Elisha's Fiery Horses and Chariots

2 Kings
Written By Steve Estes

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 2 Kings 6:8-23
August 11, 2024

Sermon Outline

1. Intro: Secrets are sometimes hard to keep.

  • Aramean king’s secrets are being leaked.

  • The new prophet on the block

2. The Aramean king sends an army to capture Elisha.

3. God is with His people, even when they cannot see it.

  • First of three prayers

  • Picture the fiery beings.

  • Think of their number.

  • Think what the actual miracle was.

4. How God protected Elisha and his servant

  • Who made the first move?

  • Second of three prayers

  • Last of three prayers

5. God protects His people so that unbelievers may find that same protection in him.

  • How Israel treated the captured Arameans

  • What do we learn about God from this?

6. Lessons

Steve Estes

Steve Estes has been senior pastor at Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, Pennsylvania, for over thirty-five years. 

Steve’s books and other writings began with his longtime friendship with Joni Eareckson Tada. As teenagers, they grappled with why God allowed Joni’s paralysis in a swimming accident in the Chesapeake Bay. Steve left for college . . . they kept in touch . . . she liked the style of his letters. When her 1976 autobiography Joni spawned thousands of reader responses, she asked Steve to join her in crafting a follow-up. The result was A Step Further in 1978.

Later, Wycliffe Bible Translators commissioned Steve to write the biography of former college friend Chet Bitterman, a Wycliffe linguist who was kidnapped and murdered by political terrorists in Colombia in 1981. Other books and articles followed, including When God Weeps (with Joni) and A Better December (a giveaway book for non-Christian friends at Christmas.)

Steve was educated at Westminster Theological Seminary, Columbia Bible College and Jerusalem University College in Israel. He has taught homiletics at Westminster and is a board member of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation.

But Steve would say his most significant life achievement was persuading college classmate Verna Stoltzfus to marry him in 1974.  They now have eight children and more grandchildren than can fit in a van.

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