Elijah #23 Not a Lucky Shot

Do you feel lucky or do you feel blessed? Your answer will determine much about your view of God and His involvement in this world. For when something favorable happens and one calls that "good luck", and when something adverse happens and one calls that "bad luck", it implies there is no rhyme nor reason, no divine plan nor purpose to what happens in the events of this world or in your life. Everything simply falls out by chance.
If luck and chance ruled and controlled all that happened in this world, progress in knowledge would be impossible, for nothing would remain the same from day to day. What you learned yesterday would only be good for yesterday, because it could all change today. It would be like trying to make sense out of what I was saying if every five seconds I spoke a different language. It should be obvious to all by the light of nature that God has instilled in all people that the Lord God Almighty governs all and provides for all—not luck and chance (Isaiah 46:9-10).
In the previous sermon, we saw that God is sovereign over all evil—God controlled the lying spirit. Now we shall see that God is sovereign over all events that seem from a human perspective to be simply an accident—as the shooting of an arrow that lands between the joint of Ahab's armor and leads to his death. The main points are: (1) Ahab Tries to Thwart God's Plan (1 Kings 22:29-33); (2) God's Arrow Finds Ahab (1 Kings 22:34-36); (3) Ahab Unwillingly Yields to God's Plan (1 Kings 22:37-40).