#92: Elijah and the Widow at Zarephath

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🗓️ 11 May 2020

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1 Kings 17 God called Elijah to go to Sidon, the very region from which Queen Jezebel had brought Baal worship. It was a pagan and ungodly land. Baal was the king of their gods. They worshiped Baal as the god of rain and dew. He was the god who “rode on the clouds.” But …

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the truth seekers podcast a truth seeker is someone who wants to know the truth they search for what's true and they won't rest until they find it I am a true seeker and if you are to then you've come to the right place where we will search for truth each week in the stories of the Bible.
0:18.0	I am so excited about today's episode. I can't even wait to introduce you to the man we are going to be learning
0:26.8	about today. Are you ready to meet him? Before we meet him, I want to remind you about the job of a prophet in the Old Testament.
0:37.0	I want to take a minute and talk about a prophet.
0:41.0	We've talked a lot about profits so far in our stories. Do you remember the names of some of the profits we have learned about so far?
0:49.0	Do you remember Samuel? Samuel was one of the greatest prophets of the Old Testament.
0:56.1	There were others like Nathan and A Hijia.
0:59.8	You might have noticed that a prophet's main job was to speak the words of the Lord.
1:06.7	The Bible says that the words God gave to Samuel never fell to the ground.
1:13.8	What does this mean?
1:15.4	How can words fall to the ground?
1:18.6	Well, it means that Samuel always spoke the words
1:22.2	God gave him to speak. Samuel never. Samuel always
1:25.0	obedient to speak. never ignored God's words, but he was always obedient to speak them.
1:30.0	Sometimes God gave the Prophet's words to speak to the people of Israel, and sometimes God gave words for the prophets to speak to the kings.
1:40.0	Whatever the Lord spoke to the prophets, they were to not let his words fall to the ground, but they were to be obedient and speak his words, whether they were words to the people or whether they were words to the kings.
1:56.1	They were kind of like God's messengers.
1:59.0	The reason God chose prophets to speak his words is because the people of Israel and the kings of Israel
2:06.2	were not always following God or listening to him for themselves.
2:11.2	When they were sinning, they could not hear from God because their hearts were hardened to
2:16.2	him. So God, because he loved his people, would send prophets to give them his words, to speak to them.
2:25.0	Now you can imagine that being a prophet took much courage.
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