Our Fire-starter comes from 2 Kings 7. Our Fire-starter thought is: what
do we have to lose?
Our Fire-starter verse is verses 3-4 and 13.
In our text there is a famine in Samaria and Elisha is talking to the
Kings servants as a continuation of verse 33 of chapter 6. Here in
chapter seven we read of four leprous men. These men have run out of
options but they are not going to sit still and die. There is a famine
in Samaria and the host of the Syrians are there close and these lepers
have a choice.

The thing that I like about these lepers is 1. They didn’t let their
physical ailments stop them from doing something
2. They were willing to press on when it got tough
I’m sure it was painful walking or even hard to walk with dead flesh
3. They tried and succeeded with the help of the Lord.

Most of us would have said it doesn’t matter we are going to die anyway
so let’s just sit here and die but these four lepers said what do we
have to lose? I’m not going to die doing nothing.
Those lepers will probably do more than some Christians in this day and
time. They are not doing anything for God and they are sitting till they
die. Friend, what do you have to lose? If they say no while you are
witnessing to them go to the next person if they say yes then keep
sharing the message of Jesus Christ. How about helping another Christian
or even a lost person out. Helping a Christian means fellowship and
helping a lost person means a witness opportunity what do you have to
lose? If you don’t do these things you lose out on alot. Now to Verse
13. The king’s servant told him we ain’t got much men and cattle in the
city we have nothing to lose let’s just try and see what will happen.
They did and we know the story how God brought food to Samaria and what
it was sold for. Had they not have tried they would not have gotten the
spoil. I want to encourage you this morning you have nothing to lose but
if you don’t do things there are alot of blessings to lose out on.
You say, I would just rather sit and die that’s fine but you will miss
out on the blessings God has for you!!!! What do you have to lose this
morning?
May we continue to press on for Jesus!!!

2 Kings 7:1-20 KJV
Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord ; Thus saith the Lord, To
morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a
shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
[2] Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God,
and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this
thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but
shalt not eat thereof. [3] And there were four leprous men at the
entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here
until we die? [4] If we say, We will enter into the city, then the
famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here,
we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the
Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we
shall but die. [5] And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp
of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the
camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there. [6] For the Lord had made
the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of
horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another,
Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites,
and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. [7] Wherefore they
arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses,
and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. [8]
And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went
into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and
gold, and raiment, and went and hid it ; and came again, and entered
into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it. [9]
Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good
tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some
mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell
the king’s household. [10] So they came and called unto the porter of
the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the
Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but
horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were. [11] And he
called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house within. [12]
And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now
shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry;
therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field,
saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and
get into the city. [13] And one of his servants answered and said, Let
some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left
in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are
left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the
Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see. [14] They took
therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the
Syrians, saying, Go and see. [15] And they went after them unto Jordan:
and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians
had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the
king. [16] And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the
Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two
measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord. [17]
And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the
charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he
died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to
him. [18] And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king,
saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour
for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
[19] And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if
the Lord should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he
said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat
thereof. [20] And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him
in the gate, and he died.