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Jeroboam Makes Two Golden Calves - 1 Kings 12:25-13:6
WORSHIPED IDELS
GOD TELLS ELIJAH TO TELL JEROBOAM IT’S NOT GOING TO RAIN THESE MANY DAYS.
THERE WAS DROUGHT FOR 3 ½ YEARS
The Ravens Bring Food To Elijah - 1 Kings 17:1-7
GOD THEN TOLD ELIJAH TO GO BY A BROOK FOR WATER AND FOOD.
THE RAVENS FED HIM DAY AND NIGHT
THE BROOK STARTED TO DRY UP
GOD TOLD HIM TO GO TO A WIDOW’S HOME
Elijah Helps a Poor Widow - 1 Kings 17:8-24
ELIJAH WAS COMMANDED TO GO 1Ki 17:9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
ELIJAH WENT
SAW THE WIDOW BY THE GATES AND ASKED HER FOR SOME WATER AND A MOSEL OF BRED.
SHE TOLD HIM I HAVE NO BREAD
SHE ONLY HAD A HANDFUL OF FLOUR AND A LITTLE OIL
ELIJAH SAID DO NOT FEAR
FIRST MAKE ME A SMALL CAKE THEN MAKE YOU AND YOUR SON A CAKE
SHE WAS OBEDIENT AND DID IT
SON OF THE WIDOW BECAME SICK
IT WAS SO BAD THE BOY WAS NOT BREATHING
1Ki 17:18 So she said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?
ELIJAH SAID GIVE ME YOUR SON
ELIJAH TOOK THE BOY TO THE UPPER ROOM AND LAID HIM ON A BED.
HE PRAYS TO GOD
THE LORD HEARD THE VOICE OF ELIJAH
THE WOMAN WAS HAPPY AND TOLD ELIJAH I KNOW NOW YOU ARE A MAN FROM GOD. AND YOUR WORD IS TRUE.
Elijah Defeats the Prophets of Baal - 1 Kings 18:17-40
GOD COMMANDS ELIJAH TO GO TO KING ANAB
3 YEARS HAD PASSED
GOD WAS ANGRY BECAUSE THEY WORSHIPED BAAL
AHAB AND JEZEBEL WERE HUSBAND AND WIFE
THE WORST THAN ALL THE KINGS
SACRIFICED BABIES TO IDOLS
JEZABELL HATED THE JEWS BECAUSE THEY WORSHIP THE TRUE GOD YAHEA
ELIJAH GATHERS ALL THE PROPHETS OF BAAL, ASHTRA, AND MALIC ON MOUNT CARMEL
BRING THE CHILDREN OF ISREAL
TWO BULLS, CUT INTO PIECES AND LAID ON THE ALTER
ELIJAH MOCKED THE PROPHETS OF BAAL
THEY DANCED AND CUT THEMSELVES FROM MORNING TO NIGHT
ELIJAH REPAIRED THE ALTER
CUT UP THE BULL IN 4 PIECES
DUG A TRENCH AROUND THE ALTER
POURED WATER OVER THE SACRIFICE AND FILLED UP THE TRENCH
3 TIMES
PRAYED
FIRE CAME DOWN AND CONSUMED THE SACRIFICE
THE PEOPLE SAY WE KNOW THE LORD IS GOD
ELIJAH KILLED ALL THE PROPHETS
The Still Small Voice- 1 Kings 19:1-18
Elijah Chooses Elisha - 1 Kings 19:19-21
Elijah Escapes from Jezebel
1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”
3 And when he saw that, he arose, ran for his life, went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree.
And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”
5 Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat.” 6 Then he looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on coals, and a jar of water. So, he ate and drank, and lay down again. 7 And the angel of the LORD came back the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”
8 So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.
9 And there he went into a cave, and spent the night in that place; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
10 So he said, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they seek to take my life.”
God’s Revelation to Elijah
11 Then GOD said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the LORD.” And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake; 12 and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.
13 So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
14 And he said, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they seek to take my life.” X2
15 Then the LORD said to him: “Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria. 16 Also you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi as king over Israel.
And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place. 17 It shall be that whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and whoever escapes the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill. 18 Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
Elisha Follows Elijah
19 So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yokes of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. Then Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him.
Matt. 11 Verses 28 to 30 [28] Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. [29] Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. [30] For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
The yoke of Jesus keeps people together
Psalm 34:3 O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.
Psalm 95:6 Come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
Hebrews 10:25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
When Elijah cast his mantle, the insignia of his office, upon Elisha, it was the call to the office of the prophet.
Though a mantle was simply a piece of clothing that went over Elijah’s shoulders, it meant that Elijah had the call of a prophet on his life.
By casting his mantle onto Elisha, Elijah made it clear that the calling of God to be a prophet was now being passed on to Elisha.
THE MANTLE WAS A SCARF THAT REPRESENTED GOD’S ANOINTING AND GRACE
20 He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”
LUKE 9:The Cost of Discipleship
(Matt. 8:18–22)
57 Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.” 58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” 59 Then He said to another, “Follow Me.”
But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.”
21 So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate.
Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.
MEMORY VERSE
1 KINGS 19:19 “So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yokes of oxen before him.”
PRAY
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