1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:00,980 I'm going to ask you to turn to 2 00:00:00,980 --> 00:00:01,820 1 Kings, please. 3 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:07,980 1 Kings, and chapter 18. 4 00:00:11,850 --> 00:00:13,910 Now, if there's a little coughing during my 5 00:00:13,910 --> 00:00:15,910 speaking, rather than to ask you to excuse 6 00:00:15,910 --> 00:00:17,430 me each time, could I just give you 7 00:00:17,430 --> 00:00:19,350 a blanket request now? 8 00:00:19,490 --> 00:00:20,630 Just excuse me, OK? 9 00:00:22,130 --> 00:00:24,510 But I'm in good company, because there's a 10 00:00:24,510 --> 00:00:26,670 number of others that I'm sharing the same 11 00:00:26,670 --> 00:00:27,990 affliction with. 12 00:00:28,890 --> 00:00:33,510 1 Kings, chapter 18, verse number 3. 13 00:00:35,750 --> 00:00:38,870 I realize that the first speaker in the 14 00:00:38,870 --> 00:00:40,910 afternoon can be challenging. 15 00:00:41,470 --> 00:00:43,870 I'm reminded of the words of what C 16 00:00:43,870 --> 00:00:45,270 .H. Spurgeon said on an occasion. 17 00:00:46,730 --> 00:00:48,910 He said that he had listened to messages 18 00:00:48,910 --> 00:00:54,830 whereby he had discovered that sleep was a 19 00:00:54,830 --> 00:00:55,750 kindness of nature. 20 00:00:57,990 --> 00:00:59,570 Then he went on to say, you know, 21 00:00:59,630 --> 00:01:00,490 brother, he's not done yet. 22 00:01:01,030 --> 00:01:04,670 He said, I really feel that some preachers 23 00:01:04,670 --> 00:01:08,090 would be judged correctly if in heaven they 24 00:01:08,090 --> 00:01:09,450 had to sit and listen to their own 25 00:01:09,450 --> 00:01:09,930 ministry. 26 00:01:11,550 --> 00:01:13,850 And I've gone into homes, and they've had 27 00:01:13,850 --> 00:01:16,090 a tape or CD going, and I've been 28 00:01:16,090 --> 00:01:17,530 speaking, and they shut that thing off. 29 00:01:17,610 --> 00:01:18,390 Shut that off. 30 00:01:18,470 --> 00:01:21,050 I can't stand my own voice alone. 31 00:01:21,650 --> 00:01:22,790 So bear with me. 32 00:01:23,630 --> 00:01:25,790 1 Kings, chapter 18, and verse 3. 33 00:01:25,790 --> 00:01:28,010 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor 34 00:01:28,010 --> 00:01:28,530 of the house. 35 00:01:28,710 --> 00:01:31,190 Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly. 36 00:01:32,130 --> 00:01:34,210 Verse 5, and Ahab said unto Obadiah, go 37 00:01:34,210 --> 00:01:36,010 into the land under the fountains of water 38 00:01:36,010 --> 00:01:37,310 into the brooks peradventure. 39 00:01:37,830 --> 00:01:39,810 We may find grass to save the horses 40 00:01:39,810 --> 00:01:41,590 and the mules alive that we lose not 41 00:01:41,590 --> 00:01:42,290 all a beast. 42 00:01:42,930 --> 00:01:44,490 Now verse number 8. 43 00:01:45,090 --> 00:01:46,110 And he answered him, I am. 44 00:01:46,190 --> 00:01:48,630 And go and tell my lord, behold, Elijah 45 00:01:48,630 --> 00:01:49,070 is here. 46 00:01:49,150 --> 00:01:50,670 Now he's saying this to this man Obadiah 47 00:01:50,670 --> 00:01:53,870 that, of course, is living in King Ahab's 48 00:01:53,870 --> 00:01:54,270 palace. 49 00:01:54,270 --> 00:01:55,990 Verse 9, and he said, what have I 50 00:01:55,990 --> 00:01:58,810 sinned that thou shouldest deliver thy servant into 51 00:01:58,810 --> 00:02:01,950 the hand of Ahab to slay me? 52 00:02:02,710 --> 00:02:04,930 So you see he's just a little jaded 53 00:02:04,930 --> 00:02:05,490 at that. 54 00:02:07,250 --> 00:02:08,910 Down to verse number 19. 55 00:02:08,990 --> 00:02:10,550 Now therefore, send and gather to me all 56 00:02:10,550 --> 00:02:12,970 Israel unto Mount Carmel and the prophets of 57 00:02:12,970 --> 00:02:16,190 Baal 450 and the prophets of the groves 58 00:02:16,190 --> 00:02:19,310 400, which eat at Jezebel's table. 59 00:02:19,910 --> 00:02:22,670 Now over, please, to chapter 19. 60 00:02:23,270 --> 00:02:24,070 Chapter 19. 61 00:02:31,690 --> 00:02:33,670 And verse 18, for the sake of time. 62 00:02:33,830 --> 00:02:36,910 Verse 18, I'll just reference to passages that 63 00:02:36,910 --> 00:02:38,510 I will not take the time to read. 64 00:02:38,630 --> 00:02:40,150 Verse 18 of chapter 19. 65 00:02:40,510 --> 00:02:42,190 Yet have I left me 7,000 in 66 00:02:42,190 --> 00:02:44,290 Israel, all of these which have not bowed 67 00:02:44,290 --> 00:02:46,530 unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not 68 00:02:46,530 --> 00:02:47,070 kissed him. 69 00:02:47,370 --> 00:02:49,950 So he departed thence and found Elisha, the 70 00:02:49,950 --> 00:02:52,070 son of Shaphat, who was plying with 12 71 00:02:52,070 --> 00:02:53,370 yoke of oxen before him. 72 00:02:53,910 --> 00:02:55,710 And he with the 12 and Elijah passed 73 00:02:55,710 --> 00:02:57,350 by him and cast his mantle upon him. 74 00:02:57,350 --> 00:02:58,810 And he left the oxen and ran after 75 00:02:58,810 --> 00:03:01,010 Elijah and said, let me, I pray thee, 76 00:03:01,490 --> 00:03:02,730 kiss my father and my mother. 77 00:03:03,790 --> 00:03:06,850 Now notice these words, and then, and then, 78 00:03:07,950 --> 00:03:09,050 I will follow thee. 79 00:03:09,230 --> 00:03:11,190 And he said unto him, go back again, 80 00:03:11,250 --> 00:03:13,110 for what have I done to thee? 81 00:03:13,190 --> 00:03:15,030 And he returned back from him and took 82 00:03:15,030 --> 00:03:16,630 a yoke of oxen and slew them and 83 00:03:16,630 --> 00:03:18,910 boiled their flesh with the instruments of the 84 00:03:18,910 --> 00:03:20,290 oxen and gave unto the people and they 85 00:03:20,290 --> 00:03:20,650 did eat. 86 00:03:21,090 --> 00:03:23,650 Then he arose and went after Elijah and 87 00:03:23,650 --> 00:03:26,110 ministered unto him. 88 00:03:26,690 --> 00:03:28,590 Now, we'll go back to Numbers chapter 20, 89 00:03:28,690 --> 00:03:28,910 please. 90 00:03:29,050 --> 00:03:46,080 Numbers chapter 20, Exodus 91 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:51,180 chapter, or rather Numbers chapter 20 and verse 92 00:03:51,180 --> 00:03:51,800 25. 93 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,160 And stripped Aaron of his garments and put 94 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,820 them upon Eliezer, his son. 95 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:02,060 And Aaron shall be gathered unto his people 96 00:04:02,060 --> 00:04:03,060 and shall die there. 97 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:05,600 And Moses did as the Lord commanded. 98 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:06,960 And they went up into Mount Hor and 99 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:08,420 the site of all the congregation. 100 00:04:08,420 --> 00:04:11,100 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments. 101 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:12,720 Now, this is his brother stripping him of 102 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:14,680 his garments and put them on Eliezer, his 103 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:15,040 son. 104 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,100 And Aaron died there on the top of 105 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:17,420 the mountain. 106 00:04:17,579 --> 00:04:19,640 Moses and Eliezer came down from the mount 107 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,040 and all the congregation saw that Aaron was 108 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:22,340 dead. 109 00:04:22,420 --> 00:04:25,260 They mourned for Aaron 30 days, even all 110 00:04:25,260 --> 00:04:27,220 the house of Israel. 111 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,400 And we'll go to a final reading of 112 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:33,920 1 Samuel chapter 18. 113 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:36,340 1 Samuel chapter 18, just before the kings, 114 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:38,340 for the sake of young believers here that 115 00:04:38,340 --> 00:04:39,860 may not be familiar with your Bible. 116 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,930 1 Samuel chapter 18, verse one. 117 00:04:52,940 --> 00:04:54,460 And it came to pass when he had 118 00:04:54,460 --> 00:04:56,100 made an end of speaking unto Saul that 119 00:04:56,100 --> 00:04:59,040 the soul of Jonathan was knit with the 120 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:00,880 soul of David and Jonathan loved him as 121 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:01,660 his own soul. 122 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,120 Saul took him that day and would let 123 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,060 him go no more home to his father's 124 00:05:06,060 --> 00:05:06,360 house. 125 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:08,860 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant because 126 00:05:08,860 --> 00:05:10,500 he loved him as his own soul. 127 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,580 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that 128 00:05:13,580 --> 00:05:15,720 was upon him and gave it to David 129 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:17,940 and his garments, even to his sword and 130 00:05:17,940 --> 00:05:19,440 to his bow and to his girdle. 131 00:05:19,900 --> 00:05:21,520 And David went out with us over Saul 132 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,840 sent him and behaved himself wisely. 133 00:05:24,660 --> 00:05:27,260 And Saul set him over the men of 134 00:05:27,260 --> 00:05:30,040 war and he was accepted in the sight 135 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,520 of all the people also in the sight 136 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:33,580 of Saul's servants. 137 00:05:33,940 --> 00:05:35,700 That will suffice for our reading. 138 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:38,520 What I would like to speak on this 139 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,280 afternoon at the opening of this ministry meeting 140 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:42,280 is the transferal of garments. 141 00:05:43,740 --> 00:05:45,000 Transferral of garments. 142 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,380 Now just stay with me and I'll try 143 00:05:47,380 --> 00:05:49,000 and make it as simple as I can 144 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,080 to you what we're talking about. 145 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:52,440 I want you to notice the first case 146 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,040 that we read about here is the mantle 147 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:55,400 of a man by the name of Elijah 148 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,320 going to another man, a younger man by 149 00:05:58,320 --> 00:05:59,240 the name of Elisha. 150 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:01,940 I would suggest that at the initial in 151 00:06:01,940 --> 00:06:07,020 chapter 19, chapter 19 of 1 Kings here 152 00:06:07,020 --> 00:06:09,460 is really what I would call too much 153 00:06:09,460 --> 00:06:10,120 too soon. 154 00:06:11,260 --> 00:06:13,220 Because if I had taken time to read 155 00:06:13,220 --> 00:06:15,680 with you when we get to 2 Kings 156 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,160 in about chapter two, you would find that 157 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,080 he receives it again so he must have 158 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:20,820 given it back. 159 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:22,380 Too much too soon. 160 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:25,620 When we come to the second one that 161 00:06:25,620 --> 00:06:28,880 we read about, here is a really it's 162 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:29,660 a sad scene. 163 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:31,040 Now I know that I don't want to 164 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,160 spoil anything you've enjoyed about this mountain scene 165 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,240 but must have been awful hard for a 166 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,720 man like Moses with a man like Aaron. 167 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:42,560 Two of those men coming from that great 168 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,080 noble family that they came from with their 169 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,700 sister Miriam to simply trudge their way up 170 00:06:48,700 --> 00:06:51,040 that mountain knowing what was going to take 171 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:51,520 place. 172 00:06:52,540 --> 00:06:54,480 And a brother actually strips his own brother. 173 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,960 Takes his own hands, takes those priestly garments 174 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:01,800 off of Aaron. 175 00:07:02,260 --> 00:07:03,740 We'll put them on his son Eliezer. 176 00:07:04,940 --> 00:07:06,740 I would suggest to you that that really 177 00:07:06,740 --> 00:07:10,340 isn't too much too soon but that is 178 00:07:10,340 --> 00:07:12,800 really what at least what I have called 179 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:13,960 too little too late. 180 00:07:14,940 --> 00:07:16,240 Too little too late and we'll come back 181 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:16,680 to that. 182 00:07:17,740 --> 00:07:20,260 There would have been something of value if 183 00:07:20,260 --> 00:07:24,000 Aaron simply could have disrobed himself and passed 184 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:24,900 them to his son. 185 00:07:26,140 --> 00:07:27,660 Now I'm not being hard on Aaron today 186 00:07:27,660 --> 00:07:29,980 and there's many, many commendable things about Aaron 187 00:07:29,980 --> 00:07:31,160 but just think of that for a minute. 188 00:07:31,940 --> 00:07:33,760 Last that we have when we come to 189 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,080 David and Jonathan is what I call enough 190 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:36,760 at the right time. 191 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,020 There was just a juncture in David's life 192 00:07:39,020 --> 00:07:41,320 when he needed what Jonathan was passing to 193 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:41,500 him. 194 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,420 And there was so much tension in the 195 00:07:43,420 --> 00:07:46,100 palace, so much friction between Saul, so much 196 00:07:46,100 --> 00:07:48,880 jealousy, so much nonsense going on. 197 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,180 Here comes a man that is so devoted, 198 00:07:51,460 --> 00:07:52,740 so loved by David. 199 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:56,060 I mean as Mr. Moody used to say 200 00:07:56,060 --> 00:07:57,700 that David came back from the battle with 201 00:07:57,700 --> 00:07:59,560 the head of the giant and with the 202 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:00,280 heart of a Jonathan. 203 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:03,260 With the head of a giant and the 204 00:08:03,260 --> 00:08:03,880 heart of a Jonathan. 205 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:05,200 He loved him as he loved his own 206 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:05,600 soul. 207 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,300 And to show that love, to demonstrate it, 208 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,640 here is a man, you know what he 209 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:11,860 does? 210 00:08:12,540 --> 00:08:14,840 He takes off what was closest to him, 211 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,400 what was so personal and he will actually 212 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,120 transfer that to David. 213 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,580 What's to say concerning David after that takes 214 00:08:24,580 --> 00:08:24,900 place? 215 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:26,880 Behaves himself wisely. 216 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,500 Now there's a real contrast here. 217 00:08:29,980 --> 00:08:32,380 If you think of Elisha coming from the 218 00:08:32,380 --> 00:08:34,100 house of Shaphat which I take was a 219 00:08:34,100 --> 00:08:36,460 wealthy home, he was likely dressed pretty good. 220 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,980 And it's kind of, now he's gonna take 221 00:08:40,980 --> 00:08:42,260 Elijah's garment? 222 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:44,420 You just saw Elijah's garment, none of you 223 00:08:44,420 --> 00:08:45,680 fellows were to wear it here this afternoon. 224 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:47,180 No, sir, guarantee. 225 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:50,900 After all, something that would be, so it's 226 00:08:50,900 --> 00:08:52,100 really kind of a step down. 227 00:08:52,940 --> 00:08:54,560 But now here's David, he comes from the 228 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:55,240 house of Jesse. 229 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,520 Poverty, nothing too much is said about the 230 00:08:58,520 --> 00:08:59,160 clothes of David. 231 00:08:59,260 --> 00:09:01,300 Somehow I've linked them to the clothes of 232 00:09:01,300 --> 00:09:02,800 the Lord Jesus because David is such a 233 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:03,940 beautiful type of the Lord Jesus. 234 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,260 And now here is really a step up 235 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,060 because now here is a rejected man, just 236 00:09:11,060 --> 00:09:12,980 a poor boy coming from the house of 237 00:09:12,980 --> 00:09:15,980 Jesse and he's now going to wear kingly 238 00:09:15,980 --> 00:09:17,280 apparel. 239 00:09:18,140 --> 00:09:19,960 I mean, Jonathan would be dressed in accordance 240 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:21,320 with the family that he came from. 241 00:09:22,220 --> 00:09:24,280 Now what I'm drawing from this is a 242 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,620 truth that really has been, I've been working 243 00:09:26,620 --> 00:09:28,380 on this winter a bit. 244 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:29,560 In fact, I've been working on it long 245 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:32,000 enough that I'm not going to butcher it, 246 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,060 trying to cramp it into too few minutes 247 00:09:34,060 --> 00:09:35,700 as I sometimes do, but I will watch 248 00:09:35,700 --> 00:09:37,500 that clock and try to be a good 249 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:39,180 boy like our brethren were this morning and 250 00:09:39,180 --> 00:09:41,520 keep within somewhat of our time, but you 251 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:42,420 can allow me a little bit. 252 00:09:45,420 --> 00:09:46,900 First of all, let's come to this man, 253 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:48,740 Elijah. 254 00:09:49,100 --> 00:09:50,500 Hadn't been easy days for Elijah. 255 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:52,840 I would say that in reading this and 256 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:54,360 studying this, you know what's rankling him a 257 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:54,680 little bit? 258 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:57,300 I'm out here taking it in the cheek. 259 00:09:58,180 --> 00:09:59,940 I'm out here getting my nose rung. 260 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:03,560 And here's this man of all things Obadiah 261 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,540 and he's in the house of Ahab. 262 00:10:07,220 --> 00:10:08,220 He's got it good. 263 00:10:09,140 --> 00:10:11,300 Why am I taking the fall of all 264 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:11,540 this? 265 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:13,400 Why am I taking this heat? 266 00:10:13,660 --> 00:10:15,340 No, he never says that, okay? 267 00:10:15,820 --> 00:10:17,840 He never says that, but deep down in 268 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:18,860 his thinking, that was it. 269 00:10:20,380 --> 00:10:22,040 Because you're noticing as he goes down the 270 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:23,480 chapter and he meets Obadiah, and I mean, 271 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:24,860 we read those words that he feared the 272 00:10:24,860 --> 00:10:27,280 Lord greatly, there's things commendable about him. 273 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:29,940 And that's why Elijah is saying, I'm the 274 00:10:29,940 --> 00:10:30,420 only one here. 275 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:33,760 I'm the only one that's left. 276 00:10:33,980 --> 00:10:35,600 God says, what are you talking about? 277 00:10:36,860 --> 00:10:39,060 I have left me 7,000 that have 278 00:10:39,060 --> 00:10:41,600 not bowed their knee to Baal or kissed 279 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:41,880 him. 280 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,320 And this man Obadiah had taken those 100 281 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,360 prophets by 50s and had hid them in 282 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:48,140 the caves and so on. 283 00:10:48,140 --> 00:10:49,980 So there was commendable things about him. 284 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,020 But he is a little bit nervous when 285 00:10:52,020 --> 00:10:53,620 Elijah comes to him and says, listen, listen, 286 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,680 you go tell that Ahab who's here. 287 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:58,840 He's, wait a minute now, you put my 288 00:10:58,840 --> 00:10:59,460 neck on the line? 289 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:01,780 No, no, I'm gonna do that. 290 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,260 His words, what have I sinned that thou 291 00:11:04,260 --> 00:11:06,580 shouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of 292 00:11:06,580 --> 00:11:07,080 Ahab? 293 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:09,600 And so he simply backs away from him. 294 00:11:09,620 --> 00:11:11,060 I'm just giving you that kind of a 295 00:11:11,060 --> 00:11:13,520 background to think of the man himself. 296 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:15,780 Because here's a man as we were hearing 297 00:11:15,780 --> 00:11:17,960 this morning that gets into a very bad 298 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,140 case of being despondent in actual depression. 299 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:24,600 Only once in my life, only once in 300 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:25,860 my life did I ever try to speak 301 00:11:25,860 --> 00:11:27,620 on discouragement or depression. 302 00:11:28,660 --> 00:11:30,680 I had about five believers come after and 303 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:32,600 they said, listen, all due respect, you don't 304 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:33,480 know a thing about it. 305 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:36,320 Do they know that? 306 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:37,720 Are they sure about that? 307 00:11:40,220 --> 00:11:41,220 Don't be too sure. 308 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:44,380 I mean, on the front, watch this man 309 00:11:44,380 --> 00:11:46,520 running in front of those chariot, in front 310 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,200 of the chariot ripping down the road, one 311 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:49,480 minute. 312 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,440 The next he's running from Jezebel. 313 00:11:53,860 --> 00:11:56,140 You know, God gave this man exactly what 314 00:11:56,140 --> 00:11:56,420 he needed. 315 00:11:56,580 --> 00:11:57,860 Elijah, exactly what he needed. 316 00:11:57,900 --> 00:11:58,720 Because you know what was coming up? 317 00:11:59,380 --> 00:12:01,720 That the man that thought really he was 318 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:03,620 the only one left, he's gonna leave his 319 00:12:03,620 --> 00:12:03,860 work. 320 00:12:04,260 --> 00:12:06,280 He's gonna pass it to a coming generation. 321 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:08,300 He's gonna pass it on to another man. 322 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:09,740 But you know what he needed? 323 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,360 God gave him a divine provision by which 324 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:14,340 he was refreshed. 325 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:16,680 Refreshed, I love it. 326 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:18,580 What did he give to him? 327 00:12:19,220 --> 00:12:21,480 First of all, you'll notice that he gave 328 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:21,760 him it. 329 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:23,980 It tells us right in chapter 19 that 330 00:12:23,980 --> 00:12:25,840 first of all, he gave him a wafer. 331 00:12:26,540 --> 00:12:28,940 We say it was a cake bacon. 332 00:12:29,020 --> 00:12:30,340 Would you allow me to stick with the 333 00:12:30,340 --> 00:12:30,780 alliteration? 334 00:12:31,060 --> 00:12:32,700 It was a wafer for this afternoon. 335 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:34,820 And then he gave him something else. 336 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:36,720 He gave him water, a cruise of water. 337 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,240 And notice that when he gave him the 338 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:40,520 wafer, it wasn't a cold one either, it 339 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:41,000 was a warm one. 340 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:41,920 It was baked on coals. 341 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:43,880 But you know the best of what he 342 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:44,100 got? 343 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,600 He got a whisper, he got a whisper. 344 00:12:47,260 --> 00:12:48,900 Just something from the Lord, just a whisper. 345 00:12:50,860 --> 00:12:52,240 And I wanna tell you, when it come 346 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,440 personal experiences, as we were hearing this morning, 347 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:57,700 sometimes that's all you need, just a whisper 348 00:12:57,700 --> 00:12:58,200 from him. 349 00:12:58,940 --> 00:13:00,220 That's a small voice. 350 00:13:01,020 --> 00:13:03,080 Because what's coming up for this man Elijah 351 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:04,360 is not gonna be easy to take. 352 00:13:04,780 --> 00:13:05,880 So the first of all, there was a 353 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:07,660 divine provision by which he was refreshed. 354 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:09,640 There was a presence by which he was 355 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:10,120 reassured. 356 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,960 I'm here, I'm here, I am here. 357 00:13:14,780 --> 00:13:16,320 And then last of all, there was a 358 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,040 divine purposes by which he was going to 359 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:18,700 be replaced. 360 00:13:18,820 --> 00:13:19,980 And that brings me to what really is 361 00:13:19,980 --> 00:13:21,900 before me this afternoon, and it is the 362 00:13:21,900 --> 00:13:25,320 transferal of these garments, of this mantle rather. 363 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,200 When we come to chapter 19, okay, he 364 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:30,820 is told, there's a king he's going to 365 00:13:30,820 --> 00:13:31,020 anoint. 366 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:33,060 And now he's going to find a young 367 00:13:33,060 --> 00:13:35,220 man by the name of Elisha. 368 00:13:35,940 --> 00:13:38,160 And this man, by the name of Elisha, 369 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:39,840 that he is going to go, he's going 370 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:41,200 to be one that's going to be anointed 371 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,460 by the prophet because he is actually going 372 00:13:43,460 --> 00:13:44,280 to take his place. 373 00:13:44,940 --> 00:13:46,340 I want you to notice where he found 374 00:13:46,340 --> 00:13:46,500 him. 375 00:13:47,220 --> 00:13:50,500 He found this man plowing with 12 yoke 376 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:50,980 of oxen. 377 00:13:51,580 --> 00:13:53,580 Now that would have been a family operation. 378 00:13:54,900 --> 00:13:56,080 And you think that he would kind of 379 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:57,360 lead the pack and say to the rest 380 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:58,580 of the guys, say, wait a minute now, 381 00:13:58,940 --> 00:13:59,800 I'm the boss here. 382 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:01,400 You boys in the back. 383 00:14:02,380 --> 00:14:04,000 Okay, I'm dad's boy. 384 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:06,440 I'll take my share of the oxen, but 385 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:07,520 no, no, no. 386 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:09,500 Notice where he takes, he takes the lowest 387 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:09,920 place. 388 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:11,820 That's what it tells you right here at 389 00:14:11,820 --> 00:14:12,880 the end of chapter 19. 390 00:14:13,380 --> 00:14:15,760 That when he finds him plowing with the 391 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:17,660 12 yoke of oxen before him and he 392 00:14:17,660 --> 00:14:19,520 with the 12 and Elisha passed by him 393 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:20,920 and he cast his mantle upon him. 394 00:14:22,740 --> 00:14:23,800 Must've been quite a shock. 395 00:14:25,060 --> 00:14:27,320 I would suggest to you that the father 396 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,800 of Elisha was one of those that had 397 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:30,920 not bowed the knee to Baal. 398 00:14:31,620 --> 00:14:32,320 God had blessed them. 399 00:14:33,100 --> 00:14:34,200 Wait a minute, I don't know a lot 400 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:34,760 about oxen. 401 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:35,620 I could tell you a few things about 402 00:14:35,620 --> 00:14:37,300 farm tractors, but not oxen. 403 00:14:37,980 --> 00:14:39,300 But you'd have to have a fair amount 404 00:14:39,300 --> 00:14:40,480 of grass to feed the oxen. 405 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,060 Well, how come no grass hunt? 406 00:14:43,940 --> 00:14:46,640 How come the King Ahab personally is out 407 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:48,140 with Obadiah doing the grass hunt, looking for 408 00:14:48,140 --> 00:14:48,600 the grass? 409 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:50,620 Well, what does Ahab say? 410 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:52,300 Well, you gotta save the mules and we 411 00:14:52,300 --> 00:14:53,220 gotta save our beast. 412 00:14:53,900 --> 00:14:55,100 So they're on a grass hunt. 413 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,080 And here's a man in touch with God. 414 00:14:58,440 --> 00:14:59,640 He's not out in some kind of a 415 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:00,100 grass hunt. 416 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:02,180 He likely had more than enough. 417 00:15:02,820 --> 00:15:04,640 12 yoke of oxen, I'd say that's a 418 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:05,400 big operation. 419 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:06,680 Do you already saw? 420 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,580 I know enough about this that in plowing, 421 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,820 you have a future that's before you. 422 00:15:13,380 --> 00:15:15,480 And when things were so dark and things 423 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:17,700 were so dismal and the nation was in 424 00:15:17,700 --> 00:15:20,080 such a condition, here's a young man and 425 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:21,280 he's not sat down and said, listen, we're 426 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:21,660 giving up. 427 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:23,460 We're giving up, we're quitting. 428 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:25,940 Here's a man out and he's going at 429 00:15:25,940 --> 00:15:26,660 it. 430 00:15:27,380 --> 00:15:28,460 But you say in the midst of a 431 00:15:28,460 --> 00:15:29,840 famine, how can he do it? 432 00:15:31,140 --> 00:15:32,360 Well, it wasn't so much what he knew 433 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,360 about plowing with oxen, but he knew God. 434 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:37,300 That's the secret of this man, Elisha. 435 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:38,620 Very commendable man. 436 00:15:38,620 --> 00:15:39,960 He's out there and he's working away, like 437 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:44,060 I say, it was family duties, farm duties. 438 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:45,440 David was the same. 439 00:15:46,460 --> 00:15:48,920 When God's looking for a man to do 440 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,200 his work, not to be too hard on 441 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:53,400 you, he's likely not gonna go to Florida, 442 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,180 look underneath some umbrella, say, I think I 443 00:15:55,180 --> 00:15:55,700 use this boy. 444 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,160 He's gonna look for somebody that's committed to 445 00:15:59,160 --> 00:15:59,580 duties. 446 00:16:00,780 --> 00:16:02,720 You remember what David's brother will say to 447 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:04,200 him, who did you leave those few sheep 448 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:04,340 with? 449 00:16:04,420 --> 00:16:05,660 Come on, you're back to your sheep. 450 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:07,080 You look after that. 451 00:16:07,950 --> 00:16:10,260 Do they realize who that man's gonna be? 452 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,340 Who David is going to actually be? 453 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:14,480 Their king? 454 00:16:15,860 --> 00:16:17,060 Joseph, what's he doing? 455 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:17,780 Same thing. 456 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,280 Tending the sheep, looking after them. 457 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,260 Now here's a man and he's committed to 458 00:16:23,260 --> 00:16:24,660 family responsibilities. 459 00:16:26,060 --> 00:16:29,220 I would say that anybody, anybody, I'm not 460 00:16:29,220 --> 00:16:30,600 talking just strictly overseers. 461 00:16:31,140 --> 00:16:33,520 Anybody that's gonna lead God's people in any 462 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:36,760 measure is somebody that understands the responsibility of 463 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:37,620 family duties. 464 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,000 I say, it's not my house, it's dad's. 465 00:16:41,220 --> 00:16:41,620 Good. 466 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:43,380 Do you appreciate it? 467 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:45,440 What do you mean? 468 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:46,700 You're telling me that you're 28 years of 469 00:16:46,700 --> 00:16:48,080 age and you haven't paid a week's board 470 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:48,360 yet? 471 00:16:49,220 --> 00:16:50,440 Who else is spoiling you? 472 00:16:52,620 --> 00:16:53,480 I say, boy, that's rough. 473 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:55,060 Some facts. 474 00:16:56,580 --> 00:16:58,000 Here's a man that understood this. 475 00:16:58,360 --> 00:16:59,800 Here's a man that God's gonna use. 476 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:00,640 This man, Elisha. 477 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,260 And so he's going along, he's plowing. 478 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:06,220 My, what a picture of the regathering of 479 00:17:06,220 --> 00:17:06,599 the nation. 480 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:07,579 12 yoke of oxen. 481 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:10,079 You know, I'm sure there were those from 482 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:11,800 the palace of Ahab that would have gone 483 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,940 by and thought, what on earth is he 484 00:17:13,940 --> 00:17:14,220 doing? 485 00:17:14,579 --> 00:17:15,859 What is he doing? 486 00:17:16,619 --> 00:17:19,040 It would be just like last summer when 487 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,359 you're trying to conserve all that moisture and 488 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:22,560 some boy's out there with the hair on 489 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:24,200 the disc and the dust is flying. 490 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:25,900 You say, what is he thinking? 491 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:27,840 His thinking was right. 492 00:17:28,860 --> 00:17:30,340 That there is going to be a future. 493 00:17:30,780 --> 00:17:32,840 Brethren and sisters, there's going to be a 494 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:33,100 future. 495 00:17:34,260 --> 00:17:36,780 Now, that future is being passed to younger 496 00:17:36,780 --> 00:17:37,260 hands. 497 00:17:38,540 --> 00:17:40,400 Now, my challenge this afternoon is this. 498 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,580 I'm not saying, do we have them? 499 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:44,140 We do. 500 00:17:44,980 --> 00:17:46,260 I'm looking at the faces of a number 501 00:17:46,260 --> 00:17:49,520 of young brethren and sisters, young couples, recently 502 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:53,420 married over the last few years here, right 503 00:17:53,420 --> 00:17:55,760 in this area of Iowa and in Wisconsin, 504 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:00,980 and to your hands, it's falling a mantle. 505 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:04,700 But you say, you told us this was 506 00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:05,680 too much, too soon. 507 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:08,920 It was, it was, because you're going to 508 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:11,440 go through like the period of 10 years, 509 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,380 I think, from first to get the second 510 00:18:13,380 --> 00:18:16,440 Kings chapter two, and he must have given 511 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:17,200 the mantle back. 512 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,640 Good for him, good for him. 513 00:18:19,740 --> 00:18:20,880 You know, he didn't go home, put it 514 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,220 in the thing where you store the clothes 515 00:18:23,220 --> 00:18:24,840 and say, well, I'll keep that, future day 516 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:26,520 come along, I'll get this farming looked after, 517 00:18:26,740 --> 00:18:28,140 I'll look at it, I've really killed the 518 00:18:28,140 --> 00:18:30,280 oxen, I've boiled them, and I'll get a 519 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:31,840 few things attended to, no, no, no. 520 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:33,840 You say, what do you do with the 521 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:34,400 10 years? 522 00:18:35,460 --> 00:18:37,900 Well, if you go to chapter two of 523 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:38,760 the next book, what's it tell? 524 00:18:38,820 --> 00:18:40,780 He's pouring water on the hands of Elisha, 525 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:42,440 or Elijah, rather. 526 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:46,500 Elisha's pouring water on the hands of the 527 00:18:46,500 --> 00:18:47,020 older prophet. 528 00:18:48,340 --> 00:18:50,140 You would think he would say sometimes, and 529 00:18:50,140 --> 00:18:51,740 I actually left what I was doing to 530 00:18:51,740 --> 00:18:52,800 do this, yes. 531 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:55,360 But this is too simple. 532 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:57,220 Anybody could do it. 533 00:18:57,360 --> 00:18:58,380 That's where he was wrong. 534 00:18:59,460 --> 00:19:00,020 Do you hear that, brother? 535 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:01,660 That's where he was wrong. 536 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:03,380 Not anybody can do it. 537 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:06,280 You say, I never get any appreciation, and 538 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,540 I taught Sunday school, and nobody ever has 539 00:19:08,540 --> 00:19:10,920 thanked me, and you know, anybody can do 540 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,860 it, dear brethren or sisters. 541 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:16,480 Sorry, some places it's not against the law 542 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:18,440 for sisters to teach Sunday school, if you 543 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:18,960 don't mind me. 544 00:19:21,580 --> 00:19:22,600 Did you ever go and thank them? 545 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:23,540 Did you? 546 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:26,160 Let me speak to Sunday school teachers. 547 00:19:28,540 --> 00:19:29,720 Not anybody can do it. 548 00:19:31,020 --> 00:19:32,680 Not anybody can teach your class. 549 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:34,520 You can. 550 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:38,060 And if the brethren have been trusted by 551 00:19:38,060 --> 00:19:41,580 God's help, you with that job, you understand 552 00:19:41,580 --> 00:19:42,940 the value of it. 553 00:19:42,980 --> 00:19:44,680 I look back and think of things that 554 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,540 I learned at Sunday school, and I appreciated 555 00:19:46,540 --> 00:19:46,780 them. 556 00:19:47,260 --> 00:19:48,040 But I want to tell you, what a 557 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:49,700 wonderful thing, and let me speak to those 558 00:19:49,700 --> 00:19:51,520 my age called grandparents. 559 00:19:53,860 --> 00:19:55,000 It's not nice to look at all those 560 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,140 grandchildren and see them going, oh, my God, 561 00:19:56,140 --> 00:19:57,040 they're going to a Sunday school and hear 562 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:57,720 the word of God. 563 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:01,300 Do you understand today? 564 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,100 Not too often, there's some of us that 565 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:10,900 have grandchildren, thank God ours aren't, and they're 566 00:20:10,900 --> 00:20:12,000 going to a place so different than they 567 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,840 were brought up, where they're drawing pictures and 568 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:16,060 they know nothing of the Bible. 569 00:20:17,020 --> 00:20:18,240 So we value that work. 570 00:20:18,340 --> 00:20:19,600 Not anybody can do it. 571 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,240 So Elisha, understand not everybody can do what 572 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:22,660 you're doing. 573 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:25,180 You're gonna be a man that God's gonna 574 00:20:25,180 --> 00:20:27,280 use, you're gonna understand the value of just 575 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,420 pouring water in the hands of Elijah. 576 00:20:30,660 --> 00:20:31,720 You say for 10 years? 577 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:33,500 He's prepared to do it. 578 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:36,000 I mean, go through all the training people 579 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,140 that God used in the Bible, just pouring 580 00:20:38,140 --> 00:20:38,980 water in his hands. 581 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:41,400 I mean, look at David's mightiest. 582 00:20:42,220 --> 00:20:44,600 The three you'll always remember were those that 583 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,680 broke through the ranks of the Philistines, and 584 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:47,460 what did they go for? 585 00:20:48,340 --> 00:20:49,940 Water for David, and when he got it, 586 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:50,580 what did he do? 587 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:52,280 Poured it out on the ground. 588 00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:55,940 You say, what was that all about? 589 00:20:56,660 --> 00:20:57,720 Well, they honored David. 590 00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:58,760 They loved David. 591 00:20:59,340 --> 00:21:00,980 They just gave it to David saying, David, 592 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,260 whatever you do, whatever you, it's yours. 593 00:21:03,380 --> 00:21:04,540 It's yours to do as you like. 594 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,280 Remember David would say himself to the Lord, 595 00:21:07,820 --> 00:21:09,120 of thine own have we given thee. 596 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:11,800 And so now if we were to come 597 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,000 to the end of chapter two, here's a 598 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,060 man, this man, this good man, Elisha. 599 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:18,960 He's come up now and they're, they're at 600 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:20,900 the Jordan, interesting place to be. 601 00:21:21,780 --> 00:21:23,460 And the sons of the prophets, of course, 602 00:21:23,540 --> 00:21:24,820 you know, they're telling him, what are you 603 00:21:24,820 --> 00:21:25,220 doing? 604 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:26,860 You're a master, he's going. 605 00:21:26,980 --> 00:21:28,180 Well, what are you hanging around for? 606 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:30,120 You know who the sons of the prophets 607 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:30,400 are? 608 00:21:30,780 --> 00:21:33,140 Those are the learned boys that had all 609 00:21:33,140 --> 00:21:34,980 the answers, but didn't know one of the 610 00:21:34,980 --> 00:21:35,340 questions. 611 00:21:36,360 --> 00:21:37,100 But what did they have the answers? 612 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:38,560 Well, you ask them, they'll tell you. 613 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:40,900 They could make Greek stand on his head. 614 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:43,900 But if you ask them something simple, they 615 00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:44,240 wouldn't know. 616 00:21:45,740 --> 00:21:47,100 I mean, just look at them. 617 00:21:47,220 --> 00:21:48,260 Now, if they weren't all, do you know 618 00:21:48,260 --> 00:21:49,260 the best they ever became? 619 00:21:49,260 --> 00:21:51,420 Notice the change in these men under the 620 00:21:51,420 --> 00:21:52,500 influence of an Elisha. 621 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:55,520 Oh, they're not going to get too close 622 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,120 to this, to this man that's ready to 623 00:21:57,120 --> 00:21:57,580 depart. 624 00:21:57,940 --> 00:21:59,540 It's just they stood a far off to 625 00:21:59,540 --> 00:21:59,820 view. 626 00:22:00,660 --> 00:22:03,400 In other words, no mantle for them, but 627 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:04,680 we'll see what happens. 628 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,320 There will be people like that in the 629 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,180 brethren, excuse me, people like that, the assembly, 630 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,420 you know, you delve into something and you 631 00:22:11,420 --> 00:22:12,800 think this thing can go north or south 632 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:13,820 or whatever way it's going to go. 633 00:22:13,980 --> 00:22:15,560 And there's others, oh no, no, no, no. 634 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:17,720 You go yourself, boy, if it doesn't go 635 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,160 right, I don't even know you. 636 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,380 That's Peter Orszag used to tell me, he 637 00:22:22,380 --> 00:22:23,760 used to make some visits sometime when they 638 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:24,500 were a little dicey. 639 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:25,960 He's a mechanical, he says, if this goes 640 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:27,340 bad, I don't even know you, okay? 641 00:22:30,660 --> 00:22:32,800 So that moment comes, what happens? 642 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:35,320 There he is, right in the spot. 643 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,860 Days of pouring water in the hands of 644 00:22:38,860 --> 00:22:39,800 Elijah are past. 645 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,200 And up he goes, up he goes, floating 646 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:45,220 down comes that mantle. 647 00:22:45,780 --> 00:22:47,640 And he grabs that mantle. 648 00:22:49,380 --> 00:22:51,440 And boy, the language, you have to take 649 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,340 time, excuse me, go over to 2 Kings 650 00:22:53,340 --> 00:22:56,860 chapter two, just for the sake of connection 651 00:22:56,860 --> 00:22:57,260 here. 652 00:23:01,820 --> 00:23:05,460 2 Kings chapter two and verse number 11. 653 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,500 And it came to pass as they still 654 00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:09,180 went on and talked that behold, there appeared 655 00:23:09,180 --> 00:23:11,800 a chariot of fire, horses of fire, and 656 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:13,080 parted them both asunder. 657 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,080 And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into 658 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:15,380 heaven. 659 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,640 And Elisha saw it and said, my father, 660 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,620 my father, the chariot of Israel, and the 661 00:23:19,620 --> 00:23:20,320 horsemen thereof. 662 00:23:20,380 --> 00:23:21,800 And he saw him no more, and he 663 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,080 took hold of his own clothes, and he 664 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,200 rent them in two pieces. 665 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:27,260 And he took up also the mantle of 666 00:23:27,260 --> 00:23:29,640 Elijah that fell from him and went back 667 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:30,940 and stood by the bank of the Jordan. 668 00:23:31,020 --> 00:23:32,660 He took the mantle of Elijah that fell 669 00:23:32,660 --> 00:23:34,560 from him and smote the waters and said, 670 00:23:34,820 --> 00:23:36,160 where is the Lord God of Elijah? 671 00:23:36,460 --> 00:23:38,180 And when he had also smitten the waters, 672 00:23:38,380 --> 00:23:41,200 they parted hither and thither and Elisha went 673 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:41,460 over. 674 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:43,480 Elisha went over. 675 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:47,800 You see, at that moment, do you realize 676 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:48,780 where that prophet was caught? 677 00:23:49,300 --> 00:23:50,920 He found himself on the wrong side of 678 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:51,260 a Jordan. 679 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:53,880 He found himself on the wrong side of 680 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:54,300 the Jordan. 681 00:23:54,820 --> 00:23:56,940 He's got to get back to serve the 682 00:23:56,940 --> 00:23:58,400 Lord where the Lord wanted him. 683 00:23:58,980 --> 00:24:01,960 Yes, back to Gilgal, back to Bethel, back 684 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,260 to Jericho, but he's here at the Jordan. 685 00:24:04,820 --> 00:24:06,760 And he takes that mantle and he smites 686 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:08,440 the waters and they part. 687 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:09,780 It's interesting. 688 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:10,500 You know where he started? 689 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,320 He started right where the older man left 690 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:13,680 off. 691 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:15,680 Are you prepared to do that, brother? 692 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,080 Or have you got the mentality? 693 00:24:18,540 --> 00:24:19,600 That was them. 694 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:21,800 They are so backward. 695 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,180 They're so old fashioned. 696 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,720 Oh, oh, well, I want to tell you 697 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:26,980 something. 698 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,840 If you don't mind personally today, I said 699 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:32,660 at our Easter conference at Bridgewater, a large 700 00:24:32,660 --> 00:24:38,140 conference, I only wish that I was passing 701 00:24:38,140 --> 00:24:42,360 to a coming generation, testimony in the condition 702 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:43,900 of which it was passed to me 35 703 00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:45,780 years ago when I moved to the Maritimes. 704 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,440 I'm afraid I haven't, brethren. 705 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,880 This man starts right there. 706 00:24:53,460 --> 00:24:54,580 What was the secret to it? 707 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,420 The secret was to keep his eye on 708 00:24:57,420 --> 00:24:58,960 a man that was soon going to go 709 00:24:58,960 --> 00:24:59,140 up. 710 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,100 And so he keeps his eye on a 711 00:25:02,100 --> 00:25:04,240 man as he is going up, it says. 712 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,960 And when I take that over to Acts 713 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,660 chapter one, there's a beautiful connection. 714 00:25:11,980 --> 00:25:14,100 In Acts chapter one, what are they doing? 715 00:25:14,940 --> 00:25:17,100 It says they look steadfastly. 716 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,620 They look steadfastly as he was taken up 717 00:25:20,620 --> 00:25:21,280 from their midst. 718 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,560 When you go to Acts chapter two, the 719 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,220 people are looking up steadfastly in chapter one 720 00:25:28,220 --> 00:25:30,560 or continuing steadfastly in chapter two. 721 00:25:31,420 --> 00:25:35,440 They continued steadfastly in the apostle's doctrine and 722 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,240 the fellowship, the breaking of bread and prayers 723 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:37,980 and so on. 724 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,040 So understand the two go together. 725 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,400 The secret to this is, brethren, not keeping 726 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,760 our eyes on each other, but keeping our 727 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:46,640 eyes on an ascended man. 728 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,040 What is it that allowed Stephen to go 729 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,360 through what he did that day as they 730 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:52,260 picked up those stones or they stoned him? 731 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,340 His eye was fastened on a man in 732 00:25:55,340 --> 00:25:55,660 glory. 733 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,040 Acts chapter nine, the conversion of the apostle 734 00:25:59,040 --> 00:25:59,660 Paul. 735 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:01,420 Who does he see? 736 00:26:01,780 --> 00:26:03,520 Nothing but a vision of a man in 737 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:03,900 glory. 738 00:26:04,580 --> 00:26:07,860 The eyes on an ascended man, transfixed, if 739 00:26:07,860 --> 00:26:08,260 you like. 740 00:26:09,860 --> 00:26:11,420 And that mantle comes floating down. 741 00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:13,600 Now it's the same mantle. 742 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:14,860 I don't believe you got another one. 743 00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:16,900 I don't believe that Elisha had the other 744 00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:17,340 one stored. 745 00:26:17,860 --> 00:26:18,960 I believe it was just a little too 746 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:19,680 soon at the time. 747 00:26:20,180 --> 00:26:21,120 And he did the proper thing. 748 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,080 He just gave it back to him. 749 00:26:22,540 --> 00:26:23,340 I know we have no verse. 750 00:26:23,420 --> 00:26:24,160 Be easy, brethren. 751 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:25,540 I know we have no verse that says 752 00:26:25,540 --> 00:26:26,940 that, but you can't give me a verse 753 00:26:26,940 --> 00:26:28,240 either that says he tucked it under his 754 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,100 arm and hid it somewhere in the attic. 755 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:31,320 Not there. 756 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,080 But now we come to a different scene 757 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:34,960 10 years later. 758 00:26:35,620 --> 00:26:37,260 A different man, and a man's about to 759 00:26:37,260 --> 00:26:38,000 leave, and up he goes. 760 00:26:39,340 --> 00:26:42,380 And now here's a man and notice that 761 00:26:42,380 --> 00:26:47,040 that training he got with Elijah was indispensable. 762 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,140 You know what I would have done, naturally 763 00:26:49,140 --> 00:26:49,440 speaking? 764 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:50,820 I would say, just give me 10% 765 00:26:50,820 --> 00:26:51,460 of what that man has. 766 00:26:51,460 --> 00:26:52,300 Just 10%. 767 00:26:53,140 --> 00:26:54,220 10% will do me. 768 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,160 10% is all I can handle. 769 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:57,600 No, he says. 770 00:26:58,400 --> 00:26:59,260 He wanted to double. 771 00:26:59,660 --> 00:27:01,180 He wanted to double what he had. 772 00:27:02,220 --> 00:27:04,580 You say, that's greedy, isn't it? 773 00:27:04,580 --> 00:27:05,800 No, you know what that is? 774 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:06,580 That was exercise. 775 00:27:08,780 --> 00:27:11,540 Now, it's not that we start off, but 776 00:27:11,540 --> 00:27:13,520 we need, we need double. 777 00:27:14,660 --> 00:27:16,880 And whatever those men of a former day 778 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:22,040 had that stood on this platform and that 779 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,600 went before the saints of God, there isn't 780 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,380 an overseer here today to argue with me 781 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,740 or a fellow preacher either, that we don't 782 00:27:29,740 --> 00:27:32,320 need the double, that we need that mantle, 783 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,340 that we need to keep our eyes on 784 00:27:34,340 --> 00:27:35,140 an ascended man. 785 00:27:35,540 --> 00:27:37,500 Now, I'll come very quickly to the second 786 00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:39,500 one that we read about back in Numbers 787 00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:41,420 and chapter 20. 788 00:27:41,580 --> 00:27:42,100 Here's one. 789 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:44,940 As I say, it was an interesting day. 790 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,760 They, you, something to watch that, maybe I 791 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,380 got too much imagination, but I watch Aaron 792 00:27:50,380 --> 00:27:52,600 and he's trudging his way up that mountain 793 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,680 and he knows this is the end. 794 00:27:56,360 --> 00:27:57,580 But you know, the old man goes up 795 00:27:57,580 --> 00:27:57,940 the mountain. 796 00:27:58,240 --> 00:27:59,240 Notice it's not the young man that goes 797 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:00,840 up the mountain with those priestly garments on, 798 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:01,960 which were very, very heavy. 799 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,860 And I don't know whether Eliezer carried them 800 00:28:04,860 --> 00:28:06,480 down or wore them down, but I know 801 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:07,000 this much. 802 00:28:07,860 --> 00:28:09,320 Saw Eliezer going down the mountain and wasn't 803 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:09,780 going up. 804 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:11,960 Took the old man to go up. 805 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:13,780 Took the old man to lead the way. 806 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,060 I often wonder what took place. 807 00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:18,880 They stand there looking at each other for 808 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:19,220 a while. 809 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,300 I think they would have embraced. 810 00:28:23,380 --> 00:28:24,920 Somehow there was something between them. 811 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,940 I know there's the issue of Miriam. 812 00:28:28,940 --> 00:28:30,660 I know there's the issue of the leprosy. 813 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,460 I know there's the issue of the calf, 814 00:28:33,060 --> 00:28:34,760 but you can't tell me those two brothers 815 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:35,700 didn't embrace. 816 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,020 When that was done, it says that Moses 817 00:28:40,020 --> 00:28:45,500 stripped Aaron of his priestly garments right in 818 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:46,320 front of his own son. 819 00:28:52,420 --> 00:28:57,900 It's not an easy day when older men 820 00:28:58,380 --> 00:29:02,080 that have had the responsibility for years have 821 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:02,800 had to have been stripped. 822 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,060 They just didn't see. 823 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:06,320 They just didn't understand. 824 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,080 Hey, there's an Eliezer here. 825 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,100 I know he'd already lost two boys, Nadab 826 00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:13,480 and Abihu. 827 00:29:13,580 --> 00:29:16,340 They didn't get occupied with their graves, but 828 00:29:16,340 --> 00:29:16,940 there's an Eliezer. 829 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:18,960 One of the three. 830 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,520 Now he's gonna wear those priestly garments. 831 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:26,000 And there's something very just heart-wrenching about 832 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,060 those words that they stripped Aaron. 833 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,240 The man that wore the garments of glory 834 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:31,900 and beauty. 835 00:29:32,380 --> 00:29:34,700 The man that went before the people day 836 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:35,360 in and day out. 837 00:29:35,860 --> 00:29:37,200 The man that heard the murmuring and the 838 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,000 complaining of the people of Israel and so 839 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:39,280 on. 840 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,540 And now, excuse me, before them, they are 841 00:29:42,540 --> 00:29:43,900 going to be stripped. 842 00:29:44,140 --> 00:29:45,960 But to Aaron's credit, what did he do? 843 00:29:46,260 --> 00:29:47,560 Well, I'll tell you what he did. 844 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,100 And I'll tell you what he didn't do. 845 00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:51,500 I don't read anywhere in here, and I 846 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:53,120 look them very close, and I don't read 847 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,260 anywhere that he left them any funds or 848 00:29:56,260 --> 00:29:59,060 any farms or any future. 849 00:29:59,780 --> 00:30:00,920 But do you know where he left them? 850 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:02,900 Priestly garments. 851 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:05,400 Priestly garments! 852 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,120 Now let me go one by one down 853 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:08,800 through this audience. 854 00:30:08,940 --> 00:30:10,060 Where do you leave in your young men 855 00:30:10,060 --> 00:30:10,400 today? 856 00:30:11,660 --> 00:30:13,840 Would you mind a personal reference to a 857 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:18,020 93-year-old man that happens to be 858 00:30:18,020 --> 00:30:18,560 my father? 859 00:30:19,980 --> 00:30:21,220 I used to have a funeral in Toronto 860 00:30:21,220 --> 00:30:24,700 two weeks ago, Mr. Fred Hammesinger's funeral. 861 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:29,580 One of the brethren from the Langstaff Assembly, 862 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,160 Mr. Harry Klingin, if you want to know 863 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,540 who it was, it was my brother-in 864 00:30:32,540 --> 00:30:35,440 -law, picked me up at the airport. 865 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:36,900 I don't think we'd gone a mile. 866 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:39,740 Well, he says, Murray, I'm going to tell 867 00:30:39,740 --> 00:30:40,100 you something. 868 00:30:41,740 --> 00:30:44,160 Your father still worships God on Sunday morning. 869 00:30:47,170 --> 00:30:50,870 And physically, physically, he can't walk 100 feet. 870 00:30:53,870 --> 00:30:55,770 But those legs will lift him off that 871 00:30:55,770 --> 00:30:56,970 bench to worship God. 872 00:30:57,450 --> 00:31:00,590 Mr. Klingin went on to say, went on 873 00:31:00,590 --> 00:31:04,950 to say more than that, the freshness, the 874 00:31:04,950 --> 00:31:05,570 freshness. 875 00:31:05,930 --> 00:31:08,030 I thought bringing forth fruit in old age. 876 00:31:08,870 --> 00:31:10,010 No, I mean it with all my heart, 877 00:31:10,550 --> 00:31:11,850 okay? 878 00:31:12,450 --> 00:31:14,270 I know nothing of wills or whatever. 879 00:31:15,770 --> 00:31:19,250 That meant more to me than if the 880 00:31:19,250 --> 00:31:24,570 executor of his will said to me, your 881 00:31:24,570 --> 00:31:26,450 father's left you X number of dollars. 882 00:31:26,810 --> 00:31:28,030 I mean it with all my heart. 883 00:31:28,130 --> 00:31:29,030 I mean it before God. 884 00:31:30,730 --> 00:31:34,030 When he left Garneville, brethren told me the 885 00:31:34,030 --> 00:31:34,490 same thing. 886 00:31:36,590 --> 00:31:39,690 When he left down in Hickory, North Carolina, 887 00:31:41,690 --> 00:31:43,150 Stan Moorer told me the same thing. 888 00:31:44,190 --> 00:31:44,790 You know what that did? 889 00:31:45,210 --> 00:31:46,410 That humbled me. 890 00:31:49,630 --> 00:31:50,390 Priestly garments. 891 00:31:51,570 --> 00:31:52,690 Watch that man worship. 892 00:31:53,750 --> 00:31:58,930 When the assembly was very, very small, he'd 893 00:31:58,930 --> 00:32:01,330 worship on Sunday morning, give out a hymn, 894 00:32:01,690 --> 00:32:03,770 have to give a word, sing with the 895 00:32:03,770 --> 00:32:04,150 children. 896 00:32:04,970 --> 00:32:05,770 There were others to do it. 897 00:32:05,950 --> 00:32:07,230 Preach the gospel Sunday night. 898 00:32:08,890 --> 00:32:09,950 You know what I did realize at that 899 00:32:09,950 --> 00:32:10,330 time? 900 00:32:11,310 --> 00:32:15,510 In my foolishness, he was passing, he was 901 00:32:15,510 --> 00:32:18,710 passing to his sons priestly garments. 902 00:32:20,250 --> 00:32:21,510 Didn't have to be strict with him. 903 00:32:25,210 --> 00:32:27,910 Last one is, it's a delightful one really. 904 00:32:28,830 --> 00:32:30,650 Now I know you can get up here 905 00:32:30,650 --> 00:32:32,690 and say, you know, Jonathan, he gave David 906 00:32:32,690 --> 00:32:34,790 his robe, his garments, his sword, his bow, 907 00:32:34,870 --> 00:32:36,630 his girdle, but he didn't give himself. 908 00:32:36,970 --> 00:32:37,070 Oh? 909 00:32:38,250 --> 00:32:39,150 You're gonna tell me that if you were 910 00:32:39,150 --> 00:32:39,990 there, you would have done different? 911 00:32:40,590 --> 00:32:41,050 Are you? 912 00:32:41,810 --> 00:32:42,870 You're gonna tell me that you would have 913 00:32:42,870 --> 00:32:43,790 done different than Jonathan? 914 00:32:44,590 --> 00:32:45,790 Well, then you're a better man than Jonathan. 915 00:32:47,270 --> 00:32:48,030 I sure am not. 916 00:32:48,990 --> 00:32:51,250 But this was just what David needed at 917 00:32:51,250 --> 00:32:51,770 this time. 918 00:32:52,310 --> 00:32:54,470 This wasn't the highest point in David's life. 919 00:32:54,470 --> 00:32:56,530 Listen, David was a man given to discouragement 920 00:32:56,530 --> 00:32:58,610 and depression, as was Elijah. 921 00:32:59,970 --> 00:33:01,190 Let me speak to believers here. 922 00:33:01,410 --> 00:33:02,970 I'm glad I don't think, they're my own 923 00:33:02,970 --> 00:33:04,350 relatives that beat up on me that time 924 00:33:04,350 --> 00:33:05,570 I tried to give a word of depression, 925 00:33:05,730 --> 00:33:06,750 so you'll forgive me, okay? 926 00:33:07,050 --> 00:33:08,010 I haven't forgiven them. 927 00:33:08,430 --> 00:33:13,450 But anyhow, I'm telling you, here were, Elijah? 928 00:33:14,990 --> 00:33:15,390 Elijah? 929 00:33:15,930 --> 00:33:17,090 Who was a better prophet in the Old 930 00:33:17,090 --> 00:33:17,370 Testament? 931 00:33:17,510 --> 00:33:19,350 Never had a book named by him or 932 00:33:19,350 --> 00:33:19,770 Elisha. 933 00:33:20,230 --> 00:33:21,090 Who was a better one? 934 00:33:22,110 --> 00:33:23,170 More used of God. 935 00:33:23,910 --> 00:33:24,810 Hard to find. 936 00:33:25,590 --> 00:33:27,690 Think the miracles that he did, the power 937 00:33:27,690 --> 00:33:28,310 he demonstrated. 938 00:33:29,830 --> 00:33:31,210 Was there a man that ever suffered more 939 00:33:31,210 --> 00:33:32,170 from depression than him? 940 00:33:33,890 --> 00:33:34,330 No. 941 00:33:35,630 --> 00:33:38,030 David, Israel's great king. 942 00:33:38,910 --> 00:33:40,510 Was there anyone that got lower than David? 943 00:33:41,410 --> 00:33:43,670 If there was, he would have given you 944 00:33:43,670 --> 00:33:44,590 the Psalms, not David. 945 00:33:47,370 --> 00:33:50,230 Jonathan, just at that moment, just at the 946 00:33:50,230 --> 00:33:53,170 right time, he would take all of his 947 00:33:53,170 --> 00:33:55,730 Ezekiel, I don't know if he wore what 948 00:33:55,730 --> 00:33:57,490 David, the son of Jesse was wearing. 949 00:33:57,570 --> 00:33:58,370 He wouldn't have worn it. 950 00:33:58,750 --> 00:33:59,430 I wouldn't have either. 951 00:34:00,650 --> 00:34:01,530 I don't know those boys of mine would 952 00:34:01,530 --> 00:34:02,190 never have worn it. 953 00:34:03,550 --> 00:34:04,470 Would have been much. 954 00:34:05,710 --> 00:34:07,750 But clothes were a big ticket item to 955 00:34:07,750 --> 00:34:07,989 David. 956 00:34:08,790 --> 00:34:10,310 There was better things than that. 957 00:34:11,030 --> 00:34:11,810 That wasn't what he loved. 958 00:34:11,909 --> 00:34:12,350 You know what he loved? 959 00:34:12,850 --> 00:34:13,870 He loved God. 960 00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:15,929 Isn't it wonderful to love God today? 961 00:34:17,670 --> 00:34:20,010 And the result of that is that he 962 00:34:20,010 --> 00:34:21,929 will just simply peel that off, strip himself 963 00:34:21,929 --> 00:34:23,710 of all this, and he just passes it 964 00:34:23,710 --> 00:34:24,190 to David. 965 00:34:24,969 --> 00:34:26,250 There was a love that was confessed. 966 00:34:26,790 --> 00:34:28,210 There was a love that was compensated. 967 00:34:28,510 --> 00:34:30,469 There was a love that was crowned. 968 00:34:31,250 --> 00:34:34,290 So let me just gather these things together 969 00:34:34,290 --> 00:34:34,969 and it's this. 970 00:34:38,010 --> 00:34:42,969 At the Bridgewater conference, our Easter conference, three 971 00:34:42,969 --> 00:34:44,489 weeks ago, I went over to Robert McElwain 972 00:34:44,489 --> 00:34:45,590 and I said, I've never been so glad 973 00:34:45,590 --> 00:34:46,630 to see you at a conference all my 974 00:34:46,630 --> 00:34:46,909 life. 975 00:34:47,030 --> 00:34:47,830 He stepped back. 976 00:34:47,889 --> 00:34:50,070 He said, well, McCandless, this doesn't sound like 977 00:34:50,070 --> 00:34:50,230 you. 978 00:34:50,230 --> 00:34:50,750 I said, what's up? 979 00:34:51,949 --> 00:34:54,070 Robert knows me and so does Mr. Hall. 980 00:34:54,710 --> 00:34:55,570 He said, what's up? 981 00:34:56,430 --> 00:34:57,550 Well, I said, too, you arrived. 982 00:34:57,630 --> 00:34:58,710 I was the oldest man here, but I 983 00:34:58,710 --> 00:34:59,490 feel a whole lot better. 984 00:35:01,290 --> 00:35:02,750 Oh, he said, for any sake. 985 00:35:05,910 --> 00:35:10,250 Brethren in Stout, it seems like yesterday when 986 00:35:10,250 --> 00:35:11,670 I sat in your conference in the old 987 00:35:11,670 --> 00:35:17,670 hall and those older men, if they're not 988 00:35:17,670 --> 00:35:19,250 gone, they couldn't do it today, I'm sorry 989 00:35:19,250 --> 00:35:19,730 to say. 990 00:35:20,830 --> 00:35:22,470 And I'm not sure I've cut the mantle. 991 00:35:23,790 --> 00:35:24,550 I'd like to. 992 00:35:25,570 --> 00:35:26,550 I'd like to serve. 993 00:35:27,570 --> 00:35:29,150 I will never be better than them. 994 00:35:29,610 --> 00:35:30,750 That was the lament of this man. 995 00:35:31,190 --> 00:35:32,390 He'd learned he wasn't better. 996 00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:33,730 In other words, for a while, maybe he 997 00:35:33,730 --> 00:35:36,850 thought he was till he discovered his own 998 00:35:36,850 --> 00:35:39,090 weakness and his own inabilities. 999 00:35:41,110 --> 00:35:43,170 Nevertheless, even though it was too much too 1000 00:35:43,170 --> 00:35:45,790 soon, there came that day when this man 1001 00:35:45,790 --> 00:35:47,950 that didn't give up in spite of what 1002 00:35:47,950 --> 00:35:49,310 the sons of the prophets are telling him 1003 00:35:49,310 --> 00:35:49,570 and everything. 1004 00:35:49,570 --> 00:35:54,750 In that moment, floating through that air came 1005 00:35:54,750 --> 00:35:58,170 the mantle of Elijah, which he grabs ahold 1006 00:35:58,170 --> 00:35:58,450 of it. 1007 00:35:58,870 --> 00:36:00,690 And what the words are used there, wasn't 1008 00:36:00,690 --> 00:36:01,590 he just kind of took ahold of it 1009 00:36:01,590 --> 00:36:02,690 and thought, well, I'll do this act and 1010 00:36:02,690 --> 00:36:03,130 this is it. 1011 00:36:03,430 --> 00:36:04,070 No, no, no. 1012 00:36:04,830 --> 00:36:07,590 He took ahold of it as if never 1013 00:36:07,590 --> 00:36:08,570 to let this go again. 1014 00:36:10,730 --> 00:36:13,150 Now, brethren and sisters, that's the way to 1015 00:36:13,150 --> 00:36:14,370 take ahold of divine truth. 1016 00:36:15,010 --> 00:36:17,350 That's the way to take ahold of testimony. 1017 00:36:17,910 --> 00:36:20,350 It isn't necessarily taking ahold of it in 1018 00:36:20,350 --> 00:36:22,870 a verbal, personal way that you're gonna do 1019 00:36:22,870 --> 00:36:23,090 this. 1020 00:36:23,230 --> 00:36:24,810 No, it's before God. 1021 00:36:25,910 --> 00:36:27,430 These men that we've read about are humble 1022 00:36:27,430 --> 00:36:27,790 men. 1023 00:36:28,710 --> 00:36:30,850 They're men that God used mightily. 1024 00:36:32,110 --> 00:36:34,710 So like in every generation, we live in 1025 00:36:34,710 --> 00:36:35,890 the transferal of garments. 1026 00:36:36,690 --> 00:36:39,870 God help us to wear them appropriately.