<TITLE>26. Par -</TITLE>L-39-2 Like Micaiah of old (the little baby that I dedicated), I passed some of it a few minutes ago, 'cause I--hurry up the time. But Micaiah, when he stood before Ahab, he looked at them. He knowed the Word. Micaiah spoke the Word to them. Why? Micaiah judged his vision, his doctrine with the Word of God; and he seen that his doctrine and the Word was the same, because the Word said that he would curse Ahab, and he would cause the dogs to lick his blood. That's what the Word said.
So Micaiah had a vision; that's--he was a prophet. "See what the Word comes to me." And he prayed, "Oh, Lord God, what must I do? What must I say to this bunch of preachers standing here? Here's all the organizations; every one in the land's gathered against me, Lord. Here I stand before the king; what must I say?" And he went into a vision; said, "Go on up. Go on," said, "but I seen Israel scattered like she's sheep having no shepherd." Yeah.

L-39-4 That--that district presbyter walked up and smacked him in the mouth and said, "Where'd the Word of God, the Spirit of God go, when It went out of me (out of him)?"
You know what God said? He let a devil go down and get among them, because they were off the Word to begin with. The Bible said if they wouldn't believe the Word, He'd give them strong delusions to believe a lie and would be damned by it. That's exactly what these organizations and people of this nation's doing today: believing a lie to be damned by it. "For there's not another name given under heaven whereby you must be saved." Line up, organizationals, so forth... Yes.

L-39-6 Now, what did these others--what did these other prophets look at? They were prophets. Yes, sir. They were prophets, but if they'd have stopped and examined their prophecy with the Word... If the Methodists would stop today and examine their prophecy, they'd never sprinkle another person; they'd receive the Holy Ghost; they'd baptize everyone by immersing in the Name of Jesus Christ. If the Assemblies of God would stop today and look at their prophecy, they'd come back to the Word. If the Oneness today would stop and examine their prophecy, they'd come back to the Word. But, you see, if them prophets would've stopped and examined their prophecy... They reasoned; they said, "That belongs to us, so we'll go up to Ramoth Gilead and we'll take it; because it belongs to us. Joshua give it to us."
But Micaiah said, "That sounds reasonable."
But that's what it is. You don't want to reason; you want to believe what God said. Don't reason nothing.

L-40-1 What if Abraham would've reasoned? How would he ever left his land? How would he been a hundred years old, still giving praise to God, and they going to have the baby by Sarah, and her ninety? Cast away reasons; you just believe.
You let the devil tell you, "You know, Brother Branham ain't nothing but a hypocrite."
"Now, I... Now, wait, let me see if he's--let's see if he's teaching right. Let me go back to the Bible."
"Don't--don't do..." He won't let you do that. No, no. See? But he'll say something bad about me (which he might have a right to), then you just keep getting that, stop and start reasoning, "Yeah, he oughtn't to have done this; he oughtn't to have done that."

L-40-5 You start looking at me, well, you just have plenty. And you could about looking at the Lord Jesus, you can find plenty. Look at Him just a minute. I'm going to put each one of you a minister. Now, we're going to forget He ever was on earth. Here's a boy that's proven the whole nation over, that He's a--a bastard-born child; His mother had Him before her and His father was ever married; it's proven. Now, they're not going to the Word, "A virgin shall conceive"; they're just going to what they hear. Uh-huh. See? A illegitimate child: didn't they tell Him He was born in sin and try to teach them? See?


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