"Irony" Tagged Sermons
1. The Impotence of ________________ (vv. 1-2, 6-7).
2. The _______________ of the Living God (vv. 3-5, 8-11).
3. ___________________ Brought Near to the ________________ of Heart (vv. 12-13).
Dagon’s own collapse before the captured ark is one of Scripture’s more pointed jokes, God using sarcasm and irony to humiliate the Philistines’ god. Even in captivity, the ark itself endures a kind of exile on Israel’s behalf. That endurance, not the comedy, is where God’s love actually shows itself.
Gehazi’s resentment of Elisha, and of the Gentile Naaman, drives a close reading of a single chapter’s ending. The irony of verse 27 gets lingered over, setting Gehazi’s duplicity directly against Elisha’s own Godlikeness.