<TITLE>08. Par 27-30</TITLE>L-27 Said, "From a youth. Oh," he said, "He falls into the fire and everything." And when He got the attention... Now, let's draw a drama here.
Oh, my. Here's the valley; there's the mountain. Right up there on the mountain where God came down, overshadowed Him, said, "This is My beloved Son. Hear ye Him."
And here He is, standing there now; the mountain... The Father had been with Him. The Dove was on the Lamb; the Dove was still on the Lamb, and He knew it. What's he trying to do? He'd just got through saying before that: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Father can do--the Son can do nothing except He sees the Father do it." That right? Saint John 5:19. "I see visions; I do nothing except the Father shows Me in a vision what to do." Saint John 5:19. "I don't do nothing."

L-28 The disciples are defeated. The father is standing over hostile. Why? "Well now, I know He's not going to do it. Because if he don't do it... If these disciples couldn't do it, then He can't do it. Now, I begin to believe with you, pastor, that this is just a bunch of fake--a bunch of work-up, a bunch of mental or telepathy or something. That's all it is." Begin to think that in his heart.
See how unbelief will catch a hold? Oh, I don't care how many times it fails, He's still God, the Healer. If I pray for five hundred people tonight, and all five hundred of them died in the morning, tomorrow He's just the same Healer that He was tonight. Has nothing to do with it. I know God said so, and that settles it to me. His Word said so.

L-29 Look at Elijah when he went out...?... prophet. The Dove was on him. So he...?... and had called all the priests out there and he... Elijah cut their heads off, four hundred of them, that afternoon, walked over and set down on the mountain, said, "Now, I'm going to pray for rain." Three years and six... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... rained. And he put his head down between his little old bony knees, and he prayed, said, "O God, send the rain."
Said, "Gehazi, go look up the top of the hill and see if you see any clouds back over the sea."
Gehazi went up and said, "Not a sign."
Oh, my. How unbelief would've caught that. "But He's still God." Said, "O God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, hear the prayer [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... Gehazi, go back."
"Well, I just got through coming down."
"Go back again. Look again."
"Looks like brass; no sign of rain."
"Hold still," tucked his head down again, "O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, send us rain."
"Go back up again."
"No different."

L-30 Seven times he went up. After while Gehazi come down and said, "Oh, my. I see a little, bitty, cloud hanging out there about like a man's hand."
How quick unbelief would've said, "If that's all you can do for me, if that's all you can help me, why, I won't take it." But Elijah had something in him that knowed that was God's sign.
"Well, I went to the meeting last night; I had a headache, been sick for a week or two, a month. I felt better, but not altogether well. I had a crippled hand; I could move my fingers, but my, it's..."
Oh, brother, how quick unbelief goes to work right there. "Oh, I could see a little bit; I've been blind, but I can see a little bit, but maybe if I'd tried hard enough I could've done it beforehand." Oh, you poor... I don't know what to call you. You're excuse as a Christian, and that's right.


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