Burnt Hickory Baptist Church

1 Kings 19:1–9

1 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” 3 Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.” 5 Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” 6 He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again. 7 The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” 8 So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. 9 There he went into a cave and spent the night.

3 Actions We Need to Do Daily Prior to Shipping Off

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Hebrews 12:1–2

Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles… Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.

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“The great thing is to be found at one’s post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.”

— C. S. Lewis

Proverbs 27:12

The wise see danger ahead and avoid it, but fools keep going and get into trouble.

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Psalm 150:6

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

3 Truths in Scripture so we don’t shipwreck our faith

1. Hold on to the of God.

1 Timothy 1:18–19

18 Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well,19 holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith.

“Shipwrecks start with one small compromise here and then there.”

— David Nasser

1 Kings 19:3

Elijah was afraid and ran for his life.

Hebrews 13:5

I will never leave you nor forsake you.

2. Hold on to the that is within us.

1 Kings 19:5

Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”

1 Kings 19:7

The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.”

3. Hold on to the of Jesus.

“The great truth, then, stands out like a constellation flaming in its own solitary orbit, that there never was but one man who could gaze with complacency upon his work, and, with his expiring breath, exclaim, ‘It is finished!’ That man was the God — Man, Mediator, who, as the Son, and yet the Servant of the Father, relinquished his throne for a cross, that he might accomplish the redemption, work out the salvation of his Church — the people given to him of God — and who, on the eve of that redemption, and with all the certainty of an actual atonement, could thus breathe his intercessory petition to heaven, ‘I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.’”

— Octavius Winslow

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Shipwrecks In The Shallows

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3 Actions We Need to Do Daily Prior to Shipping Off

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3 Truths in Scripture so we don’t shipwreck our faith

1. Hold on to the of God.

2. Hold on to the that is within us.

3. Hold on to the of Jesus.

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