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The Perfect Burger
Let’s talk about lunch.
Have you all been over to this “Bad Daddy’s” place across the street?
One of KK and my favorites.
They have “fake meat” too :D.
8 oz patty, pepper jack cheese, fresh jalepenos, maybe a fried egg on top… that garlic mayo that will make my pores smell for the rest of the day… delicious.
Craft the perfect burger.
They aren’t sponsoring me, by the way, I’m just hungry maybe.
Burger King - Have it Your Way
Have you seen Burger King’s slogan?
“Have it Your Way”?
“You have the right to what you want exactly when you want it.”
“We may be the king, but you are the absolute ruler.”
How ridiculous is this?
I dare you to go into Burger King and order a Bad Daddy’s burger.
They can’t do it.
They don’t have the things, the stuff, the good stuff.
But that motto, that’s like a banner over humanity, isn’t it?
Or more like Satan’s whisper to humanity.
“You can have it your way...”
People shopping for gods.
This isn’t a new thing… this is what humans have always done.
From Satan in the Garden of Eden, whispering to “Eve” did God really say that?
No… eat it and be like God, choose for yourself.
And people have been taking turns between pretending to be gods and shopping for gods ever since.
If you made your god with your own hands… that isn’t a god worth much of anything except what you put into it.
Certainly not worth worship.
As we approach this spiritual gift of “prophecy”… that’s is listening to God and speaking His words after him.
Forth-telling what he is telling us to encourage and convict his people as necessary.
It is so tempting to say for God what you want God to say.
Imagine God as you wish Him to be.
We aren’t interested in that.
I want to know God as He actually is, really is, the real God.
And He has revealed Himself again and again to his people.
Prophet for the Birds
1 Kings 17 (ESV)
1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
Not a lot of introduction to our friend Elijah… but like I said, he was the GOAT.
The greatest needs no introduction.
The Israelite kings of a tradition: each one tries to be worse than the one before.
Ahab is like 6 kings from Jereboam, each worse than the last.
And Ahab, under the influence of his wife Jezebel, is the worst yet.
They have brought the worship of Baal to the Kingdom of Israel in a BIG way, hunted down and killed all the other prophets of Yahweh.
So here comes Elijah.
Courage in speaking truth to power.
He brings the Word of the Lord, there is going to be a major drought, not a drop of rain, not even enough humidity to produce dew until I say so.
The problem with a drought is, well that affects everyone, including Elijah.
No water, no food, so God has a plan for sustaining his prophet.
2 And the word of the Lord came to him:
3 “Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.
4 You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
5 So he went and did according to the word of the Lord.
He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan.
6 And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
This is… weird.
This is not a normal way of providing for someone.
“I got a plan… birds.”
“What?” “Yeah, birds.”
Birds aren’t famous for bringing you food but for taking it from you.
But for an unknown span of time, this was how Elijah lived.
Sucking water from a tiny brook, eating dinners brought (and maybe cooked) by birds.
God provides… I guess.
Not exactly 4-star meals.
And not in a way that seems super dependable.
Every day the brook gets a little bit lower, less water and...
7 And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
Super natural plan for provision… isn’t it odd that this brook is affected just like all the other water in the land?
Now God’s prophet needs another way of sustaining himself.
8 Then the word of the Lord came to him,
9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there.
Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.”
10 So he arose and went to Zarephath.
And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks.
And he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.”
11 And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
12 And she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug.
And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”
Here is a picture of what the drought was doing to the rest of the Kingdom.
Desperate people reaching the very end of their provisions.
A little water and barely enough oil and flour for one final pancake before they die.
If you have already stretched your provisions until this is your absolute last bite to eat, you are already well into starvation.
Picture them broken and weak, emaciated, barely holding on.
… and someone comes and asks you for pancakes.
13 And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said.
But first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make something for yourself and your son.
That’s a big ask.
That’s a leap of faith.
Feed me, and then see what you can make for you and your son.
I’m not sure I could do that.
14 For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.’
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A beautiful promise… but hard to believe.
Give me all the money in your wallet, God will magically refill it.
Maybe it’s faith, maybe it’s desperation, maybe it is fatalism since she was expecting to die anyway… but she does it!
15 And she went and did as Elijah said.
And she and he and her household ate for many days.
16 The jar of flour was not spent, neither did the jug of oil become empty, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by Elijah.
That is a miracle!
God provides!
And not just for the prophet, but for the mistress and her sons.
Isn’t that a beautiful message.
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