Tony Evans - An Appeal to Our Pulpits

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chapter four, would you stand to your feet as I
read verses thirty eight to forty four of our scripture today,
Second Kings, it's also on the screen and in your bulletin.

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When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in
the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting
before him, he said to his servant, put on the
large pot and boiled stew for the sons of the prophets.
Then one went out to the field to gather herbs

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and found a wild vine and gathered from it in
his lap full of wild gords, and came and sliced
them into the pot of stew. For they did not
know what they were. So they poured it out for
the men to eat. And as they were eating of

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the stew, they cried out and said, old Man of God,
there is death in the pot, for they were unable
to eat. But he said, now bring meal. He threw
it into the pot and said pour it out for
the people that they may eat. Then there was no

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harm in the pot. Now a man came from Bel
Shahha and brought the Man of God bread for.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
The first fruits. From the first fruits.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in
his sack, and he said, give them to the people
that they may eat. As the tendant said, what will
I set this before one hundred men? And he said,
give them to the people that they may eat. For
thus saith the Lord, they shall eat and have some

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left over. And so he said it before them, and
they ate and had some left over. According to the
word of the Lord, Father, take the words of my
mouth and meditations of my heart, and make them acceptable
to you and beneficial to us.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
In Jesus name, we pray Amen. A pastor.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Went to visit one of his parishioners, a very elderly lady,
and he just wanted to minister to her in this
final season of life. So he went to her home
and was welcomed in by this elderly church member. She

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welcomed him in and had him sit in the living
room and they began to chat. Situated before him on
a little tape bull was a bowl of peanuts. He
asked his host, these peanuts sure looked good.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Would you mind if I had some? Oh? She said
absolutely not. Feel free.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
So as they talked, he would pick up a peanut
or two here, or a peanut or two there.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
And after he had been there for.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Thirty or forty minutes, he noted that he had eaten
virtually all the peanuts, and so he said to his
elderly host, I am so sorry. I've been talking and
enjoying our conversation so much. I've almost eaten up all
of your peanuts.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
She said, well, that's really okay.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
I haven't been able to eat peanuts since.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
I lost my teeth, So now I just sucked the
chocolate off of them and leave them in the bowl.
Sometimes you don't know what you're eating, such as the

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case in our passage. Today, we're told in verse thirty
eight that Elijah Elisha returns to Gilgal to be with
the sons of the Prophets. Gilgal was where the seminary was,

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if you will, for trading the prophets. It was there
where the School of the Prophets was located. It was
there where they would be prepared for the prophetic ministry
that they were.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Being called to.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
And Elisha, the president or the chancellor of the school,
you would say today, his job would be to equip
the sons of the Prophets in order to fulfill their responsibilities. Prophetically,
it was very important for him to be there because

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we're told in verse thirty eight that there was a.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Famine in the land. That means there wasn't food.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
A famine meant that the agricultural industry, since it was
an agrarian people they lived off of the land, was
not producing many vegetables and fruits for the people to
be sustained and survived.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, that was only because there wasn't enough rain.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
To saturate the earth for the seeds to grow to
produce the food that the people needed to be satisfied
and sustained with. So there was a famine in the land. Now,
why does the author of the Book of Kings want
to tell you that there was a famine in the land.
The reason he wants to tell you that is because

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of why there was a famine in the land.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
You see, God told his people if you depart from me.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
And go after other gods, I will close up.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
The heavens and there will be no rain.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
He told them in Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight, verse twenty four.
If you leave and walk away from me and my
word and chase other gods, your ground will become like iron.
And things will not be able to grow. To put

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it another way, when you walk away from me, you
will be famished. There will be a famine in the land.
And when you leave me my word and chase after
other gods. So the reason that there was an agricultural
famine is because there had been. It had been preceded

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by a spiritual departure. Because the spiritual was not being
handled correctly, the agricultural was in trouble. The reason why
Elisha goes to the school of the prophets is that
it was the job of the prophets to explain to

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the people the spiritual reasons for their social dilemma, their
agricultural dilemma, their economic dilemma, because the people would not
automatically make the connection between no food and their relationship

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with God. They're just seeing it's not raining. They're just
seeing stuff is not growing. They're just seeing we are hungry,
and they're seeing their socio economic, agrarian, agricultural reality, but
not the spiritual cause of it. You find them in

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verse thirty eight, it says sitting before Elisha, they're in school.
He's the professor, they're the students. They're in the classroom,
seated before him, because his job was to equip them
to deliver to the people the spiritual cause for their

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social chaos, and they're chaos was a famine in the land.
There is a famine in the land. What you are
seeing on seeing it and MSSMEC and Fox News and

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Dallas Morning News and and all of this chaos you
are seeing has to do with a famine in the land. Now,
how do you know when you're in a famine? You
are hungry and nothing you do satisfies. So you know
you're you're in a famine when you are hungry and

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you can't get what you need to fix.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
The hunger you possess.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
You look at all the time and the money and
the meetings and the efforts and the gatherings and the
complaints and the fights and the marchers and the reactions
and the reactions, and nothing seems to satisfy, nothing seems
to work, nothing seems to fit or to fix the dilemma.

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Because there has not yet been made the correlation between
our social economic from millial personal starvation and the spiritual
departure from God that has affected and infected our lives.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
And our culture. And until that connection is made.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
You stay hungry, hungry for peace, hungry for productivity, hungry
for harmony, hungry for unity, hungry for oneness, hungry for order,
hungry for a society that is not in decline. You
wind up socially starving to death. And the thing about

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it is, if the connection is not made, there is nothing.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
That will satisfy.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh, you can come up with something in the meantime
that gives you a temporary fix, only to discover it
doesn't last very long. Now, it's been a while, it's
been a minute since I've been engaging myself in the

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local donut shop. It's been a minute. So I figured
I deserved me. I deserve after all this time by
passing the donut shop. I deserve me some glazed donuts.

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So I went by the other day, the local.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Donut shop, and I asked her for a donut or
two or three. I asked her to give me a twister.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
And a glaze, one of them round things. That sent
me roll because I felt I was doing that after
all this time, that I had been staying away from them,
and since I was there, I told her to warm
them up, because that's a different kind of doughnut when

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you warm it up. So she put it in the
microwave for thirty seconds or so. I mean, it just
melted in my mouth. But I noticed something, and that
is as wonderful as it tasted, it wasn't long before

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I was hungry again, because while it tasted good, it
did not satisfy my nutritional need. And what's happening today
is people are looking for some sugar to taste answers,

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but it's not satisfying what's really wrong in.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Our lives, in our world and in our culture.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Because there's a famine in the land, and until the
cause is addressed, the cure cannot be experienced. And it's
because of this famine that the prophets were being prepared
to take the spiritual and the supernatural into the natural,

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because that would be the only way people would ever eat,
people would ever see heaven open, rainfall, the earth flourish,
so they would no longer be a famine.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
And so.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
In order to prepare the sons of the prophets, whose
job it would be to give God's prophetic word to
the people to bring them back spiritually so that the
famine could end, he had to make sure they were fed,
because if you're not fed, you can't do much feeding.

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Since their job was to feed the people, Elisha had
to make sure they were fed. The problem had occurred
in the culture of idolatry, the departure from the true
God to false gods. Remember an idol if any noun, person, place, thing,

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or thought that becomes your source once whatever that is
is your source, is your God. We have designer gods
in America. We have people who made their race their god,
their money, their god, their politic their god because it

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is their source. Whatever your sources is your God. And
they had traded it in for an idol that could
not see when they looked the idols. They look the
idols to meet needs, to make it rain, to bring
fertility to the earth. They were looking for idols to

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do something. And idol is like dating an image. It's
like going on a day with a picture of your
boyfriend rather than your boyfriend, no girlfriend, it's.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Dating an image.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
So they had turned from the true and living God
to illegitimate sources to get their needs met. Whenever you
do that, with whom you do that, you have now
developed an idol, which means the true God steps away.
And you wind up starving to death. One of the

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biggest idols of our day is religion. We've got more
churches than ever, more books than ever, more programs than ever,
more activities than ever, more starving people than ever. Because
even religion void of God, will leave you.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
As a hungry saint.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
So even the sons of the prophets are hungry. So
Elijah just says, we've got to feed these guys.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
He tells his.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Servant to make a stew, to make a stew so
that the sons of the prophets could eat. But in
verse thirty nine, one of the guys gets a bright idea.

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It says he went out into the field and gathered herbs,
found a wild vine, gathered them in his lap. The
wild gord sliced them put it in the stew, for
they did not know what they were. So Elisha said,

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make a stew. He says, I want to sweeten the pot.
I want to put some stuff in the stew to
juice it up. I want to put something in the
stew that had a little more flavor. So he goes
out into the field and he finds a wild vine,

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and he picks from the wild vine wild gourds.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Now, a gord is.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Basically a cucumber, but a wild gourd is a cucumber
with poisonous pulp. So the poison is in side the
gourd that looks like a cucumber, so you think it's
a cucumber when it's actually poison. But it doesn't look

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like poison. It doesn't sound like poison. It's growing like.
It's not poison because us because he couldn't see what
was inside of it.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
He could only see.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
The outside look, and it looked like it would make
the stew better. So he comes and according to the scripture,
he chops it up and he puts it in the stew.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
When he puts it in the stew.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Verse forty, they poured it out for the men to eat.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
And as they were eating the stew, they cried out and.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Said, oh, Man of God, there is death in the pot.
And they were unable to eat. In other words, food
poisoning set in and they got sick as a dog.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
There is death in the pot. Now wait a minute.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
The purpose of the stew was to feed the profits
so they could be healthy to get the work done
in a time of famine. But because somebody had a
bright idea to go out and find something that looked
good in the broader field, bring it, chop it up,

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and mix it with the stew. That what they put
in it contaminated it. Now watch this, the poison pulp
from the wild cucumber.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Did not.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Override the stew, or excuse me, it overrode the stew.
The stew didn't override it. In other words, the whole
still got contaminated, and everybody who ate from it got contaminated.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
So the men said, there's death in the pot. Where
am I going with this? Whenever you go out to
the world.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
To get poisonous ideas, poisonous world views through poisonous people
who look good, it looks like it all to work.
It looks like it ought to fit. It looks like
it'll make my life better. It looks like it'll heal

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my depression, my struggles.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
It looks like it's gonna strengthen me.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
And we chop it up and we mix it with
the truth of God's word. We bring the ideas of
the world into the church, the ideas of the world
into our lives, and we exit with the word of God.
It's not that we deny the Word. It's that we
mix it with wild gods. And when you mix God's

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truth with wild gods, it contaminates the truth, so that
the truth that was supposed to set you free winds
up killing you because it has been contaminated with something
that it cannot accept.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
The Bible says that you do kill the Word with
your ideas.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Whenever you bring thoughts, concepts, and ideas and mix them
with God's truth, when they are not consistent with God's.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Truth, you are killing yourself.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
So what we are seeing in our culture and in
our lives today is an illegitimate mixture. We go to
our colleges and universities, we pick up poisonous ideas in
the name of making money, stir it into a little
church because we think somehow, if we can mix it,

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even though it contradicts it, it'll make us better, more profitable,
It'll make us more successful. And we wind up wanting
to know, even with our degrees.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Why am I dying? Why can't I keep my life together?

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Why is there with all these educated people out here,
they ought to be able to figure a way for
all of us to get along. How come all these
smart people, with all these bringing ideas, with all this
money and all this edumacation, can't heal this land that's
falling apart because they got poison in the student.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
And when you have an illegitimate mixture of.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
God's way and the world's way, of human wisdom with
divine wisdom, whenever you bring those two together, you cancel
out God. God can be canceled by the wrong combination.
So they bring in this pulp and he says, this

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wild God. It's adding something to God which he.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Has not approved or prescribed. Because it looks good. That's
false religion.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
It looks good, it sounds good, it says they ate it,
and they said, we cannot.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
We're gagging here where we're where where we're gagging here
on this mixture.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
You can't mix. You if you mix diesel and on lettered,
you ain't going nowhere. Aill and water are not designed
to mix. The are two different worlds, and that's what
the Bible calls double mindedness. You're going you're going both ways,
and you're trying to mix the two together when something

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contradicts God. That's why the Bible says, you can neither
take away from my word, nor can you add to
my word. And then the Bible says, if you take
away from it, or if you illegitimately add to it,
you add a curse to yourself, because God is smart enough.

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Not to need your help.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
And so.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
They say we can't eat this.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Well, now we got a problem, because if the preachers
can't even eat it, how they gonna help the folks
to know how to eat?

Speaker 2 (24:58):
If the.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
If the folks who's supposed to be giving you the
word of God are mixing it, if they are taking
from the world and trying to give you Hell's answer
to help heaven out, then how can the son of
the prophets be of any.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Benefit to the people who are gagging.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Because of the absence of truth. False religion is turning
the illegitimate outside sources that contradict God's truth, and you
stay in a famine. There is no solution to what
you're seeing happening in our cities and our culture and
our country and our lives as long as the spiritual

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is either marginalized or illegitimately mixed.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
And if you ever have folks who are.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Walk across your lawn, your green grass, they just walk
across your lawn regularly just kids like to do that
in the name of a shortcut. They're walking across your
lawn in the name of a shortcut.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
So what they're doing is they're killing a.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Path of grass. They're killing the path of grass. What
they're doing is they're creating an illegitimate path to a destination.
People are regularly cutting across God's truth with illegitimate additions,
trying to get to a destination.

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And they wonder why they're hungry, why.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
They can't be satisfied, satisfied with peace and order and
productivity and meaning, because there has been an illegitimate edition.
So Eli has gotta resolve this problem. But the sons
of the prophet whose job it is to bring the

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nation back to God. So in verse forty one, Elisha says,
bring me meal, Bring me meal. Meal is flour flour,
bring me meal. They bring the flour to him. He
throws it into the pot and says, pour it out

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for the people that they may eat. Then there was
no harm in the pot.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Woo. Interesting, here's the problem.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
The problem is that the mixture has now already occurred.
The poisoned pulp is already in the stew, and there
is no way to get the poison out of the stew,
because it's already.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Been mixed up.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
You got anything going on in your life that you
you you can't fix it because you too messed up.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
It's just it's just all up in your stuff.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
It's just all of been It's integrated itself into the
fibers of your life, and you don't know how to
separate it. And you can't separate it because it's it's
already in the stew of your existence.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
How do I unwrap myself out.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Of this situation by either me putting the poison pulp
in or allowing somebody else to put the poison pulp in?
And now it's then situated itself in the stew of
my life.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
And I and I can't. I can't live, I can't eat.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
I can't function like I'm supposed to function, because I
got I got, I got death in the pot. And
the pot is my life or my family or my culture.
It's already stirred up in there. It's been in there
for a long time. And the racial problem has been
going on for two hundred and forty years, and the
class problems and the cultural problems, and it's just all

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mixed up, and you've got philosophies and theologies and theories,
and you got personalities and histories and backgrounds, and you
got all this stuff going on, and it's all mixed up.
In man, you don't know what people's motives are. You
don't even know what your own motives are. You trying
to figure out who to vote for it because you
don't like nobody, and you ty to try to work
you all that, and it's just a it is all

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mixed up.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
It's all in the stew. Elijah said, bring me flower. Now.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Flower was used for making bread. The primary use of
flower was for bread. Jesus said, men shall not live
by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out
of the mouth of God. In fact, Jesus said, I
am the bread of life. That's why bread shows up

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in the next verse. How was the problem resolved when
the poison was already in it.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Here's how it was resolved.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
It had to be overwhelmed by something stronger and thicker
and more powerful than the poison that had been introduced
to it. It had to just be overwhelmed, overcome. It
had to be overcome by something that was bigger and stronger.
So Elija knew if I get the flower in there.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
It'll overwhelm the poison.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
It'll it'll it'll eat it up, so that now the
stew that was made bad can be transformed. I don't
know how much poison you have in your personal life,
in your world, and we see that's poison everywhere in

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the culture.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
But I do know this. This is not a time
for light mild, This is not time for Christian light.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
This is not a time for for now. I lay
me down the sleep, pray the Lord my soul will keep.
And if I die before I wake, I pray the
Lord my soul will take. No. We need some flower,
that is, we need the word of God so strong,
so powerfully, so purely, so uncompromisingly, that it overwhelms the

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poison that has penetrated the life. You need more of
this word to overwhelm the poison that has been in
your life for days, weeks, months, and years. You say,
I've been dealing with this for years. You don't have
enough flower. The flower has to overwhelm the poison. We

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need a generation of Christians now who take the word
of God seriously, who take the word of God for
what it is not words about God, but the voice
of God in prayer, and who overwhelm our lives and
our souls. There's some sitting here with poisoned souls. Your

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souls have been poisoned by the wrong people, the wrong circumstances,
the wrong addictions. And so the poison is situated inside
of you, and you live with poison, whethern it must
be overwhelmed with flower, with the bread of life. The

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worst the poison is. The more of the word you need,
not the less of it. But you need it uncompromised.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
You need it here. You don't need some more pump,
the more gorge.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
You need it uncompromised, It says, Now feedomness. Overwhelm them
with the flower. There was no harm in the pot.
He says in verse forty two. Give them to the

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people that they may eat. Verse forty three, give them
to the people that they may eat. For thus saith
the Lord. They shall eat, and they shall have some
left over. Let's follow this. There's a famine for Gustavin.

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But the only reason they're the famine is because a
spiritual issue had gone unaddressed. The prophets were being prepared
to declare the word of the lord. But they had
to understand how this thing works, and that you cannot
integrate competing ideas, poisonous ideas well educated poisonous ideas, rich

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poisonous idea, did is popular poisonous idea from from people.
I mean, you look at all these reality shows and
and then and and all these counseling shows. You better
check and see whether there's any poison in the pulp.
Because just because they look good and stand good and
talk good and and and and and and got all
that going on, you better ask, is that poison in

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this pulp? So they so they got they overwhelmed it
with the word. He says, Now now you eat it,
it says, and then they ate. Okay, wait a minute.

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It was not enough that the problem was fixed. They
had to eat it. Yeah, okay. You go to the restaurant.
H they hand you a minut you The menu is

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a written record of what the restaurant has to offer.
Sometimes you salivate just by reading the menu because it
just looks so good. You going, this looks good. Sometimes
you say, oh, that looks good. That looks good. That
looks good. Think I want to.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Try that, Think I want to try that.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Not only do you have a menu, you get a
waiter who comes over and does a menu exposition, an
exegesis of the menu. They come over and they describe
it and tell you what this is, and tell you
all about it. Then they have a Q and A

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session any questions, So they make themselves available for Q
and A so that you have clarity on what has
been written for you to eat.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
You do not then, after reading the menu, and.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Then after having an explanation by the weight or waitress
of the menu, get up and leave.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
That's not why you came.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
You didn't come to read about it, nor did you
just come to hear somebody explain it. You came for
the experience of it, to be filled by it, which
means you have to eat.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
You'll see a lot of folk want to come to
church to read it.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Or to hear some waiter called a preacher to explain it,
but they still leave hungry because they haven't eaten it.
The Word of God and its transforming flower will never
change your life, your home, your church, or your society
unless the folk eat it. Jeremiah said, I ate your words,

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and they were like honey inside of me. They changed
me until the word you hear is what you apply
and act on. You leave the restaurant hungry and are
unaffected by even showing up there. And that's why you
can go to church every single Sunday. You could go

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fifty two weeks a year, fifty twos a year, and
still be in a famine.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Because you didn't need it.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
You observed it, you watched it, you read it, you
heard it, but you never swallowed and only by the
application acting on it. If you are right now in
a famine in your life, how do you know you
are eating it? Because you're gonna find out everything God
has to say about your problem, everything in this book

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about your problem.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
If I don't.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Know what, I'm gonna call on somebody who can show
me everything God says about what I'm going through, even
if I created my own poison, and then I'm gonna
think about it, meditate on it, and do whatever It
says about it, because I believe that if I eat it,
I'm gonna be satisfied, I'm going to be filled, I'm

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going to be changed.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
We're in a crisis.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
On every level, and as Hebrews twelve says, God shakes
things up to get our attention. He shakes things up
until you get the point. Without him, it's unfixable. And
what you are seeing now in our country, our culture,

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in our racial relationships, the brilliant minds can't fix. Because
the scripture says in First Corinthians Chapter one and First
Corinthians Chapter two, God makes.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
A fool of the wisdom of this world. God will
downright embarrass you.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
By thinking you can do this without him or have
to add to him to get it done right.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
I don't know what's getting.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
You hungry today, but I do know where there's some food.
I don't know why your soul is starving today or
our culture is starving today, but I do know where
there has some flower, and it, when taken in seriously eat.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
We'll eat up the poison so that you can behold
again and so that the famine is addressed.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
The man went to the store one day because he
needed some spaghetti sauce. So he went to get spaghetti
sauce and he picked up he didn't know much about food,
he picked up Prego spaghetti sauce. He went to the

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store clerk and he said, now I've got this sauce
because we're eating spaghetti Now where do I get the tomatoes?
The star clerk said, no, no, is in there. Okay, Well,
now where do I go to get their regino? Oh no, No,

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it's it's already.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
It's already in there.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
He said, well, well, well, well, well where do I
go to get the basil?

Speaker 2 (41:10):
It's in there?

Speaker 1 (41:10):
What about the Italian sausage? It's all in there? What
about the darling or it's in there?

Speaker 2 (41:15):
What about what? What about all these other ingredients?

Speaker 1 (41:21):
You're looking all out here, but what you have for
what you need has already been taken into consideration, and
it's all in there.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
I don't know what you're looking.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
For today, but if you need peace, it's in there.
If you need order, it's in there. If you need justice,
it's in there. If you need unity, it's all in there.
If you need happiness, it's in there. If you need provision,

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it's in there. You're going show up and everywhere else
when God is saying, it's already been put in Now,
if you and I will take seriously the word of God,
you will see when he put it together, he didn't
leave any of the recipes out.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Shall we stand to our feet right now? If you're
famished in your life circumstances.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
If you're famished, you're starving to death because there's some
poison there, there's some wild gords growing up in your soul.
Comes forward, let us pray with you real quickly, whatever that,
whatever that is, we're gonna we're gonna pray for you
because we love you, we care