<TITLE>06. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 But Moses, being spiritual, understood that God was going to take the children of Israel out and he called him to do it. Now, he tried it in himself. That's what's the matter with a lot of people today. You try to bring healing to yourself. You try to work up your own salvation. That won't work. It just won't do it. Joining churches and signing papers and putting pledges in, that's not God's program. That's religion, but it's not salvation.
Notice, he failed, miserably failed, and run into the desert for another forty years while God had him back on the backside of the desert, where he married this Ethiopian woman: Zipporah. And she was high tempered. Moses was too, so I guess there was some little trouble on the backside of the desert once in a while. Don't turn your wife down 'cause she's got a little temper. Maybe that's your cross. God might've give it to kinda keep you lined up: same thing with you women to your husbands. Stick together: promised God you would, so stay with it.
Notice, I'm a person don't believe in marriage and divorce. You know that, so... Look, my brother. If you went at that more prayerfully, there'd be less of it.

L-20 Now, Moses now was eighty years old. Instead of being a deliverer, it looked like all hopes was gone. And he was a sheepherder for his father-in-law. My. Way back on the backside of the desert, one morning, walking along when the sun was coming up, and he looked over and he seen a bush burning. God always give something to attract the attention of the believer. So he stepped aside, not to criticize, or not to analyze; not to pull some of the leaves off and take it down to the laboratory to see why them leaves didn't burn. He stepped to the side of this burning fire to kindly... Reverently, he approached it. God said, "Take off your shoes, Moses, for the ground you stand is holy ground."
That's what it is today. The reason that gifts and the church... The reason people don't get very much today is because it's irreverent you approach it. You've got to come to it with a full surrendered, made up mind. Amen. When you come to God, don't just haphazardly come up, and beat on the altar, and chew the chewing gum. That's not the way to come to God. Come just as sane as you can come and mean what you're talking about. God will receive you.

L-21 Notice. Said, "Moses, I've seen the suffering of My people. I've remembered My promise." I love that. God always remembers every promise He made. "And I'm going to send you right back down."
And Moses begin to complain. But he said, "Show me Your glory." And God showed Moses His glory and he was ready to go. And all the forty years of training his dear mother had give him on theology, and all that he'd learned out all the textbooks, he made a failure out of it. And in five minutes time, surrendered in the Presence of the Fire of God, he was better equipped than all the equipment in the world could make him.
And I say today, that what our seminaries and preachers need, is not a great long education, several years of schooling; they need to come in the Presence of the living God and get a revelation of His Divine will and His power; and approach it, not in a critical standpoint, "My church don't believe it." Take off your shoes when you approach it; come to it reverent.


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