<TITLE>08. Par 71-83</TITLE>L-71 So I think that's where... Paul, another man of the Scripture, would have never, never taken handkerchiefs from his body, if he hadn't had Scriptures to it. Elijah knowed what, everything that he touched, was blessed; but if he could get the woman to believe that! So I think that's what Paul did. Now, we anoint handkerchiefs with oil. Now, that's not Scriptural, but it's all right. That's perfectly all right. "But they taken from the body of Paul," the Bible said, "handkerchiefs or aprons." Notice. But...

L-72   And Elijah, he said, "Take this staff, go lay it on the baby. And if anybody speaks to you, don't speak back. Just go on, lay the staff on the baby."

L-73 Now, the woman's faith wasn't in the staff. It was in the prophet. She said, "As the--the Lord God lives, and your soul never dies, I'm not going to leave you." And she stayed right there, persistent, until she got the answer of what she wanted to know.

L-74 Well, Elijah didn't have the answer, so there was only one thing to do, go with her. So, he girded up his loins, and he went.

L-75 He met Gehazi coming back. Said, "Did you carry out my orders?"

L-76 He said, "I did. I put the staff upon baby. There's no life or nothing yet." That had been hours and hours the baby was dead.

L-77 Well, Elijah went in. He didn't know what to do. So, remember, he walked up-and-down the floor, just back and forth, back and forth, until the Spirit come on him. And when the Spirit come on him, he laid his own body upon that baby's body, and it sneezed seven times and come to life, because of that determination and that faith of that mother.

L-78   Now, Martha, knowing that this Shunammite woman had faith in this prophet, being God's representative on the earth for that day. Elijah was the... was God's representative of his day. She knowed that she had seen enough out of Jesus that He was God's representative of that day. There you are. See? Make the Scripture run true.

L-79 Then, when she run out to Him, and seemed like that she had a right to upbraid Him, and say, "Why didn't You come? Why didn't You come? We sent for You. We left church. We done all this." No. That's the 1964 version of it. Not then, see. "We done all this. We did that. I give this. I give that." You give what? God gave a Son for you and me, the unworthy.

L-80   She must have went out there. And she knowed that God had manifested Himself. And watch when she comes. They follow her, to see what she would say. Now she went out there, and she fell down before Him, first, and said, "Lord." That's what He was. "If Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died." See? "Thy brother would not have died." And she...
He said, "Thy brother shall rise again." And He...

L-81 "Yes, Lord. He'll rise in the last day, at the general resurrection. He was a good boy. He'll raise up at the last day." See, they believed in the general resurrection.
Jesus said, "But I am that resurrection and Life."

L-82 Oh, my, after turned her down! How could a Man, that's resurrection Life, ever treat a friend like that? Sometime He's testing you, see what you'll do. See? Put the thing before you, and see what you do with it. He might do that, tonight. He has been doing it, so just to see what you'll do about it.

L-83   Then we find out, that when this was done, she said, "I believe that You are the Son of God that was to come into the world." That's exactly what He confessed to be. "And even now, though my brother is dead, though he's embalmed, though he's buried, though he stinketh in the grave, but even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." There you are. There you are. That's the keynote. She believed in what He asked. If He asked God for her, God would hear His prayer. "Even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You."


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