can to get his truth across to reach people with it. But here we have a man who was not a true prophet who uses an object lesson and all the prophets agreed, saying, up to Ramoth-Gilead and prosper for the Lord shall deliver it into the “Go Now a messenger spoke to Micaiah and said, "Behold now the king’s hand.” words of the prophets declared good unto the king with one mouth. Let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of them and speak that which is This is good good.” advice if you want to get along well, you say what the other people think. And if you get into any, almost any, group anywhere you are going to find a temptation to do that. God want us to be contentious, always causing trouble, always doesn’t making difficulties. one of two extremes. Oh, but how many fall into the That’s other extreme; they just go along with whatever will advance them in the group that they are in. Even men who are really accomplishing things for the Lord can fall into this temptation; one of the traps of the Devil that we want to watch out it’s for. Sarcastic Advice to Ahab [11:59] Micaiah’s And so this man gave good advice to Micaiah. Micaiah answered him, “As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that will I But then he appears to speak.” contradict himself it in the next verse. The next verse says, he came to the “So King and the King said to Micaiah, we go against Ramoth-Gilead in battle ‘Shall or shall we And he answered, 'Go and prosper! For the Lord will deliver forbear?’ it into the hand of the Micaiah did exactly what the man told him. His King.'” word was exactly like the rest of them. But this shows us some of the difficulty of writing. They are two different, altogether different arts, writing and speaking. When you speak, you use gestures; you use expressions in your face; you use your accent; you emphasize by the tone of your voice; you use all these outward actions to get ideas across. But when you write, its just cold sentences. When you write, you have entirely different methods
can to get his truth across to reach people with it. But here we have a man who was not a true prophet who uses an object lesson and all the prophets agreed, saying, “Go up to Ramoth-Gilead and prosper for the Lord shall deliver it into the king’s hand.” Now a messenger spoke to Micaiah and said, "Behold now the words of the prophets declared good unto the king with one mouth. Let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of them and speak that which is good.” This is good advice if you want to get along well, you say what the other people think. And if you get into any, almost any, group anywhere you are going to find a temptation to do that. God doesn’t want us to be contentious, always causing trouble, always making difficulties. That’s one of two extremes. Oh, but how many fall into the other extreme; they just go along with whatever will advance them in the group that they are in. Even men who are really accomplishing things for the Lord can fall into this temptation; it’s one of the traps of the Devil that we want to watch out for. Micaiah’s Sarcastic Advice to Ahab [11:59] And so this man gave good advice to Micaiah. Micaiah answered him, “As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that will I speak.” But then he appears to contradict himself it in the next verse. The next verse says, “So he came to the King and the King said to Micaiah, ‘Shall we go against Ramoth-Gilead in battle or shall we forbear?’ And he answered, 'Go and prosper! For the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the King.'” Micaiah did exactly what the man told him. His word was exactly like the rest of them. But this shows us some of the difficulty of writing. They are two different, altogether different arts, writing and speaking. When you speak, you use gestures; you use expressions in your face; you use your accent; you emphasize by the tone of your voice; you use all these outward actions to get ideas across. But when you write, its just cold sentences. When you write, you have entirely different methods