2Kings 6:1-7

The Iron Did Swim

Verse 1-2 

"too strait for us"
Acts 8:1 And Saul was consenting unto his death.
  And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem;
  and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
2Corinthians 10:16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you,
  and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

"take every man a beam"
Mark 8:34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them,
  Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

"go ye"
Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.



verse 3

"go with [us]"
Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you:
  and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea,
and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

"I will go [with you]"
Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
  All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
  and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
  and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have:
  for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.



verse 4

"when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood"
missionary work on the foreign field



verse 5

"axe head fell into the water"
Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Heb4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,
  piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow,
  and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Col2:12 Buried with him in baptism,
  wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God,
  who hath raised him from the dead.

The axe symbolizes Christ
Christ crucified and buried in a tomb

"alas, Master"
John 13:13, 14 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
  I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
John20:16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself,
  and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.

"for it was borrowed"
Matthew 27:57-60 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph,
  who also himself was Jesus' disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
  Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
  And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
  And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock:
  and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.



Verse 6-7

"where fell it? And he shewed him the place"
Acts17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription,
  TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Acts1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
  this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven,
  shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

"cut down a stick, and cast it in"
Exodus 15:23-25 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah,
  for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
  And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
  And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters,
  the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance,
  and there he proved them,
same type of miracle also in 2Kings 2:19-22:
  And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant,
  as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
  And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
  And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there,
  and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters;
  there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
  So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.

"the iron did swim"
Matthew 28:6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

"take it up to thee"
story of christians persecuted for faith, put on frozen lake naked, offered hot bath if deny Jesus.
28 or so? roman's name?
one gave in after a few hours,
but one of the soldiers stripped off his clothes and ran out onto the ice, to suffer with the Lord's