Okay.
["Pomp and Circumstance"]
Well, I think we have a wonderful day for Baptist Church.
We're ready to see you all here for a Thursday service.
We'll now please have a seat.
Grand General, General, Son, 15.
Grand General, 15.
We begin this evening's service by singing
song number 15, Lead Me to Calvary.
["Ride Me to Calvary"]
Lest I forget thy love for me, lead me to Calvary.
Show me a tumor, loud was slain, ten yearling for heaven.
Angels and rogues of thy own name,
guard with me God's cross for thee.
Lest I forget, yes, Emily.
Lest I forget, my Emily.
Lest I forget thy love for me, lead me to Calvary.
Lead me like Mary through the blue,
I'll never give to thee.
Show me now my empty tomb, lead me to Calvary.
Lest I forget, yes, Emily.
Lest I forget, my Emily.
Lest I forget thy love for me, lead me to Calvary.
Maybe I'll be more important there,
maybe leave my cross for thee.
Lead me like the one free to share, now has come all for me.
Lest I forget, yes, Emily.
Lest I forget, my Emily.
Lest I forget thy love for me, lead me to Calvary.
Amen.
Praise God.
Thank you, Father God, for the day.
Thank you for the evening and this evening's service.
We ask that you please bless this evening's service tonight.
I hope we'll see you soon, Matthew.
And we thank you for being a saint.
Amen.
Thank you, brother.
Let's start our hymnals.
It's on number 127.
It's Mr. Sweet, must be pleased.
127.
It's so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take him at his word,
just to bless upon his promise, just to know the saint, the Lord.
Jesus, Jesus, now I trust him.
Now I'm beautiful and old.
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus.
Oh, for praise to trust in God.
Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus, just
to trust his plenty glad, just in simple faith to find him.
Jesus, Jesus, now I trust him.
Now I'm beautiful and old.
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus.
Oh, for praise to trust in God.
Jesus, Jesus, now I trust him.
Now I'm beautiful and old.
This is sweet to trust in Jesus, just from sin itself to sin,
Jesus, Jesus, now I trust him.
Now I'm beautiful and old.
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus.
Oh, for praise to trust in God.
Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus, just
to trust in him.
Jesus, Jesus, now I trust him.
Now I'm beautiful and old.
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus.
Oh, for praise to trust in Jesus.
Jesus, precious Jesus.
Oh, for praise to trust in God.
Jesus, Jesus, now I trust him.
I think it's always worth it, obviously, to make the effort,
but maybe this will be the spark that kind of lights the fire for you a little bit,
knowing that it's going to be these more famous, more well-known, more exciting stories.
So that's how we're going to be finishing out 1 Kings over the next several weeks.
So come on out for that.
We've got the churchwide soul winning below that,
as well as the salvations and baptisms.
We'll count up baptisms going back to Monday.
Do we have anything for Monday?
I know the group on Tuesday had three.
Was there anything for Wednesday?
What about today for Thursday?
One, amen.
A couple notes there regarding the church.
If you need them, go ahead and silence your cell phones,
if you haven't done so already.
I thank you to those that prayed for the Sierra small town soul winning.
Don't forget to hydrate as we're getting into the warmer weather.
I'm kind of indirectly critiqued for the use of that graphic
that I used there with the thermometer
because that's not even 100 degrees on the thermometer.
But the point is that it's getting hotter.
It's preemptive here.
I don't want to wait until it's 110 for me to remind you to take precautions.
And really, probably most of that is pretty common sense,
but the one thing I will just take a minute to emphasize
is that if you're out soul winning
and your soul winning partner needs to take a break,
take a break with them.
Don't leave them unattended,
especially if they're feeling the heat in case something happens.
And that's just a general rule that we keep.
That's just a rule in general.
You never want to leave people unattended at the door
no matter what the weather is.
You should always stick with your partner.
So that's just a little tip there.
Don't forget the mega conference going on
up in Tempe.
That's going to start Sunday, June 19th.
You've got some details there.
There's going to be a sign up sheet for the shuttle.
So every Wednesday there's going to be a shuttle
that I'll run up to Tempe
that I'll leave promptly at five.
But it's going to be first come, first serve.
And the way you get signed up
is you show up the Sunday prior.
So I don't want to start keeping track
of people who want to come out the third Wednesday
of four weeks in advance and stuff like that.
So if you want to get in the shuttle,
well, just come to church Sunday.
So you can see what I'm doing there.
That's the carrot that's going to get you to come out.
And then also don't forget on the back
we're coming up on FWBC Tucson's
third annual church camp.
So I'm real excited about this.
This is something we do every summer
if the mountain's not on fire
like it was one year.
We couldn't have it.
This is our fourth year, but this is the third time
we're going up there because of the fact
that I think two summers ago the whole mountain was on fire.
Actually got really close to the camp
that we're going to, but didn't burn it down.
Thankfully.
So we've got an actual
Baptist camp that's owned
by the First Baptist Church of Tucson.
And it's a facility
with lots of different cabins
and A-frames.
It's got a full kitchen.
It's got a dining hall, a chapel,
electricity, flushable outhouses,
a shower facility.
It's still kind of rough in it, but
it's right down the road from where we were
going camping, which is just straight tent
camping
for the die-hards.
Those of you that are a little less die-hard
this might be more up your alley.
This might be more your pace.
But if you want to go
there's a sign-up sheet back there.
Please take a minute to look at the sign-up sheet
and fill it out accordingly.
And please sign up
by June 5th.
You can sign up now.
You can get up and go sign up now.
You can sign up tonight after church.
You don't have to wait until June 5th.
But after June 5th I'm going to open it up
to the people in Tempe as well.
I'm going to start inviting other people
so that they have time to plan.
So please sign up as soon as you can.
As soon as you're sure you're going to be able to make it.
If you can't make it to all the nights there
just go ahead and make it
I'm going to make it out for the Tuesday night.
I'm going to stay the night.
All three nights.
We're going to have Pastor Mejia and Pastor Thompson.
Pastor Mejia will be preaching the Monday night service.
And then Pastor Thompson
will be preaching the Tuesday
and the Wednesday night service.
So if you want
if you have to pick and choose
you decide who
your favorite preacher is.
And you can make it up there when you can.
So hopefully you can make it up for all of it.
It's going to be a good time.
All the meals are going to be paid for by the church.
So if you have any questions
about things just come see me.
I'm trying to give you a lot of details in this announcement.
So if you have a bulletin
read it over.
I know it's a lot to read but
if you're planning on going please read it.
And if you have any other questions that I haven't answered
just come speak to me
and we'll work it out.
And then below that we've also got the weekly Bible memory passage.
So if you've got
children and young people have until this Sunday
to get that memorized and recited word perfect
That's going to do it for announcements.
We'll go ahead and sing one more song
according to the preaching tonight.
Singing
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It's just getting crazy out there, folks.
It's getting insane.
And the scariest
thing is how many people don't
realize that.
They've just kind of been lulled to sleep
at how
just terrible this world has
become, this country has become.
And I don't want to
rant and go off on all that.
You know what I'm talking about.
It's insane.
But, you know,
that's
what the life we're called to live
is to serve God.
And it's not always going to be convenient.
And it's going to become increasingly less convenient.
If you would, go to Jeremiah
chapter number 20.
Jeremiah chapter number 20.
The first thing we see about Elijah
is that, you know, he's somebody
that was willing to be inconvenienced
to serve God.
And he's a man of like passions.
Oh, yeah, Elijah
was a superstar. It was easy for
him to go do all that.
Really?
He was a man of like passions.
You know, and we'll see later here shortly in the next
few chapters that
he has his down moments, too.
He has some highs and some lows.
So it wasn't just easy for him.
You know, sometimes we read these characters
in the Bible and we forget
to make it personal.
That these were people like me and you. They're just like us.
They had families.
They had relatives. They had friends.
They had familiar surroundings.
They had lives. They were living.
You know what I mean?
They had their own life, too.
They had their own doubts
and fears. They had their own weaknesses.
They had their own strengths.
Just like me and you.
They're real people.
They weren't different back then. There's no new thing
under the sun. Elijah was a man of like
passions.
The thing that we can learn from him tonight
is the fact that
he was willing to be inconvenienced
to serve God. And if you're ever
going to see God do anything great in your life
being inconvenienced
is par
for the course.
You know, if you're ever going to see a soul saved
and you're going to be the one that got him saved
you're going to have to go through the inconvenience
of soul winning. You're going to have to go through
the inconvenience of learning the gospel
and how to give it.
Which means you have to be somebody that does what?
Takes initiative.
You have to be somebody who takes initiative.
You know, one of the most frustrating things for me
in ministry
is
just seeing people not take advantage
of what the church offers.
Of not taking initiative.
You know, and I have to
reign it back sometimes and just not
I don't want to turn into one of these brow beaters
from a pulpit. Maybe I am a little bit.
Maybe I'm kind of leaning that way right now.
And I try to reign that in.
But you have to understand
it's frustrating. And then I think about
how I probably put through a lot
of my pastors through that same thing.
In fact, I know I did.
Where my pastors would get up and preach
and preach and preach.
And I'd just be like
and I'd be just as stubborn
as when I walked in.
You know, which also
gives me hope for people because it's like
well, if I can get it turned around
and get it right, then anybody can.
But it takes patience.
But you know, I can
sit here and preach my heart out.
I can just remind
you what the Bible says repeatedly.
I can go to all the scriptures about everything
we're supposed to be doing. Make the illustrations
and try to just preach and preach and preach.
But you know what? You're the one that has to take
initiative.
You know, you're the one that has to decide
I'm going to live for God. I'm going to go soul wedding.
I'm going to raise my family for God.
I'm going to be this type of spouse I'm supposed to be.
I'm going to fulfill God's role for my life.
I'm going to get this out of my life.
I'm going to start doing this right thing.
I'm going to start throwing up to church
on a regular basis. You have to take that initiative.
All I can do is just show you. This is what the Bible says.
You know, this is what we're supposed to be doing.
It's not going to be easy. It's going to require some sacrifice.
And then you have to take initiative.
And Elijah was able to do the things
that he did. He was willing to
be in convenience in the way that he was.
To make the sacrifices that he made.
And as a result see the things
that he saw because he was somebody
who took initiative.
Keep something in Jeremiah 20.
Go back to 1 Kings 17. Look at verse 1 again.
And Elijah the Tishbite who was the
inhabitants of Gilead
said unto Ahab as the Lord God of Israel
liveth before whom I stand there shall not
be dew nor rain
in these years but according to my word.
Verse 2 and the word of the Lord
came unto him. Notice
the sequence here.
Elijah leaves
Gilead, goes and preaches
and then the word of the Lord
comes to him.
I'm not saying
that he didn't have
a calling from God to go do that.
But typically you would think
that you would have read and the word of the Lord
came to Elijah and told him to go preach to
Ahab. But that
phrase comes after he goes to preach.
After he's already just
to me the way I read the way I look at that story
it just looks to me like
Elijah was somebody who just had
some initiative.
He said well I can fulfill this role
I'm a man of God. I'm a prophet of God.
I know what God's word says.
I know what Ahab's
like. You know I'm just going to go do this job.
And I know it's not going to
I know I'm going to have to leave you know my
family behind. I'm going to have to leave my homeland
behind. I'm going to have to go across that river
Jordan. I'm going to have to go all the way to
Dan that wicked city. It's full of a bunch of
idolatry. I'm going to have to get up
in Ahab's face and tell him
and then I'm going to have to tell him I'm cursing the land.
You know I'm sure he wasn't just making that up
like well maybe hopefully God follows through.
I understand that God probably
prompted him to do that. But it's interesting
the way it reads in scripture.
Is that it just, Elijah just goes and does it.
And then the word of the Lord came onto him
and said saying get thee hence
and turn thee eastward and hide thyself by the
brook Cherith. After
Elijah takes some initiative
to do that which is difficult and
presemetias that isn't really the most popular
message is it?
You know what that
tells you is that
godly people get fed up don't they?
You say why would he just do that?
Why would he want to go through all that?
Why would
Elijah just get so
you know why would he go through
what he went through? Why would he be willing to just
do all of that and then
get what he got out of it?
Go eat bread and meat from
the birds at a brook.
And when that dries up go eat
travel another few
hundred miles to a widow and she'll
take care of you. That sounds pretty inconvenient.
Who's going to sign up for that? Why would he do that?
What caused him to
take the initiative to put himself through that?
Because he sees what's going on
around him and he's fed up.
He's sick and tired of it.
I mean he's in Gilead
he's seeing what's going on with Israel he's
been around because remember
as we saw last week that all happened all these
succession of wicked kings
these seven wicked kings all happened within
about 41 years.
So he's just seeing this going on and going on
and he's just a righteous
godly man he's just had enough.
You know and that sparked
you know a fire under him and caused
and made him willing to go out
and do all of this.
You know and that's what I remind
myself about people
is that people will serve God
when they get fed up.
You know
you'll get that sin out of your life when you get
sick of that sin in your life.
When you're finally just fed up
with that sin and everything that comes
with it that's when you're going to give it up.
Not just because the preacher
got up and said hey that's a sin.
Because people will hear that and go
yeah I know it's a sin and they'll keep right on doing it.
When they're
sick and tired of being sick and tired
that's when they're going to change.
That's when they're going to say you know what
I don't like this sin anymore.
I don't like what it does to me.
I don't like how it makes me feel. I don't like what it's costing me.
I'm fed up with it.
That's when people are going to take initiative.
When they want to do it.
When they have a reason to do it.
You know we'll go preach
the gospel and get people into heaven.
When we get sick and tired of the fact that people
are dying and going to hell.
When we get sick and tired of the fact
of knowing that there's people out there that we
could reach that would get saved if we
would go and preach to them. I'm saying they
would get saved if we would go
and preach to them.
It's guaranteed that there's people
in this city that if we would knock their door
and those of you that go know what I'm talking
about because you've seen it happen.
If we would go and preach to them
because you've seen it happen.
If we would go and say hey would you like to know
how to go to heaven. There's people that will say yes.
And will preach in the gospel
and they'll say I believe that.
And they'll get genuinely
100% born
again and they'll be on their way to heaven.
They'll be snatched from hell.
You know when that sets
in and that
sets in in your mind. When you get sick and tired of
knowing that. That there's people going to hell that
otherwise would get saved. That's
when you'll start soul winning.
You know you'll start
you'll start raising your family right
when you get sick and tired of the results you're getting.
When you just get fed up with it.
That's what
I think is going on with Elijah. I mean why
else would he go through what he went through?
Nothing better to do?
Oh you know
I'll just go hang out in Dan for a while see what it's like.
Who's school over there?
No he was fed up.
He was fed up with what he saw going
around in his
country.
He took a stand.
You know and this is something that you
see a theme that you kind of see
throughout scripture.
Preachers and men of God and others
who just
they have to preach.
They have to serve God because
it's just in them.
It's something that's just in their bones.
It's like Jeremiah right? Jeremiah
chapter 20 verse 7
I mean Jeremiah is
just ripping face. I mean he's just
preaching this law. I mean he's just preaching
destruction
doom imminent
destruction coming upon you
and you know immediately
there's no hope. You're all
going to be carried off. I mean it's
just the hardest. It's a very hard book.
And he's heartbroken.
It's not like he's just up there.
It's
immediately followed up by the book of Lamentations.
I mean Jeremiah is a book that
if you really read it and let it
sink in like it should
bring tears to your eyes.
I mean it should cause you to just
weep for what the
destruction that came upon these people.
Knowing that it could have been
just they didn't have to go through any of it.
If they just heeded the preaching and repented
you know and got right with God
and I mean the things he describes taking
place terrific.
It's destruction.
But notice verse 7.
I mean here's another guy
who was inconvenienced.
And when he preached
everyone wasn't like oh thanks for that.
You know they're putting him in a pit.
They're putting him in a prison house.
They're giving him the water and bread of affliction.
I mean he's going to die.
And it says in verse 7, oh Lord thou
has deceived me and I was deceived
thou art stronger than I and has prevailed.
I am in derision daily.
Everyone mocketh me.
I mean think about
what he's saying. Like I went and I preached
your word God. I went and did what you told
me to do and I'm in derision.
People are deriding
me.
You know people are
laughing and sneering
and mocking and ridiculing
and attacking me.
You know and this thing still happens today.
You know some man
of God will go out and preach against
the Sodomites. And all the
Sodomites will get together on Twitter or wherever
else. They congregate online.
And they'll put up you know his address.
They'll put up his
personal information. They'll make a bunch of threats
because they're so loving.
You know this loving crowd
that wants to just say the most horrific
things about murdering him
and his family.
I mean I could name names for you of multiple
preachers that have gone through that.
You know they'll
fly. They'll come down from another
state and throw a bomb through the building
and explode it. Thankfully in the
middle of the night when no one's there. I mean how do they
know that? Maybe someone was there
working late.
But I mean isn't that what's going on here?
And you would think why would anybody do that?
Why would Elijah
put himself out there like that and be inconvenienced
like that and give up all the comforts
that he had? Why would
a man like Jeremiah
go and preach such a hard message against his
own people just to
say everyone mocketh me.
I'm in derision.
For since I spake I cried
out. I cried violence and spoil
because the word of the Lord was made
to reproach on and in derision daily.
Look at verse 9.
Then said I, I will not make mention
of him nor speak any more in his name.
He said I can't believe you'd say that Jeremiah.
Yeah but we haven't been in Jeremiah's
shoes. You know I
can relate a little bit.
Sometimes I think it's like
I don't want to do this.
Lord I don't want to preach that.
That's going to make him mad.
That's going to make people upset.
It's going to be my address that's
online.
It's going to be my wife that I'm going to have to
comfort and console
and remind her that reprobates
are just a bunch of cowards anyway.
And these limp wrist
faggots probably don't even know how to hold a gun.
They can talk big online
but it's another story when
anyway.
Stop right there.
But I can understand. I mean I'm just saying
I can relate a little bit.
You know we might be able to.
Others can too.
You know the family's mocking.
The family's deriding us.
Friends are scoffing.
You know we're derision.
We say well I'm just not going to talk anymore.
I'm just not going to say anything about it.
I'm not going to speak anymore.
I will not make mention of him nor speak anymore in his name.
But look what he says.
He says but his word
was in my heart
as a burning fire
shut up in my bones.
You know that's
initiative.
I mean it's something that's just in you
or it's not.
You either have this burning fire
shut up in your bones
or you don't.
And if it's not there then you know what
you're not going to speak in his name.
You won't make mention.
You know what is he talking
what's he saying? He was fed up.
He was fed up.
He said I couldn't keep silence.
I was weary with forbearing.
I could not stay.
He's like I'm not going to say anything about it.
But you know what?
He said his word was in my heart.
When you've read the Bible when you've heard the Bible
when you know what the Bible says
you've memorized Scripture
you've read it
you've heard the preaching
and you're just like well I'm just not going to
I'm not going to say anything about it.
You end up just going
Ahhh!
You've got to preach.
Eventually it comes out.
Eventually you're just like
I can't stay.
I can't forbear.
That's wicked. It's a sin.
There I said it.
You know
you eventually just have to get it out.
That's why people go through
what they go through to serve God.
Because it's a fire in their bones.
Go over to
Go over to 1 Corinthians 9
1 Corinthians 9
Amos said
Who will not fear?
The Lord God hath spoken.
Who can but prophesy?
I mean when we realize
we have such a
the word of God which is sharper than any two edged sword
dividing asunder
of the joints of Maryland's discernment
of the thoughts and intents of the heart
and can divide asunder even the soul and spirit
we realize we have such a
powerful weapon
that the Lord hath spoken
how can we not prophesy?
How can we not say these things?
How can we not preach it?
When we get saved
and we say man the gospel is so beautiful
the gospel is so easy
the gospel is so powerful
how can we not preach it
for somebody else?
The Lord has spoken. Who cannot
who can
but prophesy?
We've got to do it.
It needs to be a fire shut up in our bones.
But how do you get it in there?
He says His word was in my heart
as a fire shut up in my bones.
Get it in your heart.
Get the word of God in your heart.
I don't care if you have to just
drive it in there.
Because you know it's not like
I just pop out of bed every morning
like a pop tart out of a toaster.
I'm going to read my Bible today.
I can't wait.
You know there's some days it's like
I've got to read my Bible.
I'm working on this memory passage.
I've got to do it.
But you know once you start
once you force yourself to do it
once you start getting it in there
once you get it in your heart
you know it turns into this fire in your bones.
And you can't help but prophesy.
You've got to speak. You've got to preach it.
It will cause you to take initiative.
It will make you do the things that
the flesh doesn't want you to do.
You know Peter and John said
whether it be right in the sight of God
remember when the Jews took them
and beat them for speaking in Christ's name?
He said whether it be right in the sight of God
to hearken unto you more than to God judge ye
for we cannot but speak the things
which we have seen and heard.
They're like you're not going to shut us up.
You don't understand the things
that we've seen and heard.
We've walked and talked with Christ
before and after his resurrection.
You'll have to kill us to get us to shut up.
Because it was a fire in their bones.
Did I have to go to 1 Corinthians 9?
Look at verse 16.
And I'm going in this passage
because I don't want people to just get this idea
that Elijah's life is just this life of drudgery.
That the Christian life is just this long
grueling hardship to the bitter end.
You know the Christian life is full of joy.
It's full of exciting things.
It's full of peace.
It's full of goodness.
It's full of the fruits of the Spirit.
I mean it's full of all these good things.
So it's worth it. I'm not saying it's easy.
I'm just saying it's worth it.
I know it's a statement I've made several times
the last few weeks but it's true.
You know Paul he said in 1 Corinthians 9
For though I preach the gospel
I have nothing to glorify
for necessity is laid upon me
yea woe is done to me
if I preach not the gospel.
So you could read that and say
well yeah Paul had to.
You know because it was a dispensation
that was given to him.
That God was you know saying
you have to preach the gospel Paul.
And Paul understood that and said
woe is me if I don't.
But you know don't get the wrong impression.
You know Paul understood that
it was his privilege to preach the gospel.
You know Elijah was willing to go through that
and do what he did because he understood
that it was his privilege to be a man of God
to be able to go out and do what he did.
Even though it came at the price of convenience.
Even though it was uncomfortable
and yea even dangerous.
He still was willing to do it
and take that initiative
because he understood
you know the recompense of reward.
Like Moses who chose to suffer
with the children of God
rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
Why? Because he had recompense unto the reward.
He understood look it's worth going through the suffering
because I'm going to come out on top
and God is going to be glorified.
That's why Paul went on to say
we read 1 Corinthians 6
I'll read you Ephesians 3
he said unto me who I'm less than least of all the saints
is this grace given
that I should preach among the Gentiles
the unsearchable riches of Christ.
You say well what do you mean?
What was he preaching?
What were the unsearchable riches of Christ
that Paul was preaching to the Gentiles?
What is he referring to there?
It's the gospel.
That's what he's referring to.
The same gospel that you and I preach.
Which means to me
tells me that when you're out preaching gospel
what you're actually preaching
are the unsearchable riches of Christ.
You know and that's a very true statement
when you really think about it
because when you're preaching the gospel to somebody
and they get saved
they have an inheritance in glory.
They're going to have a glorified body in the resurrection
they're going to have eternal life
they're going to be in heaven
where there are many mansions
they're going to be in the glory of God the Father
they're going to have the opportunity to earn
eternal rewards on earth
that they serve Christ.
I mean that's what you're preaching to people
when you preach the gospel
that's what Paul said.
I'm not just out here
just going through the motions because I have to
he's saying I'm going out here because
it's shut up in my bones
his word is in my heart
I'm willing to go through it because I understand
what I'm preaching are the unsearchable riches of Christ.
And here's the thing about it is that you know
Elijah
and if you would go back
to 1 Kings 17
Elijah you know we like to think about the miracles he got to perform
and all the things he got to see
and they were pretty cool
but it came at a price didn't it?
But notice that you know he is provided for miraculously
because what's the message that he preached to Ahab?
It's not going to rain
and back then that meant something
like oh I guess I'm just going to have to have my water trucked in
oh I guess we'll just have to dig some more canals
or drill a well
no back then it was like oh if it doesn't rain you're all going to starve
because your crops aren't going to grow
I mean that's the message he preached
but notice he's provided for miraculously
we all know this it says in verse 2
the word of the Lord came unto him saying get thee hence turn thee eastward
and hide thyself by the brook chariot that is before Jordan
and it shall be that thou shalt drink of the brook
and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there
so I mean you think you want to talk about
you think it's cool to have a drive through
you think that's convenient well you didn't have to leave the brook
this is like this is the Uber Eats of back then
this is the door dash of Elijah's day
I don't know that he got to pick and choose what he wanted from his favorite restaurant
but he was happy to get what he got
so he went and did according unto the word of the Lord
for he went and dwelt by the brook chariot that is before Jordan
and ravens brought him his bread and flesh in the morning
and bread and flesh in the evening and he drank of the brook
so he's getting this I mean where are they getting this
it's not like they're going to the store and shopping for him and bringing it there
and I've heard people say they were getting it here or there
well first of all it's a miracle at all
I mean it's 100% it's a miracle that the ravens
I don't know about you I've never had a bird just bring me food
on its own accord
but this is happening everyday for him every morning and every evening
so I think they're just showing up and saying where did the bread and the meat come from
it's a miracle it's a miracle
and I think it was all fresh I think it was like
you know that bread might have even been warm
and that flesh that he got was fresh I don't think it was like rancid
carrion that they got off some carcass somewhere
it was fresh meat and fresh bread that he was getting taken care of
I mean you say oh that doesn't sound very exciting
you know where's the Ben and Jerry's
where's the side onion rings
where's the cheese curds
where's the shake
you know you're wondering where all the goods are
yeah but when everybody else is starving
that's a pretty good meal
like I preach Sunday night to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet
and bread and meat is not necessarily a bitter thing to begin with
so you know take that for your low carb diet
I'm not against the low carb diet I'm just kidding
it was a different type of carb back then
I'm not going to get into discussion about ancient grains
but you know he's being taken care of and it came to pass over a while that the brook dried up
because there had been no rain in the land
so even that eventually he his you know his sustenance dries up
and he has to and God comes through again
but notice in Jesus in Luke 4 I already read it to you
he made a point of pointing it out
there were many widows in the days of Lycius but unto whom was he sent
just one widow
and he's referring back to Elijah and we're reading that story tonight
about how God miraculously took care of him
while everybody else is going hungry
I mean they're scraping the bottom of the barrel right
as we see in the widow's case
she said I'm going to go grab I've got these sticks I'm going to make another small cake
and then we're going to eat it and die
this is all I got
that was the case for lots of people
right
but not Elijah
I mean can you imagine that
there's this drought taking place all the food banks are empty
you know all the grocery stores all there's nothing on the shelves
you know it's not just the toilet paper it's gone this time
it's everything it's just gone
and you're that one person in the whole nation
that's just fat and sassy through the whole thing
because you just got God just feeding you
and not just once a day
every morning every night I mean he didn't even know hunger
he's getting fed he's like he might
I mean did he even get hungry at all during a drought
but who is it that God's feeding in the story why is he feeding Elijah
because God feeds the fed up
God feeds people that are fed up
because people that are fed up are the ones that are going to put themselves out there for God
that's who he's feeding the guy who got fed up
we know the rest of the story he goes and he gets fed of the widow too
and you know that's the application
is that the faithful will be fed
God feeds the faithful
you know and I think about this and I believe he does this quite literally
I mean it's obviously does it very literally in Elijah's day
to Elijah specifically
he's feeding a guy who is faithful to him
who took initiative he said I'll serve you even though it's not convenient
even though it's a hard message
even though it's going to potentially at the risk of my own life
I'm going to serve you God
and I'm just going to trust you
and I'll be faithful to you
and God fed him
that's in the most literal sense God fed him right because he was faithful
and I believe that can apply to us today
it's like we read these stories and we forget that that's the same God that we serve
you know and I'm not against people taking precautions
and people you know I could probably be better about it to some degree
I understand that you know safety is of the Lord
but the horse prepared on the day of battle
that you know ultimately God's safety is in his hands
it's something he takes care of
but you know that doesn't mean we should just be completely flippant
and not you know take precautions
but I am saying this is that
when God's judgment is being poured out on a land
when things are just completely destitute
I'm not going to be too worried about it when I get through my last can of beans
you know or whatever the rations I've got stored up are gone
you know as long as I've been serving God
as long as I've been right with God
I'm just going to say well God
well God you know I've been faithful
I've been serving you
and hopefully I'll still be able to say that
I've been preaching your word
I've been going out and preaching the gospel
I've been trying to keep the commandments
and obey you and please you in all things
and live a life of godliness that's pleasing unto you
and it hasn't been convenient
I've put myself out there
and I've done the best that I can
and I'm just trusting you to come through
I believe God will do that for people
and not just me because I'm the preacher
anybody that is serving God to their capacity
and has been faithful to the Lord
if something like that came upon our nation
I believe that God would miraculously take care of them
you know I don't know about that
well I mean isn't that what Jesus said
take no thought for tomorrow
you know take no thought for these things
for after all these things the Gentiles seek what you shall eat
what you shall drink what you shall put on
for after all these things the Gentiles seek
but what seek ye first the kingdom of God
and all these things shall be added unto you
that's what he said
you take no thought for the things of tomorrow
for sufficient on the day is the evil thereof
if you just focus on serving God every day
day in and day out and being faithful to him
and doing what you're supposed to do
convenient or not
and serving him and being faithful to him
then God will feed you
I mean he does it now
we just think it's always of our own power
that we you know
it was the paycheck I earned that fed me
yeah but God's the one that gave you the strength
and the wisdom and allowed you to keep sucking air
so you could even do that
it's the God that gives the power to get wealth
the Bible says
so he's already doing it for us
you know and if we're faithful to him
you know he'll keep right on doing it
if you would go to Psalms 37
Psalms 37 I'm almost done
but this is you know this is a few lessons
we can learn just from these first few chapters about Elijah
is that you know Elijah is somebody
that was willing
to be inconvenienced for God
he understood look if I'm gonna do what God
wants me to do I'm gonna have to be inconvenienced
and he was willing to do it
he's willing to take that initiative
because he had that like Jeremiah
that fire in his bones
he was fed up
he was sick and tired of what he saw going on around him
and he was gonna do something about it
instead of just ignoring it
and as a result you know God
was faithful to him
and provided for him
you know and that's
you know quite literally
God would do the same thing for us today
you know but if we're not
if we're not taking care of the things of God now
if we're not worried about the things of God now
if we're not faithful to God now
you know
in a good way
in a good time
when things are plenteous
when there's abundance
if we're not we can't bring ourselves
to serve God now
then I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna hold out for
I wouldn't hold out for God
you know some raven showing up at your door every day
if things got bad
you know because he
feeds the faithful
that's who he feeds
the Bible says in Psalms 37 did I have you go there?
verse 23
the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord
it doesn't say the steps
of a man are ordered by the Lord
it says the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord
and you know what's a good man?
a faithful man who can find
right? a man who is faithful
a good man
somebody who loves the Lord
somebody who serves God
you know God's gonna order his steps
and he delighteth in his way
I mean
the Bible is saying you could have God's
attention
wouldn't you want God
to delight in your way?
I mean
what an amazing thought to sit there and think that God
the God of heaven and earth
the God of the universe the creator of all
things
could delight in your way
that he could be interested in
your life the particulars of your life
and you know I think we
sell God short on this because we think well who
am I? yeah but who are any of us?
and it's
amazing that God is so big
and so powerful and God is
omniscient and omnipresent and
outside of time God has all
of eternity to just worry about every
just to get involved and I won't say worry
but delight in every single person's
life if he so chooses
that's not beyond his capability
you know we
think oh God's too big God's got
more important things to worry about than little
me
so it doesn't really matter what I do
no the Bible says that if you're a good man
God will order your steps
and he will delight in your way
you know God
will guide you through life
and he'll give you
discernment he'll give you knowledge
I believe this he'll engineer circumstances
he'll cause things to come to pass
he'll bring people into your path he'll cause
situations to open up
I absolutely believe that
and look I'm not saying that
we have to be perfect in every way because none
of us is but I'm saying if God knows
our heart and he can see that we're sincere
and that we're honest and that we're doing everything
that we can that God will
delight in our way
you know and that's what I want for my life
I want God
to delight in my way
look at verse 24
he said though he fall he shall not
be utterly cast down
that's another great promise
because here's the thing you know
no one's perfect we're probably going to fall
at some point
we're going to trip
and God's not just going to hold us down and say
well you're never getting up again
no he says he shall not be utterly cast down
the Lord will uphold him with his hand
God's going to be there to help you
when you stumble when you go through life and things get hard
God's going to be there
look verse 25 I have been young and now I'm old
yet I have not
seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed
begging bread
and he means that I believe
literally
but the people the good man
who's God delights in who orders
his steps
he doesn't see that guy's seed begging bread
God takes care of them God provides
for them and makes sure
that he has everything that he needs
if you would go to one
last passage
Proverbs chapter 8 I promise I'm done
you know the Bible says Paul said in
Philippians my God shall
supply all your need according
to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus
that's a great promise out of
the word of God
you know when we get so worried sometimes
about how we're going to provide
for things you know
and that's not uncommon I mean that's a very
you know unfortunately there's some people
that there's some people in this world they don't
worry about that they just go well I'm sure the government
will come through for me you know they just wait on a
check to cut show up in the mailbox or something
you know it's obviously
that's the responsible thing to do but
you know the comfort is is that
God will provide for us
if we're the good man
if we're the faithful man if we're somebody
who you know God
can delight in
you know that's and I believe that's
very literal very literal
you know and I I don't have time
you know I I
I always think about
different ways in which God has provided
for me I mean
moving out here
we moved out to Tempe Arizona
to be a part of that church up there in Tempe
faithful word
you know we had two thousand
dollars in the bank my wife was six months
pregnant had a two year old in the
backseat of a Toyota Camry
everything that I brought with me was
fit in that there was nothing else I mailed
some stuff you know in some boxes
but everything else was in the back of a Camry
and it had bald tires
and it was the gutsiest move
I've ever made
you know I I mean I would
I would I don't know that I'd have the guts to do it
now do it all over again knowing
what I know now but I look
back on it my wife we talk about it
you know we we mention to each other all the time
and it's just like man we
got here and God just got
us through not one flat tire not one
hiccup the whole way
and I'm I'm saying the tire had braids
by the time I got here there were braids
were coming out and it was just like
packed like there's the struts
were shot I mean
just there's other stories where God just like
I didn't have a pair of boots to work in
and then I go to my mother-in-law's house
and she comes back from a visit with her brother-in-law
and she's got a brand he he just said hey take
these boots back to you maybe somebody back
home needs them exact fit
my size
and then I showed my wife tell me about it she's like oh I've been
praying that God will get you a new pair of boots
I mean
God cares about the boots that I'm going to wear
to work
I mean that that's
we sell God short and we think oh
God's not going to care about the little things
yeah well you know what you have not
because you ask not
ask and it shall be given unto
you seek and you shall find
you know
and that's literal but you know
the other the last application I want to make
is that you know God will feed us
I believe literally if we're faithful even
in the worst of times
that God will still take care of us
but
God will feed us spiritually you know
and this is something we can apply today
you know don't you don't have to wait
until some famine somewhere to try and
test the sermon out tonight you
could test it out tonight spiritually
speaking God will feed you spiritually
if you're faithful to reading his word
you know if you'll be inconvenienced
to go to church God will feed you
if you'll be inconvenienced to take
some time out of your day to actually read the Bible
God will feed you spiritually speaking
you know
the ravens of the Holy
Spirit will show up
with fresh bread and fresh meat
to give you spiritual strength
to go through another day of life
of being able to know what it
takes to live for the Lord to be
encouraged in the Lord
you know God's got things in here for us
that he wants to feed us
but we have to be the one that actually shows up
as loud
as inconvenience we have to leave
you know the gilead
of our living room with the television
you know we have to put down
you know the gilead
of our smart phone for an hour
maybe put it on do not disturb
put the game controller down
you know quit
wrenching on the car I don't know what
what you guys do
whatever you do
besides read the Bible if that's you
you know
you're missing out on a meal
you're missing out on that spiritual meat
that spiritual bread that God
will bring to you fresh every day
every day it will be there
but we have to what? we got to be like
Elijah we got to be inconvenienced
you know we have to
sit down by that brook
which maybe it's not exactly where we want to be
maybe it's not the exact
situation or accommodations
we would like but you know what
that's where God is ordained to feed you
oh man
you know this is the brook
this black and white book
the these the
the king James Bible
I'm telling you there's meat in here
there's bread in here it's fresh
it will help you
God wants to give it to you every day
but you know what this is where it's at
it's not it's not some other brook somewhere
it's here same thing for this church
you know there's a man
of God preaching the Bible here
three day by the way it's three times a week
I do this I don't know if everyone here
knew that you know that
bulletin you know there's actually three soul
winning there are three church services in there
there's Sunday morning
there's also Sunday night
there's also a Thursday night I know you know that
tonight I'm kind of preaching the choir right now because you're here on
Thursday night
but there it's not it's not like you know
Sunday night
is just leftovers from Sunday morning
no that's it's it's the bread that came
in the morning and the bread that came at night
there's fresh bread
morning and night here on Sundays
but you know it's going
to be inconvenient for you
because you know if there's some game on
or something I don't know what people do on Sundays
but look you know that's the application
spiritually obviously there's a great
application about it physically that there's
this we could miraculously
be taken care of by God
but then there's also the spiritual
application too that we could put
into practice today and experience
today did I have you go to Proverbs 8
if you look at verse 34
blessed is the man that heareth me
you know this is wisdom personified
right talking about how the Lord wisdom
is personified you know and he's saying
blessed is the man that heareth me
you know blessed
is the man that hears the word of God
not everybody gets to hear preaching
not everybody gets to read the word of God
blessed is the man that
heareth me but notice how why is it he gets
to hear him watching daily at my
gates waiting at the post of my door
he's there when he's supposed
to be there waiting
listening watching
he's available
you know he's not
it's not blessed is the man
you know that is waiting for me
in the comforts of their own home
blessed is the man that tunes
into the TV preacher
in their pajamas
you know no it's blessed
is the man that goes to the church
and waits there and is found daily
at my gates you know blessed is the man
that just you read
some cheesy devotional
for five minutes
no blessed is the man that is waiting at the gates
of God's word
you know is blinking through
the first five minutes waiting for the caffeine
to kick in
and sticks it out
and gets a half hour in
gets an hour into their bible reading
and all of a sudden God is just speaking to them
the Holy Spirit is just speaking to them
verses are popping out tears are coming in their eyes
joy a smile is put on their face
blessed is that man
that is actually there waiting
listening watching wanting to hear
from God
there's a lesson about that verse 35
for whoso findeth me findeth life
and obtaineth favor of the Lord
you know
it's not it's not just
the bible isn't just you know
a good way to live your life
it's life itself
it's obtaining the favor of the Lord
it's not well it's just going to keep me out of trouble
it will but it's also going to bring
the favor of God on your life
if we obey it if we do it
if we keep his commandments
by God himself
you say well that's not for me
well then verse 36
is for you
for he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul
you know the person that's going to ignore God
and just not be bothered
with God God's not going to be
the one that's put out
God is going to be just fine
if you ignore him
did you know that?
if you just tune God out
tune the preacher out
just not read the bible
it's not my thing
God's going to be fine
it's your soul that's going to be wrong
you're the one that's not going to be blessed
you're the one that's going to have to suffer the consequences
of not knowing what the bible says
let alone knowing what to do
all they
he says in verse 36
all they that hate me love death
all they that hate
me love death
because you know
he's saying what?
who so findeth me findeth life
that's where life is
it's in God it's in his word
so if we despise
his word if we hate his word then we
must love death
and we wrong our own soul
so that's the
spiritual application from the story of
Elijah this morning or this evening
is that you know there's
great blessings in serving
God there's these miracles
that Elijah gets to see in his life
God provides for him
you know that physical meat
God will provide for us in that way
too if needed but in the meantime
there's a lot of spiritual meat that God wants to provide
for us but we have to be
like Elijah don't we
we can't just hang out in Gilead
and just wait for God to come to us
we actually have to step
out in faith inconvenience
ourselves go through might have to go
through some hardship
be like in a Jeremiah
you know and suffer some ridicule
and some derision along the way
go through some persecutions
go through some afflictions
in order to serve God but
it's worth it because
at the end of the day Elijah was
blessed and we're sitting here
2000 years later reading
about him over 2000 years
thousands and thousands of years
reading about a man of God
who actually existed named Elijah
who actually did these things
never would have happened
wouldn't know anything about him
if he just said well
I can't be bothered
you know and we'll miss out on a lot of
blessings in our life if that's the attitude that we
develop as well
I've got other things to do
you know
there's a lot that God has in store for us
and we're going to see there's a lot I mean this is just
the beginning with Elijah
you know we just barely touched on
the widow
I mean then there's the prophets of Baal
and it's the chariot of fire
and it's just the list goes on
and then there's this protege
Elijah that comes up after him
none of that would have happened if he just hung out in Gilead
and said I can't be bothered
and you'll miss out too
so you know that's my encouragement
don't be that guy be the blessed man
that's going to be found waiting at the doors
ready and willing to receive
that spiritual meat from heaven
let's go ahead and pray
Lord again thank you for
the daily provision that you give for us
Lord even
physically Lord
every day you provide so many good things for us
that we tend to just take for granted
and might not even acknowledge you
and all the good things that you've given us
and Lord forgive us for that
if that's us and Lord
but also help us to understand that
that the true riches Lord
are those that are spiritual
and that if we were
ever found in a land
that's as destitute as Elijah
Elijah's land
Lord that there's still
the blessings that you can give from heaven
and Lord those blessings are available
to us spiritually every single day
Lord help us to avail ourselves to that
so that we can be blessed people
that you are going to delight in
we ask in Christ's name Amen
alright we'll sing one more song
before we go
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