<TITLE>05. Par 43-52</TITLE>L-43   You might be setting here tonight, my friend, where the doctors has give you up, with cancer, heart trouble. Maybe in a chair, crippled, all science has said there is no hope for you; the deposit of calcium has--has knotted your--your--your bones, that you can't bend them no more. Or, either your--your heart is so bad, the doctor says you might go at any minute. Oh, and great bunches of people with cancer and TB, maybe the last hope you got, and it seems like that the doctor has turned you down. Yet, to be in the Presence and recognition of the Presence of Jesus Christ, brings hopes again.

L-44   Somebody can even name it to you. Maybe you've never heard of it before, but let somebody say, "I know where there is a church, they believe in God and they pray for the sick," quickly now (you're ready to die), see, new hopes spring up. It always does. In that dark hour, that's usually when somebody says something about it, tell you about Jesus. His Presence brought new hopes.

L-45 May It do the same thing tonight, like It did last night, when we see that vindicated Word beyond any shadow of doubt, that's been made manifest and proved; that that Jesus that lived nineteen hundred years ago, that died on Calvary, rose up on the third day, and appeared to those disciples and opened their eyes, and made this promise of the day, is right here tonight in our presence now. It's bound to bring hopes to people. New hopes flash up.

L-46   Maybe somebody said, "The church has been kind of dry for a while. We haven't had any good fresh water for--for--for a few months. We haven't had a revival. Looks like everybody is so stagnant, or something another. We just go to church and sing a hymn, and--and hear a few messages and go back." But all of a sudden, then, when we begin to get dry, then Jesus comes on the scene, freshens us up, brings something new to us. He is always there to do that. New hopes comes when--when Jesus comes in. His Presence brings new hope.

L-47 She knew that He was that manifested Word of God. She had seen that age. Or, if she wouldn't, she'd a-still been Orthodox. She'd a-still belonged to the church. But she had seen that promised Word. She had seen that promised Word manifested by Him and she knew that He was that living Word. And when she heard about it, she didn't care how many criticized her, what else, she took out for Him just as hard as she could go. See? She knew He was that manifested Word.

L-48   No doubt but what she had read of the story of Elijah in his day. Now, he was God's manifested Word in that day. He was a prophet, and the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet. And there was a woman in there, who had a little baby that had been given to her by a blessing that the prophet had blessed her by, and she had the child.

L-49 One day, about eleven o'clock, he must have had a sunstroke. He was out in the field with his father, the Bible doesn't said it was, say it was sunstroke, but he begin to cry, "My head! My head!" About eleven o'clock in the day. And he had a servant, the father did, to take him to the house. He laid on his mother's lap till about noon, got sicker and sicker, and finally died.

L-50   And now, instead of going to spare, all the neighbors come in screaming and going on. But that steady mother, her baby was dead, she took it up in that little room that she had provided for the prophet, and laid him upon his bed, like that. And she said to the servant, "Saddle me a mule, and you ride straight, and don't you stop unless I tell you to." Oh, my! That's it!

L-51 We ain't got time for debating and fussing. This is past that day. Let's go on. We got to get there. We got a need.

L-52 And so he said, "You go forward, and don't you slack your riding unless I command you to." And they went till they got to Elijah.


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