<TITLE>17. Par 194-207</TITLE>L-194 That's God's provided way for His people. God's provided way always is to take His Word and hold onto It until It's vindicated to you. Now, do you follow me? God, a provided way, hold onto the promise until it's made manifest to you.

L-195   And, remember, I'm on record for this. That, any promise of God in the Bible, if... It's on conditions now. Just because you believe it's there, that don't make it so it'll happen.

L-196 Them Pharisees and Sadducees was just as religious with those sacraments as they could be. But God said, "They stink in My nose." See? There was no sincerity. There was nothing to it that should be.

L-197 You've got to come upon basical promise, and then upon your mental attitude towards it.

L-198   Look at those four hundred priests that day, or prophets, Ahab had out there. They said, "Ramoth-gilead belongs to us. Joshua, by the Holy Spirit, divided this. And the Syrians has got it." And one prophet said, "Now, looky here, that's fundamentally right." Now, he was a real Baptist. And he said, "That's exactly right. That's the fundamental promise, promise. That land belongs to us." So he made him two big horns, and said, "Go up there, and take these horns and push Syria plumb off. That belongs to Israel." That's right. Fundamentally, it was right.

L-199   But what did little Micaiah say? He said, "I saw Israel scattered like sheep having no shepherd." See?

L-200 Ahab, that hypocrite down there, letting Jezebel run him around, doing everything. The real Word of God coming through the prophet, had cursed that thing. And how could God bless what the prophet had cursed in the Name of the Lord? See? Can't be.

L-201 No matter how much religious nation we are, how much background we got, the thing is corrupted and corrupted. It's gone.

L-202 No matter how great our organizational life is in church, we believe in it, it's fine, all right, but the thing is corrupted. God has done laid them up on the shelf, and there they lay. And never a piece of history that any one ever rose again. So, it's wrong. It's finished, wrote off. It's no good.

L-203   His Word is always what He wants to see vindicated. It'll only be vindicated upon certain conditions, that's when you meet those conditions. You seen people that can take the Word of God and they just make it live for them. And others come right back with the same Word and can't do nothing with it. It's on conditions. That's right.

L-204   Look here. I'll show you an example of that in the Bible. Israel was on the road up to the promised land. Here come Moab, which was the--was the same religion, exactly. That was Lot's daughter's child. And notice when Balaam come down, it was God talking to him. He put seven altars, just like Israel had seven altars. He put seven clean sacrifices, bullocks on the altar. That's just exactly what Israel had. And another thing, he put seven rams, speaking of a coming Messiah. That's exactly what Israel had. Fundamental, they were both right, fundamentally. But it was on conditions. Amen. He failed to see the real promise of God.

L-205 That's the same thing it was in the coming of Christ. That's the same thing it's come back to today. It's on condition. Right.

L-206   Job. God (doing what?) making a provided way. Job, a prophet, needed a comforter.
Now, listen close now. My time has got away.

L-207 Job needed a comforter. And men tried to provide that thing for him, and they could not do it. They always got Job off the line. But Job come right back. He needed a comforter. God provided a comforter for him, when He give him a vision of Jesus Christ. And he cried, "I know my Redeemer liveth. My Redeemer," there's only One, "and at the last days He will stand upon the earth." Now remember the vision.
You said, "'My Redeemer.'"


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