Life in The Land of False Idols
Sermons in series
- 1 Great Promises for Dark Days
- 2 Where are You on the Baal Scale?
- 3 The Boy Who Lived
- 4 Behind Enemy Lines
- 5 The Silence of Baal
- 6 Faith on the Mountain and Unbelief in the Valley
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Down But Not Out
- 8 Careful Whispers
- 9 The End is Nigh
- 10 The Intolerant God
- 11 Elijah: The Farewell Tour
Down But Not Out
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Down But Not Out
Tom Sweatman, 1 Kings 19:1 - 19:9, 25 October 2020
Tom preaches on the next section in the story of Elijah and his confrontation with the prophets of Baal in 1 Kings 19:1-9a. In this passage Elijah flees for his life as Jezebel threatens to put him to death. Tom asks what we can learn about God's provision of salvation in these verses.
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1 Kings 19:1 - 19:9
19:1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” 3 Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” 5 And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.” 6 And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again. 7 And the angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.” 8 And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.
9 There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
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Preached by Tom Sweatman
Tom is an Assistant Pastor at Cornerstone and lives in Kingston with his wife Laura and their two children.
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