WEBVTT 00:00:18.868 --> 00:00:21.114 Come on, put those hands together. 00:00:21.114 --> 00:00:24.426 Come on, stand to your feet. 00:00:24.426 --> 00:00:27.050 Come on, put the hands on it. 00:00:27.050 --> 00:00:33.564 Come on, let's make one big choir. 00:00:33.564 --> 00:00:36.310 You know the words I'm a servant, I'm a. 00:00:36.310 --> 00:00:42.387 I'm a yeah, yeah, I'm a. 00:00:42.387 --> 00:00:43.368 I'm a. 00:00:43.368 --> 00:00:45.171 Yeah, yeah, I'm a servant. 00:00:45.171 --> 00:00:55.608 I'm a shout, I'm a servant with my heart. 00:00:55.608 --> 00:00:57.291 One more time I'm a servant. 00:00:57.291 --> 00:00:59.734 Clap my hands. 00:00:59.734 --> 00:01:04.987 Servant, stomp your feet. 00:01:04.987 --> 00:01:15.796 Servant, servant with my heart. 00:01:15.796 --> 00:01:17.664 One last time I'm a servant. 00:01:17.664 --> 00:01:25.632 Yeah, clap your hands, hallelujah, hallelujah. 00:01:27.582 --> 00:01:32.993 I remember that when I was, we didn't call it the youth choir, we called it the sunshine band. 00:01:32.993 --> 00:01:36.507 Yeah, I was in the sunshine band. 00:01:36.507 --> 00:01:39.403 Yes, indeed, we used to sing that song at United Deliverance. 00:01:39.403 --> 00:01:40.147 We used to sing that. 00:01:40.147 --> 00:01:41.451 We used to sing that song at United Deliverance. 00:01:41.451 --> 00:01:42.716 We used to sing that. 00:01:42.716 --> 00:01:45.161 We used to sing that Amen One more time. 00:01:45.180 --> 00:01:46.302 Clap your hands for Jesus. 00:01:46.302 --> 00:01:51.793 Amen, amen. 00:01:51.793 --> 00:01:55.490 What we just witnessed doesn't happen all the time in church. 00:01:55.490 --> 00:01:58.340 You had a young man playing the keyboard. 00:01:58.340 --> 00:02:03.564 You had young folk looking like they were energetic to sing amen. 00:02:03.564 --> 00:02:05.009 We should be proud of that. 00:02:05.009 --> 00:02:08.770 Amen, let's give it up for the youth choir one more time. 00:02:08.770 --> 00:02:10.586 Amen. 00:02:14.329 --> 00:02:18.099 The Lord is good and he is worthy to be praised. 00:02:18.099 --> 00:02:19.760 Can you stretch across this room. 00:02:19.760 --> 00:02:21.222 Grab somebody by hand. 00:02:21.222 --> 00:02:23.563 Let's go to the Lord in prayer. 00:02:23.563 --> 00:02:36.353 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. 00:02:38.394 --> 00:02:43.298 Just for a few seconds, just begin to pray for that name on the right and on the left. 00:02:43.298 --> 00:03:02.050 Yes, lord, yes, jesus, yes, lord jesus, yes, lord jesus, yes, lord jesus, yes, lord Jesus, yes, lord Jesus. 00:03:02.050 --> 00:03:07.998 Father, we thank you this morning for your goodness and for your mercy. 00:03:07.998 --> 00:03:14.068 We thank you for your compassions that are filled not in your mercies that are new every morning. 00:03:14.068 --> 00:03:17.645 Great is your faithfulness, lord. 00:03:17.645 --> 00:03:28.074 We thank you that you have allowed us to greet the virgin light of a brand new day that you have brought us into this sacred space called sanctuary on another Sunday morning. 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:33.752 Spirit of the living God, we ask you now that you would continue to have your way. 00:03:33.752 --> 00:03:37.091 You have already been throwing your weight around. 00:03:37.091 --> 00:03:38.780 Just take us another level higher. 00:03:38.780 --> 00:03:45.372 In the name of Jesus, lord, we pray right now for our neighbor on our right and on our left. 00:03:45.372 --> 00:03:48.625 We even squeeze their hand gently. 00:03:48.625 --> 00:03:49.026 Now. 00:03:49.026 --> 00:03:54.692 That is a sign that if they can feel our touch, they can feel your touch, oh, father. 00:03:54.692 --> 00:03:56.818 So, lord, touch us right now. 00:03:56.818 --> 00:03:59.945 In the name of Jesus, shake us and rock you. 00:03:59.945 --> 00:04:10.485 Rock us, you will, for however long you want to do it and a few of us will be found giving your name the glory, the honor and the praise For the rest of our lives. 00:04:10.485 --> 00:04:14.104 We've chose to serve you For the rest of our lives. 00:04:14.104 --> 00:04:15.890 We've chose to give you the glory. 00:04:16.420 --> 00:04:21.319 Despite on how we feel this morning, we still got a hallelujah down on the inside. 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:29.265 Despite of what we have to face on next week, we'll still tell you, lord, you've been good and we've, since we know you like we do. 00:04:29.265 --> 00:04:35.851 We're not going to wait until you bring us out, but we thank you in advance for the goodness and for the great things that are. 00:04:35.851 --> 00:04:37.716 Is to come, oh god. 00:04:37.716 --> 00:04:42.506 We are believing on next week that miracle signs and wonders shall hit our house. 00:04:42.506 --> 00:04:45.187 Father, we need you right now. 00:04:45.187 --> 00:04:47.949 So, holy Ghost, have your way on today. 00:04:47.949 --> 00:04:51.365 Move this old flesh out of the way and you get the glory. 00:04:51.365 --> 00:04:55.925 Don't let no flesh glory in your sight, but flesh it now. 00:04:55.925 --> 00:05:02.190 And, god, you stand up and you make us known unto men, god, god, oh God. 00:05:02.190 --> 00:05:07.809 We ask you now to have your way in the name of Jesus, we loose that hand even now. 00:05:07.809 --> 00:05:09.512 Begin to give him a praise right there. 00:05:09.512 --> 00:05:13.447 Hallelujah, come on, chosen I. 00:05:13.627 --> 00:05:20.047 I said we, we begin to give him glory right through there, because he is worthy to be praised. 00:05:20.047 --> 00:05:27.367 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the saint, our god is worthy to be praised. 00:05:27.367 --> 00:05:35.086 Some trust in horses, some trust in chariots, but we will remember the name of the lord. 00:05:35.086 --> 00:05:36.988 Somebody asked us why. 00:05:36.988 --> 00:05:41.735 Because the name of the Lord is a strong tower. 00:05:41.735 --> 00:05:44.228 The righteous run therein and they are safe. 00:05:44.228 --> 00:05:49.565 Can you open up your mouth, throw your head back one more time and give him a shout of praise? 00:05:49.565 --> 00:05:57.098 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. 00:05:57.098 --> 00:06:04.403 In Jesus' name, we pray Amen, amen, amen, amen, Amen, amen. 00:06:04.463 --> 00:06:10.030 I know you've greeted your neighbor already, but find somebody that you didn't come to church with and tell them say I came to bless him. 00:06:10.030 --> 00:06:12.271 I came to bless him. 00:06:12.271 --> 00:06:16.055 Yes, yes, I came to bless him. 00:06:16.055 --> 00:06:19.338 Oh yes, yes, I came to bless him. 00:06:19.338 --> 00:06:22.670 Blessing, oh yes, yes, came to blessing. 00:06:22.670 --> 00:06:27.057 That was on my agenda when I woke up this morning. 00:06:27.057 --> 00:06:33.531 Old folk put it like this I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus. 00:06:33.531 --> 00:06:35.982 Is there anybody testimony? 00:06:35.982 --> 00:06:40.268 I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on him. 00:06:40.268 --> 00:06:41.917 Oh, yes, he keeps my mind stayed on him. 00:06:41.917 --> 00:06:48.531 Oh, yes, he keeps our mind in perfect peace and we are grateful for his love and for his kindness. 00:06:48.620 --> 00:07:03.586 It's right churchy in here this morning, and I don't know why I'm trying to figure it out but I believe it's because there's a few of us that remember all the stuff that God has brought us from, and it don't take much. 00:07:03.586 --> 00:07:08.410 It don't take much, hallelujah. 00:07:08.410 --> 00:07:13.271 I often say, all I need is some good music and a memory. 00:07:13.271 --> 00:07:28.542 That's all I need, because when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all he's done for me, my soul cries out hallelujah. 00:07:28.542 --> 00:07:30.466 Thank him for saving me. 00:07:30.526 --> 00:07:32.370 I wonder, can I pull the room this morning? 00:07:32.370 --> 00:07:33.761 Anybody glad to be saved? 00:07:33.761 --> 00:07:37.528 I know you're glad for a house and a car. 00:07:37.528 --> 00:07:40.143 I know you're glad that you got your health and strength. 00:07:40.143 --> 00:07:42.220 I know you're glad that you woke up and strength, I know you're glad that you woke up. 00:07:42.220 --> 00:07:44.869 But there's anybody here that's glad to just be saved? 00:07:44.869 --> 00:07:56.286 They used to say saved, sanctified, holy Ghost filled, and that with the mining, burning fire, I'm glad to be saved. 00:07:56.286 --> 00:08:02.971 This morning, yes, yes, yes, I am, I'm glad to be saved and washed with the blood of the Lamb. 00:08:02.971 --> 00:08:08.446 And I heard somebody say let the redeemed of the Lord say so. 00:08:08.446 --> 00:08:13.990 He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy. 00:08:13.990 --> 00:08:19.271 Oh, yes, hallelujah, I wanted to make sure I was in good company. 00:08:19.271 --> 00:08:21.302 Amen, amen. 00:08:21.302 --> 00:08:24.896 God is good and he's worthy of your praise. 00:08:24.896 --> 00:08:28.009 Amen, you may have your seats, if you can. 00:08:29.259 --> 00:08:30.725 We honor the Lord today. 00:08:30.725 --> 00:08:42.985 To each and every one of you that is here, to all of you, my father's children, we thank God for just being with you one more time, chosen, it's a blessing. 00:08:42.985 --> 00:08:47.504 And we even was with you all yesterday for the young adult event. 00:08:47.504 --> 00:08:51.556 Amen, amen, amen. 00:08:51.556 --> 00:08:54.945 Now there's a lot of young adults in here that I didn't see yesterday. 00:08:54.945 --> 00:09:02.218 Now I'm just playing with you. 00:09:02.884 --> 00:09:04.339 Next time y'all come out and support. 00:09:04.339 --> 00:09:05.524 We had a good time. 00:09:05.524 --> 00:09:06.625 We had a good time. 00:09:06.625 --> 00:09:10.667 Amen, thank God for you. 00:09:10.667 --> 00:09:13.448 Let's give God praise for the angel of this house. 00:09:13.448 --> 00:09:13.889 Amen. 00:09:14.160 --> 00:09:17.850 My good friend, the Reverend Dr Walter Bowers. 00:09:17.850 --> 00:09:19.606 Come on, let's praise God for him. 00:09:19.606 --> 00:09:23.803 Amen, he's probably watching Somewhere. 00:09:23.803 --> 00:09:25.705 Dr Walter Bowers, come on, let's praise God for him. 00:09:25.705 --> 00:09:27.607 Amen, he's probably watching amen somewhere, watching on playback. 00:09:27.607 --> 00:09:33.553 God, dr Bowers, we love you and we appreciate you in this moment, and also we thank God for his lovely wife. 00:09:33.553 --> 00:09:43.430 Amen, lady Bowers, amen, amen To the triple threat, as I call them, amen To to the first family. 00:09:43.430 --> 00:09:44.592 We honor the lord for you. 00:09:44.592 --> 00:09:49.290 We honor the lord for the executive pastor of this church, my friend and brother, pastor q. 00:09:49.290 --> 00:09:53.104 Come on, let's give god praise for him, amen, amen. 00:09:53.104 --> 00:10:03.105 And to all of the ministers, prognosticators of the ministers, prognosticators of the Lord's and the search for riskers, we are elated for you as well, amen. 00:10:03.105 --> 00:10:09.527 Me and Pastor Al Wells, we go way back and thank God for him as well. 00:10:09.527 --> 00:10:16.168 He's out ministering today as well, so we thank God for him, amen, amen. 00:10:16.229 --> 00:10:20.085 I believe that's everybody, lottie, dottie and everybody. 00:10:20.085 --> 00:10:20.656 Tell your neighbor thank God for you. 00:10:20.656 --> 00:10:20.831 There you go, amen, amen. 00:10:20.831 --> 00:10:21.446 I believe that's everybody, lottie, dottie and everybody. 00:10:21.446 --> 00:10:21.620 Tell your neighbor thank God for you. 00:10:21.620 --> 00:10:24.327 There you go, amen, amen. 00:10:24.327 --> 00:10:25.946 We're going to jump right into this word. 00:10:25.946 --> 00:10:28.427 Give me about two hours to get this out. 00:10:28.427 --> 00:10:31.464 We'll be able to Thank you. 00:10:31.504 --> 00:10:37.285 He said take my time, I'll make a deal with you. 00:10:37.285 --> 00:10:40.548 The more you say amen, the faster I'll preach. 00:10:40.548 --> 00:10:43.963 I thought I'd get some amens right there. 00:10:43.963 --> 00:10:52.989 Amen, come on with me to the book of 2 Kings, chapter number 4. 00:10:52.989 --> 00:11:00.774 Praying and asking God that he would have me to share this morning with you 2 Kings, chapter 4. 00:11:00.774 --> 00:11:09.633 And I want to lift this into your hearing Amen. 00:11:09.633 --> 00:11:11.964 If it is the custom of the house to stand. 00:11:11.964 --> 00:11:14.371 Please, please, let's do that. 00:11:14.371 --> 00:11:17.327 2 Kings, chapter 4. 00:11:17.327 --> 00:11:21.993 2 Kings, chapter 4. 00:11:21.993 --> 00:11:33.879 And I want to call your attention to verse number 38 and a few of the following verses I told them yesterday. 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:38.967 The New Living Translation is my ghetto version, so that's the version I'll be reading from today. 00:11:38.967 --> 00:11:46.190 The New Living Translation is my ghetto version, so that's the version I'll be reading from today the new living translation. 00:11:46.190 --> 00:11:51.944 Thank God for Pastor Barrington over at New Zion allowing me to come and share this morning and honor God for him as as well. 00:11:51.944 --> 00:11:55.390 Second Kings, chapter 4. 00:11:55.390 --> 00:11:57.514 In verse number 38, I want to read this. 00:11:57.514 --> 00:12:08.262 It says it like this out of the New Living Translation Elisha now returned to Gilgag and there was a famine in the land. 00:12:08.282 --> 00:12:27.443 One day, as the group of prophets were seated before him, he said to his servant Put a large pot on the fire and make some stew for the rest of the group. 00:12:27.443 --> 00:12:32.030 One of the young men went out into the field and gathered herbs and came back with a pocket full of wild gore. 00:12:32.030 --> 00:12:34.760 You got to watch them, gores. 00:12:34.760 --> 00:12:41.759 He shredded them and put them into the pot without realizing they were poisonous. 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:55.025 Some of the stew was served to the men, but after they had eaten a bite or two, they cried out man of god, there's poison in this stew. 00:12:55.025 --> 00:12:58.590 So they would not eat it. 00:12:58.590 --> 00:13:02.175 Elisha said bring me some flour. 00:13:02.175 --> 00:13:10.346 Then he put it into the pot and said now it's all right, go ahead and eat. 00:13:10.346 --> 00:13:15.444 Then it did not harm them Verse number 40,. 00:13:15.444 --> 00:13:25.791 But after they had eaten a bite or two they cried out man of God, like what the King James Version says, there's death in the pot. 00:13:25.791 --> 00:13:30.970 New Living says there's poison in this stew. 00:13:31.019 --> 00:13:38.803 I want to talk very simply from this subject poison in the pot, poison, poison in the pot. 00:13:38.803 --> 00:13:48.775 Ask a neighbor this question and say neighbor, what do you do when there's poison in the pot? 00:13:48.775 --> 00:13:51.904 What do you do? 00:13:51.904 --> 00:13:53.469 You may have your seats. 00:13:53.469 --> 00:14:08.006 When there's poison in the pot, marcus, don't go nowhere, I won't be long. 00:14:08.006 --> 00:14:18.710 I learned Marcus is very comical, he's funny. 00:14:18.710 --> 00:14:20.224 It's really very funny. 00:14:20.224 --> 00:14:22.344 I love him for that. 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:28.871 Elisha was the protege of Elijah. 00:14:28.871 --> 00:14:37.153 Elisha suffix S-H-A was the protege of Elijah J-A-H. 00:14:37.153 --> 00:14:54.064 He was the one who caught the mantle of Elijah when he was caught up in the whirlwind and he said before you go, elijah, I just want your mantle, he says because he wanted his mantle. 00:14:54.064 --> 00:15:04.420 The Bible granted Elisha with a double portion, with a double portion. 00:15:04.420 --> 00:15:15.180 Scripture teaches us that Elisha was a, didn't have his own book, but he was a major prophet, one that was considered to have done more miracles than that Besides of Jesus. 00:15:15.180 --> 00:15:20.005 I mean, he was a big time dude, he was, he was, he was off the chain in Jesus name. 00:15:20.005 --> 00:15:21.967 I mean, he was a big time dude, he was, he was, he was off the chain in Jesus name. 00:15:21.967 --> 00:15:29.335 Elijah was, was that dude around the town, and so whenever anything was going on, elijah was the one who had the word of the Lord that was in his mouth. 00:15:36.479 --> 00:15:43.780 This is not in my notes, but I just feel led to say this right quick, that you got to make sure you're connected to the right voice, the voice. 00:15:43.780 --> 00:15:51.225 The Bible declares that there is life and death in the tongue, and so everybody that's talking to you may not be talking to you with the right intention, and all of that I got that went off the side of the road. 00:15:51.225 --> 00:15:52.188 But let me get back here. 00:15:52.188 --> 00:16:07.695 Uh, so elijah, he, he, he was one who was considered a, a, a big time prophet, and so, uh, uh, he, he had a situation in chapter number four where we begin to see at the beginning of chapter four. 00:16:07.779 --> 00:16:16.423 If we really want to understand the context of verses 38 through 41, let's moonwalk backwards to verse number one and you'll find that he encounters two situations. 00:16:16.423 --> 00:16:18.587 He encounters two situations. 00:16:18.587 --> 00:16:20.531 He encounters two situations. 00:16:20.531 --> 00:16:23.263 The first situation that he encounters was, uh, with? 00:16:23.263 --> 00:16:28.465 Well, both the situations were with women, but the first situation was a woman who was in debt. 00:16:28.465 --> 00:16:38.780 A woman who was in debt because her son had now died, I mean, her husband had now died, and so this woman was in debt and she was trying to figure out how she was going to pay this debt. 00:16:38.780 --> 00:16:45.053 And so she went and seen the man of God and the man told her he said what do you have in your house? 00:16:45.053 --> 00:16:46.683 What's in your house? 00:16:46.683 --> 00:16:48.849 And she says all I have is some oil. 00:16:48.849 --> 00:17:01.375 And he tells he says fill the jars of oil, go get you some jars and fill the jars of oil and sell the jars and all the money that you get from selling the jars. 00:17:01.375 --> 00:17:13.171 You, you take that money and pay off the debt that you was owed, because now you are a widow, you do not work and your husband is dead, so you needed to pay off the debt that had accumulated. 00:17:13.171 --> 00:17:15.561 That was the first situation that he had encountered. 00:17:15.623 --> 00:17:24.274 If you moonwalk down a few then then you would discover he encounters another woman who we, who we deem and we know as the shoot a mite woman. 00:17:24.274 --> 00:17:29.631 Shoot, a mite woman was a woman who, who, who, who encountered the prophet. 00:17:29.631 --> 00:17:34.628 And so she went to the prophet and said prophet, I have a request of the. 00:17:34.628 --> 00:17:37.394 He said what do you want the Lord to do for you? 00:17:37.394 --> 00:17:44.819 She says, well, I have been asking him for a son because I'm I'm bearing and I want to, I want to have a child. 00:17:44.819 --> 00:17:52.854 And he tells her well, since that is your request, he says by this time next year you shall have a son. 00:17:52.854 --> 00:17:56.750 Yep, he says, by this time next year, you shall have a son. 00:17:56.750 --> 00:18:08.592 And the Bible declares that nine months later that that son was born, and, and, and and Elijah made her a promise that nine months later she was going to have a son, and the son was born. 00:18:08.592 --> 00:18:15.779 But scripture records that the son grew older and the son fell sick and the son had then died. 00:18:15.779 --> 00:18:17.461 And so now, here it is. 00:18:17.521 --> 00:18:28.975 This woman who had a promise from God now sees her son grow up and dies, and she is frustrated, she is upset and she goes back to the man of God. 00:18:28.975 --> 00:18:44.436 She gets beside herself and have a conversation with her husband and says to her husband I just don't believe that I serve a God that will make me a promise and then turn around and kill the promise. 00:18:44.436 --> 00:18:47.048 I just can't settle for that. 00:18:47.048 --> 00:18:47.711 I just can't. 00:18:47.711 --> 00:18:49.539 I won't settle for that. 00:18:49.539 --> 00:18:55.302 And so what she did was she says I'm going back to the man of God and and. 00:18:55.302 --> 00:18:58.672 And her husband says what are you going to say when you get there? 00:18:58.672 --> 00:19:04.207 She says I don't know, but all shall be well, all shall be well. 00:19:04.207 --> 00:19:15.558 The bible declares that she goes to the man of God, but as she was going, the man of God's armor bearer sees the woman and he meets her as she's coming and she says to. 00:19:15.558 --> 00:19:18.625 And he says to her what can the prophet do for you? 00:19:18.625 --> 00:19:21.673 And she says everything is going to be all right. 00:19:22.139 --> 00:19:31.903 I think I need to put a court intermediate part right there for a second and tell you that, even though it seemed like the promise may have died in your own life, you've got to have. 00:19:31.903 --> 00:19:34.711 It shall be well down on the inside. 00:19:34.711 --> 00:19:37.163 Oh, yes, I said you've got to have. 00:19:37.163 --> 00:19:40.126 It shall be well down on the inside. 00:19:40.126 --> 00:19:54.849 I don't care what seems to have died, a business idea, a dream or whatever it may have been, if God made you a promise, he's the same God that's got to fulfill the promise, for the promises of the Lord are yes and amen. 00:19:54.849 --> 00:19:58.671 And if the Lord said it, he's got to make it come to pass. 00:19:58.671 --> 00:20:02.426 And I don't know who I'm talking to, around chosen that can just testify. 00:20:02.426 --> 00:20:09.548 I've got a promise from God and I need to tell you right through here you can't go nowhere until the promise is fulfilled. 00:20:09.548 --> 00:20:16.681 I don't care what your body feels like, I don't care what, how many months they've given you, I don't care how much the doctor says it ain't going to last. 00:20:16.681 --> 00:20:23.634 If God has not fulfilled the promise, you can't go nowhere until the promise that he says is coming to pass. 00:20:23.634 --> 00:20:26.628 It's got to come to pass. 00:20:26.628 --> 00:20:31.388 And so the Bible says that he raises the boy back up. 00:20:31.388 --> 00:20:36.642 And when he raises the boy back up, the Bible says that everything was all right. 00:20:36.642 --> 00:20:41.914 And so here we are now as we get ready to peruse across this particular pericope. 00:20:42.355 --> 00:20:45.098 As we enter into verse number 38,. 00:20:45.098 --> 00:20:54.590 The Bible says that Elisha was now in a season to where he was teaching the school of the prophets. 00:20:54.590 --> 00:21:01.058 He was teaching the school of the prophets, and the bible says they were all gathered around him. 00:21:01.058 --> 00:21:07.437 They were all gathered around and, and, and the bible said that there was a famine in the land. 00:21:07.437 --> 00:21:11.044 A famine was in the land, and so and, and. 00:21:11.044 --> 00:21:15.138 So the bible tells us that a famine was in the land and they were in school. 00:21:15.138 --> 00:21:28.194 And so, quite naturally, as as as we do when we are in school and we learn and it's hard to learn unless you got some food, you know, understand this, I mean, it's hard to retain what's being taught to you if you're hungry. 00:21:28.194 --> 00:21:33.867 And so the Bible says that that there was a famine in the land in verse number 38. 00:21:33.867 --> 00:21:38.386 But in verse number 39, he sends the servant out to go find some food. 00:21:38.386 --> 00:21:40.076 But in verse number 39, he sends the servant out to go find some food. 00:21:40.096 --> 00:21:45.378 In verse 38, the Bible says there's a famine in the land, and in verse 39, he finds food. 00:21:45.378 --> 00:21:47.819 Verse 38, there's a famine in the land. 00:21:47.819 --> 00:21:51.101 In verse 39, he sends them to find some food. 00:21:51.101 --> 00:21:57.204 Verse 38, there's a famine in the land, and then, in verse 39, he sends them to find some food. 00:21:57.204 --> 00:21:59.066 One more time Y'all wait for me to move on. 00:21:59.066 --> 00:22:00.166 Wait for me to act like you got it. 00:22:00.166 --> 00:22:06.950 In verse number 38, he said there's a famine in the land, and then verse number 39, he sends them out to find some food. 00:22:07.810 --> 00:22:10.192 I guess maybe I need to tell you what a famine is. 00:22:10.192 --> 00:22:11.873 A famine is when it's dry. 00:22:11.873 --> 00:22:18.759 A famine is when there's no food, when there's no water, there's no resources. 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:19.461 Everything is dried up. 00:22:19.461 --> 00:22:21.605 There is no, everything is just tore up from the floor. 00:22:21.605 --> 00:22:29.360 Nothing is there, there's, there's no resources, the people have been laid off, there's no jobs around, everything is dry. 00:22:29.360 --> 00:22:35.421 And he sells him in verse 38 that there's a famine, but in verse 39, he goes and finds some food. 00:22:36.301 --> 00:22:52.063 God, I wish I was in the right church this morning, because ain't that like our God that even though it seems to be dry in our life sometime, our life seems to be dry, but some way, somehow God still provides everything that we need. 00:22:52.063 --> 00:23:03.049 I don't know who I'm talking to in here, but you know you got them kids at home from school and you trying to figure out how you gonna feed all six of them seeds of chucky and you trying to figure out how you gonna do it. 00:23:03.049 --> 00:23:06.903 I can tell you how, because every time you go to the refrigerator. 00:23:06.903 --> 00:23:08.915 There's something in there for them to eat. 00:23:08.915 --> 00:23:16.041 I don't care if it's just a little piece of bologna where you got to take the little red string off of it and put it in the frying pan until it bubbles up. 00:23:16.041 --> 00:23:19.269 Slap some mayonnaise on that piece of bread and everybody eat off of it. 00:23:19.269 --> 00:23:20.520 Y'all ain't talking to me in here. 00:23:20.520 --> 00:23:29.321 Some way, somehow I may be dry, but God always provides a way for his people, and I need to find about five or six of y'all. 00:23:29.341 --> 00:23:30.105 Make number seven. 00:23:30.105 --> 00:23:35.377 We'll have a little church and get on up out of here that I serve a God that it may be dry in my life. 00:23:35.377 --> 00:23:36.138 It may be dry in my life. 00:23:36.138 --> 00:23:38.040 It may not have enough resources. 00:23:38.040 --> 00:23:49.871 I may have lost my job, my church may be acting funny, my family may be acting funny, my dollars don't want to holler, my quarters won't get in order, my dimes won't come on time, my nickels are fickle and my pennies ain't plenty. 00:23:49.871 --> 00:24:00.662 But who am I talking to around here that the same God will provide every single time, every single time, every single time, every single time? 00:24:00.662 --> 00:24:04.966 I need to stay right there because somebody's trying to figure out how you're going to make it next month. 00:24:04.966 --> 00:24:07.595 Somebody's trying to figure out how you're going to pay that bill. 00:24:07.754 --> 00:24:14.828 I come to encourage you that, even though you might be in your own famine, god is a God that can turn things around. 00:24:14.828 --> 00:24:16.802 I wish I had a witness in here. 00:24:16.802 --> 00:24:24.041 Things around, I wish I had a witness in here. 00:24:24.041 --> 00:24:28.350 I wish I had a witness that can testify that God can turn it around, just like he said that he would. 00:24:28.350 --> 00:24:29.252 Hallelujah, so the Bible. 00:24:29.673 --> 00:24:32.798 The Bible says that that they were in a famine. 00:24:32.798 --> 00:24:45.253 They were in a famine, they were in a famine and then, even though they were in this famine, the Bible said that he sent them out to go and find some wild gores. 00:24:45.253 --> 00:24:49.378 Was find some food and he found some wild gores. 00:24:49.378 --> 00:24:51.800 I told you, you got to watch those gores. 00:24:51.800 --> 00:24:55.085 Scholars suggest that those gores were probably vegetation. 00:24:55.085 --> 00:25:04.375 Vegetation, maybe some cucumbers, if you will, or some squash, or some zucchini, I don't know what it was, but they, they were vegetation. 00:25:05.317 --> 00:25:06.358 And and so what happened? 00:25:06.358 --> 00:25:07.221 Is they? 00:25:07.221 --> 00:25:15.678 That he, he, he gets a pocket full of wild gores and so he tells them to put a pot of stew on the fire. 00:25:15.678 --> 00:25:18.162 To put a pot of stew on the fire. 00:25:18.162 --> 00:25:35.844 I don't know if this was potato soup, I don't know if this was vegetable soup, I don't know if this was chicken and rice soup, I don't know if this was stew and potato, I don't know what was in this stew, but the stew was prepared and so they needed a little bit of vegetables in there. 00:25:35.844 --> 00:25:52.177 And so he takes this wild gore out of his pocket and puts it into the stew, not realizing that the, that the vegetation that he puts in the stew was poisonous, not realizing that it was poisonous. 00:25:52.598 --> 00:26:01.150 And so the Bible said that after they stirred up, they served it to the prophets and the prophets began to eat it. 00:26:01.150 --> 00:26:21.214 Now might get tight for two or three seconds, but that's all right, because the Bible says that they were at the school of the prophets and the prophets began to eat but did not realize what they were eating was poisonous. 00:26:21.214 --> 00:26:36.380 I have a question for the text how are they prophets and did not realize Okay, y'all. 00:26:36.380 --> 00:26:42.387 And did not realize what they were eating was poisonous? 00:26:42.387 --> 00:27:02.355 Could it be that we become so used to what God has gifted us to do that we do it on autopilot, pilot, autopilot, pilot. 00:27:02.355 --> 00:27:07.607 Oh god, that that, that we do it without even realizing that we're doing it and what we're doing is killing us. 00:27:07.607 --> 00:27:16.294 Oh god, I better move on from that there, because the bible said that the prophets were eating the stew and, and, and, and they did not realize that it was poisonous. 00:27:16.294 --> 00:27:21.126 I want to suggest to you that they were eating it because they were hungry. 00:27:21.126 --> 00:27:23.541 They were hungry, they were hungry. 00:27:23.835 --> 00:27:28.184 And can I tell you this, it's a dangerous thing to eat when you're hungry. 00:27:28.184 --> 00:27:32.361 I said it's dangerous to eat when you're hungry. 00:27:32.361 --> 00:27:32.903 Yes, it is. 00:27:32.903 --> 00:27:36.224 It's very dangerous to eat when you're hungry. 00:27:36.224 --> 00:27:37.877 You need to eat when you're not so hungry. 00:27:37.877 --> 00:27:45.289 But if you wait to eat when you're hungry, you will mess around and eat some stuff that you know you should not eat. 00:27:45.289 --> 00:27:50.605 Okay, let me come down your street and park in your driveway and just come on up in your house so you act like you know what I'm saying. 00:27:51.794 --> 00:28:00.586 It's very dangerous to go to the grocery store when you're hungry, because when you go to the grocery store when you hungry, you will put honey buns in there, you'll put steak in there. 00:28:00.586 --> 00:28:02.429 You know you got high blood pressure. 00:28:02.429 --> 00:28:04.015 You know you're trying to lose weight. 00:28:04.015 --> 00:28:14.071 You know you're trying to do this and you got a buggy full of stuff, knowing that if you eat it it's going to kill you the same thing when you're in a relationship. 00:28:14.071 --> 00:28:21.501 You got to be very careful when you're eating in a relationship because you're hungry, because you're desperate, you just want to find love. 00:28:21.615 --> 00:28:25.185 You, just you, just you, just great greedy for a man or a woman. 00:28:25.185 --> 00:28:26.519 I know she look good. 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:27.980 I know she thicker than a snicker. 00:28:27.980 --> 00:28:31.384 I know he got the dreads in the car on 22s and all that. 00:28:31.384 --> 00:28:32.506 You like I know. 00:28:32.506 --> 00:28:40.512 But you better be careful about what you eat when you're hungry, because you will make a decision and some stuff that you got to deal with for the rest of your life. 00:28:40.512 --> 00:28:42.762 Tell somebody don't do it while you're hungry. 00:28:42.762 --> 00:28:47.886 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 00:28:47.886 --> 00:28:51.264 Don't do it while you're hungry. 00:28:51.264 --> 00:29:02.961 But you got to make sure that you have enough discernment to know that who I'm hooking up with could be poisonous. 00:29:02.961 --> 00:29:06.365 To know who I'm doing this business with could be poisonous. 00:29:06.365 --> 00:29:10.640 To know that this job it may have six figures but it's going to kill me. 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:12.182 I won't have time for my children. 00:29:12.182 --> 00:29:13.620 I won't have time for my wife. 00:29:13.620 --> 00:29:20.282 You got to know that just because it look good, grandmama said everything that glitters just ain't gold. 00:29:20.282 --> 00:29:29.287 You got to be careful about eating when you're hungry. 00:29:30.296 --> 00:29:39.780 The Bible says that they were eating when they were hungry and they was eating and then all of a sudden it don't taste right. 00:29:39.780 --> 00:29:45.595 Something needs and it wasn't one of those like this needs some salt in it or something. 00:29:45.595 --> 00:29:53.182 This missing some paprika, you know, I don't know, ain't got no flavor, but anyway I don't know. 00:29:53.182 --> 00:30:06.903 But they said, man of God, there's death in this pot, there's death in this pot, there's poison in this pot and we should not be eating it. 00:30:06.903 --> 00:30:09.844 In other words, we got to throw this away. 00:30:09.844 --> 00:30:12.300 This is not good. 00:30:12.300 --> 00:30:13.323 I don't know who cooked it. 00:30:13.323 --> 00:30:16.299 I don't know who cooked that food yesterday, my Lord, god bless you. 00:30:16.299 --> 00:30:19.144 Real good, but I don't know who cooked it. 00:30:19.144 --> 00:30:23.254 I don't know what happened, I don't know what was in it, but it's just not good. 00:30:23.254 --> 00:30:24.580 We need to throw it away. 00:30:24.580 --> 00:30:30.572 The very next verse, the Bible says they said men of God is deaf. 00:30:30.592 --> 00:30:46.777 In this pot, the Bible says Elijah says hold on, bring it to me, don't you throw it away. 00:30:46.777 --> 00:30:51.588 And I don't know who I'm talking to in here, but I, I come to encourage you and tell you that your pot represents your life. 00:30:51.588 --> 00:30:56.681 The pot here represents your life and all the stuff that you've got in it. 00:30:56.681 --> 00:30:58.825 You got a poisonous relationship. 00:30:58.825 --> 00:31:00.708 You got a poisonous marriage. 00:31:00.708 --> 00:31:02.582 You got poisonous children. 00:31:02.582 --> 00:31:04.442 You got a poisonous job. 00:31:04.442 --> 00:31:08.702 You got church folk getting on your nerves and all of this stuff is in the pot. 00:31:08.702 --> 00:31:10.702 You don't know how you're going to do it. 00:31:10.702 --> 00:31:12.541 You don't know how you're going to make it. 00:31:12.541 --> 00:31:14.482 You don't know if it's going to work out. 00:31:14.482 --> 00:31:17.525 You don't know if you're gonna live to see it happen. 00:31:17.525 --> 00:31:22.019 The doctor gave you a bad report and all of this stuff is in your pot. 00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:27.216 But I come to encourage you that, whatever you do, don't you throw that pot away. 00:31:27.216 --> 00:31:29.422 Oh no, no, no, no. 00:31:29.422 --> 00:31:33.435 I know it seems like death is in the pot, but you can't throw it away. 00:31:33.435 --> 00:31:38.817 And I need you to just pass it up and down your row and just tell your neighbor say, neighbor, don't you throw it away. 00:31:38.817 --> 00:31:40.822 Oh, no, no, no, neighbor, don't you throw it away. 00:31:40.822 --> 00:31:42.346 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't you throw it away. 00:31:42.346 --> 00:31:48.865 Matter of fact, just encourage them right quick, and just slip your hand in their hand and just tell them say, neighbor, hold on to it. 00:31:48.865 --> 00:31:52.760 Uh-huh, yeah, yeah, yeah, hold on, neighbor, it's going to work out for you. 00:32:01.981 --> 00:32:07.076 I don't believe he's brought me this far just to leave me now. 00:32:07.076 --> 00:32:10.543 Who am I talking to around the house that can testify? 00:32:10.543 --> 00:32:12.327 It don't look good, but i'ma hold on. 00:32:12.327 --> 00:32:16.165 It don't sound good, but i'ma hold on. 00:32:16.165 --> 00:32:19.075 I don't know how I'm going to make it, but I'm going to hold on. 00:32:19.075 --> 00:32:23.863 Hold to his hand, god's unchanging hand. 00:32:23.863 --> 00:32:27.524 Build your hopes on things eternal. 00:32:27.524 --> 00:32:30.344 Tell somebody one more time hold on, hold on, hold on. 00:32:30.344 --> 00:32:32.101 It may get rough, but hold on. 00:32:32.101 --> 00:32:34.202 It may get tough, but hold on. 00:32:34.202 --> 00:32:36.182 You may have to cry, but hold on. 00:32:36.182 --> 00:32:44.802 I don't know what's going happen next, but you just hold on. 00:32:44.802 --> 00:32:47.447 Hallelujah, you hold on, you hold on to it. 00:32:47.467 --> 00:32:52.976 The bible says that they held on to the pot and they brought it to Elisha. 00:32:52.976 --> 00:32:55.640 They bought this pot to Elisha. 00:32:55.640 --> 00:33:02.590 The bible Bible says that Elisha said bring me some flour. 00:33:02.590 --> 00:33:16.769 Now, when I read that Reverend Johnson, I didn't know really what he was saying and I was trying to figure it out and I began to study it really good and really begin to really hone in on it. 00:33:16.769 --> 00:33:18.527 Why, why did he say bring some flour? 00:33:18.527 --> 00:33:18.606 Why? 00:33:18.606 --> 00:33:19.694 Why did he say bring some flour? 00:33:19.694 --> 00:33:22.474 Why did he say bring some flour? 00:33:22.474 --> 00:33:24.803 Is this a cooking hermeneutic? 00:33:24.803 --> 00:33:26.338 Is this a? 00:33:26.338 --> 00:33:28.684 I mean, I don't know what he's really saying. 00:33:28.684 --> 00:33:29.856 I say. 00:33:29.856 --> 00:33:32.826 So if it's a cooking hermeneutic, I can understand. 00:33:32.826 --> 00:33:35.942 I can understand Chosen, because I like to cook. 00:33:36.775 --> 00:33:49.349 I like to cook and I cook pretty well, and one thing that my mama taught me how to cook when I was little, and I still know to this day, is how to make homemade gravy. 00:33:49.349 --> 00:34:03.061 Now, I'm not talking about that gravy that you get in that jar, that Heinz, at the bottom of the shelf at Walmart, that beef gravy, not that homemade gravy. 00:34:03.061 --> 00:34:16.222 Whenever you finish cooking your chicken, your pork chops or your hamburgers or whatever, you take that out of the pot, you put the little flour in there, you do like to add a little water to it and you just keep stirring it. 00:34:16.222 --> 00:34:17.467 My God, your arm be hurting. 00:34:17.467 --> 00:34:21.443 You just keep stirring and stirring it, stirring it until it get to your desired thickness and color. 00:34:21.443 --> 00:34:33.786 That's the type of gravy I learned how to make, and so one time I never shall forget, I was in college, at Central, and, and when I was in college, I was cooking. 00:34:34.367 --> 00:34:37.197 I was cooking for a group of people and I wanted to impress them. 00:34:37.197 --> 00:34:41.746 I wanted to impress them and so I told them I was going to make my rice and gravy. 00:34:41.746 --> 00:34:47.661 It's my favorite food, so I made some rice, I made some chicken, some green beans and all this stuff, and I made it. 00:34:47.661 --> 00:34:57.971 And so I was making the gravy and I messed around, mother, and added too much water, and so I called my mom. 00:34:57.971 --> 00:34:59.076 I panicked, I panicked. 00:34:59.076 --> 00:35:01.043 I said, lord, what do I got to throw this gravy away? 00:35:01.043 --> 00:35:04.726