<TITLE>06. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 Well, one day he went up there to the school of the prophets to visit them, and they asked him to leave. They said, "It's too straight around here for us." What we need today is some more straight Gospel preaching that'll separate the wheat from the chaff or the right from the wrong. Make what's right right and what's wrong is wrong. All these fellows with their experience, and all that they were, they sent out to get something to eat, and one of them got a wild vine, and gathered some wild gourds and cooked up some death in their ecclesiastical pot. And the first thing you know, they cried out, "There's death in the pot." But Elijah, with a double portion knowed what to do, so he put a handful of meal in the pot, said, "Now, go right ahead and eat it." In other words, they'd...

L-17 Today in a type I would think that we've got a lot of Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostals, and everything else, all mixed together; one's fighting against the other. And we don't need to oust the whole thing and do away with it; we need another handful of meal. Keep the same church. The meal was from the house, or the school there, which was the meal offering that the people had brought in; and the firstfruits of the harvest which was grounded a certain burr that made every grain of meal the same.
And then, when this meal being the same, was a type of Christ. Meal is life. And when the type of Christ, the meal, being ground up, the same meaning, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever... And the meal and the meal offering... And when they put this meal into there, putting Christ into death brought life. That's what makes the difference. In our dead form, in our differences, in our ecclesiastical arguments and everything, if we would just bring Christ into it, it would change death and separation into life, if we would just do it.
There's nineteen million Baptists in America. There's thirteen million Methodists in America. There's eleven million Lutherans in America, and ten million Presbyterians in America, and God only knows, how many Catholics, which outdo any of the denominations. But in all of it, what do we need? A handful of meal. We need to bring Life to the church. And Christ is the Life. He came to bring us Life.

L-18 So they had their disputes and their schools and their theo--theologies and so forth. And then Elijah told Elisha, "You better turn back, because the way may be a little hard." But a man of God who's once faced it, or been throwed across His shoulder, the robe of God's righteousness and power, it's not too easy to turn back.
When I heard the pastor say this morning that our... Many are becoming discouraged. What we need brother is take courage. What we need is to be encouraged. And it's right. Trials may come; we never was promised to be immune from them; but He will give grace to go through them. If the mountain's too high to go over, too deep to go under it, too wide to go around it, He will give grace to go through it. That's right. Just don't worry, but keep your eyes on Christ, for He's the only one that can take us through.

L-19 Now, we see him as they journey on, come to the school. And he said, "You stay here now. Be here and settle down and be a good teacher of theology, and so forth. And you probably someday may become the dean of the college here. But I've got to go on down a little farther." Could you imagine a man of God being satisfied to be a dean of a college when the power of God laid right around where he was standing? No, sir. He said, "As the Lord liveth, and your soul liveth, I'll not leave you." I like that. Stay with it no matter how much discouragement comes from your mother, your papa, or from your pastor, stay with him.


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