<TITLE>12. Par 40-44</TITLE>L-40 And now, at the Jordan, representing death... He come these other two places, not death connected with it: school, visitation. Like justification, sanctification, the first outer courts, the inner, the first veil or the first altar. Then when he come to Jordan, representing death, that you have to die out... And then when he crossed Jordan, got on the other side, he turned to him, and he said, "Now, what will you that I do for you?"
He wasn't backward. He said, "That a double portion of your Spirit come upon me." Ask a lot.
He said, "Thou has asked a great thing, but nevertheless, if you see me when I go away, you shall have it."

L-41 Could you imagine Elisha then or Eli--keeping his eyes off of Elijah? That's what's our trouble today with the church. We got too many people that's got the promise, 'You shall receive the Holy Ghost,' but they keep one eye on the world and the other one on God. You're sure to fall. Take your eyes off of one or the other. I'd advise you to take your eyes off the world, off your neighbor, off of your--your association, and keep your eyes single with Christ.
Elisha kept his eyes on Elijah. And when... After while a chariot of fire and horses of fire came down, and Elijah stepped upon it and went up. And as he went up, he pulled off his mantle, that he'd struck the Jordan to make a path through death, and threw it back to Elisha. He picked it up and put it on, a very beautiful type of Christ.
When He was going away, one woman said to Him, said, "Lord, that my son set on Your right and left hand, my two sons?"
He said, "Can you drink the cup that I drink?"
She said, "Yea."
Said, "Can you be baptized with the baptism that I'm baptized with?
She said, "Yes."
He said, "That's truly, you can."

L-42 The same Holy Spirit was upon Christ was His mantle that God gave Him, the anointing of the Holy Spirit. And they went up at Pentecost and waited in the upper room, that when Jesus that--which was the antitype of Elijah, was taken up from death and resurrected, He sent back the mantle. The same Holy Spirit that was upon Him fell on the Church. And He said, "The things that I do, shall you do, and greater than this."
A double portion of the same Holy Ghost that was upon Christ is upon the Church. And Elisha took that mantle and walked down to the river, and struck the river, and said, "Where is the God of Elijah?"

L-43 Oh, my. And the people today who claim to be filled with the Holy Ghost, and is afraid to trust God for a toothache. Hallelujah. Brother, cross Jordan; get on the other side. The portion, double portion of the Holy Spirit that was upon Christ Jesus was sent back to the Church to minister and to carry on the work until He come.
"A little while, and the world seeth Me no more; yet ye shall see Me: for I (personal pronoun) will be with you, even in you, till the end of the world."
He's raised from the dead and is with His Church tonight in spiritual form, giving to you ever bit of the powers of--He had upon Him here on earth, is handed over to the Church to use, and you're afraid to use it. I wonder if you've took that last step. Have you really crossed Jordan?

L-44 When you cross Jordan, it's death; you go into that veil I was talking about last night, inside the holiest of holies, where your Light is no more of the world. You'll walk in fellowship side by side with Christ in you, the hope of glory, the Holy Ghost moving and living in the mortal being.
And if maybe I told you tonight, that the spirit of some great artist was in me, you would expect me to paint a picture like the artist. If I told you the spirit of John Dillinger was in me, you'd look for me to have big guns, and be a desperado. And If I've told you the Spirit of Christ was in me, I have to do the works of Christ. And if you profess to be a Christian, depart from sin and selfishness and tempers, and live like Christ did, a peaceful, humble, God-blessed life. Amen. That's right.


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