Before Elisha's special enduement of the Spirit came three tests of loyalty, followed by a vital question. What will we ask of the Lord? What will a new preacher ask? Here is the meaning of the parting of Jordan, a chariot of fire, and the whirlwind ascension.

Part of a series of Bible Studies on 2 Kings, entitled 'Lessons in Faith from the Life of Elisha'.

Part of a series of Bible Studies on 2 Kings, entitled 'Lessons in Faith from the Life of Elisha'.

Part of a series of Bible Studies on 2 Kings, entitled 'Lessons in Faith from the Life of Elisha'.

Part of a series of Bible Studies on 2 Kings entitled 'Lessons in Faith from the Life of Elisha'.

Analysing semi-conversion - Elisha's servant despite his spiritual advantages fell, and the reasons show pseudo-conversion, its signs, causes and dangers. By contrast the miracle of the floating axe shows a student prophet with marks of grace and dependence on the Lord.

Part of a series of Bible Studies on 2 Kings entitled 'Lessons in Faith from the Life of Elisha'.

Part of a series of Bible Studies on 2 Kings entitled 'Lessons in Faith from the Life of Elisha'.

What Elisha's prophets taught - alongside the law, salvation and the psalms of spiritual life, they taught God's lessons from events, including the miracles of Elijah and Elisha. Here are examples of their sermons from miracles, including the siege of Samaria and its overthrow.

A young man sees for the first time divine realities. The testimony of Elisha's servant speaks to young people today. Here are the unseen factors about every person's spiritual condition. Here also is God's solution and the experience of seeing and embracing it.

About 850 BC Samaria was under siege, and the people starving, when four men abandoned faith, fled, and found riches without God. But the narrative reveals the ephemeral benefits of a life without God, and the necessity of knowing Him.

The vanishing benefits of life wholly invested in this material world are here set against the solid, lasting experience of knowing Christ and His lovingkindness and power. Here also is the unreasonableness of unbelief, and how God is to be sought and found. You May Be Also Interested in… Sermon: Christ…

Lessons in faith including Elisha with Hazael, showing the mechanism which begins all wars, and the deathbed act of Elisha exposing a king's indolence, with spiritual applications.

Part of a series of Bible Studies from 2 Kings entitled 'Lessons in Faith'.