Can Fire Help Us Break Our Fast? 2 Chronicles 7:1-11 7/12/2026 8:30am

Can Fire Help Us Break Our Fast? 2 Chronicles 7:1-22; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24, 1 Kings 18:20-40; 1 Kings 18:41-19:8 A flame has no shape or substance. You can't taste it, smell it, or hear it. You can't touch it unless you willing to get burned. Yet there is no mistaking its extraordinary power. God led the children of Israel through the wilderness in a pillar of fire, and it was from a flaming bush that God first spoke to Moses. Tongues of fire leapt from the disciples on the day of Pentecost. In Revelation, it is into a lake of fire which the damned are cast, and when Jesus, Faithful and True, finally appears astride his white horse, it is said that he will have eyes of fire. In the Bible fire is indicative of God’s presence, and perhaps never more so than in the little charcoal fire that Jesus of Nazareth, newly risen from the dead, invites his apostles- as he invites us- to approach and break their fast. KEY QUESTIONS: Can God’s Fire Really Be Quenched? Why does God have a conditional relationship with humans? Why do people seem to drift away from God over time?