Elijah on Mount Carmel: Lesson Three

Telling the truth will get you called a troublemaker.

Ahab looked at Elijah and called him the one who troubles Israel.

1 Kings 18:17 (KJV): And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

Elijah did not back down. He said the trouble came from forsaking the commandments of the LORD.

1 Kings 18:18 (KJV): And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.

He stood as one prophet against four hundred and fifty.

1 Kings 18:22 (KJV): Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

I would rather obey God than please men.

Acts 5:29 (KJV): Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.