Video Notes: 

• 1 Kings 19:10, 1 Kings 9:18
• Elijah had one of the biggest situational and emotional rollercoaster rides ever.
  • Just before this, Elijah takes on the prophets of Baal on Mt. Carmel. The prophets of Baal are defeated. What an amazing victorious display. A true mountain-top experience.
  • Elijah goes to Jerusalem to tell the king and prays to God to end a 3-year drought. God sends rain that moment!
  • Then, instead of leading the nation back to God, Ahab, the king tells his wife Jezebel and she sends a message to Elijah that she’s going to have him killed.
  • Elijah flees, sits down under a broom tree and prays for God to take his life because he’s all alone.
• 7000 men. This is the number of people in Israel God told Elijah were still faithful, still believed. Between the number 7 and 1000, however, 7000 also has symbolic meaning. It is perfect and complete.
• Do you feel alone? This is a little bit of an aside from the purpose of this passage. In the passage, Romans is making the point that even though many Jews at the time Romans was written had turned away from God and rejected Jesus, some believed. God was preserving a remnant that would be full and complete.
• I’ll bet there were times Paul felt a lot like Elijah. Maybe when he went to the synagogue in a new town to tell his fellow Jews about the Jesus and they kicked him out or beat him.
• Sometimes you may feel like Elijah, all alone. Maybe you feel it relationally, maybe you feel it according to your faith, like you are the only Christian at work or in school, but you are not alone. Not only is God with you, but there are others. There is the church. Even as our culture falls further and further away from God, He will preserve a remnant that is perfect and complete. He will has not left you behind and He will not.