Downfall: Trust the Lord to Lead (1 Ki 18:20-40)

Intro:

Trust God in the Middle

Wouldn’t it be nice if fire come down from heaven to burn away our doubts. Those moments are easier, but very few of life’s moments are like that. Most of life is lived between miracles.

Trust God in the Mundane

Mundane things are usually the small things. But the devil is in the details they say. Things that start off small never stay that way, whether good or bad.

Solomon let a small mistake in and it became detrimental to the nation

English Standard Version Chapter 11

11 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2 from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. 3 He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. 4 For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6 So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done. 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. 8 And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.

The LORD Raises Adversaries

3. Trust God in the Minority

Illustration: There’s no such thing as a dragon by Jack Kent

Once the dragon is full grown you lose control of the house.

There were 450 prophets of baal, and that’s just Ba’al