<TITLE>04. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 Now, we find out that Elisha... Elijah tried to discourage him. Said, "You wait here, because the Lord has called me up somewhere else." And then he--find out he went to three stages: To Gilgal and on up to the school of the prophets, and Jericho and then down to the river, and crossed Jordan with him.
And if we notice, as we preached last Sunday on Abraham and his seed after him. We found out that He gave Abraham three junctions: Through justification, calling him in the 12th chapter; 15th chapter, through the blood sacrifice was sanctification; Through the 17th chapter, to nurse his strength from his body, the Holy Spirit into Abraham's body to strengthen him for the oncoming son.
As He's did the Church, so did He the seed of Abraham: justification, through Luther, sanctification, through Wesley, the baptism of the Spirit through the Pentecostal move. Then the placing of the Son, giving gifts into the Church. Then appearing in the form of... He was God in the flesh, manifesting Hisself, knowing the secrets of the heart and what Sarah was doing in the tent behind Him.

L-15 How those junctions... And finding those churches coming right along in that same place... How He had to change the body of Sarah and Abraham next, after that message. In order to receive the promised son. And that's what He has done to this Church, brought it through the same thing.
Now, the next thing is a change in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye and going... And we'll have to have a changed body. Now, Sarah and Abraham in that kind of a body, could not receive the promised son. They were a hundred years old. He had to change their body. Not turn them back so much as to young, which He did. But also, change them. Because they'd been like they was at the first place.
But He changed their body in such a way, that they could receive the son. And now, we find the next thing in order for the Church now, is a changed body, not us old people go back and be young so much. But we will, and we will be there young, just as certain. But we got to have a changed body in order to receive the Son, because we're going to meet Him in the air. Rapture will come, a changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye.

L-16 Now, we find out that God brought Elisha through the same process, three different stages. And then after he left the school, went down to the Jordan, and crossed over Jordan, then he had a double portion of Elijah's spirit was upon him.
Now, Jesus said, "These things that I do shall you also. More than this shall you do, for I go to the Father." Is a type of Christ and the Church. Christ was taken up, and the same Spirit was upon Christ, came on His Church.
Now, where Christ could only be in one place ministering, now in His Church, He could be universal, ministering all around the world. Just think, here we are in Chicago tonight with Christ, ministering. Over in Philadelphia, ministering Christ. Africa, Japan, Asia, Europe, everywhere, Mini... People at this very minute, around the world, are being healed by the power of God. People are receiving the Holy Ghost by the dozens, this very minute (See?), around the world: A double portion, His Spirit poured out in the last days.

L-17 As soon as the school of theology, up on top of the mountain from Jericho, come back and seen Elijah--Elisha cross over. And seen the miracle that he did, just exactly like Elisha did it. Why, they said, "The spirit of Elisha--Elijah rests on Elisha."
And then we find out then that the people knew that the Spirit of God was upon this prophet. So they consulted him, if he wouldn't perform some miracle for them, for something good. He said, "We got a beautiful city here. Sets on the hill and the--the views are pretty and it's a fine place for a school and so forth. As Elijah has built, but the water here is bitter." And they needed some new--a spring.


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