<TITLE>20. Par 118-125</TITLE>L-118   Now, now, we realize then that God sent His prophets. That was the way He had of bringing His Word to the people, through the lips of His prophets.
And notice, you know, Moses said, if you want to read it in Exodus the 4th chapter, and the 10th and 12th verse. Moses said God spoke to him. God talked to a man, lip to ear. And he said, "I'm slow of speech," Moses said. "I, I'm not sufficient. I--I can't go."

L-119 He said, "Who made man to talk, or Who made him dumb? Who made him to see, or Who made him to hear? Didn't I, the Lord?" Said, "I'll be with your mouth." See? So...

L-120 And Jeremiah said, if you want to read that in Jeremiah 1:6. Jeremiah said that, "God put words in my mouth." See? He--He talked, lip to ear, with one prophet; and spoke through the other prophet, he had no control at all, and spoke through his lips.

L-121   He's got ways of getting His Word out, you know. Yes, sir. So you see the Bible is God's Word, not man's word.
Moses said, "God spoke to me with a voice, and I heard Him. I wrote down what He said."

L-122 Jeremiah said, "I couldn't speak at all. And, the first thing you know, my lips was talking, and--and--and I was writing." God spoke through his lips, and it come to pass.
Daniel, Isaiah, and so forth, all those prophets were just about the same.

L-123   You know, in the Old Testament alone, it's more than two thousand times those prophets said THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, if a man says THUS SAITH THE LORD, it's not the man talking. If he would, he wouldn't be a prophet, he'd be a hypocrite, see, 'cause it wouldn't (never) come to pass; one chance out of ten hundred thousand times, see, they might guess it. But if it's THUS SAITH THE LORD, the Lord God has said it.
If I would say, "Thus saith Orman Neville"; my brother say, "Thus saith Mr. Mann"; I'd say, "Thus saith Brother Vayle," out here, or some of these other brethren, any of you; I'm speaking what you said. If I'm truthful, I'm saying just what you said.
And these men, being prophets, said, "It's not me. I have nothing to do with it, but it's THUS SAITH THE LORD." So the Bible is THUS SAITH THE LORD by the prophets.

L-124   Notice, they took Christ's Spirit upon themselves, and forecast the events that would come to pass. Talk about forecasts! They said what would take place down through the ages, as they set, stood, laid, walked with the Spirit of Christ upon them, insomuch that they acted like Christ. And the readers would read it and think that the prophets was speaking of themselves.
You remember the eunuch when he was reading Isaiah 53:1, about how, that, "He had wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, with His stripes we were healed"? The eunuch said to Philip, "Who is the prophet speaking of, himself or some other man?" See, the prophet spoke as if it was himself.

L-125   Look at David crying in the Spirit, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? My bones, they stare at me, at me," David. "They pierced my feet and my hands," David. "They pierced my feet and my hands. But Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither will Thou suffer Thy holy one to see corruption," as though David was speaking of himself being holy. It was the Son of David, that germitized, spiritual Seed coming down through there. Though David himself was a cocklebur, but on the inside of there was a Wheat grain. You get it?
So, the whole Bible is not the word of man, neither was It wrote by man, brought by man, or neither can It be--be revealed by man. It's God's Word revealed by God Himself, His Own Interpreter, Christ revealing Himself in His Own Word.


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