<TITLE>06. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 It's a nervous age. What is it? Then I give this solemn warning to the Church: Stand still. God always commands to stand still before He does anything.
The churches is in a neurotic stage. Every church is a proselyting, and pulling, and fussing, and stewing. It's a neurotic age. But stand still. Now, that's the message.
Notice, Caleb here. The people had just come back, the spies, from over into the promised land. They was at Kadesh-barnea. And they had been brought through many trials and had seen the hand of God: A very beautiful picture of the Full Gospel church. And many of them had become discouraged, discouraged and upset because so many different isms and things has happened in the church. But that don't take away the real thing. God's calling His Church to halt. Stand still, don't be jumping and running, not knowing what you're doing. Come back to the Word. Come back to Christ.

L-18 Caleb... There was ten of the spies that come back and said, "Oh, it's impossible for us to do it. Why," said, "their great places are walled. And they are giants in the land. We nearly looked like grasshoppers to the side of them. Oh, we are a failure; we can't do it."
And of course, ten against two, they were out numbered. But Joshua and Caleb took their stand and said, "We are more than able to do it."
But before Caleb, or Joshua could speak, Caleb had to still the people first, get them quiet. Stand still. Don't be running here, and running there, and jumping at this, and jumping at that.
Now, what made Caleb so sure of it when the opposition was so great? It's according to what you're looking at. Caleb was looking at the promise of God. The other ten was looking at circumstances. If you go to look at circumstance, or to look what's around you, you are sure to fail. But you must never look at what's around you.

L-19 What if that man setting there looked at the opposition, by his boy there, a cripple in that chair? What if this nice, clean looking man setting back there in the wheelchair looked at the circumstances? What if the lady laying in that chair, leaning back, looked at the circumstances? What if this poor blind woman leaning on a shoulder of another thought of the circumstances? The doctor has tried. He's failed. He's a man, like I am, you are. And if you look at that, then you're going to be a failure to begin with.
But the Christian doesn't look at circumstances; he looks at the Word and stands still. God said so; that settled it. What if Abraham looked at the circumstances? If the doctor examined your heart... That kills more people than anything else. The doctor examined your heart and said, "You might drop at any time, you got a murmur." That's true. If you look at that, then you're--you're--you're defeated to begin with. Look what God said.

L-20 If the doctor says that... If the little... Like the little boy last night who was a mute, certainly he was born, probably, without any hearing waves at all. But right here on the platform, God gave back the hearing to that boy. I put my hands behind him and snapped my fingers; he turned around, motioned to his little ear. He's a baby; he doesn't know how to speak or nothing. I couldn't get him to open his mouth even, because he had never had any use, but just to eat. And I give him a little piece of chewing gum, thought I could get him to open his mouth that way.
If the mother's here, just teach the child. Just go on as if it was a finished work and believe it. No matter what anybody else says anything, stand still. God said so. Prayer of faith shall save the sick.
Now, if Caleb would've said, "Oh, yes, the opposition is great. We don't even have implements to fight with. And look at those walls; how could we ever get through the walls? There is ten thousand to--to our hundred. We... they... We're out numbered. We're not war people to begin with. We're not even a united nation. We're just a bunch of peasant slaves. We're not even accepted as a nation."


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