“Let not one of them escape.”
\n — 1 Kings 18:40<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWhen the prophet Elijah had received the answer to his prayer, and the
\nfire from heaven had consumed the sacrifice in the presence of all the
\npeople, he called upon the assembled Israelites to take the priests of
\nBaal, and sternly cried, “Let not one of them escape.” He took them all
\ndown to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. So must it be with our
\nsins-they are all doomed, not one must be preserved. Our darling sin
\nmust die. Spare it not for its much crying. Strike, though it be as
\ndear as an Isaac. Strike, for God struck at sin when it was laid upon
\nhis own Son. With stern unflinching purpose must you condemn to death
\nthat sin which was once the idol of your heart. Do you ask how you are
\nto accomplish this? Jesus will be your power. You have grace to
\novercome sin given you in the covenant of grace; you have strength to
\nwin the victory in the crusade against inward lusts, because Christ
\nJesus has promised to be with you even unto the end. If you would
\ntriumph over darkness, set yourself in the presence of the Sun of
\nRighteousness. There is no place so well adapted for the discovery of
\nsin, and recovery from its power and guilt, as the immediate presence
\nof God. Job never knew how to get rid of sin half so well as he did
\nwhen his eye of faith rested upon God, and then he abhorred himself,
\nand repented in dust and ashes. The fine gold of the Christian is oft
\nbecoming dim. We need the sacred fire to consume the dross. Let us fly
\nto our God, he is a consuming fire; he will not consume our spirit, but
\nour sins. Let the goodness of God excite us to a sacred jealousy, and
\nto a holy revenge against those iniquities which are hateful in his
\nsight. Go forth to battle with Amalek, in his strength, and utterly
\ndestroy the accursed crew: let not one of them escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Let not one of them escape.” — 1 Kings 18:40 When the prophet Elijah had received the answer to his prayer, and the fire from heaven had consumed the sacrifice in the presence of all the people, he called upon the assembled Israelites to take the priests of Baal, and sternly cried, “Let not one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}