Elijah challenges the prophets of Baal to a contest on Mount Carmel to determine whose god is truly God. Elijah has the people of Israel pour water over a sacrifice three times to show it is God, not Baal, who controls both fire and water. When Elijah prays, fire falls from heaven and consumes the sacrifice, causing the people to acknowledge that the Lord is God. However, Jezebel threatens Elijah's life in response, causing him to flee into the wilderness where God appears to him through a gentle whisper rather than the dramatic events of wind, earthquake and fire.

1. saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, "The Lord-he is God! The Lord-he is God!" 1 Kings
Everyone Worships 18:38-39
Something There was one more false god to deal with…
Oct. 29 & 30, 2011 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done …So Jezebel sent a messenger to
WOODLAND Elijah to say, "May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomor-
row I do not make your life like that of one of them." I Kings 19:1-2
False gods what only the true God .
When (Ahab) saw Elijah, he said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of Israel?" "I Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. 1 Kings 19:3
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 “I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too." 1 Kings 19:10
Baals. 1 Kings 18:17-18
GOD REPLACES OUR WITH HIS .
Monotheism—belief there is God.
The Lord said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the
Polytheism—belief there are gods. Lord is about to pass by. "Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and
We’re monotheistic in our beliefs, but our practices are often very polytheis- shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind
tic. there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake
came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.
What is your false god? _____________________________________ When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the
mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” 1 Kings
ELIJAH’S PROPHETIC MESSAGE 19:11-13
Now summon the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel
…Elijah went before the people and said, "How long will you waver between Sometime we worship the and not God Himself.
two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him." But
the people said nothing. 1 Kings 18:19-21 We start thinking it on us.
“IT IS TIME TO QUIT .” “Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal
and whose mouths have not kissed him.” I Kings 19:18
Some common ways we waver today…
“You thought I was just like you!” (Ps. 50:21).
“God is not a man that He should change his mind” (1 Sam. 15:21) Elijah had a “Where did that come from?” moment.
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." 1 Kings 18:24
… 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 ser-
vant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, O Lord, an-
swer me, so these people will know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you are
turning their hearts back again." 1 Kings 18:36-37
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. When all the people