Get Out of the Gate | Pastor Corbin Kill | Sunday, May 17th, 2026

Of all of the ways that a man could die, this has to be among the most tragic of ways. He he didn't die in battle defending his homeland. He he didn't die of starvation because of famine. He he didn't die in obscurity to where nobody knew his name, and he would be buried in an unmarked grave. No. This man, this adviser died in the gate, the very place that unbelief had stationed him. He died hungry with food in sight. He died in the middle of the miracle that he convinced the king would never be able to happen. [00:57:26] (43 seconds)  #DiedAtTheGate

The word of the lord had come to pass exactly as Elisha said it would to the shekel down to the very hour, And this man, this adviser saw every bit of it unfold and come to pass, but he was not spared at the sight of his own error and his own unbelief. He watched as the abundance arrived. He watched as the people took their fill. He just never got to taste of the fulfillment. Being close enough to the blessings, being close to where the Lord is moving, being close to what God is doing is not participating in what God is doing. [00:58:13] (46 seconds)  #WatchedButUnfed

And sitting in the gate is a very dangerous place to be at the dawning of a new day. Verse 17. And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate. You stand here and watch everybody that goes in and comes out. You're in charge. Look at those next words and the people trode upon him in the gate and he died as the man of god had said who spake when the king came down to him. [00:56:22] (36 seconds)  #GateIsDangerous

Well, we could just continue to sit here, maybe one of the lepers suggests. Just go with the flow and be content with the way things are. Maybe we can find some satisfaction just in continuing to do what we've always done. But then it settles in on them again. There's no hope sitting here. Death is literally eating us alive. Verse four, if we say we will enter into the city, then the famines in the city will die there. If we sit still here, we die also. Now, therefore, come. [00:51:09] (35 seconds)  #MoveDontDie

We're close enough to the church and have enough religion to soothe our conscience, but we're also far enough leaning out the other side to have enough of the world to satisfy our flesh. From the perspective of the gate, we can watch god as he moves. We can watch the move of god. We can see people going to and coming forth in and out of the church and we can even be moved at the gate by what we see in the church but we we we can't eat. We can't eat from it. Because the food ain't brought out to the gate. It's served in the house. [01:01:54] (38 seconds)  #CantEatAtTheGate

He sees everything in light of the sun. I I'm just calling it like it is. I I'm just making it plain. I just wanna make sure that we understand that even if windows from heaven opened up right now, that ain't gonna happen. He sees nothing in the light of heaven. And his doubt, his firm grasp of reality, if you will, is about to literally cost him everything. The wisdom that we read about in Ecclesiastes is that everything evaluated under the sun through natural reasoning and logic alone without factoring god into the equation comes up as vanity. [00:37:49] (48 seconds)  #EarthlyOnlyVision

If you find yourself and you're still testing the waters or you're still slowly making your way in because you don't want the shock of the coldness to hit you all at once, you're delaying the inevitable. If you're gonna go ahead and get all the way in at some point or another, you might as well go ahead and make it now. Just jump head first, take out the shock, take out the discomfort, and jump in. [01:08:14] (30 seconds)  #JumpHeadFirst

This purely natural and logical reasoning of this mind of this man, it's it's not an ignorant mind. It's just a highly educated mind. Not that there's anything wrong with education. That's not not what I'm saying. His mind is certainly not lazy or idle. No. He's turning everything over. He's analyzing it from every point in perspective and considering every possible outcome. But this man never learned to factor God into the equation. [00:43:35] (29 seconds)  #LogicWithoutGod