Rev. John Lukomski, retired LCMS pastor, joins host Rev. AJ Espinosa to study 1 Kings 17 and 16:29-34.
“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” We don’t even know it, but we are constantly being commanded by God, we along with everything around us. God’s Word is the powerful glue that holds everything together.
God normally commands His people to feed widows and the fatherless—not the other way around. But here in 1 Kings 17 the Word shows His power, reversing the weather, reversing fortunes, and reversing death itself. When God’s people fail in their calling, the rest of the world suffers. But God’s Word is strong to raise up children for Abraham from the sea of the Gentiles, and to give Abraham’s children an even greater resurrection in Jesus Christ.
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