Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG021550A
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00:15 >>NOW THE MESSAGE TODAY IS GOING TO BE DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT 00:18 OF OPENING OUR HOMES TO CHRIST. AND SOME OF YOU PROBABLY HAVE 00:26 HEARD THE VERY FAMOUS MOTEL 6 COMMERCIAL. 00:32 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT THE TAG LINE IS IN THAT COMMERCIAL? 00:35 >>WE'LL LEAVE THE LIGHT ON FOR YOU. 00:37 >>WE'LL LEAVE THE LIGHT ON FOR YOU. 00:39 IT BECAME ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. 00:43 WHAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW IS THE ANNOUNCER IN THE INITIAL 00:46 COMMERCIAL, TOM BODETT, THE VERY EXPENSIVE MARKETING COMPANY HAD 00:53 COME UP WITH A SCRIPT FOR HIM TO DO THIS RADIO COMMERCIAL. 00:57 THE PHRASE 'WE'LL LEAVE THE LIGHT ON FOR YOU' WAS NOWHERE IN 01:00 THE SCRIPT. AS HE WAS RECORDING THE 01:03 ANNOUNCEMENT FOR MOTEL 6, HE SAW THE CLOCK STILL HAD LIKE THREE 01:07 SECONDS LEFT ON IT AND HE THOUGHT, 01:09 'WOW, THAT'S GOING TO BE DEAD TIME. 01:11 I OUGHT TO SAY SOMETHING.' AND SO, AD-LIB, HE SAID, 'WE'LL 01:15 LEAVE THE LIGHT ON FOR YOU.' AND NO ONE EVEN REMEMBERS WHAT THE 01:19 MARKETING AGENCY WROTE. WHAT THEY KEPT WAS WHAT BODETT 01:23 WROTE HIMSELF BECAUSE IT JUST SORT OF EMBRACED THE WHOLE IDEA. 01:28 YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN TRAVELING ACROSS DARK COUNTRY 01:31 AND YOU SEE THE PORCH LIGHT SORT OF REPRESENTS HOME AND THAT 01:35 SOMEONE'S WAITING UP FOR YOU AND THERE'S A LIGHT ON IN A WINDOW 01:38 AND ALL OF THAT WAS SORT OF ENCOMPASSED IN THAT ONE BRIEF 01:40 PHRASE - A DOOR THAT'S OPEN. I KNOW OUR BODIES ARE LIKE 01:48 TEMPLES - THEY'RE HOMES. THE QUESTION IS: IS IT A HOME 01:55 WHERE CHRIST IS A RESIDENT? IS HE A GUEST? DOES THE LORD LIVE 02:00 IN OUR LIVES? THIS IS WHERE WE GET THE WORD 'HOSPITALITY' - 02:05 HOUSE-PITALITY - SOMEONE WHO OPENS UP THEIR LIVES AND INVITES 02:10 PEOPLE IN. BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT GUEST THAT WE CAN 02:12 INVITE INTO OUR LIVES IS, OF COURSE, THE LORD. NOW I'M GOING 02:17 TO START WITH WHAT IS A FAMILIAR VERSE AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO 02:19 JUMP TO SOME VERSES THAT MAY NOT BE AS FAMILIAR. 02:23 LUKE CHAPTER 2, VERSE 4, "JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM GALILEE, OUT 02:29 OF THE CITY OF NAZARETH, INTO JUDEA, TO THE CITY OF DAVID, 02:33 WHICH IS CALLED BETHLEHEM, BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE HOUSE AND 02:36 LINEAGE OF DAVID, TO BE REGISTERED WITH MARY, HIS 02:39 BETROTHED WIFE, WHO WAS WITH CHILD." 02:42 NOW BOTH JOSEPH AND MARY WERE FROM THE LINEAGE OF DAVID. 02:47 YOU CAN TRACE - LUKE TRACES THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS BACK THROUGH 02:51 THE MOTHER - IT'S THROUGH THE MATRIARCHAL OR THE - ACTUALLY 02:56 THROUGH MARY'S FATHER, WHICH IS JOSEPH'S FATHER-IN-LAW AND 03:00 MATTHEW TRACES IT BACK THROUGH JOSEPH - THAT'S WHY YOU'LL SEE 03:03 A SMALL DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THOSE TWO GENEALOGIES. 03:06 THEY WERE BOTH OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF DAVID. BUT THE CAESAR HAD 03:10 WANTED EVERYONE TO COME TO THEIR HOMETOWN SO THEY COULD BE 03:12 REGISTERED. THERE WAS A CENSUS THAT WAS 03:14 BEING TAKEN - AND THE REASON HE WAS DOING THIS WAS FOR TAXES. 03:19 AND IT SAYS THAT WHEN THEY CAME TO THE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM THE 03:23 DAYS WERE DELIVERED FOR - THE DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED - OR 03:26 COMPLETED - FOR HER TO BE DELIVERED. 03:28 "AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRST-BORN SON AND WRAPPED HIM 03:32 IN SWADDLING CLOTHS AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER," - SWADDLING CLOTH 03:36 IS JUST STRIPS OF CLOTH - "AND LAID HIM IN A" - TROUGH - A 03:40 MANGER WHERE ANIMALS WERE FED. AND SOMEONE WHO READS THIS IS 03:44 GOING 'WHY ARE THEY PUTTING HIM IN AN ANIMAL TROUGH?' AND THEN 03:51 LUKE GOES ON AND SAYS, 'WELL, THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR HIM 03:54 IN THE INN. FIRST OF ALL, JOSEPH AND MARY, 03:58 THEY MAYBE HAD FAMILY BUT EVERYBODY HAD COME AND SO THE 04:01 FAMILY SPACE WAS RUN OUT. AND THEN THE OTHER NATURAL PLACE 04:05 YOU'D GO IS TO THE LOCAL MOM AND POP BED AND BREAKFAST - THEY 04:08 WERE THE HOTELS OR THE INN, AND THERE'S NO ROOM THERE - AND YOU 04:12 JUST THINK IT'S AMAZING THAT WHEN CHRIST CAME INTO THIS 04:15 WORLD THERE'S NO ROOM FOR HIM. YOU CAN READ IN JOHN 1, VERSE 04:19 10, "HE WAS IN THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD WAS MADE THROUGH HIM, 04:23 AND THE WORLD DID NOT KNOW HIM. HE CAME TO HIS OWN, AND HIS 04:28 OWN DID NOT RECEIVE HIM." HIS OWN PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW HIM. 04:32 NOW WOULDN'T IT BE SAD IF YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO INVITE THE 04:35 LORD INTO YOUR HOME OR INTO YOUR HEART AND YOU MISSED IT BECAUSE 04:39 YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE WAS? THAT SIGHTING FROM THAT OLD 04:42 SPIRITUAL, 'WE DIDN'T KNOW WHO YOU WAS'. 04:45 HE CAME TO HIS OWN AND HIS OWN DIDN'T KNOW HIM. 04:48 NO ROOM IN THE INN. NOW THE LORD, NOT ONLY WANTS TO 04:52 KNOW US, HE WANTS TO BE IN OUR LIVES. HE WANTS TO HAVE A 04:56 PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH US. WHAT IS THE LORD GOING TO 04:59 DECLARE TO THOSE THAT ARE LOST? 'I NEVER KNEW YOU. DEPART FROM 05:05 ME.' AND THE BIBLE GOES ON TO SAY, 'MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED 05:09 FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE' - IN THE BOOK OF HOSEA. WHAT IS THAT 05:12 KNOWLEDGE THAT IS DEVASTATING? TO NOT KNOW THE LORD. 05:17 TO NOT HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. 05:20 HAVE YOU INVITED THE LORD INTO YOUR HOME AND INTO YOUR HEART? 05:25 IS HE PART OF YOUR LIFE EVERY DAY? 05:28 YOU KNOW, WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO ZACCHEUS? 05:30 HE SAID, 'COME DOWN, FOR TODAY I MUST ABIDE AT YOUR HOUSE. 05:33 I WANT TO BE WITH YOU. I WANT TO ABIDE WITH YOU.' 05:36 NOW, INSTEAD OF SPENDING OUR TIME TALKING ABOUT A FAILURE, I 05:42 WANT TO SPEND SOME TIME TALKING ABOUT A SUCCESS. 05:44 YOU CAN READ - IF YOU TURN IN YOUR BIBLE - WE'RE GOING TO 05:46 SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME NOW IN THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS - 2 05:50 KINGS CHAPTER 4 - AND THERE'S A STORY AND THE STORY IS OF THE 05:54 SHUNAMMITE WOMAN - 2 KINGS CHAPTER 4 - AND WE'RE GOING TO 05:59 BE GOING FROM VERSE 8 AND READING ABOUT 30 VERSES. 06:03 NOW THIS IS ABOUT THE STORY OF ELISHA AND IT TELLS US ABOUT, 06:07 NOT SOMEONE WHO DID NOT RECEIVE THE LORD, BUT SOMEONE WHO DID 06:11 RECEIVE THE LORD INTO THEIR HOME. AND IF YOU LOOK IN 2 KINGS 06:15 CHAPTER 4, VERSE 8 IT SAYS, "NOW IT HAPPENED ONE DAY THAT ELISHA 06:20 WENT TO SHUNAM, WHERE THERE WAS A NOTABLE WOMAN, AND SHE 06:24 PERSUADED HIM TO EAT SOME FOOD. SO IT WAS, AS OFTEN AS HE PASSED 06:29 BY, HE WOULD TURN IN THERE TO EAT SOME FOOD. 06:32 AND SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND, 'LOOK NOW, I KNOW THAT THIS IS A 06:37 HOLY MAN OF GOD, WHO PASSES BY US REGULARLY. 06:41 PLEASE, LET US MAKE A SMALL UPPER ROOM ON THE WALL; AND LET 06:44 US PUT A BED FOR HIM THERE, AND A TABLE AND A CHAIR AND A 06:48 LAMPSTAND; SO IT WILL BE, WHENEVER HE COMES TO US, HE CAN 06:52 TURN IN THERE.'" NOW SEE, ELISHA - WELL, I SHOULD ACTUALLY BACK 06:57 UP A LITTLE BIT - DURING THE TIME OF SAMUEL THE PROPHET, HE 07:01 ESTABLISHED THE SCHOOLS OF THE PROPHETS. 07:04 AND THE SCHOOLS OF THE PROPHETS WERE SET UP IN ABOUT SIX 07:07 LOCATIONS AROUND THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. 07:10 DURING THE TIME OF SAMUEL, THERE WAS A LOT OF APOSTASY IN THE 07:13 KINGDOM AND SO HE ESTABLISHED THIS SCHOOL THAT WOULD BE 07:17 TRAINING MEN IN MINISTRY. THEY WEREN'T ALL RELATED. 07:20 THEY DIDN'T CALL THEM THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS BECAUSE THEY 07:22 WERE ALL GENETICALLY RELATED, IT WAS SORT OF A TITLE FOR THOSE 07:25 WHO WOULD BE STUDYING THE WAYS OF THE LORD WHO COULD ALSO HELP 07:28 TEACH THE PEOPLE. AND, DURING THE TIME OF ELISHA, 07:33 THERE WAS A REVIVAL OF THAT. YOU REMEMBER, DURING THE DAYS OF 07:35 ELIJAH, THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS - THEY HAD TO HIDE IN CAVES 07:38 BECAUSE JEZEBEL WAS TRYING TO KILL THEM ALL. 07:40 AND ELISHA SPENT SOME TIME - THEY WERE BUILDING A SCHOOL DOWN 07:43 BY JERICHO - THAT'S WHEN THE AX HEAD FELL IN WATER. 07:46 HE SPENT HIS TIME WORKING WITH THEM. 07:48 THEY WANTED TO BUILD ONE THERE BY JERICHO AND THE SPRING WAS 07:52 BAD. AND SO HE PUT SOME SALT IN 07:54 THE SPRING TO TRY TO HEAL THE WATERS. 07:56 AND SO HE SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME RAISING UP THESE PLACES 08:00 WHERE THERE WERE DISCIPLES. AND SO ELISHA WENT IN A CIRCUIT, 08:05 ON A REGULAR BASIS, TEACHING, ENCOURAGING THE PEOPLE, TRYING 08:09 TO FORTIFY THE REVIVAL THAT REALLY STARTED DURING 08:12 THE TIME OF ELIJAH. SO THIS WOMAN, WHO'S A 08:15 SHUNAMMITE - SHUNAMMITES WERE NOT 08:17 ISRAELITES, THEY WERE FROM ANOTHER TRIBE. 08:20 THEY WERE ACTUALLY LEFTOVERS FROM THE CANAANITE PEOPLE. 08:24 AND SHE SEES THAT HE'S A MAN OF GOD - YOU KNOW, ELIJAH DID A LOT 08:27 OF MIRACLES AND THEY KNEW THAT HE HAD THE POWER OF GOD - I 08:31 MEAN, HE HITS THE WATER AND IT PARTS. 08:34 HE HEALS THE WATERS - AX HEAD FLOATS - OIL MULTIPLIES FOR THIS 08:39 LADY. ELISHA ENDS UP DOING TWICE THE 08:41 MIRACLES OF ELIJAH - GETS A DOUBLE PORTION OF HIS SPIRIT. 08:45 AND SHE SAYS TO HER HUSBAND, 'YOU KNOW, HE STOPS BY AND I 08:48 KNOW HE'S A MAN OF GOD AND WE WANT TO DO SOMETHING FOR HIM SO 08:51 WE FEED HIM. AND I CAN TELL THAT THERE'S 08:54 JUST THIS - HE KNOWS THE LORD - THERE'S AN ATTRACTION - THERE'S 08:57 A CONNECTION WITH GOD THAT HE HAS.' AND SHE SAID, 'IT'S NOT 09:00 ENOUGH THAT WE FEED HIM.' SHE SAID, 'LOOK, THE LORD'S BLESSED 09:01 US.' IT SAYS THAT SHE'S A NOTABLE WOMAN - THAT 09:04 MEANS THEY ARE WEALTHY. SHE - 'LET'S MAKE A PLACE FOR 09:08 HIM SO THAT HE CAN BE A GUEST HERE WHENEVER HE COMES BY. 09:11 HE IS GOING TO SEE THIS AS A HOME AWAY FROM HOME.' SORT OF 09:15 SOMETHING LIKE WHAT MARY AND MARTHA DID FOR JESUS. 09:18 WHENEVER JESUS WAS AROUND JERUSALEM, HE WOULD END UP 09:21 STAYING, IF NOT IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, HE WENT TO BETHANY 09:25 AND HE STAYED WITH MARTHA AND LAZARUS AND THEIR YOUNGER SISTER 09:28 MARY. SO THEY SAID, 'WE WANT TO MAKE A PLACE FOR HIM HERE - WANT 09:33 TO MAKE HIM COMFORTABLE.' NOW THE SHUNAMMITES, THEY WERE NOT 09:37 ISRAELITES. THEY SPOKE A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE. 09:40 YOU'LL NOTICE THROUGH THE STORY THAT ELISHA DOES NOT SPEAK TO 09:43 HER DIRECTLY BECAUSE THEY DON'T SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE. 09:46 HE KEEPS SPEAKING TO HER THROUGH GEHAZI HIS SERVANT, WHO, 09:50 EVIDENTLY, SPOKE SOME OF THE LANGUAGE OF SHUNAM. 09:53 NOW, DOES ANYONE KNOW - WHO ARE SOME OTHER SHUNAMMITES IN THE 09:56 BIBLE? CAN YOU NAME SOME? >>ABISHAG. 09:59 >>ABISHAG, THE PRETTY YOUNG VIRGIN THAT WAS FOUND WHEN DAVID 10:02 WAS OLD - HE HAD CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AND HE WAS SHAKING 10:04 ALL THE TIME AND THEY PUT BLANKETS BUT HE COULDN'T GET 10:06 WARM SO THEY SEARCHED THE LAND. THEY FOUND SOME BEAUTIFUL 10:11 YOUNG VIRGINS THAT HAD GOOD CIRCULATION AND THEY HAD ONE OF 10:15 THEM BECOME A WIFE OF DAVID AND SHE WOULD, BASICALLY, SNUGGLE 10:18 HIM TO KEEP HIM WARM BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE ELECTRIC 10:20 BLANKETS BACK THEN SO THEY HAD TO GET A LIVING BLANKET. 10:24 AND THEY - ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRLS WAS ABISHAG. 10:28 NOW THERE'S SOME - THERE'S A RUMOR - YOU EVER READ THE SONG 10:32 OF SOLOMON? THERE'S THIS LOVE STORY TO THE SHUNAMMITE. 10:39 AND MANY WONDER - DAVID NEVER KNEW ABISHAG - THEY WONDERED IF 10:41 THIS SHUNAMMITE THAT SOLOMON FELL IN LOVE WITH WAS ABISHAG. 10:46 SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN YOUNGER THAN HIM. 10:48 BY THE WAY, SOLOMON'S BROTHER ADONIJAH WANTED TO MARRY HER 10:51 AFTER HIS FATHER DIED, SO IT WASN'T UNTHOUGHT OF, BUT THERE'S 10:57 ANOTHER SHUNAMMITE. SO THEY WERE A PEOPLE 10:59 THAT WERE LIVING AT PEACE. MANY OF THEM WORSHIPED THE GOD 11:01 OF ISRAEL BUT THEY WERE REALLY HELDOVERS - HOLDOVERS 11:04 - FROM THE CANAANITES. SO IT'S INTERESTING THAT THIS 11:09 MAN OF GOD, WHO'S BRINGING REVIVAL TO THE NORTHERN TRIBES, 11:13 HE IS ON A CONSTANT CIRCUIT AMONG HIS PEOPLE, BUT WHO IS IT 11:16 THAT ENDS UP INVITING HIM TO STAY? 11:18 NOT ONE OF HIS OWN PEOPLE, BUT ONE OF THE CANAANITES. 11:23 DOES ELIJAH, DURING THE TIME OF FAMINE, WHO DOES HE STAY WITH? 11:27 DOES HE STAY WITH AN ISRAELITE OR DOES HE STAY WITH A WOMAN OF 11:30 TYRE UP IN THE NORTH? ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 11:35 AND THE MESSIAH ENDS UP COMING THROUGH RUTH, THE MOABITESS, AND 11:39 TAMAR AND RAHAB AND HERE YOU HAVE ANOTHER CANAANITE WOMAN 11:43 SHOWING KINDNESS TO THE MAN OF GOD. 11:46 SHE SAID, 'LET'S MAKE A ROOM.' SHE TELLS HER HUSBAND - YOU READ 11:49 ON YOU'LL FIND OUT - HE'S A LITTLE OLDER THAN HER, BUT SHE 11:52 RESPECTS HIM. THROUGH THE STORY SHE DOES THESE 11:54 THINGS IN CONCERT WITH HER HUSBAND. 'LET'S MAKE A SMALL 11:57 UPPER ROOM ON THE WALL.' NOW, ANY OF YOU EVER READ THIS STORY 12:01 IN THE CHILDREN'S STORY BOOKS? MY BIBLE FRIENDS? 12:05 IT'S IN THERE AND IT MAKES IT SOUND LIKE THEY PUT THE ROOM FOR 12:08 ELISHA RIGHT ON TOP OF THEIR HOUSE. IT'S ACTUALLY TALKING 12:11 ABOUT THE WALL OF THEIR COMPOUND, JUST LIKE RAHAB'S 12:14 HOUSE WAS IN THE WALL. AND SO THESE PEOPLE ARE WEALTHY, 12:17 THEY'VE GOT A WALL AROUND THEIR COMPOUND, AND SOMEWHERE NEAR THE 12:20 WALL WHERE HE COULD HAVE HIS OWN PRIVATE SPACE. 12:22 THEY BUILT UP - THEY MADE A ROOM - BUILT IT UP OFF THE GROUND - 12:26 THEY SOMETIMES HAD - THE ANIMALS WOULD STAY UNDERNEATH AND HAD A 12:32 DESK IN IT, A BED, A TABLE - MAYBE HAD A COT ALSO FOR HIS 12:39 SERVANT, GEHAZI, WHO'S ALWAYS WITH HIM - A TABLE AND A CHAIR 12:42 AND A LAMPSTAND - "SO IT WILL BE, WHENEVER HE COMES TO US, HE 12:46 CAN TURN IN THERE." SHE IS DOING EVERYTHING SHE CAN 12:49 TO MAKE STAYING WITH HER FAMILY ATTRACTIVE TO THE MAN OF GOD. 12:53 NOW WHY DOES SHE WANT TO DO THAT? 12:55 WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE HOLY PEOPLE STAY WITH 13:00 YOU. SHE'S CREATING THESE CREATURE 13:05 COMFORTS BECAUSE SHE WANTS HIM TO STAY WITH HER. 13:11 SHE WANTS THE BLESSING OF GOD IN HER HOUSE. 13:14 DO YOU DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO INVITE THE LORD INTO YOUR HOME? 13:18 AND IT SAYS, YOU KNOW, IN THE FIRST PART OF THE VERSE, IT SAYS 13:21 SHE CONSTRAINED HIM. SHE URGED HIM. 13:26 IT KIND OF MAKES IT SOUND LIKE WHEN THOSE TWO DISCIPLES WERE 13:29 WALKING DOWN THE ROAD TO EMMAUS AND JESUS WAS TALKING TO THEM, 13:33 THEY SAID, 'THIS MAN KNOWS THE WORD OF GOD. 13:35 THIS MAN KNOWS THE LORD.' AND WHEN THEY CAME TO A FORK IN THE 13:37 ROAD AND THEY'RE ABOUT TO TURN INTO THE TOWN OF EMMAUS, THEY 13:40 SAID, 'PLEASE ABIDE WITH US.' THEY URGED HIM. 13:44 THEY CONSTRAINED HIM. THEY PLED WITH HIM. 13:47 WERE THEY GLAD THEY DID? >>YES. 13:50 >>TURNED OUT THAT IT WAS JESUS HIMSELF. 13:52 THEY DIDN'T KNOW. SOME HAVE ENTERTAINED ANGELS UNAWARE. 13:56 AND THEN YOU CAN READ IN THE BIBLE THE STORY ABOUT LOT. 14:01 WHEN THE MESSENGERS CAME FROM THE LORD TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH, 14:03 THE ANGELS SAID, 'WE'LL STAY OUT IN THE STREET.' BUT LOT SAID, 14:06 'NO, NO, YOU COME INTO MY HOUSE.' HE URGED THEM. 14:10 AND DID LOT KNOW HE WAS BRINGING MESSENGERS FROM GOD INTO HIS 14:14 HOUSE? ENDED UP SAVING HIM AND HIS FAMILY. 14:18 AND SO THEY'RE URGING THIS ON THEM. 14:22 AND SHE DOES EVERYTHING SHE CAN TO MAKE THEM COMFORTABLE - PUTS 14:26 ALL THESE CREATURE COMFORTS IN THE HOME. 14:29 NOW IS THERE A BLESSING PROMISED ON THOSE WHO ARE CARING ABOUT 14:34 THE NEEDS OF OTHERS? DID JESUS PROMISE SPECIAL 14:37 BLESSINGS ON THOSE WHO WOULD CARE FOR HIS MESSENGERS? 14:41 YOU CAN READ IN MARK 9:41, WHEN HE SENT OUT THE DISCIPLES HE 14:46 SAID, "FOR WHOEVER GIVES YOU A CUP OF WATER TO DRINK IN MY 14:49 NAME, BECAUSE YOU BELONG TO CHRIST, ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, 14:54 HE WILL BY NO MEANS LOSE HIS REWARD." 14:56 AND THE OTHER THING THAT'S HAPPENING IS SHE REALIZES GOD IS 15:00 WITH ELISHA AND SO SHE IS SEEKING GODLY FRIENDS. 15:04 PROVERBS 13:20, "HE WHO WALKS WITH WISE MEN WILL BE WISE, BUT 15:09 THE COMPANION OF FOOLS WILL BE DESTROYED." 15:12 PSALM 119, VERSE 63, "I AM A COMPANION OF ALL WHO FEAR YOU, 15:18 AND OF THOSE WHO KEEP YOUR PRECEPTS." 2 CORINTHIANS 6:14, 15:23 "DO NOT BE UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS. 15:26 FOR WHAT FELLOWSHIP HAS RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH LAWLESSNESS? 15:29 AND WHAT COMMUNION HAS LIGHT WITH DARKNESS?" AND SO SHE GOES 15:34 TO ALL THIS CARE AND ONE DAY ELISHA IS GOING THROUGH THE 15:37 CIRCUIT OF THE LAND AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HE COMES BACK AND HE 15:40 SAYS, 'SOMETHING'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THE SHUNAMMITE'S HOUSE.' 15:42 HE'S TALKING TO GEHAZI. HE SAYS, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD? 15:44 SHE'S GOT THIS CONSTRUCTION PROJECT GOING ON.' AND THEY SEE 15:47 HIM COMING AND THEY RUN OUT TO THE GATE AND THEY MEET HIM AND 15:51 SHE SAYS, 'WE'RE SO GLAD YOU'RE HERE. 15:53 LOOK, WE WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING.' THEY BRING HIM UP 15:55 THE STAIRS. THEY SAID, 'SEE THIS ROOM? 15:57 SEE THE WINDOW? GOT A FLOWER ON THE TABLE THERE. 15:59 GOT A LAMP ON THE TABLE IN CASE YOU WANT TO READ SOME SCROLLS. 16:03 GOT A BED - A FEW PIECES OF FRUIT IN A BOWL ON THE TABLE. 16:07 SEE THIS? THIS IS YOUR PLACE. 16:10 WHENEVER YOU COME BY HERE, THIS IS YOUR PLACE.' YOU KNOW, IT WAS 16:14 KIND OF NICE, WHEN I WAS FIRST PASTORING IN COVELO, I DID 16:19 SEVERAL MEETINGS IN THE UKIAH CHURCH. 16:22 HAVE ANY OF YOU BEEN TO THE CHURCH IN UKIAH, CALIFORNIA? 16:25 ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE CHURCH THEY'VE GOT A CARETAKER'S 16:27 HOME AND IN THE CARETAKER'S HOME, THEY HAVE A GUEST HOME FOR 16:31 WHENEVER THEY HAVE A GUEST SPEAKER. AND IT WAS SO NICE 16:34 BECAUSE, ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, I GOT TO STAY AT THAT HOUSE. 16:37 AND I KNEW THE FAMILY THERE AND WHENEVER I NEEDED A PLACE TO 16:40 STAY THEY SAID, 'THIS IS YOUR PLACE.' AND BECAUSE IT WAS ABOUT 16:43 70 MILES FROM COVELO, IT WAS KIND OF NICE TO HAVE - JUST A 16:47 LITTLE ROOM FOR THE PROPHET THAT WAS THERE. 16:49 (LAUGHTER) I'M SAYING THAT TONGUE-IN-CHEEK, OF COURSE. 16:53 SO THEY SAID THEY WANT YOU TO BE COMFORTABLE HERE - 'MI CASA, SU 16:58 CASA.' NOW THEY HAD TO SAY THAT THROUGH GEHAZI - AND SO HE'S 17:04 JUST OVERWHELMED BY THEIR KINDNESS AND HE SAYS TO GEHAZI, 17:08 HE SAYS, 'LOOK, THEY'RE CARING FOR US WITH ALL THIS CARE. 17:12 THIS JUST - THIS IS TOO MUCH. THEY'VE GONE THE SECOND MILE. 17:15 THAT IS SO KIND. IT'S NOT JUST THAT THEY FEED 17:17 US' - THEY WERE FEEDING THEM WHENEVER THEY TRAVELED BY - 'NOW 17:20 THEY'RE NOT ONLY GIVING US FOOD, THEY'VE MADE A ROOM FOR US - OUR 17:23 OWN PLACE.' NOW ELISHA WAS A PROPHET THAT, YOU 17:28 KNOW, HE KNEW HARDSHIP. HE TRAVELED AROUND WITH ELIJAH 17:31 AND ELIJAH, SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, HE STAYED OUT WITH THE BIRDS 17:34 IN CAVES AND MOUNTAINTOPS. IT DOESN'T SAY THAT HE HAD 17:39 ANYTHING REAL FANCY SO IT'S NICE TO GET AN UPGRADE LIKE THAT AND 17:46 THIS IS NOT EVEN COMING FROM HIS OWN PEOPLE. 17:49 SO HE CALLS GEHAZI AND HE SAYS, 'WHAT CAN BE DONE?' 17:53 YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK IN YOUR BIBLE HERE - I'M IN CHAPTER 4 - 17:58 AND IT SAYS, "WHEN HE CAME" - VERSE 11 - "...ONE DAY...HE 18:03 TURNED IN TO THE UPPER ROOM AND LAY DOWN THERE." 18:06 IN THE MORNING HE SAYS TO "...GEHAZI, HIS SERVANT, 'CALL 18:09 THIS SHUNAMMITE WOMAN.'" BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT SHE WAS BEHIND IT. 18:13 SHE WAS THE HOST - "WHEN HE HAD CALLED HER, SHE STOOD BEFORE 18:16 HIM. AND HE SAID TO HIM," - ELISHA 18:20 SAYS TO GEHAZI BECAUSE HE'S SPEAKING THROUGH HIM - "'SAY NOW 18:23 TO HER, 'LOOK, YOU HAVE BEEN CONCERNED FOR US 18:25 WITH ALL THIS CARE. WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU? 18:29 DO YOU WANT ME TO SPEAK ON YOUR BEHALF TO THE KING OR TO THE 18:32 COMMANDER OF THE ARMY?''" - THE GENERAL? 18:34 - NOW YOU REALIZE THAT ELISHA HAD A LOT OF CLOUT WITH THE 18:36 KINGDOM. WHEN ELISHA GOT OLD AND HE WAS 18:39 DYING, THE KING CAME TO SEE HIM. HE HAD A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. 18:43 ONE TIME ELISHA MANAGED TO SINGLE-HANDEDLY CAPTURE AN 18:48 ENTIRE ARMY. HAVE YOU READ THAT STORY? 18:51 THE GENERAL THOUGHT, 'I CAN'T DO WHAT ELISHA DOES. 18:55 ELISHA SAYS A PRAYER, THE WHOLE ENEMY ARMY IS STRUCK BLIND AND 18:58 HE LEADS THE WHOLE ENEMY ARMY INTO THE CITY OF SAMARIA.' AND 19:02 SO ELISHA HAD THE EAR OF THE KING, HE HAD THE EAR OF THE 19:05 GENERAL, AND HE SAID, 'ARE YOU BEING BOTHERED BY ANY OF YOUR 19:09 NEIGHBORS OR MAYBE THERE'S SOME BOUNDARY DISPUTE OR SOMETIMES 19:14 BECAUSE YOU'RE A CANAANITE AND NOT AN ISRAELITE THEY DON'T 19:17 TREAT YOU RIGHT. IS THERE SOMEBODY I CAN - 19:18 WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU? I'M NOT RICH AND - BUT MAYBE I CAN TALK 19:22 TO SOMEONE. I DO HAVE SOME CONNECTIONS.' AND HE'S SAYING, 19:25 'WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?' YOU KNOW WHAT HE'S SAYING? 19:29 'YOU HAVE INVITED ME INTO YOUR HOME. 19:32 I WANT TO ANSWER YOUR PRAYER. PRAY. 19:35 ASK ME SOMETHING.' NOW, WHEN YOU INVITE CHRIST INTO YOUR LIFE AND 19:41 YOU SAY, 'LORD, YOU ARE - WE WANT YOU TO NOT JUST VISIT, WE 19:44 WANT YOU TO DWELL IN OUR HEARTS - IN OUR HOME.' THE LORD, WILL 19:50 HE DO LESS FOR YOU? OR DOESN'T GOD SAY, 'ASK. 19:55 UP TILL NOW YOU'VE ASKED NOTHING IN MY NAME. 19:56 ASK THAT YOUR JOY MIGHT BE FULL.' AND SO HE'S SAYING, 19:59 THROUGH GEHAZI, 'WHAT DOES SHE WANT?' 20:02 BY THE WAY, THE LORD SOMETIMES SAYS TO US, THROUGH OTHERS - HE 20:04 SPEAKS TO US THROUGH OTHERS - 'WHAT DO YOU WANT? 20:07 WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?' 20:09 AND SO SHE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, I LIVE AMONG MY OWN PEOPLE. 20:12 WE'VE GOT A BIG YARD AND OUR RELATIVES LIVE AROUND US.' AND 20:16 SHE SAYS, 'WE'RE OKAY. WE HAVE NO DISPUTES WITH 20:18 ANY OF OUR NEIGHBORS. THANK YOU. 20:19 THAT'S VERY NICE.' SHE'S VERY GRACEFUL. 20:21 SHE DOESN'T WANT - SHE SAYS, 'I DIDN'T GIVE YOU THIS BECAUSE I 20:23 WANTED SOMETHING, I GAVE YOU THIS BECAUSE YOU'RE A MAN OF GOD 20:27 AND IT JUST MAKES US FEEL GOOD HAVING YOU AROUND. 20:30 WE KNOW THAT YOU WALK WITH GOD AND WE LOVE GOD AND WE JUST WANT 20:32 TO BLESS YOU AND YOU DO A LOT OF THINGS AND YOU SACRIFICE FOR GOD 20:36 SO WE'RE WANTING TO TAKE CARE OF YOU.' 20:39 AND THEN GEHAZI, HE READS BETWEEN THE LINES AND THEN GO TO 20:42 VERSE 14, ELISHA SAYS, 'WHAT IS TO BE DONE FOR HER? 20:46 WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING FOR HER.' AND GEHAZI SAYS, 20:49 'ACTUALLY, SHE HAS NO SON AND HER HUSBAND IS OLD. 20:53 ELISHA, HAVEN'T YOU NOTICED THAT THEY'RE GETTING TO BE AN OLDER 20:57 COUPLE? THERE'S NO CHILDREN.' NOW, THE 21:01 WAY THIS IS WRITTEN IT SAYS, 'NO SON.' AND THAT WORD, IN THE 21:05 ORIGINAL HEBREW MEANS 'NO MALE OFFSPRING.' 21:08 BUT IT MAY MEAN THAT THEY HAD JUST NO BOY, WHICH WAS 21:12 VERY IMPORTANT IN THAT CULTURE BECAUSE THE FAMILY - THEY OFTEN 21:15 HAD BIG FAMILIES AND USUALLY PLENTY OF BOYS. 21:18 SOME OF YOU REMEMBER IN THE STORY OF THE EXODUS, THERE WAS A 21:21 NATIONAL CRISIS WHEN THIS ONE MAN HAD FIVE DAUGHTERS AND NO 21:24 SONS. THEY WEREN'T SURE WHAT TO DO. 21:27 HOW DO WE PASS ON THE INHERITANCE? 21:29 DO YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY? SO IT MAY MEAN THAT, BUT IT 21:33 SOUNDS LIKE, FROM THE CONTEXT, SHE HAD NO CHILDREN AND 21:36 THERE WOULD BE NO HEIR. AND HE SAYS, 'CALL HER.' AND SO 21:41 HE CALLS - SHE COMES AND STANDS IN THE DOOR. 21:45 NOW SHE'S STANDING IN THE DOORWAY. 21:48 PROMISES ARE OFTEN MADE THERE. SHE DOESN'T WANT TO INTRUDE. 21:51 AND HE DECLARES TO HER, "'ABOUT THIS TIME NEXT YEAR YOU SHALL 21:55 EMBRACE A SON.' AND SHE SAID, 'NO, MY LORD. 21:59 MAN OF GOD, DO NOT LIE TO YOUR MAIDSERVANT!'" 22:03 NOW WHAT IS SHE SAYING? SHE DOESN'T BELIEVE IT? 22:06 OR IS SHE SAYING THAT WOULD BE TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE? 22:08 OR 'DON'T TEASE ME LIKE THAT'? THIS HAD BEEN THE LONGING OF 22:11 HER HEART THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE CHILDREN. 22:15 SHE NEVER EVEN DREAMED THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN. 22:18 BUT HE MAKES A PROMISE TO HER. AND YOU KNOW WHAT 22:20 ELSE HE'S MAKING? HE'S MAKING A PROPHECY. 22:23 AND SHE SAID, 'DON'T LIE TO YOUR MAIDSERVANT.' WHAT DOES MARY 22:28 CALL HERSELF WHEN THE ANGEL SAYS 'YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A PROMISED 22:32 SON'? HE SAID, 'BE IT UNTO YOUR MAIDSERVANT.' SO HERE'S A 22:38 PROPHECY OF A SPECIAL SON THAT'S GOING TO COME AND YOU'LL FIND 22:42 OUT LATER THIS BOY ENDS UP BEING A TYPE OF CHRIST. 22:46 'DON'T LIE TO ME.' "BUT THE WOMAN CONCEIVED," - VERSE 17 - 22:51 DOES GOD KEEP HIS PROMISE? >>AMEN. 22:53 >>NOW I EXPECT THAT SHE AND HER HUSBAND COOPERATED, BUT IT SAYS 22:57 THE WOMAN CONCEIVED. I MEAN, EVEN AFTER GOD TOLD 22:59 ABRAHAM, 'YOU'RE GOING TO END UP HAVING A SON - NOT WITH HAGAR - 23:03 YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE ONE WITH SARAH.' GOD WORKED A MIRACLE, 23:07 BUT ABRAHAM AND SARAH COOPERATED WITH THAT MIRACLE. 23:11 "BUT THE WOMAN CONCEIVED, AND BORE A SON WHEN THE APPOINTED 23:14 TIME HAD COME, OF WHICH ELISHA HAD TOLD HER." 23:18 SO THIS IS ONE YEAR LATER, SHE HAS A BOY. 23:20 NOW SHE IS SO THRILLED. SHE WANTED TO BE A BLESSING. 23:25 BY THE WAY, IF ANY OF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT CHILDREN, IT 23:28 DOESN'T MEAN YOU INVITE THE PASTOR OVER FOR DINNER AND THAT 23:30 EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE TAKEN CARE OF. (LAUGHTER) 23:33 THAT COULD BE MISUNDERSTOOD IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE. 23:35 BUT I'M JUST SAYING THAT THIS WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST AND THIS IS 23:38 A TYPE OF JESUS IN THIS PROMISE HERE. 23:43 "AND THE CHILD GREW." EVERYTHING WAS WELL. 23:46 SHE'S HAPPY. YEARS WENT BY. ELISHA CONTINUES TO 23:49 GO ON HIS CIRCUIT. HE'S TEACHING. 23:51 ALL IS WELL. UNTIL ONE DAY. 23:55 YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE GOD BLESSES YOU AND YOU INVITE THE 23:57 LORD INTO YOUR LIFE, DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO HAVE 23:59 CHALLENGES OR TEMPTATIONS OR TRIALS. 24:04 AND IT SAYS THAT, "AND THE CHILD GREW. 24:07 NOW IT HAPPENED ONE DAY THAT HE WENT OUT TO HIS FATHER, TO THE 24:10 REAPERS." HE'S ON HIS OWN. HE'S RUNNING AROUND. 24:14 HE'S BEEN WEANED. HE'S BIG ENOUGH WHERE HIS 24:16 FATHER'S OUT IN THE FIELD AND HE SAYS, 'MAMA, CAN I GO OUT AND 24:19 BE WITH DADDY AND THE REAPERS?' SHE SAID, 'GO AHEAD.' HE RUNS 24:21 OUT TO THE FIELD AND HE'S MAYBE PLAYING OR HELPING A LITTLE BIT. 24:25 AND HE SAID TO HIS FATHER, "MY HEAD, MY HEAD!" 24:31 AND HE GRABS HIS HEAD AND HE DROPS HIS SHEAF HE'S CARRYING 24:33 AROUND AND - WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS. 24:38 IT GETS VERY HOT IN THAT PART OF THE COUNTRY DURING THE HARVEST 24:41 TIME, IT COULD HAVE BEEN SUN STROKE. 24:43 IT COULD HAVE BEEN SOME RAPID ONSET OF SOME SORT OF 24:46 MENINGITIS. IT COULD HAVE BEEN AN ANEURYSM. 24:49 I MEAN, WE COULD SPECULATE ALL DAY LONG WHAT WAS DOING IT, BUT 24:51 HE WAS OVERCOME WITH A SUDDEN PAIN IN HIS HEAD. 24:54 THE FATHER, NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO, HE MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT, 24:56 'WELL, I DON'T KNOW, HE GOT STUNG BY A HORNET. 24:59 WHO KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED?' 25:00 AND YOU KNOW WHAT FATHERS DO WHEN THE KIDS ARE HURT, THEY 25:02 SAY, 'GO SEE MOM.' AND - NOW, IF HE HAD BROKEN A TOY, DAD WOULD 25:09 SAY, 'I'LL SEE IF I CAN FIX IT.' BUT WHEN HE'S SICK HE SAID, 25:11 'YOU GO SEE YOUR MOTHER.' AND SO A SERVANT BRINGS HIM - HELPS HIM 25:15 TO THE MOTHER - AND "WHEN HE HAD TAKEN HIM AND BROUGHT HIM TO HIS 25:20 MOTHER, HE SAT ON HER KNEES" - SHE'S ROCKING HIM, TRYING TO 25:24 FIGURE OUT WHAT'S WRONG - MAYBE FANNING HIS FACE AND MOPPING HIS 25:28 FEVER WITH A WET CLOTH OR SOMETHING AND HE SITS ON HER 25:31 KNEES "TILL NOON, AND THEN DIED." 25:37 SHE WATCHES HER SON DIE. DOES MARY SEE JESUS DIE? 25:42 SHE HAS THIS PROMISED SON - AND YOU KNOW WHAT? 25:45 THEY - WHEN MARY BROUGHT JESUS TO THE TEMPLE, YOU KNOW WHAT 25:48 SIMON SAID TO MARY? HE SAID, 'A SWORD IS GOING 25:51 TO PIERCE YOUR OWN SOUL.' YES, YOU'LL HAVE JOY AND 25:55 THERE'LL BE GLADNESS, AND EVEN THE ANGELS DECLARED PEACE ON 25:59 EARTH, JOY TO THE WORLD, BUT MARY NOT ONLY HAD THE JOY, IT 26:03 LATER TURNED TO SADNESS BECAUSE THAT BOY DIED. 26:07 AND HERE SHE'S HOLDING HIM IN HER ARMS AND SHE HEARS HIM 26:09 BREATHE HIS LAST. AND THAT HAD TO 26:12 BE HEARTBREAKING. AND HE DIED. 26:16 NOW, IT DOESN'T SAY HE WAS ASLEEP. 26:18 IT'S VERY CLEAR. I WANT YOU TO NOTICE. 26:19 HE DIED - IS THE WORD - VERSE 20 - THAT'S USED. 26:23 "AND SHE WENT UP AND LAID HIM ON THE BED OF THE MAN OF GOD, SHUT 26:28 THE DOOR UPON HIM, AND WENT OUT." 26:31 SHE DOESN'T PUT HIM ON THEIR BED. 26:33 SHE DOESN'T PUT HIM ON HIS OWN BED. 26:35 SHE BRINGS HIM UP AND PUTS HIM ON THE BED OF THE MAN OF GOD. 26:38 WHY DOES SHE DO THAT? >>FAITH. 26:41 >>SHE'S SORT OF CLAIMING A PROMISE. 26:44 SHE'S SAYING, 'LOOK, THIS HAS BEEN A CHILD OF PROMISE. 26:47 YOU PROMISED ME THIS SON. YOU DID IT WHEN I WAS IN 26:50 YOUR ROOM IN YOUR DOORWAY. I'M GOING BACK WHERE I FIRST 26:54 HEARD THAT PROMISE AND I'M GOING TO REMIND GOD OF WHAT HE'S DONE. 26:58 SHE PUT HIM ON ELISHA'S BED. SHE'S STILL - DID SHE START TO 27:01 DOUBT THAT ELISHA WAS A MAN OF GOD? 27:03 NO, SHE JUST DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS HAS HAPPENED. 27:05 SO SHE'S GOT TO GO AND GET AHOLD OF THE SOURCE OF THE MIRACLE AND 27:10 SHE'S GOING TO NEED ANOTHER MIRACLE. 27:12 SHE PUTS HIM ON ELISHA'S BED, SHE SHUTS THE DOOR, AND SHE WENT 27:17 OUT. SHE DOESN'T TELL HER HUSBAND. 27:19 SHE CALLS HER HUSBAND - VERSE 22 - AND SHE SAYS, "...'SEND ME AND 27:23 ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN AND ONE OF THE DONKEYS, THAT I MAY RUN TO 27:27 THE MAN OF GOD AND COME BACK.'" I NEED TO GO ON AN ERRAND. 27:30 THAT'S 14 MILES AWAY. HE'S UP IN MOUNT CARMEL. 27:33 SHE'S WAY DOWN IN SHUNAM - SHUNAM IS IN THE FOOT OF MOUNT 27:37 TABOR. IT'S IN NORTHERN ISRAEL. 27:39 IF YOU KNOW YOUR BIBLE MAP, YOU KNOW WHERE THE TRIBE OF ISSACHAR 27:42 WAS, THE SHUNAMMITES LIVED WITH THE PEOPLE OF ISSACHAR. 27:45 SO IT'S ABOUT A 14-MILE JOURNEY. NOW 14 MILES ON A DONKEY - THOSE 27:49 ARE ROUGH MILES - AND IT TAKES AWHILE. 27:55 AND THE HUSBAND'S GOING, 'I DON'T UNDERSTAND.' HE STILL 27:56 DOESN'T KNOW HOW SERIOUS THE SON WAS. 27:58 HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. SHE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING TO HIM. 28:00 SHE DOESN'T WANT TO BE STOPPED. 'WHY ARE YOU GOING 28:03 TO HIM TODAY? IT'S NEITHER NEW MOON NOR THE 28:06 SABBATH.' I WON'T TAKE A DETOUR HERE, JUST A LITTLE ONE. 28:10 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IMPLIES? HE SAYS, 'WHY WOULD 28:14 YOU GO TO HIM TODAY? IT'S NOT THE SABBATH.' THAT 28:18 WOULD MEAN, IF IT WAS ANOTHER DAY OF THE WEEK, IT WOULD HAVE 28:20 BEEN NORMAL FOR THEM TO GATHER ON THE SABBATH. 28:24 SO WERE THEY STILL KEEPING THE SABBATH DURING THIS TIME, EVEN 28:26 IN THE NORTHERN KINGDOM? IT'S VERY IMPORTANT. 28:29 AND YOU KNOW WHO SAYS THIS IS A SHUNAMMITE, NOT AN ISRAELITE. 28:32 SO, FOR THOSE WHO WONDER 'WAS THE SABBATH IMPORTANT STILL 28:35 THROUGH THIS TIME PERIOD?' THEY WERE KEEPING THE SABBATH. 28:38 SHE SAID, 'IT'S OKAY. DON'T WORRY.' SHE 28:40 DOESN'T EXPLAIN IT. SHE SAYS, 'IT IS WELL.' AND YOU 28:42 KNOW WHAT THAT WORD IS - IT IS WELL? SHE SAYS, 'SHALOM.' SHALOM 28:47 IS SORT OF A UNIVERSAL WORD. IT'S LIKE WHEN KAREN AND I WENT 28:49 TO FIJI, THEY SAID 'BULA' FOR EVERYTHING. 28:53 BULA WAS HELLO, BULA WAS GREETINGS, BULA WAS HAPPY, BULA 28:56 WAS GOODBYE. IT WAS JUST ALL BULA VINAKA - BULA. 28:59 IT'S LIKE IN HAWAIIAN THEY SAY WHAT? 29:03 >>ALOHA. >>ALOHA. 29:04 YOU CAN SAY ALOHA - HELLO AND ALOHA - GOODBYE. AND SO SHE 29:10 SAYS, 'SHALOM - PEACE - IT'S OKAY, DON'T WORRY.' "THEN SHE 29:14 SADDLED A DONKEY, AND SAID TO HER SERVANT, 'DRIVE, AND GO 29:18 FORWARD; DO NOT SLACKEN THE PACE FOR ME UNLESS I TELL YOU.'" NOW, 29:22 WHEN SHE SAYS 'DRIVE AND GO FORWARD', THE WORD THERE IS 29:26 'MAKE HASTE'. NOW HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE RIDDEN 29:29 A HORSE IN YOUR LIFE? HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE RIDDEN A DONKEY? 29:34 WILL YOU AGREE THAT RIDING A DONKEY IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM 29:38 RIDING A HORSE? >>YES. 29:40 >>YOU CAN RIDE A HORSE AND, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS ABOUT 29:42 THEIR SIZE OR SOMETHING, BUT THERE'S A SMOOTHER GAIT OF 29:45 A HORSE WHEN IT'S GALLOPING. 29:47 IF YOU'RE TROTTING IT SHAKES YOU UP PRETTY GOOD, BUT WHEN A - A 29:49 HORSE HAS GOT A GAIT AND THEY'RE MOVING ALONG, YOU CAN STAY 29:53 PRETTY SMOOTH ON THEIR BACK. A DONKEY'S NOT LIKE THAT. 29:58 IF YOU GET ON A DONKEY - A DONKEY'S SORT OF - YOU DON'T SEE 30:00 A DONKEY GALLOP. DONKEYS JUST RUN REAL FAST. 30:05 AND YOU EVER SEE SOME OF THESE POWER RUNNERS? 30:07 KIND OF LOOKS WEIRD WHEN YOU SEE A POWER RUNNER. 30:10 YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT A PERSON TO RUN, YOU JUST BREAK INTO A 30:11 RUN, THERE'S SOMETHING SMOOTH ABOUT IT. 30:13 BUT THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE POWER WALKING...WELL, A DONKEY SORT OF 30:16 POWER RUNS. AND IF YOU'RE ON THE BACK OF A 30:19 DONKEY AND HE'S GOING FAST, HE'S LIKE (LAUGHTER) - REALLY, 30:23 THAT'S WHAT IT'S LIKE. AND SO SHE SAYS TO THE SERVANT, 30:29 "DO NOT SLACKEN THE PACE FOR ME" - HE MIGHT BE THINKING, 'YOU'RE 30:32 GETTING BEATEN TO DEATH.' SHE SAYS, 'I DON'T CARE. 30:34 THIS IS URGENT. GO FAST. 30:37 DO NOT SLOW DOWN UNLESS I TELL YOU.' "AND SO SHE DEPARTED, AND 30:41 WENT TO THE MAN OF GOD AT MOUNT CARMEL. 30:44 SO IT WAS, WHEN THE MAN OF GOD SAW HER AFAR OFF," - DOES GOD 30:48 SEE US AFAR OFF WHEN WE'RE COMING TO HIM? 30:50 >>YES. >>DID THE FATHER SEE THE 30:52 PRODIGAL SON FROM AFAR WHEN HE WAS COMING? 30:56 DOES THE LORD SEE US IF WE DRAW NEAR TO HIM? 30:59 HE SEES US WHEN WE'RE DRAWING NEAR. 31:02 AND SO, FROM AFAR OFF HE SAYS TO GEHAZI, "'LOOK, THAT'S THE 31:06 SHUNAMMITE WOMAN!'" - YOU KNOW WHY HE RECOGNIZED HER AFAR OFF? 31:09 BECAUSE HE USED TO SEE HER COME FOR SABBATH. 31:12 THAT'S WHY THE MAN - HER HUSBAND SAID, 'IT'S NOT SABBATH. 31:14 WHY ARE YOU GOING TO THE MAN OF GOD?' 31:17 SO SHE WAS A WORSHIPER. IS THAT CLEAR TO EVERYBODY? 31:20 HE RECOGNIZED HER WHEN SHE WAS COMING, RECOGNIZED HER SERVANT, 31:23 RECOGNIZED HER DONKEY, AND HE SAID, 'LOOK, THE SHUNAMMITE 31:25 WOMAN! PLEASE RUN NOW TO MEET HER,'" - 31:29 SO SHE'S DRAWING NEAR, HE RUNS TO MEET HER. THAT'S THE SAME 31:33 KIND OF STORY THAT YOU HEAR IN THE PRODIGAL SON. 31:37 WHEN THE PRODIGAL SON IS COMING HOME, NOT ONLY DOES THE FATHER 31:40 SEE HIM FROM AFAR OFF, IT SAYS HE RUNS TO MEET HIM. 31:45 AND HE RUNS TO MEET HER AND HE SAYS, CHECK WITH HER AND ASK 31:50 HER, 'IS IT WELL WITH YOU? IS IT WELL WITH YOUR HUSBAND?'" 31:53 - IT'S NOT THE SABBATH OR A NEW MOON, WHAT ARE YOU DOING 31:55 HERE? - "IS IT WELL WITH THE CHILD?" 31:57 - YOU KNOW WHAT HE'S ASKING? HE'S SAYING, 'IS IT SHALOM?' 32:00 'IS IT SHALOM?' AND GEHAZI GETS THERE - 32:02 HE SAYS, 'IS ALL WELL?' HE'S SAYING, 'IS ALL SHALOM?' 32:06 AND SHE ANSWERS, 'IT IS SHALOM.' NOW WHY DOES SHE NOT TELL GEHAZI 32:11 THERE'S A PROBLEM? FOR ONE THING, I THINK SHE 32:14 RECOGNIZED THAT GEHAZI DIDN'T HAVE THE FAITH. 32:18 YOU READ THE STORY OF GEHAZI FURTHER ON, YOU'LL KNOW THAT 32:20 TOO. NEXT CHAPTER TELLS YOU THAT 32:22 GEHAZI WAS SERVING ELISHA WITH ULTERIOR MOTIVES. 32:28 THAT'S IN CHAPTER 5, IN THE STORY OF NAAMAN. 32:30 SHE THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, GEHAZI'S NOT THE ONE I WANT. 32:32 I NEED TO GO DIRECTLY TO ELISHA. I NEED TO GET INTO HIS PRESENCE. 32:37 SHE SAID, 'IT'S FINE.' "NOW WHEN SHE CAME TO THE MAN OF GOD AT 32:41 THE HILL, SHE CAUGHT HIM BY THE FEET," - SHE LUNGES FOR HIS FEET 32:46 AND SHE CLINGS TO HIS FEET. 32:48 BUT GEHAZI - HE THOUGHT, 'WHAT'S GOING ON?' 32:50 HE LIKE - YOU KNOW - HE'S NOT ONLY THE APPRENTICE FOR ELISHA, 32:54 HE'S SORT OF THE BODY GUARD AND HE'S WONDERING WHY SHE'S GRABBED 32:57 HIM BY THE FEET. NOW IF YOU'RE GOING TO HURT 32:59 SOMEONE, YOU USUALLY DON'T GO FOR THEIR FEET. 33:01 THIS IS AN ACT OF PLEADING AND WORSHIP. 33:05 AND SHE GETS AHOLD OF HIS FEET AND SHE HANGS ON TO HIM AND 33:09 GEHAZI IS GOING TO THRUST HER AWAY, BUT HE SAYS, "LET HER 33:13 ALONE; FOR HER SOUL IS IN DEEP DISTRESS, AND THE LORD HAS 33:16 HIDDEN IT FROM ME, AND HAS NOT TOLD ME.' SO SHE SAID," - TO THE 33:21 MAN OF GOD - "'DID I ASK A SON OF MY LORD?'" 33:24 - 'I DIDN'T PRAY FOR A SON' - "DID I NOT SAY, 'DO NOT DECEIVE 33:28 ME'?'" - NOW SHE HASN'T SAID WHAT 33:31 HAPPENED, BUT RIGHT AWAY ELISHA KNOWS THAT THERE'S BEEN 33:33 SOMETHING TERRIBLE THAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE BOY. 33:36 ALL HE HAS TO DO IS LOOK AT THE MOTHER'S FACE AND REALIZE THAT 33:40 SHE'S LOST HER SON. 33:42 AND ELISHA SAYS, 'THE LORD HAS HIDDEN THIS FROM ME.' AND HE 33:48 SAYS TO GEHAZI, VERSE 29, "GET YOURSELF READY, AND TAKE MY 33:53 STAFF IN YOUR HAND, AND BE ON YOUR WAY. 33:56 IF YOU MEET ANYONE, DO NOT GREET HIM; AND IF ANYONE GREETS YOU, 34:01 DO NOT ANSWER HIM;" - NOW I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOME THINGS THAT 34:03 ARE HAPPENING HERE. I'M RUSHING ALONG WITH THE STORY. 34:06 HE INVITED HER REQUEST. SHE PRAYS. 34:09 SHE HAS A MIRACLE BIRTH - THIS IS WHAT MARY DOES - HER SON DIES 34:15 IN THE FIELD. NOW WHO DOES THIS MIRACLE SON REPRESENT? 34:19 >>JESUS. >>HE'S A TYPE OF JESUS. 34:21 WHAT IS THE FIELD? CHRIST SAYS, 'THE SOWER IS 34:25 SOWING THE GOOD SEED, RIGHT? THE FIELD IS THE WORLD. 34:29 JESUS IS OUT WORKING IN THE FIELD. 34:32 AND WHEN SHE GETS TO ELISHA SHE GRABS HIM BY THE FEET AND SHE 34:36 CLINGS AND SHE WILL NOT LET GO. WHAT DOES MARY DO WITH JESUS? 34:41 AT THE RESURRECTION? SHE LUNGES FOR HIS FEET - TO 34:44 GRAB HIM - TO WORSHIP HIM - AND HE SAYS, 'DO NOT CLING TO ME FOR 34:48 I HAVE NOT YET ASCENDED TO MY FATHER.' BUT SOMETIMES YOU'VE 34:52 GOT TO GET AHOLD OF THE LORD - WHAT DID JACOB DO? 34:56 HE SAID, 'I WILL NOT LET YOU GO UNLESS YOU BLESS ME.' SO WHEN 35:00 ELISHA SAYS TO GEHAZI, 'LOOK, I WANT YOU TO RUN AHEAD. 35:04 HERE'S WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO. GO NOW AND TAKE MY STAFF IN YOUR 35:12 HAND' - I'M IN VERSE 29 - "IF YOU MEET ANYONE" - ALONG THE WAY 35:16 - DO NOT GREET HIM; IF ANYONE GREETS YOU DO NOT ANSWER HIM, 35:20 BUT LAY MY STAFF ON THE FACE OF THE CHILD." 35:24 IT'S URGENT. THE BOY HAS DIED. YOU DON'T WANT TO WAIT TOO 35:26 LONG IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A RESURRECTION. 35:29 THAT'S WHY IT WAS SUCH A MIRACLE WHEN LAZARUS WAS RAISED. 35:32 MOST OTHER RESURRECTIONS THAT JESUS PERFORMED - WASN'T THAT 35:34 LONG AFTER. NOW, ISN'T IT INTERESTING 35:39 THAT WHEN JESUS SENT OUT THE DISCIPLES, HE ACTUALLY SAYS 35:42 TO THE DISCIPLES WHEN THEY'RE PREACHING - LUKE 10, VERSE 3, 35:47 "GO YOUR WAY; BEHOLD, I SEND YOU OUT AS LAMBS AMONG WOLVES. 35:51 CARRY NEITHER MONEY BAG, KNAPSACK, NOR SANDALS; AND GREET 35:55 NO ONE ALONG THE ROAD." WHY DID JESUS SEND THE DISCIPLES 35:59 OUT AND SAY 'GREET NO ONE ON THE ROAD'? 36:01 WOULDN'T YOU THINK CHRISTIANS WOULD BE TOLD 'BE FRIENDLY TO 36:03 PEOPLE ON THE ROAD'? WHAT JESUS IS SAYING IS 'AS YOU 36:07 GO FROM TOWN TO TOWN, YOU'VE GOT A MISSION. 36:10 DO NOT GET DISTRACTED ALONG THE WAY WITH IDLE CHATTER, BUT BE 36:15 FOCUSED ON GETTING TO YOUR NEXT MISSION. 36:18 AND THE DEVIL'S GOING TO TRY TO DISTRACT YOU. 36:21 HE'S SAYING TO GEHAZI, 'DON'T LINGER.' WHEN PEOPLE WOULD PASS 36:24 EACH OTHER ON THE ROAD - NOW, YOU DON'T DO IT IN OUR CULTURE 36:27 BECAUSE YOU DRIVE BY AND YOU DON'T EVEN GIVE A PERSON A LOOK. 36:29 EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU'LL, YOU KNOW, WAVE TO ANOTHER DRIVER - 36:33 HOPEFULLY YOU'RE WAVING TO ANOTHER DRIVER (LAUGHTER). 36:36 YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE COMING AND GOING SO FAST. 36:38 BACK IN A LITTLE MORE RURAL LIFE, WHEN PEOPLE PASSED EACH 36:41 OTHER, THE POLITE THING WAS YOU'D STOP AND YOU'D VISIT AND 36:45 THEN YOU'D GO ON YOUR WAY TO THE MARKET OR ON YOUR WAY BACK TO 36:48 THE RANCH. AND SO GEHAZI'S SAYING - OR 36:50 ELISHA SAYS TO GEHAZI, 'DON'T EVEN SLOW DOWN. 36:54 BUT MAKE HASTE AS YOU GO.' AND GEHAZI WENT AHEAD OF THEM. 36:59 BUT THE MOTHER SAYS, IN VERSE 30, "AS THE LORD LIVES, AND AS 37:03 YOUR SOUL LIVES, I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU." 37:06 SHE SAID, 'YOU MIGHT BE SENDING YOUR SERVANT, BUT I'M NOT GOING 37:09 ANYWHERE WITHOUT YOU. YOU'RE THE ONE THAT 37:12 PROMISED ME THIS CHILD. I NEED YOU TO COME.' AND SO HE 37:16 TELLS GEHAZI, HE SAYS, 'WELL, DO WHAT I'VE SAID.' SO GEHAZI RUNS 37:20 OFF AHEAD AND SHE AND ELISHA FOLLOW AFTER. 37:24 YOU CAN SEE THAT - SHE SAYS, 'I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU.' AND 37:28 IT SAYS, "SO HE AROSE AND FOLLOWED HER." 37:30 - ELISHA SAID, 'I WILL GO WITH YOU.' - "NOW GEHAZI WENT ON 37:34 AHEAD OF THEM," - HE'S RUNNING ON AHEAD - HE'S YOUNGER - AND HE 37:37 COMES TO THE RANCH AND HE GOES UPSTAIRS IN THE ROOM AND, SURE 37:40 ENOUGH, THERE'S THE BOY ON THE BED STONE COLD - SILENT - AND 37:45 GEHAZI TAKES THE STAFF AND HE LAYS IT ON THE FACE OF THE 37:47 CHILD, PULLS IT OFF, NOTHING HAPPENS. 37:51 MAYBE HE TRIES IT A SECOND OR A THIRD TIME. 37:54 THERE'S NOTHING. THEREFORE HE GOES BACK AND NOW HE MEETS 37:57 ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN EN ROUTE AND HE SAYS, "THE CHILD 38:01 HAS NOT AWAKENED." WHAT DID THEY - WHAT WORD DID THEY USE TO 38:05 REFER TO DEATH? >>SLEEP. 38:08 >>SEE, EVEN BACK THEN THEY REFERRED TO IT AS 'SLEEP'. 38:11 NOW WHY - DIDN'T ELISHA TELL HIM WHAT TO DO WITH THE STAFF? 38:15 WHY DIDN'T IT WORK? DID JESUS SEND OUT THE 38:19 DISCIPLES TO CAST OUT DEVILS? DID IT WORK MOST OF THE TIME? 38:23 CAN YOU THINK OF AT LEAST ONE TIME IT DIDN'T WORK? 38:25 >>YES. >>THEY SAID TO THE LORD, 'WHY 38:27 COULDN'T WE CAST THE DEVIL OUT OF THAT BOY?' 38:30 - THAT'S IN MARK CHAPTER 9 - AND JESUS SAID, 'THIS KIND COMES 38:33 FORTH BY NOTHING EXCEPT PRAYER AND FASTING.' 38:37 THIS IS A SERIOUS CASE. NOW, IT DOESN'T EVEN HAPPEN 38:41 FOR ELISHA RIGHT AWAY. AND SO THIS BECOMES A 38:44 REAL SPIRITUAL BATTLE. AND ELISHA CAME INTO THE HOUSE 38:48 WHERE THE CHILD WAS - VERSE 32 - "LYING DEAD ON HIS BED. 38:54 HE WENT IN THEREFORE, SHUT THE DOOR BEHIND THE TWO OF THEM," - 38:57 THE TWO OF THEM BEING HE AND THE BOY - "AND HE PRAYED TO THE 39:01 LORD. AND HE WENT UP AND LAY ON THE 39:04 CHILD," - HE PROBABLY COULDN'T DO IT ALL AT ONCE BECAUSE HE - 39:07 YOU KNOW - HE'S A LOT BIGGER THAN THIS LITTLE BOY. 39:11 AND IT SAYS HE "PUT HIS MOUTH ON HIS MOUTH," - AND IN ONE COMMENT 39:14 HERE I READ IT SAID HE MAY HAVE BREATHED INTO HIM, TRYING TO 39:17 INFLATE HIS LUNGS. THEY USED TO DO THAT SOMETIMES, 39:20 EVEN IF A PERSON DROWNED BACK THEN - HE PUT "HIS EYES ON HIS 39:24 EYES, AND HIS HANDS ON HIS HANDS; AND HE STRETCHED HIMSELF 39:30 OUT ON THE CHILD, AND THE FLESH OF THE CHILD BECAME WARM." 39:34 IT'S NOT - ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN WARMED 39:40 DAVID AND YEARS LATER, NOW YOU'VE GOT THE PROPHET - THE 39:43 ISRAELITE - WARMING THE SHUNAMMITE BOY? 39:46 BUT HE'S NOT ALIVE - "HE RETURNED AND WALKED BACK AND 39:50 FORTH IN THE HOUSE," - HE WENT BACK DOWNSTAIRS AND HE'S PACING 39:52 BACK AND FORTH. WHAT DO YOU THINK HE'S DOING? 39:54 >>PRAYING. >>HE'S PRAYING. 39:56 YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I THINK HE'S THINKING? 39:58 ELISHA REMEMBERED WHERE ELIJAH RAISED A BOY. 40:03 GOD PROMISED ELISHA WOULD HAVE A DOUBLE PORTION OF ELIJAH'S 40:07 SPIRIT. ELIJAH LIVED WITH A WIDOW WOMAN 40:10 WHO BUILT - WHO PUT HIM IN AN UPPER ROOM - AND HER SON DIED - 40:15 VERY SIMILAR - AND SHE WAS NOT AN ISRAELITE, SHE WAS A 40:18 CANAANITE - AND HE HAD TO PRAY AND STRETCH HIMSELF UPON THE 40:23 CHILD SEVERAL TIMES AND THEN THERE WAS A RESURRECTION. 40:26 WHEN THE RAIN CAME FOR ELISHA, DID THE ANSWER COME RIGHT AWAY 40:29 OR DID HE HAVE TO PRAY AND PRAY? SEVEN TIMES HE PRAYED. 40:34 AND HE WENT UP AND HE STRETCHED HIMSELF ON THE CHILD AGAIN, LIKE 40:39 ELISHA - LIKE ELIJAH DID - AND HE'S PRAYING AND HE'S CLAIMING 40:44 THE PROMISES OF GOD. AND YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE HE'S 40:46 SAYING, 'LORD, YOU INSPIRED ME TO TELL THIS WOMAN SHE WOULD 40:49 HAVE A CHILD - LIKE ABRAHAM AND SARAH HAD ISAAC - A 40:53 MIRACLE HAS HAPPENED. YOU'VE GOT A PLAN FOR THIS 40:54 CHILD AND NOW HE'S BEEN GONE. RESURRECT HIM. 40:58 WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOUR NAME? 40:59 THEY'RE GOING TO THINK YOU FAILED, LORD.' I CAN JUST 41:01 IMAGINE ALL THE THINGS THAT ELISHA WAS SAYING TO THE LORD. 41:04 BUT HE CONTINUES TO PRAY. HE INTERCEDES. 41:08 THIS ANSWER DOESN'T COME EASY. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE 41:10 MOTHER'S DOING DOWNSTAIRS? SHE'S PRAYING TOO. 41:14 BUT FINALLY, THE CHILD REVIVES AND THE FIRST THING HE DOES IS 41:19 HE SNEEZES SEVEN TIMES. 41:22 NOW, YOU MIGHT SEE SOMEBODY TWITCH THEIR EYES, YOU SAY, 'DID 41:24 THEY MOVE?' 'WAS THERE A FLINCH?' 41:29 BUT WHEN SOMEONE SNEEZES - YOU EVER TRIED TO HIDE A SNEEZE? 41:31 (LAUGHTER) A SNEEZE IS SOMETHING THAT'S FULL OF LIFE. 41:35 IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS VERY AGGRESSIVE. 41:38 IT'S VERY ANIMATED. AND WHEN SOMEONE SNEEZES SEVEN 41:40 TIMES, IT MEANS, 'WOW, I GUESS THEY'RE REALLY ALIVE!' 41:44 AND IT'S - ANOTHER THING THAT'S HAPPENING IS WHEN YOU SNEEZE YOU 41:49 BREATHE DEEPLY AND YOU KIND OF CLEAR YOURSELF OUT. 41:54 WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS THAT CAUSED THIS 41:57 DEATH, BUT SEVEN'S ANOTHER NUMBER. 42:00 IT SYMBOLIZES THAT HE IS VERY ALIVE. HE'S EXPELLING - 42:05 JESUS CAST SEVEN DEVILS OUT OF MARY MAGDALENE. 42:09 DO YOU KNOW WHY THEY SAY 'GESUNDHEIT' WHEN YOU SNEEZE? 42:12 BECAUSE THERE WAS A BELIEF THAT YOU HAD SOME GERM OR SOMETHING 42:15 IN YOU AND YOUR SNEEZING CLEARS IT OUT. 42:19 THERE'S AN ELEMENT OF TRUTH TO THAT. 42:22 SNEEZING IS SUPPOSED TO EXPEL THINGS THAT ARE NOT HEALTHY FOR 42:25 YOUR SINUSES - WHETHER IT BE POLLEN OR GERMS OR WHATEVER. 42:29 SO HIS SNEEZING SEVEN TIMES IS A SIGN OF THE EVIL BEING SENT OUT 42:33 AND HE'S HEALED. HE'S CLEANSED. 42:36 AND HE OPENS HIS EYES AND HE CALLED GEHAZI AND HE SAYS TO 42:41 HIM, 'GO CALL THIS SHUNAMMITE WOMAN.' 42:44 SO HE CALLED HER, AND SHE CAME IN TO HIM. 42:47 HE SAID, 'PICK UP YOUR SON. LAST TIME YOU SET HIM ON MY BED. 42:51 HE WAS DEAD. NOW HE'S ALIVE. 42:54 RECEIVE YOUR SON.' AND SHE WENT IN AND WHAT DOES SHE DO? 42:58 BEFORE SHE PICKS UP HER SON? SHE FALLS AT HIS FEET AGAIN AND 43:01 BOWS TO THE GROUND AND THEN SHE PICKED UP HER SON. 43:04 SHE WORSHIPS HIM, SHE PICKS UP HER SON, AND SHE WENT OUT. 43:09 NOW THAT'S THE STORY. THIS IS A WONDERFUL STORY THAT 43:13 HELPS ILLUSTRATE THE PROMISES OF GOD IN THE BIBLE. 43:19 YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT THE LAST TIME THE SHUNAMMITE APPEARS IN 43:22 THE BIBLE ACCOUNT. A FEW YEARS LATER, ELISHA THE 43:27 PROPHET COMES TO THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN AND YOU READ IN 2 KINGS 8 43:32 - YOU HAVE TO JUMP AHEAD A FEW CHAPTERS. 43:34 THIS IS THE SAME ONE - YOU KNOW WHAT'S AMAZING ABOUT THIS WOMAN? 43:36 WHAT'S HER NAME? IT'S NEVER GIVEN. 43:41 IT JUST CALLS HER 'THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN'. 43:43 PEOPLE WERE OFTEN NAMED BY THEIR PLACES - LIKE JESUS WAS CALLED 43:46 'JESUS OF NAZARETH'. AND THIS IS THIS 43:49 WEALTHY WOMAN OF SHUNAM. DON'T YOU WISH YOU 43:51 KNEW WHAT HER NAME WAS? I THINK ONE REASON HER NAME'S 43:53 NOT GIVEN IS BECAUSE SHE REPRESENTS SOMETHING. 43:56 I'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A MINUTE. 43:59 ELISHA SPEAKS - 2 KINGS 8, VERSE 1 - "THEN ELISHA SPOKE TO THE 44:03 WOMAN WHOSE SON HE HAD RESTORED TO LIFE, SAYING, 'ARISE AND GO, 44:08 YOU AND YOUR HOUSEHOLD, AND STAY WHEREVER YOU CAN; FOR THE LORD 44:12 HAS CALLED FOR A FAMINE, AND FURTHERMORE, IT WILL COME UPON 44:16 THE LAND FOR SEVEN YEARS.'" - WAS THERE ANOTHER SEVEN-YEAR 44:19 FAMINE IN THE DAYS OF JOSEPH? WAS THERE A FAMINE 44:23 IN THE DAYS OF RUTH? AND NAOMI AND HER HOUSEHOLD WENT 44:28 TO LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE BECAUSE THERE WAS A FAMINE. 44:32 AND SO HE'S PREPARING HER IN ADVANCE - 'GO LIVE WHERE YOU 44:35 CAN, BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE A FAMINE IN NORTHERN ISRAEL.' AND 44:38 YOU WONDER IF THAT WAS ONE OF THE FAMINES THAT CAME BECAUSE OF 44:41 THE IDOLATRY THAT IS SPOKEN OF. "SO THE WOMAN AROSE" - WAS THERE 44:46 A DROUGHT DURING THE TIME OF ELIJAH? 44:48 HOW LONG WAS THE DROUGHT DURING THE TIME OF ELIJAH? 44:51 >>THREE YEARS. >>THREE AND A HALF. 44:53 HOW LONG IS THE FAMINE DURING THE TIME OF ELISHA? 44:56 >>SIX. >>SEVEN, WHICH IS TWO TIMES 45:00 THREE AND A HALF. INTERESTING, HUH? 45:04 ELISHA GETS A DOUBLE PORTION. 45:07 ELISHA GETS TWICE AS MUCH FAMINE - (LAUGHTER) - AS ELIJAH HAD - 45:13 "SO THE WOMAN AROSE AND DID ACCORDING TO THE SAYING OF THE 45:15 MAN OF GOD, AND SHE WENT WITH HER HOUSEHOLD AND DWELT IN THE 45:18 LAND OF THE PHILISTINES" - THAT WAS DOWN - LOWER REGIONS - THEY 45:21 WERE ABLE TO WATER BY HAND DOWN THERE FOR - "SEVEN YEARS. 45:25 IT CAME TO PASS, AT THE END OF SEVEN YEARS, THAT THE WOMAN 45:28 RETURNED FROM THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES; AND SHE WENT TO 45:32 MAKE AN APPEAL TO THE KING FOR HER HOUSE AND FOR HER LAND." 45:34 - WHY IS SHE DOING THIS? BECAUSE WHILE SHE WAS GONE, 45:39 THE OTHER NEIGHBORS MOVED IN. THEY TOOK OVER. 45:41 THEY SAID, 'OH, SHE'S LEFT AND SHE'S JUST A CANAANITE. 45:44 SHE'S NOT ONE OF US.' AND THEY MOVED IN. 45:47 THEY TOOK OVER HER RANCH. THEY TOOK OVER HER LAND - EVEN 45:49 THOUGH IT WAS HERS AND IT HAD BEEN FOR GENERATIONS. 45:51 SHE GETS BACK HOME AND THEY'VE OCCUPIED HER PLACE AND THEY 45:54 SAID, 'LOOK, FINDERS KEEPERS. POSSESSION IS NINE-TENTHS OF THE 45:58 LAW. YOU WERE GONE. YOU WERE GONE FOR YEARS. 46:00 WE STUCK THROUGH THE FAMINE. YOU'RE NOT GETTING YOUR LAND 46:02 BACK.' THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN HELP HER 46:04 NOW IS THE KING. YOU REMEMBER, ONCE, ELISHA SAID 46:07 TO HER, 'CAN I SPEAK TO THE KING FOR YOU?'? SO IT JUST SO HAPPENS 46:12 THAT ON THE VERY DAY THAT THE KING IS SITTING AS SUPREME COURT 46:16 - THERE WERE JUDGES IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL THAT WOULD TAKE CARE 46:19 OF THE MINOR CASES, BUT THE MAJOR CASES WERE BROUGHT TO THE 46:22 KING DIRECTLY AND THE DIFFERENT CASES WOULD COME. 46:25 AND WHILE THE KING AND THE COURT AND THE SCRIBES ARE WRITING 46:28 THINGS OUT AND THEY'RE SAYING, 'NEXT CASE.' THEN THEY'D HAVE A 46:30 BREAK AND 'NEXT CASE.' AND IN THE BREAKS, BETWEEN THE CASES, 46:33 GEHAZI IS VISITING WITH THE KING OF ISRAEL AND THE KING IS 46:38 SAYING, 'TELL ME, YOU SAW ELISHA FIRST HAND. 46:40 TELL ME SOME OF THE MIRACLES THAT YOU'VE SEEN WORKING WITH 46:43 ELISHA.' YOU CAN READ HERE, IT SAYS "THEN THE KING TALKED WITH 46:46 GEHAZI, THE SERVANT OF THE MAN OF GOD, SAYING, 'TELL ME, 46:49 PLEASE, ALL THE GREAT THINGS ELISHA HAS DONE.' NOW IT 46:53 HAPPENED," - HE GETS TO THE GREATEST THING - HE WAS TELLING 46:55 THE KING HOW HE RESTORED THE DEAD TO LIFE AND THERE WAS THE 47:00 WOMAN - RIGHT WHEN HE WAS TELLING HIM ABOUT THIS 47:02 RESURRECTION - 'I SAW IT WITH - THE BOY WAS DEAD. 47:04 I LAID THE STAFF ON HIS FACE AND HE DIDN'T COME BACK TO LIFE.' 47:07 AND THEN THE CLERK SAYS, 'YOUR MAJESTY, NEXT CASE.' HE SAID, 47:12 'OKAY, BRING IT. BRING IT IN. WHO IS IT?' 'OH IT'S THIS WOMAN. 47:15 SHE'S A CANAANITE WOMAN - SHUNAMMITE.' 'OH, WHAT DOES SHE 47:18 WANT?' AND GEHAZI SAYS TO THE KING, 47:22 'YOUR MAJESTY, THAT'S THE WOMAN AND THAT'S THE BOY THAT WAS DEAD 47:27 AND WAS BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE AGAIN.' THAT'S ALL THE 47:30 KING NEEDED TO HEAR. ISN'T GOD'S PROVIDENCE 47:32 INTERESTING? >>YES. 47:34 >>AND HE SAYS, 'THIS IS THE - THIS IS THE ONE RIGHT HERE - 47:37 THIS IS THE - THE WOMAN WHOSE SON WAS RESTORED.' AND THERE SHE 47:42 WAS, APPEALING TO THE KING FOR HER HOUSE AND HER LAND AND 47:45 GEHAZI SAYS, 'THIS IS HER AND THIS IS HER SON THAT ELISHA 47:47 RESTORED TO LIFE.' AND THEY SAID - HE BRINGS THEM IN AND SAYS, 47:50 'TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED.' AND SHE, THROUGH GEHAZI 47:51 TRANSLATING, SAYS, 'IT'S TRUE. 47:53 HE WAS COMPLETELY DEAD AND ELISHA BROUGHT HIM BACK TO 47:56 LIFE.' AND WHEN THE KING ASKED THE WOMAN, SHE TOLD HIM. 48:02 SO THE KING APPOINTED A CERTAIN OFFICER AND HE SAID, 'YOU FOLLOW 48:05 THIS WOMAN. TAKE SOME SOLDIERS WITH YOU. 48:06 YOU GO BACK TO HER TERRITORY AND YOU TELL HER NEIGHBORS, 'THUS 48:09 SAYS THE KING: EVERYTHING THAT WAS HERS THAT SHE LOST WILL BE 48:14 RESTORED.'' AND NOT ONLY DID SHE GET ALL HER LAND BACK, THE KING 48:19 WENT EVEN FURTHER AND HE SAID, 'AND, ANY INCOME FROM THE 48:24 PRODUCE ON THAT LAND DURING THE SEVEN YEARS SHE WAS GONE, 48:28 THEY'LL RESTORE THAT TOO. SO SHE DIDN'T LOSE 48:33 ANYTHING BY BEING GONE. NOW THIS WOMAN HAD A 48:37 SON THAT WAS GIVEN WHY? SHE MADE A PLACE IN 48:41 HER HOME FOR GOD. BECAUSE SHE INVITED THE LORD - 48:46 AND IN INVITING ELISHA - JESUS SAID, 'WHEN PEOPLE DO IT TO YOU 48:49 THEY DO IT TO ME.' HERE'S THE POINT OF EVERYTHING I'VE SAID. 48:53 SO IF YOU MISSED EVERYTHING ELSE, JUST CATCH THIS: IN 48:56 INVITING ELISHA INTO HER HOME, SHE WAS INVITING THE LORD INTO 49:01 THEIR LIVES. IN DOING THAT SHE 49:04 RECEIVED GREAT BLESSINGS. WHAT SHE AND HER HUSBAND WANTED 49:06 MORE THAN ANYTHING WAS A SON. SHE GOT A SON OF PROMISE - 49:11 A MIRACLE SON. WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT 49:13 IN BIBLE PROPHECY? >>CHURCH. 49:15 >>CHRIST NEEDS TO BE IN OUR HOME - IN OUR CHURCH FIRST AND 49:20 FOREMOST - AND ALSO IN YOUR HOMES. 49:22 SO SHE INVITES HIM IN, HAS A MIRACLE BOY - BUT THEN THERE'S A 49:28 TRIAL THAT COMES. THE BOY IS TAKEN AWAY. 49:32 SHE GOES BACK TO THE MAN OF GOD, PRAYS AGAIN, HE IS RESTORED AND 49:36 HE CONTINUES TO GROW UP. 49:38 HER LAND, THROUGH THE MAN OF GOD, BECAUSE SHE HAS THIS 49:41 RELATIONSHIP - ELISHA DOESN'T TELL HIS OWN PEOPLE 'THERE'S 49:44 GOING TO BE A FAMINE, YOU NEED TO RUN FOR COVER.' BUT HE TELLS 49:47 THIS WOMAN. WHY DOES HE TELL THIS WOMAN? BECAUSE THEY HAVE A 49:51 RELATIONSHIP. SHE REPRESENTS THE CHURCH. 49:54 DOES GOD GIVE US PROPHECY IN HIS WORD? DOES THE LORD SPEAK TO US 49:57 IN A WAY HE DOESN'T SPEAK TO EVERYONE ELSE? 49:59 DO WE KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT'S COMING OTHER PEOPLE DON'T 50:01 KNOW? WHY? BECAUSE WE'VE OPENED OUR DOOR 50:04 AND SAID, 'LORD, THIS IS YOUR HOUSE. 50:06 WE WANT YOU IN OUR HOUSE.' WILL HE DO THAT FOR YOU PERSONALLY? 50:10 >>YES. >>AND SHE LOSES EVERYTHING 50:12 DURING THIS FAMINE BUT SHE GOES BACK TO THE MAN OF GOD AND SHE 50:15 PRAYS AND IT'S ALL RESTORED AGAIN. 50:18 BECAUSE OF HER RELATIONSHIP WITH ELISHA, THE KING GIVES 50:20 EVERYTHING BACK. WITH THE PROCEEDS. 50:24 THIS IS A STORY OF GREAT RESTORATION. 50:27 IT HAS TO DO WITH OUR INVITING GOD INTO OUR LIVES. 50:30 WHAT THAT WOMAN DID WITH ELISHA THE LORD WANTS US TO DO WITH 50:33 JESUS. NOW, ONE MORE THING I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU. 50:37 THERE ARE SEVEN EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE - IT'S INTERESTING, SEVEN 50:39 YEARS OF FAMINE, SEVEN SNEEZES - THERE ARE SEVEN MIRACLE BABIES 50:42 IN THE BIBLE. YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ME SAY THIS 50:45 BEFORE, BUT THIS IS ONE OF THE STORIES SO IT BEARS REPEATING, 50:48 ESPECIALLY DURING THIS TIME OF YEAR. 50:51 SEVEN WOMEN IN THE BIBLE WERE BARREN - THAT HAD BABIES - THEY 50:55 ALL HAD BABY BOYS, WHICH IS UNUSUAL - THAT ARE ALL TYPES OF 50:59 CHRISTS. SARAH HAS WHO? >>ISAAC. 51:04 >>ISAAC. IS ISAAC A TYPE OF CHRIST? 51:07 >>YES. >>GOES UP TO THE PLACE OF 51:09 SACRIFICE WITH THE WOOD ON HIS BACK. 51:11 HE'S A WILLING SACRIFICE LIKE JESUS. 51:13 ISAAC'S A TYPE OF CHRIST. REBEKKAH IS BARREN. 51:17 ISAAC PRAYS FOR HER. SHE HAS TWINS. THEIR NAMES? 51:21 >>JACOB AND ESAU. >>JACOB AND ESAU. 51:23 JACOB WAS THE ONE WHO RECEIVES THE SPIRITUAL BLESSING. 51:26 HE'S A TYPE OF CHRIST. HE'S THE FATHER OF THE PATRIARCHS. 51:28 HE HAS TWELVE PATRIARCHS. JESUS HAS TWELVE DISCIPLES. 51:32 HE'S A SHEPHERD - AND THERE'S MANY WAYS THAT JACOB IS A 51:34 PARALLEL OF CHRIST. HE INTERCEDES. 51:37 HE WRESTLES WITH GOD. RACHEL IS BARREN. 51:41 SHE GETS AHOLD OF JACOB AND SAYS, 'GIVE ME CHILDREN E'RE I 51:43 DIE.' HE SAYS, 'AM I THE LORD?' SHE WAS HAVING PROBLEMS. 51:47 BUT THROUGH PRAYER, SHE HAS A SON. 51:50 WHAT'S HIS NAME? FIRST BORN? >>JOSEPH. 51:51 >>JOSEPH - HER FIRSTBORN - JOSEPH. 51:54 WAS JOSEPH A TYPE OF CHRIST? SOLD BY HIS OWN BROTHERS FOR 51:58 SILVER, BUT HE FORGIVES THEM. FEEDS THE WHOLE WORLD. 52:02 I MEAN, WONDERFUL ANALOGIES OF JOSEPH AND JESUS. THE ROBE OF 52:06 JOSEPH IS COVERED WITH BLOOD AND PRESENTED TO THE FATHER. 52:10 THERE'S A WOMAN - WE DON'T KNOW HER NAME - MANOAH'S WIFE - WE 52:13 KNOW HIS NAME - SHE'S BARREN - HAS A MIRACLE SON. 52:17 WHAT'S HIS NAME? >>SAMSON. 52:19 >>SAMSON. IS HE A TYPE OF CHRIST? 52:21 I KNOW HE DID A LOT OF THINGS WRONG, BUT HE KILLS THE LION 52:23 LIKE DAVID AND HE SACRIFICES HIS LIFE AT THE END. 52:30 SAMSON WAS BLINDED AS JESUS WAS BLINDED. 52:34 HE WAS BOUND AS JESUS WAS BOUND. 52:36 HE WAS IMPRISONED AS JESUS WAS IMPRISONED. 52:38 AND THEN HE STRETCHES OUT HIS ARMS, HE'S FILLED WITH THE 52:41 SPIRIT AND HE DEFEATS GOD'S ENEMIES THROUGH HIS DEATH. 52:45 THIS IS WHAT JESUS DID, SO SAMSON IS A TYPE OF CHRIST. 52:49 DO YOU SEE THAT? HANNAH - >>SAMUEL. 52:54 >>HAS A SON NAMED SAMUEL. IS SAMUEL A TYPE OF CHRIST? 52:57 HE'S A PROPHET. HE'S A PRIEST. 53:00 HE'S A JUDGE IN ISRAEL - LIVES A GODLY LIFE. 53:02 YOU WON'T FIND A RECORD OF SAMUEL FAILING. 53:05 THE ONLY THING SAMUEL EVER DOES WRONG IS HE THINKS THAT ELIAB IS 53:08 SUPPOSED TO BE THE KING AND GOD SAYS DON'T LOOK ON THE OUTSIDE. 53:10 IT'S NOT HIM, IT'S THE YOUNGEST. IT'S DAVID.' BUT EVERYTHING 53:13 ELSE, SAMUEL IS ALWAYS FAITHFUL. HE LISTENS TO GOD. 53:16 AND THEN YOU KNOW WHO YOU HAVE NEXT? 53:18 THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN. HER SON - THAT WE JUST READ 53:21 ABOUT - DIES IN THE FIELD WORKING WITH HIS 53:24 FATHER IN A HARVEST. DIDN'T JESUS SAY THAT HE'S 53:28 COME TO HELP WITH THE HARVEST? AND THEN, FINALLY, YOU HAVE IN 53:32 THE NEW TESTAMENT, ANOTHER OLD FATHER AND A MOTHER THAT ARE 53:37 CHILDLESS THAT HAVE A MIRACLE BOY. WHAT'S HIS NAME? 53:41 JOHN THE BAPTIST - WHO IS THE FORERUNNER OF JESUS. 53:45 THESE ARE ALL TYPES OF CHRIST. AND IN EACH CASE, IT TALKS ABOUT 53:49 THEM INVITING GOD INTO THEIR HOMES. 53:52 AND THAT'S WHAT THIS STORY IS ABOUT. 53:54 THIS WOMAN MADE A PLACE FOR GOD IN THE HOME - TO STAY AS A GUEST 53:57 - AND THEN HE BLESSES WITH THE GREATEST BLESSINGS. 54:01 ALL IS RESTORED. THERE'S A RESURRECTION THAT TAKES PLACE. 54:04 THE POWER OF GOD IS SEEN AND THIS IS REALLY A STORY ABOUT 54:07 JESUS. DO YOU SEE THAT? 54:08 >>AMEN. >>I SEE THIS. 54:10 THIS IS A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL STORY IN THE BIBLE. 54:12 NOW, THE QUESTION IS, IS OUR CHURCH OPEN TO CHRIST? 54:20 YOU KNOW, WHEN THIS WOMAN, WHO IS A TYPE OF THE CHURCH - THIS 54:24 SHUNAMMITE WOMAN, SHE BECAME A WITNESS TO ALL OF HER NEIGHBORS. 54:29 CHRIST WAS BORN IN HER HOME - OR THIS BABY MIRACLE BIRTH TAKES 54:33 PLACE IN HER HOME AND THEN THERE'S A RESURRECTION THAT 54:35 TAKES PLACE - JESUS WAS BORN TWICE MIRACULOUSLY. 54:40 HIS FIRST BIRTH WAS A MIRACLE - HIS RESURRECTION - HIS SECOND 54:44 BIRTH - WAS A MIRACLE. THIS CHILD HAS 54:46 BOTH THOSE BIRTHS. ALL OF THIS HAS TO HAPPEN 54:49 BECAUSE SHE INVITES HIM INTO HER HOME. 54:53 ARE WE INVITING CHRIST INTO OUR CHURCH? 54:56 HE WILL DO THINGS FOR US AND BLESS US IN WAYS UNLIKE OTHERS 55:00 BECAUSE WE HAVE THAT RELATIONSHIP. 55:01 AND ARE WE INVITING HIM INTO OUR HOMES? 55:03 I THINK WE ALL KNOW ABOUT COMMON HOSPITALITY. 55:06 THIS GOES BEYOND THAT - HAVING AN ONGOING RELATIONSHIP WHERE 55:09 YOU'RE IN COMMUNICATION WITH JESUS EVERY DAY. 55:11 DO YOU WANT THAT RELATIONSHIP? I DO TOO. (MUSIC) 55:26 >>TODAY'S SMART PHONES ARE A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE OF 55:28 INFORMATION THAT FITS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND. 55:31 IT'S A GOOD THING WE HAVE OPPOSABLE THUMBS! 55:33 WITH IT YOU CAN BUY YOUR GROCERIES, TAKE CARE OF YOUR 55:36 EXERCISE REGIME, WATCH A VIDEO, LISTEN TO MUSIC, YOU CAN SURF 55:41 THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD-WIDE WEB, WHICH MAY NOT ALWAYS BE A 55:44 GOOD THING. AND, YOU KNOW, THERE IS MORE 55:46 COMPUTER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY AND POWER IN A LITTLE SMART 55:50 PHONE TODAY THAN WAS USED BY NASA TO PUT A MAN ON THE MOON. 55:54 AND I ALMOST FORGOT, YOU CAN ALSO USE THESE TO MAKE A PHONE 55:57 CALL, BUT WHO DOES THAT ANYMORE? TODAY COMMUNICATION IS 56:00 NOT IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. IT'S ALL ABOUT SHORT MESSAGE 56:04 SERVICING OR SMS TEXTING. THAT'S RIGHT, THERE ARE ABOUT 56:09 2.5 BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TODAY THAT ARE COMMUNICATING 56:13 WITH THEIR FELLOW HUMANS IN SHORT BYTES CALLED TEXTING. 56:16 THAT'S MORE DATA THAT IS BEING USED THAN THOSE WHO ARE SURFING 56:19 THE WEB OR EVEN PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. 56:22 AND, FRIENDS, NOWHERE IS THIS MORE TRUE THAN RIGHT HERE IN THE 56:24 PHILIPPINES. EVEN THOUGH THE PHILIPPINES HAS 56:26 ABOUT 100 MILLION PEOPLE, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LARGEST 56:30 NUMBER OF TEXT MESSAGES OF ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. 56:33 THEY'RE THE TWELFTH-LARGEST COUNTRY, BUT THEY SEND 400 56:37 MILLION TEXT MESSAGES EVERY DAY. WOW, THAT'S A LOT 56:41 OF FINGER FATIGUE. EVEN THOUGH THE GREATEST NUMBER 56:44 OF TEXTERS IS HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES, THE RECORD FOR THE 56:47 FASTEST TEXTER IN THE WORLD IS FROM BRAZIL. A YOUNG MAN BY THE 56:51 NAME OF MARCEL FERNANDES FILHO - HE WAS ABLE TO TEXT 25 VERY 56:55 COMPLICATED WORDS IN A LITTLE MORE THAN 18 SECONDS. 56:58 WOW, IT TAKES ME LONGER THAN THAT TO JUST SAY 'I LOVE YOU' TO 57:02 MY WIFE AND PRESS SEND. ALL THUMBS. 57:05 ONE OF THE NEAT THINGS ABOUT TEXTING IS YOU CAN TEXT JUST 57:08 ABOUT ANYWHERE. IF YOU'RE SURROUNDED WITH PEOPLE 57:10 AND YOU WANT TO SEND A PERSONAL MESSAGE, YOU TEXT. 57:12 YOU'RE IN A CROWDED SUBWAY OR AN AIRPORT, YOU CAN TEXT. 57:15 IF YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY NOISE OR NOSEY PEOPLE, YOU CAN TEXT - 57:20 JUST DON'T TEXT WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING. 57:21 THAT'S WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL, FRIENDS, YOU CAN ALWAYS TEXT GOD 57:25 A MESSAGE OF PRAYER FROM YOUR HEART. WHEN YOU'RE WONDERING 57:28 'WHAT SCHOOL DO I GO TO?' 'WHAT JOB DO I TAKE?' 57:30 'WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO DATE THAT MAY BE A FUTURE LIFE PARTNER?' 57:34 YOUR PRAYERS DON'T HAVE TO BE LONG. THE SHORTEST PRAYER IN THE 57:36 BIBLE IS THREE WORDS - WHEN PETER PRAYED, 'LORD SAVE ME.' 57:40 AND JESUS ANSWERED HIS PRAYER. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FAST YOU 57:43 CAN TEXT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO GOD, HE'LL KNOW WHAT YOU'RE 57:46 ASKING FOR AND HEAR YOUR PRAYER BEFORE YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO 57:49 SAY 'AMEN' AND PRESS THE SEND BUTTON. 57:51 IN FACT, FRIENDS, YOU'LL BRING JOY TO GOD WHEN YOU SEND HIM 57:54 REGULAR MESSAGES FROM YOUR HEART TO HIS. 57:57 SO WHY DON'T YOU TALK TO HIM RIGHT NOW? 58:00 (MUSIC) |
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