<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 While he's, you're turning to it, I'm going to ask this brother here from California, have you heard anything about the meeting where we're going, what time we're going to be there in your city, in Oakland, in through there, at... The brother was making it up a few days ago, and I... [A brother answers--Ed.] Yes, Well, thank you, brother. Yes, all right. Thank you. I just wondered if it's to be... I think we're to go east after Idaho in November and December, and come there in January or February, I think, the last of January and the first of February, or either this other part that's to be up here in the east. Or either they're going to give that to the west coast and then go east. But I hope to see you there, brother, hear some of that wonderful teaching. All right, Brother Joseph...?... 22nd to 27.
[Brother Boze reads the following Scripture, from II Chronicles 18:22-27:
Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.
Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people--Ed.]
Now, in the--the 17th chapter of Saint John I read for a text:
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come...
And may He add His blessings to His Word.

L-6 Today, thinking to use this for a platform, the reading of the Word that's out of the Old Testament for a platform for the text in the New Testament, and praying that God will give us the context as we wait upon Him.
This time in the Old Testament had been a--was a very shaky time. Now, Jehoshaphat was the king of Judah at the time, while Ahab was king of Israel at the time they had been divided. And any time where, when we are divided we can look for trouble. We must be united and then we will stand.
And Jehoshaphat was a--a righteous man, a good man. He had had some good bringing up and a lot of examples, as we've had today. He seen his father, Asa, how that when Asa served the Lord, then God was with him. But when Asa failed to serve the Lord and got stubborn, then God departed from him.

L-7 No matter how well the Lord loves us, and how well you love the Lord, when you depart from serving and worshipping the Lord, then just remember, you can look for trouble to start in. Because God told David one time, "Thou art a man after My own heart." And then when David did wrong, David had to reap for what he sowed. And He's never told us that we were after His own heart, so we'll surely have to reap what we sow.
But during this time, Asa got a disease in his feet, and he died with it, because he did not ask the Lord for Divine healing; he just went to the doctors alone. He wouldn't ask the Lord; he was too stubborn. And he just got to a place where he just begin to listen to some modernistic views and didn't believe maybe, or didn't believe the Lord healed, so he didn't consult the Lord nothing about it. Thought, "Well, my doctors can help me; there's no need of asking anybody else." So the Bible said he slept. He was taken to the tombs of his father--his fathers, and there he rested.


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