<TITLE>11. Par 32-34</TITLE>L-32 Then when Elijah, after his whole heart's desire was to get that promise. He wanted the promise. That was his motive. That was his all. That was his life. That was his intent. Everything, all, everything hung on getting that promise. I'm persuaded to believe that we're not sincere about this thing that we're talking about. If your whole motives this morning rests upon giving God praise for my healing... "I'm determined to be healed by the power of God. I'm determined to live a Christian life. I'm determined to walk in peace with God. I'm determined to do it. I don't care what mother says, what church says, what pastor says, what anybody else says, what the world says, I'm determined. That's the singleness of my heart." You're going to get somewhere then.
Then when Elijah saw that he was determined, to get... Elijah--Elijah saw that Elisha was determined; he gave him the promise. Now, the promise was, "If thou can see me when I go, if you can see me when I leave..." Now, it's left up to Elisha. He wanted to hear the promise, so he's got the promise. Now, there's an if in it. "If you can see me when I go."
Now, if you're sick this morning and you want to be healed, I can prove to you Christ gave you the promise. The promise is yours if thou canst believe, if thou canst believe. Don't be defeated.

L-33 Now, Elisha wrapped in the robe of Elijah, the prophet... What a conqueror's march, how he walked treading ahead as a conqueror. He had heard the promise. He felt the power. He was walking like a warrior right down to Jordan. Praise be to God, friends. Every believer this morning that's robed in the righteousness of Christ is walking towards the Jordan road. That's right. Let atomic bombs come. Let it...?... You're robed and walking as a conqueror. Amen. I... "Fear not, I have overcome the world." Yes, sir. Remember, what? "I have overcome the world." Christ said that.
Elisha was walking with a secondhanded robe on, feeling like a conqueror (Correctly.), coming through the Jordan. Brother, let me say this in respects to you. Don't you put on somebody else's robe that's all moth-eaten with doubts, where all these defeats, and superstitions, and ups-and-downs has put holes in it, and it leaking all through. You put on the robe of the Conqueror, Christ. Don't trust in your church who once taught salvation by the baptism of the Holy Spirit, who once taught Divine healing, and now deny it, all eat up with the moths of doubt and everything else. Put on the robe of Him that never lost a battle, for you're on your road to Jordan. Amen.

L-34 Now, he had on a secondhanded robe; that's true. And many of the people this morning has secondhanded robes on. But when he come to the Jordan, he realized that the robe alone wouldn't do the work. That's right. And the church, the Methodists, the Baptists, the Pentecostals, the Presbyterian, oh, we have schools, and, my, we have all the ethics of the Bible down pat. We've got all the woven robe all right, the promises. We've got it all. Oh, we're baptized, go down, and we're very apostolic. We have on the apostolic faith. We believe in Divine healing. We believe in God. We believe in the powers of God. We baptize, in the Bible, the way the Bible says. We've received the Holy Ghost. We've spoke in tongues. We do all of that.
But, brother, if that's the only thing you need, you'll find your lack too when you come to Jordan. Oh, you may be taught; you may be smart; you may have a D.D., Doctor of Divinity. You may have a Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy. You may have L.L.D., Doctor of Latin. You may have all kinds of degrees. You may have the robe of Methodist church on you. You may have robe of Pentecostal church on you. You may have the robe of Assemblies on you, or the Oneness, or the Trinitarians, or whatever it might be. It's only a secondhanded robe to begin with (That's right.), some man-made dogmas been thought up, so forth like that.


<A HREF="P12">Next Page</A>