<TITLE>12. Par 44-47</TITLE>L-44 Moses, he had to make a choice. And then he had to, after making the choice, he had to fight the faith then, for he feared not the wrath of the king. Now, humanly he had a right to fear the wrath. He had a right to fear the wrath of the king, but he didn't. He did not do it, because he had a job to do. And he was in a line of duty. And he didn't care what the king said about it; he took his way just the same.
Now, Pharaoh, of course, when he sees he's defeated, he wanted to give Moses and the children... He said, "All right, I tell you what I will do; you all just stay in the land and go out and sacrifice to your God." That's the way the devil works. "Oh, you can be religious. Why don't you go over and join some church. You don't have to do all these things."

L-45 A man says to his wife, "A hu..." The wife says, "Husband, I got saved: no more manicure, or lipstick, and stuff, no more of this, no more parties, no more of these society things; I'm out of it. I will put my time to reading the Word, taking care of home."
"Now look dear, you--you can be religious all right... Now, look, you--you go over here; you got the wrong church. Now, we make sure you're the right one." If you got a preacher will preach that to you, you better stay with them. Search back through the Scriptures and find if that's right.
"Oh," said, "go over here. They don't--they don't have to do that over here. They don't do this over here." That's the way; just go so far. But he don't want you to get out of the land. That's the way the devil does. He don't want you to get out of the things of the world; just bring the world in with the church.

L-46 The other day, coming down the road, I turned on my radio. And there was a--a song, and I kept listening. I had to take nearly the song through, before I could tell whether it was, absolutely, a religious song, or the devil is trying to bring down the things of God to the level of the world. You can't do that. God be merciful.
I don't care how many albums Elvis Presley writes, of all the good religious songs, he's still possessed of the devil. He's sent more children to hell, and all the moves I know of, in all the world this day. Pat Boone and the rest of them, even belong to the Church of Christ, and Elvis Presley, a Pentecostals are Judas Iscariot in the form of those men.
The devil's trying to bring the high things of God so that they can mix them down here. The people won't look up above this; they just look here, say, "Why, it's all the same." It isn't the same. Get out of the land.

L-47 Said, "You can just go a few days. And you go, stay in the land..." Sure, he knowed they'd be back.
Then he found out that wouldn't work, so he thought something different. He said, "I tell you what you do: you go on out anywhere you want to go, but you leave all your wives, and all your children, and all your cattle back here. You leave them here and you go out..." 'cause he'd knowed they had possession back there that would lure them back. And that's what the devil says to you. Just long as you leave some of the things of the world hanging on you--you still want to smoke, you want to drink, you want to dress like the world--that's as good as the devil wants.
I hear so much about backsliding. I don't believe there's as much backsliding as people think they are. They just leave too many possessions in Egypt to lure them back. That's all. Backslidings are not what has been...?... say it is. You left too much the world back there that lures you.


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