WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.720 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 --> 00:00:13.960 practical ways. Welcome on and everybody, or good evening, depending 4 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:16.679 on when you listen, or good day, good day, good night, 5 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:18.920 good day, sir, good afternoon. 6 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:22.440 Have you seen spirited with Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, 7 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:23.239 it's an insult. 8 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:26.160 Yeah, it's an insult, he said, He goes, oh, it's 9 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:32.200 a serious burn back in the eight it's so funny. Well, hey, 10 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:35.240 listen whenever, whatever part of the day it is. We 11 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:38.240 want to welcome into the Bible guys. And I'm Chris, 12 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:40.880 this is Jeff, and we are just a couple of 13 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:44.399 guys who opened the Bible. And in fact, we're in 14 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:45.679 the middle of a series. We haven't talked about this 15 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:47.200 in a long time. We're in the middle of a 16 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:50.600 series where we're going through the milestones of the Old Testament. 17 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:54.039 That's correct. Yeah, all the highlights, all the highlights, as 18 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:55.320 many of them as we can fit in. 19 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:59.159 Yeah. Sure. And we are before we get into that, 20 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:03.520 we are in her into a dad joke competition, which 21 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.879 did I tell you love these? Yes? And your daughter 22 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:10.079 loves them? And I'm going to share her her joke 23 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:11.760 after we read our. 24 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:15.280 Okay okay, yeah, yeah, and we can figure out is 25 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:17.439 that like a bonus that's going to be bonus bonus? 26 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:20.359 Okay, bonus? Right, So you want to if I have 27 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:22.359 five and you have five, we're gonna figure out who's 28 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:25.400 the best jokes. Yes, And it really depends on where 29 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:27.400 have you ever asked Desiree? Where does she get her 30 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:30.359 sources at? I have not, Like, does she just google them? 31 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:31.359 Does she get them from a book? 32 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:37.719 Well? I think she's just full of dad jokes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's. 33 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.959 Right, it does not. All right, you want to go first. 34 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.640 A mummy covered in chocolate and nuts has been discovered 35 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:51.200 in Egypt. Archaeologists may believe it may be Pharaoh rochet. 36 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:52.599 I don't get it. 37 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:56.359 The phero rochets, the little chocolate candies and. 38 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:58.920 The gold foil, that's what they're called. 39 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:03.319 You've never had one. No chocolate with macadamia nut right 40 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:07.599 in the middle, with a chocolate truffle on the inside. 41 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:08.080 I don't love. 42 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:11.400 Then it has a crispy like cookie thing, and then 43 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:14.280 it's covered in more chocolate with macadamia. 44 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:15.800 Because I didn't know the name of that chocolate is 45 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:16.520 that a funny joke. 46 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:22.280 It's funny enough. Okay, pharaohche if you knew, pharaohsche Okay, Actually, 47 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:23.800 I'm kind of glad you don't know what they are. 48 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:26.439 More for me, more for you. I love them. Those 49 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:28.280 are those I'm telling you. There aren't many things I 50 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.800 love them more in life. Really, I love them. I 51 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:33.400 love them. I can't walk past them. I tell you that, 52 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:36.159 I can't have them in my house or in my office. 53 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:36.759 Wow. 54 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.280 Yeah. I had three of them on Sunday because they 55 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:41.240 were in the green room and I walked by the 56 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:43.360 little thing and there were four in there, and I 57 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:45.800 walked by my Oh, Pharaohshet. I love them, so I 58 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:48.759 grab one. I ate it, and then I walked past again. 59 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:52.080 I went, I shouldn't. I'm gonna have it, so I went, 60 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:54.120 and then I felt guilty taken the third one, but 61 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:56.400 I couldn't take the last one, so I left one. 62 00:02:57.199 --> 00:02:58.240 Well, good for you, yea. 63 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:00.360 Go, Yeah, it's bad. 64 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:02.800 It's three for you, one for the rest of the 65 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:04.240 entire band. 66 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:07.199 But let me tell you what I'm ashamed of. In 67 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:09.400 between the third and fourth service on Sunday, I went 68 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:12.000 back looking for it and it was already gone. Somebody 69 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.039 else had already gotten it, so I would have eaten 70 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:17.080 the fourth one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I love them all. 71 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:19.840 Right, here we go. Here's mine. I once had a 72 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:26.000 conversation with a dolphin. We just clicked. I like that. 73 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:30.680 That's a good one. Okay, we just clicked. Okay, here's 74 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:32.919 another one. A good wife will always be by your 75 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:36.159 side during bad times, mostly to remind you that none 76 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:37.919 of this would have happened if you just listened to her. 77 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:42.360 There you go, which is probably true. 78 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:43.919 Okay. 79 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:47.360 My second joke is this. I grilled a chicken for 80 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:50.879 two hours. It still wouldn't tell me why I crossed 81 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:51.240 the road. 82 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:56.400 Okay, that's pretty good. Okay, I like mine. 83 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:57.479 Minor winning for sure. 84 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:02.719 You can't tell puns to kleptominis. They take things literally. 85 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:06.479 Oh that's good. 86 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:09.240 That's super clever. Yeah, it's super clever. 87 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:10.599 Yeah, it's good. 88 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:14.159 I love that one, very good. That's my favorite one 89 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:16.120 so far. That one in the click click click click. 90 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:16.959 Okay, here we go. 91 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:17.839 Let me really clicked. 92 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:21.160 My boss said he was going to fire the employee 93 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:24.720 with the worst posture. I have a hunch it's going 94 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:25.000 to be me. 95 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:29.079 I have a hunch it's going to be me. You 96 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:30.759 needed you needed a pause there. 97 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:32.959 Yeah, that's right. I have a hunch it's going to 98 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:39.439 be that's very good. 99 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:43.319 Okay. Do you want to hear a joke about paper? Oh? 100 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:50.000 Never mind, it's terrible. It's terrible, terrible, Oh terrible. Yes, 101 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:51.720 you have to read. You have to read that one. 102 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:52.800 That's terrible. 103 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:53.319 That's good. 104 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:54.680 I like it. 105 00:04:54.680 --> 00:05:00.399 It's clever. Number four. My kids put the together a 106 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:04.759 PowerPoint presentation explaining why we should go to the water park. 107 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:06.360 It has several slides. 108 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:11.920 Okay, that was I'm going to give you a on 109 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:12.319 that one. 110 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:13.439 Okay, all right, okay. 111 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:16.560 Did you hear about the man arrested for having a compass, 112 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:20.600 protractor and calculator. They charged him with possessing weapons of 113 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:21.399 math instruction? 114 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:28.680 Wow? I like that one math instruction. That's really good. 115 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:29.399 I like it. 116 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:32.600 Yes, all right. Then finally, my last one is My 117 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:35.480 best childhood memory was falling asleep on the couch and 118 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:39.680 waking up in bed. I miss teleporting. It never happens 119 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:40.399 to me anymore. 120 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:45.000 You teleported to bed. 121 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:47.839 Let me read that again. 122 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:48.879 Yeah, try it again. 123 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:51.399 My best childhood memory was falling asleep on the couch 124 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:55.639 and waking up in bed. I miss teleporting. It never 125 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:56.680 happens to me anymore. 126 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:01.560 Yeah, so you, as an adult, you believe you teleported 127 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.040 from the couch to the bed and you miss it. 128 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:09.360 Now, that is literally one of the most awful we 129 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:13.839 have ever. Okay, but can I share Toris please? Okay? 130 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:14.959 Hopefully it's better than that one. 131 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:18.480 Yeah, it's definitely better that one. Okay, okay, let me 132 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:24.560 show you get this right? Uh, what do you what 133 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:28.120 do you call it when you lose twenty five percent 134 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:28.800 of your roof? 135 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:40.759 I don't know. Oof oof? Yeah, roof is r four letters. Yeah, 136 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:42.800 it was twenty percent of that. Now you only have 137 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:43.399 three letters. 138 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:46.639 I was in Florida and she called me, left me 139 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:49.920 a voicemail and shared that you share. 140 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:51.959 I think you played it for me. I didn't remember 141 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:54.000 the joke, but I remember her laughing when she was 142 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:54.839 telling you the joke. 143 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:59.399 Yes, yeah, and she thought it was the funniest thing ever. 144 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:02.360 I should have just did this, dude, I. 145 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:06.600 Just heard a brilliant ten joke. Are you ready? 146 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:12.279 What do you say when you lose twenty five percent 147 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:16.720 of your roof? 148 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:20.079 Oh my gosh. 149 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:20.839 That's so good. 150 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:24.879 I should just pay That's what you should have done. 151 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:29.360 That's funny. I sort of blew it. But isn't that funny? 152 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:32.759 That's funny. So I don't know what's the best joke. 153 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:34.160 Hers is pretty good. 154 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:39.240 Yes, I I like my. 155 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:42.959 Your dolphin joke. 156 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:47.439 The dolphin was pretty good, but I like yours, though. 157 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:50.800 I think the kleptomaniac joke is the best joke. They 158 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:52.160 take things literally. 159 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:53.920 I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna vote that one. 160 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.439 Yeah, okay, yeah, I thought the pause, the one that 161 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:00.199 you needed the pause on was funny too. Yes, that's good. Okay, Well, 162 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:04.079 there we go talking about funny things. Elijah was not 163 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:10.680 laughing when he had to run from Wow, that's really bad. 164 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:13.279 You know funny things. You know it's not. 165 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:18.720 Funny running for your life? Wowa. 166 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.560 Well we have accomplished the worst dad joke and the 167 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:28.000 worst transition from dad jokes in the same segment, same day. Hey, 168 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:30.560 what an episode that you have tuned in for? Yes, 169 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:32.519 just think if you had have missed it. 170 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:34.399 I can't only imagine how great it is for our 171 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:36.679 listeners to this. You're like, oh man, that was the 172 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:37.919 best eight minutes of my life. 173 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:40.039 I told you my wife doesn't like the terrible trick. 174 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:46.919 Yeah yeah, well yeah, well okay, well people like him, Liz, Wow, 175 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:48.919 people like him. 176 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:51.240 That's so funny. 177 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:54.200 Okay, we actually have people send in comments about it. 178 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:57.080 Really yeah, they said the truth said that they like them. Yes, 179 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:02.320 it's incredible. They appreciate the right. He didn't say they're funny, 180 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.200 they just said they're okay. So anyways, here we go. 181 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:09.879 Elijah had confronted Ahab winds up executing eight hundred and 182 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:12.600 fifty prophets of bail after God sends fire from heaven 183 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:17.480 and sha and yes and a shrif, and then he 184 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:20.879 tells aheb, you better get home. It's about to rain, right, 185 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:24.600 and it does rain. Yes. When Ahab got home, he 186 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:27.600 told Jezebel everything Elijah had done, including the way he'd 187 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:30.480 killed all the prophets of bail. So Jezebel sent this 188 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.639 message to Elijah. May the gods strike me and even 189 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:36.279 kill me if by this time tomorrow I have not 190 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:39.840 killed you, just as you killed them. Elijah was afraid 191 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:42.679 and fled for his life. He went to Beersheba town 192 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:45.080 in Judah, and he left a servant there. Then he 193 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:47.440 went out alone into the wilderness, traveling all day, he 194 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:49.879 sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that 195 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:53.240 he might die. I've had enough, Lord, he said, take 196 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:55.960 my life, for I'm no better than my ancestors who've 197 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.440 already died. Then he laid down and slept under the 198 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.000 broom tree. But as he was sleeping, an angel touched 199 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.600 him and told him get up and eat. He looked around, 200 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:06.080 and there beside his head was some bread baked on 201 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:08.879 hot stones and a jar of water. So he ate 202 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:11.200 and drank and lay down again. Then the angel the 203 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:12.960 Lord came again and touched him and said, get up 204 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:14.919 and eat some more, for the journey head'll be too 205 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:17.240 much for you. So he got up and ate and drank, 206 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:19.519 and the food gave him enough strength to travel forty 207 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:22.799 days and forty nights to Mount Sinai, the Mountain of God. 208 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:24.720 And there he came to a cave where he spent 209 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:27.639 the night. But the Lord said to him, what are 210 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:31.080 you doing here, Elijah. Elijah replied, I have zealously served 211 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:33.600 the Lord God Almighty, But the people of Israel have 212 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:36.200 broken their covenant with you, torn down your altars, and 213 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:38.799 killed every one of your prophets. I am the only 214 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:40.679 one left, and now they're trying to kill me too. 215 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:43.519 Go out and stand before me on the mountain, the 216 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:45.840 Lord told him. And as Elijah stood there, the Lord 217 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:49.200 passed by, and a mighty windstorm hit the mountain. It 218 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:51.840 was such terrible blasts that the rocks were torn loose, 219 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:54.639 But the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind, 220 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:56.519 there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in 221 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:00.320 the earthquake. After the earthquake there was a fire. Was 222 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:02.519 not in the fire. And after the fire there was 223 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:05.879 a sound of a gentle whisper. And when Elijah heard it, 224 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:07.799 he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out 225 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:10.120 and stood at the entrance of the cave. And a 226 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.519 voice said, what are you doing here, Elijah? He replied again, 227 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:15.679 I have zealously serve the Lord God Almighty. But the 228 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:17.639 people of Israel have broken the covenant with you, torn 229 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:20.120 down your altars, killed every one of your prophets. I'm 230 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:21.919 the only one left, and now they're trying to kill 231 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:25.279 me too. Then the Lord told him, go back the 232 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:28.279 same way you came and travel to the wilderness of Damascus. 233 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.480 When you arrive there, annoint Hazael the King to be 234 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:36.399 to be King of Aram. Then annoint Jehu, grandson of Nimshi, 235 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:40.159 to be king of Israel, and Annoy Elishah, son of Sheefat, 236 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:46.159 from the town of abel Mala Meholah, to replace you 237 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.000 as my prophet. Anyone who escapes from Hazel will be 238 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.279 killed by Jehu, and those who escape Jayhu will be 239 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:56.000 killed by Elisha. Yet I will preserve seven thousand others 240 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.960 in Israel who will never bow down to bail or 241 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:01.080 kissed him. 242 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:05.360 Yeah. Wow, Well that's a heck of a heck of 243 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:10.799 a scripture passage, right, So let's start with the fact 244 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:19.519 that Jezebel threatens Elijah. And because of her reputation and 245 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:21.679 because of you know, her being known to be a 246 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:25.919 very very strong woman, she doesn't probably she's probably not 247 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:30.639 known for making idle threats. And so she says, mark 248 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:34.559 my words, may may the gods even kill me? And 249 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:37.080 and and you know, even though that the gods that 250 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:39.720 she's that she's referring to small g by the way, 251 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:43.360 the gods that she's referring to, they're not going to 252 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.600 strike her down because of this oath, because they're not real. 253 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:48.279 But that's not the point. The point is is that 254 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:53.159 she is saying, ah, I I promise you that you're 255 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:57.080 going to die, even to the point to where the 256 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:59.200 gods that I believe in, I'm willing for them to 257 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:02.000 kill me. That's how passionate and that's how much rage 258 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:05.799 she felt. And so it's quite possible that that could 259 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:08.320 be one of the strongest statements that Jezebel maybe ever 260 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:12.000 even said. And so when when when somebody that powerful 261 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:16.519 and that crazy, you know, makes a threat like that, 262 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:21.519 it's it's a little understandable why Elijah ran. But the 263 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:27.600 thing that the thing that confuses me is that Elijah 264 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:31.519 had danger like that the whole time eight hundred and 265 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.240 fifty had God not shown up, he had eight hundred 266 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:38.559 and fifty prophets versus the royal kingdom and everybody else 267 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:41.200 who would have turned against him, and he was by himself. 268 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:45.879 And so it's interesting because I've preached this message before, 269 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:48.960 and I've talked about the fact that it sounds like 270 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:52.120 Elijah's depressed to the point to where the Angel has 271 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:56.480 to come and and and literally say you have to eat, 272 00:13:57.320 --> 00:13:59.759 and you have to drink. And he asked, and he 273 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:01.679 asked to sit there and do that three more times, 274 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:06.960 two more times, because because Elijah won't even get up 275 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:13.240 from sleeping underneath this tree. And you know what, sometimes 276 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:17.080 when we talk about mental health, it's hard to relate 277 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:21.320 because there's not a lot of scripture in the Bible 278 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:27.440 that talks about mental health. It doesn't say, hey, you know, 279 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:31.240 let's talk about chemical imbalance, or let's talk about depression 280 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:33.440 to such a degree that thou shalt do this in 281 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:37.559 the face of depression. Like you know, sometimes people rever 282 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:42.120 really really really hard time because there doesn't seem to 283 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:46.279 be a black and white scripture that speaks directly into 284 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:50.039 those things. But I believe that Elijah models for us 285 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:53.879 that it is possible to have a mountaintop experience one 286 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:58.159 day and then to have the lowest valley experience the 287 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:01.519 next day. And that sounds a lo like somebody who 288 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:05.759 goes from manic to depression and to the point to 289 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:09.960 where those around him have to literally say, I will 290 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:14.799 have to physically encourage you to eat this food, like 291 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:17.279 get up and eat this food and drink this water, 292 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:21.000 or else you're not gonna make it. And for those 293 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:23.279 who have ever cared for somebody who's depressed, that sounds 294 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:27.919 an awful lot like caring for somebody who's depressed you're right, right, 295 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:31.799 so let me you know, so if you struggle with depression, 296 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:36.080 and you struggle with imbalance or bipolarism or whatever it is, 297 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:39.679 you know, just know that even the best of them, right, 298 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:44.080 somebody like Elijah was not without his share of struggles. 299 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:48.039 And he didn't have anybody. He didn't have anybody, so. 300 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:49.320 He didn't feel like you had anybody. 301 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:51.919 Well, I mean, I mean physically with him under the tree, right, 302 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:56.679 he certainly had. Would God say, Hey, I'm gonna send 303 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:58.679 you over this place. You're gonna annoy somebody, You're gonna 304 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:01.960 annoint somebody else. And guess what I'm going to replace you. 305 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:05.200 There's other people, Elijah, and then I'm going to consecrate 306 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:10.840 seven thousand people who have never once even worshiped bail right. 307 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:13.399 In other words, Elijah, you're not alone. You feel like 308 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:14.679 you're alone, You're not alone. 309 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:16.799 Well, this was the answer God gave him as a 310 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:20.720 matter of fact. So he'd already sent Obadiah, and Obadiah said, 311 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:23.519 I'm a follower of God, and I know a hundred more. 312 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:26.279 But Elijah feels like he's the only one. He goes 313 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:29.159 by himself and confronts the prophets, which he was told 314 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:31.840 to great, well, he was told to go, not by himself, 315 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:32.639 he was just told to go. 316 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:34.480 Yeah and right, But then. 317 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:40.080 That doesn't explain I'm going somewhere. Yeah yeah. So then 318 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:43.200 he does this thing and it's an incredibly high spiritual moment, 319 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:46.440 and it's not uncommon after you have a super high 320 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:49.840 spiritual moment to have a spiritual crash. Those things are 321 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:54.080 fairly common even today. Yeah, and I've seen it many times. 322 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:56.039 Somebody finally has the courage to get up and give 323 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:59.279 their testimony and then life blows up the next week. Right, 324 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:01.919 I've seen it after time. It just happens. And so 325 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:08.519 the spiritual warfare happens a lot. So then he crashes alone. 326 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:11.519 God says, okay, then you need to head down to 327 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:14.799 Sinai and you're gonna have an encounter with me. And 328 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:17.200 he's alone during the whole time. He wants to die, 329 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:19.559 like you said, God has to raise him up and 330 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:21.720 get him some food and get him to drink something, 331 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:23.519 or he's gonna die. And you need your strength because 332 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:26.319 you've got a journey. And God gives him another journey, 333 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:29.000 another mission, and he pushes forward on that. Then he 334 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:35.799 has this incredible encounter with God, wind, lightning, thunder, earthquake, 335 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:39.640 and then the whisper of God. Right, and God's not 336 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:41.839 in all those big things like we always think God's 337 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:44.440 in the whisper. And in the whisper, he says, listen, 338 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:46.519 I've got three people I need you to do, and 339 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:48.880 I need you to point anoint this king. I need 340 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:51.319 you anoin this king and needs you to go get Alisha. 341 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:55.720 God's answer was Alisha right right. He was isolated and 342 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:58.519 the loane and could not find his way out, and 343 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:01.599 God's like, you need other people, and that that's what 344 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:04.759 that was. God's answer for this low point in his 345 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:07.319 life was I have a purpose for you. I've got 346 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:10.960 another mission. Go to this king, anoint him. Go to 347 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:14.920 this king, anoint him. And then, man, you need Elisha. 348 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:17.119 And this is when the first time that he tells 349 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:20.079 him to go get a partner, right, And a lot 350 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:22.599 of times that's what God does is God will use 351 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.079 his whisper in your life. That's through his word that 352 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:27.920 you know, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the 353 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:31.000 word of God. And then God will also nudge you 354 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:32.720 I've got a mission. You need to get back up 355 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:34.640 because I got something else for you to do. And 356 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:36.000 so you just got to get back up and you 357 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:38.920 got to go do your mission. And then he's also 358 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:41.759 going to send people. Right, those are the three ways 359 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:44.359 that he winds up kind of helping restore you and 360 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:47.880 pull you back out of the right the depths of 361 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:51.720 depression and isolation. 362 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:54.559 Yeah, And the thing I was going to say, remember 363 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:56.680 that when I was trying to interrupt you. Yeah, what 364 00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:58.720 I was going to say is, no, don't. It doesn't account. 365 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:00.319 It doesn't acount with the fact that I was reporting 366 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:05.559 your point by saying. Elijah himself voluntarily said multiple times 367 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:06.160 I'm alone. 368 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:09.000 Yes, yeah, and God says that you're not alone. There's 369 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:11.759 seven thousand more, right right right. I keep letting you 370 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:14.240 know there's seven thousand more. So the reason why I 371 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:16.920 said hey is because my adhd, I forget where I'm 372 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:20.599 going sometimes with things on that. So then when he 373 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:23.640 gets to this point where he said there's there's seven 374 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:28.960 thousand more, just like you, you're not alone. It's interesting 375 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:34.880 to me there's a touch of narcissism in Elijah where 376 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:37.480 it's just me. It's only me. I'm the only one. 377 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:40.319 How come nobody nobody ever does anything around this house. 378 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:42.599 Nobody ever does it. It's me me, me, me, me, me 379 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:44.880 me me. Yeah, right, and there's a little bit of that, 380 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:47.480 and so God kept having to pull him back and go, 381 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:50.880 it's not just you. There's seven thousand just like you. 382 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:55.880 So you're not the only one. But you're alone and 383 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:57.599 that that's a big part of your problem. You're alone, 384 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:00.640 and you need you need a mission, go nineties, you 385 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:04.000 need a buddy. We'll get Elijah Elisha. And it's funny 386 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:07.039 Elijah and Elisha, these two guys have like almost exact same. 387 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:08.839 Name names, which which God does. 388 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:10.680 Sometimes he does it it makes it confusing. 389 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:14.759 So what I was gonna say is, uh, isn't it 390 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:19.079 interesting as well that this wonderful story of of the 391 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:21.920 you know of him? Actually you don't let me back 392 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:25.799 up a second. So he flees, He flees to the 393 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:31.359 to the town of what it say, where's this math 394 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:34.680 that I was looking at? This math that actually. 395 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:37.519 Points out, well, he flees to Jezreel and from Jezreel 396 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:39.920 down to Jerusalem, Jerusalem to Beersheba Shiba. 397 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.799 Yeah, okay, yeah, she goes down to Beersheba. And so 398 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:46.759 that's that's like you know, Mount Sinai, And so anyway, 399 00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:49.960 he goes to Beersheba, that's where he gets fed, and 400 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:52.079 then he goes all the way down down to Mount Sinai. Well, 401 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:54.640