WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.480 --> 00:00:03.919 I want to talk today a little bit about the 2 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:08.160 Spirit of Elijah, and it ties into kind of our theme. 3 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:13.119 Our theme through the Daniel Fast and our theme through 4 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:20.000 the conference is embracing the Spirit of Elijah. And what 5 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:21.480 is the spirit of Elijah? I want to talk a 6 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:24.280 little bit about that today. What does that mean. It 7 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:29.039 doesn't mean like channeling some spirit. It doesn't mean like 8 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:33.960 some angel named Elijah will come and rest upon you. 9 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:38.840 It just means that God did amazing things through his 10 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:42.840 servant Elijah. And I'll talk a little bit about that, 11 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:47.359 and he's doing it again. And so it's really just 12 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:52.280 cooperating or partnering with the Holy Spirit in what He's 13 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:55.479 up to at this time and being in sync with 14 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:59.399 this season. So when I say the sphirit of Elijah, 15 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:03.520 it just means an aspect of what God's doing, an 16 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:06.840 aspect of what Holy Spirit's up to that he wants 17 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:10.400 to do with us in this season that he did 18 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:14.000 with Elijah, and he did with John the Baptist, and 19 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:19.799 he addressed in Revelation three also as one of the 20 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:25.519 churches had yielded to the spirit of or the influence 21 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:34.359 of Jezebel or Satan manifesting himself through Jezebel. So we'll 22 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:36.079 dive into this a little bit. I want to start 23 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:42.280 with some scripture out of First King sixteen. This is 24 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:46.680 where Elijah comes on the scene. And just to give 25 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:52.120 you a little bit of understanding, after King Solomon, Israel 26 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:53.599 split into two kingdoms. 27 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:56.079 So we'll just do it this way. 28 00:01:56.959 --> 00:02:01.519 So Israel split into two kingdoms after Solomon Uh and 29 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:08.639 we had Jereboam in the north. Everybody say Jerry, So 30 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:16.360 Jereboham was in the north end ray ray ray boham 31 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:20.560 Ah within the south. We'll just go with that because 32 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:27.479 we know my spelling is lacking. So this is this 33 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.919 is the kingdom, and this is the time that Elijah 34 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:35.360 comes on the scene. And what it says, it says that, 35 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:38.439 and I think it's just so much like our time, 36 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:41.080 this so much like our so much like our time 37 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:41.759 in our season. 38 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:43.400 And it says that. 39 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.879 During this time Jereboam and we know, you know a 40 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:55.039 lot of these kings that served were apostate kings and 41 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:01.199 they got engaged in idolatry, and Jereboam did that right away. 42 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:04.479 And part of the reason he did that is because 43 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:11.000 he was jealous. Jerusalem was in the southern kingdom, so 44 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.919 Jerusalem was down in Judah and that's where the temple was. 45 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:20.319 So he didn't want the people going down into Judah 46 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:26.960 to Jerusalem and worshiping there or taking tithes and offerings there. 47 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:32.599 So he erected his own temple in the capital city, 48 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:36.520 which was Samaria. He erected his own temple, and he's like, guys, 49 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:39.759 we're gonna worship here, but it won't be Jehovah. We're 50 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:43.759 going to be worshiping, and so he institutes idolatry. But 51 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:49.960 the idolatry was to keep the people from going to 52 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:55.639 Jerusalem and worshiping Jehovah and honoring him. So he right 53 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:59.960 away he leads them into garbage. And so it's deer 54 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:04.000 during this time that Elijah comes on the scene, and 55 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:09.680 so Elijah's you know, he grows up observing this debauchery 56 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:11.039 and idolatry. 57 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:13.000 And it was debauchery. 58 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:16.680 It was not only idolatry, but it was sexual immorality, 59 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:22.240 because sexual immorality was tied to the idolatry, and so 60 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:26.000 it was it was just a time of total uncleanness. 61 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.439 And we learn about Elijah that Elijah is grieved over it. Right, 62 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.319 and he's a prayer warrior and he's a prophet, and 63 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:37.040 so God is raising up Elijah. We don't know a 64 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:39.439 lot about him, but we know, like from James chapter 65 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:44.319 five fourteen through sixteen, we know that his prayer life 66 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:47.240 is a homemark and it's the prayer life that then 67 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:53.800 jumps out into action in the First King chapter seventeen 68 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:55.399 where he confronts we're going to read some of this 69 00:04:55.439 --> 00:05:01.079 where he confronts Ahaven Jezebel. And there in James chapter 70 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:05.959 five fourteen through sixteen, even though he was not supernatural, 71 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:08.839 he was a man with a nature like ours. He 72 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:13.839 prayed fervent prayers, and it says that he prayed a 73 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:16.600 prayer of faith. And this is the first instance where 74 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:18.720 we kind of hear about a prayer of faith and 75 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:21.040 we hear the prayer of faith defined and it says 76 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:25.560 that he prayed this prayer of faith and that it 77 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.000 caused a drought for three and a half years. Fact is, 78 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:31.079 during that time, not only did it not reign for 79 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.040 three and a half years, there was no dew on 80 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:38.319 the ground, so like the skies were completely shut off, 81 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:47.040 the atmosphere over all of Sameria, where now Ahab was king, 82 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:52.000 so no longer Jeroboam but Ahab. The atmosphere over the 83 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:55.560 land was so dry there was no dew on the 84 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:58.399 ground for three and a half years. And it says 85 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:03.360 that likewise with you, that the prayer, the fervent prayer 86 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:07.399 of a righteous man, the fervent prayer of a righteous woman, 87 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:12.160 will be powerful and effective. It will move mountains, it 88 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:17.000 will cause things to shake, it will alter circumstances. 89 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:18.120 It will shift cultures. 90 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:21.879 It will even dry up the skies of our region. 91 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:25.959 And the exhortation is that we that we pray prayers 92 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:30.480 of faith, that we pray faith prayers. And a faith 93 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:32.680 prayer isn't to say, Father, I bring this to you 94 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:36.319 in faith. A faith prayer is actually a prayer out 95 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:38.439 of the heavenly is. Like we talked about last week. 96 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:41.000 It's a prayer out of knowledge. It's a prayer out 97 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.519 of revelation. It's a prayer out of rama. And so 98 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:48.079 out of the rama we make prayers of declaration or 99 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:53.439 releases of decoration over the region, or over the powers, 100 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:57.519 or over the enemy, and those prayers are called prayers 101 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:01.240 of faith. It's the other instance of a prayer of 102 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:05.879 faith is Mark eleven two through twenty four where Jesus 103 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:10.480 cursed the fig tree. Remember that Jesus cursed the fig tree. 104 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:12.839 And then they came back by, and they saw that 105 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:18.199 the fig tree was dried up from the roots. He 106 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:21.240 was dried up from the roots. And he says that 107 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:23.480 it was the prayer of faith that was prayed. And 108 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:25.879 he says, have faith in God. If any of you 109 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:29.160 should say to this mountain, he didn't say, if any 110 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:32.720 of you should beg God about the mountain. He didn't 111 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:35.839 say if any of you should address the problem of 112 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:38.319 the mountain. He says, if any of you should say 113 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:41.920 to the mountain be removed, then it shall be moved 114 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:43.040 from here to there. 115 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:45.519 You remember that. 116 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:55.319 I'm already preaching better than your amening. I'm going to 117 00:07:55.360 --> 00:08:04.279 have some decafe. That's a cow without legs a decaf. 118 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:11.240 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That's ground beef. That's ground beef. 119 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:20.680 The cow without legs is ground beef. You'll get it later, 120 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:28.079 you'll get it. You'll get it. I might need a water, even, 121 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:29.360 can you give me a water? Water? 122 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:31.800 Mean? Are you with me so far? 123 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:38.519 So Elijah comes on the scene with all of this debauchery. 124 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:41.720 Now the debaschery is weird because the debastery that he 125 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:44.480 comes on the scene the sea is debauchery with the 126 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:48.279 people of God. So it's a parallel to the Church, 127 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:57.759 the ministry of even the ministry of deliverance. Where Elijah 128 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:00.320 is confronting the demonic realm. He's not gonna front of 129 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:07.399 the demonic realm in Babylon, in Egypt, in Phoenicia, in 130 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:13.440 some odd place. He's confronting the demonic realm that is 131 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:19.480 weighing over the people of God. Elijah's concern is for 132 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:25.720 the people of God. Elijah is burdened for the people 133 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:28.720 of God. And so you know, this is the scene 134 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:33.320 that he comes on because he's seeing that these ten 135 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:36.000 tribes up here, there's ten tribes here, there's two tribes here, 136 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:39.000 two and ten. He's seeing these ten tribes of the 137 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:48.879 Northern Kingdom have been drawn into complete sin, evil, no 138 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:57.200 fear of God, idolatry, immorality, immorality is totally only unclean. 139 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:00.879 And what he sees is it's not just the king, 140 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:02.840 and that's the king is Ahab. 141 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:04.080 Listen to it. 142 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:08.039 Ahab is yielded to and submitted to the dear Uh. 143 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:09.120 What was her name? 144 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:15.200 The one you shouldn't have married what is it, Jezebell. Yeah, 145 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:18.600 that's it, that's the one, okay. So a Ahab is 146 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:24.759 totally yielded to and complicit with this the seducing which 147 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.639 draft of the bone. So let's give you a little context. First, 148 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:32.840 first King sixteen twenty nine and the thirty eighth year 149 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:36.559 of Asa, king of Ahab's son of Umri became Did 150 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:38.360 you give me that water? What happened to? Oh? There 151 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:43.200 is Ahab son of Amri did more evil? Ay a 152 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.200 have become king of Israel the rain Samaria Ariel pointy 153 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:48.840 two years and Ahab did a set of amory than 154 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:50.679 evil in the eyes of the Lord, than any of 155 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:53.080 those before if there were a few king before him, 156 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:57.200 back to the lineage of Jerobom. He not only considered 157 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:59.639 it trivial to commit sin the sins of jerobm son 158 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:02.200 of me, but he also married to Jezebel, daughter of 159 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:07.159 Eth by a king of Sidonians. So Stin was a 160 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:10.919 region where the capital was tired. Do you remember Terrer 161 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:14.039 And if you remember Tire, I think it's Ezekiel sixteen 162 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:16.080 or twenty eight. Commember we'll do with a perfect memory 163 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:21.000 with help me. But Fire is the king of Tires. 164 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:26.240 The one is Zeel, compares to Satan. So the king 165 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:32.360 of Tire is is Uh like filled with pride, right 166 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:39.159 filled ing, and this is her lineage Uh. He marries 167 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:42.879 this daughter of Bail, king of the Cities, and began 168 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:45.279 to serve Bail and worship him. Set up an altar 169 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.720 for Bail in the timble of Bail where he that 170 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:51.759 he built in Samaria Ab also mean ash Shoppel, and 171 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:54.000 did more to arouse the anger of the Lord, the 172 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:57.240 God of Israel, and all the kings of Israel before him. 173 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:01.159 So this is you know this, This is this atmosphere 174 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:04.960 that Elijah comes into. 175 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:07.279 Phrings sixteen thirty four. 176 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:10.159 The next verse says that even in a time of 177 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:15.480 Ahab that they read Jericha. So Jericha had been torn 178 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:18.960 down through a miracle of God. You remember the first 179 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:21.120 city to be torn down a miracle of God. 180 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:22.279 The walls fell flat. 181 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:25.039 This is the first city that they lamped over as 182 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:30.320 they came into the land, five hundred years before Ahab, 183 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:35.600 five hundred years before Elijah. But there's near the Lord 184 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:38.519 them a band like And this is with the people 185 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:40.639 of God. So think of the Church, think of the 186 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:45.799 church and the church and maybe you can relate to this. 187 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.240 That's why I'm trying to expand our line. Because the 188 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:54.080 spirit of Elijah comes to renore and restoration comes through repentance. 189 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:59.480 Let me see again the spirit of Elijah, the hallmark 190 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:02.120 of under more utter to Elijah, the lifestyle of Elijah 191 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:05.799 the ministery On the Baptist, because John the Baptist was 192 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:08.879 the elijahm and John the Baptist had to proceed the 193 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:12.480 Alisha to come, and Jesus was the Elisha to come. 194 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:16.759 And so you see that there's a real fulfillment and 195 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:22.200 Elisha and Elisha, and then there's another fulfillment, and it's 196 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:28.320 the ministry of Elijah that prepares away for Elisha, the 197 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:35.519 ministry of repentance, which brings restoration, prepares away for Elisha come, 198 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:40.200 which brings a triumph over Jezebel and revival to the land. 199 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:43.360 There's always this reoccurring theme. 200 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:44.960 And so John the. 201 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:50.240 Baptist it was prophesied that Elijah must come again. So 202 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:53.480 this is Malachi three, Malachi four, Elijah to come again. 203 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:57.440 And so Elijah comes as John the Baptist and On 204 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:01.200 the Baptist comes in the spirit and the ministry of Elijah, 205 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:04.519 and he comes to restore the hearts of fathers to 206 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:09.519 their children. And he comes preaching repentance. He comes with 207 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:12.960 a message of repentance, with a heart of repentance, and 208 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:16.159 its repentance that restores it. He comes with heart to restore, 209 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:20.559 but restoration comes through repentance. But his message is not 210 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:25.240 to the world. Neither one of these is their message 211 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:28.519 to the world. Their message is to the people of God. 212 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:31.320 Their message is to the House of God. Their message 213 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:35.279 is to the people that know Him, that those people 214 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:39.360 would repent, Because when the people of God repent, then 215 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:44.720 it releases revible, and it releases the empowerment. 216 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:46.919 Of the prophetic realm to tear down the. 217 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:50.000 Darkness, not only the darkness over the people of ups, 218 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:55.919 but then the darkness in culture. The darkness in culture 219 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:58.879 is torn down, and the people of God come out 220 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:00.840 from under that darkness themselves. 221 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:05.159 So the spirit of eledge of the ministry loge the 222 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:05.960 colon of a logic. 223 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:10.240 There's something that the Holy Spirit knows in this dimension 224 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:14.440 of ministry is that when we are purified, then we 225 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:17.919 riot in our authority. When we rise in our authority, 226 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:21.960 we shake the blankets the wet, blanket sedepation of us. 227 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.559 Then we're empowered. And not only are we empowered, but 228 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:33.320 grace just begins to break out. Grace begins to break out. 229 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:36.159 We will find that. 230 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:40.320 Our need for uh some like you're you. 231 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:43.120 Know, we're thinking of what fancy the evangelism thing we 232 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:45.639 can do, and then we're concerned about what we say 233 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:49.240 to the lost, and then we're you know, we're frustrated evangelism, 234 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:52.159 uh frustrated meaning you know, we try and it doesn't work. 235 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:56.600 You know where we're going to find that all of 236 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:58.159 that is taken care of. 237 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:02.480 When this is taken care of, that the glory of 238 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:05.320 the Lord in the temple and on the people of 239 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:11.320 God because they become a purified, alert people, the stage 240 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:16.840 for the global awakening. And it happens with grace, with ease, 241 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.960 not with frustration and with work and hardness. It's not 242 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:24.080 going to be a heart and the coming revival, the 243 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:27.720 coming looking glory, the coming awakening, I should say, is 244 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:31.600 not going to be hard things. Why because it's bursting 245 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:34.120 out onto the world. 246 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:39.799 Of Holy Spirit through us who've become a refined, delivered people. 247 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:47.840 I make sense. I'm gonna un I'm gonna run over 248 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:59.200 here decafs could maybe the cafe thattter. So in Ahab's 249 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:03.360 time they have and Ahab's time they read it. Jericho, 250 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:09.480 this guy highlib laid its foundation at the cost of 251 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:12.200 this morning's on, because that was prophesied of such. And 252 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:13.759 then he said at the gates of the cost, edition 253 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:15.920 was on in accordance with the word the Lord has 254 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:20.160 spoken through Joshua. And what the water and the Holy 255 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:22.519 Spirit is trying to show us is that during this time, 256 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:26.200 there's no fear of the Lord. We're not concerned about 257 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:30.039 the world. There's no fear of the Lord in the Church, 258 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:33.799 in the people of God, with the ten Tribes, with 259 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:37.359 the people called of God, the people birthed of God, 260 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:41.119 people who who are to give glory to God, walk 261 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:44.119 with God. There's no fear of the Lord in their midst. 262 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:48.759 And so they gather themselves together and they rebuilt at Jericho. 263 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:52.359 And this was not like a small thing to rebuild Jericho. 264 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:56.240 This was like a giant community effort, financial effort. Because 265 00:17:56.279 --> 00:18:01.920 the people of the Northern Kingdom come bliss with idolatry 266 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:07.759 and the reverence or God. And I'm appeeling to you, 267 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:09.160 you know, part of what I'm playing to you about 268 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:16.119 today is that we God wants to use us in 269 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:19.200 the serration of the church. God wants to use the 270 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.359 instoration of the Church. And it's not just Europe. It's 271 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:25.279 not just all the empty cathedrals. It's not just all 272 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:27.359 the empty churches. It's just not it's not all of 273 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:31.240 the dead churches. It's not the lifeless churches. Uh in Europe. 274 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:35.480 It's here. It's here, and it's all over our nation. 275 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:39.319 And part of the cry of God in this a 276 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:44.599 liedeous season is that we are that we that we 277 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:49.640 are moved with those who have lost their fire, that 278 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:51.640 we are moved with those who are still lickering in 279 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:53.920 or we are moved with those who are not walking 280 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:57.759 with God. We're we're moved with every denomination, group, with 281 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:00.599 every network, with every with every that we grieved when 282 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:04.319 we when a Mike Bickle is exposed, when when anything 283 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:06.599 comes to the front, that we are agreed to heart, 284 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:09.759 we are reab the soul, that we that we that 285 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:14.680 we begin to pray, that we that we take up 286 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:22.680 the cause of restoring the church. Even as we're called 287 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:30.400 as one, even though you're one with the Methodist, how 288 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.680 may have you know you're one with the Episcopalians. How 289 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:36.240 many of you know you're one with the Catholics. How 290 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:40.279 many of you know your one with the Nazarenes. How 291 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:42.200 may you know you're one with the Church of Christ 292 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:45.880 and with the Southern Baptist How many of you know 293 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:51.720 your one with every every one of these denominational groups, 294 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:56.039 no matter what they name, If they named Jesus, you're 295 00:19:56.039 --> 00:20:00.799 one with them. First Corinthian Chapter twelve, Romans chapter twelve. 296 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:06.519 Though we being many members with differing given us, we 297 00:20:06.599 --> 00:20:09.559 are one body. He wasn't just talking about a local assembly. 298 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:12.599 He was talking about the teality of those name Jesus. 299 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:17.279 We are one body. We are one body. And when 300 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:21.680 he says in Ephesian chapter four that the gifts of Minagy, 301 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:23.559 the gifts of Jesus true, the body of Christ would 302 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:27.839 exist to equip us into mystery until we all come 303 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.640 into the fullness of the stature of the Sun, he 304 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:33.960 doesn't mean until we all in this church, that church, 305 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:36.000 or the other church come into the full statue. He 306 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:40.119 means until we all who name the name of Jesus 307 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:41.240 come into the full stature. 308 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:44.599 This is the will of. 309 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:49.079 God, and He partners with us in prayer. He partners 310 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:53.160 with us in understanding for the church to be restored, 311 00:20:53.319 --> 00:21:00.279 because what church is restored. We're preparing the weather Lord Mary, 312 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:04.599 for the Lord to come in a greater glory in 313 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:08.599 his temple, in his house, in his houses, in his 314 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:14.240 corporate temple. You we all, with the Epiccipalans, with Trians, 315 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:17.160 all of them, we all are one body that he 316 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:22.240 inhabits and that he desires to come into a fullness. 317 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:26.079 And so there has to be a purifying allergiing with 318 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:31.519 a purifying ministry. And Elijah came with a deliverance ministry, 319 00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:37.400 not deliverance to the side Alians, deliverance the house of Israel, 320 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:44.279 setting them free from every complicit thing that they allowed, tolerated, 321 00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:48.759 yielded to partner death in and everything that was keeping 322 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:54.279 them from a fullness of walking with God. Oh that's 323 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:57.119 good for pastor demand some of the finest. Thank you, 324 00:21:57.160 --> 00:21:59.960 thank you, thank you. I'm that it's a good word. 325 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:12.079 First kings seven. So Eliah comes and Bayelle was central, 326 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:18.039 Astraat was was secondary, bail was Jezabel had killed all 327 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:21.279 of the prophets of God, and except for a few, 328 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:23.920 Obadiah was hiding like one hundred and sixty of minute 329 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:26.960 caves or and she didn't know it, and she'd kill 330 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:29.480 all the prophets. Odd to her knowledge, she had raised 331 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:31.799 up eight hundred pfty full profits four hundred and fifty 332 00:22:31.880 --> 00:22:38.000 bayl four hundred astat part of this part of this 333 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:45.599 word in First Kings seventeen with judgment, a judgment on 334 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:49.200 the demonic realm, and he we can to know that best. 335 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:53.039 We kind of know that about the First King seventeen, 336 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:55.200 First Kings eighteen. Kind of we think of that the 337 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:59.079 most is that, Yeah, he confronted the Bayl and then 338 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:01.160 they all got killed and they was glorious, you know, 339 00:23:01.319 --> 00:23:03.880 and you know they poured daughter all over the altar 340 00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:08.240 and the sacrifice and it's still you know, he called 341 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:11.119 down fire and it was amazing, And that's kind of 342 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:13.640 our reprinted by the Elijah. But I'm wanting you to 343 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:19.200 see that the people were under the spell. So he 344 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:25.160 also came with a purification ministry. Verse seventeen. He's infronting 345 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:29.720 the Rain and he's confroning the Ross with drought and 346 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:36.240 with famine, because Bael is the fertility god, proofless. 347 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:39.319 Flourishing fertility crops. Rain. 348 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:42.759 This is who they prayed to. This is who they worshiped, 349 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:46.720 This is who they need sacrifice too for everything to 350 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:52.720 do with rain crops provision. Right, So chapter seventeen, verse one, 351 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:56.079 now we're eligend spit from Tishby, and Gilead said to 352 00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:59.440 Ahab As the Lord lives and God of Israel lives, 353 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:03.160 who I serve, there will be neither do nor rain 354 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:10.279 in the next few years except at my word. So 355 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:15.519 he announces this. It's a prophetic judgment. It's a prophetic 356 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:21.720 judgment because God wants to deliver the people out of 357 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:27.240 their seduction and not from under the amonic entity. And 358 00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:31.319 so through this ministry. And it's interesting he didn't let 359 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:33.559 to die. You know why after and a half years 360 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:37.480 did God say to it, Okay, you're done, call for 361 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:42.200 rain rifssing. Isn't it interesting how merciful asius God is. 362 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:45.920 Like it was, it was chasing, but it wasn't destruction. 363 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:52.319 God loved these people and want delivered. So it's a chastening, 364 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:55.519 not a destruction. And so that's what happens, you know, 365 00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:58.839 in chapter eighteen. So the skies are shut up. But 366 00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:05.039 then chapter eighteen he's sent to Scott's back up chapter 367 00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:07.839 eighteen or sixteen Ovid I went out to meet Ahab, 368 00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:13.279 and Ahab was going to meet Elijah. And when he 369 00:25:13.319 --> 00:25:16.359 saw Elijah said to him, is that you, you troubler 370 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:20.160 of Israel? I have not madeable for Israel? Elijah said, 371 00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:22.599 but you and your father's simbly had abandoned Lord's commandments 372 00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:25.640 and you followed the Bayels. Now some of the people 373 00:25:25.640 --> 00:25:28.079 from all Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel and 374 00:25:28.279 --> 00:25:30.200 bring the four hundred and fifty profits of belle in 375 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:32.960 the four hundred pphits of Astraa who Etl's table, so 376 00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:35.440 a ten words throughout all of Israel, and assembled the 377 00:25:35.480 --> 00:25:39.079 prophets on Mount Carnell. Elijah what bore the people and said, 378 00:25:39.440 --> 00:25:42.400 how long will you waver between two opinions? Now it's interesting. 379 00:25:43.160 --> 00:25:48.279 This is like the largest UFC mash on the planet. 380 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:53.519 Like every cable channel is there, like every camera is there. 381 00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:57.319 All Israel came to Mount Carmel. This is no small event. 382 00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:01.039 Eight hundred and fifty prophits came, all the royalty game, 383 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:03.640 all of the you know, the throne room, royalty game, 384 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:08.960 and the people came a thousands of people, hundreds of 385 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:13.400 thousands of people came for this showdown right, And Elijah 386 00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:17.079 stands before people because the people are complicit. The people 387 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:23.039 are partnering with thiss. You went before the people know 388 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:26.119 how long will you waver between two opinions? The Lord 389 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:30.119 God follow him. But if bails, God follow him. But 390 00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:32.680 the people said nothing. 391 00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:39.519 Did you hear that? But the people said nothing. This 392 00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:42.880 is why Elijah was distraught. This is why God was 393 00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:47.400 so distraught, because this is you know, the kids that 394 00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:50.079 God has birth. These are these are. 395 00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:55.279 The children of Abraham, and they're confronted with their idolatry, 396 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:58.319 with their immorality, with their uncleanness, with their impurity, with 397 00:26:58.400 --> 00:27:08.720 their with their pride, their pride. Jesb Bell brought in 398 00:27:09.519 --> 00:27:14.240 the ministry of the King of Tire. It's pride, it's arrogance, 399 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:19.200 it's self reliance, and they're so deceived by it that 400 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:22.640 they aren't going to get a breakthrough until the demonic 401 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:28.519