<TITLE>05. Par 41-51</TITLE>L-41   Now to find out whether He was Messiah, you could go back to the man who gave them the law. God gave it to them, of course, but Moses brought it off the mountain, from God. And he told them that he would leave them someday. But, "The Lord God would raise up a Prophet like him, likened unto him: a law-giver, a--a King-Prophet. And--and it would come to pass that every one that refused to hear this Prophet would be taken from among the people." Now, they noticed that, when Jesus come.

L-42 And all down through the Scriptures, they had a commandment, the Jews did, that, "If there be one among you who is spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord, will make Myself known unto him in vision. And what he says comes to pass, then hear that prophet, for I'm with him. But if it doesn't come to pass, then don't hear him." Now, that's just logical. That's just sensible.

L-43   Like when there was a man stood up one time, Jeremiah, a major prophet. The Lord told him that--that Judah was going to be down in Babylon for seventy years. Said, "Don't you listen to a dreamer, to a prophet, or anything that says contrary to that. He put a yoke on his neck."

L-44 And Hananiah, now, Hananiah was a prophet. And not only that, but he was the son of a prophet. His father was a prophet. And he came up, under inspiration, and took that yoke off of his neck and broke it, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, in two years they're coming back." The people could clap their hands on that. My, that was good! They wanted to listen to Hananiah, but it was contrary to the Word. It wasn't with the Word. You see?

L-45 Therefore, Jeremiah, he said, "Hananiah, amen, the Lord grant your words to come to pass. But, wait a minute, let us remember there has been prophets before us. And when the prophet prophesied, and he is known... The prophet is known when his prophecy comes to pass."

L-46   I see some Indian friends setting here. I was reading on their history, some time ago, in early Christian days of the Indian. And they had to follow the game, to live. And if there come a prophet among them, and he prophesied and told them where the game was, he become chief. But if he prophesied a lie, that was the end of his road. They got rid of him, right now. He didn't live no longer.

L-47   Well, that was the same basis that God did. God told Jeremiah, "Hananiah has lied. I never told him that." See, it's contrary to his Word. "And he'll be off the earth within a year." In the seventh month he died. He took him off the earth. Now, you see, although he was inspired, but it was contrary to the Word.

L-48 No matter how forceful a preacher can preach, how well he can make it look, if it's contrary to the Word, leave away from it. Stay away from it, clear.

L-49 It's the Word. That's God's program, the complete revelation of what He was, what He is, and what He will be. It's a continual revelation of Jesus Christ. And a complete revelation of Jesus Christ, is this Bible. Anything revealed contrary of Him, telling what He would do, what He is now, "Oh, that was in days past," don't you believe it. It's got to be the same Jesus, see, and that's the Word, now.

L-50   Now we find out that these disciples might have talked of the case. Maybe Peter might have said, "You know, I was thinking, myself, that I remember my father telling me that there'll come a great commotion someday. They've always had little up-spurts. That there'd be, before the coming Messiah, there'll probably be false messiahs rise. But he told me, 'Son, remember this one thing. We are Jews. We are God's chosen. And we have a commandment from our Heavenly Father, that, and know that that Messiah will be a Prophet. And if the prophet is only known when he speaks, and what he says comes to pass, so he will know then that that is Messiah.'"

L-51   And when Peter walked up into His Presence, by the invitation, perhaps, of Andrew, his brother, who had heard Him, and seen the day that when John announced Him, and that was Him.


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