Sermon Outline
- Reclaiming Someone’s Heart is a Difficult Thing
- The Accusations
- Ahab’s Accusation against Elijah: (1Kin 18:1, 17)
- “The most wonderful compliment”
- Why would Ahab begin his interaction with the man he has searched for 3 years to find this way? (Lk 6:45, 1Ki 18:5, Jer 17:9)
- Elijah’s Indictment of Ahab: (1King 18:18)
- Elijah’s challenge to the People: (1King 18:21)
- No straddling the Fence
- Stop thinking like a pagan.
- Ahab’s Accusation against Elijah: (1Kin 18:1, 17)
- The Challenge
- False words of Elijah? (1Kings 18:22)
- Fire from heaven! (Lev 9:24, Judg 6:21, 1Chr 21:26, 2Chr 7:1).
- An invitation of grace. (1Kings 18:30, Ex 20:24-26).
- Participate in worship (1Kings 18:33-34)
- The Water is an Oblation: (1Kings 18:29, Num 15:5-10, 2Sam 23:16).
- But where does the water come from?
- Reclaiming the Heart through unmistakable answers to prayer
- The Grace of Reclaiming the Lost
- Our God hasn’t changed.
- He still wants to reclaim the hearts of his lost children.
- He still uses people to reach the errant heart
- He still provides the fire from heaven to make the sacrifice acceptable
- He still allows a substitute sacrifice for our sin. Christ is the sacrifice
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