<TITLE>08. Par 21-23</TITLE>L-21 Not by any tradition, not be any mental work-up, but by that close, hidden communion... Not because of our intellectual conception of His creed, or of the creed of the church, or even of the knowledge that we had with the Word, for some people knows the Word real well but don't know the Author.
Moses knowed the Word real well, but that blessed hiding place... Was it not ridiculous to see Moses standing in a king's court with all the celebrity, with the finest of language, trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and smart, but God had to take him out behind the mountain for forty years. God's schooling is always right. God schools His man. And remember, as trained as an Egyptian, a sheepherder was an abomination. And isn't it strange to see how foolish it would seem in the hearts of men with wisdom, with a man with all of his great intelligence, with all the great armies of Egypt laying at his command, that he could do whatever he wished to, and would step away from his education, step away from his worldly wisdom, step away from his great associates, and go out behind the desert to become into abomination to the people that he once associated with?

L-22 May I say this with reverence. It's tonight that when God calls men, many times he has to step out of the political ranks, out of the social ranks, and walk out into a place, if it would be necessary, if his associates had to say, "He's gone crazy, or become a holy roller."  But it's that secret place; it's that spot. Oh, don't miss it, my loyal friends. Every one of you that's received Christ, of all your teachings, your fine pastors, and your great affiliations with your churches (which is all right, don't misunderstand me), but you're trying to place that before this. But that little time that God gets you away from all your associates, gets you way back in the corner, brings you into a place, in a secret place, where that the wisdom of the world becomes so unsufficient, to where all the education that you ever had, doesn't mean nothing, into that divine Presence, till the lust of the eye gets so dim you can't see it any more; until the love of money is completely vanished away from you; and when you stand there alone with Jehovah God, that's the things that counts. That's the things that makes you forget all you ever knew.

L-23 That's where Moses had to get. And what a beautiful picture: God revealing Himself there in a burning bush. And Moses knowed more about God in five minutes in the presence of that burning bush, than he'd learned forty years in Egypt. That's the place: to be alone with God.
The next day on his road to deliver Egypt--or Israel out of Egypt, with his wife setting on a mule with a little child under each arm, and the long whiskers blowing, and a stick in his hand, going down the road screaming at the top of his voice... Someone said, "Moses, where are you going?"
"I'm going down to Egypt to take over." A one man invasion, going against the greater in number than all the world had: the chariots, and horsemen, and spearmen, and bowmen of Egypt... And one little old, wrinkled up eighty year old man with a stick in his hand, and the white whiskers blowing, going down to Egypt to take over... And the thing of it was, he did it, because he had been alone with God.
There's where the church needs tonight, is not some fantastic, not some new denomination, but to be alone with God. Oh, all selfishness, all malice, all fear, all unbelief just fades away, and God becomes preeminent. There it is. That's what makes a person different. That's what made Moses different. That's what makes you different.
When he went down that time with a vision, not with his education... He could've called more people together with his education than he could with his gift, but Israel was ready then to receive, and they did.
Now, and what did they do? They were led out into the wilderness and led across Jordan to the promised land. What a marvelous thing.


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