The Seven Pillars (Part 17)-Pillar 5-The Mantle Of Elijah & Discernment Of Issachar - Rod Mills

This is a series on the 7 Pillars of the AeroNova spiritual family, the DNA markers of who God has called us to be as a people. 
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 The fifth pillar is a call to carry or walk in the mantle of Elijah, which is the call to raise up spiritual leaders. This means becoming spiritual fathers and mothers who raise up other spiritual fathers and mothers, with a life focus on generational transfer.
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​We are beginning pillar five this week. Yeah. And I'll tell you, you somebody asked me how many pages we're up to. And I apologize, I have not gotten a new PDF out to you. But I will. And I think we're up to 67 pages, not to the day, not to this teaching this morning. But that have been that we've gotten written down so far in the series. And I'm gonna ask Beth, if you'd reach down in my briefcase, and I have a whole copy of this series in there, you'll know it because it's real thick. If you could hand that to me. I want to just read something to you. But in the meantime, I was so excited about this fifth pillar, the mantle of Elijah, I was teaching in the fourth pillar, and I just went right into it not even like not even thinking oh, well, this is the fifth pillar. Part of that is because in the fourth pillar, one of the key attributes of that fourth pillar, in obedience and listening, is the followership of Alicia and the followership of Peter, James and John, and the followership even of John the Baptist, who, you know, John, the Baptist was out front, he was in charge he was leading, but as soon as Jesus comes on the scene, this dude went into followership mode, we quote that scripture a lot, He must increase, but I must decrease that's John the Baptist, saying that he goes right into that, that follower mode, because he understood, and this kind of obedience and listening to the Lord and to the leaders, God calls us to be to serve and do life with to serve with and do live with. There is this is an attribute of the kingdom, but we feel in our own spiritual family. And we see this happening in many, many spiritual families, what we call a movement that I've just named the Friends of God movement, we're seeing this in a lot of the churches and people that we're connecting with. Now, they don't call it Friends of God that we just put a name on it. But these attributes, these seven pillars are people that we're noticing a kindred spirit with in the nations and in this nation. And so this is really core to our calling. Well, in pillar four, when we got into talking about Elijah, I had to talk about the mantle of Elijah. So I'm like, and the mantle of Elijah was so excited to get into it. But just to review, the seven pillars before we go into the fifth pillar, the first pillar, apostolic prayer, we define this from Acts chapter six, where the Apostle said, we must give ourselves continually to the Word of God, and to prayer. So we call this a lifestyle in continual prayer, and the Word of God. So we're not separating out, being in the Word of God from prayer, we, we consider when we're meditating on scripture, when we're studying, when we're in the Scripture, that's part of prayer. And prayer is part of that. We don't really separate that out. We like to do it like the apostle said, The Word of God in prayer, commit yourselves like continually, pillar to a lifestyle in the spiritual disciplines. Yes, meditating. And scripture and prayer are part of spiritual disciplines, but we separate them out. And you can go back and listen to the spiritual disciplines. On the teaching library, we name a whole bunch, there's quite a few spiritual disciplines, we won't go into those again, but those were pillar two, we feel like this is a unique again, these are seven DNA markers of our own spiritual DNA. Pillar three is New Testament community. And that is to be a people who are deeply relational, and in spiritual family. Now, we want to be organized, but we would not be called organizational. In other words, our chief attributes and how we operate is not our organizational acumen or our administrative skills so much, even though we have that our chief attributes here are related to the organic nature of spiritual family. Now, by its very definition, this is smaller in nature. So you could say what we are involved in with these other churches and ministries that's growing in this kindred. newness is a grassroots movement. It's not something and it's not a movement we created Make no mistake, please don't you hear me saying that this is not something we created. This is not something we started. This is something the Holy Spirit has started in his church, in grassroots places of people that have tuned in to this way of life, which is really going back to many of the fundamentals of the early church for the first four centuries of the church. And so we're just one of those groups. And we see the Lord doing a work that is rising up to prepare these, this generation and coming generations for the coming of the Lord. And we'll get into that a little bit more today and a whole lot more in this mantle, this fifth this this fifth pillar. So this attribute of being deeply relational spiritual family, we started introducing this concept of spiritual fathers and mothers, which is not new to any of you spiritual sons, which we believe are men and women. And the Bride of Christ, which we believe is men and women. And so in this, we start talking about spiritual fathers and mothers. But that was only a mention compared to how it's going to come out. And pillar five, because Elijah gives us a strong model for spiritual fathering. And it's reiterated in Scripture enough times that we know it's intended, it's not accidental in nature. Then, pillar five, what we're going to start talking about in more detail today is a call to carry or walk in the mantle of Elijah, as he walked this anointing, this way of life, this relationship with God, that and all of those characteristics that surround that, and I say this, I believe this is part of it, that the discernment of his Sokar. So when I say this, remember this, this is a car in his sons were very prophetic in nature. They walked deeply in a wisdom and revelation level where they knew what Israel ought to do various times. This is very prophetic in nature, and so is the mantle of Elijah. So you could say that the fifth mantle is very much of a prophetic colored. I'm sorry, the fifth pillar is a very prophetic colored pillar, if you will. The first pillar is a very apostolic colored pillow. Pillar, pillow. Pillar. Yeah. Reminds me of a good bit Bible joke, I'll tell you sometime. So what do I mean by this? Remember, the apostles, when they said, We must give ourselves to the Word of God in prayer, they sought to delegate many administrative tasks to administrators, we recognize that there are administrators and people in the church who are needed with administrative skills, we recognize that we're just saying that we believe that heavily our calling is heavily into this pillar one. That's why it's the first pillar. And it's very apostolic in nature. And pillar five is very prophetic in nature. But all of these have you noticed how all of them are dovetailing into each other? It's really cool. But it also makes teaching them a little hard, because you're like, Well, how much do I say when I'm in this pillar, versus when I get into the full blown pillar teaching on it. The sixth one, which dovetails right into pillar five, is a call to raise up spiritual leaders. Now, this is a natural outcome, I should say, a supernatural outcome also, of this mantle of Elijah is raising up spiritual leaders. Now, when we say spiritual leaders, we don't necessarily mean what some some in the church community mean, we don't just mean people who receive their salary from a local church. You see what I'm saying? In other words, some people hear clergy when we say that, when we talk about spiritual leaders, we're talking about first of all, leadership is influence. We're talking about people who influence out of their relationship with God. So if we were saying, if we said, well, we're raising up organizational leaders, a lot of people think that's what you mean, when you say leaders, they think, oh, people to hold positions or people to hold titles. Yes and no. In other words, we're raising up Simeon and Anna's who are for runners, but they didn't have a title. They were just walking with God and in the temple and totally into it. And they influence their world and our world today, through their walk with God raising up spiritual leaders. What I mean is they were influencing out of their intimacy with God. So when this Messiah shows up, they recognized him just like that. They recognize the move of God. There are many people like this, and no matter what their title is, what their position is, where they get their salary from, whether the world or the Church calls them clergy or laity We don't really draw those lines like a lot of people do. We see that they influence out of the resources, of their intimacy and walk with God. The cool thing about this is anyone can do it. And we find people who end out influencing the kingdom of God, more than the Levites more than some pastors more than some people in fivefold ministry, like Simeon and Anna, not because of a gift or a title or a position, but because of their walk with God. So when we talk about spiritual leaders, spiritual leadership, yes, pastors are included in that, but not exclusively, we're really talking about people who are influencing out of that deep walk and knowledge of God, that relational knowledge of God. And the seventh pillar is a call to the nation's there are some churches who specifically feel strong call to a local community, there are some ministries who say, Well, we're called to more communities, but we feel a special call to counseling or a special call to family or a special call to parenting, you know, different areas of the kingdom of God. We, since our call is is in these other six pillars, to the nations. Now I'm pretty confident in saying that the people who sit in this room and the people who I've known who've done ministry with us that are on the video teleconference right now, what if, if I went to, if I went to all you guys and said, Yeah, I was in prayer last night, I feel like God just called us to this neighborhood right here across the street. And that's it. We wouldn't have anybody here two weeks from now. It's like, because everybody among us has this written in our spiritual DNA and calling to the nation's This is our call, much more so than just the neighborhood we live in our call is primarily we believe, to the nation's and we saw this, even in the early days, when the cornerstones of the foundation of this spiritual family were being laid it we knew that we saw that we discussed that and it was very real. Wow, it's exciting, and I love it well, so let's go to pillar five. Pillar five is this call to carry or walk in the mantle of Elijah, the discernment of is Sokar, also part of it. And we mentioned the concept of the mantle of Elijah and spiritual fathers. And pillar three, y'all remember this, when we explored New Testament community, and a culture, excuse me, a culture of spiritual family. Then as I mentioned, while ago, it came up again, in pillar four, when we discussed the followership of Elijah, so we couldn't talk about that followership, without that mantle, we had to discuss it, we could not teach these topics without a knowledge of these things. Now, we're going to go a lot deeper into our exploration of the meaning and application of the mantle of Elijah. Now, I took a few excerpts of this from a couple of other teachings I have, and then kind of put some flesh on it and expanded it. So not all of this information will be new to you if you've heard some of these teachings in the past, but there will be some things that will be fresh that that either will refresh your memory or that you have not maybe considered the mantle of Elijah, of course has its own pillar. There are several key elements of this mantle and I want to just briefly list them out or, or tell you becoming spiritual fathers and mothers, I believe is one of the main qualities of this spiritual mantle. Most people when you talk about the mantle, or the spirit, what's also called the spirit of Elijah, most people thought I think you're talking about okay, you're a prophet, okay, you're becoming a prophet. Well, yes, he was a prophet, and he had a prophetic nature about his ministry. But I believe what became wasn't the wasn't the case in the first half of his life. But in the second half, what what came to fruition was that his call to spiritual fatherhood was perhaps bigger than his call as a prophet. And it manifested this way, so much so that Jesus even repeats it in so many words. And we'll look at that, hopefully today. So the second one is becoming a spiritual father and mother means this is number two. We raise up spiritual fathers and mothers. How many of you know God made us to reproduce after like kind? Right. That's why most of you your kids look like you right? You reproduce after like kind. There is a there is a reprint, there is a certain fingerprint, or imprint of what we are and do that multiplies to the next generation and That's true spiritually also. And then the third one is what we call generational transfer. Now that I'm kind of excited about this, because when we first started talking about and teaching about generational transfer seven years ago, this year, you didn't hear it anywhere, did you? You never, I didn't hear anybody talking about it. Now, remarkably, there's a lot of people talking about generational transfer, specifically using those two words. Now, that doesn't mean that they heard it from us, or they heard it from somebody from somebody from somebody who heard it from us. That might be but what it does mean is that it's a theme of the Holy Spirit that He's emphasizing to his church, regardless of how it got out there. That's really cool, because we were kind of on the front leading leading edge of that, and I liked that. And then the fourth one, is walking into great commandments. Now we've mentioned this, a lot of times, we talked about it some yesterday in the School of spiritual leadership. But you know, you guys know the difference between a ministry with executives and a ministry with spiritual fathers and spiritual mothers, is there's a different kind of love relationship happening. And you taught yesterday, Tyler, about the family business about the Kingdom of God as family business. And that's one of the key contrasts of the family business in the kingdom, is that we are not hirelings we are sons. And when we live as spiritual fathers and mothers in the kingdom, we love as spiritual fathers and mothers. And executives don't reproduce spiritual fathers, spiritual fathers reproduce spiritual fathers. So this is so critical to who we are and what we do. The next one is walking in this supernatural, this divine wisdom, not just earthly wisdom, we like we like good practical wisdom, but walking in divine or supernatural wisdom, and Revelation. Now, Elijah did this. And it's really cool because the sons of the prophets that he was training and imparting into also did it. You guys remember, when Elijah was going to be taken up? Remember what happened? The sons of the Prophet came to Elijah, Elijah. And they're like, Hey, did you know that Elijah is going to be taken up today, and he's like, be quiet. You know, he already knew it. They already knew it. They knew the timing of God, they knew the timing of heaven, they knew what was going on spiritually, in the spiritual landscape of the nation they lived in. That's really cool. And that's part of our calling, as what I believe are like sons of his car, or the tribe of his car, is to be people who know the times and the seasons, we have a discernment into the spiritual landscape. And we've had some powerful words come forth about this, Lucy just shared one, I'm thinking back at New Year's Eve, I think it was that really, the imagery of that got my attention. It was really powerful. Imagery. This is our calling. This is not just the calling of like, who you consider like a leader or a whatever, leader don't do that. Because this is not something where, okay, yeah, there's like five people called him. That's not how it is, we're called to live in this spiritual awareness, like the sons of his car, like the tribe of if it's a car, and to understand, by this supernatural wisdom and revelation and understanding, walking close with the Lord, there is an awareness of spiritual awareness of the times and where we are, and what's going on, and what we should do. And we'll get into that. So that kind of introduces a few these are, I will please, these are not exhaustive. This is not like a total list of all the qualities of what I believe are the mantle of Elijah, I'm just trying to highlight some of the key areas, so that we don't end out teaching on one pillar for six months. So the definition of the mantle, let's spend some time and explore this and define what is the mantle of Elijah. It's Elijah, as I believe it's, it's the anointing of God upon his life, which includes his lifestyle. It includes how he lived, his activity, his ministry, it's characterized by several different things. So this mantle, let me say, first, this mantle, it was a prophetic mantle, like we mentioned, because he was a prophet prophet. So he had prophetic insight. He had prophetic revelation. He had prophetic wisdom, which is far beyond the wisdom of the world. That does doesn't mean everyone is a prophet. We're not saying that. But we're saying that this general way of living and being influenced in relationship with the Holy Spirit of Jesus is this way does that make sense to you? Spiritual fatherhood, he was identified by Elijah as his spiritual father. And which means he carried that Father's love, it means that he carried that father's commitment. This is both lifestyle, and its actions and its heart, but its lifestyle in those great commandments, like we mentioned before. Then the next one is multiplication and fruitfulness also characterizes the mantle of Elijah. So we say this healthy spiritual fathers and mothers reproduce, and they bear fruit in the kingdom. Now, by its very definition, father and mother means fruitful. You guys track that, right? I think everybody gets that, by the definition by just a very definition, that you are a father or that you are mother. By the way, we're not equating fathers and mothers, fathers and mothers are different. We're not saying mothers are like fathers and fathers are like mothers, we understand they're different. But we want to include both. And you'll see why as we unpack this. So by by the very definition of being a father or being a mother, fruitfulness is ingrained in that definition. Whether you have children naturally, whether you have children by adoption, whether you have children spiritually, there is a fruitfulness in that relationship. That is present. The next one I mentioned generational transfer, Malikai described him as one who turns the hearts of fathers to the children and children to the fathers. There was a lot of discussion about this yesterday at the School of spiritual leadership. So we see that general generational transfer, that is an impartation of the relationship with God, from one generation to the next, is part of this mantle. But we realize that the impartation of faith does not happen just because you know, someone, this is why Malla chi prophesize hearts turn to one another. So when hearts connect, things get imparted, make sense. So when the hearts of fathers get close to their children, and the hearts of children get close to their hearts of their fathers, there's an impartation that starts to happen. There's a transfer that happens. One of the reasons why the faith is not being transferred into the next generation right now is not because of a godless culture. It's because hearts are too distant from one another. We've become busy, we've got life is so busy. And then we've got the challenges of the culture and the challenges the culture have, you noticed that the culture doesn't just try to re educate your children, the culture tries to split them off from you and give them a different peer group. Right? God's first peer group that he created for for people is the family. That's the number one peer group that God developed. In other words, the center of gravity of influence, for transfer of relationship with God, first is the family. And the values of God is the family. So that's the first target of the enemy is to redefine family, what it means to destroy families, to say the enemy knows if he redefines what family means, then it's really not God's what God's definition of family is. And it doesn't matter, our society has come to believe that if you say something that makes it true in your head, and that makes it true. Well, it does make it true in your head. But it doesn't make it true. It might be true in your head that you can defy gravity. But if you jump off of a tall building without a parachute, you're gonna go splat when you hit the ground, it doesn't matter how much you believe that gravity doesn't. So truth is not nearly as relative as our society has come to tell us. And so the enemy tries to come in and change the definition of truth about family about father, about mother about kids about, about values, about God's values, all these things. This is why the family right now is being bombarded because we're in a spiritual war. You see what I'm saying? And so in this spiritual war, the enemy knows that it's not just the values that oppose God that are your greatest danger. It's hearts becoming distant from one another. And I don't just mean getting together for dinner. Okay, you can, you can get together with people and not know them that well you guys know we talked much on this, you can be in the same room with people and still not have a heart connection relationship, a deep heart connection this is so important is to cultivate this melded heart relationships with the people in our physical families. And in our spiritual family. This is so important. Because what happens is the enemy will come along whenever he tries to pull you out of the ways of the king. And what he will do is he'll try to divide you from your family. And he'll try to make them the enemy. And some of us have talked much about this, he'll, he'll come along and say, well, they're the enemy. See, they're against you see, they're against your belief. See, they don't want you to do this. See, they don't want, you know, and he names all these things, because that's what the enemy does. But God's like, wait a minute, you need to see, hold on. These are not your enemies. You see what I'm saying? Satan is the enemy of our souls. Right? We understand that in the Christian faith. This is been truth that we have understood for over 2000 years that he is the enemy of our souls. And so he comes as the enemy. But then he tries to create division man, we see this happening in in society a lot right now. People are trying, they're trying to divide people against one another people, and behind it are spiritual forces, not earthly forces. Remember, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. They're mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Our weapons are not in the natural, they're in the spiritual, because the war we're fighting, ultimately, is not what some call a culture war, a family war, values war, or this, ultimately, we are in the spiritual war that's been going on on this earth for a very long time. Right? The good news is we know who's going to win. And if the challenge is, it's like Pilgrims Progress, the book, Pilgrims Progress. Man, the enemy is always trying to pull people off the pathway to the celestial city. That is a timeless truth, since the beginning of humankind, that's been from the beginning. So we are in this war. generational transfer is extremely important. I think everybody here probably agrees with that, or most of you, definition of the discernment of this car, I mentioned this wisdom and revelation that comes from intimacy with God. This is if if, if the, if the prayer and the Word being continually in the prayer and the Word was not a pillar, in our spiritual kind of our marker in our spiritual DNA and a calling part of our the warp and woof of who we are, if it wasn't part of that, we would be lacking the necessary intimacy, to walk this way, and to have the discernment and the wisdom and the revelation. This all goes back to what we talked about yesterday in the school. And that is the epicenter of this relationship with God being an epicenter. But the cool part is, is that when you do God's, you can't get close to the Lord, without life coming upon you, you more and more life. And Jesus tells us this in so many words, he's, he's okay. The presence of God produces life. He can produce life out of anything. That's why Jesus says, If you don't worship me, you don't understand the Earth, the stones themselves will cry out. Like, the stones can come to life if they come near the president like gods. I'm not trying to create a new theology, please don't miss hear what I'm saying. What I'm saying is, is that when God God's presence, he's the one who created all life. Life comes from God. And when you get close to God, life happens like war, it just things come alive. And there are parts of our hearts and parts of our lives in areas of our lives that maybe had been dead, or maybe they've been asleep, or maybe they've been whatever, but not fully alive. And when we come into that relational presence, all these areas at heart of a heart start getting resurrected. And we've talked much about this all these Caterpillar start transforming and they start these areas of our life. They're like caterpillars, we're still on the terrestrial level, and they're still crawling on the ground. And God doesn't let my presence get involved in that. And before you know it, the cocooning process starts and you're like, Lord, what's happening here, next thing you know, a butterfly is being born, and there's a transformation of these different areas of our life. If the enemy has his way, he'll turn your whole life into worms and caterpillars crawling about living life, according to the terrestrial rules of this age, rather than the celestial rules and powers of the earth. Ah to come. And God's called us to live the butterfly life's figuratively, metaphorically, this would to be people who are celestial in nature. But this only happens as we come into this ongoing, robust closeness with the Lord. And when we do, the light comes on the lights get brighter, we see what we did not see before, we understand what we did not understand before we discern what we did not discern before. So that's what we mean when we define this discernment of his Sokar and how it's connected into the mantle of Elijah. So like I mentioned, we learned from Malikai, for that part of the meaning of the mantle of Elijah is that of spiritual fathering, specifically, when Elijah was being taken up into heaven. Elijah did something abnormal in his time. He cried out to Elijah, you guys, we've talked about this. And he says in Second Kings to 12, my father, my father. And then he goes on to say what he's going to say. Now, this was not normal. We don't see this terminology among the prophets. This is just not normal. You can go do a search. I searched the scriptures, I got Mulago software out and I searched and I searched, trying to find places where prophets called prophets father, or where anybody calls prophets, father, and it's hard to find it's not common in the Old Testament. And this was unique because he called him my father, my father. And amazingly, this happens again, when Elijah is being taken up and the king of Israel, King Joash, cried out the same exact words. And he says, My father, my father, again, giving us a glimpse of what their relationship was, it wasn't common for the king, to call a prophet, my father, y'all tracking on that. There's a spiritual father relationship. Both men were spiritual fathers to the next generation. The Elijah Elisha relationship or model illustrates the spiritual fathering relationship Elijah had with Elijah and Elijah had with King Joash. So Malikai prophesized that the Lord will send this mantle of Elijah, in the final generations, right? He says, in the final in the last jet in the final generations, the Lord's going to sin, Elijah, I'm paraphrasing, because I'm not reading the Scripture right now, to turn the hearts of fathers to children, children to the fathers. And this is the core, this this this prophetic mantle of spiritual fathering, this is core to generational transfer. But you guys know, Jesus prophesied the mantle of Elijah returning to the earth. And likewise, Jesus prophesized this. And some, some believe that when he prophesize, it's actually Elijah, like I have, I have had many friends over the years, who actually believe that Elijah is going to physically come back to the earth. Perhaps some of you believe that there are people who will listen to this teaching on the teaching library who believe that because it's a common belief in many circles, because of what Jesus said here, and I'll read the passage in a minute. But you but to believe this, you also have to believe that John the Baptist was Elijah. Because of the way Jesus lays it out. So I believe from the words of Jesus, what we understand from Jesus words, in Matthew 17, is that Jesus was not talking and Malikai was not talking about a physical man coming back. Now, if he does, he does, that's great. But I don't think Jesus was talking about a physical man. Because if he was, well, let me let me read the Scripture. And then I'll make the point. Matthew 1711, Jesus answered, He said to them, indeed, Elijah is coming first, and He will restore all things. Okay, that's where they get it. Sounds pretty cut and clear, doesn't it? Then he says, But I say to you, that Elijah has come already. And they did not know him, but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise, the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands. Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them, of John the Baptist. So Jesus says Elijah has already come, John the Baptist, they understood that that in the scriptures are very clear. Then Jesus says, oh, Oh, and by the way, Elijah is coming again. So one of two things, either Jesus believes in reincarnation, that Elijah is just keeps coming back and other people's identities and bodies, which we don't believe no one in the church believes that, that I know, I don't know anybody in the church who believes that. Or he's talking about a mantle, a calling, an anointing, something more than just a physical coming back. So I just lay this out to you to consider. That's where we kind of get that and see that because of the words of Jesus clarifying this for us. Because we don't believe that John the Baptist was physically Elijah, we believe that he carried that mantle that call a primary key to the mantle of Elijah is walking in that extraordinary intimacy that we talked about. And I just wanted to make mention of this. And with the people he has called us to, so the nature of being a spiritual father or mother, is that you are connected relationally. Like you said, Tyler, when you were teaching on the family business yesterday, it's more than a business relationship. It's a personal relationship. It's different. It's different working for your dad than it is working for some guy you never met till three weeks ago. Because you know, if you don't like the job after the first day or two, you just quit and say, See, you have a good life. You know, and that's it. You never see him again. That doesn't work that way in the family business. So the point is, that there's both intimacy with God and there's intimacy, relationship closeness, with the people both going on here. Does that remind you of any commandments? It's the two great commandments, right? It's the great commandment of what Jesus says the first great commandment, to love God with all heart, soul, mind and strength. That's the love relationship with God, the closeness, the remote robustness. But we don't stop at the first great commandment. You cannot live the first great commandment, it's impossible to live the first great commandment and not live the second one. Because the first great commandment, the very powers that are in it will make it impossible. Because when we live in that closeness with God, like we talked about yesterday, love is filling us up the love of God, we're in his presence, the goodness of God, the forgiveness of God, the grace of God, the beauty of God, the giving nature of God, you just walk of God ness of God, and pretty soon I'm so overloaded. I'm like, Whoa, man, I gotta love somebody help me, Lord. Let me just love the people. Let me forget, I'm just looking at who can I forgive? You remember, David was like this. David became king. And he remembered. I had a covenant with Jonathan, I love him. He was my friend. Jonathan was my friend. You think about this, and he loved Jonathan. He was a good friend, and just the goodness of God and His love. And it's like, now remember, the house of Saul was his enemy, even though Jonathan was his friend? And David says, Is there anyone left in the house of Saul? Is there just one person left? And there was Mephibosheth, who had been crippled he was the only one spared because he'd been crippled elder the dude killed him. Um, dudes killed all these other guys. And he was the only one left and David didn't say, Okay, go down down there and give him a year's worth of gold. So he'll be able to live. He didn't do that. What'd he do? He said sin for him for the rest of his life. He was sitting at my table. He was sit at the Kings table the rest of his life. You're talking about a house of Saul, everybody but one man hated him. Everybody but one man was an enemy to him. Everybody but one man wanted to kill him. And the goodness of God David's closeness to the Lord. The great commandment was so much in him that he was just like, What? Is there anyone in Saul's house that I can bless. And for the rest of us fibia ships life, he sat at the king of that crippled man sat at the king's table. He ate the king's food. He had the king's honor, and he received the king's provision for the rest of his life. This is what the great command this is what God does to us in the great commandments not the commandment itself doesn't do it. You understand that? It's coming into His presence, and the love of God overtakes us. And we love what is good and we hate what is evil because we know evil kills and hurts people and the Love for people overwhelms us and ushers us into the great command or the Second Great Commandment. I like to say it this way, this way is kind of like, the first great commandment brings the power to use this illustration it is, you know, when you come into God like this and this kind of relationship, it's a, it is a nuclear power generation plant. It's like, you're gonna have so much electricity, you're gonna have so much energy, you're gonna have so much power, and I'm talking about just the literally the fuel for life. And everything about it is so much that it that generation is just like a generation plant. But the people that power reaches like through the power lines, and blesses the people, and blesses the people and blesses the people, and pours it out, like we see, what does this have to do with the mantle of Elijah, the intimacy of Elijah is with God. And it's with those spiritual sons and daughters, if you will, the spiritual sons who, who are following him and seeking Him. Remember, in the fourth pillar, when we talk about the followership of Alicia, remember that, because those people are the ones you pour your life into. We've said this many times, we pour our lives into them, and we pour into them, and we pour into them. And we will do it for the Forever not just the rest of this earthly life, but we will do it forever. Because these, this is God's way. This is who he is, this is how he is. So these qualities are supernatural, and they're eternal. And they've been around for a very long time. Whoa, do you love this? Man I do. I just God, ah, bring us into more and more of this, so that our hearts are full and overflowing. I'm telling you, you have so much to give. You have so much to give, there are so many people who need what God is depositing into your life, and what God wants to deposit in your life. And so my desires, Lord, how can we help everyone come into that outflow that outpouring, you know, and receive, so that we can go out and walk in the fullness of God's identity for who he's called us to be His calling for who he's called us to be. So when we teach and minister on the mantle of Elijah, by the way, this is something that I think we'll be teaching on. This is something I think I'll be teaching on to many nations, and many people as the Lord wills for the rest of my life to the very end, and which is really the beginning. And then we'll probably be talking about it on the other side, too, because there's a lot to do on the other side as well, to prepare. But I believe this is key to preparing the way of the Lord, to return to the earth, because Jesus Christ is going to invade the earth. And Christians have no problem believing that but there's a whole lot of unbelievers when you say that they think you're crazy. I'm telling you, heaven is going to invade the earth. There is a there is an operation in the heavens right now. Somebody said, Do you believe in aliens? And I said, Yes, I believe in aliens, angels and, and saints of God and the people of God and the beasts around the throne and a whole lot of other things we don't know about. So in that respect, not human. But my point is that there is an alien invasion coming. Right? We're talking about the Son of the living God, the King of all kings. He said, I will return in the same way I left I will return. And I promise you this, and you don't need my promise, but I'm just saying it because God says it. He is returning. He is going to return this earth belongs to him. The kingdoms of this world belong to Him. All these things belong to Him. Jesus is King. Amen. Thank you for joining us today. Aaron ova is raising up spiritual leaders in many nations through our spiritual enrichment events, syndicated net cast international prayer Council network, and numerous international seminary scholarships. 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