When Elijah calls on God to defend his divine appointment God sends down fire on the Ahaziah’s captain of fifty and his men. When Ahaziah sends another contingent god does the same. This shows that God is not someone to be messed around with; he is a consuming fire. When the third captain pleads for mercy he is spared. God shows mercy to those who ask for mercy because the Lord Jesus was judged in their place.
We Believe 12: God is My Father
The Christian name for God is "Father". Those who are justified by faith in Jesus Christ have received the Holy Spirit of adoption who assures God’s children that they are God’s children and heirs of God.
Read Romans 8:1-17
Prophetable Encounters 11: The Righteous Suffer
In Ahab's murder of Naboth we see that the righteous suffer and that God will vindicate his people by punishing the wicked. Because of the death of the Lord Jesus, the righteous sufferer par excellence, God can offer grace and forgiveness to his suffering servants whose eternal inheritance will never be taken away.
Read 1 Kings 21
We Believe 8: Of Christ Our Mediator
Christ as our Mediator is one of the foundational doctrines of the Church. It is a doctrine that is thrilling to the heart of the believer, but also amazingly complex, and in many ways beyond our ability to fully comprehend it.
Read Hebrews 5:1-10
We Believe 7: The Covenant of Grace
In Jesus' temptation in the wilderness he prevailed over Satan, a direct contrast to Adam's failure in the Garden of Eden. Since Adam failed and Christ prevailed to escape the condemnation of Adam's sin we must by faith be united to the Last Adam, Jesus Christ.
Prophetable Encounters 10: The Cost of Serving the Lord
In God's call to Elisha we see that God calls us to joyful and total commitment to him. His total ownership on our lives is reiterated in Jesus' words about the cost of discipleship.
Read 1 Kings 19:19-21
Prophetable Encounters 9: Covenant Persecution
Elijah prosecutes the people of God for their persistent disobedience and idolatry. God announces judgement against his people but that is not his final word or his preferred word. His final and preferred word is his Son Jesus Christ who is full of grace and truth.
Read: 1 Kings 19:9-18
We Believe 6: In Adam's Fall We Sinned All
In Adam's fall we sinned all. When Adam, humanity's representative, sinned, all humanity became sinners and death and condemnation for all resulted.
Read Romans 5:12-21
Prophetable Encounters 8: Down But Not Out
Elijah, broken by Jezebel's continued venom and the apparent hopelessness of spiritual reformation in Israel as long as she is calling the shots, is ministered to by his Lord and is being prepared for recommissioning as his servant.
Read 1 Kings 19:1-9
We Believe 5: God's Providence
Every event, from the most insignificant to the most course-of-history-changing, is planned and directed by God long before these events occurred, indeed, from all eternity. Christians are cautioned against misusing providence to determine God's will and encouraged to trust and submit to God's, often mysterious, plans for our lives as he pursues his glory and our good.
Read Genesis 45:1-11; 50:15-21