1. MAL 4:5-6
Moral Fight Series

2. The Elijah Challenge

3. Elijah – Still Coming? John the Baptist:
LUK 1:17 And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

4. Elijah – Still Coming?
John the Baptist denied that he is the actual “Elijah”- JOH 1:21 They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."
“In the spirit and power of Elijah”

5. He appeared. Will appear again!
Mat 11:14 And if you are willing to accept it, he (John the Baptist) is the Elijah who was to come.
MAT 17:10-13 to restore things; to prepare the way for the Lord (Jesus – first coming);
What is to come? To prepare the way of the Lord in our days?
The Holy Church!

6. Elijah Challenge About the Lord’s Ultimatum
Coming Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord!
Coming of the Lord Himself to strike the Land with total Destruction
The Present Day source of moral deterioration.
He present Day need for moral restoration

7. Elijah Challenge About the Lord’s Restoration Plan
To restore Family - Relationship
To restore Fathering - Leadership
To restore Following – Sonship
About the Ministry of the Church
Elijah As Type of the Church
In the spirit and power of Elijah
To prepare the way of the Lord

8. Elijah: Type of the Church!
As God’s Voice – In times of ungodliness and backsliding
As God’s Power – In face to face power encounter
As God’s Trainer- To raise up the next generation prophets
As God’s Reconciler – To bring together families into order
As God’s Caught up Man – To meet the Lord in the air

9. The Church: In the Spirit and power of Elijah
To Prepare the Way of the Lord
To Restore “all things” - Family, Fatherhood, Followership!
To turn hearts!