With the Lord’s help this evening I want to speak to you about this very prominent man in Scripture, Elijah. A man spoken of in the epistle of James, towards the end of God’s holy word, which is the last mention of him, he said, ‘Elijah was a man of like passions as we are’. That might be perhaps the title: ‘Elijah, the man of like passions as we are’. But James goes on to tell us, that though he was a man of like passions as we are, he had a wonderful gift, a gift that is given to all of God’s people in measure, but to him in great measure, the gift of prayer. If ever a man knew what wrestling prayer was,…

The Apostle Paul was writing from the city of Rome, where he had been taken a prisoner. It was a very strange but a clear connection that he was found to be a prisoner with an Ephesian. When Paul had come to Jerusalem (he knew in his heart that there was great trouble awaiting him), he took into the temple a man called Trophimus. You can read of this is the Acts of the Apostles. Trophimus was an Ephesian, and the Jews accused Paul of taking him into that part of Temple that only belonged to the Jews. The Gentiles were not allowed to pass through it. This was erroneous; Paul had not done that but was accused of it. In the tumult that followed,…