<TITLE>08. Par 25-27</TITLE>L-25 "Oh, where was I studying?" he said, "Yes, Joshua, that great warrior who led the children across that river... And just think, that isn't too far from here. I wish someday I could feel my way along the bank, or somebody would take me down there till I could see those stones again, or feel them," rather.
Just then he thought, "You know, right down those cobblestones where I just left out there, well polished, down there, not no more than a few hundred years ago, come the great Elijah and Elisha, arm in arm together, walking to the Jordan. That had healed Naaman of his leprosy, many great things had done... Walked right down this same road that I'm setting beside, right down the Jordan and opened up Jordan, walked across, and stepped on a chariot and went home to glory, one of my kind, a man, like I am, a son of Abraham, a prophet."
"Oh, if I'd only lived in that day, I'd have run out before Elijah and Elisha and fell down before them and said, 'Oh, great men of God, offer to Jehovah a prayer for my blind eyes; I will receive my sight.' If I could only lived then. But oh, that day is gone. The days of miracles is past; nothing can happen like that today."

L-26 After while, as he thinks on, "Just the other side of here, this gate, the great Joshua, the warrior, was walking one day." Talk about a historical country... "And he was walking one day, over against the walls, while Jericho was shut up fastly because of the fear of my people. God was with them. And now, we're slaves to the Romans, no wonder they'd forgot God." You always go in slavery when you do that, slavery to the devil.
Then he said, "Joshua looked, and there stood a Man with His sword drawed. And Joshua drew his sword and went to meet Him. He said, 'Are You with us, are You for our enemies?'"
And the Man with the sword drawed said, "Nay, I'm the Captain of the Host of the Lord."
Joshua, the great warrior, jerked off his helmet, threw down his sword and shield, and worshipped Him. Oh, if I could only lived then." Little did he know that that same Captain of the Host of the Lord, was just inside the gate. That's right. That's what was stirring his emotions.

L-27 That's the reason something was fixing to happen. That's the reason those things was on his mind. That's why you're here tonight. Your emotions has been stirred. You're Bible readers;you believe in these things. That's what's brought you here tonight. That's what makes the people stand outside of the windows, looking in. That's what makes the people stand in the aisle ways, emotions. Something has stirred.
What is it? There has to be something to create that emotion. Just the same as it was then, the Captain of the Host of the Lord was just inside the wall having dinner with the man we was speaking of this morning, Zacchaeus.
After while he says, "Well, I'm not doing very good here, so I guess I'll just get up." And all at once he hears a noise. Something's happening: a great racket. Usually there is a little noise around where Jesus is.


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