Part 2 | “Serving God in Cancel Culture”
Sent by God.
Fed by Ravens and Widows.
Standing for righteousness.
Hated by his world.
These are the phrases that describe the life of Elijah. Yet James says “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours” James 5:17
Can modern-day Christians really learn something from this ancient wild prophet? His story seems out of the realm of possibility and yet he speaks to us in our day louder than ever.
The journey of following Christ will be filled with constant temptations, hostile opinions, and devastating occasions. But God’s still small voice will always lead you home. The key is to learn to listen.
From 1 Kings 18
Cancel Culture is the becoming so that the will become .
📖 1 Kings 18:5 (ESV) Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals.”
📖 1 Kings 18:17 (ESV) When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?”
📖 1 Kings 18:3-4 (ESV) And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly, 4 and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)
How do we the and for the ?
“Obadiah” = picture of a Christian in “Cancel Culture”.
1. the Lord with you and you .
📖 1 Kings 18:3-4 (ESV) Obadiah feared the LORD greatly, 4 and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.
“Obadiah” means “SERVANT of the Lord.”
God always has in .
When it comes to serving God: DO NOT .
2. God to when you .
📖 1 Kings 18:7-8 (ESV) And as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. And Obadiah recognized him and fell on his face and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?” 8 And he answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here.’ ”
📖 1 Kings 18:9-12 (ESV) And he said, “How have I sinned, that you would give your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? 10 As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, ‘He is not here,’ he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you. 11 And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.” ’12 And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the LORD will carry you I know not where. And so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth.
God us of our .
3. that God is all who are .
📖 1 Kings 18:15-16 (ESV) And Elijah said, “As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.” 16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah.
We have an “Elijah” in the of : Jesus the Son of God, our and .
📖 Hebrews 1:3 (ESV) sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high
📖 Acts 7:56 (ESV) And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
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