<TITLE>07. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 Moses tried to work it out in his own way. And he found that he was wrong. And by doing so, like many others who backslide from one revival to another, going up and trying to impersonate a Christian, or standing and making some kind of a sign or--or some declaration of creed that we cite--recite, we find ourselves in a few days, defeated; because we're trying to do it in ourselves. It'll never work. We must meet God's program, word by word, letter by letter.
See, anything that you try to do, the intellectual mind is so contrary to the Spirit. The intellectual mind thinks it has to be smart and wise. The Holy Spirit is humble. Break down all you ever knowed and walk sweet and humble before the Lord, loving Him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength. There's where the Holy Spirit works. Make you do things that you didn't think you ever would do. It'll make you repent and go back and shake hands, and make up with people, that you could join church and still call yourself a Christian, and hate down in your heart, but you can't be led of the Holy Spirit and do that. You can't do it. You can't--you can't cheat. You can't lie. You can't pull shady deals. It's got to be out and above board, and the Holy Spirit's approval on it.

L-23 Moses tried, but he failed. God had called him, and there's no doubt in the hearing of my voice, there may be many people that God's called the same way. But we tried to appease that by joining church or doing something religious. It'll never satisfy. You need a conference with God.
So Moses... God determined, 'cause He'd elected him to do so. He wandered in the desert, and one day on the back side of the desert God decided to call his runaway prophet. And He selected a certain tree. I've always wondered, wonder what He put on that tree that it didn't burn up? The leaves were popping and cracking, and the fire burning. And I don't know how long it'd burned. But it didn't burn. It was God's selected place to meet His prophet.

L-24 God selects the place to have His conferences. Just as the kings and the rulers of the nation select their places for conferences, God selects His place. My honest prayer that your seat tonight, or your standing place, is God's selected place for you, that He can talk to you, speak to you, do something or say something that would attract your attention. If He could hold your attention just for a few moments...
Moses walked up to the burning bush, watching and beholding. What a sight it was to see a bush that was burning, and yet, it did not consume. And when he walked up to the burning bush, he got orders, "Take off your shoes, Moses, for the ground that you're standing on is holy ground." Moses obeyed by taking off his shoes.

L-25 We notice one thing, that when man have conferences of the nations, they get together, and they find a big place, and they--they feast, and they have great dinners, and they set at the table, and they have sociable drinks, and they--and they get ready, and--and go out from there to try to accomplish what they have selected in their minds to do.
How different it is from God's conferences. Man don't come together in God's conferences to eat. They come together to fast, and to pray, and to receive orders, and go forward with it.


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