<TITLE>15. Par 55-58</TITLE>L-55 Brother, regardless of how high the steeple is, or how well-dressed people go, what an education the pastor's got, or anything about this, or what Bishop Sheen says, or anybody else, if it's contrary to that Word, stay away from it. Stay in the Word. There's where the true servant of God lays, right on that Word. That's right.
Micaiah walked up there, and he saw his vision. And when he prophesied and saw the vision, he seen that cooperated just exactly with the Word, dovetail right with it. He knowed he had THUS SAITH THE LORD. Walked up there and he said, "Micaiah, the son of Imlah, must I go up to Ramoth-gilead or must I withdraw?"
Micaiah said, "Go on up."
Said, "Now, that don't sound right." Even he knew better himself.

L-56 And many of those people join those big classical things just to be popular. They know different. The spirit of life that works in the world would tell them that's different, if they have any spark of life about them at all. They go after these fantastics of frogs jumping, and bugs a flying, shaking and jumping, and running, and everything, when they know that's contrary. But they go with it because of the sensation.
I don't care about sensations; I want THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's right, what the Word says. Now, I believe in a heartfelt religion. I believe in the joy that I can know. I believe in the power of the Holy Spirit. I believe in Divine healing. I believe in all of the manifestations of the gifts, but they must be reverently placed in the body, working exactly in harmony with the Word.

L-57 When I go into a place and start preaching and make an altar call, a woman raised up and speak in tongues. Why, what a disgrace. What a--what a pity that is. That shows that their pastor had, is not on the Word of God, or he'd have stopped that thing and said, "Don't you do that." See? Nothing against the gift, it's misused. See? And many things I could take hours with it. You know what I'm speaking about. That's all together Catholicism and Protestantism. But stay in the Word.
Notice, now. And when he saw the vision, he went and told him; he said, "Go on up."
He said, "How oft will I adjure you to tell me the truth?"
He said, "But I saw Israel scattered like sheep having no shepherd."
And he said, "I told you; I told you. I knowed what he would say before you brought him here." That's right. He couldn't say nothing else. He had the Word of God and couldn't do no more but condemn the thing.

L-58 I say tonight in the light of the Bible; I condemn this nonsense sensation, fanaticism, and things that saying the Word of God is nothing to it, and the church is right, and all of this stuff. I condemn it, in the Name of Jesus Christ on the authority of God's Word. Let heavens and earth pass, but God's Word will remain forever the Truth. That's right.


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