<TITLE>17. Par 63-67</TITLE>L-63 You know, some things... One thing about it, when a man meets God, you can always tell it. He will do the foolishest things to what he used to do. Look at Moses.
Now, Moses, the next morning after he'd met God in this burning bush and God had told him to go down to Egypt, he said, "First, show me Your glory." And He showed him Divine healing, how He could heal his hand with leprosy. And he was going down to Egypt.
Now look, the next morning, here he was on his road down. Now, he was eighty years old. You know, it taken forty years to school theology into him; it taken God forty years to beat it out of him (That's right.) to take out of him what the world had put in. But God can do it for you in forty seconds, if you'll just let Him do it. But then...

L-64 Now, here he was the next morning. One day a polished scholar, all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and the next morning, look at the scholar. He's got his wife setting in astraddle of a mule; she's got that young-un on her hip. And here he's got a big long...?... He's got a beard like this, his bald head shining, a stick in his hand, going down, limping along, "Glory, glory...?..."
"Where are you going, Moses?"
"What did you say? Huh?"
"Where you going?"
"Going down to Egypt to take over." One man and a baby... But he done it. He did it. Why? He met God. And when the troubles got harder, and the--everything going wrong, he remembered he had met God in that burning bush. That burned in his heart, no matter how bad the Egyptians got, and how much they wouldn't let the children go, how many times they spoiled in the desert, and said, "We would to God..." and wanted to stone him, and...
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I believe that didn't bother him a bit, he pressed on toward the promised land, for he had met God in a burning bush. Yes, sir.

L-65 It was the little virgin Mary, just an ordinary little girl, in a meaner city than this is. But she still didn't smoke or drink; she was a virgin. And she... One day she was on her road with a--probably a little bucket under her arm, going down to the public well to get--get some water, the daily supply of water.
Let's just imagine her going along side of the road, walking along, talking, or singing to herself, maybe some good hymn: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He restoreth my soul."

L-66 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] a pitcher it was in them days, instead of a bucket. And all at once the big Pillar of Fire pulled down in front of her. Out of that fire stepped Gabriel, the Archangel. Said, "Hail, Mary. (That means 'Stop. Wait a minute.') Stop, Mary. Blessed art thou among women. You've found favor with God, and you're going to have a baby, knowing no man."
Said, "How will this be?"
Said, "The Holy Ghost will overshadow you. And that holy Thing which will be born of you will be called the Son of God." Amen.
From that time on, Mary was a different woman. That little timid virgin was going around everywhere testifying, "I'm going to have a baby, knowing no man."

L-67 She didn't wait till she was positive; she didn't wait till she felt life; she didn't wait for no positive... The Angel's word was enough for her. She'd met God. Now, that... If you could do that now, if we had more Marys here tonight... If we had Marys that didn't, "Wait till I... See if I miss a little bit better, before I say anything." Before she felt anything or anything else, she just took God at His Word and started praising Him for it. Oh, my. Let's follow her a few minutes. Let's see her right quick.
She had a--a cousin named Elisabeth. And Elisabeth... The Angel told her, said, "Your cousin, Elisabeth's old..." Zacharias was a priest, met him in the temple, standing at the right-hand of the altar, and told him that he was going to have a son by Elisabeth. And she was going to conceive after the days of his ministrations at the temple. And she...


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