Hey, church family, if you got your Bible, it's Devo Time, Second King's Chapter 4.

And what I want to do today is, again, apply what we talked about a couple of days ago.

I want to take a look at an Old Testament event.

By the way, I don't like to call them stories.

Because when we hear the word story,

we think like fable or veggie tales or a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. And this isn't

that. This is an event that happened with some real life people that just lived a long time ago.

So I want to take a look at an Old Testament event and see how we read the Bible with our

gospel glasses on, our gospel lenses,

and we see what we can learn about Christ through the events in the Old Testament.

You see, ultimately, if Jesus is the fulfillment of all prophecies, then every prophet

pointed to Jesus, not only with the prophecies and words they spoke,

but with their actions too. And so we're going to look at an event with one of the prophets

Elisha. Okay? I like Elisha a lot, partly because in Second Kings chapter two, apparently

Elisha's baldheaded and some kids were making fun of him one day.

They said, go on up your bald head.

And he called out a curse upon them and two she bears came out of the woods and mauled 42 youths.

That's what the Bible says.

So he's always been one of my favorites.

So in this one, he's more of a hero than killing kids. But in 2nd Kings chapter 4,

verse 8, it says this. One day, Elisha went to Shunum where a wealthy woman lived who urged him to

eat some food. And so whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food. And she said

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