FACING CRISES IN LIFE
Text: 2 Kings 4:38-44
9 March 2010
(I) FACING CRISES IN LIFE
1. Ministry in Gilgal (2 Kings 4:38a)
2. Crisis in the land: Famine (2 Kings 4:38b)
(II) MEALTIME WITH THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS
1. Servant of Elisha ordered to make stew (2 Kings 4:38c)
2. Foraging for food (2 Kings 4:39)
a) Gathering of herbs
b) Wild gourds found
c) Meal prepared for the sons of the prophets
3. Gastronomic Problem resolved
a) Poisonous gourd
“Man of God, there is death in the pot!” 2 Kings 4:40
b) Miracle performed
“And there was nothing harmful in the pot” 2 Kings 4:41
(III) SHORTAGE OF FOOD
1. Gifts from supporters
2. The gift of twenty loaves of barley bread
a) Firstfruits (2 Kings 4:42a)
b) Newly ripened grain (2 Kings 4:42b)
(IV) MIRACULOUS MULTIPLYING OF BREAD
1. Incredulity expressed by the servant of Elisha (2 Kings 4:43)
2. Miraculous multiplying of the barley loaves
“So he set it before them; and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD” 2 Kings 4:44