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Your mantle, pick up your mantle and so as I begin to share some things with you, I I want to begin to paint the picture and I want to paint it very thoroughly.

So you begin to understand then and this message is 14 right now and 4 anytime Beyond.

Because I also realize they'll be times when people will see the messages later, and they'll see it, and they may or may not have even connected to Jesus, yet, but it will be come to the point or when it will appear, there may or may not have even given their life to the Lord.

At this point, then when they see it, but it's okay.

The message is still for them, it's amazing how the Lord will do things.

Such that he finds the right time in a person's life, to put something in front of them.

Put the word in front of them.

So they're able to see and it stops them in the tracks and they look at it.

Often times they have this reaction is like, it was like Speaking directly to me, and I had met them yet, but what it is is the Lord knows the timing, the seasons of everything.

So this is an on-time word is annoying, time word as physically today, and the days that will come afterwards.

And that's the thing that I like, and that's why I was stressed.

A focused important for us to be able to look at the Lord, and and study his word and believe it and put it to work because it's really are a diet.

It's food for us.

And so now, I want to say to anyone else.

You may see this or hear this.

I believe all y'all are saved.

I hope so at this point in time, but for those who have never given their life to Christ, I got to say this.

This is important because again, that he really stresses the importance of being part of the family.

Many people will deceive others by saying, we're all children of God, not in the sense that he, that you need to be a child of God, in order to have that relationship with him.

You got to be born again.

Have to have that transformation, and it's not that someone that just physically born, that causes them to be a child of God, a child of God, as someone who is acknowledged, is Jesus as the Savior.

The child of God is one, that is born through the spirit, a child of God is one who surrenders and let the Lord be the Lord of his life.

They had of his life and one that happened, then the change becomes and your name is now written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

It is, at that point, that we begin to see the goodness of the Lord in each of our lives.

At that point in time until the Bible has said this, that I often remember it in, from time to time, I, I will quote it.

In the scripture, says, by no other name, must men be saved that name of Jesus and no, other name is there salvation, it's Jesus.

There's no goodness that you can work.

There's no deals that you can strike.

There's no being a good person that works well enough.

None of that it is.

The goodness of Jesus is Grace Point out on us that causes this transformation.

All we got to do is accept it.

You may not understand every aspect of it but just believe it and receive it.

And that starts a wonderful Journey.

But when it comes to a mantle, I just want you to understand that every person has a, I would say a purpose in your life that the Lord would want for you.

I often talk about the purpose of written about it in books but it's one of those things to understand that no matter your age.

No matter how many things you seen, what do you seen a thing or two?

No matter what it is, you got to understand that he still has a purpose in your life, and some will say them, too far away.

I've done this and on that, he already knows all of that.

Cuz he's watched you through all of those things, but he still has a purpose for each and everyone of us as it's at 2 today.

So, 2 today, we want to go to the point of pick up your mantle.

But if anybody wanted to know what a mantle was often times, we think of over a fireplace that ledge the thing that you hang your stockings down from when you have Christmas, those things, we have decorations across the top and so many people think of that.

But I want to assure you.

I'm not talking about that today.

I want to show you that that is not the purpose of what this is about.

I want you to understand that the Bible talks a lot, about a mantle and a mantle.

In some translations is a cloak and to some degree.

If I took that gentleman right there, he has a hood on top of his jacket and if I put it over top that keeps his head warm, they keeps his upper body one.

But it still is in a look because it closed comes even further.

And so, a cloak in the Old Testament times, there were two types of of Cokes, they were ones that the priests of the nobleman would use that were made a fine linen and certain ones that would be the under part before they put the Evite and everything else on top and it would be blue if you are a priest but there will be other ones are fine linen, that will be that they would have and that they would wear and usually that represented the status that you would have.

But then in addition to that, they came a point when prophets used to wear a cloak or a mantle And people recognize people walking with those as if they were a prophet.

Often times you hear about the Prophet Elijah and they would talk about him being Harry.

And all his cloak, camels hair made out of skin and hair covered him in the clothes serving the purpose, the cloak not only covered someone, but it also kept them warm.

When they were walking through wherever they had to go in the elements and it had a covering over that they could cover their face in and part of it and keep that shielded.

But it was also a bed cushion.

So wherever they had to lie down or what kind of ground they had to lie down on the least had a cushion.

So imagine that you carry your bed everywhere you go.

Imagine that you're carrying your your coat in your hood and everything else, everywhere you go.

So it was an important piece of clothing that was used by the prophets to see it goes, even deeper than that.

You see the mantle itself represented Authority, the man told the self-represented, the office or authority that the person had When it came to a priest.

When they had that, that represented the Priestly Authority or the prophet and represented his office and his authority and so you would have the profits going around and they would see that our man of God a profit that will be Carrie or walking with this on them.

I'm sure that often times because they carried it everywhere, it had an odor to it.

But yet I still serve the purpose and don't want to talk about this for a minute because as I told you not only was it functional, but in addition to that it held Authority and also represented at office and I'm talking to you about, pick up your mantle.

And so you see all kinds of cartoons and movies and stuff about people wearing cloaks then and other things.

But yet, God meant it for something more than what people are.

Trivializing it for right now.

You see, he wanted to make sure that we understood that there was an office that was there.

And and so one of the truths that we've always shared with you for years now, especially over the past number of years.

When there was so much turbulence in the pilot political Arena and still is, but in the political Arena, I told you that the office you must always respect.

You may or may not like a personality, but you must respect the office and who's ever in it because God only lets people in there that he allows right.

And so would you find yourself doing when you're always going against a person that's in an office?

Now, you're fighting against God's Authority.

And then the question Becomes of, what are you do about that?

Where you vote and you pray, but you're praying for the will of God for the goodness of his people.

That was free.

Bounce back to the mantle but see, here's what we got understand.

Because here we we realize that the mantle mean something or else the prophets wouldn't go around with them on a regular basis, the mantle was something that was a symbol of God.

It is a symbol of this person, being a spokesperson for God, it was a symbol of the office that was attained and I want to spend a minute talking and scripture here.

And I have a few of them and really a centers around Elijah and Elijah and I want to tie that back to you.

But I, I want to spend a few minutes, just reading a couple of scriptures and a reason why I take the time to read is making sure that as you're listening, you can connect the dots.

I want to make sure that as your listing, you can see for yourself and realize that I'm not making it up.

But you can read it and then the holy spirit that illuminates, more truce for you.

That's why we do it.

So first, I want to pull up 1st, Kings 1st, Kings chapter 19, and a number, read verses 19 through 21 1st Kings, chapter 19, verses 19 through 21.

And this version I'm a read from the NLT translation.

New Living Translation says, so Elijah went and found Elijah.

Son of sefat plowing a field.

There were 12 teams of oxen in the field and Elijah was plowing with the 12th Team.

Elijah went over to him and threw his cloak across the shoulders and then walked away.

Elijah left the oxen Standing Bear, ran after Elijah and said to him, first, let me go and kiss my father and mother goodbye and then I will go with you.

Elijah responded going back, but think about what I have done to you.

So Elijah return to his oxen and slaughter them.

He use the wood from the plow to build a fire to roast their flesh.

He passed around the meat to the townspeople and they all ate.

Then he went with Elijah as his assistant.

Strange set of things, right?

What in the world is going on here?

And why do you care?

Okay, if you got to be Spirits, when you going to tell me because it's in the Bible.

So I got a can and that's true.