<TITLE>09. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 I said something about that one time, and someone corrected me afterwards. Said, "But Brother Branham, He constrained them to go away without Him."
I said, "Yes, but they done wrong by doing so." I said...
"When Elijah and Elisha, which was a type: Christ to the church... Elisha taken a double portion of the Spirit, "These things that I do shall you do, and greater than this shall you do." When the cloak that was on him, the Holy Spirit was on him, falls upon the church... 'Cause He was just one Man. Church is universal. "More than this shall you do for I go to the Father." And Elisha knowed more about that, being a prophet, than the church does today. Elijah said, when there was a gathering, said, "You stay here. The Lord's called me yonder. I'm going up to the school of the prophets."
But Elisha, like the church ought to be today, "As the Lord God lives, I'm not going to leave you." For he had an objective in his mind, and his motives was certainly right.
When he got to the school of prophets, he said, 'You stay here; the Lord's called me to Jordan.'
He said, "As the Lord lives in your soul and never dies, I'm not going to leave you." He couldn't leave him; he stayed right by him, both eyes on him, holding to him.
That's what the church has got to do today. No matter what comes or goes, hold onto Him. If the church cools off, no matter what takes place, hold to God's unchanging hand. Get a hold of Calvary, and stay there. That's the way to get something from God. Hold to it, don't let the devil shake you away.
Them disciples would say, "Where You go, I go."

L-23 Like a--a Ruth to Naomi, the Moabite. "Let your people be mine; where you die, I'll die. Where you're buried, I'll bury. Where your God is, I--that'll be my God. I'm going to stay with you." That's the way she won Boaz. That's the way the church wins Christ. Regardless, of what the world's got to say, saying you've went off on the deep end, you've done this, that, or the other, stay with Christ. Hold onto Him. Stay with it.

L-24 Satan saw that. I believe he sees today. He blessed us. And oh, my, when Pentecost first begin to fall forty years ago or more, what great meetings we had. But you know, we got in such a building program: We had to get schools, and seminaries, and things for our pastors, so they'd have more eloquent speech, teach them to be doctors, and make them general overseers, and doctors of divinity, and all these great big names. Satan saw all that. And now the sea's troubled.
He sees the church has gone on to a big building programs, or some kind of a great big out like that, and went off without Him, getting classic, starchy. What we need today is an old fashion revival, a power of the Holy Spirit again, back in the church. God knows we need that in all the churches, but we go off on classics, want to act like the rest of the churches, the rest... You are a peculiar people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a separated and called out. God knows that we need the church back with the Holy Spirit again. Even if we had to--no matter what we had to do, just don't leave Him. Stay with Him.

L-25 Sometimes it means a lot. Sometimes it costs you something. Anything that doesn't cost you something, isn't worth having. All great things has to be paid for. The reason we're worshiping today, freedom of religion in this Thanksgiving Day, this cost the blood of a many American, millions of them. It's worth something. And if it's worth something, it's worth dying for. And this religion that we have, this pentecostal, Holy Spirit that's fell on us, bring back to us a resurrected Jesus Christ alive after nineteen hundred years, is worth all of our time, and our efforts, and everything that we do; it's worth all to us.
"Thou, the stream of all my comforts," said Fanny Crosby. "More than life to me. Whom have I on earth beside Thee, or whom in heaven but Thee. Pass me not, oh, gentle Saviour." Certainly, we need back and hold to Him.


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