<TITLE>08. Par 33-37</TITLE>L-33 And we've just stayed in one huddle here and preached it till you're Gospel hardened, then the heathens out yonder, are dying. That's my vision. I must go to them. There's where God has blessed. 'Cause they're hungering; they're thirsting; they want to hear something.
That's why I'm so with Tommy Osborn. He's got the same vision: Get the Gospel out. We got to. God's going to hold us responsible for it. The journey is on.
Now, I notice, God told Moses here, said, "I'm going to send an Angel before you to keep you in the way." I love that. Amen. Now, anyone knows that that Angel that met Moses, or guided Moses, was the Angel of the Covenant, which was Jesus Christ, the Pillar of Fire.
And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. It's the same Angel leading this Church today, led that one then. Hallelujah. Oh, don't get scared. "Hallelujah" means "praise our God." He's worthy of every bit of it. That's... Yes.

L-34 And I look at Him now; He said, "Now, wait. I'm going to send this Angel, and He will guide you from this time until you come into the promised land." And God give us the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost that's guided the Church from that day until we enter the promised land.
Watch Him, He said, "Beware of Him and provoke Him not. For He will not pardon your transgressions. For My Name is in Him." Sure it was: the Angel of God, Jesus Christ, the same One that leads the Church today. He was in a Pillar of Fire then, He's in the form of Spirit now, but it's the same Angel, same Being.

L-35 Now, let's notice a little bit. Then as soon as they got started on their journey, the first thing you know, they begin to complain and murmur, about the--this--this water was no good, and about their bread they were eating, complaining, chiding against God and against Moses.
That's just the very typical part of the church today. No matter, God can come down and pour His blessings out upon the church, bless the people; and the first thing you know, if He don't keep that blessing a moving and a going every night, the people will go to... Some little disaster will come along, they'll go to falling back. "Well, maybe I was just excited."

L-36 Oh, where is your faith? Hold it in God. You never feel it again, or see it again, or anything else, keep your faith anchored down to... How wonderful. Watch Him now.
They'd got down there and got into some trouble. They begin to want some water. God told them, said--for that He would supply their every need. The Angel would lead. And Moses told them, said, "Gather all the... Israel out yonder and I'll show you the glory of God." God told him, said, "Gather them out and speak to the rock and it'll bring forth its waters."
A people complaining, had left the garlic pots of Egypt to eat Angel's food and was complaining, had left the muddy waters of Egypt to drink from the Rock, the Fountain that never runs dry: waters that Angels couldn't touch, and yet complaining.
They'd left the boasting physicians of Egypt to be with the great Physician, and still complaining. Isn't that just like people? That's the way they do it: still complaining.

L-37 So God told Moses, "Speak to the rock." And the rock brought forth it... and the rock was the driest place there was, the driest thing in the desert. If they had searched through all the puddles where there was water, through the oasis where the waters was, and still no water, then speak to the rock... The driest and fartherest away from water there was, was a rock. Well, it was laying up on top of the ground. But God said speak to the thing that looks the worst, the rock.
And sometimes today, they say, "Well, if God would give gifts, He would put it in the Vatican City. He would put it in these big cathedrals. Why He wouldn't put it down amongst a bunch of holy-rollers." But that's just where you're fooled. That's right.
The worst place to the world, God has put His blessing. And exactly the truth. "Speak to the rock and it'll bring forth its waters."


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