<TITLE>10. Par 34-37</TITLE>L-34 He thought he could do it. Seeing an Egyptian beating an Israelite, so he just killed him and covered him up. And when he did it, he become a refugee in another land, over in the land of Ethiopia. And he went over there and had married a wife. He was--got him a job herding sheep. And he married... Jethro, the priest of Midian, he married his daughter, and there was two children born to him. And he got a common laborer's job, a sheepherder, and had been herding sheep for forty years because he failed to put God first.
I think that's what been the matter with the churches. Brother, when it gets to a place that we put our church first instead of Christ, we're going right straight down. When you put them as an individual, put your church first, your social life first, instead of your spiritual life, you're going to fail.
May I stop just a moment. Someone said the other day, said, "Brother Branham, I appreciate your preaching, but you go from Genesis to Revelation."
"Huh. It's all Bible." It's all right. I just have to go where He leads me You see? Ha.

L-35 And when they was building the temple of Solomon, they had all the stones cut out. Everything was set in order. But they found a funny looking stone. They didn't think a thing like that would ever amount to anything, so they just kicked it out over into the weed pile. And they went on with their mortar and their stones, putting them together. And come to find out, that the very thing that they had rejected... they built so far and they found out they couldn't go any farther, there was a stone missing. And they built up to it, but they couldn't go any farther. And the very stone was missing was the chief cornerstone, that they'd kicked out to one side.
I say that... I will say it for the Baptists, and then you Presbyterians can glory in it. All right. One of the chief things with the Baptists, or any other church, and what we've all done and what you Pentecostals are doing (that's right), you're rejecting the only Principal, the only Keystone that there is, is Christ.
When you kick it out... You might say, "Oh, it won't work in our program."
Well, what program will He work in then? You just get out of your program into His program, and the Church will move on. Put the Cornerstone down first. If you don't, you'll find out after awhile it's just brick and mortar again.
So, they had to receive the headstone first before they could... the cornerstone before they could go on.

L-36 Moses had rejected that. He had rejected the principles of Christ. And then, he thought he was right. But then he become a refugee, and married, and had these children, and was herding Jethro's sheep, got him a job a herding sheep. Forty years he'd went up-and-down on the back side of the desert there a herding sheep, down the same old paths, an old man, eighty years old. He was called when he was forty.
And did you know, forty is God's calling age? Well, look: Joshua, Caleb, David at the throne, oh, so forth, on and on.
But when he was forty, God called him. And at eighty he had been forty years in rejection. Moses' life consisted a hundred and twenty years; forty years of it was coming up to be taught; forty years of it was total failure; forty years then he served the Lord.

L-37 Now, turning down this pathway one morning, walking along the same old path that he'd always come, but he happen to see something strange; it was a bush on fire that didn't seem to burn up. And he said, "I'll turn aside to see this strange thing."
Now, there's where Moses made one of the greatest moves he ever made, was to turn aside, not to criticize, but turned aside to see what this strange thing was. Oh, my brethren, if you only... You might think these things are strange, but turn aside and set down like Moses did. And he set down to look at it.


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