<TITLE>04. Par 15-19</TITLE>L-15 Then, but that's it. Elijah had had his association--or Elisha, rather, with Elijah, the great, mighty prophet. If you remember how Elijah called him and threw his mantel over him, and he followed him to Gilgal and on to many places. And I want you to notice, how when Elisha knew that he was going to be called the prophet in Elijah's stead... Why, Elijah tried in a round about way to leave Elisha behind, but Elisha said, "As the Lord liveth and your soul never dies, I'm not going to leave you."
I like that. When a man has been borned again of the Spirit of God and set his eyes towards heaven, keep your eyes set that way. Don't leave Him for no one or nothing else. Just keep your eyes on Christ.

L-16 They went on up to the school of the prophets, the great seminary up there of that day. And then, it wasn't very much of a seminary, probably like some of our modern seminaries. They sent somebody out to get some peas to make some pottage, and a fellow went and gathered a lap full of green wild gourds and put them in the... The fellow didn't know the difference between peas or gourds, wasn't very much of a prophet, I wouldn't think.
But that's about the way it is today in some of these seminaries: They don't know the difference between fanaticism and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It's just about the same.
But I notice though, when the--the--one of the prophets come back and said, "There's death in the pot, death in the pot."
Elijah said, "Don't worry." He went and got a handful of meal and threw it into the pot and said, "Now, eat all you want to."

L-17 That meal come from the meal offering. And the meal offering was to be ground with burrs that were set, every burr just the same. Ground the meal offering perfect: the burrs just the same, every ground of meal. And the meal offering represented Christ. And when death is on, and Christ is put in its stead, death turns to life again, don't you see?
So the same pottage... He didn't say, "Dump it out, and we'll get some more." Just take that same one.
So when a cancer has come to your life, or some sickness that the doctors, the medical science can't control, don't give up. The meal offering is still ours: the Lord Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Throw Christ into your life with faith, and it'll turn from death to Life every time. It just can't fail because it's the Lord Jesus.

L-18 Elijah, foreseen that shadow of Christ, knowing that this meal represented Him, which He was the wave offering, the--the heave offering, and the meal offering. And all the offerings pertained to Christ. So he got the meal which was ground the same and threw it in the pot: the same yesterday, today, and forever. And as sure as Christ taken the place of death in that pot and brought life, so will He today, when He's taken upon the basis that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, will change death to Life every time.
Now, and then they went up to this school. And then Elijah said to Elisha, you tarry here because I'm going to Jordan."

L-19 You notice there was three stages of that journey: one of them to Gilgal, other one from there on up to--to the school of the prophets, and the next one was down to Jordan.
Now, Jordan was his last place, the last time that he had to watch. That represents the church ages we've come through. The first from Gilgal... After the church come of dark ages, it come through the Lutheran reformation. The second stage of it come through, what they call, the second blessing or the second work of grace: sanctification through John Wesley. Then we come down to Jordan, died out and got the Holy Ghost after that. Now... crossed over...


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