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1 Kings 18:20-24 (NIV) – [20] So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. [21] Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people said nothing. [22] Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the LORD’s prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets. [23] Get two bulls for us. Let them choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. [24] Then you call on the name of your god, and I will CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD. The god who answers by fire—he is God.” Then all the people said, “What you say is good.”
1. As the End draws near, call on the Name of the LORD.
2. When you are wavering, call on the Name of the LORD.
3. When your heart is divided, call on the Name of the LORD.
4. When you feel alone, call on the Name of the LORD.
1 Kings 19:14-15, 18 (NIV) – [14] Elijah replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” [15] The LORD said to him… [18] “Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and all whose mouths have not kissed him.”
Romans 11:2-5 (NIV) – [2] God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah — how he appealed to God against Israel: [3] “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”? [4] And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” [5] So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
1 Kings 18:36-39 (NIV) – [36] At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. [37] Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.” [38] Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench. [39] When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The LORD—he is God! The LORD—he is God!”
“Everything that Elijah did was according to the Word of the Lord (v. 36), including confronting the king and inviting him and the priests of Baal to a meeting on Mount Carmel. Ahab called Elijah ‘the troublemaker in Israel,’ but it was really Ahab whose sins had caused the problems in the land. Surely Ahab knew the terms of the covenant and understood that the blessings of the Lord depended on the obedience of the king and his people.” (Wiersbe Bible Commentary)
5. We must obey when we call on the Name of the LORD.
James 5:17-18 (AMP) – [17] Elijah was a human being with a nature such as we have [with feelings, affections, and a constitution like ours]; and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and no rain fell on the earth for three years and six months. [18] And [then] he prayed again and the heavens supplied rain and the land produced its crops [as usual].
6. We must pray earnestly when we call on the Name of the LORD.
“The clause he prayed fervently is literally ‘in prayer he prayed.’ This usage reflects the influence of the Hebrew idiom, and its function is to intensify the force of the statement… the force of the clause may be rendered ‘He prayed earnestly’, ‘He prayed and prayed’, ‘he prayed constantly,’ or ‘he prayed again and again.’” (UBS New Testament Handbook)
James 5:17-18 (MSG) – [17] Elijah, for instance, human just like us, PRAYED HARD that it wouldn’t rain, and it didn’t — not a drop for three and a half years. [18] Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.
7. The fire will fall when we call on the Name of the LORD.
Acts 2:1-4 (NIV) – [1] When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. [2] Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. [3] They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. [4] All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
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1 Kings 18:20-24 (NIV) – [20] So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. [21] Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people said nothing. [22] Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the LORD’s prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets. [23] Get two bulls for us. Let them choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. [24] Then you call on the name of your god, and I will CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD. The god who answers by fire—he is God.” Then all the people said, “What you say is good.”
1. As the End draws near, call on the Name of the LORD.
2. When you are wavering, call on the Name of the LORD.
3. When your heart is divided, call on the Name of the LORD.
4. When you feel alone, call on the Name of the LORD.
1 Kings 19:14-15, 18 (NIV) – [14] Elijah replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” [15] The LORD said to him… [18] “Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and all whose mouths have not kissed him.”
Romans 11:2-5 (NIV) – [2] God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah — how he appealed to God against Israel: [3] “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”? [4] And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” [5] So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
1 Kings 18:36-39 (NIV) – [36] At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. [37] Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.” [38] Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench. [39] When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The LORD—he is God! The LORD—he is God!”
“Everything that Elijah did was according to the Word of the Lord (v. 36), including confronting the king and inviting him and the priests of Baal to a meeting on Mount Carmel. Ahab called Elijah ‘the troublemaker in Israel,’ but it was really Ahab whose sins had caused the problems in the land. Surely Ahab knew the terms of the covenant and understood that the blessings of the Lord depended on the obedience of the king and his people.” (Wiersbe Bible Commentary)
5. We must obey when we call on the Name of the LORD.
James 5:17-18 (AMP) – [17] Elijah was a human being with a nature such as we have [with feelings, affections, and a constitution like ours]; and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and no rain fell on the earth for three years and six months. [18] And [then] he prayed again and the heavens supplied rain and the land produced its crops [as usual].
6. We must pray earnestly when we call on the Name of the LORD.
“The clause he prayed fervently is literally ‘in prayer he prayed.’ This usage reflects the influence of the Hebrew idiom, and its function is to intensify the force of the statement… the force of the clause may be rendered ‘He prayed earnestly’, ‘He prayed and prayed’, ‘he prayed constantly,’ or ‘he prayed again and again.’” (UBS New Testament Handbook)
James 5:17-18 (MSG) – [17] Elijah, for instance, human just like us, PRAYED HARD that it wouldn’t rain, and it didn’t — not a drop for three and a half years. [18] Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.
7. The fire will fall when we call on the Name of the LORD.
Acts 2:1-4 (NIV) – [1] When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. [2] Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. [3] They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. [4] All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.