Who is the one true God?

Yahweh is the one true God.

 

This week in The Gospel Project® for Kids, our journey will take us to a power-encounter between God’s prophet Elijah and the prophets of Baal, a false god.

King Ahab was a very evil king. In fact, “Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him” (1 Kings 16:33). God sent Elijah to get Ahab’s attention. God prevented rain in the land for three years. Ahab worshiped Baal—the Canaanite false god of rain and fertility—and the drought was a clear demonstration of the power of the one true God. When God was ready to send rain to the earth, Elijah appeared to Ahab and told him to gather all the people and the prophets of Baal at Mount Carmel. Elijah issued a challenge to the people: Follow God or follow Baal.

Imagine what it must have been like to watch the thousand prophets of Baal face off against the one true God and His prophet. The prophets of Baal shouted to their false god. They cried out, and they even cut themselves. Where was Baal? Why didn’t he answer? When it was Elijah’s turn, he drenched his altar with water, and then called out to God. And God answered with fire from heaven that consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, the dust, and even the water in the trench Elijah dug. The people fell facedown, shouting “Yahweh, He is God! Yahweh, He is God!”

Elijah called on the power of God to prove to the worshipers of Baal that God is the one true God. By sending fire from heaven, God displayed His great power. God would use His power years later to raise Jesus from the dead, showing that Jesus is the Son of God.