Elijah

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4 in a Series
November 8, 2009
Elijah
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Does God Ever Run Out of Patience?
Pastor Bill Cummins
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Proverbs 291 NIV

• A man who remains stiff-necked after many
  rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without
  remedy.

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• The Flood

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Genesis 65-6 NLT

• The LORD observed the extent of human wickedness
  on the earth, and He saw that everything they
  thought or imagined was consistently and totally
  evil. So the LORD was sorry He had ever made
  them and put them on the earth. It broke His
  heart.

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• The Flood
• Sodom and Gomorrah

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Genesis 1832 NIV

• What if only ten can be found? He answered,
  For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.

Genesis 1924 NIV
Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on
Sodom and Gomorrah from the LORD out of the
heavens.
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• The Flood
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• The country of Judah

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2 Chronicles 3611-16 NIV

• Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became
  king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.
  He did evil in the eyes of the LORD his God and
  did not humble himself before Jeremiah the
  prophet, who spoke the word of the LORD He
  became stiff necked and hardened his heart and
  would not turn to the LORD, the God of Israel.
  Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and
  the people became more and more unfaithful,
  following all the detestable practices of the
  nations they mocked Gods messengers, despised
  His words and scoffed at His prophets until the
  wrath of the LORD was aroused against His people
  and there was no remedy.

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• The Flood
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• The country of Judah
• One Person

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Acts 1221-24 NIV

• On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal
  robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public
  address to the people. They shouted, This is
  the voice of a god, not of a man. Immediately,
  because Herod did not give praise to God, an
  angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was
  eaten by worms and died. But the word of God
  continued to increase and spread.

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• The Flood
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• The country of Judah
• One Person
• Individuals

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1 Kings 2120-26 NIV

• Because you have sold yourself to do evil in the
  eyes of the LORD I am going to bring disaster on
  you. I will consume your descendants and cut off
  from Ahab every last male in Israel And also
  concerning Jezebel the LORD says Dogs will
  devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. Dogs will
  eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city,
  and the birds of the air will feed on those who
  die in the country. There was never a man like
  Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of
  the LORD, urged on by Jezebel his wife. He
  behaved in the vilest manner by going after
  idols.

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• There is an end to Gods ___________. No one
  knows when.

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Ecclesiastes 811 NLT

• When a crime is not punished quickly, people
  feel it is safe to do wrong.

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4 things to remember

• There is an end to Gods ___________. No one
  knows when.
• God always keeps His word. No one can ______
  _____.

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Daniel 526-30 NIV

• This is what these words mean Mene God has
  numbered the days of your reign and brought it to
  an end. Tekel You have been weighed on the
  scales and found wanting. Peres Your kingdom is
  divided and given to the Medes and Persians That
  very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians,
  was slain.

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4 things to remember

• There is an end to Gods ___________. No one
  knows when.
• God always keeps His word. No one can ______
  _____.
• We all tend compare ourselves to _________.

Patience
Stop Him
Others
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4 things to remember

• There is an end to Gods ___________. No one
  knows when.
• God always keeps His word. No one can ______
  _____.
• We all tend compare ourselves to _________.
• We all tend to _________________.

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4 things to remember

• There is an end to Gods ___________. No one
  knows when.
• God always keeps His word. No one can ______
  _____.
• We all tend compare ourselves to _________.
• We all tend to _________________.

Patience
Stop Him
Others
Procrastinate
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Written by an unknown monk around AD 1100 When
I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.
I found it was difficult to change the world, so
I tried to change my nation. When I found I
couldnt change the nation, I began to focus on
my town. I couldnt change the town, and as an
older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as
an old man, I realize the only thing I can change
is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long
ago I had changed myself, I could have made an
impact on my family. My family and I could have
made an impact on our town. Their impact could
have changed the nation, and I could indeed have
changed the world. Gary Smalley, Change Your
Heart Change Your Life, Thomas Nelson. Page 33.