"Who Is Making Trouble Around Here?" (I Kings 18:17)

"Who Is Making Trouble Around Here?" from I Kings 18:17 was preached by Dr. Mark McElreath at the City Baptist Church of Atlanta on August 9, 2026.

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Welcome to the City Pulpit. Bible messages from the pulpit ministry of the City Baptist Church in Atlanta. Well, please take your Bibles with me. Let's go to 1 Kings chapter 18. 1 Kings chapter 18. And we come to a time here in 1 Kings where the nation of Israel is in dire straits, and they don't have good kings. And so during these times, God raises up prophets, prophets that will stand for the truth and preach the truth and do what's right. And we find ourselves here early on in the ministry of the prophet Elijah. And we'll begin reading here in 1 Kings chapter 18 in verse number 1. The Bible says, And it came to pass after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go show thyself un Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth. And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab, and there was a sore famine in Samaria. And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly, and for it was so that when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water. And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks, peradventure we may find grass to save the horses, and the mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. So they divided the land between them to pass through it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him, and he knew him, and he fell on his face and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah? And he answered him, I am. Go, tell thy Lord, Behold, Elijah is here. And he said, What have I sinned that thou wouldest deliver thy servant in the hand of Ahab to slay me? As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom whether my Lord hath not sent to seek thee. And when they said he is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they found thee not. And now thou saith, Go tell thy Lord, Behold Elijah is here, and it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee, whither I know not, and so when I come to tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me, but I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth. Was it not told, my lord, what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? And now thou saith, Go tell thy Lord, Behold, Elijah is here, and he shall slay me. And Elijah said, Verse fifteen, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him today. So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house, and that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Balaam. If you'll mark this phrase with me in verse number 17, we'll take this for the theme of the Bible message this evening. The end of verse 17 says, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And the title of the message will be, Who is making trouble around here? Who is making trouble around here? We find the prophet Elijah here has prophesied there'll be no rain on the earth. And it starts getting bad. We find there's a famine, we find they've gone without rain, we find that King Ahab, who is the most evil king, I believe, that rained. He says, Well, look, we've got to go out and find some water, and they start looking, and we say, we don't want to lose all the beasts. And he goes out and he sends his servant Obadiah. This is not the Obadiah of the minor prophets, this is another Obadiah. But Obadiah fears the Lord, and as he goes out to look for water, he comes across Elijah and he says, Obadiah, Elijah says, Obadiah, I want you to go tell Ahab I'm coming to see him. Obadiah says, Look, if I go tell him you're coming to see him, he's gonna kill me. My life is gonna be over. He's gone looking for you in other countries, he's gone looking for you in other lands. And if I go tell him you're here, and then you leave and he can't find you, he's gonna be mad and I'm done for. And Elijah says, No, don't worry about it. I'm coming and I'm going to meet with Ahab. I'm gonna look at him face to face, and we find here when he comes in verse 17 that Ahab's first words are, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? You know, God's people have always been accused of causing trouble. In fact, all through Scripture. They're accused of being troublemakers. This is not a new thing. I think of Jeremiah, the prophet. Sirs, for forty years, he's called the weeping prophet. We find that there are no, that we can find, no fruit from his ministry as far as conversions or people coming to the Lord or worshiping the one true God. In fact, it says in Jeremiah 26 and verse 8, it came to pass when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priest and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord. Jeremiah was considered a troublemaker. It says in Jeremiah 38 that the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death, for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remaineth in this city. They're saying, This man of God is the trouble around here. We also find it happened in the book of Amos. Amos chapter 7, verse 10, it says, Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, the priest of Bethel, okay, one of the religious leaders, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel, and the land is not able to bear all his words. They said of Amos, he's a troublemaker. We can't bear everything he's saying. Now we find from Amos' testimony, he's just preaching the word of God. He's just speaking what God's given him to do. And yet they say, This is the man making trouble. We find it in the book of Nehemiah, chapter 6. When Nehemiah has gone back to Jerusalem to rebuild the wall, it says in verse 5, then Sanbalat his servant, then sent Sanbalat his servant unto me in like manner, with an open letter in his hand, wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen that thou and the Jews think to rebel, for which cause thou buildest the wall that they mayest be their king. Thou mayest be their king, according to these words. They say, Nehemiah, you're building this wall because you want to be the king, and you're building the wall because you want to rebel. What are they saying to Nehemiah? You're the trouble around here. It happened in the New Testament too. When Paul and Silas show up in Philippi, they go down and they see Lydia saved down by the riverside. They start a church in her house. They see the young lady with the devil cast out of her. They find that when they saw this girl with the devil cast out of her, she couldn't tell fortunes anymore. And so all the people that have been making money off of her, they start losing money. And you know what they say in Acts chapter 16, verse 20? They brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city. Well they say, they're troublemakers. They're causing issue around here. You know, they went to Thessalonica, they said the same thing. It says in Acts chapter 17, it says the rulers of the city were crying that these men that have turned the world upside down are come also hither. There was a way which things operated, and they were going just fine until these people came to town and started making trouble, right? Paul went to Caesarea in Acts chapter 24, and it says, We have found this man, a pestilent fellow, a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes, who also hath gone about to profane the temple, whom we took, and have joined have judged according to our law. You know what they're saying? He's a troublemaker. But you realize they said the same thing about the Lord Jesus Christ. John chapter 11, Jesus comes to town, and in John chapter 11 he raises Lazarus from the dead. Lazarus has been dead, and now he is living again. And the following verses, you know what it says in John 11 and verse 47? Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees and said, What do we? For this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him. And the Romans shall come and take away both our place and our nation. They said, Because Jesus has done all this, the Romans are going to come in and they're going to take away our place, they're going to take away our nation, because Jesus is making such trouble. We walk the steps and we walk in the path of troublemakers of old. In fact, Lester Roloff, Lester Roloff was in Corpus Christi for years. If you know that name, he Brother Roloff passed away over 40 years ago. Died in a plane wreck, taking relief in a plane to people. He had the Roloff Holmes, cared for thousands of men and women, preached all over the country. Dr. Roloff said, every preacher that has ever preached the truth has been a troublemaker. He said, I've made trouble in Corpus Christi for years. I've made trouble everywhere I've ever gone, not for God's people, but for the devil's crowd. I'm for that kind of trouble, by the way. I'm for that kind of trouble that stirs up the devil's crowd and the devil's way and disrupts the devil's apple cart and throws everything off that the devil is trying to do. You know what the city Baptist Church is doing? The City Baptist Church is making that kind of trouble in the city of Atlanta. And you know what we find here? We find an example of it right here. Elijah is the one doing the most for the nation of Israel, pointing them to the Lord, pointing them to his commands, pointing them to his word, and yet what do they say? Here's the one that troubleth Israel. Would you make note of a few things? Because we cause trouble for the world when we do some things. Would you make note of this? Number one, we cause trouble for the world when we show obedience to the precepts of God. We cause trouble for the world when we show obedience to the precepts of God. When we follow the word of God. Look at chapter 17. Go back with me, one chapter. 1 Kings chapter 17. Here's what the Bible says. 1 Kings 17, verse 2. And the word of the Lord came unto him. What do we find here? At the beginning of the beginning of the ministry of Elijah, we find him following the commands of the Word of God. Look down with me at verse number 5. It says, So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord. Chapter 17 and verse number 8, it says, And the word of the Lord came unto him. If you look at chapter 17 and verse 10, it says, So he arose and went to Zarephath. Why did he go to Zarephath? It was at the command of the word of the Lord. Look at chapter 17, verse 14. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel. God's given command, and Elijah's acting on it. Look at chapter 17 and verse 16. It says, And the barrel of mill wasted not, neither do the crews of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord which he spake by Elijah. What is the ministry of Elijah characterized by? God speaking to him and Elijah acting on it, following his precepts. Look at chapter 18 and verse 1. And it came to pass after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah. He's following the precepts of the Word of God. Now, why does that cause trouble for the world and its way? Would you hold your place here with me and let me give you a New Testament example? Go with me, please, to Matthew chapter 11. Matthew chapter 11. We find an example here in the life and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. In Matthew 11, let's go down to verse number 16. The Bible says, But whereunto shall I liken this generation? This is Jesus speaking. He says, What am I to compare this generation to? Speaking of generation, he's speaking of the age in which they lived. He says, Whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets and calling unto their fellows. He said, They're like a bunch of kids and they're sitting around and they're barking orders at people as they go. And here's what they're saying, Matthew 11, verse 17. Saying, We have piped unto you, and you have not danced, and we have mourned unto you, and you have not lamented. What is he saying here? He likens or he compares their age to children sitting in a market, yelling out to others orders that they should follow. And just as children get upset when others do not play their game, their way, so this age wants everyone to fall in line. You know what the world and its system is doing? It's saying, church, you need to get in line. Christian, you need to get in line, and you need to live and do exactly the way we say. Our world today of influencers, bureaucrats, and social media trolls have a way in which they are attempting to force and shame and otherwise turn us into children of their bidding. That's when we begin to cause trouble for the world. When we do not dance to their tune, when we do not follow their orders, when we do not live the way they say we're supposed to live. We answer to the highest authority and the world cannot stand it. We cause trouble for the world when we obey the word of God and not the word of man. That's when we're seen as troublemakers. Well, that's not the only time. We cause trouble from the world not only when we obey the precepts of God, but when we also show dependence upon the provision of God. Dependence upon the provision of God. Look back with me in 1 Kings chapter 17. If you go with me, early in the chapter, 1 Kings 17, look with me please at verse 2. And the word of the Lord came unto him to Elijah, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook cherith that is before Jordan. Now remember, there's a drought. It hadn't rained. There's just a little brook. It's not a river. This is not a lake. It's a little brook. I'd imagine there's not a whole lot of water running through this brook cherith at this point. But the Lord says, I want you to go down there. And he says in verse 4, and it shall be, thou shalt drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. Now, God says, You're going to drink the water that I've left there in the brook, and you're going to eat whatever the ravens bring. Scavenging birds, they're going to bring you food, and you're going to eat it. I mean, Elijah is literally living hand to mouth. Look at verse 5. So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord, for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the brook. And it came to pass after a while that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Now, Elijah could have said, Well, Lord, I'm trying to do what you're trying to do what you told me to do, and now the brook's dried up. What am I going to do now? You know, you hadn't brought any rain, but we find that as long as he needed it, he had provision right there by the brook. Now look with me, keep reading in verse number eight, because here's what the Bible says. Not only is there provision by the brook, there's provision by the barrel. Verse 8 says, And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there. And behold, I've commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. Now he says, Lord, I was down by the brook that trickled down to nothing, and birds brought me the food I ate every day. Now you want me to go and pester a widow woman who doesn't have anything. You want me to pester her to take care of me? Look at verse 10. So he arose and went to Zarephath. He just obeyed the word of God, depending on the provision of God. When he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there, gathering of sticks. And he called to her and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water and a vessel that I may drink. Can you imagine the gall that it would have seemed like when Elijah tells this widow woman here, she didn't have anything left? And he says, I want you to go give me something to drink. Look what she says. Verse 11, as she was going to fetch it, he called her and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. He says, Bring me something to drink, and then she starts to go get it for him, and goes, Oh yeah, and bring me something to eat too. But look at verse 12. But she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise. And behold, I'm gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it and die. She said, I look, I don't have anything. And the little bit I have left, we're about to go make it, and my son and I are going to eat it. That's gonna be the last thing we're ever gonna eat, and we're gonna die. There's a famine, there's nowhere else to go, no one else to turn to. Look at verse 14. Thus said the Lord God of Israel. I'm sorry, verse 13. Elijah said unto her, Fear not, go and do. I've marked those words in my Bible. I would recommend you mark them. Fear not, go and do. Look, if God has told you this is what you're supposed to do, don't worry about it. Fear not, and go and do it. Obey. Go and do as thou hast said. But make me therefore a little cake first. By the way, when we take care of God's work first, he takes care of us in the long run. Make thee a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of mill shall not waste, neither shall the cruise of oil fail until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth. And she went. Verse 16, and the barrel of mill wasted not, neither did the crews of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah. And you say, Pastor, why does this make trouble for the world? Because the world in its system wants us to entirely depend upon it. In fact, look with me. Go to chapter 18 and look at verse 19. Go to chapter 18 and verse 19. The next chapter over. It says, Therefore send and gather to me all Israel unto Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal, 450, and the prophets of the groves, 400, which eat at Jezebel's table. These are false prophets. 850 here by count, 450 from Baal and 400 are the groves, which were evil places that they had set up to commit heinous acts. And where do they eat? They eat at Jezebel's table. They were depending upon the evil queen to take care of her. They were depending upon Jezebel to feed them. What are you saying? I am saying when we depend upon the provision of God, he will take care of his own. We don't have to run to the world's methods. We don't have to run to the world's men. We don't have to run to the world's way of doing things. When we obey the Lord and we do it his way, he will care for his own. When we depend upon the Lord and his provision, we learn to accept what he gives us. When we depend upon the Lord and his provision, we are content because he knows what we need. When we depend upon the Lord and His provision, we are patient for Him to provide in His time. Look with me at chapter 21. The saga continues in chapter 21 of 1 Kings. Look at me at one verse. Chapter 21. And verse number 20. It says here, and Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? They meet up again, and he's still, he's still speaking daggers at him. He called him the one that's troubling Israel first. Now he's calling him the enemy. By the way, a lot of times I can tell what's right by who's against it. And if Ahab is against Elijah, I can tell I'm for Elijah then. But look at the last part of verse number 20. Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee, because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord. He says, Yeah. I found you, Ahab, and I've made note of these words, thou hast sold thyself. What had Ahab sold himself to? He'd sold himself to leaning on the provision of the world, leaning on the provision of the devil and his way and his direction and his guidance. There are people that get so scared that they won't be taken care of. There are churches that get scared that we're not going to have enough that they say, you know, we can let some other things slip. We can let a few things go by the wayside. Look, we're all going to sell out to something. It says he sold himself. We're all going to sell out to something. We can either sell out to the Lord and just believe he's going to take care of us and he's going to provide for us. Or we're going to sell out the money, sell out the fame, sell out the families, sell out the jobs, sell out the promotions. We can all sell out to something. We might as well sell out to the Lord and believe that He will take care of us. He will provide for us. We don't have to sit at Jezebel's table and take Jezebel's direction and listen to Jezebel's words. If God takes us all the way down to the brook cherith and ravens bring us food, we can depend. Depend on him. And that galls the world because that means we're not in their pocket. That means we're not depending on them. That means we don't have to listen to what they say and listen to the tune which they blow. We see here that Ahab had sold himself. We depend upon the Lord instead of the world and its system and its ways. But go back with me back to our passage. 1 Kings chapter 17. Not only do we cause trouble for the world when we show obedience to the precepts of God, we cause trouble for the world when we show a dependence upon the provision of God. But thirdly, would you make note of this? We cause trouble for the world when we show an expectancy in the power of God. An expectancy in the power of God. Look at me, please, at chapter 17, and look at verse 17. After Elijah has been with his widow of Zarephath, and the Lord has provided many days, the barrel of the meal doesn't waste, the cruise of oil doesn't fail. Look at verse 17 of chapter 17. It says, It came to pass after these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick, and his sickness was so sore that there was no breath left in him. And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Out thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance and to slay my son. Her son gets very sick and he dies. It says now in verse 19, he said unto her, Give me thy son. He took him out of her bosom and carried him up into a loft where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. And he cried unto the Lord and said, Lord, my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourned by slaying her son? And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord, my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again. And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. This child who is dead is now alive. Elijah's brought him back. And Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother, and Elijah said, See now thy son liveth. And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the Lord is in thy mouth is truth. What's happening here? God brings this man back to life, and we're not raising people from the physical dead today, but look, our business today is dead people. I'm talking about spiritually dead people. I'm talking about people who there was a time where they walked the way of this earth and they were on their way to hell without God. And the Lord found them and he used us to go after them and get them the gospel, and they received Christ, and now they're no longer dead spiritually. Now they are alive and on their way to heaven. That's the work which we do. That is an expectancy in the power of God to bring dead people back. And here we find the power of God coming forth in the ministry of Elijah. Go with me to chapter 18. After this meeting with Ahab, we find this event on Mount Carmel. Look down, go down with me, chapter 18, go down to verse number 23. Elijah says, Let them therefore give us two bullocks, and let them choose one bullock for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay it on the wood, put no fire under it. And I'll dress the other bullock and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it. And call you on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord. So this is this showdown on Mount Carmel. He says, The prophets of Baal, you take this bullock, you put it on your altar, and you call upon your gods. Let's see if he'll bring fire, or they'll bring fire. I'll call upon my God, the one true God, let's see if he brings fire. Well, you find here, continue reading. In verse 24, call on the name of your gods, I'll call on the name of the Lord, and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken. Verse 25, and Elijah took unto the prophets of Baal, said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first, for ye are many, and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under. Look at verse 26. And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, Oh Baal, hear us. Here's such a sad verse. Verse 26, but there was no voice, nor any that answered. That's that's the That's the outcome of a life lived serving false gods and a life lived serving oneself. There is no voice, and there is none that answered. In fact, it says in verse 26, they leaped upon the altar which was made. We find they begin cutting themselves in desperation. They're calling out to Baal and their gods, and there's no answer. We skip down just a little ways. Look down with me, please, verse 36. Elijah comes on the scene. He has drenched the sacrifice now with water. And it says in verse 36, it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice that Elijah the prophet came near and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Look at verse 38. Then the fire of the Lord fell. It consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. The fire of the Lord falls. I've got to ask the question do we expect God to send fire again today? Do we really expect the Lord to work, his power to be shown forth in our city, in our church, in the lives of people today? Or have we just resigned to going through the motions and there was a time where God worked in the past and he doesn't work today? No. This is the day he desires to work. He is still the God of wonders of Psalm 77. And that troubles the world when we depend upon God to work. That troubles the world when we believe as we obey, God will come through. There's a man by the name of William Carey, in 1792, he wrote a wonderful document on missions called An Inquiry. And it's about reaching the unreached with the gospel outside of the known world at that time. Going to places outside of England and America and reaching them. He preached a message May the 30th of 1792 from Isaiah 54, where we get this quote from William Carey where he said, Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God. We're never going to attempt the great things if we don't first have the expectation that God will do great things. Expect great things from him. That he would provide by a brook and birds would bring flesh to eat. You realize that came before Elijah went to Mount Carmel and believed God would bring fire down on a wet sacrifice. He first had to go to the brook when there was no water, there was no food. He's being chased down by the king, and God provides for him there. It's there he has to learn the power and the preserving work of God before he can go face to face with the king and be ready to stand before him. And he can go before the 850 prophets of Baal and of the groves and call down fire from heaven on the sacrifice. There's got to be an expectancy that God has something for us still today. God has something for us he still wants to do in our church, he still wants to do in our families, he still wants to do in people's lives, he still wants to do in our city. And for that, we will always be thought of as troublemakers. We have an expectancy of the Lord to work in his way and in his time. I'm okay with being that kind of troublemaker. There's obedience to the precepts of God. That always calls us to be a troublemaker. We don't listen to the world. We don't follow the world. We don't dance to their beat. We don't follow their ways. There's a dependence upon the provision of God, doing God's work God's way, and believing He will provide in His time. He'll take care of us. And there's this expectancy in the power of God that we don't have to go to Jezebel's table. We don't have to be among Jezebel's prophets and the prophets of the grobes to see anything done. That God's work done his way will have his provision and his power. This is the expectancy. And may we say with Elijah here in 1 Kings 18, verse 37, hear me, O Lord, hear me. I believe when we truly seek the Lord. Troublemakers, that's fine if that's what people want to call us. Enemy, enemies, that's okay. Because we know we ultimately have what this city needs, and what the people of this city needs, what the college students on these campuses need, what the children in these homes need, what the families across these neighborhoods need. We have it. And we will bear the moniker of enemy and trouble all along. Even though we know that we have exactly what God has called us to bring them. We have the truth and he will bless his word. Thank you for listening to the City Pulpit. For more information about the City Baptist Church of Atlanta, please visit www.mycitybaptist.com.