<TITLE>12. Par 52-56</TITLE>L-52 Now, notice, but God told him then, but why He brought him out of his hibernation up there. He said, "Go, call Ahab and bring him up to the top of the mountain." And then when Elijah was so certain that that was God that told him to do that, until he called four hundred priests, and they put up a bullock, and prayed all day. And Elijah walked around making fun of them.
He said, "Why don't you holler a little louder, maybe he's pursuing, maybe he's asleep, or don't want to be disturbed or something." Said, "Call a little louder to him." And just made fun of him, while they... Why? Because he was certain. He knowed there was no power in that idol. And he was certain that he was in contact with the living God.

L-53 That's the reason tonight, brethren, I say it with love and respect; I know there's no revival in organizationism. But I know there is a living God Who does have a revival. Let's get back to that. I'm certain of it. I'm positive of it. I know that it is the truth.
God will never do that. Nowhere did they ever rise and they never will. But God will take a people out of those people for His Name's sake. He will do that.
So Elijah when he laid that--them twelve rocks up there. And laid the bullock and slaughtered it and just exactly the way God told him to, he was just as certain that that fire was going to fall as he was a certain he was Elijah. Nothing... There's no fire up there. And there was no water up there. It hadn't rained for three years and six months.

L-54 And he walked out there just as cool and quiet, because he was certain. He didn't have to say, "Now, brethren, I'll go out and try. I--I'll see..." No, no. The voice had spoke to Elijah; Elijah was certain it was God. Amen. When you're certain that it's God, something's got to happen.
Elijah walked out there and said, "O God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel." You notice, he never called him his name of deceiver, Jacob. He called him his prince name, Israel. "God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that Thou art God and I'm Your prophet."

L-55 And about that time the fire begin to fall. Why? He was certain it was going to fall. He said, "I've done all of this at Your command." When you're certain of anything, there's a one sound that you can be certain of, and that is God's voice. God's Word is certain.
David. He had tried God. One day when he was herding sheep, a bear come in and got one of them. He took a little slingshot and knocked the bear down. Now, you know a little rock in a slingshot won't knock a bear down.
Then here come in a ferocious lion, grabbed the--one of the little fellows and run out with it. David went after him, trusting the Lord. And he threw that rock and knocked the lion down, killed the lion.

L-56 Then one day he was standing up there and seen a uncircumcised Philistine stand up saying, "The days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as this stuff."
And little old David, maybe stooped in his shoulders and so forth, he said, "Do you mean to say that you'll stand there and let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the living God?" He said, "I'll go fight him."
And my, when he... Saul tried to put his--his Ph.D. on him, why, it didn't fit him at all. He didn't know nothing about how to say "Amen," just right, you know and so forth. And he said, "I don't know nothing about that stuff. I don't know nothing about that. But I have something that I have trusted. I don't know what God will do me with a Ph.D. but I know He--He's done this for me."
And he said, "The God Who let me kill a lion with this slingshot, the God Who let me kill a bear with this slingshot, how much more... (Amen.) How much more will He deliver that uncircumcised Philistine into my hands?"


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