A Day of Good News
2 Kings 6, 7
Background:
Siege against Samaria (vs 24)
• Inside the city - great famine (vs 25)
• Donkey head - 80 shekels, 5 shekels for a little grain
• When hungry money doesn’t mean much
• Women were eating their young (vs 26-30)
Elisha’s message to the King ( 7:1)
• Suffering is ended - provision will return
• Kings officer doubts (vs 2)
Four lepers (vs 3)
• Either way we will die (vs 3-4)
• The camp was empty (vs 5)
• Went into camp and ate (vs 8)
• Another tent - and stashed gold and stuff
• What we are doing is wrong (vs 9)
• It’s a day of good news
• Let us report to the Royal palace.
The King takes action (vs 12)
• Thought it might be a trap (too good to be true)
• Take the horses that are left (vs 13)
• Two chariots (probably had more)
• Sent them after the Aramean army (vs 14)
The People took the plunder (vs 16)
• Words of the prophet came true
• Kings officer saw but did not eat
The Analogy:
Under siege all around us (enemy)
• Spiritual starvation -
• Things thought unreasonable now seem reasonable
• Young boy kills sister (human condition)
• Our church - they’re waiting for us to fold
The prophets message (Christ) "I’m with you to the end of the age"
Our Message - a beggar telling another beggar where we found bread
• They are hungry and starving
• We are not doing right (7:9) if we are keeping the news to ourselves
The enemy is routed before us! - even with skinny horses
Let’s pray for the sound of chariots, horses and a great army
