Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church

Our passage tonight is pervaded with death. It starts with a widow crying out, "Your servant my husband is dead." The Shunammite woman is barren (lifeless), and when God gives her a son, the son dies. The sons of the prophets nearly die of eating poisonous gourds, and a famine threatens death. (Indeed, next time we will see the living death–leprosy–that afflicts Naaman). Elisha is a prophet who brings life out of death by the Word of the LORD...