Hey church family if you got your bible uh we're going to be in first kings chapter 18 first kings

chapter 18 we'll pick it up in verse 17 it says and when ahab saw elijah so i guess i need to give you

a little context here elijah is a prophet of god ahab is an evil king of Israel. And the Bible says that

Ahab did evil in the side of the Lord. He marries a girl named Jezebel. And when he marries her,

he adopts her false worship. He begins to build like temples to the God of Baal and Astra and brings in prophets.

And so God has told Elijah now to go and confront the king of Israel.

And Elijah's coming off this kind of weird journey in his life.

He tells the nation of Israel there's going to be a

drought for three years, but then God tells him to go and hang out by the brook and he'll have

water, nobody else will have water, and that these birds will bring him food every morning and

every evening. And then one day the brook dries up because sometimes the brook dries up.

And Elijah doesn't know what to do. And so God tells him to go and feed this widow,

or actually this widow is going to feed him. And then there's miracle happens there where there's

an abundance of food. And the widow's child dies, and Elijah brings them back to life.

And then while he's out there, he bumps into one of the prophets that works for Ahab, and Elijah says,

you go get Ahab and tell him to meet me right here.

And there's going to be this showdown between Ahab's God and Elijah's God.

And so when Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, is it you, you troubler of Israel?

And he answered, I have not troubled Israel, but you have in your father's house because you have abandoned the commandments of the Lord and followed the Bales.

Now therefore, send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, the 450 prophets of Bail,

and the 400 prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel's table.

And so Ahab sent to all the people of Israel and gathered the

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