Sermon from RN Evans on 1 Kings 18:31 and 19:19 4/2/18 pm – Elijah and Elisha – The place to start

Extract

18:31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”

19:19 So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. Then Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him.

Main Points
1  Linking Numbers
2. The significance of 12
3. The significance of 24

Hymns of Praise
The hymns the congregation sang at this service were:
150 Thou art the everlasting word
210 Here is love deep as the ocean
783 O thou who camest from above
562 ’tis finished the Messiah dies