<TITLE>10. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 You know, there's something about a believer, if he ever was in contact with Christ, he just can't go for that kind of stuff. Yet, old Jehoshaphat setting up there, he said, "Isn't there just one more?"
"One more? Why, here's four hundred of the highest educated, best men there is in the country, and they're prophets. Why would we ask for one more? Each one of them's got a D.L.D., Ph.D., double L.Q.S.T. Why, they're... My, you couldn't ask for more degrees. My, they know the Scripture inside out, backwards and forwards."
Jehoshaphat said, "But you know, I got a little funny feeling. I wish we had just... Ain't there just one more?"
"Oh," he said, "yes, but he's a holy-roller and... His name's Micaiah, the son of Imlah," but said, "I hate him." Oh.
So Jehoshaphat thought, "That--that sounds like a meal ticket." So, "Don't let the king say so. But I'd like to hear what he says."

L-36 So a runner run up there to the little shack where he was at, the little assembly somewhere up on the corner, you know. And he said, "Oh, Micaiah, you know what? You must... I got to put a bug in your ear now. (See?) You say the same thing that they say. You say just like they say, because I tell you, that all four hundred of them ecclesiastics is saying we should--we should do it this way. So you must say the same thing."
Micaiah said, "As the Lord God lives, I'll just say what He puts in my mouth." I like that. I like that. Uh-huh.

L-37 So they brought him down there. Ahab was having a raging spell. "Get that holy-roller among us down here, it'll ruin our congregation as sure as the world." So then, first thing you know when he come up, he said, "Now, I'm warning you; he isn't going to say nothing but evil about me, 'cause I know he's always digging me about my women bobbing their hair and all these things. Oh, he's a holy-roller right." Now...
He said, "I'm going to stay right with the Word though."
So he said, "Micaiah, shall I go up to Ramoth-gilead and take the thing that belongs to me, or shall I forebear?"
Said, "Give me tonight. Let me see what the Lord will say."
So after night passed, he come back. Said, "What do you say?"
Said, "Go on up if you want to."
He said, "How long will I adjure you (He knowed there was something wrong with that.) that you only tell me the truth."
Said "Go on up," he said, "but I saw Israel like sheep scattered with no shepherd." And he said... Why? He was staying with the Word of God. He was saying the same thing the Word said, because the Word of God was with the prophet. And the prophet Elijah said he couldn't prophesy good against the man that was evil as Ahab. So the prophet, the Word had done said that Ahab was going to be killed, Jezebel was going to be fed to the dogs. And so what could Micaiah say any different than what the Word said? That's right. He had to stay with the Word. No matter how great it sounds and how big it sounds, watch the Word. That's always true.

L-38 And so this great state presbyter, or bishop, ever what it was, smacked him in the mouth, and said, "Which way went the Word of God out of me, if it went to you?"
He said, "You'll see someday." He said, "I saw God setting on the throne and all the host of heaven was around Him. And He said, 'Who can we get to go down and deceive Ahab to get him out there and make Elijah's prophecy come true?'" God watches over that, you know. Said, 'Who could I get to go out there?'"
"And a lying spirit come up from down, probably hell, come up and stood before Him, said, 'I'll go down and get in them preachers and make them every one prophesy a lie.'"
God's Word's going to be fulfilled, brother, I don't care what takes place. John said, "God's able of these stones to rise children unto--to Abraham." God's Word...


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