Greetings, friends,
welcome to Faith Chapel.
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I am Dr. P. C. Willis,
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the Adult Ministries director
for Lake Region Conference
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of Seventh-day
Adventists in Chicago.
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And we welcome you here
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as we study the
Word of God today.
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This study is entitled "
"What doest thou here, Elijah?"
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"What doest thou here?"
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Let's consider this
text, as we study this message.
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It is found in 1 Kings 19:1-9.
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"And Ahab told Jezebel
all that Elijah had done,
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and withal how he had slain
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all the prophets with the sword.
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Then Jezebel sent
messenger unto Elijah, saying,
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So let the gods do
to me, and more also,
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if I make not
thy life as the life
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of one of them by to
morrow about this time.
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And when he saw that, he arose,
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and went for his
life, and came to Beersheba,
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which belongeth to Judah,
and let his servant there.
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But he himself went a day's
journey into the wilderness,
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and came and sat
down under a juniper tree
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and requested for
himself that he might die
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and said, it is enough
now, O lord take away my life,
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for I am not
better than my fathers."
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Stop right there for minute.
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It's interesting
if you want to do die
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he should have stayed
there let Jezebel kill him.
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But now he is saying,
take my life but he is running.
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Verse 5 "And has he lay
and slept under a juniper tree,
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behold, then an
angel touched him,
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and said unto
him, Arise and eat.
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And he looked, and behold,
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there was a cake
baken on the coals,
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and a cruse of
water at his head.
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And he did eat and
drink, and laid him down again.
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And the angel of the Lord
came again the second time,
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and touched him,
and said, Arise and eat
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because the journey
is too great for thee.
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And he arose, and
did eat and drink,
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and went in the
strength of that meat
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forty days and forty nights
unto Horeb the mount of God.
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He ran for 200 miles
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and he came thither
unto a cave, and lodged there
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and behold, the Word
of the Lord came to him,
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and he said unto him,
What doest thou here, Elijah?
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Ladies and gentlemen,
and Christian friends,
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the import of this
question has not lost the force
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or pointedness to
us as hearers today.
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From the time it was
asked some 3000 years ago.
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In fact we are inextricably
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joined to Elijah
like Siamese twins.
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Today as this
question is asked by God
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so quietly and yet so pointed.
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Elijah was God's
man with God's message.
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We are God's
children with God's message.
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God doesn't have grandchildren,
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stepchildren or any other
type of missing family member
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and neither is
God an absent parent.
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We are His children
and He is our father,
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we are brothers and sisters,
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family members of
the family of God.
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Moreover we have God's message,
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God's last message to give
to a dying world gone insane.
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We have the three angels'
message of Revelation 14,
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this is not a
piece and safety message.
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Elijah was special, I
say again Elijah was special.
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Let me tell you
something ladies and gentlemen,
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he looked special,
he dressed special,
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he worship special, he was a man
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who prayed until
something happen.
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We are special.
How special are we?
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1 Peter 2:9 gives it clearly.
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"But ye are a chosen generation,
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a royal
priesthood, a holy nation,
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a peculiar people,
that ye should shew
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forth the praises of him
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who hath called
you out of darkness
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into his marvelous light."
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Ladies and gentlemen,
God called us to be peculiar.
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He didn't called us
to be strange or clear.
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One of my favorite writer states
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in the book
Fundamentals of Education
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page 289, paragraph 1.
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" There are many in the church
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who at heart
belong to the world,
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but God calls upon those
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who claim to
believe the advanced truth,
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to rise above
the present attitude
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of the popular churches today."
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What do you mean
popular churches today?
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Friend, I read
about a church in Texas
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where the man had
thousands of members.
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In fact, they are
going into a football stadium
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and he is so
careful about what he says.
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He says he doesn't want
to hurt anybody's feelings.
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Friends, let me
tell you something
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I don't care if
god hurts my feelings
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as long as He saves me.
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There are lot
of people out there
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who say they love the
Lord and they are very sincere.
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But according to the
Bible they are sincerely wrong.
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If you have to tell someone
you're going the wrong way,
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turned around, I don't
care if it hurts their feeling
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as long as they turn around.
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They're some people who say,
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"Oh, what you
don't know can hurt you."
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That's a lie.
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It's a dark night,
there is no lights anywhere.
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The bridge is out and
you're driving down the highway
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at 65 miles an hour.
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Oh, what you don't know
can hurt you, that a lie.
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If you go off that bridge,
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if you go off
the end of that road
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you will be killed.
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And that same logic
ladies and gentlemen,
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that its foolishness is
applied where God is concerned.
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People say oh, what you
don't know can hurt you,
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after all Gods
gonna save everybody.
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No, He is not.
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To go to heaven you
have to know something.
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Friend's, heaven is
free but it's not cheap
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and if you want to go
you must make provisions.
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That's why the Bible states,
Therefore be ye also ready,
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for in such an hour
the Son of Man cometh."
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Such an hour when you think not,
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the Son of Man cometh.
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"Where is the self-denial today?
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Where is the cross-bearing
that Christ has said
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should
characterize His followers?
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The reason we have had
so little influence upon
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unbelieving
relatives and associates
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is that we have manifested
little decided difference
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in our practices
from those of the world.
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Parents need to wake
up and purify their souls
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by practicing the
truth in their home life.
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When we reach the standard,"
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listen to this
incredible statement,
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"When we reach the standard
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that the Lord
would have us reach,
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worldlings will
regard Seventh-day Adventists
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as odd, singular,
strait-laced extremists.
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'We are made a
spectacle unto the world,
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and to angels, and to men.'
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" God wants His
people to be different
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not strange or clear, special.
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Take courage, Elijah was a man,
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a manly man, a
man like us today.
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In fact, in the
NIV James 5:17 states
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and I want you to see it.
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"Elijah was a man just like us.
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He prayed earnestly
that it would not rain,
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and it did not rain on the land
for three and a half years."
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Imagine God taking
a man just like us,
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and listening to him pray
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and giving him the key to heaven
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that it didn't rain
for three and half years.
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Oh, friend, are
you a praying person?
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Do you have the
keys in your pocket?
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You can if you
are a praying person
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and God will
hear you and answer.
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Elijah had a clear message.
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Remember we are to pray
until something happens.
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Elijah had a clear
message repent come back to God
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and He will get you together.
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He will take care of
you. He will clean you up.
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It was expressed to
Israel on a mountain top as
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"How long halt ye
between two opinions?"
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If the Lord be God follow him,
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but if Baal then follow him.
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We have a clear message
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if any man worship
the beast and his image
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and receive his mark in
his forehead or in his hand
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the same shall drink of
the wine of the wrath of God
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which is pored
out without mixture
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into the cup of his indignation
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and he shall be tormented
with fire and brimstone
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in the presence
of the Holy Angels
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and in a presence of the lamb.
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Understand
clearly Elijah was sent
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to fight against idolatry,
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a false system
of worship of Baal
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headed by a wicked,
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painted a bejeweled
woman in called Jezebel.
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Somebody ought to say, amen.
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We have been called
to fight against idolatry
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a false system of worship
called by God the great whore
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Babylon the great,
the mother of harlots,
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the abominations of the earth
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depicted in
Revelation the 17th chapter
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as a wicked,
tainted up, bejeweled woman.
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Elijah's job preach the
word, our job preach the word.
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Note carefully
ladies and gentlemen,
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Jesus said in Matthew 28:19, 20,
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"Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations,
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baptizing them in
the name of the Father,
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the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."
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Teaching them how many things?
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Some things, part of the things?
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No.
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The Bible say its teaching them
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all things what so
ever I have commanded you
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and low I am with you always
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even until the end of the world.
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Friends, before
we go any further
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I want you to know
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that this message
is a God conversion.
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Oh, help me some by.
How does God deal with sins?
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This is not so much
an examination of Elijah
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but an examination of God
and how he deals with sinners.
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So that you can take courage
on how God is dealing with you.
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Here is a man Elijah
with a high and holy calling
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and here we are with
a high and holy calling.
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But this man Elijah is
imbued with a special job,
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a machine as it
work and yet human
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given to extreme
highs and very low lows.
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How does God react
to a man like that?
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How does God react to us?
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Here is the man
running from Jezebel.
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Get the picture,
he has done wonders
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in the side of the people
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when the fire fell
Elijah said catch those men
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and don't let one escape.
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And they marched 450 prophets
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of Baal down to the river Jabbok
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and Elijah with his own
hand killed all of them.
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And then he went
up to look for water.
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Here he is he told
Ahab get yourself together
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of course I hear the
sound of an abundance of rain.
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And after he prayed seven times
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and his servant
comes back and says.
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"What do you see?"
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I see your hand, a cloud about
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the half the size of a man hands
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and Elijah takes off running.
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He leads Ahab
down the mountain side.
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Ladies and
gentlemen, he is a tired man.
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He lays down to sleep
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and he is awaken
out of that sleep
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with a message from Jezebel.
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What is that message?
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About this time to
morrow, you going to be like
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one of those men of
mine that you killed,
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and Elijah takes off running
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because, he heard a
message from a wicked woman.
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What gets you to running?
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What causes you to jump
up and run for your life?
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In fact, he is running so hard
he had the leave is messenger.
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He is moving, he is breaking
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Olympic track records,
running from a message.
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What gets you running?
Is it a letter in the mail?
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Is it somebody who whispers
they're going to get you?
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What causes you
to take off running?
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In fact, he has to
leave his messenger
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and he runs and he wraps himself
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around a broom
tree, a juniper tree.
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It's a small scrub
brush that people would take
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and use it as a broom.
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Its so small he
has to curl himself
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around it to get shape
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and here he is
out here praying Lord,
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take me, take me.
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He falls asleep
under a juniper tree
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and asked to die.
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The Bible says so
how does God react?
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He sends an angel to feed him.
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The angel, "arise and eat."
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There is no record that
Elijah even thanked the angel.
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He is so exalted,
he falls back to sleep.
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The angel touches him again
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the journey is too hot for thee.
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This is how God
deals with sinners.
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How do you deal with them?
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When you learn about
somebody in the church
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that has done
something wrong what do you do?
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Is there a gossip session?
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In which you dissect,
and re-dissect the incident
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with relish or do you
invite them into a meal
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come on sit down let's talk.
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God's first reaction
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to a prophet gone wrong is this.
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He sends an angel
and feeds him two meals.
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This lets me known number one,
00:14:21.46\00:14:23.36
God does not forsake
me when things go wrong.
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All happy day,
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I am glad God promise
never to leave me alone
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and the devil is
intent on convicting us
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just the opposite.
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When you've done
wrong you're not just alone
00:14:37.15\00:14:41.26
trapped in your
cocoon of loneliness
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but those demons come
and exaggerate the problem.
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Look at what you did.
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There's no need to pray,
God's not gonna here you,
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go on get in the bed
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and take your
chances in the night.
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Oh, friend, too
many people are listening
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to the testimony of demons.
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I want you to get this
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when Jesus cast out
demons out of people
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and He had shut them up,
because they were testify.
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Have you come to
tournament me before my time?
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And that's
where people are there
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think of the serve God
they will be tormented.
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Can you imagine that?
God says give me your heart.
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Oh, its torment, its torment.
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You're listening to
the testimony of demons.
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Do you believe God or
do you believe demons?
00:15:25.85\00:15:28.98
Why don't you give
your heart to Jesus?
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Satan would have
you believe friends,
00:15:32.90\00:15:35.97
that it's no use
serving God that when you fall
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you're just in trouble
and you keep on falling.
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That's not so.
00:15:42.94\00:15:44.44
If you're in
difficulty you need to come back
00:15:44.47\00:15:47.30
to the one who
loves you most in best.
00:15:47.33\00:15:50.34
If Satan knocks you down
get up and come out swinging.
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If he backs you into a
corner come out fighting.
00:15:54.62\00:15:57.83
You must fight the
good fight of faith
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believing God and
doing what He said
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put it on the whole armor of God
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don't leave home with out it.
00:16:05.46\00:16:07.03
It's better than
American Express.
00:16:07.06\00:16:09.25
Give yourself to Jesus
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and be prepared
to meet the enemy
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by putting on
what God has given you
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so that you might be victorious
in your Christian fight.
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I want you to know
ladies and gentlemen,
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that I've got good news for you.
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God love you.
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He loves you when you're up
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and He loves you
when you're down.
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He is the God of the high
and He is the God of the low
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and He just loves sinners.
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He came all the way from
heaven down to save sinners.
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Now this does not glorify
sin or popularize sinners.
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Oh, no, friends,
what it says is this.
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You're never really alone
and He is only a prayer away.
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If you don't
believe what I've just said
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that God does not for
sake of us when we are down
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or leave us
when things go wrong,
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He doesn't called
the angels together
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for a worship gossip session
00:17:03.06\00:17:06.23
but His great heart is broken
00:17:06.26\00:17:08.60
and His great arm of
love reaches a little longer
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than it ordinarily
would to get us back.
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Just ask Adam.
00:17:14.82\00:17:16.74
If you don't
believe him ask Samson.
00:17:16.77\00:17:20.14
If you don't
believe Samson ask David.
00:17:20.17\00:17:23.26
If you don't
believe him ask Jacob.
00:17:23.29\00:17:26.16
If you don't
believe him ask Peter.
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If you don't
believe him ask Paul.
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If you don't him ask me.
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God says my strength is
made perfect in weakness.
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God love to lift up the
fallen and care for the dying.
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God loves to bring
the lost back home.
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So the angel wakes
up the Aaron prophet
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and says arise and eat
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the journey is too hot for thee.
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Oh, just remember this friend,
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the journey is always hard
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when you're run
in away from God.
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The Bible says that the way
00:18:05.87\00:18:07.63
of the transgressor is the hard.
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Its better not
to go down that road
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you've got to
come back the same way.
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Give yourself to Jesus.
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Elijah arose and
did eat and drink
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and when went in the
strength of that meal
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forty days and forty nights
and the Horeb the mount of God.
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Now let's pause right here
00:18:32.84\00:18:34.41
and give credit to
God superior diet plan.
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Forty days and
nights on one meal
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more than 200 miles on one meal.
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What kind of a meal was that?
00:18:44.98\00:18:47.62
We may not know what it was,
00:18:47.65\00:18:49.45
but we
certainly know what it was
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an according to
Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14
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we know it wasn't
cat fish or pig tails,
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it wasn't oysters or pork chops,
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it was God's diet plan.
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And if you just try--
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if you will just
try it like Daniel
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for 10 days you will be
so much the better for it.
00:19:07.29\00:19:11.47
Remember, Daniel
was 10 times better
00:19:11.50\00:19:15.05
than all the men in Babylon
00:19:15.08\00:19:18.29
because of just 10
days eating God's diet.
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Remember ladies and gentlemen,
00:19:23.42\00:19:25.01
healthy body, healthy mind.
00:19:25.04\00:19:27.79
You can eat
crocked and think straight.
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God wants you to be
healthy in body and mind
00:19:31.57\00:19:35.87
so that you can show
forth the praises of God.
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Here Elijah gets to a
cave and the word of the Lord
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came to him and God ask him
00:19:43.61\00:19:45.80
"What doest thou here, Elijah?"
00:19:45.83\00:19:50.08
This is a time when God
could have crowded in on him
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and beat him up
but He didn't do that.
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He simply asked him a question?
00:19:56.38\00:19:59.39
What doest thou here?
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Isn't this interesting?
00:20:01.44\00:20:02.85
It's just like us
looking at a friend and say
00:20:02.88\00:20:05.45
what were you thinking?
00:20:05.48\00:20:07.77
Here is God looking
at His prophet who ran
00:20:07.80\00:20:10.88
because a woman
said a rumor about him
00:20:10.91\00:20:13.75
and he took off
running, running.
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Its not the
first time people ran
00:20:17.10\00:20:18.84
when they was serving the Lord.
00:20:18.87\00:20:20.65
Here are the
disciples in a boat.
00:20:20.68\00:20:23.24
Can you imagine this
they are in a boat with Jesus,
00:20:23.27\00:20:25.78
Jesus is just fed the 1000's
with a few loafs and fishes
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and the people
wanted to name him king.
00:20:29.08\00:20:30.82
He says, no lets
get in the boat lets go
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and they get in a boat
00:20:32.78\00:20:33.81
and Satan says I
am gonna kill him now.
00:20:33.84\00:20:35.29
Let's get Him right now.
Let's get a storm going here.
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He is a prince of
the power of the air.
00:20:37.45\00:20:38.95
So, he wants to wipe them out
00:20:38.98\00:20:40.52
and here is Jesus
sleep in the back of the boat
00:20:40.55\00:20:42.81
and these sailors they
knew how to handle the boat.
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They've been in storm before
00:20:45.36\00:20:46.85
but they'd not
seen a storm like this
00:20:46.88\00:20:48.79
and only when they
tried everything but failed
00:20:48.82\00:20:52.00
did they remember Jesus.
00:20:52.03\00:20:53.62
Friend's sometimes we waste time
00:20:53.65\00:20:56.65
doing it our way like Frank.
00:20:56.68\00:20:58.78
I did it my way, you
can't do it like Frank,
00:20:58.81\00:21:03.29
why don't you do it like God.
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Give yourself to Him,
save yourself some sweat,
00:21:05.21\00:21:08.03
some hurting some bumps.
00:21:08.06\00:21:10.38
Only when they remembered Jesus
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that they call upon Him
00:21:12.30\00:21:13.41
and Jesus always
responds to a call for help.
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And they cried out to Him
00:21:16.78\00:21:18.51
Oh, Lord, don't you
care that we perish?
00:21:18.54\00:21:21.51
And Jesus stood up and
the literal translation
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is in the Greek,
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Jesus said shut up
00:21:26.62\00:21:29.36
and unbeatably
there was a great calm
00:21:29.39\00:21:31.46
and unbeatably
the boat was at shore
00:21:31.49\00:21:33.70
and the disciples are wondering,
00:21:33.73\00:21:34.90
what manner of man as this
00:21:34.93\00:21:36.59
that even the
winds and waves obey Him?
00:21:36.62\00:21:39.37
But Satan is not
through with Him yet.
00:21:39.40\00:21:41.57
He comes at them
with two demoniacs
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out of the tomb naked,
00:21:44.07\00:21:45.62
broken chains and they're
filled with 6,700 demons,
00:21:45.65\00:21:51.30
two men and
they take off running
00:21:51.33\00:21:53.72
a mildly down the beach
and finally somebody says
00:21:53.75\00:21:56.34
where is Jesus and
when they turn around
00:21:56.37\00:21:58.24
here He is again
with His hands up.
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Jesus always had His hands up.
00:22:00.20\00:22:03.29
Let me tell you
something friend,
00:22:03.32\00:22:04.70
would it be wonderful if you
were so full of the Holy Ghost
00:22:04.73\00:22:07.33
that when trouble came
you would just lift your hand
00:22:07.36\00:22:09.39
and it will stop there.
00:22:09.42\00:22:10.88
Are you a praying
person? It does stop there.
00:22:10.91\00:22:14.30
God says if you call upon Him
00:22:14.33\00:22:18.06
"He will answer you,
00:22:18.09\00:22:19.13
and show you
great and mighty things,
00:22:19.16\00:22:20.80
which thou knowest not."
00:22:20.83\00:22:22.09
Jesus stopped those
demons with His hand.
00:22:22.12\00:22:26.52
And I want you to
note He stopped the demons
00:22:26.55\00:22:30.46
but when the men got back
00:22:30.49\00:22:33.57
they discovered
those men were clothed
00:22:33.60\00:22:35.80
in their right minds
and the demons were gone.
00:22:35.83\00:22:37.67
What happened?
00:22:37.70\00:22:38.73
They say well, we
couldn't kill Him in the boat,
00:22:38.76\00:22:40.48
we couldn't kill
Him with the demoniacs.
00:22:40.51\00:22:42.52
Let's stop them
with a financial burden.
00:22:42.55\00:22:45.16
Let us go to
these hogs over here.
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Two thousand hogs that sounds
like three demons per hog.
00:22:46.80\00:22:50.75
Can you imagine that?
00:22:50.78\00:22:51.93
Demons even make hogs crazy
00:22:51.96\00:22:54.11
and they rush down
into the water and drown.
00:22:54.14\00:22:56.53
And when the people came
all they could think about
00:22:56.56\00:22:59.42
was their financial loss.
00:22:59.45\00:23:01.43
Satan couldn't
get them in the storm,
00:23:01.46\00:23:03.84
he couldn't get them
with demon possession
00:23:03.87\00:23:06.52
but he got them when people
considered the financial loss.
00:23:06.55\00:23:11.92
The testimony of demons again,
00:23:11.95\00:23:13.83
have you come
here to torment me?
00:23:13.86\00:23:15.60
Friends, do you think
00:23:15.63\00:23:16.83
that's what Jesus
does when He comes?
00:23:16.86\00:23:19.57
Some people act like
that if they were to heaven
00:23:19.60\00:23:21.91
Jesus will take them
and throw them in jail.
00:23:21.94\00:23:24.00
He didn't come for that He
said the reason I have come
00:23:24.03\00:23:27.04
is that you might have
life, inhabit more abundantly.
00:23:27.07\00:23:31.48
Here He is
speaking to His child.
00:23:31.51\00:23:33.73
What are you doing here?
00:23:33.76\00:23:34.84
And that's the
question to us today.
00:23:34.87\00:23:37.08
What are you doing?
00:23:37.11\00:23:39.77
Don't you know
that you are loved,
00:23:39.80\00:23:41.66
wanted for give
it an understood?
00:23:41.69\00:23:43.55
What do with thou here?
What is in on your mind?
00:23:43.58\00:23:46.97
Have you given up on God,
00:23:47.00\00:23:48.85
your marriage,
your children, life,
00:23:48.88\00:23:50.85
are you running from the church?
00:23:50.88\00:23:52.35
What are you doing?
00:23:52.38\00:23:53.61
Revelation 22:12 states
it's an incredible text,
00:23:53.64\00:23:57.91
"And, behold, I come quickly,
and my reward is with me,
00:23:57.94\00:24:01.56
to give every man
according as his work shall be.
00:24:01.59\00:24:04.59
And again in Revelation
3:11 it is an encouragement.
00:24:04.62\00:24:09.24
Note, carefully it
states, "Behold, I come quickly,
00:24:09.27\00:24:12.68
hold that fast which thou hast,
that no man take thy crown."
00:24:12.71\00:24:17.54
That means you're to
hold on to your crown tightly
00:24:17.57\00:24:21.23
with both hands.
00:24:21.26\00:24:22.52
Don't let go of God.
00:24:22.55\00:24:24.22
The connotation is that
there are special angels
00:24:24.25\00:24:27.32
who are just
there to make crowns.
00:24:27.35\00:24:29.16
And friends, I have a big head,
00:24:29.19\00:24:31.33
my head is a special shape
00:24:31.36\00:24:33.17
it takes a lot of
work for me to get a hat.
00:24:33.20\00:24:35.65
My crown is special
00:24:35.68\00:24:36.78
and nobody's
got to take my crown
00:24:36.81\00:24:38.98
they may get your's
00:24:39.01\00:24:40.04
but they are not gonna get mine.
00:24:40.07\00:24:41.33
Are you holding
fast that you have
00:24:41.36\00:24:43.44
that no men take your crown?
00:24:43.47\00:24:45.06
God says I can handle Jezebel.
00:24:45.09\00:24:47.64
Buck up friend, pull up
your socks, dry your eyes,
00:24:47.67\00:24:50.89
what are you doing
here? What are you doing?
00:24:50.92\00:24:55.91
It may be fine for hours
00:24:55.94\00:24:58.07
to live like they
jotted well please
00:24:58.10\00:25:00.00
but not you, you know
better you've been change.
00:25:00.03\00:25:02.77
You're saved,
sanctified, wash by the water
00:25:02.80\00:25:05.67
and the blood plucked
as a bran from the fire.
00:25:05.70\00:25:08.52
You are different.
00:25:08.55\00:25:10.72
So, God tells us "Cast not
away therefore your confidence,
00:25:10.75\00:25:13.87
which hath great
recompence of reward.,"
00:25:13.90\00:25:16.64
that's Hebrews 10:35.
00:25:16.67\00:25:21.07
Note carefully it says
ye have need of patience,
00:25:21.10\00:25:24.68
that, after ye have
done the will of God,
00:25:24.71\00:25:26.65
ye might receive the promise.
00:25:26.68\00:25:28.11
For yet a little
while, and he that shall come
00:25:28.14\00:25:30.11
will come, and will not tarry."
00:25:30.14\00:25:32.99
Further more Matthew 7:13, 14
00:25:33.02\00:25:36.33
informs us note
carefully God says,
00:25:36.36\00:25:39.06
"Enter ye in at the strait gate"
00:25:39.09\00:25:40.93
S-T-R-A-I-T straighten us
here "for wide is the gate,
00:25:40.96\00:25:44.68
and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction,
00:25:44.71\00:25:46.58
and many there be
which go in thereat.
00:25:46.61\00:25:49.07
Because strait is the
gate, and narrow is the way,
00:25:49.10\00:25:52.52
which leadeth unto life,
and few there be that find it.
00:25:52.55\00:25:55.76
Thirdly, what doest thou here?
00:25:55.79\00:25:59.47
What are you doing
friend, at the jewelry counter,
00:25:59.50\00:26:01.74
the night club, the theater,
the motel, the liquor stone,
00:26:01.77\00:26:04.75
the coffee shop,
that divorce court?
00:26:04.78\00:26:06.74
What are you doing
there getting something
00:26:06.77\00:26:10.11
engraved on your body
00:26:10.14\00:26:13.07
hiding in a cave
of shame as it were
00:26:13.10\00:26:15.54
thinking you are the
only one whoever had setbacks,
00:26:15.57\00:26:19.10
breakdown's forgotten God
00:26:19.13\00:26:21.70
and have been
overtaken by certain fear?
00:26:21.73\00:26:24.00
Do you think like that?
00:26:24.03\00:26:25.35
Take courage God's
word does not change,
00:26:25.38\00:26:28.36
God does not change.
00:26:28.39\00:26:29.92
He wants you to have back bone
00:26:29.95\00:26:31.66
all taste and see
that the Lord is good.
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God puts His word to the test.
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Do you know God?
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He sends in earth, wind and fire
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but they are
program is ineffective
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in moving the man of God
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then the still small voice
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and He wraps His
face and comes out.
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I am so happy that
Jesus speaks a second time
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that's His emo to meet God
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we must come out of the cave
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of what everybody else is doing
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we must
acknowledged that God is God
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and knows what's best for us
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and the fact that
God does not change.
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Know would how God
response to His servant.
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He tells Him return.
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The same way He
came, He's got to go back.
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Return, friend.
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By the way of the wilderness,
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God has
thousands that have not bow
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their knee to
Baal, nor kissed him.
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God says I have
yet 7,000 in Israel,
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all knees which
have not bowed unto Baal.
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Somebody is going to be saved,
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it might as well be us.
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Everybody is not going to hell,
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somebody is going to heaven.
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Friends, let's
choose to go to heaven.
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God has 7,000 men
who left their wives,
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7,000 men who
raised their children,
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7,000 who will stand
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for the right
of the heaven fall,
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let's join God 7,000.
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Let's be men in women for Christ
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and let God save us.
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God bless you is my prayer.
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