1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:06,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It has become a story because it happened so long ago. 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:12,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of you may remember though when the Soviet Union fell 3 00:00:13,060 --> 00:00:22,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Nikita Hershoff was giving a major address to the Soviet affairs and the body there in Moscow. 4 00:00:22,820 --> 00:00:31,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He stood up and he was proclaiming many of the atrocities that had taken place during the age of Stalin. 5 00:00:32,380 --> 00:00:39,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: His speech was was breaking new ground as he was was admitting what had happened 6 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: during those years. 7 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:48,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: While he was speaking those, someone in the audience wrote him a note and sent it forward. 8 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The note read Premier Herschel 9 00:00:52,220 --> 00:00:57,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What were you doing when Stalin committed all these atrocities? 10 00:00:59,660 --> 00:01:03,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When he received the note, he was rather upset. 11 00:01:06,100 --> 00:01:09,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He shouted at everyone, Who wrote this? 12 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:13,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There was silence 13 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:22,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He said again, if you don't have the nerve to admit that you wrote this, then I don't have to answer. 14 00:01:22,340 --> 00:01:26,979 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I will give you one minute to stand up and say, who wrote this? 15 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:35,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And there was silence. 16 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As a minute concluded 17 00:01:40,219 --> 00:01:49,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He said, I was doing exactly what the author of this note was doing while Stalin committed these atrocities. 18 00:01:49,340 --> 00:01:52,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I did nothing. 19 00:01:55,060 --> 00:01:58,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I watched. 20 00:01:58,100 --> 00:02:00,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I observed. 21 00:02:00,420 --> 00:02:05,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I did not stand up and I was not recognized. 22 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:13,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm going to tell you, we've been looking at the life of Elijah. 23 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah was not that way. 24 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:27,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we have learned anything in the days of Elijah, we have learned that Elijah was a person who stood up and he was counted. 25 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:34,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We started a few weeks ago talking about Elijah shows up there in front of Ahab. 26 00:02:34,580 --> 00:02:36,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He stands there in the gap. 27 00:02:36,380 --> 00:02:50,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We we talked about a few weeks ago is that he was was even before he stood in front of Ahab, he was was praying about the state of of the state of his country 28 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:58,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The things that were happening in the world around him, how bad it had gotten, how evil it was. 29 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:03,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God, how could your people have wandered so far away from you? 30 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:13,819 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we get to the place where we are today, still talking about the days of Elijah. 31 00:03:15,780 --> 00:03:19,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Thinking about how I could have titled this sermon. 32 00:03:19,620 --> 00:03:26,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The message that I have today is I thought about a prayer for fire. 33 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:28,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have you ever prayed for fire? 34 00:03:32,220 --> 00:03:35,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I thought about titling The Battle of the Gods 35 00:03:37,260 --> 00:03:41,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or the greatest conflict of the century. 36 00:03:41,260 --> 00:03:46,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That was that century back then, but it it could have made the headlines. 37 00:03:46,540 --> 00:03:50,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The God Who Answers by Fire 38 00:03:55,600 --> 00:04:01,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I decided to title it No Rain, No Rain, No Rain. 39 00:04:03,620 --> 00:04:07,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you like that name rain the word rain? 40 00:04:07,380 --> 00:04:09,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Interesting word, isn't it? 41 00:04:10,580 --> 00:04:14,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I spent too many years as an English teacher, I guess. 42 00:04:15,620 --> 00:04:19,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Trying to explain those kind of words. 43 00:04:19,780 --> 00:04:21,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When we're talking about Elijah, 44 00:04:21,940 --> 00:04:25,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We see that Elijah is willing to stand up. 45 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:27,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is willing to be counted. 46 00:04:27,460 --> 00:04:30,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't see him as being terrified. 47 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We see Elijah as being confident. 48 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We see him as being determined. 49 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:41,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We see him as a person that is doing everything he can to glorify God. 50 00:04:41,940 --> 00:04:44,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants to bring honor and glory to God. 51 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:47,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants to stand up for God. 52 00:04:47,060 --> 00:04:49,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants to stand up for the character of God. 53 00:04:49,940 --> 00:04:54,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants to stand up for the Ten Commandments of God. 54 00:04:56,040 --> 00:05:02,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is a bold message that Elijah came before Ahab to proclaim. 55 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In 1 Kings 17, where we started. 56 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:14,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But in 1 Kings chapter 18, the message is no less bold. 57 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You have your Bibles open. 58 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were there for the scripture reading. 59 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:29,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1 Kings 18. 60 00:05:30,940 --> 00:05:43,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice it says in verse one, and it came to pass after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go present yourself to Ahab. 61 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:49,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I will send rain on the earth. 62 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So Elijah went 63 00:05:57,460 --> 00:06:02,979 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, those last three words, or the first three words of verse two, those are pretty strong words, aren't they? 64 00:06:02,979 --> 00:06:05,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So Elijah went. 65 00:06:05,540 --> 00:06:09,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Where has Elijah been for the last several months? 66 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:11,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Zarephath. 67 00:06:11,539 --> 00:06:13,379 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Where was he before that? 68 00:06:14,340 --> 00:06:15,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Brookshire. 69 00:06:16,259 --> 00:06:18,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Where was he before that? 70 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was praying, right? 71 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Where does it say he is from in chapter 17? 72 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Tishbite from Gilead. 73 00:06:33,380 --> 00:06:37,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now we know all we know about Elijah's history, right? 74 00:06:39,220 --> 00:06:45,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For the last three and a half years, there have been wanted posters everywhere for Elijah. 75 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:50,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, we're out here in the Wild West, aren't we? 76 00:06:50,340 --> 00:06:53,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We know a little bit about wanted posters. 77 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:58,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can you imagine wanted posters for Elijah everywhere around the country? 78 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:02,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was a wanted man. 79 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:07,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it says, God said to him, Go and show yourself to Ahab. 80 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it says, Elijah went. 81 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:15,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What would you have been tempted to do? 82 00:07:17,340 --> 00:07:18,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Stay. 83 00:07:18,540 --> 00:07:20,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now remember where he was staying. 84 00:07:20,940 --> 00:07:22,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was in the 85 00:07:24,820 --> 00:07:27,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: House with the widow. 86 00:07:27,780 --> 00:07:31,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He had been there for we don't know how many months now. 87 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:34,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But this was the seat of Baal worship. 88 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:43,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you think he might have gotten comfortable there? 89 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:44,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Eating 90 00:07:45,260 --> 00:07:50,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What God was providing every day? 91 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:53,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Every day the food was a miracle for him. 92 00:07:54,780 --> 00:07:57,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God was taking care of him. 93 00:07:57,100 --> 00:08:00,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God was sustaining him. 94 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He could have said, God, it it's working. 95 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The snow rain thing, you're getting their attention. 96 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Just keep going, Lord. 97 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:15,199 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I I'm gonna stay here. 98 00:08:15,199 --> 00:08:17,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It seems rather safe. 99 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:20,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They don't they don't haven't figured out where I am net. 100 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:24,479 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But it says Elijah went 101 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:37,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to present himself to Ahab, and there was a severe famine in Samaria, and Ahab had called Obadiah, who was in charge of his house, and Obadiah filled the Lord feared the Lord greatly 102 00:08:43,139 --> 00:08:47,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm reading Obadiah again and I'm just remembering all this this this story here. 103 00:08:47,459 --> 00:08:49,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Someday I may preach a sermon about Obadiah. 104 00:08:49,860 --> 00:08:51,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He he deserves 105 00:08:51,779 --> 00:08:58,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, this man, Obadiah, deserves a sermon. 106 00:08:58,420 --> 00:09:02,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He deserves to be to be remembered. 107 00:09:02,300 --> 00:09:04,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice what verse 4 says. 108 00:09:04,140 --> 00:09:11,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For so it was while Jezebel massacred the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah had taken one hundred prophets. 109 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:19,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: hidden them fifty to a cave, and had fed them with bread and water. 110 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:20,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come on. 111 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:21,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Amen. 112 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:33,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, can you imagine what Obadiah was doing for those prophets of God for those three and a half years? 113 00:09:36,180 --> 00:09:43,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Obadiah was in charge of Ahab's house, and yet he had taken 114 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:51,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A hundred prophets of God and had them hidden in the caves, and he was feeding them. 115 00:09:53,540 --> 00:09:58,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, just the things that go through my mind when I think about this. 116 00:09:58,100 --> 00:10:02,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was taking care of them off Ahab's table. 117 00:10:06,339 --> 00:10:11,139 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, praise the Lord. 118 00:10:11,139 --> 00:10:16,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That there was an individual like Obadiah who feared the Lord so greatly 119 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:19,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That he was willing. 120 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:26,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, what would have happened if he had gotten caught? 121 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How fast do you think it'd take for them to kill him? 122 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It happened pretty quickly, wouldn't it? 123 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:37,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But he was willing to put himself in that place 124 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:41,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, I gotta move on. 125 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Someday whole sermon. 126 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:49,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm gonna have you jump down here to ver 16. 127 00:10:50,460 --> 00:10:57,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 128 00:10:57,940 --> 00:11:06,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then it happened when Ahab saw Elijah that Ahab said to him, Is that you, O troubler of Israel? 129 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:14,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, can you imagine those words coming out of Ahab's mouth? 130 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:18,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, what was Ahab thinking as he was on the way to see 131 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:19,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah? 132 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:24,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or what was he thinking when Obadiah said, Elijah wants to meet you? 133 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:31,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, the thoughts that must have gone through through Ahab's mind 134 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you think he was afraid to meet Elijah? 135 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you think he was worried about what Elijah was going to do? 136 00:11:41,079 --> 00:11:43,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean he had put out one it posters. 137 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wanted this man dead or alive. 138 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:51,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you think he was afraid that Elijah was going to do something to 139 00:11:52,420 --> 00:11:54,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The crops? 140 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:56,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To the cattle? 141 00:11:56,580 --> 00:11:57,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To the rest of their food? 142 00:11:57,940 --> 00:11:59,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The rest of their livelihood? 143 00:11:59,300 --> 00:12:02,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, as it was, everything was in ruins. 144 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:15,759 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you think as Ahab was going to meet Elijah that he remembered the story in first Kings chapter thirteen of one of his predecessors who had stretched out his hand against the servant of the Lord, and as he stretched it out his hand had 145 00:12:17,459 --> 00:12:22,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Withered. 146 00:12:22,019 --> 00:12:26,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you think that had gone through the mind of Ahab? 147 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:33,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How many soldiers do you think he had with him? 148 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:37,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes I wish the Bible had given us a few more details. 149 00:12:38,860 --> 00:12:45,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How thick do you think this would have been if he had if all the details you wanted to know were in here? 150 00:12:45,980 --> 00:12:48,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How many books would it have taken 151 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you the you are the one that is troubling Israel 152 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:02,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ahab says. 153 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:09,959 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that word troubling Israel, that's a word that that many commentators think that that's not strong enough. 154 00:13:09,660 --> 00:13:18,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In fact, one commentator says that the word there really should be translated, are you the one that has put a hex on Israel? 155 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, that's a that's a curse. 156 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:27,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because that's the kind of terminology that the people that worship Baal would have used 157 00:13:27,060 --> 00:13:28,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you the kind of person? 158 00:13:28,580 --> 00:13:31,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you the person that has put the curse on us? 159 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:33,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you the one that has put the hex on us? 160 00:13:33,460 --> 00:13:37,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you the one that has caused all of our problems? 161 00:13:43,980 --> 00:13:45,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah hears that 162 00:13:48,740 --> 00:13:58,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And verse 18 says, I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father's house have. 163 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:05,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and have followed the bales. 164 00:14:08,459 --> 00:14:14,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you ever play these scenes through in your in in your head and you wonder what it was like? 165 00:14:14,380 --> 00:14:17,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean if you could be the director for for for 166 00:14:18,300 --> 00:14:20,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: you know, the movie as it's portraying this. 167 00:14:20,860 --> 00:14:25,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What what what do you have Elijah doing when he says that? 168 00:14:25,420 --> 00:14:29,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, do you picture Elijah when he's when when when 169 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ahab accuses him, you troubler of Israel. 170 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:42,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And when when Elijah responds, do you have Elijah kind of, no, you are the one that's troubling Israel 171 00:14:42,940 --> 00:14:46,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You and your father as you worship Baals. 172 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:48,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you have him looking down at the ground? 173 00:14:48,459 --> 00:14:50,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you have him kicking at the dust around there? 174 00:14:50,860 --> 00:14:57,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you have him, you know, trying to dig up one of the the the tumbleweeds that are there? 175 00:14:59,180 --> 00:15:02,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What do you have of Elijah doing? 176 00:15:03,660 --> 00:15:05,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean if I'm directing it 177 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:19,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The way I picture it, the Elijah that I have come to know through the stories that we have, I have Elijah looking right at Ahab, looking him in the eye, confronting him face to face. 178 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:33,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't want to say he's pointing his finger at him, but he's making it clear that Ahab knows that he's talking to him and says, No, you are the one who has brought this. 179 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:39,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You and your family, you are the one that has caused this catastrophe to come on Israel 180 00:15:48,839 --> 00:15:51,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah wants to make it very clear. 181 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is not going to mince words. 182 00:15:54,240 --> 00:16:00,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is going to let the Ahab know who is responsible. 183 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:09,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You see, Elijah was jealous for the character of God 184 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:15,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He knew what was going on in Israel at this time. 185 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:19,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He understood what was taking place. 186 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:27,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God's character, the Ten Commandments had been trampled, were being trampled on. 187 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:31,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Commandment number one, no other gods before me. 188 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Did they have other gods? 189 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:33,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They did. 190 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Number two, no graven images. 191 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:37,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: At this time, did they have graven images? 192 00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:41,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Number three, not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. 193 00:16:41,420 --> 00:16:43,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Were they taking God's name in vain? 194 00:16:44,060 --> 00:16:46,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Number four, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 195 00:16:46,940 --> 00:16:49,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Were they remembering the Sabbath day? 196 00:16:49,420 --> 00:16:51,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Number five, honor the parents. 197 00:16:51,420 --> 00:16:54,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Were they honoring parents? 198 00:16:54,620 --> 00:16:57,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You were quieter on that one. 199 00:16:57,339 --> 00:17:02,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have you forgotten some of the history of how these kings were coming into power? 200 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:13,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And how some of them were killing their parents in order to come into power and making sure that the whole family was annihilated. 201 00:17:15,100 --> 00:17:16,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Just reminder there. 202 00:17:16,940 --> 00:17:19,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Number six, you shall not murder. 203 00:17:19,260 --> 00:17:20,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Where is that taking place? 204 00:17:20,460 --> 00:17:21,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I just gave you the answer to that. 205 00:17:21,980 --> 00:17:23,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Number seven, you shall not steal. 206 00:17:23,660 --> 00:17:25,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Was that taking place? 207 00:17:25,419 --> 00:17:30,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you get the picture of what is taking place? 208 00:17:30,860 --> 00:17:33,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not lie, not covet. 209 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:35,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those things are taking place. 210 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:43,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Ten Commandments are are are being eroded in the days of Elijah. 211 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:47,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is this this is causing his is his consternation. 212 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:50,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is what is driving his prayer life 213 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:58,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is what is motivating him with standing there and being willing to stand there in front of Ahab. 214 00:17:59,659 --> 00:18:05,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is part of what's giving him the courage to say what he is saying. 215 00:18:05,019 --> 00:18:09,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's because he realizes what is happening to the name of God. 216 00:18:11,580 --> 00:18:16,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we see it happening in our society today? 217 00:18:16,860 --> 00:18:18,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Where is Elijah? 218 00:18:22,020 --> 00:18:24,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we need an Elijah today? 219 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:30,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is there a need for rebuke to take place today? 220 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:35,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh my, oh my. 221 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:39,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Got so much stuff written here. 222 00:18:39,679 --> 00:18:44,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want to make sure that I don't uh skip anything. 223 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:55,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When God sends you and me on a mission, do we have the nerves of Elijah? 224 00:18:57,940 --> 00:19:05,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or do we just kinda scratch the dirt around us and hem and haw and 225 00:19:06,740 --> 00:19:08,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we unmovable? 226 00:19:08,500 --> 00:19:12,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we unshakable? 227 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:16,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You see, Elijah was he was unashamed. 228 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:18,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was unterrified. 229 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:25,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I imagine him looking Ahab straight in the eye. 230 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:31,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes I I I don't want people to get upset at me 231 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't want to give the harsh message. 232 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't want to come across so hard and strong. 233 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I like people to like me. 234 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:49,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you think Ahab liked Elijah at this point in time? 235 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:53,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Whose fault was that? 236 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You see, sometimes we're worried about the wrong things. 237 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:05,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Prophets and Kings, page 140, says, today there is a need of the voice of stern reboot rebo 238 00:20:07,140 --> 00:20:11,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for grievous sins have separated the people from God. 239 00:20:11,380 --> 00:20:15,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Infidelity is fast becoming fashionable. 240 00:20:15,860 --> 00:20:18,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When does she write Prophets and Kings? 241 00:20:20,740 --> 00:20:23,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That was just a just just a few years ago, wasn't it? 242 00:20:25,779 --> 00:20:27,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That that last sent that last line there. 243 00:20:27,940 --> 00:20:31,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Infidelity is fast becoming fashionable. 244 00:20:32,860 --> 00:20:41,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I think if she were alive and well today, and if she were to write it today, she would write, infidelity is the fashion of the day. 245 00:20:42,860 --> 00:20:46,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Infidelity is popular today. 246 00:20:46,300 --> 00:20:49,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Infidelity is the way people are living today. 247 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:54,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In fact, it has become so popular that we lift it up. 248 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:59,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we as a nation have become proud of it. 249 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:00,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Look how bold they are. 250 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:07,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Look how much courage it it takes to be to have that kind of infidelity. 251 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:13,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we need Elijah today? 252 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:16,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, do we understand what infidelity is? 253 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm going to give you some other words for that, okay? 254 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Infidelity, that is adultery towards God. 255 00:21:30,179 --> 00:21:36,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Adultery, that's a the children went to children's church, right? 256 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:38,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because I have some words here that 257 00:21:42,700 --> 00:21:48,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Adultery is a sexual sin. 258 00:21:48,220 --> 00:21:53,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We live in our world today that sexuality has become and become 259 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: commonplace. 260 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:05,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It is it is on T V, it's on all our devices, it's on all the ads, all the commercials. 261 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can it is difficult. 262 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:13,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to hide yourself from it. 263 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:17,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We some used to, you know, watch some TV shows or watch some 264 00:22:18,060 --> 00:22:26,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I remember uh at summer camp, you know, where they would show the videos and they would put their hand up over the the projector and they didn't want us to see 265 00:22:27,740 --> 00:22:32,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Was it kissing scenes or, you know, something like that? 266 00:22:32,059 --> 00:22:36,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh man, kissing scenes is the mild thing today on TV. 267 00:22:38,139 --> 00:22:45,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You wish you could put your hand over the screen of some things that people are watching today. 268 00:22:47,820 --> 00:22:54,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I remember when I used to fly, when I got started flying, they had the movies there. 269 00:22:54,700 --> 00:22:59,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they would say things like, This has been altered 270 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For a general audience. 271 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know what that means? 272 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They've cut some things out 273 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:15,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm gonna tell you you fly today, they have not cut anything out. 274 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:21,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They may say they have, but it's the language is there, the scenes are there. 275 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:26,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It the and it's as if they are flaunting and people g going to the movies. 276 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They are making more and more in the movies. 277 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We wear their their their t-shirts. 278 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We we go to the the the concerts. 279 00:23:33,519 --> 00:23:41,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: People are are are standing and and in front of them and they're they're they're waving the hands as if they're they're they're praising them 280 00:23:42,140 --> 00:23:48,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we hold these people up as our as our our heroes, our our our idols 281 00:23:53,020 --> 00:23:57,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you embarrassed at our society today? 282 00:23:57,340 --> 00:24:00,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you just want to hide your face in shame? 283 00:24:05,260 --> 00:24:10,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I wish I could say there was no baal worship in America today. 284 00:24:10,460 --> 00:24:12,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I think it's gone past that. 285 00:24:16,740 --> 00:24:18,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We used to talk about couples. 286 00:24:18,660 --> 00:24:22,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You guys know what I mean by a couple, but do you know what a thruple is? 287 00:24:22,580 --> 00:24:24,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or a triad? 288 00:24:24,620 --> 00:24:27,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or if I said a Quora or a Quad. 289 00:24:27,740 --> 00:24:34,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, those are relationships with three people or relationships with four people or a morsel. 290 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, that's when the number gets bigger and you can't qualify it. 291 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:45,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you can mix and match genders with it like you do Lego sets. 292 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:51,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you realise what our society is today 293 00:24:54,019 --> 00:25:03,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you you you get on your your phone and you get some of these things Instagram and and TikTok and the and the the just the advertisements 294 00:25:07,940 --> 00:25:12,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are embarrassing sometimes. 295 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:14,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean sometimes it 296 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:24,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, I I I may be looking at something that I I thought was okay and an advertisement pops up and then I'm embarrassed because Cheryl sees the advertisement and she thinks that's what I'm looking at. 297 00:25:27,679 --> 00:25:31,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Am I the only one? 298 00:25:31,039 --> 00:25:32,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have to show her and prove to her. 299 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm not watching that that that's a commercial 300 00:25:37,620 --> 00:25:42,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because the commercials have gotten so bad that they are embarrassing. 301 00:25:42,260 --> 00:25:48,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, this is the kind of things that are being pumped out for our children. 302 00:25:51,100 --> 00:25:55,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sure, I'm glad we don't sacrifice our children today, aren't you? 303 00:25:58,460 --> 00:26:02,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Patriarchs and Prophets, page 142. 304 00:26:02,940 --> 00:26:09,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says God is calling for men like Elijah, Nathan, and John the Baptist. 305 00:26:09,980 --> 00:26:12,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you realize who Nathan was? 306 00:26:12,940 --> 00:26:23,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was a prophet of God that went before King David and had to stand before King David and said, You are that man. 307 00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:28,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says we we need prophets like John the Baptist. 308 00:26:28,060 --> 00:26:30,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we realize who John the Baptist was? 309 00:26:30,620 --> 00:26:37,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was the one that was talking to the Pharisees, and he says, You Pharisees, you are a bunch of kittens. 310 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is that what he said? 311 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: No, he called them vipers. 312 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:51,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John the Baptist stood before King Herod, and to King Herod he said. 313 00:26:51,940 --> 00:26:59,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You are a sinner because you have your brother's wife. 314 00:26:59,380 --> 00:27:02,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And today we say, oh, that's just commonplace. 315 00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:12,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But John the Baptist lost his head because he was 316 00:27:14,559 --> 00:27:20,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Willing to stand before King Herod. 317 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:26,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And now we see Elijah standing before Abraham, I mean Ahab, and saying, 318 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:33,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You are the reason that this land is so dry. 319 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:38,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You are the reason that we have not seen rain for three and a half years. 320 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You and your fathers are the reason. 321 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:50,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That there are no leaves on the tree, that the streams have dried up. 322 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:55,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because you have gone worshiping the bales. 323 00:27:56,580 --> 00:27:58,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First Kings chapter eighteen 324 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:17,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come down to verse nineteen, he says, Now therefore, send and gather all Israel to me on Mount Carmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and four hundred prophets of Assarh who eat at Jezebel's. 325 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Table. 326 00:28:19,279 --> 00:28:24,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who's the king in this picture? 327 00:28:24,559 --> 00:28:26,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come on, you're the movie director. 328 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,519 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who's the king? 329 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ahab's the king. 330 00:28:29,279 --> 00:28:31,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who's giving the orders? 331 00:28:34,580 --> 00:28:38,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's switched here? 332 00:28:38,260 --> 00:28:43,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah is standing here in front of the king and he's giving the orders because 333 00:28:44,220 --> 00:28:48,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is at this point in time the voice of God. 334 00:28:50,940 --> 00:28:55,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is saying to Ahab what needs to be said. 335 00:28:58,340 --> 00:29:11,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he tells Ahab, I want you to bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and I want you to bring the four hundred prophets of Asherah, and I want to meet you on Mount Carmel, and you bring the rest of Israel with you. 336 00:29:13,660 --> 00:29:19,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we understand what it meant, 400 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah? 337 00:29:19,820 --> 00:29:22,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That means they were eating at the king's table. 338 00:29:26,740 --> 00:29:34,419 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh now we have a little bit greater understanding of how Obadiah was able to do what he did. 339 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:44,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If Ahab and Jezebel were feeding eight hundred and fifty, ooh, nine hundred and fifty 340 00:29:45,580 --> 00:29:47,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, okay. 341 00:29:47,740 --> 00:29:55,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Just wanted to make sure that Mount Carmel, that was a uh uh a mountain. 342 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1,500 feet high, not a big mountain. 343 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: At that point in time, it was in disputed territory. 344 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was between Israel and the Phoenicians. 345 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:19,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It often had oak trees, olive trees, would have been a beautiful place, except for it had not had rain for how long? 346 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Keep reading. 347 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:31,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, so Ahab sent for the children of Israel and gathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel. 348 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:38,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ahab's the king, but he's doing what Elijah has asked for. 349 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:43,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because the nerve of Elijah, because Elijah had said it with such conviction. 350 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:45,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Such urgency. 351 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:51,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ahab went ahead and and acted as if Elijah was the king 352 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I wonder what it was like as the people came and gathered there on Mount Carmel. 353 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What do you think they dress like? 354 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Prophets of Baal, prophets of Asherah. 355 00:31:17,940 --> 00:31:20,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Think they wore the common garb of the people? 356 00:31:22,419 --> 00:31:23,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I doubt it. 357 00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:29,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They probably wanted to dress as if nothing had changed. 358 00:31:29,179 --> 00:31:32,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They dressed in their their stately apparel. 359 00:31:32,779 --> 00:31:35,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They wanted to make sure everybody knew who they were. 360 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So it is in society, isn't it? 361 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I remember when when Cheryl and I took 362 00:31:46,940 --> 00:31:48,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: took language classes. 363 00:31:48,299 --> 00:31:49,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We were studying Mongolian. 364 00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:53,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The the guy that was sitting there teaching us how to speak Mongolian. 365 00:31:53,179 --> 00:31:59,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was telling us about it when what it was going to be like when we got to the he said, the ladies there know how to dress 366 00:32:00,620 --> 00:32:10,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They dress nice all the time, even on the special days when they go out to the horse races. 367 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:21,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you know, when I thought about the ladies dressing nice to go out to the horse races, I thought about here in the United States when we go and we see horse race I haven't been to a horse race, so I don't know what I'm talking about. 368 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:26,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when I s watch it on TV or the news or whatever and I I see them dressed and I see the horses run. 369 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let me tell you, it is not that way in Mongolia. 370 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:34,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When you go to the horse races, you are out there walking across the pastures 371 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:39,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You're walking in the fields. 372 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:49,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I'm gonna tell you the ladies were out there dressed in their their their four or five inch heels walking across, trying to walk across the pastures. 373 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:57,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because that's the way society had told them was the right way to dress. 374 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:10,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My guess is there were people dressed in these national costumes going up on Mount Carmel. 375 00:33:17,220 --> 00:33:18,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse twenty one 376 00:33:20,419 --> 00:33:26,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says and Elijah came to all the people and said, How long will you falter between two opinions? 377 00:33:26,659 --> 00:33:30,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If the Lord is God, follow him, but if Baal, follow him. 378 00:33:30,899 --> 00:33:34,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But the people answered him what? 379 00:33:35,340 --> 00:33:37,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Nothing. 380 00:33:37,580 --> 00:33:41,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not a word. 381 00:33:41,740 --> 00:33:42,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were 382 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:45,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Afraid. 383 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:49,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not one stood up and said, I'm worshiping Yahweh. 384 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were quiet. 385 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, this is a a trait of Elijah that's worth emulating. 386 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He had undivided allegiance. 387 00:34:01,620 --> 00:34:06,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was asking the people, who is on the Lord's side? 388 00:34:08,820 --> 00:34:12,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you willing to say I'm on the Lord's side? 389 00:34:12,940 --> 00:34:17,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who's going to stand up for the Ten Commandments? 390 00:34:17,020 --> 00:34:20,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who will stand up and call sin by its right name? 391 00:34:22,279 --> 00:34:27,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who's going to let people know that the great controversy is closing? 392 00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:35,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who's going to tell the world that the Ten Commandments are going to become more and more important in our society? 393 00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:41,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because people are going to abolish them to a greater and greater degree. 394 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:46,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or how many of us are intoxicated with the wine of Babylon? 395 00:34:47,659 --> 00:34:51,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I've moved now to Revelation, haven't I? 396 00:34:52,780 --> 00:34:57,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But do you see that's that's the way we get sometimes 397 00:35:00,540 --> 00:35:06,859 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah's trying to say, how long you going to try and and sit on the fence? 398 00:35:06,940 --> 00:35:08,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Be on both sides. 399 00:35:08,220 --> 00:35:10,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or I I have a better visual aid for you. 400 00:35:10,460 --> 00:35:15,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How long are you going to try to have your your foot on the docks or and on the boat? 401 00:35:16,539 --> 00:35:19,099 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know how that works, don't you? 402 00:35:19,339 --> 00:35:30,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know what happens if you're standing on the dock and you're standing on the boat and you're hoping that your your leg power is powerful enough to to keep the the boat from moving away from the dock. 403 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:37,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, I'm gonna tell you the boat is moving away from the dock. 404 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:42,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And if you don't choose where you're going to serve, which one you're going to serve 405 00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:50,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we understand the day and age in which we live, the times in which we are living? 406 00:35:54,720 --> 00:36:00,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The days of Elijah. 407 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:07,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The message that goes to the church of Laodicea, Jesus said, I wish that you were either hot or cold. 408 00:36:07,660 --> 00:36:18,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But because you're lukewarm trying to ride the fence, because you have a foot on the dock and on the boat, I'm going to spew you out of my mouth. 409 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or the more technical word, I'm going to vomit. 410 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:36,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How long are we going to halt between two opinions? 411 00:36:42,020 --> 00:36:45,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah is asking the people, What are you waiting for? 412 00:36:45,220 --> 00:36:51,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 22: Elijah says to the people, I alone am left a prophet of the Lord. 413 00:36:52,180 --> 00:36:56,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But Baal's prophets are 450 men. 414 00:36:56,820 --> 00:36:57,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Just a minute. 415 00:36:57,619 --> 00:36:59,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know what you're thinking. 416 00:36:59,619 --> 00:37:03,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Obadiah had told him, hadn't he? 417 00:37:04,039 --> 00:37:06,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That there were a hundred prophets to put away. 418 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:11,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Evidently, those hundred prophets didn't show up on Carmel. 419 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:16,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So I imagine Elijah is saying, I'm the only one present here now. 420 00:37:17,260 --> 00:37:21,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He may have heard about those others, but I'm the ones that are present now. 421 00:37:21,740 --> 00:37:23,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 450. 422 00:37:23,339 --> 00:37:26,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Therefore, let them give us two bulls. 423 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:35,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it, and I will prepare the other bull, and lay it on the wood, put no fire under it. 424 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then you call on the name of your God 425 00:37:37,260 --> 00:37:39,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I will call on the name of the Lord. 426 00:37:39,260 --> 00:37:42,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the God who answers by fire, he is God. 427 00:37:42,780 --> 00:37:48,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the people answered and said, It is well spoken. 428 00:37:49,740 --> 00:37:52,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They found their tongue. 429 00:37:52,940 --> 00:37:55,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Previously they were silent. 430 00:37:55,420 --> 00:37:58,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When he asked them, Are you on the Lord's side? 431 00:37:58,140 --> 00:37:59,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There was silence. 432 00:37:59,260 --> 00:38:02,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now they said, This is a good idea. 433 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,599 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so they proceed to to carry out this idea 434 00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:14,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, we know how it goes. 435 00:38:15,020 --> 00:38:19,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's not a pretty picture. 436 00:38:19,180 --> 00:38:22,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Prophets and Kings talking about this, it says 437 00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:29,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah was not alone. 438 00:38:29,100 --> 00:38:34,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Above and around him are the protecting hosts of heaven 439 00:38:34,740 --> 00:38:39,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Angels that excel in strength. 440 00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:43,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah may have felt alone. 441 00:38:45,980 --> 00:38:53,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah may have been using those words because he was expressing something to the congregation that was there. 442 00:38:54,339 --> 00:38:58,099 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe it didn't have anything to do with his feelings at all. 443 00:38:58,099 --> 00:39:01,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe he felt invincible. 444 00:39:01,220 --> 00:39:03,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe he understood. 445 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:13,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That one person with God is a majority 446 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:22,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe he wasn't afraid of the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah. 447 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Prophets and Kings continues. 448 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:34,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 174, to wait patiently, to trust when everything looks dark is a lesson that leaders in God's work need to learn. 449 00:39:34,460 --> 00:39:36,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Here is the patience of the saints. 450 00:39:36,380 --> 00:39:43,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Here are they that are faithful to God, that keep the Ten Commandments and the testimony of Jesus Christ, to wait patiently, to trust. 451 00:39:43,559 --> 00:39:47,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When everything looks dark is a lesson that leaders in God's work need to learn. 452 00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:51,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Heaven will not fail them in their day of adversity. 453 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Nothing is apparently more helpless. 454 00:39:54,120 --> 00:40:03,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yet, really more invincible than the soul that feels its nothingness and relies wholly on God. 455 00:40:05,839 --> 00:40:16,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, when you and I feel our lowliness, when we feel like we are nothing and we rely totally on God, that is when we are invincible. 456 00:40:16,820 --> 00:40:27,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It goes on, prophets in Kings 147, unashamed, unterrified, the prophet stands before the multitude, fully aware of his commission. 457 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:34,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes we wonder, how am I supposed to know what God wants me to do? 458 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Has God told you what He wants you to do? 459 00:40:38,940 --> 00:40:42,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Has he revealed himself to you? 460 00:40:42,940 --> 00:40:48,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Has he told you what his will for you is? 461 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why are sometimes we're we're what we're not so sure 462 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:12,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, if I were to ask you what is God's will for your life, what what is his plan for you, his ultimate plan, his big plan, I mean, you probably have an idea what God's will for you is because you've read it in Scripture. 463 00:41:12,460 --> 00:41:16,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know what he wants out of you because you've read it in Scripture. 464 00:41:16,059 --> 00:41:19,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The problem is not that we do not know what he wants us to do. 465 00:41:19,740 --> 00:41:20,859 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The problem is 466 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:32,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's hard. 467 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're we're a little bit afraid 468 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well we're shy. 469 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:42,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We like to be liked. 470 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you think Elijah liked to be liked? 471 00:41:48,140 --> 00:41:54,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, do you think he wanted people to love him? 472 00:41:54,780 --> 00:41:56,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come on, you guys know the answer to that. 473 00:41:56,700 --> 00:41:59,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why are you you keeping quiet? 474 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:12,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, the desire on Elijah's heart was for people to love him because he knows that love is the character of God. 475 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:13,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Right? 476 00:42:13,940 --> 00:42:20,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The problem is the people are not acting according to God's character. 477 00:42:20,660 --> 00:42:27,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And when the people are not acting according to God's character, they don't like Elijah. 478 00:42:27,940 --> 00:42:34,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah's desire, the desire of his heart, is for everyone to love him. 479 00:42:34,660 --> 00:42:35,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why? 480 00:42:35,620 --> 00:42:38,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because he knows that if everyone loves him 481 00:42:40,279 --> 00:42:44,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That everyone is in love with God. 482 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do do we do we catch that? 483 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't think we catch that sometimes. 484 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't think I catch that sometimes. 485 00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes I'm living more in the in the moment. 486 00:42:59,500 --> 00:43:02,859 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My shyness. 487 00:43:02,859 --> 00:43:05,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's what I call it. 488 00:43:05,020 --> 00:43:07,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Cheryl just says, I thought you were a sanguine. 489 00:43:09,940 --> 00:43:12,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And and she tries to push me out. 490 00:43:12,740 --> 00:43:15,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not now. 491 00:43:15,460 --> 00:43:17,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's not the right time. 492 00:43:17,380 --> 00:43:18,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's not the right 493 00:43:21,220 --> 00:43:24,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because for years I've always been the one pushing her. 494 00:43:25,460 --> 00:43:29,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now when I'm shy, she's kind of surprised. 495 00:43:32,940 --> 00:43:34,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Continue on in the story. 496 00:43:34,380 --> 00:43:39,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm gonna jump down to uh verse twenty-five, that's where we were 497 00:43:40,220 --> 00:43:44,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Choose one wool for yourselves, prepare it first. 498 00:43:44,700 --> 00:43:45,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You are many. 499 00:43:45,579 --> 00:43:49,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Call on the name of God, but put no fire under it. 500 00:43:48,980 --> 00:43:51,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So they took the bull which was given them. 501 00:43:51,220 --> 00:43:59,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They prepared it, gave it called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us but there was no voice, no one answered. 502 00:43:59,700 --> 00:44:03,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then they leaped about the altar which they had made. 503 00:44:05,260 --> 00:44:12,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So it was at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, Cry aloud, for he is a God, either he is meditating or he's busy 504 00:44:12,559 --> 00:44:16,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or he's on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping, and must be awakened. 505 00:44:16,079 --> 00:44:23,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So they cried aloud, they cut themselves, as was their custom, with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out of them. 506 00:44:24,740 --> 00:44:30,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And when midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice. 507 00:44:30,420 --> 00:44:37,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But there was no voice, no one answered, no one paid attention, no one sent fire down from heaven 508 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:40,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you think Elijah was keeping an eye on them? 509 00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Were they leaping about to try and distract him? 510 00:44:48,940 --> 00:44:53,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: No, I think that was just part of their worship service. 511 00:44:53,020 --> 00:44:55,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you think the drums were beating? 512 00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:03,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can almost hear the drums, you can almost hear the music, you can almost hear the chanting. 513 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:11,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of you that have been to some of those countries where they do that kind of thing, you can almost see them cutting themselves and bleeding. 514 00:45:17,799 --> 00:45:19,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And at that time 515 00:45:20,539 --> 00:45:26,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I think Elijah was mocking them because if he hadn't done that, he would have been crying for them. 516 00:45:28,539 --> 00:45:31,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As he saw what was taking place. 517 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:36,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Worshiping the false God. 518 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:41,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The frenzy that was taking place, the cultic activity, the chaos. 519 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:51,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's one of those scenes that we would probably be putting our hand over the projector so that our kids couldn't watch it. 520 00:45:51,119 --> 00:45:57,359 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But it was our scene that our kids would say, Oh Mom, oh Dad, I've seen it all before. 521 00:46:04,319 --> 00:46:06,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Prophets and Kings, page one fifty 522 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:13,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Gladly would Satan have come to the help of those who he had deceived, who were devoted to his service. 523 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:18,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Gladly would he have sent lightning to kindle their sacrifice. 524 00:46:18,140 --> 00:46:26,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But Jehovah had set Satan's bounds. 525 00:46:26,140 --> 00:46:31,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God, the Jehovah God, had restrained Satan's powers. 526 00:46:34,380 --> 00:46:46,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not any of his scheming, not any of his devices, would God allow him to put a spark on that altar? 527 00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:56,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now we can say hallelujah and praise the Lord for that time, but you know in Revelation chapter 13 there's another altar, there's another image, there's another 528 00:46:56,440 --> 00:47:00,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's another opportunity for fire to come down from heaven. 529 00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you know at that time the fire is going to come down 530 00:47:07,340 --> 00:47:10,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: On the wrong altar. 531 00:47:10,940 --> 00:47:13,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So friends, I just want you to be aware you cannot 532 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:26,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Set your idea, your your your your thoughts on fire coming down, that that's going to prove which altar, which gods you need to worship at. 533 00:47:27,900 --> 00:47:31,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You need to know what God's Word says. 534 00:47:31,820 --> 00:47:35,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Which one is preaching, thus saith the Lord? 535 00:47:35,020 --> 00:47:38,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Which one is holding up the Ten Commandments of God? 536 00:47:40,700 --> 00:47:43,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, come down, let's see, verse 30. 537 00:47:43,100 --> 00:47:46,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So Elijah said to the people, Come near to me. 538 00:47:46,060 --> 00:47:51,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So all the people came near to him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. 539 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:59,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, Israel shall be your name 540 00:47:59,940 --> 00:48:08,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord, and made a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seeds of seed. 541 00:48:08,820 --> 00:48:19,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he put the wood on order, cut the bull in pieces, laid it on the wood, and said, Fill four water pots with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice on the wood. 542 00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,359 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then he said, Do it a second time. 543 00:48:22,359 --> 00:48:23,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they did it a second time. 544 00:48:23,559 --> 00:48:25,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He said, Do it a third time. 545 00:48:25,079 --> 00:48:26,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they did it a third time. 546 00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:31,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So the water ran down all around the altar and were filled with the trench with water 547 00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:33,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know what you're thinking. 548 00:48:33,240 --> 00:48:36,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Where do they get all the water? 549 00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:43,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, the the Mount Carmel is right there on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. 550 00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:52,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My guess is he had someone hike down 1,500 feet and get some seawater and bring it back up there. 551 00:48:53,339 --> 00:48:57,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then he sent them down to get it again. 552 00:48:57,020 --> 00:48:59,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then he sent them down to get it again. 553 00:48:59,660 --> 00:49:02,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why would Elijah do such a thing? 554 00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because he wanted to remove all doubt. 555 00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:16,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wanted everyone to understand that what was going to take place was going to be a miracle of Jehovah. 556 00:49:18,359 --> 00:49:22,359 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He didn't want anybody saying this was a trick of some kind 557 00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:33,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So he sent them to to get the the water to pour it over the the altar 558 00:49:44,079 --> 00:49:50,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice that Elijah the prophet came near and said 559 00:49:51,140 --> 00:50:02,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God of Israel, and I am your servant, and that I have done all these things 560 00:50:03,460 --> 00:50:04,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: At your word. 561 00:50:04,740 --> 00:50:16,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that the people may know that you are the Lord God, and that you have turned their hearts back to you again. 562 00:50:19,279 --> 00:50:23,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Did you see it? 563 00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:27,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice. 564 00:50:27,660 --> 00:50:35,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the wood and the stones and the dust, it licked up the water that was in the trench. 565 00:50:35,820 --> 00:50:37,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Did you see the fire? 566 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:46,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My guess is, friends, that the people there on Mount Carmel, they saw the fire. 567 00:50:47,220 --> 00:50:50,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But it w not just the people on Mount Carmel. 568 00:50:50,180 --> 00:50:57,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My guess is the people on the Phoenician side of the mountain, the one that's that that were worshiping Baal. 569 00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:03,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They may have not been up on the mountain, but my guess is they saw the fire. 570 00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:07,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And there were parts of Israel on the other side that did not climb up the mountain. 571 00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:09,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were not part of the congregation. 572 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:11,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But my guess is 573 00:51:11,420 --> 00:51:16,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They saw the fire. 574 00:51:16,300 --> 00:51:18,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they looked at their watches. 575 00:51:18,220 --> 00:51:19,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I'm sorry. 576 00:51:19,020 --> 00:51:22,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They looked at the sun and they knew what time it was. 577 00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:31,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they could imagine that this was the Creator God that had brought fire down from heaven. 578 00:51:40,799 --> 00:51:44,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and they said 579 00:51:45,020 --> 00:51:47,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Lord He is God. 580 00:51:47,900 --> 00:51:51,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Lord He is God 581 00:51:55,860 --> 00:51:57,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Hallelujah. 582 00:51:58,020 --> 00:52:01,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean you talk about a miracle. 583 00:52:01,700 --> 00:52:04,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's the better bigger miracle? 584 00:52:04,420 --> 00:52:09,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fire coming down and consuming the altar, the sacrifice, the wood, the water, and everything. 585 00:52:09,860 --> 00:52:11,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is that the bigger miracle? 586 00:52:11,220 --> 00:52:14,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or are people's hearts being changed? 587 00:52:15,620 --> 00:52:21,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, people are always asking me, Pastor, why do we not see miracles today 588 00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why don't we see more healings? 589 00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why don't we see fire coming down from heaven? 590 00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why don't we see? 591 00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:37,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And my response is because the miracles we do see we're not appreciating. 592 00:52:38,220 --> 00:52:46,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, when a heart is changed, that's bigger than fire coming down from heaven. 593 00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:50,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah. 594 00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:56,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When a heart is changed, that's bigger than someone being healed 595 00:52:57,660 --> 00:53:05,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When a heart is changed, that's bigger than when we go out and anoint someone and they're on their deathbed and we anoint them. 596 00:53:05,940 --> 00:53:09,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they get up and they begin to walk and live. 597 00:53:09,140 --> 00:53:14,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We say hallelujah for those things, but let me tell you, when a heart is changed. 598 00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:23,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's a miracle. 599 00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:31,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says the people fell on their faces and they said, The Lord, He is God, the Lord He is God. 600 00:53:33,579 --> 00:53:38,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The problem is I don't think their heart was changed. 601 00:53:38,460 --> 00:53:40,859 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I think they were just giving lip service 602 00:53:42,859 --> 00:53:45,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To what they had seen in the fire. 603 00:54:00,460 --> 00:54:06,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We often skip the next verse when we're telling the children's story 604 00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Don't we? 605 00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:15,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 40, and Elijah said to them, Seize the prophets of Baal, do not let one of them escape. 606 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:18,359 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the brook. 607 00:54:18,260 --> 00:54:24,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Kishon and executed them there. 608 00:54:24,020 --> 00:54:26,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why do we skip that part of the story? 609 00:54:28,660 --> 00:54:30,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's gruesome. 610 00:54:33,460 --> 00:54:35,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What was Elisha doing there? 611 00:54:35,780 --> 00:54:37,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, I said Elisha. 612 00:54:37,220 --> 00:54:39,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah doing there. 613 00:54:39,780 --> 00:54:42,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was performing surgery. 614 00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:49,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He had opened up the body of Israel. 615 00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:54,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And now he was trying to get the cancer out of the body. 616 00:54:55,740 --> 00:55:01,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was trying to eradicate the problem. 617 00:55:01,020 --> 00:55:08,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was trying to cut out the prophets of Baal, the prophets of Asherah, and he was trying to take that out of the body. 618 00:55:07,900 --> 00:55:13,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So it would not cause problems inside of the body of Israel any longer. 619 00:55:13,579 --> 00:55:18,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, when we talk about it in surgical terms, we don't have a problem with it. 620 00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:27,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why is it we have a problem with it when we talk about it in the in in the in the body of Israel? 621 00:55:28,839 --> 00:55:36,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When God has to take care of some of these issues that are taking place within his people 622 00:55:37,339 --> 00:55:42,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's what God was doing when God brought the children of Israel to Canaan. 623 00:55:42,300 --> 00:55:43,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's what he was doing. 624 00:55:43,420 --> 00:55:48,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was eradicating the sin problem that was there in Canaan. 625 00:55:49,800 --> 00:56:03,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's what God does on a on a not a regular basis, but occasionally those those Old Testament stories that we don't like, that we're we're uncomfortable with, we think it's it's not showing the 626 00:56:03,740 --> 00:56:07,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: true character of God that we see in the New Testament. 627 00:56:07,740 --> 00:56:10,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, that's a loving God. 628 00:56:10,860 --> 00:56:12,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's a God that cares for his people. 629 00:56:12,940 --> 00:56:14,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's a God that loves his people. 630 00:56:14,620 --> 00:56:17,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's a God that is trying to eradicate the cancer that has caught 631 00:56:18,700 --> 00:56:24,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Caused problems for his people Israel. 632 00:56:24,780 --> 00:56:32,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He's trying to take care of that that sin problem, that cancer that needs to be eradicated. 633 00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:39,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's why Elijah said, seize them. 634 00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:44,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's why he called them forward to execute them. 635 00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:51,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, I'm going to tell you, we're living in the days of Elijah. 636 00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:55,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Wickedness is permeated, has permeated our land. 637 00:56:56,220 --> 00:57:01,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're naive when we think that it's not in our church. 638 00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:16,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're told that the two, the wheat and the tares, grow together until the end, when the judgment will come. 639 00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:29,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But we, the followers of Jehovah, the followers of God, need to be calling sin by its right name. 640 00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:33,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Unashamed and unterrified. 641 00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:38,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to be calling people 642 00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:41,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Whose side are you on? 643 00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:46,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you on God's side or are you on Satan's side? 644 00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:47,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you on God's side? 645 00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:49,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you on the world's side? 646 00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:52,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is God number one in your life? 647 00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:57,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or do you have a divided allegiance? 648 00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:05,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The best way for us to do this is through prayer. 649 00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:13,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What do we see Elijah doing over and over and over and over and over again? 650 00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:19,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Praying, praying, praying, praying. 651 00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Before this began, he was praying. 652 00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:24,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: During the process, he is praying. 653 00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:28,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When he's calling fire down from heaven, he is praying. 654 00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:36,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, many people say to me, Pastor, I I I I I I can't give a Bible study 655 00:58:37,779 --> 00:58:39,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I can't sing. 656 00:58:39,059 --> 00:58:40,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I can't preach. 657 00:58:40,180 --> 00:58:43,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I can't teach a Sabbath school class. 658 00:58:43,299 --> 00:58:46,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My question is, can you pray? 659 00:58:47,260 --> 00:58:49,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can you pray? 660 00:58:49,340 --> 00:58:51,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Start there. 661 00:58:51,660 --> 00:58:55,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Start with the broken heart that you have for the world that you live in. 662 00:58:55,660 --> 00:58:57,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Start with the broken heart that you have. 663 00:58:57,740 --> 00:58:59,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For the family that you have. 664 00:58:59,340 --> 00:59:02,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Start with the broken heart that you have for your co-workers. 665 00:59:02,700 --> 00:59:05,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Start with that and pray. 666 00:59:05,660 --> 00:59:09,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you start with that and pray, you may be surprised 667 00:59:10,260 --> 00:59:13,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: what God can give you the conviction to do 668 00:59:21,380 --> 00:59:26,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, I gotta stop. 669 00:59:26,579 --> 00:59:32,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But with a message like that today, I have to ask 670 00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:38,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Whose side are you on? 671 00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:45,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Whose side are you on? 672 00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:55,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you on the Lord side 100%, or is your your foot still on the dock and the boat? 673 00:59:57,900 --> 01:00:04,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have you decided whose side you want to live on for good? 674 01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:14,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now is the time to decide. 675 01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:17,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're going to sing, we could call our singers up here. 676 01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:19,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're going to sing the days of Elijah. 677 01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:22,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As our closing hymn. 678 01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:27,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, while we sing the days of Elijah, we're going to sing the first verse. 679 01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And during the first verse, if you are an individual that 680 01:00:31,420 --> 01:00:36,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You have not been baptized and you would like to be baptized. 681 01:00:36,540 --> 01:00:42,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you would like to be baptized, I invite you to come forward during the first verse. 682 01:00:42,839 --> 01:00:43,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay? 683 01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:46,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm asking you to come forward during the first verse. 684 01:00:46,839 --> 01:00:54,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And if we have an elder or two that came forward at that time, they might meet you up here and pray with you. 685 01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's a clue to the elders, what I'm asking. 686 01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:06,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you're an elder, I want you to come forward during the first verse and meet individuals that are coming forward because they are are wanting to be baptized. 687 01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:07,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: During the second verse. 688 01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:12,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The second verse is when we get to talking about Ezekiel and the dry bones. 689 01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:21,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In the second verse, that is for anyone who needs to rededicate their life to Jesus. 690 01:01:20,820 --> 01:01:25,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you said, hey, I've been getting caught up in the world just too much. 691 01:01:25,460 --> 01:01:33,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want to rededicate myself for Yahweh, for Jehovah, for the Creator God. 692 01:01:34,380 --> 01:01:41,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm asking you to come forward during the second verse. 693 01:01:41,579 --> 01:01:45,819 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let us stand as we sing the days of Elijah.