<TITLE>14. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 Now, we find out now that Bartimaeus had been told that the days of miracles was past. So he said, "Now, what if I was setting here, instead of hearing that man who called himself this day the servant of God... And what was that he said, he was going down to see about something, what? Wonder what's going on down in the city. Well, anyhow, the days of miracles is past." And that's the kind of servants Jehovah has today? It's a lot different from the one that Elijah was and Elisha.
"Now, if I'd have been setting on this rock, when Elijah and Elisha passed down by there, going down to the Jordan... And not but just a little piece below where I'm setting that great prophet took his coat off, his cloak, folded it together and struck the Jordan, and she give a way (Amen.), hundreds of years after Joshua had did the same thing." Amen. That showed Jehovah was still the same as long as He can get somebody to believe he's the same. Yes.

L-40 Then after he'd got on the other side... Now, he was weary. He had fussed with Jezebel and them till he was--about her painting up and carrying on, till he was tired, just was going home. And so the young prophet had to take his place. So he knowed just across the river there was a chariot hooked to some bush over there somewhere, and he--he was going to take a little ride up home. See? But the young prophet was watching for his new ministry, seen what this old one was doing, so he knowed he had to take his place. So the young prophet caught his vision, and seen him go up, caught his garment passed back down, picked up the same garment and struck the Jordan, said, "Where is the God of Elijah?" Oh, my. And she opened up again. That's right. Where is the God of Pentecost? Where is the God that was in Jesus Christ? What's the matter with the ministry today in the churches?

L-41 I guess you read that piece in the paper they just sent me. Somebody from the church here sent it to me, where this Episcopalian minister up here said the virgin birth was only a myth, and there was no such a thing as garden of Eden, and all that stuff like that. That man don't belong in the pulpit. No, sir. Now, that's what's the matter with it today. That's what... Take great educated people like that stand up, and they get so much education they ain't got gumption enough to know how to hold it. That's all. What we need today... Paul said, "I never come to you with excellency of word or education. I come to you in the simplicity with the power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost, that your faith would be--rest upon the resurrection and the power of God, and not in some smooth words," or something of some so-called bishop, or something.

L-42 Now, we find out that just a little later, as Bartimaeus set there a little longer, wondering what would take place... Then he remembered that too, just below there, not five hundred yards from where he was setting, that great Joshua, oh, my, that great servant of God who took Moses' place, that come across the Red Sea, and come across also with only two of the old group in the wilderness back there that believed that they could take the land. They looked at the Word of God. They believed the Word of God. Nine of them said, "Oh, we can't take it. We look like grasshoppers up beside of them. The cities are all walled. It's an impossibility to do it." But not that fellow. No, sir, brother. He said, "We're more than able to take it."
Why? It depends on what you're looking at. If you're looking at your crippled hand, it'll still stay that way. If you're looking at your tumor, it'll remain that way. Look away from that. Look at the promise of God. It depends on what you're looking at. Christians look at the unseen. Abraham called things which were not as though they were, because God said they were. That's the way real Christians do. No matter what the world says, what it looks like, that has nothing to do with it. It's what God said about it is what does it. Yes. What was...


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