<TITLE>15. Par -</TITLE>L-20-6 Then Hananiah come up, grabbed the yoke off of Jeremiah's neck, before all the priests in the congregation, maybe a million and a half people, and took that yoke that God had put upon Jeremiah's neck for a sign, and broke it to pieces, and throwed it on his feet, just enthused, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, in two years they'll be back."
Jeremiah just looked at him. It was contrary to the Word, so he just walked away; and God said, "Go back and tell him that I never spoke to him." He was just enthused; He took his own impression. See? He never waited till actually he saw it and knowed it wasn't him, that it was God saying it. He went back all enthused. If...

L-21-1 We find across the country today. One of our tapes was being played recently in a home, where a group of ministers was right then convinced and was coming to be baptized into the Name of Jesus Christ. And a man rose up in the room and spoke in tongues and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD: hold on to what you got. Just keep on going on; I'll bless you."
And they said, "Well, if the Lord said that, I guess that's it."
You see, it isn't examined with the Word. It's got to take the Word first. There you are. It was contrary to the Word.
Here come Jeremiah back, that anointed prophet. God told him, said, "I know Hananiah broke that wooden yoke over your neck that I put, but I'm going to make one out of iron." He said, "And all of these nations that I--has went down to serve Nebuchadnezzar, my servant..." And he was a heathen (See?), and Israel keeping all their sacrifices. But they wasn't... See, God made a promise that He'd bless, but them blessings are under conditions. And you've got to meet those conditions to make that work.

L-21-4 Setting awhile ago with a little sweet girl here, first I combed that family through to see if there was anything wrong. God will heal, but it's under conditions. See? Only thing that I found was the mother, afraid it was wrong to take medicine, and I said, "Don't you think that, sister; get that out of your mind. Go right ahead with the child. Give it the medicine. God will make that known." See?
Now, but the thing is fine. Know. And then if it's THUS SAITH THE LORD, okay.

L-21-5 Now, we find out here that these people, they was trying to manufacture something (Hagar and--and Sarah) to help Abraham, help God to make His promise come true. You can't do that. There's no way at all of doing it. It's--it's against everything. God's Word is going to happen anyhow. You just got to stand right on the Word and say, "It's this way," and keep the Word.
Now, watch. The manufacture something to take the place of His Word. Maybe Abraham's friends too (if we ever noticed), maybe Abraham's friends come by and said, "Well, Father of Nations, how many children you have now?" when he was a hundred years old. "Say, Father of Nations, Father of Many, how many children do you have now?" Scoffers.

L-21-7 Now, haven't you seen the time? Haven't we seen it when sometimes that we prayed for something, it didn't happen? Here sets an old man, and they say, "He's blind; he's deaf; he's dumb; he's sick; he's done this. Go down and heal him you Divine healers; we'll believe it."
Do they realize it's that same devil that said, "Come off the cross, and I'll believe you." "Turn these stones into bread, and I'll believe it." See? That same devil that tied a rag around our Lord's eyes, and hit Him on the head with a stick, and said, "Now, if you're a prophet, tell us who hit you, and we'll believe you."
Why, you know He knowed who hit Him. He could've turned those stones to bread, or He could've come off the cross. But what would we be today if He had? See, they don't know the program of God. You must find out what God has promised.


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