In this sermon, Tony Evans challenges us to ask the question, “How much of God am I leaving behind?” A true legacy transcends material things and makes a big deal about God. It is within this context that we find Elijah transferring the power of God to Elisha. (Psalm 71:18) Tony will show you the necessary components needed to pass the baton of faith to those who follow you and how to leave something that will truly last forever.
every responsible parent here has has
made a will the will consists of that
which you want to pass on to the next
generation
it reflects the accumulation of goods
and resources that have been attained
during your life houses cars accounts
you have created a material legacy the
question that I want to raise today
through the life of Elijah is what kind
of spiritual legacy
are you leaving behind how much of God
are you transferring God never met this
program to stop because there was no
legacy to carry it along all through the
scripture his plan and program in the
world would be carried on through him
being transferred from one generation to
another in fact it is Psalm 70 118 that
says that the power of God is to be
transferred from a generation to another
generation in a dition or even ahead of
the material things that you may pass on
how much of God will be transferred
because if all your legacy is of things
you can spend that have little or no
eternal value associated with them that
is a failed life no matter how
materialistically successful it appears
to be unfortunately a lot of our
children will be fighting over the wrong
thing what’s mine what’s yours how much
came to me how much came to you if there
is little or no God left behind but this
is not only true within your nuclear
family it’s true in God’s spiritual
family that the reason why God wants you
associated in a spiritual environment is
so that a spiritual legacy can be
transferred to you and through you for
others and so we find Elijah getting
ready to pass off the scene his time has
gone it is time for him to go into the
presence of God that means it’s time for
him to make a transfer of a spiritual
heritage that the plan and prophetic
program of God might continue even after
he is gone it’s a great problem when a
leader leaves and there’s nothing left
behind that’s poor leadership because
the whole idea is to carry on a
spiritual legacy a legacy that makes a
big deal about a great God so I have the
question now today to you and to me and
to us what is your spiritual legacy how
much of the supernatural are you leaving
behind or will they be only able to talk
about money cars and houses but they
won’t be able to say much about how much
God showed up in your life because there
was no spiritual supernatural ongoing
presence of God’s reality in your
experience the thing that they will
remember is other folks testimony that
you talked about because you didn’t have
much more to say about how God had moved
in your life so here we are we’re in
this place where Elijah makes a request
of Elijah I’ll try not to get these two
names mixed up they sound so much alike
in verse 9 of second Kings chapter 2
when they had crossed over Elijah said
to Elisha asked what I shall do for you
before I am taken from you and Elisha
said please let a double portion of your
spirit be upon me Elisha
Scelzi large ah I want twice as much God
as you have that a double portion of
your spirit rests on me I want twice as
much God own me as I saw on you and as
we have already seen there’s a whole
bunch of God on Elijah God is just
showing off and showing out through this
prophet Elijah says give me two scoops I
want two scoops of God when you read the
life of Elijah in second Kings you will
discover he did twice as many miracles
as Elijah he asks for a double portion
now a lot of us ask God for a double
portion but is usually not this we want
a double portion we want a bigger house
we want a nicer car we want more
material gain we want greater career we
want more stuff but when is the last
time you’ve gone big on God for more of
him I want a double portion of God on me
that you had on you or maybe you don’t
have anybody close enough in your life
to ask for a double portion from cuz you
haven’t been close enough to somebody
where has one to see what it looks like
and make the request he says I want a
double portion of God on me now he
didn’t just make that up in Deuteronomy
chapter 21 verse 17 the Bible says the
double portion would come to the
firstborn son so it was a unique
privilege given to the firstborn because
the firstborn child would incur
firstborn son would incur more
responsibility so with the more
responsibility that would be the greater
need for a greater portion so elisha is
telling you lies Josh I want twice as
much God because I want to invoke the
spiritual responsibility every man ought
to be asking God for a double portion
because you have the ultimate
responsibility for the well-being of
your family
so you need a double portion of God so
he asks for something big but he asks
for something big spiritually he does
something that we have missed he makes
the request for more of God which means
he made the spiritual more important
than the material now we all know the
material is important you need a place
to live you need clothes on your back
you need food in your stomach I’m not
suggesting that the material isn’t
critical I am saying it is always a
problem if it’s first Matthew 6:33 says
seek ye first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness and all these things will
be added to you we pray for the things
and we’ll just pick up any crumbs of
Spirit that may be hanging around he
says seek ye first all through the Bible
God says I want to be first I want to be
first with this I want to be first with
that I want to be first with the other
first first first first first that Jesus
Christ might have first place in
everything on the first day of the week
a person should put beside that was he
set aside for the Lord its first this
and first that and first this and first
that because God says I want to be first
because I’m the only one like me you
know there is nobody like it unto me I
deserve and demand first place he says
in everything so he says I want more of
God I want to be first you know in
baseball if you miss first base you
don’t matter that you touch second third
and home plate because if you miss
what’s first all the other touches you
make are a waste of time we want to
touch all the other bases in our lives
physically and materially while skipping
first base and wonder why we don’t see
more of the supernatural God is not
interested in giving people the
supernatural who gonna miss first base
God wants to know he’s first when
Solomon was building its temple he
said Lord I want you to give me wisdom
when he was made King I want you to give
me wisdom to lead this people
God said solvent because you didn’t ask
for money because you didn’t ask for
bling because you didn’t ask for stuff
but you asked for me and spiritual
insight I’m going to give you the
spiritual that you asked for and imma
throw some stuff in in addition to that
and he’s doing a lot of stuff cuz Salman
was the richest man who ever lived
but he put the spiritual first Elijah
says I want a double portion I want
twice as much God as you have twice as
much of the spiritual twice as much of
the supernatural
I want your God just rolling all over me
that’s what I want you asked me what I
want allowed you and that’s what I want
Elijah now responds Elijah says in verse
10 he said you have asked a hard thing
you’ve asked a hard thing you want twice
as much God as was on me you’ve asked a
hard thing nevertheless if you see me
when I am taken from you it shall be so
for you for if not it shall not be so he
says in the words of Flip Wilson what
you see is what you get when I’m taken
out of here by God if you see me go
you’ll get the double portion but when
I’m taken out of here by God if you
don’t see me go you won’t get the double
portion you will get what you see now
what was he saying them God will only
give you twice as much of him that was
on me if it’s clear you’re looking at
things spiritually if you see the move
of God taking me out of here which means
you’ll see a supernatural presence of
God then God will give you a double
portion but he’s not going to give you a
double portion if he knows you’re not
looking at things spiritually Paul
prayed and Ephesians chapter 1 verse 18
that the eyes of your spiritual
and your spiritual site might be
enlightened one of the reasons we don’t
see more of the supernatural is that we
don’t look at things spiritually we look
at things secondly Kanaly fleshly
humanly popularly we look at things from
the world standpoint and then if we have
some time left God has brought into the
equation
that’s called backwards Christian
soldiers that’s moonwalking what he is
saying is that unless you can see things
from God’s perspective God is not going
to give you a double portion of him not
to see him and so a lot of us want more
of God who refuse to look at God’s
perspective on the front end we will
appeal to it on the back end therefore
we don’t see him and God is not going to
give you him if you can’t see him
he wants to know that you are looking at
things from his perspective and so he
says if you see me when I’m gone
if you see me when I leave here well
that’s when you’re going to get more of
God let me say it another way God is
only gonna give you as much of him as
you can handle
God is not gonna waste God on you and
he’s not gonna waste God on me he has
too much self-esteem for that he likes
being God so much that he’s not going to
reveal himself as God to people who
don’t appreciate God and he knows if you
appreciate him by the position you put
him in are you looking at things from
his perspective first or if he’ll throw
in after everything else has been looked
at he says I want a double portion I
want more of God from you now let’s go
back for a moment to chapter 19 of first
kings because that’s when they meet
Elijah meets Elijah
first Kings 19 beginning with verse 19
so he departed from there and found
elijah elijah and elisha the son of
shaphat while he was plowing with twelve
pairs of oxen before him and he with the
twelfth and elijah pass over him and
through his mantle on him in other words
elijah dubbed elijah as his successor to
put the mantle on was 2w as the
successor elijah is with twelve pairs of
oxen now if you own twelve pairs of oxen
that meant you had a lot of land which
meant you were living large
so Elisha is living large he’s living
the good life with his family Elijah
comes here Elijah and says you are the
one who’s been selected to be my
successor in the prophetic ministry when
Eli Shaw hears Eli job put the mantle on
him of succession Eli Schultz says to
eli Chuck these words he says he left
the oxen verse 20 and ran after Elijah
and said please let me kiss my father
and mother then I will follow you and he
said to him go back again what have I
done for you so he returned from
following him took the pear box and
sacrificed them all their flesh with the
implements of the oxen gave it to the
people and they ate Linnea rose and
followed elijah and ministered to him
you see if you gonna get more of God you
gotta kiss something goodbye if you
gonna get more of God you can’t just be
carrying on life as usual I’m gonna
double you as my successor but if you
don’t get this thing you wind up asking
me for a little bit later in second
Kings chapter 2 that means you gonna
have to kiss mama goodbye kiss daddy
goodbye kiss oxen goodbye you gonna have
to kiss the life you become accustomed
to goodbyes in order to get more of God
see the reason why we don’t get more of
God as we wanna kiss stuff goodbye we’ve
become solid
we’ve become so committed that when God
wants to take us to a new spiritual
level we are so embracing where we are
we’re not willing to sacrifice that to
get more most of the people here
probably to my best of my knowledge have
a college education you’ve graduated
from high school and you went to four
years or so of college some of you have
gone beyond that and gotten your
master’s degree a few perhaps have gone
beyond that and gotten your doctorate
degree which means that at the end of
high school
you made a value decision you made a
decision if I’m going to get further in
this world I have got to increase my
education which will make me more
marketable with a skill which will earn
me more money and potentially get me a
better position in the marketplace and
so what you did was you made a decision
to invest in your education in order to
increase your value in this world you
did it at much sacrifice you did
homework you didn’t want to do your read
books you didn’t want to do you are with
the classes you didn’t want to go to
because you perceived that the value of
the sacrifice would be worth the reward
of the effort put in so you gave up 4
years of your life viewing it as an
investment in order to gain more in this
world it is amazing the effort people
will put forth in order to get
recognition accumulation and material
development in this world who are
unwilling to put forth effort and energy
and and perspective in order to get
something from that world the problem is
what you will need in this world a lot
of it will have to come from that world
but if there has been no investment in
that world and you put all your marbles
into this world when this world
collapses and you have nothing to lean
on from that world because all of your
investment was in this world and you
weren’t willing to kiss anything goodbye
like you did for your education and
degrees for that world you’ll be left
dormant from that world no matter how
much stuff you have in this world that’s
why we have so many houses but not many
homes that’s why we have a lot of money
but hold all of misery that’s why we can
drive a car with no place to go
that’s why we have information in the
midst of ignorance because people have
accumulated in this world who made no
sacrifice for that world and want to
know why they’re not seeing not only a
double portion they’re not even seeing a
single portion of the spiritual
supernatural working in their experience
you see if you want some of God you got
to kiss something goodbye everywhere in
the Bible God called men who he was
calling to a higher spiritual experience
to make a decision now it’s not the same
decision for everybody it’s not to the
same degree but it’s the same concept
see what a lot of folks want to do is
they want to audit the Christian life
you know what an odd it is and odd it is
I want the information but not the work
I want the data teach it to me but don’t
give me a home assignment don’t give me
a test don’t give me a reading
assignment just give me the data in fact
a lot of what church has become is
Christian auditing I am you and be
committed but I like the teacher and I
like the information being taught but
don’t ask me to act on it don’t ask me
to be tested on it don’t ask me to be
committed to it but i’ma come to class
because I want the information a lot of
people want to audit the Christian life
and wonder why they get no spiritual
grades they want to get high degrees in
the world without being a kindergarten
graduate in the kingdom and so as a
result of that we have a lot of people
in church but not a lot of people
experiencing God we have a lot of people
who are in religion but not a lot of
people seeing the supernatural come from
heaven because they want an auditing
relationship with God not one for credit
not one where God is engaged in their
lives spiritually and supernaturally
because it has not been prioritized it’s
just been accented and so he tells them
follow me has God asked you to kiss
something goodbye that you love so much
actually so used to handling folks that
you don’t want to leave that is keeping
you from your double portion keeping you
from experiencing more of the spiritual
and the supernatural in your experience
well what happens what happens is
between the time he put the mantle on in
chapter 19 verse 19 and the time they
asked for double portions second Kings 2
verse 9 there’s a gap in that gap is an
experience it’s recorded for us in
chapter 2 the beginning of chapter 2 of
second Kings it came about when the Lord
was about to take up Elijah by a
whirlwind to heaven that a light job was
with Elijah from Gilgal Elijah said to
Elisha stay here please for the Lord has
sent me as far as Bethel but Elisha said
as the Lord lives and you yourself live
I will not leave you so they went down
to Bethel I don’t know if you see what’s
happening there he goes and he says he
lied to Elijah he says don’t go any for
with me I’ll go I go to rest away by
myself Elijah say you ain’t leavin me
I’m going with you wait where you go I
go
you ain’t leaving me behind and he’ll I
judge didn’t make him stay
it says Elijah was allowed by law jobs
to keep going with him because it was
never he’ll I just intention to make him
stay
it was the test to see how committed he
was and God will test your commitment
because he don’t just believe what you
say does anybody can talk smack anybody
can talk noise I love the Lord I heard
his cry you know he’s so wise you can’t
get over he’s so high he’s so low you
know you you can tell Rose of Sharon
barnman gilja bright morning start that
smack I want to see when you are tested
will you keep going and following me
I want to know are you committed in your
feet not just in your words talk and
lips says stay behind he says no I’m not
gonna do that he goes on the sons of the
prophets who were at Bethel came out to
Elisha and said to him do you know that
the Lord will take away your master from
you today and he said yes I know be
still first for Elijah said to Elisha
please stay here for the Lord has sent
me to Jericho but he said as the Lord
lives and as you yourself live I will
not leave you so they came to Jericho
Elisha said I should see you you have to
go any further and I said no no you
going I’m going okay cuz I’m not just in
the foot of fluff I’m not just in it for
the for the fancy stuff I’m in it
because I’m totally committed oh but it
ain’t over then Elisha says to him in
verse 6 please stay here for the Lord
sent me to the Jordan and he said as the
Lord lives and as you yourself said I
will not leave you so the two of them
widow three times he said boy
don’t go any further it’s a test and God
will test your commitment whether when
you came forward whether that was real
when you nodded your head whether that
was right when you said Amen whether you
were just talking
he will test will you go with him and
keep going with him even over the
various terrains of life what is the
level of your commitment it’s easy to
come to church there’s no competition in
church everybody agrees with you in
church the question is are you committed
are you going to keep traveling because
you want a double portion you want a
miracle this is not a game you’re
playing you want the supernatural you
want the spiritual and see there it is
our problem today our problem is there
not enough Elijah is to lead the
Elijah’s and there’s not enough Elijah
is wanting to be led by a large others
in other words we spend a lot of time
following the wrong people we’re not
following somebody who can lead us to a
double portion we following folk who
leading us from a double portion because
they may have stuff in this world but
they have no God working for them a lot
of us had grandparents they don’t have
the stuff we have they don’t have the
lifestyle we have but they have much
more of God than we will never have
because in the worst of situations they
were committed we’re in the best of
social financial economic situations and
don’t know the miracle how could they
praise God with nothing and we can’t
praise him with something
how can they be committed when there was
such a limitation and we find trouble
being committed when we could they walk
to worship then we can’t even drive
three hours be too short
and one hour is too long because there’s
a different view of God there’s a
different view of the spiritual there’s
a different view of the supernatural and
because we’re not desperate for God we
lean on this world now notice the track
he took him on it just named some cities
but these aren’t just cities the New
Testament would call this process he’s
going through it would call it
discipleship discipleship is that
developmental process that moves people
along spiritually so in 1919 he puts the
mantle on him in two nine second Kings
two nine he asked for a double portion
but in between he must be developed and
so you have him walking him through
these different locations for
development because every location means
something first location Gilgal the
first place in La Jolla took Elijah was
to Gilgal what happened in Gilgal the
scripture says in Gilgal God removed the
reproach of Egypt from Israel in Gilgal
God removed the reproach of Israel from
Egypt you see when the children of
Israel left Egypt they couldn’t forget
Egypt they always kept looking back to
Egypt they still loved Egypt even though
God was trying to take him to the
promised land so it took them 40 years
to get over Egypt and as long as they
couldn’t get over Egypt they couldn’t
enter across the Jordan to the promised
land the reason why some of us are
delayed in experiencing God as we still
have Egypt in our minds see we’re still
so committed to the world we’re so
committed to the secular world that
leads God out that God can’t give us
more of him because he doesn’t want to
give us more of him to take it back to
the world he just delivered us
from so as long as we walking with God
but looking back at Egypt God is not
going to give you more of God so that
you can pick over your shoulder to the
world he delivered you from so in I job
took Elijah to Gilgal so that he would
be taught that you got to leave
yesterday behind if you’re gonna
experience new God today and he took him
to Bethel that’s all Genesis 35 Jacob
was in Bethel and Bethel was where he
heard the voice of God it was where he
saw the ladder come down from heaven and
the angels going up and down God spoke
to him at Bethel God changed his name
God gave him a new character Bethel is
where God changes you and reveals
himself to you because you’re in Bethel
which is called the house of God in
other words he took him to the place
where he could hear God for himself you
see he took him first to Gilgal because
he needed to know you’ll never hear God
as long as you listen to the world
but then he took him to Bethel because
managers let the world go now God is
free to talk to you but now that God is
free to talk to you
we’re gonna take you to Jericho see back
in Gilgal we left the world behind then
we moved over to Bethel where we can now
hear the voice of God so now I’m gonna
take you to Jericho where God doesn’t
miracle
now what miracle did he do in Jericho
the walls of Jericho came tumbling down
but what made the walls of Jericho come
tumbling down
well God gave a weird strategy he told
him to walk around the wall once a day
for six days on the seventh day walk
around seven times then shout when you
shout the walls are gonna come tumbling
down now tell the truth for shame the
devil that don’t make no sense that
don’t make no sense to tell me to walk
around walk once a day for six days on
the seventh day walk around the seven
times and then shout that’s a terrible
military strategy but you see if you
haven’t passed Gilgal so you’re looking
at the world if you haven’t graduated to
Bethel so that you’ve learned to hear
the voice of God
you not gonna do what God says in
Jericho when he tells you how to get a
miracle but if you let Gilgal go and
you’re listening at Bethel now you’re
willing to listen in Jericho even when
it doesn’t make sense and when they
walked around once a day for six days
walked around seven times on the seventh
day the walls came tumbling down because
he obeyed the ridiculous
because the ridiculous came from heaven
but he had learned at Bethel to listen
to heaven because he turned his back at
Gilgal our teacher it takes him the
Jordan you know crossing the Jordan
River that that’s when it’s time for the
transfer that’s when it’s time to move
on and see some of us here stuck a gill
gap we haven’t left the world but we
asked him for a double portion some of
us are stuck at Bethel we’ve heard his
voice but we haven’t moved on to Jericho
some of us have stuck to Jericho
because what had God asked us to do
doesn’t make sense and I ain’t gonna do
nothing that doesn’t make sense because
my momma gave me an education and I got
a degree and I got all that metal makes
sense that doesn’t fit with my science
class my biology class my English class
doesn’t fit so he walking around no
walls sometimes and I ain’t gonna shine
ain’t doing all that that makes sense so
we’re stuck and we never get the Jordan
where the double portion is handed I see
God wants the movie on you and I was
when I was growing up when I was growing
up I played marbles I’d love to play
marbles I got really good at it the
marbles with being a circle and I back
up and I and I’m a man
pop pop it out there I really got good
at it and I loved it and every day I
played marbles until that day I
discovered football when I got a little
old and I discovered football marbles
handed marbles had to go away cuz cuz
when I discovered football that was a
lot more exciting lot more dynamic I was
more into football and so I had to
graduate for marbles to football when I
discovered there was something greater
see some of us are still playing marbles
we still playing marbles because we
haven’t graduated we still sing in the
same song quoting the same verse reading
the same stuff over and I’m saying the
same great saying the same bedtime
prayer we still playing marbles why
because we haven’t graduate
from Gilgal to Bethel to Jericho to
Jordan we haven’t moved and our
spiritual life but we’ve been auditing
spiritual class and we come to church
they’re doing the religious thing so
here he is he’s at this place now the
Bible says in Hebrews 11 27 it says in
Hebrews 11 27 that the people who were
of great faith could see him who is
unseen even though God was visible they
saw his hand even though they couldn’t
see five fingers they saw his feet even
though they couldn’t see five toes they
saw his heart even though they didn’t
see a muscle beating they saw his heart
mine even though they didn’t see a brain
because even though God was invisible
they saw him and if God is not real to
you yet
he’s a concept in a book but not a
reality in the life but you still want a
double portion God says I got to take
you through a process before I give you
a double portion I got to know you with
me on my terms
that you’ve left Egypt that you’re gonna
listen to me at Bethel and that at
Jericho you’re gonna do something weird
if it comes from me and then we can
discuss double portion because Elijah
said to Elisha it’s not mine to give
only God can give you a double piece of
him because some of us want from people
what people can’t give we want from folk
with folk can give you that God has to
give it to you himself and so he says if
you see it when I leave then you have a
double portion let’s see what happens in
2nd Kings chapter 2 after you’d ask for
a double portion verse 11 as they were
walking along and talking behold there
appeared a chariot of fire and horses of
fire which separated the two of them and
Elijah went up by a whirlwind in heaven
well I want to see a recording of that
one Elijah saw it and cried out my
father my father the chariots of Israel
and its horsemen and he saw Elijah no
more then he took hold of his own
clothes and tore them into pieces ok let
me stop there for a moment stay with me
he laughed and he said my father my
father
now I wasn’t a daddy he wasn’t born a
child of Elijah he was a spiritual
father okay listen to me now if you want
to be a great doctor in addition to
going to school you need to follow
around a great doctor
they call that a residency and an
internship
they they gonna connect you with
somebody who’s been there and done that
cuz when it comes to folk lives you
don’t just need book knowledge need
somebody who knows what they doing by
experience if you want to be a great
teacher you need to hang out with a
great teacher not just somebody who has
a degree you better hang out with
somebody who has taught you want to be a
great engineer I’m not with a great
engineer somebody who’s been into
engineering and has done a great job at
it you want to be a great man hang out
with a great man so that you can find
manhood from somebody who’s bitter man
acted like a man and is not a boy the
size of a man do you want to be a great
woman you need to hang out with a great
woman a woman who is the kind of woman
that God wants a woman to be in other
words hang out with what you want to be
like the Bible calls those people father
and lover in other words they’re mentors
for you in the area of you’ll need to
watch this if you want to double portion
and you want to be a great Christian you
better hang out with somebody who has
seen God for themselves who knows what
it is to experience God who can’t just
quote you verses who can just talk to
you about the Bible but they have seen
God they have seen the supernatural and
that may be a person with no degree that
may be a dropout from school
that may be your grandmother or your
grandfather who couldn’t have the
opportunity that you have but they can
tell you what the Lord can do they can
tell you what God is able to do they can
give you the experience of his reality a
lot of us won’t get the double portion
cuz we won’t hang out with the right
people
we hang out with carnal people asking
for a double portion you better find an
Elijah or any lied you at somebody in
your life who has gotten the whole of
God and who’s gotten close enough for
you to see it that’s why he’s walking
with him and you know what that’s what
the church is supposed to be it’s not
supposed to be placed just for class
it’s supposed to be a place where Elijah
is can meet Elijah’s and people can
connect to take them to the next
spiritual level and that’s called
discipleship mentoring that’s what God
is after a man said to a guy one day he
said I want to make a mark in the world
the guy looked back at him and said well
which world which world because so many
of us only consider making a mark in
this wine and if this world is all you
want this world is all you get even as a
Christian don’t get me wrong please
don’t misunderstand I’m not suggesting
it’s not okay to maximize your potential
in this world what I am saying is it’s
not okay to maximize your attention in
this world at the expense of that world
seek you first there must be a decision
until that decision is made and acted on
forget the request of a double portion
because you’ll never see Elijah leave
you’ll never see the spiritual and the
supernatural take place
you’ll always be hearing it from
somebody else’s story and not your own
and then he concludes it says he taught
his toys closing the pieces thorough
verse 13 he also took up the mantle of
Elijah that fell from him and returned
and stood by the bank of the Jordan and
he took the mantle of Elijah that fell
from him and struck the waters and said
where is the Lord the God of Elijah and
when he also had struck the waters then
they divided here and there and Elijah
crossed over oh no you didn’t
no you didn’t okay did you see what
happened lie just taking up in a
whirlwind horses chariots those are the
warlords of God from God who fought
against idolatry and his mantle fell
Elijah picked up the mantle of Elijah
and then hit the Jordan he and asked a
question
Oh the question is where is the god of
Elijah oh come on did you hear the
question
he took the mantle of Eli Chuck he
struck the water and then he asked a
question where is the god of Elijah what
he is asking is this is that man’s God
here with me right now cuz while RJ is
gone God is the same yesterday today and
forever so what I want to know is is
that man’s God still here with me is
your Grandmama’s God still here with you
is your mama’s God it was just I know
what you’re saying
I got a mother over there where Jesus is
yeah but mama want to know does she have
the guard down there that she has when
she was there she wants to know have you
transferred to you where’s the God many
of us have never seen the God of our
grandparents many of us have never seen
succession or to let you see that while
the person is gone the God they left
behind is the same and you know what
that means that means that no person is
indispensable because even when the
person leaves the God is still there if
he finds somebody he can use listen when
God takes me up out of here when God
removes here I hope you don’t settle for
some smooth-talking lips
back in talking preacher just cuz they
sound good can’t call it down can’t who
can you all it is and all of that I hope
you are not tricked by somebody who has
skills but who can’t bring God down cuz
my hope is that we leave enough God here
that you won’t settle for somebody with
a title called prophet who can’t give
you a mantle where you can open up the
Jordan River and see the supernatural
take place in the house that’s what God
is at where’s the I want you to be able
to say where is the God of Tony Evans
even though happens is not here anymore
is this God still here so here is the
challenge how much of God do you want
cuz he’s only gonna give you as much of
him as you can handle because God is not
gonna waste God he’s too much
self-respect for that he remember the
story about the man who was taking his
girl on his new bride on the honeymoon
they were on the honeymoon woman on the
honeymoon it was a foggy day out he had
a pasture truck he didn’t see the
oncoming van the oncoming band hit him
it was a head-on collision it flipped
his car over into the ditch he was
knocked out a few minutes later he came
to he thought his bride gushing with
blood bleeding profusely he knew she was
bleed out and die if he didn’t get help
soon but there was no help around but as
fortune would have it he looked right
out the windshield and there was a sign
office of dr. bill Jones how fortunate
could it be that his car was wrecked
right there at the doctor’s office
he picked up his beloved he wind he’d
knocked on the door an old man came to
the door he said mister save her she’s
dying the old man said I’m so sorry I
stopped practicing medicine years ago
the young man said mister you have two
choices you can either save her or take
down your sign but don’t have a sign
that says you can perform something that
can change but then when we show up it’s
just a lot of noise
nothing can happen when we show up
there’s a lot of folk carrying out sign
I’m a Christian you’re carrying a sign I
love Jesus you’re carrying a sign he’s
able you’re carrying a sign he can fix
it but when stop shows up you can’t do
anything because all you are is a sign
God is looking for folk or not just a
sign but who believe in the real thing
who still practice this things talk this
thing walk this thing this thing because
we know that our God is the same
yesterday today and forever somebody
ought to give him praise because he’s
worthy and he deserves to share his
legacy in this house
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