1 Kings seen from the perspective of the gospel of the water and the Spirit (IV) Castos https://english-86.castos.com The First Kings Biblical Exposition series you are now listening to consists of twenty-two chapters and is divided into four volumes. This fourth volume covers First Kings chapters eighteen through twenty-two. The content is organized by topic and divided into two sections: Biblical Exposition and Sermon. The fire on Mount Carmel and the still small voice, Naboth’s vineyard and Micaiah’s cry—what do they say to us today? 1 Kings chapters 18–22 show a faith that believes and follows the LORD alone as the true God and keeps the entrusted gospel to the very end. God restored the weary Elijah, and He also enabled Israel’s small army to defeat the great Syrian forces. Elijah’s prophetic ministry was later carried forward by John the Baptist in the New Testament. By the baptism He received from John the Baptist, Jesus took the sins of the world upon Himself, died on the Cross, and by rising again completed salvation through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Do not be afraid because your number is small. Do not make the church of God and the gospel your own personal possession, but like the prophet Micaiah, who preached the word of God even before four hundred prophets, boldly preach this gospel of life, the gospel of the water and the Spirit. ● Scripture quotations used in this book are from the ‘New King James Version (NKJV)’, ‘American Standard Version (ASV)’. ● This audiobook is an original human creation based on the sermons of Rev. Paul C. Jong. To provide clear delivery and a comfortable listening experience, AI technology was employed only for the voice generation. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:42:14 +0000 en Copyright © 2026 Hephzibah Publishing House https://episodes.castos.com/63523b79413e35-56452255/images/English-86.jpg 1 Kings seen from the perspective of the gospel of the water and the Spirit (IV) https://english-86.castos.com The First Kings Biblical Exposition series you are now listening to consists of twenty-two chapters and is divided into four volumes. This fourth volume covers First Kings chapters eighteen through twenty-two. The content is organized by topic and divided into two sections: Biblical Exposition and Sermon. The fire on Mount Carmel and the still small voice, Naboth’s vineyard and Micaiah’s cry—what do they say to us today? 1 Kings chapters 18–22 show a faith that believes and follows the LORD alone as the true God and keeps the entrusted gospel to the very end. God restored the weary Elijah, and He also enabled Israel’s small army to defeat the great Syrian forces. Elijah’s prophetic ministry was later carried forward by John the Baptist in the New Testament. By the baptism He received from John the Baptist, Jesus took the sins of the world upon Himself, died on the Cross, and by rising again completed salvation through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Do not be afraid because your number is small. Do not make the church of God and the gospel your own personal possession, but like the prophet Micaiah, who preached the word of God even before four hundred prophets, boldly preach this gospel of life, the gospel of the water and the Spirit. ● Scripture quotations used in this book are from the ‘New King James Version (NKJV)’, ‘American Standard Version (ASV)’. ● This audiobook is an original human creation based on the sermons of Rev. Paul C. Jong. To provide clear delivery and a comfortable listening experience, AI technology was employed only for the voice generation. 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By the baptism He received from John the Baptist, Jesus took the sins of the world upon Himself, died on the Cross, and by rising again completed salvation through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Do not be afraid because your number is small. Do not make the church of God and the gospel your own personal possession, but like the prophet Micaiah, who preached the word of God even before four hundred prophets, boldly preach this gospel of life, the gospel of the water and the Spirit. ● Scripture quotations used in this book are from the ‘New King James Version (NKJV)’, ‘American Standard Version (ASV)’. ● This audiobook is an original human creation based on the sermons of Rev. Paul C. Jong. To provide clear delivery and a comfortable listening experience, AI technology was employed only for the voice generation. The New Life Mission shin2954@naver.com false https://feeds.castos.com/3mdrp yes <![CDATA[Preface]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:42:14 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560234 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/preface Dear readers, Through this book I wish to share with you the Word of 1 Kings, chapters 18 through 22. These words begin with the event at Mount Carmel in which the hearts of the people of Israel, who had been faltering between God and Baal, turned back to God; they go on to record the course by which Elijah, losing heart before Jezebel’s threat, was raised up again by God’s still, small Word; the disobedience of Ahab, who followed his own will even after receiving victory from God twice; and the greed that seized Naboth’s vineyard, and the death of Ahab, who rejected the Word Micaiah delivered. In all these events is contained the important truth that only the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the true Word of salvation that brings sinners to life, and that we must not use the gospel and the souls God has entrusted to us for our own private desires.

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]]> full 1 false Dear readers, Through this book I wish to share with you the Word of 1 Kings, chapters 18 through 22. These words begin with the event at Mount Carmel in which the hearts of the people of Israel, who had been faltering between God and Baal, turned back to God; they go on to record the course by which Elijah, losing heart before Jezebel’s threat, was raised up again by God’s still, small Word; the disobedience of Ahab, who followed his own will even after receiving victory from God twice; and the greed that seized Naboth’s vineyard, and the death of Ahab, who rejected the Word Micaiah delivered. In all these events is contained the important truth that only the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the true Word of salvation that brings sinners to life, and that we must not use the gospel and the souls God has entrusted to us for our own private desires.

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]]> 00:19:07 <![CDATA[Ch18_01_Biblical Exposition_Overview of the Entire Content • From the Perspective of the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:42:11 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560233 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch18-01-biblical-exposition-overview-of-the-entire-content-from-the-perspective-of-the-gospel-of-t 1 Kings chapter 18 records the process in which, while the long drought continued, Elijah met Ahab, confronted the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel and revealed who the true God is, and then a heavy rain fell again. The heart of this chapter lies in the people of Israel abandoning the state in which they had been faltering between God and Baal, and turning their hearts back to the living God.

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]]> full 2 false 1 Kings chapter 18 records the process in which, while the long drought continued, Elijah met Ahab, confronted the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel and revealed who the true God is, and then a heavy rain fell again. The heart of this chapter lies in the people of Israel abandoning the state in which they had been faltering between God and Baal, and turning their hearts back to the living God.

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]]> 00:45:23 <![CDATA[Ch18_02_Biblical Exposition_Rebuild the Broken-Down Altar and Return to the True God]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:42:06 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560232 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch18-02-biblical-exposition-rebuild-the-broken-down-altar-and-return-to-the-true-god 1 Kings chapter 18 is the chapter in which God sets Elijah before Ahab again and turns Israel back to the true God. The long famine was the result of the sin of Ahab and Israel, who had forsaken the commandments of the LORD and followed Baal. Baal was believed to give rain and abundance, but God, by shutting up the rain, revealed that this idol was an empty thing without any power. And now He said, “I will send rain on the earth” (1 Kings 18:1), opening the time of restoration.

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]]> full 3 false 1 Kings chapter 18 is the chapter in which God sets Elijah before Ahab again and turns Israel back to the true God. The long famine was the result of the sin of Ahab and Israel, who had forsaken the commandments of the LORD and followed Baal. Baal was believed to give rain and abundance, but God, by shutting up the rain, revealed that this idol was an empty thing without any power. And now He said, “I will send rain on the earth” (1 Kings 18:1), opening the time of restoration.

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]]> 01:23:33 <![CDATA[Ch18_03_Sermon_Elijah， Who Made It Possible to Meet the True God (1 Kings 18:1-41)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:42:00 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560231 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch18-03-sermon-elijah-who-made-it-possible-to-meet-the-true-god-1-kings-181-41 When Israel had set up countless idols before God and sinned greatly, God raised up Elijah as His servant. He also gave a heart that feared God to Obadiah, who was serving under Ahab as the governor of his palace. When Jezebel seized and killed the prophets of God, Obadiah hid one hundred prophets, fifty to a cave, and kept them alive by feeding them with bread and water. In this way Elijah and Obadiah lived through that dark age.

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]]> full 4 false When Israel had set up countless idols before God and sinned greatly, God raised up Elijah as His servant. He also gave a heart that feared God to Obadiah, who was serving under Ahab as the governor of his palace. When Jezebel seized and killed the prophets of God, Obadiah hid one hundred prophets, fifty to a cave, and kept them alive by feeding them with bread and water. In this way Elijah and Obadiah lived through that dark age.

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]]> 00:30:58 <![CDATA[Ch18_04_Sermon_The Faith of the Burnt Offering and the True Gospel (1 Kings 18:16-40)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:41:56 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560229 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch18-04-sermon-the-faith-of-the-burnt-offering-and-the-true-gospel-1-kings-1816-40 A great famine came upon the nation of Israel. When the prophet Elijah prayed to the LORD that it would not rain, no rain fell for three years and six months. Because of this, the whole land of Israel suffered from the drought; the crops withered, and the people groaned in famine. Even drinking water was very hard to find, and the whole nation was gripped by the worry that it might perish through this famine.

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]]> full 5 false A great famine came upon the nation of Israel. When the prophet Elijah prayed to the LORD that it would not rain, no rain fell for three years and six months. Because of this, the whole land of Israel suffered from the drought; the crops withered, and the people groaned in famine. Even drinking water was very hard to find, and the whole nation was gripped by the worry that it might perish through this famine.

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]]> 00:33:38 <![CDATA[Ch18_05_Sermon_Realize the True Gospel and Return (1 Kings 18:36-40)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:41:51 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560228 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch18-05-sermon-realize-the-true-gospel-and-return-1-kings-1836-40 The passage we have read today is, as we know well, the Word about Elijah fighting against the eight hundred and fifty priests of a Gentile religion and the god they believed in. Elijah was the prophet who turned the hearts of the people of Israel back to God. But what we must know is this: it was not that Elijah was great, but that God held on to Elijah and, by His almighty power, caused the hearts of the people of Israel to return to God.

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]]> full 6 false The passage we have read today is, as we know well, the Word about Elijah fighting against the eight hundred and fifty priests of a Gentile religion and the god they believed in. Elijah was the prophet who turned the hearts of the people of Israel back to God. But what we must know is this: it was not that Elijah was great, but that God held on to Elijah and, by His almighty power, caused the hearts of the people of Israel to return to God.

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]]> 00:35:17 <![CDATA[Ch19_01_Biblical Exposition_Overview of the Entire Content • From the Perspective of the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:41:46 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560227 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch19-01-biblical-exposition-overview-of-the-entire-content-from-the-perspective-of-the-gospel-of-t 1 Kings chapter 19 records the process in which Elijah, who had won a great victory on Mount Carmel, fled in fear before Jezebel’s threat and fell into deep discouragement, but God fed him and gave him rest, and then entrusted him with his mission again on Mount Horeb. When Elijah thought he alone was left, God had reserved seven thousand who had not yielded to Baal, and He established Elisha as his successor so that the work of God would continue.

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]]> full 7 false 1 Kings chapter 19 records the process in which Elijah, who had won a great victory on Mount Carmel, fled in fear before Jezebel’s threat and fell into deep discouragement, but God fed him and gave him rest, and then entrusted him with his mission again on Mount Horeb. When Elijah thought he alone was left, God had reserved seven thousand who had not yielded to Baal, and He established Elisha as his successor so that the work of God would continue.

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]]> 00:37:48 <![CDATA[Ch19_02_Biblical Exposition_God， Who Raises Up His Weary Servant Again with a Still Small Voice]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:41:41 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560226 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch19-02-biblical-exposition-god-who-raises-up-his-weary-servant-again-with-a-still-small-voice 1 Kings chapter 19 is the chapter in which, after the great victory on Mount Carmel, Elijah falls into deep discouragement and fear. God had answered by fire on Mount Carmel, the people of Israel had confessed that the LORD is God, and after the long famine a heavy rain had also fallen. But the house of Ahab and Jezebel did not truly turn around. Instead, Jezebel threatened to kill Elijah. When false faith collapses before the truth, it can oppose all the more stubbornly rather than repent.

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]]> full 8 false 1 Kings chapter 19 is the chapter in which, after the great victory on Mount Carmel, Elijah falls into deep discouragement and fear. God had answered by fire on Mount Carmel, the people of Israel had confessed that the LORD is God, and after the long famine a heavy rain had also fallen. But the house of Ahab and Jezebel did not truly turn around. Instead, Jezebel threatened to kill Elijah. When false faith collapses before the truth, it can oppose all the more stubbornly rather than repent.

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]]> 00:52:48 <![CDATA[Ch19_03_Sermon_How Does God Save Heretics？ (1 Kings 19:1-21)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:41:36 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560224 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch19-03-sermon-how-does-god-save-heretics-1-kings-191-21 The name Elijah is the Hebrew ‘Eliyahu (אֵלִיָּהוּ),’ meaning “My God is the LORD,” and in Greek he is called ‘Elias (Ἠλίας).’ He was from Tishbe in Gilead around the ninth century B.C., a prophet raised up in Israel. His ministry had a very deep influence not only on his own age but even into the New Testament era.

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]]> full 9 false The name Elijah is the Hebrew ‘Eliyahu (אֵלִיָּהוּ),’ meaning “My God is the LORD,” and in Greek he is called ‘Elias (Ἠλίας).’ He was from Tishbe in Gilead around the ninth century B.C., a prophet raised up in Israel. His ministry had a very deep influence not only on his own age but even into the New Testament era.

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]]> 00:56:46 <![CDATA[Ch19_04_Sermon_God Prepares the Remnant and the Next Workers (1 Kings 19:1-21)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:41:30 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560223 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch19-04-sermon-god-prepares-the-remnant-and-the-next-workers-1-kings-191-21 1 Kings chapter 19 begins with Elijah’s discouragement but ends with God’s preparation. Elijah fled before Jezebel’s threat and asked to die under the broom tree. On Mount Horeb he lamented that he alone was left. But God let Elijah know that not everything was over. God was already preparing Hazael, Jehu, and Elisha, and He had reserved seven thousand who had not bowed the knee to Baal.

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]]> full 10 false 1 Kings chapter 19 begins with Elijah’s discouragement but ends with God’s preparation. Elijah fled before Jezebel’s threat and asked to die under the broom tree. On Mount Horeb he lamented that he alone was left. But God let Elijah know that not everything was over. God was already preparing Hazael, Jehu, and Elisha, and He had reserved seven thousand who had not bowed the knee to Baal.

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]]> 00:17:39 <![CDATA[Ch20_01_Biblical Exposition_Overview of the Entire Content • From the Perspective of the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:41:26 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560222 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch20-01-biblical-exposition-overview-of-the-entire-content-from-the-perspective-of-the-gospel-of-t 1 Kings chapter 20 records how Ben-Hadad the king of Syria attacked northern Israel twice, but God gave Ahab great victories. Yet Ahab, for his own political gain, let Ben-Hadad, whom God had determined to destroy, go alive and made a treaty with him. In the end, Ahab heard through a prophet the word of judgment that his own life and his people would bear the responsibility for it.

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]]> full 11 false 1 Kings chapter 20 records how Ben-Hadad the king of Syria attacked northern Israel twice, but God gave Ahab great victories. Yet Ahab, for his own political gain, let Ben-Hadad, whom God had determined to destroy, go alive and made a treaty with him. In the end, Ahab heard through a prophet the word of judgment that his own life and his people would bear the responsibility for it.

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]]> 00:39:42 <![CDATA[Ch20_02_Biblical Exposition_Do Not Let the Grace God Has Delivered Slip Away like Ahab Did]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:41:21 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560221 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch20-02-biblical-exposition-do-not-let-the-grace-god-has-delivered-slip-away-like-ahab-did 1 Kings chapter 20 begins with the scene in which Ben-Hadad the king of Syria surrounds Samaria with a great army. Ahab was not a king upright before God. He had followed the sin of Jeroboam, and he was the king who had made Israel sin with the worship of Baal and Asherah. Such Ahab was arrogant before the word of God, but before Ben-Hadad’s threat he tried to submit servilely. A person who has left God cannot stand boldly before the powers of the world and the demands of sin.

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]]> full 12 false 1 Kings chapter 20 begins with the scene in which Ben-Hadad the king of Syria surrounds Samaria with a great army. Ahab was not a king upright before God. He had followed the sin of Jeroboam, and he was the king who had made Israel sin with the worship of Baal and Asherah. Such Ahab was arrogant before the word of God, but before Ben-Hadad’s threat he tried to submit servilely. A person who has left God cannot stand boldly before the powers of the world and the demands of sin.

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]]> 01:41:30 <![CDATA[Ch20_03_Sermon_God Gives Grace and Blessing to Those Who Live by Faith (1 Kings 20:1-21)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:41:13 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560219 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch20-03-sermon-god-gives-grace-and-blessing-to-those-who-live-by-faith-1-kings-201-21 In the passage we have read, from 1 Kings chapter 20, verse 1 through verse 21, it says, “Now Ben-Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his forces together; thirty-two kings were with him, with horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria, and made war against it” (1 Kings 20:1). Samaria is the capital of northern Israel.

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]]> full 13 false In the passage we have read, from 1 Kings chapter 20, verse 1 through verse 21, it says, “Now Ben-Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his forces together; thirty-two kings were with him, with horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria, and made war against it” (1 Kings 20:1). Samaria is the capital of northern Israel.

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]]> 00:38:05 <![CDATA[Ch20_04_Sermon_Take What God Has Delivered into Your Hands (1 Kings 20:1-43)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:41:09 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560218 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch20-04-sermon-take-what-god-has-delivered-into-your-hands-1-kings-201-43 The words recorded in the Scriptures were written so that God might educate us in righteousness—so that through this Word we would receive salvation, know the will of God, and do that will. Therefore, when we read the Bible, we must read it attentively, examining what it means.

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]]> full 14 false The words recorded in the Scriptures were written so that God might educate us in righteousness—so that through this Word we would receive salvation, know the will of God, and do that will. Therefore, when we read the Bible, we must read it attentively, examining what it means.

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]]> 00:33:51 <![CDATA[Ch20_05_Sermon_Only Those Who Believe in the One and Only God Are the True People of Israel (1 Kings 20:22-34)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:41:03 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560217 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch20-05-sermon-only-those-who-believe-in-the-one-and-only-god-are-the-true-people-of-israel-1-kings This morning, watching television over breakfast, there was a report that the sea-surface temperature around our country is higher than anywhere else in the world. When a cold air current and a warm air current meet and collide in the skies over our country, a great rain can pour down, and it has in fact been falling that way. Rainfall that might or might not happen once in five hundred years now occurs often, and if a thousand millimeters pours down in one day, most dams cannot hold—that was the story.

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]]> full 15 false This morning, watching television over breakfast, there was a report that the sea-surface temperature around our country is higher than anywhere else in the world. When a cold air current and a warm air current meet and collide in the skies over our country, a great rain can pour down, and it has in fact been falling that way. Rainfall that might or might not happen once in five hundred years now occurs often, and if a thousand millimeters pours down in one day, most dams cannot hold—that was the story.

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]]> 00:29:35 <![CDATA[Ch20_06_Sermon_The Words of God＇s Servants Are the Very Word of God (1 Kings 20:35-43)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:40:59 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560216 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch20-06-sermon-the-words-of-gods-servants-are-the-very-word-of-god-1-kings-2035-43 This evening, too, let us look into the will of God through the word of 1 Kings chapter 20, verses 35 through 43. Verse 35 says, “Now a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor by the word of the LORD, ‘Strike me, please.’ And the man refused to strike him” (1 Kings 20:35). It means that whenever God accomplishes His work, He always speaks through a prophet, and what He has spoken He surely fulfills.

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]]> full 16 false This evening, too, let us look into the will of God through the word of 1 Kings chapter 20, verses 35 through 43. Verse 35 says, “Now a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor by the word of the LORD, ‘Strike me, please.’ And the man refused to strike him” (1 Kings 20:35). It means that whenever God accomplishes His work, He always speaks through a prophet, and what He has spoken He surely fulfills.

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]]> 00:21:45 <![CDATA[Ch21_01_Biblical Exposition_Overview of the Entire Content • From the Perspective of the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:40:55 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560215 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch21-01-biblical-exposition-overview-of-the-entire-content-from-the-perspective-of-the-gospel-of-t 1 Kings chapter 21 records how Ahab coveted Naboth’s vineyard, and how Jezebel killed Naboth through false testimony and an unjust trial and then seized the vineyard. God sent Elijah and declared judgment on Ahab’s house and on Jezebel. Afterward, when Ahab humbled himself, God did not bring the judgment in his days but postponed it until the days of his son.

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]]> full 17 false 1 Kings chapter 21 records how Ahab coveted Naboth’s vineyard, and how Jezebel killed Naboth through false testimony and an unjust trial and then seized the vineyard. God sent Elijah and declared judgment on Ahab’s house and on Jezebel. Afterward, when Ahab humbled himself, God did not bring the judgment in his days but postponed it until the days of his son.

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]]> 00:38:56 <![CDATA[Ch21_02_Biblical Exposition_Naboth＇s Vineyard and the Judgment Brought On by Greed]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:40:50 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560214 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch21-02-biblical-exposition-naboths-vineyard-and-the-judgment-brought-on-by-greed 1 Kings chapter 21 shows, through the event of Naboth’s vineyard, the fact that man cannot change or seize according to his own desire the inheritance God has given. Naboth’s vineyard was not mere private property. It was the inheritance God had given to his fathers, and even before the king’s demand Naboth held on to the word of God, saying, “The LORD forbid that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!” (1 Kings 21:3).

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]]> full 18 false 1 Kings chapter 21 shows, through the event of Naboth’s vineyard, the fact that man cannot change or seize according to his own desire the inheritance God has given. Naboth’s vineyard was not mere private property. It was the inheritance God had given to his fathers, and even before the king’s demand Naboth held on to the word of God, saying, “The LORD forbid that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!” (1 Kings 21:3).

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]]> 01:08:16 <![CDATA[Ch21_03_Sermon_If You Make the Church Your Own， the Curse of God Comes upon You (1 Kings 21:1-16)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:40:44 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560213 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch21-03-sermon-if-you-make-the-church-your-own-the-curse-of-god-comes-upon-you-1-kings-211-16 This passage is about something that happened in the days of King Ahab of northern Israel. Because of this affair, Queen Jezebel was killed in the end, and dogs tore at her corpse and dogs licked her blood. Northern Israel was the nation Jeroboam had founded. Jeroboam was a man who stood against God. God entrusted the nation to him for a while, but he did not turn back and kept leading that nation in order to protect his own authority. After Jeroboam died his son became king, and after several kings Ahab became king. Ahab seems to have been a man who looked very weak-willed.

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]]> full 19 false This passage is about something that happened in the days of King Ahab of northern Israel. Because of this affair, Queen Jezebel was killed in the end, and dogs tore at her corpse and dogs licked her blood. Northern Israel was the nation Jeroboam had founded. Jeroboam was a man who stood against God. God entrusted the nation to him for a while, but he did not turn back and kept leading that nation in order to protect his own authority. After Jeroboam died his son became king, and after several kings Ahab became king. Ahab seems to have been a man who looked very weak-willed.

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]]> 00:32:23 <![CDATA[Ch21_04_Sermon_A Leader Fallen into Greed and the One behind Him (1 Kings 21:1-16)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:40:40 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560212 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch21-04-sermon-a-leader-fallen-into-greed-and-the-one-behind-him-1-kings-211-16 Today is the Wednesday in the middle of the retreat. After just one more day passes, we will hold the Communion service and close. I know this retreat must have been hard for you. If you were so tired that you rested without knowing how the time passed, that too is good. The title I intend to preach on today is ‘A Leader Fallen into Greed and the One behind Him.’ In truth, I was very cautious about preaching this sermon. But this is not a word aimed at any one individual; since the Bible speaks like this, it is that we should receive the lesson together. It by no means signifies that the sisters are like this or that the brothers are not. I only want to make this part clear in the light of the Scriptures.

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]]> full 20 false Today is the Wednesday in the middle of the retreat. After just one more day passes, we will hold the Communion service and close. I know this retreat must have been hard for you. If you were so tired that you rested without knowing how the time passed, that too is good. The title I intend to preach on today is ‘A Leader Fallen into Greed and the One behind Him.’ In truth, I was very cautious about preaching this sermon. But this is not a word aimed at any one individual; since the Bible speaks like this, it is that we should receive the lesson together. It by no means signifies that the sisters are like this or that the brothers are not. I only want to make this part clear in the light of the Scriptures.

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]]> 00:30:09 <![CDATA[Ch21_05_Sermon_Spoiling the Vineyard Is the Greatest Evil (1 Kings 21:1-19)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:40:36 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560211 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch21-05-sermon-spoiling-the-vineyard-is-the-greatest-evil-1-kings-211-19 As we have read in this passage, the king, trying to seize his own subject’s vineyard to make it a vegetable field, failed to get his way, and so killed that subject and took it in the end. And the word is that right there the gospel of God is contained. Give the vineyard, that it may become a vegetable garden. Those who do not farm may not know it well, but to one who farms this is a serious matter. The vineyard was close to the royal palace, and he meant to buy it in and turn it into a field. He meant to plant things like lettuce and spinach.

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]]> full 21 false As we have read in this passage, the king, trying to seize his own subject’s vineyard to make it a vegetable field, failed to get his way, and so killed that subject and took it in the end. And the word is that right there the gospel of God is contained. Give the vineyard, that it may become a vegetable garden. Those who do not farm may not know it well, but to one who farms this is a serious matter. The vineyard was close to the royal palace, and he meant to buy it in and turn it into a field. He meant to plant things like lettuce and spinach.

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]]> 00:46:30 <![CDATA[Ch21_06_Sermon_The Heretics of Today Who Are like King Ahab (1 Kings 21:1-26)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:40:31 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560210 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch21-06-sermon-the-heretics-of-today-who-are-like-king-ahab-1-kings-211-26 You and I are thinking about the sin of Ahab and Jezebel. King Ahab—he comes to die struck by an enemy arrow in the midst of war with the nation of Syria; and before he went out to that war and died by the arrow, he had once caused an Israelite subject named Naboth to die. God said that in the place where he had made Naboth’s blood be shed, his blood would be shed as well.

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]]> full 22 false You and I are thinking about the sin of Ahab and Jezebel. King Ahab—he comes to die struck by an enemy arrow in the midst of war with the nation of Syria; and before he went out to that war and died by the arrow, he had once caused an Israelite subject named Naboth to die. God said that in the place where he had made Naboth’s blood be shed, his blood would be shed as well.

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]]> 00:47:45 <![CDATA[Ch22_01_Biblical Exposition_Overview of the Entire Content • From the Perspective of the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:40:14 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560209 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch22-01-biblical-exposition-overview-of-the-entire-content-from-the-perspective-of-the-gospel-of-t 1 Kings chapter 22 records how Ahab, in order to recover Ramoth Gilead, allied himself with Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and how, rejecting the word of God delivered by Micaiah rather than the words of victory spoken by a great number of prophets, he went out to war and died. It then briefly evaluates the reigns of Jehoshaphat king of Judah and Ahaziah king of Israel as well.

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]]> full 23 false 1 Kings chapter 22 records how Ahab, in order to recover Ramoth Gilead, allied himself with Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and how, rejecting the word of God delivered by Micaiah rather than the words of victory spoken by a great number of prophets, he went out to war and died. It then briefly evaluates the reigns of Jehoshaphat king of Judah and Ahaziah king of Israel as well.

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]]> 00:35:30 <![CDATA[Ch22_02_Biblical Exposition_Hear the Word of the LORD， Not the Words of False Prophets]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:40:09 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560208 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch22-02-biblical-exposition-hear-the-word-of-the-lord-not-the-words-of-false-prophets 1 Kings chapter 22 is the Word that shows Ahab’s last days, the problem of Jehoshaphat’s discernment, and the succession of evil faith carried on to Ahaziah. For three years there was no war between Syria and Israel, but outward peace did not make Ahab’s faith right. He still followed the way of Jeroboam, and did not fully turn from the sin of the golden calves and Baal. A time of peace is not a time to set up one’s own will, but an opportunity to return to God.

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]]> full 24 false 1 Kings chapter 22 is the Word that shows Ahab’s last days, the problem of Jehoshaphat’s discernment, and the succession of evil faith carried on to Ahaziah. For three years there was no war between Syria and Israel, but outward peace did not make Ahab’s faith right. He still followed the way of Jeroboam, and did not fully turn from the sin of the golden calves and Baal. A time of peace is not a time to set up one’s own will, but an opportunity to return to God.

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]]> 01:48:40 <![CDATA[Ch22_03_Sermon_The Servants of God Remain on This Earth (1 Kings 22:1-40)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:40:02 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560207 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch22-03-sermon-the-servants-of-god-remain-on-this-earth-1-kings-221-40 Looking at the Word we have read, 1 Kings chapter 22, verses 1 through 40, it shows that King Ahab died, and whose words he refused to hear so that he died. At this time King Ahab is the king of the northern nation of Israel, and King Jehoshaphat is the king of the southern nation of Judah. Israel was originally one nation, but after Solomon it was divided into south and north. As we know, the southern nation is called the nation of Judah because only the tribe of Judah carried the royal bloodline of the true house of David.

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]]> full 25 false Looking at the Word we have read, 1 Kings chapter 22, verses 1 through 40, it shows that King Ahab died, and whose words he refused to hear so that he died. At this time King Ahab is the king of the northern nation of Israel, and King Jehoshaphat is the king of the southern nation of Judah. Israel was originally one nation, but after Solomon it was divided into south and north. As we know, the southern nation is called the nation of Judah because only the tribe of Judah carried the royal bloodline of the true house of David.

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]]> 01:24:35 <![CDATA[Ch22_04_Sermon_Only Those Who Know How to Hear the Word of God Live (1 Kings 22:1-41)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:39:55 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560206 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch22-04-sermon-only-those-who-know-how-to-hear-the-word-of-god-live-1-kings-221-41 The Word we have read today is an event that took place in the nation of Israel. Israel was originally one, but after Solomon it was divided into southern Judah and northern Israel. It is what happened when Jehoshaphat, king of southern Judah, joined hands with King Ahab of northern Israel and tried to recover a land called Ramoth Gilead, which had been taken by the hand of the king of Syria. Israel is by origin a nation that has the servants of God, a nation the LORD God Himself ruled, a nation He governed through the servants He raised up. So even after men became kings, whether in northern Israel or in southern Judah, there were always the servants of God whom God had raised up.

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]]> full 26 false The Word we have read today is an event that took place in the nation of Israel. Israel was originally one, but after Solomon it was divided into southern Judah and northern Israel. It is what happened when Jehoshaphat, king of southern Judah, joined hands with King Ahab of northern Israel and tried to recover a land called Ramoth Gilead, which had been taken by the hand of the king of Syria. Israel is by origin a nation that has the servants of God, a nation the LORD God Himself ruled, a nation He governed through the servants He raised up. So even after men became kings, whether in northern Israel or in southern Judah, there were always the servants of God whom God had raised up.

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]]> 00:39:32 <![CDATA[Ch22_05_Sermon_A Life Lived Spiritually (1 Kings 22:39-40)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:39:50 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560205 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch22-05-sermon-a-life-lived-spiritually-1-kings-2239-40 Today I mean to share the Word through King Ahab. Looking at 1 Kings 22:39–40 that we read today, it says, “Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, the ivory house which he built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?” (1 Kings 22:39) The books of 1 and 2 Kings and Chronicles explain these kings in detail, showing well the rest of their acts and what they did—their achievements and the whole account of their lives.

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]]> full 27 false Today I mean to share the Word through King Ahab. Looking at 1 Kings 22:39–40 that we read today, it says, “Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, the ivory house which he built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?” (1 Kings 22:39) The books of 1 and 2 Kings and Chronicles explain these kings in detail, showing well the rest of their acts and what they did—their achievements and the whole account of their lives.

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]]> 00:41:02 <![CDATA[Ch22_06_Sermon_Heretics from Generation to Generation (1 Kings 22:51-53)]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:39:44 +0000 The New Life Mission https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/71250/episode/2560204 https://english-86.castos.com/episodes/ch22-06-sermon-heretics-from-generation-to-generation-1-kings-2251-53 Today’s passage is the Word that in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Ahaziah the son of Ahab became king of Israel in Samaria and ruled two years, and that he walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin, and provoked the LORD God to anger according to all that his father had done.

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]]> full 28 false Today’s passage is the Word that in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Ahaziah the son of Ahab became king of Israel in Samaria and ruled two years, and that he walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin, and provoked the LORD God to anger according to all that his father had done.

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