<TITLE>11. Par 33-35</TITLE>L-33 And Ahab, this lukewarm, borderline, backslidden Israelite, oh, he might've been circumcised in the flesh; he might've had his name on the book somewhere as an Israelite. But in his heart he thought more of that little painted-face Jezebel, than he did of the Kingdom of God.
And how many tonight, how many people has sold out their birthright to the things of the world and got away from God. Stay with the Word. That's the reason coming into a meeting, talking about taking one another's spirit. Coming into a meeting, we like to stay right with the Word. Stay with the Word so that the Spirit of the Word will be on the people, not the spirit of some fantastic, or some minister, or something. That we'd have to answer for at the day of judgment.
Well, when I stand there at that day with the--the people that I've preached to around the world, I want one thing: that I didn't try to project something of my own, my fantastics into them people, but I've stay with God's Word. So that thing will lay right there before me, and I say, "God, You were the One Who wrote it." See? That's the kind of a spirit you want, something that'll take the Word of God, and not a bunch of fantastics, and a bunch of theology that's man-made. Stay with God's eternal Word.

L-34 Now, Elijah, the great and mighty prophet had prophesied, and he told Ahab because he'd killed Naboth, that what was going to happen to him, how that the dogs licked his blood and so forth. And he told Jezebel what was going to happen to her. Then along after the going away of Elijah...
God always, from Genesis to Revelation, God has always had at least one man that He could put His hand on. He's never been without a witness.
And along came a young fellow by the name of Micaiah, a little prophet. He was hated of the others. And Ahab had... Well, he thought, maybe the Jewish religion was all right. Now, that's the way the modern believer believes it today. They just take it as something that just, well, it just happens to be that way. See? And they go to church because they know it's a decent thing to do. If that's all you go to church for, you're just a hypocrite. That's all. You don't go to church for, thinking it's a decent thing to do; you go to church to worship God. You go to meet God, to thank Him, and to praise Him, and to worship Him. A house of worship. Now, that's what we need.

L-35 And then Ahab, he had him a bunch of prophets that he'd well schooled and had them with their, all the best theology that they had in them day. He had taught them. And there was many of them, four hundred. And he had them all well dressed, and well fed, and taken care of. Out of his kingdom he fed these fellows up. He said, "Well now, wait a minute. If I ever get in trouble, well perhaps maybe, I could run down and find my pastors and they would--they would console me in the way."
So one time, Jehoshaphat, which was a son of a righteous man, and a righteous man himself, he came down to see Ahab. And there's where he made his fatal mistake.
Listen. Oil and water don't mix. And many time, a many a good life has been completely wrecked by your associates. Show me your company, I'll tell you who you are. See? That's right. It's an old proverb, but it's the truth. Associate with people who believe God.


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