What to do with Kings?

This morning's sermon sprang from the passages 2 Kings 6:24-25 and 2 Kings 7:3-11, a passage with almost cinematic hilarity. The second passage was from Luke 4:38-44.

The sermon started, and largely comprised a recitation of what had been earlier read to us! That wasted 10 minutes of good time.

Almost any talk on an OT topic invites connections being made with history: the history of Israel and the wider world at the time. Not long; not detailed, but informative.

For example for this passage we might have been show relevant maps of the ANE at the time of Elisha, and a time line of the history of the time.

Then would have been opportunity for some great comments on God working in history to bring the ends he wants. 

The remarks on the Luke passage, again God working in history in the Incarnation, this time, and Yeshua healing, but then stating he was preaching the gospel. So his healing echoing OT prophesies, and pointing back to his undoing of the fall, and his obvious power to so do. Cementing Yeshua's identity in the triune godhead.