Basic Necessities
Elijah: Our Emptiness and God’s Plenty • Sermon • Submitted
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Why Listen? What to do when we don’t have what we need? Not luxury, but what you need to support yourself and family;
Why Listen? What to do when we don’t have what we need? Not luxury, but what you need to support yourself and family;
1. Famine - where there is evil, there is absence
1. Famine - where there is evil, there is absence
Famine - where there is evil, there is absence
Famine - where there is evil, there is absence
of God’s word, of basic necessities
of God’s word, of basic necessities
Not problem solving; reliance on self; Are you listening to God? Is God’s Word absent from your life? How much need comes from overlooking God?
Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”
“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.” -
covenant agreement - broken
describe famine
great potato famine
As long as there is evil, there will always be absence. Hunger related to human action. Not necessarily our hunger, but evil actions or inactions lead to famine.
Here it is rejection of God’s covenant
Going without
Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him.
1 Kings 16:
set up an altar for
worse than absence of basic necessities
Absence of Basic Necessities
Absence of Basic Necessities
Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”
1 Kings 17:1
As long as there is evil, there will be absence.
As long as there is evil, there will be absence.
“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.” -
2. When God calls, He cares.
2. When God calls, He cares.
You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”
Obedience over Self Preservation
stay near food supply;
You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”
keep job; home; resources;
The Presence of God’s Plan - God’s counteraction
The Presence of God’s Plan - God’s counteraction
You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”