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Sermon on 2 Kings 4.1-7
Title: The Widow’s Oil
Theme: God provides richly in the face of certain debt, slavery and death.
Goal: to encourage God’s people that he provides richly in the face of deep troubles.
Need: Circumstances often lead us to wonder whether or not God will provide as richly as we know he can.
Introduction- Debt is like an animal that you adopt as a pet.
If you chose the right one.
If you pay it the proper attention.
If you take the proper precautions to keep yourself and your family safe if anything goes wrong, then debt can be tamed.
- the US problem: The mortgages they chose was like adopting a Bengal Tiger cub.
Oh he’s so cute.
Look at that awesome fur and the big paws.
Oh I just have to have one.
And then when every other person in the neighborhood all had one, they all grew up at the same time.
They all got out.
And this debt tiger, now full grown is just a wild animal that eats up the stuff in its path.
Debt can be aweful.
- Its especially awful for the widow in our passage because she has absolutely no option with the debt she has.
- Sea to Sea.
She is one of these ladies caught in the cycle of poverty and has no way out.
This is a killer debt she has.
In order for us to allow this passage to have the transformational power that God’s word has, we must put ourselves in the spot of the widow in the passage.
In what ways can we be linked into this old testament story?
In what ways are we caught in cycles like this?
Physical Debt- Greed, Envy
Sins of all kinds
Anger
Greed
Doubting the goodness of God.
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Review themes as promised:
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Elisha is a prophet in the same Spirit of Elijah.
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God gives life in surprising ways.
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God punishes those who are not faithful to him.
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Last time we saw these themes in the story of the battle Moabite revolution against Israel.
And the League of nations- Israel, Judah and Edom all go and attack together.
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The Woman of faith:
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Who is she?
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Widow of one of the prophets from Elisha’s circle of prophets.
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