<TITLE>11. Par 50-54</TITLE>L-50 So the old alligators had to run away from that little basket. And yet Moses knew all these things. And yet after forty years of training and then in the wilderness, he still tried to take the thing over in his hands.
We know the Bible, what God says to do, and yet we say, "Well, now, we'll make this be this way. It's just the days of miracles are not so any more. We know we don't believe we see them any more. And we believe the days of miracles is past, and the sprinkling is just as good as immersing, and Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is just as good as the Name of the Lord Jesus. And so we'll just... The rest of them's going that way, so we will just do that too."

L-51 Moses had been a military man. And he thought that the way that he was trained as being a military man, that he could just kill them Egyptians off with his hand, it'd be just as good as doing what God did.
Did you ever think of it? Everybody condemns Moses for killing one man, and he come back down under the anointing of the Holy Ghost and killed the whole thing. Nobody said nothing about it. He slew all of Pharaoh's army. But God was in it. God wasn't in the first one.

L-52 And then Moses just chucked full of church theology... He was to be the next pharaoh. And we find him still not knowing God. But one morning on the back side of the desert, an old man of eighty years old, his whiskers hanging way down low, he seen a burning bush, and he turned aside to see what was going on. And when he got near the bush he heard a voice. God had to quieten him for forty years before He could ever speak to him.
And we won't stay quiet ten minutes so God could speak to us with all the rumble and bumble we have of this day.
And yet, Moses after forty years stood there, and in the presence of that bush and that one voice that called him, He knew more about God in five minutes after that, than all the eighty years of training had taught him. It made a different man out of him. It'll make a different man and woman out of you if you'll just stand still long enough to hear His voice.

L-53 Like Samuel did, stand still. Don't be excited. If you want something of God, ask Him, then stand still and listen to see what He's going say about it. Just open up your heart, say, "What about it, Lord Jesus?" Just stay there. If He doesn't answer the first five hours, then wait another. If He doesn't answer today then He will answer tomorrow. If He doesn't answer this week, He will answer next week. Stay there till He answers. Hear His voice speak back in your heart, and say, "Yes, I'm the Lord that healeth thee." Then it's all over; you get settled then. See? "I'm the Lord Who forgives all thy sins. Now, go and sin no more. I don't condemn you." Then you can go free. You're all right. But you want to be sure that you hear that voice speak. Moses heard it. He was a changed man.

L-54 Look at Isaiah the prophet. As a young man he had it made. The great favored king Uzziah in them days, a righteous man, a good man, he loved Isaiah for he knew he was a prophet. And so he just leaned upon the king's arm. Everything he wanted, why, Uzziah would give it to him. And every time he wanted anything, why, the good king would give it to him.
But there come a time that the king died. Prosperity always ruins people. That's a hard thing to say. But prosperity takes a man away from God. God spoke one place in the Bible something on this line. And He said, "When I blessed you and gave you much, when you were poor and you didn't have nothing, I come to you and you heard Me, and you served Me, but when I blessed you and gave you plenty then you turned your head from Me."


<A HREF="P12">Next Page</A>