<TITLE>02. Par 5-9</TITLE>L-5 And you know, in the Bible--in the Bible we have a case where Saint Paul took the handkerchiefs off of the--off of his body, handkerchiefs, and aprons, and so forth, and sent them to the sick, and the afflicted. Now, as I said the other night, many people anoint them. You know where I think Paul... He was a fundamentalist, you know, so you know where I think Paul got that from the Bible? How many would like to hear where I think Paul got it? All right, I'll tell you where.
When the Shunammite woman... There was a prophet used to come by her house all the time by the name of Elijah. And she would entertain this prophet and his servant Gehazi. Gehazi was with him to keep the people away from him, and so forth, and to help him. And so she said to her husband, "Let's build a little house on the--little room on the side of the house. And she put a candle there, and a bed, and oh, little buckets of water, and whatmore that the little room needed.

L-6 And he said, "Go ask her what I could do for her, speak to the king or something or another."
And she said, "No." She didn't care for that.
So he said, "Well, what's wrong?"
And she said, "Well," the...
Gehazi said, "She don't have any children."
So Elijah got a vision from the Lord, and told her just about the time that it was going to happen. And so the baby was born. And when he got about twelve years old, why, he was out in the field one day with his daddy. And I believe he must've got sun-stroked or something. He said, "My head, my head," about eleven o'clock out in the harvest field.
So his father had him packed to the house, set on the lap of his mother. And while he was on her lap... It was a faithful woman, a Shunammite. And she... The baby died, the little boy.

L-7 And I want you to watch that woman. She took him right straight up in the bed, where that prophet had been laying, and laid him on the bed. Now, read between the lines just a little, and you will get what Paul was thinking about. Laid him on the prophet's bed, what an appropriate place to lay him, on the--on the bed--on the--the dead baby on the prophet's bed. And she said to the servant, "Saddle me a mule, and go forward, and don't you stop 'less I bid you, and go to the prophet."
They said, "Why, he won't be up there." Said, "This will be all right."

L-8 And now, notice this, when she got close to him (the prophet), the prophet didn't know what was going to happen. God hadn't revealed it to him. They don't know all things; it's just as God will reveal. See? It doesn't...
Like the woman touched Jesus' garment, He didn't know who it was. God has to do those things.
So he said, "Here comes that Shunammite," and said, "she's worried; she's troubled, and God's kept it from me. I don't know what's wrong with her."
And so, when she got close. He said, "Is all well with thee, is all well with thy husband, is all well with the baby?" Now, you women listen to this, just a minute.
She said, "All is well."
Think of it. (Thank you, sweetheart, you're a mighty, fine, little girl. God bless you, honey.)
"All is well."

L-9 Why? She wanted to get to God's representative, which was the prophet, and God was in Christ, we know, or in Christ, and He was... Before Christ come, He was representing Himself in the prophets. And now today, He's representing Himself in the Church. Isn't that right? Representing Himself in the Church...
And so, he said, "All is well."
(Thank you.)
She was... she was before the prophet. "All is well."


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