<TITLE>08. Par 29-31</TITLE>L-29 Let's look over his shoulder and see what he's reading. "Have nothing to do with this just Man, for I've suffered many things today in a dream because of Him." A pagan wife writing a note to her pagan husband, "Don't have nothing to do with this Man, for today I've suffered many things in a dream."
Pilate said, "Bring me some water. I find no fault in Him at all." What was it? His enemies testifying. That's right. God makes everything quiver and shake at that Name, Jesus Christ. Brother, that's where the Church today has lost the--the solemnity of that Name, the power of that Name.
When Moses went down into Egypt, if those people... He had a staff he packed before him. How ridiculous. See that old man out there, real old, eighty years old, white beard way down like this, and white hair hanging down his back, and here he goes with his wife setting astraddle of a mule and a--and a child on each hip...
Here goes Moses just a praising God, walking down like that. And the people say, "Where you going, Moses?"
"I'm going down to Egypt to take over."

L-30 Could you imagine? Nonsense. An old man eighty years old with a wife and two children and a donkey and a stick in front of him going down to take over the greatest mechanized unit in the world. There was no... Why, Egypt had conquered the world. But he said, "How do you know you're going to take over?"
"God said so, and I believe it." That's right. That's right, God said so. And he did it. Amen. For he took God at His Word. When God said what He did about Christ, I believe it's the truth. But if those Egyptians could've ever got that stick out of Moses' hand, they'd have had him whipped.
That wasn't God... That wasn't Moses' stick, that was God's judgment rod. That's what hit the rock. That's what he stretched out. And if they could ever took that stick away from him, they'd have had it whipped. But he guarded that stick with his life.

L-31 And today if the people would only regard the Name of Jesus that was left in the Church... He said, "Whatever you ask the Father in My Name, that will I do." I... He gave the Church His Name to--to marry, bury, baptize, everything in the world that we do. "Whatever you do in word and deed, do it all in the Name of Jesus Christ."
But we lost the sacredness of that Name. We use it in vain, in jokes and... You can't put bitter and sweet water out of the same fountain, friend. You've got to get to a place till you reverence that Name, and believe it, and know it, and use it, just exactly right.
Now, if I was called this morning a witness of some of His friends, what if I'd call Noah today. And say, "Noah, come down out of the heavens and come here just a minute. I want you to testify to this audience this morning. What think ye of Christ? Whose Son was He?"
Why, Noah would say, "It's the Son of Him Who called me that day out in the field and said, 'Build an ark for the saving of your household.'" Noah would recognize quickly that was Him.
What if I could call Isaiah the prophet today. I'd say, "Isaiah, come down this morning out of the great realms of glory and testify to this audience Whose Son do you think He is?"
Isaiah would say... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "Voice speaking to me saying, 'Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: that his Name shall be called Counselor, Prince of Peace, mighty God, The everlasting Father.'" Why, he would know quickly that was the Son of God. Why, he was a prophet and under inspiration.


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