Sharing good news of great joy to all people,
Elation Church. Today, the title of the message
is this, Demonstration and Power. Demonstration
and Power. Here we go. Going to start out by
reading 1 Kings chapter 18. Going to start with
verse 16. So if you just want to write down 1
Kings 18, 16 through 19, and then read it again
this week, because it's a lot of verses. And
I want you to listen like you've never heard
this story before, even though if you've spent
any time in church, you've heard this story.
Sometimes when we're very familiar with something,
we put our mind on idle. Do you know what I'm
talking about? My mind's been on idol a lot because
I thought I knew it. Well, I need to know what
God wants to speak to me today, right? So don't
put your mind on idol. 1 Kings 18, verse 16.
So Obadiah went to tell Ahab that Elijah had
come. And Ahab went out to meet Elijah. Ahab
is the king, in case you didn't know that. Elijah
is the prophet, in case you didn't know that.
When Ahab saw him, he exclaimed, so is it really
you, you troublemaker of Israel? Well, Ahab had
a point. We could say he had a point. Because
Elijah had been led by God. To prophesy that
it wasn't going to rain until he said it was
going to rain. So now we've gone over three years
in a drought. To put it in context. Here's the
deal. God wasn't punishing the people. He was
trying to wake the people up. Look to the person
beside you and say, wake up. See, God had promised
that as long as they acknowledged him as God,
worshiped him and obeyed him and kept his word,
God said it will always rain. There will never
be a famine. There will never be a drought. That
was God's promise. But guess what? The people
had turned away from God. So just to make sure
they knew that that was a problem, the prophet
said, okay, it's not going to rain until I say
it's going to rain again. So it wasn't just something
just happening by chance. Okay, it's just, we're
not in a rainy season. So, you know, we have
cycles and it's... and it rains sometimes, and
it doesn't rain sometimes, El Nino and all that
kind of stuff, right? Somebody smile at least.
I mean, I know that's not a joke, but just so
they couldn't say, well, you know, that happens
every once in a while. It had been raining. The
prophet said, okay, it's not going to rain anymore
until I say it rains. At that point, wouldn't
you know that God had something to do with it?
So Ahab, a wicked king, married to Jezebel, an
extremely wicked woman. I don't know why people
named their little girls Jezebel. Maybe they
heard it in some kind of country song. But please
don't name anybody Jezebel. She was very wicked.
So he says, is that you? You're the troubler.
You're the one who said it wasn't going to rain.
So is it really you, you troublemaker of Israel?
Elijah says, I have made no trouble for Israel,
Elijah replied. You and your family are the troublemakers.
They were the ones promoting false religion,
false gods, that all the people had turned to.
Jezebel is the one who spearheaded that. You
and your family are the troublemakers, for you
have refused to obey the commands of the Lord
and have worshipped the images of Baal instead.
The trouble is coming from you, not from me.
Now summon. Elijah's coming on purpose because
Elijah has heard God. Everybody say you heard
God. Now summon all Israel to join me at Mount
Carmel along with the 450 prophets of Baal and
the 400 prophets of Asherah who are supported
by Jezebel. So here's 850 false prophets supported
by... The queen, I guess. So Ahab summoned all
the people of Israel and the prophets to Mount
Carmel. Then Elijah stood in front of them and
said, How much longer will you waver, hobbling
between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow
him. But if Baal is God, then follow him. Quit
wavering. Because I'm sure, even though they
were worshiping Baal, they would throw in God
a little bit. You know, God's the one who brought
us out of Egypt, but we worship Baal. You know.
They probably had Yahweh as an add -on God. They
still remembered some things. How much will you
waver? How much longer will you waver? Going
back and forth. Everybody say mixture. If the
Lord is God, follow him. But if Baal is God,
then follow him. But the people were completely
silent. Then Elijah said to them, I am the only
prophet of the Lord who is left, but Baal...
has 450 prophets. Now bring two bulls. The prophets
of Baal may choose whichever one they wish and
cut it into pieces and lay it on the wood of
their altar, but without setting fire to it.
I will prepare the other bull and lay it on the
wood on the altar, but not set fire to it. Then
call on the name of your God, and I will call
on the name of the Lord. The God who answers
by setting fire to the wood is the true God.
All the people agreed. Then Elijah said to the
prophets of Baal, You go first, for there are
many of you. Choose one of the bulls and prepare
it and call on the name of your God, but do not
set fire to the wood. So they prepared one of
the bulls and placed it on the altar. Then they
called on the name of Bell from morning until
noontime, shouting, Oh, Bell, answer us. But
there was no reply of any kind. Then they danced,
hobbling around the altar they had made. I don't
know why they chose the word hobbling. They danced
around the altar. Jumping around. I don't know
what hobbling looks like. I was going to do it
for you. About noontime. Everybody say trash
talk. About noontime, Elijah began mocking them.
You'll have to shout louder. He scoffed. For
surely, he's a God. Perhaps he's daydreaming.
Or he's relieving himself. Perhaps he's gone
to the bathroom. Maybe that's why he's not answering
you. That'd be a long bathroom break. Because
they've been going for hours already. Or maybe
he's away on a trip. Or is asleep and needs to
be wakened. So bump it up a notch. Get louder.
Dance bigger. Stir it up. So they shouted louder.
And following their normal custom, they cut themselves
with knives and swords until blood gushed out.
I mean, they're ramping it up as hard as they
can. They raved all afternoon until the time
of the evening sacrifice. Everybody say three
o 'clock. They raved all afternoon until the
time of the evening sacrifice. But still, there
was no sound, no reply, no response. So I imagine
they've been working it up for about five hours.
Because it was noontime the last time. It had
already been going for a long time. Now they
went for three more hours. I'm just going to
say, Bell had his chance. More than enough. By
the way, when Jesus was hanging on the cross,
it was three o 'clock when he said he was finished.
Time of the offering of the evening sacrifice,
just in case you don't know that. Then Elijah
called to the people, come over here. They all
crowded around him as he repaired the altar of
the Lord that had been torn down. You see, there
had been an altar on Mount Carmel to Yahweh.
It had been abandoned. It had been torn down
even. People weren't worshiping God, acknowledging
him. So he began to pick up the 12 stones, each
stone representing the tribes of Israel. So he
places those stones back and makes an altar again.
It was just a pile of stones. It had been knocked
down by the people. We don't know who knocked
it down. Maybe Jezebel knocked it down. We don't
know. But it was someone who was not honoring
God. That was the person who knocked it down.
And there were quite a few people not honoring
God. He took the 12 stones, one to represent
each of the tribes of Israel, and he used the
stones to rebuild the altar in the name of Yahweh,
the Lord. Then he dug a trench around the altar,
large enough to hold about three gallons. Or
you could say two seas of seed, but three gallons
communicates a little bit better, I believe,
to our minds. He piled wood on the altar, cut
the bull into pieces, laid the pieces on the
wood. Then he said, fill four large jars with
water and pour the water over the offering and
the wood. If you're looking for fire, you probably
don't need to drench it with water. I'm just
saying. After they had done this, he said, do
the same thing again. And when they were finished,
he said, now do it a third time. Make sure it's
good and wet and waterlogged. So they did, as
he said. You got to remember, it hadn't rained
in over three years. And now he's got, I don't
know, 18 gallons of water that he's poured, Over
this altar. And can you imagine people saying,
well, that's a waste. We're struggling for water.
Our crops are dying. Our animals are dying. We
don't have enough water. Why are you wasting
all this water? Well, after all this was over,
he said, I see a little bitty cloud. Do you see
it? I see a cloud. And even though it looks tiny,
rain's coming. I didn't mean to get to that part
of the story, but anyway. That's how, by faith,
he could just waste all the water he wanted.
Because he was going to call the end of the drought
right after what God was going to do. And how
the people were going to respond. After they
had done this, he said, do the same thing again.
When they were finished, he said, now do it a
third time. So they did as he said. And the water
ran around the altar, even filled the trench.
So the sacrifice is soaked. The wood is soaked.
The stones are soaked. The ground is soaked.
And there's a trench of standing water around
it. At the usual time for offering the evening
sacrifice, Elijah the prophet walked up to the
altar and prayed. Oh, Lord. Oh, Yahweh. The God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Listen to what
he says. Prove today that you are God in Israel.
Prove that you're God. That I'm your servant.
Listen to what he says. Prove that I have done
this at your command. Elijah wasn't just sitting
in his cave or his tent saying, you know what
would be cool? He's doing exactly what God told
him to do. Not what he created in his own imagination.
He's doing what God told him to do. Prove that
I have done all this at your command. Oh, Lord,
answer me. I mean, I bet he's praying loud because
there's thousands of people out there. He's talking
to God, but he's wanting to make sure everybody
can hear. Answer me, Lord. Yahweh, answer me.
Answer me so these people will know that you,
O Lord, O Yahweh, are God. Not this bell stuff.
Answer me so they'll know that you are the one
and only true God. Answer me, God. O Lord. Do
this so that everybody will know in the sound
of my voice that you love them and you want them
to come back. Right? So these people will know
that you are Lord, are God, and that you have
brought them back to yourself. Now based on these
statements, We know that Elijah had heard God.
And for him to call everybody out, the whole
nation and the prophets of Baal and Asherah,
to call them out to the mountain, to call all
the people. We know something. We know that he
believed God. We know that he had confidence
in what God had told him. We know that he was
standing in great expectation. You might want
to write these three things down. Or four things
or five things. How many ever I got there? I
don't have a little star here, but these are
important things. Not just for Elijah, but for
you. These are important things. Elijah heard
God. Elijah believed what God said. Elijah had
confidence in what God said. Elijah expected
God to do what he said he was going to do. Do
you see it in what he said? Do you see those
things? Do you see that he obeyed God? These
are key things. for all of us, every day, every
moment, every challenge. Here's what happened.
Immediately, everybody say immediately. Immediately,
the fire of Yahweh, every time it's all caps,
L -O -R -D, it's our English derivative of Yahweh.
Immediately, the fire of Yahweh flashed down
from heaven, burned up the soaking wet, drenched
young bull. Burned up. It didn't say like a little
spark started and a little flame came and then
they had to wait, you know, 30 minutes for the
bull to be burned up. Does it? Burned up the
young bull. Burned up the wood. Burned up the
stones. Twelve big boulders. It's just all turned
to ash right before their eyes. Immediately.
Everybody say immediately. It even burnt the
dust. It even licked up all the water in the
trench. No more water. The trench was full of
water. It's dry. Bone dry. Don't know how that
translates in the Spanish or French. Bone dry.
And look what happened. When all the people saw
it, they fell face down on the ground. Everybody
say a posture of worship. We went through, you
know, authentic praise and worship and one of
the, well, often in the Old Testament when you
just read the word worship, it's talking about
a position. He's talking about falling face down
before God. That's a posture of worship. And
it's considered worship to God. When you do it
out of a heart, you know, when it starts on the
inside, not just every time you lay face down,
that's not technically worship, but if it begins
in the heart, like you're just amazed and you're
in awe of God and you lay down face down. He
receives that as worship. When all the people
saw it, how many? Just about 10 or 20 standing
around the altar? Thousands of people. When all
the people saw it, they fell face down on the
ground and cried out, Yahweh is God! Can anybody
see why it was about to rain now? The demonstration
of the power of God was instrumental in the people
turning away from the powerless counterfeit.
They turned away from the powerless counterfeit
and they turned to The real living God. I love
this story. But the Bible is not just a history
book. It contains some history. But it's not
just a history book. It's more than a history
book. We shouldn't sit here and say, God, that
was amazing that you used to be able to do that.
Boy, it sure is amazing. All those Old Testament
stories that I read, it sure is amazing that
you did these remarkable things. God, that was
so awesome. Demonstration and power are important.
It's just as much important today as it's ever
been because we live in a world that's looking
for something real. Oh, they've had experience
with church before. But they've never seen the
real living God. I'm here today to tell you that
He's the same. Same God. Same God. He doesn't
change. So many people are desperate for something
real. They're searching for something real. But
what do we have to offer them? I want to break
down this verse and then we're going to be done.
Don't take that as we're about done and about
to walk out the door because it's going to take
a few minutes to break down this verse. 1 Corinthians
2. verses 4 and 5. This just shows us that Paul
believed the same thing that Elijah believed.
Very clear. He's talking to the Corinthians.
There's been false prophets, false teachers.
trying to mess up. I mean, Paul would go to a
place and plant a church in a community, and
then other people would come in and they would
say, well, you know, what Paul says isn't actually
true. You've still got to earn righteousness
just like we used to. You know, all this great
stuff, we can't run away with that. We can't
get too wrapped up in that because, you know,
we got to work for it, earn it, deserve it. And
then there were other people doing witchcraft
in these cities. And they're saying, we have
the power to help you deal with the situations
that you're dealing with. We can help you. That's
how they were making a living, you know. Just
like the signs up and down 27. Palm reading.
All this kind of stuff. It's no different, same
thing. Here's what Paul said. He said, my message
and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive
words. Paul was smart. Paul was, they called
him a Pharisee of Pharisees. He had studied under
the most renowned Pharisee, Gamaliel, that there
was at the time. He had studied under him. He
was highly educated. And we find in Romans when
he went to Athens, he like dealt with them philosophically
because that's what they were talking about.
When he said, oh, you have this statue to an
unknown God. Let me tell you who that is. You
know? But it was more than that. My message and
my preaching were not with, I would say, just
wise and persuasive words. But, with a demonstration
of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might
not rest on human wisdom, but that your faith
can rest on God, on God's power, so that your
faith can rest on a real God doing real things
in front of your eyes. Think about that a minute.
We're going to look at four Greek words. Message.
He said, my message. That's the word logos. Now,
when I did a word study, normally I would say
logos is a written word and rhema is a spoken
word. I mean, because that's just what I've heard
all my life. But, hey, you look it up and you
do a word study. Look it up yourself. This verse,
interlinear. Go to Bible, which one? Bible Hub?
Bible Hub, interlinear. Look at, you know, the
summary. Go down, read it yourself. Logos is
actually attached to Lego. Who remembers talking
about Lego? When we're talking about faith and
we're talking about our words, it's a systematic
discourse where you're building something. So
what Paul is saying is, when I've been talking
to you, when I've been writing to you, I've been
building something with my words. That's my message.
And I'll go ahead and put it this far. When you
come to Elation Church, And Jeffrey and I are
preaching and bringing a message. We are building
something with our words. Because we use words.
We have a microphone, right? So we're building,
building faith with our words. Building hope
with our words. Building life with our words.
Building a way to a relationship with God with
our words. Faithfulness. And his preaching. He
said, my message and my preaching. This word
means an authoritative, public, good news announcement.
delivered on behalf of a sovereign. See, this
good news announcement, this authoritative public
good news announcement is not delivered from
Paul. He's delivering it from God. It's a public
declaration of God's redemptive work in Christ.
So the preaching is supposedly building a case
and letting you know what it means to be in Christ,
what God has made available to you, who you have
become, who you are in Christ, who God is, what
God does. Does that sound familiar to anybody?
Here's the deal. It's more than words and ideas.
It is words and ideas. But if that's all it is,
then every single one of us, we're just wasting
our time. If we're just coming together, together
to look into God's Word just for more words and
more ideas from the preacher, we're completely
wasting our time. And we would be just like so
many. We couldn't offer anybody anything. Because
people could come here and hear these words and
these ideas and they could leave no different.
Unchanged. And leave going, I tried that religion
thing again and it's just not working. There's
no demonstration and no power. If all it is is
words and ideas, then we might as well load it
up and go to a theme park on Sunday morning.
They have words and ideas too. Come on somebody.
But what did Paul say? My message and my preaching
were not with wise and persuasive words. It's
more than words, more than ideas. It's a demonstration
of God's power. Because the Holy Spirit is God.
Demonstration of God's power. Demonstration.
Here's your Greek word. What does that mean?
It means a manifest, observable proof that validates
a claim. And I ask you, does that sound like
what Elijah said on Mount Carmel? Prove to the
people that you're God. Prove that I'm your servant.
Prove that I've done all these things at your
word. A manifest observable proof that validates
a claim. And get this, it's the tangible way
the Holy Spirit authenticates the preaching and
the message. The proclamation. Power. Same word
in Acts 1 -8 where it says, you'll receive power.
When the Holy Ghost comes upon you, you will
receive power. It's power to achieve. Get this.
It's power to achieve by applying the Lord's
inerrant abilities. So it's not our power. God
empowers us. It's the process of him applying
his inerrant abilities. You could put it this
way. Power through God's ability. Not human power.
Power through God's ability. So, how does this
apply to us? We've got some statements. that
I really need you to consider. I'm not going
to have it up here so long that you can write
it all down, but take a picture of it, write
it down later. As followers of Christ, we shouldn't
be just expecting information. Words and ideas.
Now if you come expecting just words and ideas,
that's probably what you're going to leave with.
Because that's what you were expecting. And God
will meet you at the point of your expectation.
But God is expecting us to expect more than words
and ideas. Not just expecting information. As
Christ followers, as children of God, we need
to always be expecting a demonstration and a
transformation by God's power. Now listen, some
of you are like, well, I'm not going to go build
an altar and ask God to call down fire when I'm
at work this week. What are you saying, Dean?
Is that what you're saying we need to do? We
need to go get some rocks, stand out in our front
yard, call all of our neighbors, you know. Round
up the stray cat in the neighborhood. Put it
on the altar. I'm allergic to cats. That's why
I use cats. I mean, is that what you're asking
us to do? Get our neighbors to come over? Say,
hey, y 'all watch this. Y 'all watch this. Oh,
God. Prove yourself. By burning. up his cat.
The cat's already dead. Maybe it was run over
in the road. I don't know. Like I said, I'm allergic
to cats. What should I use? I like possums. I'm
just kidding. If you put them in a sweet box
and give them some good cornbread, they might
turn into a good... I do know a guy that... Eight
possums. But anyway, after you sweeten them up.
Don't get lost in the joke. Here's the deal.
Now listen to me. With God, there is no difference
in what we might consider a small demonstration
of his power and the fire on Mount Carmel. It's
all the same to him. But I am telling you, he
wants to work in you to demonstrate His power.
Because people are looking for something real.
We don't just replicate the things that we read
in the Old Testament. God wants to work in you
and through you where you are. He wants to show
himself. To those around you. So that they will
see him and know that he's real. And he wants
to do that in you and through you. You need to
come expecting God to speak to you. Every time
you open your Bible, you need to expect God to
speak to you. Because He is speaking to you.
That He would cause His Word to come alive. It's
not just a history book. I said it before. It's
the living Word of God. So we need to expect
to hear from God. He's living in us. We need
to acknowledge Him and ask Him to speak to us
and give us ears to hear, eyes to see. Here's
the problem. We go about our life just in a flesh
and soul mode. Almost all the time. But we need,
get this, we need to learn to be who we are.
We are a spirit. We live in a body and we have
a soul. We need to start working on living as
spirits in this world. Because that's who we
are. But the world will tell you that you're
just your mind, your will, and emotions in a
body. But we are spirits created in the image
of God. Walking in this earth. Representing God
who is spirit. He made us like himself in his
image. We're spirits. We need to learn to live
as spirits, not as soulish and fleshly beings.
We need to expect God to speak to us. We need
to be determined to take action on what he says.
Just as kind of revealing some of the sermon
because I was so excited about it. I was like,
well, God, just help us say yes even before you
say anything. Help us to be in that point where
we're going to say yes. Speak to me, God. Show
me a step. Show me a word. Show me a touch. Show
me a gift. Whatever it is. I'm ready to say yes
even before you ask me or tell me. You think
that might be where Elijah was before he just
summoned everybody to the mountain? We don't
know that for sure. It's not written, but somebody
that bold? God's not asking you to call down
fire from heaven to consume the possum. I'll
switch to possum. They got run over in the road.
Because the majority of us would say, ain't no
way, God. Ain't no way I'd do that. I'd look
like a fool. All my neighbors would run me out
of the neighborhood. Call me a crazy old fool.
Well, if you just did it in your own imagination,
I'd call you a fool too. Hey, but if God told
you to do it, Would you have the expectation
and the confidence to do it? Expecting God to
speak to you. Be determined to take action on
what he says. I don't want to ever argue with
God when he tells me to do something again. Because
I've done it. I don't know if you've done it
or not, but I've done it. We need to get away
from that. See, demonstration and power are connected
to our hearing, believing, and doing, just like
it was Elijah. I see you taking pictures. For
us to see it, for God to use us in this way,
It's going to be connected to our hearing God,
our believing God, and our obeying God, doing
what he says to do. Quickly. We need to live
our lives expecting to see and experience a demonstration
of God's power. Most of the time when we talk
about faith, we're talking about how it can benefit
us. Aren't we? Most of the time. To help us through
the trouble that we're in, the hurdle that we're
facing, the past thing that's messed up today,
we can have faith to overcome those things. Based
on what God has said. And it is. Look to the
person beside you and say, you're going to enjoy
it. You're going to enjoy the demonstration and
power of God working. You're going to enjoy it.
You're going to enjoy it. How many of you think
Elijah just, this is amazing. Do you think he
enjoyed it that day when the fire came down and
consumed the sacrifice? I mean, he was expecting
it. He was confident. He did it. But it's always
awesome to see God do it. I've got testimony
after testimony after testimony where I believed,
I heard, and I believed, and I expected, but
it's always pretty awesome when God does it.
And we see it. Right? So we're going to enjoy
it. We're going to enjoy the breakthrough. We're
going to enjoy overcoming and the victory. We're
going to enjoy the deliverance. We're going to
enjoy the restoration. We're going to enjoy the
miracle. Right? It's for you, but it's for more
than you. Look to the person beside you and say,
it's for more than you. I mean, you might can
live the rest of your life without the breakthrough,
without the victory, without the deliverance,
and without the restoration, without the miracle.
You can live the rest of your life without that.
And still make it to heaven one day when you
die. Right? How many of you think it'd be a whole
lot better with it? And here's the deal. It's
for more than you. Because this is generational.
We need to start thinking generational. When
we read our Bibles, we see that so many promises
and so many things actually... kept multiplying
over generation, over generation, over generation.
Here's an example. Abraham. Did he ever have
more physical children walking around his house?
Did he ever have more children than the stars
in the sky? I mean, did he ever experience that?
Were there like millions of children running
around him and Sarah? But he heard and he believed.
And he received a miracle. Right? 100 -year -old
man, 90 -year -old woman having a baby. Look
to the person beside you and raise your eyebrows
and say, that's a miracle. That's a miracle.
He received a miracle, but it was for more than
him. Over a million people coming out of Egypt.
That's a lot of children, but it was generational.
His offspring got the land that God had given
him. It's generational. Here's the deal. You
experiencing the demonstration and the power
of God in your life in such a way that is not
just something that you keep a secret, but everybody
else can even notice the change. Notice the transformation.
Notice the miracle. They see evidence of the
testimony. Because sometimes we can give testimonies
in church that are not really a reflection of
what's happening on Tuesday morning. preaching
good. It's generational. See, that same list
again. Your breakthrough, your victory, your
deliverance, your restoration, your miracle is
going to make a difference. That demonstration
of the power of God instead of just your words
and your ideas about God. When your family sees
a demonstration of the power of God in your life,
when they see something real that has changed,
not just words changing, but a real change, it's
going to get their attention. It's going to be
just like that fire coming down on Mount Carmel
when it's a real deal by a real God and there's
no other explanation. other than God did it.
You know who I used to be, but look what the
Lord has done. They might even say, something's
done happened to you. You're not the same person
you used to be. And that's when you can, let
me tell you what God did. It's not only generational,
it's territorial. Everybody say territorial.
Because when your life becomes a testimony or
a proof, hello somebody, when your life becomes
a proof of the goodness of God, it's going to
change more than your family. It's going to change
everywhere you go. Because people who used to
know the way you were, or they knew what you
have been dealing with, and they see, I'll pull
up the list again, when they see, when your co
-workers, when your neighbors, See the breakthrough?
It's no different than the fire from heaven coming
down. Same thing. God sees it the same. It's
all spectacular to Him. But when they see the
breakthrough in your life, when they see the
victory in your life, when the wine is permanently
removed from your voice, you're just whining
like the world. I love it when I think about
things that aren't in my notes. when the wine
is gone from your voice, when the problem that
they have seen in your life because you've been
whining about it, when they see the breakthrough,
when they see the victory, when they see the
deliverance, when they see the restoration, when
they see the miracle, God wants to use your life,
the situations of your life, to prove himself
by demonstrating his power in your life. Let's
pray. God, I thank you for your word. Thank you
for what you've been working in me all week.
Thank you for the things that you've brought
to my mind even as I presented what I knew so
far. Thank you for those touches to speak to
my heart and to speak to each person's heart
in here. Help us to take hold of it. Don't let
us run away from it. Help us take hold of it.
God, we expect, I expect, to see demonstrations
of your power in your people in this room this
week. I expect to see it. And I expect to hear
about it. And I expect, just like Elijah, that
people will be drawn to you because you are proving
your goodness and your faithfulness and your
word through your people as we become the demonstration
of your power. Thank you. Thank you. In Jesus'
name I pray. Amen. This online worship experience
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