<TITLE>10. Par 45-49</TITLE>L-45 It seemed ridiculous when there wasn't a well nowhere. Down in the valleys, all around over the hillsides they couldn't even find a smell of water. And the driest place that was in the desert was that old rock. Go out here in the desert and look and see. Look like back under a nice palo verde, or somewhere, there'd be a little spring. Get down in the valley where all the waters run down, and dig down there you'll find water the quickest. But God sent him up on the hill to the driest thing there. That's the way God does. He likes to take something that's nothing and show that He is something. As I've often said, "God takes the nobodies to make somebody out of them. But when people think they're somebody, then they become nobodies in God's sight."

L-46 Now, we find out that Moses took that dry stick and hit the rock. And when he did, water sprang forth. Now, get a stick and go out in the desert today and start smiting on rocks. It was a paradox.
It was a paradox when God rained manna out of the heavens. Yes. It was a paradox. No doubt... Wonder if He didn't have big ovens up there to bake it. He didn't have to have it. He was a Creator, and He created the manna that fell fresh every night. He didn't have to have ovens; He's a Creator.

L-47 One time when a believer got in the wrong company... (We have that all the time.) A believer by the name of Jehoshaphat got into the wrong company with Ahab, a make-believer. And when a make-believer and a believer gets together, you got trouble. Now, when you get a believer in a seminary that's got a bunch of make-believers in there, you got trouble again.
So Jehoshaphat wanted an axe to grind-or Ahab, rather, sent for Jehoshaphat to come down. He showed him all the glory of his Kingdom. And Jehoshaphat, like a believer... Sometimes seeing the exciting, something extraordinary, he becomes excited about it. And that's when the man has to watch. That's where you girls have to watch some little guy with his hair slicked down and... Be careful. And some of you boys has to watch that little--you little Jezebel, you know, and would lead you off the wrong way. Be careful. Stay in the right company. Notice.

L-48 So here was a believer in the company of a make-believer. So he had an axe to grind, of course. And he said, "Now, we'll tell you what we'll do. You know we're brothers. We're all just the same." But we're not the same. No, sir. You don't mix oil and water. No. "We're all just the same, so let your chariots be ours, and ours yours. And we'll go up to Gilgal, and we'll fight this battle, and push these--the enemy off."
Well, Jehoshaphat had enough common decency about him to say, "Don't you think we ought to consult the Lord first?"
I can imagine great President Ahab saying, "Hmph... Why, certainly so. Sure. We're--we're a great nation here, believes in God. So you know what? I've just got the answer." Oh, yes. "I've got a seminary down here so full of them. I got four hundred of the best-trained prophets there is in the country. I got the best. You ought to hear them say, 'Amen.' You ought to hear the sweet little prayers they can pray. Bring them up. Let's see them."

L-49 So they dressed theirself to make something handsome-looking, set out in the gates. And when they did... They brought up four hundred prophets, and when they did... All of them prophets... And they said, "Go up, and the Lord bless you. Go up there. We're four hundred strong with one accord. Go up. I'll bless you, be with you."
But that didn't strike Jehoshaphat. You know, they can tell you all these things are fine, but right down in your heart you know... As I said yesterday, "That little still small voice turns the whole wheel." Something didn't seem right. He said, "Sir, haven't you got one more?"
"One more, when the whole seminary's here? (See?) Why, here's Archbishop So-and-so and all the rest of them. He's done made hisself some iron horns, and said, 'By this you'll push the enemy off the land.'"


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