1. Divided Loyalties
1 Kings 18 v 1-16
Elijah meets
Obadiah

2. IKing 18:1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

3. I King 18:5-6 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

4. A Man
With
Divided Loyalties

5. I King 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?
And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.

6. Matt 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

7. A Man
Who Was
Devoted To
A Lifestyle

8. v9 What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me.
v12 I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me:
14 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.

9. Heb 11: By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.

10. Prov 8:18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
Prov 10:22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
The Risen Lord says to the Luke warm Church of the La-od-I-ce-ans
Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich;

11. Matt 6: lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

12. A man
Who Was
Destitute
Of Lowliness

13. I Kings 18:13
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

14. I King 18:15 And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him to day.