Jan. 23, 2025
From Idolatry to Illumination: A Journey with Elijah - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 1 - From Abel to Elijah), Episode 14
Send us a text Unlock the secrets of spiritual authority and prophetic power as we journey through the fascinating narratives of Elijah and the anointing of Melchizedek. We'll examine Elijah's bold stand against King Ahab during Israel's turbulent division and explore how the enduring legacy of Melchizedek's priesthood, kingship, and warrior spirit empowers those called to serve. Discover how these ancient stories and the historical backdrop of Israel shape our understanding of divine authori...
Unlock the secrets of spiritual authority and prophetic power as we journey through the fascinating narratives of Elijah and the anointing of Melchizedek. We'll examine Elijah's bold stand against King Ahab during Israel's turbulent division and explore how the enduring legacy of Melchizedek's priesthood, kingship, and warrior spirit empowers those called to serve. Discover how these ancient stories and the historical backdrop of Israel shape our understanding of divine authority and spiritual leadership today.
Our exploration continues with a focus on the profound theme of obedience to divine instruction, highlighting Elijah's fearless confrontation with idolatry. Compelling anecdotes and biblical accounts, will underscore the importance of heeding God's voice, providing a clear distinction between true prophetic power and the seductive influence of false idols like Jezebel and the prophets of Baal. Learn how the transition from Old Testament traditions to the dispensation of grace calls believers to pursue their God-given destinies with unyielding faith and commitment.
Prepare to be challenged as we unravel the powerful symbolism of God answering by fire in Elijah's encounter with the prophets of Baal. We'll discuss the significance of rebuilding spiritual altars, abandoning idolatry, and embracing the living God with clarity and purpose. Through the lens of biblical stories, listeners will be invited to seek a deeper connection with the God who answers by fire and to steadfastly pursue their spiritual journeys, stepping into their authority and fulfilling their divine destinies.
00:00 - The Anointing of Melchizedek and Elijah
16:06 - The Obedience of Elijah
28:46 - The God Who Answers by Fire
37:28 - Building the Altar of Obedience
53:06 - The Difference Between Unity and Idolatry
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Well, praise God, praise God, praise God, hallelujah.
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Let's turn to the first chapter, to the first book of Kings, kings, 1 Kings, and we are going to be in chapter 18.
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Glory to God, god Going back to look at another time that the Lord raised up a standard.
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Amen, when the Lord raised up a standard because something was being challenged concerning the manifestation of the seed.
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Amen, and an issue was being raised by Antichrist concerning the ministry of the seed, and God had to do something.
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He had to do something.
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And we're going to find that this is another instance where God operated outside of the law.
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Amen, because it required somebody, with the anointing of Melchizedek, to do the job.
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Praise God, we have we have been seeing this over and over again since we studied Abraham that somebody with this anointing and somebody with this authority, because it is not only a priesthood anointing but it is a kingship anointing.
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Amen.
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It's not only a priesthood anointing and a kingship anointing, but it is a warrior anointing, as we see as it moves from Abraham to Isaac, to Jacob, to Moses, to David, to Joshua, to Daviding, and this warrior aspect to this office of Melchizedek.
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If you will, I have.
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He says in Psalm 110, I have sworn and will not relent that I have made you a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek, but Melchized.
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According to the order of Melchizedek, but Melchizedek.
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The order that Melchizedek had was that of a priest and a king.
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And if he's a king, he better be a warrior or he's not going to be king long.
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In fact, you can argue this.
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In fact, you can argue this when, if you ask, where did Abraham get the almost 400 servants and soldiers?
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Because the Bible says that he got them after he came into Canaan.
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So where did he get these servants and where did he get them trained as military people to fight the five kings that were coming against him?
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Well, he may have borrowed them from another king who already had a kingship in the area.
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And, and no doubt, if you, if you, if you're a king, you better have an army or you're not a king, you're just a pretender.
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Hello, because, because if you're an army, if you're a king and you don't have an army, there's going to be coming somebody who wants to be king and has an army.
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It's just that simple.
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So if you want to be a priest, you know and you just think this is one of those, you're thinking about far Eastern priests, you know, up on a mountain, you know chanting and doing all this kind of isolation stuff.
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You got another thing coming, because the priesthood to which we believe, to which we belong, is a priesthood of priests, kings and warriors, hallelujah.
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And so we're going to see this again, amen.
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This time we're going to move forward from David about a hundred years or so, amen.
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To a little place in the Northern kingdom called Tishbite.
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And Tishbite produced a man, somehow, someway, whose name was Elijah.
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We first meet Elijah in the 17th chapter of the book of 1 Kings, where it says, in the very first verse of that chapter, elijah, the Tishbite of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab as the Lord, god of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew nor rain these years, except at my word Glory to God.
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So this is the first time we see Elijah.
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Okay, god.
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So this is the first time we see Elijah.
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Okay, all we know is that he is of Tishbite.
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Tishbite can mean a couple of different things and I'm not going to bore you with all that, but it basically identifies where he is from, and this is a place in what is known as the Northern Kingdoms.
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This is important because this is the backdrop for what this story is all about David, all of the tribes had united together to honor David as the king after Saul's death, amen.
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For seven years David had been honored king in Judah, but after Saul's death the northern kingdoms decided that they would come and also honor David as king, amen.
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That unified the kingdom under one kingship.
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David's son, solomon, ruled for 40 years and in his reign the kingdom was also unified.
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But when David's grandson, solomon's son, whose name was Rehoboam, began his reign, there was a servant of Solomon named Jeroboam of Solomon, named Jeroboam, who had been raised up in Solomon's house and raised up in his authority and raised up as a manager in his kingdom, and he got the bright idea that he was going to be king.
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And so he went to the northern kingdoms, who still weren't very much sold on David's kingship, but they decided we're going to join him rather than fight him.
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But it's now been two generations.
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We've got we had David, nobody wanted to mess with David.
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We had Solomon nobody really wanted to mess with Solomon.
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And now we've got Rehoboam, third generation after second generation after David, after David.
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And Jeroboam says I can take him any day of the week and he goes off and he splits the 10 tribes in the north, away from Judah and away from Benjamin.
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He leaves Judah and Benjamin in the south, with Jerusalem, and takes the northern kingdoms into the north and they become a nation that is known as Samaria.
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This is why, by the time Jesus shows up, you've got things being said that the Jews don't have anything to do with the Samaritans.
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What that means is that two southern tribes, judah and Benjamin, don't have anything to do with the northern tribes, who are called Samaria.
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Amen, because they split from them and made war with them and did all these kinds of things.
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And finally, that only lasted for 200 years until the northern kingdoms were taken into captivity by the Assyrians not all of them, because what happened was I'm making a very long story excruciatingly boring, but trying to make it very short Amen, because what happened was when Jeroboam went north, he appointed two places.
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He said it's too tedious and too much trouble for you all to go to Jerusalem and celebrate the feast.
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We're going to make a place of worship in Samaria, in Shechem, and we're going to make another place in Bethel and Dan.
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Amen, are you with me when Jesus went to the woman at the well.
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He said now you Jews tell us that we need to worship on your mountain in Jerusalem, and our people tell us that we need to worship on this mountain.
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There were ruins on that mountain and what listen to me very carefully there, a temple on that mountain to Baal.
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Our fathers tell us we need to worship on this mountain.
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What do you say, messiah?
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He said neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem shall you worship, but they that worship the Father shall worship him in spirit and truth.
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For such worshipers, the Father seeks Glory to God.
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Hallelujah, we've got a different place of worship.
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It's not Mount Moriah in Jerusalem and it's not the mountain in Shechem.
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It's not the well that the woman came to Glory to God, but it is the one who has the living waters.
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Hallelujah.
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So said all that to say this that the next thing happens that, instead of having a similar type of worship that was going on in Jerusalem, they raised up two golden calves in these places and started worshiping the God.
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They all Amen.
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Are you?
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You got all this.
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It's in your Bible.
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You can read it.
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It's real easy to find.
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It's right there in those in these chapters and up whereabouts.
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Praise God.
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This happened.
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Jeroboam was an abomination to the Lord, and out of him came a series of kings that were equally as abominable, you know, and God, in his own unique way, decided he was going to do something about that because the enemy had come in.
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I said the enemy had come in when it had gotten so bad that people would leave the north, people that were not of Judah nor of Benjamin, but wanted to continue to worship in Jerusalem.
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They just packed up, left Samaria and moved down to Judah, became assimilated into Judah's tribe so that they could keep the feasts and they could keep the traditions, amen.
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So you had in the north, you had these tribes that had been partially decimated by attrition.
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They just left and came down to Judah.
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Judah started growing.
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These tribes started to diminish Amen.
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And then they started to adopt idolatry.
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And this is the point, this is what we're going to talk about today that when a people, and particularly a people of God, entertain idolatry, that is a major attack by Antichrist on the seed, because if he can get you to be double-minded concerning idolatry, he's got you.
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Are you hearing me?
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This is a major point of attack and it's in your Bible.
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It is clearly one of the greatest miracles in your Bible, and whenever we have a great miracle, we need to pay attention, because that's a pretty clear sign that God is doing something to thwart the enemy, because the enemy has come in.
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God is going to raise up a standard and he's going to make a point about how the enemy deals with the people of God.
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Amen.
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We've seen this all along and all of the other instances that we've looked at, amen, and this one is no different.
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Here we have the people, the sons and daughters of the 12 sons of Jacob, willfully and of full volition and throwing everything behind it, have re-erected the golden calf that was in the wilderness in two strategic places so that they could easily get to it.
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Amen, that calf that Moses destroyed with the, with the, with the stone tablets.
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Oh, glory to God, they are re-erecting again.
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God said I did it once.
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Watch out, amen.
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When the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit is going to raise up a standard, and here comes this man named Elijah.
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Named Elijah, elijah has a unique place in Bible history.
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You know the story, but this is how he earned that place.
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Remember we talked about that destiny is accomplished by faith and obedience.
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Amen.
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Just because God says something to you doesn't mean that it's going to happen if you don't believe it and you don't actively start doing things to get there.
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Amen, glory to God.
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You got to move.
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You got to get up off of your blessed assurance and start moving toward the destiny.
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See, here's what most people, most people in today's church, if, if they are anywhere around where prophetic words are given, they get a prophetic word and they just sit and they wait for that word to come to them and manifest.
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Well, the word already already came to you and manifest.
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You heard it.
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There were witnesses.
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There's not gonna people get.
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Well, I need another word.
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No chances that it's more likely that you're going to get the same word again.
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I have heard people receive the same word, word for word, time and again because they hadn't obeyed it the first time.
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We were ministering just recently to this one woman in the same meeting and we didn't know that we were doing it.
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Sarah was on one end of the place and, separated by time, went over and told her a word and then she came up for prayer and I prayed for her and gave her exactly the same word, and we hadn't talked about it.
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We didn't know what happened and we hadn't talked about it.
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We hadn't even we didn't know what happened.
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And that woman's just how's this working?
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Well, you hadn't done it the first time, so well, she didn't have time.
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Well, that wasn't the first time she'd heard it.
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Glory to God, amen.
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People, they think that they think we're in Old Testament times where if God speaks it, it's just going to happen because he couldn't get anybody to help him out.
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But in this dispensation of grace, amen, his power is working in you and he expects you to get up and move toward that destiny.
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Now, that's all you have to do.
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You don't have to, you don't have to make it happen and you don't have to figure it out.
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All you have to do is move toward it.
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If you move toward it, he will give you the next thing to do, and then the next thing to do, and then the next thing to do, and then the next thing to do, because you're just steadily moving toward it.
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If you think that in one or two steps you're going to get there, you're kidding yourself, amen.
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But if you think that by sitting there you're going to get there, you're really kidding yourself.
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Amen, glory to God.
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That's about the.
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I could quit right now and say you know, we had church, because that's that's a good word, right there, praise God.
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So anyway, here we are in the 18th chapter of this great man, elijah, who can cause it to rain or cause it not to rain.
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Verse 18, verse 1 in chapter 18 says it came to pass after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah.
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Now, this is how I know that this man is operating in the order of Melchizedek, because the word of the Lord comes to him and he hears it and he obeys it.
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Amen.
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This does not happen.
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Listen to me very carefully.
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This does not happen under the law.
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That's why there is a division in the Bible that Jesus sanctified.
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He said it.
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He said there's law, there's prophets, there's Psalms.
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Those kinds of divisions are there because after David, amen.
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And we had the beginning of the time of prophets, or actually after Samuel, for the most part, when we have this time of prophets, amen.
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These people are under a different law.
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They're not necessarily priests, some of them are priests.
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They're not necessarily priests, some of them are priests, but most of them are just people who hear God speak and they obey it.
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That puts them in a different order, because there's no discussion of that under the law.
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Amen.
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The priesthood, under the law, just carried out these ceremonial duties of sacrificing and altar of incense and showbread and candelabra and all the things that they did.
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That's what the priest did.
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But all of a sudden, god started sending men like Samuel, like David and like Elijah, who were men who could hear Moses, who were men who could hear God's voice and obey it.
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Hallelujah, the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, the third year of no rain, saying go present yourself to Ahab and I will send rain upon the earth.
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And I will send rain upon the earth.
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Now he has this extended discussion with Obadiah, and Obadiah is afraid that if he does this, that Ahab will kill him.
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And Elijah tells him in verse 15, as the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, as in verse 15, as the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely present myself to Ahab today.
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And so then it happened verse 17, that when Ahab saw now Ahab is the king of the northern kingdoms, his wife is Jezebel, in case you didn't know, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him Is that you, o troubler of Israel.
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I like that name, o troubler of Israel.
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And he answered I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father's house have.
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Now, who is that house?
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That house goes all the way back to Jeroboam, who rebelled against Rehoboam and in doing that, rebelled against the authority of David, amen.
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And the authority of David came where it came from the anointing of Melchizedek that Samuel gave him.
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So David is under an authority, and that authority came from God by way of Samuel, in the order of Melchizedek, amen.
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And it passed down to Solomon because he was anointed of Zadok.
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Glory to God, not Abiathar.
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Don't have time to go over all that or we won't get anywhere.
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Praise God Now, you and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and have followed after the Baals.
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Now, therefore, send and gather all Israel to me on Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel's table.
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So listen to me If they're eating at Jezebel's table, that means that she is financing their operation.
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So I want you to see this from God's point of view.
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Abraham is taxing the people.
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He's receiving tributes from them.
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His wife is dipping into the till and propping up this orgy of 850 false prophets and priests?
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Amen.
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And Elijah says tells Ahab.
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He tells the king listen to me, if you're in a kingship someplace, are you going to tell the king anything?
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Elijah, who had the word of the Lord, tells the king what to do.
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Why?
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Because he's of a higher order, amen.
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And he just told him.
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He said go get all those prophets and summon all of israel to this one spot.
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And so abram ahab did that.
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Gather all the children of israel and gathered the prophets together on mount carmel, and elijah came to the people.
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Now here's the point, here's the point of the whole thing.
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When I, when I was studying this this morning, amen.
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This verse just jumped out at me.
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How long will you falter between two opinions?
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If the Lord is God, follow him.
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If Baal is God, follow him.
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And the people answered not a word.
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So here you go.
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If they didn't answer a single word, then where were they in this equation?
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They were faltering between two opinions.
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They couldn't make up their mind who was God and they couldn't make up their, because they didn't know who was God.
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They couldn't make up their mind who to worship.
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And that is the essence of what idolatry does to you.
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Idolatry is putting something up here that is either equal with God or more important than God.
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Amen.
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You may be saying that God is your number one, that God is your everything, that God is your all in all, but in fact you are halting or faltering between two opinions.
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You've got something else.
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That's like a juggler juggling balls.
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You've got this thing going on and God just says wait a minute, we're not going to have that.
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And he sent the man of God who had the word of God, who could hear the word of God and cause it to come to pass, because he obeyed it.
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Praise God, not because he was a witness to it, but he was an instrument in it, because he obeyed it.
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You see the difference.
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Praise the Lord, hallelujah.
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We have a church today that is haltering between two opinions.
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I was I'm not going to get specific, but there was a.
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I was doing some research on a church that's here in our area and I just was curious as to how they were doing what they were doing and what kind of money they had and where that was coming from and what kind.
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How were they?
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How were they drawing people in?
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Okay, you could have taken a page book out of out of any denomination, and it would have been in their statement of of belief, and all they added to dress that up was you know that we, we are, we are committed to Britain, to building strong lives.
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My only question is where are those lives going to inhabit?
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Are they going to inhabit in the northern kingdoms?
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Are they going to have it in the southern kingdoms?
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Listen, folks, I got, I got a news flash for you.
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I don't care what they did in the northern kingdoms.
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They did not have a cloud over their temple by day, nor a fire by night, and that was still happening in Jerusalem in this day.
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How do I know that?
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Because the fire came down from heaven and consumed the sacrifice in the days of Solomon, when he dedicated the temple and prayed out to the Lord in the seventh chapter of second Chronicles.
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If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will forgive their sins, I will hear from heaven and I will heal their land.
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Heal their land of what?
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Of idolatry, of false God worship, of this double-mindedness?
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Amen, that plagues the church even yet today.
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Amen, because we have been trained that coming to church is only good for Adam.
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It's not good to produce a Christ.
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But I got news for you the first place that Jesus went after he was born was to the temple.
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I think I'm going to come out of here and go back in Glory to God.
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The Bible says that going to church was his custom.
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Hallelujah, not to worship Adam, but to worship this God, this living God.
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He's not the God of the dead, he's the God of the living, he's the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob.
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Hallelujah, glory to God.
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He never once, not one time, do you ever hear God refer to himself as the God of Adam?
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He will tell you the story of how he created Adam.
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But Adam abdicated oh Jesus.
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Now he's known by a different name.
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He's known as the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob.
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Hallelujah, and this God does not like.
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The very first commandment in the law was something that the patriarchs knew already Thou shalt have no other God before him.
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