Hills + Valleys | Main Card Yahweh vs Baal | 1 Kings 18 | Week 3

I can remember this day because there was a lot of buildup.  The day was January 28, 1997.  It was the summer before my senior year of high school.  A bunch of my friends and I had gone in together to buy a Pay-per-view boxing match.  It was Evander Holyfield vs. 'Iron' Mike Tyson.  Most boxing matches you don't remember; my guess is, you at least have a recollection of this one.  In the third round, Mike Tyson came out of the gate, tried to spit out his mouth guard, and promptly bit off a portion of Evander Holyfield's ear!  I had just dipped my first chip in the queso and I'm putting it up to my mouth and it's over....because a portion of Holyfield's ear is on the floor.  I decided that day that I'm not a huge fan of boxing.  What I recognize is that there is this draw to see a fight.  Whenever there's a fight, there's a crowd that forms, right?  There's something in us where we go......I at least want to look on and check it out.  I have a friend that invited me to go see Conor McGregor vs. [Khabib Nurmagomedov].  It was billed as the best UFC fight in the history of UFC.  I said no because I had been watching the Kavanaugh hearings that week and I'd seen enough fighting.

Have you noticed that all around us there is fighting?  There's a survey that's done by the Institute for Economics and Peace.  They give the world a peace rating every single year.  Peace is steadily on the decline, but what they found out in their most recent survey of the 162 countries around the globe that they surveyed, only ELEVEN of them are without  military conflict of some sort.  162 countries surveyed and only 11 can say we're not involved in some sort of war or some sort of conflict with our military.  That's been the case for a long time.  It is the case now.  Here's my question:  Are we just not listening to John Lennon; have we just not given peace a chance?  Is that what's going on here?  Or is there more going on in the world than we can see with just our natural eyes?...