<TITLE>17. Par 63-66</TITLE>L-63 Now, God don't reveal everything to his prophets; you know that. So Elijah was standing up there by his cave, and he looked, and he said to Gehazi; he said, "Here comes that Shunammite." said, "She's weeping. Something wrong with her. And God has hid it from me. I don't know." See, He don't have to tell him.
So the Shunammite run right up, and Gehazi run out to her. Elisha said, "Is all well with thee? All well with thy husband? Is all well with the baby?"
Now, here's where I like. She said, "All is well."

L-64 There it was. She knew that was God's prophet. She knew if she'd ever get to that man, that she'd find out why her baby died. So everything was all right. She knowed God was in His prophet. That's right. So she fell down at his feet, and she revealed her secret to him. And he said to Gehazi, "Gird up your loins, and take my staff: if anybody speaks to you, don't you speak: but go lay this staff on the dead baby."
Now, there's where I think Paul got taking handkerchiefs off his body. Elijah knew that everything that he touched was blessed. Now, if he could get the woman to believe it... But her faith wasn't in the staff; her faith was in the prophet. She said, "As the Lord liveth, I will not leave you. I will stay right with you."

L-65 So Elijah thought he might as well gird his own loins up. So here he goes. And Gehazi went on ahead of him; he returned back and said, "There's no life in the baby; he's dead."
So Elijah comes up to where the--the die--dead baby laying there, and the mourning and crying going on. Watch him. He goes into the room where the baby. He walks up-and-down the floor. I like that...?... "Lord, what would You do?" Up-and-down the floor. Everybody outside a wailing and hysterical, screaming and going on. He just walked up-and-down the floor.
He went and laid his body, a man, the Bible said, "We're subject to like passions as he was." A man, not an Angel, a man, a prophet, and he laid his body upon the dead baby. And he laid there awhile, put his lips against its lips, his nose against its nose, his forehead against its forehead, his hands against its hands, and he laid there. Elijah, I think would be a little old skinny man, so he laid right over the baby.

L-66 He raised up and he felt the baby; he was getting warm. Walks back and forth again... Hallelujah. God was in his prophet. So he walked back and forth again. He went and laid his body over the dead baby again and he sneezed seven times. Said, "Take this baby and go bring this Shunammite here." The baby come to life.
Now, wish we had time to get in them seven sneezes, but we got to hurry. Look, friends, Mary, no--Martha had no doubt had read that story, and but she knowed if that Shunammite woman knowed that God was in His prophet, surely God was in His Son. She recognized, the Shunammite woman recognized God's gift of a prophet. And she approached him right. And Mary was recognizing God's gift in His Son. So she run up to Him; she fell down. Now, listen closely for a minute. She fell down by His feet and said, "Lord, if Thou would've been here, my brother would not die. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it."


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