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Some of the things that he was explaining was just so simple, but it was truth that just hit right home.

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Today I'm in the middle of my fourth week of teaching on Elijah, and I've got this product and title a book and title lessons from Elijah.

I've got this also in a study guide, and then I have CDs and DVDs on this teaching, and I tell you this is powerful.

Some of the most important things that God have shown me are illustrated in the life of Elijah, and this is what first Corinthians chapter 10 verses 6 through 11 says that all of these things were written for our learning, so that we could learn through them, so that we could be inspired by the good things that people did, but also learn by their mistakes.

And I tell you, Elijah was probably used as mildly as any man of God has ever been used, but he also blew it big time.

And that's what I've been talking about this week out of first Kings chapter 19, Jezebel when she heard about Elijah killing all of the prophets of Bale.

She was so incensed, she sent a messenger with a note and said, I'm going to kill you and make your life like one of those prophets of Bale that you killed yesterday.

And it says when Elijah saw that, when he saw himself dead, he ran for his life.

And he ran away from the revival that he had caused. It was God's power, but it was in him, and he ran away from where he should have been, and he ran away from the thing.

And yet God didn't forsake him. He gave him supernatural strength, brought him to Mount Sinai, which is where Moses encountered God. It's where the law was given.

So many great things happened in Mount Sinai. God drew Elijah unto himself even after a major failure. And he was trying, I believe, to rehabilitate Elijah. Elijah had just failed big time.

Most people would kick you to the curb and say, what use are you to me? And yet God still wanted to use Elijah.

So then he asked him a question. He says, what are you doing here? Elijah, you should be there where the power of God is in demonstration.

And the people are ready to turn to the Lord. And you should be there ministering to them and Elijah totally gave the wrong answer.

And here's what he said. And he gave it twice. I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts. You know what he's doing? He's still proclaiming his own goodness.

He's basically saying that my failure is not my fault. I tell you, this is so typical.

When Adam sent and God said, what have you done? He says, it's that woman that you gave me. He passed the book to Eve and then ultimately tried to blame God because God's the one that created to even cause this whole mess is what he's saying.

And people have done this. I've got a friend, a man who I used to be fairly good friends with. And he, he was a minister and he fell into sin.

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