And amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene,
and wonder how he could love me, a sinner condemned unclean.
How marvelous, how wonderful, and my song shall ever be.
How marvelous, how wonderful is my Savior's love for me.
For me it was in the garden, he prayed not my will but thine.
He had no tears for his own griefs, but sweat drops of blood for mine.
How marvelous, how wonderful, and my song shall ever be.
How marvelous, how wonderful is my Savior's love for me.
He took my sins and my sorrows, he made them his very own.
He bore the burden to Calvary and suffered and died alone.
How marvelous, how wonderful, and my song shall ever be.
How marvelous, how wonderful is my Savior's love for me.
When with the ransomed and glory, his face I at last shall see,
will be my joy through the ages to sing of his love for me.
How marvelous, how wonderful, and my song shall ever be.
How marvelous, how wonderful is my Savior's love for me.
Let's open up in a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you so much for
this day and the opportunity to be gathered together at church.
We do thank you for your love that you showed us by sending your son.
Pray that we would just sing out in our hearts to worship you and that you bless
this service. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, our next song is going to be 162,
To God Be the Glory.
162, To God Be the Glory.
Song 162, sing it out nice and loud. To God Be the Glory.
To God be the glory, great things he hath done,
so loved he the world that he gave us his son,
who yielded his life and atonement for sin,
and opened the life gate that all may go in.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice.
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,
and give him the glory, great things he hath done.
O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood,
to every believer the promise of God,
the vilest offender who truly believes,
that moment from Jesus apart and receives.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice.
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,
and give him the glory, great things he hath done.
Great things he hath taught us, great things he hath done.
And great are rejoicing through Jesus the Son,
but purer and higher and greater will be,
our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice.
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,
and give him the glory, great things he hath done.
Great singing, all right welcome to Setfast Baptist Church.
If you need a bulletin go ahead and raise up your hand and an usher will
bring you one. All right our verse of the week is John
1 25. If any child under the age of 18 can quote that go ahead and
quote it to an usher or myself and they will be given a candy.
You open up on the left of your bulletin we have our service times there.
Sunday morning at 10 30 a.m. Sunday Spanish service every Sunday at 4 30
p.m. Sunday evening at 5 30. And of course
you're here this evening for the Wednesday evening
Bible study at seven o'clock. And this evening Pastor Shelley is actually
at a stronghold Baptist church camping trip so he's somewhere deep in the
wilderness right now. Probably eating locusts and wild honey
if we know him he's a real Baptist. But so be praying for his safe return for
his family back this evening. And let's see we have our
church-wide soul winning times there listed on the left
as well as all of our regional soul winning times.
And I know lately the Saturday souling time has been going really well.
You know if you're looking for a time to go to I'll just plug the Saturday time.
I really love going on Saturdays. It's been a great time. We also have our
stats there make sure to continue updating your soul winning captains with
your soul winning numbers. And of course we're going to keep track
of baptisms as well. And then go ahead and turn in your soul winning maps to
myself when you have those done. Praying for our expecting ladies there
on the right. Make sure we keep all those ladies in prayer during their pregnancy.
And also at this time we're going to go ahead and go through our prayer list as
a church very quickly. We have the Noguera
family asking for prayer for health. Miss Lucy James asking for prayer for
her mother's tumors. Brother Cameron Hall still for his leg
healing. And then of course our friends at Very
Baptist Church Manila and Pastor Sepulveda
in Australia. Just praying that they would have free course for their
ministry and for the gospel to go out as the countries they're in are definitely
not as free as where we are right now. So be praying
that that lockdown would fully end and for the health of all of their church
members. Also the Goodwin family we're going to
be praying for their health and recovery. Also for brother Tony Garcia recovery
from a foot injury he recently had. And the Cardona family's asking for
prayer for health. I had my dad on here last week he had
gotten in a motorcycle accident. He's actually doing really well he's just
doing physical therapy now so it could have been
a lot worse so thank you all for praying for that very much.
Also Miss Ophelia Restrepo down in South Texas a good friend of our
church. She's having surgery tomorrow and she's asking that we would just be in
prayer for her. So at this time let's go ahead and go to
Lord in prayer as a church family. Lord we thank you so much for this day
and we thank you for steadfast Baptist Church. I pray that you bless every
person here and that you help us just to continue
strong in the fight word. I pray that you'd send us more laborers to harvest
and that you just help us to reach more people with the gospel. I pray for
all of the needs for health that are on our list. Cara family,
Miss Lucy her mother, the camera in his leg, Tony,
Cardona family and also for Miss Restrepo for the surgery that she's
having tomorrow. I pray that you bless all of their health
and I just pray that you would answer their prayers according to your will
Lord. I pray also for the health and lockdown
situation with Verity Baptist Church in Manila and with Pastor Sepulveda in
Australia and all of our brothers and sisters in
Christ across the world that may be affected by these restrictions right now.
I pray that you would just give the gospel free course
and of course Lord we pray for our pastor Pastor Shelley and his family
that you would just give them a great time as they're over there in Georgia
and I pray that you please just bring them home safely to us again
and I pray that you bless the remainder of this evening in Jesus name we pray
Amen. Also our upcoming events we do have
two sign-up sheets over there if you have not signed up yet for the Austin
Texas soul winning marathon that's coming up just right around the corner
really looking forward to this one I went to Austin like
back in 2015 and had a really good time so
I'm really excited to get the gospel to everyone over there in Austin
and then of course our Mighty Men's Retreat we have the sign-up sheet and
all the details for that even if you can only make one or two of
those days that are listed in your bulletin sign up for those days
that you can make it we'd definitely love to have you
and of course on the back of your bulletin is a place that we have set
aside to take notes we would definitely encourage you to
take notes during the preaching of the word of God this evening
but at this time that's all we have for announcements so let's go to our third
song 173 love lifted me
173 love lifted me
173
love lifted me
i was sinking deep in sin far from the peaceful shore
very deeply stained within sinking to rise no more
but the master of the sea heard my despairing cry
from the waters lifted me now say am i
love lifted me love lifted me
when nothing else could help love lifted me
love lifted me love lifted me
when nothing else could help love lifted me
oh my heart to him i give ever to him a cling
in his blessed presence live ever his praises sing
love so mighty and so true merits my soul's best songs
faithful loving service to to him belongs
love lifted me love lifted me
when nothing else could help love lifted me
love lifted me love lifted me
when nothing else could help love lifted me
souls in danger look above jesus completely saves
he will lift you by his love out of the angry waves
he's the master of the sea billows his will obey
he your savior wants to be be saved today
lifted me love lifted me
when nothing else could help love lifted me
love lifted me love lifted me
when nothing else could help love lifted me
great singing this time while the offering plates are being passed around
go ahead and flip in your bibles to first kings chapter 19 first kings
chapter number 19
the bible reads in first kings chapter 19 and ahab told jezebel
all that elijah had done and with all how he had slain
all the prophets with the sword then jezebel sent a messenger unto elijah
saying so let the gods do to me and more also
if i make not thy life as the life of one of them
by tomorrow about this time when he saw that he arose and went for his life
and came to beersheba which belongeth to judah and left his servant there
but he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down
under a juniper tree and he requested for himself that he
might die and said it is enough now oh lord take
away my life for i am not better than my father's
and as he lay and slept under a juniper tree behold
then an angel touched him and said unto him arise
and eat and he looked and behold there was a cake bacon on the coals
and a cruise of water at his head and he did eat and drink
and laid him down again and the angel of the lord came again the second time
and touched him and said arise and eat because the journey is too great for
thee and he rose and did eat and drink and
went in the strength of that meat 40 days and 40 nights unto horeb the
mount of god and he came thither unto a cave and
lodged there and behold the word of the lord came to
him and he said unto him what doest thou hear
elijah and he said i have been very jealous for the lord god of hosts
for the children of israel have forsaken thy covenant
thrown down thine altars and slain thy prophets with the sword
and i even i only am left and they seek my life
to take it away and he said go forth and stand upon the mount before the lord
and behold the lord passed by and a great and strong wind
rent the mountains and break in pieces the rocks
before the lord but the lord was not in the wind
and after the wind an earthquake but the lord was not in
the earthquake and after the earthquake a fire
but the lord was not in the fire and after the fire
a still small voice and it was so when elijah heard it that he wrapped his face
in his mantle and went out and stood in the entering
in of the cave and behold there came a voice unto him and said
what doest thou hear elijah and he said i've been very jealous
for the lord god of hosts because the children of israel have forsaken thy
covenant thrown down thine altars and slain thy
prophets with the sword and i even i only am left and they seek
my life to take it away and the lord said unto him
go return on thy way to the wilderness of damascus
and when thou comest anoint hazel to be king over syria
and jehu the son of nimshai shalt thou anoint to be king over israel
and elijah the son of shafat of abemahola
shalt thou anoint to be profit in thy room and it shall come to pass
that him that escapeth the sword of hazel shall jehu slay
and him that escapeth from the sword of jehu shall elijah slay
yet i have left me seven thousand in israel
all the knees which have not bowed unto bale and every mouth which hath not
kissed him so he departed thence and found elijah
the son of shafat who was plowing with 12 yoke of oxen
before him and he with the 12th and elijah passed
by him and cast his mantle upon him and he left the oxen and ran
after elijah and said let me i pray thee kiss my father
and my mother and then i will follow thee and he said unto him
go back again for what have i done to thee
and he returned back from him and took a yoke of oxen and slew them
and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen
and gave unto the people that they did eat then he arose and went after elijah
and ministered unto him let's have a word of prayer father thank you so much
for this evening i pray that you now fill brother ben with the holy spirit
and help him to preach boldly the word of god to us this evening we pray that
all of us will pay attention that you minimize distractions in the service
and in peace and in prayer amen amen amen man good reading there dylan thank
you and i appreciated love lifted me that's
uh my favorite hymn or one of my favorites
so uh we're starting in first kings 19 let's
look at verse 15 where the bible read and the lord said unto him
go return on thy way to the wilderness of damascus
and when thou comest anoint hazel to be king
over syria and jehu the son of nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over israel
and elijah the son of shaphat of abel mahola
shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room what we're seeing here is the
beginning of the ministry of elijah he's one of my favorite
characters in scripture for a number of reasons first of all
he's a hard preacher you'll notice later on in
the chapter when it talks about in first kings chapter 19
it says in verse 17 look at verse 17 and it shall come to pass that him that
escapeth the sword of hazel shall jehu slay and him that escapeth from the
sword of jehu shall elijah slay this wasn't a
limp-wristed prophet this wasn't a weak prophet
the bible says here that elijah would slay those who would escape
from jehu we see that he preached the word of god
unapologetically he was filled with the spirit
but one of the reasons why he's one of my favorite characters in scripture
is because his ministry and his life mirrors so closely
that of the lord jesus christ and we're going to see that here this is a
a bible study we're going to go over over the next hour or so
looking at the parallels between jesus and elijah what we're seeing in first
kings chapter 19 is an interesting situation here where
elijah after slaying the prophets of bail
his life was in jeopardy jezebel wanted to take him out he fell into a
depression and god had to remind him hey you know
there's seven thousand men who haven't bowed the knee to bail
and also he told him about what he would be doing subsequently that he
would anoint a new king that he would anoint
elijah to be the new prophet that he would succeed
elijah would succeed him and if elijah is a picture of john the baptist which
the bible is so clear about in the new testament and of course he
could also be a type of the lord jesus christ as
well in many different ways when it comes to pictures when it comes to
typology which is just a fancy theological term for
something that symbolizes christ or anything really
but my point is this that elijah pictures john the baptist and so
elijah would be the lord jesus christ he would be a
parallel or symbolic of the lord jesus christ in many different
ways not just through what he did but we also
see it through his character as well the title of my sermon tonight
is jesus in the life of elijah jesus in the life of elijah and i
wanted to open by thanking pastor shelly for the
opportunity to fill the is i get pulpit i guess it's a
pulpit the uh plastic box the tote
tonight but you know what it's a pulpit when it's got a king james bible on it
i don't care what it's made of let's look at second kings two
second kings chapter two and my first point
is simple my first point is we see jesus in the life of elijah through the
start of his ministry we see jesus in the life
of elijah through the start of his ministry
particularly at the jordan river look at verse six second kings chapter
two verse six and elijah said unto him terry i pray
second kings two verse six and elijah said unto him terry i pray
thee here for the lord hath sent me to jordan
and he said as the lord liveth and as thy soul liveth
i will not leave thee and they too went on so the first thing that i wanted you
to pay attention to is the loyalty right here
he says i will not leave thee right he's gonna follow him
and elijah says you know what i've been sent to jordan elijah says he's going
with him and i think what we can take out of
this is you know we we have to find in our lives the man of god we have to
identify the man of god in our lives and say you
know what i will not leave thee i'm gonna follow you i'm gonna follow
you as you follow christ and for a lot of christians this is
missing in their life because of the fact that they're not in
church they're totally backslidden they're sitting in their living room
eating corn flakes every day rather than
serving the lord and the reason why is because they haven't plugged themselves
into a local new testament church they haven't
identified a prophet and said i will not leave
thee i am going to follow you as you follow the lord jesus christ
they haven't found that loyalty yet look at verse number seven
and the 50 men of the sons of the prophets went
and stood to view afar off and they too stood
by jordan and elijah took his mantle and wrapped it together
and smote the waters and they were divided hither and thither
so that they too went over on dry ground and it came to pass when they were gone
over that elijah said unto elijah ask what i shall do for thee before i
be taken away from thee and elijah said i pray thee let a double
portion of thy spirit be upon thee and he said thou hast asked a hard
thing nevertheless if thou see me when i am taken from thee
it shall be so unto thee but if not it shall not be
it shall not be so the waters are divided here
and they walk on dry land now what this reminds me of
is the baptism of jesus which was done by john the baptist again if elijah
is symbolic of john the baptist and elijah would represent jesus well i
don't think it's a coincidence that we see
essentially the start of his ministry here
at jordan and what happens they walk on dry land
and subsequently right after this well he asks for a double portion of the
spirit well when jesus christ was baptized
matthew chapter number three which i'll read in a moment
we see that the holy spirit descended like a dove
upon him and i think what we're seeing is a baptism
a picture i should say of the baptism of jesus christ let's look at matthew
chapter three and look at the parallels matthew
chapter three remember that john it says the bible says came in the
spirit and power of elijah and i don't think it's
coincidental that this is where you see the passing
of the torch this is where you see elijah
succeeding elijah in the same place where
jesus was baptized because i think that it's a
parallel or symbolic of the baptism of christ
in first corinthians 10 as you turn to matthew 3 the bible read in first
corinthians 10 moreover brethren i would not that you
should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud
and all passed through the sea in verse two it said and were
and were all baptized under moses in the cloud and in the sea
so the bible talks about how the israelites were quote-unquote
baptized right as they went through the red sea which was parted for them
miraculously and we know ultimately that was courtesy of god and
that is oftentimes viewed as a picture of
baptism well if that's a picture of baptism if the water's being parted
from the red sea is a picture of baptism then i think the same thing can apply to
the waters being parted at jordan when elijah and elijah traverse through
it and when it comes to the children of
israel it's understood that the freedom from
bondage points to salvation
the parting of the red sea would point to baptism them going through the
wilderness would point to the christian life or is
representative of the christian life and all the
struggles that come with it and then inheriting the promised land well that
would be representative of us inheriting heaven
when we finally get to get when we finally get to heaven and inherit
the rewards and all the things that we've earned
through our good works in this life now in matthew chapter 3 it says in verse
13 in matthew chapter 3 in verse 13 the
bible read then cometh jesus from galilee to jordan
unto john to be baptized of him so it's the same
place second kings 2 what are we looking at
jordan matthew chapter 3 same thing in verse number 16 it says
and jesus when he was baptized went up straight way out of the water and lo the
heavens were opened unto him and he saw the spirit of god descending
like a dove and lighting upon him and lo a voice from heaven saying this
is my beloved son in whom i am well pleased so the spirit of
god descends on jesus here after his baptism
and we see that right after you know elijah and elijah when they traverse
through the jordan river when the waters were
parted that he asks for a double portion of the spirit so the
spirit is involved as well which i think creates a stronger
connection between these two stories and
again i don't think it's coincidental that this is how elijah
starts his journey at jordan which is a a prominent place in
scripture turn back over to second kings let's look at chapter 4
second kings chapter 4
john 3 tells us for he whom god had sent speak at the words of god
for god giveth not the spirit by measure
unto him we're talking about parallels between elijah and elijah
but i'm going to break that pattern for a second because
here's something that's different about jesus is that he was 100 always
filled with the spirit of god and he never sinned
and he you know the father didn't give him the spirit
by measure he gave him the 100 filling of the spirit
at all times
and something that we can also learn about this because i don't want to just
look at spiritual truths tonight i don't just want to look at
some of the spiritual pictures but also lessons we could take from the character
of elijah he desired the spirit of god right he asked for a double portion of
the spirit you can look at that as perhaps an
ordination and people who desire to be a pastor who have the desire to do the
work of a bishop right there's nothing wrong with that
but i think when you zoom out a little bit further
what we can take from this as everyday christians is we
also should desire the spirit of god in our lives because that's what brings us
victory if you want to be a better soul winner
you need to be filled with the spirit of god if you want to be a better preacher
you need to be filled with the spirit of god
instead of the spirits of this world which a lot of people are filled with
what am i talking about spirits it's what they literally call some alcoholic
beverages spirits and people are chasing after
spirits rather than chasing after the holy spirit
even people who are sealed with the holy spirit
what a shame all right here's my second point
i had you turn to second kings four my second point is this let's look at
another parallel between jesus and alicia and my second point is we see
jesus in the life of alicia through a multiplication miracle
is what i'm calling it a multiplication miracle
look at second kings chapter four now let me give you the context real quickly
the man of god he comes to gilgal and there was a dearth in the land
so essentially what happens they you know he tells his servant to see
potage there's death in the pot there was a sermon preached
at our church about that a while ago and everybody thought it was about beans and
chili but it wasn't but my point is you know
there's death in the pot it's it's purified by alicia then a man
from bale shalisha brings alicia bread and here's what happens next i think
another really cool picture or or something you know another parallel
rather of jesus look at verse number 42 second
kings chapter 4 and verse 42 it says and there came a
man from bale shalisha and brought the man of god bread of the
first fruits 20 loaves of barley and full ears of corn in the husk
thereof and he said give unto the people that
they may eat and his servitor said what should i set this before an hundred
men he said again give the people that they
may eat for thus saith the lord they shall eat and shall leave thereof
so we said it before them and they did eat and left thereof
according to the word of the lord what do we have going on
a hundred men fed with what 20 loaves of barley
this reminds me of exactly what jesus did
in the new testament what did jesus do during his ministry
a multiplication miracle a miracle where great multitudes were able to eat
from a very small amount of food he fed the five thousand
with five loaves and and two fishes also the four thousand with seven loaves and
so elisha does essentially the same type of miracle here
because you'll notice a pattern regarding his miracles
that they're very much like the miracles of jesus
that's because it's not a coincidence because the prophets
not just elisha but the prophets in general are pointing us
to christ the whole bible is pointing us to christ this is why it is so insane
that jews even exist because how in the world could you claim to believe the
old testament and then hate jesus when the old testament is pointing to
christ like that's the whole point of it that's
the purpose but i don't want to go down that rabbit
let's look at second kings chapter 13
so a multiplication miracle by elisha 100 men fed 20 loaves
of barley sufficient for them a multiplication miracle
similar to what jesus did with the five thousand and the four thousand
this isn't the only time elisha did this by the way
i can't cover it for sake of time but he also had a woman who came to him
asking for help because her sons were going to be sold
into servitude and she had a pot of oil on her
and he asked basically for her to go get some more vessels some more empty
vessels and it was that one pot that was then used to fill all the rest
of them another multiplication miracle there as well so
this isn't the first time that elisha did this now in second
kings chapter 13 we see something else that also
reminds us of what jesus did and this is my third point is that we
see jesus in the life of elisha through revival
through revival look at verse 20 when you get there
in second kings chapter 13 and verse 20 and just a quick recap before i dive
into this so we started out with looking at the
similarities between elisha and jesus regarding
what occurred at the jordan river and i said that that
reminds me of the baptism of christ and then we looked at here this miracle
where a hundred men were fed with 20 loaves of barley reminding
us of what jesus did with the five thousand and the four thousand
and now we're going to look at here how jesus
we see jesus in the life of elisha through revival look at verse 20
second kings chapter 13 and verse 20 it says
and elisha died and they buried him and the bands of the moabites invaded
the land at the coming end of the year and it came to pass as they were
burying a man that behold they spied a band of men and they cast
the man into the sepulcher of elisha and when the man was let down and
touched the bones of elisha he revived and stood up excuse me and
stood up on his feet men of israel are burying a man
apparently they're startled by the moabite army they tossed
this man into elisha's bones and he's revived
into the sepulcher of elisha and he comes back to life he comes
back from the dead he experiences a revival this is
miraculous right this is a this is a miracle that
jesus that elisha that elisha did after he had already
died so if you want to nitpick the sermon
you could say well hold on a minute this is
jesus in the death of elisha not necessarily the life
and you're right it is but i didn't want to change the sermon title
but here's the thing yeah you're right this is
jesus in the death of elisha why because we see that this man this
individual right here was given life through elisha's death
and the same is true for every single saved person
every single saved person on the face of the planet was given life
through the death of jesus through the death of a preacher who was
god manifest in the flesh not any ordinary
prophet let's look at john chapter 20 together
john chapter 20 meanwhile i'll read for you as you turn to john chapter 20
i'll read for you from hebrews chapter 2 hebrews
chapter 2 so we've looked at so far the similarity between jesus and elisha
when it comes to the jordan river pointing us to his baptism
we've looked at so far the fact that he multiplied little into much
and now we're looking at here what happened with regard to this
revival we're looking at how elisha orchestrated
this revival and it was an incredible one because it happened
courtesy of his own death similar to how the saved have received
revival through the death of christ and that's exactly what the bible tells us
in john chapter 20 but before we get there
i wanted to read a scripture in hebrews 2 which tells us
for as much then as the children are partakers
of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part of the
same that through death he might destroy him
that had the power of death that is the devil and deliver them
who through fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage not only were you given
life through the death of christ but you were also given freedom freedom
from bondage you were given freedom from the fear of
death we don't have to fear death anymore
it's lost its sting and the reason why is because we'll
never experience death in a spiritual sense yeah our flesh is
going to go into the ground one day our flesh the old man finally will have
to stop warring against it that battle will be
over and the reason why is because it's going
into the ground it'll be raised up incorruptible but there's coming a day
in which that conflict that you're having right now between the new man
and the old man will come to an end the new man is going to win
you're going to have a glorified body you've been given freedom
from the fear of death you begin freedom from bondage the bondage of sin you've
been given freedom courtesy of the death of the lord jesus christ
and let's well before we get there i also wanted to read for you in roman
6 where it says that we're alive unto god through what
jesus christ our lord not alive unto god through our own good
works not alive unto god through joseph smith
the pervert the freak not muhammad the pervert the freak you're
noticing a pattern here these reprobate false prophets
first thessalonians 5 tells us who died for us that whether we wake or sleep
we should live together with him because of what christ did for us
because of his death and his burial and his resurrection
we're going to live together with him the bible says
and you know these bunch of heretics they want to pick and choose which
specific segment of the gospel matters the most
and they'll say well you know it's really just only the death that matters
or they'll say how dare you say that jesus died and went
to hell that invalidates the the gospel somehow that's taking away
from his deity but there's certain people they want to
say well you know it's only the death or it's only the burial or
or it's only the resurrection no no all of it everything
all of it saved us but what i'm focusing on is the death
for the purpose of this portion of the sermon john chapter 20
and verse 31 remember jesus what he came to give us life
and he revived spiritually those who believed on him the second
that they believed on him john 20 verse 31
john 20 verse 31 but these are written that ye might believe that jesus is the
christ the son of god and that believing notice
ye might have life through his name we have life through his name
we have life through what he did we have life simply through him
and that's why we exalt him with everything that we've got
that's why this church is about christ and
and you know so so all these people who want to compulsively hate us and want to
compulsively hate the man of god in charge of this church
and want to and want to compulsively hate this church as a whole
who are they really hating on jesus because he's the head of this church
and so always remember that it might seem personal but in reality
they really just hate christ they really just hate jesus
let's look at second kings chapter four together second kings chapter four
and you know there's nothing more loving people say oh you guys aren't so you're
getting you're so hateful you're bigots you want to subjugate
women and i'm ready to just agree and amplify
on that one by the way because you know if subjugating women
means i don't want them to go kill their own children
then yeah sure i guess i do want to subjugate women fine
but again i don't want to let's not go off topic my point is this yeah
we'll we'll get we'll get accused of all these things oh you're so hateful you're
you got you guys don't preach the love of christ well what's more loving than
this what's more loving than the gospel what's more loving than going out and
knocking doors and telling people that if
they believe on christ they will receive life what's more loving than going out
and telling people that through the death of jesus they can
receive revival they can receive life nothing and the same people who would
levy that accusation toward us never preach that to anybody
i wonder why that is hypocrite that's why second kings chapter four
so we see so alicia gave life after dying
alicia gave life after dying through his bones
jesus gave life after the death of the cross to those who believe on him
second kings chapter four look at verse 18
what time is it here i think i'm good second kings chapter four look at verse
18 and when the child was grown it fell on a day
then he went out to his father to the reapers and he said unto his father
my head my head and he said to a lad carry him
to his mother and when he had taken him and brought him to his mother
he sat on her knees till noon and then died
alicia's blessed by the shunammite woman
he asks what he can do for her she doesn't have
a child doesn't have any children she's barren
and so that's rectified through christ but the son dies that she has
this is horrible i can't even imagine waiting
this long waiting that long waiting years and years and years for your very
first child only to watch it die only to
watch your child die must have been a a horrifying
experience for this shunammite woman but it came
to pass i think we can surmise that it came to
pass so that we can take a spiritual lesson
from it second kings chapter four we'll get into
that in a moment but look at verse 31 initially who does alicia send
gehazi verse 31 will tell us what happened when he did that it says in
verse 31 and gehazi passed on before him before them i
should say and laid the staff upon the face of the
child but there was neither voice nor hearing
wherefore he went again to meet him and told him saying
the child is not wait gehazi lays the staff on the child nothing
happens absolutely nothing gehazi is like judas
here's another similarity between jesus and elisha this is another
similarity we're talking about jesus in the life of elisha
here's another similarity both of them had bozos following them
with jesus it was judas with elisha it was gehazi
here's another similarity both were covetous
elisha i'm i'm sorry gehazi lied to elisha
in order to procure a reward that he shouldn't have gotten
and judas stole judas was a thief taking from the offering plate and
we also know that he betrayed christ 30 pieces of silver so
they have that covetousness both of them they have that similarity
they're both bozos but what i wanted you to pay attention to here
is that when gehazi lays the staff on the face of the child
absolutely nothing happens whatsoever and again the theme what i what i really
want you to to what i'm trying to hammer in here what
i want you to understand about this message is when you're reading
your bible i don't believe there's anything
incidental coincidental accidental to me this points us to the fact
that gehazi as a judas couldn't get anybody saved he couldn't
orchestrate a revival like the real man of god and so the
fakes the frauds out there how can you identify
them what's a way in which you can identify them
they're not capable of revival they're when they lay their
staff on someone who's dead nothing happens they stay dead
and the reason why is because only a saved person
can get someone saved in romans chapter one
the bible says that it's it's faith to faith
it's faith to faith the righteousness of god is revealed from faith to faith
you have to have a holy somebody who's sealed with the holy spirit of god
going out and winning people to christ you can't do it if you're not saved
you're not going to bring forth any fruit
whatsoever some would ask the question in objection
and they would say well hold on a minute though what if i watched
what if i went soul winning with adam fanon and someone prayed with him
does that mean that person saved let me give you an answer on that one
adam fanon spent an hour and 45 minutes giving that person the quote-unquote
gospel and that individual just prayed to get
him the hell off their doorstep that's that that's that's option number
one option number two is if i went and knocked on that person's
door two or three weeks later after adam fanon
or tyler baker gave him the gospel you know what i'm gonna find
i'm gonna find that that person if i dig a little bit deeper has something
completely wrong about salvation and you know they're messed up somewhere
they don't believe eternal security they still believe in works
you say well how do you know that because i believe the bible and i
believe my experiences will match that of scripture
but i think that this is a picture of judas
and jesus had a bozo following him a reprobate
from the beginning a devil from the beginning the same thing with elijah
regarding gehazi let's look at verse number 32 and by the way judas was not
a superstar soul winner and that's something else we can learn from this as
well when judas laid the staff on someone who was dead they didn't revive
either somebody relayed that message to that
weirdo in san antonio manly perry verse 32 it says and when elijah
was coming to the house behold the child was dead and laid upon his
bed so now we have the true man of god right here the
prophet the spirit-filled prophet arrives on the scene in verse 33
he went in therefore and shut the door upon them twain
and prayed unto the lord and he went up and lay upon the child
and put his mouth upon his mouth and his eyes upon his eyes and his hands upon
his hands and he stretched himself upon the child
and the flesh of the child waxed warm then he returned and walked in the house
to and fro and went up and stretched himself upon him
and the child sneezed seven times and the child
opened his eyes now we have revival courtesy of elijah and ultimately god
through elijah revives this son the compassion of elijah
is on display here as he helps this woman
at her lowest point arguably and this son
comes back from the dead he's he's revived from
the dead he sneezes seven times and my only guess
about that echoes what pastor shelley said on sunday night
it's a divine number i'll get into it a little bit later but i believe it's a
divine number and like i said i'll touch on that
a bit later on verse 36 and he called gehazi and said call this shunammite
so we called her and when she came in unto him he said
take up thy son the son of the shunammite woman
revived by the man of god jesus and the life of elijah by the miracle
of revival and jesus did something very similar to this
i'll read it for you in luke seven you don't have to turn there but in luke
seven it says and when the lord saw her he had compassion on her and said unto
her weep not and he came and touched the buyer and
they that bear him stood still and he said young man i say unto thee
arise and he that was dead sat up and began to speak
and he delivered him to his mother this widow woman's son
revived in i think a similar fashion as the shunammite woman's son was revived
by elijah a further parallel between jesus and elijah there are so many of
these that if i were to cover all of them i
would have to be here for three hours maybe even longer than that it's a whole
sermon series that i've crammed into one message
so i hope you have your seat belts buckled because we're going to be here
a while i'm just kidding but elijah and jesus have so many
different parallels jesus here with the revival of this
widow woman's son but it's not just the spiritual obviously
the spiritual truths are so important but how about who these prophets really
are how about their compassion how about
their empathy how about the fact that they truly
cared for those who were going through a rough time and i think this is
something we should replicate in our lives
let's be different from the world in the sense that we have true empathy
true compassion one for another you know it probably feels
you know it feels real good if for whatever reason you're going through
something difficult let's say it's a health problem let's
say it's somebody close to you a family member or a close friend who's
going through something tough maybe somebody died maybe you're having
financial struggles whatever the case may be it's not
nice to know that you have brethren praying for you in that moment
you know it's nice to know that when you come to church there are going to be
several people walking up to you and saying hey
i heard about what happened i'm praying for you is there anything i can do to
help out it's nice to know when you come to
church that people actually care about the struggles that you might be
going through at that time because that's life you're going to have
ups you're going to have downs and when you're in that down point
it's a lot easier to go through it when you know that you have brethren right
there with you weeping as you weep rejoicing as you
rejoice during the good times as well that's a concept we find
taught in the book of romans let's replicate this compassion
shown by elisha shown by jesus in our own lives
to our own brothers and sisters in christ let's look at second kings
chapter five second kings chapter five i'll go to my fourth point
second kings chapter five my fourth point is
we see jesus in the life of elisha through the cleansing of
naman who was what leprous and so if you look at this story
the leper cleansed points us to jesus as well
now the syrian king he asks the king of israel for naman to be
to be cured to be healed and the king of israel initially is incredulous
thinking how how can i do this for you but then
elisha takes up the responsibility and does it himself look at verse number
one there second kings five verse one now naman captain of the host of the
king of syria was a great man with his master and honorable because by
him the lord had given deliverance unto syria
he was also a mighty man in valor but he was a leper there are going to be
unsaved people in this world who aren't necessarily
totally wicked we don't want to get this mentality that every unsaved person out
there is just completely bad no there's some
of them that obviously aren't that bad that's why we're trying to win them to
christ so you don't have that kind of attitude
look at verse nine so naman came with his horses
verse nine naman came with his horses and with his chariot and stood at the
door of the house of elisha and elisha sent a messenger unto him
saying go and wash in jordan seven times and thy
flesh shall come again to thee and thou shalt be clean the man of god
sent a messenger did you see that he sent a messenger elisha
sends a messenger jesus sent us he sent us down the street here he sent
us to holton city he sent us to fort worth he sent us to
austin coming up here in a few weeks he sends
his messengers as well verse 11 but naman was roth
and went away and said behold i thought he will surely come to me and stand and
call on him on the name of the lord is god
and strike his hand over the place and recover the leper
are not abana and farpar rivers of damascus better than all the waters of
israel may i not wash in them and be clean so
he turned and went away in a rage he's furious
he's completely furious here he walks away
in a rage he didn't get to see elisha and that made him angry it was jesus who
said blessed are they that have not seen and
yet have believed what else can we take from this well
think about it naman is looking for some great thing to
cleanse him of this leprosy he was looking for theatrics he was
looking for some miraculous event that would cleanse
him rather than simply washing in the jordan
river seven times that's not what was prescribed for him
and he gets angry about it many people are expecting
salvation to come from some great thing people will say well here's here's my
testimony i woke up from a nap and then there was
this bright light and then there was like this red beam
that came out of it and then it changed colors three times
and then i saw a man in a robe come down and he had long hair and he kind of
looked like a hippie and then he like he so he told me he
was like hey you you know my name is jesus and
you're saved now and it's like this amazing miraculous
event i'm thinking you must be on dmt or some drug or something
what have you been smoking other people say
oh i got saved because i cleansed myself i got saved because i started going to
church i got the sin out of my life and so i'm
safe people are expecting salvation by some
other way that's a lot more miraculous if you
will or something that requires more of their own effort
something that would glorify them a little bit more that's
what they're expecting they're expecting salvation
some other way and that's why when you explain them actually hey
it's much easier than that all you have to do is believe
what happens they get angry they walk away in a rage like naman
they get frustrated with you and it's almost mind-boggling
because you're sitting there telling them hey just so you know
it's a free gift if you want to get to heaven all you have to do is believe on
christ and then they get mad at you and you're
thinking like what is wrong with you but their name in
the syrian they're expecting some other way to be cleansed and
they're thinking that it's completely ridiculous for it to be as
easy as simply washing themselves in the jordan river
you know when jesus healed the blind men in matthew 9
you know what he said he said believe ye that i'm able to do this and that's such
a power one of the most powerful statements i think in scripture
believe ye that i'm able to do this that right there
is like soul winning in a nutshell when you get to the very
end of your presentation here's what you're essentially asking
do you believe jesus can save you do you really think the death
burial and resurrection now after i've shown you verse after verse
is enough to get you to heaven believe ye
that christ is able to take you to heaven
and if you're saved tonight you're saved because you do believe that
because you do believe that what he had promised he was able
also to perform you believe that if all you had to do
was dip yourself into the jordan river seven times
that you would be cleansed of your leprosy and leprosy
would be a picture of sin that's true in scripture that leprosy
picture sin and we were leprous before we got saved and all it took was
a cleansing in the river to wash away to be clean to wash away
the leprosy and to be clean look at verse 13
and his servants came near and spake unto him and said
my father if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing wouldest thou not
have done it how much rather than when he sayeth to
thee wash and be clean you would have been
willing to do something great if he asked you to so why not
something as easy as washing and be clean
people act like they're willing to turn away from all their sins which is
impossible by the way and yet unwilling to simply trust in
christ for salvation it's incredible when you think about it
mark chapter one tells us in verse 40 i'll just quote this for you
and there came a leper to him beseeching him and kneeling down to him and saying
unto him if thou wilt thou canst make me clean and
jesus moved with compassion put forth his hand and touched him and
saith unto him i will be thou clean again compassion
but what else is happening here a parallel
between jesus and elisha elisha cleansed lepers
jesus cleansed lepers as well elisha's cleansing of
naman parallels what i just read for you in mark chapter one
but if you would turn to revelation chapter one revelation chapter one
let's look at the spiritual truth that applies to
the cleansing of naman the syrian let's look at the spiritual truth that
applies to what happened to name in the syrian title
the sermon jesus in the life of elisha
we see jesus in the life of elisha in so many ways his behavior his character
but also what happens here with name in the syrian the cleansing of name in the
syria revel revelation chapter one verse five
revelation chapter one verse five and from jesus christ who was the faithful
witness and the first begotten of the dead and
the prince of the kings of the earth unto him that loved us and washed us
from our sins in his own blood we've been washed from our sins we've
been washed from our leprosy in the blood of christ
because the blood is essential the blood atonement
i believe that and it was the blood that washed away our sins were
washed through the blood of christ naman cleansed of his leprosy
through the waters the jordan river waters
and we cleansed of our sin through the blood
of christ turn back to second kings chapter five second kings chapter five
revelation seven also tells us as you turn to second kings chapter five
it says these are they which came out of great tribulation
and have washed their robes and made them white
in the blood of the lamb the saved have made their
their robes white in the blood of the lamb and that's
really an amazing view that is happening in heaven in revelation
chapter seven second kings five where i had you turn
look at verse 14 then when he down and dipped himself
seven times in jordan according to the saying of the man of
god and his flesh came again like under the flesh
of a little child and he was clean what i said earlier is that seven is a
divine number the sabbath day the sabbath was on the seventh day of
creation pointing us to salvation so i don't
think that when it says that he was when he dipped
seven times in jordan that that's meaningless the reason why
it's there is because it's reminding us of salvation
that this is supposed to teach us about salvation
and when he came back out he had the flesh of a little child
what happens when you first get saved well you become a
babe in christ you become a baby in christ
first peter says in chapter two as newborn babes
desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow
thereby newborn babies need the word of god
to grow so that they can learn more doctrine so that they can become
better christians and after naman is cleansed he
asks for mercy because he was gonna worship how he always did in rimon
and that's i think kind of reminiscent of the fact that
babies in christ often are babes in christ often
don't really know what they're doing in a sense they still haven't learned
some things and so we should be merciful unto them
and not beat them over the head because they get something wrong
here's the fifth point look at second king six this will be quick
second kings chapter six
i think i'm okay on time but i'm not sure second kings chapter six look at
here's my fifth point we see jesus in the life of elijah
through the floating axe head through the floating axe head look at
second king six verse five it says but as one was felling a beam
the axe head fell into the water and he cried and said alas master for it
was borrowed so the sons of the prophets are cutting
wood for a dwelling place that's what's going on verse number six
and the man of god said where fell it and he showed him the place
and he cut down a stick and cast it in thither and the iron did swim
therefore said he take it up to thee and he put out his hand
and took it the axe head sinks elijah by a miracle makes it float defying
gravity in the process spiritually speaking
this reminds me of the fact we are without the cross of christ sinking in a
sense it wasn't until that stick entered the water which points us to
the cross right it wasn't until that that that stick
entered the water that the x-head began to float without
the without the cross of christ we would be
figuratively sinking in a sense we'd be sinking
in hell without you know there is it's a bottomless pit by the way
so you'd be burning in hell for all of eternity without the cross of christ
but again the parallels between elijah and jesus are paramount for the purpose
of the sermon and i also think this reminds me of what
jesus did with peter in matthew chapter 14 i'll just
quote this for you it says but when he saw the wind boisterous he
was afraid and beginning to sink he cried saying lord save me
and immediately jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him and said unto
him oh thou of little faith wherefore did
us thou doubt just as sure as this axe head was
sinking and elijah brought it back up to the surface again
peter was sinking and it was jesus who brought him back
to the surface as well another parallel between elijah and jesus but there's
also that spiritual truth of us being the axe head
the stick being the cross of christ causing that axe head
not to be sinking anymore but to go back to the surface of
the water with respect to matthew chapter 14 and what happened to peter
i don't want to just only spiritual let's look at some carnal as well
oftentimes we feel like we're sinking in this life
oftentimes we feel like the bills are piling up we're sinking in bills
you might be sinking in credit card debt you might be sinking in problems
you might be sinking in in drama you might be sinking in in persecution
there could be a number of different things that cause you to
have this sinking sensation in your life but what you have to remember is what
jesus did with the apostle peter what jesus did
here what jesus did is a great reminder for
us that says if you just trust in the lord jesus christ and you
remember that all things work together for good
to them that love god and you trust that jesus is going to prevent you from
sinking and bring you back to the surface of the
water that'll help you get through all your problems so don't forget that
he will help you walk he'll bring you back to the surface
let's look at the sixth point
so again the parallels the axe head sinking similar to
peter sinking brings him back to the surface
just as the axe head was brought back to the surface as well here's my final
point we see jesus in the life of elisha
through his mockers this is my final point we see jesus in
the life of elisha through his mockers look at second kings 2 if you would
second kings chapter 2 i'm not sure if i told you to go there yet but second
kings chapter 2 let's go back and look at this is the last point i have
and then i'm going to wrap it up second kings chapter 2
it says in verse 23 in second kings chapter 2 and he went up from thence
unto bethel and as he was going up by the way
there came forth little children out of the city and mocked him
and said unto him go up that bald head go up that bald head and he turned back
and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the
lord and there came forth two she bears out of the wood
and tear 40 and two of them the first thing that comes to mind when
i think about this these children mocking elisha is woe unto those
who would mock the man of god woe unto those that would spend every
waking moment of their pathetic lives making a bunch of garbage malicious
railing youtube videos to attack the man of god
woe unto those who have an obsessive hatred
for the man of god they better look around the corner because there might be
a she bear coming to bite their head off
god is angry with those who would deride his prophets
god is angry with those who hate the man of god
he's angry with those and the punks they ridicule
elisha these punks these young punks not new ifb young punks the old ifb
young punks in this scenario or the new ifb reject
young punks hector alvarado's here and some other
freaks as well whole armor ministries whatever his name is
here he is mocking elisha and what happens the bear comes
rips him apart kyle barnes as well thanks for that one alberto it's hard to
keep track of all these losers names
they ridicule elisha go up thou bald head
and this could possibly be a reference to elisha
the ridiculing elisha go up thou bald head
and what happened really similar like close to this event was
elisha getting picked up by god in the whirlwind so you kind of have
perhaps that's what they're referencing maybe they're trying to mock him say
why don't you go up too or something like that
i'm not sure but it's just a theory but these punks
symbolize something jews look at matthew 27
okay the jews mocked jesus just like these punks mocked elisha
not only that but 42 children it says were mauled by the two she bears
what meaning what they were cursed but jesus
he uttered what you could i would consider a curse as well in matthew 21
in reference to the fig tree when he said let no fruit grow on thee
hence forward forever and presently the fig tree withered away
both jesus and elisha cursed and i'm not talking about four letter
words by the way so don't take me out of context
what i'm referencing is the curse meaning something harmful coming on
another person calling for that and jesus did so with respect to this fig
tree that it would never bring forth fruit
again symbolizing that israel would no longer
bring forth fruit god wasn't going to use them
anymore and not only that but furthermore
they wouldn't be a nation anymore israel would no longer be a nation
anymore it would cease to exist why a couple of she bears called the roman
empire stormed them in 70 a.d and wiped them out
practically off the face of the of the map
until the devil brought them back in and you know that's a whole different story
but matthew chapter 27 look at verse number 41
matthew chapter 27 and verse number 41 likewise also the chief priests notice
this mocking him second kings chapter 2
said in verse 23 that the children mocked him matthew chapter 27 and verse
41 says that the chief priests mocking him
with the scribes and elders said he saved others
himself he cannot save if he be the king of israel
let him now come down from the cross and we will believe him
he trusted in god let him deliver him now if he will
have him for he said i am the son of god so they're basically
in the opposite way they're saying come down whereas these children are saying
go up but these jews they mock jesus just as elisha was mocked another
parallel between jesus and elisha
42 children in the story of first kings chapter 2
which i believe represent those children i believe represent the jews
but there's 42 of them and the reason why i believe there's 42 of them
is because of something regarding end times bible prophecy
the second half of daniel's 70th week contains the wrath of god it's a three
and a half year period 42 months
and it's during the wrath of god that jerusalem
jerusalem gets just destroyed like completely obliterated
it it's not a good time for them whatsoever and that's an understatement
it was jesus who said when you shall see jerusalem compassed with armies
then know that the desolation thereof is nigh
technically the wrath of god doesn't start till the second coming of christ
which takes place 75 days after the midpoint of daniel's 70th week
but by and large it's that 42 month period
which contains the seven trumpets the seven vile judgments
and it's during that timeline during that portion
of daniel's 70th week where jerusalem is not only compassed with armies but
remember revelation 1619 it's divided
in three an earthquake so large at the seventh trumpet
that it's divided in three that's also a good verse proving that
jerusalem couldn't have been babylon different story for a different time
but it's divided in three the wrath of god
poured out on the entire world including jerusalem
just as sure as the wrath was poured out on these 42
jew representing children elisha mocked by punks jesus mocked by
punks the 42 i think kind of reminding us of the second half
of daniel's 70th week the wrath of the lamb
which is not going to be a good time for jerusalem
but it's not going to be a good time not just for jews not just for these bunch
of christ hating christ rejecting jews
who believe in the talmud which says something so horrifying about christ i
don't even want to repeat it yet they're pedestalized by the way by
mainstream christianity makes me sick right it's disgusting today
but it's not going to be a bad time it's not only bernie sanders
if he lives to see this day despite the fact that he's 125 years old
who's going to suffer if he lives to see the second half of daniel's 70th week
white people don't know what it's like to be poor
you know bernie sanders doesn't know what it's like to be saved
he's a jew he hates christ he hates jesus there's video of him deriding
somebody for saying jesus is the only way to heaven
he's wicked he hates god he hates my messiah
he hates your messiah oh he's anti-establishment
that's garbage these jews hate jesus it's going to be a horrible day for them
when the wrath of god is poured out but not just for them though it's going to
be bad for the mormons it's going to be bad for the jehovah
witnesses it's going to be bad for the catholics
it's going to be bad for the atheists it's going to be bad for the pentecostals
it's going to be bad for tyler baker valiant and the reason i give him a
secret category is because his beliefs are so weird
that he has to go in a separate separate category i can't think of a baptist
independent fundamental baptist whose oneness so he gets a separate
category it's going to be bad for all these heretics for all these false
prophets it's going to be horrifying for them not
for the saved though but it is it's going to be absolutely
horrifying for these people it's going to be horrifying for ray
comfort it's going to be horrifying for for paul
washer the guy who says there's no such thing
as a carnal christian give me a break have you ever read roman 7
it's going to be horrifying for you know these these these paul washer for john
macarthur denying the blood of christ it's going to be horrifying for these
people they better be ready to be mauled they better be ready to be mauled by a
couple of she bears they better be ready to be mauled by the
wrath of god they better be ready for this day
because it's going to come upon them when they least expect it and these
she bears are going to rip their heads off they're going to tear them apart
and we're going to be cheering for it in heaven finally the anger the frustration
that we all feel alongside with god for the sin and the
wickedness of this world it all comes to a head when those she
bears maul them all and i'm looking forward to it
let's look at first corinthians chapter 11 and we'll be done what is this
ultimately it's the vengeance of god it's the vengeance of god
alicia was avenged
through the mauling of these jew representing children
and jesus christ himself not just us but jesus christ himself
is going to be avenged when he pours out his wrath on this world
in the second half that 42 month period the second half
of daniel's 70th week it is the vengeance of god
and make no mistake about it he will laugh
at their calamity he will laugh at their calamity
when they're burning in hell first corinthians chapter 11 is the last
place i'll have you turn here's the concluding application be
like alicia be like alicia first corinthians 11
says this be followers of me verse 1 verse 1 be
followers of me even as i also am of christ obviously this is about the
apostle paul and yes we can apply this to pastors
today i follow pastor shelley as he follows christ
other pastors as well in the new ifb movement that you could apply this to
but i think it also can be applied to the old testament
prophets in the same way that we should be like them as they were like christ we
should follow them as they followed past tense christ
be like alicia in the sense that you desire the spirit of god
like he did when he asked for a double portion of the spirit
his anointing be like alicia when it comes to his compassion for people
when he healed people when he loved people
have that kind of empathy in your character
be like alicia when it comes to the way that he preached the word of god
unapologetically without fear be like that
preach the word the way he did be like alicia
when it comes to the way that he cleansed people the way that he revived
people you say we can't do that yeah we can
you do it every time you knock on someone's door and give them the gospel
you're cleansing them you're reviving them you know what to god more people
would follow the example of alicia rather than
celebrities rather than freaks you know what to god more people would
follow the example of a prophet of a man of god in the old
testament like alicia instead of these bunch of vapid
empty pea-breed hollywood pedophile satan worshipers i think that'd be a lot
better i think this world would be a better
place if more people looked up to somebody like alicia
instead of these perverts in california you know it'd be great if more people
decided they want to be like alicia instead of politicians otherwise known
as prostitutes it'd be great if more people wanted to
be like alicia instead of nfl football players instead
athletes that people idolize today it'd be great if people strive to be
like alicia it'd be great if they strive to be like abraham
if they strive to be like you know moses like like joshua
you know like people like samuel like david like solomon
it'd be great if we if christians even if they would strive to be like these
great men of god in the past alicia included why you might be
wondering like okay why what's why should i be like alicia well
remember that we see jesus and what happened to
him in the jordan river we see jesus in the
jordan river walk we see jesus in the mockery of his enemies
which i think represent the jews we see jesus in his in his miracles
all the different miracles that we went through and looked at the spiritual
pictures associated with them when we looked at
how they picture different aspects of salvation how they picture different
aspects of alicia and christ's character all the different parallels that we
covered over the course of the sermon but
ultimately the reason why you should be like alicia
and the application i want you to take home with you tonight
is because we see jesus in the life of alicia because we see
jesus in the life of alicia let's pray father i just thank you so much for
this church and for the opportunity that we have on a regular basis to come in
here the word of god being thunder fourth
and i just pray that you would help us to be like alicia
help us to be like abraham like moses like joshua like david like
like solomon like all these great you know prophets of the past
we understand they made mistakes they weren't perfect but help us to
replicate what they did in their successes and learn from their failures
and help us to just be more like them rather than the wicked people of this
world in jesus name i pray amen
all right for a final song this evening turn to 389
bring them in song 389 bring them in
389 bring them in heart is the shepherd's voice i hear
out in the desert dark and drear calling the sheep who've gone
astray far from the shepherd's fold away
bring them in bring them in bring them in
from the fields of sin bring them in bring them
in bring the wandering ones to jesus who'll go and help this shepherd
kind help him the wandering ones to find
who'll bring the lost ones to the fold where they'll be sheltered from
the cold bring them in bring them in bring them
in from the fields of sin bring them in bring them in
bring the wandering ones to jesus out in the desert hear their cry
out on the mountains wild and high heart is the master speaks to
thee go find my sheep wherever they be bring them
in bring them in bring them in from the fields of
sin bring them in bring them in bring the
wandering ones to jesus god bless thanks for coming you are dismissed