She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons of the rest.
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… so the oil ceased. Then she came and told the man of God and he said, Go sell the oil and pay your debt and you and your sons live on the rest. There are several lessons in this particular passage of scripture that I want to highlight. The first one I want to highlight lessons is that this woman came to the prophet and said, my husband's dead, he's died, and he has left us in debt. so much so that the creditor is coming to enslave my sons until the debt is paid. Let me throw this out parenthetically. It's true. Men, don't leave your families with debt when you die. Come on sisters, I'm trying to help you all out. When I die, my wife is going to cry for about two minutes. And after those two minutes, she's going to wipe her tears and say, John Jenkins was a good man. Amen. Aren't you going to say that, baby? Yes, I know you are. And don't let no other Negro come up in there. …
… And it says in verse seven, she went and told the man of God and he said, go sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left. If you go back to the beginning of the story, what did she ask God for? She asked him to pay off her debts. And what did God give her? God gave her enough to not only pay off her debts, but he also gave enough so that now she and her sons had something to live on. God did what he says he is in Ephesians chapter three. He says, I am the God who can do more than you can ask or imagine. And that's exactly what he did for her. She asked for one thing and he said, I'm happy to do that and I would love to do more. But look at how he did it. In verse three, it tells us that he did it through her neighbors. I'm picturing her neighbors who were very aware of what had happened to her. …
So the oil ceased. Then she came and told the man of God, and he said, go sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons live on the rest. Wow. Here's a woman who's been left without help, without assistance, and she's in debt. She is in a place of debt. and there's some keys here. I want to just teach you all today that I've talked this before but I'm going to teach it again today. Verse number two, Elisha said to her, here it is, what do you have in the house? The first thing I want you to learn to do is to identify an asset and some of y'all got assets in your house. Thank both of y'all very much for that arousing amen. Yeah, you got stuff that you ain't using, stuck in the closet, in the garage, in the attic, that somebody will pay you money to have. Ooh, Lord, that's worth the whole sermon right there. If y'all would just go through your stuff. …