Address—C. Lunden
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The following address, taken by Mr. Lundeen at Newman Place Hall, Monday, September the 24th, 1962 is the first in the series of lectures on Elisha.
Now we sing together and #193.
Jesus, my Savior, Thou art mine. The Father's gift of love divine. All I have done in all art are now the fortune of my heart.
She was my.
Favorite.
Return to the 19th chapter of First Kings, the 19th Bird.
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So he that is the light that he parted then and found the light to the sun is Chaffetz, who was plowing with 12 yoke of oxygen before him, and he was the 12.
And Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. And he left the oxygen, and ran after he liked it, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And said unto him, Go back again, for what have I done to thee? And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and flew them, and boiled their flesh with the influence of the oxygen who gave under the people. And they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah.
Administered unto him.
Possibly a year ago, some of us were looking together over the life of Elijah.
And we noticed as we were following along.
As the scripture LED us into the various activities of Elijah the prophet, that his ministry took on a certain character, I suppose that's always true of every servant, some particular character.
We noticed that in his life there were seven pictures of repentance.
We didn't go into all of them, but we did notice some of them and in reading them carefully we discovered that.
F7 is the perfect number we have here, rather a complete picture of that subject.
Not now, doctrinally, as we have in the New Testament.
Set out before us in a beautiful order of display. In the activities of that problem, the first person that was mentioned was the widow of Sarepta. She repented because that prophet had been in her house for 3 1/2 years.
She says. Have you come to the plain white son?
Our Carson was awakened because of the presence of that man of God in her home. Had he said anything to her about?
This though.
And it shows us the power of a godly life.
How it brought that woman to a sense of her need before God. But we also learned at the same time that the Spirit of God is bringing before. It's a lovely type. The Gentiles to say, are gathering around a rejected Christ because he, Elijah, is the type of Christ.
The rejected Christ.
So if you will turn with me to Luke's Gospel, just for a moment.
We'll notice what we did notice at that time, the connection with.
What the New Testament says about these two ministries, the ministry of Elijah and the ministry of Elijah.
You know, our dear brother Harry Hay, who is now going to be with the Lord some years ago, many years ago, brought before me a thought that I value very much, he said. Whenever you read the Old Testament, remember you have to read it in the light of the news.
Because we're told that all structures get into it by inspiration of God.
We're told also that the things that were written before that were written for our learning.
And we're told that the scriptures that are given by inspiration of God are profitable for doctrines, but it doesn't say they're all doctrines.
Until we get the doctrine in the new, but the older profitable for doctors.
That is, here we have perhaps one or two verses. In the New, we have a whole chapter explaining in the news in picture form, and that's the prophet of the Old Testament. And so in the in the 4th chapter of Luke's Gospel, we have what the New Testament says about the ministry of Elijah and Elijah.
Now, it's a remarkable thing that we have this in Luke's Gospel.
Because Luke Gospel rings before us and subject to rejection.
It also brings before us the subject of the Son of Man.
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And so in the 24th verse of the 4th chapter of Luke.
They said, Verily I say unto you, no prophet is accepted. Now that should really read acceptable because of the question of rejection here, and better translations would give us the word acceptable.
No problem is acceptable in his own country, but I tell you of a truth, many widows were an Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when grace banged us through all the lands. But none of them was Elias then save unto Sorrepto city of sightings unto a woman that was a widow. And many leopards were in Israel in the time of Elijah as the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, saving name in the Syrian.
Now this passage of scripture gives us the key to the ministry of Elijah and Elijah.
We find the Lord here in his rejection because Luke gives us the rejection of the Son of Man.
And so we have the subject of race coming out.
In this book of rejection, we find that the Lord is setting before them. Now in this matter, the two ministries that he's about to bring to mass, the first ministry takes the character set before him, and he liked his life.
That isn't the subject of repentance.
It takes in the life of the Lord Jesus when he was here, before he went on high.
And if you are familiar at all with these histories of Elijah and Elijah, you'll find that when one ends and the other begins, Elijah is carried into heaven.
And Elijah continues down here in the festival. And so we find that the ministry of Elijah then is that mine of ministry of repentance.
Which was the Lord's ministry when he was here on earth.
But then there's a new ministry that he has when he goes to heaven.
That when he went on high, he gave gifts on the man. We see the Apostle Paul coming forth with a line of truth. It was entirely new.
It has to do with grace, the gospel of the grace of God. It isn't exactly the Kingdom line of things, although that's involved, but it's an entirely new thing, for God is coming out now, hidden before.
To manifest all of you in Jesus Christ, because the Apostle Paul was given to see Jesus not now as a man on earth.
Exalted son of Man.
That's the character, the ministry of Elijah.
Is that part of ministry that sets before us grace?
But my dear friends, tonight.
You'll never understand grace. I'll never understand grace till I first had the ministry of Elijah.
If someone elses that you and I will never know God, do we know something?
All the pride that's found here.
Oh, how slow we are to this bit. But we were singing in that little hymn tonight.
I nothing. But that's where the gospel brings us, isn't it? It gives us to see what we are, and we find in all of these resentments of the ministry of Elijah that Elijah himself has to repent and Elijah has to repent.
And so we find that there's that in the life of everyone of us.
In which we discover the resentment is not an act merely when we receive Christ as our Savior, but repentance is a state of soul.
And then let you and I go along through life conscious of the fact that what we are by nature.
The conscience of the grace that saves them. I'm not being occupied with it, no, but I'd say conscious of it. Because it's our privilege. It's our happy privilege now to be occupied with Christ and the inheritance.
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But you know, dear friends, unless you and I are conscious of what we are, the enemy is going to get advantage over.
And so we have here then robbed before the ministry like him.
And then we have the ministry of Elijah we said before, which brings before the new thing. Before the new thing, Elijah speaks, the ministry of Elijah speak to us.
Is coming in contact with that man Naman, who also was a Gentile.
And upon his resentment, and only the prophet of God, and what the word of God had to say to him.
It's like comes again as a little child. He's a leper.
Now that has to do with a new line of things. It has to do with an entirely new life, a divine life. It's a type of a kind of life that only comes to the sovereign grace of God.
Now in considering these things.
We find that.
Just as we close the ministry of Elijah, as it were, and again the ministry of Elijah, we find that the subject of repentance is prominently brought before us, because the Spirit of God is bringing before us a candidate, shall we say, for the Kingdom of God.
Now let me use that expression. Kingdom of God. We speak here in a moral sense.
That is righteousness.
Peace, Joy of the Holy Ghost is what characterizes the Kingdom of God.
I believe that's the 15th of.
A rolling, isn't it? I'm not sure.
Write this up in peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Now in order for that to be brought about, we find the Spirit of God, and that's before us and things for our conscience.
And we have them in the 9th chapter of Luke's Gospel. Now I think of that because it's the explanation of a part of the passage that we read of Elijah tonight.
And I think we should read it first before we go into the ministry.
Of Elijah.
In the 9th chapter of Luke's Gospel.
Dialogue, The 57th verse. We have a new line of things.
And it's called in the way and it came to pass that as they went in the way.
Now what is this way? Speaking of, it's a new way.
And if you'll turn back to the early part of the chapter, you'll find that the Lord Jesus asks the disciples what men say of him. Oh, one of the prophecies returned again. But he said, whom do you say that I am? Oh, you're the Christ of God. Is Peter right? Yes, he was right. But Peter hadn't understood what had happened. All the Lord says, don't tell any man this thing anymore.
The Son of Man has been rejected, rejected, rejected.
And those disciples in the 23rd verse.
If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow him.
Now that's the first step of a candidate for the Kingdom of God.
Christ has been rejected of the game.
And now he's Speaking of something else.
It's a place in heaven.
There's no place for you on earth. Now. If you're going to follow Christ, you'll have to give up everything here. Oh brethren, this is precious truth was that we laid hold of.
You have to give up everything there. We're going to follow Christ except the man forsake all. These cannot be my disciples.
And so we notice then we're reading it from the 57th verse, and it came to pass that as they went in the way this way.
A certain man said under him. Lord, I will follow thee with us forever thou goeth.
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Jesus selling them. Boxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests of the sun of man does not where to lay his head. You still want to follow me?
Or we don't say that. But what an appeal to the heart. You still want to follow me? You know what it means to follow Christ.
Dear friends, tonight thousands that rallied under the banner of Christianity.
What do they know?
Of following a rejected Christ.
And if we were to ask tonight.
What do I know about it? What do you allow? What was the answer to foxes that hold those clever creatures of nature? They can find a way through this world and arrest him. The birds in the air, which speak to us of the wicked spirits that have control of things down here, they can make their way through here.
But one's following a rejected right. You have no place in this world.
And the closer we get to this world, the closer we are to the Prince of it.
The further we are from Christ.
Now we have the Lord Jesus saying to another Follow me.
The man in the first case suggested, but now the Lord Jesus is asking 1 to follow him.
He said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Jesus done on him, left the dead, bury their dead. It goes out and treats the Kingdom of God.
Now we see an urgency coming in, in this thing.
The Lord is asking a man to follow him.
Oh, he said. I have something to attend to 1St.
No.
If this man wants to come into the blessing and follow the Lord Jesus to blessings, you'll have to drop everything in time. Why was it that? The servant said to Rebecca's folks, Relatives, Friends?
Well, they said, why don't you tell him 10 days?
No, he says. We're going now.
But going out.
If Rebecca had carried 10 days, she probably would never have come.
Now, when God speaks, it's the time to act.
I remember when my own boy said to me lane delirious on his bed, he said. Father.
If the Lord speaks, will he speak again? It's the Spirit of God speaks. Will he speak again?
You know that boy didn't receive Christ for at least a year after that.
But you know, God was speaking, and there are times when he's speaking.
The Lord is sequel to this man, I think that.
Going to solemn thing, it is when God speaks, What does Peter do? When he spoke, what did Levi do? He up and followed him.
What a solemn thing it is to have to do with God.
And so.
We have again another also said, Lord, I will follow thee, but let me first go and did them farewell, which is whole at my house now. This is the part that connects with Elijah's ministry, and probably was taken from that.
These suddenly had no man, having put his hand to the flower, looking back his fifth for the Kingdom of God. You know, the Lord Jesus said to his disciples once, I'll read his stuff.
We should be very careful how we read the word of God.
I know this scripture has often been used as someone who started out as it were in some mission field and he didn't continue and he came back.
And they say, well, his man puts his hand to the plow, and turning back isn't fit for the Kingdom of God. But what does it say?
He says one who puts his hand to the plow and turns back. He doesn't fit to the Kingdom of God what it says.
So it's a question of distance here for the Kingdom of God.
Christmas.
Or it may involve the servant in the other too. There's a question here of fitness for the Kingdom of God.
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Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God. So now with that in mind, let's turn to the passage we've read in First Kings, the 19th chapter and the 19th verse.
We have a little passage.
First of all, the end of the ministry.
Of Elijah. The name of Elijah means Jehovah is God.
The name of Elijah means Jehovah is salvation.
Now therefore 1 can realize salvation is all you have to know who got it.
He would come to God and believe that he is and that he's a rewarder of them, which diligently seek him, Hebrews said.
And so there has to be, first of all, a sense of what we are in all our ruins.
You realize what God is.
I despair that God produces that.
We have in the Gospel of Luke.
There is God setting before us that precious faith in the Lord Jesus, but as a man.
And one who can open up not only by his ministries, but by his very act, the hidden springs in the human heart.
But at the same time can bring down that measureless grace of God that meets every need as the heart is opened up.
At the same time, in this gospel, we see before us as we meditate on it, the right path for a man, a divine path for a man through a world like this.
The same time.
We see a blessed Savior attracting the heart.
For rebel center to himself.
And drawing the heart, as it were, with according to a man in love, right home to the father that's the 15th of.
Father's House.
But you know, my friend, at the same time, the Lord Jesus does not forfeit one bit of that which belongs to the glory of God is righteousness and His Majesty.
Lord and Savior, what a man, the man of Christ Jesus. And now in this chapter I believe the Spirit of God gives us a little outline.
The beginning of a soul with God.
In other many prophets in scripture, but I don't know of another one that was taken from the plow.
Here's a man that's taken from the plow.
And we find that there were 12 yoke of oxen plowing and he was a 12.
What does that suggest to it?
Can we see to oxen? A yoke of oxen was starting out and as they start out with a plow, the second start out take the next Pearl.
And then the next one until Elijah is the last.
12 yoke of oxygen and we were the last, don't you see, at the end of a dispensation.
The beginning of a new era, a new day.
Is what we have in the essential of John he which was from the beginning.
Oh, it isn't the beginning back in eternity. There it is in John one. But in the epistle of John it's the beginning down here, a new beginning for man. When this world was ruined, not only this whole earth ruined, but man immoral, ruined, and there was no hole.
Blessed faith and the Son of God is a man. Thou that starts a new race. It's called the seed of Abraham in the Epistle of Romans in the second chapter, a new race, the seed of Abraham, the seed of faith, those who would simply cast themselves in all their need on that precious thing here.
Take some hold of him to the Father's house. But now you see.
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In this passage before us.
The beginning of a new era.
Old Catholic man will follow.
To test him, what does he do?
Let the obstacle ran after you light, he said. Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. Isn't it so every time?
Didn't Abraham get as far as Heron and Mary stop?
Every time.
All dear fellow Christians, you never take one step ahead.
Bless the grace of God gives you the doing.
There's no room for him pride here. The one who has learned to know something in his own heart was simply what do you find God? Independent.
And that's what brings him along the way.
Because it's God's own prerogative. It's his own choice that you and I are saved at all. We have to learn what dependence is. In the 5th chapter of Hebrews, we find out those two precious, precious truths give us the character of Christianity. It was seen in the captain of our salvation.
Dependence and obedience.
Penance and obedience is what characterizes Christianity.
I can find the bold and loop brought out vividly in the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Until we find now he's tempted and immediately he turns back to get one more little bit of what he had before.
You know, the expression father and mother here isn't what we often would think. It is just your natural father and mother. That's not the thought at all.
It's the first principle you learn from Saul and Solomon. Turning back to first principle, we had it last night, I believe some of us, we were noticing this one who had tasted old wine, never desired new.
Great sovereign grace and that alone that has done anything for man. And that's what we need to learn. The total depravity of man, The total helplessness of man.
God coming in and the love of his heart.
Taking women, bring it home. And so he says, go back again for what have I done to be?
Ah, this is a process, beloved.
He's drawing him with a cordis of hand. If he had a loose gospel, he's putting him through steps, a little delay in the sea. What effect it's going to have on him? What he's going to do now? Go back again? What have I done to thee?
When it goes back. But notice what he does. Does he go back to his father and mother? No, he doesn't.
The attraction to that man Elijah is so great he has a new object before his soul.
Unless you and I get Christ before our souls is an object.
You're one who fell back. We go back.
We made one in all the religious profession around us. We're brought up as brethren. We may go on as brethren in profession.
But remember, unless Christ is the object of the soul.
You'll not condition you'll not continue.
So what did they do then?
Return back problem. And so it should read the oak of oxen because you see it was the 12Th so he's plowing with it.
It really should read that way.
You better translation. He took the boxes.
And threw them and fall on their flesh. Now what has he done?
Has he made any provision for the Flash? No.
Disgusted right into.
If the principle of circumcision.
Cutting off the flash, the rolling away of the reproach of each.
Now he can't come back.
He slain the oxen with which he was plowing. Everything that belonged to his former conversation is gone. He must go on. Oh, dear Christian, you and I done that, have you?
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Are you making provision for the flag?
Oh, I say. These truths are vital, and they're so necessary today.
You either have to have Christ is everything. You're going back. You're going back.
And so it says he flew them. But what does he do?
Why? He turns everything now into a new path, and he boiled the oxen and provide meat for the people of God. So let us bring grace.
Remember the oxen and all the instruments of the oxen.
Or the fire.
That's the judgment. Putting him in the place of judgment where they belong. Because, you know, we never reclaim anything from the flag. Nothing.
The French prophets? Nothing.
But notice what it says. And they did eat.
What does that mean?
Well, it means if you say this fast, your work will be profitable.
Your work will be processed.
There will be a result from it. They did eat.
Well, there's a great deal then, contained in these verses.
In connection with what we have in that turning point in Luke's Gospel Chapter 9.
That's what the spirit of God brings before us there, because the 9th chapter of Luke is the turning point of that gospel, and from then on we have heavenly things. Before that it was the Kingdom.
Now we have heavenly things, and in the last 11Th chapter we find that we're connected with the subject of prayer, he says.
If your Father, if you break, ask your Father for something for a fish, would he give you a stone? And so on. How much more shall not your Father, which is in heaven?
Give good things the Holy Spirit.
That we have introduced the Holy Spirit, which is that person who comes into the believer and dwells there for all eternity.
Because strange as it may seem.
John does not bring us into heavenly things. He brings heaven down here.
But lose because of the path of rejection here takes in heaven's dream.
So in the 9th chapter, we have the Father Himself coming out, and that cloud of Shekinah glory enveloping those disciples as they stand on the mount of consideration. It's the only gospel with us.
And so we see in that same chapter, because they've been rejected and they're following a rejected Christ, He presents to them three heavenly glories that they will participate with Him in our view.
The earthly glory that's spoken of in the 16th chapter of Matthew.
It's not there. It's the heavenly glory that's prominent in the gospel of Luther.
Well, I mentioned this because of the character of it and because of its connection with the type that we're looking at tonight.
And so if we'll turn then to the second chapter, a second.
It would be nice to go through these other pictures of repentance, but I believe it would be more profitable for us now in connection with the subject we're pursuing to notice some things in the second chapter, Second Kings, because it continues the history of Elisha in this particular thing that we're noticing tonight.
The second chapter of Second Kings, and it came to pass when the Lord would take up Elijah.
By our whirlwind.
But he lies. He went with Elijah from Gilgal, and Elijah said unto Elijah, Terry, Here I pray thee, for the Lord has sent me the vessel, and he likes to send unto him, As the Lord liveth in his thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.
So he went down to Bethel, and the sons of the prophets that were Bethel came forth to Elijah, and said unto him, Noah, thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head today? And he said, Yeah, I know it hold you your feet.
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And Elijah said, And him, Elijah, Terry, Here I pray thee, for the Lord is 7 to Jericho, he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho, And the sons of the prophets that were Jericho came to Elijah, and said unto him, Know about the Lord will take away thy master from my head today. And he answered, Yeah, I know it holds you your peace.
Would like to set an interior ice rating here, and the Lord has sent me to Jordan, he said. As the Lord liveth in his right soul, liveth I will not be thee.
And they too went on. And 50 men of the sons of the prophets went and stood to view far off. And they too stood by Jordan. And Elijah took his mammal and wrapped it together and smelt the waters. And they were divided, hit her and thither, so that they too went over on dry ground.
And again it passed when they were gone over, that he liked it said unto Elijah, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee?
And Elijah said, I pray that he let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. And he said, Dollars asked a hard thing nevertheless.
If thou see me when I'm taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee, but if not, it shall not be so.
And it came as fast as they still went on and saw they hold their peers chariot of fire and horses of fire, and part of them both asunder.
They liked it, went up by a whirlwind into heaven, and Elijah's God, and cried, my Father, my Father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof, And he saw him no more.
He took hold of his own clothes and wrapped them in two pieces. He took a bottle of the mammal of Elijah that fell from him.
I went back and stood by the Bank of Jordan, and he took the man of enlightened himself from him.
And smoke the waters, and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah?
When he also had split in the waters, they farted hidden feather and their life it went over.
When the sons of the province which was to view a Jericho saw him, they said the spirit of Elijah just rest on Elijah.
Now here we have.
A continuing picture of the activity.
Of the Spirit of God with the soul was brought into the Kingdom of God.
Righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
That more permanent thing which has a heavenly character, not just the Kingdom on earth which will be true of Israel the coming day, but that portion that belongs to all those now who have put their trust in Jesus.
It's a marvelous thing to think of the worst that was done for us, but have you ever thought of the work that is being done in you?
Who has passed the gun? A good thing. You will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ, and I believe we have that here.
We see now that Elijah by bringing before the conscience of Elijah.
What he is in himself.
That he has to. He had to be done with everything. We find that now.
He lies. His eyes are fixed on Elijah.
On your side, fixed on Christ.
Are my eye tricks on crime?
The Spirit of God appeals to us as we read these scriptures.
You know that when we get home to heaven, there's going to be one object in heaven.
There's going to be one thing that happened. The object will be Christ and the thing will be a suffering.
Read it in the 9th chapter of Luke, Can you please?
And so we see them.
That he liked as he died fixed on Elijah. And he won't be there. Go away, May. He won't leave him. And you know that's the power of the Christian life.
If he like to go to Bethel, he'll go there.
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He didn't say go with him. He didn't say you come with me to Bethel. No, he didn't.
He doesn't enjoy him in the courts a lot.
They're the only permanent cards you know, the only permanent one, because that's what will last for all eternity.
Towards the blood pressure. At the same time there were cords of a man, and we follow that blessed Savior to the Gospel of Luke. You see the man Christ Jesus.
Attracting poor hearts, we've come to the end of themselves. We have no hope, he says. Come with me, I'll take you to the father's house.
They were ready for it. They were ready for it. Dinner, sitting down at the table with him and all their rags and their ruins. And yet they were at home there. Lord, a savior. What a savior. And so now the heart of Elisha has been attracted to Elijah. He won't leave him. He won't be.
But we have some others here. We have the sons of the Prophet.
And there always have been the sons of the prophets, you know.
There may be some here tonight.
Who have taken the name of Christ on their lips, but they know nothing of the experiences of Elijah.
They don't say we will not leave me. They stand far off. They observe. They don't. All the outward forms of it and the doctrines of it, they say your master is going to be taken away from your head today.
They know all about it.
They might be able to give you a clear description of the truths of Scripture. Then you know yourself, but I say that the sons of the rocks.
They don't bother Jordan with Elijah. They don't know anything. What it means to be dead and risen with Christ. They know nothing of that.
They may be able to talk about these things.
That they'll stand as far off of you and after it's all taken place and they're questioning.
That's the size of the problem.
Only the Spirit of God awaken our hearts to realize what it is to follow a rejected Christ.
And so let's notice then we have burnt Gilgal. I don't think this is the Gilgal down by the Jordans.
That had to do with the children of Israel when they came across into the land. I believe this is the Gilgal back in the plane, another Gilgal which is recorded on the map because they came down from yellow golf, you see.
We have here a lovely picture of just what we have in the Tabernacle.
In the wilderness God died some first man black. The 1St place we start with is a very glory of God itself.
Because friends remember.
God's counsels were long before man's responsibility.
Man, this part to build the only comes in and show us what we are so that God can come in now.
Claim that we're chronicled. That's all.
God counted for long before. So we begin at Guildhall when we come down to Bethel. What's Bethel? You know very well in the 28th chapter of Genesis, all the promises that were given to Jacob.
He does our way there until I've done all this and I'm going to bring you back to that one.
With blessing, I will bless thee, Jacob. Put on the provision, Jacob said. If you do this, then I'll do this. God never said a word about what he should do. He says with blessing, I'm going to bless you. That's Bethel.
All the blessings that have been performed now to the work of Scratch.
And so then he goes on to Jericho. But Jericho.
1St place, the experiences coming with him experiencing the glory of God and how a believer now is seated in the heavenly place to think of it. But then we have vessels and promises, and now we've come down to Jerry. So what's Jericho, the place of the curse?
As we find ourselves first of all seated in heavenly places, our hearts rejoice. We find that matchless truth of God, the councils of God. And we have an Ephesians one. And then we see in Bethel how he is. It's the House of God, you know. He's gathered all the children of God around Christ in the center.
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But then he wants us to know the character of the scene we're passing through.
Jericho, It's a place where God's curse is.
And it's a place where you and I will find nothing that can satisfy our hearts, and He wants us to know it before he leaves.
He won't be like that at all about them before he leaves it.
And it goes down to the glory. And so we have all the precious ministry that God has given us in regard to these things.
Are we laying hold of it? Do we know what the character of the world is? Are we trying to prove it? You know, there's two ways to discover these things. One is by faith and the other is by experience. But, you know, experience losing stars, face double.
Oh, how sad. The scars. How better. Much better. If you and I just took the word golf, realized this, the path that we're treading is through a wilderness.
Garriga's The place of the curtain.
And so he said, Keep your eyes right straight in front of you. Don't turn the right hand into the left. Go right up. Pay no attention to the scene. Keep your eyes on Christ. What happened to Peter as he walked on the water to go to Jesus?
Designed to the side beginning the same Again, Christ the Lord saved me experience.
I think experience.
But then what did they go?
That is the beautiful language we have here.
Six birds and in light is done on him. Carrie, I pray thee here, for the Lord has sent me to Jordan.
You know, sometimes I think, and I've done it myself.
I tried sometimes to perhaps encourage someone to do something.
Tried to set their path out for them. You know it's not a God. It's not a God. Here's the principle of it. The principle of example. The Lord has set me to this place or that.
Now, if the Lord has sent me and I take that path, then I'm sure that it'll be an example of someone else.
And he said, As this Lord, let us And as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee, but notice what it says. And they too went on to the union.
Something new has been happening.
Oh, how wonderful.
The heart is an object now, and it has something that interests us that didn't interest it before.
Not now, plowing in this earth, but the design fixed upwards. It goes out in communion. The two went together.
And then the fifty sons of the prophets come in again, oil everything.
Oh, there. Once a night you're either following like Elijah, or you're a human among the people of God. One of the two.
Spoiling everything.
They stood to view the far off.
50 sons of the Prophet stood to view for us, but these two stood. Where did they stand?
By Jordan.
Jordan, The River of Death.
Elijah took his mantle, wrapped it together, and smoked the water, and they were divided, so that they too went over and arrived there. Now I ask you, dear friend, tonight, were you one of these? Were you?
This is the book of Romans.
It's the death of Christ.
You know why the the apostle said to them in Romans. Reckon yourselves to be a dead indeed.
Dead indeed, under sins and so on. Why does he say the reckoning? Because the man still alive, he hasn't crossed joy again.
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The river.
Oregon, the Red Sea is a picture to us.
Of the death of Christ.
And the River Jordan is a fixture to us of our death with Christ.
The Red Sea, the crossing of it, is a picture of the death of Christ for.
And all the animals are gone. They see them down on the seashore.
But the River Jordan crossing it and the picture to us of our death and whiskers.
Now we're free, you see?
Free because death frees us. You can't put any planes of any guilt upon a dead man. They're all gone.
So the soul is set completely free now, full liberty following Christ.
And so we see the two of them now across Jordan.
Oh Christ is the one who went down to death for us. But you see, baptism is a picture of our going down with him in it.
And then coming up again, always coming up again.
Now we present to them something new.
Came to pass when they were gone over.
How they got over?
That Elijah said unto Elijah, Ask what I shall do for thee. He doesn't say I'm going to do something for you, he says. You ask what I shall do for me. Why? Because he has the mind of the Spirit now.
Before I be taken away from me and Elijah said, I pray thee, let it double fortune. Thy spirit be upon me. All he wants is double portion of the spirit of that man is the object of his heart. It's a type of crisis.
He said thou hast asked the hard thing. Why did he say that? Because you know.
As far as man is concerned, it's the hardest thing for one to lay hold of a written, glorified strike because it has to be by way of rejection.
It's a hard thing.
The path of following a rejected Christ is a hard thing, and it's only the grace of God.
Can lead a soul in it.
Now what does it involve? Notice.
It's alien. When I'm taken from me, it shall be sore to me, but if not, it shall not be so. Now that's the ministry of the Apostle Paul. The Apostle Paul was smitten to the ground, and he saw the word Jesus not as the disciples had seen him down here.
They're all up there to the glory.
The risen, glorified Christ. That's Christianity. That's the new ministry of Elijah.
This is what characterizes Elijah's ministry.
Renders Laura by country. Now what can he like to do? Go on and dispense the great things been given.
That law Great.
The law was given by Moses.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Oh, what a savior.
Well now one more thing possibly before we close this.
Standard passes. They still went on and talked. It's a lovely picture.
Beautiful picture.
That will be continued when we got home to glory, You know, been interrupted. He's gone on high. He's coming back. And then we'll go on and talk about it. Oh, what a day that'll be. Does your heart gain for it? Have you got your eyes fixed Under Christ, is he the object of your heart? Is he the one that's controlled? You'll pass down here and gives you the power each day.
That behold, there appeared to cherry the fire and horses of fire, and part of them both asunder, and he lied to one up by a whirlwind into heaven.
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And he might have saw it.
A great life out there. And the Father. That's Romans 8. The Spirit in the heart of Christ have a Father. Christianity brings us the truth of the Father. It was never known in the Old Testament.
That's Christianity. It's not just God knowing God is God, but it's now knowing the Father. It's the base lisping out ABBA Father.
That's Christian. And what has happened? Why is having believed you were sealed with that spirit everyone who cried ABBA father's seal?
With the Spirit of God.
And he saw it no more. We won't speak of the Israel and the horsemen that comes in later in life's ministry.
We saw him no more, and he took hold of his own clothes and read them in two pieces.
Why is it that souls, when they finally come to the place where they see themselves dead with Christ, their whole life changes?
Why? Because they get a view of themselves they've never seen before.
And Christ becomes the object and always tinfoil the murder that so attractive natural heart they drop off like autumn leaves.
His own character passes away. It's Christ from now on.
Is Christ replaced on earth because he left here to be a witness and a testimony to the one who's gone on high? A new power possesses his soul, and here is a living witness for the risen, glorified Christ down here on earth. Now we have a picture of the Church.
And you'll notice too, that the testimony rendered by Elijah here.
Is that those who saw it? The fifty sons of the product? They had to bear witness to the fact that the very same power within his master, within him.
And we read the 1St or the 2nd chapter of Peter one Peter, right? We'll read it this way that she should follow any of that, not follow his death.
It's the only way we can do it.
Follow in his death, because you're either living that old Adam life or you're living the new life in Christ Jesus. And if you're living, the new life you'll fall in is death.
Oh, they won't measure.
It's often like a little child who tries to follow his father's footsteps and his footprint is awfully small, but still he jumps into his father's step.
But it's in the same step.
Now he's ready for the Mandel.
Who takes up the mammals?
What is he doing? Same thing is masterful.
It's the same power.
Now he has power to walk through this world, the power of a new life.
He goes back across Jordan. Now what for? Bear with me faster.
And so where does he go? He goes back into these four places that he had been with his master.
But he goes back in reverse order.
He starts the Jordan.
And he goes to Jericho, and he goes to Bethel. And then he goes to Guild call. And then he's home in the Father's house. That's the history of the Church. It's his progress down here. We may have time. The Lord allows us to speak of those things on another occasion.
He took up all the mammal of Elijah that fell from him and went back and stood by the Bank of Jordan.
Seen his death, he took the man of the life of his cell from and waters and said, Where is the Lord's daughter Elijah?
When he often spent the water, they farted, hit her and said this and Elijah went over.
And when the sons of the prophets which were to be with Jericho saw him, they said the spirit of Elijah.
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Just rest on Elijah.
Well, let's sing together then.
In #76 in the back of the book.
Just point out the truth of these two hymns.
In the first one we sang tonight, it says, Jesus my Savior, thou art mine.
But what does this one say?
Dying Jesus bless rather than That's a far higher truth for our souls.
Oh, how precious to know that Jesus is mine, that our soul will go through the experience of Elijah, Elijah. With Elijah, we discover he likes it, He wants it. And we're here. We're here.
Consciousness of possession by him my sheep shall never perish, neither shall any man plus amount of my hand.