<TITLE>15. Par 50-52</TITLE>L-50 And what it does, it never comes up to the great big ecclesiastics. It moves right down, like Jesus did, like the prophets did, like the rest of... Always right along, it's the poor people. And it happens, and it's gone. And they say, "Well, what happened? I didn't know it." Sure. He reveals it to those who are looking for Him, those who will set still and listen for it a minute, and tear out your own thoughts, and compare what you're listening at to the Word of God.
Now, if Ahab would've set down for a minute, or if that high priest, or any of those prophets, would've set down and compared... Not what looked right. It looked like that belonged to Israel. But it ain't what it looks like; it's what God said about it. See? If they'd have set down and compared it...
It looks like that we ought to take and have our schools and our--our churches so highly, Ph.D. and LL.D., and we ought to have the biggest, finest buildings in the world, and we ought to do all this--this reading, writing, and arithmetic. But that isn't what God said. He never said go educate the people. That's all right. I'm not supporting my ignorance now by educa--or--or using that for a crutch. But look. I'm saying this: education's all right, but it will never take the place of salvation. See?

L-51 Oh, ball games, and--and frolics, and so forth, that's all right; but it don't belong in the church. In the church we want Christ, not a form of Christ, or a picture of Christ, or a dead Christ, or a tomb of Christ. We want a risen Christ Who's alive with us, proving Hisself that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's what the church wants, what they ought to want. Depends on what their appetite is (See?), whether they will receive it or not.
Now, he compared his vision then with what the Word of God said. And he stood right there before the two nations and told them. He said, "You're not coming back. You're going to die on the grounds."
And you know what Ahab said? Said, "Take this fellow back, and tell the mayor of the city to put him in the jail, and feed him with bread of sorrow and with waters of sorrow. And when I return in peace," said, "I'll--I--I'll take care of him when I get back.
You know what Micaiah said? He turned around, looked at him and said, "And if you get back at all, the Lord didn't speak to me." Oh, he knowed where he was standing. That's the way anyone would.

L-52 That's what that little lady did about her little baby, when she was so sure if I prayed for it... That's what the lady with the big tumor back there, laying back there... No matter what she had to do--plow through, come through the roof or anywhere--just so she could get there. That's all she wanted, for it was her faith. It was compared to the Word of God, and she knowed that Jesus Christ still lived. Therefore she had faith, and it happened.
Now, we find that--that Mi--that everything that Micah had said, or, Micaiah said come to pass just exactly. And every prophet down through the age (now we're closing), down through the age, that ever done anything with God, took God's Word for the stand. Now, they didn't move from the Word. No matter what circumstances looked like, they didn't move from the Word.


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