<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 And Elijah, fearless man... And Elijah done, I believe it was four outstanding miracles in the days of his ministry. And Elisha done eight outstanding miracles, because he had a double portion of the Spirit. Did you ever just look into those prophets and see what a beautiful type of Christ and the Church is typed there?
When Elijah knew that he was going away, God was going to take him away, he went and found Elisha plowing in a field, because the Spirit of God had told him to go to Elisha. And when he seen Elijah, he just run to him and threw his robe over him; a sign. And then, when he did that, Elijah said, "Suffer me first to go kiss my father and mother good-bye."
Did you notice the strange thing, he was permitted to go kiss his father and mother good-bye. But the man in the Bible wasn't permitted to go kiss his father and mother good-bye in the New Testament, said, "Let the dead bury their dead; follow thou Me." Something different, we won't have time to go into that though, maybe will a little later on.

L-21 But he went and killed the ox that he was plowing with, the yokes of ox, and took up the instruments, and piled them in the field, and made a fire, and burnt the instruments with a fire, and roasted the ox, and made a sacrifice. What was it? It was a sign to the world that he'd cut every shoreline loose. He was really going out in a full time ministry. He was going out then as a prophet anointed of God, and he probably never would in this earth ever lay eyes on his father and mother again. That's why he kissed them good-bye. Not only that, but the working tools that he had, he burnt them in the field to make a sacrifice to God to show that he had really sold out to everything to be a prophet of the Lord. And what a lesson we could get out of that tonight, that every man that cometh to Christ, puts his hand on the plow and starts, and even turns to look back, is not worthy of the plowing.
Today the reason we're having such times as we are, is because there's too much halfway conversions, intellectual conversion. There is two--two different elements in the human body that has a mind, and one of them--or reasoning. One of them the reasoning is of the mind, which is intellectual. The other one is the soul, which does not reason but believes the Word of God.

L-22 You know some time ago they said that the--that science laughed at the Bible and said, when the Bible said, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." He said, "The Bible's all mixed up because a man has no mental facilities in the heart to think with." But last year science proved that--that God was right. They found right down in the heart of a man, not in a animal, but in a man, there's a little compartment where even a blood cell doesn't even exist. And they say it's the occupant of the soul, that man by his soul lives there.

L-23 Now, each one of you've had experiences to think that when... Well, somebody say, "It can't happen. It--it won't be." But something right down in your soul that tells you it's going to be. And don't makes any difference what anybody says or how unreasonable it seems to be, you seem to know that it's going to be that way. It's because your soul has testified and reasonings has been cast down as the Bible said they should be: casting down reasoning.
I want each Christian here tonight, no matter what church you belong to, that doesn't matter. That has nothing to do with it at this time. We're too far up the road to go to arguing about what church you belong to, for the Bible plainly says, "By one Spirit we're all baptized into one body." It's whether you're right with God or not, is the main principle.


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