The Silent Majority

The Silent Majority

God said to Elijah 

"What are you doing here, Elijah?"

"Go back the way you came”

While the Silent Majority has been fighting for America (founding values)

A Vocal Minority has been fighting against America (founding values)

There are many good reasons we have been silent, doing good works

Some of us in making a better home and a better America

Have gotten too busy to build our faith and our lives have less of God than before

We have gotten too busy to pray, attend church, share Christ and make disciples

Others of us who have not bowed our Knee to Baal

Have gone into hiding like Elijah

I am not saying we should go to the street and protest and riot

But I do believe God is saying to all of us

"What are you doing here"

"Go back the way you came”

Get out of this place of hopelessness

Go back to proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ and making disciples

The Silent Majority

Jezebel was a wicked woman,

she married Ahab King of Israel.

Israel had already been divided in half…

The northern Kingdom of Israel

and the southern Kingdom of Judah.

The Kingdom of Israel had drifted away

from the Lord and made it an easy transition

for Jezebel to tear down the altars

of the Lord and build altars to Baal.

Jezebel had the prophets of the Lord killed and it

seemed there was no one left, but the prophet Elijah.

Jezebel had it out for Elijah

and he was running and hiding.

Elijah came to the place where he prayed…

 

He came to a broom tree, sat down under

it and prayed that he might die.

"I have had enough, LORD," he said.

"Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors."

1 Kings 19:4

This is an amazing time of prayer

you can read about in 1 Kings 19.

In the end, the voice of the Lord said to Him…

"What are you doing here, Elijah?"

1 Kings 19:13

Elijah had come to his breaking

point, a point of hopelessness.

He had had it…

 His world was so bad he did

not want to live there anymore.

More and more I hear Christians wanting

the Lord to come back and take them out

of the world and into heaven…

 A cry for God to rapture His Church.

Elijah realized Israel did not get into

this place of godlessness overnight.

 

The people of God allowed the slow

erosion of their faith and now Elijah

was giving up just like his ancestors.

God did not answer Elijah’s request to die.

What God says was…

 "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

In 1 Kings 19:14, Elijah says in his defense…

I am the only one left, and now

they are trying to kill me too.

1 Kings 19:14

Then God says…

"Go back the way you came”

1 Kings 19:15

Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel —

all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal

and all whose mouths have not kissed him."

1 Kings 19:18

There were two silent groups…

The ancestors and the seven thousand.

American was founded as a

nation for freedom of religion.

Over the centuries there

have been a silent majority.

As I look at our nation today, the

political hatred, the riots in the streets…

The minority groups are being

very vocal, who detest Christians.

I have asked myself the question,

why has the majority been silent?

The silent majority has been busy building

strong families and a strong America.

We have been busy working day in and

day out to provide for our families.

And providing services for

others in our communities.

We have tried to make America a

better place for us and our families.

It has taken a lot of work for us to build

a strong America and strong families.

We have built hospitals, schools,

fed the poor, we have been

faithfully doing Matthew 25:35-36.

As we have been building the Kingdom of God…

At the bases of America’s foundation,

 there are those who have been fighting

against America’s founding values.

Much argument has been made concerning

the separation of Church and State.

The foundation of this statement was to

protect the Church from the State…

 But it has been turned around to silence

the Church in political matters.

Which is the opposite of America’s foundation.

God said to Elijah…

 

"What are you doing here, Elijah?"

"Go back the way you came”

While the silent majority has been

fighting for America (founding values)…

A vocal minority has been fighting

 against America (founding values).

There are many good reasons we

have been silent doing good works.

Some of us in making a better home

and a better America have gotten too

busy to build our faith…

And our lives have less of God than before.

We have gotten too busy to pray,

attend church,

share Christ and make disciples.

Others of us,

who have not bowed our

Knee to Baal,

have gone into hiding like Elijah.

I am not saying we should go

to the street and protest and riot.

But I do believe God is saying to all of us…

"What are you doing here?"

"Go back the way you came”

Get out of this place of hopelessness.

Go back to proclaiming the Good News

of Jesus Christ and making disciples.

Jesus said about John the Baptist,

that he was the Elijah to come…

From the days of John the Baptist until now,

the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing,

and forceful men lay hold of it.

For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.

And if you are willing to accept it,

he is the Elijah who was to come.

 He who has ears, let him hear.

Matthew 11:12-15

Jesus was very aware of

the strong resistance and said…

 The kingdom of heaven has

been forcefully advancing,

and forceful men lay hold of it

What was John’s message?

A message preparing the way of the Lord.

Matthew 11:10

Though John was preaching in a wilderness…

His message was heard throughout

the land and even in the political areas.

I pray God will reveal to you

and I how to come out of silence.

To forcefully lay hold of the Kingdom.

To proclaim and prepare the way of the Lord.

 Scripture Reading

Romans 11:1-12 NIV

11:1 I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don't you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah — how he appealed to God against Israel: 3 "Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me"? 4 And what was God's answer to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal."   5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.  

7 What then? What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened, 8 as it is written:

"God gave them a spirit of stupor,

eyes so that they could not see

and ears so that they could not hear,

to this very day."   9 And David says:

"May their table become a snare and a trap,

a stumbling block and a retribution for them.

10 May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,

and their backs be bent forever."  

11 Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. 12 But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!