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Gospel Baptist Tabernacle
781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741
Where the Love of God
abounds, everyone is
welcome.
Children’s Church taught
by Paul and Marsha Davis
during preaching.
www.rossvillechurch.com
December 14, 2014
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Is on Wednesday
night this year.
We are going to
cancel church
services that night.
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1 Kings 18 1 And it came to
pass after many days, that the
Word of the LORD came to
Elijah in the third year,
saying, Go, shew thyself unto
Ahab; and I will send rain
upon the earth.
God could have spoken directly
to Elijah by His Holy Spirit.
Or, he could have sent an angel.After many days
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2 And Elijah went to shew
himself unto Ahab. And
there was a sore famine in
Samaria.
God said, “Go.” Elijah went.He knew that Ahab and Jezebel wanted him dead.
Matthew 10 28 And fear not them which kill the
body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather
fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and
body in hell.
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If common sense is
contrary to the Word of
God, it’s not good sense.
Simply believe and obey God’s Word.
In all things.
All the time.
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3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the
governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the
LORD greatly: 4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off
the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an
hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave,
and fed them with bread and water.)
Meanwhile back in Samaria:
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The priests and the Levites were gone to Judah and
Jerusalem, but instead of them God raised up prophets,
who read and expounded the Word. They probably
were from the schools of the prophets, first set up by
Samuel. They had not the spirit of prophecy as Elijah,
but taught the people to keep close to the God of
Israel. These Jezebel sought to destroy.Matthew Henry Concise Bible Commentary.
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5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land,
unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks:
peradventure we may find grass to save the horses
and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. 6 So they divided the land between them to pass
throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and
Obadiah went another way by himself.
Ahab had more interest in mules and horses
than he did in the souls of men.
Even his own soul.
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7 And as Obadiah was in
the way, behold, Elijah met
him: and he knew him, and
fell on his face, and said,
Art thou that my lord
Elijah? 8 And he answered
him, I am: go, tell thy lord,
Behold, Elijah is here. 9 And he said, What have I
sinned, that thou wouldest
deliver thy servant into the
hand of Ahab, to slay me?
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10 As the LORD thy God
liveth, there is no nation or
kingdom, whither my lord
hath not sent to seek thee:
and when they said, He is
not there; he took an oath of
the kingdom and nation, that
they found thee not. 11 And
now thou sayest, Go, tell thy
lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
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12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone
from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry
thee whither I know not; and so when I come and
tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me:
but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
Obadiah understood the Power of God.
Under natural circumstances, Elijah
could have easily been found.
He was at first hiding out near his home town.
God was protecting him with a cloak of invisibility.
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13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel
slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an
hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a
cave, and fed them with bread and water? 14 And
now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is
here: and he shall slay me.
Obadiah was assuring Elijah that he
truly loved the Lord.
He had served the Lord by saving
His prophets.
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If you needed to defend your faith,
what evidence could your present?
Obadiah had hidden and fed the prophets.
We need to live our lives as sons and
daughters of The Most High God.
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15 And Elijah said, As the
LORD of hosts liveth, before
whom I stand, I will surely
shew myself unto him to day. 16 So Obadiah went to meet
Ahab, and told him: and
Ahab went to meet Elijah.
Elijah assured Obadiah that he would be there
when Ahab came, so Obadiah went.
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17 And it came to pass, when
Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab
said unto him, Art thou he that
troubleth Israel?
Ahab accepted no responsibility, but
blamed Elijah for the drought.
Few people admit that their own sins have
caused their troubles.
But we do cause most of our own troubles by
the way we live our lives.
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18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but
thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have
forsaken the Commandments of the LORD, and
thou hast followed Baalim.
Sin is to blame for it all.Our nation is troubled with unemployment,
foreclosures, crime, disease, and poverty.
Sin is to blame for it all.
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Sex is treated as recreation; people having sex with
whomever they will, whenever they will.
I learned at school recently that there are over
100,000,000 people with STD’s in the U.S.
That is 1/3 of the population.
Children having babies
that they can’t care for.
They’re not even old
enough to get a job.
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Michael Brown was killed by a policeman one
night, but he was not on his way home from a
church after worship.
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Unemployment, foreclosures, and poverty are
rampant in the U.S. right now.
So many kids reject education as a way up.
The government punishes businesses with high
taxes and severe regulations.
Sin is to blame for it all.
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Our culture rejects the idea that actions always
have consequences -- and consequences are just.
The leaders in culture advocate simply
avoiding the consequences and all is well.
Leviticus 22:31 (TLB) "You must keep all of My
Commandments, for I am the Lord.
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There is no such thing as a “no harm” sin.
Romans 6:23 (TLB) 23 For the wages of sin is
death, but the free gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
If our nation would turn to God
God would heal our land.