<TITLE>14. Par -</TITLE>L-19-2 Certainly they wouldn't receive him; neither would they do it today. They had long forgot that God was able of these stones to rise up true prophets to God. God's able of the backwoodsman; He's able to raise of these stones men that'll stand for His Word and prophesy in His Name the Truth, laying the axe to the root of the tree and let the chips fall. I don't care whether you got cooperation or no cooperation. But that's the way of the true prophet.
Some people thinks he's got it easy. They don't know what they speak of. He wasn't brought into town by a carriage, setting upon fine harnessed horses, tassels, and the high priests standing out there with big high things on their heads bowing to him, "The honorable Doctor So-and-so is coming." That would've been some organizational setup.

L-19-4 And like the King of all of them come, He come like--come to a stable in a barn, cow barn; never come in pomp and glory, but He come in the humility of a baby born in a barn. Amos didn't come the Word of the Lord, 'cause he was the Word of the Lord. Any Word of God, it ain't the person; it's God.
Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth the works."
They said, "You're a man making yourself God."
He said, "Then if I do not the works of God, don't believe Me. But if the works speak themself, believe the works, if you don't want to believe Me."
Amos was God's Word walking down the road. He walked in crudely, not in the fashions of the world. He come in the power of the Spirit; that's the way the Word of God comes, not in organizational creed, not in a sissified something in the pulpit; but It comes in the power of the Spirit to manifest God to the nation and to the people. It's a difference. How much different?

L-20-2 Now, it's realized, forgot long ago that God is able of stones to rise up true prophets. They didn't have... Their organization didn't have to raise up a true prophet, 'cause it, perhaps, couldn't do it; 'cause if it'd be, it'd be an organizational prophet. But God raises; God takes what He wants to. He takes nothing, usually, to do His work; shows that It's God. If a man's all puffed up and thinks he's something, then God can't use him, because there's too much of his self.
That's what's the matter with the Christian church today. They're think they know something. The Bible says when a man thinks he knows something, he knows nothing that he ought to know. The trouble today, we got so much self, so much hypocrisy, so much education, so much religion, and know nothing about the salvation of the Word of God. That's the pitiful part of it.

L-20-4 Yes. They'd forgot that God was able of these stone to raise children unto Abraham or raise up true prophets of the Word. They don't have to come out of some certain school. God gives them their schooling. They don't have to have four degrees in college. They don't have to have their bachelor of art, and--and their doctor's degree, and so forth; they don't have to have that. God takes anything He wants to and puts His Word in it. How does He do it? He manifests it and proves it.
They couldn't say what seminary Jesus come out of. He didn't have any. "What school's He from?" He--He didn't have any. But what did He have? He had God, and He was the Word. They couldn't point back to some school. And God never did raise a man out of school. Go down through history and find out where He ever did. He doesn't. He takes something from somewhere else that's got nothing, no hopes for it, and then He brings that in and places His Word in it, and manifests Himself. That's what He was doing here in Amos. All right.

L-21-1 Now, Amos' word was vindicated by God in the day--in their own days. God vindicated Amos' word to be, that he was--had the Word of the Lord. And if he would come to us right now, do you think our nation and our people would receive a man like that? Do you think the Baptists would receive Amos? the Methodists? the Presbyterian? the Pentecostals? the Catholics? No, sir. No, he certainly wouldn't.


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