<TITLE>20. Par 60-62</TITLE>L-60 Now. Look. When Jesus came along, Martha went out to him, and she said... Now look, instead up upbraiding Him and scolding Him, she went out in the right kind of an attitude. She came to Him, and she fell down at His feet, and said, "Lord, if Thou would've been here, my brother would not have died." Oh, now you're getting somewhere. Now. Look how she regarded that Gift of God. She said, "Lord..." That's what He claimed to be. Do you believe it? Said, "Lord, if Thou would have been here... No matter whether You come or whether You didn't, that's all in the past now. Whether You come or didn't, that doesn't matter. But if Thou would've been here, my brother would not have died."

L-61 Now, I believe what Martha saw in there. She'd been reading in the Scriptures, and she seen where that Shunammite woman back there, when she, Elijah come out, blessed her, she brought forth a son. When he was about ten or eleven years old, he had a sunstroke out in the field. He must've, 'cause it was about eleven o'clock in the day, he cried, "My head, my head," died on his mother's lap. And the mother said, "Now, you saddle an ass and go forward for me, and don't you check 'less I tell you." said, "Go to the man of God, to mount Carmel."
Her husband said, "It's neither Sabbath or new moon; he won't be there."
She said, "All will be well." I like that. I like that. "It'll be all right; don't worry about that. I'll go." All right. And then... And she said, "Well now wait, the boy is dead." But look, she didn't know whether Elijah was going to raise the boy or not, but she knew this, that God in that age was operating through His prophet. God was in the prophet. And if she could get to the prophet, she might not get the resurrection of the child, but she would know why the child died. And if she could only get to the prophet, 'cause that was God's representative in heaven then.

L-62 So she went forward; she went to Elijah, and when she come, she... And Elijah didn't know what was the matter. And look. When she knowed...
Though God being in Elijah... I want you to listen closely now. Here's the close. He said, "Now, look." She fell down, Gehazi had jerked her up. My there's awful around his master. He said...
She said, "Why did you deceive me, or don't deceive me?"
And he recognized then once she explained that the baby was dead, he said, "Gehazi, you take my staff, and you go lay it on the baby."
Now, I think that's where Paul must've got the doctrine of laying handkerchiefs on the people that took off his body. Elijah knew that God was in him, though he was a man; but God was in Elijah. Do you believe that? God was in His prophet.


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