Part 4-Making a Choice - Fire From Heaven
Type of Event: Worship Service: Children & Adult
Date Recorded: May 02, 2010
Location: Ivyland New Church, PA
Topics: Temptations / Addiction, Regeneration / Spiritual Growth, Hope / Positive Living, Forgiveness / Repentance
Groups: Journey - Living Courageously - The Story of Elijah
Which choice - the Lord or selfishness - brings genuine love and lasting happiness?
Part Four of Living Courageously: the Story of Elijah
Correspondences in the story:
Elijah: the Lord as to the Word, esp. the literal sense.
Baal: falsity rooted in evil (specifically the loves of self and the world).
Prophets: teachers, or the teachings themselves.
A Mountain: an elevated, interior state of mind, esp. one of love or the heart.
Carmel: lit, a fruitful place, known for its vineyards; thus the spiritual person.
An Altar: worship (thus life).
A Bull, lit, a bullock or an ox: good will or charity in outward, natural life.
Wood: good works
Stone: truth as knowledge or information.
Water: the truth of faith.
Fire: love.
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Lessons and text
(1 Kings 18:1-2, 18-46; Matthew 6:24; TCR 399, 403)
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