01/22/17 Pastor Seth Gatchell Pacific Church of Irvine www.pacificchurch.com 15th message in a series entitled, "The Story'

1. The Story
God's Messengers to The Northern Kingdom

2. God's upper story. God wants to
be with us, and will pay any
price to make it so.

3. Overview Of The Northern Kingdom
Matthew 23:34 Therefore I am sending you
prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of
them you will kill and crucify; others you will
flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to
town.

4. Overview Of The Northern Kingdom
35 And so upon you will come all the righteous
blood that has been shed on earth, from the
blood of righteous Abel to the blood of
Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered
between the temple and the altar.

5. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
1 Kings 18:17 When he (King Ahab) saw Elijah,
he said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of
Israel?" 18 "I have not made trouble for Israel,"
Elijah replied. "But you and your father's family
have. You have abandoned the LORD's
commands and have followed the Baals.

6. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
19 Now summon the people from all over Israel
to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the
four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the
four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at
Jezebel's table." 20 So Ahab sent word
throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets
on Mount Carmel.

7. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
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.

8. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
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.

9. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
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.

10. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
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."

11. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose
one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there
are so many of you. Call on the name of your
god, but do not light the fire."

12. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
26 So they took the bull given them and prepared
it. Then they called on the name of Baal from
morning till noon. "O Baal, answer us!" they
shouted. But there was no response; no one
answered. And they danced around the altar
they had made.

13. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
27 At noon Elijah began to taunt them. "Shout
louder!" he said. "Surely he is a god! Perhaps he
is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe
he is sleeping and must be awakened." 28 So they
shouted louder and slashed themselves with
swords and spears, as was their custom, until
their blood flowed.

14. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
29 Midday passed, and they continued their
frantic prophesying until the time for the
evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no
one answered, no one paid attention.

15. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
30 Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come here
to me." They came to him, and he repaired the
altar of the LORD, which was in ruins.

16. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the
tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word
of the LORD had come, saying, "Your name
shall be Israel."

17. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of
the LORD, and he dug a trench around it large
enough to hold two seahs of seed.

18. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
33 He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces
and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them,
"Fill four large jars with water and pour it on
the offering and on the wood."

19. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
34 "Do it again," he said, and they did it again.
"Do it a third time," he ordered, and they did it
the third time. 35 The water ran down around the
altar and even filled the trench.

20. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
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.

21. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
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."

22. Elijah: Showdown at the Not OK Corral
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.

23. The Prophet Hosea
Hosea 1:2 When the LORD began to speak
through Hosea, the LORD said to him, "Go, take
to yourself an adulterous wife and children of
unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the
vilest adultery in departing from the LORD."

24. The Prophet Hosea
3 So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and
she conceived and bore him a son.."

25. The Prophet Hosea
Hosea 2:14 "Therefore I am now going to allure
her; I will lead her into the desert and speak
tenderly to her.

26. The Prophet Hosea
15 There I will give her back her vineyards, and
will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as
in the day she came up out of Egypt.

27. Hosea, and the Slave Auction
Hosea 3:1 The LORD said to me, "Go, show
your love to your wife again, though she is loved
by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the
LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to
other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes."

28. Hosea, and the Slave Auction
2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and
about a homer and a lethek of barley.

29. Hosea, and the Slave Auction
3 Then I told her, "You are to live with me many
days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate
with any man, and I will live with you."

30. Hosea, and the Slave Auction
4 For the Israelites will live many days without
king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones,
without ephod or idol. 5 Afterward the Israelites
will return and seek the LORD their God and
David their king. They will come trembling to
the LORD and to his blessings in the last days.

31. The Story
God's Messengers to The Northern Kingdom