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 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:13.240 Hey, everybody, welcome to Monday. 5 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:16.239 Monday. Monday. Wow, yeah, very exciting. 6 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:17.679 Yeah, Monday is a big day. 7 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:19.039 You know. I was listening to that Rolling. 8 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:20.879 Today and I don't know if I feel fun or practical. 9 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:23.559 Maybe maybe it's going to be well, you know, boring 10 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:24.640 and impractical to day. 11 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:29.399 Jeff, with that, I am more fun and more practical. No, 12 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:30.600 let me let me resay it. 13 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:34.079 Okay, I'll be as fun and practical for the both 14 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:34.600 of us today. 15 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:37.640 Okay, okay, how about that. You're going up your fun practical. 16 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:40.079 I was trying to say, okay, great, well this is 17 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:42.240 episode six oh one, so it's about time today. 18 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:44.799 It's about timed up your game. 19 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:46.159 You're good. 20 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:47.560 Yeah, Hey, guess what. 21 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:48.840 We're both wearing vests? 22 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:50.079 We are. 23 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:52.119 If you're watching and you're not listening, I. 24 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:54.159 Bet we both wear vests the whole week. 25 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:55.719 Oh that's so true. 26 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:56.560 That's so true. 27 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:58.920 Have you ever watched a voice where they where they 28 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:00.920 stay in the same outfit and people are like, oh, 29 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:01.920 that's multiple days. 30 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:02.840 It's like, no, not. 31 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:04.200 Really, they shout it all in one. 32 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:05.200 It's it's one. Shoot. 33 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:08.599 So the funny thing is we did talk about should 34 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:09.959 we bring in a change of clothes, and we're like, 35 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:10.719 why even do that? 36 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:12.400 Yeah, because we're lazy? 37 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:14.280 Well no, because we're not that important. 38 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:15.280 We're not that important. 39 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:18.120 Answer, that's why. 40 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:21.920 That's right. So today is a really big one. 41 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:25.319 Yes, it's one of our favorite segments, huge, one of 42 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:28.840 our what is it called mail bags? 43 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:30.680 That's right, it is mail bags, it is. 44 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:33.319 And this comes from Jake p Hi Jake. 45 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:35.640 First, I would like to say how much I enjoy 46 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:37.599 starting my mornings listening to you both. 47 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:38.879 Thanks, Jake, that's really awesome. 48 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:39.599 That's nice. 49 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:41.599 Second, I have a question that would like for both 50 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.959 of you to answer. Here's the question. What's one hobby 51 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.719 you've always wanted to try but haven't yet. 52 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:51.280 Like yet yet? We haven't yet? 53 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:52.560 Right, you're only fifties. 54 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:55.120 I don't know one one that we have I haven't 55 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:57.159 tried yet. 56 00:01:57.560 --> 00:01:58.200 Yeah that's right. 57 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:02.040 Yeah, so a hobby we haven't We haven't even thought 58 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:02.319 about that. 59 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:06.680 Are you a hobby guy? 60 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:11.000 I don't think so, Like, like like it is playing 61 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:11.680 pool a hobby? 62 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:12.360 Yeah? 63 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:13.039 I think so? Yeah? 64 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.520 Yeah? Yeah, Well then I would say, my son and 65 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:18.560 I probably play well. I just joined the league, but 66 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:21.120 before the league, I would say we probably played pool 67 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:23.680 three times a month, twice a month, okay, for the 68 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:25.159 last twenty years together. 69 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:26.159 So that's kind of your thing. 70 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:27.680 Yeah, that's one of the things. 71 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:29.759 Okay. So you are a little bit of a hobby guy. 72 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:31.960 You like you like board games and tables. 73 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:34.080 Oh yeah, I love that. I love that those are 74 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:37.439 sort of hobbies, right, yeah. Yeah. 75 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:39.680 So it's something that you've never done yet but you 76 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:40.159 want to. 77 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:41.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah yet. 78 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:45.280 So here's what I would say, And I would say, 79 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:49.199 for me, it'd be working with wood of some kind. 80 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:51.000 Oh really, yeah, woodworking? 81 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:53.159 So I you like wood working with wood. 82 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:56.599 I like construction in general. Wow, And I've always thought 83 00:02:56.639 --> 00:02:57.479 that I would be good at it. 84 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:01.280 But and so I piddle paddle around, and you know, 85 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:03.439 when something needs to be done, I'll watch a YouTube 86 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:06.879 video and I'll attempt it, you know, and sometimes I 87 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:07.919 have to call in somebody who. 88 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:08.439 Fix my nesday. 89 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:11.960 I always have to or you know, I would say 90 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:14.879 the majority of the time, and I'm talking like eighty 91 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:18.439 five percent of the time, I usually do it myself. Yeah, 92 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:21.879 So I'd like, I bet you I'd like to pick 93 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:22.439 up more of that. 94 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:25.840 Honestly, I think I'd like to start taking naps in 95 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:27.960 the middle of the day. There you go, I've at 96 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:31.719 that age now I have a hobby. Is ninety minute 97 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:35.960 nap in the middle of the day. I'm getting older. 98 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:37.319 Can that be qualified as a hobby? 99 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:38.120 Jeff, Yeah, no. 100 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:41.039 So I think one thing I've always wanted to do 101 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:43.479 and I just haven't done it. And the older I 102 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:46.680 get now, the more I'm not sure I'm the kind 103 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:48.960 of person to do it, because I'm not very. 104 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:51.879 Detailed. 105 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:52.680 Yeah. 106 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:56.319 Is sailing? Oh well, I love I love the idea of. 107 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:58.599 Sailing, and every time I've ever been on a sailboat, 108 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:00.439 I loved it, loved every minute of it. 109 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:04.199 But they have you work yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey, pull this, 110 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:05.759 fix that tie this. 111 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:08.639 No, not like that most of the time, right yeah, 112 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:12.759 and now you can kill us, right And then I 113 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:16.720 like to go fast and so then you know, just 114 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:19.279 another couple of degrees on the angle of the sail 115 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:21.759 and suddenly we're going, you know, beyond the speed that 116 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:25.439 the boat's built for. So I think, I don't know, 117 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:28.879 I don't know if I'm disciplined enough to to do it. 118 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:30.240 But I love every minute. 119 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.519 Offensive, Yeah, it's very expensive. And number two, it is 120 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:35.199 it is. You got to dedicate a lot of time 121 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:36.920 to it. It's an all or nothing kind of. 122 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:39.079 Thing, right, and I don't have that kind of time, right, 123 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.879 that's my problem. I'm probably more built for like wave runners, 124 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:45.879 yeah right, right, right to drop them in the water, 125 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:47.839 go but put them back. That's probably what I'm built for. 126 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:47.920 It. 127 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:49.759 But every time I've ever been on a sail boat, 128 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:51.680 I loved every minute of it, So I'd like the 129 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:54.319 sail But you're right, it takes up time. I don't 130 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:57.160 know that it's much more expensive than golfing quite honestly. 131 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:58.759 Well, just owning the boat is what I was saying. 132 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:00.920 Oh yeah, unless you ran. And then then if I 133 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:04.240 had a guy that gave me a boat, sail boat, yeah, 134 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:05.199 but I couldn't keep it. 135 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:08.800 Well yeah, okay, the uh. 136 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.360 I'm only saying that because everybody who I know who 137 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:15.720 owns boats says it's incredibly expensive. 138 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:17.680 Oh yeah, yeah, especially motor boats. 139 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:20.959 Yeah yeah, yeah. And then I have I have a 140 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:21.560 bonus one. 141 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:25.160 Oh wow, good pickleball? Pickleball? You want to start playing pickleball? 142 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:27.360 I think there will be a time once I get 143 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:29.439 introduced to it, and once I find the margin, I 144 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:29.800 think you. 145 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:32.319 Have to be You're required. It's required fifty five. Yeah, 146 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:33.800 you have to be fifty five years old. 147 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:36.439 Oh yeah yeah, otherwise all those pickleball people beat you 148 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:39.319 up just walking on things. Punk you young, punk, get 149 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:41.079 off our court young to play pickleball. 150 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:41.480 That's right. 151 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:43.600 Yeah, even though there's no required age. 152 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:47.120 I don't know. It's fun? Is it fun? Well, I've 153 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:47.480 never done. 154 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:50.279 I used to play tennis, not like in a league 155 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.959 or anything, but uh, as a kid, often I would 156 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:53.839 play tennis. 157 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:55.839 All the time, just to send out snappy vibes. 158 00:05:56.839 --> 00:05:58.920 No, not the opposite of all. 159 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.480 We were like super poor and uh, but there was 160 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:05.480 a public park that was up, you know, and tennis 161 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:08.399 was free because my brother Tommy would have tennis. 162 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.639 Rackets, a bunch of tennis balls, and so. 163 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:11.959 We were looking for stuff to do, and so we 164 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:14.480 would grab all of his stuff and just go and 165 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:16.600 just mess around. And it turns out that I liked it, 166 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:19.480 and I was decent at so we did that for 167 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:22.160 years and years, and then I would say, I like that, 168 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:24.120 it's it's some exercise. 169 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:27.079 Were you an infielder in baseball? 170 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:28.240 I was third base. 171 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:29.480 Yeah, I found a lot of. 172 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:32.000 Infielders in baseball wind up being pretty good at tennis. 173 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:35.040 You know, it's the hand eye coordination in the lateral movements. 174 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:37.319 Lateral movements, yea, yeah, yeah. 175 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:39.759 I was third base from the time I started in 176 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.720 T ball all the way through high school. There was 177 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:47.519 I was a relief pitcher for a seat just one season, 178 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:50.600 and then then they moved me to center field and 179 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:53.759 I was centerfield for the last two years in high school. 180 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:58.199 That's great, so shortstop my whole life. 181 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.600 Yeah, I played all the positions, but I always was 182 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:03.160 usually a starter as. 183 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:03.879 A shorts cup. 184 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:06.519 And by the way, that's that's the position. 185 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:09.120 Well for the lateral movements, Yeah, yeah, well I don't 186 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:09.800 have that anymore. 187 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:12.120 It's it's it's the position for the infield. 188 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:14.000 Two years ago, we had a church softball team and 189 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:16.240 then I was on and it was when I started 190 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:18.759 realizing I was like forty six, I think the last 191 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:22.720 time I played with the heritage, and I started feeling 192 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:25.519 like I'm growing roots out of the bottom of my feet. Right, 193 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:28.839 my brain goes, there goes the ball, You've got it, 194 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:31.199 and then I'd be a foot away from it and 195 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:35.279 go what happened, you know, and I go there goes well, 196 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:36.879 because they moved me over to second base. 197 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:38.120 I got demoted on my own team. 198 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:41.800 Yeah, because I played baseball for years. 199 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:45.319 I told Dave Wilson, a good friend of ours, I said, 200 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:48.040 I said, yeah, I could play baseball, and so we 201 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:50.600 I was just hired. I just moved to Michigan and 202 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:52.759 he brought us all out to a field and played 203 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:55.680 fast pitch, hardball baseball. 204 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:56.759 Yeah. 205 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:58.680 And so he put me in center field because I'm like, yeah, 206 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:00.959 I was center field. He put me infield, and the 207 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:05.560 first ball that came to me hopped over my head. 208 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:08.319 Dave Wilson has been a guest host on the show. 209 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:11.319 Yes, he has twice, which is cool. 210 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:11.839 Well good. 211 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:15.439 Speaking of being guest hosts and baseball flying over ahead, 212 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:22.959 Elijah was fed by ravens that also flew over his head. 213 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:26.480 I got there. I got there, yeah, no kidding. 214 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:26.879 Yeah. 215 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:29.480 So we're introducing a new guy at the last second too. 216 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:30.480 You got there at the last secon. 217 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:32.360 Yeah, I didn't know where I was going with it. 218 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:36.919 So we're introducing a new guy today that is a profit, 219 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:38.399 very significant. 220 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:39.840 He is the first. 221 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:41.799 Prophet that has come along in a long while he's 222 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:45.279 the first and a long line of very important profits 223 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:50.159 that would come after him, very very important. And you 224 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:52.120 know what, he's not a minor prophet, Jeff, what is he? 225 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:53.279 He's a major prophet. 226 00:08:53.480 --> 00:09:00.000 So major, major, major. That's funny. 227 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:00.240 Okay. 228 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:04.200 So we are in First King's Chapter seventeen is where 229 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:07.360 you pick up with Elijah, and it says, now Elijah, 230 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.600 who was from Tishba in Gilead, told King Ahab as 231 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:14.039 surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, the 232 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:16.600 God I serve, there will be no dew or rain 233 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:19.039 during the next few years until I give the word. 234 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:21.399 Then the Lord said to Elijah, go to the east 235 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:24.480 and hide by Keareth Brook, near where it enters the 236 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:26.879 Jordan River. Drink from the brook, and eat what the 237 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:29.159 ravens bring you, for I have commanded them to bring 238 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:31.519 you food. So Elijah did as the Lord told him, 239 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:35.600 and camp beside Kereth Brook, east of Jordan. Ravens brought 240 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:37.559 him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he 241 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:39.919 drank from the brook. But after a while the brook 242 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:42.960 dried up, for there was no rainfall anywhere in the land. Well, 243 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:44.679 that's the result of him make an announcement it's not 244 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.399 going to rain. Right then, the Lord said to Elijah, 245 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:49.360 go and live in the village of Zaraphath, near the 246 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:52.080 city of Saidon. I've instructed a widow there to feed you. 247 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:54.519 So he went to Zaraphath, and as he arrived at 248 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:56.720 the gates of the village, he saw widow gathering sticks, 249 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:58.919 and he asked her, would you please bring me a 250 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:01.240 little water in a cup. As she was going to 251 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:03.039 get it, he called to her, bring me a bite 252 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:03.679 of bread too. 253 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:07.480 Oops. Uh, oh, did he just ask her for a sandwich? Hey, 254 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:09.240 would you get me a sandwich? 255 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:11.759 But she said, I swear by the Lord your God, 256 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:13.399 that I don't have a single piece of bread in 257 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:15.480 the house, and I have only a handful of flour 258 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:16.960 left in a jar and a little cooking oil on 259 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:18.960 the bottom of the jug. I was just gathering a 260 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:21.200 few sticks to cook this last meal, and then my 261 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:23.840 son and I will die. But Elijah said to her, 262 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:26.840 don't be afraid. Go ahead and do just what you said, 263 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:29.000 but make a little bread for me first, and then 264 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:30.840 use what's left to prepare a meal for yourself and 265 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:33.039 your son. For this is what the Lord, the God 266 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.600 of Israel, says. There will always be flour and olive 267 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.000 oil left in your containers until the time when the 268 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.919 Lord sends rain and the crops grow again, so she 269 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:44.000 said to Elijah. So she did as Elijah said, and 270 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:46.120 she and Elijah and her family continued to eat for 271 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:49.960 many days. There was always enough flour and olive oil 272 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:52.320 left in the containers, just as the Lord had promised 273 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:56.240 through Elijah. Sometime later, the woman's son became sick. He 274 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:58.720 grew worse and worse, and finally he died. Then she 275 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:00.799 said to Elijah, Oh, man, God, what have you done 276 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:02.840 to me? Have you come here to point out my 277 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:05.679 sins and kill my son? But Elijah replied, give me 278 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:07.759 your son, and he took the child's body from her arms, 279 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:09.759 carried him up the stairs to the room where he 280 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:11.879 was staying, and laid the boy on his bed. Then 281 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:14.279 Elijah cried out to the Lord, Oh Lord, my God, 282 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:16.480 why have you brought tragedy to this widow who has 283 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:18.799 opened her home to me, causing her son to die? 284 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:21.600 And he stretched himself out over the child three times 285 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:24.159 and cried out to the Lord, Oh Lord, my God, 286 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:27.159 please let this child's life return to him. Lord heard 287 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:29.279 Elijah's prayer, and the life of the child returned and 288 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:32.159 he revived. Then Elijah brought him down from the upper 289 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:34.360 room and gave him to his mother. Look, he said, 290 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:38.360 your son is alive. Then the woman told Elijah, now 291 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:39.879 I know for sure that you are a man of 292 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:43.519 God and that the Lord truly speaks through you. Well, 293 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.480 there's just a couple quick little miracles. 294 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:47.440 You know. 295 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:49.919 There's sort of like three things that happened right bank bank. 296 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:53.279 There's a confrontation with King Ahab, which is a pretty 297 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:53.919 big one. 298 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:55.879 And then there stops the ring. 299 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:59.279 Well there's really four things, yeah, because then it's like, hey, 300 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:02.879 go hide by a brook and get fed by birds. 301 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:06.200 And then there's a third thing, which is go to 302 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:08.159 this woman's house and we're going to do this miracle 303 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:10.639 of flour and water and oil. 304 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:12.799 And then the fourth thing is, oh, by the way, 305 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:14.200 I'm going to raise your son from the dead. 306 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:15.720 I raise your son from the dead. So really there's 307 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:16.639 four big things here. 308 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:18.919 Okay, well we covered it, surely. 309 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:22.039 Did Did you notice I put on my glasses? I 310 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:22.600 did see. 311 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:25.320 You're reading your glass? Try even dawn on me. 312 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:27.159 I'm trying reading glasses. 313 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:28.720 Yeah, and is it working? 314 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:30.000 Oh my word, are you kidding? 315 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:30.080 Me. 316 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:32.080 You can see there's there's actual letters. I would say, 317 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:32.720 it's wonderful. 318 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:35.679 Yeah, now again, can I get away without it? Yeah, 319 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:38.120 I'm right on that border, right right, but but yeah 320 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:38.720 it's pretty great. 321 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:42.440 Well then you maybe maybe maybe you do qualify for pickleball. 322 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.480 Put these on. I know you've probably tried it one 323 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:46.480 before it but look. 324 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:48.159 Ye see I got to get like here before it 325 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:48.919 makes sense for me. 326 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:53.159 Okay, well then your sight is better than mine. So okay, well, well, hey, 327 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:55.000 so let's talk about weird. 328 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:57.679 But it was a little weird. But I was sharing 329 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:00.399 glasses for a minute. What I don't know, you. 330 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:02.240 Don't we're tried on anybody else's glasses. 331 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:03.679 I don't know what. 332 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:09.279 Yeah, you never tried anybody else's glass. 333 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.159 I don't know if I have. That was that was 334 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:12.360 a moment for us. 335 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:14.840 It's it's not an intimate thing yet, there's no intimacy. 336 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:21.200 Okay, hey, so let's talk about this. The fact that 337 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:26.399 Elijah confronted a hab and told him that he has 338 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:29.480 control over rain. Now, why would that? Why would rain 339 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:30.559 be significant? 340 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:33.200 Because the note here in the Life Application Study Bible 341 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:36.559 says that bail Yes was thought to be the god 342 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:38.679 of rain, yes, I didn't know that. 343 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:40.240 By the way, you didn't, I didn't. 344 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:42.960 Yeah, So, which is so cool because for those of 345 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:44.799 us who know the Bible, we know that there's going 346 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:48.360 to be a big challenge, which Elijah is most famous for, 347 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.279 where he calls down fire from the sky and he 348 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:53.840 wets the offering and anyone else. 349 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:56.279 Oh, come on, you're ruining it for the listener. 350 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:59.000 That's true, that's true, but it's going to be epice 351 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:01.200 well you know what he forget, forget what he said. 352 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:03.240 It's like seeing the previews of a movie where you've 353 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:05.440 seen all the good parts. Y you tu in anyway? 354 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.000 Okay, crocodile de right right, yeah, anyway. 355 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.159 So anyway, the point is is that Bail is the 356 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:17.120 god of rain, and so Elijah decides to walk into Ahab, 357 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:19.879 who is worshiping this false god of Bail under the 358 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:23.720 influence of Jezebel is king, and Elijah, by the way, 359 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:26.919 don't forget or excuse me. Ahab, by the way, don't forget, 360 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:32.600 is the most wicked king of the Northern Kingdom that 361 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:33.000 there is. 362 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:35.919 It was more wicked than all of the other kings. Yes, 363 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.200 and I read that almost to be saying, then all 364 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:39.039 of them combined. 365 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:42.120 That's what it seems like. But yes, yeah, and uh. 366 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:44.879 And so Elijah walks in and says, hey, you want 367 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:46.240 to know who has control over the rain. 368 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:47.759 It's the Lord God. 369 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:51.000 And so I'm going to whom I serve, And my 370 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:53.600 prediction is it's not going to reign until I say so. 371 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:58.399 And and turns out that it's years. And what he's 372 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:01.679 really doing is he's setting up this big confrontation, right, 373 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:03.759 that's right, which in years in advance. 374 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:07.519 So then you know there's a tremendous amount of danger 375 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:09.879 in confronting a king, especially an evil king. 376 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:12.360 But any king. David was a good king, and when 377 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:13.840 he got bad news, he killed a messenger. 378 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:17.960 Yes all the time, right, six times? 379 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:22.039 Right, So ahabs a bad king and he confronts him, 380 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:27.879 and I can't I can't hardly fathom how scary that 381 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:29.840 would be, right, how. 382 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:33.200 Nervous you would be in that. And then. 383 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:37.039 You know, now you can't go back home. It tells 384 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:39.320 us where he's from. He's from Tishban and Gilead. Well, 385 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:42.440 apparently everybody knew he's from tish Bur and Gilead, right, 386 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:45.600 and and so it's not like it's a secret. So 387 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:48.600 he can't go home now, and so I can imagine 388 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:51.639 an argument he must have been having a God of Well, 389 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:52.240 if I go. 390 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:54.240 He's gonna kill me. All right, now, I'm gonna take 391 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:56.639 care of you. So what are you gonna do? Take 392 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:57.000 care of me? 393 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:59.440 Just just go talk to him. So he goes and 394 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.159 confront him. I think God goes, Okay, I got a plan. 395 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:04.159 You're going to camp out by this little brook that 396 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:05.720 flows into the Jordan River. 397 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:09.039 Okay, Well, can I go back to my job? 398 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:09.639 Right? 399 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:11.159 Right? Am I going to pay my bills? 400 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:11.360 Oh? 401 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:13.080