Address—C. Lunden
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The following meeting taken by Mr. Lundeen at Newman Place Hall in Montreal on Friday, September the 28th, 1962. It is the second in a series of lectures on Elisha.
Everything together and #166.
I want you to notice carefully the wording of this first verse. Lord, thou has drawn us after thee. Thou let us run and never tire.
Thy present shall our comfort be Thyself, our hope, our soul desire, our present. Savior. Wild nor fear nor sin can come. It's our fear.
Lord, Lord and.
God.
I am.
100 and I love.
I never.
Say again?
Eyes and Lord.
We turn to the second king in the second chapter again.
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There are different portions here and we'll just consider first.
Down to the 22nd bird.
And you'll have time to consider.
The rest later we were noticing the other evening. It might help us to connect it again, but there are 4 distinct places that Elijah goes with. Elijah too, they started Guild off.
Your dog, you know, was up in the top of the mountains and the plains. It makes us think of the heavenly places.
And from there he goes down. Because God always dark from himself, you know?
All it starts from himself.
So get out of the bathroom. It means the House of God.
Where all the promises were made. Remember the 28th of Genesis?
To Jacob they lay with the stones for Phillips.
The law, you know.
We arrested they have Jericho.
Jericho, the place where there's nothing to sustain a child of God down here. It's this world, it's character and Curtis. But then he goes on to Jordan and he crosses over Jordan with Elijah.
It's our death with Christ.
But after Elijah goes on high, we find that Elijah now reverses the order and he starts back because it's experienced.
If it's got sight of things and his purpose, it starts up there.
It's our experience. It starts down your Jordans.
And so we'll start reading them.
In the twelve birds.
The second chapter of Second Kings and the 12 Birds, and he likes his daughter.
That is, he's going to go into heaven and the whirlwind. And he cried, my father, my Father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more. And he took all of his own clothes, and rest them in two pieces. He took a ball to the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back and stood by the Bank of Jordan. And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and smoked the water. He said, Where is the Lord's God of Elijah?
When he often spent in the water, they farted together and feathered, and he liked it went over. And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, the spirit of Elijah does rest on Elijah. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him. They said unto him, Behold, now there be with thy servants 50 strong men, let them go, We pray thee, and seek thy master. Let's for adventure. The spirit of the Lord has taken him up and cast him.
Upon some mountain or into some valley. And he said, You shall not stand.
And when they heard Tim kill, he was ashamed, he said. Then they sent their 450 men and they stopped three days, but found him not.
When they came again to him, for he carried at Jericho, he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not.
And the men of the city said under Elijah.
The old I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my Lord seeth, but the water is not, and the ground is barren or causes to miscarriage. And he said, bring me a new cruise, and put salt there in. And they brought it to him, And he went forth under the spring of the water, and cast the salt in there. He said thus of the Lord, I have healed these waters, there shall not be from them anymore death or barren land.
So the waters were healed.
Unto this day according to the saying of Elijah, which he speaks.
We have here then.
Elijah request of Elijah.
What he would do for you, he said. I would like a double portion of your spirit.
And so he said, Well, if you see me when I go up, it will be granted you.
Now Israel has a portion of the Spirit in that they are born of God they will be and the nations too that are safe. But it's never said of Israel or the nation that they have the Holy Spirit dwelling within them. They can never stay out of Father.
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No, it is true that God will be known in that coming eternity.
As father to all his creatures. But in a very sense, the church can address him, our Father, but to the nation, he will say in the millennial day, because there will be no nations in the eternal states, you know.
Come you blessed of my Father. You see they'll know him as being associated with the King, and they all know the King's Father. So God, because of the work of Christ and redemption, will be known in that day not only as creator, but God, but he'll be known in that place of nearness to his creature relationship.
That's the result of the word of Christ.
Oh, how much richer shall we say reverently God is because of the work of Christ.
He's going to have children that he can put his arms around. You don't believe it. Look at the 15th of Luke.
Children whose presence, if that is going to have a bride and all the nations, the millennial, they will know him in a new relationship, that is those that are saved.
And Israel, What a place they'll have. But they'll never, Israel, never be able to save as a father.
There's that. That you, as one of the children of God today, can enter into, as we have in this passage of Israel as a nation will not know.
Until we have then the double portion of the Spirit in which we have Father.
Now.
We notice that this comes having believed you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise in Ephesians One. It's coming through believing.
You know, it doesn't necessarily mean when a man converted that he saved. We use the expression lightly. Conversion means change of mind.
You may not yet have come to the place where he realizes what he's doing.
And so we see in that picture that we'll try to rehearse briefly that we have the other evening what was mentioned in Luke 9, the man putting his hand to the plow and turning back. Because I believe it's most important. And brethren, as we speak of these things, may I say they are most solemn. Why? Because gold all around us are taking up lightly with the profession of Christianity.
The Church peoples are rising.
But where is the heart for Christ?
And you know, brethren, we too are liable to be taken up with something false. We don't have that one, I think, before us. That's Christ. Read the 27th Psalm and read it over and over again.
We have an object for the heart. One thing of our desire, one thing.
And that's Christ.
You know, nothing can satisfy the hearts of our this heart of ours, but a person.
We were so created, Nothing else will do. And if you have a doctrine before you, whatever that doctrine may be, my friend is not enough.
Now we find that Elijah is coming along and he sees Elijah and he's plowing with 12 yoke of oxen and he was a 12.
It's the end of a dispensation.
12 He's 12, ING to the plowing with the 12Th yoke of oxen, the last Yolo.
And so he cast all his sides and followed Elijah. My, how noble that is.
How wonderful. I've been waiting. He's going to be tested and see how wonderful it is.
He runs. That's not an indication of faith at all.
No, no, That's the flash. And so he says to Elijah, I want to go back and kiss my father and my mother.
Elijah says go back again. What have I done to be? You don't know. You're not sent to the Kingdom of God. Any man puts his hand to the plow. That's repentance. Oh, how many have repented outwardly, but they've never gotten down to the roots. Peter didn't get to the roots when he denied that he ever knew the Lord Jesus, and then when the Lord looked at him.
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The West Bitterly. He didn't get to the roots.
He didn't get to the roots until the 21St of John.
The Lord says to Peter, Peter, do you love me more than the rest of these? I know he got down to the roof. You think that was Peter's trouble? Prying. Peter was very sorry for his sins.
But he hadn't yet judged pride.
It's one thing to be sorry for your sin, it's another thing to get down to the roots, because when you get down to the roots, there's no more fingers and everything is right.
And you know, we've said it before, but remember, we can't salvage anything from the flesh. It all has to go.
It has to be Christ. And so he says, go back again. What have I done to thee? And he goes back. What does he do?
He plays the oxygen over which he's plowed. You can't go back now. He's brought death in about everything. Oh, you say. Isn't that when he goes through Jordan with him? Oh, yes, it is, But he practically has done it already.
There's a difference from my profession of a thing or what I do in my heart, and that's what we're Speaking of in the ministry of Elijah. I'll tell you why it's in the Book of the King.
And the Book of the King takes up the subject of responsibility.
It's of necessity. So it's the Kingdom character of things. It's responsibility.
You know, it's a wonderful thing to say. Yes, I'm a part of the body of Christ. That's quite another thing.
To walk in the power of that truth, and that's what it like, this ministry says before us. And he liked it.
Brevin, isn't that what we need today?
To know more of what it is to walk in the power of the truth.
Is it in the flesh where to do it? No, indeed. And so we find them that.
Elijah slays the oxen, and then he takes all the instruments.
Plow.
The harness, the yolk, everything goes into the fire.
Nothing. Dresses.
But now he has a new object before him. He takes the option and he boils the oxygen.
Provide mint for the people of God.
So we see the character of His Ministry, Grace.
Now we find he goes and follows Elijah. Now the heart is back. You see, he's cut off everything in the past. It's the cross of Christ. It's circumcision. Everything is cut off. Now there's nothing like.
And you and I made such a clean break as he lighted it.
Well, your enjoyment of Christ will be just in that letter.
Now here we have a life of dedicated to following.
Christ, But still he like it, hasn't gone up. And he's going to test him the same time he's going to bring before him the whole pathway that he's going to walk in.
And so as the and brings it before him. You'll notice carefully that although it may seem the other way.
Elijah goes with Elijah. Notice carefully. That's what it says. Elijah goes with Elijah because it's Elijah's experiences.
As it were, if that experience of first being seated in the heavenly places.
We have here in order is a true Christian doctrine. That's the first thing. That's not the last truth, it's the first one. Because in let you and I know our true position, you can never walk according to a candidate.
So we're seated in the heavenlies. That's the truth of Ephesians.
And then we find all the full makers. We were singing that little hymn tonight and what grace has done for us, the work of Christ, what has brought brought us into. Because you know, if we didn't know that, we would try to do something ourselves, wouldn't we?
But we find that the work of Christ has done everything for us. Everything.
God has never asked us to do one thing.
The work of Christ has done it all.
We can't add to it without spoiling it.
So then, those are the soils, Jericho, the city of the Turkey.
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The place where?
Everything is rolling. There's nothing for the new man.
Many leaves endowed the garden with. Two of them went together. Oh, beautiful. You see, they've been drawn closer and closer. Now they can't be separated. And what is it that ties it up? I go through the river chart with.
In debt now to everything here, try to do his options and he sees him when he goes up, he says. It's a hard thing, but if you see me when I go up, your request will be granted. So he goes up and as we rest tonight, Elisha sees it.
And so as he goes back across gardens to retrace in this path, which gives us the pictures of the churches history here on earth.
We finally have the same power as his master.
And we find although the sons of the prophets know all about these things, and they can tell him exactly all of them was going to take place. Yet they in their hearts do not believe it, because they want to go and search and see. Possibly the spirit of God is cast Elijah in the valley.
All the wretched hearts of the religious land.
Appropriate doctrine, Albert Lee, But knowing nothing of Christ ever having gone through Jordan.
Only man take it on the profession. They may have sat at the feet of Elijah, and I'm sure they did all. The scripture doesn't say so, but the evidence is proved that they knew all these truths that he likened it. The sons of the prophets, we see them all around us, perhaps brought up in Christian homes. They know the outward truth, but they know nothing of Christ is enough.
Until we see them as he crosses Jordan.
And there's a positive witness The power of his master is defining.
He has the same power.
Oh, it may not be in the measure of his master is true.
That the Lord Jesus can say is he left his scene greater works than these values because I go to my Father, the Spirit of God that's down in the scene now. And even though man may not see it, there are work being done by the spirit of God which he's using for creatures like man which will be manifested at the resurrection of the death. And so brother let's go on not weary and well doing in as much as he knows.
That your labor is not in vain. In the Lord he'll all be manifested nothing.
Well, he comes to Jericho.
To carry there.
Now the difficulty Jericho is.
As we find ourselves in Jericho, this is the difficulty.
What do we have?
Is is likened to this? That is, as we're there, the city is Clanton. What we have is pleasant, but the question is the power now in connection with the evil that causes the difficulty.
The waters of the plate, the source of all refreshments, are contaminated.
And so we were noticing in Luke's Gospel the other day.
As we were reading it together that.
The Lord Jesus when he came Luke. But his spirit shows us how the Lord Jesus opens all the hidden springs of mankars.
The wickedness is there. There's no gospel like Luke to give us all the openings. It opens heaven for us, and in the 16th chapter it opens hell.
But it also opens its heart, he said. Within himself, it says in the 12Th chapter, the rich man said.
So that was good. Played it for many years. Take my knees, eat, drink, and be merry, God said now this was not a conversation. This was what he was said in his spirit. You'll find it scattered all the way through Luke's gospel.
The 7th chapter. The ancient chapter. The 12Th chapter.
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And so on. That's what man's heart says, and it's opened in the.
Heart and light are just insane under the same circumstances, and so we see the hidden springs opened up.
And we find as we go through Jericho, that although we have all these promises of Bethel all over seeded, and having many places in the situation, indeed is pleasant. Dear President, we find that wretched heart with all its springs now opened up.
Why? Because we're in the presence of God.
The one who's going on in his sins, not conscious of what God is, The unbelievers. He hasn't had the springs opened up.
I was a believer because you never can get in the presence of God.
Without your conscience being active, it's impossible because of what God is. But there was you and I have been called to the fellowship of Jesus Christ.
With the Father who was a son.
You know, becomes his presence.
Did we say this was a solemn subject? Indeed it is.
Because they're like this is maintained, you and I will have no fellowship with the Father, with his Son Jesus Christ down here. And then Jericho, to which we're passing, will be a dry scene indeed for us.
Holiness. Become a giant house. Oh God.
And unless you and I know something of that and our experience down here.
We won't enjoy our Christianity as we go through this world, we might be saying. I'm not Speaking of that. We're Speaking of Jericho and the water forming the place. But now there are new springs, you know?
They're new springs. And so in order to see the connection with the New Testament, shall we turn to Mark 9 tonight? If not just 9, Mark nine? We have Luke nine last time.
The 49th verse I'd like to read more, but we haven't signed to think up what precedes which flies more to the unbelievers.
So now the 49th bird, for everyone shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good, but if the salt has lost his saltless, wherewith will you season it? Have solving yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Now the supplies bring primarily to the one who has made the profession of Christ.
Previous birds who tell us what happens to those who refuse to cut off that within America, that is, they refuse repentance.
But here we find that everyone shall be salted with fire. Now we know the illustrations that are used in connection with Israel, how they're going to be brought, and through the refinery fire. That is, they'll be tested as to what God's character is because of the people of God.
And they'll feel them in the coming day. They'll go through the very fire, but you know, fires that was consumed to draw for the believers. It takes away everything that that interferes with the silver manifesting the face of the one who is.
That's melting it. He had to see his face in it and then his rest. All the dross has to go, but with the unbeliever and the fire of God's fault he's consumed.
This is an unquenchable fire forever. Now, due to breakage in the microphone wire, we are unable to record the balance of this meeting.