9/22/24 Worship Service & Sermon: Jehu Destroys Ahab’s House & Baal Worship - 2 Kings 10

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9/22/2024 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Worship Leader: Dave Dailey
Sermon: Steve Estes
Scripture: 2 Kings 10
Title: Jehu Destroys Ahab's House and Baal Worship

Notes:

1. Destroying Ahab's house
A. Jehu's challenge
B. Heads roll in Samaria
C. Jehu seeks support of citizens and soldiers in Jezreel
D. Jehu slaughters Ahab's house in Jezreel

2. Meeting relatives of Judah's recently departed king
A. Remember Ahaziah?
B. The deadly meeting on the road to Samaria

3. Meeting a most unusual man
A. Jehonadab the Recabite
B. Jehonadab joins Jehu
C. The principle of this part of the passage

4. Killing Baal worship
A. A compulsory command
B. Death and destruction

5. What are we to think of this chapter?
A. Christian, don't be naive about politics
B. God uses scary unbelievers to achieve His holy purposes
C. God often rewards unbelievers (in this life) for the good they do
D. It won't do to abandon the sins we don't like, but cling to the sins we do like

#jehu #ahab #baal

7/21/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: The Death of Ahab - 1 Kings 22

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7/21/2024 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Scripture: 1 Kings 22
Title: The Death of Ahab
Worship Leader: TJ Waldy
Speaker: Steve Estes

Notes:

1. A meeting between Ahab and Jehoshaphat
A. The significance of Gilead
B. Ahab proposes to retake Ramoth Gilead
C. Jehoshaphat's request

2. Pressure on Micaiah
A. The pressure in general
B. One pressure in particular

3. Micaiah speaks the truth
A. Micaiah's sarcastic sycophantic answer
B. Micaiah's serious, truthful answer
C. Micaiah recounts his vision

4. Micaiah is punished for speaking the truth
A. Zedekiah slaps Micaiah
B. Ahab incarcerates Micaiah

5. Ahab dies in battle
A. The battle proper
B. God's sovereignty in the battle
C. Ahab's burial
D. A summary of Ahab's life

6. A final word

#ahab #jehoshaphat #micaiah #God

7/14/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: Naboth’s Vineyard - 1 Kings 21:1-29

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7/14/2024 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Scripture: 1 Kings 21:1-29
Title: Naboth's Vineyard
Worship Leader: Matt Griffith
Pastor: Steve Estes

Notes:

1. The exchange between Ahab and Naboth
A. Ahab's offer
B. Naboth's refusal

2. Back at the palace
A. Ahab sulks in his room
B. Jezebel promises a solution

3. Jezebel's murderous scheme
A. The letters
B. Who was blasphemed: Jehovah or Baal?
C. The trial and the verdict
D. Ahab takes possession

4. The exchange between Elijah and Ahab
A. Elijah confronts Ahab in the vineyard
B. Jehovah's verdict on Ahab and Jezebel

5. God's amazing grace
A. Ahab's change

6. Lessons
A. Naboth is a picture of the lot of God's people
B. Such injustice is often inflicted by the government
C. God's servants must be prepared to pay a price for standing for justice
D. God will intervene to bring justice to His wronged people
E. God delights to exercise mercy while imposing His justice

#ahab #elijah #naboth

7/72024 Worship Service & Sermon: Ahab vs. Ben-Hadad - 1 Kings 20

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7/7/2024 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Scripture: 1 Kings 20
Title: Ahab vs. Ben-Hadad
Worship Leader: Matt Lambert
Sermon: Pastor Steve Estes

Notes:

1. The thread
A. Ben Hadad's invasion
B. Israel's desperate condition
C. Ben Hadad's intimidating demands

2. The first battle
A. An unnamed prophet advises Ahab
B. An Israelite victory stuns Ben Hadad

3. The second battle
A. Both sides regroup
B. Arameans march to Aphek the following year
C. Why does Ahab pardon Ben Hadad?

4. A prophet condemns Ahab
A. The story
B. What was Ahab's sin?

5. Getting clear about God
A. Getting clear about God's grace
B. Getting clear about God's power
C. Getting clear about God's judgment

#ahab #benhadad #God

5/26/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: Rain, Grace & Second Chances - 1 Kings 18:41-46

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5/26/2024 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: 1 Kings 18:41-46
Title: Rain, Grace, & Second Chances
Worship Leader: John Sletta
Sermon: Senior Pastor Steve Estes

And Elijah said to Ahab, "Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain." So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees. "Go and look toward the sea," he told his servant. And he went up and looked. "There is nothing there," he said. Seven times Elijah said, "Go back." The seventh time the servant reported, "A cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea." So Elijah said, "Go and tell Ahab, 'Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.'" Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain came on and Ahab rode off to Jezreel. The power of the LORD came upon Elijah and, tucking his cloak into his belt, he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

Notes:

1. Ahab and Elijah

2. The text's first great lessons come by watching Elijah pray
A. Prayer in public must be fueled by prayer in private
B. Prayer must follow (not just precede) our spiritual accomplishments
C. Prayer should major on God's agenda, not ours
D. Prayer should be in earnest

3. The text's final great lesson comes by watching Elijah run
A. Ahab's ill-desert
B. God's grace

#Ahab #Elijah #prayer #grace`