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 very well led by the musicians, so thank you for that.

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 I was thinking whether I'd share this with you, and I think I will.

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 The first of the three songs we sang, I find a very difficult song.

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 It's really good. I mean, the words are wonderful.

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 But I won't go into details, but I was in a particularly difficult stage in my life

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 with someone I loved very deeply, very sick.

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 And I went to church, and that song was sung.

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 And the words were very helpful to me, but the tune, I think, doesn't work.

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 It's sort of too happy.

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 You know, the words are taken from the book of Job, of course,

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 the Lord gives and the Lord takes away.

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 That's the truth.

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 And it's a wonderful truth and an important truth.

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 But it's not a light-hearted truth.

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 You know, we are thankful for what the Lord gives us,

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 and what the Lord gives us, he can take away.

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 And that can be very painful.

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 Very, very painful.

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 So, I don't know why I'm sharing this with you,

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 but it's worth, and particularly musos, you did a great job this morning,

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 but sometimes, you know, the songwriters have given us wonderful words,

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 but the music doesn't quite match.

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 I find that tune just a little bit too boppy,

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 to be singing about the Lord gives and the Lord takes away.

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 That's so sombre.

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 I'm not being critical of anyone, you understand.

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 I'm just sharing with you my own emotions.

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 And I was standing there not singing.

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 I was hoping no one would notice me not singing,

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 but I was quite moved by just remembering the time

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 when my loved one actually recovered,

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 and the Lord did not take that loved one on that particular occasion.

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 But I was so caught up with not being able to cope with a song

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 that, with its music, seemed to trivialise something so profound

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 as the Lord gives and the Lord takes away.

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 Blessed be the name of the Lord.

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 Again, I'm sorry.

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 That's probably an utter irrelevance, so I apologise for that.

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 So why I feel free to do that is that over this weekend,

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 we've sort of shortened what we've been doing.

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 I'm getting tired, you see, and I think you're getting tired as well.

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 So we started looking at the books of 1 and 2 Kings, right?

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 The first talk on Friday night, some of you weren't with us,

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 but those of you who were, we looked at the whole of the book of 2 Kings

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 and tried to get oriented to that.

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 And then yesterday morning, we looked at a long section of 2 Kings, chapter 2,

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 which was quite a long narrative.

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 And then yesterday in the second talk,

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 we narrowed down and looked at two incidents,

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 rather dramatic incidents.

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 Well, now we're just going to look at one incident, all right?

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 I thought I had time to talk about my own personal experience

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 in the beginning.

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 I probably will turn out to regret that.

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 But before we turn to 2 Kings, chapter 4,

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 and the incident we want to look at there in the life of Elisha,

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 I want to think again with you for a moment

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 about the accounts of the life of Jesus in the New Testament.

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 Because if you were with us yesterday,

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 you'll know that we're noticing connections and similarities

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 between the life of Elisha and the life of Jesus.

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 And those connections sometimes are quite remarkable

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 and illuminating.

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 But one of the striking things,

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 we noticed yesterday we were thinking about the miracles,

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 the accounts of the miracles of Jesus

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 and what we were to make of them.

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 But there's another feature.

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 I often feel I'd love to come to the Gospels

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 as though I'd never seen them before.

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 I wonder how I'd react.

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 And it's hard to work it out, isn't it?

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 Because most of us are so familiar with the Gospels.

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 And even if we're not familiar with the accounts of Jesus,

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 most of us probably have a reasonable familiarity

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 with the stories and the general kind of material.

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 I'd love to come to it for the first time.

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 And sometimes you meet somebody who's never really heard about Jesus

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 and they read a Gospel.

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 And a whole lot of things strike them.

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 And one of the remarkable things that I think,

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 even if you don't notice it, probably strikes you,

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 is the amount of space given in the account of the life of Jesus Christ.

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 The amount of space given to Jesus dealing with really, really ordinary people.

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 Right?

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 Here is the greatest man who has ever lived.

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 Undeniable, undebatable, that particular proposition.

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 The greatest man who has ever lived.

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 If you think it's debatable, please come up with an alternative.

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 Who's greater?

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 The greatest man who has ever lived.

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 And as the story of his life is told,

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 one of the things that is absolutely, perfectly crystal clear

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 is that this man cared about the poor

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 and the outcast

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 and the troubled individuals who crossed his path

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 and he encountered.

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 And I think this is curious.

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 If you go back, you know, to the ancient world

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 and really great figures that we know about,

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 the biographies of great figures

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 do not usually give a great deal of attention

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 to encounters with insignificant people.

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 If you had an account,

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 and of course there are plenty of them,

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 sorry, there are a number of them,

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 accounts of the life of Julius Caesar,

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 someone like that,

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 you won't find a lot of space

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 given to how he dealt with powerless,

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 unimportant individuals.

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 Now I say ordinary and insignificant,

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 I use those sort of words,

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 but it's perfectly clear from the records

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 that that's not how Jesus regarded people.

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 That's not how he saw people.

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 Again and again and again,

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 when such a person crossed his path,

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 he gave them his attention.

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 He listened to them

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 and he helped them.

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 To him, they were very, very far

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 from being insignificant.

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 Mind you, you could misunderstand this.

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 It's not as though Jesus was a kind of social activist

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 who cared only for the less privileged in society.

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 You read the accounts

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 and you see he didn't avoid

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 the wealthy and the influential and the powerful.

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 You think about his dealings with Nicodemus,

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 who was a ruler of the Jews,

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 or the young man who had great possessions,

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 or Jairus, one of the rulers of the synagogue.

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 I'm simply drawing attention to the way in which

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 the troubles of those without status

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 and without wealth and without position

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 were never dismissed as beneath Jesus

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 or unworthy of his attention.

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 Indeed, this aspect of Jesus' treatment of people

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 gained him a reputation

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 among the so-called respectable people.

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 He was called one who eats with

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 and is a friend of tax collectors and sinners.

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 And that was not meant as a compliment.

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 You might think of the way in which

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 famously Jesus treated children.

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 When those around him, his disciples,

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 thought, we don't want Jesus bothered

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 by the little ones.

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 It wasn't Jesus' attitude, was it?

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 Let the children come to me.

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 In this humble kindness of Jesus,

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 you see, you often think of things about Jesus

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 that, you know, God among us.

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 That's what he was.

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 And therefore, as you look at Jesus,

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 you're learning about what God is like.

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 I don't think we often think that this aspect

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 of Jesus and his behaviour

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 and his treatment of people

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 was a display of what God his Father is like.

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 Many of Jesus' encounters with powerless,

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 troubled individuals

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 were occasions for a mighty work by Jesus,

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 the kind of thing we were thinking about yesterday.

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 He gave sight to blind people.

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 He gave strength to lame people.

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 He gave hearing to deaf people.

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 He even gave life to dead people.

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 In Jesus, you see, the power of God

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 was something that was not just a display

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 that you say, wow,

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 we've done that a couple of times.

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 It was not just a display that caused you

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 to be overwhelmed with wonder

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 and surprise and spectacle.

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 No, the power of God in Jesus

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 amplified God's kindness

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 and his love towards ordinary people.

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 Someone put it like this,

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 God magnifies his goodness with his power.

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 The power of God is not just raw power.

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 It's power that magnifies his goodness

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 and his kindness.

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 Now, I say all that because, once again,

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 this aspect of the New Testament Gospels

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 has a significant antecedent.

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 where we look at the Old Testament stories

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 of Elijah

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 and even more so,

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 the one who came after him,

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 Elisha,

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 include a surprising number of stories

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 of the prophets' encounters

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 with ordinary people.

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 Now, you don't find this so much

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 with anyone else in the Old Testament.

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 You might find it occasionally,

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 but not to the same degree,

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 not to the same extent

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 as you find with Elijah and Elisha.

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 These prophets

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 were major players

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 in the political life of Israel.

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 We're not looking today

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 at 2 Kings chapter 3,

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 but if you read 2 Kings chapter 3,

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 that's exactly what you'll see.

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 You'll see Elisha involved

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 in the nation's conflicts

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 with the nation's roundabout,

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 involved, in other words,

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 with things as significant as wars.

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 Elijah and Elisha

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 were figures who would go

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 and confront kings

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 with their wicked ways.

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 They would proclaim

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 the word of the Lord

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 to the nation's leaders

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 at times of crisis.

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 However,

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 the record of their lives,

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 Elijah and especially Elisha,

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 also are marked by stories

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 of their dealings

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 with suffering,

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 ordinary individuals.

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 And 2 Kings chapter 4

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 through to chapter 8,

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 or the beginning

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 of chapter 8 at least,

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 we find a series of stories

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 about Elisha's dealings

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 with powerless people

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 facing various troubles.

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 It's quite striking.

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 If you were reading the story,

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 we haven't had time to do this

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 to work right through it,

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 but if you're reading the story

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 of 2 Kings

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 and you were read

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 through chapter 3

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 and it's sort of big political

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 sort of games going on

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 and Elisha involved

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 at that level,

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 and then the sudden movement

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 from his very public role

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 there in that major

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 military campaign

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 to now a whole series

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 of stories

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 of individuals

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 and their needs,

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 the shift is quite striking.

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 For in these stories,

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 we once again see

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 the power of God

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 displayed for the sake

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 of needy individuals.

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 God's goodness

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 magnified

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 by his power.

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 God's power

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 employed

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 to display

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 his goodness.

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 Now,

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 we are going to

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 content ourselves

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 this morning

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 because you're tired

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 and I'm tired

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 with just listening

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 to the first

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 of these stories,

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 but I do encourage you

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 to read on

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 and I know you've done

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 that already,

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 but after this weekend

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 you might like to read

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 through again

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 and enjoy each

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 of these remarkable

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 narratives

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 of Elisha's encounter

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 with ordinary people.

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 The first one

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 read to us

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 a moment ago

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 is this encounter

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 with a poor

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 troubled widow

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 who brought her

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 a need

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 to the attention

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 of Elisha

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 and the story

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 we're just going

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 to follow it carefully

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 and see how it unfolds

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 in three simple scenes

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 but I think we will see

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 it reveals more

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 than first meets the eye.

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 So come with me

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 to witness

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 this first little incident.

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 Scene one

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 begins like this.

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 We're at 2 Kings

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 chapter four

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 verse one.

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 Now the wife

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 of one of the sons

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 of the prophets.

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 That's who we meet.

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 The wife

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 of one of the sons

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 of the prophets.

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 We don't know precisely

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 where this took place

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 but if you were

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 with us yesterday

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 we've heard of

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 these group

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 the sons of the prophets

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 who were followers

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 of Elijah

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 and then Elisha.

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 I like to think of them

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 and describe them

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 as disciples

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 of Elijah and Elisha.

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 We met a group

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 of them in Bethel

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 and we met another group

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 of them in Jericho

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 but there were probably

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 others in various locations

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 throughout the land

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 of Israel

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 so we don't know

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 exactly where

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 this happened

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 but here we learn

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 that the sons

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 of the prophets

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 had wives

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 and families.

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 They were not

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 sort of monastic people.

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 They were apparently

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 not cut off

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 from the ordinary

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 social and economic

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 life of the community.

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 the woman's connection

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 to the sons

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 of the prophets

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 is important

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 because she too

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 we might say

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 was a follower

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 of Elijah and Elisha.

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 In our comparison

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 with the gospels

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 this story is like

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 the stories

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 of Jesus'

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 dealings with those

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 who followed him.

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 However the wording

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 and literally

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 it says this

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 listen to this

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 how it goes literally

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 and a certain woman

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 from the wives

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 of the sons

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 of the prophets

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 and the wording

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 sort of suggests

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 she's not a particularly

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 important person

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 she's sort of obscure

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 nobody's really

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 heard of her

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 she's not even named

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 and her name

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 doesn't seem to be

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 even been remembered

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 from this story

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 and to all

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 to all appearances

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 she's a very

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 unimportant

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 person.

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 Well the woman

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 came to the prophet

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 with a pressing

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 problem.

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 she,

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 verse 1 again

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 she cried to Elisha

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 your servant

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 my husband

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 is dead

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 and you know

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 that your servant

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 feared the Lord

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 that's my

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 her husband

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 feared the Lord

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 but the creditor

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 has come

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 to take my

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 two children

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 to be his slaves.

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 Let's try

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 and understand

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 the situation

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 this poor woman

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 was in.

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 This was a cry

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 for help

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 and directing

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 her cry

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 to the prophet

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 was an act

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 of faith

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 we might say

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 in effect

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 her cry

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 was a prayer

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 and as we

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 listen to the

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 woman's cry

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 we learn

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 that she

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 was a widow

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 evidently

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 recently bereaved

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 she was in

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 a state of

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 grief

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 my husband

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 is dead

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 she says

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 and twice

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 we hear her

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 refer to her

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 husband

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 as Elisha's

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 servant.

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 prophet

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 this is part

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 of the evidence

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 that leads me

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 to conclude

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 that the sons

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 of the prophet

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 were that little

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 phrase

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 the sons

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 of the prophets

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 they were people

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 committed

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 to Elisha

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 and previously

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 to Elijah

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 and furthermore

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 as though to

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 underline her point

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 her husband

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 she says

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 feared the Lord

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 that you'll be

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 aware if you're

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 a Bible reader

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 is not an

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 uncommon phrase

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 in the Old

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 Testament

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 particularly in

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 the Old

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 Testament

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 and it's a

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 very important

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 phrase

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 feared the Lord

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 it doesn't mean

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 you're a person

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 who's going around

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 frightened of God

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 that's not what

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 it means

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 and it means

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 it talks about

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 the attitude

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 of your heart

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 you

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 you

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 you bow

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 to the greatness

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 and the goodness

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 of God

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 you

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 accept

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 you take him

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 seriously

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 and you're

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 heart

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 and mind

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 is

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 is so

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 shaped

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 by your

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 taking God

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 seriously

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 that you

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 live

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 trusting him

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 and you live

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 obeying him

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 this man

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 this woman's

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 husband

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 feared the Lord

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 and we

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 learn here

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 that Elisha

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 knew him

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 Elisha knew

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 this man

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 and knew

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 his faithfulness

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 and again

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 we're given

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 the impression

00:17:20.019 --> 00:17:20.640
 of a close

00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:21.340
 relationship

00:17:21.340 --> 00:17:22.420
 between Elisha

00:17:22.420 --> 00:17:23.460
 and the sons

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 of the prophets

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 he knew

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 his disciples

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 individually

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 and personally

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 the grieving

00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:32.420
 widow's

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 distress

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 was intensified

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 so she's grieving

00:17:36.820 --> 00:17:37.779
 but on top

00:17:37.779 --> 00:17:38.259
 of that

00:17:38.259 --> 00:17:39.960
 there is a threat

00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:40.380
 now

00:17:40.380 --> 00:17:42.000
 of her losing

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 her children

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 because of a

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 debt

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 that had been

00:17:46.180 --> 00:17:46.920
 incurred

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 presumably by

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 her husband

00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:50.080
 we don't know

00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:50.960
 the circumstances

00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:52.019
 behind this

00:17:52.019 --> 00:17:52.859
 however

00:17:52.859 --> 00:17:53.740
 the creditor

00:17:53.740 --> 00:17:54.199
 was now

00:17:54.199 --> 00:17:54.659
 pressing

00:17:54.659 --> 00:17:55.779
 what he saw

00:17:55.779 --> 00:17:56.559
 as his legal

00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:57.079
 rights

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 and demanding

00:17:57.779 --> 00:17:58.199
 that the

00:17:58.199 --> 00:17:58.899
 woman's two

00:17:58.899 --> 00:17:59.519
 children

00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:00.899
 now become

00:18:00.899 --> 00:18:02.279
 his slaves

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 because of

00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:04.859
 what

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 she owed

00:18:06.919 --> 00:18:07.240
 him

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 what a terrible

00:18:08.819 --> 00:18:09.519
 situation

00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:10.099
 that is

00:18:10.099 --> 00:18:10.939
 isn't it

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 just imagine

00:18:11.539 --> 00:18:12.139
 being in that

00:18:12.139 --> 00:18:12.619
 situation

00:18:12.619 --> 00:18:13.099
 if you don't

00:18:13.099 --> 00:18:13.539
 pay off

00:18:13.539 --> 00:18:14.119
 your Master

00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:14.519
 card

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 they come

00:18:15.679 --> 00:18:15.919
 and get

00:18:15.919 --> 00:18:16.419
 your kids

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 well

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 debt's a

00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:19.920
 pretty serious

00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:20.380
 thing

00:18:20.380 --> 00:18:22.259
 and it's

00:18:22.259 --> 00:18:22.600
 interesting

00:18:22.600 --> 00:18:23.039
 the Old

00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:23.340
 Testament

00:18:23.340 --> 00:18:23.800
 law

00:18:23.800 --> 00:18:24.759
 I've been

00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:25.140
 given a

00:18:25.140 --> 00:18:25.560
 glimpse of

00:18:25.560 --> 00:18:26.039
 the questions

00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:26.320
 that are

00:18:26.320 --> 00:18:26.720
 coming up

00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:27.259
 in Q&A

00:18:27.259 --> 00:18:27.779
 later on

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 I thought

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 they were

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 going to be

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 sifted so

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 they'd only

00:18:29.539 --> 00:18:30.019
 be easy

00:18:30.019 --> 00:18:30.420
 ones

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 didn't work

00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:32.960
 no wonder

00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:33.519
 Dave's gone

00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:34.019
 off sticky

00:18:34.019 --> 00:18:34.900
 I could have

00:18:34.900 --> 00:18:35.360
 a go at him

00:18:35.360 --> 00:18:35.660
 for not

00:18:35.660 --> 00:18:36.539
 actually sifting

00:18:36.539 --> 00:18:37.019
 them and

00:18:37.019 --> 00:18:37.660
 only having

00:18:37.660 --> 00:18:38.279
 easy ones

00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:38.759
 coming through

00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:39.180
 but there is

00:18:39.180 --> 00:18:39.539
 a question

00:18:39.539 --> 00:18:39.860
 there I

00:18:39.860 --> 00:18:40.259
 can't remember

00:18:40.259 --> 00:18:40.779
 the details

00:18:40.779 --> 00:18:41.019
 and we'll

00:18:41.019 --> 00:18:41.340
 look at it

00:18:41.340 --> 00:18:41.860
 later on

00:18:41.860 --> 00:18:43.060
 but about

00:18:43.060 --> 00:18:43.740
 Old Testament

00:18:43.740 --> 00:18:44.240
 law

00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:44.720
 and Old

00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:45.340
 Testament law

00:18:45.340 --> 00:18:46.140
 needs to be

00:18:46.140 --> 00:18:47.420
 read with

00:18:47.420 --> 00:18:47.800
 care

00:18:47.800 --> 00:18:48.440
 Old Testament

00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:49.259
 law is not

00:18:49.259 --> 00:18:49.759
 law for

00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:50.220
 today

00:18:50.220 --> 00:18:54.420
 today we're

00:18:54.420 --> 00:18:54.880
 not living

00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:55.680
 in Israel

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 we're not

00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:57.080
 living in

00:18:57.080 --> 00:18:57.520
 the ancient

00:18:57.520 --> 00:18:58.060
 world that

00:18:58.060 --> 00:18:59.080
 Israel inhabited

00:18:59.080 --> 00:18:59.720
 that's one of

00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:00.220
 the things to

00:19:00.220 --> 00:19:00.600
 say about

00:19:00.600 --> 00:19:01.040
 reading the

00:19:01.040 --> 00:19:01.400
 ancient law

00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:01.980
 but the

00:19:01.980 --> 00:19:02.900
 Old Testament

00:19:02.900 --> 00:19:03.480
 law is

00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:04.120
 God given

00:19:04.120 --> 00:19:06.240
 for Israel

00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:07.259
 in Old

00:19:07.259 --> 00:19:07.580
 Testament

00:19:07.580 --> 00:19:08.340
 times

00:19:08.340 --> 00:19:10.160
 no getting

00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:10.620
 away from

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 that

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 it's

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 God given

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 law

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 it's

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 God's

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 law

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 therefore

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 it's

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 worth

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 reading

00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:17.000
 without

00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:17.759
 saying we

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 are under

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 this law

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 that we're

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 supposed to

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 keep this

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 law in

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 all its

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 details

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 but certainly

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 it's worth

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 reading because

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 it's God

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 given

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 it's worth

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 reading in

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 its context

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 and so on

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 and so it's

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 interesting to do

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 a little bit of a

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 study and I did

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 and I've summarised

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 the results on

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 your notes there

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 you can look up

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 the references

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 we're not going

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 to do that

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 now but let me

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 just summarise

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 what I learnt

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 by having a little

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 bit of a look

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 at debt

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 and Old

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 Testament law

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 about debt

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 it's taken

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 seriously

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 that's the first

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 thing I notice

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 in Old

00:19:51.019 --> 00:19:51.500
 Testament law

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 and it is a

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 serious matter

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 and it is

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 something that

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 can lead to

00:19:57.139 --> 00:19:58.339
 serious social

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 problems in

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 any society

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 and I do

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 find myself

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 occasionally

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 encouraging young

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 people who are

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 living in a

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 society where a

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 whole lot of

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 people are really

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 anxious to get

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 you into debt

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 they give you

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 very very easy

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 credit

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 you can get

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 into a lot of

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 trouble

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 and it's not a

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 bad idea to

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 see again I'm

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 not being

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 legalistic about

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 this but to

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 see how much

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 you can take

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 your path through

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 life without

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 getting into

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 debt

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 if you can't

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 afford it

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 don't buy it

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 don't get into

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 debt

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 now there are

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 circumstances in

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 which our

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 society has been

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 structured in such

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 a way as debt

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 is necessary

00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:41.859
 buying homes and

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 things like that

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 I understand that

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 I'm not saying

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 this is an

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 absolute law

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 but in your

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 lifestyle live

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 within your

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 means

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 don't run up

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 your credit

00:20:50.399 --> 00:20:51.240
 card account

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 don't get into

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 trouble and a

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 lot of people do

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 get into serious

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 trouble in that

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 area and then

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 have to go and

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 get help from

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 other people and

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 they're a burden

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 on other people

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 which they

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 wouldn't necessarily

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 have been if

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 they'd lived

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 within their

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 means so the

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 first thing I

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 notice and if

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 you look up all

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 those references

00:21:07.900 --> 00:21:08.600
 you see that

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 is that debt

00:21:09.500 --> 00:21:10.580
 is a serious

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 matter and can

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 cause serious

00:21:12.259 --> 00:21:13.140
 social problems

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 serious problems

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 for individuals

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 and in Israel

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 we have God's

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 law with a

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 number of

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 provisions around

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 debt and

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 lending and you

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 get the impression

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 or I get the

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 impression that the

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 Old Testament law

00:21:28.840 --> 00:21:30.180
 God's law about

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 lending in Old

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 Testament Israel

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 is generally

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 designed to

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 protect the

00:21:36.660 --> 00:21:37.460
 poor and the

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 vulnerable from

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 exploitation which

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 is the very thing

00:21:41.540 --> 00:21:42.279
 that happens in

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 our society.

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 The easiest credit

00:21:45.180 --> 00:21:46.320
 to get in our

00:21:46.320 --> 00:21:47.720
 society I suspect I

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 don't think there

00:21:48.120 --> 00:21:48.600
 can be anything

00:21:48.600 --> 00:21:49.720
 easier than a

00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:51.580
 credit card and

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 because it's easy

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 and lots of people

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 will get caught up

00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:55.380
 in it those who

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 issue the credit

00:21:56.040 --> 00:21:57.259
 cards charge an

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 unbelievable rate of

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 interest that you

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 are sort of many

00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:01.420
 people are sort of

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 unaware of as they

00:22:02.560 --> 00:22:04.980
 start using these

00:22:04.980 --> 00:22:07.000
 things and there's

00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:08.220
 a terrific trap

00:22:08.220 --> 00:22:08.740
 there.

00:22:09.500 --> 00:22:10.319
 I'm not really

00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:11.720
 meaning to go on

00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:12.200
 about credit

00:22:12.200 --> 00:22:13.339
 cards so stop me

00:22:13.339 --> 00:22:14.160
 doing that.

00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:15.700
 But it's worth

00:22:15.700 --> 00:22:16.700
 noting briefly what

00:22:16.700 --> 00:22:18.059
 God's law in the

00:22:18.059 --> 00:22:18.960
 Old Testament had to

00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:19.860
 say about debt

00:22:19.860 --> 00:22:21.039
 because debt lies

00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:22.640
 behind this story

00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:23.680
 that's before us

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 and four points

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 and you can follow

00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:27.380
 up the references

00:22:27.380 --> 00:22:28.779
 on the notes as I

00:22:28.779 --> 00:22:29.019
 say.

00:22:29.360 --> 00:22:30.539
 The first point is

00:22:30.539 --> 00:22:31.539
 that while lending

00:22:31.539 --> 00:22:33.119
 to a poor person

00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:35.680
 was permitted and

00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:36.399
 actually even

00:22:36.399 --> 00:22:38.019
 encouraged in the

00:22:38.019 --> 00:22:38.980
 Old Testament law

00:22:38.980 --> 00:22:40.759
 charging interest

00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:41.920
 on the loan in

00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:43.180
 such circumstances

00:22:43.180 --> 00:22:44.000
 was forbidden.

00:22:45.019 --> 00:22:45.659
 You can look up

00:22:45.659 --> 00:22:46.420
 those references.

00:22:47.500 --> 00:22:48.799
 The word that we

00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:49.759
 have in our little

00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:52.359
 narrative creditor

00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:53.859
 anybody got an

00:22:53.859 --> 00:22:54.940
 NIV what word do

00:22:54.940 --> 00:22:55.480
 they have there

00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:56.379
 instead of creditor?

00:22:58.259 --> 00:22:59.379
 They have creditor?

00:22:59.380 --> 00:23:01.240
 The word is

00:23:01.240 --> 00:23:02.220
 elsewhere in

00:23:02.220 --> 00:23:03.280
 Old Testament law

00:23:03.280 --> 00:23:04.080
 money lender.

00:23:04.760 --> 00:23:05.140
 It's the same

00:23:05.140 --> 00:23:06.920
 Hebrew word and

00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:07.780
 when that word is

00:23:07.780 --> 00:23:09.760
 used it almost

00:23:09.760 --> 00:23:11.400
 always refers to

00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:12.640
 an unscrupulous

00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:14.280
 profit oriented

00:23:14.280 --> 00:23:15.320
 form of lending.

00:23:15.940 --> 00:23:16.420
 The kind of

00:23:16.420 --> 00:23:17.360
 lending that you

00:23:17.360 --> 00:23:18.460
 get when you use

00:23:18.460 --> 00:23:19.140
 your credit card.

00:23:20.020 --> 00:23:21.440
 Directed specifically

00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:23.020
 at one's needy

00:23:23.020 --> 00:23:23.840
 fellow citizens.

00:23:24.320 --> 00:23:25.200
 So this creditor

00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:27.220
 in this story was

00:23:27.220 --> 00:23:28.360
 really on the wrong

00:23:28.360 --> 00:23:29.360
 side of God's law

00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:30.159
 to start with.

00:23:31.019 --> 00:23:31.799
 Because you're not

00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:33.279
 meant to be lending

00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:34.559
 to poor people

00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:36.379
 and then charging

00:23:36.379 --> 00:23:37.079
 interest.

00:23:37.819 --> 00:23:38.899
 Lend to poor people

00:23:38.899 --> 00:23:40.240
 by all means to

00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:41.779
 help them but you

00:23:41.779 --> 00:23:43.719
 don't exploit them.

00:23:44.219 --> 00:23:45.859
 The second aspect

00:23:45.859 --> 00:23:46.839
 that you learn in

00:23:46.839 --> 00:23:47.659
 God's law is that

00:23:47.659 --> 00:23:48.779
 when a loan is

00:23:48.779 --> 00:23:50.119
 made on the basis

00:23:50.119 --> 00:23:51.059
 of some item

00:23:51.059 --> 00:23:52.279
 given as security

00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:54.619
 the needs of the

00:23:54.619 --> 00:23:55.659
 borrower must still

00:23:55.659 --> 00:23:56.479
 be respected.

00:23:57.500 --> 00:23:58.039
 And I've got a

00:23:58.039 --> 00:23:58.819
 number of references

00:23:58.819 --> 00:23:59.740
 there you can see

00:23:59.740 --> 00:24:00.740
 how that is

00:24:00.740 --> 00:24:01.339
 unpacked.

00:24:01.700 --> 00:24:02.420
 It's not as though

00:24:02.420 --> 00:24:03.920
 you then just

00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:05.079
 ignore the needs

00:24:05.079 --> 00:24:05.740
 of the person

00:24:05.740 --> 00:24:06.500
 who is in debt

00:24:06.500 --> 00:24:07.079
 to you.

00:24:07.659 --> 00:24:08.819
 You take those

00:24:08.819 --> 00:24:09.379
 into account.

00:24:09.579 --> 00:24:10.259
 Thirdly according

00:24:10.259 --> 00:24:11.500
 to Deuteronomy 15

00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:12.279
 verse 2

00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:13.480
 at the end of

00:24:13.480 --> 00:24:14.960
 every seven years

00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:16.859
 a creditor was

00:24:16.859 --> 00:24:17.960
 required to release

00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:18.740
 his creditors

00:24:18.740 --> 00:24:19.460
 from their debt.

00:24:20.220 --> 00:24:20.920
 Goodness me

00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:21.379
 the banks

00:24:21.379 --> 00:24:22.059
 wouldn't do too

00:24:22.059 --> 00:24:22.680
 well with that

00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:23.099
 would they?

00:24:23.099 --> 00:24:25.599
 Our society

00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:26.599
 is built on a

00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:27.279
 completely different

00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:28.699
 basis but this is

00:24:28.699 --> 00:24:29.439
 part of the way

00:24:29.439 --> 00:24:30.000
 in which Israel

00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:30.480
 was meant to

00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:30.759
 function.

00:24:30.879 --> 00:24:31.899
 Every seven years

00:24:31.899 --> 00:24:34.159
 those in debt

00:24:34.159 --> 00:24:34.879
 would be released

00:24:34.879 --> 00:24:35.539
 from their debt.

00:24:37.099 --> 00:24:37.500
 And there were

00:24:37.500 --> 00:24:38.799
 even laws to say

00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:39.719
 now you'd be very

00:24:39.719 --> 00:24:40.439
 careful that you

00:24:40.439 --> 00:24:42.559
 don't if you're

00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:43.779
 lending you don't

00:24:43.779 --> 00:24:44.679
 take note of that

00:24:44.679 --> 00:24:45.639
 and refuse to lend

00:24:45.639 --> 00:24:46.379
 to someone because

00:24:46.379 --> 00:24:47.259
 the seventh year is

00:24:47.259 --> 00:24:48.059
 about to come up.

00:24:48.899 --> 00:24:49.779
 You know there's

00:24:49.779 --> 00:24:50.819
 laws around that

00:24:50.819 --> 00:24:51.159
 as well.

00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:52.040
 And fourth

00:24:52.040 --> 00:24:54.640
 in the extreme

00:24:54.640 --> 00:24:55.540
 case where a

00:24:55.540 --> 00:24:56.380
 person pledges

00:24:56.380 --> 00:24:58.080
 himself or

00:24:58.080 --> 00:24:59.120
 family members

00:24:59.120 --> 00:25:00.080
 as security

00:25:00.080 --> 00:25:00.800
 for a loan

00:25:00.800 --> 00:25:02.180
 they may not

00:25:02.180 --> 00:25:02.880
 be made

00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:03.840
 slaves

00:25:03.840 --> 00:25:05.380
 but may

00:25:05.380 --> 00:25:06.880
 serve as

00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:07.920
 hired servants

00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:08.840
 until the year

00:25:08.840 --> 00:25:09.580
 of Jubilee.

00:25:11.360 --> 00:25:12.000
 And again you

00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:12.480
 can see the

00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:13.360
 references there.

00:25:13.840 --> 00:25:14.259
 Now that's

00:25:14.259 --> 00:25:14.759
 interesting isn't

00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:14.880
 it?

00:25:15.220 --> 00:25:15.940
 There's an

00:25:15.940 --> 00:25:17.519
 ancient society

00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:18.440
 you don't say

00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:19.560
 we should be

00:25:19.560 --> 00:25:20.140
 obeying

00:25:20.140 --> 00:25:21.019
 there have been

00:25:21.019 --> 00:25:21.680
 groups of

00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:22.259
 Christians over

00:25:22.259 --> 00:25:22.779
 the years have

00:25:22.779 --> 00:25:23.220
 said this we

00:25:23.220 --> 00:25:24.039
 really ought to

00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:24.839
 be a society

00:25:24.839 --> 00:25:25.480
 in which we

00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:26.019
 keep all of

00:25:26.019 --> 00:25:26.480
 God's Old

00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:27.240
 Testament laws.

00:25:27.579 --> 00:25:27.920
 No they

00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:28.359
 weren't given

00:25:28.359 --> 00:25:28.720
 for that

00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:29.079
 purpose.

00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:29.480
 They weren't

00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:30.059
 given for

00:25:30.059 --> 00:25:32.740
 today's world

00:25:32.740 --> 00:25:33.400
 they were given

00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:34.299
 for Israel

00:25:34.299 --> 00:25:35.059
 in the ancient

00:25:35.059 --> 00:25:36.559
 world and it's

00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:37.180
 very interesting

00:25:37.180 --> 00:25:37.740
 scholars have

00:25:37.740 --> 00:25:38.200
 done this I

00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:38.720
 haven't done it

00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:39.279
 but I just read

00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:39.660
 some of the

00:25:39.660 --> 00:25:40.059
 things that

00:25:40.059 --> 00:25:40.539
 they've written

00:25:40.539 --> 00:25:41.720
 comparing

00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:44.879
 ancient law

00:25:44.879 --> 00:25:45.980
 codes with

00:25:45.980 --> 00:25:46.619
 other law

00:25:46.619 --> 00:25:47.059
 codes.

00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:48.440
 Sorry comparing

00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:49.240
 the Old

00:25:49.240 --> 00:25:49.900
 Testament law

00:25:49.900 --> 00:25:50.259
 code the

00:25:50.259 --> 00:25:50.779
 God given

00:25:50.779 --> 00:25:51.440
 law code with

00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:51.900
 other law

00:25:51.900 --> 00:25:52.600
 codes around

00:25:52.600 --> 00:25:53.120
 in the world

00:25:53.120 --> 00:25:53.779
 at the time

00:25:53.779 --> 00:25:54.840
 and it's

00:25:54.840 --> 00:25:56.039
 astonishing even

00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:56.640
 from our

00:25:56.640 --> 00:25:57.360
 perspective you

00:25:57.360 --> 00:25:58.039
 can see how

00:25:58.039 --> 00:25:58.840
 good they are

00:25:58.840 --> 00:26:00.100
 and even this

00:26:00.100 --> 00:26:00.779
 just looking at

00:26:00.779 --> 00:26:02.180
 a debt you

00:26:02.180 --> 00:26:02.720
 can say that's

00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:03.380
 that's not a

00:26:03.380 --> 00:26:04.279
 bad system is it

00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:05.299
 particularly in the

00:26:05.299 --> 00:26:06.120
 ancient world

00:26:06.120 --> 00:26:07.160
 where a lot of

00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:07.620
 things that have

00:26:07.620 --> 00:26:08.400
 developed now in

00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:09.019
 the modern world

00:26:09.019 --> 00:26:09.820
 hadn't developed

00:26:09.820 --> 00:26:11.640
 and some of the

00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:12.059
 things in the

00:26:12.059 --> 00:26:12.820
 modern world could

00:26:12.820 --> 00:26:13.680
 learn a thing or

00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:14.480
 two from God's

00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:15.460
 Old Testament law

00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:17.400
 not to adopt

00:26:17.400 --> 00:26:18.600
 the law directly

00:26:18.600 --> 00:26:19.360
 like that but to

00:26:19.360 --> 00:26:20.259
 learn in principle

00:26:20.259 --> 00:26:21.720
 how do you deal

00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:22.460
 with debt how do

00:26:22.460 --> 00:26:23.019
 you deal with

00:26:23.019 --> 00:26:23.860
 people in need

00:26:23.860 --> 00:26:25.240
 how do you and

00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:26.220
 to learn like

00:26:26.220 --> 00:26:28.400
 that now the

00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:29.779
 provisions of

00:26:29.779 --> 00:26:32.220
 God's law in

00:26:32.220 --> 00:26:34.259
 Israel as Israel

00:26:34.259 --> 00:26:35.319
 actually lived in

00:26:35.319 --> 00:26:35.980
 history so you've

00:26:35.980 --> 00:26:36.660
 got God's law

00:26:36.660 --> 00:26:37.480
 given in the days

00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:38.120
 of Moses and

00:26:38.120 --> 00:26:38.480
 then you've got

00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:39.059
 the history of

00:26:39.059 --> 00:26:39.559
 Israel that

00:26:39.559 --> 00:26:40.920
 followed well

00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:42.380
 pretty often and

00:26:42.380 --> 00:26:43.360
 indeed most of

00:26:43.360 --> 00:26:44.420
 the time God's

00:26:44.420 --> 00:26:45.180
 law was not

00:26:45.180 --> 00:26:46.799
 kept and again

00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:47.279
 and again it

00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:48.180
 was broken and

00:26:48.180 --> 00:26:49.420
 abused in Israel

00:26:49.420 --> 00:26:50.620
 leading to a

00:26:50.620 --> 00:26:51.340
 great deal of

00:26:51.340 --> 00:26:52.779
 hardship for

00:26:52.779 --> 00:26:53.700
 needy people

00:26:53.700 --> 00:26:55.340
 you only have to

00:26:55.340 --> 00:26:55.840
 read the books

00:26:55.840 --> 00:26:56.460
 of the prophets

00:26:56.460 --> 00:26:58.360
 the most famous

00:26:58.360 --> 00:26:59.220
 of them but most

00:26:59.220 --> 00:26:59.860
 of them will touch

00:26:59.860 --> 00:27:01.440
 on this is Amos

00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:03.360
 who has words to

00:27:03.360 --> 00:27:04.259
 say about a

00:27:04.259 --> 00:27:05.460
 society which has

00:27:05.460 --> 00:27:07.640
 disregarded about

00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:09.180
 Israel when they

00:27:09.180 --> 00:27:10.140
 had disregarded

00:27:10.140 --> 00:27:11.519
 God's law and

00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:12.200
 caused a great

00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:12.940
 deal of suffering

00:27:12.940 --> 00:27:13.920
 now we're in a

00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:14.840
 situation here in

00:27:14.839 --> 00:27:15.659
 this story where

00:27:15.659 --> 00:27:19.039
 this widow had

00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:20.099
 a creditor who

00:27:20.099 --> 00:27:21.199
 had lent money

00:27:21.199 --> 00:27:22.220
 presumably to her

00:27:22.220 --> 00:27:25.039
 husband and the

00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:25.859
 creditor was

00:27:25.859 --> 00:27:26.679
 exploiting the

00:27:26.679 --> 00:27:27.559
 situation to his

00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:28.399
 own advantage

00:27:28.399 --> 00:27:30.740
 he may have

00:27:30.740 --> 00:27:32.480
 seen himself as

00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:33.439
 within his legal

00:27:33.439 --> 00:27:35.299
 rights by you

00:27:35.299 --> 00:27:35.919
 know that kind of

00:27:35.919 --> 00:27:36.899
 selective reading

00:27:36.899 --> 00:27:37.579
 of the law

00:27:37.579 --> 00:27:38.639
 kind of thing we

00:27:38.639 --> 00:27:39.439
 often do with our

00:27:39.439 --> 00:27:40.379
 Bibles we read

00:27:40.379 --> 00:27:41.019
 the bits that we

00:27:41.019 --> 00:27:42.459
 really like and

00:27:42.459 --> 00:27:43.319
 that suit us but

00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:44.039
 if something is a

00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:44.819
 little bit challenging

00:27:44.819 --> 00:27:45.879
 we skip over that

00:27:45.879 --> 00:27:46.879
 bit well he may

00:27:46.879 --> 00:27:47.279
 have been that

00:27:47.279 --> 00:27:48.119
 kind of person in

00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:48.740
 terms of reading

00:27:48.740 --> 00:27:51.319
 God's law but he

00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:53.440
 he was taking no

00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:54.440
 account of the

00:27:54.440 --> 00:27:55.619
 changed circumstances

00:27:55.619 --> 00:27:57.879
 of this family no

00:27:57.879 --> 00:27:58.759
 account of the fact

00:27:58.759 --> 00:28:00.240
 that the husband and

00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:02.740
 father had died he

00:28:02.740 --> 00:28:03.579
 appears to be a

00:28:03.579 --> 00:28:04.159
 person who was

00:28:04.159 --> 00:28:05.220
 showing no mercy

00:28:05.220 --> 00:28:06.639
 towards the widow

00:28:06.639 --> 00:28:08.139
 and her children he

00:28:08.139 --> 00:28:09.839
 came the language of

00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:10.699
 verse 1 is quite

00:28:10.699 --> 00:28:12.099
 telling he came to

00:28:12.099 --> 00:28:15.279
 take he came to

00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:17.939
 take well Elisha

00:28:17.939 --> 00:28:20.000
 responded with two

00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:22.919
 questions the first

00:28:22.919 --> 00:28:24.619
 one verse 2 what

00:28:24.619 --> 00:28:26.179
 shall I do for you

00:28:26.179 --> 00:28:29.879
 wouldn't that have

00:28:29.879 --> 00:28:30.759
 been nice to hear

00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.179
 for the widow to

00:28:33.179 --> 00:28:35.939
 hear see he signals

00:28:35.939 --> 00:28:37.519
 first to the poor

00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:38.420
 troubled widow he

00:28:38.420 --> 00:28:39.680
 he signals his

00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:40.480
 willingness to

00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:43.039
 help what can I

00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:43.740
 do for you

00:28:43.740 --> 00:28:46.259
 then he asks

00:28:46.259 --> 00:28:46.920
 another question

00:28:46.920 --> 00:28:47.420
 which is a little

00:28:47.420 --> 00:28:48.180
 bit more puzzling

00:28:48.180 --> 00:28:51.160
 tell me what have

00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:52.440
 you in your house

00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:54.240
 what do you got

00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:55.759
 what's in the

00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:56.139
 house

00:28:56.139 --> 00:28:59.019
 the answer was not

00:28:59.019 --> 00:28:59.400
 much

00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:02.359
 see Elisha drew

00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:03.719
 was drawing the

00:29:03.719 --> 00:29:04.699
 woman into what

00:29:04.699 --> 00:29:05.639
 he was about to

00:29:05.639 --> 00:29:06.339
 do for her

00:29:06.339 --> 00:29:09.559
 I think this is a

00:29:09.559 --> 00:29:10.319
 right thing to do

00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:10.899
 some of you might

00:29:10.899 --> 00:29:11.639
 want to challenge me

00:29:11.639 --> 00:29:12.859
 on this but as I

00:29:12.859 --> 00:29:13.639
 read these Elisha

00:29:13.639 --> 00:29:14.259
 stories I keep

00:29:14.259 --> 00:29:15.179
 hearing echoes of

00:29:15.179 --> 00:29:16.219
 the gospel stories

00:29:16.219 --> 00:29:16.939
 and sort of say

00:29:16.939 --> 00:29:18.359
 how like do you

00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:19.019
 remember when Jesus

00:29:19.019 --> 00:29:20.240
 was confronted by

00:29:20.240 --> 00:29:20.959
 the needs of the

00:29:20.959 --> 00:29:21.740
 great crowd and

00:29:21.740 --> 00:29:22.419
 feeding the crowd

00:29:22.419 --> 00:29:23.240
 he said to the

00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:24.379
 disciples how many

00:29:24.379 --> 00:29:25.159
 loaves have you got

00:29:25.159 --> 00:29:27.259
 what have you got

00:29:27.259 --> 00:29:28.859
 it's sort of

00:29:28.859 --> 00:29:30.179
 drawing them in to

00:29:30.179 --> 00:29:31.159
 what he's about to

00:29:31.160 --> 00:29:33.019
 do and so

00:29:33.019 --> 00:29:34.000
 Elisha seems to

00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:34.660
 be doing something

00:29:34.660 --> 00:29:36.000
 similar and the

00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:37.000
 widow's reply

00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:39.540
 indicated her

00:29:39.540 --> 00:29:41.220
 utter inability to

00:29:41.220 --> 00:29:42.000
 satisfy this

00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:42.480
 creditor

00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:44.540
 see what she says

00:29:44.540 --> 00:29:45.100
 in verse 2

00:29:45.100 --> 00:29:46.040
 your servant has

00:29:46.040 --> 00:29:48.540
 nothing in the

00:29:48.540 --> 00:29:49.759
 house there's

00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:50.680
 nothing there we

00:29:50.680 --> 00:29:51.200
 haven't got a

00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:53.259
 thing except this

00:29:53.259 --> 00:29:54.940
 jar of oil

00:29:54.940 --> 00:29:57.940
 and the emphasis

00:29:57.940 --> 00:29:58.600
 in that sentence

00:29:58.600 --> 00:29:59.240
 is on the word

00:29:59.240 --> 00:29:59.620
 nothing

00:29:59.619 --> 00:30:02.539
 her jar of oil

00:30:02.539 --> 00:30:03.599
 almost certainly

00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:04.379
 was a little

00:30:04.379 --> 00:30:05.939
 flask I don't

00:30:05.939 --> 00:30:06.419
 know how big

00:30:06.419 --> 00:30:06.899
 but a little

00:30:06.899 --> 00:30:08.519
 flask of ointment

00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:10.099
 that would be

00:30:10.099 --> 00:30:11.399
 used for anointing

00:30:11.399 --> 00:30:12.099
 the body that

00:30:12.099 --> 00:30:13.679
 was probably all

00:30:13.679 --> 00:30:15.339
 it was all she

00:30:15.339 --> 00:30:17.539
 had all she had

00:30:17.539 --> 00:30:19.000
 was a little bit

00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:22.319
 of oil and

00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:23.819
 again it sort of

00:30:23.819 --> 00:30:25.179
 reminds me of the

00:30:25.179 --> 00:30:25.879
 response of the

00:30:25.879 --> 00:30:26.679
 disciples to Jesus

00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:27.200
 what do you got

00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:29.539
 five loaves and

00:30:29.539 --> 00:30:30.279
 two fish that's

00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:30.700
 all we got

00:30:30.700 --> 00:30:32.480
 that's all they

00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:33.900
 had that's all

00:30:33.900 --> 00:30:34.539
 she had

00:30:34.539 --> 00:30:36.900
 well Elisha

00:30:36.900 --> 00:30:37.680
 responded with

00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:38.600
 clear but very

00:30:38.600 --> 00:30:39.740
 strange instructions

00:30:39.740 --> 00:30:41.220
 verse 3 then he

00:30:41.220 --> 00:30:42.380
 said go outside

00:30:42.380 --> 00:30:45.519
 borrow vessels

00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:46.519
 from all your

00:30:46.519 --> 00:30:47.180
 neighbours

00:30:47.180 --> 00:30:48.680
 empty vessels

00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:50.100
 and not too

00:30:50.100 --> 00:30:50.640
 few

00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:52.560
 love that phrase

00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:54.960
 and then go

00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:55.819
 in and shut

00:30:55.819 --> 00:30:56.899
 the door behind

00:30:56.899 --> 00:30:58.779
 yourself and

00:30:58.779 --> 00:30:59.839
 your son and

00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:00.539
 behind yourself

00:31:00.539 --> 00:31:01.399
 and your sons

00:31:01.399 --> 00:31:04.440
 and pour into

00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:05.519
 all these

00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:07.220
 vessels and

00:31:07.220 --> 00:31:07.799
 when one is

00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:08.960
 full set it

00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:10.159
 aside so

00:31:10.159 --> 00:31:11.099
 first she's got

00:31:11.099 --> 00:31:12.399
 to go out and

00:31:12.399 --> 00:31:13.379
 ask her neighbours

00:31:13.379 --> 00:31:14.339
 for all the

00:31:14.339 --> 00:31:15.319
 empty containers

00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:16.039
 that could be

00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:18.279
 found not too

00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:20.859
 few suggests an

00:31:20.859 --> 00:31:21.919
 unusual effort

00:31:21.919 --> 00:31:23.240
 was to be made

00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:24.039
 collecting as

00:31:24.039 --> 00:31:25.119
 many vessels

00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:25.899
 as possible

00:31:25.899 --> 00:31:27.359
 you can't

00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:28.079
 imagine the

00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:28.759
 neighbours saying

00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:29.579
 what on earth

00:31:29.579 --> 00:31:30.299
 is she doing

00:31:30.299 --> 00:31:31.919
 what does she

00:31:31.919 --> 00:31:32.899
 want with all

00:31:32.899 --> 00:31:33.579
 these dishes

00:31:33.579 --> 00:31:34.279
 and bowls

00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:34.839
 and pots

00:31:34.839 --> 00:31:35.519
 and jugs

00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:36.079
 and basins

00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:36.779
 and flasks

00:31:36.779 --> 00:31:37.419
 and saucepans

00:31:37.419 --> 00:31:37.859
 and whatever

00:31:37.859 --> 00:31:39.259
 and second

00:31:39.259 --> 00:31:39.740
 well she's got

00:31:39.740 --> 00:31:40.299
 to collect all

00:31:40.299 --> 00:31:41.399
 those as many

00:31:41.399 --> 00:31:42.119
 as she can get

00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:42.899
 from her neighbours

00:31:42.899 --> 00:31:44.519
 and then she's

00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:45.619
 to go inside

00:31:45.619 --> 00:31:47.099
 with her sons

00:31:47.099 --> 00:31:47.719
 and all the

00:31:47.719 --> 00:31:48.379
 empty vessels

00:31:48.379 --> 00:31:48.919
 that she's

00:31:48.919 --> 00:31:49.419
 managed to

00:31:49.419 --> 00:31:50.319
 gather and

00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:50.839
 shut the

00:31:50.839 --> 00:31:51.200
 door

00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:53.359
 Elisha's not

00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:53.720
 going to be

00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:54.559
 directly involved

00:31:54.559 --> 00:31:55.000
 in what's

00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:55.259
 going to

00:31:55.259 --> 00:31:55.539
 happen

00:31:55.539 --> 00:31:56.740
 what was

00:31:56.740 --> 00:31:57.159
 about to

00:31:57.159 --> 00:31:57.659
 happen would

00:31:57.659 --> 00:31:58.159
 take some

00:31:58.159 --> 00:31:58.639
 time

00:31:58.639 --> 00:32:00.339
 and it was

00:32:00.339 --> 00:32:01.299
 not to be

00:32:01.299 --> 00:32:02.480
 a kind of

00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:03.279
 spectacle that

00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:03.759
 would attract

00:32:03.759 --> 00:32:04.460
 crowds and

00:32:04.460 --> 00:32:05.379
 onlookers

00:32:05.379 --> 00:32:05.639
 it would

00:32:05.639 --> 00:32:06.480
 happen behind

00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:07.740
 closed doors

00:32:07.740 --> 00:32:08.679
 quietly

00:32:08.679 --> 00:32:10.700
 and then third

00:32:10.700 --> 00:32:11.379
 what she was

00:32:11.379 --> 00:32:12.079
 to do behind

00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:12.740
 closed doors

00:32:12.740 --> 00:32:13.700
 was to pour

00:32:13.700 --> 00:32:14.819
 into these

00:32:14.819 --> 00:32:15.299
 vessels

00:32:15.299 --> 00:32:16.419
 the language

00:32:16.419 --> 00:32:17.279
 is concise

00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:18.500
 but one by

00:32:18.500 --> 00:32:19.480
 one presumably

00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:20.259
 the pouring

00:32:20.259 --> 00:32:21.180
 is from the

00:32:21.180 --> 00:32:21.819
 little flask

00:32:21.819 --> 00:32:22.259
 of oil

00:32:22.259 --> 00:32:22.839
 that's all

00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:23.380
 she had

00:32:23.380 --> 00:32:24.440
 that has

00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:25.120
 been mentioned

00:32:25.120 --> 00:32:26.559
 and Elisha's

00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:27.019
 instructions

00:32:27.019 --> 00:32:27.880
 implied that

00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:28.440
 the oil

00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:29.279
 would fill

00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:30.440
 vessel

00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:31.440
 after vessel

00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:34.700
 I've got to

00:32:34.700 --> 00:32:35.839
 admit that if I

00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:36.460
 try and imagine

00:32:36.460 --> 00:32:37.240
 myself in that

00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:38.099
 situation being

00:32:38.099 --> 00:32:38.579
 that poor

00:32:38.579 --> 00:32:38.880
 widow

00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:40.660
 I think

00:32:40.660 --> 00:32:41.779
 my reaction

00:32:41.779 --> 00:32:42.160
 would be

00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:42.759
 you've got to

00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:43.180
 be kidding

00:32:43.180 --> 00:32:44.920
 yeah

00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:45.660
 yeah

00:32:45.660 --> 00:32:48.140
 well the

00:32:48.140 --> 00:32:48.560
 astonishing

00:32:48.560 --> 00:32:49.480
 story now

00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:50.600
 unfolds quite

00:32:50.600 --> 00:32:51.019
 quickly

00:32:51.019 --> 00:32:51.940
 scene 2

00:32:51.940 --> 00:32:53.400
 begins with

00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:54.580
 the widow's

00:32:54.580 --> 00:32:54.880
 obedience

00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:55.380
 she doesn't

00:32:55.380 --> 00:32:55.759
 say you've

00:32:55.759 --> 00:32:56.019
 got to be

00:32:56.019 --> 00:32:56.340
 kidding

00:32:56.340 --> 00:32:58.120
 verse 5

00:32:58.120 --> 00:32:58.560
 says so

00:32:58.560 --> 00:32:59.000
 she went

00:32:59.000 --> 00:32:59.580
 from him

00:32:59.580 --> 00:33:02.299
 she went

00:33:02.299 --> 00:33:03.120
 to do

00:33:03.120 --> 00:33:03.720
 precisely

00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:04.279
 what the

00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:04.759
 prophet had

00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:05.160
 told her

00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:05.660
 to do

00:33:05.660 --> 00:33:07.519
 her efforts

00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:08.220
 going around

00:33:08.220 --> 00:33:08.980
 from all

00:33:08.980 --> 00:33:09.400
 the houses

00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:10.000
 round about

00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:10.660
 collecting as

00:33:10.660 --> 00:33:11.240
 many empty

00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:11.880
 vessels as

00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:12.240
 possible

00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:12.880
 that's passed

00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:13.500
 over without

00:33:13.500 --> 00:33:14.000
 a word

00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:14.580
 that's not

00:33:14.580 --> 00:33:15.460
 actually described

00:33:15.460 --> 00:33:15.940
 it's obvious

00:33:15.940 --> 00:33:16.520
 she did it

00:33:16.520 --> 00:33:17.120
 but it's not

00:33:17.120 --> 00:33:17.780
 described

00:33:17.780 --> 00:33:18.920
 it must have

00:33:18.920 --> 00:33:19.460
 taken some

00:33:19.460 --> 00:33:20.880
 time and

00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:21.180
 would have

00:33:21.180 --> 00:33:22.160
 been very

00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:22.960
 perplexing to

00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:23.400
 anyone who

00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:23.860
 was watching

00:33:23.860 --> 00:33:24.320
 this funny

00:33:24.320 --> 00:33:24.860
 little old

00:33:24.860 --> 00:33:25.440
 lady going

00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:26.040
 from house

00:33:26.040 --> 00:33:26.360
 to house

00:33:26.360 --> 00:33:27.220
 collecting all

00:33:27.220 --> 00:33:28.940
 the containers

00:33:28.940 --> 00:33:29.880
 that she could

00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:31.260
 we're taken

00:33:31.260 --> 00:33:32.000
 straight to the

00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:32.660
 moment that the

00:33:32.660 --> 00:33:33.140
 woman went

00:33:33.140 --> 00:33:33.720
 inside

00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:35.260
 verse 5

00:33:35.260 --> 00:33:35.640
 says and

00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:36.080
 she shut

00:33:36.080 --> 00:33:36.540
 the door

00:33:36.540 --> 00:33:37.200
 so all that's

00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:37.500
 happened

00:33:37.500 --> 00:33:38.320
 that's just

00:33:38.320 --> 00:33:38.960
 presumed to have

00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:39.160
 happened

00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:39.760
 shut the door

00:33:39.760 --> 00:33:40.660
 behind herself

00:33:40.660 --> 00:33:41.560
 and her sons

00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:42.899
 all the

00:33:42.899 --> 00:33:43.519
 containers are

00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:44.319
 there piled up

00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:44.759
 high

00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:46.960
 sort of

00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:47.539
 imagining them

00:33:47.539 --> 00:33:48.000
 in one of

00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:48.759
 her rooms

00:33:48.759 --> 00:33:50.879
 and her

00:33:50.879 --> 00:33:51.419
 sons are

00:33:51.419 --> 00:33:51.740
 with her

00:33:51.740 --> 00:33:52.240
 to help

00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:53.919
 and they

00:33:53.919 --> 00:33:54.379
 begin

00:33:54.379 --> 00:33:55.019
 perhaps they're

00:33:55.019 --> 00:33:55.460
 in the room

00:33:55.460 --> 00:33:56.119
 next door

00:33:56.119 --> 00:33:58.000
 and as she

00:33:58.000 --> 00:33:58.419
 poured

00:33:58.419 --> 00:33:59.879
 they brought

00:33:59.879 --> 00:34:00.799
 the vessels

00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:01.460
 to her

00:34:01.460 --> 00:34:02.940
 there's an

00:34:02.940 --> 00:34:03.639
 emphasis here

00:34:03.639 --> 00:34:04.079
 on the

00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:05.139
 activity of

00:34:05.139 --> 00:34:05.619
 the boys

00:34:05.619 --> 00:34:06.000
 and their

00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:06.339
 mother

00:34:06.339 --> 00:34:07.740
 the continuous

00:34:07.740 --> 00:34:08.980
 activity in

00:34:08.980 --> 00:34:09.559
 this room

00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:10.139
 they were

00:34:10.139 --> 00:34:10.460
 bringing

00:34:10.460 --> 00:34:11.039
 vessel

00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:11.539
 after

00:34:11.539 --> 00:34:12.059
 vessel

00:34:12.059 --> 00:34:12.539
 after

00:34:12.539 --> 00:34:13.059
 vessel

00:34:13.059 --> 00:34:13.519
 after

00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:13.980
 vessel

00:34:13.980 --> 00:34:15.000
 and she

00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:15.259
 was

00:34:15.259 --> 00:34:15.799
 pouring

00:34:15.799 --> 00:34:16.719
 and pouring

00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:17.659
 and pouring

00:34:17.659 --> 00:34:18.579
 and pouring

00:34:18.579 --> 00:34:20.239
 it went on

00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:20.599
 for some

00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:21.019
 time

00:34:21.019 --> 00:34:22.779
 until at last

00:34:22.779 --> 00:34:23.179
 the woman

00:34:23.179 --> 00:34:24.019
 was surrounded

00:34:24.019 --> 00:34:24.820
 trying to

00:34:24.820 --> 00:34:25.279
 imagine it

00:34:25.279 --> 00:34:25.940
 with containers

00:34:25.940 --> 00:34:26.579
 of various

00:34:26.579 --> 00:34:27.199
 shapes and

00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:27.639
 sizes

00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:28.539
 each one

00:34:28.539 --> 00:34:29.039
 full of

00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:29.460
 oil

00:34:29.460 --> 00:34:30.860
 and then she

00:34:30.860 --> 00:34:31.380
 said to one

00:34:31.380 --> 00:34:31.799
 of her sons

00:34:31.799 --> 00:34:32.199
 bring me

00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:32.860
 another vessel

00:34:32.860 --> 00:34:33.219
 and he

00:34:33.219 --> 00:34:33.659
 replied

00:34:33.659 --> 00:34:35.139
 there's none

00:34:35.139 --> 00:34:35.460
 left

00:34:35.460 --> 00:34:37.639
 and at

00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:38.139
 that moment

00:34:38.139 --> 00:34:40.099
 the oil

00:34:40.099 --> 00:34:40.500
 stopped

00:34:40.500 --> 00:34:40.920
 flowing

00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:41.299
 she said

00:34:41.299 --> 00:34:41.539
 oh

00:34:41.539 --> 00:34:43.159
 it's not

00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:43.839
 flowing anymore

00:34:43.839 --> 00:34:44.339
 there's none

00:34:44.339 --> 00:34:44.739
 left

00:34:44.739 --> 00:34:46.359
 now

00:34:46.359 --> 00:34:47.759
 just look

00:34:47.759 --> 00:34:48.019
 at all

00:34:48.019 --> 00:34:48.539
 that oil

00:34:48.539 --> 00:34:50.739
 it was

00:34:50.739 --> 00:34:51.019
 almost

00:34:51.019 --> 00:34:51.400
 certainly

00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:51.960
 in the

00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:52.319
 context

00:34:52.319 --> 00:34:52.619
 of the

00:34:52.619 --> 00:34:52.839
 time

00:34:52.839 --> 00:34:53.059
 this

00:34:53.059 --> 00:34:53.519
 would

00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:53.619
 have

00:34:53.619 --> 00:34:53.779
 been

00:34:53.779 --> 00:34:54.139
 olive

00:34:54.139 --> 00:34:54.659
 oil

00:34:54.659 --> 00:34:57.319
 normally

00:34:57.319 --> 00:34:57.839
 produced

00:34:57.839 --> 00:34:58.519
 by crushing

00:34:58.519 --> 00:34:59.039
 olives

00:34:59.039 --> 00:34:59.779
 with a

00:34:59.779 --> 00:35:00.099
 mortar

00:35:00.099 --> 00:35:02.119
 or in

00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:02.579
 a rock

00:35:02.579 --> 00:35:03.839
 press

00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:05.180
 sometimes

00:35:05.180 --> 00:35:05.780
 it was

00:35:05.780 --> 00:35:06.200
 produced

00:35:06.200 --> 00:35:06.860
 by treading

00:35:06.860 --> 00:35:07.340
 them like

00:35:07.340 --> 00:35:07.820
 grapes

00:35:07.820 --> 00:35:08.519
 in a

00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:08.780
 wine

00:35:08.780 --> 00:35:09.260
 press

00:35:09.260 --> 00:35:11.079
 oil

00:35:11.079 --> 00:35:11.680
 was

00:35:11.680 --> 00:35:12.800
 used

00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:13.079
 with a

00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:13.260
 number

00:35:13.260 --> 00:35:13.860
 of uses

00:35:13.860 --> 00:35:14.980
 it

00:35:14.980 --> 00:35:15.420
 included

00:35:15.420 --> 00:35:15.960
 cooking

00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:18.400
 anointing

00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:18.900
 the skin

00:35:18.900 --> 00:35:19.640
 just

00:35:19.640 --> 00:35:21.539
 treating

00:35:21.539 --> 00:35:22.019
 your dry

00:35:22.019 --> 00:35:22.320
 skin

00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:22.680
 to make

00:35:22.680 --> 00:35:22.840
 it

00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:23.320
 nice

00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:23.480
 and

00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:23.920
 smooth

00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:25.700
 particularly

00:35:25.700 --> 00:35:26.240
 the head

00:35:26.240 --> 00:35:26.519
 and the

00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:26.960
 face

00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:27.539
 were

00:35:27.539 --> 00:35:28.720
 often

00:35:28.720 --> 00:35:30.100
 rubbed

00:35:30.100 --> 00:35:30.519
 with this

00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:31.200
 kind of

00:35:31.200 --> 00:35:31.400
 oil

00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:31.640
 it was

00:35:31.640 --> 00:35:31.900
 used

00:35:31.900 --> 00:35:32.200
 as a

00:35:32.200 --> 00:35:32.579
 fuel

00:35:32.579 --> 00:35:32.940
 in

00:35:32.940 --> 00:35:33.480
 lamps

00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:35.099
 and it

00:35:35.099 --> 00:35:35.240
 was

00:35:35.240 --> 00:35:35.599
 sometimes

00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:35.980
 used

00:35:35.980 --> 00:35:36.199
 for

00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:36.559
 soothing

00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:37.099
 wounds

00:35:37.099 --> 00:35:37.480
 if you

00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:37.920
 had a

00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:38.360
 scratch

00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:38.659
 or a

00:35:38.659 --> 00:35:38.820
 cut

00:35:38.820 --> 00:35:39.260
 the oil

00:35:39.260 --> 00:35:39.519
 would

00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:40.000
 soothe

00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:41.219
 the

00:35:41.219 --> 00:35:42.500
 pain

00:35:42.500 --> 00:35:43.260
 and I

00:35:43.260 --> 00:35:43.480
 suppose

00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:43.920
 stop the

00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:44.320
 exposure

00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:44.639
 to the

00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:44.820
 air

00:35:44.820 --> 00:35:45.199
 I suppose

00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:45.519
 that was

00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:46.099
 happening

00:35:46.099 --> 00:35:47.420
 so oil

00:35:47.420 --> 00:35:47.900
 was a

00:35:47.900 --> 00:35:48.240
 useful

00:35:48.240 --> 00:35:48.840
 commodity

00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:50.539
 but generally

00:35:50.539 --> 00:35:51.320
 speaking in

00:35:51.320 --> 00:35:52.380
 relatively small

00:35:52.380 --> 00:35:52.800
 amounts

00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:53.460
 that's why

00:35:53.460 --> 00:35:54.099
 I presume

00:35:54.099 --> 00:35:54.500
 the woman

00:35:54.500 --> 00:35:54.940
 just had

00:35:54.940 --> 00:35:55.360
 this little

00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:55.860
 jar in

00:35:55.860 --> 00:35:56.199
 the house

00:35:56.199 --> 00:35:56.519
 nobody

00:35:56.519 --> 00:35:56.880
 had a

00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:57.139
 large

00:35:57.139 --> 00:35:57.440
 amount

00:35:57.440 --> 00:35:57.760
 of it

00:35:57.760 --> 00:35:58.380
 and this

00:35:58.380 --> 00:35:58.880
 abundant

00:35:58.880 --> 00:35:59.539
 supply

00:35:59.539 --> 00:36:00.000
 of oil

00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:00.400
 filling

00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:00.820
 many

00:36:00.820 --> 00:36:01.280
 vessels

00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:01.619
 in the

00:36:01.619 --> 00:36:02.059
 widow's

00:36:02.059 --> 00:36:02.400
 house

00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:03.320
 obviously

00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:03.940
 produced

00:36:03.940 --> 00:36:04.599
 obviously

00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:05.240
 produced

00:36:05.240 --> 00:36:05.599
 by

00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:07.280
 as the

00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:07.559
 woman

00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:08.200
 and her

00:36:08.200 --> 00:36:08.599
 sons

00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:09.420
 could see

00:36:09.420 --> 00:36:10.480
 nobody else

00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:10.960
 knew at this

00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:11.460
 stage but

00:36:11.460 --> 00:36:12.539
 a remarkable

00:36:12.539 --> 00:36:13.260
 act of

00:36:13.260 --> 00:36:13.760
 God

00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:15.420
 but is it

00:36:15.420 --> 00:36:15.760
 not

00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:17.820
 an extraordinary

00:36:17.820 --> 00:36:18.519
 testimony

00:36:18.519 --> 00:36:20.320
 to God's

00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:21.139
 abundant

00:36:21.139 --> 00:36:22.160
 kindness

00:36:22.160 --> 00:36:26.380
 here's God's

00:36:26.380 --> 00:36:26.740
 goodness

00:36:26.740 --> 00:36:27.660
 on display

00:36:27.660 --> 00:36:28.099
 this is what

00:36:28.099 --> 00:36:28.820
 God's power

00:36:28.820 --> 00:36:29.400
 does

00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:30.280
 it

00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:31.119
 it magnifies

00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:31.880
 his goodness

00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:32.260
 it's not

00:36:32.260 --> 00:36:32.500
 just

00:36:32.500 --> 00:36:33.079
 power

00:36:33.079 --> 00:36:34.280
 it's

00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:34.700
 power

00:36:34.700 --> 00:36:35.240
 of one

00:36:35.240 --> 00:36:35.639
 who is

00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:36.220
 infinitely

00:36:36.220 --> 00:36:36.880
 good

00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:38.240
 and here

00:36:38.240 --> 00:36:38.700
 you see

00:36:38.700 --> 00:36:38.980
 it

00:36:38.980 --> 00:36:40.260
 it's small

00:36:40.260 --> 00:36:41.079
 it's insignificant

00:36:41.079 --> 00:36:41.539
 hardly

00:36:41.539 --> 00:36:43.059
 worth writing

00:36:43.059 --> 00:36:43.559
 in the history

00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:43.800
 book

00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:44.619
 we don't even

00:36:44.619 --> 00:36:44.980
 know the

00:36:44.980 --> 00:36:45.780
 woman's name

00:36:45.780 --> 00:36:47.300
 no

00:36:47.300 --> 00:36:48.720
 this was a

00:36:48.720 --> 00:36:49.360
 display

00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:50.460
 of the

00:36:50.460 --> 00:36:50.860
 goodness

00:36:50.860 --> 00:36:51.700
 of God

00:36:51.700 --> 00:36:53.000
 magnified

00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:53.579
 by his

00:36:53.579 --> 00:36:54.139
 power

00:36:54.139 --> 00:36:55.079
 and it

00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:55.559
 really is

00:36:55.559 --> 00:36:55.820
 worth

00:36:55.820 --> 00:36:56.400
 remembering

00:36:56.400 --> 00:36:57.519
 and so

00:36:57.519 --> 00:36:57.740
 it's

00:36:57.740 --> 00:36:58.260
 recorded

00:36:58.260 --> 00:36:59.780
 but of

00:36:59.780 --> 00:37:00.079
 course the

00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:00.599
 question does

00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:01.119
 arise what

00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:01.539
 is she

00:37:01.539 --> 00:37:01.780
 going to

00:37:01.780 --> 00:37:02.160
 do with

00:37:02.160 --> 00:37:02.539
 all this

00:37:02.539 --> 00:37:02.940
 oil

00:37:02.940 --> 00:37:03.860
 and I

00:37:03.860 --> 00:37:04.180
 think she

00:37:04.180 --> 00:37:04.440
 might have

00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:04.880
 been wondering

00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:05.360
 the same

00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:05.780
 thing

00:37:05.780 --> 00:37:07.460
 in scene

00:37:07.460 --> 00:37:08.740
 three we

00:37:08.740 --> 00:37:09.440
 follow her

00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:10.079
 out of the

00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:10.780
 house again

00:37:10.780 --> 00:37:11.700
 as she

00:37:11.700 --> 00:37:12.380
 returned to

00:37:12.380 --> 00:37:13.039
 Elisha

00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:14.119
 verse seven

00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:14.680
 she came

00:37:14.680 --> 00:37:15.660
 out and she

00:37:15.660 --> 00:37:16.400
 told the

00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:16.760
 man of

00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:17.300
 God that

00:37:17.300 --> 00:37:18.300
 is she

00:37:18.300 --> 00:37:18.800
 reported

00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:19.360
 everything

00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:20.079
 that had

00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:20.480
 happened

00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.000
 to Elisha

00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:23.619
 but just

00:37:23.619 --> 00:37:24.280
 notice by the

00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:25.539
 way and I

00:37:25.539 --> 00:37:25.920
 hope you don't

00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:26.300
 mind us

00:37:26.300 --> 00:37:26.860
 reading as

00:37:26.860 --> 00:37:27.380
 slowly as

00:37:27.380 --> 00:37:27.579
 we're

00:37:27.579 --> 00:37:28.159
 reading I

00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:28.860
 love the

00:37:28.860 --> 00:37:29.700
 details the

00:37:29.700 --> 00:37:30.320
 details are

00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:30.840
 brilliant I

00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:31.599
 think this

00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:32.200
 is the first

00:37:32.200 --> 00:37:32.860
 time that

00:37:32.860 --> 00:37:33.680
 Elisha is

00:37:33.680 --> 00:37:34.900
 called man

00:37:34.900 --> 00:37:35.519
 of God

00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:36.780
 the man

00:37:36.780 --> 00:37:37.420
 of God

00:37:37.420 --> 00:37:38.460
 it won't

00:37:38.460 --> 00:37:38.720
 be the

00:37:38.720 --> 00:37:39.260
 last

00:37:39.260 --> 00:37:40.360
 indeed in

00:37:40.360 --> 00:37:40.700
 the Old

00:37:40.700 --> 00:37:41.139
 Testament

00:37:41.139 --> 00:37:42.039
 Elisha is

00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:43.139
 called man

00:37:43.139 --> 00:37:43.700
 of God

00:37:43.700 --> 00:37:44.159
 more than

00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:45.000
 anyone else

00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:46.760
 but man

00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:47.240
 of God

00:37:47.240 --> 00:37:47.780
 is a very

00:37:47.780 --> 00:37:48.300
 weighty

00:37:48.300 --> 00:37:48.820
 expression

00:37:48.820 --> 00:37:49.220
 it doesn't

00:37:49.220 --> 00:37:49.539
 just mean

00:37:49.539 --> 00:37:50.139
 oh he was

00:37:50.139 --> 00:37:50.619
 a godly

00:37:50.619 --> 00:37:51.360
 man he was

00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:51.740
 a man of

00:37:51.740 --> 00:37:52.159
 God we use

00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:52.760
 that phrase a

00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:53.039
 little bit

00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:53.619
 sometimes don't

00:37:53.619 --> 00:37:54.460
 we when we

00:37:54.460 --> 00:37:55.180
 describe someone

00:37:55.179 --> 00:37:56.899
 a man of

00:37:56.899 --> 00:37:58.219
 God I don't

00:37:58.219 --> 00:37:58.579
 think we use

00:37:58.579 --> 00:37:59.179
 it very much

00:37:59.179 --> 00:38:00.019
 these days but

00:38:00.019 --> 00:38:00.500
 I think the

00:38:00.500 --> 00:38:01.719
 general sense

00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:02.359
 of it a

00:38:02.359 --> 00:38:03.299
 godly person

00:38:03.299 --> 00:38:04.879
 a person of

00:38:04.879 --> 00:38:05.739
 true faith in

00:38:05.739 --> 00:38:06.919
 God now it's

00:38:06.919 --> 00:38:07.619
 more than that

00:38:07.619 --> 00:38:09.739
 man of God

00:38:09.739 --> 00:38:11.099
 in the way in

00:38:11.099 --> 00:38:11.559
 which it's used

00:38:11.559 --> 00:38:11.960
 in the Old

00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:12.440
 Testament means

00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:13.419
 a man from

00:38:13.419 --> 00:38:14.019
 God

00:38:14.019 --> 00:38:17.059
 right a man

00:38:17.059 --> 00:38:18.000
 who speaks

00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:18.819
 and acts

00:38:18.819 --> 00:38:19.799
 for God

00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:22.420
 a man of

00:38:22.420 --> 00:38:23.080
 God

00:38:23.080 --> 00:38:24.160
 is a very

00:38:24.160 --> 00:38:24.620
 weighty

00:38:24.620 --> 00:38:25.100
 expression

00:38:25.100 --> 00:38:26.440
 well she

00:38:26.440 --> 00:38:27.200
 came to

00:38:27.200 --> 00:38:27.920
 the man

00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:28.760
 of God

00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:29.700
 she doesn't

00:38:29.700 --> 00:38:30.500
 just come to

00:38:30.500 --> 00:38:31.019
 Elisha

00:38:31.019 --> 00:38:32.460
 she came to

00:38:32.460 --> 00:38:33.400
 the man

00:38:33.400 --> 00:38:34.280
 of God

00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:35.860
 and Elisha

00:38:35.860 --> 00:38:36.340
 brings this

00:38:36.340 --> 00:38:37.340
 episode to a

00:38:37.340 --> 00:38:38.100
 close by

00:38:38.100 --> 00:38:39.340
 spelling out

00:38:39.340 --> 00:38:40.380
 the consequences

00:38:40.380 --> 00:38:42.700
 of what had

00:38:42.700 --> 00:38:43.039
 happened

00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:44.180
 he said

00:38:44.180 --> 00:38:45.019
 verse 7

00:38:45.019 --> 00:38:45.420
 again

00:38:45.420 --> 00:38:46.019
 go

00:38:46.019 --> 00:38:47.640
 sell the

00:38:47.640 --> 00:38:47.940
 oil

00:38:47.940 --> 00:38:48.559
 oh that's

00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:48.780
 a good

00:38:48.780 --> 00:38:49.179
 idea

00:38:49.179 --> 00:38:50.659
 and pay

00:38:50.659 --> 00:38:51.360
 your debts

00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:52.599
 and you

00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:53.079
 and your

00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:53.780
 sons can

00:38:53.780 --> 00:38:54.460
 live on

00:38:54.460 --> 00:38:55.079
 the rest

00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:57.280
 so for the

00:38:57.280 --> 00:38:58.039
 reasons that I

00:38:58.039 --> 00:38:59.159
 outlined a

00:38:59.159 --> 00:38:59.740
 moment ago

00:38:59.740 --> 00:39:00.840
 oil was a

00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:01.300
 tradable

00:39:01.300 --> 00:39:01.860
 commodity

00:39:01.860 --> 00:39:03.360
 and its

00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:04.119
 usefulness in

00:39:04.119 --> 00:39:04.940
 small quantities

00:39:04.940 --> 00:39:05.980
 suggests that

00:39:05.980 --> 00:39:07.119
 the vast

00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:07.800
 quantity that

00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:08.200
 the woman

00:39:08.200 --> 00:39:08.880
 now had

00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:09.840
 access to

00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:10.480
 would have

00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:11.240
 had considerable

00:39:11.240 --> 00:39:11.880
 value

00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:13.280
 people were

00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:14.380
 happy to have

00:39:14.380 --> 00:39:15.260
 oil in small

00:39:15.260 --> 00:39:15.800
 quantities

00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:16.740
 and pay for

00:39:16.740 --> 00:39:16.940
 it

00:39:16.940 --> 00:39:17.980
 well what

00:39:17.980 --> 00:39:18.440
 she had

00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:18.860
 would have

00:39:18.860 --> 00:39:21.039
 had very

00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:21.619
 significant

00:39:21.619 --> 00:39:23.139
 value

00:39:23.139 --> 00:39:24.559
 you see the

00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:25.599
 Lord had

00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:26.119
 provided

00:39:26.119 --> 00:39:28.000
 and his

00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:28.559
 provision

00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:29.559
 enabled the

00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:30.119
 woman now

00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:30.960
 to be free

00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:32.380
 both from

00:39:32.380 --> 00:39:32.800
 debt

00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:34.460
 and poverty

00:39:34.460 --> 00:39:36.519
 the Lord's

00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:37.380
 provision was

00:39:37.380 --> 00:39:38.220
 not small

00:39:38.220 --> 00:39:40.579
 not a few

00:39:40.579 --> 00:39:41.460
 containers

00:39:41.460 --> 00:39:43.079
 not

00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:45.840
 trivial

00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:46.039
 people

00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:47.600
 the Lord's

00:39:47.600 --> 00:39:48.039
 provision

00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:50.019
 well I

00:39:50.019 --> 00:39:50.380
 think it's a

00:39:50.380 --> 00:39:50.960
 wonderful little

00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:51.400
 story

00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:53.780
 and there are

00:39:53.780 --> 00:39:54.400
 many like it

00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:54.980
 in the pages

00:39:54.980 --> 00:39:55.539
 that follow

00:39:55.539 --> 00:39:56.840
 but let's

00:39:56.840 --> 00:39:57.320
 think as we

00:39:57.320 --> 00:39:59.000
 close about

00:39:59.000 --> 00:39:59.519
 what this

00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:00.380
 story teaches

00:40:00.380 --> 00:40:00.880
 us

00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:03.480
 and the first

00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:03.920
 thing I think

00:40:03.920 --> 00:40:04.539
 we should notice

00:40:04.539 --> 00:40:05.360
 is that

00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:06.480
 like the

00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:07.039
 accounts of

00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:07.780
 Jesus dealing

00:40:07.780 --> 00:40:08.960
 with vulnerable

00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:10.100
 suffering people

00:40:10.099 --> 00:40:11.400
 the response

00:40:11.400 --> 00:40:12.039
 of Elisha

00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:12.559
 the response

00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:13.239
 of the man

00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:14.299
 of God

00:40:14.299 --> 00:40:16.159
 whose name

00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:17.159
 means

00:40:17.159 --> 00:40:18.619
 my God

00:40:18.619 --> 00:40:19.579
 saves

00:40:19.579 --> 00:40:21.480
 Elisha's

00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:22.380
 response to

00:40:22.380 --> 00:40:22.799
 the widow

00:40:22.799 --> 00:40:23.739
 is a wonderful

00:40:23.739 --> 00:40:24.980
 demonstration of

00:40:24.980 --> 00:40:25.900
 the extravagant

00:40:25.900 --> 00:40:27.179
 kindness of God

00:40:27.179 --> 00:40:29.259
 friends I want us

00:40:29.259 --> 00:40:30.059
 just to reflect on

00:40:30.059 --> 00:40:31.139
 the fact you read

00:40:31.139 --> 00:40:31.839
 this story

00:40:31.839 --> 00:40:34.739
 please understand

00:40:34.739 --> 00:40:37.299
 this is what

00:40:37.299 --> 00:40:38.359
 God is like

00:40:38.359 --> 00:40:43.059
 do you ever

00:40:43.059 --> 00:40:43.619
 feel like a

00:40:43.619 --> 00:40:44.039
 nobody

00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:47.799
 let you in on

00:40:47.799 --> 00:40:48.299
 a secret

00:40:48.299 --> 00:40:50.439
 most people

00:40:50.439 --> 00:40:50.779
 do

00:40:50.779 --> 00:40:53.719
 and it's not a

00:40:53.719 --> 00:40:54.299
 bad thing to

00:40:54.299 --> 00:40:55.000
 feel you know

00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:56.939
 if you strut

00:40:56.939 --> 00:40:57.459
 around through

00:40:57.459 --> 00:40:58.059
 life thinking

00:40:58.059 --> 00:40:58.439
 you're a

00:40:58.439 --> 00:40:58.879
 somebody

00:40:58.879 --> 00:41:00.779
 tell you one

00:41:00.779 --> 00:41:01.059
 thing you

00:41:01.059 --> 00:41:01.519
 probably won't

00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:01.839
 have many

00:41:01.839 --> 00:41:02.339
 friends

00:41:02.340 --> 00:41:04.280
 people don't

00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:04.860
 like people

00:41:04.860 --> 00:41:05.440
 very much

00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:05.920
 who think

00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:06.320
 that they're

00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:06.740
 somebody

00:41:06.740 --> 00:41:08.260
 it's not a

00:41:08.260 --> 00:41:08.860
 bad thing

00:41:08.860 --> 00:41:10.700
 in itself

00:41:10.700 --> 00:41:11.260
 to think of

00:41:11.260 --> 00:41:11.900
 yourself as a

00:41:11.900 --> 00:41:12.300
 nobody

00:41:12.300 --> 00:41:16.180
 and it's

00:41:16.180 --> 00:41:16.579
 particularly

00:41:16.579 --> 00:41:17.100
 good

00:41:17.100 --> 00:41:18.960
 to think of

00:41:18.960 --> 00:41:19.559
 yourself as a

00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:20.000
 nobody

00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:22.160
 when you know

00:41:22.160 --> 00:41:23.120
 what God

00:41:23.120 --> 00:41:23.559
 is like

00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:25.780
 he cares

00:41:25.780 --> 00:41:26.640
 about nobodies

00:41:26.640 --> 00:41:28.300
 that's what

00:41:28.300 --> 00:41:29.039
 God is like

00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:31.320
 see whatever

00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:31.800
 you think of

00:41:31.800 --> 00:41:32.160
 yourself

00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:33.199
 here this

00:41:33.199 --> 00:41:33.539
 morning

00:41:33.539 --> 00:41:34.980
 however you

00:41:34.980 --> 00:41:35.339
 think of

00:41:35.339 --> 00:41:35.739
 yourself

00:41:35.739 --> 00:41:37.239
 you know

00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:39.139
 most of

00:41:39.139 --> 00:41:40.379
 us have

00:41:40.379 --> 00:41:40.940
 some sort

00:41:40.940 --> 00:41:41.699
 of striving

00:41:41.699 --> 00:41:42.219
 to be

00:41:42.219 --> 00:41:42.859
 significant

00:41:42.859 --> 00:41:43.420
 to do

00:41:43.420 --> 00:41:43.839
 something

00:41:43.839 --> 00:41:44.379
 significant

00:41:44.379 --> 00:41:44.779
 a whole

00:41:44.779 --> 00:41:45.139
 lot of

00:41:45.139 --> 00:41:46.039
 our world

00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:46.619
 today is

00:41:46.619 --> 00:41:47.279
 messed up

00:41:47.279 --> 00:41:48.379
 because people

00:41:48.379 --> 00:41:49.239
 are competing

00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:50.299
 to be

00:41:50.299 --> 00:41:50.980
 significant

00:41:50.980 --> 00:41:51.480
 to do

00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:52.059
 significant

00:41:52.059 --> 00:41:52.539
 things

00:41:52.539 --> 00:41:54.399
 to gain

00:41:54.399 --> 00:41:55.059
 some kind

00:41:55.059 --> 00:41:55.599
 of status

00:41:55.599 --> 00:41:56.099
 and to

00:41:56.099 --> 00:41:56.299
 find

00:41:56.299 --> 00:41:57.579
 you know

00:41:57.579 --> 00:41:58.899
 it doesn't

00:41:58.899 --> 00:41:59.379
 work

00:41:59.380 --> 00:42:01.220
 there's

00:42:01.220 --> 00:42:01.500
 lots of

00:42:01.500 --> 00:42:01.640
 good

00:42:01.640 --> 00:42:01.980
 things for

00:42:01.980 --> 00:42:02.180
 us to

00:42:02.180 --> 00:42:02.400
 do in

00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:02.640
 the world

00:42:02.640 --> 00:42:02.920
 I'm not

00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:03.180
 against

00:42:03.180 --> 00:42:03.780
 people doing

00:42:03.780 --> 00:42:04.260
 significant

00:42:04.260 --> 00:42:04.660
 things or

00:42:04.660 --> 00:42:05.039
 anything like

00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:05.280
 that but

00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:06.119
 that's not

00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:06.660
 how you find

00:42:06.660 --> 00:42:07.300
 your significance

00:42:07.300 --> 00:42:09.579
 you're like

00:42:09.579 --> 00:42:10.160
 me you're a

00:42:10.160 --> 00:42:10.539
 nobody

00:42:10.539 --> 00:42:12.880
 you really

00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:13.400
 are a

00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:13.780
 nobody

00:42:13.780 --> 00:42:14.880
 in the

00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:15.260
 scheme of

00:42:15.260 --> 00:42:15.500
 things I

00:42:15.500 --> 00:42:15.780
 mean you're

00:42:15.780 --> 00:42:16.619
 one person

00:42:16.619 --> 00:42:17.440
 you know how

00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:18.099
 many millions

00:42:18.099 --> 00:42:18.680
 there are in

00:42:18.680 --> 00:42:19.140
 the world

00:42:19.140 --> 00:42:20.539
 and you're

00:42:20.539 --> 00:42:20.920
 just one

00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:21.320
 I'm just

00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:21.660
 one

00:42:21.659 --> 00:42:24.779
 you find

00:42:24.779 --> 00:42:24.960
 your

00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:25.639
 significance

00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:28.259
 by discovering

00:42:28.259 --> 00:42:28.899
 the wonderful

00:42:28.899 --> 00:42:29.460
 truth of

00:42:29.460 --> 00:42:29.879
 what God

00:42:29.879 --> 00:42:30.359
 is like

00:42:30.359 --> 00:42:31.859
 and God

00:42:31.859 --> 00:42:32.199
 is the

00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:32.579
 God

00:42:32.579 --> 00:42:33.519
 who is

00:42:33.519 --> 00:42:34.039
 kind

00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:35.179
 to

00:42:35.179 --> 00:42:35.859
 nobodies

00:42:35.859 --> 00:42:38.000
 that's a

00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:38.259
 wonderful

00:42:38.259 --> 00:42:38.839
 story isn't

00:42:38.839 --> 00:42:39.119
 it I

00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:39.319
 mean if

00:42:39.319 --> 00:42:39.619
 you stop

00:42:39.619 --> 00:42:40.199
 there it

00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:40.339
 would be

00:42:40.339 --> 00:42:41.079
 worth reading

00:42:41.079 --> 00:42:41.519
 the story

00:42:41.519 --> 00:42:41.960
 wouldn't it

00:42:41.960 --> 00:42:42.859
 just saying

00:42:42.859 --> 00:42:43.460
 you know

00:42:43.460 --> 00:42:43.759
 there are

00:42:43.759 --> 00:42:44.379
 senses in

00:42:44.379 --> 00:42:44.819
 which I'm

00:42:44.819 --> 00:42:45.259
 just like

00:42:45.259 --> 00:42:45.759
 that widow

00:42:45.759 --> 00:42:48.859
 I really

00:42:48.859 --> 00:42:49.179
 am

00:42:49.179 --> 00:42:50.579
 I haven't

00:42:50.579 --> 00:42:51.159
 got much

00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:52.219
 I got

00:42:52.219 --> 00:42:52.539
 more than

00:42:52.539 --> 00:42:53.079
 she has

00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:54.299
 but I

00:42:54.299 --> 00:42:54.659
 could lose

00:42:54.659 --> 00:42:55.139
 it tomorrow

00:42:55.139 --> 00:42:57.119
 yeah

00:42:57.119 --> 00:42:58.799
 what God

00:42:58.799 --> 00:42:59.279
 is like

00:42:59.279 --> 00:43:01.539
 in our

00:43:01.539 --> 00:43:02.039
 weaknesses

00:43:02.039 --> 00:43:03.699
 and in

00:43:03.699 --> 00:43:04.940
 our inadequacies

00:43:04.940 --> 00:43:06.139
 and in

00:43:06.139 --> 00:43:07.059
 our hardships

00:43:07.059 --> 00:43:09.099
 and when we

00:43:09.099 --> 00:43:09.579
 find

00:43:09.579 --> 00:43:10.920
 actually I'm

00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:11.359
 finding it

00:43:11.359 --> 00:43:11.920
 really hard

00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:12.420
 to cope

00:43:12.420 --> 00:43:14.879
 I think it's

00:43:14.879 --> 00:43:15.279
 not a bad

00:43:15.279 --> 00:43:15.839
 idea to say

00:43:15.839 --> 00:43:16.199
 I'm like

00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:16.599
 that widow

00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:19.679
 and I want

00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:20.299
 to be reminded

00:43:20.299 --> 00:43:20.839
 as I read

00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:21.280
 the story

00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:21.600
 of that

00:43:21.600 --> 00:43:22.000
 widow

00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:24.720
 of the

00:43:24.720 --> 00:43:25.400
 powerful

00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:26.340
 kindness

00:43:26.340 --> 00:43:27.320
 of God

00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:29.480
 the New

00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:29.760
 Testament

00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:30.160
 puts it

00:43:30.160 --> 00:43:30.640
 like this

00:43:30.640 --> 00:43:32.120
 he cares

00:43:32.120 --> 00:43:33.220
 for you

00:43:33.220 --> 00:43:35.820
 do you

00:43:35.820 --> 00:43:36.260
 hear that

00:43:36.260 --> 00:43:37.180
 that's what

00:43:37.180 --> 00:43:37.539
 God is

00:43:37.539 --> 00:43:37.960
 like

00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:41.079
 I don't

00:43:41.079 --> 00:43:41.240
 know whether

00:43:41.240 --> 00:43:41.640
 this is getting

00:43:41.640 --> 00:43:42.079
 through to you

00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:43.220
 but I

00:43:43.220 --> 00:43:43.700
 find it

00:43:43.700 --> 00:43:44.160
 deeply

00:43:44.160 --> 00:43:44.660
 moving

00:43:44.659 --> 00:43:46.659
 to learn

00:43:46.659 --> 00:43:47.079
 that that

00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:47.559
 is what

00:43:47.559 --> 00:43:48.259
 God

00:43:48.259 --> 00:43:49.139
 is like

00:43:49.139 --> 00:43:50.960
 he cares

00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:52.239
 for you

00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:53.980
 and he

00:43:53.980 --> 00:43:54.839
 invites us

00:43:54.839 --> 00:43:56.719
 to be

00:43:56.719 --> 00:43:57.480
 like that

00:43:57.480 --> 00:43:57.779
 widow

00:43:57.779 --> 00:43:59.299
 and to

00:43:59.299 --> 00:44:00.539
 cast all

00:44:00.539 --> 00:44:01.779
 our anxieties

00:44:01.779 --> 00:44:02.619
 on him

00:44:02.619 --> 00:44:05.179
 because

00:44:05.179 --> 00:44:07.980
 he cares

00:44:07.980 --> 00:44:09.099
 for you

00:44:09.099 --> 00:44:13.360
 let's

00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:13.699
 take it a

00:44:13.699 --> 00:44:14.019
 little bit

00:44:14.019 --> 00:44:14.279
 further

00:44:14.279 --> 00:44:15.059
 because the

00:44:15.059 --> 00:44:15.579
 widow's

00:44:15.579 --> 00:44:16.440
 experience

00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:19.000
 is a

00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:19.360
 wonderful

00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:19.960
 picture

00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:21.880
 of what

00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:22.279
 can be

00:44:22.279 --> 00:44:22.739
 our

00:44:22.739 --> 00:44:23.639
 experience

00:44:23.639 --> 00:44:25.579
 and I'm

00:44:25.579 --> 00:44:25.940
 just going to

00:44:25.940 --> 00:44:26.279
 take the

00:44:26.279 --> 00:44:26.679
 words of

00:44:26.679 --> 00:44:27.199
 Philippians

00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:28.139
 chapter 4

00:44:28.139 --> 00:44:29.500
 verses 6

00:44:29.500 --> 00:44:29.980
 and 7

00:44:29.980 --> 00:44:30.480
 just listen

00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:31.000
 to this

00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:32.539
 do not

00:44:32.539 --> 00:44:32.760
 be

00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:33.579
 and as

00:44:33.579 --> 00:44:33.900
 you listen

00:44:33.900 --> 00:44:34.280
 to this

00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:35.079
 see how

00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:35.380
 they sort

00:44:35.380 --> 00:44:35.679
 of fit

00:44:35.679 --> 00:44:36.039
 what the

00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:36.679
 widow did

00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:37.480
 and see

00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:37.820
 how they

00:44:37.820 --> 00:44:38.300
 then

00:44:38.300 --> 00:44:39.300
 directly

00:44:39.300 --> 00:44:40.460
 are a

00:44:40.460 --> 00:44:40.820
 call to

00:44:40.820 --> 00:44:41.059
 us

00:44:41.059 --> 00:44:41.599
 the words

00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:42.059
 are these

00:44:42.059 --> 00:44:42.519
 Philippians

00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:42.780
 4

00:44:42.780 --> 00:44:43.320
 verses 6

00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:43.739
 and 7

00:44:43.739 --> 00:44:46.000
 do not

00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:47.000
 be

00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:47.699
 anxious

00:44:47.699 --> 00:44:49.159
 about

00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:49.699
 anything

00:44:49.699 --> 00:44:51.719
 but in

00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:52.179
 everything

00:44:52.179 --> 00:44:53.500
 by prayer

00:44:53.500 --> 00:44:54.760
 and supplication

00:44:54.760 --> 00:44:55.820
 with thanksgiving

00:44:55.820 --> 00:44:57.679
 let your

00:44:57.679 --> 00:44:58.579
 requests be

00:44:58.579 --> 00:44:59.239
 made known

00:44:59.239 --> 00:44:59.960
 to God

00:44:59.960 --> 00:45:02.119
 to what

00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:02.400
 the widow

00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:02.840
 did didn't

00:45:02.840 --> 00:45:03.039
 she

00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:03.559
 by coming

00:45:03.559 --> 00:45:04.119
 to Elisha

00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:04.619
 let your

00:45:04.619 --> 00:45:05.240
 requests

00:45:05.240 --> 00:45:06.360
 be made

00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:06.800
 known to

00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:07.280
 God

00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:08.960
 whatever's

00:45:08.960 --> 00:45:09.280
 on your

00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:09.720
 heart

00:45:09.720 --> 00:45:11.179
 whatever

00:45:11.179 --> 00:45:12.039
 your anxieties

00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:12.800
 about life

00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:13.119
 are

00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:14.579
 whatever

00:45:14.579 --> 00:45:14.980
 your

00:45:14.980 --> 00:45:17.179
 yeah

00:45:17.179 --> 00:45:17.420
 whatever

00:45:17.420 --> 00:45:17.880
 you're going

00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:18.240
 through

00:45:18.240 --> 00:45:20.880
 let your

00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:21.420
 requests

00:45:21.420 --> 00:45:21.960
 be made

00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:22.440
 known to

00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:22.860
 God

00:45:22.860 --> 00:45:23.440
 and here's

00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:24.000
 the promise

00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:25.500
 and the

00:45:25.500 --> 00:45:26.079
 peace of

00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:26.480
 God

00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:28.500
 which

00:45:28.500 --> 00:45:29.380
 surpasses

00:45:29.380 --> 00:45:29.659
 all

00:45:29.659 --> 00:45:29.940
 understanding

00:45:29.940 --> 00:45:32.280
 will guard

00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:33.039
 your hearts

00:45:33.039 --> 00:45:33.440
 and your

00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:33.980
 minds

00:45:33.980 --> 00:45:34.900
 in Christ

00:45:34.900 --> 00:45:35.559
 Jesus

00:45:35.559 --> 00:45:37.980
 what God

00:45:37.980 --> 00:45:38.460
 is like

00:45:38.460 --> 00:45:41.139
 he cares

00:45:41.139 --> 00:45:42.440
 for you

00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:44.500
 well then

00:45:44.500 --> 00:45:45.139
 notice that the

00:45:45.139 --> 00:45:45.740
 story of the

00:45:45.740 --> 00:45:46.519
 widow also

00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:47.280
 presents us

00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:47.860
 with a model

00:45:47.860 --> 00:45:49.079
 of discipleship

00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:50.039
 so it shows us

00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:50.420
 what God

00:45:50.420 --> 00:45:50.980
 is like

00:45:50.980 --> 00:45:52.639
 it also

00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:53.179
 shows us

00:45:53.179 --> 00:45:53.460
 what a

00:45:53.460 --> 00:45:53.920
 disciple

00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:54.659
 is like

00:45:54.659 --> 00:45:56.360
 she saw

00:45:56.360 --> 00:45:57.099
 herself

00:45:57.099 --> 00:45:58.920
 like her

00:45:58.920 --> 00:45:59.299
 husband

00:45:59.299 --> 00:45:59.880
 as a

00:45:59.880 --> 00:46:00.279
 servant

00:46:00.279 --> 00:46:01.599
 of the

00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:02.000
 man of

00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:02.339
 God

00:46:02.339 --> 00:46:04.119
 no doubt

00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:04.860
 she like

00:46:04.860 --> 00:46:05.400
 her husband

00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:06.420
 feared the

00:46:06.420 --> 00:46:06.880
 Lord

00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:09.339
 she brought

00:46:09.339 --> 00:46:10.159
 her need

00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:10.819
 to the man

00:46:10.819 --> 00:46:11.339
 of God

00:46:11.339 --> 00:46:12.019
 and she

00:46:12.019 --> 00:46:12.659
 listened to

00:46:12.659 --> 00:46:13.279
 his word

00:46:13.279 --> 00:46:15.380
 she trusted

00:46:15.380 --> 00:46:15.699
 him

00:46:15.699 --> 00:46:17.279
 and she

00:46:17.279 --> 00:46:17.779
 obeyed

00:46:17.779 --> 00:46:18.000
 him

00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:19.880
 and she

00:46:19.880 --> 00:46:20.759
 received

00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:22.720
 more

00:46:22.720 --> 00:46:23.120
 than she

00:46:23.120 --> 00:46:23.540
 asked

00:46:23.540 --> 00:46:23.860
 for

00:46:23.860 --> 00:46:29.140
 now if

00:46:29.140 --> 00:46:29.440
 you're a

00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:29.700
 Christian

00:46:29.700 --> 00:46:30.100
 believer

00:46:30.100 --> 00:46:30.680
 this morning

00:46:30.680 --> 00:46:31.000
 as I

00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:31.200
 know

00:46:31.200 --> 00:46:31.740
 many of

00:46:31.740 --> 00:46:32.120
 us here

00:46:32.120 --> 00:46:32.540
 are

00:46:32.540 --> 00:46:34.580
 and if

00:46:34.580 --> 00:46:35.080
 you're not

00:46:35.080 --> 00:46:36.400
 yet

00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:37.780
 a Christian

00:46:37.780 --> 00:46:38.180
 believer

00:46:38.180 --> 00:46:38.860
 this morning

00:46:38.860 --> 00:46:39.640
 listen to

00:46:39.640 --> 00:46:40.080
 this because

00:46:40.080 --> 00:46:40.480
 this is what

00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:40.900
 a Christian

00:46:40.900 --> 00:46:41.280
 believer

00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:41.780
 is

00:46:41.780 --> 00:46:44.480
 and if

00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:44.760
 I could

00:46:44.760 --> 00:46:45.580
 talk with

00:46:45.580 --> 00:46:45.880
 you and

00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:46.140
 I'd be

00:46:46.140 --> 00:46:46.640
 very happy

00:46:46.640 --> 00:46:47.000
 to do

00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:47.640
 so I'd

00:46:47.640 --> 00:46:47.900
 want to

00:46:47.900 --> 00:46:48.380
 know why

00:46:48.380 --> 00:46:48.740
 on earth

00:46:48.740 --> 00:46:49.039
 aren't

00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:49.240
 you

00:46:49.240 --> 00:46:51.160
 why

00:46:51.160 --> 00:46:51.559
 wouldn't

00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:52.000
 you be

00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:53.360
 why

00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:53.760
 wouldn't

00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:54.340
 you trust

00:46:54.340 --> 00:46:55.139
 this God

00:46:55.139 --> 00:46:56.780
 what are

00:46:56.780 --> 00:46:57.119
 you mucking

00:46:57.119 --> 00:46:57.960
 around for

00:46:57.960 --> 00:46:58.900
 what are

00:46:58.900 --> 00:46:59.360
 you waiting

00:46:59.360 --> 00:46:59.940
 for

00:46:59.940 --> 00:47:01.059
 what do

00:47:01.059 --> 00:47:01.300
 you want

00:47:01.300 --> 00:47:01.559
 him to

00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:02.000
 do

00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:05.539
 watch this

00:47:05.539 --> 00:47:05.780
 woman

00:47:05.780 --> 00:47:06.300
 closely

00:47:06.300 --> 00:47:07.840
 and I

00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:08.079
 want to

00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:08.380
 say

00:47:08.380 --> 00:47:11.119
 we follow

00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:11.880
 her example

00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:14.820
 and just

00:47:14.820 --> 00:47:15.160
 as she

00:47:15.160 --> 00:47:15.680
 found

00:47:15.680 --> 00:47:16.960
 the Lord's

00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:17.420
 provision

00:47:17.420 --> 00:47:19.240
 surpassed

00:47:19.240 --> 00:47:19.800
 anything

00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:20.340
 she could

00:47:20.340 --> 00:47:20.900
 possibly

00:47:20.900 --> 00:47:21.180
 have

00:47:21.180 --> 00:47:21.519
 hoped

00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:21.940
 for

00:47:21.940 --> 00:47:23.539
 so you

00:47:23.539 --> 00:47:23.720
 will

00:47:23.720 --> 00:47:24.099
 find

00:47:24.099 --> 00:47:25.480
 as you

00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:26.019
 come

00:47:26.019 --> 00:47:28.019
 to the

00:47:28.019 --> 00:47:28.260
 Lord

00:47:28.260 --> 00:47:28.700
 Jesus

00:47:28.700 --> 00:47:31.019
 the one

00:47:31.019 --> 00:47:31.400
 who is

00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:31.740
 greater

00:47:31.740 --> 00:47:32.200
 than

00:47:32.200 --> 00:47:32.860
 Elisha

00:47:32.860 --> 00:47:33.800
 come to

00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:34.159
 the Lord

00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:34.500
 Jesus

00:47:34.500 --> 00:47:35.220
 listen to

00:47:35.220 --> 00:47:36.000
 his word

00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:38.720
 trust

00:47:38.720 --> 00:47:39.099
 him

00:47:39.099 --> 00:47:41.320
 and obey

00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:41.760
 him

00:47:41.760 --> 00:47:43.900
 and you

00:47:43.900 --> 00:47:44.639
 will find

00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:46.159
 as the

00:47:46.159 --> 00:47:46.639
 New Testament

00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:47.280
 puts it

00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:48.760
 that he

00:47:48.760 --> 00:47:49.600
 is able

00:47:49.600 --> 00:47:50.120
 to do

00:47:50.120 --> 00:47:50.900
 far more

00:47:50.900 --> 00:47:51.740
 abundantly

00:47:51.740 --> 00:47:52.519
 than all

00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:53.019
 that we

00:47:53.019 --> 00:47:53.800
 ask or

00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:54.220
 think

00:47:54.220 --> 00:47:55.300
 according to

00:47:55.300 --> 00:47:55.940
 the power

00:47:55.940 --> 00:47:56.600
 at work

00:47:56.600 --> 00:47:57.360
 within us

00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:00.760
 we're moving

00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:01.160
 from an

00:48:01.160 --> 00:48:01.660
 Old Testament

00:48:01.660 --> 00:48:02.760
 story to

00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:03.660
 the experience

00:48:03.660 --> 00:48:04.160
 of Christian

00:48:04.160 --> 00:48:04.600
 believers

00:48:04.600 --> 00:48:05.140
 it's a big

00:48:05.140 --> 00:48:05.480
 jump

00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:07.580
 but it's an

00:48:07.580 --> 00:48:07.940
 appropriate

00:48:07.940 --> 00:48:08.580
 movement

00:48:08.580 --> 00:48:09.700
 but it is a

00:48:09.700 --> 00:48:10.080
 movement

00:48:10.080 --> 00:48:11.420
 we are

00:48:11.420 --> 00:48:12.120
 living on

00:48:12.120 --> 00:48:12.960
 this side

00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:13.840
 of the

00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:14.260
 death and

00:48:14.260 --> 00:48:14.380
 the

00:48:14.380 --> 00:48:14.800
 resurrection

00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:15.400
 of Jesus

00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:17.659
 we live

00:48:17.659 --> 00:48:18.079
 in the

00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:18.860
 light of

00:48:18.860 --> 00:48:19.500
 the death

00:48:19.500 --> 00:48:19.740
 and the

00:48:19.740 --> 00:48:20.139
 resurrection

00:48:20.139 --> 00:48:20.760
 of Jesus

00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:21.880
 and we

00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:22.579
 must understand

00:48:22.579 --> 00:48:23.000
 that the

00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:24.039
 fulfilment

00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:26.119
 surpasses

00:48:26.119 --> 00:48:26.760
 the shadow

00:48:26.760 --> 00:48:28.559
 and our

00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:29.000
 Old Testament

00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:30.400
 stories are

00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:31.539
 shadows of

00:48:31.539 --> 00:48:32.360
 the fulfilment

00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:33.019
 in which we

00:48:33.019 --> 00:48:33.659
 now live

00:48:33.659 --> 00:48:34.879
 the widow's

00:48:34.879 --> 00:48:35.519
 request for

00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:36.019
 help in

00:48:36.019 --> 00:48:36.659
 her desperate

00:48:36.659 --> 00:48:37.219
 plight

00:48:37.219 --> 00:48:38.039
 and the

00:48:38.039 --> 00:48:38.500
 Lord's

00:48:38.500 --> 00:48:39.239
 overflowing

00:48:39.239 --> 00:48:39.779
 provision

00:48:39.779 --> 00:48:40.539
 for her

00:48:40.539 --> 00:48:41.539
 is but a

00:48:41.539 --> 00:48:41.920
 shadow

00:48:41.920 --> 00:48:43.759
 of the

00:48:43.759 --> 00:48:44.420
 request that

00:48:44.420 --> 00:48:45.000
 the Apostle

00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:45.559
 Paul had

00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:46.039
 in mind

00:48:46.039 --> 00:48:46.440
 when he

00:48:46.440 --> 00:48:47.199
 thought of

00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:48.679
 far more

00:48:48.679 --> 00:48:49.639
 abundantly

00:48:49.639 --> 00:48:51.099
 I want to

00:48:51.099 --> 00:48:51.799
 close by

00:48:51.799 --> 00:48:52.619
 asking you to

00:48:52.619 --> 00:48:53.299
 listen carefully

00:48:53.299 --> 00:48:54.899
 to Paul's

00:48:54.899 --> 00:48:56.000
 prayer to

00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:56.619
 the God

00:48:56.619 --> 00:48:57.920
 who provided

00:48:57.920 --> 00:48:58.859
 so abundantly

00:48:58.859 --> 00:48:59.319
 for that

00:48:59.319 --> 00:48:59.579
 widow

00:48:59.579 --> 00:49:00.179
 he prayed

00:49:00.179 --> 00:49:00.739
 like this

00:49:00.739 --> 00:49:01.219
 for people

00:49:01.219 --> 00:49:02.119
 like us

00:49:02.119 --> 00:49:04.619
 that according

00:49:04.619 --> 00:49:05.099
 to the

00:49:05.099 --> 00:49:06.059
 riches of

00:49:06.059 --> 00:49:06.880
 his glory

00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:09.159
 he may

00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:09.819
 grant you

00:49:09.819 --> 00:49:10.199
 to be

00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:10.759
 strengthened

00:49:10.759 --> 00:49:11.880
 with power

00:49:11.880 --> 00:49:13.159
 through his

00:49:13.159 --> 00:49:13.880
 spirit in

00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:14.400
 your inner

00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:14.980
 being

00:49:14.980 --> 00:49:16.960
 so that

00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:17.859
 Christ may

00:49:17.859 --> 00:49:18.359
 dwell in

00:49:18.359 --> 00:49:19.159
 your hearts

00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:20.239
 through

00:49:20.239 --> 00:49:20.779
 faith

00:49:20.779 --> 00:49:22.179
 and that

00:49:22.179 --> 00:49:22.559
 you

00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:24.279
 being

00:49:24.279 --> 00:49:24.739
 rooted

00:49:24.739 --> 00:49:25.460
 and grounded

00:49:25.460 --> 00:49:26.400
 in love

00:49:26.400 --> 00:49:27.920
 may have

00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:28.679
 strength

00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:30.639
 to comprehend

00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:31.319
 with all

00:49:31.319 --> 00:49:31.799
 the saints

00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:32.160
 all the

00:49:32.160 --> 00:49:32.580
 Christians

00:49:32.580 --> 00:49:34.180
 what is

00:49:34.180 --> 00:49:34.840
 the breadth

00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:35.380
 and the

00:49:35.380 --> 00:49:35.780
 length

00:49:35.780 --> 00:49:36.300
 and the

00:49:36.300 --> 00:49:36.640
 height

00:49:36.640 --> 00:49:37.120
 and the

00:49:37.120 --> 00:49:37.539
 depth

00:49:37.539 --> 00:49:38.680
 and to

00:49:38.680 --> 00:49:39.120
 know

00:49:39.120 --> 00:49:40.620
 the love

00:49:40.620 --> 00:49:41.260
 of Christ

00:49:41.260 --> 00:49:42.180
 that surpasses

00:49:42.180 --> 00:49:42.539
 knowledge

00:49:42.539 --> 00:49:43.820
 that you

00:49:43.820 --> 00:49:44.300
 may be

00:49:44.300 --> 00:49:44.860
 filled

00:49:44.860 --> 00:49:46.720
 with the

00:49:46.720 --> 00:49:47.000
 fullness

00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:47.700
 of God

00:49:47.700 --> 00:49:51.560
 I'm blown

00:49:51.560 --> 00:49:52.060
 away by

00:49:52.060 --> 00:49:52.620
 this story

00:49:52.620 --> 00:49:54.700
 what a

00:49:54.700 --> 00:49:55.220
 God

00:49:55.220 --> 00:49:57.000
 we share

00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:58.140
 with the

00:49:58.140 --> 00:49:58.740
 widow of

00:49:58.739 --> 00:49:59.459
 our story

00:49:59.459 --> 00:50:02.199
 with

00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:03.000
 blessings

00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:04.679
 bigger

00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:05.579
 better

00:50:05.579 --> 00:50:06.799
 and longer

00:50:06.799 --> 00:50:07.399
 lasting

00:50:07.399 --> 00:50:09.199
 than her

00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:09.859
 gallons and

00:50:09.859 --> 00:50:10.379
 gallons of

00:50:10.379 --> 00:50:10.679
 oil

00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:14.659
 will you pray

00:50:14.659 --> 00:50:15.619
 with me

00:50:15.619 --> 00:50:19.719
 our heavenly

00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:20.639
 father we thank you

00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:21.259
 for this poor

00:50:21.259 --> 00:50:22.279
 lady so long

00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:22.700
 ago

00:50:22.700 --> 00:50:25.640
 in her grief

00:50:25.640 --> 00:50:27.300
 and in her

00:50:27.300 --> 00:50:27.740
 fear

00:50:27.740 --> 00:50:29.380
 and in her

00:50:29.380 --> 00:50:30.260
 anxiety for

00:50:30.260 --> 00:50:30.780
 her kids

00:50:30.780 --> 00:50:33.440
 in a

00:50:33.440 --> 00:50:34.019
 situation

00:50:34.019 --> 00:50:35.220
 where she

00:50:35.220 --> 00:50:35.720
 was being

00:50:35.720 --> 00:50:36.340
 exploited

00:50:36.340 --> 00:50:36.960
 and bullied

00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:40.720
 thank you so

00:50:40.720 --> 00:50:41.320
 much for the

00:50:41.320 --> 00:50:42.019
 way in which

00:50:42.019 --> 00:50:42.940
 you responded

00:50:42.940 --> 00:50:43.700
 to that need

00:50:43.700 --> 00:50:44.280
 as she brought

00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:44.860
 it to the

00:50:44.860 --> 00:50:45.240
 man of

00:50:45.240 --> 00:50:45.560
 God

00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:49.219
 what a

00:50:49.219 --> 00:50:49.659
 picture that

00:50:49.659 --> 00:50:50.000
 is

00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:52.960
 and help

00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:53.539
 us to see

00:50:53.539 --> 00:50:54.219
 ourselves

00:50:54.219 --> 00:50:55.480
 and how

00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:55.880
 much we

00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:56.299
 are like

00:50:56.299 --> 00:50:56.579
 her

00:50:56.579 --> 00:50:59.159
 in our

00:50:59.159 --> 00:50:59.559
 need

00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:00.039
 in our

00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:00.699
 inability

00:51:00.699 --> 00:51:01.259
 really

00:51:01.259 --> 00:51:02.440
 to cope

00:51:02.440 --> 00:51:03.539
 our

00:51:03.539 --> 00:51:03.940
 inability

00:51:03.940 --> 00:51:04.679
 to control

00:51:04.679 --> 00:51:04.920
 our

00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:05.739
 circumstances

00:51:05.739 --> 00:51:08.000
 our

00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:09.039
 insignificance

00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:10.960
 our

00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:11.719
 nobodiness

00:51:11.719 --> 00:51:14.900
 we pray

00:51:14.900 --> 00:51:15.219
 heavenly

00:51:15.219 --> 00:51:15.699
 father that

00:51:15.699 --> 00:51:15.939
 every

00:51:15.939 --> 00:51:16.359
 each one

00:51:16.359 --> 00:51:16.639
 of us

00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:16.859
 this

00:51:16.859 --> 00:51:17.239
 morning

00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:20.739
 be able

00:51:20.739 --> 00:51:21.299
 to turn

00:51:21.299 --> 00:51:23.299
 to the

00:51:23.299 --> 00:51:23.859
 man of

00:51:23.859 --> 00:51:24.259
 God

00:51:24.259 --> 00:51:25.719
 the Lord

00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:26.279
 Jesus

00:51:26.279 --> 00:51:29.799
 and bring

00:51:29.799 --> 00:51:30.699
 our anxieties

00:51:30.699 --> 00:51:32.000
 to him

00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:35.459
 and experience

00:51:35.459 --> 00:51:36.219
 the wonder

00:51:36.219 --> 00:51:38.319
 of your

00:51:38.319 --> 00:51:39.099
 promises to

00:51:39.099 --> 00:51:39.500
 us

00:51:39.500 --> 00:51:40.639
 fulfilled

00:51:40.639 --> 00:51:45.139
 and I

00:51:45.139 --> 00:51:45.359
 want to

00:51:45.359 --> 00:51:45.619
 pray

00:51:45.619 --> 00:51:46.839
 now for

00:51:46.839 --> 00:51:47.219
 any one

00:51:47.219 --> 00:51:47.659
 of us

00:51:47.659 --> 00:51:48.699
 and there

00:51:48.699 --> 00:51:49.039
 may be

00:51:49.039 --> 00:51:49.619
 just one

00:51:49.619 --> 00:51:53.199
 who has

00:51:53.199 --> 00:51:53.739
 not yet

00:51:53.739 --> 00:51:55.039
 turned to

00:51:55.039 --> 00:51:55.619
 Jesus in

00:51:55.619 --> 00:51:56.159
 that way

00:51:56.159 --> 00:51:57.299
 ever

00:51:57.299 --> 00:52:01.279
 I want to

00:52:01.279 --> 00:52:01.779
 pray that

00:52:01.779 --> 00:52:02.619
 that person

00:52:02.619 --> 00:52:03.920
 or those

00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:04.519
 persons

00:52:04.519 --> 00:52:07.300
 might do

00:52:07.300 --> 00:52:07.940
 that today

00:52:07.940 --> 00:52:10.400
 what could

00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:10.980
 they possibly

00:52:10.980 --> 00:52:11.460
 be waiting

00:52:11.460 --> 00:52:11.800
 for

00:52:11.800 --> 00:52:15.300
 we pray

00:52:15.300 --> 00:52:15.679
 this in

00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:16.320
 Jesus name

00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:16.880
 Amen

00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:20.180
 He

00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:32.140
 were

00:52:32.539 --> 00:52:33.740
 doing

00:52:34.420 --> 00:52:35.420
 Ruby

00:52:35.420 --> 00:52:35.860
 46

00:52:35.860 --> 00:52:36.300
 46

00:52:36.300 --> 00:52:36.680
 46

00:52:36.680 --> 00:52:39.400
 49

00:52:39.400 --> 00:52:40.500
 både

00:52:40.500 --> 00:52:41.420
 erreichen

00:52:41.420 --> 00:52:42.260
 Roberts

00:52:42.260 --> 00:52:43.840
 5