A Sermon on 1 Kings 19:1-18

1. Have you ever been disappointed
with God?

2. ARE WE IN STEP WITH HIM?

3. ARE WE IN STEP WITH HIM?

4. A Tale of Two Mountains
Mt. Horeb
(Mt. Sinai)
Mt. Carmel
Kingdom of Israel
Kingdom of Judah
Abraham
Moses
slavery
Civil War Ahab and Jezebel
Solomon
vs.
David
Elijah

5. Have you ever been disappointed
with God?

6. A Tale of Two Mountains
Mt. Horeb
(Mt. Sinai)
Mt. Carmel
Kingdom of Israel
Kingdom of Judah
Abraham
Moses
slavery
Civil War Ahab and Jezebel
Solomon
vs.
David
Elijah
“Then he was afraid; he got up and fled for his life…”
(1 Kings 19:3, NRSV)

7. A Tale of Two Mountains
Mt. Horeb
(Mt. Sinai)
Mt. Carmel
Kingdom of Israel
Kingdom of Judah
Abraham
Moses
slavery
Civil War Ahab and Jezebel
Solomon
vs.
David
Elijah
40 Days
“He got up,
and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that
food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.”
(1 Kings 19:8, NRSV)

8. At that place he came to a cave, and
spent the night there. Then the word
of the Lord came to him, saying,
“What are you doing
here, Elijah?”
(1 Kings 19:9, NRSV)

9. “He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain
before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”
Now there was a great wind, so strong that it
was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in
pieces before the Lord,
but the Lord was not in the wind;
and after the wind an earthquake,
but the Lord was not in the earthquake;
and after the earthquake a fire,
but the Lord was not in the fire;
and after the fire a sound of sheer silence.”
(1 Kings 19:11–12, NRSV)

10. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his
face in his mantle and went out and
stood at the entrance of the cave. Then
there came a voice to him that said,
“What are you doing
here, Elijah?”
(1 Kings 19:13, NRSV)

11. Then the Lord said to him,
“Go, return on your way to
the wilderness of Damascus…
(1 Kings 19:15, NRSV)

12. A Tale of Two Mountains
Mt. Horeb
(Mt. Sinai)
Mt. Carmel
Kingdom of Israel
Kingdom of Judah
Abraham
Moses
slavery
Civil War Ahab and Jezebel
Solomon
vs.
David
Elijah
40 Days

13. Two Lessons
• You Can’t Go Back
• God Lives in the Promise of Future, go there.
“The steadfast love of the LORD never
ceases, his mercies never come to an
end; they are new every morning; great
is your faithfulness.”
(Lamentations 3:22–23, NRSV)