<TITLE>13. Par 43-45</TITLE>L-43 I was in a college not long ago, and on the campus of the grounds young ladies walking around with shorts on, and beer cans laying everywhere, and ministers laughing and making fun of the Gospel. Well, how can you expect the next generation...? What are they going to be? Where's the drawing line?
I used to have an old Methodist friend, Dr. Spurgeon. He used to sing a song:
We let down the bars;
We compromised with sin.
We let down the bars,
And the sheep got out,
But how did the goats get in?
It's when you let down the bars, that's what did it.
Took away with some fantastic idea of some young whipsnapper over there in college that knowed more about it than--than God did Himself, and you start a doctrine on something like that. Come back to the Word! No matter, you say, "Well, it--it says this; it does this." It's got to be God's Word all the way through.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, not a dead god; a living God, not one that healed the sick back there; one heals the sick now. What good does it do to talk about an ancient God, if He isn't the same God today? Certainly. Now, you can't get warm by a painted fire. So something that you say it was one time; we got to have something now. And that same God still lives, He still heals, He still saves, He still gives the Holy Ghost. And He... And it's the same Jesus Christ, yesterday, today, and forever.

L-44 Now, so see, Micaiah had based his faith upon his vision first; and then he took his vision and compared it with the Word of God. Then he knowed he was right. And now, that's the way we ought to do it. If our--if our theology will take the Word of God, and our--the things that we do, and it dovetails through the Bible, completely with the Bible, that's all right. And if you do that, you're going to be all right. But if it doesn't, leave it alone. God will only bless what He said He would do.
Now, we find out that Ahab was a cursed person, because the prophet... And he said, "I... Last in my vision..." He said when he saw a vision he saw God sitting upon the throne. And said the host of heaven was standing on His right side and on His left side, and they must have been having a council meeting. And He said, "Who can we get to go down there and deceive Ahab (Now, remember), deceive Ahab, and bring him out there in that field, so he can get killed, to fulfill the word of Elijah. Glory, hallelujah. How God will stand behind His Word!

L-45 That was a prophet said that; but Jesus said, "If you say to this mountain be moved, and don't doubt, but believe that what you said will come to pass, you can have what you said," when you know it's the Word of the Lord speaking. That's why I could say to that woman that had the big tumor, to the lady with the cancer here tonight, the different ones... Because first, it's a vision. It compares with the Word. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. There's the vision; then it happens. It's "THUS SAITH THE LORD," and it has to happen. Nothing can stop it. See?
Now, it had been a long time since Elijah had make this prophecy. He'd been in glory long. But he would--he'd made this prophecy, and he knowed it was coming to pass. And then Micaiah knew that Elijah was a man of God, and here was God up in heaven holding a council up there how to bring the word of Elijah to pass. And if you've got the Word of the Lord, and will speak the Word of the Lord, and don't doubt the Word of the Lord, God will hold a council meeting to make your Word come to pass; because it's not your Word; it's His Word. It's His Word, if it's THUS SAITH THE LORD, if it's truly THUS SAITH THE LORD.


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