<TITLE>02. Par 13-30</TITLE>L-13   Like when, Jeremiah, the Lord had told him, put that yoke on his neck. No matter what prophet or what else said that, anything contrary to the seventy years down in Babylon, it'd have to be that way. Yet, Hananiah raised up, a prophet, and a son of a prophet. And he took that yoke from Jeremiah's neck, and break it, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, in two years they'll be back."

L-14 Said, even the prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen, Hananiah, the Lord perform your words. But let us remember, there's been prophets before us. And when... The prophet is only known when his prophecy comes to pass."

L-15   I think that's a very good Pentecostal lesson. See? We can be impressed, be excited, and we can have the joy and blessings of the Lord. But when we speak in the Name of the Lord, and if what we speak isn't exactly with that Word, you stay away from it. I don't care how good it looks.

L-16 For, This is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. Stay with that Word. Don't you leave It, for nothing. See?

L-17 Now, see, if Hananiah would just have thought, that revelation. And I don't believe the man was a hypocrite. He was inspired. But it didn't compare with the Word. It's got to be the Word.

L-18   And one time it happened again, that when Jehoshaphat came down to visit Ahab. And they had a council, and going up to Ramoth-Gilead. And Jehoshaphat said, "Well, course, my chariots is as yours, my people as yours." He said, "But should not we consult the Lord?"
Ahab said, "Certainly we should done that."

L-19 So they had four hundred Hebrew prophets; not Baalim prophets, not heathens, but Hebrew prophets. Zedekiah came up with two big horns, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD. By this you're going to push Syria plumb out of the country." Fundamentally, he was right, but there's more goes with it besides that.

L-20 You can be ever so fundamental right, yet the promises of God is based upon a condition.

L-21 They was keeping their sacrifices just as reverent as they could, doing what the Lord told them, yet without that sincerity behind it. Offerings, it become a family tradition.

L-22 That's where we're taking Pentecost: a family tradition. Got to get more sincere than that. You expect God to answer these blessings and promises, you come back to the sincerity of that Word. What the Word says, stay with It.

L-23   Now, this prophet fundamentally was right. When God divided up the land, that Joshua gave that to Israel. And here was the enemies, be filling their bellies with the wheat that was raised up at Ramoth. And fundamentally right, but, you see, it was on conditions. And them prophets, or ministers, prophesying, was exactly right. Then they said...

L-24 To this man of God, Jehoshaphat, there seemed to be something a little contrary. He said, "Isn't there one more?" One more, after having four hundred? Why, it seemed ridiculous. But, yet, way down deep in that man's heart he knowed there is something wrong.

L-25 Any man of God can see there is something wrong. Our blessings is fine, but it isn't coming up to the mark.

L-26 So he seen there was something wrong. Said, "Isn't there one more?"

L-27 Said, "Yes, there is one more. Micaiah, the son of Imlah. But," said, "I hate him." Said, "He's constantly tearing us up and rebuking us."
He said, "Let not the king say so. But let us hear him."

L-28 And so they sent for him to come. And they said, "Now, you been kicked out of the association, long enough. Now, you can get over here and say something the same way they do, and it'll be all right."

L-29 He said, "As the Lord God lives, I'll say only what He puts on my heart," is what he told them. We need the Imlah again... We need Micaiah, rather.

L-30   And then he, that night, he asked to wait on the Lord. And when he saw the vision of the Lord, then he checked that with the Word. And when he checked it with the Word, the Word and the vision was the same. Then he stood before them and told them what would happen.


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