<TITLE>25. Par 107-111</TITLE>L-107 One night in the school, one of his students... A minister had a school, the monastery, and many of the... Which they call them now students and Bible schools. But one of the students begin to get a self-styled feeling. He said, "I'm one of the prophets of the Old Testament. You all listen to me. We have that today. "Listen to me." A real prophet never says a thing like that, friends. His last word--last person to say that. See? You all listen to me. The Lord's given me authority." He kept doing that.
The real brethren never paid no attention to him; neither did the bishop--just went on. And finally he said, "Because you all haven't believed me, I'm prophesying. Tonight the Lord God will come down and give me a white robe to set among you. I'm one of the prophets of the Old Testament."

L-108 Doesn't that sound kind of natural about today? Check it up now. Just go ahead. See? Someone said not long ago (had it in the paper) God come down, and took him up before God the Father, and felt angels with feathers on their wings. Whew. All right.
Then this--that night about midnight, truly there was a light come on in his place. And they only had torch lights in them days, real light, and hear whispering, the people. Directly he walked out with a white robe on. Everybody felt of it, never seen anything like it. Everybody come around. The bishop come around, looked at it. Not even what fabric it was--beautiful. It was not a white robe. It was a--it was a purple robe, real puffy, and pretty, never seen anything like it made in all time. Wouldn't Pentecostals have swallowed that up? Mmm. My, that would've been it. Yes, sir.

L-109 So the old bishop was a pretty smart man though. He... What was the matter with the church back there? They stayed with the Word. They never presumed nothing, no matter what kind of a sensation it was. God bless your hearts, brethren; stay with that Word. I don't care how much your pastor, or how much John Doe, or somebody else says, or the church, or the organization says this, that or the other, "It's all right. Do the best you can." Don't you believe it. Just stay with that Word.

L-110 So this robe wasn't natural. And he said, "Now, you see, from this forth I set among you in this lovely garment sent down from heaven." Whew. Wouldn't that have tore up a Pentecostal meeting, brethren? Wouldn't they have done it. See? Blinded eyes just receive something... Oh, it's so easy to be deceived. See? That's right. Don't you take that.
Said, "The Lord give me this. And now you all have to know that I'm a prophet. I'm one of the Old Testament prophets. Now you all listen to what I tell you." See? "I'm going to give orders around here from now on."
But somehow the old bishop, it didn't set with him. There just wasn't... Something wasn't right. See? It didn't look just right, 'cause the boy's attitude wasn't right. See? That ain't the way prophets act. They're not vindicated by what they say, what they... Like that, what they profess. It's what signs follow them--a Christian the same way, and so forth.

L-111 If we say we're Christians, and still in the world, then there's something wrong. See? There's something wrong. It don't--just don't feel right, don't look right. No matter how much you say it's right; it isn't right yet. It's not to come to the Word, back to the Word.
So he said, the old bishop said, "We'll spend the rest of the night in singing hymns and--and offering prayer." Everything went on.
The old bishop prayed all night long; the rest of them sang hymns to the Lord. The next morning... They knowed that Martin was a vindicated prophet of God. He didn't have to tell nobody. His works proved that. So he said, "There's one more thing I want you to do, son." Said, "I want you to go stand before Martin."
He said, "Oh, I am warned not to stand before Martin."


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