It is Written - The Lady in the Oil Business

hello and god bless you this is pastor kimberly ray gavin of the angie ministries church on the rock in madison illinois and tonight we are incredibly excited about the word of god we will be teaching a very special teaching tonight uh many of you all are aware that this is international women's month and in light of that we are going to be sharing about a woman in the bible the lady in the oil business so i want you to do a favor for me get your bibles get your notes get ready let us go into the book of second kings as we share with you what the word of god says about this fascinating and intriguing woman of god i want to just say before we begin our teaching that tonight we look at the writer of the book of kings of course jeremiah is the writer of this particular book of the bible and we'd like to take a good close look at events in the bible and we want to be careful to rightly divide the word of truth we glean the truths from the scripture the events and we observe those critical and historical analysis of what the bible says happened or occurred and then we're able to extract truths from the word of god and to glean from the scripture and so we want to be able to to glean from specific books and areas of the scripture and then we're able to apply them even to today's time so we're going to be speaking from this grand narrative of the scripture and we're going to share with you what the word of god says again we thank god for the bible the 66 books of the bible such a fascinating book that god has allowed to be as a record a blueprint a type of blueprint for the believer and we love to study the word of god of course we know that often we refer to the old testament of course the first five books of law and the historical pages and the poetic pages as well as the major and the minor prophets but tonight we're going to the book of second kings and i want you to get your bible and we're going to share with you out of the word of god amen what the word of god says in second kings chapter four listen get your bible and let us prepare to go into the reading of the scripture and i would like to just read the verse for you very quickly amen and then we will go further in jesus name and let's just have a quick word of prayer tonight father we thank you for every person that is watching us live those that are watching by way of instagram or facebook or periscope father let the word of god captivate the hearts of your people lord i ask that you will breathe upon them lord open up the eyes of our understanding lord help us to hide the word in our hearts and help us to understand it and embrace it and glean from it so that we can live victorious christian lives in the precious and mighty name of jesus christ we pray amen and amen amen we're going again to the book of amen second kings chapter four and we're reading about the lady in the oil business and i want to just give you all just a brief uh summary of the book of second kings just before we begin reading our verse our key verse for tonight as we look into this particular verse or uh this particular chapter we are fascinated by the summary of second kings and i want to just uh share with you all that second kings is of course where in the bible ahab king ahab has died and his house of course queen jezebel was still alive but about to face her destruction we also recognize that in this particular book in the first two chapters we find that elijah the man of god the prophet of god he begins to of course pass on his mantle it fell to elisha and of course we recognize that elisha will be the key person that we speak about in chapter four along with the widow so we understand that of course elijah went up in a whirlwind and of course the lord allowed elisha to become the recipient or the one that received the mantle and so i want to share with you all tonight just a fascinating story in second kings chapter four and let us read listen these seven verses that we're going to share are absolutely intriguing and they are fundamentally a story about faith you have got to hear about the woman the lady in the oil business amen first of all the bible says our key verse second kings chapter four verses one through seven come on church let's begin to read the hearing and reading of the word of god it says now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto elisha saying thou should thy servant my husband is dead and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the lord and the creditors is come to take unto him my two sons to be bond men and so let's share with you the fact that this is about a woman who is a widow amen and she's speaking here to elisha the prophet of god and of course in the hebrew bible his name means god is our god is salvation elisha again is the successor and the protege of elijah the prophet elisha was described also as a miracle worker a wonder worker his ministry spanned the reign of several kings and so we want to talk for a minute about the fact that the woman of god cried out to and shared with the prophet elisha saying thy servant my husband is dead this woman is a widow and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the lord and the creditors is come to take up him and my two sons as bondsmen let's talk about the creditors for a minute of course creditors are those that are those individuals that someone owes a debt to them and so we understand under the mosaic law that a creditor was allowed to enslave a debtor and his children as far as the year of jubilee in order to work off the debt and so the widowed woman was troubled she was hurt she was in tears she cried out to elisha to tell him that her sons were basically at stake of becoming bondsmen or slaves and so to be a slave meant that they would legally be the property of another and is forced to obey them and work for them and so the creditors wanted the sons to work off or pay back the debt of the father and so here we find this widow woman again this precious woman who had cried out and went and talked to elisha the prophet and here's what the word of god says let's talk about the application again we we want to establish who elisha is this great man that received the mantle or a double portion of what the lord had placed upon elijah i want to reference this that elijah was such a fascinating man that according to the word of god in the summary of second kings we find that there was times that elisha brought a child back from death elisha made an iron axe head float elisha purified poisonous food elisha allowed a group of children that were irritating him and taunting him and calling him bald head those there were 42 young children that were killed by bears as a result of their taunting of the prophet he also helped to save israel by temporarily blinding their enemy he was also one that helped in the time of famine and so when we understand in the word of god that god used elisha on many occasions and he was noted as one who was able to work miracles and so we've established here that we're talking about this widow woman and let us use of the explanation of this truth and that is that she was troubled because of her husband's debt and how the creditors were ready to take her sons as slaves and let's go to verse number two i hope you have your bible let's look at what the word of god says and elisha said unto her what shall i do for thee tell me what can i do what can i do for you what hast thou in thy house here is a very critical question that the prophet of god asked this woman what is in your house and the bible says and she said nine handmade had nothing anything i have nothing to offer nothing look at what she says i have nothing in my house she didn't think of initially anything that would have value that would add any kind of value to her situation all she knew is that she had nothing and that she needed help so that her sons would not become bondsmen and end up in slavery but as we go on to the end of this particular verse it says amen in verse number two thine handmaid have not anything and let's look at the first thing that she says we i have not anything other than all that i have is two sons all that i have in this particular case of scripture i have nothing to say there's one thing she could think of the bible says she says save a pot of oil and so let's look here at the fact that this widow woman had one thing that she thought of as something to even share with the prophet of god and so i need to share with those of you in our study tonight what is the significance of the oil that this woman had the only thing that she even thought of as something that would be significant enough to even mention let us really identify the hidden value of oil let's consider here where first of all as we look at the text we see that she minimizes or understates or downplays the significance of the oil that she had but as we look at the real meaning and understand what oil really can do i think that it will give you another perspective of why we need to take a look at the fact that she said that i have nothing in my house nothing at all but all i have is save some oil as i went into the word of god i recognize that oil is considered a precious item in international trade and oil is also noted as it's a stored commodity and is traded as currency oil was used also as a base for making perfumes and very expensive fragrances that would be valued at the at the yearly salary of one of the laborers oil let's talk about oil oil was used for lamps and it would allow the temple lights to be burned in the tabernacle and in homes according to leviticus chapter 24 and verse 2. the word of god says commend the children of israel that they bring unto thee pure oil olive oil beaten for the light to cause the lamps to burn continually can i share with you all that the olive oil amen was based from the olive berry that was on the olive tree many of you know that the olive tree is known as a symbol in christianity the olive tree is also known as a symbol of peace and so often times in the time of where the olive oil would be pressed they would take the olive berry and crush it and smash it and extract the finest oil out of the olive berry in order to create olive oil i shared with you tonight that the widow woman came amen as she was talking to the prophet and she said i have nothing i have nothing save the oil let's talk about the oil not only was the oil used to be a uh to burn in the lamps that would uh in the tabernacle but oil was also used as an anointing in the book of exodus exodus chapter 23 and 25 where kings were anointed as a sign that they were chosen to rule to rule as you all many know amen that the lord used samuel the prophet to anoint king saul and king david of course the bible says that the spirit of the lord lifted up off of saul and the lord caused samuel to go forth to jesse's house to find the next king and we know the story of how he went forth and saw all of the sons eliav sharma abinadab he saw the sons of jesse but he recognized that the lord was speaking to them amen that these are not the ones they were tall strapping handsome but these were not the ones that the lord was calling and so the lord gave samuel i will not sit down until i see him i love that verse in the scripture and the bible says that they called amen for david who was out in the field being a shepherd taking care of the sheep and so the lord allowed samuel the prophet to take the horn of the anointing oil a ram's horn that was filled with the crushed amen the olive oil that was amen extracted out of the olive berries and it was poured on david and he became the second king of israel amen we're talking tonight about oil and the widow she said i have nothing save the oil that's all i have but let me tell you about the value of oil the bible says in leviticus chapter 2 and verse 4 it speaks about the oil that was given in offerings unto the lord oil was also noted as one a process where the priest the priest of god would be anointed by oil and the oil represented of the priests responsibility glory and authority to serve and so the the anointing oil was also used in the tabernacle and on furniture also we note in the word of god that oil was used for medicine for medicinal purposes and for the purpose of healing oil was also used as a balm it was used or utilized to be placed on a wound for the purpose of healing can i talk about oil for a minute oil was also utilized amen as it healed it was something that was uh used as a vessel amen the vessel would have the oil housed within it and so this is what happened with the prophet of god he said unto her let's go forward in the scripture verse number three said then he said go and borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors empty vessels borrow not a few and so let's look at what the scripture is teaching us today i love bible study the vessels are utensils that are properly uh available to hold liquid or fluid and so the prophet said i want you to get some vessels get as many as you can and so she began to borrow vessels her and her sons they began to borrow vessels for the purpose of the assignment of the prophet and so the widow here had to exercise her faith and she worked obediently and she worked diligently i love the fact that she began to search for the vessels and began to get vessels from others and ask her sons to assist in the process of getting the vessels saints of god i want to teach you all and share this with you that the faith of god is evident as we look at what the widow woman does number one she states to the prophet i have nothing in my house save some oil we have shared with you the value of the oil but this woman didn't really realize because she had basically devalued the the very oil that was so valuable right in her house i want to ask the question the same question the prophet asked he said what is in thine house sometimes the very thing the answer to your question is right by you right in front of you right around you and so we can glean from the scripture that the answer for the widow was right in front of her all right let's keep going are you all there i hope you're all right we're going now into verse number four and the bible says and when they and when thou art come in thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons and shall pour out into all those vessels and thou shalt set that which is full all right let's get a visual let's get a portrait in our minds of what the prophet of god told the widow woman so the widow woman remember she went to the prophet because her husband was dead she was now a woman without a spouse she had two sons and the creditors were coming to take those sons to bring them into slavery and to become bondsmen but the woman of god amen as she spoke to the prophet he asked her a question what is in your house what is in your house and the woman of god responded i have nothing you see sometimes when you look at the scripture you can see instances where individuals do not see the answer to their question but when god gets involved when a real prophet of god becomes involved in the process a miracle is about to take place and so the word of god says that she got the vessels began to gather them her and her sons and the scripture says in verse number five it says so she went forth from him and shut the door upon her and her sons who bought the vessels to her and she poured out listen here we go i just want to share with you a man she poured out this is a sign of obedience this is the beginning of her oil business this is the beginning because god supplied and then he multiplied and the bible says that it was behind closed doors that this miracle took place she told she was told listen go into your house close the door you and your sons and you poor listen look if the word of god says that the sons helped to gather the vessels but who did the work the woman the lady the the one who started the business the scripture says that she poured the oil and the bible teaches us in the word of god verse number six and it came to pass when the vessels were full that she said unto her son bring me yet a vessel listen listen this is another sign of faith right here the woman had poured and poured into the vessels as she was assigned she had poured and saw the small vessel the medium vessel the large vessel she saw the the ones that she had originally began with and every time she poured there was more and more and more than enough isn't it ironic it's fascinating and look at this tension right here in the text is that this woman came to the point where she says to her sons where are the other vessels bring me some more vessels so to speak bring me yet another vessel but the sun said unto her there is not a vessel more and the oil stay let's talk about this right here isn't it marvelous to note that amen if this woman had even gotten more vessels then the miracle would have continued you see the prophet told her to gather the vessels to borrow the vessels to bring them from our neighbors to get them and to gather them you see he knew elisha you see he had a double portion he had a mantle upon him that was given unto him when elijah the prophet went up glory to god and so he had some semblance some understanding because the prophet had told him if you see me when i go up then you will receive the mantle he received that portion that double portion it was a miraculous anointing upon elisha and elisha told the woman listen go in your house and close the door in other words listen the lady that started the business she didn't do a whole lot of talking she didn't bring a whole lot of people in on the first leg of her business meeting all she did was obey the prophet of god went into her house closed the door got her sons and told them come on y'all god is gonna fill these vessels oh bless his holy name all right the bible says in verse six i hope you've got your bible tonight listen the purpose of this bible study is to inspire you to read the word of god to hide it in your heart to grasp it to glean from it to look at what happened who wrote it jeremiah what book of the bible was it second kings what chapter chapter number four and the summary of the book of kings we've shared with you but one of the fascinating parts of this summary as we look at the at the text tonight is to see what the word of god says that the prophet told the woman to do all right i've got to read it again it's so good hallelujah verse number five says so she went from him and shut the door upon her and her sons who bought the vessels to her and she poured out again let's embrace her obedience let's embrace her willingness to do everything that the prophet had told her to do verse number six and it came to pass when the vessels were full that she said unto her son bring me yet a vessel and he said unto her there is not a vessel more and the oil stayed and so in this lesson let us glean from the lesson her level of faith her level of obedience her determination to do what the prophet of god says all right we're at verse number seven i've got a few minutes left i hope you're with me i hope you got your bible i want you to underline verse number seven come on let's read it and underline it all right verse number seven said then she came and told the man of god and he said go come on now remember this is the lady that started the oil business the lady in oil the lady in the oil business the prophet of god spent spoke to her and said go and what did he tell her to do he said to sell the oil listen come on y'all he understood the value of what she had devalued he understood the value of the oil that she said i have nothing in my house save some oil he understood he knew about the perfumed oil and how expensive it is he knew about the fact that oil is a commodity he understood the value of oil so to the point that he told her listen you go and sell the oil come on let's read it together and pay thy debt you sell your oil pay your debt come on this is the woman in the oil business i want you to know that when you sell this oil you're going to be so blessed by the sale of the oil that god has multiplied the miracle that god has wrought you're going to be so blessed he goes on to say pay your debt glory to god wait a minute when you pay the debt that means that the bondsman amen your sons will not be slaves when you pay the debt when you sell the oil that means lady in the oil business that your sons can live off of the oil and they won't have to be slaves they won't have to be in bondage for the rest of their lives or until the year of jubilee which is typically around 50 years they won't have to suffer but they will be blessed because of the faith of the widow woman glory be to god i want to say to those of you watching our bible study tonight amen that this woman in the oil business is a woman that we can look at and we can glean from the truths of the scripture and see how the prophet help this widow to deal with the problem successfully and to resolve it come on somebody listen we were able to see the application we were able to see the explanation we were able to see the resolve what is the result that her sons the scripture says amen in verse number seven pay your debt and live thou and thy children of the rest take the rest of the prophets from your business hallelujah i know you made your original investment with one uh a jar of oil one vessel of oil you made your original investment but when god puts his hand on your investment he will multiply it and multiply come on the nasdaq will have nothing on your investment come on the dow jones won't have anything on your investment you won't be able amen to argue or fuss with anybody because god laid his hands on the original investment of oil and what did god do he supplied and he multiplied and the bible says i love this part and live listen to this listen he's talking to the widow he said in verse number seven you gotta look at this underline it real quick he said and live thou and thy children of the rest and so this is a definitive decision that was made that you will have enough oil so that you can live off of and your children and so god gave amen again a decisive way to pay back the debtors to be blessed and also to take care of her children let me tell you something those of you watching this bible study tonight not only are you going to be blessed not only are you going to be able to pay back your debtors and the creditors but god will bless you in such a way that you will bless your children and your children's children what is in your house i want to encourage you to look at the life of the widow woman the woman in the oil business the lady in the oil business and see that it was because of her faith that she was able to come out of the debt and for her children to live in a way that they too would experience success it is spurgeon that says faith is the wealth of heavenly life and so we thank god that god shows us in the word of god amen again can i just say it one more time if this woman went to him crying she went to him grieved and troubled and vexed and annoyed in her spirit because of her creditors and because she owed the debt of her husband but because of the miraculous working power of god that was manifested through elisha the man of god the prophet of god amen the servant of god whose name is salvation and then the successor and the protege of elijah i want you to know that god used this man of god to cause a miracle to come forth and one of the greatest things i can see in this lesson and in this text tonight is the fact that the two sons which would have been sold into slavery which would have had amen become bondsman which would have been under the leadership or the rule of another because of the miracle of the widow the woman amen in business the oil business god allowed her sons to be freed from the process of slavery and bondage bless the name of the lord well our time is far spent again i thank god for all of you that recognize the significance of oil amen and the hidden value of the oil amen that was in that woman's house what is in your house i say to you today let's look at second kings chapter four verses one through seven as we have studied the lesson we have studied the text we saw the tension of the text amen and saw the resolve and the outcome of the text and at the end of the day god brought another miracle through his servant the prophet elisha and the widow woman was able to pay back the debtor amen and she was able to bless her sons may i say a prayer in our conclusion tonight in the name of jesus christ my father i thank you for every person that is watching us in this time of bible study lord we thank you for the story about the lady in the oil business we thank you lord that you allowed the prophet of god elisha lord to allow an instruction to come forth to the woman of god that would show her the value lord don't allow the saints of god today to devalue what you've given them don't let them underestimate it don't let them take it for granted but father in jesus name i ask that you will allow them to see that there is something in their houses of value i loose tonight the spirit of prosperity i lose the spirit of wealth father god in the name of jesus i pray that everything that they touch will multiply just like the oil multiplied in the vessels father i loose the spirit of increase abundance and the overflow lord i declare over every person that is watching on instagram watching on facebook watching on youtube watching on periscope that they will set themselves in agreement and i set myself in agreement with their faith and i ask you god in the name of jesus to work a miracle in jesus name and lord i thank you i thank you for the press i thank you for the crushing of the olive berries that create the best and the finest olive oil i thank you for the crushing of the roses that creates the best perfume i thank you lord for every test every trial every situation that has caused your people to come to the place where they are tonight my father in jesus name blessed him beyond measure in the name of jesus in the name of jesus lord multiply and bless your people like never before i pray for their bank accounts their checkings accounts savings accounts their 401k i pray for their investment accounts lord in the name of jesus i ask you god even in the time of correction in the market that you father will touch individual stocks and individual bonds and that you will bless your people and let a miracle come forth in their lives in jesus name lord we look unto you you are the author and the finisher of our faith and it is in jesus mighty name we pray tonight amen amen and amen god bless you you've been listening to pastor kimberly ray gavin we are in matson illinois i thank god for all of you and i hope to see you again right here next week on this particular time it is written what does the bible say about the lady in the oil business be blessed you

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Published: Wed Sep 29 2021