<TITLE>13. Par 47-50</TITLE>L-47 But in the Church of God you are not voted in or voted out; you're borned in once for eternal, forever. Only God can put you out, and He swore by Himself He'd never do it. Amen. He knows what you're made out of before He brings you in. He don't run His business loosely like our organizations does, take them in thirty days, or sixty days, or ninety days on probation. He knows what they are before they ever speak, before they ever come into the church. He knows exactly what they're made out of. That's the reason it's got to be born again.
Now, well, he brought them all down there, and he got on his throne, the other one got on his throne, and they set out there and said, "Bring up all of the preachers, the prophets."
And they all come out and went through the maneuvering, and they had a big time, all right. He said, "Now, don't they look nice? Listen at the language they use."
Oh, my, how swell they could speak, you know. "Oh, aaaaamen." And all these maneuvers that they went through... Oh, they had their whole mix up though, they had it all.
So then the first thing you know, they said, "Go up. The Lord says, 'Go on up.'"
Said, "Now, you see, Jehoshaphat? See, I was right after all."

L-48 Why, they knowed what to say. They better know what to say, or they lost their credentials. Oh, yes, sir. The district man come by, and the state presbyter, and I mean, they got excommunicated right quick if they didn't say good things about the--the hand that was feeding them, 'cause all they knew was material food anyhow. I'm glad there's a hand that was scarred that does the feeding of the Church of God.
Notice, then I seen them all puffed out, "Oh, yes, king, THUS SAITH THE LORD, go on up."
And now, the strange thing is, they were actually inspired. But now watch. But that kind of inspiration didn't strike that man of God, Jehoshaphat. He said, "Wait a minute; I believe I made a mistake here. There's something wrong; all of you got mixed up in this." See? The ox knows his master's stall. See? He said, "Ah, ah, ah, pardon me, Mr. king Ahab, but haven't you got one more, another prophet?"

L-49 Why, Ahab would say, "Well, four hundred with one accord, and the best scholared men we got, and here they are with one accord said, 'This is the will of God. This is the will of God'?"
He said, "It just don't sound right," somehow down in his heart. Amen. Oh, are you ready? Here it is. He knowed that didn't sound like the Word of God. He said, "Isn't there just another one?"
Now, listen. Ahab said, "Yes, we've got a holy-roller. We got one by the name of Micaiah. But I'm telling you, I hate him." Oh yeah. "We got one more, but he don't belong to our organization. They excommunicated him a long time ago. He's out there in the hill somewhere. His name's Micaiah."
Jehoshaphat said, "I'd just like to hear what he says." Amen. Do you see it, a type of today? "Isn't there just one more?"
He said, "Yes, but oh, he is a fanatic. He always just says bad things about me."

L-50 How could he say anything else when the Word of God said bad things about him. "Why, he even condemns our organization. Why, even the church...?... that's all there is to it. Why, the prophets tried to take him down and give him his bachelor's degree, but, oh, he wouldn't stand still. He stomps right out of there; he's just an old fanatic." See?
Jehoshaphat had enough Spirit of God about him from his daddy; he said, "I'd like to hear him. Go get him."
"Well, I warn you; I'm warning you; he slobbers and everything else; he just hasn't got the dignity these other fellows have."
"I'd like to hear him."
"My sheep know My voice, a stranger they don't follow."
It happened to be that Jehoshaphat was one of God's lambs. He said, "That don't sound just right." It has to be like the right... "It's got a rattle, but it hasn't got a ring." Like the sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal, it doesn't sound right. "Like pouring peas on a dry cowhide," as Roy Davis used to say. It doesn't sound just right.


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