Well, amen and amen.

Church, if you got your Bibles, and I hope you do, grab them.

We're going to be in First Kings, chapter 18, for the most part.

And we are in week three of this series, if the tomb is empty.

And each week, we've been coming back to this question,

what do you do when you find yourself in an impossible situation?

And week after week after week, we have not been studying characters in a story because this

is not just a story.

These are actual people, these are actual events, these things actually happen.

And if God can do miracles in the lives of these men and women that are recorded in our

scriptures, then surely he can do miracles in the lives of these men and women that are recorded in our scriptures,

then surely he can do miracles in our life too. And what we're pointing to is resurrection weekend, resurrection Sunday, that we're studying how God moved in these men and women's lives,

but ultimately what we're looking at is that if the tomb is empty anything is possible and once again

in first kings chapter 18 we're going to find a seemingly impossible situation so if you got your

bible go there but i'm going to back up to first king 17 we're going to do three chapters so just

hang in there that's all right only take three four hours but it'd be good time. I just want to give you a little context of what's happening.

The question that we're going to be asking and answering is this.

Why are you still holding on to an idol?

Why are you still holding on to an idol?

The prophet that we're looking at is named Elijah.

First King, Chapter 17, verse one, says this. Now Elijah, this is our prophet,

the Tishbite from Tishby, because that's where Tishbites are from, I guess, in Gilead says to

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