Naboth's Vineyard

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 1 Kings 21:1-29
July 14, 2024

Sermon Outline

1. The exchange between Ahab and Naboth

• Ahab’s offer

• Naboth’s refusal

2. Back at the palace

• Ahab sulks in his room

• Jezebel promises a solution

3. Jezebel’s murderous scheme

• The letters

• Who was blasphemed: Jehovah or Baal?

• The trial and the verdict

• Ahab takes possession

4. The exchange between Elijah and Ahab

• Elijah confronts Ahab in the vineyard

• Jehovah’s verdict on Ahab and Jezebel

5. God’s amazing grace

• Ahab’s change

6. Lessons

• Naboth is a picture of the lot of God’s people

• Such injustice is often inflicted by the government

• God’s servants must be prepared to pay a price for standing for justice

• God will intervene to bring justice to His wronged people

• God delights to exercise mercy while imposing his justice