<TITLE>17. Par -</TITLE>L-27-4 How did Micaiah know he was right? He waited; he had a vision. They had a vision too, but the vision didn't compare with the Word. And today the same thing... Micaiah compared his vision with the Word, and then he seen he and the Word was together. Today if your vision's contrary to the Word, leave it alone, 'cause it's a wrong absolute. Micaiah's absolute was exactly with the Word, so he could stand and say, "He..." what he said, and--and believe it. When they smacked him in the mouth and said, "Which way did the Spirit of God go?" he said, "You'll find out when you set in the inner chamber." Right.
He said, "When I return in peace... You put this man in inner prison, and when I return in peace," said Ahab, "I'll deal with this fellow."
"Oh now, Micaiah, what about it? Your head will be chopped off when he comes back."

L-27-6 Micaiah stood there just as stern as Stephen did (Amen.), just as willing as my Lord walked to the cross; just as easy as Daniel went into the lions' den; or Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego went to the furnace. Absolutely. He stood there and said, "If you return at all..." Why? He was absolute. "If you return at all, God never spoke to me. Chop my head off then."
He had an absolute. He knowed that his Compass, that had guided him to this vision, was exactly with the North Star. Yes, sir. His anchor held. Yes, the Word and It only...
If your absolute... If you have an absolute in your life...

L-28-1 There was a time when, you know, etiquettes had an absolute. I can't think of that woman's name, but the whole nation trusted in what that woman said. (I forget her name. I was writing a note here; I couldn't think of that woman's name--who--what it was.) But here a few years ago they had to be... This woman, what she said... If she said use the knife in the left hand, that was--that was it; that was the absolute. She was the--the answer to all of it. And if you put the fork in the left hand, then you were absolutely wrong. What was her name? [Congregation answers, "Emily Post"--Ed.] Oh, that's it, sure. Yeah, that's who.
Now, you were--you were absolute--and she was--she was etiquette's absolute. It must be that way. Like, oh, many things we find like that. But we find out now it's gone. Eat the way you want to. Yes, sir. All right. But that was etiquette's absolute. You had to do it that way.

L-28-3 There was a time when Adolf Hitler was Germany's absolute. Whatever he said... When he said, "Jump," they jumped; when he said, "Kill," they kill. Millions of Jews, he dodded his head. You see what happened to that kind of an absolute? It looked like power, but it was contrary to the Word.
"How do you know it was contrary to the Word?"
God said when Balaam tried to look down upon Israel to curse it, he said, "I see him as a unicorn. How righteous are thy tents. Whoever curses you will be cursed; whoever blesses you will be blessed."
Look like Hitler could have saw that. Look like them German Christians could have saw that. See? That absolute... Absolutely contrary to that Word... You know, as it's been said, "Man... God made man, but man made slaves"--one trying to rule over the other one. We got one Ruler, that's God.
But Hitler was Germany's absolute. Look at it today. Now, see what happened? It was a wrong absolute. Why? It was contrary to the Word. And now, you see where it all went to? Disgrace.

L-28-8 And if your absolute is in some organization, or some sensation, or something else besides the Person of Jesus Christ, you'll come to the same portion of shame, only worse. See? If your absolute is not Christ, that's the only Center-post of the human life; and Christ is the Word, not your church, your word--the Word. See? "Upon this absolute I'll build My Church," upon Christ, the Word.


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