<TITLE>12. Par 29-30</TITLE>L-29 That's what's the matter with us today. When we get a message from God, instead of going straight and doing what God tells us, we stop for a little social affair: Got to have this, a few ice cream suppers, and all these other kind of things, bring social affairs to the church. We ought to take God's message to the dead, the dead with sin and trespasses. Amen.
Notice. Now, Elisha, why did he send that staff? Did you ever stop to think? Because that Elisha knew that the clothes that he wore was blessed; he knew God lived in his heart. He knew that the clothes he wore was blessed; he knew that everything he touched was blessed. He knew that himself so his faith laid in it. So he...?... the staff on. I think that's where Paul got taking handkerchief and aprons off his body to the sick and the afflicted.
So he... But the Shunammite woman... Now, that would've worked all right; that would've been fine, if the Shunammite woman would've believed that. But she didn't know about whether God was in the staff or not, she knew God was in the man. So she said, "As the Lord liveth and your soul never dies, I'm not going to leave you; I'm on your hands now. I'm going to stay right here till I find out." You know, I like that, that determination, stay with it.
That's what's the trouble with the people today, they read where God's a Healer, and they look around, and say, "Well, Mrs. Jones didn't get it." And you... then you give up. Brother, stay right with it. Amen. If God said so, God's got to take care of His Word, not your own, God's Word. Stay right with It.
Said, "I'm not going to leave you."

L-30 And so Elisha girded up his loins, and here he went without a vision, not knowing what to do. And a way they went. Gehazi beat them. He went ahead, went into the room, and laid the staff upon the baby, waited. No life come. Baby still dead. He turns around looks awhile, still the baby was dead. So he picks up the staff, and runs back, and he meets Elisha, and the Shunammite woman coming.
And so when he did, he said, "I laid the staff upon the baby, and there was no life, no breath; he didn't open his eyes; he's still dead."
So see, the woman's faith wasn't in the staff; it was in the prophet. Now, it depends on where your faith is. Some people said, "You got to have hands laid on you."
The other said, the Roman said, "Just speak the Word, and my son shall live."
And yet, the one woman didn't want Him to lay hands on her; she touched His garment. And little Jairus in a few nights ago in the lesson, why, he said, "Come lay Your hands on my daughter." It depends on where your faith lays.
So Elisha was right.


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