<TITLE>08. Par 28-30</TITLE>L-28 Why? Why would He send over to ask Beelzebub about anything? Is it because there is no God in Israel? Is it because there is no prophet down here? Is it because God has not made Hisself known in Israel? Is it because God has not provided a prophet to consult these things by? Then why would he send over there?
He wanted to know why, and when the man returned back and brought the message, the king said, "What sort of a man was this?"
He said, "He was hairy and had a piece of sheepskin, or leather wrapped around his loins; and the king knew that that was Elijah, the prophet who had the Word of the Lord.
It wasn't because there was no God in Israel. It wasn't because God didn't have a prophet for them to consult, but it was the king's own stubborn ways. He just didn't like Elijah. He didn't like him, because Elijah would always correct him in his sins, and a prophet of God is always truthful with the Bible. Regardless of what it is, he's got God's Word and he lays right with it. And it will stir up a man and if the man is honest and sincerely, he will want to make that thing right. But if he doesn't, and he turns against the messenger, tries to drown the voice.

L-29 Sometime ago I read an article in a newspaper in Phoenix, and the paper said that there was a prospector killed because he had got some money and he was on his road in. And a--a foul man was following him and his dog raised up to bark, and the man was all day dreaming what he was going to do with the money when he got in, and he got his gun. He went to the door and shot the dog.
A little later on the outlaw came in and killed the prospector and took his money, many years ago. And it was confessed by the man before he died. What did the ma--prospector do? He was so wrapped up in what he was going to do with his money, till he took his gun and stilled the voice that was trying to warn him.
That's the way men and women are doing today. They're going out, maybe join church to find out... If it just don't soothe them a little bit, and try to stop the voice of God that's trying to warn you of an oncoming judgment. Trying to say, "Why, it's fanaticism or it's something else." Just won't set still long enough to listen. No, it isn't because we haven't got a God. It isn't because He hasn't got salvation for us. It's because that we don't want to listen to Him.

L-30 Just like a man that goes... That'll die and with his disease on the doctor's doorstep. The doctor has a remedy to give the man for his disease, and he can help him with his medicine, but the man will not listen to it. He just refuses to take the doctor's medicine. Well, the man could be so close to the doctor till--could he'd set on his doorstep and die, die right on his office steps or live door neighbors to him, and die with the disease that the medicine is laying in the doctor's office to cure him with. Now, it isn't the doctor's fault. It isn't because there's no medicine there. It's because the man refuses to take the remedy. That's right. He dies because he refuses to take the remedy that the doctor has for his disease.
So is it in the church today. Men and women die in the pews in sin, because they refuse the remedy. There is a Balm in Gilead. There is a physician there, but people refuse to take the remedy. They don't want it. It's a dangerous thing to refuse a doctor's medicine. If you've got scarlet fever, or pneumonia, or whatever it is, and--and the doctor gives you the medicine and you just pour it out, that's a dangerous thing (That's right.), because you might die.


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