Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll Podcast.

For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in

Scottsdale, Arizona, visit realfabe.com where you'll find study guides to go along with

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Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.

Alright, if you've got your Bible, find First Kings chapter 18 in the Old Testament.

We're continuing our Elijah series.

I hope you're enjoying it.

And today is a guaranteed nuclear mind melt.

That's where we're going.

That's what we're doing.

And so what we learned at the beginning of the study of Elijah is that God sent the prophet

to pronounce judgment on A-hab, the passive king in Jezebel, the controlling queen of Israel.

And God said, you've not honored me, you've not regarded me.

Therefore I am going to withhold rain for more than three years.

And there will be judgment that comes upon the nation.

Well that indeed happened.

And where we find ourselves in the story today, it's been three and a half years without

rain.

And the economy is devastated.

The crops are decimated.

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