Signs of Revival - God Has The Final Word (notes)

Signs of Revival - God Has The Final Word

Elijah Is God’s prototype of a seer, a man of faith and power and miracles; a man of integrity and strength.

God Desires Us To experience everything He has in store for us today.

I don’t want to get to heaven and discover that God had so much more for me than experienced in this life.

We Need To Be Like Elijah and not back down from any opportunity to display to the world the power of God.

Romans 1:16

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation of everyone who believe.

Elijah Finds Elisha a farmer plowing a field with twelve yoke of oxen. Elisha slaughters oxen and used the plowing equipment to make a fire and cooked the meat and gave it to the people and they ate. He became the prophet’s attendant.

There Was Never A Man Like Ahab

• Who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel his wife. He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the Lord drove out before Israel.
• A man who owned a vineyard named Naboth and Ahab wanted his vineyard. Ahab had the man killed and took his vineyard.

Elijah

• Predicts the death of Ahab and Jezebel. The prophecies come to pass because God can not be mocked. Whatever man plants he will reap and when a man like Ahab has Naboth killed that is the last straw and God says enough.
• Obeyed God and pronounced the verdict God has pronounced.

God

• Is the most merciful being in the universe.
• Is the most loving being there is.
• Comes to a point when people cross the line and He pronounces His decision.
• Will put up with many things from people but when He says enough, we better yield to Him, turn away from sin, submit under His discipline and ask for mercy.

Loving The World

• Is something God commands us not to do.
• I John 2:15 No not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father in not in him. For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and boasting of what he has and does comes not from the Father but from the world.

What Is The World?

Kosmos; the system of the world that is anti God. The system that satan promotes and exists independent of God. This includes not only the immoral and sinful pleasures of the world but the spirit of rebellion against or indifference to God and His revelation that exists within all human enterprises not under Christ’s Lordship.

In This Age Satan uses the world’s ideas, morality, philosophies, psychology, desires, governments, culture, education, science, art, medicine, economic systems, entertainment, media, religion, sports, agriculture, etc. to oppose God, His people and His Word.

For Example

Satan uses the medical profession to promote the killing of unborn children. Agriculture to produce life-destroying drugs such as alcohol, and narcotics, educational system to promote ungodly and humanistic philosophy, and the entertainment industry to destroy Godly standards in society.

Three Areas That We Must Overcome:

1. The cravings of sinful man.
2. The lust of his eyes.
3. The boasting of what he has and does.