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1 Kings chapter 13 and I'll begin reading with verse 29 of 1 Kings chapter 13 and the

prophet took up the corpse of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back

and so the old prophet came to the city to mourn and to bury him and he laid the corpse in his own

tomb and mourned over him saying, I'll ask my brother. So it was after he had buried

him that he spoke to his son saying, when I am dead, then bury me in the tomb where this

man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones and I'll stop reading there. This

is a remarkable story that has caught my attention when I'm reading, I'll usually try to

read like a particular book of the Bible as I'm reading through the Bible and focus on

that book and study that book and as I read through 1 Kings, I love the Old Testament. This

story really stands out to me and I want to talk to you if I have a title for this sermon,

it would be summed up in one word, influence, influence because this is a story if you want

to sum up what it's all about, it's about influence. Let me take just a moment and tell you

what was taking place, what was going on and why it matters to your life today. The Bible

said that a prophet came to the city of Bethel where Joe Jeroboam was, he was the king of Israel

and he was blaspheming God in Bethel, which means the house of God. He was backslidden,

he was worshipping false idol gods and he was offering offerings to these idols in God's

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