Sunday, August 11, 2024
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Sermon Text: 1 Kings 19:1-8
"[1] Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. [2 ] Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, ‘So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.’ [3] Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. [4] But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, ‘It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.’ [5] And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, ‘Arise and eat.’ [6] And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again. [7] And the angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, ‘Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.’ [8] And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God."
Sermon Theme: "No Better"