The Church Today Asleep & in Bondage #7 — Milton Green

Repentance, Humility, and Submission to God

We just come before your throne of grace with repentant hearts, we humble ourself, Lord. And Lord, we just ask you, your word to be quickened to give us revelation, enlighten our understanding, Lord. We humble ourself before you, we submit to the lordship of Jesus and to the word of God.

And dear Lord, in Jesus' name I ask for anointing. Lord, I give you my will because I want only you to receive glory. We want to receive your word, Lord, so that we'll walk in a manner worthy of you to please you.

Lord, we want to bear fruit with you. We want to walk in covenant. We want to increase in the knowledge of your word. And that your word would perform its work in us here tonight. We receive your word.

We boast in your grace. We boast in you, Lord Jesus. There's none to compare with you. Thank you, Lord. You're so worthy of praise. And now, Lord Jesus, we just receive the weapons of our warfare and the fruit of your spirit.

Healing, Spiritual Warfare, and the Defeat of Darkness

And Lord, before your throne, as we come right now, we stand in your word, that your word is life to us and health to all our whole flesh, that you've already taken every weakness, sickness, disease, infirmity, curse, and sin and by the stripes of Jesus, that we're healed, that we're strengthened in all power, Lord, by your might, that we're strong in the Lord.

The joy of the Lord is our strength, Lord. That you destroyed all the works of darkness and all things around the feet of Jesus. You've been given the head of the church, which is us. And we stand in agreement that all these powers of darkness have already been bound and defeated in Jesus' name.

So we take your covenant word in the name of Jesus. We take your covenant word in your name, Lord. And we stand and always triumph in Jesus. So in the name, power, and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, Lord, I hold the word.

I receive grace, the word, and the blood. I hold this word and the blood against all the works of darkness, all the works of sleepiness and tiredness. I remove now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I remove in Jesus' name all the works of traditions and unbelief in Jesus' name. All the works of exhaustion and weakness in Jesus' name. All the works of ache and pain in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ is exposed by the blood and removed in the name of Jesus.

We tear down every stronghold in the name of Jesus. We break every curse. And in the name of Jesus, we expose by the blood, seal by the blood, and remove in the name of Jesus all the powers of darkness, all heaviness, all oppression is removed in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ from every person here in this building and from this building in the name of Jesus and we now hold the Word in the blood as a hedge against the powers of darkness in this building.

We possess in Jesus' name we possess the land and now in the name of Jesus we speak blessings, peace, grace, love, healing and deliverance in the name of Jesus. Praise the Lord. Do you receive that? Well, Amen.

You about half excited about Jesus tonight? Is he more excited than carton ball games? Is life more exciting than death? Is light more exciting than darkness? Well, Amen. Jesus said the works that I do in my Father's name is a witness of me.

He told some folks that you do not believe, though you do not believe in me believe the works and know that I'm in the Father and the Father's in me. And then at one point he said, Church folks, how can you believe when you honor one another and do not seek the honor from the one and only God?

Covenant Obedience and the Lordship of Jesus

You know, mankind gets to be the center of the church. Wonder who's in charge of all that? And they were saying, has this man ever become learned? Says he's never been educated. And Jesus said, Why don't you close this answer that he told them?

If any man's willing to do the will of the Father, if he's willing in his heart to do the will, then he's going to know the teaching. Whether it's God or whether I speak for myself. When once you're willing to do in your heart the will of God, he's already said his words not for private interpretation.

He's no respecter of any people. He'll lead you in all truth. When your will is given to him, that's covenant. You die to yourself. He's dying. And he asked him, he said, why is it you can't understand what I'm saying?

It's because you can't hear my word. So you're the, your father the devil. He speaks from his own devilish nature desires and more or less he's saying, you do too. Here's of God, here's the words of God.

He said, for this reason you do not hear. Because you're not a God. Truly, truly he said to you, he said it twice. He who believes in me, the works I do, the one that believes in me, that's covenant. The works I do shall he do also.

He said, if you love me, you'll obey my commandments. In other words, if you really love me, you'll walk in covenant. That is covenant love, isn't it? And many of the rulers came to believe in him, but they were not confessing him or confessing his word lest they be put out of the church or synagogue.

For they loved the approval of men rather than they did the approval of God. And some of the chief priests, that's chief preachers, some of the chief preachers convened a council. And they said, what are we doing?

This man is performing many signs. If we continue to leave him alone, soon everybody's going to follow him. Jesus said, if any man wishes to come after me, let him take up his cross. He'll deny himself and take up his cross, and then he'll come after me.

He said, but whoever wishes to save his life, whoever wishes to save his... See, that's not covenant. That's not covenant when you want to save your life. Whoever wishes to save his carton and life is going to lose it.

But whoever loses his life for my sake and the covenant that he's made with me, that is the only way he's going to save it. For what does it profit a man? One man, if he owned his whole world, if he owned his whole world and lose his soul, because one soul is worth more than all the world.

He said, whoever rejects me and this word right here has one who's going to judge him in the last days because he says, the words I speak are the ones that's what's going to judge man in the last days.

And it won't judge his motives or... I mean, it won't judge how he appears to people, but it'll judge his motives. It'll judge his heart. Now, I want you to turn with me to Revelation 12, please. There's a war against this covenant, isn't there?

Satan’s Deception and the Counterfeit Word

Obviously, don't you sense rather strongly that there is a... has been a great perversion and deception of many things? Amen? Revelation 12. I've forgotten the lady's name here that was in charge of the retreat center over here years ago.

What is... I'm sorry, I forget. What is her name? What, pardon me? Lois? Lois Pierce. All right. She spoke to me a while ago and immediately I remembered her. From years ago, when I came here as a new Christian, starved to death to your retreat center.

And my wife and I came here and she told me, she said over the years, said you've always come back of all the hundreds and people that came through you, your face and your name would come back. And when I, you know, I first heard that the Lord was using your son, said I immediately knew who it was.

Isn't that precious? Because she'd been praying for me all these years. See, because, see what I was saying, I wasn't... I was really serious. See, even Peter and Jack Taylor and even you don't realize.

You don't have any idea how God has used you in my life. You can't know. You can't know what a place I was and what a place it was to have tapes from here, to be able to come here. I saw the first person anointed with oil in this church.

See, I'd already been healed. And I like that. But anyway, in Revelation 12, I want you to look with me in verse 9. It's a good thing that when God uses us, He hides from us what He does with us. Do you know that?

Because I tell you what, I am so humbled, I am so awed, and it won't, it doesn't even compute with me, and I'll notice the same thing about Peter. It doesn't compute to him how the Lord... Now, that's grace.

Do you know that? Cardans couldn't take it. You know what I mean? Well, then in verse 9,. And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old, who is called devil and Satan, who what? What does he do right there?

Deceives the whole world. Now, this is how it's all ending up over here in Revelation. Now, how is he deceiving the whole world? I'll tell you just exactly the way we've been talking about here. Now, I want you to know that right here is a word.

Is that right? And this, I want to tell you something about this word. Let me just tell you something. I've been born again into a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. My inheritance is incorruptible, undefiled, fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for me, and I'm kept by the power of God through faith and through salvation.

Ready to be revealed in the last time. You know what's coming out of me? Rivers of living water is coming out of my innermost being. That's the living word. Isn't that right? That's true. Now, have we already seen that everything God has a real thing, there is the counterfeit, right?

Satan has a river too. And all words are just referred to as water, right? Our river. See, God has a rain. Amen? Sometime referred to as the Holy Spirit. So does Satan. I mean, it's just raining a bunch.

All right, now. As sure as there's a river of water that comes out of God's mouth, which is right here, to you there is a river of words and deception and deceit to test your heart, which comes from Satan, deceive you.

And now, I want you to see this. We'll look at it in verse 15. And the serpent, verse 15, the serpent poured what? I want you to just write words above that. That's what he's saying. He poured words like a what?

River out of his what? And who cares these words to and fro? The demons do. Out of his mouth after the woman. Who's the woman? The church. So that he might cause her to be swept away with a what? See, it's a flood of words.

You see that? Now, see, there is a counterfeit. And this is how Satan deceives the whole world. With words. And we've been looking at that, haven't we? Now, I want you to turn with me back to Luke 6. Luke 6, please.

Hearing the Word and Bearing Fruit

Luke 6. Now, the Lord has some words to you. Satan has words to you. 1 Corinthians 3, 9, say, this is God's field. You ever hear, I give ground and take ground. All right, now let's see. What's planted in your field?

Let's look in verse 43. 6, 43. For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit. We know where the tree is in the field, right? A good tree does not produce bad fruit. Nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.

Is that... It's fruits getting more interesting all the time, isn't it? Now, Jesus, when you enter into covenant with the Lord, God said, I'm going to keep this covenant. Not one word returned void without accomplishing what I desire and succeeding in a matter which is any.

He talks about yods and tittles. Should we be any less serious about it? That's what's got us in trouble. Traditions and men and enemies commits us. You know, we just analyze it instead of walk in it.

Speculate. So, if you're in covenant, a good way to know... If Jesus Christ is your Lord, you're in covenant. When someone's your Lord, you do what they say, don't you? When I made covenant, it's all about making covenant with Peter, Lord.

I mean, brother, I tell you, that's the most sacred thing that you can do when you make covenant. Right now, I want you to watch. When you make covenant with God, look at verse 46. And Jesus asked this question, Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?

Isn't that an interesting verse? He said, Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say? Walk in covenant. And then verse 47. I want you to get your pencil ready. He goes on to say, everyone who...

Put a little one there. Comes to me. First, they come to Jesus. And then number two, here's my words. You know, a lot of people come to Jesus. Some hear His words. But then there's a third thing. He acts upon the Word.

In other words, He walks in covenant and walks in the Word. We put a little three there. Now, I'm going to show you who He's like. You're going to have a look at two houses there. Do you know where God's house and God's building?

First Corinthians 3 and 9 is where He's filled. That's where He works. We're a vineyard. And He said, I'm going to show you whom He's like. That's a man. He comes to Jesus. He hears the Word of God and walks in covenant.

Is that what you see right there? All right, here's what He's like right there in the next verse, 48. He's like a man building a house who dug deep. He laid a foundation. Now, I want you to mark that foundation.

That foundation's up on the what? Now, when you obey the Word of God, when you walk in covenant, your foundation, that's where you get on the rock. The rock's Jesus. The rock's the Word, right? All right, now.

And when the what arose? That's them. That's them. Right them above it. Here they are. Isn't it interesting? And when the flood arose, there's the torrent, there's your river. It burst against that house and could not shake it because it'd been what?

It's well built. When you're walking in covenant on the Word, that's the only thing that's going to protect you. That's people that's got something else worked out that's going to be in problem. All right, now, verse 49.

But the one, here's another fellow right here. He's real religious. But the one, number one, who's heard the Word. I want you to put a little one there. And he's got something else worked out so he doesn't act on the Word.

He doesn't walk in covenant. That's Jesus there. Why'd he call me Lord, Lord, and not do what I say? Let's see what happens to this fellow. He's like a man who built a house upon the ground without any what?

Foundation. And when, here they come. As them, the river, the torrent, came against his house and immediately it collapsed. And the ruin of that house was what? Now, you're going to find out, you know, when we get to Matthew here later.

You're going to see that the demon leaves the house. This is a house, folks, called a tent. Now, I'm going to tell you something. They've been a lot of perversion, a lot of deception while we've been so smart and wise in our own eyes.

You don't have to walk in God's covenant. He works something else out. That's deception. That's making covenant with Satan. You can't make covenant with Satan and walk with the Lord. Now, I want you to look with me in Matthew 7.

The Narrow Gate and False Prophets

And you'll find it very, very interesting about heaven and hell. And that's the bottom line. That's what we're talking about. It's too serious. I mean, it's very serious. Matthew 7. Now, I want you to start with me in verse 13.

Well, I'm going to tell you, I hope you get ready to do some marketing in your Bible because the Lord wants this to become yours. And I'm going to tell you what, just as many things have been perverted, I can stand right here and I can tell you in Jesus' name that salvation is very perverted as we've known it and heard it.

I'm telling you salvation is making Jesus Christ the Lord and entering into covenant with God. How are you going to get into Christ Jesus making covenant with Satan? How are you going to go to heaven walking, talking, and making covenant with Satan for the same reason he got kicked out of heaven for?

That's perverted grace. Perverted. That's what happens when you're in a war and you don't show up. You believe a lie. Chapter 7, verse 13. I want you to mark it. You enter by the what kind of gate? I want you to know it's a narrow gate.

And you better believe that. It's a narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad. It leads to destruction. It's a big old wide gate for destruction. Mark destruction. And many are those who are going to enter by that wide way.

It's an easy way to get in. For the gate is what? I want you to mark that gate as small right there. This small door. And the way is what? Narrow. That leads to what? And few of those are going to find it.

Now, let me tell you what we've done. I think we've made that door a little wide. Wider than it's supposed to be, don't you? I think we've widened it out. And the devil and the wolves, tares, and everything else comes in that door, right?

And it goes ahead in verse 15. It says, Beware of what? You remember when you used to read this and you'd say, Boy, they sure did have a lot of problems back then, didn't they? Beware of false prophets who come to you in what?

Cheap clothing. Let's see what's inside of them. Inwardly, they're what? Sound like them, doesn't it? Seem like somebody's pulling their levers. See a false prophet? Don't know he's a false prophet. He's tool of the devil.

He's minister of Satan. He doesn't know it. He thinks he's helping God out. And he has on sheep's clothing. See, if you're the type that looks up to men. See, you know the Word says this. We're not even supposed to know one another at the flesh.

But if you're the type that you don't like to look up to cartons, maybe you like credentials. Not that there might be anything wrong with credentials, but if that's where your heart's going to them, that could be sheep's clothing.

Maybe a sheepskin could be sheep's clothing. Credentials are not God. I'm going to tell you a false prophet or an angel like come to you with tears running off his cheek and quoting the Word. You better know what your Bible says.

Now, it tells you how to know them in verse 16. You're going to know them by their what? That makes this fruit business getting very interesting, isn't it? You're going to know them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles are they?

Even so, watch it again. Every good tree bears what? Good fruit. And every bad tree bears what? Well, you can tell good trees receive bad fruit. If it looks like to me, you're looking at a bad tree, doesn't it?

Amen? Verse 18, a good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is what? There they are again. It's cut down. Sick them. They want to make covenant with Satan.

You get them, Satan. Get them. They choose you. They like you, Satan. They make covenant with you. Cut them down. Sick them. And they're thrown into the fire. You say, oh, God wouldn't do something like that.

Maybe the God you wouldn't know wouldn't, but I'll tell you this, when you're reading about it, it's doing it. So then you're going to know them by their what? Fruits. Now, we always run about two or three of these every night.

And there's another refrigerator verse right here. You can put it right on. I just ease this one up the top. It tells who's going to go to heaven. That's pretty serious, isn't it? That's a good one to look at every day.

Before you go out in this world, it's controlled by God's enemies. 21, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will end the kingdom of heaven. Now, does that sound like there's going to be a bunch of folks that's going to say, Lord, Lord, and miss him for eternity, forever, because they believe the lie?

Do you see this? Now, everybody says, Lord, Lord, going to go to heaven. Well, God, who is going to go to heaven? It's right there in this same verse. The ones that's going to go to heaven. Ain't that a good question, who's going to go to heaven?

But he what? Does the will of my Father's in heaven, the ones that's going to go to heaven, unless you've got something else worked out. Now, is that plain? Is it going to say this and then say something else somewhere?

Is this says someone that analyzes the Word real well? Or does it say someone that walks in covenant? Is that what it's saying over and over and over again? All right. Now, 22, and I want you to know just because God uses a man, you're going to find out in some grace and something that he does to a man, it's not a sanction on his life.

I want you to know that right now, and you're going to see it in this verse. We better get our eyes off the cartons and hear the Word, right? Let's see right here what it says. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name in the name of Jesus?

In your name, the name of Jesus, cast out demons. In your name, Jesus performed many miracles. I don't know about the ones that won't even believe in demons and miracles. They did it all in the name of Jesus.

And you're going to see how important walking in covenant is. Look here in the next verse. And then I'll declare them, I never knew you. That's the saddest verse in the Bible. He said, I never knew you.

Depart from me, you who practice sin. See, now, you understand, folks, that you can get in different situations in this world that the devil will put you there, and when you compare yourself among yourself, then you can justify sin, practicing sin.

But when you justify it, there's death and then judgment. What are you going to do there? It's all over for you. It's heaven or hell. Now, you already know that there's some folks that show up and tell you, hath God really said?

And they've been saying it to a lot of people. Isn't that right? Oh, don't you think about this a second. I mean, it's serious. See, that's why the church is demonized from top to bottom. It's sick. Now, we're going to look at these two foundations, starting in verse 24.

Building on the Rock Rather Than the Sand

Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine, number one, he hears them, and then he acts upon them, may be compared to what kind of man? You hear the word over and over, ask who is wise, who is wise?

Who is a wise man? Who is a wise man that will understand this? Well, I'm going to tell you, a wise man, he hears the Word of God and walks in covenant. That's who a wise man is. He had to build his house upon the rock.

We know that's a word. And the rain descended. That's them. The rain descended. Here they are. And the floods came. There they are. And the winds blew. I told you winds was words. And it burst against that house, and yet it did not fall, for it had been found upon the what?

Do you understand that's what's taking place today? I'm going to tell you right now, there's never been a time of trouble or anything else like there are today. Right now, there's shimshaking going on.

I want to tell you there's some shaking going on. And after this, everything, it's only the ones that's on this Word right here that's going to remain. I'm going to tell you what. There's going to be a world church.

Can you see it? Ain't no problem to see that. What do you think is going to happen to people that don't have any interest in this Word right here? We've already seen enough. And the Word's dividing. I mean, the Word.

He said the Word divides your home. Father and son, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, it divides your own home. That divides everything. What's this business come from that He'll come and split your church?

The Word of God's what splits. It's already split. Full of tares and devils, taking the table of demons and then taking the table of God. That's a joke. That's why people have to sit around and count each other.

God's not doing nothing in that. And 25. I'll read it again. The rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew, and it burst against the house, and yet it did not fall. It had been found upon the rock.

And here's the other person. Everyone who hears these words of mine, and he doesn't have to act upon them, isn't that amazing? Be just like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand, and the rain descended, and here they come again.

And the floods came, and he makes covenant with them. The winds blew, and it burst against that house, and it fell. And I want you to watch right there what it says. I say, great was its fall. Is that right?

Well, I want you to know something. If demons can't prevent something, they pervert it. The powers of darkness have perverted it. I'm telling you. I want you to just look and see what they've been doing, why we've been ignoring them.

They perverted salvation. They perverted this whole thing about demons. I mean, now you're supposed to talk about that part of the Bible. Intimidated and fearful. Hasn't it been real convenient for them?

They perverted healing. Perverted praising the Lord. Praise. That's something Satan used to do. If you want to get the devil out of the house, you start praising the Lord. If you want to get God's presence, you start praising Him.

If you're more concerned about what Terry Brown is thinking about, you just don't praise Him and hang in there. They perverted gifts. They perverted righteousness. And, you know, people talk about 75 of the church lost, any evangelist and everything.

Well, it goes through the church. He sees the loss. None of it. It used to be high spiritual to see that. See, people are sitting in these congregations. They're not trusting the Lord. You know what their hearts are trusting?

They're trusting in these buildings, like it's building some kind of vehicle going to take them into heaven. Their hearts are trusting men. They feel security in numbers. They look around in all these nice gardens and say, Well, you know, boy, God sure wouldn't send these folks to hell.

That's probably what the Pharisees thought, wasn't it? Probably the same. They were the same demons. They trust denominations and theology. Their hearts go after intellect and things like it. That's the doctrines of demons, folks, to take the focus off of Jesus.

That's what's happened to us while we've been asleep. And this is what God needs to grace today. He's waking us up. He's getting us out. I mean, tell you what? It's deception. See, it's the difference in analyzing God's Word and speculating and walking in God's covenant.

Repentance and Freedom from Satan’s Snare

Now, why don't you turn to me to 2 Timothy 2, and we're going to look at that. 2 Timothy 2, please. 2 Timothy 2. Boy, praise Jesus. Boy, I tell you, praise the Lord. Boy, I'm telling you what. The more I see, it's just all Him.

He just can't handle it. You know something? That's why I think the grace is getting in position to see it's totally all Him. All right, now, here they are. I want you to look at these words right here.

We're talking about words that comes against the Word. We're talking about these flood of words, these lies that come against the Word of God, covenant. All right, now in 14. Remind them of these things and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to what?

Don't wrangle about words. Mark that. Which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers. Be diligent. In other words, if you want to be approved to God, hear what He said to you do. Study to present yourself.

Approved to God is a workman who does not need to be ashamed. Handle in accurately the Word of truth, but avoid worldly and empty chatter. Do not walk and talk like the world. Is that what your Bible says?

It's empty. For it'll lead to the further ungodliness and their talk's going to spread like wild. That's what words do. You know, I said something about the root of bitterness, spring up and defile many.

We see how that works. Look over there in verse 23. Here's some of this speculation and analyzing of God's Word. But refuse foolish and ignorant speculation. God says, speculations, analyzing instead of walking the Word is foolish and ignorant.

Knowing that they produce quarrels, and the Lord's bondservant, you're not supposed to be quarrelsome. If you ever know any truth, you let your light shine. You don't go stick your light down somebody's throat.

I like that James Sharon about that. And the Lord's bondservant doesn't be quarrelsome, but he's got to be kind, able to teach patient when wrong. Now, that's what the Lord works with. He works in that sheer love.

Now, I want you to know this person in speculation, analyzing, is he in opposition to God's Word? Shake your head. Well, over here, you shake your head over here. Is that right? All right, he is in opposition to God's Word.

And said, here's what you're supposed to do with gentleness, correcting those who are in want. Mark that. If God may grant them the next thing, they need to repent. Look there. If God may grant them what?

Repentance. That's a change of heart. We're going to look and see where the source of all this speculation and stuff is. And then they're led to the knowledge of what? You get the truth after you repent.

And then the next part, after you get the truth, the next part is in verse 26, and then they come to their senses and escape from the snare of who? That's them. Having been held captive by him to do whose will?

He's doing the will of the devil. Doing the will of the devil likes a lot of speculation. You remember now, listen to me. In 2 Corinthians 10, that's what the war was to tear down speculation. Speculation is what happens when you go to witness to someone.

False Prophets and Whitewashed Walls

Turn with me back to Ezekiel 13, please. Ezekiel 13, 13. We're going to look some more at some false prophets, false teachers. Are we the Israel of God? We are the spiritual Israel of God. Now verse 1, Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, you prophesy against the what?

That's the prophets of the church, the prophets of Israel. Who prophesy and say to those who prophesy from their what? They preach from their own inspiration. Have you circled on inspiration yet? They preach from their own inspiration.

Listen to the word of the Lord, they say. Thus says the Lord God, Woe to these foolish prophets who are following what? Their own spirit and have seen what? I hope you mark that as you go. You may need to read that to somebody sometime.

Oh, Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among the ruins. You have not gone into the what? Boy, listen to me. I'll tell you how you keep from going to breaches. Get intimidated. Be fearful. Want to please folks.

And you'll back off from the word of God instead of taking the word of God and putting the word up there and saying Jesus' name. I mean, if it's breached down, if it's a place where the devil comes in around your house, around this place, then you get your lives lined up with the word right there and that's how you put the breach up there.

God says do it this way. Say, God, I stand right here. That's how you go up the breaches. But if you've got a real nice program, well, just hang in there. You don't put programs into the breaches. You put the word of God.

Now, you have not gone into the breaches or did you build a wall around the house of Israel to what? Stand in a battle. Do you believe we might be in a battle now? We always think there's a war. We stand in a battle on the day of the Lord.

Now, the day of the Lord, don't think of any 24-hour day for the day of the Lord. The day of the Lord can be 1 ,000 years. I don't have any problem with us being in the day of the Lord right now. Now, verse 6, they see falsehood and what?

These prophets, they see falsehood and lie in the devil. When they say that, they sound like traditions who are saying the Lord declares when the Lord has not sent them. Yet, what are they hoping for?

Their word. Do you know why they want the fulfillment of their word? Because they want their curtains to look good. They're not trying to make God look good. They want the fulfillment of their word. They want to make a name for themselves or their ministry.

Verse 7, did you see a false vision and speak of what? Lying divination when you said the Lord declares but is not I who spoken? And so, God's got something for folks like this. We're going to see what it is in a minute.