{"id":41811,"date":"2026-10-02T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41811"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:57:12","slug":"26-1003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-1003\/","title":{"rendered":"Steadfast Faith Confronts Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is what the Lord says: \u2018You will not get down from the bed upon which you have lain, but you shall certainly die’\u201d (2 Kings 1:4 NASB).<\/p>\n

Elijah dispatched this verdict to the king. Ahaziah reacted in fear-filled vengeance. He sent fifty soldiers to do battle with the prophet. \u201cBut Elijah responded to the captain of fifty, \u2018If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty\u2019\u201d (2 Kings 1:10 NASB). White-hot heat fell and cremated the soldiers.<\/p>\n

Once again, Elijah does not shy away from taking a stand against sin. Take note of this lesson: steadfast faith confronts blatant sin.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is what the Lord says: \u2018You will not get down from the bed upon which you have lain, but you shall certainly die’\u201d (2 Kings 1:4 NASB).<\/p>\n

Elijah dispatched this verdict to the king. Ahaziah reacted in fear-filled vengeance. He sent fifty soldiers to do battle with the prophet. \u201cBut Elijah responded to the captain of fifty, \u2018If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty\u2019\u201d (2 Kings 1:10 NASB). White-hot heat fell and cremated the soldiers.<\/p>\n

Once again, Elijah does not shy away from taking a stand against sin. Take note of this lesson: steadfast faith confronts blatant sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41814,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41811\/revisions\/41814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}