On 2 Mountains with 1 God 1 Kings 18:20-24 & 19:1-4
by Reece Sherman
1. Bob Benson
1.1. I think that the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way, then live 20 years in an old age home. You get kicked out when you are too young. You get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you are young enough to enjoy retirement. You go to college...until you're ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a little kids, you play, you have no responsibilities, you bcome a little baby, you go back into the womb. You spend your last 9 months floating, and you finish off as a gleam in somebody's eye.
1.2. anything sounds better than what we actually experience in life
1.3. ups & downs...roller coaster
2. James: "Elijah was a man just like us"
3. Mt. Carmel
3.1. Ahab/Jezebel
3.1.1. Baal/Yahweh
3.2. Contest
3.2.1. "How long...hobble about on 2 crutches?"
3.3. If Yahweh is God/Baal
3.4. 450
3.5. 2 altars...Baal prophets first
3.6. Elijah prayed
3.7. People: "Yahweh is God"
3.8. Elijah: mountaintop experience
4. Mt. Horeb
4.1. Jezebel
4.2. Chs. 17,18-strength/19-weakness & resignation
4.3. wanders in desert
4.4. Ps. 69:1-3
4.5. Peter
4.6. Sat under a shrub..."take my life"
4.7. Walking by sight, not by faith - Believed Jezebel, not Yahweh
4.8. Fear replaced faith
4.9. God woke him up and provided him food for his trip to Mt. Horeb
4.10. Cave - "What are you doing here Elijah?
4.11. "Go stand on the mountain in my presence"
4.12. 19:11b-13
4.13. Carmel - loud clap of thunder & fire. Horeb - "gentle whisper"
4.14. In every life there are 2 mountains
5. There was God
5.1. 2 mountains w/one God
5.2. "cricket"
5.2.1. It all depends on what you are listening for