<TITLE>18. Par 193-200</TITLE>L-193 God, after having His poor old servant, Moses... Someone said to me one time, said, "I tell you, that shows God, if you call Him God." Said, "He let His servant down."
After Moses' life run in a cycle of forty. He was called, at forty, refused by his brethren, went out on the desert and herded sheep for forty years. When he was eighty, He sent him down to deliver Israel out of Egypt. And when he got close to the promised land, he was a hundred and twenty years old. He had the stride of a young man, and his sight never failed him (That's right.) at a hundred and twenty.
But when he glorified himself down there, instead of God, before that Rock; when God told him, said, "Go, speak to the Rock. Don't smite It. Speak to It." (The Rock was only smitten once.)

L-196 And Moses got his temper all up, and run down there, and smote the Rock. It didn't bring water. He smote It again; It brought water. Said, "You rebels, must we fetch you water out of this Rock?" Like that, and brought forth the waters, 'cause God had to listen to that prophet because He'd endued him with that power. And that broke the whole program of God's Bible.
Christ was smitten once. We speak to the Rock now, and It brings forth Its water. See? It's already been smitten. Just speak to It, and It brings forth Its waters.

L-198 Then I see him that morning. Oh, when I think of this picture, my heart almost fails me. I see Moses; he knowed... God said, "Moses, tell them all 'so long,' your congregation; I'm going to call you up a little higher now today."
I can see old Moses standing there, that long white beard, and his hair trinkling down around his face, his old eyes dimming with tears, as he looked over his audience. How he had fell on the... How they had murmured, and how he had stood for them. He looked them all over. He started walking up the mountain. He got up the mountain; he turned back around; he begin to wave good-bye at them. He climbed up, plumb up to the top of the mountain. It was in the month of April. He stood and looked over into the promised land. Oh, how he wanted to go over. My, his poor old heart was breaking. He wanted to go over into the promised land with that bunch of Jews that he'd led and stood in the way. And there he was, he looked over there, and the tears running down his cheeks. He turned around and waved to the people again, good-bye, their old pastor. He was going away. He waved at them like that. He looked back over.

L-200 And only if I could stand where Moses stood and view the landscape over! God willing, in the next few months, I want to stand on the mount there and look over where they crossed.
I seen a movie the other day, where some of the brethren, about forty of my brethren out of the campaigns and them went over there, and they took a movie reel of it. And when they crossed there, them fellows screaming and shouting, liked to tore down all the bushes on the bank, where the children of Israel went up there, where Jesus was baptized. And every one of them preachers jumped in the water with clothes on and all, and baptized one another over again, every one of them. Oh, brother, there's something in there moving and stirring. We're living... They'd get in a car; they'd ride a little piece, and say, coming over that journey there where the children of Israel did. Like old Buddy Robinson said, "Stop this thing, right quick." And he got out and run around, and around, and around, shouting around the place, and hollering, "Glory to God. Hallelujah." Jumped back in, said, "Drive her on." That's right. He just having such a time. Sure.


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