1Kings 19:1-18 Crazy Thoughts
Sermon Outline
- Elijah’s story is one of the most amazing stories (1Ki 19:1-2, 21:23, 2Ki 9:33-35, James 5:17).
- Crazy Thoughts
- Elijah gets scared and runs (1Ki 19:3-4)
- First lesson: When we don’t stay focused on God we get all sorts of crazy ideas
- Runs from a Woman (1Ki 19:3, Jud 4:17-4:25, 9:54)
- Lesson 2: How many of us have allowed a present circumstance to trump the history of God’s working in our life and in our world, such that we actually fear something very minor.
- Believes that God’s power can’t save him
- Lesson 3: God is able to save and protect!
- Wants to die (1Ki 19:4, Job 3:1, Jer 20:14-18, 2Cor 1:8-9
- Lesson 4: Depression can strike the any of us but God wants us to use even this draw closer to him, not to draw into ourselves.
- Think that God is in one place more than another (1Ki 19:9, 13, Exo 3:1, Dt 1:6, 18:16)
- Lesson 5: God is not a local God. He is omnipresent. We don’t need to go to 1 particular place to meet with him or to hear from him. He is always there and he can always protect us.
- Lesson 6: Crazy thought always leads to paganism.
- Become self-focused (1Ki 19:10, 14)
- Lesson 7: It is easy to abandon the Lord and become fixated upon ourselves.
- Aren’t we just like this, getting all sorts of crazy ideas the longer we run from God’s work?
- Elijah gets scared and runs (1Ki 19:3-4)
- Countering Craziness, God reclaims his child for service
- Feeds him (1Ki 19:5, 7).
- Speaks to him (1Ki 19:9, 13)
- Displays his power (1Ki 19:11-12)
- Instructs him in next work (1Ki 19:15-16)
- Reminds him to be a part of the body (1Ki 19:18)
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