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May 14, 2020 8:00 am
Dr. Tony Evans shows that in order to get help. We need to give you this is the alternative to you on speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, president of the alternative when it feels like you have nothing left to give Dr. Evan says that one final investment may be exactly what it takes to turn everything around to explain as he takes us to first Kings chapter 17 for today's message.
Every college has a red flag. This red flag is known as a challenge flag. He throws the red flag out on the field when he disagrees with the call when he thinks that the official has made a mistake if the truth be told we want from red flag and say God you believe this, you did make a good call. I don't like the call you made. I don't like the thing you be I don't like what you allowed. I don't like it. I don't buy it. I don't want it and I want you to reverse challenge. We may have done a lot of different ways but there's not too many of us who haven't felt like God made a mistake and we want to challenge and were too scared to say it, we know it is the feel it to think it to even talk to other people about the fact when something like this happens you too scared to feel too good about something nice that happens to be a little worried that something will go wrong is not going be real or it's going be snatched back and so you want to challenge flag such as the case of our next experience with the prophet Elijah. As we look at experiencing the supernatural. Although as for the supernatural to become real to you, through you, for you and from you, not merely as a theological concept, but as an experiential reality based on the word of God. Now this woman has a lot to shout about.
I mean she was down to a last meal.
The prophet comes along and tells what God says she does what God says and all of a sudden she's living launch.
All of a sudden the last meal becomes an introduction to a whole bunch of meals because of the promises of God that had to be an exciting house to begin to see that supernatural God when you know just when is shout about � when you only get appraisal. Just when you want to celebrate the goodness of God in the land of the living we come to verse 17 in chapter 17 verse 17 it says and it came about these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house became sick and the citizens with social media that there was no breath left in him. God save this boy's life. It was down to the last meal little star of the death God performs a miracle. He feeds them. And passing of time. The boy gets sick and gets worse and worse and worse until there is no breath left in him saying he died sick, as was also the that life escape God by the minute you confusing me how you will save me yesterday and let me die today give me a reason to pray you yesterday and not trust you today what observations you as we introduce the story the national one is mean a new trial will happen today.
God came yesterday mean I will need a fresh new day.
Another observation is trial often come in the same hour you that ring was previously experienced God's victory was experienced in saving the life of her son and now her son. The subject of victory is now the subject of the fee married Ray. He gave me is what on mountains can get downright confusing. Some of us knows what it is to get excited about things only to look at it sometime later want to become a curse to find God for the night and then� One thy God for a job and then pay the job and gets so confusing sometimes God can be downright confusing. So this house gladness becomes a whole of sadness because the very thing that was delivered yesterday.
I'm losing today so what did he stop me for numerical that's a problem that's the situation wherein when God saves you yesterday and killed today so we are not problem this woman shares her perspective so to Elijah, verse 18 to do with you old man of God I hope you heard that.
What do you translation.
I will not do what you do what I wanted. Yeah, I know you preach.
I know you man of God, but I want nothing to do with you to me to bring my equity to remember and put my son to death.
You will in my life that I know you preach. I know you got the word of God. Yesterday, but you have you ever roll into my life to do with you she's upset she's disappointed a lot of things going on in the phrase stayed with me the first thing is circumstance. Circumstance of the negative.
She just lost her son. The second thing she says is you are here to point out my sin. You are here to reveal my equity because my son I repay the mistakes I made in my past old man of God to save this. She called Elijah the man of God. He's evidently written room in her house or something because he lives in the upstairs but she knows it would be a man of words.
This man didn't treat her like this man didn't abuse her. Like other men had an in concert with this man as she did with other men so she could differentiate him as a man of God, and by differentiating him the man of God. It reminded her of her past relationship with all the men who were not God reminded her of sin, and she says this on me all righteous presence has made me aware of my sin. So she got a bad situation.
She's feeling guilty. Although sin that she thinks has this situation. So let's get this straight. Her stances were controlling her theology she wasn't believing what she was believing because she was doing what she was feeling. She's feeling disappointed.
She's lost her son. She wraps those two up in a nice bow and she couldn't close that I'm going to believe because thing that I see my son is God you reminding me of my sin. And that's why I'm in this mess today.
Let me start you will start them stances determine your theology, because when you STANCES control what you believe what God is controlling what you believe you all sir, your circumstances when those circumstances are negative.
Now make this clear. You do not skip the reality of your circumstance. The boy had lost his breath. The boy was born so you don't skip and make up something that's not true, but the truth circumstance dictating what she wants to believe about God, about Elijah and God Elijah about her past 20's face now is all up in her grill people who are slightly do what I did yesterday wouldn't be where I am right now.
I wouldn't be anything messed up situation this exact situation. This difficult situation. Equity those, people don't want people in front of them will remind them of their sin because it reminds them of why they might be in that circumstance. So righteousness God reminded verse sin, which he said is responsible for month circumstance associated struggling she's in pain and there's a reason for Dr. Evans will come back in a moment with more about how difficult circumstances try to control the way we look at life first so I want to remind you that today's lesson is part of a great message series from Dr. Evans called Elijah this six lesson collection focuses on the lessons we can learn from one of the Bible's greatest prophets about waiting for God's perfect timing. Living a life that matters.
Overcoming fear and discouragement strengthening our faith and commitment and more for limited time we are offering the Elijah series on CD and digital download along with the companion DVD Bible study kit is our thank you gift when you support 20s work around here with the contribution. Just give us a call at 1-800-800-3222 to make the arrangements and one of our team members will help you our phone center never closes the call right now. 1-800-800-3222 or visit us@tonyevans.org Dr. Evans will bring us more of today's lesson. After this, are you ready for more and more wisdom then you need to connect the community of passionate God's word is attorney Evans training center with exclusive and tiny attention from Dr. Tony interactive online study experience allows you to explore theology and biblical history and application of thinking anytime, anywhere.
Tony Evans training data like to get started today next 10 Evans training the disciples on the Sea of Galilee in Mark chapter 4 and the storm came up and they were in this tumultuous situation. The storm control that theology.
They said don't you care that we perish in this bad situation.
So you cannot be in the school you asked that question God's care and not be in this health problem.
How can Be in This Financial Challenge Happened to Be in This Difficult Relational Situation You Cannot Be on This Precious Chair Doesn't Make Its Lady Was Facing What You and I Face Things That Don't Make Sense. And so She Lets You Know How She Feels Because Her Circumstances Controlling Her Perspective. Like the Husband Was Telling His Wife Went Drop Out Of College with a When I Got Fired from My Job You with When I Broke My Leg Plan Sports You with Their Doing the Downturn in the Economy When We Lost Our Retirement You with a Tears Began to Well up in His Wife's Eyes Looked at Her and Said I Can Only Conclude One Thing Your Bad Luck Because Circumstances Can Affect Your Perspective Back to Elijah.
She Has Rejected. She's Ready to Walk Away from God What to Do with You Man of God. I Want Nothing to Do with Implication Not Only to God. How Many People Know People Don't Go to Church Anymore.1.Anymore Because Their Circumstances Had Because If God Was God and God Was Revealed to God Was True. That's What Makes This Silly Miracle I Saw the Other Day. On the Other Week Will Have along It Was When He Fed Me. We Have a Dilemma Dilemma. We've All Things to Know Others and Things.
Elijah Then Takes over First 19 Says That Her Give Me Your Son Vinnie Took Him from Her Bosom and Carried Him to the Upper Room Where He Was Living and Laid Him on His Own Bed, Her Mama Here and a Mother and the Situations Will Be Hurting but We Got a Man of God Here and He Says Give Me Your Pain Legal Problem on Theological He Could Talk about the Attributes of God Go to Talk about the Perfections of His Personhood to Talk about His Sovereignty and How We Can Do What He Wants When He Wants to Go to Talk about His Omniscience on the Presence Omnipotence Equal to Talk about God's Veracity, Mercy and Grace. He Could've Talked about His Love and His Truth, but He Didn't Want a Woman Hurt and Was Confused Theologically and Was about to Walk Away from God Wants to Put Them Out Of the House and He Says in Legal Problem with the Problem Problem Is a Dead Son Leave the Thing That's Ruining Your Faith Right Now to Say Something to You Body Needs Somebody in Your Life about You to Pick up a Bird That's Too Heavy for You to Have Somebody like You. You Understand Your Pain Was Close Enough to You Give Me the Bible Says Bear Ye One Another's Burdens, the Great If You Don't If You Refuse to Be Someone We Have Two Extremes Today in God's Kingdom Where People with God Won't Allow Any Party in Their Sample to Pick a Burden. We Got Christians Who Are Too Selfish to Be a Burden.
Not a House but This Woman Had Some Close Enough. She Was Virtually Just Give Her a Sermon He Gave Her a Hand. He Said the Boy to Me That the Kingdom of God of the Church of Jesus Christ Is Going to Be Authentic and Real People That Men and Women of God Who Burden Plan Is Going to Get Something That God Can Use Me to Help Answer the Things I Am Praying for. That's Why the Bible Says Faith Works Is You Just Want to Talk to Don about It. You Want God to Use You.
To the Extent That He Can Do Something about the Thing You Plan for What Got Chris Brantley Brother Bradley Assistance God Is You Stretch What You Doing in the Cup That God Is Giving You Because You're in the 70 Straight Man of God Was in the Facility Relationship Now Was Willing to Become Part of the Solution God of the People Who Will Reach Glory, but Also Be Usable in History's Only Regions (Shattering Life for the Life of the Boy Was Lost. So When He Did Something Happen to Good It Says Destress out Three Times and He Called to the Lord and Said, Old Lord My God, I Pray You Let This Child's Life Returned to Him What You Call a Small Request Not. This Is Not Now I Lay Me down the Street.
Pray the Lord My Soul to Keep It If I Die before I Wake Pray Little Muscle Is Not Met. Lord Blesses Them to My Body in Jesus Name, Amen. No, No, No, You Don't Really Know How to Pray until Some Is Not until a Hope Is Not a Dreamless Dive until You, Your Health Is the Debilitating for You If You Don't, Because Now You Cry out to God.
It's a Prayer Not Repeating Something You Said 50 Times throughout Your Life Thoughtful throughout Your Week She Cried out to the Lord Is Specific to Send This Life. The Return Verse 22.
The Voice of the Latch of the Child Returned to Him and He Was.
She Back off of the Spirituality of Somebody Else Because This Is Spirituality. She Didn't Have) She Lied to Spirituality and It Says at the End of Verse 22 the Child's Life Return. God Performs a Miracle That She Not a Part of. She Too Messed up to Be a Part of It in Herself Old Man of God on Her Behalf. Once This Would Be the Deliverer of the Miracles She Needed to Leave the Miracle That Made the Miracle but the Way She Miracle Is Excessive for Should Be One of Two People You Should Be a Window That Is the Present Heavenly Man in Somebody God Can Use the Meet Me Because One Day You Will Be a Widow When God Comes through.
You May Be a Widow but Turned You into an Elijah Usual, Only to Be Used When Your World. If Your World Seems to Be Collapsing around You Right Now.
Maybe It's Time to Start Letting the Lord Rebuild.
Here's Dr. Evans with Word about How That Process Begins the Greatest Need All of Our Lives Is for the Forgiveness of Sins. And There's Only One Person Who Can Do That. That's Jesus Christ. That's Why Died on the Cross and Rose from the Dead, and He Offers Forgiveness of Sins. If You Carry a Guilt for What You've Done.
Fear for What You've Done. Jesus Christ Is Right Here Right Now If You Go to Him Confess Your Sinfulness to Him and Trust Him to Forgive You. He Will Do It on the Spot and Also Grant You Eternal Life.
If You're Ready to Do That Thinking about Doing It or Even Just Curious Log on to Tony Avenue and Start or Look for the Link That Simply Says Jesus There. Tony Will Tell You All about What It Means to Be a Christian Walk You through Everything You Need to Know to Start a Brand-New Life. Check It out Today. Also Don't Forget to Contact Us and Request Your Copy of His Current Series on the Prophet Elijah. Remember, You Not Only Get Instant Access to Digital Downloads of All Six Full-Length Messages but Will Also Send You CDs of the Complete Collection along with a Comprehensive DVD Bible Study Kit the Goes with It Is Our Gift When You Help Keep Tony's Teaching onto the Station by Making a Contribution. Again, You Can Get Details and Make the Arrangements Online at Tony Heaven's.org or Let One of Our Resource Team Members Help You by Calling 1-800-800-3222 That's 1-800-800-3222 Just What It Feels like God Is about to Sweep in and Deliver You from Your Difficult Circumstances. Sometimes That's When Things Go from Bad to Worse Tomorrow. Dr. Evans Says That's Not the End of the Story and Help Us See the Possibilities.
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