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Sermon on 1 Kings 18:16-46
Theme: God’s people ought to enthusiastically serve the really real God
Goal: to encourage the people to make up their minds and motivate in their hearts to serve the one true God.
Need: God’s people can waiver between two positions all the time.
Outline:
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Introduction
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Accusations
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Contest on Mount Carmel
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Baal Gets prime time.
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Yahweh Gets handicapped.
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Symbolic Altar
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Yahweh consumes the offering
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The People chose Yahweh.
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Conclusion
Sermon in Oral Style,
Congregation,
So the US elections are coming up soon.
Only 8 months of political ads and debates and everything else that goes along with it.
The candidates use any number of different strategies in order to gain the upper hand on their opponents.
I heard on the radio of one strategy called “google bombing.”
Its something political activists will do on the internet.
When George Bush was up for reelection against John Kerry 4 years ago, if you tried to search the internet for the word “wafflehouse” you would be directed to the home page of the John Kerry for president campain.
Waffling is something politicians are accused of all the time.
Election year or not, they are accused of saying one thing at one time.
Then doing or saying the complete opposite the next time.
It not just the politicians that should be accused of waffling, do you think?
We are awfully good at pointing out when someone else is going back on something they have said or done, but we don’t like to think that of ourselves.
The truth is, we waffle all the time, don’t we.
Most of us have probably made profession of faith in front of the church at one point in our lives.
We stood up here and we made a promise.
To love God.
To serve him.
To commit to the fellowship of believers.
That commitment is so important.
But whose the wafflers now?
We promise to love God with all our heart, but there are so many things to do….
How could we every just give ourselves completely to God.
We need to give ourselves to catching up on the latest stuff on the internet.
We need to give ourselves to making more money then we have before.
We need to give ourselves to making sure we don’t miss the episodes of our favorite show.
We need to give ourselves to information, entertainment, athletics, stock portfolios, work.
We give ourselves to all these other things then we shy away from what Christ calls us to most of all.
Be disciples and Make disciples.
Be a learner of God’s truth.
Be a promoter of the power and love of God.
*That’s the biggest problem still with the people of Israel.
These are supposed to be God’s people.*
God saved them.
Made them a great nation.
Now their kings have been bringing in foreign gods.
Instead of being distinctly God’s they are giving themselves away to the other gods as well.
*Totally divide attention.*
God isn’t standing for it any more.
He is going to prove again that he is truly the living God of really real life.
*Already he has shown his power over Baal the God of fertility, including storms and rain*.
Baal doesn’t control fertility, rain, and life.
God has shut off the rain.
*God has left the whole region in a drought to show that he, not Baal is in control.*
*When there has been obedience and respect for the word of God that comes through Elijah, there has been miraculously really real life.*
The oil and flour that wouldn’t run dry for the widow.
Raising the widows son back to life again.
This is real life through Yahweh.
The true God of Israel.
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* But, so far God has only promoted himself as the God of really real life in the far away place of Zarephath.*
In the story, the tension has been rising.
God can be a blessing in foreign lands, but not in Israel.
Not for his own people?
What is going on!!??!?!
*It is time for the showdown.
Its time for there to be only one God in Israel again.*
That means the other god is going to have to be voted off the island, fired, kicked off the program, not given the final rose.
Whatever you want to call.
One God is going to win out once and for all.
Elijah goes first to King Ahab and lays a complaint against him.
Verse 17 is the confrontation of Ahab and Elijah.
I like this exchange they have between them*.
“/17/**When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”** **/18/**“I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied.
“But you and your father’s family have.
You have abandoned the Lord’s commands and have followed the Baals.”*
Ahab has lead Israel to completely disregard all of the God’s word and has them worshiping Baal as the God of life.
Elijah says, let’s figure this out.
He tells Ahab to tell the people of Israel to go to Mount Carmel, and then arrange 450 prophets of Baal to participate in the elimination round between God and Baal.
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* Why Mount Carmel.
Its really no where near to the heart of Israel.
But it is a strategic location.
*It’s a mountain by the Mediteranean Sea.
And it was part of the Northern defenses of Israel.
It served as a kind of entrance point into the land of God’s people.
Symbolically, its saying, whoever wins gets the land.
*Whoever doesn’t is out and has to stay out.*
It really is a battle for the whole land.
The people of Israel are stuck.
They are waffling between the true God and Baal.
They don’t know which way to turn.
*Elijah lays his accusation against them when they are assembled to see this show down on mount carmel.
Verse 21. **/21/**Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions?
If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”
But the people said nothing.” *
They are waffling… “follow Yahweh?
Follow Baal? Oh, we are just simple people.
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