…God’s power is the theme throughout Elijah’s life. My challenge to you has been to understand how God demonstrates His power in our lives. Remember: God displays His power for all to see – Not everyone believes. God controls His power to bless everyone – Not everyone receives. God withholds His power to protect everyone – Not everyone is protected. It is by faith God’s power is displayed in our lives. Faith is the key. Elijah lived by faith. Ahab in contrast refused to live by faith…

…This past Lord’s Day, our God showed us what we lack the most in this world. God is withholding it from non-believers because they are fighting against Him, and God is providing it in abundance to those who will “repent and believe” in Him. This is the blessing and power of God’s PEACE. Christians, and only Christians are at peace with God. There is no way to experience God’s peace while you are actively fighting against Him, His Word, and His Church…

…1 Kings 18, tells us it is the third year of the drought, and the “famine was severe in Samaria.” Could you imagine no dew, moisture, or rain for three years? Then something dramatic happens. God prepares Elijah to act, and God responds by directly challenging the power of Baal against His own. This is a dramatic scene, and Elijah is not only an eyewitness, but Elijah is the instrument of God’s power. God responds with fire from heaven, the removal of Baal’s priests, and by sending rain. God demonstrated His power as the only true God. The response – The people, “fell on their faces and said, ‘The Lord, He is God; the Lord, He is God.”…

…This coming Lord’s Day we will remain within the sermon series of Romans, but we will take a courtroom “sidebar” into the power of God. We all know God is omnipotent, all powerful. And we must learn about God’s power. We begin this sidebar from Paul’s introduction of God’s grace apart from the Law for salvation. Grace is one of many of God’s powers. Grace is not something God has. Grace is something God is. Big difference. For example: All of us have money, but none of us ARE money. Grace is the reason, the only reason God saved us. God saved us be the power of His grace, revealed in Jesus Christ, received in faith by all Christians…

…This Lord’s Day we addressed God’s response to our sin disease – Grace. We need God’s grace because we have sinned, we keep sinning, and we will sin again. We have a fatal disease, all of us do. God’s “medicine” for those who followed Him was His perfect Law. Obey God’s Law – No more sin. Sounds so simple, but it was impossible to achieve. This was the past, the Old Testament or the Old Covenant. Now, a new covenant or a New Testament has been made between God and those who follow Him. God’s Law was not amended, diminished, omitted, or weakened in any way because we could not fulfill it. So, God Himself came to us. God’s law was fulfilled in the life of Jesus Christ. Because the law was fulfilled by Jesus Christ, He became the required blood sacrifice, acceptable unto God for all those who could not. Jesus Christ is the sacrifice for sin, and every person’s sin: Past, present, and future. The medicine provided by Jesus Christ covered all of us who believe in Him for the forgiveness of our sins. God’s grace is a gift available to every person but must “received by faith.” …