Man On Fire [Part 2]

Allen Wright, pastor, Bible teacher and author of his latest book, the power to bless every single thing that Elijah is doing here is not because he dreamed about God and given a word of this is what he was and therefore he wanted people to know that this God keeps his word speaks his word and he keeps his word and let them see that more that's Pastor Alan Wright welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life in a whole new light. I'm Daniel Britt excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series miracle man has presented at renewal.

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She take care there in her course risky financing is 450 prophets of she try to really promote this idolatrous worship so Ahab verse 20 sent to all people of Israel gather the problems together.

Now, Elijah came near all the people and set how long will you go limping between two different opinion if the Lord is God, follow him, but in ball, then follow him.

This word appears twice in this chapter, and only other place it appears in the Bible is to speak of a man with a physical disability name for the chef and is it's it's a N/A age that's so funny because really saying is I you are saying you worship the Lord but you also have this.

I will blot all that you worship. And so you're like a person whose live on crutches in your discount. Nothing strong in either direction. No one is able worship you Lord you are 90 lamp over here in your worship him ball and you just say and why would you do both of these mean if the balls the true God worship him. It is really true, but the Lord is in worship him, but don't try to do both these things is interesting you know when the people of God built that famous Golden calf that they worship. It came in the medal of what was called a festival to Yahweh a festival to Jehovah God. They were in the middle of having supposedly worship unto the Lord.

Then they also made known Idolatry in the Bible is not really pictured as replacing the one true God with an idol, but adding an idol to worship God lamp over here. We worship you Lord ball is funny because as words come back up later like to say and see the contrast setting up his contrast and then he says verse 22. Elijah said the people I even I only, and left a problem Lord of all problems for a 50 minute forbid you want to me in the contrast of his lip to boldly given us and let them choose one goal for themselves, and cut in pieces, and Leon what to put no fire to and I'll prepare the other bowl and lay it on wood but no fire to it really set up two different altars to different sacrifices and men but no lighting thing. It's a drought and sticks and everything is all brittle and you might think that you know it could be spontaneous combustion would only strike even a small spark around it. Okay, we all agree on that is okay and he said he said you call verse 24 by the name of your God, and I'll call upon the name of the Lord in the God who answers by fire.

He is God and all the people answered.

It is well spoken. They liked this contest because you gotta remember Bob all was the storm God so he was the one in charge of lightning, so it's a drought.

Things could just spark and the flame like that all he had to do just in one little lightning bolt down. I'm sure they're thinking that's what balls go to dinner like this is great. Plus I got 450 of them of all their confidence in everything in one little Elijah. They got Jezebel financing them and they're like absolutely.

This is a great idea. So they took the bull verse 26 given them. They prepared it and watch this.

They call upon the name of Baal from morning until noon in Hebrew.

That means from 6 AM till noon. This is six hours for six hours. They called upon them say oh ball answer us. But there was no voice and no one answered. And they limped around the altar that they had made.

The funny thing visit 450 prophets, people like you know there we were ball where the respected prophets of the land and from six in the morning till noon. All of them shouting and I love the image and then there's circling around the altar know they put this bull out there and then I will just circle around this thing for six hours by now and I'd like you to limping around altar bow wow wow wow six hours how long you want me to do it now. The funny thing, I mean nothing is happening. They shout as loud as a camper six hours for Baal.

This is their prayer life and nothing happens. And so Elijah. Elijah is and we are not allowed to do this buddies, Elijah, and he just flat out mocks them coming. Maybe some things do need to be mocked, but I'm not going there this morning but I could but I'm not right now.

Some of the things our culture does need to be mocked are so stupid I can be people when you say something so's is that anybody anyway back to the message at hand and verse 27 at noon after six out this Elijah mocked them, saying, cry aloud, for he's a God knowing saying shout louder as a God you say was a God, you got 450 prophets sure is a God know what you're not doing your not shouting loud enough you can't make this stuff up. He says in verse 27. Either he's musing.

He's deep in thought or just read what it says. Folks he's relieving himself little potty humor in the middle of the Bible) any third grade boy just love this story right there.

He's going to the bathroom or he's on a journey little vacation on the Bahamas cruise. Or perhaps he's asleep. You know these gods I get tired sometimes get sleep and he must be awakened shout louder because it sure is ill vacation to go the bathroom or just sleep but if you shout louder modifier out of and you would think that these profits would come back to you. How dare you speak just like that they did. You know what they did. They took him up on it and he's right.

You know louder ball my muesli was no and that's what they did. Verse 20 and they cried aloud they got louder and they cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out upon them, and as the midday pass, they raved on, nothing happened. That is as good a picture of any form of dead religion as you challenge right will have more teaching moment from today's important series like something is holding you back if you can important see that could change everything. Is there someone you love to sing stack to help them out what's missing. Blessing on patient spoken over you can learn how to embrace who practice a blessing to Pastor Alan writes noon but became an Amazon number one bestseller after 370s until now the hardcover book has only been available through retail sales this month right ministries once send you the I thank you for your demos this night will not only receive something that also receive a free session video place in which Pastor Alan teaches how to blast and covers kind of video course includes a detailed study guide perfect for personal growth or small group discussion today discovered the power to blast the gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries.

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We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Alan Wright Ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website Pastor Alan.like today's teaching now continues here once again is the difference between every form of religion in the actual Gospel of Jesus Christ comes down to this. If you believe that you're going to get God to move because you shout loud enough.

Are you punish yourself. Are you sacrifice enough for you cry alone and are you do works of righteousness enough, then you'll get God to move. You'll find yourself exceedingly empty, having spilled your time in tears and blood with nothing for God does not move and is not moved by your or my righteousness. The point of the story seems to me no matter how loud they shout or how hard they try they couldn't move God by any of their own heroic efforts in Elijah Stern's adversary come near me all people in there.

He repaired all the Lord have been thrown down.

Elijah took 12 stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the world Lord came saying Israel shall be your name. 12 in Hebrew becomes the symbol symbolic number represents the total of the people of God because there were 12 tribes of Israel.

So this is the total number of people got this is the people of God.

12 six 2012 stones symbolize and and he made a trench about the altar's greatest we can take to see is a safe trip. A big trench around altar and then he put the wood in order to cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood so nicely.

This innocent animal sacrifice onto the wood in the blood of the innocent animal runs down upon these 12 stones to see the symbol here and the blood is covering the symbol of the people of God. And just to make sure that nobody thought this was spontaneous combustion in the middle of a drought. He took four jars of water poured on the burnt offering the wood and they said do it a second time they did a second time to do 1/3 time they didn't.

Third time in the water ran around altar so just drenched wet and then verse 36 at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said to listen to his prayer is O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel identify want to be any mistake were talking about the one God, the true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and let it be known this day is is prayer so simple that you are God in Israel is what I want I want your glory on display and let it be known that I am your servant, and then I've done all these things that your word that, in other words, every single thing that Elijah is doing here is not because he dreamed up a God given a word.

This is what he was to do and therefore he wanted people to know that this gone the one who's going to do this miracle is one who keeps his word, he speaks his word and he keeps his word and let them see that Lord. Verse 37 he says is prayer simple answer me oh Lord, answer me, that this people may know that you oh Lord our God. You've turned their hearts back in the verse 38 the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering in the wood stones in the dust licked up the water that was in the trench all the people saw what they fell on their faces and they said the Lord he is God, the Lord he is God.

Almost everywhere in the Bible. Fire is a symbol of judgment. Fire is a symbol of judgment against sin.

To be clear about something. The gospel is good news not because it means that God has overlooked your sent is not good news because somehow we got Jesus and in the New Testament God doesn't have judgment against sin. That's not the gospel. God is always said that sin must be judged that sin must be punished because we don't have a justice that a just world will have a just what's so good about the gospel is that God in his infinite wisdom and mercy came in the person of Jesus and set up an altar not now, but at Calvary was altar that took the form of a cross minute input a bull. There, but he put his own son, one of whom John the Baptist said, behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world and there on that altar that cross the fire of God's wrath against sin came came upon Jesus by God's own sovereign power and love Jesus took the judgment that you and I were due every idolater, every center, Jesus hung there under the heat of the judgment of God against sin. He who knew no sin became our sin in the Bible says so that when you accept Christ. You are not judged but instead or reckoned as if you were righteous this showdown at Mount caramel wasn't about Elijah being better than them. This was about God. The real true living God who was demonstrating his glory and painting a picture on the landscape of history at a moment in time to say essentially I am not moved by acts of self righteousness from idolaters. I am moved only by a true sacrifice.

Miraculous sacrifice he's pointing us to Jesus. So when you accept Christ. Beloved, you experience the greatest miracle of all, you become a child of God, not by your own deserving, but by the merits of Christ, let us not live our lives limping from one side to the when we have a God who died and proved it all was true when he rose up out of the grave. The tomb is empty. God is alive and that changes everything. That's a God bright in today's teaching man on fire in the series miracle man were back in a moment Allen's in the studio with additional insight today for your life and our final word, like something is holding you back if you can important see that could change everything. Is there someone you love hissing stack.

What's missing blessing on this and spoken over you can learn how to embrace the practice of blessing to Pastor Alan writes new, but quickly became an enzyme number one bestseller 370s until now the hardcover book has only been available through retail sales this month right ministries once send you the I thank you for your demos this night will not only receive the best-selling but also receive a free session video place in which Pastor Alan teaches how to blast and covers contact video course includes a detailed study guide perfect for personal growth or small group discussion. Make your gift today discovered the power to blast the gospel is shared when you get Allen right ministries.

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We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I thanked him. Allen right ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website Pastor Alan.work element builds our faith to hear these stories again and again to know that there was that there was strong faith. There were miracles that happened before and God still in the business of this story of Elijah Mount caramel in the fire coming down on the altar and the defeat of those prophets of Baal all in the glories of God, being put on display is just one of my favorite stories is so powerful, so dramatic, and what we want to keep remembering is that Elijah said Elijah imaging satellite is a man just like us, so as not to say that God's going position as against 450 prophets of all that is to say that no matter what were up against the spiritual power of God is the same today in Jesus Christ as it always has been and what a story it is calling us into the power of the gospel. Today's good news message is a listener supported production Allen right ministries