REAPPEARING

I Kings 18:1-16

(Jas 5:17) Elias was a man subject to

like passions as we are, and he prayed

earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and

six months.

I. The DAYS of training to build Elijah

(1Ki 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.

(Job 14:1) Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of

trouble.

(Job 14:2) He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth

not.

(Psa 90:12) So teach us to

number our days, that we may apply

our hearts unto wisdom.

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(Gen 47:8) And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

(Gen 47:9) And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage

are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life

been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers

in the days of their pilgrimage.

(Mat 6:11) Give us this day our daily bread.

(Jas 4:13-14) Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell,

and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

I. The DAYS of training to build Elijah II. The DANGER presented to Elijah.

(1Ki 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.

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(2Co 5:7) (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

(Lam 3:51) Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my

city.

(1Ki 17:3-4) Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I

have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

(1Ki 17:9) Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a

widow woman there to sustain thee.

(1Ki 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.

(1Ki 18:2) And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in

Samaria.

I. The DAYS of training to build Elijah II. The DANGER presented to Elijah.III. The DEVOTED cohort brought to Elijah

(1Ki 18:7) 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?

(1Ki 18:8) And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

(Gen 2:18) And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will

make him an help meet for him.

(Luk 9:49-50) And John answered and said, Master, we saw one

casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us. And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.

(Ecc 4:9-12) Two are better than one; because they have a good

reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow:

but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat:

but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a

threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Obadiah and AhabDaniel and Nebuchadnezzar

Joseph and PharaohNehemiah and Artaxerxes

(1Ki 18:3) And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now

Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:

(1Ki 18:4) 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.)

(1Ki 18:12) 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.

(1Ki 18:8) And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

(1Ki 18:9) And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into

the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

(1Ki 18:12) 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.