WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:15.039 Hey, everybody, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, you are welcome. 5 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:16.920 Hey you did my Monday Monday Monday. 6 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:19.359 Oh I know, yeah, I just wondered if you pick 7 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:19.719 up on it. 8 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:21.199 Yes, I did. I think you're cool and I want 9 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:21.679 to be like you. 10 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:25.519 Oh. Imitation is the best form of flattery, right, Yeah, 11 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:26.679 that's right, Yes, that's right. 12 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:29.160 So hey, we are the Bible Guys. 13 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:30.960 My name is Chris, this is Jeff, and we want 14 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:32.640 to welcome you, whether you're listening or watching. 15 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:35.000 And we are in the middle of. 16 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:37.600 This epic tale of a prophet in the Old Testament 17 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:38.719 called Elijah. 18 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.200 His name is Elijah. That's correct, I said, called, but yeah, 19 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:43.960 his name is yeah. Yeah. 20 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:47.920 People when they call them they say Elijah. 21 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:49.039 Before we get into. 22 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:50.799 That, we're going to go ahead and start off with 23 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:54.359 a segment Who's most likely? And I love this segment 24 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:57.799 and this is one of your favorites. Yes, and I 25 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:01.119 think who's most likely? Have to The goal is for 26 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:04.959 us to say immediately who we think instinctively. 27 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:07.319 I haven't looked at any of these not either have 28 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:09.439 an either. Okay, okay, you want to start. 29 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:09.760 Sure. 30 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:14.040 Number one, who's most likely to break a world record 31 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:15.400 for the longest nap? 32 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:16.799 I like naps. 33 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:18.640 I think that'd be you. Yeah, that might be me 34 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:22.040 because I Number one, I don't take naps. Number two, 35 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:25.680 I don't sleep well. I just don't sleep well. 36 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:29.640 The Bible says the Lord gives rest to those he loves. Oh, well, 37 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:31.680 he doesn't love me. That's the case. 38 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:34.519 I didn't say that. I did not say that. I 39 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:35.680 didn't say the Lord doesn't love you. 40 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:39.519 God doesn't love you. That's what I heard. 41 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:43.400 That is not what I said. So I'm like a 42 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:47.079 I'm like a professional sleeper. Yeah, I lay down and 43 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:51.519 I'm asleep in like three minutes. Well and yeah, but 44 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:54.719 then I don't take naps except on Sundays. On Sundays, 45 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:58.840 a lot of times I'll take a nap. And this 46 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:01.239 last week, I thought I'm just gonna be down for 47 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:04.719 a minute. And when I woke up, it was dark 48 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:06.519 outside and there was nobody in my house. 49 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:09.879 Apparently they kept trying to wake me up. I didn't 50 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:11.639 know it. Then they all left. 51 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:14.039 Where they go I don't know they they went and 52 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:16.319 did stuff. I can't remember they did that. I don't 53 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:18.319 remember what they did, but they did stuff and. 54 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:23.439 Sleep. That's so. Yeah? All right. 55 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:27.599 Number two, Okay, who's most likely to accidentally invent something 56 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:29.120 genius while trying to cook? 57 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:31.599 Oh? That definitely be you because I don't cook. You 58 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:32.000 don't cook. 59 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:36.800 Yeah, and you are somewhat of a genius. 60 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:39.800 And I'm and i'm i'm and I'm giving you. 61 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:46.639 Are that's nice, somewhat accidentally invent something genius while trying 62 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:47.080 to cook. 63 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:48.800 And by the way, is that is that? Is that 64 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:52.879 more like I spilled something accidentally? Like what was the 65 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:57.879 uh uh, I'm trying to think of flubber flobber? Oh 66 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:03.680 right right, yeah, these ingredients fall something amazing. 67 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:07.039 Yes, that's probably it. Yeah, okay, wow flobber. I went 68 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.680 back there tonight into the archives. All right. 69 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:13.000 Number three, who's most likely they spend an entire day 70 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:14.759 pretending to be a celebrity? 71 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.560 This guy? Yeah, that guy right there? Yeah, that's right. 72 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:20.759 Have you ever seen the YouTube videos where people have 73 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:24.159 done this where somebody who sort of looks like Justin 74 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:27.360 Bieber or something. He'll put on like sunglasses and they'll 75 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.680 literally put an entourage around him and he'll rent a 76 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:33.479 limo and he'll walk through a mall or something, and 77 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:35.240 the crowds. 78 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:35.520 Fall for it. 79 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:38.520 And what they do is they have people they say, 80 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:40.280 that's just a bieber, that's just a bieber, and they 81 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:42.639 do it just for fun, just for YouTube videos, and 82 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:44.800 then they get big followings and goes viral and it 83 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:48.879 is hilarious. Billie Eilish, you know, she dyes her hair 84 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:51.360 green and then people just die their hair green and 85 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:53.759 put on sunglasses and and you know, and they have 86 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:54.680 the same body type. 87 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:57.800 Oh, there's Billy Eilish. It's hilarious. It's really fun. I've 88 00:03:57.800 --> 00:03:58.240 ever seen that. 89 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:01.719 But yeah, well so you uh, you have been known 90 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:05.840 on occasion to find your way backstage that awards shows 91 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:08.800 and yes, different things anyways, right, so yes, you have 92 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:10.319 a certain comfortability with that. 93 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:12.639 Yes I have that. Yeah. 94 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.080 And by the way, those are great stories. They're just 95 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:17.879 don't do as I don't. Don't do as I do 96 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:20.680 as I used to do. That's right, because I haven't. 97 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:22.199 Done that in a while. Right, that's the old Chris. 98 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.160 I'm not sure who's most likely to buy a one 99 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:28.879 way ticket to somewhere random just to see what happens. 100 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:32.480 Oh, that kind of sounds like both of us, but 101 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:33.839 I would love to do that. 102 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:37.319 Yeah, I'm gonna say me. Okay, I think so too. Yeah. 103 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:39.839 I usually go places, I do things on purpose, all right? 104 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:40.680 So yeah? 105 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:44.199 Yeah, have you ever seen the movie Yes, man, I 106 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:46.839 don't remember Jim Carrey where he says yes to everything 107 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:50.560 I don't know. Yeah, and Zoe what's her name who 108 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:51.519 plays in helf Zoe? 109 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:52.319 Yeah? 110 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:55.680 Yeah, yeah, anyway, there's a there's a scene where he 111 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:57.959 just shows up the airport and he goes, I want 112 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:01.399 your first available ticket to wherever it is that's available. Oh, 113 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:03.439 and he says, and that's what we're going on vacation. 114 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:07.160 It was like Lincoln, Nebraska. And he goes, well that's 115 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:11.079 where we're going on vaking. Okay, it's funny, okay. And 116 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:15.160 then number five, who's most likely to spend an entire 117 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:17.920 day trying to teach their pet how to dance? 118 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:20.199 I think it's probably gonna be you. I think it's 119 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:21.879 gonna be me too. You like dancing and you like 120 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:25.759 your pets. Yeah, but Mike pet is a cat, So. 121 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:30.160 Then that's why it's gonna take all day. 122 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:32.399 Cats, So I guess. So, although I could buy a 123 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:34.800 new pet. I could buy a dog, you could, or 124 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:37.360 you could get a monkey. A monkey probably likes to dance. 125 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:41.279 Oh well that would be something. Yeah. Yeah, so I 126 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:44.560 would definitely say me, but it's not very likely. It's 127 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:48.000 just more and more most likely most likely you than me. Yeah, yeah, 128 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:52.120 for sure. Yeah, okay, very odd questions. They are very odd, Yeah, 129 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:55.639 but very enlightening. We learned a lot about you today, Chris. Listen. 130 00:05:55.800 --> 00:06:00.879 Just because I'm more likely does not mean that my tendency, propensity. 131 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.199 Or my wish is to get a pet monkey to 132 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:06.120 get him to dance. Well, okay, maybe just to. 133 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:11.040 Be clear, okay, hey, and speaking of dancing, there's gonna 134 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:15.240 be an incredible dance back and forth between Elijah and 135 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:16.160 the prophets. 136 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.920 Of Profits of bel are going to be dancing. Yes, yes, 137 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:21.199 that's what I should have said. Yeah, yeah, yes, yes, 138 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:24.759 that's great. Yes, well, this is the great contest on 139 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:28.319 Mount Karma, yes, right, and we're gonna start it, but 140 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:31.199 we're not going to finish it today, Chris, so we can't. 141 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:33.839 Here's the ground rules. I'm gonna give you the ground 142 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:36.879 rules for the for this episode yesterday. I am not 143 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:40.319 I'm just saying sometimes you're tempted to tell everybody all 144 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:43.000 the stuff that's coming tomorrow and not finish the stuff 145 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:44.279 we're supposed to talk about today. 146 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:47.439 All right, today's today, Tomorrow's tomorrow, everybody, all right. 147 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:49.560 So we're gonna go halfway through the story and then 148 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:51.759 we're gonna stop at a weird spot. Well, and then 149 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:53.120 we're gonna pick up tomorrow. 150 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:55.439 Well, I don't know if it's the climax, it's it's 151 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:58.399 sort of like the it's the gauntland has been thrown. 152 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.000 That's where we stop, right, Okay, okay, So here it goes. 153 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:02.920 All right, this is one of my favorite stories in 154 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:05.319 the Bible. And I've been there. I've been to this place. 155 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:06.439 You've been to. 156 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:10.279 The Bible, to Mount Carmel, oh I see yea, yeah, yeah, okay, okay. 157 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:13.839 It says in One Kings, chapter eighteen, verse one. Later 158 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.560 on in the third year of the drought, remember, Elijah 159 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:17.519 went to Ahab and said. 160 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:21.560 This is three years later years that's the Ahab confrontation. 161 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:23.519 Later on, in the third year of the drought, the 162 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:25.600 Lord said to Elijah, go and present yourself to King 163 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:28.079 Ahab and tell him that I will soon send reins. 164 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:31.160 So Elijah went to a peer before Ahab. Meanwhile, the 165 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:35.040 famine had become very severe in Samaria, so Ahab summoned Obadiah, 166 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:37.600 who was in charge of the palace. Obadiah was a 167 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:40.920 devoted follower of the Lord. Once, when Jezebela had tried 168 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:43.560 to kill all the Lord's prophets, Obidi had hidden one 169 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:46.199 hundred of them in two caves. He put fifty profits 170 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:48.240 in each cave and supplied them with food and water. 171 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:51.199 Ahab said to Obadiah, we must check every spring and 172 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:52.560 valley in the land to see if we can find 173 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:55.079 enough grass to save at least some of my horses 174 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:57.639 and mules. So they divided the land between them, and 175 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.959 Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah won another 176 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.160 by himself. As Obediah was walking along, he suddenly saw 177 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:06.120 Elijah coming toward him. Obadi I recognized him at once 178 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.319 and bowed low to the ground before him. Is it 179 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:11.120 really you, my Lord Elijah? He asked, Yes, it is, 180 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.480 Elijah replied, Now go and tell your master Elijah is here, 181 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:17.639 Oh sir, Obadiah protested, what harm have I done to 182 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:20.000 you that you are sending me to my death at 183 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.120 the hands of Ahab? Fright swear by the Lord your God, 184 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:24.519 that the King has searched every nation and kingdom on 185 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:26.720 earth from end to end to find you. And each 186 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:30.199 time he is told Elijah is not here. King Ahab 187 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:32.039 forced the king of that nation to swear to the 188 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:34.679 truth of this claim. And now you say, go to 189 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:37.480 tell your master Elijah is here. But as soon as 190 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:39.080 I leave you, the spirit of the Lord will carry 191 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:41.720 you away to who knows where. When Ahab comes and 192 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:44.159 cannot find you, he will kill me. That i'd been 193 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:46.759 a true servant of the Lord all my life. Has 194 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:48.639 no one told you, my Lord, about the time when 195 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:50.879 Jezebel was trying to kill the Lord's prophets. I hid 196 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:52.679 one hundred of them in two caves and supplied them 197 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:54.960 with food and water. And now you say, go and 198 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:57.120 tell your master Elijah's here, Sir, If I do it. 199 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:00.480 If I do that, Ahab will certainly kill me. But 200 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:02.879 Elijah said, I swear by the Lord Almighty, and whose 201 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:05.320 presence I stand, that I will present myself to Ahab 202 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:08.960 this very day. So Obadiah went to tell Ahab that 203 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:12.279 Elijah had come, and Ahab went out to meet Elijah. 204 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:17.120 When Ahab saw him, he exclaimed so it is really you, 205 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:20.200 you trouble maker of Israel. I have made no trouble 206 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:23.200 for Israel. Elijah applied you and your family are the troublemakers, 207 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:25.559 for you've refused to obey the commands of the Lord 208 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:28.679 and have worshiped the images of Bail instead. Now some 209 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:31.879 in all Israel to join me on Mount Carmel, along 210 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:33.799 with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Bale and 211 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.120 the four hundred prophets of Asherah who were supported by Jezebel. 212 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:39.399 So there are a little pause there. 213 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:44.159 The gauntlet is thrown. There it is and so really 214 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:50.080 most of this setup is a conversation between Obadiah and Elijah. 215 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:50.600 That's right. 216 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:56.960 And what's interesting about this is, you know, it's a 217 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:59.600 good reminder that sometimes we feel like we're the only one. 218 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.879 Elijah in different times throughout his life references and says, oh, 219 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:06.799 I'm the only one, you know, the only prophet to 220 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:10.960 serve God and uh, and yet sometimes we don't realize 221 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:12.639 It's like, no, man, you're not the only one. 222 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:13.919 I remember when I. 223 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:19.639 Was in high school, I uh, I moved. So I 224 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:23.960 moved from the west side to the south side of Youngstown, Ohio. 225 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.440 And you have to understand that's like moving like from 226 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:30.200 the other side of the railroad tracks to two sets beyond. 227 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.120 The railroad tracks. It's like, it's not it's not a 228 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:34.559 it's not a good move to start with. From from 229 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:35.960 worse to worser, Yeah. 230 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:40.159 Worse to worser and and uh but but nobody wanted 231 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:43.799 to go to Wilson High School. And uh, you know 232 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:45.759 they you know, they had to go to high school. 233 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:49.840 They had metal detector machines to walk through in my 234 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:50.679 high school. 235 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:52.440 Back in the old days, back in the old days. Yeah, 236 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:54.519 because old schools have now. Back in the old days, 237 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.000 oh they do now. Yeah, back in the old days 238 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:02.399 that nobody. Nobody had it. So anyway, back in the. 239 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:06.039 Old days, theydn't even locked the doors came they have 240 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:09.240 security except at Wilson High School. 241 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:10.759 Except at Wilson. And uh. 242 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:12.679 And it was you know, obviously I was the minority 243 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:15.360 and uh and it was a really rough town. And 244 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:17.039 so what I did is I just said, God, I 245 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:20.600 am not I am not gonna go to this, to 246 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:21.279 this high school. 247 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:23.240 And so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna easily lie. 248 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:25.639 I'm gonna put my father's address down he lived in 249 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:27.799 Austin Town, and I'll and I'll go to I'll still 250 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:31.519 go to Cheney, and and it was all planned out, 251 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.000 and everybody said, Okay, no big deal, and well, no 252 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:35.519 big deal. 253 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:37.840 But everybody I knew I could. 254 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:39.360 I could name you five people off the top of 255 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:41.440 my head that did it right. They just put their 256 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.519 parents address down. And and so I was. 257 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:47.360 Coming out of church one day. 258 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:50.960 And my my pastor confronted me and said, hey, I'm excited. 259 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:53.960 I heard you're going to transfer to Wilson High School. 260 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:57.360 And I said, well, to be honest, I said, I'm 261 00:11:57.399 --> 00:11:58.879 gonna just put my dad's address down. 262 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:01.399 I'm going to go to Cheney. I'm gonna stay at Cheney. 263 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:05.000 And he looked at me and said, but that's lying, 264 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:08.039 and I said, yes, yes it is, but it's also 265 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:11.679 my life. And he said, I was really looking forward 266 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:14.639 to you being at Wilson because we don't have anybody 267 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:17.080 from our youth group that goes to that school. And 268 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.960 you're a really strong evangelist, and I would really love 269 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:23.559 for us to have like a bright light in a 270 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:28.240 really dark place. And I was like, really, you got 271 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:30.120 to be kidding me. So I went home, I prayed 272 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:33.320 about it, and I was like fine, and I confronted 273 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:35.240 my brother, and my brother's like, yeah, that's fine, let's 274 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:38.000 do it. So we did it, and so we didn't lie. 275 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:40.960 And we went to Wilson High School and there was 276 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:43.960 no Bible study. So I just announced that I was 277 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:47.279 going to start a Bible study and because students had to, 278 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:51.200 and come to find out, all these people started flocking 279 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:53.519 to the Bible study. And come to find out, there 280 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:56.279 was plenty of Christians at Wilson High School. It's just 281 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:58.960 that nobody was there to lead a bobble study. Yeah, 282 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:02.000 so I thought I was alone, but it turns out 283 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:04.879 I wasn't alone at all. And then our youth group 284 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:09.759 grew because I am an evangelist. And so that first year, 285 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:11.840 and this is going to selling I'm bragging, and maybe 286 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:17.679 I am, but I brought seventy guests well, from that 287 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:19.440 school to our youth group in one year. 288 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:19.960 Yeah. 289 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:23.639 It's amazing what God does when circumstances in your life changed. 290 00:13:23.679 --> 00:13:27.519 I wonder had you stayed in Cheney, I wonder if 291 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:31.240 you would have brought seventy kids. Yeah, well I don't 292 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.080 think so, right, I'm not saying they came to Jesus, 293 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:37.480 but they came to church, right. And you know, a 294 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:40.960 lot of times when our life gets disrupted, we have 295 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.960 a different way of approaching things than when we just 296 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:47.720 stay in the normal way our life is, right, and 297 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:50.159 so you had less to lose when you go into 298 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:50.919 this new place. 299 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:51.879 Right. 300 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:54.519 You had all these friends at Cheney, You had all 301 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:57.279 this circumstance in your life in Cheney, and maybe you 302 00:13:57.320 --> 00:14:00.480 say a little less, you invite less often, and yeah, 303 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:03.200 you stay in your group and with your group of friends, 304 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:05.120 you don't reach out to other groups of friends. But 305 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:08.039 now you're the new kid, and so sometimes that is 306 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:10.759 enough to make you kind of just be friendly with everybody, 307 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:12.799 kind of right, And yeah, you wind. 308 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:13.600 Up having more opportunity. 309 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.679 It's it's interesting how God will sometimes disrupt our lives 310 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:19.159 to make us more, to put us in a situation 311 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:20.320 where we can be more effective. 312 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.679 Yeah. Thanks, it's the way. The reason why I know 313 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:25.120 it's seventy, because I know some people are like, how 314 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:27.399 do you know it's seventy, like all these years later, And. 315 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.720 It's because we had a visitor bringing contest. Oh yeah, 316 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.279 so it was called the top five get this, the 317 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:37.559 top five teenagers that brought the most visitors throughout the 318 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:39.879 school year, got to go on a free vacation to 319 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:40.759 Ocean City. 320 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:42.519 Maryland for a week. Wow. 321 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:44.679 And so it was a year long contest. Oh wow, 322 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:47.080 So and so's that's how I knew. 323 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:48.600 So I was number one. 324 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:51.799 You always wanted to be number one, So I would 325 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:53.159 if somebody surpassed me, I would. 326 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:56.679 If you're not first, your last, it's y, Bobby. If 327 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:58.840 you're off first your last, Ricky, that's stupid. 328 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:03.440 If you ain't first, your second, third, well, Daddy had 329 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:08.279 lived my whole life with that philosophy. So anyway, so yeah, 330 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:11.159 I mean, so the sermon is is that you may 331 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:13.039 feel like you're by yourself. You may feel like if 332 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:16.799 you're in a situation you're like, hey, you know, nobody understands, 333 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:18.279 nobody's been here before. 334 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:21.679 I have no support. And the reality is is listen. 335 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:25.039 You know, the Bible says there's no temptation that's taking you, 336 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:27.879 but such as is common to every person, as there's 337 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:30.799 somebody who's been through what you're going through. 338 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:35.240 You're not alone. There's people around you. And if you 339 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:39.840 pray that God would reveal or send you support, who knows, 340 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:42.759 maybe God would you know, send you somebody that would 341 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:44.559 remind you that you're not by yourself. 342 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:49.840 I also think it's interesting Obadiah was afraid to go 343 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:54.600 to Ahab and say, hey, I found Elijah because he said, 344 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:57.440 as sure as I do that, I'm going to go, 345 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.120 I'm going to interrupt the king. And then God is 346 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:01.600 going to whisk you away somewhere. 347 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.600 God's going to like disappear you somewhere else. 348 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:08.399 So, you know, we we read these three miracles that 349 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:13.360 happened in the literally in the chapter before, but Elijah's 350 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:17.399 reputation went way beyond feeding a widow, raising a widow's 351 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:21.320 son from the dead, stopping the rain, right. It's so 352 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:24.080 his reputation at this point is, dude, I have no 353 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:25.720 idea what God's going to do. You're just you're going 354 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:27.440 to be here, and then you're not going to be here. 355 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:29.399 You're an unpredictable man. That's right. 356 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.279 And God's going to do it. That's what he said. 357 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:36.480 He said, and God will do it. And so he's 358 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:38.960 a carry where the spirit of the Lord will carry 359 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:42.559 you away to who knows where, right, And. 360 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:44.639 You know what, you know, what there's a sermon in 361 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:49.279 here is is that there's a human side that is 362 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:52.759 that is like, I think this is justifiable for Elijah 363 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:56.600 or for Obadi to feel right, like like like like 364 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:58.360 in other words, just because a pastor and you and 365 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:00.559 I said this just the other day we were teaching 366 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:03.360 that class. You know, if a pastor gets up and 367 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.799 just says something, you shouldn't automatically just take it as gospel. 368 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:11.319 You should question like is that rooted in God's word? 369 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:12.000 You know? 370 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:13.920 Is that is that something that's true? 371 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:18.440 Right? Because you know, unless a speaker or a you know, whoever, 372 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:22.000 a Christian or whoever, unless it's rooted in God's word. Listen, 373 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:24.799 there's a practical side to it that says, don't just 374 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:29.079 take it at face value blindly. So here's Elijah's got 375 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:33.200 a great reputation. He says, go tell the king, and 376 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:35.119 and the practical side of it is he's like, listen, 377 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:40.319 I'm fearful because I don't know what's going to happen. 378 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.960 This very well could happen. You know, is this from 379 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:45.000 God or or you? Or are you just saying this 380 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:48.119 in passing? Are you just you know, saying, hey, go 381 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:50.000 tell them I'm here just to so that so that 382 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:52.480 leave your presence, then you're going to leave, and God's 383 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:55.680 and God's going to do something weird. And then and 384 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:58.640 so he's waiting to hear the word of the Lord. 385 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:02.599 And and then and then Elijah says, as surely as 386 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:05.279 I'm standing here in the Lord's presence, he says, I 387 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:08.799 will meet with aheb today. And then over says, that's 388 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:11.559 what I needed to hear. It's from God that that 389 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:14.880 is specific enough for me to risk my life. Yes, right, 390 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.279 and so yeah, so let's let's make sure before we, 391 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:21.400 you know, set our lives in a certain direction, that 392 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:23.960 we're doing it based on God's work, not just the 393 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:24.680 prophet of God. 394 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:25.839 Right. 395 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:31.680 So, Jezebel is a Phoenician woman, right, and she's what 396 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:34.480 was she the daughter of some Phoenician leaders. 397 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:36.960 Chriest, Right, Yeah, that's Christ. Yeah. 398 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:43.119 And Ahab, who is an Israelite, marries this Phoenician woman, 399 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:45.240 and you know, this is one of the reasons why 400 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:47.680 God had forbidden the people of God to marry people 401 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:49.279