<TITLE>06. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 I wonder why that men and women try to denominate people into a fellowship of--of denomination, instead of bringing them back to the original foundation. God knows about it, but it's the most popular way. "I belong to So-and-so. I'm Dr. So-and-so from certain-certain organization. I'm from Purdue. I--I have a scholarship of So-and-so. I've got my Ph.D., my LL.D." That don't mean nothing to God, not a thing.
Elijah might not have had an LL.D., or a Ph.D. Frankly, we don't know nothing about him. He just come on the scene and went off the scene the same way. We don't know who his papa and mama was, don't know nothing about him. But God knew about him. He found a man that He could use, and He found a man that wasn't afraid. No matter if the whole nation's against him, he still called black, black and white, white.
God, send us another. That's right. Send us somebody that's not afraid, somebody that don't have to have the honor and praises of men, somebody who looks only to God, and believes God, and speaks the truth. That person will do that, God will vindicate that truth to be truth.

L-24 Tell me what man could close the heavens in the days of his prayer? Could Ekron--the god of Ekron do it? Could the god of Ekron do the things that Elijah did? Certainly not. Showed that there was a living God with Elijah. But this man was so stuck-up, and pomped up, till he didn't want to lower hisself to such a thing. But Elijah girded hisself up, went up there and stood in the road.
This old woolly-looking fellow standing out there, he didn't have on a clergy coat and so forth, but he--he had a woolly face, and maybe his bald head sunburned, and his hair sticking out. You'd probably run him away from your door if he was begging. And he come up there and stood in the road like that.
The Bible said he was hairy all over, and he had a piece of leather girded around him. That wasn't very much of a clergy suit, but... He couldn't show any credentials of what fellowship he come from. But, brother, he had it beneath his heart. He was in fellowship with God, 'cause he had "THUS SAITH THE LORD." That's the way back. He had "THUS SAITH THE LORD." Wasn't much to look at, but under that little old skinny body beat a heart that God lived in.

L-25 He stood up there in the road with his hands folded, watching them come up, stood right in their way. And when they got up, why, he probably crossed the path, stood there. He said, "Return, and go back, and ask him, 'Why do he do a thing like that? Is because there's no God in Israel? Doesn't he have a prophet to consult these things?' Because he's done this, tell him 'THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's not coming off of that bed.'"

L-26 Oh, my. God will work His way, despite anything anybody else can do about it. God's going to do it. He's going to do it in His own way. We ain't going to stop it at all. We are not going to even hinder it. That's all. He's going to do it anyhow. He's going to have a church. I don't care who says He won't, and how many unbelievers rise up, God's going to have a church without spot or wrinkle. It's going to be there. He's done said He was. Now, let's just strive to be part of it; that's all.
He might send preachers across the country preaching. Everybody might turn them down, throw them in jail, kick them out of town, He will have the church just the same. As old John said, "God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham." God's still God. He can do...
He took the little old Paul, where the--the church in their decision had made an error, and choose Matthias... But that Paul, a little old hooked-nosed, high-tempered Jew, He said, "I am going to show you what I'm going to do with him." He made him one of the greatest apostles of all of them, because it was a work of God did something.


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