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Elisha: Passing the Mantle - II Kings 2
Elijah was the fiery type.
He is the one, who on the mount of Carmel, confronted the prophets of Baal and called down the fire of God upon the sacrifice.
He was the one that was filled with lightning.
He was the one who could call down fire or rain, which ever was needed.
On the other hand, his young successor, Elisha, seems to be more of the gentle spirited kind.
God uses different personalities.
God uses different kinds of servants in different ways and at particular times.
The transition is going to be made.
God is going to call young Elisha to carry on the ministry which Elijah had begun.
Here was Elisha out in the field working.
He was a busy man.
He was involved in something when the call of God came upon his life.
The ministry is no place for lazy people.
It's hard work serving the Lord.
You would do well sometime to study the Bible accounts of how people were called into the service of the Lord.
No two seem to be the same.
There is no pattern necessarily.
Sometimes God calls in circumstances.
Sometimes God uses people to call you into God's work.
Sometimes God just builds a great desire and interest in your heart to do a particular ministry.
Here is Elisha and the mantle is cast upon him.
He leaves and sells out, burns his bridges behind him and becomes a young protégé of the prophet Elijah.
Turn back to II Kings chapter 3. I want to share verse 11 and see what Elisha did for a period of years.
Remember God has called him.
He is going to have a ministry of his own.
But for a period of time he is going to be under the mentorship of Elijah, the older man.
In the last part of verse 11 it says, "Here is Elisha, the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah."
He poured water.
He ministered to the older man, Elijah.
What you have there is a beautiful picture of cooperation in ministry.
The older man, Elijah and the younger man Elisha.
There is no evidence here of a generation gap.
There is no old versus the young.
They are working in tandem.
They are working together.
You see no indication here of a personality clash.
They are obviously very different in personality.
As you study the life of Elijah and Elisha you will see that the two men are very different in personality.
Yet in the service of the Lord, they work together.
They work in cooperation and partnership.
You will find some beautiful partnerships in the Bible.
I think about David and Jonathan.
What a great partnership that was.
Or you go in the New Testament and you find Paul and Barnabas.
What a great partnership that was.
What you have here is something similar in Elisha and Elijah.
We are coming to the time when Elijah is going to be carried to heaven.
It seems to me that on this last day of Elijah's life that memories begin to well up in his heart.
It seems these precious memories begin to flow through his heart.
Memories are important.
Memories can be very special and they can be very helpful and very meaningful to you.
Many times in the Bible, the Bible says, "Forget not."
We are not to forget the past.
We are not to lose those memories.
Sometimes, if you will study the book of Deuteronomy, about 14 times in that book it says, remember.
It is important to remember.
We are going to see a series of places where Elijah and Elisha will go and there are going to be some memories.
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Remembering God's Power.
Elijah is going to take the young man Elisha to some specific places and he is somehow remembering God's power.
These were places where God had demonstrated His power.
We need to do that.
We need to remember the past.
Someone has said that the past is not intended to be an anchor to hold us back, but rather a rudder to guide us.
The past is not to be a parking lot where we stay, but it is to be a launching pad that will thrust us into the future.
I want you to notice the specific place mentioned in this chapter where Elijah takes Elisha.
In Verse 1 they go to Gilgal.
In Verse 2 they go to Bethel.
In Verse 4 they go to Jericho.
In verse 6 they go to Jordan.
Keep in mind, shortly, Elijah is going to heaven.
In fact, verse 1 tells us exactly how he is going to heaven.
It says the Lord is going to take Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind.
That means Elijah is going to heaven without dying.
There is one other man in the Bible who went to heaven without dying and that was Enoch in Genesis 5.
The Bible says, "Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him."
He went to heaven without dying.
Elijah is going to go to heaven in a storm, in a whirlwind.
He's not going to die either.
Those two Old Testament experiences are pictures to us of the rapture.
What God did for Enoch and Elijah in the Old Testament, God is going to do for the whole generation of believers one of these days.
Would to God that ours would be the generation.
Wouldn't it be great if we would get raptured instead of resurrected?
It may be that if you and I are the generation before the Lord comes, it may be that we will be raptured.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
But it may be resurrection.
Either way the Bible says we ought to be living, looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Here's a man getting ready to get raptured.
He has passed the mantle of ministry to the young man Elisha and he is going to take him on a little journey down memory lane and show him some of the places where God exhibited His power.
Gilgal is the place of beginning.
It was at Gilgal, when the children of Israel crossed the Jordan River, they camped.
That was their first campground.
It was the place of beginning as they went into the Promised Land.
We ought to remember that place of beginning.
Do you remember your place of beginning?
Do you remember where you met the Lord?
Where were you when you met the Lord?
I met the Lord in a church up in a county seat town in Georgia.
I was a nine year old boy.
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