The Seven Pillars (Part 21)-Pillar 5-Mantle Of Elijah.Living The Legacy - 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. 

​This final installment of the teaching on the fifth pillar, walking in the mantle of Elijah, emphasizes the bullseye lifestyle of living in the legacy paradigm versus the success paradigm. 

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​All right, well, we are finishing up today on this portion of the mantle of Elijah, the legacy paradigm that we're talking about. And I pray, we probably could have finished up last week. But I really wanted to hear from Marina and from Beth and what the Lord was speaking to them about Ruth, that was very powerful. And since then I've gone and dived in more, we could have had several weeks of that, actually, because it's so powerful. And so we'll finish up I'm going to, there's a little bit here that I think you're going to notice as review. But it's important for us to to really do more than just douse ourselves with it, but really be saturated with what God is going to say to us. So I'm going to read another portion of First Kings 19. And if you have your Bible or if you want to walk along with us, it's in I believe, we're going to start in verse 15. I'm reading from the New King James. Then the Lord said to him, this is God speaking to Elijah. In the cave. He said, Go return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, anoint Hazel as king over Syria. Also you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nim, she has king over Israel. And Elijah, the son of shea fat have a bell Mahala, you shall anoint as Prophet in your place. So three people, it shall be the whoever escapes the sort of hazy al Jaya who will kill and whoever escapes the sort of jet who Elijah will kill. Yet I have reserved 7000 in Israel, although all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him. So he departed from there and found a Aleisha, the son of che fat, who was plowing with 12, yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the 12. Then Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him. And this was the beginning of the new phase of Elijah's life. And, and I believe this was really the substance, the core, I believe everything leading up to this was not so much his ministry as the introduction to his ministry. Because the part of Elijah's life that has had the most impact on the kingdom of God is from this day in the cave forward when he encountered God in that place. And the Lord took him and began a transformation from a man who might have been maybe too focused, but definitely focused on his success as a prophet. In other words, he was focused on his call, I don't want to be overly critical. He was trying to be faithful in his calling. There are many of God's people who are trying to be faithful in their calling in the Lord saying, let me help you out here. I'll help you with your faithfulness here. And let's shift away we see this the way we think the way we live the way we operate, and you're gonna be a new man or a new woman when it happens. And so, God used Elijah to anoint a foreign ruler, a domestic ruler, and a prophetic leader, three people. And again, we see this divine mantle on his life is irrespective of the normal human boundaries of one's profession. So he's not, it's not about Elijah just mentoring Alicia as a prophet because he knew how to be a prophet. Elisha did not know how to be a king, right? And yet God told him to anoint two kings, right one over the Assyrian king and one over the Israeli King. It's not that he knew how to be a king. That wasn't about his skill set impartation as much as it was an impartation of a mantle, which is more supernatural than natural. We'll talk about that in a few minutes. I pray that we get this because if we walk away from this pillar, and we're thinking about this paradigm, and we think it's all about the mechanisms of legacy, rather than the mantle of legacy, then we'll be stuck trying to do the stuff within the natural without experience. Seeing the supernatural as much Elijah, he could have never had this kind of influence, operating out of a success success paradigm. But since he had transitioned into the legacy paradigm, the righteous effects an influence of God's anointing on his life was multiplied into other leaders and other nations. And we have said this at nauseam, but I'll tell you repetition lends itself to learning. So we'll keep saying it, that the last two verses in the Old Testament prophesy of this return of of the mantle of Elijah, and it returns on John the Baptist. And Jesus makes it very clear, he is very clear, this is not even implied. This is explicit in the words of Jesus in the gospels. And then he says, also this same mantel, a Elijah is coming again. He says, John the Baptist is Elijah. And Elijah is coming again. We've said this many times. Either Jesus is teaching reincarnation, or he's not talking about the actual man, Elijah, he's talking about mantle Elijah. And of course, we believe that we don't believe in reincarnation, we understand that John the Baptist was not a Elijah reincarnated. And we understand that there's not going to be a reincarnated Elijah that comes now there. Let me just caveat this, there are some people who say that Elijah will come back to the earth as Elijah, because Elijah never died, he was caught up. You know, I, that might be I'm not gonna say God couldn't do it, God can do what he wants. But I do believe that there's a greater message here the words of Jesus that we're not reading today that we read before, that there is a mantle that God is placing on people who will walk as John the Baptist walk with this mantle on them. And predominantly, it's characterized in his life by one who calls the fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers in the relational heart connection, anointing that it requires for generational transfer to occur so that future generations can receive the impartation of past generations, so that every generation in God becomes greater. See what I mean? It's not that we're better than our parents, our forefathers, or anybody before us, who's walked with God, but it is that we have been given more than they were given. Do you see that every generation is given more than the previous in that there are more people with history and God more is being revealed, more is being unveiled theologians call it progressive revelation, progressive revelation is revelation in the kingdom of God, that continues to increase through each generation. When we are faithful as a generation to carry this mantle of Elijah, we will faithfully prepare the next generations. And we can't just do that by teaching in the natural, there has to be actual presence of God relationship, and voluminous relationship with Him, so that they can't avoid him. He's all over it. He's all over the place. He's interacting. He's moving, you can feel him, you could see the move of God. He's touching people. And he's bringing greater revelation, greater wisdom, greater encounter with him than any other generation. And I believe that's our calling in this hour. This mantle of Elijah there, it's so significant, because what he what God began to do from the cave forward, is still happening right here in this room today. Wow. The prophets of Baylor long gone, the encounters and those fights in Israel. You know, I'm not saying there aren't any spiritual warfare. But what I'm saying is, is that those battles are gone. That early part of his ministry, it accomplished the work of God. But what happened after the cave is still happening. It has produced a domino effect through history. And this anointing of Elijah keeps on lighting upon someone else, and then someone else and then it gets preyed upon someone else. When it's on my life. It did not just come to me randomly, it came because people prayed it into my life, and taught it and invested it into my life. And I'm a product of those investments and those people so that I could take what they've given me and be more faithful even than I was in the past and likewise with the next generation. Here, we begin seeing the legacy nature I have the mantle of Elijah. And at this point in his life, God is multiplying the anointing that's on Elijah's life. You'll see this here in a minute, because it's supernatural, spiritual leadership, spiritual fathering generational transfer. They're all irrespective of the professions of the positions in the natural realm. The good news is you don't have to be a king, to impart a mantle to a king. Right? Elijah was not a king, yet he imparted a mantle. You don't have to be a business owner, to impart the mantle of Elijah on a business owner. You don't have to be a pastor, to impart this same thing. If you have it, you can give it if you don't have it, you can't give it. And so we're praying that we will walk in this in the fifth pillar of the Friends of Jesus, that we will be people who receive this mantle of Elijah and walk in it as described in Malikai, as described in the Gospels. And then I believe we see manifest in the final days according to the Gospels, and and Malikai. So these are heavily influenced by divine calling divine relationship. So this is the thing that characterized Elijah so strongly was his closeness with God. He, there was a close walk with the Father with God Most High. There was this there was this closeness, this intimacy that brought him into the influence of God. Now we know we're talking about relational closeness, right? We've been through this many times, many, many times. We're not talking about God's physical closeness or his and omnipresence, but his relational closeness. And this closeness that Elijah walked in, he became a catalyst for what happens to people when they get into close proximity, what I like to call the danger zone of intimacy with God, because God is God. People say Danger Zone, you're talking about the creator of the universe, the the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. We're talking about the almighty here. The one that scripture says, from whom flit Heaven and Earth fled away. And so we're talking about getting close to him. And that's pretty intense, in every respect. So this legacy of generational transfer, and impartation in his life, his life, get this is much bigger than King Hazel, and King Jeju and Prophet Elijah. When Elijah encountered God in the cave, and God called him to pray, and in part to these three, his impartation became larger than three men. Now, guys, this is the critical poor part of this section here. And I want to say that there is a I want to say there's a supernatural component to this. But that would be incorrect. So what I want to say is, is that when you're when you're operating in the natural, there's also a supernatural component. That's the way I want to say it. But then I realize, I can't say it that way. Because that's not quite correct. The mantle itself is supernatural. It's not a component. The core of the mantle of Elijah is not us formulating a program of how we start and party and have a legacy paradigm have a legacy paradigm in our culture legacy paradigm in our in our outreach and a legacy paradigm, even those those things are important. I hope you see what I'm saying is that the the mantle itself is supernatural in its core. It has a component that's in the natural, but the the mantle of Elijah itself. What we're saying is don't get caught up in the methodology first, for we want to see, in essence, this mantle of Elijah is supernatural, but has a natural component. And so when Elijah obey God to anoint these three men, by the way, in the natural, he's not. He didn't say when he said anoint Him He didn't mean say a prayer from a distance. It's kind of like when Jesse when when Samuel went to Jesse's house and says, I'm here to anoint one of your sons as king. He didn't do it from a distance. It wasn't like a text. Now I know that didn't have cell phones, but it wasn't like Janet Samuel going, Hey, Jessie, I'm gonna send you a message. He didn't send a messenger or a text going. Yeah, hey, by the way, one of your sons is going to be king. I'll pray and annoying him right here. No, he went to his house. And he looked at each son until the right one stood before him. And then he poured the oil on him. That's a natural act. Whenever Elijah called Elijah, when he anointed the Kings, he did it in the natural. Are you with me? When we come, we were going to do a baby dedication. We're going to do that soon, by the way. But when we do that, we actually lay hands on the children. We want to say, Okay, Lord, I just want to say, these kids are dedicated. No, we lay hands on the children. And we take time physically and spiritually, to dedicate and set apart these children to the Lord. Right, it's in the natural, but when we do it in the natural, as active, obedient, it's it's activating something, the actual mantle, like in this case, this mantle, it's activating it so that it goes to work. Now you say, Rod, why are you bringing this up? Because something supernatural happened when he anointed these three men. So we see that we already observed that all the places in Scripture that describe sons of the prophets, quote, sons of the prophets, unquote, occur in Elijah, and Elijah has lives and ministries. Now you if you could find it somewhere else, let me know. But I did a search a thorough search to the Old Testament. And the only places I could find the sons of the prophets were in Elijah's ministry, and the lysis timeframe in their life, their lifespans, I couldn't find it anywhere else. And I have some scriptures in the notes I can give those to you. They're in First Kings and Second Kings. A relationship of spiritual sonship is described, because Elijah and Elijah related to these prophets as spiritual fathers. So sons of the prophets, they are called schools of the prophets in Samuels time. But they were not mentioned in Elijah's day until he encountered God in the cave. Now that's a big, we could say amen. But for me, that's a big wow. When I saw that. And then he began to live in walk as a spiritual father imparting to the next generation. You see him what's happening here. In fact, they they had not been mentioned since the days of Samuel. And when they were mentioned in the days of Samuel, they're called schools of prophets. So we see that Samuel was there was an impartation. There. This is not just about starting a school, right? This is about what supernaturally happened when Elijah obeyed God and anointed three men, because he made a transition to this mantle of Elijah legacy paradigm. And when he anointed those three men, schools, I mean, sons of the prophets, which were schools, but sons of the prophets start springing up. And we read a scripture a couple of weeks ago, where Elijah was actually sitting before the sons of the prophets. So we know that a relationship, and they call him my father, in similar ways. It's interesting, because have you ever had God call you to do something? And it was real simple, go do you know, like, like his go anoint three guys. A lot of times, God won't say, Go and only three guys, and then start a school, the prophets here and then start a school, the prophets there and then start, you know, and then call them your sons. And then there'll be something called a mantle of Elijah. Have you noticed how many times God will give simple acts of obedience in the natural, and then when we do it, and this is what he's doing? He is releasing the mantle of Elijah. And remember, it's not natural, It's Supernatural. And then it takes hold in the hearts of these people, these men and Sons of the Prophet start coming out of the woodwork. You see what's happening. So what I get us to see is in the spiritual if we could, if we could see the tangibles in the spirit in that day, we would we would see this mantle just pulling up these men and pulling up these families into this mantle. And you see sons of the prophets here and you see sons of the prophets there. And you see sons are prophets. This is why God works. When he pours out something like this mantle of Elijah. It Guys listen. I remember living in Texas. I know you love living in Texas and one of the things they do is they put the Blue Bonnet It's in the medians. You guys know how they do that? You ever seen him put Blue Bonnet seeds in the medians? No one, they have these trucks, and they blow the seeds. Like there's just seeds going in the median. And, and bluebonnets just spring up. Oh, I mean, it's just, it's probably I don't know, it looks like millions, you know, I don't know how many it is, but just hundreds of 1000s of flowers. Many times, this is the way God works with things like this mantle of Elijah, God will say, hey, Nancy, I'm calling you to plant three seeds. Go pray for this guy, go pray for this guy, go pray for this lady. And just, it's real simple, and you go do it. And then there's a there's a release of the anointing that is the presence of God. This is the supernatural anointing and what we're calling the mantle of Elijah. And what you thought was three seeds. There's a divine heavenly blower behind you blowing 1000s of bluebonnet seeds. Tell we're talking about mantle of Elijah, but you see the picture. And you're going, Lord, I planted three bluebonnet seeds, what's going on here, and there's just 1000s of bluebonnets springing up all over the place. Because there there is the supernatural aspect of this thing. So many times, we think the only way it's gonna get done is if we do it in the natural and a lot of things are done more in the spiritual than they are the natural. There's, that's why I wanted to say there's a supernatural component. Because but but that would be wrong. Because primarily, this is a supernatural activity, not a natural activity. It's a supernatural spiritual activity with a natural component. There is a miraculous that works. And when this works, it will listen to us the analogy again, the bluebonnets will spring up in your children, the brew bluebonnets will spring up in your ministry your lives, people you touch, people you don't know because this happened. And that happened. And pretty soon this mental of Elijah is multiplying in power, this legacy paradigm that we're talking about in the in the spiritual is multiplying, but God help us to see, this is primarily a work of God, not our work. It's not primarily something we do, we just do a little bit, and then he does a whole lot. And that's the nature of God. It's kind of like we say about farming, you know, I when we lived out and around farmers for several years, when they take me out, show me what they do us a man is amazing. So you only do about 2% of the work. I said, That's right. I do about 2% of the work and God does arrest all that growing that goes on all the things that are happening, as it's producing the fruit producing the grain, producing the beans, it's God doing most of it. They're just doing a little bit and then wait. And that's the way God works. Whoo. Man, I love this. I love this because God impartation of this mantle of Elijah is not based on how good you are or how I'm not saying don't work hard, please hear me. But it's not your hard work that's going to make it happen. It's your obedience. There's a lot of people out there planting 1000s of seeds. And gods like, Ah, I didn't call you to plant those seeds. I called you to go over here and plant three blue bonus seeds. And you're out planting, you know, whatever kind of flowers you like, but you don't want I mean, we go out and we think by our much doing that we're going to produce the kingdom God builds his kingdom. Amen. But God wants us to be obedient. I love the way Wayne Cordero says it in his book leading on empty. He says God will not and forgive me, I don't have it in front of me. So I'm gonna paraphrase it. But he goes, God is not going to hold you accountable for how much you did in the kingdom. He's gonna hold you accountable for what he called you to do. Right? And we're pretty good at adding on a whole bunch of things. Because it's impressive to the flesh, or the world or the church world. Instead of just going what are the simple things God's called us to do? And in Elijah's case, to really start to walk in this legacy anointing. It began with anointing three people. I understand he did more. But obedience starts with the simple things God told you to do. Love your spouse, love your children. Be faithful in God's house to what he's called you to do the simple things. Amazingly, when you play Aren't those few little seeds, those few little bluebonnets there's a divine heavenly blower behind you blowing 1000s and 1000s and 1000s of seed, because it's the supernatural power of God that will release this mantle in our lives God help us to receive and walk in this divine Elijah mantle this, this way of living in the legacy paradigm is first spiritual wounds. The two paradigms in Elijah's life, I just made some observations, I want to share with you an application, you might want to write a few of them down Elijah's life. And there's a couple of review points here. Elijah's life is the tale of two paradigms. Success paradigm, the legacy paradigm, it's the tale of two ways of living, to say, it's actually two perspectives of both seeing and experiencing the world. But two completely different kinds of motivations. And we talked about this, here a while back, but whenever it's about investing into who God has called you to invest into, you're not so nervous when God says, Okay, it's time to go Minister do this. A lot of people get too nervous about well, you know, are they gonna think are they am I going to be anointed enough? Are they not going to see it and forget about all that. Just walk with the Lord be faithful to Him. And, and I'm not saying don't be prayed up, don't be an anointed, but I'm saying that quit worrying about it. You see what I'm getting at, quit worrying about it, and walk in what God's called you to. And you know, when you're when you're looking out there, and you're loving the people that you're serving, and you're more concerned for them than what they think about you. It's amazing how it will set you free, and you can deliver what God's called you to deliver. This is the legacy paradigm of mantle of Elijah. In life, we can operate out of one or the other. We already defined them, the success paradigm this, this way that Elijah started out, it focuses on how much I can do. Back to us planting all those seeds. Remember, we could be doing all kinds of things for God, that he did not call us to. The success paradigm though, even if he did call you to do it focuses on how much I can do. The legacy paradigm focuses on how much God can do and how much God can do through others, or how much others can do see the difference? Because it's not so much about how much I can do. It's about how much others will be impacted by that how much God can do in them how much they can do. The success paradigm that Elijah experienced at first, before he transitioned, focused on how much I can affect affect? In other words, how if I'm thinking in this, I'm thinking, how much can I affect? How much can I influence we have people in society called influencers? Looking at how much they can influence. So it's looking at how much can I affect a FF AECT affect? The legacy paradigm focuses on how much I can effect. You see the difference? Imagine in this room, that there are 1000 dominoes set up. If I get focused on which dominoes, okay, you know, here we are today, and let's use a kingdom and now I use this as a kingdom analogy. I say, Okay, we got 2000 dominoes in here. I really want to impact everybody today. So I push over this domino and I push over that domino and I push it over that domino, and I say this and I'm doing so what I'm doing is seeing how many dominoes I can turn over. I'm turning over dominoes to see how many dominoes I can turn over. And God says, No, you what you want to know is how many dominoes can be turned over. Not how many dominoes Can you turn over? Do you see the difference? And then God will say and this is what I call the strategic domino theory. Just something I came up with a few years ago. I have noticed in life that you will walk into a circumstance in life that's like a room filled with dominoes. And there are many dominoes that you can turn over and nothing will happen except that one domino will fall over. But in that room, there's three or four dominoes in the 1000s only three or four and you don't know which ones they are. And if you touch that domino, it will start a chain reaction boom. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, and it'll start turning dominoes over to YouTube. And all of a sudden, all these dominoes start falling. I call those the strategic dominoes. And when I found in life we can be in situations in life and the Lord will say, Go anoint this King Go annoyed that King Go annoying that profit. Three strategic dominoes, the Lord knows which dominoes in the room, when you touch he knows the chain reactions they will produce. The difference is it's no longer about how many dominoes rod can turn over. It's about how many dominoes God can turn over. If I will simply obey Him and touch the ones he told me to touch. Simple obedience. So when I say it's not its success paradigm is focused on how much I can affect. And the legacy paradigm is focused on how much I can effect effect means the end results, what what is the effect? What is the what happens as a result of that there's a difference between those two young guys seeing the difference, because the success paradigm is so different than legacy. The first is how much I can personally give firsthand influence. The second is how much I can help others bring about first, second and third order effects. See the difference? Now the flesh doesn't like this. You know, quit worrying about if you pray for somebody, and they had a miracle. We've had some tremendous miracles in our lives, praying for people extraordinary miracles. Did you ever notice a lot of times Jesus would do it not every time but sometimes Jesus would pray for somebody, and they would experience a miracle. He said Now don't tell anybody. Other people he'd say, okay, yeah, go tell people and other people would say don't tell him by there's some Christians, they can't do that. They people in their minds and hearts, people have to know they're the ones that prayed for him. Well, it doesn't matter who prayed for you. For him. What matters is who healed him. Right? When we can get past the recognition part and realize, you have the recognition of heaven when you're faithful. You don't have to worry about what people know, you, you will never be as fulfilled as as the fulfillment you will have. When you receive the recognition of the Father, the recognition of Jesus, there's one person we really want to hear, say well done more than anybody else. And that's Jesus, those words well done, good and faithful servant. That's what we want to hear more than anything else. But we have to get past this. And I'm not saying you guys are this way. But this is something that we need to this is a message God's called us to carry. So I'm my endeavor here with you, is to not preach at you because I know I'm preaching to the choir, but to share this so that we are sharing this message with others, that it's not about how much I can firsthand influence. It's really about me being obedient so that others can can rise to the call of God and God will influence it, and they will influence it. And I had a small part in it. Right? It's, that's good. Everybody has a small part in it. And even the guys that think they have a big part in it have a small part. Now, I'm not be literally any part. But my point is this. There are millions, if not billions, in the kingdom of God. And we all have a part in that kingdom. And God says every single one of you is special to me. Every single one of us is significant to God. And the world is teaching us that we need fame. We need fortune, we need recognition, we need this, we need that we need acceptance we need. That's why there's so many people struggling, especially young people on social media, when people don't accept them. Quit worrying about that. What matters is what does God say? What is what is the hit? What does God say in the heavens? What is the Kingdom of Gods values? And what do the people in the heavenlies and the people of God's saying? You guys see in the difference? You remember this? If success is the whole target legacies, the bullseye? If you aim for success, you may not achieve legacy. If you aim for the outer ring, you may not hit the bullseye. But if you aim for the bullseye, you're probably gonna hit the whole target. Man, that's good. The legacy paradigm is crowdsourcing by impartation. Now, it's not random crowdsourcing. It's a kingdom crowdsourcing, where we share Have you guys ever thought about this? Have you ever shared something God showed you? And you've never heard it anywhere? You never heard it in a book. You never heard it from a teacher. You never heard it anywhere. You just share it and next thing you know About a year or two later, you hear it all over the place. Is that ever happened to you? Many times, sometimes you're hearing the Holy Spirit saying the same thing you saying someone else. And sometimes you were the first one in your generation to hear it, and you shared it, and you didn't care whether or not they quoted you or not, and it got shared around the body of Christ. Now tell you, when we started, years ago, talking about generational transfer, and I can't remember what year it was, but I want to tell you, I never heard those words out of the mouths of anybody in Christian dome. And I read a lot of books, and I knew a lot of people now I'm not saying we came up with it, we didn't, God came up with it. But there are many things that God will show you, you share it, if you don't care about who gets the credit, it'll float. But if you hide it, and I've known some people to Oh, no, I don't want to share that, because I'm gonna write a book about it. And I want to do to get have to be the first one. And they'll quote me and all that. I'm serious. I know people that do that, or have known them not now. But my point is that if we will walk in this Elijah mantle of Elijah paradigm, we will be on the legacy side of Elijah's life, not on the success side. And if you hit legacy, you hit success. Somebody say amen to that. That's awesome. The success paradigm is self focused, even in good works, even in good work. So the mantle of Elijah is not self focused at all. It's focused, it's focused on the next generations, both physical generations and spiritual generations. The legacy paradigm, others focused in the legacy paradigm, humility comes much more easily. Because that personal legacy is focused on others. You know, I tell you what, I can remember praying humility, prayers as a young guy. And I just felt like humility wasn't easy. When I was young, I was like, this is, this is hard. You know, humility is not easy. And I mean, I had a lot of pride in my life, and probably still do. But I mean, man, I'm telling you, I remember having these prayers with the Lord like God, this is hard. Like, this is not easy at all, and and asking the Lord for help with this, And the Lord began to show me you know what, there is a way, that's easy. Now, I'm not saying it's always easy serving God. But Jesus says, Take my yoke upon you. learn of me. So as I am meek and lowly of heart for my yoke is easy. And my burden is light. And many of the things that become hard in the kingdom of God, are actually a lot easier if we do it his way. Right? If we do it his way, but sometimes we got to do it our way. We all have those stories of when we buy something at IKEA, and we get at home. And what are the guys do? When you buy a piece of furniture at IKEA, guys, what do you do? You just start putting it together? In my house almost every time I'm over there putting it together, and my wife read the instructions. And I'm going on, this doesn't fit this doesn't. And she has less because it didn't go in there. Am I How do you know? She was like, well, it's what says the instructions? And I've already wasted all this time. And, and and you know, have you ever broke something you're trying to put together? I have. I'm like, Oh, I'm trying to do this. I pop break. It's Oh man. And because I didn't read the instructions. My point is there's an easy way. And there was a hard way. Now I know some guys are geniuses, they they don't read instructions they learned by putting their hands on, I got that. But my point is just as an illustration, that Jesus says, My yoke is easy, My burden is light, there is an easier way to life to humility to walk in with God to have in this legacy to walk in in the mantle of Elijah, if we do it Jesus way. And if you will not be lacking an affirmation, the world may not like you, you may not be real popular for some of the things you say because you're saying what God says which are not popular in the world. You know, even the church today grocery shops, the Bible, how many times do we hear a sermon? And there's they'll they'll do the first part of the verse what were all the promises are but then when it comes to repentance, turn toward the Lord and and gay. You know, your heart is hard. And when you know we don't we don't even say that won't encourage people. Okay, guys, it's awfully quiet right now. We've all done it. And the Lord says, Read them to my whole counsel. Tell them the whole story. You're not helping them. You're not You're not helping them. You got to tell them the whole story. And this is all about doing it God's way. In the long run will be thankful. So what ends up happening in this success paradigm, people get jealous. People get envious. People start struggling in relationships, comparing themselves with each other. You remember Paul said something about that destiny. And again, I'm preaching to the choir. You guys don't do this, but I'm just sharing it because it's what God's telling us to do. Paul says a second Corinthians 1012, but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise. Paul says this, because the people who do this are working from the wrong paradigm. If you are always looking at the mirror, or thinking about how is this going to come across? And how is how do I compare to this person and that person, you might be operating in the success paradigm, that might be an indicator. Now, do we do this, all of us do this. This is not about anybody being perfect. But what it is about is for us to make this transition more and more and more like Elijah did into this mantle of Elijah, which is a legacy paradigm. But if we teach legacy paradigm, and we don't teach mantle of Elijah, we just taught the natural principles, but never got to the substance of what it actually is, which is the impartation of the mantle of Elijah. Lord led us, I want to, I want this to be upon my life. I want this to be upon my children's lives, my grandchildren, my spiritual children, my spiritual grandchildren, somebody came up to me, not too bad as long backs, I think I'm a spiritual great grandchild of yours, because you're some of them, who lead who to the Lord and disciple them, that kind of thing. The point is, that we want God to manifest in his fullness, and for each generation to have the fullness of what God's called them to. This is our prayer. Lord, we love you. Father, we want to thank you that the mantle of Elijah did not stop and Elijah's day, we want to thank you that it was so important to you, that the Prophet Malikai, in the last two verses of the Old Testament, prophesied of it coming. We thank You, Lord, for just the way you spoke of John the Baptist, when you walk the earth, and how you said, this is coming again. And Lord, we're so grateful that we, we even have an opportunity to receive this, because this man, Elijah was obedient to you. Because this man, John the Baptist was obedient to you, because you were obedient to the Father, we have been given this inheritance. And Lord, what has been given to us in this mantel is worth more than everything we could ever put in the bank, or have on a title. And so Lord, we pray, give us a strong and a precious gratefulness in our hearts, so that we can be faithful in all of your house with this blessing. And I know that everybody in this room, and I know that so many who listened to this online, are going to be an extraordinary blessing to their generation and to future generations. And I believe that Lord in the coming age, many, many in this room and other rooms listening are going to come in and said, Lord, I just anointed three people, I just did those few things. And behind them will be a legacy, like the illustration of 10s of 1000s of hundreds of 1000s who were touched by simple obedience, to humble themselves and to walk in the mantle of Elijah. 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