2. GET YOUR CALL ON:GET YOUR CALL ON:
RIDICULOUS COMMITMENTRIDICULOUS COMMITMENT

3. 1 KINGS1 KINGS
19:19-2119:19-21
19
So Elijah went from
there and found Elisha
son of Shaphat. He was
plowing with twelve yoke
of oxen, and he himself
was driving the twelfth
pair. Elijah went up to
him and threw his cloak
around him.

4. 1 KINGS1 KINGS
19:19-2119:19-21
20
Elisha then left his
oxen and ran after
Elijah. “Let me kiss my
father and mother
goodbye,” he said, “and
then I will come with
you.” “Go back,” Elijah
replied. “What have I
done to you?”

5. 1 KINGS1 KINGS
19:19-2119:19-21
21
So Elisha left him and
went back. He took his
yoke of oxen and
slaughtered them. He
burned the plowing
equipment to cook the
meat and gave it to the
people, and they ate.
Then he set out to
follow Elijah and
became his servant.

6. ““GOD IS MY SALVATION”GOD IS MY SALVATION”

7. 1 KINGS1 KINGS
19:19b19:19b
19b
[Elisha] was plowing
with twelve yoke of oxen,
and he himself was
driving the twelfth pair.

9. 1 KINGS1 KINGS
19:19c19:19c
19c
Elijah went up to
him and threw histhrew his
cloak around himcloak around him.

10. TWO PRINCIPLES OF RIDICULOUSTWO PRINCIPLES OF RIDICULOUS
COMMITMENTCOMMITMENT

11. YOU DON’T
HAVE TO
UNDERSTAND
FULLYFULLY TO OBEY
IMMEDIATELYIMMEDIATELY.
TWO PRINCIPLES OFTWO PRINCIPLES OF
RIDICULOUSRIDICULOUS
COMMITMENTCOMMITMENT

12. 1 KINGS1 KINGS
19:2019:20
20
Elisha then left his oxenleft his oxen and ran after Elijahran after Elijah.
“Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,”
he said, “and then I will come with youI will come with you.”

13. WHAT ARE YOUWHAT ARE YOU
WILLING TOWILLING TO “GIVE“GIVE
UP”UP” TO SHOWTO SHOW
YOURYOUR
COMMITMENT TOCOMMITMENT TO
HIM.HIM.

14. THOSE GOD USES
THE MOSTMOST ARE
THE ONES WHO
HOLD ON TO THE
LEASTLEAST.
TWO PRINCIPLES OFTWO PRINCIPLES OF
RIDICULOUSRIDICULOUS
COMMITMENTCOMMITMENT

15. 1 KINGS1 KINGS
19:2119:21
21
So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and
slaughtered themslaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipmentburned the plowing equipment to cook the meat
and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah
and became his servant.

16. TOTALTOTAL
COMMITMENTCOMMITMENT
MEANS
TOTALTOTAL
SACRIFICESACRIFICE.
TWO PRINCIPLES OFTWO PRINCIPLES OF
RIDICULOUSRIDICULOUS
COMMITMENTCOMMITMENT

17. TOTALTOTAL
COMMITMENTCOMMITMENT
MEANS
TOTAL TRUSTTOTAL TRUST.
TWO PRINCIPLES OFTWO PRINCIPLES OF
RIDICULOUSRIDICULOUS
COMMITMENTCOMMITMENT

18. The key to Christian
Living is a Thirst and Hunger for God. And
one of the main reasons people do not
understand or experience the sovereignty
of grace and the way it works through the
awakening of sovereign joy is that their
hunger and thirst for God is so small.

19. "Come, all you who"Come, all you who
are thirsty, come to the waters;are thirsty, come to the waters;
and you who have no money,and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat! Come, buycome, buy and eat! Come, buy
wine and milk without moneywine and milk without money
and without cost. Why spendand without cost. Why spend
money on what is not bread,money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does notand your labor on what does not
satisfy? Listen, listen to me, andsatisfy? Listen, listen to me, and
eat what is good, and your souleat what is good, and your soul
will delight in thewill delight in the
richest of fare.(NIV)richest of fare.(NIV)
Isaiah 55:1-2Isaiah 55:1-2

20. But seek first hisBut seek first his
kingdom and hiskingdom and his
righteousness,righteousness,
and all theseand all these
things will bethings will be
given to you asgiven to you as
well.(NIV)well.(NIV)
Matthew 6:33Matthew 6:33

21. COMMITMENTCOMMITMENT
MEANS SAYINGMEANS SAYING
“YES”“YES” TO JESUS.TO JESUS.