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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Carlos Moretta

Woe Is Me

So welcome to Advent Hope Sabbath School, a Sabbath school of the Loma Linda University Church.

I wasn't here when this started, but I was here when there was averaging approximately 12 to 15 people.

And I heard some messages, some challenging messages, from this very pulpit, the 1 that says preach the word, when we were meeting in Burden Hall.

I went home sad sometimes, and sometimes my mind was just blown by the message, as maybe you have experienced, or maybe not.

But through this ministry I've grown spiritually and exponentially.

You may not know how far-reaching this very ministry is.

You may not know that it has a global footprint, but you are all supporting a ministry that has had a far, far-reaching influence.

Tim Irekawa and Curtis Farnham, a couple of the leaders of Advent Hope at that time, were the ones who developed AudioVerse.

And I don't know if you've ever gone onto the website, audioverse.org, and looked up at the very top bar where it says testimonials.

There's feedback there from the 1040 window about what's posted on AudioVerse.

And that started here in this Sabbath school.

Young people who said, I'm burdened by academics, I have a stack of books in front of me, and I'm going to do something big for God, not later, when I graduate, right now.

Young person, don't use excuses not to get involved and do something for God right now.

Our message this morning is titled, Woe is me.

And it's not a little intimidating for me to share this with you, but I'll explain why.

Dear Lord, I come before you now a little bit anxious about this message, but I ask, Father, that if someone within an earshot of my voice can be blessed by this message and my testimony, Lord, that you would work in their hearts a victory for the kingdom.

Just want to go over a few things first As I start Fast facts to remember Number 1.

I am the Lord I change not Malachi 3 6 Number 2 Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and what?

Forever number 3 in the hope of eternal life God which God who what?

Promise before the world began, so on and so forth.

And number 4 says, I am dental, not mental.

And I'll explain that a little bit later.

I am dental by trade, but I'm not mental.

We're going to look at 1 Kings 17, 18, and 19, those 3 chapters.

But I'm going to coast through it relatively quickly.

The first 3 of those bullet points that I pointed out there, I am the Lord, I change not.

Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in the hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.

If those 3 things are not true, if those 3 statements are not true, We're in trouble.

But since they are, and I believe they are, and they are in God's word, I will consider that God's exchanges with Elijah in these 3 chapters can apply to me as well.

1st Kings 17 verse 1, and Elijah the Tishbite, who was 1 of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, as the Lord of Israel liveth before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

And it shall be that thou shall drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

Verse 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.

Verse 9, Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there.

Behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

Verse 15, And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah, and she and he and her house did eat many days.

Again, we're filling in the gaps here, you understand.

He went to this widow, she had no food, she had very little left, and She said, look, I was just going to prepare this bread and this oil, and then I was going to feed it to my son and we were going to die.

But verse 15 says that they did eat for many days in the presence of Elijah as he pled to God.

Verse 16, and the barrel of meal wasted not, as it says, neither did the cruise of oil fail according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.

Verse 18, and she, the widow, said unto Elijah, what have I to do with thee?

O thou man of God, art thou come unto me to call my sin into remembrance and slay my son.

The same widow's son gets ill, ill unto death and dies.

And she believes that this is kind of on Elijah's head, right?

And Elijah cried unto the Lord, verse 20, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon this widow with whom I sojourn by slaying her son, verse 21.

And he stretched himself upon the child 3 times and cried unto the Lord and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.

Verse 22, and the Lord heard the voice of Elijah and the soul of the child came into him again and he revived.

Verse 1, And it came to pass after many days that the word of the Lord came unto Elijah in the third year saying, go, show thyself unto Ahab, for I will send rain upon the earth.

The 3 years that Elijah had proclaimed would be there would be no rain is now up and the Lord commands him go and tell Ahab there's a water coming, right?

Verse 24, and again, there's a little bit of time that develops or that passes by.

Of course, we are all familiar with the story with the prophets of Baal.

And verse 24 says, And call ye on the name of your gods, again, Elijah challenging the prophets of Baal, and I will call on the name of the Lord.

And the God that answereth by fire, let him be God.

And all the people answered and said it is well spoken.

Verse 38 again fire comes down right or should I say the prophets of Baal dance around they cut themselves they pray into their God for hours nothing happens.

Verse 38 then fire from the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust and licked up the water that was in the trench.

Verse 41, chapter 18, And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of the abundance of rain.

This is after the showdown on Mount Carmel.

And it came to pass, verse 45, in the meanwhile, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind and there was a great rain and Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.

Verse 46, And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins, and he ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

So Ahab makes it back to the palace and he tells Jezebel.

This is what happened on Mount Carmel Jezebel thinking that that she would be excited about what happened that we now have a God in Israel.

And Jezebel doesn't have the reaction that he was anticipating.

Verse 2 says that after hearing Ahab's message, Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah saying, so let the gods do to me and more also also if I make not thy life as the life of 1 of them, the prophets of Baal, by tomorrow about this time.

Verse 3, and when he saw that, he arose and ran and went for his life and came to Beersheba, which belonged to Judah, and left his servant there.

Verse 4, But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree, and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my father's.

Verse 8, and he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat for 40 days and nights, for 40 nights unto Horeb, the mount of God.

So again, under the threat of Jezebel, Elijah gets up, flees for his life in fear, sits under a juniper tree, cries out and wallows there, and he falls asleep, an angel comes, wakes him up.

Again, I'm filling in the gaps for the sake of time.

He falls asleep again, wakes him up again, gives him a little more food, the angel does.

He eats and drinks and then he goes 40 days on the strength of that food.

First Kings 19 verse 9, "'And he came hither, thither unto a cave and lodged there and behold the word of the Lord came unto him and he said in him What doest thou hear Elijah?

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