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EHSJ2- KEM Message #35Sunday - 3/3/2013

(Hebrews 13:8)

"The Life You Were NOT Meant To Live"

  Background: 1 Kings 18:21-40   1).  1Kings 19:1-4 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” 3 Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”   Life was not to be lived in Fear Psalm 46:1-7 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts. The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.   2). 1Kings 19:5-9 5 Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”6 He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again. 7 The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” 8 So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. 9 There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”   Life was not meant to be lived while Weary Isaiah 40:28-31 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.   3).  1Kings 19: 9-10 9 There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?” 10 He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” Life was not meant to be lived in Spiritual Discouragement 1Kings 19:11-13 11 The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but theLord was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 13 When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” Psalm 46:10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;     I will be exalted among the nations,     I will be exalted in the earth.”   1Kings 19:14-21 14 He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” 15 The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. 16 Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet. 17 Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu. 18 Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.” The Call of Elisha 19 So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. 20 Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,” he said, “and then I will come with you.” “Go back,” Elijah replied. “What have I done to you?” 21 So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxenand slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant. You were meant to live a life that will LEAD others to God!   Pray...Amen.        

  Pastor Corey's Home Study Notes  EHS J2 - KEM Message #33 Sunday - 2/17/2013 (Hebrews 13:8) "Give Me This Mountain"  Joshua 14:6-15 6 Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him: “You know the word which the LORD said to Moses the man of God concerning you and me in Kadesh Barnea. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart. 8 Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God. 9 So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’ 10 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. 11 As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in. 12 Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great andfortified. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD said.” 13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. 14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel. 15 And the name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim). Then the land had rest from war. ? Every mountain of culture has a demonic stronghold over it seeking to control all those in that mountain. ? It’s impossible to bring transformation to a mountain of culture without first conquering the stronghold over it. ? We conquer strongholds over the mountains of culture by defeating them in our private lives. We gain spiritual and moral authority publicly over every stronghold we’ve conquered personally.   Whenever anyone seeks to climb and conquer a cultural mountain without first contending and winning victory over the ruling stronghold, they will eventually be defeated and controlled by that stronghold.  Note: Each Mountain is identified by a stronghold in the form of an Occupant.  Mountains Strongholds Tribes  1. Family Discouragement Jebusites (trodden down from the root)  2. Church Pride Amorites (elevation)  3. Business Greed Canaanites (Zealous)  4. Education Humanism Hivites (group/system of thoughts in opposition)  5. Government Corruption Girgashites (clay dwellers, flesh)  6. Media Fear Hittites (terror)  7. Arts/Entertainment Immorality Perizzites (those in an open region...open to anything)  What does it take to take the Mountain? Lessons from Caleb: Joshua 14: 6-12 ? (v.6) Caleb remembered what God had already said... ? (v.7) Caleb's report of what could be done was based in "his" convictions alone... (Num. 14:23-24) ? (v.8-9) Caleb remembers his Commitment 45 years ago to follow God "wholeheartedly". ? .....don't just remember what God told you, but remember what you told God! ? Caleb stood on God's promise even when everybody else was scared. He stood apart from the crowd! ? .....they saw Great Giants and a little god, but Caleb saw a Great God and little giants. ? .....the majority was problem-conscious, but Caleb was power-conscious. ? (v.10-11) Caleb remembers God's faithfulness to him. ? .....he saw How God had kept him alive to see the promise... ? ....even though he was older, he was just as strong at 85 as he was at 40!...God can sustain you! ? (v.12) After reflecting on all that, Caleb says, "NOW...Give me this Mountain..." ? ....when God promises you something , you can say "Now" give it to me! ? .....when God is with you, you should be motivated to Drive Out Some Stuff!   It's time to accept the challenge of taking the Mountain!  ? Stand up to the stronghold and take what God has already given you! ? It's time to move to higher ground!   Isaiah 2:2-3  Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. Pray...Amen.