED FOR A FAMINE, AND
FURTHERMORE, IT WILL COME UPON
00:44:12.28\00:44:16.02
THE LAND FOR SEVEN YEARS.'"
- WAS THERE ANOTHER SEVEN-YEAR
00:44:16.02\00:44:19.12
FAMINE IN THE DAYS OF
JOSEPH? WAS THERE A FAMINE
00:44:19.12\00:44:23.73
IN THE DAYS OF RUTH? AND
NAOMI AND HER HOUSEHOLD WENT
00:44:23.73\00:44:28.93
TO LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE
BECAUSE THERE WAS A FAMINE.
00:44:28.93\00:44:32.20
AND SO HE'S PREPARING HER
IN ADVANCE - 'GO LIVE WHERE YOU
00:44:32.20\00:44:35.20
CAN, BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE A
FAMINE IN NORTHERN ISRAEL.' AND
00:44:35.20\00:44:38.61
YOU WONDER IF THAT WAS ONE OF
THE FAMINES THAT CAME BECAUSE OF
00:44:38.61\00:44:41.34
THE IDOLATRY THAT IS SPOKEN OF.
"SO THE WOMAN AROSE" - WAS THERE
00:44:41.34\00:44:46.38
A DROUGHT DURING
THE TIME OF ELIJAH?
00:44:46.38\00:44:48.88
HOW LONG WAS THE DROUGHT
DURING THE TIME OF ELIJAH?
00:44:48.88\00:44:51.59
>>THREE YEARS.
>>THREE AND A HALF.
00:44:51.59\00:44:53.49
HOW LONG IS THE FAMINE
DURING THE TIME OF ELISHA?
00:44:53.49\00:44:56.69
>>SIX. >>SEVEN,
WHICH IS TWO TIMES
00:44:56.69\00:45:00.13
THREE AND A
HALF. INTERESTING, HUH?
00:45:00.13\00:45:04.43
ELISHA GETS A DOUBLE PORTION.
00:45:04.43\00:45:07.10
ELISHA GETS TWICE AS MUCH FAMINE
- (LAUGHTER) - AS ELIJAH HAD -
00:45:07.10\00:45:13.24
"SO THE WOMAN AROSE AND DID
ACCORDING TO THE SAYING OF THE
00:45:13.24\00:45:15.48
MAN OF GOD, AND SHE WENT WITH
HER HOUSEHOLD AND DWELT IN THE
00:45:15.48\00:45:18.58
LAND OF THE PHILISTINES" - THAT
WAS DOWN - LOWER REGIONS - THEY
00:45:18.58\00:45:21.62
WERE ABLE TO WATER BY HAND
DOWN THERE FOR - "SEVEN YEARS.
00:45:21.62\00:45:25.69
IT CAME TO PASS, AT THE END
OF SEVEN YEARS, THAT THE WOMAN
00:45:25.69\00:45:28.46
RETURNED FROM THE LAND OF
THE PHILISTINES; AND SHE WENT TO
00:45:28.46\00:45:32.33
MAKE AN APPEAL TO THE KING
FOR HER HOUSE AND FOR HER LAND."
00:45:32.33\00:45:34.93
- WHY IS SHE DOING THIS?
BECAUSE WHILE SHE WAS GONE,
00:45:34.93\00:45:39.70
THE OTHER NEIGHBORS
MOVED IN. THEY TOOK OVER.
00:45:39.70\00:45:41.67
THEY SAID, 'OH, SHE'S LEFT
AND SHE'S JUST A CANAANITE.
00:45:41.67\00:45:44.61
SHE'S NOT ONE OF
US.' AND THEY MOVED IN.
00:45:44.61\00:45:47.38
THEY TOOK OVER HER RANCH.
THEY TOOK OVER HER LAND - EVEN
00:45:47.38\00:45:49.58
THOUGH IT WAS HERS AND
IT HAD BEEN FOR GENERATIONS.
00:45:49.58\00:45:51.88
SHE GETS BACK HOME AND THEY'VE
OCCUPIED HER PLACE AND THEY
00:45:51.88\00:45:54.78
SAID, 'LOOK, FINDERS KEEPERS.
POSSESSION IS NINE-TENTHS OF THE
00:45:54.78\00:45:58.12
LAW. YOU WERE GONE.
YOU WERE GONE FOR YEARS.
00:45:58.12\00:46:00.82
WE STUCK THROUGH THE FAMINE.
YOU'RE NOT GETTING YOUR LAND
00:46:00.82\00:46:02.29
BACK.' THE ONLY
ONE THAT CAN HELP HER
00:46:02.29\00:46:04.26
NOW IS THE KING. YOU
REMEMBER, ONCE, ELISHA SAID
00:46:04.26\00:46:07.20
TO HER, 'CAN I SPEAK TO THE KING
FOR YOU?'? SO IT JUST SO HAPPENS
00:46:07.20\00:46:12.30
THAT ON THE VERY DAY THAT THE
KING IS SITTING AS SUPREME COURT
00:46:12.30\00:46:16.40
- THERE WERE JUDGES IN THE LAND
OF ISRAEL THAT WOULD TAKE CARE
00:46:16.40\00:46:19.01
OF THE MINOR CASES, BUT THE
MAJOR CASES WERE BROUGHT TO THE
00:46:19.01\00:46:22.34
KING DIRECTLY AND THE
DIFFERENT CASES WOULD COME.
00:46:22.34\00:46:25.88
AND WHILE THE KING AND THE COURT
AND THE SCRIBES ARE WRITING
00:46:25.88\00:46:28.88
THINGS OUT AND THEY'RE SAYING,
'NEXT CASE.' THEN THEY'D HAVE A
00:46:28.88\00:46:30.92
BREAK AND 'NEXT CASE.' AND IN
THE BREAKS, BETWEEN THE CASES,
00:46:30.92\00:46:33.86
GEHAZI IS VISITING WITH THE
KING OF ISRAEL AND THE KING IS
00:46:33.86\00:46:38.26
SAYING, 'TELL ME, YOU
SAW ELISHA FIRST HAND.
00:46:38.26\00:46:40.73
TELL ME SOME OF THE MIRACLES
THAT YOU'VE SEEN WORKING WITH
00:46:40.73\00:46:43.53
ELISHA.' YOU CAN READ HERE, IT
SAYS "THEN THE KING TALKED WITH
00:46:43.53\00:46:46.57
GEHAZI, THE SERVANT OF THE
MAN OF GOD, SAYING, 'TELL ME,
00:46:46.57\00:46:49.80
PLEASE, ALL THE GREAT
THINGS ELISHA HAS DONE.' NOW IT
00:46:49.80\00:46:53.24
HAPPENED," - HE GETS TO THE
GREATEST THING - HE WAS TELLING
00:46:53.24\00:46:55.81
THE KING HOW HE RESTORED THE
DEAD TO LIFE AND THERE WAS THE
00:46:55.81\00:47:00.65
WOMAN - RIGHT WHEN HE
WAS TELLING HIM ABOUT THIS
00:47:00.65\00:47:02.42
RESURRECTION - 'I SAW
IT WITH - THE BOY WAS DEAD.
00:47:02.42\00:47:04.85
I LAID THE STAFF ON HIS FACE AND
HE DIDN'T COME BACK TO LIFE.'
00:47:04.85\00:47:07.69
AND THEN THE CLERK SAYS, 'YOUR
MAJESTY, NEXT CASE.' HE SAID,
00:47:07.69\00:47:12.59
'OKAY, BRING IT. BRING IT IN.
WHO IS IT?' 'OH IT'S THIS WOMAN.
00:47:12.59\00:47:15.50
SHE'S A CANAANITE WOMAN -
SHUNAMMITE.' 'OH, WHAT DOES SHE
00:47:15.50\00:47:18.67
WANT?' AND
GEHAZI SAYS TO THE KING,
00:47:18.67\00:47:22.30
'YOUR MAJESTY, THAT'S THE WOMAN
AND THAT'S THE BOY THAT WAS DEAD
00:47:22.30\00:47:27.61
AND WAS BROUGHT BACK TO
LIFE AGAIN.' THAT'S ALL THE
00:47:27.61\00:47:30.31
KING NEEDED TO HEAR.
ISN'T GOD'S PROVIDENCE
00:47:30.31\00:47:32.75
INTERESTING? >>YES.
00:47:32.75\00:47:34.85
>>AND HE SAYS, 'THIS IS THE
- THIS IS THE ONE RIGHT HERE -
00:47:34.85\00:47:37.65
THIS IS THE - THE WOMAN WHOSE
SON WAS RESTORED.' AND THERE SHE
00:47:37.65\00:47:42.36
WAS, APPEALING TO THE KING
FOR HER HOUSE AND HER LAND AND
00:47:42.36\00:47:45.73
GEHAZI SAYS, 'THIS IS HER
AND THIS IS HER SON THAT ELISHA
00:47:45.73\00:47:47.96
RESTORED TO LIFE.' AND THEY SAID
- HE BRINGS THEM IN AND SAYS,
00:47:47.96\00:47:50.17
'TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED.'
AND SHE, THROUGH GEHAZI
00:47:50.17\00:47:51.70
TRANSLATING, SAYS, 'IT'S TRUE.
00:47:51.70\00:47:53.77
HE WAS COMPLETELY DEAD
AND ELISHA BROUGHT HIM BACK TO
00:47:53.77\00:47:56.87
LIFE.' AND WHEN THE KING
ASKED THE WOMAN, SHE TOLD HIM.
00:47:56.87\00:48:02.04
SO THE KING APPOINTED A CERTAIN
OFFICER AND HE SAID, 'YOU FOLLOW
00:48:02.04\00:48:05.21
THIS WOMAN. TAKE
SOME SOLDIERS WITH YOU.
00:48:05.21\00:48:06.85
YOU GO BACK TO HER TERRITORY AND
YOU TELL HER NEIGHBORS, 'THUS
00:48:06.85\00:48:09.12
SAYS THE KING: EVERYTHING THAT
WAS HERS THAT SHE LOST WILL BE
00:48:09.12\00:48:14.32
RESTORED.'' AND NOT ONLY DID SHE
GET ALL HER LAND BACK, THE KING
00:48:14.32\00:48:19.96
WENT EVEN FURTHER AND HE
SAID, 'AND, ANY INCOME FROM THE
00:48:19.96\00:48:24.80
PRODUCE ON THAT LAND DURING
THE SEVEN YEARS SHE WAS GONE,
00:48:24.80\00:48:28.87
THEY'LL RESTORE THAT
TOO. SO SHE DIDN'T LOSE
00:48:28.87\00:48:33.68
ANYTHING BY BEING
GONE. NOW THIS WOMAN HAD A
00:48:33.68\00:48:37.65
SON THAT WAS GIVEN
WHY? SHE MADE A PLACE IN
00:48:37.65\00:48:41.15
HER HOME FOR GOD.
BECAUSE SHE INVITED THE LORD -
00:48:41.15\00:48:46.45
AND IN INVITING ELISHA - JESUS
SAID, 'WHEN PEOPLE DO IT TO YOU
00:48:46.45\00:48:49.22
THEY DO IT TO ME.' HERE'S THE
POINT OF EVERYTHING I'VE SAID.
00:48:49.22\00:48:53.56
SO IF YOU MISSED EVERYTHING
ELSE, JUST CATCH THIS: IN
00:48:53.56\00:48:56.70
INVITING ELISHA INTO HER HOME,
SHE WAS INVITING THE LORD INTO
00:48:56.70\00:49:01.54
THEIR LIVES. IN DOING THAT SHE
00:49:01.54\00:49:04.37
RECEIVED GREAT BLESSINGS.
WHAT SHE AND HER HUSBAND WANTED
00:49:04.37\00:49:06.94
MORE THAN ANYTHING WAS A
SON. SHE GOT A SON OF PROMISE -
00:49:06.94\00:49:11.21
A MIRACLE SON. WHAT
DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT
00:49:11.21\00:49:13.05
IN BIBLE PROPHECY? >>CHURCH.
00:49:13.05\00:49:15.82
>>CHRIST NEEDS TO BE IN OUR
HOME - IN OUR CHURCH FIRST AND
00:49:15.82\00:49:20.32
FOREMOST - AND
ALSO IN YOUR HOMES.
00:49:20.32\00:49:22.42
SO SHE INVITES HIM IN, HAS A
MIRACLE BOY - BUT THEN THERE'S A
00:49:22.42\00:49:28.23
TRIAL THAT COMES.
THE BOY IS TAKEN AWAY.
00:49:28.23\00:49:32.00
SHE GOES BACK TO THE MAN OF GOD,
PRAYS AGAIN, HE IS RESTORED AND
00:49:32.00\00:49:36.77
HE CONTINUES TO GROW UP.
00:49:36.77\00:49:38.77
HER LAND, THROUGH THE MAN
OF GOD, BECAUSE SHE HAS THIS
00:49:38.77\00:49:41.64
RELATIONSHIP - ELISHA DOESN'T
TELL HIS OWN PEOPLE 'THERE'S
00:49:41.64\00:49:44.45
GOING TO BE A FAMINE, YOU NEED
TO RUN FOR COVER.' BUT HE TELLS
00:49:44.45\00:49:47.15
THIS WOMAN. WHY DOES HE TELL
THIS WOMAN? BECAUSE THEY HAVE A
00:49:47.15\00:49:51.89
RELATIONSHIP. SHE
REPRESENTS THE CHURCH.
00:49:51.89\00:49:54.06
DOES GOD GIVE US PROPHECY IN HIS
WORD? DOES THE LORD SPEAK TO US
00:49:54.06\00:49:57.59
IN A WAY HE DOESN'T
SPEAK TO EVERYONE ELSE?
00:49:57.59\00:49:59.89
DO WE KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT
WHAT'S COMING OTHER PEOPLE DON'T
00:49:59.89\00:50:01.86
KNOW? WHY? BECAUSE
WE'VE OPENED OUR DOOR
00:50:01.86\00:50:04.63
AND SAID, 'LORD,
THIS IS YOUR HOUSE.
00:50:04.63\00:50:06.37
WE WANT YOU IN OUR HOUSE.' WILL
HE DO THAT FOR YOU PERSONALLY?
00:50:06.37\00:50:10.34
>>YES. >>AND
SHE LOSES EVERYTHING
00:50:10.34\00:50:12.41
DURING THIS FAMINE BUT SHE GOES
BACK TO THE MAN OF GOD AND SHE
00:50:12.41\00:50:15.68
PRAYS AND IT'S
ALL RESTORED AGAIN.
00:50:15.68\00:50:18.51
BECAUSE OF HER RELATIONSHIP
WITH ELISHA, THE KING GIVES
00:50:18.51\00:50:20.95
EVERYTHING BACK.
WITH THE PROCEEDS.
00:50:20.95\00:50:24.29
THIS IS A STORY
OF GREAT RESTORATION.
00:50:24.29\00:50:27.76
IT HAS TO DO WITH OUR
INVITING GOD INTO OUR LIVES.
00:50:27.76\00:50:30.79
WHAT THAT WOMAN DID WITH ELISHA
THE LORD WANTS US TO DO WITH
00:50:30.79\00:50:33.13
JESUS. NOW, ONE MORE
THING I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU.
00:50:33.13\00:50:37.30
THERE ARE SEVEN EXAMPLES IN THE
BIBLE - IT'S INTERESTING, SEVEN
00:50:37.30\00:50:39.93
YEARS OF FAMINE, SEVEN SNEEZES
- THERE ARE SEVEN MIRACLE BABIES
00:50:39.93\00:50:42.77
IN THE BIBLE. YOU MAY
HAVE HEARD ME SAY THIS
00:50:42.77\00:50:45.17
BEFORE, BUT THIS IS ONE OF THE
STORIES SO IT BEARS REPEATING,
00:50:45.17\00:50:48.31
ESPECIALLY DURING
THIS TIME OF YEAR.
00:50:48.31\00:50:51.71
SEVEN WOMEN IN THE BIBLE WERE
BARREN - THAT HAD BABIES - THEY
00:50:51.71\00:50:55.32
ALL HAD BABY BOYS, WHICH IS
UNUSUAL - THAT ARE ALL TYPES OF
00:50:55.32\00:50:59.49
CHRISTS. SARAH HAS WHO? >>ISAAC.
00:50:59.49\00:51:04.86
>>ISAAC. IS
ISAAC A TYPE OF CHRIST?
00:51:04.86\00:51:07.46
>>YES. >>GOES UP TO THE PLACE OF
00:51:07.46\00:51:09.43
SACRIFICE WITH
THE WOOD ON HIS BACK.
00:51:09.43\00:51:11.30
HE'S A WILLING
SACRIFICE LIKE JESUS.
00:51:11.30\00:51:13.67
ISAAC'S A TYPE OF
CHRIST. REBEKKAH IS BARREN.
00:51:13.67\00:51:17.24
ISAAC PRAYS FOR HER.
SHE HAS TWINS. THEIR NAMES?
00:51:17.24\00:51:21.78
>>JACOB AND
ESAU. >>JACOB AND ESAU.
00:51:21.78\00:51:23.88
JACOB WAS THE ONE WHO
RECEIVES THE SPIRITUAL BLESSING.
00:51:23.88\00:51:26.21
HE'S A TYPE OF CHRIST. HE'S
THE FATHER OF THE PATRIARCHS.
00:51:26.21\00:51:28.82
HE HAS TWELVE PATRIARCHS.
JESUS HAS TWELVE DISCIPLES.
00:51:28.82\00:51:32.65
HE'S A SHEPHERD - AND THERE'S
MANY WAYS THAT JACOB IS A
00:51:32.65\00:51:34.89
PARALLEL OF
CHRIST. HE INTERCEDES.
00:51:34.89\00:51:37.63
HE WRESTLES WITH
GOD. RACHEL IS BARREN.
00:51:37.63\00:51:41.03
SHE GETS AHOLD OF JACOB AND
SAYS, 'GIVE ME CHILDREN E'RE I
00:51:41.03\00:51:43.67
DIE.' HE SAYS, 'AM I THE
LORD?' SHE WAS HAVING PROBLEMS.
00:51:43.67\00:51:47.47
BUT THROUGH
PRAYER, SHE HAS A SON.
00:51:47.47\00:51:50.01
WHAT'S HIS NAME?
FIRST BORN? >>JOSEPH.
00:51:50.01\00:51:51.81
>>JOSEPH - HER
FIRSTBORN - JOSEPH.
00:51:51.81\00:51:54.18
WAS JOSEPH A TYPE OF CHRIST?
SOLD BY HIS OWN BROTHERS FOR
00:51:54.18\00:51:58.05
SILVER, BUT HE FORGIVES
THEM. FEEDS THE WHOLE WORLD.
00:51:58.05\00:52:02.32
I MEAN, WONDERFUL ANALOGIES
OF JOSEPH AND JESUS. THE ROBE OF
00:52:02.32\00:52:06.35
JOSEPH IS COVERED WITH BLOOD
AND PRESENTED TO THE FATHER.
00:52:06.35\00:52:10.33
THERE'S A WOMAN - WE DON'T KNOW
HER NAME - MANOAH'S WIFE - WE
00:52:10.33\00:52:13.63
KNOW HIS NAME - SHE'S
BARREN - HAS A MIRACLE SON.
00:52:13.63\00:52:17.73
WHAT'S HIS NAME? >>SAMSON.
00:52:17.73\00:52:19.23
>>SAMSON. IS HE
A TYPE OF CHRIST?
00:52:19.23\00:52:21.40
I KNOW HE DID A LOT OF THINGS
WRONG, BUT HE KILLS THE LION
00:52:21.40\00:52:23.74
LIKE DAVID AND HE
SACRIFICES HIS LIFE AT THE END.
00:52:23.74\00:52:30.25
SAMSON WAS BLINDED
AS JESUS WAS BLINDED.
00:52:30.25\00:52:34.18
HE WAS BOUND AS JESUS WAS BOUND.
00:52:34.18\00:52:36.18
HE WAS IMPRISONED AS
JESUS WAS IMPRISONED.
00:52:36.18\00:52:38.69
AND THEN HE STRETCHES OUT
HIS ARMS, HE'S FILLED WITH THE
00:52:38.69\00:52:41.42
SPIRIT AND HE DEFEATS
GOD'S ENEMIES THROUGH HIS DEATH.
00:52:41.42\00:52:45.96
THIS IS WHAT JESUS DID, SO
SAMSON IS A TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:52:45.96\00:52:49.60
DO YOU SEE THAT?
HANNAH - >>SAMUEL.
00:52:49.60\00:52:54.04
>>HAS A SON NAMED SAMUEL.
IS SAMUEL A TYPE OF CHRIST?
00:52:54.04\00:52:57.41
HE'S A PROPHET. HE'S A PRIEST.
00:52:57.41\00:53:00.14
HE'S A JUDGE IN
ISRAEL - LIVES A GODLY LIFE.
00:53:00.14\00:53:02.71
YOU WON'T FIND A
RECORD OF SAMUEL FAILING.
00:53:02.71\00:53:05.41
THE ONLY THING SAMUEL EVER DOES
WRONG IS HE THINKS THAT ELIAB IS
00:53:05.41\00:53:08.35
SUPPOSED TO BE THE KING AND GOD
SAYS DON'T LOOK ON THE OUTSIDE.
00:53:08.35\00:53:10.89
IT'S NOT HIM, IT'S THE YOUNGEST.
IT'S DAVID.' BUT EVERYTHING
00:53:10.89\00:53:13.52
ELSE, SAMUEL IS ALWAYS
FAITHFUL. HE LISTENS TO GOD.
00:53:13.52\00:53:16.39
AND THEN YOU KNOW
WHO YOU HAVE NEXT?
00:53:16.39\00:53:18.86
THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN.
HER SON - THAT WE JUST READ
00:53:18.86\00:53:21.90
ABOUT - DIES IN THE
FIELD WORKING WITH HIS
00:53:21.90\00:53:24.87
FATHER IN A HARVEST.
DIDN'T JESUS SAY THAT HE'S
00:53:24.87\00:53:28.60
COME TO HELP WITH THE HARVEST?
AND THEN, FINALLY, YOU HAVE IN
00:53:28.60\00:53:32.47
THE NEW TESTAMENT, ANOTHER
OLD FATHER AND A MOTHER THAT ARE
00:53:32.47\00:53:37.15
CHILDLESS THAT HAVE A
MIRACLE BOY. WHAT'S HIS NAME?
00:53:37.15\00:53:41.05
JOHN THE BAPTIST - WHO
IS THE FORERUNNER OF JESUS.
00:53:41.05\00:53:45.25
THESE ARE ALL TYPES OF CHRIST.
AND IN EACH CASE, IT TALKS ABOUT
00:53:45.25\00:53:49.86
THEM INVITING
GOD INTO THEIR HOMES.
00:53:49.86\00:53:52.73
AND THAT'S WHAT
THIS STORY IS ABOUT.
00:53:52.73\00:53:54.00
THIS WOMAN MADE A PLACE FOR GOD
IN THE HOME - TO STAY AS A GUEST
00:53:54.00\00:53:57.70
- AND THEN HE BLESSES
WITH THE GREATEST BLESSINGS.
00:53:57.70\00:54:01.00
ALL IS RESTORED. THERE'S A
RESURRECTION THAT TAKES PLACE.
00:54:01.00\00:54:04.11
THE POWER OF GOD IS SEEN
AND THIS IS REALLY A STORY ABOUT
00:54:04.11\00:54:07.58
JESUS. DO YOU SEE THAT?
00:54:07.58\00:54:08.98
>>AMEN. >>I SEE THIS.
00:54:08.98\00:54:10.05
THIS IS A WONDERFUL,
WONDERFUL STORY IN THE BIBLE.
00:54:10.05\00:54:12.61
NOW, THE QUESTION IS, IS
OUR CHURCH OPEN TO CHRIST?
00:54:12.61\00:54:20.56
YOU KNOW, WHEN THIS WOMAN, WHO
IS A TYPE OF THE CHURCH - THIS
00:54:20.56\00:54:24.36
SHUNAMMITE WOMAN, SHE BECAME A
WITNESS TO ALL OF HER NEIGHBORS.
00:54:24.36\00:54:29.56
CHRIST WAS BORN IN HER HOME -
OR THIS BABY MIRACLE BIRTH TAKES
00:54:29.56\00:54:33.37
PLACE IN HER HOME AND THEN
THERE'S A RESURRECTION THAT
00:54:33.37\00:54:35.67
TAKES PLACE - JESUS WAS
BORN TWICE MIRACULOUSLY.
00:54:35.67\00:54:40.38
HIS FIRST BIRTH WAS A MIRACLE
- HIS RESURRECTION - HIS SECOND
00:54:40.38\00:54:44.11
BIRTH - WAS A
MIRACLE. THIS CHILD HAS
00:54:44.11\00:54:46.48
BOTH THOSE BIRTHS.
ALL OF THIS HAS TO HAPPEN
00:54:46.48\00:54:49.55
BECAUSE SHE
INVITES HIM INTO HER HOME.
00:54:49.55\00:54:53.72
ARE WE INVITING
CHRIST INTO OUR CHURCH?
00:54:53.72\00:54:56.69
HE WILL DO THINGS FOR US AND
BLESS US IN WAYS UNLIKE OTHERS
00:54:56.69\00:55:00.13
BECAUSE WE HAVE
THAT RELATIONSHIP.
00:55:00.13\00:55:01.80
AND ARE WE
INVITING HIM INTO OUR HOMES?
00:55:01.80\00:55:03.87
I THINK WE ALL KNOW
ABOUT COMMON HOSPITALITY.
00:55:03.87\00:55:06.13
THIS GOES BEYOND THAT - HAVING
AN ONGOING RELATIONSHIP WHERE
00:55:06.13\00:55:09.14
YOU'RE IN COMMUNICATION
WITH JESUS EVERY DAY.
00:55:09.14\00:55:11.87
DO YOU WANT THAT
RELATIONSHIP? I DO TOO. (MUSIC)
00:55:11.87\00:55:26.09
>>TODAY'S SMART PHONES
ARE A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE OF
00:55:26.09\00:55:28.36
INFORMATION THAT FITS
IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
00:55:28.36\00:55:31.06
IT'S A GOOD THING WE
HAVE OPPOSABLE THUMBS!
00:55:31.06\00:55:33.19
WITH IT YOU CAN BUY YOUR
GROCERIES, TAKE CARE OF YOUR
00:55:33.19\00:55:36.70
EXERCISE REGIME, WATCH A VIDEO,
LISTEN TO MUSIC, YOU CAN SURF
00:55:36.70\00:55:41.00
THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD-WIDE
WEB, WHICH MAY NOT ALWAYS BE A
00:55:41.00\00:55:44.74
GOOD THING. AND,
YOU KNOW, THERE IS MORE
00:55:44.74\00:55:46.81
COMPUTER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
AND POWER IN A LITTLE SMART
00:55:46.81\00:55:50.31
PHONE TODAY THAN WAS USED BY
NASA TO PUT A MAN ON THE MOON.
00:55:50.31\00:55:54.72
AND I ALMOST FORGOT, YOU CAN
ALSO USE THESE TO MAKE A PHONE
00:55:54.72\00:55:57.35
CALL, BUT WHO DOES THAT
ANYMORE? TODAY COMMUNICATION IS
00:55:57.35\00:56:00.76
NOT IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
IT'S ALL ABOUT SHORT MESSAGE
00:56:00.76\00:56:04.23
SERVICING OR SMS TEXTING.
THAT'S RIGHT, THERE ARE ABOUT
00:56:04.23\00:56:09.50
2.5 BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
TODAY THAT ARE COMMUNICATING
00:56:09.50\00:56:13.20
WITH THEIR FELLOW HUMANS
IN SHORT BYTES CALLED TEXTING.
00:56:13.20\00:56:16.67
THAT'S MORE DATA THAT IS BEING
USED THAN THOSE WHO ARE SURFING
00:56:16.67\00:56:19.87
THE WEB OR EVEN
PLAYING VIDEO GAMES.
00:56:19.87\00:56:22.28
AND, FRIENDS, NOWHERE IS THIS
MORE TRUE THAN RIGHT HERE IN THE
00:56:22.28\00:56:24.85
PHILIPPINES. EVEN
THOUGH THE PHILIPPINES HAS
00:56:24.85\00:56:26.95
ABOUT 100 MILLION PEOPLE, THEY
ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LARGEST
00:56:26.95\00:56:30.82
NUMBER OF TEXT MESSAGES
OF ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
00:56:30.82\00:56:33.89
THEY'RE THE TWELFTH-LARGEST
COUNTRY, BUT THEY SEND 400
00:56:33.89\00:56:37.49
MILLION TEXT MESSAGES
EVERY DAY. WOW, THAT'S A LOT
00:56:37.49\00:56:41.96
OF FINGER FATIGUE. EVEN
THOUGH THE GREATEST NUMBER
00:56:41.96\00:56:44.93
OF TEXTERS IS HERE IN THE
PHILIPPINES, THE RECORD FOR THE
00:56:44.93\00:56:47.77
FASTEST TEXTER IN THE WORLD IS
FROM BRAZIL. A YOUNG MAN BY THE
00:56:47.77\00:56:51.14
NAME OF MARCEL FERNANDES FILHO
- HE WAS ABLE TO TEXT 25 VERY
00:56:51.14\00:56:55.24
COMPLICATED WORDS IN A
LITTLE MORE THAN 18 SECONDS.
00:56:55.24\00:56:58.51
WOW, IT TAKES ME LONGER THAN
THAT TO JUST SAY 'I LOVE YOU' TO
00:56:58.51\00:57:02.08
MY WIFE AND
PRESS SEND. ALL THUMBS.
00:57:02.08\00:57:05.82
ONE OF THE NEAT THINGS ABOUT
TEXTING IS YOU CAN TEXT JUST
00:57:05.82\00:57:08.22
ABOUT ANYWHERE. IF
YOU'RE SURROUNDED WITH PEOPLE
00:57:08.22\00:57:10.76
AND YOU WANT TO SEND A
PERSONAL MESSAGE, YOU TEXT.
00:57:10.76\00:57:12.79
YOU'RE IN A CROWDED SUBWAY
OR AN AIRPORT, YOU CAN TEXT.
00:57:12.79\00:57:15.76
IF YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY NOISE
OR NOSEY PEOPLE, YOU CAN TEXT -
00:57:15.76\00:57:20.00
JUST DON'T TEXT
WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING.
00:57:20.00\00:57:21.90
THAT'S WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL,
FRIENDS, YOU CAN ALWAYS TEXT GOD
00:57:21.90\00:57:25.11
A MESSAGE OF PRAYER FROM YOUR
HEART. WHEN YOU'RE WONDERING
00:57:25.11\00:57:28.58
'WHAT SCHOOL DO I GO
TO?' 'WHAT JOB DO I TAKE?'
00:57:28.58\00:57:30.88
'WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO DATE THAT
MAY BE A FUTURE LIFE PARTNER?'
00:57:30.88\00:57:34.28
YOUR PRAYERS DON'T HAVE TO BE
LONG. THE SHORTEST PRAYER IN THE
00:57:34.28\00:57:36.79
BIBLE IS THREE WORDS - WHEN
PETER PRAYED, 'LORD SAVE ME.'
00:57:36.79\00:57:40.76
AND JESUS ANSWERED HIS PRAYER.
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FAST YOU
00:57:40.76\00:57:43.56
CAN TEXT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING
TO GOD, HE'LL KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
00:57:43.56\00:57:46.29
ASKING FOR AND HEAR YOUR PRAYER
BEFORE YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO
00:57:46.29\00:57:49.13
SAY 'AMEN' AND
PRESS THE SEND BUTTON.
00:57:49.13\00:57:51.57
IN FACT, FRIENDS, YOU'LL BRING
JOY TO GOD WHEN YOU SEND HIM
00:57:51.57\00:57:54.37
REGULAR MESSAGES
FROM YOUR HEART TO HIS.
00:57:54.37\00:57:57.34
SO WHY DON'T YOU
TALK TO HIM RIGHT NOW?
00:57:57.34\00:58:00.11
(MUSIC)
00:58:00.11\00:58:16.96