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The Face-Off
Elijah is about to face off against Ahab and Jezebel.
Its 1 vs 450.
The change is set and now the challenge is issued:
Simple: Who’s ever God answers is true.
1st its Baal:
Nothing.
No answer, so fire, nothing.
Now its Jehovahs Turn:
What a powerful encounter with God.
The Fire From God
God showed himself by sending fire down from Heaven to consume the whole sacrifice and the while alter.
Its fittings since the bible tells us:
God has often used fire to show his power and his presence.
He showed his presence to Moses by fire:
Today I want to talk about fire, in other words i want to talk about God, His power and His Presence.
And how like for Elijah, you to can experience the wonder of God’s consuming fire in your life.
Preparing for the Fire
Notice how Elijah prepared for the fire: He saturated the whole alter in water.
Now for those of you who dont know: Water prevents fire, we use water to extinguish fire.
If we were going to prepare for a fire we would use dry stuff, things that are flammable, maybe even throw a cap of lighter fluid in or two.
Next time you have a braai, put the coal and then put the hose on for 10 minutes and see how soon you eat.
Why doers Elijah do this?
Simple: So that he gets no credit for the miracle at all.
Its all God.
God cannot be accused us getting “help from Man”.
Elijah makes it perfectly clear - whatever happen, to God be all the glory.
We often try to help God, but all we do is get in the way.
God does not need your help - you need his.
Receiving the Fire
Notice that Elijah did not bring any fire with him.
If there was going to be fire - then God himself had to bring the flame.
This is not the first time this has happened and it was not the last.
When the tabernacle was set up, the alter where the sacrifices were burnt, that fire was lit by God himself.
Here on mount Carmel, God again lights the fire.
And in the book of acts, God himself lights the fire in each and every believer:
This lighting of fire was done by Jesus Christ Himself
In each of these cases, from the Tabernacle, to Mt Carmel to the the Early Church to today, the receiving of the divine fire, they all have one thing in common:
Faith.
What is faith?
In each of these cases, could the fire be seen before it came?
No.
But was it hoped for?
Yes.
We have God to believe that God will always honor His Word.
We have got the kind of faith that lays hold of what is not there yet.
“I believe God will honor His Word”.
The Power of the Fire
When the fire fell it consumed everything, the offering and the alter.
God really is a consuming fire.
When the Fire of the Holy Ghost falls on us, we are consumed as well.
1: We are consumed by Joy, peace and hope.
2: We are consumed by courage and confidence in God.
3: We are consumed by His Holiness.
Keeping the Fire
Here is a very intresting point.
In the Tabernacle, like on mt carmel, God light the fire himself, but look at what he says to the prients:
He command the people to keep the fire burning.
“I’ll light it, you keep it burning”.
If the fire, like any other is neglected and left on its own, it will loose its heat, its intensity, its vigor.
It must be kept.
Fire needs 3 things: Heat, fuel and oxygen.
God provides the heat - Amen, he lights the fire, to keep it we must nourish our faith with Fuel and Oxygen.
The fuel of faith is simply the basic Christian disciples: Prayer, Bible study, fasting.
The oxygen comes from the air around the fire, in other words its the environment.
The oxygen is the church.
We encourage each other, grow each other, at times correct each other, which all supplies the fire with the oxygen it needs to burn brighter.
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