<TITLE>05. Par 42-50</TITLE>L-42 They, they knowed that they had been with Jesus. We find in saint... No, I believe it is in Acts the 4th chapter, that we find out, that those fishermen, Peter and John, and healing the man at the Gate Beautiful, and was able to answer any question that they--that they... the Sanhedrin asked of them, asked them; yet, they with their ignorance, and unlearned. They could perceive that. They had no education, and they was not trained ministers, they were fishermen. "But they perceived that they had been with Jesus," see, because that they were acting the same way He acted on them.

L-43   You can just live with somebody so long, and around them, until you take up their ways. And it's good for us not to run off and live with the world. But stay with Jesus until we can reflect, His Life be reflected in our life.

L-44 And that's the way those disciples were. They, they knew that they had been around Jesus, because they talked like Him, acted like Him, and healed like Him, and every answer was like Him. They was inspired like Him, and they knowed that He was living in them. That's what we should be all the time, as believers. They acting like Him, 'cause, if you associate with someone so long.

L-45   We find in the Bible, over in the Book of Kings, that there was a man by the name of Jehoshaphat, a righteous man. And there was the son of Ahab, Jehoram, and he was taking up the habits of his father, and then the king of Edom. And then they declared war, the Moabites did, upon Israel at that time. And Jehoram being king, after his father, why, he called on Jehoshaphat. And Jehoshaphat, a righteous man, should never have connected hisself with this unrighteous person. But many times Christians do that, just not thinking.

L-46 And so they took a seven-day compass and went into the--the wilderness, and, come to find out, they had run out of water. And one of them cried, "Alas, because God has brought these kings out here to slay them!"

L-47   But Jehoshaphat, being a righteous man, in the time of trouble, remembered that God still lived. You see, regardless of the... Though we stepped aside and done wrong, yet God is still with us. God still remains the same. And Jehoshaphat, remembering this, cried out, "Isn't there a prophet of the Lord somewhere, that we could consult?"

L-48 And one of the servants of the king of Israel, said back, "Yes, here is Elisha. He poured water on the hands of Elijah."   
And Jehoshaphat said, "The Word of the Lord is with him."

L-49 Why? Look at his association. See, he, they knowed this man had associated with a genuine prophet. And they knowed that it had that kind of company. And stay in that kind of company, he had to walk a pretty straight life, and he wouldn't say nothing... because he had been brought up under the tutorship of this great prophet, Elijah.

L-50   Oh, how it would be today if the church could only stay with Christ, under the tutorship of the Holy Spirit, never leave that Word for no creed nor nothing, believe It just the way It's wrote. And men everywhere would know that you had been with Jesus, also. That's how he would know it.


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