<TITLE>12. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 So they find out that after they said all the... All of them had prophesied, said, "Yes, the Lord still says go up, He's with you. Take the city."
Micaiah looked around, said, "Go ahead up. Take the city."
Ahab knowed there was a little something wrong with that. Said, "How oft do I have to adjure you?"
He said, "Sure, go on up. Take the city, but," he said, "I seen--seen Israel scattered like sheep on the hill, having no shepherd."
Ahab, that got his righteous indignation stirred. He said, "What did I tell you? He was going to prophesy evil. All he talks about is condemning our women with wearing shorts, and all these things he tells us about all of our... I knowed he was going to always say something evil about me. Soon as he gets up there, that's what he's going to say." What else could he say?

L-40 He said, "I saw the sheep of Israel scattered on a hill, like sheep having no shepherd." And--and oh, my, he knowed it meant his death.
And he said... Oh, he boiled about it, because he--he said, "I told you he'd prophesy evil."
Well, how could he do anything else? Because he tested his vision with the Word of God; and he knowed that the Word of God had said to--to Ahab through Elijah, who was really the prophet of God, that the dogs would lick the blood of old Ahab in the field, or on the chariot, that the dogs would lick Ahab's blood. And God was against Ahab, and how could this man of God bless what God had cursed?
How in--how can a minister stand in the pulpit and tell the people things that they do, and let them get by without saying anything about it? It's more than I can say.

L-41 You know, in China their great god down there is a ancient philosopher they call Confucius. Confucius is the word in China. In America it's confusion, instead of Confucius. Oh, it used to be that you'd get a picture... I went some time ago to a place to eat (somebody'd asked me), and it looked to me like that my little boy Joseph had got into a paint bucket somewhere of several different kinds of paint and messed the wall all up. I said, "A nice place like this with a dirty-looking, splotchy-looking thing like that hanging on the wall?"
"Oh (I asked the waitress)," she said, "Well that... that's on canvas."
I said, "It sure looks like it's been under the dripping of a paint on a ladder somewhere where they make some kind of a decoration."
She said, "Oh," she said, "sir, that's by So-and-so and So-and-so." Why, it didn't even look like a painting at all. And she said... I forget how many hundreds of dollars that painting cost, on the wall.
"Well," I said, "If it was me, I'd give that much to get it off of there," I said, "because it would worry me to death, it's so sickening looking."

L-42 You know, it used to be black was black and white was white. You mix it together and you got gray. So that's just the way it it. They're so mixed up. What is the drawing line between right and wrong? Methodists is right, what about Baptists? If Presbyterian's right, what about Pentecost? There's a drawing line somewhere. That drawing line is God's Word. That's the Word. God's drawing line is His Word. "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine the Truth."
So how can we bless what God has cursed? How can you let the men be married two or three times and deacons in your churches? How can you let the women who wear bobbed hair and shorts, and dress themselves all sexy come up in the platform, and play the piano, and get out in the streets and walk around like that, and not say something about it? You can't stop it, but you can give a word against it. And ninety-five percent of them smoke cigarettes, and carry on, and drink beer.


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