1 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,440 Hallelujah. And then typically everybody 2 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:13,440 goes across the page. The 311 that I fly away might 3 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:19,760 need to have a more senior elderly game night sometime and 4 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,280 turn it into a bingo that will call out a page number and see 5 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:27,240 if you can find the name of the song on the square that that 6 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:31,600 correlates to. Amen. 7 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:36,240 Those were songs I grew up with. People got the Holy Ghost and 8 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:41,440 baptized back then too. Every generation, as the songs 9 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:46,080 may change, they still glorify the same one, and God still does 10 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:46,760 His. Work. 11 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,560 Isn't he wonderful? Amen. 12 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:53,520 Amen. We're going to be turned to 2nd 13 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:55,600 Kings chapter #2 Glad to have each one with you. 14 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,760 Glad to have the the Worth family with us here tonight. 15 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:01,520 Amen. These folks are precious. 16 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,680 Our families have known each other for years. 17 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:10,520 I grew up with these guys, Billy and Brad and Brandon and we, I. 18 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,920 I was reminiscing a little bit. Of course, you know, Brad heard 19 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:19,200 the recent of the passing of their mother and all times went 20 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,640 over there and there was a field that we would play Home Run 21 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,920 Derby. We'd get we'd get wiffle balls 22 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,360 and tape them up with duct tape and, you know, get them a layer 23 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,760 on there. And we would hit and play Home 24 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,240 Run Derby. They had a basketball go and 25 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,800 they're right there behind the house. 26 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,080 It could lower and raise and we thought we were just NBA 27 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:43,840 specialists and man, Billy would get in there and be dunking and 28 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:48,400 everything else, you know, doing some Jordan moves, double pumps, 29 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,720 the whole 9 yards. We'd go up in the Brad's room, 30 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:59,440 Ryan Farrar would come over and we would watch the Cubs lose and 31 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,640 the Cardinals win. But they. 32 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,600 Finally won. They finally won, Brad. 33 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,720 They finally won World Series. But we'd go up there, we'd take 34 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,360 their mattresses off the beds and throw them on the floor and 35 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:13,960 we'd wrestle till his mom and dad thought we were coming 36 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,240 through the ceiling. That's just what we did then. 37 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,040 And Brandon, that's just what we did. 38 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:21,400 That's that's pretty good clean fun. 39 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,800 That's pretty good clean fun. Amen. 40 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,400 Some great times. We walked for miles, Brother 41 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:36,200 Brad crossed fields and ditches. I mean, risked our lives, caused 42 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,240 injury to some people's homes during the time of TPN. 43 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,440 They'd leave their doors in lock. 44 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:53,120 We'd Saran wrap their toilets. It's just the type of fun we 45 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:58,840 had. Everybody's locking their doors 46 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,200 this October in case pastors on the let's get it back go. 47 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,640 We'll get the team together again, Brad, We're we're all 48 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:06,040 live. We'll get the team. 49 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:12,640 It might take us a little longer to go those two miles all 50 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:16,560 dressed in black. I don't know if that helped. 51 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:24,720 Amen. Second Kings chapter #2 I mean, 52 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:29,920 look what the Lord has done. Look what the Lord has done. 53 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,400 Amen. Chase, Good to have you tonight, 54 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:37,280 Reagan. You must have won the arm 55 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,520 wrestling contest. That's one thing I know. 56 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:41,880 Amen. Glad to have you tonight. 57 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,320 Second Kings chapter #2 verse 11. 58 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,200 Amen. And it came to pass, as they 59 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,240 still went on and talked, that behold, there appeared a chariot 60 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:56,000 of fire, and horses of fire parted them both asunder. 61 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,680 And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. 62 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,840 And Elijah saw it. He cried, My father, my father, 63 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,240 the chariot of Israel, and the horseman thereof. 64 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:12,760 And he saw him no more, and he took hold of his own clothes and 65 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:17,200 rent them in two pieces. He took up also the mantle of 66 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,959 Elijah that fell from him, went back and stood by the Bank of 67 00:04:20,959 --> 00:04:23,120 the Jordan. He took the mantle of Elijah 68 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,080 that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is 69 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,720 the Lord God of Elijah? And when he had also had smitten 70 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,640 the waters, they parted hit her and thither Elijah went over 71 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,240 when the sons, the prophets, which were to we could stop 72 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:38,960 right there. I we. 73 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:43,560 This is the story of Elijah and Elijah Elijah and then we I know 74 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,080 it's easy to get him confused right. 75 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:49,320 Always remember that the J comes before the S Elijah Elijah. 76 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,200 That's a little mnemonic device for you in the alphabet. 77 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,920 J comes before S helping you out. 78 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:56,760 If you didn't learn your alphabet, then you'll be in 79 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,760 trouble. But none the less, Elijah was to 80 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:06,120 be a kind of an understudy of Elijah. 81 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,920 So it came up on this moment that Elijah didn't, he didn't 82 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,960 see that, but he was taken away. Mantle fell. 83 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,600 Elijah picked it up. I want to talk just a little 84 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,200 while on this subject. When the mantle becomes the man. 85 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,320 When the mantle becomes the man, Amen. 86 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,000 Can we ask the Lord to help us? I know we laughed and I love to 87 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,320 laugh and have fun, but when we ask the Lord to help us in the 88 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,280 next little while, Father, we love you and we appreciate you 89 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:35,960 today. God, we're so thankful, Lord for 90 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:37,600 the songs. We're thankful, Lord, for the 91 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,040 people that are gathered here, the Lord friends, the Lord Jesus 92 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,000 from long ago. We pray God, touch all of our 93 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,120 hearts anew and the fresh. Thank you, Lord, for our guests, 94 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,400 the Lord, we appreciate them. God, and those members of this 95 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,760 church, God the faithfully Lord, come and show up. 96 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:53,840 God bless them. Help us tonight through your 97 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:57,320 word, God, you'd instill something in US will fail not to 98 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,840 thank you for it in the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray 99 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:05,760 Amen, the church say Amen, Amen. God bless you tonight in Jesus 100 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:13,840 name in biblical times to the characters of the Old Testament 101 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:18,000 in the New Testament for that matter, clothing to them is not 102 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:23,760 like clothing to us today. What I mean is they didn't have 103 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:28,920 walk in closets. All right, Let me tell you the 104 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,040 situation of today. The situation of today is that 105 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,160 you can go to a Goodwill or a yard sale and you can buy 106 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:39,960 clothing that still has the tags on it because somebody has so 107 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,480 many clothes that they never even wore the clothes that they 108 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,040 had. And so you, you, you, you get 109 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,200 stuck with tags still on it whenever even it's used. 110 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,120 But in biblical times, that's, that's not the way it was. 111 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,880 Clothing to them was very, very expensive. 112 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,960 It wasn't cheap. It, it wasn't disposable. 113 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,120 He wasn't throwing clothing away. 114 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:03,560 You're going to, you're going to mend it. 115 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,760 You're going to do whatever necessary if it got a hole in it 116 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,680 in order to preserve it. As a matter of fact, the Bible 117 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:13,800 talks in one place later in Scripture from now that Naaman 118 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:18,120 who had been healed of leprosy, that he even offered to give 119 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,520 Elisha some changes of garments as a gift. 120 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,240 So that just goes to show you then that the importance of of 121 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:27,960 clothing that that would be something that would instead of 122 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,040 money, I'm going to give you some clothes. 123 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,320 And I know some people would still love some clothes. 124 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,280 Sister Sheila wouldn't mind to get some clothes as a gift even 125 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:39,240 still yet today, but but just to point out Samson even to the 126 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,280 book of Judges it it tells us how he promised the men that if 127 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,640 you can tell me the solution to the Riddle that I I given to 128 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:47,800 you. Then I will. 129 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,040 Give you changes of garments and there were thirty of those men 130 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,000 and so and they're like, yeah, we're going to seek out and find 131 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,360 out what the answer to this is. Because again, clothing was 132 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:01,080 scarce, was scarce in their day. So to get that would have been 133 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,120 tremendous. People only just had typically a 134 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:10,040 few items, a few pieces mind you, even mainly 2 layers of 135 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:12,640 clothing that they own to their. Life they they had an. 136 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:16,880 Inner garment that sometimes was called a, a loincloth brother 137 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,120 pat that kind of went from the waist to their knees or they had 138 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,880 a tunic that was that undergarment that that that 139 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:26,480 covered them that was made of light material like like linen. 140 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:31,200 And they also then had an outer garment that they wore as well 141 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,520 that many times was made of sheepskin or wool, something a 142 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:38,240 little heavier to be able to weather the elements of whatever 143 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,159 took place. So they would have one inner 144 00:08:40,159 --> 00:08:43,039 garment that that was real intimate and it was close to 145 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:45,240 their skin. It laid upon their skin and. 146 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:49,000 That other outer garment that. That just laid against that that 147 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,080 inner garment and it provided warmth for them and it it 148 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,760 provided a sense of modesty for them. 149 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,840 And sometimes the Bible even says the importance of their 150 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:59,640 outer. Garment was that they would. 151 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,880 Even use that as a blanket for themselves at night. 152 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,240 So just underscoring the importance and the significance 153 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,800 of them. Jesus even said our Scripture, 154 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,240 mind you, says in the book of Exodus that sometimes a man 155 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:17,120 would give his outer garment as as a pledge if he borrowed 156 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,000 something from someone. But that was so important. 157 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,800 The Bible made law that if a man gave you his outer garment as a 158 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,920 pledge and night was coming, that you should at least give it 159 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,680 back to him for his blanket at night because that that's all 160 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:32,600 the man has. And so it's just the importance 161 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:34,360 of it. And so while the inner garments 162 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,880 are very and touch the skin. The outer. 163 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:39,000 Garment was, was very public, right? 164 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,440 It's what people saw. It's what they recognized. 165 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:44,680 It's what they recognized you by. 166 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,880 And so with this picture in mind, I want you to consider 167 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:53,160 Elijah, Because whenever Elijah and and the horses and the 168 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,000 Chariots of fire, as the scripture says, came and took 169 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:02,520 him up into the heavenlies, the Bible tells us that Elijah took 170 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,040 hold of his own. Clothes. 171 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,960 And he tore them. Into pieces and the Bible says 172 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:13,480 that he took up the mantle of Elijah of Elijah rather and I'll 173 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,240 probably do that more than once because it's very easy to turn 174 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,000 them around. But when we see this this this 175 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,440 is more and I want to indicate this to you tonight. 176 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,800 This this is more than just a man that is rendering rending 177 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,920 his clothes because he's lamenting over the loss of his 178 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,280 mentor. He's just grieving over the loss 179 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,120 of Elijah being taken up into the heavens. 180 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,680 There's there's something more than just a picture of reef or 181 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:43,760 mourning that's taking place here, a little bit deeper than 182 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,880 just tearing the fabric. He he's literally, if we could 183 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,000 say like this, he is tearing away his identity. 184 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:54,360 What people would recognize him by that outer garment? 185 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,080 And so before we dive. Though into this Elisha story, I 186 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,680 want you to remember something that that transferring garments 187 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:04,520 in scripture is not just something that we see in the 188 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,320 Book of Kings. We see this in other places, a 189 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,360 scripture where people transferred garments. 190 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:13,040 The Bible. Speaks of Jonathan and David, 191 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,520 that they had a relationship unlike any other. 192 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,800 The Bible says that Jonathan and David's soul was knit, that they 193 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,240 they had a love for one another, appreciation of of chums if you 194 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,680 will, and friendship between one another and Jonathan. 195 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:32,440 At one point in their their friendship, the Bible says that 196 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:37,200 he gave unto David. He gave him his robe and he gave 197 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:42,000 him his armor and he gave him his sword and, and that was all 198 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,000 because of a covenant that him and his friend was making. 199 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:48,000 I I got your back. I'm going to watch after you. 200 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,720 You got my back. I'm going to watch. 201 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,440 Over you. And so David gave him his robe. 202 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,560 I believe it even goes even greater than that, that Jonathan 203 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:58,880 understood that. David would be the next king, 204 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,640 although his dad Saul was king at that moment. 205 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:03,840 I believe he knew what. What was happening? 206 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,640 What was taking place? So he was given that. 207 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,080 Those identifying. Marks of Of a kingly son. 208 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:12,960 Amen unto David. And then we read in. 209 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,240 Scripture. That Joseph as a young. 210 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,800 Boy, his father made him this great coat of many colors that 211 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,120 we all heard. If you grew up in church, you 212 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:25,320 heard the story in Sunday school class and his dad gave him that 213 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,440 and his brother stripped him of that. 214 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,960 And Joseph got a lot of different clothes through the 215 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,720 process of time all. Indicating his status, all 216 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,120 indicating his. His identity, he he had certain 217 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:41,160 clothing that he had on when he served in Potiphar's court and 218 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,800 and the Bible says that Potiphar's wife got a hold. 219 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,040 Of his garment. And it was the thing that she 220 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:50,240 used to lie on him with, right? And the Bible tells us when he. 221 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,840 Finally became second command in Pharaoh's house. 222 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,800 That he also got some. Garments and there was some 223 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:01,560 attire that was placed upon him, indicating his his process, his 224 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:04,840 status, his identity. Through all of that, we. 225 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:05,840 Reading Scripture. You. 226 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:07,400 You just bear with me. We're going somewhere. 227 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,280 Reading scripture. About Aaron, the high priest 228 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,160 that he would even pass. Down garments that he had. 229 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:18,600 To his sons and place upon them as a sign of succession. 230 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,600 And so we have these different transference if you will 231 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,920 transferring of garments from one person to the other person. 232 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,200 Some of them symbolizing a covenant like Jonathan and 233 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,800 David. Others identity no doubt, like 234 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,720 with Joseph and and position. Amen. 235 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,480 Like with Aaron in his sons. But here's the amazing thing. 236 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,520 Concerning these these garments. Typically were just. 237 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:48,240 Added to what they already had, they were just an additional 238 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:53,360 garment or we might even say additional layer to the garments 239 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,040 that they wore. They were just something that 240 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:57,120 were. Given to them that. 241 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:58,400 They already had. What are you saying? 242 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:02,480 I'm saying although Jonathan gave David a row, we, we. 243 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:04,600 Read nowhere in scripture. That he got rid of. 244 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:09,040 His shepherds cloak or his shepherd's garment. 245 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:13,240 Josh Joshua, of course, lost some different garments, but he 246 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:17,400 still has the other garment of his loincloth or his tunic that 247 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,960 is there underneath. Same likewise with Aaron's son. 248 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,560 So, so there's this transference of of a garment. 249 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,000 Amen. It's very symbolical for all of 250 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,280 these in mind, but but there's not anything that's just totally 251 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,640 absolute because it's just an additional. 252 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:37,920 Article of clothing that now. Comes into their possession, but 253 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,960 there's something different. Whenever you look. 254 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:46,560 At this transference in the Bible of second Kings chapter #2 255 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,360 when you. Look at Elijah again when. 256 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:54,360 Elijah is taking up in the whirlwind and the. 257 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:59,760 Bible describes that Elijah. 'S mantle fail from him. 258 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,680 Elijah could. Have Sister Grace very simply 259 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:09,440 picked up the mantle and. Added that to his wardrobe could 260 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,440 have very simply picked that he could even. 261 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:15,640 Harness that on his shoulders. To be the outward layer, if you 262 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:20,920 will, of the garments that he already had on his body for that 263 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,000 matter, that would have been very normal. 264 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,240 For him to do. That would have been the the, 265 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,160 the the very natural. Thing for him to do, just add an 266 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:33,920 additional layer. To have a visible emblem of his 267 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,840 old. Mentor prophet upon his life. 268 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,280 But Elijah does something quite different than just adding a 269 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:46,400 piece of clothing to his. Wardrobe, the Bible tells us. 270 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:50,000 Purposefully. That he tears his own. 271 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:54,920 Clothes into pieces. And the reason why that's 272 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:58,360 important tonight, and it might seem a little radical to us, 273 00:15:58,360 --> 00:15:59,520 Brother Reese. I mean. 274 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,640 Do I rent any? Garments when they're scarce, 275 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:03,320 right? Why won't? 276 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,160 You just add that one to the closet. 277 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,040 But he rents that it's. Radical because this is the same 278 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:14,280 man, Elijah, that whenever that mantle was first thrown on his 279 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:19,840 shoulders by Elijah, he went and he sacrificed the auction he was 280 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,760 plowing with, and he tore up the wooden plow. 281 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:24,840 He was. Plowing with and he made a 282 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:27,640 sacrifice to God. To minister unto. 283 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,040 Elijah and do what he could. So this thing's radical, but 284 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:32,240 this, this. Is just the. 285 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,760 Fingerprint of Elijah he was radical with the auction and 286 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,720 with the plow and now he's rending all of his garments Amen 287 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:44,200 because he plans on Amen following a pattern and a life 288 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,360 Amen that Elijah had and it's important because the Bible 289 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,120 doesn't just. Indicate to us as though. 290 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:54,960 He tore his outer garment, but he tore his plural, his clothes. 291 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,200 He's tearing outer garment and he's. 292 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,280 Tearing inner garment. He's tearing both. 293 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:06,400 He's destroying them, rending them into pieces, both of them. 294 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:11,960 And listen, why would you want to tear that inner garment or 295 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,000 outer garment? When did that day you typically 296 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:22,119 only had one outer garment and one inner garment. 297 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,960 Someone say man, he's. Tearing them when he tears them. 298 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:28,720 Sister Sheila, you know what that means. 299 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,680 I don't have anything to wear. I know you ladies say that, but 300 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:37,400 Elijah could literally say I don't have anything to wear. 301 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,920 This is rendered. This is tore in two pieces. 302 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,880 Hey, man. He didn't have anything to wear 303 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,760 unless he put on what he picked up. 304 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:55,360 I've rendered my outer garment and my inner garment useless. 305 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:58,680 There is a rent here. It it is visible. 306 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:02,280 I've torn, if you will, what everybody used to recognize me 307 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,320 by. I've separated that. 308 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:09,840 I've parted that the only way I can be clothed if I put on what 309 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:18,560 was left behind. The mantle, then, that Elijah. 310 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,480 Pick up isn't just an addition then. 311 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:21,680 To what? To what? 312 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:23,760 He already. Had but there is a. 313 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:28,400 True transference. It's a instead of what I. 314 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:36,600 Used to have Elijah's not putting on Elijah's mantle. 315 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:41,880 And just adding to a layer of his identity, he's making that 316 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,920 mantle his identity. I just stay. 317 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:52,080 Here's the fact of the matter. Before Elijah's mantle ever 318 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:56,760 touched Elijah's shoulders, Elijah in his day would have 319 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:01,440 wore just a typical mantle, typical cloak, a farmer's cloak 320 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,400 of his day, probably main of some plain wool. 321 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,400 Rough. Material because he's working 322 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,160 around the animals and farming instrumentation. 323 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:14,000 Nothing fancy, nothing that would really set him apart from 324 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:18,040 any other farmer of his day. It kept him though warm at night 325 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,480 and. He appreciated that it shaded 326 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,280 him in the. Heat, if he needed that. 327 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,560 It was a garment of survival. It was just an. 328 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,880 Ordinary garment. Of his day, but when? 329 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,400 Elijah's mantle fell. Elijah tore that old cloak in 330 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,680 two. Notice he didn't fold it up and. 331 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,640 Put it away for storage. And let me use modern day 332 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,320 language. He didn't put it on a hanger, 333 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,080 put mothballs in it back in. The closet say I'll wear that 334 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:43,440 again someday. He. 335 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:46,760 Didn't do none of that. He, in essence, destroyed it. 336 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:48,840 Why? Because that was the. 337 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,440 Cloak of a farmer. And God had now. 338 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,480 Called him to be a. Prophet That was the cloak of 339 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:55,840 his life, that he. Once. 340 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,920 Knew that of a common man. But now God had a calling of his 341 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:03,200 life that was a little higher than what he formerly knew. 342 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:06,360 He had a mantle, the call of God. 343 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:11,600 Was upon his life. So whenever he put on Elijah's 344 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:16,000 mantle, it just just wasn't a change of fabric, it was a 345 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:20,000 change of life. He's not behind the auction now. 346 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,240 He's not plowing with a plow now. 347 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,280 There is something new. This is a new season, this is a 348 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:28,240 new direction. This is a new purpose for his 349 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:30,400 life. He's not clothed like every 350 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,800 other farmer. Amen in the field now. 351 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:37,200 Now he has on the distinctive garment of a prophet of God. 352 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:41,400 Before he looked like every every other farming man in 353 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,840 Israel, but now he looked like God's man. 354 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:51,160 God's called me. Hey, Ben. 355 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,800 I'm not done here. It's a gospel picture, if you 356 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,160 think. About it the Bible tells us in 357 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,560 Ephesians 4 to put off the old man and put on the new man. 358 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,240 Which is after God and is creating the. 359 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,320 Righteousness and true holiness, He. 360 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,400 Told us again as we. Said this morning as many. 361 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,400 Have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. 362 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:16,280 But Elijah, he's not adding on to this mantle, but he's rending 363 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:23,480 the old and he's adopting. The new Let me state in these 364 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,920 terms, he was. Doing away with the options. 365 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,200 He's. For Alex, I might need your your 366 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,000 mantle. He's doing. 367 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,160 Take it off. That's translation. 368 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,160 Take it off. He's. 369 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:49,560 Doing away with the options. Here's and. 370 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:50,960 This is much nicer. OK. 371 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:53,120 But this is my. Farmer's Mantle. 372 00:21:56,360 --> 00:22:01,800 This is the profits mantle. He's doing away with the. 373 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,000 Options. He's not leaving. 374 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,320 Himself in the condition What will I be today? 375 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,200 I think I'll. Just be the. 376 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:23,760 Calm and ordinary I'll be. Who everybody knew me to be 377 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:35,200 today. Oh, different sort of week. 378 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:45,000 I'll be the prophet today. I'll be the man of God. 379 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,280 Somebody help me here. I can even clothe myself. 47 380 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:54,760 years old and I can't clothe. Myself, the Prophet today. 381 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,800 He reigns the old man. Mantle. 382 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:03,800 Because he's not leaving himself open to any other option then 383 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,760 what God has now called him to be. 384 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,600 Brother Trout. It would do us well in some 385 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:20,920 essences to burn some bridges, rinse some garments so that 386 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,040 every morning I wake up, I'm going to be what he called me to 387 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,280 be. I'm going to identify myself 388 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:43,720 with the purpose he's called. Me to keep your mantle there and 389 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:49,040 then sometimes we operate like this everybody OK. 390 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:01,120 By commonality. Old self. 391 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:17,880 And lot in life close because this is what everybody 392 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:22,040 sees. But right underneath that layer 393 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:28,080 is my old man layer. I keep that. 394 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,560 Close to my heart. But I'll let the public. 395 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,480 Display be. What I've been called today. 396 00:24:41,710 --> 00:24:44,590 Elijah's not adding a layer to his identity. 397 00:24:45,350 --> 00:24:47,350 He's assuming a whole nother identity. 398 00:24:47,350 --> 00:24:52,080 Oh God. I don't want people try to 399 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,960 figure out are they talking to the old Paul or the new Paul? 400 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,480 Is this the preacher, Paul? Or is this the? 401 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,120 Well, it's all according to what garment I want to show you. 402 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:13,200 I won't be able to preach with this on loan because I'll become 403 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:19,200 a pile of water. Come on, come on, mantels. 404 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,400 They were more than fabric in the Testaments. 405 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:29,920 They symbolize calling, divine summons of God, priest and 406 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:36,600 prophets and leaders many times had a mantle that distinguished 407 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:41,240 them as and what they led it. It signified their authority 408 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,480 that God-given that weighty heavenly responsibility of 409 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,040 authority that have been given to them, those. 410 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:49,880 Oh. Prophets and priests, there's a 411 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:54,360 significance of anointing Amen that's viewed just in that outer 412 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:56,920 garment. Of their mantle what was? 413 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,680 Resting on their shoulders was something that was resting upon 414 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,400 their. Soul in their life. 415 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,560 And so for Elijah, this mantle was not just. 416 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:09,400 A covering Amen. It was now his soul. 417 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,800 Only one piece article of clothing. 418 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:14,000 Amen. That he. 419 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,280 Had Amen. It didn't just. 420 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,560 Rest outwardly. Amen. 421 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,760 Watch me here. But it touched his skin. 422 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,320 If this gets sweaty I'll get it dry cleaned. 423 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:38,560 He tore his clothes. Outer and inner see. 424 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,520 This differs now from the old outer. 425 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:45,400 Garment he used to have. The old outer garment everybody 426 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,280 could see, but it rested against a inner garment as a. 427 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:55,640 Barrier to his flesh. But now he's rent all of that 428 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:03,640 inside and outside and what he wears that people sees now makes 429 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:14,640 an impression on his life, someone say. 430 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,880 Amen to the tension of the whole situation is this whereas 431 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,360 throughout Scripture we had all these mantels Amen and they 432 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,200 they. Served as emblems. 433 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:25,840 Amen to. Those who would. 434 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,560 See the people. Wear them and would distinguish 435 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,960 them as whatever role they served in whatever. 436 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,400 Authority they had whatever anointing that they had, and it 437 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:35,880 was just. Something that seemed like they. 438 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:40,280 Added to their lives or they wore on top, even inner. 439 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,320 Garments that they had against their flesh, they. 440 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,720 It was just a little badge, a little layer, a little title. 441 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:53,320 I got to get out of this. Here's the thing though, 442 00:27:54,880 --> 00:28:07,000 sometimes you can wear a mantle without having the character of 443 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:15,040 what you're identifying by. The Bible tells, it seems like 444 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:22,640 we not talked about it long ago, that Saul, look, he went in. 445 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,680 The Bible says that one particular time, and I touched 446 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,040 on this story not long ago in the sermon, but he went to the 447 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,640 witch of Endora wanting to bring up Samuel. 448 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,800 The Bible says that he went in and to the witch Saul is a king. 449 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,560 He has outer garments that distinguishes and denotes he's a 450 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,280 king, but he goes in before the witch and the Bible says he 451 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:48,480 disguises himself, and all he had to do to disguise his self 452 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:53,640 is change his outer garment, meaning his outer garment said 453 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,280 one thing, but the characterization of who he was 454 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,520 was different than what he wore on the exterior. 455 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,360 Amen. The Bible even tells us in 456 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,440 another place that Ahab and Jehoshaphat went into battle. 457 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,040 They were kings going into battle and that the, the, the 458 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,520 the the opposing forces said don't fight with anyone except 459 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,960 the king. And the Bible says as a result 460 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,720 of this, Ahab goes into the battle not in his kingly battle 461 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,040 attire, but again he disguises himself. 462 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,880 And Jehoshaphat almost got. Killed thinking that he was the 463 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,560 king because he out on kingly attire. 464 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,080 Just the wrong king. And so this, this, this 465 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,640 disguising was just so people would think they were something. 466 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:42,800 Other than they were. Say man, but Elijah. 467 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,720 In this. Episode of this story. 468 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:52,200 He is conveying to us, by the way, that he's. 469 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,320 Wearing it. And what it is touching that 470 00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:03,160 what he has on here is not just a emblem, but it's a embodiment. 471 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,560 In other words, Elijah Sam, I'm not wearing this. 472 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,160 Over top my old mantle. I'm not wearing. 473 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,520 This over top my. Own my old life. 474 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,480 No, I'm renting the old and I'm putting on the new and it's 475 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,240 there's gotten to be no barrier between it and my flesh in my 476 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,760 life. It's I wanted to touch my flesh. 477 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,800 I wanted to impact. I want to fit my God, I want to 478 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,520 we we we got to stop putting Amen what God has called us to 479 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,400 overtop other layers of things of our past. 480 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,360 If you want to feel it in your life, if you want to feel it in 481 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:48,920 your life, you got to let it lay against your life without any 482 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:57,840 barrier it's. Got a not any barrier, he says. 483 00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,240 I'm not, I'm not going to do that. 484 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:00,960 No, no, no. This is embodiment. 485 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,240 I just don't want to. Showcase this Amen something and 486 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,480 I'm not no. I'm I'm going to embrace this. 487 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,680 This is who I am becoming. This is who I am. 488 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,520 It's not a layer. Hey man, I'm not putting. 489 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,960 It on top of the. Ambitions I used to have. 490 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,320 I'm not putting it upon the comfort level. 491 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,520 No, I wanted to make me uncomfortable. 492 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:28,240 I want to feel that wool I've rented them into. 493 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:33,920 Pieces so I'm. Going to be white. 494 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:38,840 Covering in my life. And that'll be the covering of 495 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:43,240 my call. God is purpose for me. 496 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,800 I mean this, this is not a Letterman jacket to Elijah. 497 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,160 He played band and was an athlete, so you know, athletics. 498 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,200 And no, no, this is not a ministry jacket for him. 499 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,840 It's his identity. It touched his body, it touched 500 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:11,760 his life. Someone say man, why is that 501 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,480 important? Because Elisha would know in his 502 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:21,080 ministry as he go forward what God was calling him too that he 503 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,680 couldn't show. The world that he was. 504 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,920 Living in, he couldn't showcase something. 505 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:26,200 Please listen to me very carefully. 506 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,800 He couldn't showcase something to the world that he lived in 507 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:43,400 that hadn't touched him first. He knew his effectiveness. 508 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,160 When they say, oh, there's the Prophet. 509 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,800 No, he says. I need this as a garment. 510 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,960 That's. Inside, it's my. 511 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:03,800 Inside and my outside Garment it's. 512 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,760 It's my inside and my. Outside garment, I don't want 513 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,480 the change just to be a perception for others and not. 514 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,200 Be a reality on the. Inside. 515 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:18,840 No, no, no. It's going to affect. 516 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,120 Both areas. The inside and the outside, 517 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,080 it'll be something very private and intimate, but it's going to 518 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,000 be something public as well. But there's known to be no 519 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,480 variance between the inside and the outside. 520 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:37,880 It's it's going to be stable. It's going to have the same 521 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,560 voice, the same feel, the same effect, the same. 522 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,840 So I want that against my skin. I want to touch my skin. 523 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,760 I want to be over top of my heart. 524 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:58,760 I want to be. It's going to change everything 525 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:05,120 about life that I formerly knew. I'm just going to hang on me. 526 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:09,159 It's going to it's going to define me. 527 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,280 That's why whenever life she went back to the Jordan River 528 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:19,639 that he and Elijah had crossed, but he stands there and we know 529 00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:26,600 the garment is in his hand. At this moment I envision a 530 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:31,239 prophet Elijah with rendered outer and inner garment standing 531 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,800 there with a prophet Elijah's mantle in his hand. 532 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:41,159 What a picture. But he cries out and says, where 533 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:47,400 is the Lord God of Elijah? And he takes that old prophet's 534 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,280 mantle as his are. Rent. 535 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,440 And he strikes the waters. And the. 536 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,240 Jordan rose on the left and on the right. 537 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:02,760 Just. As it had Poor Elijah. 538 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,520 Folks, there's a lot we don't know, but I'm wondering Sister 539 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:12,080 Sheila had it, had the impact? Had he not rented his own 540 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:16,640 garments first? Because when it comes to put 541 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,320 anything on. He's going to it's. 542 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:23,560 Going to have to be the man. So I stand here with already a 543 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:29,160 commitment God at the Jordan River with the common man that I 544 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:36,560 was divided, separated with the hand on a mantle that you are 545 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,800 calling me to. And I'm saying, where is that? 546 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,560 I don't know if it was so much a proving point for him or maybe 547 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,880 he even felt like he needed to prove God. 548 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,640 Here I am God, I'm giving you some dedication here. 549 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,440 I'm giving some commitment. Where are you, Lord? 550 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,120 And he hits it. I believe there was resolve in 551 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,080 his mind that day when he crossed over Jordan. 552 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:07,760 I'm not mending this. I put it on that I it's when the 553 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:16,920 mantle becomes the man. Someone say glory, you stand 554 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:18,040 with me, I won't hold you much longer. 555 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:25,720 I'm serious. The uniqueness of Elisha 556 00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:27,800 compared to everything else before him. 557 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:34,160 Again, it's not. That was something added to the 558 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,600 conglomerate of other items he could take. 559 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,960 On her off. To him. 560 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:48,280 It was replacement It was. Replacement brother travel. 561 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:55,640 Hear me? It wasn't oh, I'm going to be 562 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,480 among this group in that company. 563 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:03,640 I got a garment for that. You hear me? 564 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,280 Oh, it's. Sunday Hawk at the profits 565 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:10,760 Garment out. No, it was his Monday garment, 566 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:15,160 his Tuesday garment, his Wednesday garment, his Thursday 567 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,320 garment, his holiday garment. His vacation. 568 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,520 Garment him with the world, garment him with the church, 569 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,080 garment when he's doing a miracle, garment when he's 570 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:36,570 eating a home, garment to my question to you tonight is what 571 00:37:36,570 --> 00:37:38,930 is God? What is God calling you to 572 00:37:38,930 --> 00:37:43,720 today? Purpose that God and the calling 573 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:46,480 that God has on your life. He doesn't want that just to be 574 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:51,360 an accessory to you. He wants it to consume you. 575 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,200 He wants it to em wrap you. He wants it to be what presses 576 00:37:54,200 --> 00:38:01,880 against your life. My wife says at least once a 577 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,080 year I got to clean out my closet. 578 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:12,040 Heather Billy, we only had one rod in our closet when we first 579 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,800 moved in that house and it just look, I knew she was going to 580 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:19,520 say that justification right there, so I made. 581 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,760 It a double Decker. I took the top, she takes the 582 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:27,560 bottom 2 bars in that thing. Now she has clothes in the 583 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:29,920 closet as you come in the front door. 584 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:32,960 There's an armed wire out in the garage. 585 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,960 Got clothes in it. I guarantee when Mariah moves 586 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:48,720 out her closet, her whole room right out says there came the 587 00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:52,600 walk in closet. Now only have a little piece of 588 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:57,920 of Realty. Oh, I'm saying the night is 589 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,640 this. She says, well, you know, once 590 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,440 you are and they clean out because there's some stuff I 591 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,400 don't wear anymore. I don't like anymore, don't fit 592 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:14,680 anymore. Passions have changed the river 593 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,360 Billy. Whenever the the mantle of God's 594 00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,160 purpose in our life comes to us, you know what it is? 595 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:27,160 It's clean out closet day. And I'm talking about real 596 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:31,640 clothes. I'm talking about whatever I 597 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:36,240 used to identify myself with, the old man, the old ways, the 598 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:40,760 old thoughts, the old clean out closet day. 599 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,480 Because the way that I'm going to be walking now, that's not 600 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:52,000 going to fit right. The places I go, the song that I 601 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,640 sing, the way that I'm going to speak, that's just not going to 602 00:39:55,640 --> 00:40:05,120 fit right. You don't need to leave 603 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:06,200 yourself. Listen to the pest. 604 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,600 You don't need to leave yourself with a Plan B. 605 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:14,600 You need to be like the old historical fact of them. 606 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:18,000 And the crew says you need to burn the ships, right? 607 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,920 They burned the ships when they got to the shore because they 608 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,080 were going to go to battle and they didn't want to have any 609 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,560 type of temptation that if it got too rough or too hard, 610 00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:27,040 someone would just go back to the ship and say no, I'm 611 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:27,560 selling. Hard. 612 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:33,560 You need to burn the ships. Don't leave playing I'm not 613 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,320 really feeling. Profit purpose today give me my 614 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:37,640 old. Company No, you don't need to 615 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:45,520 leave. A plan BI want them to touch my 616 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,280 life. I want what touches my life be 617 00:40:49,280 --> 00:41:04,860 what I display to others. God is in this place. 618 00:41:04,860 --> 00:41:12,720 I feel the Holy Ghost here. I think God is calling us 619 00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:18,400 tonight that if you've been in the in the game of layering, 620 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:21,920 you've been in the game of layering. 621 00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:26,600 Tonight is also night. Just to rend the garment, it's 622 00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:31,600 plural, inner, outer, tear them away. 623 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,800 All the old plans, all the old ambitions and aspirations that 624 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:42,040 doesn't line up with his Kingdom or his purpose and pick up his 625 00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:47,800 purpose. See, I'm going to I'm going to 626 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:52,640 put that on. You know what? 627 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:57,400 I love folks. I know this is just as practical 628 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:03,560 as practical be there's sometimes I've went and this is 629 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:05,920 mean probably several others go shopping. 630 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:10,440 Sometimes you see something you like, you try it on it don't 631 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:14,200 quite fit and they don't quite fit. 632 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:18,440 Sometimes is because I got some extra. 633 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:25,840 Some places I used to. Have, but I really like it. 634 00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:35,960 You know what I say, I'm go get in because I, I, I can get into 635 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,680 that. Honey. 636 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,680 When you first put it on, it might rub you in a few places, 637 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:52,160 but if you'll surrender to His purpose, I got a feeling weeks 638 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:56,200 and months from now it's going to start fitting real nice. 639 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:11,800 Woo. Oh yes, this altar is open. 640 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,440 This evening. For somebody who says God's 641 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,800 calling. Me to to another purpose. 642 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,760 Different than what? I've had up to this time it 643 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:20,240 would. Good. 644 00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:22,400 Be a good thing tonight. Hey, man. 645 00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,680 Just just by symbolism. You just grab. 646 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:27,680 Hold of your garment tonight. God, I'm renting. 647 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:31,600 Some garments, not just the. Exterior, but the interior 648 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,280 because God, what you have for me, I want the world to know, 649 00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,520 but I wanted to have the impact on my flesh. 650 00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,960 Too. I wanted to touch my life. 651 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,440 I wanted to cover my heart. I don't want there to be any 652 00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,720 barrier between it and myself. I sure surrender. 653 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,720 There's a rending. I'm picking up a mantle to the 654 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:52,040 guy. The purpose. 655 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,880 I'm picking up a mantle tonight of God's call, and it's going to 656 00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,920 impact my life. He'll still cover me. 657 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,800 He'll still keep me warm. But it's not just going to be an 658 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,400 emblem. It's going to be an embodiment 659 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:10,640 of what I am becoming in God. Come on, Sir. 660 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:14,320 Come on, ma'am. God's calling you to His 661 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:19,960 purpose. Don't add that as a layer. 662 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:28,080 Let that be your sole identity. Yes, yes, yes, yes. 663 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,120 Hallelujah if you can't. Come up here tonight. 664 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,000 Can you raise your hand where you are? 665 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,400 Can you raise your hands where you are? 666 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,560 God, here I am. Here I am. 667 00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:42,160 God. I've got an awful attached to 668 00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,000 this garment. I've got an awful. 669 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,480 Attached to this inner garment. God, this, this is the only 670 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,040 thing that I've known and everybody else has known. 671 00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:53,480 Lord, bind me. But I feel you're calling me to 672 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,840 a place. I feel you got purpose. 673 00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,400 Help me, Lord, to make the transference. 674 00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,680 Help me to make the transition. Oh, God. 675 00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:11,480 Oh, God. Oh, God, Yes, Hallelujah. 676 00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,800 Come on, Sir man, God's going to help you. 677 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,240 God's going to help you. He's not just putting you out to 678 00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:24,320 the pasture by yourself. God will empower you. 679 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,200 God will encourage you. God will. 680 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:28,640 God will. God will. 681 00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:33,160 Hallelujah.