<TITLE>04. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 And then when he became the age of forty years, God called him for His purpose. And he thought, surely, that--that the people of Israel would understand what he was sent for. But the people misunderstood Moses.
Now, get this close, friends. The hardest thing that God has ever had to deal with His people, is to get one mortal to believe another. That's the hardest thing God ever has done, to get one mortal to believe...
Well, they believed Jesus would been the Son... They couldn't believe He was the Son of God. They believed God. But He said Him being a man makes Hisself equal with God. How could He, a poor peasant, how could He be? A man born in a manger, a background like He had, from a poor family, raised up, one garment on Him, and lived the way He did, not even a place to lay His head. The foxes has dens, and the birds of the air has nests, but the Son of man has no... How could that Man be the Son of God? How could He be what He claimed to be? But He was, wasn't He? He was.

L-16 Now, they believe it. But it... It was too late for them now. Their destination is sealed away, those who rejected Him. And God sends those things that people might be simple and humble.
And listen, friends; more simpler you can be, more God can deal with you.
I'm not against education. Educations are all right. But people get so highly educated, till they think they know more about it than God does. And then they miss the goal.
You've got to forget all you ever knowed in your own knowledge to know Christ. Well, you just come childlike and accept Him. That's all. That's the way you accept God. And more simple you can get, more humble, and get away from yourself, your own ideas, just take God's Word for what it's worth, and believe It. And it's by faith that these things are come, not what you can figure out. You'll never be able. There's never been a man on the world, no saint, nor no one has ever figured God out. You can't. So don't think that you can do something that they cannot do, 'cause they--it can't Be. That's right. You just believe Him. That's what He wants you to do, not try to figure Him out.

L-17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, then God sent this Moses down there. And the people said, "Who made you a ruler over us? Why, you think you're someone great."
That wasn't Moses' attitude. He was sent for a deliverer, knowing that the time was there. And he thought, surely, the people had been reading their Scriptures and things, and they would know that the time of the promise was near, or been reading the promise of Abraham, that the time was near at hand. And they failed to read... Can't... Does...
(Am I standing too close to this mike? Does it rumble up back there in the... Back over in the balconies back there, can you hear me all right back there? If you can, raise your hand. I haven't got too much of a voice.)

L-18 But when the promise drew nigh, they thought, surely, that they would understand. But the people of God... Usually Satan works right in there with their understanding, and makes them dull of understanding. And there they miss God nine times out of ten.
But God had His promise there. Now, then when Moses went down to deliver them, why, they--they refused him, rejected him. And it cost them forty years more suffering. Isn't that right? Forty years more suffering. Moses run to the backside of the desert, of course. And after while, was finally called again of God when the people begin to groaning and crying. And--and then this same Moses, that they rejected and accept Pharaoh yet as their leader, this same Moses, God sent back to them to be a leader and have jurisdiction over them.


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