<TITLE>14. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 Oh, it's because, just like it was in the days of the king, it was his own stubbornness. He hated the prophet, 'cause his mammy hated him. He was Jezebel's son. And that's the reason Ahab, a borderline believer... And that's why it was: an old cold formal church he come out of. And that's the reason that he hated the prophet, because the prophet told him the truth. And he didn't pull any punches about it. And he hated him. His mother hated that prophet. His daddy hated that prophet.
His daddy said when--when Jehoshaphat come down and went down there to set with Ahab, he said, "Let's go up here to Ramoth-gilead and take the country up there." Said, "It belongs to Israel." And of course, he showed him all the great things that--that they had, he... 'Course, that's the way the devil does, show you all the great things. And it blinded his eyes, and he said, "Well, our people is your people." Said, "But don't you think we ought to consult the Lord about it first?"
He said, "Sure, certainly, Jehoshaphat. That's just right, we should. I've got four hundred seminary preachers down here, the best..." They had the best there is in the country. "Oh, I'll go get them all, bring them up here." And all of them prophesied with one accord, said, "Go on up, go on up, the Lord's with you."

L-38 But that didn't just suit Jehoshaphat right. He said, "Haven't you got one more?"
"One more, when we got four hundred out of my seminary with one accord, everyone speaking the same thing?" I don't care how many speaks. If it's not the Word of God, it's not the Word of God. "We got four hundred smart, trained, educated, prophets standing here. With one accord they say go."
But Jehoshaphat said, "But surely, you got one more."
He said, "Yeah, we got another holy-ro..." Excuse me, I might not ought to said that, but... Well, I done said it anyhow. "Yeah, we got one, Micaiah, a holy-roller up here. But I hate him." There you are.
"Oh, let not the king say so." Said, "Go up and get him and see what he will say."
He said, "I'm warning you; he only prophesies evil against me." Sure, how could he do? What more could he do? When they seen that worldliness, what could he do but stand for truth?

L-39 Went and got him and then... 'Course, they had the deacon board to go get him to hold that revival, and said, "Now, wait a minute, now don't you preach against this, and don't you preach against that. Don't tell the women they shouldn't cut their hair, and don't tell them they shouldn't wear makeup, 'cause all of our women does." I've had them to say that. And I say, "Shut up. You want me--you want me, here I'll come." See?
So they said to Micaiah, they said, "Now, you say the same thing the rest of them's saying, because one day, you know what, you'll be the general overseer. If you'll just listen to me, I'll... They'll take you into the conference if you'll just agree with them." No, that don't lay in the heart of a real prophet of God. No, sir.
He wasn't going to agree with them; he had no strings to pull, or no meal tickets to be bought. So he just said, "I'll say just what God puts in my mouth to say, and that's all." So he went down there and he said, "Give me tonight, let me see what the Lord will say." Come back the next day, you know what he said, "I seen Israel on the hills scattered like sheep having no shepherd."
Said, "What'd I tell you?" And then the head of the Ministerial Association smacked him in the mouth, just knocked him down flat. Yeah, that's right. Said, "Which way did the Spirit of God go when it went out of me?"
Said, "You'll see when my prophecy comes to pass."
He said, "Put him in the inner prison. Put him back in there and feed him the bread of sorrow and the water of sorrow," Ahab said, "till I return in peace."
Micaiah said, "If you return at all, God hasn't spoke to me."


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