<TITLE>17. Par 54-56</TITLE>L-54 "What in the world Jehoshaphat doing down there with that backslider (See?), that borderline, dishwater weak, that little wishy-washy? What's he doing down there?" think in his heart.
"Well, what did they do?"
"Well, as of course you know that the king has made a great denomination, that one you was kicked out of."
"Oh, yes. Yes, I know."
"But you know Jehoshaphat, he's from a old more illiterate group up there. See? And he doesn't know just like King Ahab does down here. So you know King Ahab's a great man."
"Yeah."
"And Jehoshaphat was down there awhile ago, and King Ahab wants him to go up to--to Ramoth-gilead up there to meet the enemy. And all the prophets was... Oh, the whole school come out, and they every one prophesied, saying, 'Thus saith the Lord, go up, the king's with you, and the Lord's with you, and everything's with you; so you're bound to win.' And you know what? It's so positive till Zedekiah's made hisself two big iron horns. He put them up on his head and running through the street, hollering, 'By these, by these you're going to push Syria plumb back into her place, by these horns.'" Real prophets, you know. My, my. They got everything.

L-55 That's just about like a lot of oil and blood running out of the hands; there's no Scripture to it. That's right. But all this here nonsense that's going on today in the Pentecostal ranks. That's right. Lot of it is not Scriptural, so stay away from it. There it is about all this stuff saying, "It's the church; it's the church, and not the Bible." If it ain't in the Bible, keep away from it. It's the Word.
Now, these fellows set down, and after while they met a group, and they said, "Now, look here, Micaiah, you want to stand in good with this group? If you do, you must say the same thing that the rest of them say. See? You just say--prophesy and tell him to go on up and everything's going to be all right. Just agree with him, and I'll tell you what: You'll be the state overseer next year (See?), or you'll be something like that. Oh, he--he will--he will put you in position if you'll just say the same thing they do."
Micaiah said, "As my God liveth, I'll only say what He says." Amen. Now, that's what we need. That's what America needs. "I'll say just what God says, no less or no more." That's right.

L-56 So Micaiah knew that Elijah, the prophet of God, a true genuine prophet, had prophesied evil against Ahab, so how could there ever come anything else out of it, but evil? So Micaiah... These other fellows had the minority--majority, rather, but Micaiah had the Word. So there's what made the difference: the Word.
No matter how big the people are, how many the communists, and how many of this, and how many of the unbelievers, and the skeptics, and--and the great things today, no matter how big they are, it's what God is. It's what the Word says. If they call you a fanatic, if they call you a soothsayer, if they call you whatever they want to, what difference does it make? You don't pay attention to them men.
If your hopes is built on men, then you're lost to begin with 'cause he's a failure, borned a failure, and can't be nothing else but a failure. But, "My hopes is built on nothing less than Jesus' Blood with righteousness; when all around my soul gives way, then He's all my hope and stay. On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; all other grounds is sinking sand," Eddie Perronet said in his--in his song. That's right.


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