This document contains a series of passages from the Bible discussing various topics. It begins with details about a church in Rossville, GA and includes passages about a widow with two sons in debt and on the verge of being enslaved to pay off debts, and how the prophet Elisha helped her. It also discusses a wealthy woman in Shunem who showed hospitality to Elisha, even building him a private room in her home, and how Elisha blessed her with a child later in life as she and her husband were already old. The document emphasizes themes of hospitality, generosity, contentment, and God providing for those who have faith in Him.

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Gospel Baptist Tabernacle
781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741
Where the Love of God
abounds, everyone is
welcome.
Children’s Church taught
by Paul and Marsha Davis
during preaching.
www.rossvillechurch.com
6-14-2015
Pastor’s phone
706-820-9513

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2 Kings 4 1 Now there cried
a certain woman of the
wives of the sons of the
prophets unto Elisha,
saying, Thy servant my
husband is dead; and thou
knowest that thy servant
did fear the LORD: and the
creditor is come to take
unto him my two sons to be
bondmen.
Danger of debt
Don’t take it lightly.

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Romans 13 8 Owe no man anything, but to love
one another: for he that loveth another hath
fulfilled the law.
Let no debt remain outstanding (lit., “Do not keep
on owing anyone anything”) except the continuing
debt to love one another (lit., “except loving one
another”).
The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty.

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This prophet died in debt, leaving his wife and two
sons vulnerable to the creditors.
This wife and mother did the only thing she could
do: She took it to the Lord through Elisha.
God did not ignore her plea.

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The taking of boys as... slaves in payment for debts
was not uncommon in the ancient Near East.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty.
Her boys would have
been old enough to
work, or they would
not have been
desirable.

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2 And Elisha said unto her,
What shall I do for thee? tell
me, what hast thou in the
house? And she said, Thine
handmaid hath not anything
in the house, save a pot of
oil. 3 Then he said, Go,
borrow thee vessels abroad
of all thy neighbors, even
empty vessels; borrow not a
few.
God would fill all
that she had.
Faith to believe and
obey

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4 And when thou art come
in, thou shalt shut the door
upon thee and upon thy
sons, and shalt pour out into
all those vessels, and thou
shalt set aside that which is
full. 5 So she went from
him, and shut the door upon
her and upon her sons, who
brought the vessels to her;
and she poured out.
Why shut the door?
To close out
unbelievers who might
have caused her or her
sons to doubt.

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6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full,
that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel.
And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more.
And the oil stayed. 7 Then she came and told the
man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay
thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
The oil ran until all the vessels they had were full;
then it stopped.
There was enough to pay all their debts and then
enough to live on throughout the drought.
What if they only borrowed a few?

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According to
their faith.

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Calling for the elders on church day or night
when I was a boy.
Luke 6 38 Give, and it
shall be given unto you;
good measure, pressed
down, and shaken
together, and running
over, shall men give into
your bosom. For with
the same measure that ye
mete withal it shall be
measured to you again.

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8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem,
where was a great woman; and she constrained him
to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed
by, he turned in thither to eat bread. 9 And she said
unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this
is an holy man of God, which passeth by us
continually.
She could recognize a Holy man of God by his
behavior, and was glad to feed him.
Unlike the widow we just studied, this Shunammite
woman was rich and had no material needs.

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10 Let us make a little
chamber, I pray thee, on
the wall; and let us set for
him there a bed, and a
table, and a stool, and a
candlestick: and it shall
be, when he cometh to
us, that he shall turn in
thither. 11 And it fell on a
day, that he came thither,
and he turned into the
chamber, and lay there.

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Would you want to welcome the man of God to
your home?
This woman and her husband did with no
reservations.
Be cautious; Welcome only the righteous.

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1 Timothy 6:18 (NIV) 18 Command them to do
good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous
and willing to share.
Hospitality and Generosity are obvious marks
of a true Christian.
The Shunammite had been good to Elisha, so
he wanted to do something special for her.

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12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this
Shunammite. And when he had called her, she
stood before him. 13 And he said unto him, Say now
unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with
all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest
thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of
the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine
own people.
She was content with where she was
and what she had.

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Philippians 4 11 Not that I speak in respect of want:
for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am,
therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be
abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere
and in all things I am instructed both to be full and
to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Contentment can be learned.

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14 And he said, What then is to be done for her?
And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child,
and her husband is old. 15 And he said, Call her.
And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
16 And he said, About this season, according to the
time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she
said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie
unto thine handmaid.
She didn’t want to be set up for disappointment.
She had learned to be content without a child.

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17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that
season that Elisha had said unto her, according to
the time of life.
Even though she feared the prophecy and the
disappointment it might bring,
God brought it to pass.