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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

November 30, 2014

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Jeroboam

Nadab

Baasha

Elah

Zimri

Tibni

Omri

From 931 BC until 874 BC

Israel had seven kings,

Each progressively worse

than the ones before.

Each of them had opportunity

to repent from sin and to live

as God had taught them to live.

But they each and every one walked

in his own way of terrible sin.

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Many wicked men have been men of might and

renown; have built cities, and their names are

found in history; but they have no name in the

book of life.

Matthew Henry Concise Bible Commentary

The world honors such men,

but God does not.

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1 Kings 16: 28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was

buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his

stead. 29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa

king of Judah (874 years before Jesus came) began

Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and

Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in

Samaria twenty and two years.

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30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of

the LORD above all that were before him. 31 And it

came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him

to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,

that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal

king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal,

and worshipped him.

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32 And he reared up an altar

for Baal in the house of

Baal, which he had built in

Samaria.

Baal was the god of Jezebel,

and Ahab began to worship

him after he married her.

2 Corinthians 6 14 Be ye not unequally yoked

together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath

righteousness with unrighteousness? and what

communion hath light with darkness?

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33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to

provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all

the kings of Israel that were before him. 34 In his

days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid

the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and

set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub,

according to the Word of the LORD, which He

spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

His oldest son died as Hiel laid the foundation to

rebuild Jericho, and his youngest son died as he

raised up the gates to finish the city.

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Joshua 6 26 And Joshua adjured them at that time,

saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that

riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay

the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his

youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

It happened just as God said well

over a thousand years before.

God had just destroyed Jericho, as the

Israelites entered the Promised Land.

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In the time of King Ahab and

his wicked wife Jezebel, God

raised up a prophet.

Elijah

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1 Kings 17 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of

the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the

LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand,

there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but

according to my word.

We don’t know what Ahab’s immediate

reaction was, but when he told Jezebel, she

was going to be crazy mad.

God knew this and had a Plan to save Elijah.

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2 And the Word of the LORD

came unto Elijah, saying, 3 Get

thee hence, and turn thee east-

ward, and hide thyself by the

brook Cherith, that is before

(east of) Jordan. 4 And it shall

be, that thou shalt drink of the

brook; and I have commanded

the ravens to feed thee there. 5 So he went and did according

unto the Word of the LORD: for

he went and dwelt by the brook

Cherith, that is before Jordan.

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6 And the ravens brought him

bread and flesh in the

morning, and bread and flesh

in the evening; and he drank of

the brook. 7 And it came to

pass after a while, that the

brook dried up, because there

had been no rain in the land.

God had a Plan.

Some would say that if Elijah had been where God

wanted him, the brook wouldn’t have dried up.

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8 And the Word of the LORD

came unto him, saying, 9

Arise, get thee to Zarephath,

which belongeth to Zidon,

and dwell there: behold, I

have commanded a widow

woman there to sustain thee.

God had a widow and her son

to save in a pagan land.

The very area from which

Jezebel came.

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10 So he arose and went to

Zarephath. And when he

came to the gate of the city,

behold, the widow woman

was there gathering of

sticks: and he called to her,

and said, Fetch me, I pray

thee, a little water in a

vessel, that I may drink.

Elijah gave her something to do.

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11 And as she was going to

fetch it, he called to her,

and said, Bring me, I pray

thee, a morsel of bread in

thine hand.

Then he added

something to her task.

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12 And she said, As the

LORD thy God liveth, I

have not a cake, but an

handful of meal in a

barrel, and a little oil in a

cruse: and, behold, I am

gathering two sticks, that I

may go in and dress it for

me and my son, that we

may eat it, and die.

Her plan.

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13 And Elijah said unto her,

Fear not; go and do as thou

hast said: but make me

thereof a little cake first,

and bring it unto me, and

after make for thee and for

thy son. This is the principle of

giving to God first.

Proverbs 3 9 Honour the LORD with thy substance,

and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 10 So

shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy

presses shall burst out with new wine.

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14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The

barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the

cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD

sendeth rain upon the earth.

God’s Plan is always best!Psalm 37:23a (KJV) 23 The steps of a good man

are ordered by the LORD: