<TITLE>09. Par -</TITLE>L-13-3 Oh, if the people that's prayed for would just have that much courage. "Oh, the days of miracles is passed. That wasn't real. You watch, you'll get sick again."
"Just hold your breath; don't tell me nothing about it. I'm moving on. The revival's coming. God's promised it." Oh, you sons of God, move out into that sphere yonder, fearless, fearless; take God at His Word.
"I know he--I--he's going to be taken away, but that isn't what I'm... You haven't got nothing here to interest me. All your degrees, and Ph.D.'s, and Bachelor of Art, and all this stuff doesn't satisfy me. Just hold your breath."
"Well, you're going to crack up out there."
"Well, if I crack up, let me crack up. I'm on my road." On he was going.
"You can't make it go over."
"I know I can't make it go over, but God's going to take me over," he said.
"Well, Elijah's going to Jordan."
"I'm going with him."

L-14-1 God requires Jordan in every life. So Elisha come around and said, "Now, Elisha..." Elijah said to Elisha, "You're just a young man (perhaps something like this), and really you haven't had any schooling." The old prophet was trying to try him out. He said, "You're just a young man; you haven't had much schooling. Why, you don't... you... It's really, you haven't had a grammar school education. Only thing you know to do is how to plow. So you'd better stay here and make--get your bachelor of art. See? You'd better stay and get your degree."
Not Elisha, not that man who'd once touched God, felt that power of the anointing upon him. He said, "As the Lord lives and your soul never dies, I'll not leave you." He had a purpose. He saw the vision. He know what was going to take place.

L-14-3 And they both went down to Jordan. Jordan means death. There they stand, the old man and the young man. It really represents Christ and His church. And there they stood by the Jordan. There she is, coming down out of the Judaean hills; the great ripples a-roaring like that, and Elisha with his gray hair hanging down his back and his dimmed old eyes looking across Jordan, and the young man watching every move that he made. One, the young man, was waiting for a vision to carry out the will of God. The other one was going home. They was both at Jordan.

L-14-4 Elisha, to him, he's going home. Elisha had had a bitter life. That woman preacher down there had give him a rough way to go: Jezebel and Ahab, and the stones, and all that he'd went through. Elijah was getting tired, and he knowed that he'd fought a good fight and he'd finished the course. Just across Jordan his retirement laid. But Elisha was watching, for that Spirit was on him.
So if you notice, every believer, when you come to a place where you have to sell out, you'll feel the cold waves of Jordan lapping at your feet. Are you going to cross or are you not? Jordan is separation--separating.

L-14-6 And standing back on the hill was these preachers yet, hollering to Elisha, "You better not go over; you're going to go overboard." You hear them, the remarks yet today.
But Elisha said, "If God is God and backs His prophet, I've got to take his place, and I need his Spirit to do it with. I don't need their school. If their school would've done it, they'd be taking his place. But God called me to do it, and I need his Spirit."
If the schools of the churches would've took the place and the power that Jesus offered, it'd took it years ago: Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian; but it'll never do it. Takes the Spirit of Jesus Christ, and you'll cross Jordan of every denomination behind it, everything else, and stand alone with God.


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