Address—C. Lunden
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So we've been together #290.
Why are those fears? Behold to Jesus, hold the hell and guide the ship.
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To the region where the mourners these two weeks.
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Connecting it with a New Testament, a few verses in Colossians, The Epistle of Colossians.
Lawson's the third chapter.
I'll read one or two words a little different than it as it appears in other translations.
The third chapter of Colossians, then she then be written with Christ. Seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.
Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth for years dead, and your life is hit with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall he also appear with him in glory.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth.
Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil, concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry, for which things take the wrath of God, cometh on the children of disobedience.
I'd like to read a passage turning back to Philippians.
The last chapter.
It can be nicer to keep these passages in mind as we read later in The Ministry of Elijah.
The fourth verse of the 4th chapter of Philippians.
Rejoice in the Lord. Always and again I say, rejoice, Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful, for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving. But your request is made known unto God, and the peace of God which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, Brethren.
Whatsoever things are true. Whatsoever things are honest. Whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure.
Whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report. If there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things, those things which you have both learned and received, and heard and seen in me do, and the God of peace shall be with you.
Now turning to the.
4th chapter of Second King.
We try to connect these passages.
We'll start with the eighth verse.
The 4th chapter of Second Kings.
And it fell on a day that Elijah passed to Shunam, where was a great woman.
She constrain them to eat bread, And so it was that is off to be passed by. He turned in scissors to eat bread. And she said unto her husband, Behold, now I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passes by us continually. Let us make a little chamber. I pray thee on the wall, and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a Candlestick. And it shall be when he cometh to us that he shall turn into this.
And it fell on the day that he came together, and he turned into the chamber.
And lay there And he said, The guy died. His servant called his unified. And when he had called her, she stood before him. He said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care What is to be done For thee? Would thou be spoken for the king, or to the captain of the host? She answered, I dwell among mine old people.
And he said, What then is to be done for her? Because I answered, verily, she has no child, and her husband is old. And he said, call her. When he called her, she stood in the door. And he said, about this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace the sun. And she said, Nay, my Lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
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And the woman soon stays and bear a son at that season that Elijah has said unto her, according to the time of life.
And when the child was grown, it fell on a day that he went out to his father to the Reapers.
And he said to his father, his father, my hand, my hand. And he said to a lad carrying to his mother. And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat underneath till noon, and then died.
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
She called under her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee one of the young men and one of the ***** that I may run to the man of God and come again.
And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him today? It is neither new moon, nor Sabbath. And she said, it shall be Well. Then she saddled an *** and said to her servants, Dr. And go forward, slack not thy writing for me, except I did me. So she went, and came unto the man of God to Mount Carmel. They came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off. And he said to his eye his servants.
Behold, Yonder is that Shunilite.
Run now at Brandy to meet her and stay under her. Is it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child? And she answered it as well.
When she came to the man of God, to the hill, she caught him by the feet against I came near to thrust her away.
And the man of God said, let her alone, for her soul is vexed with dinner, and the Lord has hidden from me and has not told me.
Then she said that I desire a son of my Lord. Did I not say do not deceive me.
Then he said the gays died. Geared up thy loins. Take my stab in the right hand and go thy way.
If thou meet any man, salute him not, and if any salute thee, answer him not again, and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
And the mother of the child says, As the Lord liveth, and as I shall liveth, I will not leave thee.
And he rose and followed her.
And as I passed on before them and laid the staff upon the face of the child, but there was neither voice nor hearing wherever he went again to meet him and told him, saying the child is not awake.
When Elijah was come into the house, behold, the child is dead, and laid upon his bed. He went in therefore, and shut the door upon him twain, and prayed unto the Lord. And he went up, laid upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands. And he stretched himself upon the child in the flesh of the child waxed warm. Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro.
And went up and stretched himself upon him in the child's knees seven times.
And the child opened his eyes, and he called in his eyes and said call Miss Shunamite. So he called her. And when she was coming on to him he said, take up thy son.
Then she went in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground and took up her son and went out.
We've already been noticing.
As we started in the first part of this.
Line of things in regard to Elijah that we find Elijah at the plow.
Rather unusual thing to see a man was to be a prophet God at the plow.
When we found that that connected with the subject in the 9th of Luke, where we have the turning point in that gospel with the Lord, Jesus is rejected and he began Speaking of the Kingdom of God and of the Son of Man as the rejected 1.
And so we find that.
As Elijah comes along, he cast his mantle upon Elijah, and Elijah attempts to follow him, but he tells him as Elijah says I'll go back and kiss my father and mother. He says Go back again. What have I done to thee?
And so Elijah. Elijah Perceiving.
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What it was about?
The spirit of God laying hold of him and giving him to discern, instead of going back to kiss his father and mother, he goes back and he plays his oxen with whiskey and plowed, and he takes all the instruments of the oxen and he builds a bonfire.
And there he prepares me for the people of God. With those options. Now he can't go back.
He set his course down. He's on his way to follow Elijah.
Is that the case with you?
Or have you made provision for the flesh?
I believe that's what that means.
Oh, we need purpose of heart to follow Christ, How we need to cut off everything. It has been cut off at the cross, but we are not ready by faith to lay hold of it. We're seeing now as dead until Elisha going through Jordan with Elijah.
The scene of death and identifies himself.
In death and resurrection.
With the Lord Jesus Christ, it's a picture of what we have in the New Testament.
And we find that his wife, that he goes through four cities.
After Elijah's gone up, he retraces those cities, which gives us a little outline of the history of the Church here on earth and the ways of God with him.
We find, too, that on our last occasion we were together.
That we have a different picture.
We have a picture now not of the whole thing, but justice of the assembly on the earth in its testimony.
Not the individual blessing, but the corporate thing gathered together as a house character to represent Christ down here.
In separation from the world.
But tonight, that we have before us is the state of soul that goes along with such a core.
Because, you know, sometimes we think that if we subscribe our names or something, everything is all right. That's the principle of bitterness.
But if you and I are going to be maintained in the testimony of God on earth, and in the enjoyment of these things in our souls, there has to be a certain state of soul.
And so we have tonight, The Great Woman.
The great woman here gives us a picture then.
Of the individual believer who pursues right on to the end.
In the enjoyment of Christ and this object, it's really a little picture of the book of Philippians, normal Christianity. And so we read just a little bit in Philippians tonight.
We have also in Colossians the picture of setting our mind on things about since you are risen with Christ, letting your mind on things about well, that's the position then for the believer now.
Well, I believe what we have here is a picture of it.
Now in this portion that we read tonight, I believe we have at least seven tests.
And we can test ourselves as we go along by these tests.
The first one is that Elisha comes to Shun.
Now you and I recognize when the Spirit of God is bringing before us something particularly for our own heart and conscience.
Are we so busy in this life that we haven't time to listen to that still small voice when it comes?
Submit the first Test. Well, I would admit the second one we missed. The second we're allowed to miss the 3rd. And the first one is that Elisha comes to shooting. Now what is shooting? Well, it's the city of Israel, but it was the city of Ithaca, and it was that of Ithaca, you know, one of the children of Jacob.
That he saw that the rest was good and the land that it was pleasant.
It was a prophecy of it. He was looking on to the inheritance that he hadn't gotten yet.
Well, that's that's the thing you see in the day when the spirit of God.
Is in control of things down here in the assembly. It's a normal thing for you and me to be occupied with Christ and the inherited.
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That's what he would occupy us with.
He may have to occupy us for a moment with our ways to correct them as we get out of communion.
But he would occupy us with Christ and the Inertia.
That's the way we grow. That's the way we're happy. The new nature can't be happy.
Groveling in the earth.
And so then the first point here is that the prophet comes by and she recognizes him as the prophet of God.
Elijah represented to us now, Christ having gone on high, the Holy Spirit coming down, you see.
And working through servants down here in this world.
You'll notice in this chapter that.
Elijah does not speak directly to her.
He does on occasion, but in the main you'll notice that it says.
In the 13th version, he said unto him, Say now unto her to see it's indirect.
It's indirect.
If the Spirit of God now is speaking, but He's speaking through whomsoever he will.
So it's an indirect thing.
It's a little picture of the present day.
It's important to notice that.
And you'll notice too, at the beginning it says she's a great woman, and now we can see why she recognizes the present testimony and worth of the spirit of God.
And she constrains him to eat bread.
Now he would have gone on his way, just like the Lord of the as he met went with those two on their way to a man. When they got to their destination, he would have gone on.
Except the same constrained into abide with them.
And you and I, as we go through our Christian pathway down here, we can have just as much of Christ as we want there all the time. But if we're going to busy ourselves with everything that belongs to this scene, we'll find our souls lean. We won't be in the enjoyment of heavenly things. We won't have power in our lives for good.
Other objects will take our eyes and then our hearts and our feet will get out of the past. We've become sick in our souls and worthless to the testimony of Christ. But here is the way you see that the great woman walked through this world. Why does it say woman? Well, woman speaks the position in Scripture, whereas man speaks of responsibility.
Abraham was the one who carried out the purchases of God in his day, but his wife Sarah was out of the denture, that is, her place was at home. She maintained the position that Abraham set forth. And so it is with the assembly. And so it is with this woman here, giving us a little picture of the position that we should take now as individuals.
So she constrained a beef bread and noticed, though it was that as off as he passed by.
You see how it's increasing?
Just that little star and then it's off as you pass by.
Well, how many happy times there must have been in that little hole.
As often as he passed by, he turned into the sea breast.
But now she's going to do something else. She's going to make prevention, so you'll be there, have a place to come all the time.
You know, someone has asked the question How can I gain an appetite for the word of God?
The answer was read it, read it.
And the more you read it, the communion, the more you want to read it.
I believe that's what we have here.
And so she said to her husband the whole night perceived that this is an holy man of God.
You think you and I could go out in communion with him without the recognition of that?
The holy man of God. What does that suggest to our souls? It suggests that if we're going to be in these presence.
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That there will have to be holiness in our own walk.
We can't allow you in our lives and expect to go on in communion in the enjoyment of the things of Christ.
Until then, what's the guard?
Arrived at solemnly, Prophet of God.
The picture to us of Christ is the Spirit and ministers Christ to our souls. That's the remedy for a bad state of soul is Christ. There's no power within us to do good unless we have the right object.
And Edward, occupied with Christ, were told in Second Corinthians were changed. That's what changes us. It isn't efforts of the flesh. The flesh profits nothing. Having a holy object before us is a change into that same likeness.
In a practical way down here.
So it's a holy man of God that passes by us how often?
What?
Off continually.
Well, he probably was passing all the time, but she didn't notice it before.
He didn't notice it before. It's continuing now. All she says will have to make him a place to stay.
And so.
We don't get much response from the husband.
And so it is. A young man, a young woman will be converted, another home. They'll tell about it at home. But there's no injuries on the part of the rest of the family.
Or it might be a wife is inverted or a husband and they go home and they find that there's no interest in this on the other side and so they have to go on a loan as we have here.
And so she makes this little room.
Let us make a little chamber. I pray thee on the wall or with balls, And let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a Candlestick. And it shall be when he comes to us that he shall turn his feather. All the simplicity of faith that we have here when he comes your turn in.
Do we have that confidence? Beloved brethren, tonight, you know what makes confidence?
And in our souls, between our souls and Christ. Why that? That nearness that comes when we have crisis, the object and we're walking in separation from evil practically, that brings confidence.
We find on the 14th of John, that is, the promise is that the Father himself and the Son will come and make care of both, but it's in connection with the keeping of His commandments.
It's in connection with walking in the path of faith. Now that isn't the that isn't the commandment of Moses.
It isn't keeping the law to get anything. It's simply the heart and the enjoyment and what places in because you know there's someone you love. Their desire is a command to you, isn't it?
When we discovered.
So then we have a bed, a place we can rest now. Putting this practically tonight.
Does the Lord Jesus be able to rest in your home?
Or is there something that Mars?
For the Holy One.
Is the Spirit of God free in your home or mine?
Is there something there that would would hinder that joy from coming out?
We think sometimes, you know, have I an object, Lord below.
Do I have an object that would divide my heart with me? And how many times we discover that we have objects that would divide the heart from Christ?
No, she has a place where you can rest.
Good she did, you know, later. Because she needed this little room and she needed that bed and she needed it awfully bad later.
As though as I say again, unless we notice these steps, these steps, and and find ourselves following them, we're going to find bitterness in our lives.
Now what's next? A table Communion.
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Bad The prophet of God can rest. And now a table for communion.
Well, that's of course in our own The meditation can be developed, we find, in the New Testament.
That what's the Civil War? Well, someone has said that Mary considered his feet.
I suppose there were many, many unpleasant days that that woman spared the feet at least license.
And he ministered grace to her heart. And how many times, brethren, do we find ourselves at the feet of Jesus, enjoying the truth?
And now the result is a Candlestick. That's the light that that must be there. If the others are there, they can't help them anymore because, you know, testimony is the overflow of a heart taken up with Christ.
And one who goes out to to give out the gospel. Unless Christ is the object, it's worthless.
It's just it's just a flash, unless Christ is the object.
So we find the candle, six things of testimony.
And so she was confident that when he came along, he would stop there. And he did. He said he did.
It always answers faith. Faith is never disappointed.
But now we find the tables turning. You and I can't do a thing for Christ. But what? There will be a reward.
You dear young people, want blessing in your life. Well then put Christ first. Now be blessed. This can't help but be blessed, you read in the 21St Psalm. He has set him to be blessing.
And that's what Christ says.
You know, in the coming day, in the millennial scene, he's coming forth as king and as free as.
Kangaroo and is free to dispense royal grace and blessings to his people, and he will do it now for all those who make him the object of their heart.
You'll notice here that the woman is called a shunammite.
We were suggesting why that was her inheritance, but you know that the children of Israel were in a bad way and they were under idolatry.
And they were the target for their enemies at this time.
God has promised some blessings in their land, but they didn't. They couldn't enjoy their inheritance. And you know, right now you and I find ourselves, as it were, in between.
Soon the Lord will come. You take us home.
But now we have the privilege of thy faith enjoying and anticipation that inheritance looking forward to it. And that's what the Spirit of God would occupy us with His friends. Without vision, the people will perish. But now we have a blessed hope coming of the Lord to take us home, to be with himself. That's the blessed hope. And so she's called to shoot him right here.
But a little later, she's called the mother.
We noticed already that she's been called a woman, a great woman.
Now, is that just a way of making the subject a little more interesting by using a change of words? I don't think so. We learned that the word of God is pure. That means that every word has a distinct purpose.
And so when she's the shunamite.
He's commanding the faith that lays hold of the inheritance.
When she's the mother, it's the affections that are in you, and when she's the woman, it's just the face.
Of the person.
To maintain their position.
You'll notice that as we go along.
Now she's going to be tested again. This is the.
2nd test in the 13th verse.
Because gave the eye, he said, that called the Shulamite, and when he called her, she stood before him. He suddenly said now unto her, Behold, Alice, been careful for us with all his care, What is to be done for thee? What thou be spoken for to the king or the capital host?
She answered. I dwell among mine, old people.
What an answer. What an opportunity. Perhaps the king would have sat on a banquet for this woman if you lied to his death. So.
What honor, or perhaps the captain of the host would have arranged a parade in honor of this woman? We don't know what might have happened if Elijah had spoken the word.
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No, she said. I dwell among my old people.
Intensive.
Dear young people here, tonight, the world makes an awful appeal to our hearts.
But you know, just at the time when Moses was greater, he could head over, ready to take the throne of Egypt then he chose. It's when he became great that he chose. What did he choose? He chose to dwell among his old people.
If Moses had continued in the palace when he became of age and great, he would have been living a lie.
Because he was an Israelite, not in the kitchen.
And how many there are today who are living a lie in this world? They say they're a Christian and yet they live in this world.
Moses might have had his name inscribed on a special tool.
But Moses, as his name is, strides in heaven tonight.
Oh, what a difference. This world and our story is going to pass away. This was a great woman. She didn't even make the choice, and that's what makes her greater still. She left it to the prophet of God to make the choice for her, and he gave her the same blessing that God gave Abraham.
A child in view of the inherited.
Because everything depended on the woman seed, you know, Everything defended on that it was Christ and it was the inheritance that was in view.
And so we find her now, not choosing first out, but just leaving everything to him, all that simple trust and conquerment.
Our hearts are being tested. Are we going to choose our own pastor of this world? We'll be disappointed.
The one who created us now wants our hearts to respond in simple confidence. They, Lord, undertake for me just a path out for me that I'm to walk in.
How many have made their own choices? How many young people have chosen companions? And that's crystal and bitterness.
Prolonged bitterness. And so it is in business in many other ways, leaving Christ out. It won't do y'all this woman, she says. You just choose and I'll be satisfied. Is that the way it is with your heart? Are you willing to take what he provides day by day? He simple dependence you do, you'll be happy.
I'll just say some according to the time of life, I'll show embrace the sun.
Nay, my Lord, thou man of God.
He was a holy man before, now he's a man of God to her.
To see our faces increasing, her life is increasing. She's growing in her soul because she's observing these tests righteousness.
Do not lie to Thine Handmaid, but it all came about.
And now she's going to be tested again. All you're saying cast the poor woman be left alone a little while without being tested, tested all the time? You know, no, we're here just a few years to think of what's coming. Think of the glory that's ahead. You know, here we're being formed. Each stone is being shaped for his place up there. And there's a test, a continual test as long as we're in this world.
God has great things for his people and he isn't going to leave us with first principle.
You want to enlarge our hearts, and he would have begun a good work in you, Philippians says.
Shall complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
No, you won't leave her alone.
And soul, just as she gets his son. Notice the language here.
18 person when the child was grown, that fell on his baby and went out to his father to the reapers, and he said to his father, in my head, my head, I suppose it was a sunstroke. And he said to a lab carry him to the Shunammite No, no, no, no.
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It's the affections now. That's the way we grow.
He's going to touch the heartstrings.
Mr. Mother.
When you've taken him and brought him to his mother, who sat underneath his knees till noon and then died, noon, that's the middle of the day. That's when things are the brightest for nature.
Everything coming our way, a good job.
A nice family, everything we need. Everything is pleasant. And then the crash comes. Oh, you say, how terrible, how terrible, how blessed is, God said.
Why? Because now when she gets your son back to see, she's going to get him back in resurrection life.
She's going to have all her blessings now in connection with Christ up there in the glory, because everything down here pretty soon is going to burn. Are you setting your affections on it?
All that God would wrench our souls from us. The desire of these things down here we set our hearts on Christ and Christ alone, but not just Christ as he's known on earth as a man that he sees there in his glory in God's right hand. That's what the apostle wanted in the book of Philippians.
To press through the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. That was what was before the Apostle Paul.
Yes, everything here in all wonder in nature suddenly is crushed.
So that she can have better things.
The flesh doesn't like it.
But that's what brings light to the Spirit we're told in the book of Isaiah. Light to the Spirit, and you know we will have life in the Spirit for all eternity.
With Christ.
My dear friend, tonight, if you don't know Christ as your Savior, now is the time now to receive it. You can't boast of tomorrow.
You don't have Christ as your Savior. You'll never have any part and what we're Speaking of here tonight.
Now what does she do?
All she's Christ or is she?
Oh, how beautifully? This woman asked.
It's a great woman. Notice what she does.
She went up the first thing she went up.
He didn't go down.
Visiting a man not too long ago and he was down. He was right down at the bottom. This woman went up and there's been no trouble. She went up.
And laid him that child on the bed of the man of God. You see what I mean about observing each one of the tests?
If you haven't made that little room, she'd never had a bed to lay that child on.
There is a man of God.
Oh my dear fellow Christians, are you and I going on with Christ in our souls each day?
Where is your life going to end up down here? A ruin perhaps? Your your mind gone and everything else because of the the trouble that comes into your life and you will not walk in the path of faith.
How many times we've seen it over and over again where souls will go on heedlessly of the things of Christ as though it didn't make any difference at all that they walked down here?
Here we find this woman. She takes a step by step.
She's in the enjoyment of communion with the Prophet of God, who's the type to us of Christ, the ministers of his spirit to our souls.
So step by step, she lays away from blessing for her own life.
Is that what the apostle speaks of? And he says, working out your own salvation?
The enjoyment of it down here for our souls, for little by little.
But what else does she do?
She shut the door apart and she went out.
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To do that with your trouble.
God of Christ was the object you could have. Christ meant everything to you if Christ meant more than the child.
Well.
You know, Son in Scripture would suggest the thought of hope.
As well, to keep that in mind as we read this.
Now what's she going to do?
You go and get under the burden, no?
No, to her it's all well.
She called on her husband.
But.
It doesn't respond.
No, you won't respond. She's tested again.
She wants to run to the man of God and come again.
And that's what Abraham did, You know when he offered up ISIS, he said. I'm going up to sacrifice.
We are going up and we are going to come again.
That faith is that faith and resurrection life.
And the same thing here as we have with Abraham.
Now he suggests that there's no particular holiday holy day, we should say, in which you might go and observe that.
I suppose he was set before the traditional religion that would act before God on certain occasions because it was ordered so.
But this woman suggests to us a believer who's in the enjoyment of Christ in her soul.
And she's going to govern her needs not because of traditional religion. She's going to the man of God who lives on the hill.
It makes you think of Christ in the heavenly places is our great High Priest.
And he tells us to come for seasonable help just when we need it.
Is he there to wait on us? Think of the time when he was here in this world and the woman.
Of Maine was about to carry her son out and bury him.
Well, just as she goes out through the gate of the city, she turns in. Jesus is standing there.
All is it not always so?
When Peter's wife's mother was sick of a fever.
They just turned in. Jesus is standing there and they've been starting for her.
If we had time to go over the previous chapter and the third chapter of this book, we find 3 kings in the wilderness without water.
The harsh about among them one of the kings of Judah, and they turned in Elijah standing there. Elijah is standing there.
Ready to provide water for us and reverence all was sold. We can always count on our great High priest no matter what happens. He's always there. And even though the natural light doesn't see him, the Eye of Faith knows he's there at all times. And then he's there for that one purpose, to serve his people.
Down here, you know we're not blessed. Savior came into this world. He came to serve. He says I'm ammonia as well. I'm the service. When he went on high, he went upstairs to serve, let's have you. And he said that for those who wait for him in the 12Th chapter of Luke and watch for him. He said he's going to, when he comes back, he's going to gird himself the towel that serves them.
All is safe and now, he said.
Is the object of this woman and she goes she isn't going about anything hindered.
And she went and came to the man of God, to Mount Carmel. That's God's fruitful field.
It's a place that she had often been in spirit and it was an easy place for her to go to.
You know, perhaps then the Christians have gotten into the perhaps been walking carelessly most of their lives when they want this comfort they can't get us.
They haven't been making you a habit of it to be an expression, and they don't know much about Mount Carmel, God's fruitful field, and they're afraid to go Christian.
And you're trying to comfort them and you can't leave them there.
They just don't seem to understand.
Yeah, they prefer to be Christian, to see they haven't taken any steps one at a time.
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Until she goes to.
We find in the 25th verse the man of godstar far off, just like the father saw the prodigal afar off.
Same way God is watching for the good of his own.
The eye of God is following his people because of the shooting right now.
She's going to claim her inheritance.
At least that which would continue it see to us that she got an inheritance. She'd never get one without that son, you know.
She had no son. You know what that meant to a woman in Israel. She had no inheritance for to be carried on.
Going after that in there, are you? Are you going after the inheritance? Are you just interested in the present down here?
So he's tempted by Yeh Hazar, is it? Well? Oh yeah, she says everything's well. Could you say that?
She wasn't going to open her heart through anything.
Why? Because she has spiritual perceptions and she can detect.
The man who is not a man of God.
Hey die. In the next chapter Cell is full of leprosy and she was able to detect what she ended up.
She wouldn't open her heart to gaze, nor would she go with him. When the Prophet sent him to heal the child, he couldn't heal the child.
All discernment given with those who walk with Christ is the object the following steps 1 by 1.
And I'm the enjoyment of his mind at all times.
Here I'm going to thrust her away from the prostate when she's safety.
To see gays, I didn't have the mind of God.
Man, God, said Mary alone. Her soul is back to dinner. Gays, I didn't know that.
Now she said that I desire the Son of my Lord. The whole truth is out now.
Now she's let out the truth. She's unburdened her heart, and the moment he hears that, he knows what's the trouble is the Lord has hidden from me.
He says, OK, now you'll go down.
A gird up, dear Lord, to take my staff in your hand and go thy way to meet any man. Don't salute him. If any salute the answer not again. Lay my staff on the face of the child. It's a case of life and death.
But he's testing the woman in the 30th verse.
And the mother of the child said.
As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.
All to have that attachment to Christ, this person.
Marvelous to see it here. There's a soul that it might constant exercise is fortified for the day of trouble. For one who goes on carelessly finds themselves in a position like this without resource, because their own mind and heart is out of community. The resource is always there, but they're not in the enjoyment of it.
Well, the hayside's mission wrought no good at all.
No child was out of weight.
And so it is with the flash spirit of God gives us to see the end of it. Here there's no truth.
His eye was one who professed to be a servant of Elijah, but we learn his character later. He's all covered over with leopards that he was a covetous man. He was not acting in the presence of God. This woman was.
And when Elijah was come into the house, 30 second verse, behold, the child was dead and laid upon his bed. Now that truth has to be made clear.
We were noticing the other evening that Elijah himself had to go through Jordan, the river of death and identification with Elijah.
He had to go through that with him. It's a picture of his death with Christ. Not only Christ death for us, but our association with Christ and his death. But how about our blessings?
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Our blessings going to be on the other side of Jordan that we came from. No, they're all up there. And that's what our soul has to learn down here. Just like this poor woman. And she goes through these trials, we find that at the end it's all bright. It's just give her a little more for her soul. She goes up, up, up all the way through their soul experience. Now she sees all her blessings you see in resurrection.
Her life and resurrection, the new creation, That's where all her blessings are. How many of Christians have seen themselves clear and clean, every spot washed away, and they know that they're secure for all eternity. Still, they don't realize that their blessings are not downloaded.
We bless them from every spiritual blessing in the heavenly, but in Christ Jesus.
Let can Christ Jesus and with Christ Jesus.
There won't be any blessings separate for each of us. It's all in and with Christ, and it's up there where He is. And you know, eternal life is only known really in the place where he belongs.
And that's in the Father's house. We anticipated by faith now. And John says he writes these things that we may know that we have eternal life.
But rather than that day when we hear the shout.
To be in the Father's house, be surrounded by everything that's of God. There won't be one thing tomorrow, one thing to hinder that joy.
In that day, and all things will be of God himself, of that character, God himself and joy, and you'll have the same joy that God himself.
Joint it out. You and I will enjoy it if we're occupied with Christ.
You'll enjoy it now.
But I wonder if one or two more points in the close.
The child is dead.
The child is laid upon. It's bad.
All that comfort that woman brought to herself as she.
Absurd, these tests that should go through life.
But comfort now she finds.
The very place where the Prophet rested and her son is rested.
Isn't that beautiful?
Oh, I think that's precious.
But now notice in 34th verse.
And he went up.
Again, we went out.
That's what the Spirit of God would want us to do. He wants us to rise in our souls.
Has my path been back? Yeah. But let's start now. Right now, let's start going up. In Soul Experience, Christ is the object, and he went up and lay upon the child.
To read this before perfect identification. And you know, when we hear the shout, they were caught away.
We'll be just like it in every respect.
Just like Christ.
Won't that be blessed just like Christmas?
And when God looks at His children, you'll see the mall just white stripes if you read in the priesthood. But in the Old Testament, you'll see that that Aaron has coat.
And that is done by political dislikely.
We'll be just like Christ in that day, just like him, the.
The point of what we've had before us on previous evening.
Connection with Elijah's ministry that he wants us to be morally like him now and.
That's the purpose of these exercises.
That there might be continuous dropping off of those things that belong to a scene of death.
Brevan Aren't they the great flows? When the Lord Jesus raised Lazarus, he didn't take off the great flows.
No, he told those who stood vice as you do.
And so we mix in amongst our brethren. Don't stay away from your presence, you'll miss a lot. Please mix in and out among our brethren and little by little the grave clothes get rubbed off, don't they?
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All the great flows that attaches to a scene of death.
Especially in a religious way.
It has to be all taken off, you know.
And so perfect identification. Now this is the believers hope we're going to be just like Christ.
In the flesh of the child lacks the worm.
They returned and walked to and fro.
Walked in the house to and fro and went out. He went up.
And stretched himself and the child needs seven times the child opens his eyes.
Now.
We find that in the first of Genesis.
The Lord brings God man, and he became a living soul.
That we find here 7 times.
The Lord Jesus said I'm come to give life and to give it more advice is that?
Its eternal life. It's not life in the first man in nature. God says the end of all places come before.
Friend, if you don't have this life, you won't have any. You'll have eternal death. If you have a winter trust in Jesus, Savior, you'll have eternal death.
Think of his life.
And this kind of life, seven would speak to us of that life is in spirit.
Angel perfection. And just like that, eternal life in the flagrant zone in the Father's house.
That's the end of the bleeping. It's not an inheritance down here.
It's a woman of Instacare was looking forward to.
Being everything in ruins, then, Hebrews says they that pleased to say such things declare that they seek a country.
And so you and I are looking forward now not to an inheritance down here. This place is going to burn.
Too.
You and I have our portion with Christ and glory, but she's tempted once more. And so on the 36th verse he called the hazard and said call the Shunammite. So he called her when she was coming in on to him. He said, take up my son.
Then she went in and fell out his feet, brought herself to the ground and took up her stone and went out.
You see, the problem is more to her than it's done. And where there's faith, Christ is more to us than the inheritance.
There's no way to say it.
To the soul who's in community, as presence, as the person of Christ.
The one who made us, the one who wants to make us happy, is the only one that can fill these hearts with joy and happiness. He'll be the same thing for all eternity. Went up now.
So it's saying 284.
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Carly Fowler.
Thou art the patient love divine our health, and refuse from our foes secure we are for we are thy and all through guilt and grief and shame were hidden Savior by thy name.
Are we?
Aligned.
And.
I believe, I'm saying we're in heaven and.
Run. Run. Run. Run.
I'm not.