<TITLE>10. Par 33-37</TITLE>L-33 Notice. Then the next thing taken place to show that they were type and antitype, Elijah come back when he met up with Elisha, he said he was going to another place, to Gilgal. "Well," Elisha said, "as the Lord liveth, and your soul liveth, I'll not leave you." Why? He'd done cut loose everything else. He only had one thing to follow: that was God. "I can't go back to my work. I've done burn it up. I kissed my father and mother good-bye for the last time on this earth. So I'll go with you." That's the way men do when you cut loose every line. That's right. Well, he said, "I'll go up to the school of the prophets."
He said, "I'll go with you."
Said, "You tarry here."
Said, "As your soul liveth, I'll not leave you." And he went to the school of prophets, second stage of the journey. Then he went on to Jordan from there. He said, "Stay here while I go to Jordan."
He said, "As the Lord liveth, I'll not leave you," a type of the true Church following Jesus Christ.

L-34 And when they crossed Jordan, which means the... Jordan's always been the death sign. And when they crossed Jordan, Elijah turned around and said, "What would you that I would do unto you?"
Said, "That a double portion of your Spirit be sent upon me."
Said, "You've asked a great thing." God wants us to ask for big things. My, God, He--He don't run out of blessings up there. You can't ask for too much. Could you imagine a little fish about that long, out in the middle of the ocean saying, "I better not drink much of this water, 'cause it might go dry." Well, that's just as unreasonable as it would be, or more so reasonable than to be to think that God's blessings would ever be exhausted to a believer. All heavens belong to you.

L-35 Then when he asked a double portion, he said, "You've asked a hard thing. But if you see me when I go, you'll have it." And when he was taken up, Elijah kept his eyes on him, and his mantle fell back, and a double portion of the Spirit come on him. Notice. Then when this double portion came, he went and done a double work. And that was a type of Jesus Christ. He said, "The things that I do, shall you also, even more than this for I go to My Father."
And on a... They--they seen as he was taken up and waited there in the same city until the promise come, and the Holy Ghost, which Jesus was anointed with, come back on the Church in a double portion. So if your soul has been stirred and your reasons cast down, there's nothing impossible to the true and living God. "All things are possible to him that believe."

L-36 Elijah, no wonder he was anointed... And a very prominent thing, people know it when you're anointed with the Holy Spirit. They might in their heart, or in their--in reasoning, say, "Oh, there, that guy is crazy. Oh, I--I..." But down in their heart they admire you (That's right.), down in their heart.
They might fuss with you, 'cause they're trying to agree with their reasonings; but down in their hearts they admire, unless their soul's so seared till they have nothing but reasonings. For if you're a real Christian, living a true life, and living the Word and God's with you, everybody will admire it, if his soul's still in touch with God. Amen. That's the reason I think fussing about denominations is uncalled for. Sure it is.

L-37 Notice. There was a woman, a Shunammite, not an Israelite, a Shunammite woman. And she was a great woman, because she believed that there was a true and living God. And she believed that Elijah represented Him. She'd heard of the miracles of Elijah. And she knowed that the things that he had done. She'd heard others testify. "Faith cometh by hearing."
What the Church is slack in today is testifying of our great powerful Jesus today. We try to limit Him, try to say, "Well, He was and--back yonder." But today He's the same that He was then. And the Church, who's got a vision of this and knows it ought to not be slack at any time, but telling everywhere they go "Jesus lives and reigns," that's...


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