<TITLE>13. Par -</TITLE>L-17-5 Could that glamorous city receive him? You think those women would've paid any attention to what he said? You think those priests would've listened to him? Why, no, sir. He had no recommendation with him from any organization. He couldn't say that, "The Pharisees sent me." Neither could he say that the Sadducees sent him. He didn't carry any credentials. He didn't have any fellowship card from any group of people. He had no forerunner to fix up his campaign. There hadn't been all the Pharisees had had a union meeting and a--and a ministerial breakfast and got everything together to fix his campaign up, and knowing that he was coming; he was unknown to them. He had no fellowship card. He had no credential. He had no recommendation from men, but he had THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's the way of the true prophet. He had THUS SAITH THE LORD.

L-18-1 If he had THUS SAITH THE LORD, it's so far different from our man-made schemes here, that's all he needed. If he come this way, he come in the name of a church. If he come from this way, he come in the Name of the Lord. So a true prophet always comes the way of the Name of the Lord; always, he comes in the Name of the Lord.
Now, he couldn't show fellowship cards, but he--he had the Word of God; and that's what God had sent to the people. Now, the people had formed themselves organizations. They had different sectarian groups, and that's what the people had formed. But Amos didn't have that; he just had THUS SAITH THE LORD; that's what he had.

L-18-3 I'd imagine those priests of a morning have a little--on the Sabbath morning have a little, a prayer, so forth, and a little dedicational services, and--and went back, and talked a few things on great Moses, that one day lived and a great somebody else that someday lived. "But oh, the days of that's past now. You people know our new president, our new government, and our--all we got"; and talk on a few things like that and go home.
But here come a man not caring for that; he come with THUS SAITH THE LORD. See? That's the way of the prophet: no cooperation; knowed what was facing him; knowed that everything would be against him; knowed that they'd reject him, that they'd turn him down. But he was coming in the Name of the Lord.
Jesus knew that Calvary was facing Him, but He come in the Name of the Lord. See? That's the way of the true prophet.

L-18-4 He had the Word of the Lord for the nation, but the true Word of the Lord was foreign to those people; yet they thought they had it. (I hope this gets down deep.) They thought that they were so pious and religious, that the real Word of God was a foreign thing to them.
And that's the way it is today. The true Word of God made manifest is a foreign thing to lots of Pentecostal people. The real interpretation of the Word, the real woes and curses, the real blessing of God is a foreign thing to many people who call themself holiness, church members, Christians; It's a foreign thing to them; they don't know It. Mention It to them, never heard of such a thing. And yet their organizations grow and prosper, getting bigger and bigger, members all the time, and more organizations added every year. They thought that anything that come to them had to come out of those sectarian groups.


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