Elijah and the Prophets of Baal

Let’s read together from 1 Kings chapter 18:17-45. This is the story of Elijah’s confrontation with the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel and Elijah’s confrontation of the gods, the false gods, at Mount Carmel. And it unveils really the big theme of the whole book of Kings, the first and second books of Kings, and that’s that in every story throughout the books of Kings there’s a choice to be made, and that choice is often based upon the first commandments - “You shall have no other gods,” only the one true God. And this is one of the epitomes of that motif throughout the books of the Kings, that there’s a choice here between gods to discern and differentiate the gods, to discern between the spirits, to choose life or death, to choose here the desert or the vineyard is the choice that’s being given. So, let me pray and then we’ll read it together. Let’s pray.

Let’s read together from 1 Kings chapter 18:17-45. This is the story of Elijah’s confrontation with the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel and Elijah’s confrontation of the gods, the false gods, at Mount Carmel. And it unveils really the big theme of the whole book of Kings, the first and second books of Kings, and that’s that in every story throughout the books of Kings there’s a choice to be made, and that choice is often based upon the first commandments - “You shall have no other gods,” only the one true God. And this is one of the epitomes of that motif throughout the books of the Kings, that there’s a choice here between gods to discern and differentiate the gods, to discern between the spirits, to choose life or death, to choose here the desert or the vineyard is the choice that’s being given. So, let me pray and then we’ll read it together. Let’s pray.