<TITLE>10. Par -</TITLE>L-15-2 So he stood with him at Jordan, Elijah, looking up there, knowing somewhere across there God would meet him. And he took off his robe, and he looked around to the young man, and he smote the Jordan. And when he did, the Jordan opened up, and they walked over on dry land.
See, the Jordan ain't so bad after all if there's something with you to open up the way. Oh, when they hit the other side, hooked to every bush was a horse and a chariot. The King of kings had sent an escort to bring Elijah up home. It was all over for Elijah. He'd had enough of it, about eighty something years of fussing with them people down there, and having to be, go through hungers, and strifes, and everything else. He was ready to go home.

L-15-4 And he looked around to Elisha, and Elisha wanted to see a vision, for he had all the schooling back there he could've stopped at. They wasn't getting nowhere. God was going to train him His own way. So when he looked over there, looked all--all them bushes, hooked around there with these chariots of fire and horses of fire, it done something to Elisha. He saw a vision. Yes, brother. And when God had taken Elijah up, he came back with a double portion of his Spirit. He was ready for the revival then.

L-15-5 Notice the man then, being just a plow boy before. God made his name immortal. All the prophets that stood around watching him had to bow to his feet because he had the power of God upon him. There's coming a hour when God shall make the world bow at the feet of men and women who have plunged through and crossed Jordan and separated them thing--selves from the things of the world.
Brother and sister, tonight whatever you do, whatever you think, you cross Jordan with God. Go on over; separate, leave the world behind. Let God train you for His own service. We are living in a day before this revival, but God's searching out, trying to find hearts.

L-16-2 Look, He found a man by the name of Paul, old self-styled Pharisee, but He had to work him over like before he could become a disciple. Look what He done all down through the ages to men. He had to take them and pump their theology out of them. And Paul, as soon as he saw the vision, he didn't go up to Jerusalem to Gamaliel, the great teacher (the greatest in Israel) that he'd been taught by; he never went back to him to consult him. Why, he never even went to Jerusalem for fourteen years later. But he went down to Egypt in a prayer meeting. There God let him write many books of the New Testament. See, God's looking for men. He had somebody He wanted to write that Testament, so He just chose Paul, and He just got all of his theology out of him. And Paul said he had to forget all that he ever knowed to learn Christ.
God, today, is trying to empty the world out of us and get us to empty ourselves out and be fearless men and women who love God, and will stay with God, and will cross the separating line (Jordan) that He could use us for His glory.

L-16-4 This is the hour that I want you to think hard. And if you have never crossed this place, if you've never come across this line where you still say, "Well, my mother belonged to a certain church." That's all right. That doesn't take your place. See? God is calling men and women today to the battle front. He's not calling them to Gilgal; neither is He calling them to Jericho or Beth-el. He's... They will perish. But He's calling them to cross Jordan so He can get you out in the school of His own power and make you and mold you.


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