<TITLE>06. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 I'm so glad that they had a conference. If they'd have had no conference, where would we have been tonight? There was something done. Agreements was met, and bylaws was made. And they went forward. And that first conference meant the difference between life and death to the human race.
And then let's call another conference. There was a time when there was a prophet that knowed the Lord God as his Saviour. And he'd misbehaved himself and tried to do it in his own way. May I stop here just for a moment to say this, my brother, or my sister; any time that any person ever tries to do God's Word, or will, in their own way, they need a conference right quick with God, 'cause they're wrong. There's only two ways to do anything; that's right and wrong. That's your way and God's way. Your way is always wrong.
Moses found out that his way didn't work. And as Moses learned the hard way, so have I learned it that way. No doubt, but many of the people here tonight, setting here, or standing here, has learned it the same way. It's a hard way. It's best to surrender your will to God's will and hold a conference with Him.

L-20 And when we find out that Moses in his great schooling and his intellectual learning, smart, intelligent... He was so shrewd till he could teach the teachers. And not trying to support ignorance, but I think that when we get that way, we're in the most dangerous stage we can get into: when we get so smart that we know more then everybody else. That's half what's the matter with the world today. That's what's the matter with the nations today. Each one's trying to get smarter than the other.
That's what's the matter with the people today. We're trying to outsmart something. We're trying, even in our churches, to see how great a steeple we can build, the better class, as we call it, to get in, the better dressed. Taking away the real jewels and nuggets of the Gospel and compromising upon them: instead of the altar, a handshake. Instead of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, we compromise to a handshake, or a baptism by immersing to the sprinkling of some water, anything to get our own plan in it. But it'll never work. It never did work, and it never will work. God's way is always right. Got to be His way, is the only way.
Moses and all of his great military mind, and how that he could achieve... He thought murder was the--the question, or murder was the way, and he slew an Egyptian. In his very beginning he found himself defeated.

L-21 I might say this. There's a many minister tonight in the land, and in other lands, and many Christians tonight, that in their heart they really want to serve God, but they find themselves defeated, because they take their own intellectual conception of the Gospel: just join church, or do some good thing, or give someone some clothes, or do a little good deed. If that's all that it took, then the Eden Conference was in vain, and the death of the Lord Jesus was in vain. God laid a program down and we've got to come to that program. And sooner we get to that, the better the church will achieve the purpose of God, when we get to God's program.


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