<TITLE>01. Par 1-6</TITLE>57-0805, God Manifesting His Gifts, Edmonton Arena, Edmonton, AB, 99 min
L-1 Bow our heads just a moment before we set down.
Blessed heavenly Father, we are thankful for the privilege that we have of coming together again, to speak of Thy goodness and kindness to Thy children. We are grateful for this and we pray that You will manifest Your love to us tonight in a most unusual way. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. Can be seated.
I wish to read tonight from the Word of God the--the 12th chapter of Saint Matthew the 42nd verse.
And the queen of the south shall rise up in the day of judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
I wish to use for a text tonight... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] God manifesting His gifts. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-2 Jesus had just been in conflict with the religious world of that day. He had been perceiving their thoughts and they had accused him of being empowered with Beelzebub, a demon. And Jesus had strictly charged them, saying, that He would forgive them for that sinful act that they had committed. But He also warned them that the time would come when the Holy Spirit would do the same act. And one word against It would never be forgiven in this world or in the world to come. What a solemn warning it was to those people of that day and to the people of this day.

L-3 And they had asked Him for a sign, after that. They said, "Master, we seek a sign from Thee."
And He said to them, "A weak and adulterous generation seeks after signs. And no sign shall be given unto them, except the sign of Jonas the prophet. For as Jonas the prophet was in the belly of the whale, three days and three nights, so shall the Son of man be in the bosom of the earth, three days and three nights."
Therefore, according to the sign that Jesus left for this world, would be the sign of His resurrection, would be the everlasting sign that He gave.

L-4 Now, God in all ages, at all times, has never been without a witness. God's always had a witness. And never at any time, was His witness ever received by the--the ecclesiastical system of the world, never in no age. And never in no age did the ecclesiastical system of the world ever produce a servant of God that was used in that manner.
Think of it. In the history of time, never did the religious systems of this world ever receive a servant sent from God. And never did the religious systems of this world ever produce a product that God used, internationally, in a great way, never. God picks His men Himself.

L-5 How it is in the days of Moses, the prophet. How that Moses was borned a servant of the Lord, and was raised up in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was a polished scholar. And when he had mastered all the wisdom and the learning of the Egyptians, it seems like that he'd been in wonderful condition to deliver his people. For he was the commanding general in all Egypt. He was an heir to the throne. And every right of education that a man could receive, Moses had it. But God could not use one of those qualities. And we find Him taking His servant, Moses, to the back side of the desert to herd his father-in-law, Jethro's sheep.

L-6 And a man who had been raised with the Egyptians... And we know according to Genesis that a sheepherder was an abomination in the sight of God. In the very things that he had been taught not to do, he went to do it, because flesh and blood cannot inherit or understand spiritual things. Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. And the wisdom of God is so much higher than the wisdom of man, until the wisdom of man is considered naught, or foolishness before God.
And there we find God taking His servant and keeping him forty years to take out of him all of the scholarship that Egypt put in him. God had to take it all out of him. And it taken Him just as many years to take it out of him as it did for Egypt to put it in him.


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