What Are You Doing Here Elijah?

What are you doing here Elijah?

What are you doing here?

It’s a question that many have asked? Why am I here.

But actually, I’m asking what are you doing here?

What’s a person like you doing in a place like this?

1 Kings 16:30-33 - (Evil King Ahab & Jezebel)

30 Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the LORD than any of those before him. 31 He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. 32 He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. 33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.

Ahab was more wicked than any king before him

Married Jezebel

Caused Israel to follow Baal worship

History before this chapter:

Elijah said that rain will not fall until he prays it.

He then went to an area where there was a brook and ravens fed him.

Then the brook dried up and God sent him to a widow and he lived there and the flour and oil did not stop until he left and until it rained.

Then Elijah saw Ahab and challenged the prophets of Baal. God won! Prophets died.

Elijah then prayed for rain and ran before the Ahab’s chariot for a long distance (a miracle) all the way to Ahab to see Jezebel.

Joshua 24:14,15 - Choose who you will serve

14 “Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. 15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

Elijah wanted to turn the people’s hearts back to the Lord. One of the greatest events in the Bible!

With a Spiritual high - next comes the spiritual low?

Awe that will never happen to me!

Have you ever gone through heavy stress and needed to pull back?

Are you different, Do you stand firm?

Sometimes we like to say, “Let the wind blow! We are standing firm on the rock!”

Other times the devil backs us up against a wall and we become fearful and forget that God is our Rock!

Everyone else has failed but I will never fail! (stock market)

My daughter was brave hiding behind my leg until I moved out of the way.

1 Corinthians 10:12-13 - Take heed lest he fall - temptation common to man

12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

1 KIngs 19:1-4 - Jezebel says she will kill Elijah - Elijah runs for his life

1 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” 3 Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”

1 KIngs 19:5-8 - Angel came to prepare Elijah

5 Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” 6 He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again. 7 The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” 8 So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.