<TITLE>07. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 Elijah, the prophet of the Lord, anointed... Oh, yes, God anointed him to be prophet. He was pastor Elijah. I don't imagine Jezebel would've wanted to call him that, but he was her pastor just the same. God made him her pastor. So she hated him. And God told him, said, "You go up on the mountain and you set down there. I've commanded the crows to feed you. I'll water you from the brook Cherith." And he set down there.
And the king said, "Go get that fanatic and bring him down here." And the soldiers, all a--armed with the command of the king, they started up the hill, and Elisha probably raised up and said something like this, "Gentlemen, this is a holy spot. I've been called of God to be His prophet. He's commissioned me to stand on these grounds and proclaim His message. And the message that I have for you, 'Don't you approach this ground.' (Amen.) Stay off of here, you uncircumcised. Have you not read when Moses, the servant of the Lord, crossed over the river and the uncircumcised tried to impersonate him, they all drowned. Stay, off of this ground."
"Aw," they said, "that old quack, what school is he from? We'll go in anyhow."
Elijah said, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from heaven and vindicate my ministry."
And about that time fire fell and burnt up fifty. The king might've said lightning struck him. So he sent another fifty and the same thing happened.

L-23 Unbelief. And men who mock and scoff and make fun of the anointed Church of the living God shall perish someday in a hell. Won't only be burning for a few minutes; it might be a long time.
So it's holy grounds, God's anointed stands on there. No uncircumcised or unclean thing can enter that spot. That is true. If the impersonators try to act like that they're doing it. You'll find out they'll soon come to naught.
But what does the impersonators vindicate? That there is a real. There's a real God. There's some people who wants to... They don't believe it, but they want to act like they believe it. But a person that knows God is a man that's borned again of the Holy Ghost and filled with the power of God with a THUS SAITH THE LORD he goes forward; they know something has struck their heart. They know that they're right.
So Elisha was a man of God, anointed, that they did not believe.

L-24 Look at David when he set with Nathan the prophet. And David, a man after God's own heart, and he was the anointed. God anointed him king. David was not only a king, but he was a prophet. So Nathan was the great prophet of the nation. David is more or less a poet and a prophet, song writer, musician. And prophecy really in its original, is more like a--a song when they prophesied.
Then one day while the prophet and the king was setting together, David said, "It's not right for me to live in a house of cedar, and the ark of my God under a tent."
And I want you to listen, the notable words of Nathan; he said, "David..." (Oh, don't fail to get this now. Get between the lines.) "David, do all that's in your heart for God is with you." Oh, my, when I think of that. "David, do all that's in your heart for God's with you. Why cry to me. God's with you, speak and go forward."
God's anointed you, move on. Don't hem-haw around, say, this, that, or the other. "Should I believe God, should I trust Him for this?" Trust Him for every breath that you draw.


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