Peter Barnes | 1 Kings 19:1-21
SERMON NOTES
COMING OFF A HIGH
1 Kings 19:1-21; Matthew 11:1-19
– danger after an intense experience
1. Signs of depression
(a) fear
– 19:1-3. When John Chrysostom was threatened by the empress Eudoxia in the early fifth century, he replied: ‘Go tell her I fear nothing but sin.’
(b) a death wish
– 19:4, like Job, Jonah and Jeremiah at certain times.
(c) a jaundiced view of life
– 19:10, 14; it is the right kind of jealousy (Ex. 20:4-5), but he neglects that God has preserved 7,000 men (19:18).
2. God’s remedies
(a) He feeds Elijah
– 19:5-8. Scripture is both spiritual (Matt.6:33; 16:26) and physical (1 John 3:17; Mark 6:31).
(b) He rebukes Elijah
– 19:9, 11-13; like Gen.3:9; see Ps.27:13-14.