<TITLE>11. Par 50-52</TITLE>L-50 And it seemingly, it was just exactly right, because actually the land did belong to Israel. See, it can look so real and so right. But if you want a paradox, you've got not to divvy one speck from God's Word. You've got to stay right with the Word. Jesus said, "If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you, then ask what you will." But it's on a condition.
Now, it seemed like... "That land belongs to us. Why can't we go get it? It's ours. It belongs to us." And those men were not just heathens; they were Jewish prophets. They said, "Go up. The Lord's with you." But what it was, they got mixed up in the world. During the reign of Ahab and Jezebel, she'd led them around and--and got them all mixed up in the world. And really the Spirit of the Lord wasn't with them.

L-51 So then, he just brought them out there and they prophesied. But yet, that didn't kind of satisfy Jehoshaphat. He said, "Haven't you got one more that you can consult?"
He said, "Yes, I got another one, but he's a holy-roller. I--I just don't like him. He's always cutting at me. (Praise be to God.) He's always bawling me out. He believes I got the worst wife in the world. He's--he's horrible. We just can't have him around here."
"Oh," he said, "don't let the king say so. Like to hear him."
Said, "He's Micaiah, the son of Imlah. But I--I just don't like him. He's always saying something bad about me. I've had him in jail a dozen times. But he's one of them holy-rollers. But we don't want him up here."
"Oh, don't let the king say so. Send for him."
So they had a forerunner, sometimes like you do when you're going to a revival. "Ah, sh, but don't say nothing about this. Don't you preach against this. Oh, the--they don't believe in that. Now, you leave off of this. Now, don't you say nothing about (hmph)..."
Well, you know what I want to say, don't you? [Congregation laughs--Ed.] "Don't say nothing about that because you're going to hurt--you hurt their feelings. Now, they've got pastors there, and they--they tell them this, that. Don't you... You say the same."

L-52 Micaiah, a man anointed, he said, "I'll only say what God puts in my mouth to say."Amen. God, give us some more Micaiahs. "But I'll only say what God puts in my mouth."
Let's see if his vision was with the Word. That's the way to judge it, which is right. See which one lines up with the Word. Micaiah come down.
He said, "How many times do I adjure you?"
Micaiah said, "Go on up. First give me the night. Let me see what the Lord will say. Then I'll tell you what's THUS SAITH THE LORD." That's right. Seek ye the Kingdom of God first. Let's see what's right.
So that night Micaiah had a vision and he saw the Lord. And he examined that vision with the Word, and it was with the Word. And any vision, dream, or anything else that's contrary to the Word, is not right.


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