Sermon Tone Analysis
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I. Elijah is threatened, runs for his life (19:1-4)
§ This threat comes on the heals of a spectacular display of God’s power.
§ Elijah was living in strength of the spectacular.
§ Experience-based strength can be fleeting.
§ Elijah may have felt Ahab was convinced, but Jezebel was another story.
§ He thought the job of evangelism was his alone and Jezebel, unimpressed, could undermine all.
§ This is the all too familiar mistake that follows a great spiritual moment in our own life.
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Elijah prays that he might die (19:4-8)
A. Feels undeserving of life (4-5)
§ The mighty prophet had stood for God as boldly as any of those who had gone before.
§ Yet here he was in the desert wasteland, the very symbol of a wasted life.
B. God sustains Elijah (6-8)
§ God would tenderly nourish and lead his prophet to a place where he would get some much needed instruction.
§ Elijah continued south until he arrived at Mt. Sinai.
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Elijah despairs over his circumstance (19:9-10)
§ God’s interrogation called for a minute self-examination.
§ Did he now understand his failure?
§ No, he did not.
His soul was bitter at having served God so earnestly and spectacularly and yet having experienced rejection and solitary exile.
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God displays power over nature, but only speaks softly to Elijah.
§ These physical phenomena were known to be often precursors of God’s coming.
§ There followed a faint whisper – Elijah knew it instantly.
It was God.
§ What a lesson – even God did not always operate in the realm of the spectacular.
V. Teaching the lesson.
§ Elijah was to go back to the northern kingdom, the place where he had veered off the track with God in his spiritual life.
§ Elijah still had work to accomplish for God.
§ He had a threefold task: anoint Hazael over Syria, Jehu over Israel, and Elisha as successor.
§ God would judge, through these appointments.
§ God then set the record straight: you are not alone Elijah.
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