<TITLE>05. Par 19-23</TITLE>L-19 That man was so inspired till he after... He tried to take a rope and hang hisself, the rope broke. He tried to go to the river to commit suicide, and the cab couldn't even find the river, it was so foggy. And just to show that how that that inspiration catches a man, catches him away...
Then when he comes out of that... Like Stephen Foster gave this nation it's greatest folk songs. "Old Black Joe," "Down On The Swanee River," "Old Kentucky Home." Every time that he'd get inspiration and write a song, then he would get on a drunk. Finally, he got under the--out from under the inspiration and called a servant and took a razor and committed suicide.

L-20 And I think about Jonah the prophet, God inspiring him, that great eagle for the air of that day. God inspired him so, till he went down there and laid in the belly of a whale for three days and nights, walked out upon the bank and give a message that made even them people put sackcloth on their animals.
And when the Spirit left him, he went up on top of the hill, and set down and asked God to let him die. That's right.
We find this great Elijah, who John was a type of, the great eagle of that day, mighty, rugged man, great woodsman, lived in the woods in a cave. And he came out, stomped out into--amongst the people, and God would take him up into places that the Israel knowed nothing about and declare the message and say, "It's THUS SAITH THE LORD," and stomp back into the wilderness again.

L-21 Find that great eagle, when he stomped out there and told that king, "There will not even be dew come from the heavens, but according to my word." Walked right back out there, when he walked down that Samaritan road that day, that stick in his hand, that piece of sheepskin wrapped around him, that bald head a shining, whiskers hanging down, them steps just as steady as they could be, coming down that Samaritan road... But he knowed Who he'd been in the Presence of. He wasn't afraid of what Ahab was going to say, because he'd been in the Presence of Somebody greater than Ahab. He'd been in the Presence, and he had THUS SAITH THE LORD. Those old eyes, setting back there with those wrinkles, was looking right towards the sky. He was walking steady, because he knowed he had THUS SAITH THE LORD.

L-22 Oh, he was a eagle. Went up on top of the mountain and drunk at the brook there until it went dry, and went back down there and called a--a meeting. When God give him a vision, and went up on top of the mountain, and said, "Let's prove Who's God. Let's see Who's God. If He ever was God, He's still God." That's right. Oh, I like them eagles. Yes, sir.
Went up on there and said, "If He... Let's prove God." And he said--called the way that God told him in the vision. He said, "You take a bullock, and--and I'll take a bullock. And you call on Baalim and I'll call on God. And ever which one answers by fire, let Him be God."

L-23 And while he was so certain of hisself, so certain of his vision. While they were calling on Baalim all morning and cutting themselves, and screaming, and jumping, he walked around and said, "Say, maybe you better holler a little more. Maybe he's pursuing, or maybe he's taking a nap." You see? Oh, he knowed where he was standing. It was.
But after he'd proved God, his eagle eye become filmed. And when Jezebel threatened that she would kill him, he run out into the wilderness. God found His servant laying under a juniper tree, running, after he had proved God to be God: nervous, upset.
When you go up into those spheres, it does something to the human heart. When you come down, you can--you can't explain it. It takes you somewhere; there's no need of trying to talk about it. Visions and so forth that tear you to pieces... You can't tell the other people; they don't understand it. They never have been there, so how would you know about it? See? So it tears them to pieces.


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