<TITLE>08. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 And now here it is. It may hurt just a little bit, but my mother used to give me... We was raised so poor, we--we'd have to eat corn bread that was made out of grease--out of meat skins where they cook it in a--a pan you know and boil out the grease to make... And every Saturday night, I know we used to have to take a dose of caster oil. And I--I--I can't even stand it today.
And mama used to say... I'd hold my nose. I'd say, "Mom, it makes me so sick. I can't even bear it."
She said, "If it don't make you sick, it don't do you any good." So maybe that is with preaching the Gospel. If it doesn't stir you up a little bit... And I'm afraid today, that many of us that are claiming great things of God, are only carnal impersonations...?... someone else the way, they acting the way they do, and try to put the same thing on ourself and act that way.
When Christianity is not a mimic; it's a life. Christianity comes by a birth that when you're borned again of the Spirit of God and become a new creature in Christ Jesus. Old things are passed away and all things become new. Watch.

L-30 And we find every one said, "Now, when Elijah goes, I will tell you; you know I'm the dean of the school. The mantle will come on me. That's... I will get it when Elijah goes.
And the other one said, "But you remember, I'm the professor here too. And I'm the dean of psychology. I--I'll get it, because I really know how to handle the people."every on... But you know what God did, God had chose a little old plow boy down there. Just shows the difference.
Maybe he didn't know his ABC's. Maybe he couldn't count to a hundred, but God had chose him. Sometimes man's choice is a lot different than God's choice.

L-31 One time they was choosing a king. And when the prophet went up. Even the prophet had a horn of oil to anoint one of David's sons. And they brought out the great big six-footer, you know. Said, "The robe and crown would look good on him." But God refused him. And God chose a little old scrawny guy back there. The Bible said, "A little ruddy fellow with a sheepskin coat on, with a slingshot in his hand, and herding his daddy's sheep."
But God don't look at the outside; God looks at the inside. And we're trying put too much exaggerations and so much expressions on the outward appearance, when God looks on the heart. Amen. Oh, my, how we need it today, everywhere, every place. The whole world is corrupted everywhere. How does God ever stand it?

L-32 But notice, here they come out. And Elijah, when he come by, his time just about fulfilled for him to go, he spoke to Elisha. Come by where he was at, and he said, "Now, you stay here. I'm going up to Gilgal here." You see, he tried to discourage him.
And many times when there's a blessing laying right ahead, the devil tries everything he can to discourage us. We go through trials and testings. But Elisha, being spiritual minded also, he knew that he had a purpose, and he wasn't going to leave him. He said, "As the Lord liveth and your soul liveth, I'm not going to leave you." I like that, that determination.
Oh, my, we take a little thing from God and get all discouraged in a hour, but not Elisha. He looked forward to the time. He knowed that it was close at hand. So he went to another place and he said, "Tarry here, I pray thee, for the Lord's calling me somewhere else. You just stay back here." But there's no staying back with Elisha. He had the revelation of what God was going to do.


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