<TITLE>06. Par 17-18</TITLE>L-17 Then we take another man, Moses, a runaway prophet, way back on the back side of the desert. All the hope of ever delivering his people, which God sent him to do, all hopes was gone, no more deliverance. He'd settled down and married a beautiful woman, had a--a little boy. And he was well satisfied, knowing that someday he'd fall heir to all of Jethro's sheep and so forth. And he could live in peace back behind the Mount Horeb.
But one day along the side of the bush he seen a bush burning that didn't burn up. (God has strange ways to attract His children.) And when he stepped over on the ground, there was a voice said, "Take off your shoes, Moses, for the ground you're standing on is holy." What a difference it made in him. He'd been afraid and run from Pharaoh, because he had slew an Egyptian. But the next day, we find him with his wife, setting straddle a mule with a little boy on her hip. Whiskers hanging down, a crooked stick in his hand, the gray hair blowing, eighty years old, going down... "Where you going, Moses?"
"Going down to Egypt to take over." A one man invasion, why, that sound ridiculous. But the good thing about it, he did it because he had met God. It didn't care what it looked like, he had met God, and he knowed God was able to keep His Word. He met God.
If that wasn't a ridiculous sight: one man, with his wife on a mule, and a little boy on her hip, and an old crooked stick, the whiskers a blowing like that, going down to take over a nation like Russia. But it didn't make any difference as long as God had met him and commissioned it. That's all that matters when God sends you. That settles it forever. Amen.

L-18 Take the little virgin Mary. Just an ordinary little girl in Nazareth, mean little town where wickedness, night parties and everything... But she kept herself clean. One day, on the road up to the city well to get her morning supply of water... Might have been studying about a certain dream she had or a certain Scripture that she had read--perhaps, Isaiah 9 and 6.
And on her road up there with her water pot under her arm, walking one morning, there was a great Light flash before her, and an Angel stood there. Said, "Hail, Mary. Blessed art thou amongst the women. You've found favor with God. And your cousin Elisabeth, up in Judaea, she's past the age of bearing; but I was a few days over there and met her husband Zacharias. God's sending a little baby to their house. She who was called 'barren' is now going to be mother. And Mary, you've found favor with God, and you're going to have a Child, a Son. And you shall call His Name Jesus."
She said, "How can these things be?"
He said, "The Holy Ghost will overshadow you. That holy Thing which shall be borned of thee, shall be called the Son of God, for with God nothing is impossible." How it changed that little girl.


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