<TITLE>09. Par 85-95</TITLE>L-85   Now, God always uses a--a prophet, a man. If you use a bunch of man, you get different ideas; see, each man, two man. Never did He have two major prophets on the earth at one time. He takes one, so the other one can take its place for another day, another message. He never has two, He has one at a time.

L-86 And the infinite God never changes His program, He must always stay with what He started with. That's the reason we can have confidence in what He says, He cannot change. If He saved a man on the basis of his faith in God, the next man will have to be saved the same way.

L-87   When God made a place where He could fellowship with His creature, Adam tried to make a way himself, and made fig leaves for him and his wife, to make aprons. God rejected it. And God decided on what program or what basis He would meet man and fellowship with him, and that was the shed blood. And He's never changed it.

L-88 Now, as Methodist to Baptist, we can shake one another's hands. But on basis by being Methodist and Baptist we have no things in common, I'm pulling for the Baptist and you're pulling for the Methodist, or vice versa. But there's one basis where all believers can meet, that's under the shed Blood. That's where we meet and lay aside all these things. So we cannot all come into one organization, we cannot do that.

L-89   These little organizations, I think God's been in it, the whole thing. But people... 'cause we're different. Each man sees different, each person sees different, no two minds is exactly the same. No two people is perfectly the same, they claim; no two noses, no two thumbprints. See, we're made different, that way we should have different groups.

L-90 But God always works with an individual. He don't save you because you're Methodist; He doesn't save you because you're Baptist; He doesn't save you 'cause you're Pentecostal. He saves you because He has dealt personally with you! And you're saved on that basis, that you have accepted It. So therefore God could deal with you. He doesn't deal with you in the order of His church, He deals with you as an individual.

L-91 Therefore when God sent forth His prophets, His messengers of the Testament, He spoke to one man, and that man had to bring the Message. Others went from him, everywhere, bringing the same Message. But there had to be one headquarters. God has always had it. I'm thankful He has got it tonight; that's the Holy Ghost, of course, we all know. Now, not some group, but the Holy Spirit is God's Headquarters. That's God's Messenger of the hour.

L-92   Now, what is, to the prophet that the Word always come, if they are a true prophet of the Word, God vindicates His Word by that prophet.

L-93 Now, there's been many false prophets, we've had them all through the ages. We go back to the Old Testament, see them raise up and speak in the Name of the Lord, and it was--wasn't right. God would have nothing to do with it. He never vindicates nothing but His Own Word. Anyway, He wouldn't run His business like that. See?

L-94 You just remember, God only vindicates His Word! And only a true prophet is... And the only way you can tell whether he's true or not, is by the Word. That's the way to judge him.

L-95   Now if you notice, like in the days when--when Micaiah, there stood up four hundred Hebrew prophets, before Ahab and Jehoshaphat, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'Go on up and prosper.'" Fundamentally they were right. Then Micaiah was called on the scene, the one that they all hated. Now, it looked like if... Four hundred (I--I don't mean prophets of Baalim) Hebrew prophets stood up with one accord, and said, "Go on up to Ramoth-gilead, the Lord will bless you and you'll prosper." And those man wasn't hypocrites, they were absolutely inspired! But their...


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