<TITLE>18. Par 181-196</TITLE>L-181   Look at your denomination, today, "Having a form of godliness and dying the power thereof." See? Oh, you may be a million more, and a thousand more, and better-trained men, but where you at in the Spirit? Where is your strength at, was in Samson, when he stood there, as I said the other day? With all of his big framework there, and every fiber in there, but no Life in it. The Spirit had left him. He was helpless. The little kid leading him around; blinded eyes, because of some woman. Same as the church is, today, led around by politics, bishops, elders, all kinds of stuff. Men pulling straws, to get something in their hat, and everything. Where we at, so when we come to this spot?

L-182   They sent and got Imlah, or the... not Imlah; but Micaiah, the son of Imlah. Sent and got him. And he prophesied and told them that Ahab would get killed if he went up there.

L-183 And that archbishop smacked him in the mouth. He was honest about it. He said, "Where did the Spirit of God go when It left me?"
Said, "You'll see." Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

L-184 Said, "Put him in the prison. Put him in inner jail. Feed him bread of sorrow, and water of sorrow. And when I return back in peace," said, "I'll deal with this fellow."

L-185 And, Imlah, knowing that he was right with God! Why? His vision compared with the Word. He was a prophet. And his spirit and his vision was exactly with the prophet, Elijah. He said, "If you return, at all, then God hadn't spoke to me."

L-186 Now, I said to this fellow, "Which was right, the ecumenical council where four hundred elected men sat together, elected by men, or one little renegade elected by God?"
"Well," he said, "well, how would you know the difference?"

L-187 I said, "Back to the Blueprint!" How do we know to build a building 'less there's a blueprint?

L-188 If they'd have stopped a minute, and find out that that prophet, Elijah, cursed Ahab, and said, "The dogs would lick his blood." And they did. How could he bless what God had cursed?

L-189 How can you bless anything that God has cursed? Get out of the thing. Get away from it. Come into Christ. Amen.

L-190   Now notice. But, the enemy will proposition. The enemy will purpose a thing, prepare it, and the intellectual mind say, "That's right."

L-191 That's where this precious brother was. This man, he said, "Look like... Look here. You know, that, if all of us would be together, as one church, don't you think we'd be better off than scattered the way we are now?"

L-192 Don't that sound reasonable, if all the Protestants and the Catholics could get together and come to some mutual ground? "But how can two walk unless they be agreed?" How can you, when one group here don't believe in healing, the other one says they do believe, other one puts it on some other time back? Some don't even believe the Bible. And put that together, what have you got? God is no author of confusion.

L-193 Before God could ever set His Church in order, they waited ten days and nights, till they all become "in one place, in one accord." And there come the Holy Spirit for leadership, not some ecumenical council. See? I hope you get this. Notice.

L-194   That is the unbeliever, unfaithful to the Word of God, that don't notice what the Word says, but notice to your own reasonings. That's what Eve done, in the first place. She relied upon her reasoning.

L-195 Satan said, "Now, look here. Isn't it reasonable? I know the Word says That. But, wait a minute, isn't it reasonable that--that you'd be better off if you knowed right from wrong?"
"Why, yes." Then she took it. See? Sure.

L-196   That's the way with reason. Now, unbelief will always goes to reasonings, but faith won't touch it.


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