Did Not My Heart Go With You?

I want to approach this study tonight from the standpoint of Elisha’s statement to Gehazi in verse 26 – “Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you?” At a number of points in previous studies I have said to you, that Elisha the prophet was a type of Christ to us in the miracles that he did. If Elijah the prophet was a type of Christ’s forerunner John the Baptist, and he was, then Elisha who received a double portion of his spirit, is a type to us of our Savior in the miracles that he did. Even as Elisha, by Divine discernment was able to see into the hearts of these two men in their motives for their actions, even so, in a much greater and more perfect sense, is Christ able to see into our hearts and to establish what our motives are, and what His response will be to us. So, as we look more carefully into this passage that I have just read for you, we find three situations where the heart of Elisha “went with” the person whose thoughts and actions represent for us whether they were a righteous or a wicked man. We will look at both tonight, and I pray that as we do so, each of us will understand that as believers, Christ’s heart goes with us wherever we go, and in whatever we do.