<TITLE>09. Par 40-43</TITLE>L-40 Now, we find out that before God ever sends deliverance to His people... Now, I want you to catch this now for what's to follow afterwards. Before God sends deliverance to His people He always sends a prophet to notify them, always sends His prophet; because most the time people won't read and study His Word. They just simply go join church, and let it go at that. They don't set down and read.
The Holy Spirit, It feeds on the Word of God. Jesus said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." So if--when you get saved, the best thing to do is set down with your Bible, constantly read. That builds you. You see what God did. It's not like reading some novel. You're reading so you can hang your soul on every punctuation in it (That's right.), because it's the Word of God. You see? Every time God says anything, you know how I punctuate it? With an "Amen." That's right. "So be it." That's right. What He said is right.
And so we ought to punctuate all of God's words with an "Amen." When God says, "Thou shall, and shalt not," and so forth, say, "Amen. Amen." Not saying, "Well, I believe it ought to be this a-way." Just say, "Amen" to what He says. That--that does it.

L-41 So then, God had--had been good to them, and they--and they had not deserved it. But then, before this great event taken place, we find out that a prophet was sent to them, and he spoke the Word of the Lord for them. And then we notice immediately following that prophet's message, when He come to Israel, and said, "I'm the God that brought you up out of Egypt. I'm the One that give you the land that you live in. I've done all these things for you." See, the prophet always points back to the great supernatural God: a real prophet of God, that's a real preacher, in a pulpit. A modern day prophet is a preacher. So a real true prophet points back to the Word of the Lord, the promise of the Lord, not the declaration the--the church has made, but a declaration that God has made. (See?) Back to the Word of the Lord.

L-42 So God spoke to this prophet, and they... The Midianites had taken all they had, and they were starving to death, and He said, "Don't you remember that I'm the God that brought you up out of Egypt? Don't you know that I performed all My miracles down in Egypt? Don't you know I opened up the Red Sea? I fed your fathers for forty years in the wilderness. I broke off the enemies around them. Did not I take out the Amalekites and everything else from before you? I'm the God. Just turn back to Me. Watch Me."
And remember, always--or immediately after that prophet's message, God goes to work. After the prophet gives the Word, then God goes to work on the Word. First it's got to come forth first. The Word's got to be preached first. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God." The true prophet stands with the true Word of God and doesn't compromise on It any way, but tells the people that "Ye must be borned again. The promise is unto you, and to your children, to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call," if he's a true prophet.

L-43 If he isn't, he will say, "Well, now, we believe that..." Who's "we?" Not God and His prophets, and God and His Angels, and God in His Word. They say that "Heavens and earth will pass away" said Jesus, "but My Word shall never fail." That's right. "If any man adds to or takes away any of the words of the prophecy of this book, the same will be taken out of the Book of Life for him." So you see, the real true prophet stays with the Word.


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