<TITLE>08. Par 26-30</TITLE>L-26 Moses, coming on top of the mountain for these forty days, and had been up there getting the commandments, or afterwards, knew what it was to meet God, knowed what it was to have a conference with God. So he waited his forty days; it was easy after he'd once had a conference with God.
Men who ever have a conference with God, or women, knows what it means to forsake food sometime, forsake water, forsake the things of the world, forsake everything else, to come apart with God to hold a conference.
Moses on this first conference, the burning bush, he received orders from God. "I'm the God of your fathers, and I've heard the cries of My people and I'm sending you down to deliver them. I want you to go down into Egypt."
Look what simple reasons he used. Moses begin to make excuses and said, "I'm--I'm not... I'm slow of speech and so forth."
So He told him that He'd be with him, and the Angel of God would go before him in signs and wonders that He would do. So he was ready then to go.

L-27 After you have obeyed God, and gone on the mission that He sent you on, sometimes we come into difficult circumstances. Moses hit that. He'd went down into Egypt and had done just exactly what God told him to do; he'd obeyed the Word to the letter, and he was following the Word.
God promised Abraham that his Seed would sojourn in a strange country among strange people. But He would bring them back to that land after they'd been captive four hundred years. So Moses was perfectly in line with the Word of God. And even in that you still hit obstacles.

L-28 There may be some here tonight that are up against that, say, "I'm sick, Brother Branham. I've been a Christian all my life. I've had the Holy Ghost for years. I've been a member of this church for so many years. I--I've lived faithful, all that I've done and here I am tonight; the doctor says that I must die; I got a cancer. I got heart trouble. I'm in a wheelchair," or something else.
Those things happen. Moses was perfectly in line of duty of God, and also in line of the Scripture. The first thing for a man to do to find out if something's went wrong, is check himself. Are first you in the line of God's Word? Then the next thing, are you in line of duty, following what the Holy Spirit told you to do? Then if that be so, then there's only one thing left, that's a conference.

L-29 Moses had led the children of Israel by the hand of God from Egypt, and had come to the Red Sea. We'll call this the Red Sea Conference. He was exactly in the line of duty, leading the children across to the Red Sea, and was taking them to the promised land as God had promised. He fell... heard from God, the Holy Spirit was upon him; he had led them out, done the miracles and signs of God. And here they was right in line of duty, and there every obstacle that could be, shove it off. It seemed as nature would even itself cry out, "Oh, Moses and Israel, I feel sorry for you because doom just waits you."

L-30 It might be that with you tonight: doom just ahead. What did Moses do, this great runaway prophet? He'd had one conference with God, and he knowed what it meant to him. He knowed the only thing to do was to have another conference. He selected him a place. Perhaps we'd say, "Oh, I don't know, maybe over behind this certain rock." He went over there and perhaps had knelt on his knees and said, "Great Jehovah, I read in the Scriptures, or by the Word that I have, that You're delivering Your people. You sent an Angel and spoke to me. And I'm strictly in the line of duty; and here we are at the Red Sea; and there's no way to get over. So I thought within myself there's only one thing to do: I'll never try to rely upon my intellectuals. I'll just come have a conference with You."
God said, "Stand on your feet, Moses. Go, speak to the children of Israel that they go forward."
Never does God ever say retreat. There's no retreat in God. God is, "Go forward."


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