<TITLE>05. Par 39-48</TITLE>L-39 "Now I want to ask you something. Who studied from a childhood up, but your godly old priest? Who was it stood by your father and your mother, when you were born, but your godly old priest? Who was it took you up in their arms, and circumcised you and dedicated you to the Lord, the eighth day, but your godly old priest? Who is it comes to you when you're sick and needy, but your godly old priest? Who was it studied and sacrificed, all their young life, to learn all the laws and things, but your godly old priest? Where did this young Fellow come from, this Jesus of Nazareth? What school did He go to? What organization does He belong to? What fellowship card does He pack? None. Now the only thing He does is condemn those who have it. Who is this Fellow anyhow?"

L-40   "And you businessmen! Jehovah required a lamb for a sacrifice, blood. And your godly old priest made some stalls out there. You fellows are merchants, and sell silk and stuff, and he made a place out there so you merchants could buy it with your money, a lamb, to offer for your sins. What did this young Fellow do? Come up there and kicked those things over; looked upon them with anger, beat them out, turned the changers' tables over. Would you call that fruit of the Spirit? No, should say not, trying even to keep you from getting saved; your blood, the blood that Jehovah required. That couldn't be of Jehovah!" See how unreal It would sound?

L-41   Did not those priests that day, or those prophets, when Jehoshaphat and Ahab sat together, and four hundred well-trained priests, from the school, came up there and told Ahab and them, "That land belongs to you. It's not right that the--the Philistines would fill their bellies with the wheat that belongs to Israel. God Almighty give us this. And THUS SAITH THE LORD, go up!"

L-42 But you know, Jehoshaphat was a spiritual man, that didn't sound just right. He said, "Haven't you got one more that you might consult?"

L-43 Said, "I got one, but I hate him." Yeah. Sure. Said, "He is always prophesying evil. He is condemning our people, in everything he does. He won't agree with the rest of them."
Said, "Don't let the king say so, but bring him out."

L-44   And when little Micaiah the son of Imlah come forth, he saw a vision. He compared his vision with the Word. And when he saw his vision and the Word was together, he said, "Go on up, but I seen Israel scatter like a sheep having no shepherd." You see who was right? They actually had something, and that land did belong, but it belonged to them under conditions.

L-45 And so does the Blessings, of this last day, belong to this church, but it's under conditions. You've got to meet those conditions. If you don't, you can have all kinds of healing services, shouting services, praising services, fruit services, speaking-in-tongues services, and it'll do you no good at all. You've got to come to God's condition.

L-46   That's why these Greeks was desirous to see this Man. They knowed in the Word that what this Messiah was supposed to be, and they wanted to see Him. They were Gentiles. They had heard about Him, and they wanted to see Him.

L-47 Now, if they wanted to see Him and they were given the privilege, don't you think that here in Dallas, tonight, if He said in the Scripture, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever," and we desire to see Him, don't you think that He would give us the same? Remember, if He doesn't, then It's not the same yesterday, today, and forever. I believe He is the same. God in this last day has done marvelous things for the people!

L-48   It reminds me a lot of a woman, here not long ago, in Louisville, Kentucky. She had a little boy about, oh, two or three years old. And the little fellow had a... must been developing a--a mental trouble. And she had took him to the doctor, and the doctor had doctored him a while. And he seemed to be getting worse, to her. But to the doctor, he said, "I believe he is better."


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