<TITLE>07. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 Elijah, before he went away, he went and put the blessing upon Elisha to take his place. He went on. He said, "You starry--tarry here, I'm going up to Gilgal."
And he said, "As the Lord liveth..." Now, he had the Spirit of God on him. He knew who that man was. He knew he had the truth, so Elisha begin to follow Elijah. And he went up to the city.
He said, "You stay here. The Lord has sent me up to the school of the prophets."
He said, "As the Lord liveth, and your soul liveth, I'll not leave you. I'm staying right with you." I like that. Stay right there. And he went on up to the school of the prophets and up to the seminary, otherwise, where all the graduates was. The Oxford and all, they were all there.
They knowed a whole lot: yes, a whole lot. One of them went out to get a mess of peas, and he didn't know the difference between peas and wild gourds. He knowed a whole lot about leading something. Got his apron full of wild gourds and put them in, and was feeding a bunch of preachers with it. That's way the seminaries does yet today: a bunch of wild gourds, feeding the preachers: some kind of a theo--(Excuse me, I oughtn't to say that maybe.)--some kind of a theology to indoctrinate them with them. And sometimes they go out of the seminaries knowing less about God than when they did when they went in. That's right.

L-26 I'd rather have an old fashion rail fence experience out there, some boy--man with my boy out there, if he didn't even know his ABC's, take him out in the broom sedge patch somewhere and kneel by him by a stump and pray him through to God, than all the seminary D.D.'s could be produced in all the universities of the world. Amen.
That's a big mouthful, but, brother, it's the truth. And what the church needs tonight is something to base yourself upon, where you know where you're standing. Education's fine, but it's the biggest hindrance the Gospel ever had: sent more souls to hell than anything else I know of: education. Get so smart you think you know more than God. You leave no room for God. Now, I'm not trying to support my ignorance; I'm just simply stating what's fact.

L-27 Went up to the school of prophets, and when he got this big pot cooked up (You know?), and all full there, they's cooking up something; they had something cooked up all right. They got it today, cooked up too, but "There's death in the pot," he said. That's right. "Death in the pot."
But look, in the amazing grace (Here it is.), the grace of God, there happened to be a real prophet standing by who said, "Go get me a handful of meal." And he took the meal and throwed it into the pot and said, "Now there's life. Go to eating."
What made the difference between death and life was the meal. Now, any of you teachers know here that meal, was from the meal offering; which the meal offering was Christ. The little burrs had to be set just so perfect till every grain had to be ground the same. Every little parcel of that meal had to be the same. So they dipped up a handful of Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever, and throwed it into death and it become life. See? Ground the same, means that there from death to life, from sickness to health, He was the Healer in the meal. Amen. And He's still the Healer. Throwed it in there, said, "Now eat all you want to; it's good now. It's got life in it." Meal offering... Beautifully.

L-28 Then they went on from the school of prophets, and went down to the river Jordan, said, "Stay here because I'm going over."
He said, "I'm not going to leave you. I'm going right with you." He had an alternative. He wanted something. And if you want to get something from God, stay right with it. If the pastor says it's not so, stay right with it. God said so.
The pastor says, "Divine healing, there is no such a thing." Stay right with God's Word. God said so. The pastor says, "The baptism of the Holy Ghost is not for this day." Stay right with God; He said so: "Whosoever believeth." He...


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