Amen and amen. That was Pastor Justin Todd. He is the campus pastor at our Mandarin campus,

and though I'm very sorry you felt like you had to walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I don't care because it landed you here. And that is a man of God, and he is doing a wonderful job.

And we should give him honor, especially those of you at Mandarin. Amen? All right, let's go.

Hey, if you got your Bibles, I hope you do, First King, Chapter 17, go ahead and start looking there now. We're going to be there for many, many, many weeks. So it might take it two or three weeks to find it. It's in the Old Testament. If you get to Second Kings, you've gone too far, back up one. We're going to study this man named Elijah. I'm going to study the life of a prophet.

This is big P. Prophet. We're going to study this man named Elijah. We're going to study the life of a prophet.

This is big P prophet.

This is an office given by God.

And if you're called a prophet in the Bible, that means that these big P prophets spoke the words of God.

Now, we don't have these kind of prophets these days. Okay, now we have the

gift from God that is a little P prophet, which means we speak from the word of God. There's a difference.

I'd be really careful. Maybe anybody ascribes to themselves this kind of title. Amen? Oh,

you don't even know. Okay? You're like, really? Really? We're going to pick it up in 1st King chapter 17 starts out this way. This makes me laugh so much. Elijah, the Tishbite from Tishby, because that's where Tishbites are from. I don't know. Why would you say that? But it did. Now Elijah, the Tishbite from Tishby in Gilead said to Ahab. Okay, so who are we talking about here?

Who is Elijah?

This is the first time the Bible ever mentions Elijah, and Elijah is going to come up for the first time in 1st King 17, and he's mentioned all the way through virtually into the New Testament.

He's a really big deal.

He is a prophet of God, but he just kind of comes walking

out of nowhere from this little tiny nowhere town. Nobody knew anything about Tishby. It was like

Dylan or Palacca, okay? There's just nobody there. And he just shows up. And in fact, in the New

Testament, he's compared to John the Baptist. John the Baptist comes in the spirit of Elijah.

And we know some stuff about John the Baptist. We know he yells a lot. We know he's got a big

beard. We know he like wears camel hair. Not like, not like, like he saw the camel,

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