1 Kings 18

Mm-hmm.

First Kings 18.

I'm gonna show you something interesting.

First Kings 19, something like that.

First Kings 18, I believe.

18, 19, yeah.

Yeah, 19 it'll be.

But they can repent afterwards

... just for, just for context, First Kings 18 verse 14, Elijah said, "Listen, where their miracle didn't work," he said, "Listen, go and, go and grab them." [laughs]

[laughs] Oh yeah, finish them.

He said, "Go grab them, finish them." They didn't even-

Now, last week we learned about Elijah.

We learned he had a major mountaintop experience, right? 1, uh, uh, uh, Kings 18, he is, fire comes down from heaven and consumes a sacrifice.

I mean, you ca- can you get more amazing than that, Eric? I don't know if you can.

That's pretty amazing.

That's how you know who your master is.

All right, now we're in 1 Kings 18:17.

This isn't gonna be a super long study today.

We're starting in 1 Kings 18, chapter 18, verse 17.

It's your boy Elijah.

We're g- we're going back in time a little bit.

So who was this Obadiah? Obadiah was the king Ahab's palace administrator.

But the Bible says in verse 3, 1 Kings 18 verse 3, that Obadiah was a devout believer in the Lord.

Isn't it amazing? Obadiah was a devout believer in the Lord, working for a terrible, disgusting king, Ahab, and a disgusting queen, Jezebel.

And still he was faithful to the Lord.

But he also, there was a symbolic interest in him too, which we will look at again a little bit later.

But I just want to read about him in 1 Kings 18, verses 19, as well as 37 and 38.

And this is the story of Mount Carmel where Elijah had confronted King Ahab and the wicked queen Jezebel, Ahab's wife, and said there would be no rain for three and a half years.

And the place was in terrible drought because of what he said.

So all the people know that Elijah's God is the true God.

But One of the things I enjoy about this is that Elijah's there.

If you read the story in 1 Kings 18, Elijah is taunting the prophets of Baal and Asherah as they're cutting themselves and they're dancing and they're jumping around and doing all sorts of weird things, trying to get their gods to do something.

And he says to them that, is your God asleep?

We've got five things I want to share with you tonight out of 1 Kings 18, so that's where we will be.

1 Kings 18 again.

We've been it all day.

We talked about Baal worship this morning.

Okay.

Um, let's open up our Bibles real quick to 1 Kings 18:41.

[smacks lips] It says, "Then Elijah said to Ahab, 'Go up, eat, and drink, for there is the sound of the abundance of rain.' So Ahab went up to eat and drink, and Elijah went to the top of Mount Carmel.

Then he bowed down to the ground, put his face between his knees, and said to his servant, 'Go up now, look toward the sea.'" [smacks lips] And I wanna do a quick recap of, of 1 Kings 18, 'cause I know we're, some of us are familiar with the story.

But here you have King Ahab, okay? He was a wicked governor.

[laughs] Ironic, I know.

And so you have this, like, governmental, like, spiritual persecution going on in Israel.

That is what Elijah is walking into.

Elijah Had gathered the prophet of Baal.

In 1st Kings 18 from verse 20.

And brought revival to the land.

Because he was jealous for the Lord.