In Kings
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Continue 2021 Series - Jesus is In!
He's sovereign
He is our reigning King.
The Reigning KIng
Personified
In the life of Solomon (the Millennial Reign)
In the life and miracles of the prophet Elisha (multiplying bread 2 Kings 4:42, healing leper 2 Kings 5)
Many expected Elijah to return based on Malachi 4
Similariaties between Jesus and Elijah
Rebuke of Israel and religious ways
Miracles
E: Prophesying rain would cease for years (1 Kings 17:1) and then finally prophesying when the rain would come (1 Kings 18:41-45)
J: Calming the Storm (Mark 4:35-41)
E: Multiplying oil and meal for a starving widow and her son when she was willing to share her portion (1 Kings 17:14)
J: Multiplying food (loaves and fishes) for crowds who had come to hear him when a boy was willing to share his portion (John 6:1-15)
E: Raising a widow's son from the dead (1 Kings 17:22)
J: brought Lazarus back to life
Departure - followers watch and then do more
In both lives: Focus is on God - not the Prophet
Please stand as we honor the reading of God’s Word
30 Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.” They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord, which had been torn down.
31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel.”
32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs of seed.
33 He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, “Fill four large jars with water and pour it on the offering and on the wood.”
34 “Do it again,” he said, and they did it again. “Do it a third time,” he ordered, and they did it the third time.
35 The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.
36 At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.
37 Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.”
38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.
39 When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The Lord—he is God! The Lord—he is God!”
THE WORD OF GOD, FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD
Repentence
Repentence
Repentence
- turn to God
We don’t get it right - busy and excited for the wrong things
Follow
Follow
Follow
- God alone
Only one way to God
Jesus is the sacrifice that makes it possible
United
United
United
- as God’s people
surrounded by witnesses
Revival
Revival
Revival
- beyond temporary change
live by faith - die by faith