<TITLE>09. Par 57-68</TITLE>L-57 Now, when they went out there, and after while, Jehoshaphat kinda come to himself and said, "Haven't one of us consult the Lord about this?"
He said, "All right." Ahab did. And he sent down and got hundred--four hundred, fine trained preachers. And he brought them up there and said, "These are all prophesiers."
And so they went into their enchantment and they begin to call and they said, "Yes, you go on up in peace, the Lord's with you."
And then, after all those four hundred had give witness that they should go up in peace, yet Jehoshaphat knowing... Do you get it? See, down in that righteous man's heart there was something told him there was a burr in the salad somewhere. Something was wrong.

L-61 Ahab said, "Now, we got four hundred here, and with one accord, every one of them said, 'Go, the Lord is with you.'"
But Jehoshaphat said, "Haven't you got one more?"
He said, "Well, what do we need with one more? Haven't we got four hundred of the best educated men in the country? They're all saying 'Go.'" That was intellectual. But down in Jehoshaphat's heart he knew there was something wrong. Yeah.
He said, "We got one more; He's Micaiah. But I hate him." Said, "He's always saying something evil and popping off where he has no business to be. And he's downing the churches and everything." Said, "I hate him."
Said, "Go get him and let's see what he will say."
And when Micaiah come up, he said--they said, "Now, look, you say the same thing as the rest of them."
He said--he said, "I will only..." Hear it is. "I will only say what God says. (Amen.) No matter what your prophet says, and what this says, and what your church says, and what they say, I will say what God says. God will put on my lips and I will say what He says." What we need today is some more Micaiahs who will say what God says.

L-64 Notice, so they got him up there and he said, "Give me tonight." So that night the Lord met him. And he come back the next morning when the two kings set in the gate. He said, "Go on up." He said, "Go on up." But said, "I seen Israel like sheep scattered without a shepherd."
So this one preacher, all dressed up, walked up, and smacked him in the mouth, and said, "Which a way did the Spirit of God go when it went out of me?"
Said, "You'll find out when you come back." Yes.
He said, "Listen here," he said, "we are the servants of God. We're four hundred and you're one."
But Micaiah said, "I'll tell you where your trouble lays." Amen. Said, "I saw a vision." Amen. He said, "And I saw God setting on His throne. And I saw the hosts of heaven standing around Him; and we know that the Word of God has pronounced cursings upon this man from the way he has done."

L-68 You can't bless what God has cursed, neither can the devil curse what God has blessed. It's an individual affair, no matter how poor, or how stupid, how unlearned, how uneducated; what God's blessed is blessed. What God has cursed is cursed. Know to differentiate what is right and what is wrong.
Micaiah knew good and well that that wasn't the Lord that was with them preachers. But what was the matter with those preachers? Notice what they did. They had been dressed the best; they had been fed the best. They had come together in a--their parties and so forth, in their alliances until the place had gotten to, where they only knew their own theology. And the Bible said that Micaiah, when he was looking at the vision, he said--God said, "Who can we get to go down there and deceive Ahab."
And a lying spirit said, "I'll go down there and entice Ahab through those preachers." Because they have to go out there in order to bring the Word of God to pass.


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