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Let's talk about let's talk about money. Let's talk about sex. Let's talk about drugs. Let's talk about you. Let's talk about me. Let's talk about us. Let's talk about we talk about you. Let's talk about me. Let's talk about us. Let's talk about the let's talk about wealth. Let's talk about green let's talk being broke living in poverty. Let's talk about black. Let's talk about why let's talk about how we still fight for our rights. Let's talk of a man sex games and drugs. And let's talk about God. Let's talk about love. Let's discuss our felon. Hey, y'all. Welcome to blessed to be asked, I'm your cousin and Christ won trial event. And this is bougie Bible studies. If you are new here, I'd like to welcome you to the number one Bible study that you will ever come across. And if you are not new here, you already know how we get down as we dive into the Bible and read a chapter a week to get the inside story of what took place back in the ancient times that makes the Bible super vital for our lives that people preach it today. It is in many different languages. It is the most powerful book on Earth, that guides and directs our life as well as help us understand the relationship between us and our Father, our Creator, our Lord, who created all things in between us like so this is very important. So I come on here and I read a chapter a week and I just try to get the inside story. You know, I'm trying to see what God is talking to me about. And if you are here, then that means you also want a relationship with God. And that's what this podcast is about. It's about relationship. It is far from religion, even though we dive into the Bible, but the Bible speaks to many different religions. It speaks to many different peoples and however the Holy Spirit speak to you look now showbusiness. Okay, I'm not here to judge you. That's God's job. So you can read out of any Bible you choose to read out of I choose to read out an NIV version as my business. I have a Bible here placed in front of me it is paperback, but you can read out of your phone, you can simply follow along, or you can just listen, it's, it's up to you. It's your business. Today's class, we will be in first king, chapter 18. And the title is Elijah and the prophets of bale. We haven't done anything on First Kings yet. So this is very new to us. If you have not been rocking with us, then you got to check out the other episodes to see how this Bible study class goes down. I literally jumped through the Bible. And I have a guide here that guides me through the Bible. We are in the Old Testament. So the first 14 Weeks was two weeks of life and teaching of Jesus Christ the following 14 weeks after that was the life and teachings of Paul. And now we have went 14 weeks diving into the Old Testament, and we are on episode, I want to say 37 If I'm not mistaken, we're so we're on class 37. So we've been doing this 37 weeks, it's been going down. And it's pretty exciting, especially as we get the inside story of the Bible, like not just scripture being thrown at you like I really dislike when people throw scripture at you because they use scripture and the wrong content. And they tried to speak to you through scripture, when in reality, you need to understand the stories behind the scriptures. That's what make it make sense to me. Now, I don't know how you get down and how your church get down. But again, this is just the Bible study class. So if you are looking for a preacher or somebody who prophesied over you, that a me, okay, you gotta go to church for that, that won't be here. So if you are ready, I am ready. Go ahead and grab your Bibles. Grab your stuff, grab your notes, and let's go first king chapter 18, Elijah and Obadiah. After a long time, in the third year, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, go and present yourself to Ahab and I was sitting rain on the land. So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now, the famine was severe in San Moriah. And Ahab has Saman Obadiah. His palace administrator. Obadiah was a devout believer in the Lord. While Jezebel was killing off the Lord's prophets. Obadiah had taken 100 prophets and hidden them into cakes 50 in each and supplied them with food and water, Ahab has said to Obadiah go through the lands all the spring and valleys maybe we can find some grass to keep the horses and mules alive, so we would not have to kill any of our animals. So they divided the land they were to cover Ahab going in one direction and Obadiah and another, as Obadiah was walking along. Elijah met him Obadiah recognized him, bowed down to the ground and said, Is it really you, my Lord Elijah? Yes, he replied. Oh, God, tell your master Elijah is here. What have I done wrong as Obadiah that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to put to death, as surely as the Lord your God lives there is not a nation or Kingdom where my master has not sent someone to look for you. And whenever a nation or Kingdom claimed you were not there, he made them swear they could not find you. But now you tell me to go to my master and say Elijah is here. I don't know where the Spirit of the Lord may carry you when I leave you. If I go until Ahab and he doesn't find you, he will kill me. Yet I your servant have worshipped the Lord since my youth. Haven't you heard my lord what I did why Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord, I hit 100 of the Lord's prophets and to Kate 50, and each and supply them with food and water. And now you tell me to go to my master and say Elijah is here he will kill me. Elijah said, as the Lord our mighty lives whom I serve, I will surely present myself to Ahab today, Elijah on Mount Carmel, verse 16. So Obadiah went to me, Ahab, and tell him and Ahab went to me, Elijah, when he saw Elijah, he said to him, is that you, you traveller of Israel? I have not made trouble for Israel, Elijah replied, but you and your father's family have you have abandoned the Lord's commands and have followed the bells. Now, some of the people from all over Israel to me me on Mount Carmel, and brain of 450, prophets of Bale, and the 400 prophets of Ashra, who eat edge Isabel's table, so they have sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel, Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him. But if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. Then Elijah said to them, I am the only one of the Lord's prophets last, but Bale has 450 prophets, get two bulls for us let bales prophets choose one for themselves and let them cut it into pieces and put it on wood, but do not set fire to it. I will prepare the other book and put it on the wood but not set fire to it that you call on the name of your God and I will call on the name of the Lord the God who answers by fire. He is God then all the people said what you say is good. Sounds like a good idea. Elijah said to the prophets of Bale, choose one of the bulls and prepare it first. Since there are so many of you call on the name of your God but do not like the fire. So they took the bull given them and prepared it then they call it on the name of bale from morning to no bell answer us they shouted. There was no response. No one answered, and they danced around the altar they had made at noon, Elijah began to talk them shout louder. He said, Surely He is God, perhaps he is deep in thought are busy are traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened. So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with Swartz and spears, as was their custom until their blood flowed midday pass and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response. No one answered, no one paid attention. Then Elijah said to all the people come here to me, they came to him and he repaired the altar of the Lord which had been torn down. Elijah took 12 stones, one for each of the tribes to send it from Jacob to whom the word of the Lord had come saying your name should be Israel. With the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord, He dug a trench around it large enough to hold two sets of seeds. He arranged the wood cut the ball into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, fill for large jars with water and pour it on the offering and on the wood. Elijah rubs it in 1833, Elijah designed the contest to expose Bale, the alleged Godfather, who was often depicted carrying a tender boat, Elijah douse his own author with 12 large jars of water, a precious commodity, after three years of drought before calling on God, fire from heaven burned at the sacrifice the wood, the stone that does and even looked up the water in the trench. Verse 34, do it again, he said, and they did it again. Do it a third time he ordered and they did it again. Third time the water ran down around the otter and even filled up the trench at the time of sacrifice. The prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God and Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command answer me Lord answer me so these people would know that you Lord our God and that you are turning their heart back again. Then the fire of the Lord fail and burn up the sacrifice the wood, the stone and the soil and also licked up the water in a trench When all the people saw this, they fail prostrate and cry the Lord He is God the Lord, He is God. Then Elijah commanded them sees the prophet of Bale, don't let anyone get away. They seize them. And Elijah had them brought down to kishin Valley and slaughtered there. And Elijah said to Ahab, go eat and drink for there is the sound of a heavy rain. So they have went off to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees go and look toward the sea. He told his servant and he went up. And look, there is nothing there. He said seven times, Elijah said, Go back, the seventh time to seven reported a cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea. So Elijah said, go until Ahab hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you. Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, and heavy rain started falling and a half wrote off to jazz real, the power of the Lord came on Elijah and tucking his cloak into his belt, he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to jazz real. And that is the end of our chapter, you guys. Okay, let's break it down. So boom, we get introduced to Elijah and kings. And it's really interesting to see because Elijah was the only prophet but it looks like it was a lot of prophesying going on in bale. So Elijah came to set the mark straight. So boom, let's break it down. After a long time, and a third year, the word of the of the Lord came to Elijah go and present yourself to Ahab, because Ahab and his people have been tripping. Okay, God is like I was sin, rain to the land. And so Elijah went, went to Ahab. But instead of going to Ahab, first, he went to Obadiah. So Obadiah was a true believer of the Lord and all that good stuff, and why Jezebel was killing off the Lord's Prophet Obadiah basically help some of the prophets and set to case not set up to case but he put them into caves like 50 in each saw, he helped 100 people, he gave them food, he gave him water, and it was being protected from Jezebel. I guess Jessica was just cutting loose. Okay. Now, when Obadiah was walking, he ended up seeing Elijah, he like, Oh, I know, my eyes is not deceiving me. Is this you? Elijah, my lord, Elijah, like you got it right, buddy. This is me. So go tell your master, I'm here. Obadiah like, hold up. Wait a minute. Now my master has been sending people to look for you and have nobody found you yet. So if I go to my master, and you disappear, he will kill me. So I can't do that, you know, and Elijah is like, I'm, I'm gonna be right here. I'm gonna see your master. I'm gonna go face your master. Don't worry about it. When he met him or whatever, let's not take that Obadiah did bow down to Elijah. Because he knew Elijah was a real prophet. He when he met him and told him I like this the Elijah like, yeah, I gotta tell you a Master, I'm here got like, I have no, I'm here. Obadiah like, you better not disappear, because we've been looking for you. And every time that somebody came back and couldn't find you, I have basically made them for like, you wasn't not available. Like he wasn't there. Obadiah is telling Elijah Haven't you heard when I did, like, I basically helped some of the profit, why just the bill was killing the profits. I basically took 100 profits, and I put them into different cages. 15 Each gave them food, water. And you know, I was protecting the profits. And so Elijah is like, go get your master basically Obadiah went to me, Ahab and told him, you know, Elijah here and so Ahab went to me, Elijah, when he saw Elijah, he said to him, is that you, you traveller of Israel? So he caught it. Elijah, a traveler, Elijah, like, look, I didn't bring no trouble to Israel. I have made no trouble for Israel, but you and your father families have you have abandoned the Lord commands and you have followed the bales. Now some of the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel and bring 450 prophets of bale and the 400 prophets of Ashra, who eat edges of bills table so that's 150 profit all together that he had to gather up to bring to Elijah. So I have sent word throughout Israel and he assemble all the profits on Mount Carmel, Elijah when before the people have said How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him. But if Baal is God, follow him. It's like you guys are confused. Which one are you guys going to choose? It kind of makes sense like if you guys are profits in your profit for the Lord the How are you guys worship in Bill says a lot right? Elijah said to them, I am the only one of Lords prophets. Are you 150 Counterfeit proud Since you guys are fraught you guys are fake. You guys are flu daisies. You guys are not the real deal. I'm the only prophet left Elijah letting them know like look bruh I don't know which I got going on, but it's a whole bunch of fake stuff happening around here. So he like I'm gonna set up a contest. Basically, we're gonna get two bulls, you're gonna cut up the bull, we're gonna cut up the pool your bull, you're gonna set up your altar, I'm gonna set up my altar and whichever whenever you call out to the guy you call out to your guy I'm gonna call out to my Lord and whatever buyer set to the book is The God like the real God like the real deal, right? So what I thought like, Okay, this is a good idea. They basically start cutting up the table and chopping a deal. And in a setup, they love otter and do all this stuff. So they start calling on the name of bail. Their god was bail. So then I start calling on the name of Bell from morning to noon. They basically like bale estrus so they shout it but there was no response like no response to add no fire he in no rain, no nothing come in, and they shout it and they shout it and it was no response. And they danced around the altar. And they did all the and it was still nothing. So Elijah began to talk them like joke of them, like you guys are not loud enough, like shout louder. Like he can't hear you. He's probably busy, or he's probably on vacation, or he's probably sleeping, you know, maybe he needs to be awakened. So he basically clowning him, like, Oh, my God is not available. They get to dance, and now they pull it out. They scores they slashed in a scan, because they used to sacrificing blood. And they did this all night and to the next day like and nothing happened. They still kept prophesizing until the time I even enough sacrifice, but there was no response. No one answered, no one paid attention. So then Elijah said to all the people, man, come here, come to me, let me show you how it's done. You fill me they came, he repaired, he repaired the Lord's altar. He fixed it up because it was torn down. He took 12 stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob to whom the word of the Lord had come saying your name should be Israel, and what the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord. He dug a trench around it large enough to hold two central seeds. He arranged a word he cut the ball into pieces, and he laid it on the woods, he fell for large jars of water, and he poured it on offering and on the woods. So basically, Elijah set up this contest to expose their God and to show them that whoever they was worshiping was not legit. So he poured the water on the otter and he did it again. He did it began, and he did it a third time. So the water ran down all around the otter and it filled the trench. And at the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward. And he prayed to the Lord. He said, Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Israel, let it be known today that you are God and Israel and I am your servant and I have done all these things at your command answer me Lord asked me so these people could know like you, our Lord our God, and that you are turning their hearts back again because they all been turned to this fake god bale so near the fire of the Lord fail and burn up the sacrifice the wood, the stones, the schools, and also lift up the water in a trench. I mean, soaked up all the water and fire just burnt it out. And so when the people saw this, they like, oh, the Lord, He is God, like, oh, we have been doing sound real wrong, y'all because here's the proof right here. He is God, Lord is God so that Elijah commanded them to seize all the prophets, the prophets of Baal, don't let anyone get away. And so they seize them. A Elijah had them brought down to the kitchen Valley, and they all die. He slaughtered them. Well, he didn't slaughter them, but he had them killed. And the Bible is real gruesome. Like it's a whole lot of sacrifice and killing and blood shedding like it's a whole lot of interesting things go down, and the Bible and what I like so much is how even though the stories are a little gruesome there, if these are real stories, like it was going down in ancient times, like then people was not planned back there. And to see the story unfolding in my eyes. It's like contests were done like this. People were really trying to divide people like even in today's world, you have all these different beliefs. Believe in the universe, Believe in the Lord. Believe in merchandise, believe in your celebrity. Like how long would you waver? How long would you waver between all of these different guys when we really have one Creator, and it's so hard for people to come together and worship one Creator? For some reason, we have all these different things that peel us apart and tear us apart and separate From the one true creator that we have, we have science, people believe in science more than they believe in the Creator. We have all these different religions, we have all these different names, all these different gods, all these different prophets. But our true creator is the one who created all of us, even the prophets. And it's so scary today because a lot of people shy away from church because they don't know who to trust, who to believe who to come to, who to talk to, who to take word from. But in reality, all you have to do is open up your Bible and read the stories and allow God to speak to you through the stories he do it to me, He speaks to me through the stories every time I read a story, I get an understanding an insight on how God works. God was sick and tired of the people of Baal because they act like they was Prophet and they wasn't in reality to see him work like that is like you know, God is almighty he is the one that saved us He is the one that's bring us to understanding he is the one that brings us to love and all of that and we even gain from God when we do right by him he provide for us He heal us he take care of us in the most precious way that sometimes you know, I can barely explain the authenticity of God is because I'm still learning god I'm still learning and walking in relationship with God and I would never fully understand His grace and His mercy but the know that I have it is like yeah, that's though I don't want to be like the people of Valle fake prophesy over people people all all over the world now fake manifesting Akon like you know, they're manifesting what's going on for them. People are losing their lives every day to suicide for people are rich in money and still are not happy people are in relationships and are not in love. I come up people wake up you guys. We need the Creator, to speak with us to talk to us to walk with us and move to us to all our life situations, all of our lives, our story being told and unfold. And I would hate to tell my story without having the Creator involved without having got involved when you see me you gotta know as God, you gotta be like, Oh, she walked with the Lord because the Lord is upon me. It's like on me shining on me. I'm in this dark world, but that light you see that light is God. So let's get back to the story. So when all the people saw this, they fail, prostrating they cried the Lord, he has got the Lord He is God. So then Elijah sees all the prophets and he took them to Keshawn Valley and they were slaughtered there. And Elijah says to Ahab, go eat drink for there's a sound of a heavy rain. So Ahab went off to eat drink. But Elijah climb to the top of mountain Carmel a bit down to the ground and put his face between his knees, go and look toward the sea. He told his servant and he went up. And so there was nothing there at first. And Elijah told his servant to go look about seven times. And on a seven time there were seven reported a cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea. So Elijah said, go until Ahab hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you meanwhile, the sky grew black clouds, the wind rose and heavy rain started falling Ahab Road, oxygen, Israel, the power of the Lord came on Elijah and tucking his cloak into his belt, he ran ahead of Ahab, and all the way to just, Elijah was a true prophet of Israel, and the Lord and the Lord said, Elijah, to bale to wherever this bill was. And he said, he sent him near to clean up what they were doing over there. And when Elijah came, he had the nerve to call Elijah, a traveler, and Elijah like, Nah, buddy, I'm not the traveler, but you're your father, you're over here traveling up these things, because I don't fell from God. And now you're over here and like prophets, like stopping this thing. This thing was going down. So he set up the contest real easy, real smooth, didn't cause too much trouble. By the end, he exposed them. Have you ever been exposed in a situation where there was no denying it, you couldn't do anything about being exposed, you had to confess or you had to face the fact that you could be lying, you could be telling our acting or doing something that is not true. That is not of your character. That is not what God put into you. I know for me, being exposed to my lies, being convicted of being wrong in the flesh. It happens to me, it happens to me not so much now because I try to stay away from pretending and faking and being something that I'm not and that's why I don't try to follow the trends that I see on social media. I'm not jumping on every trend that's available for us is because I'm constantly trying to be the authenticity of what God has created me to be and he's constantly molded me and he constantly grilling me and showing me how to live life so I try not to look outside of me and do something that will expose me being fit Fake fraudulent, phony and I see a lot of that going on like in society you could look in society you can see like dang, people were really spent 1000s of dollars on name brands that they can't even afford to impress people who don't even like them who they like that's fake. Like all that is fake is fake love is fake people. It's fake prophets, fake church people, fake Christians, fake Catholics, fake religions, fake everything, like it's a lot of fake stuff going on in the world. And when God exposes you, you can't hide from that. It's like stepping on the steps to the Lord. You cannot hide from being exposed one day one way or another God will send somebody to expose you if he don't do it himself. He will send somebody to expose how fraudulent how fake how bogus you are, and that's just what happened that's what I took from First Kings chapter 18 I took that God was sick and tired of the fake stuff that was going on and bail I don't even know if Bill is the city state country I don't know I haven't gotten that deep yet so don't come judging me okay, but all I do know is that a God sent Elijah to bill to expose the people there to expose the profits there it was 150 profit. How is it 150 profits and you guys are worshiping fail? Excuse me, I don't know if his name is Bill or ball or what it is but it's B double A L and how are you guys worshipping bill when the Lord your God has brought you out of Egypt like make it make sense. But then again, they were exposed and that's what happens. So you guys that was our chapter for this week. Oh my goodness, what an interesting chapter. Go ahead and check out any other episode that has played before this. Also check us out on social media. There is a change happening okay, I really feel a shift coming along. God has asked me to expose more of me I'm trying to be behind this mic but God is like says I need you to be exposed and so you guys just work with me as the New Year Come on, we will be going into something deeper and something better and something more exposure of just getting deeper into the Bible and allowing the Holy Spirit Jesus God to work with you individually like he did with me, okay, because what do you got for you? It may not be for me and what do you got for me may not be for you. But if we come together, we worship in my words together. So you guys send this message to somebody who you feel may benefit from it. It could be anybody, family, friends, whomever. Go ahead and share this message to your social media. also continue to check us out on social media. Follow us on Instagram blessed to be s Facebook bougie Bible studies. You can simply like message, comment, or yeah, just check us out next week. Don't forget to sign up for our newsletters because you do not want to miss the great things that's going to be happening over here. I blessed to be asked again. You guys. I'm your cousin and Christ watch for a little bit. And you have been rocking with me on bougie Bible studies. Talk to you guys next week. Hi.