<TITLE>08. Par -</TITLE>L-11-5 Now, God's got to give him some training. He'd been training him how to keep his eyes on the furrow with twelve yoke of ox and one man plowing with them. He taught him some patience, and how to be patient and train those ox to walk straight in the line. He had to train some men afterwards. Keep them on the Bible, on the Word, lined up with God; stay straight in the line. And then, even God had to school him a little bit.
He said, "Now, you tarry here for I'm going over to--to Gilgal; the Lord has called me."
And the prophet, after he'd felt that power upon him, that robe of Elijah, he said, "As the Lord liveth and your soul liveth, I'll not leave you."
Went on to Gilgal, which is the--the place of Christian confession and baptism. And then he said, "Just stay here now. This is good enough. You've made confession and baptism. This is good enough. I'm going up to Beth-el," which means the "house of God."

L-12-4 Now, that would have been all right for many a professor. "Oh, I've just come into the church and got fellowship; why not just stay right here?"
But listen, Elisha couldn't think that way. He'd already felt the power of God. He knowed there was more for him. So he said, "As the Lord liveth and your soul liveth, I'll not leave you." Oh, how I like that.

L-12-6 And he went up to the Beth-el, to the "house of God," and there he found a bunch of scholars. They were all well-trained preachers, and they walked around and told him, said, "Sir, do you know what? You're on the little end of the stick. Did you know Elijah's going to be taken away from you. He's too old; he can't live very long? Elijah's going to be taken, and you're going to be standing out there as a fanatic."
Let me tell you something now. A man that's ever tasted God will not be willing, or cannot quench his thirst at a man-made cistern. He can't do it. Their, all their theology that they had there at the school of the prophets would not quench the thirst of that man of God, who'd had a taste of God. And they kept persuading him. "Oh, you should stay here and... Why, in six weeks we could give you your Ph.D. And you know it wouldn't be very long till you take about four years of training here, and we could give you the right to preach. You know, if you proved out to be all right, we'd send you out in our denomination." (That won't satisfy a man of God.) "We'll train you to be a minister, if you'll just stay with us about four or five years here."

L-13-1 He didn't have time for that kind of stuff. He was on his way to that fountain. He'd done come above that. He'd done had a taste of heaven in his soul, and he said, "I..."
"Do you know your head's going to be taken away?"
And listen to what he said. "Yes, I know it, but hold your peace." In other words, "Save your breath, don't try to tell me about it. Don't try to tell me what I'm doing. I know where I'm going and what I'm after." God give us men like that, God-trained men who knows not to wiggle off on this and wiggle off on that. "I know where I'm going, and don't speak to me about it; just hold your breath. Don't try to discourage me, 'cause it isn't going to do any good."


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