Where is the Lord God of Elijah?
Kings 2 2:8-14 President Roosevelt in WWI: “We will ask again, where is the Lord God of Elijah?” I: A day of Moral decay. 1. Ahab ruled with a wicked Queen. 2. The people were sold out to the worship of Pagan Gods. 3. The worshipers of Jehovah were hiding and fearful. II: The Time of Elijah’s departure was at hand. 1. Like other great saints, he must bring his work to a close. 2. He had finished his course. 3. God looked for a new man to carry on the fight. III: “Ask what I shall do for thee.” 1. A test of his deep desires in life. 2. He could have asked for self and missed the mark. 3. Elisha walked with the great when he asked for a double portion of spiritual power, (Do it again Lord). 4. His only inheritance an old worn mantle...
The Greatest Invitation
Matthew 11:28-30 I: “Come.” From whom: 1. God’s son. 2. Future King and Lord of all. 3. Ruler of the Universe. 4. Man’s Creator. 5. One who loved us enough to die for us. II: “All.” To whom: 1. Not a selected few. 2. Red, yellow, black, and white. 3. Wise and unwise, rich and poor. 4. “Those weary to the point of exhaustion.” 5. Those loaded with burdens, bending beneath their weight. III: “I alone.” None other can do this. 1. He alone can lift our burden, (a burden of sin, grief, and sickness). 2. The World can’t lift these burdens from our shoulders. 3. “Refresh you with rest.” IV: “Take my Yoke.” (The Roman yoke). 1. Wear no longer the hoke of the world. 2. No yoke, no...
The Growths of Cherith
Kings 1 17:1-7 a 3.5 yr. drought. I: “Get thee hence.” Gods command. 1. “The steps of a righteous are orded of the Lord.” 2. No salary was mentioned, not even the kind of a parsonage. 3. But God promised food by crows. Birds that their nature makes them selfish. 4. Eliah packed without delay. 5. He didn’t ask about weather, reliability of the crows, nor their number. “The steps of a righteous man are ordered of the Lord.” II: “By the Brook Cherith.” Gods water supply. 1. He was willing to drink from the brook God placed him by. 2. Like Paul, he learned to be content in God’s will. 3. The lakes and rivers were closed to him. 4. He didn’t get ulcers over the water supply. 5. He didn’t wear...
The Christmas Spirit of God and His Church
Corinthians 2 9:8, Luke 1:67-79, and 2:1-15 Before the foundation of the Earth was laid, God made plans for that 1st Christmas. Rivers of blood and yrs. of prophecy pointed to that 1st Christmas. The great commission was given to the Church that the true spirit of Christmas might be felt by a dying world. I: Christmas meant sacrifice to God. 1. “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Chrust that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye thru his poverty might be rich.” Cor. 2 8:9. a. “I have glorified thee on Earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” b. “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the World was.” John 17:4-5. 2....
The Christian & the Church
Ephesians 5:21-30 I: Jesus depended upon laymen: 1. He selected groups of men for special assignments. 2. Early in his ministry he chose the 12. 3. 6 months before the crufixition he chose 70 and sent them out 2 by 2. 4. On the evening of the Resurrection, he commissioned 10 of the original 12. 5. 6 weeks later he appointed 11 men to carry on. II: To each Group he gave the command “Go ye.” 1. The Master knew that a going Christian is a growing Christian. a. A going Church is a growing Church. b. The yrs. when the Church stopped growing is called the Dark Ages. 2. When a Christian or a Church loses a concren for the lost, they stop going. 3. It is unscriptural and rebellion against a command of Jesus to fail or refuse to go. 4. When God calls, he...
The Church
Ephesians 4:11-14, 5:25-32, and Philemon 2:12-15 Conversion is just the beginning of the Christian life. The journey begins here. The new birth brings us the possibility of becoming Christ-like. The new birth revolutionizes ourselves, our motives, hopes, desires, our aim in life, but these must be worked out in our lives; they must grow. In working out our salvation, we must have a plan and that plan is a Church. Man can’t work out his salvation by self any more than he can be a husband or father by himself. You must live in a home and have a family to be a good husband, so you must live in a church and be a good Christian in the fullest sense of the Word. I: The difference between Sinner and Saint: 1. The spirit of God works thru the Christian. 2. God...