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It is typified herein 2 Kings 2, and yet it does not say that

Elisha went with Elijah to begin with. It says Elijah went with

Elisha. Oh, Christ is seeking your company! He would go with

you! He would go with you, young brother and young sister,

that your Christianity might become real. You will need to find

the company of Christ. Then you will become vital, and you will

really find what life involves in Christianity. Christ will become

your life!

You remember how Mr. Coates related as to the man who said

to an old Christian in the village, ‘What if some day you woke

up and found Christ did not exist, what would happen to you?’

‘Ah’, he said, ‘I would fall to pieces; that Man is my life!’ That is

the language of a person who knows the company of Christ,

whose life is there. The life of such a person is not in the

world. He works there and he meets righteousness, but his life

is elsewhere. His life is found in the company of Christ.

Beloved, what I am saying, is needed at the moment. It results

in the formation of a character that cannot be formed

anywhere else, or in any other way. Ecclesiastes 12: 12 says,

“much study is a weariness of the flesh”. Even the Scriptures,

if read merely from the viewpoint of study, will only weary the

flesh. But, you know, if you take the Scriptures up, if you take

the ministry up, and first of all seek the company of Christ, the

whole thing becomes alive. What a change it makes!

And so Elisha is tested; Elijah tests him. I do not want to go

over the detail of the scripture.

There are various points, and there is great significance in

them. It is not my point at this

moment to speak of these things. Gilgal, Bethel, Jericho and

Jordan are all very important.

But what I want to show is that here is a man, typically, who is

undeterred in his singleness of eye to follow Christ, to find the

company of Christ, and to be with Christ wherever He might