<TITLE>09. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 Moses turned aside, and as he looked at that burning bush, he started, said, "Well, I will go up and see what this sight is." Usually God reveals Hisself in fire. So he turned aside to see it, and God spoke to him out of the bush and said, "Moses take off your shoes, for the ground that your standing on is holy ground."
Now, what if Moses would've said, "Now, Lord I'm just going to be reverent to You; I'm going to take off my hat. That'll be just as well." God never said your hat; He said your shoes.
Now, if I will say, "Well, I joined church; ain't I just as good as the next fellow.
God never said, "If a man don't join the church..." He said, "A man must be borned again. If he doesn't..."
Say, "Well, I--I will go a good church." That's all right, but that ain't the requirement. "Except a man be borned of water and spirit, he will in no wise enter into the Kingdom." God's got one solid program, no matter how good anything else looks. You got to line up with God's Gospel. The Bible says it, and that's the thing we've got to do.

L-27 And Moses had to line up with God's program, not what Moses thought was reverent, but what God called reverent. And he sits down, took off his shoes, and walked up; he said, I have... He heard the cries of My people, and I've come down, and I am going to send you down to deliver them."
You know Moses complained. He said, "Now, look, I'm a man of slow speech. I can't talk very good, and I'm not eloquent, and so forth." He begin to complain, and God told him He'd send Aaron. And then he wanted to know... he said, if he could see His glory, what would he tell them He'd done?
And God said to Moses, "What is that in your hand?"

L-28 Now, whatever was laying close, God could've used anything. God could've used a bush. But Moses had something in his hand. He said, "It's a stick."
He said, "Throw it on the ground." And he threw it down, and when he did, it turned to a serpent. He picked it up by the tail; it turned back to a rod again. And God showed Moses by that what He could do, that He was still the living God. He could take the natural and change it into supernatural. He could do whatever He wanted to, because He was God.
Moses picked up that stick in his hand, run over and got Zipporah, his wife, and set her on a mule, and put a kid on each hip. And got an old donkey by the bridle and a stick in his hand, and here he went down to Egypt to liberate two million people.

L-29 Could you imagine it, what a critical looking sight that would be? This old man eighty years old, with white beard and hair a blowing like that, just a happy and shouting, hollering, "Glory to God," his wife sitting straddle this mule, with a kid on each hip, going down to take over, could you imagine that?
What do you think the great armies and soldiers would have said that day? "Well that old, poor old fellow is went off at the head." The world always thinks that, but he had the Word of the Lord, and It had to come to pass. He had God's promise. And he had that old stick in his hand the way. But now, a dry stick going against the great army of Egypt, which had conquered the world in its day... Thousands times thousands of chariots, horseman, spear-men, the greatest mechanized units... Just like one single man would try to go against Russia today or something like that... Maybe a greater odds would be then...


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