Intense, isn't it?

If you just go casually come to church today, you're in the wrong place.

We're going to get after it.

All right, grab your Bibles.

We're in First Kings, Chapter 18.

We're in the third week of this series called Mountains, and we're just walking through some stuff God did on mountains.

It's going to lead us to Mount Calvary, which we'll talk about on Easter Sunday. But today we're on this mountain called Mount Carmel, First Kings, Chapter 18.

But in order to kind of get a little context of what's going to happen there,

we've got to first go to First King, Chapter 17,

because we're going to be studying this guy named Elijah like you saw in that video.

So I'm going to pick it up in First King's Chapter 17, beginning of verse one, just says this. Now Elijah, the Tishbite of Tishby, because that's where Tishbites are from,

I guess, in Gilead said to Ahab, as the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand,

there shall be neither do nor reign in these years

except by my word so what's going on here is Elijah he means the Lord is God

that's what his name means and he is a prophet of God and he goes up to Ahab and

Ahab is the king and Ahab essentially he's got his foot in one of two camps. He's got one foot kind of in the

God-Jahova camp, and he's got one foot in the world idol-worshipping kind of camp. And so the

Bible says that King Ahab is the most evil king up to this point in Israel's history, that he does

more evil than anybody else that all the other kings added together.

Now, somehow, in the beginning of Ahab's life and reign, he was a Jehovah follower.

He was a Godfather follower.

He was end to the Lord.

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