ELIJAH | 1 Kings 17-19

Big Idea:

Jesus is enough

a. The Story

b. The Scene

c. The Significance

d. The Savior

There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.

a. The Story

~1 Kings 21:25

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.

b. The Scene

~James 5:17

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

c. The Significance

~1 Peter 2:24-25

1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!

2 O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

4 But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.

5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;

6 my soul waits for the Lord, more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

7 O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption.

8 And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

c. The Significance

~Psalm 130

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.

c. The Significance

~Galatians 3:13

Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

c. The Significance

~Psalm 85:6

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made…11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.”

d. The Savior

~John 1:1-12