The Lord sent His great messenger Elijah to anoint a prophet to follow him.

God chose someone ordinary.

Elijah found Elijah, a nobody, plowing his father's field.

And what was Elijah's response?

He burned his plow and left everything he knew to answer God's call.

Elijah, a tale of ridiculous faith.

Hey, welcome to day two.

All of you at all of our life churches and those of you in our extended network church family.

We're also very thankful for those joining us from countries all over the world at church online.

Today, we are starting a brand new four-week message series on the life of the Old Testament prophet named Elijah.

We've subtitled it a tale of ridiculous faith.

And I want to say very sincerely that I believe for many of you the next four weeks will be a defining moment in your relationship with God.

I have one goal and one purpose only and that is to allow the teaching of God's word to build your faith, to give you a ridiculous amount of faith.

Now, if you're a little bit old school ridiculous is actually good in this sense, right?

How many of you notice that there are a lot of words that have opposite meanings?

They mean what they mean and they mean the opposite.

If you notice that, bad used to mean bad.

Now bad can mean good, right?

If it's bad, it's good.

If it's bad, it's bad.

Sick is the same thing, right?

Sick is like sick.

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