A STORY OF PROVISION (4 OF 5)
Scripture: 1 Kings 17:1-16
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A Story of Provision (4 of 5)
Series: The Story I’ll Tell
Jordan Easley
1 Kings 17:1-16
It’s difficult... for many of us... to imagine LIFE without running water. Most of us have never lived in a time... or in a place... without grocery stores or vending machines or fast-food drive throughs.
And the interesting thing about our perspective is... For most of human history... thousands and thousands of years... luxuries like these just didn’t exist.
I grew up hearing stories from my grandparents... stories about fetching water from a stream... and having to walk outside in the middle of the night to use the restroom. That was less than 100 years ago!
But today... it’s different. If you’re hungry, you eat. If you’re thirsty, you drink. All of these necessities for life have been made readily available to most of us today... and I can’t help but wonder... how that’s affected our dependency on the Lord.
In Biblical days, the people had the same needs that we have today. They needed food to eat. They needed water to drink. But how they went about requesting those things and receiving those things looked completely different.
As we open God’s word to [1 Kings chapter 17] today, I want to begin by showing you what was happening in the land of Israel leading up to the time this was written...
You most likely remember a guy named King David-He was the man God used to unify the tribes of Israel into a Kingdom. God promised that from his line would come a Messianic King... who would one day establish God’s kingdom over the nations and fulfill the promises that were made to Abraham (like we read in Genesis 12).
Well, the book of 1 Kings gives us a long list of future Kings that would come after David-and none of them lived up to that promise. In fact, as you read this book you find that these Kings basically ran Israel into the ground.
When David died, his son Solomon took over... but before he died, David told his son to stay faithful to th ...
Series: The Story I’ll Tell
Jordan Easley
1 Kings 17:1-16
It’s difficult... for many of us... to imagine LIFE without running water. Most of us have never lived in a time... or in a place... without grocery stores or vending machines or fast-food drive throughs.
And the interesting thing about our perspective is... For most of human history... thousands and thousands of years... luxuries like these just didn’t exist.
I grew up hearing stories from my grandparents... stories about fetching water from a stream... and having to walk outside in the middle of the night to use the restroom. That was less than 100 years ago!
But today... it’s different. If you’re hungry, you eat. If you’re thirsty, you drink. All of these necessities for life have been made readily available to most of us today... and I can’t help but wonder... how that’s affected our dependency on the Lord.
In Biblical days, the people had the same needs that we have today. They needed food to eat. They needed water to drink. But how they went about requesting those things and receiving those things looked completely different.
As we open God’s word to [1 Kings chapter 17] today, I want to begin by showing you what was happening in the land of Israel leading up to the time this was written...
You most likely remember a guy named King David-He was the man God used to unify the tribes of Israel into a Kingdom. God promised that from his line would come a Messianic King... who would one day establish God’s kingdom over the nations and fulfill the promises that were made to Abraham (like we read in Genesis 12).
Well, the book of 1 Kings gives us a long list of future Kings that would come after David-and none of them lived up to that promise. In fact, as you read this book you find that these Kings basically ran Israel into the ground.
When David died, his son Solomon took over... but before he died, David told his son to stay faithful to th ...
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