<TITLE>05. Par 46-54</TITLE>L-46 But what did he do? He delivered the people, because he was sent of God. It took... It takes something peculiar, something that's different from the rest of the world. You see, the world is so one way on a great... their great scientific achievements, and so forth. And when a man is led of God, to do something that's odd to that, he becomes a fool. "He's crazy." But, see, it takes something like that, to hold the thing together.

L-47   Now, we think of Elijah in his days. When, Ahab and Israel, at that time, had every nation under heavens fearing them under this Ahab's reign. And Ahab was a great man. It was a great day, something on the order we have now. The church had all become fashion. See? It was Jezebel's paint, and--and Ahab's worldliness, and compromising, and they tore down the altars of God. "Oh, just you serve a god, what difference does it make? See? We'll go up to the groves, and you can serve any god you want to."

L-48 That's just about the way it is today, see, all fashions, and--and--and dressings, and clothings, and things of the world. And, "Oh, if you want to belong to this, belong to that, belong to this, belong to that, it's all right. See? Just as long as you go to church, it doesn't make any difference."

L-49 It does make a difference, what I--what I belong to, and what God I serve, and how I serve Him. He's got one way for me to serve Him, He's got that wrote out here in this Word. And that's the way we're to serve Him. See? Now, It does make a difference.

L-50   But when Elijah came out there with such a message as he had, could you imagine? He became a nut to--to--to Pharaoh, or to... Pardon me. To Ahab, he became a regular... Separating himself! But, you see, there was seven thousand among those people, see, that could be saved. See? And he came for them. He had to become a nut to the world, in order to catch them.    So did Noah, had to become a nut to the world to catch eight souls, with himself. See? He had to become an odd sort of--of a person.

L-51   Amos, in the days when he brought his message, and he prophesied. And we find out, that, when he come in to--to--to Samaria, which had been given over to the world. And the women in the streets had become almost public prostitution. And the fashions, it was a modern Hollywood. When this little, unknown bald-headed fellow raised up, over the mountain one morning, and looked down upon the Samaria, and saw it in sin, and, why, I'd imagine his heart almost failed.

L-52 Only thing he had knowed, he had been the husbandman. He wasn't really... The Lord just give him this message and sent him down there. And now he had no sponsorship. He had--he had nobody to back him up. But he was led of God to go, bring this message to the people, and to call them out from judgment.

L-53 Well, now, I'd imagine, to the great scientific age and the age of glamour, something on order today, Amos became a--a--a oddball. See? He became a fool, and they--they wouldn't want nothing to do. But, yet, he had THUS SAITH THE LORD. See? And he delivered what could be delivered.

L-54   John the Baptist, when he came in his days, that great religious world, coming out, in, of a wilderness like this, out of the rocks and things in the--in the wilderness of Judaea. And he wasn't dressed like a priest. He--he wore the rough clothes of a working man, perhaps, with a--a garment around him, not some great theological seminary teacher or some, forth. But he--he was just a common man that could work with his hands, or anything. When he--when he came down, out of the--the wilderness there, and sheepskin wrapped around him, he had THUS SAITH THE LORD, for he knew that the time of the Messiah was then.


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