<TITLE>11. Par 33-35</TITLE>L-33 In the face of all that now, to show you there's a hope... This old king Joash heard that the prophet was sick, and he went down to visit him. And when he went to visit him, he didn't come irreverent. He would come with respect. He walked up. He had enough God about him to know that he must visit this prophet with respect. So he walked up and wept over him, and said, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof." And when he did...
See, that's the way you want to get something from God. Don't come around a meeting like this to make fun. Don't come around to pack some kind of a tale from one place to another. If you do that, you'll never get nowhere with God. Don't read the Bible to fuss about it. Read the Bible to live it. That's right.

L-34 So then, when he went down there and he seen him, he respected him. He said, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horse..." In other words, "My--my father, you're worth more than all the chariots of Israel and all the horsemen thereof." And how true that is. I say tonight, though Elijah was considered a holy-roller, a fanatic by the modern world, yet his presence in that nation was worth more than all of the horses and chariots they had. And I'll say tonight, that a good old fashion Holy Ghost tent meeting is more to protect us than all the atomic bombs that we could create in a million years. Amen.
Respects... He didn't go and say, "Now, hey, holy-roller. You know what my pastor just told me about you?" Aw, he didn't do that. He walked down with respect, and he wept over him. And because he come and approached it reverently, God had respect to him.
God said, "Now," to Elijah, "rise up." And Elijah rose up, and they was just about ready in their backslidden condition to be besieged by another country, the Syrians. They were coming to get them, and Elijah knew that. But because this one man humbled himself, and come down before God, and said, "Oh, my father, how we need you," God respected it. And he respected Elijah, and God respected him. And if you'll respect God's Bible and God's Holy Spirit, He will respect you. Amen. Don't try to contradict It or say it isn't so. Just believe it. That's all.

L-35 Watch him now. And Elijah said, "Go, get your bow." And he put an arrow in it. Said, "Open the window towards the east." The east is the way that Jesus will come. And he said, "Now, watch. Now, I want you to put the arrow in the place and draw back just as far as you can." And he did. He said, "Shoot." And when he shot, what happened? The arrow went out. He said, "Get the arrow." And when he come back, he said, "Strike the ground." And he struck the ground three times. And the prophet was wroth with him. He said, "Why'd you strike it more times than that? Why didn't you do something else about it, strike it more times?" He said, "You struck it three times, which you'll only have three victories."
He... That's just about what... The same's happened tonight in the Christian church. We have struck the arrow of God's deliverance; He said it was. God sent the arrow of deliverance to us. The Arrow of deliverance is the Holy Spirit that's been sent, shot from the bow of God's love. Right. When the eternity to eternity was pulled together by the cord of love, God shot the Arrow of deliverance into the Church on the day of Pentecost. Amen. And the Church was given in her hands... Hallelujah. The Church was given into her hand the Arrow of God's deliverance. Amen.
The Holy Spirit will deliver the Church out of any kind of a chaos it could get into. But what does it do with it? They picked up the arrow and they struck three times. That's a backslidden king. They struck the arrow once, "Well, we'll build a church." That's all right. "We'll teach theology." That's all right. "We'll teach psychology and have an organization." That's just about as far as you struck. They struck short of many blessings.


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