Sermon from RN Evans on 1Kings 19:19-21 28/1/18 pm – Revisiting Elijah and Elisha Extract 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. 20 And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?” 21 So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant. Main Points 1 The context of famine 2. Famine and the people of God 3. The word of the Lord Hymns of Praise The hymns the congregation sang at this service were: 100 When all Thy mercies, O my God 123 How sweet the name of Jesus sounds 7 Your mercy flows upon us like a river 728 Guide me O Thou great Jehovah

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