<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 I suppose we're about the same audience that was here last evening. So we understand how to approach God, as I explained it last night on how to come to Him and about the operation and what Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, and He's alive tonight, and He's just the same yesterday, today, and forever.
On the subject tonight as a way of knowing that you people here have a very good pastor, a good preacher, and I know you're used to preaching. And I feel very small to stand behind the pulpit here where Brother Hutchinson has ministered. Because as myself, I'm not a speaker. I'm not too well, I have a--an educ--very poor education. And I--and I just trust in the Lord for what little I do--can do for Him, and but what I know of the Word, I'd sure like to tell someone else about it when we fellowship around the blessed Word.

L-10 Now, in the day of the event that we're speaking of tonight, or right immediately after the death of Ahab, and Ahaziah his son had taken (pardon me) his place and had done wickedly; and he had fallen through the lattice of the place in Samaria and had been cursed and was laying, dying.
And so, him being an idolater, sent the men from Samaria to inquire of Beelzebub and--the--the demon powers of what would be his outcome, if he would be able to--by through this great god that they call Baalim, if they would be able to recover from his condition.
And on his road over there to the messengers that he sent, God Who knows all things, called for His servant Elijah, and said, "Go meet them and ask them, 'Why you doing this because there was no God in Israel?'"
And when he turned the servants back, and on their way back or when they returned back, they asked him, "Why didn't you go to take the message?"
And he said, "We met a man that told us, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD.'"
And then, the king inquired, "What kind of a man was he?"
He said, "He was a hairy man, and he had leather on his loins." And he knew it was Elijah, the Tishbite.

L-11 God has never been at any time without a true witness on the earth. He always has had a true witness somewhere. And since the world began, He's had it. And somewhere today, there is a true witness of God. In the midst of all of our nine hundred and sixty-nine different denominations here, there's somewhere that God has a true witness.
Now, in the old days He had prophets. The message came by God in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers by the prophets, and in this last day has spoke to us by His Son, Christ Jesus. And now, the Word came through the prophets. Today, we have gifts of prophecy, and we have prophets, also.

L-12 And there's quite a vast difference between a gift of prophecy and a prophet. A gift of prophecy is a church gift that operates, that might be on one one night, and another another night, and another another night. And before it can be received into the church, it has to be judged by three different judges. And then, three witnesses has to accept it as being the Word of the Lord, then it's kept on record; and if it comes not to pass, then there's an evil spirit among the people. And that's why I think that we have misused God's Divine gifts.
In our tabernacle at home when I first--in our Baptist church, when I first received the baptism of the Spirit and was called into the ministry, we tried to seek out God for the spiritual gifts. We had all the people that come who were gifted people, maybe an hour before the service ever started.


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