<TITLE>06. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 Christ didn't take their silliness. Sure He was a meek Man. But when the wrong thing was going on in the house of God, He took them ropes and platted them together, and kicked their old tables over, and drove them out of the house, and said, "It is written..." Not how it looked, how they was prospering, how many Pharisees and Sadducees they were ordained, he said, "It is written." Every true servant of God will go back to that Word. "It is written, my Father's house shall be a house of prayer. And you're making it a den of everything else." And how true that is today.
So what did he do? Micaiah said, "I don't care what they're saying, as the Lord liveth, I will say what God says." That's what we need today, is preachers, and men who will say what God's says to be the truth. No matter if it's a great organization that you're building upon, if it's not built upon the Word of God, it'll fall. No matter what else you have, it'll fall if it's not on the Word of God.

L-19 Notice, when Micaiah gets down there, and to the congregation, well, I can hear Ahab say, "Well, here comes that little holy-roller. All right, we'll see what he's going to say."
He said, "Micaiah, what about it? Shall I go up to Ramoth-Gilead or shall I forbear?"
Micaiah said, "Oh, go on up." He wanted to see the action of all the ministers. I could imagine they all smiled, said, "Ha. That is the way, Micaiah. We'll make you the state presbyter. We'll do something for you, boy."
Micaiah said, "Just a moment. I never finished it all. I saw Israel scattered like sheep, having no shepherd."
And Ahab turned around to Jehoshaphat and said, "What did I tell you? What did I tell you?" What else could Micaiah say, after God had already condemned Ahab?

L-20 Now, and he said, "I saw the heavens open, and I saw angels and spirits on the right-hand and on the left-hand of God. And they were holding a council in heaven, the same time you were having this meeting down here. And one said, 'How can we get Ahab to go up there to Ramoth-Gilead, because the Word of God has to be fulfilled?'" The Word of God had said that the dogs would lick the blood of Ahab. And if God has cursed the thing, how can we prophesy blessings on the thing? And any other foundation that's laid, besides that of Jesus Christ, and His Blood, and faith--saved by faith, is false prophecy.

L-21 And he said, "Now..." Many of us go into church by shaking hands, many of us by baptism, many of us by sensations. Why, they've even got it down in the southlands, that you're not got the Holy Ghost, until there's oil pouring out of your face or out of your hands. Oh, the weakness of the Pentecostal church! How long will you stand such things? No wonder God can't restore the gifts and put them in the church: He has no foundation to lay it on, for He will never lay it on anything but the foundation of the Word of God. No wonder these things are happening the way... He knows the hearts of man; He knows what's in you. Now matter what you say here, He knows what's in you. And He can't lay that foundation on anything else but this Bible.
And when we become so frazzled and so weak, until we fall for every little wind of doctrine... We're like a leaf on an autumn lake, that every little wind sweeps us this a way and that way. Be stabled on the Word of God, for you'll never pass with that Word.


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