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1 Kings 19
3 weeks ago was the story of
Elijah being fed by ravens,
then making a little flour and oil feed a family for months,
and then raising a widow’s son from the dead,
2 weeks ago we talked about how
Elijah had one of the greatest victories ever on Mount Carmel,
God does a huge miracle, sends fire from heaven
to burn an offering,
Last week we saw that Elijah prayed for rain
in the middle of a drought, and a heavy rain came,
So there’s been one miracle after another,
in Elijah’s life,
God is working in all these supernatural ways,
so you would just expect that now,
after all this cool stuff,
Elijah is gonna be at the top of his game,
he’s gonna be pumped
and ready to take on anyone,
watch out for Elijah, right?
Well, actually the opposite happens.
Elijah now enters a very low point in his life,
he becomes burned out and depressed.
Verse 1 of chapter 19:
“Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he killed all the prophets with the sword.”
If you remember, Ahab is the evil king.
the 19th consecutive evil king,
and scripture tells us
he had done more evil in the eyes of God
than any of those before him.
But at this point,
after seeing Elijah overcome all the false prophets
of Baal and Asherah,
he kind of hands over the leadership
to his evil wife, Jezebel,
In verse 2 it says,
“So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, ‘May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like one of them.’
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And she’s referring to dead false prophets.
So in other words she’s saying,
“Elijah, I’m going to kill you.
You’re a dead man by tomorrow.”
Now, Elijah did not expect that.
He thought that surely,
when King Ahab told her about God’s huge display of power,
and that all the false prophets were defeated and dead,
and that all the people had now promised
to follow the one true God,
Elijah thought that Jezebel
would finally give up
on trying to make the people in Israel
worship Baal.
But instead of Jezebel giving up,
and admitting defeat,
She says, Elijah, I am going to kill you
if it’s the last thing I do.
Then verse 3 says
“Elijah was afraid and ran for his life.”
Now when you first read this,
it makes no sense at all.
Why would he be so afraid of this woman?
King Ahab’s been trying to kill him for years,
so he’s kind of used to that.
In addition, he’s just seen
one powerful miracle after another, done by God.
Healings,
raising the dead,
multiplying food,
fire from heaven,
rain in a drought,
Over and over and over again, for years,
he’d seen the faithfulness of God.
But then one day, a woman says, “I’m going to kill you,”
and he panics, and he runs for his life?
What is going on?
Well we’re going to see in a moment,
that Elijah is burned out and depressed,
and when you’re depressed,
you just react differently to things.
And while we’re at it, this morning,
I’m gonna tell you how you can get depressed,
in four easy steps.
Just in case your life is way too joyful and peaceful right now,
and you really miss being depressed,
I’ll tell you how to get there.
In verse 3 it says,
When Elijah came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, while he himself went a day's journey into the desert.
He came to a broom bush, sat down under it, and he prayed that he might die.”
Okay, that’s a little indication there,
that maybe Elijah is depressed.
You don’t have to be a mind reader
or brilliant theologian
to figure that out.
He’s praying that he’ll die.
Now remember, he just had this great victory,
over the false prophets,
he’s just seen God work powerfully,
and what’s best of all is the 3 year drought is over,
the rains came,
but now he’s praying that he’ll die?
He says:
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