<TITLE>14. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 So when they come up before the prophet... Oh, my, what a--what a rile he got into. This might kindly hurt his sanctification a little, but he really got all boiled up. He said to Jehoram, he said, "Why don't you go on over to your own prophets? (My.) Why don't you go to your mammy's prophet? Why don't you go over to your daddy's prophets? Go on over to your formals now, and join them if you want to. You're in trouble. Why don't you go on over to them?"
"Oh, nay, nay." He said, "But the Lord's brought us out here." Said, "We're going to--we're going to--we're going to die. We're going to get killed in that..."
You're not only going to die, they're already dead. All the fruits dried up, and all the Spirit gone out of the church. It's already just become a--a religious organization. That's right. There's something wrong. If we can't get God back in the church somewhere, what we going to do? Then we're all going to perish.
And when this prophet, after he got through bawling him out, he said, "If it wasn't that I respected the presence of Jehoshaphat (that elected man) I wouldn't even look at you." Oh.

L-54 I think that's what God would say tonight. If it wasn't... You people that's bound yourselves off with these different organizations and fussing at one another, if it wasn't that God had respects for the people who did believe in Him, there never would been an Oral Roberts or anything sent across the country. There'd never been no signs and wonders. He wouldn't even look at us if it wasn't... All of us are guilty. If it wasn't for the elected's sake. If it wasn't for the Church sake, the ones who really believe God, He wouldn't even look at us. That's right.
But because there is a people that wants to believe, God's got a messenger for them. Amen. The Holy Ghost had been grieved away and gone a long time ago.

L-55 This old prophet really got his righteous indignation stirred up, and he bawled them out. And he told them about all these alliances and organizations they were having. He said, "Nevertheless," said, "bring me a minstrel." Oh, he had to get his temper down a little, you know. He'd got all het up. And so he said, "Bring me a minstrel."
Now, what about some of you Church of Christ people, so-called, that don't believe in music in the church? After he got all het up, he needed a little music to bring the Spirit on him. That's right. Yes, sir. In a... Now remember, God doesn't change. And if the good music brought the Spirit on the prophet then, it'll do the same thing today. That's exactly right. 'Cause God loves it.
Sure. He said, "Bring me a minstrel." Well, you say, "Well, yeah. I ain't the prophet." But maybe you can be part of the minstrel, you know. You--you can do something towards it. That's all. You--you got a testimony or something you can do.

L-56 And I can see them bring out the minstrel and play "All Things Are Possible, Only Believe." And get the Spirit back started again. "Only Believe, Only Believe, All Things Are Possible." Had to play a little bit before the Spirit come on the prophet. Then when the prophet come on, he saw--when the Spirit come on the prophet rather, he saw a vision.
Now, that's the way. See, he could not do it... The intellectual, elected, great bunch of the--the high-ups, the kings and potentates, on the intellectual educational side, could not see the vision. That's right. They were blind.
That's the reason tonight. They want to call the vision of God a mental condition, a telepathy, a spirit of the devil or something. It's because they're so intellectual, they know nothing about God. That's right.
It was a vision that told the truth. That was God's program. That was God's way. Because the Spirit of the Lord was upon the prophet. And the Word of the Lord come to the prophet. Yes, sir.
And it come how? Through a vision. Yes, sir. It come through a vision, not through intellectual. It had failed. And the same it's done now.


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