<TITLE>09. Par 30-34</TITLE>L-30 I can think of the time when Jehoshaphat, a man of God, when he really should have--have not associated in the wrong company. A believer hasn't got any fellowship with unbeliever. A crow and a dove cannot talk together. A crow eat on an old dead carcass. A dove is one bird without a gall. If it'd eat that dead carcass, it'd kill it. It's a special built bird, a--a dove is. A dove only eats grain. He has no gall. He could not digest it. So is the Christian, has no gall of bitterness in them. They cannot eat the things of the world. A crow could eat the things, wheat, and he can also eat carcass. He's a hypocrite.

L-31 And a dove, I want to tell you something... A dove does not have to find water for a bath. Did you ever pick up a little dove, rub your hand over him? He's oily. There's something from the inside comes out and keeps him clean. Oh, my. His body's oiled, from a oil from the inside coming out. Amen. I don't want to get started on that; I'll get off my subject. But he keeps his body, his feathers, his garments clean by an inside oil. Every time he works his body, that works up there on his feathers and keeps him perpetually, all the time, clean. Oh, the Blood of Jesus Christ sanctifies the believer day and night.

L-32 And Ahab went down and had some fellowship with Jehoshaphat--or, Jehoshaphat with Ahab. And he... Whenever you see some of the unbelieving world, "Would you come out to our little card party, dear?" Be careful.
"Well, you know you work here and your boss wants you... We're just going to have a few little social things tonight." Stay away from it. Get away from it.
"Well, it's Christmas, you got a right to have a little clean fun." Don't you believe that. Stay away from it. Shun the very appearance of evil. Stay out of it.

L-33 But Jehoshaphat weakened and went down to see Ahab. And Ahab had a purpose. He said, "Well, we got some land up here. It belongs to us." He showed him all the great things. And that's the way the devil does, show you all the great things that he's got (See?), all what he's got. Well, the glitter, the gold, kinda brightened his eyes up, you know, and he thought, "My." It didn't brighten them up; it dulled them up.
And so finally they set out there and he said, "Well, we go up to Ramoth-gilead, or shall I fore... draw?"
He said, "We ought to consult the Lord about this."
So Ahab said, "Oh, of course so. Uh-huh. We should do it. I've got the best ecclesiastical system there is in the country." He goes down to his seminary and draws out four hundred prophets. That's right. Fine dressed, and collars turned around, and oh, they were wonderful men, every one of them ecclesiastical, theologians right to the dot.

L-34 Said, "All right, gentlemen, you're well fed and taken care of...?... This great thing, now, I tell you what I want you to do. Prophesy unto me and tell me whether we should go to Ramoth-gilead. See how great my robes are, and what a great bishop I am; and here's also Bishop So-and-so from up here at the other kingdom. We're going to join forces together. You know, we'll be united then, so we'll do great things, you know."
So one of them even built himself a pair of horns and begin to run through the audience, saying he was pushing all the Syrians back. "All the country belongs to us, and so you're going to win by this."


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