<TITLE>06. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 Let's look at him. Here is an old man, eighty years old, whiskers hanging down to his waistline. And the next morning we find him on the road down to Egypt, where he was wanted for murder, going down to Egypt to take over. Could you imagine this sight? Just look what faith does. And it looks like it's the most radical thing. And God sometimes does things that seem silly to the human mind. "But by faith Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt." Look at this scene: an old man, eighty years old, his wife setting straddle of a mule with a young'n on each hip, old Moses a hitting a stick on the ground, going along praising God. "Where you going, Moses?"
"Going down to Egypt to take over--going down to take over," a one-man invasion. And the silly part, he did it. Why? He had faith in the God that he had experience with. God, Who made the difference... He didn't need his military training. He didn't need his scholarships. He needed an experience. And the burning bush had what Moses lacked.
That is the same thing tonight with the church. The Holy Ghost has got what the church lacks; that's a burning, everlasting faith. Certainly. It was wonderful to see how God could do those things. He turned it over; he made a different thing because that God did it.
[Someone speaks in tongues and then someone gives the interpretation--Ed.]
Bless the Lord. Going down to take over, and he did it, because he had an experience that God still lived.

L-24 Abraham, coming down from Chaldea, the land of Ur. And after he'd met God and had an experience, he was able to call those things which were not as though they were, because he had talked to God. It takes an experience (Certainly it does,) to be delivered. Oh, how needful it is.

L-25 In the days of our Lord, before He left the earth, in Acts 1:8 He said, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high." I misquoted the Scripture, that's Luke 24:49. Acts 1:8 says, "You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you." And let's notice. There was a bunch of little cowardly people, a hundred and twenty in an upper room, and they had the doors locked because they were afraid of the threats of the Jews. And then all of a sudden, there came a sound from heaven like as a rushing mighty wind and filled all the house where they were setting. Oh, they were afraid a few minutes before that, but here they were all out into the street magnifying and glorifying God. They'd had an experience that had set them a-fire that could burn the whole world in that day. They had an experience. That's what we need. Experience accompanies faith.

L-26 Of course, when Philip had met the Lord Jesus, and had seen Him tell Peter, or his name was Simon, and told him who he was, and told him what his name was, and told him what his father's name was.
It was after Philip had that seen that done, that he could encourage Nathanael, that he found on his knees a praying. It was after Nathanael had come in the Presence of Jesus. And when he did, Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite, in whom there is no guile."
He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you I saw you when you were under the tree."
It was after that experience that he could fall at His feet and say, "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel." It was after he'd seen the moving and working of the Holy Ghost in that Man, and he knowed that was the sign of the Messiah.


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