<TITLE>15. Par 45-47</TITLE>L-45 The old colored man down south carrying a Bible, they said, "What are you carrying that Bible for, Mose? You can't read."
Said, "I believe it."
Said, "Well, how--how do you know it's right?"
He said, "Well, it's... I believe it from civer to civer, the civer also." Says, "It's got Holy Bible wrote on it."
Said, "I guess you believe all that's in there."
Said, "Yes, sir."
"I guess you believe whatever God would tell you to do, you'd do it."
He said, "I'd do it."
Said, "What if He'd tell you to jump through that wall, that stone wall? How are you going to get through there?"
He said, "If He'd tell me to jump, I'd jump. He'd make a hole when I got there."
So that's right. So that's the thing you have to do, is take God, and believe it, and jump anyhow. If you know you could explain it, understand it, then it wouldn't be faith no more. Your faith is what you believe that He has done for you. "And faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." You don't see it. You can't figure it out. There's no way to figure out God. You just got to believe Him, and keep walking on. He said so. That's how I stand in the pulpit for the visions. That's what... He tells me go do certain things that seems humanly impossible, and you all know that. It is humanly impossible, but He said do it. Just go on. He's the One to take care of it. And He will do it. Yes. How great Thou art.

L-46 When Moses was trapped in this place here, now, he's right in the line of duty, right in the line of duty. God led him right down there. What's He going to do? The Red Sea, a trap set exactly. But Moses just marched forward on. One writer, I believe, said that God looked down through that Pillar of Fire with angry eyes, looked down at that Red Sea that was trying to cut off his children in the line of duty. And said the sea got scared, and rolled back, and just made a path for them.
Well, if He could look through a Pillar of Fire and do that, what would it do when He looked through the Blood of His own Son? Had a confessor standing there with a promise that God swore He would take care of it, and swore that He would--that his seed of Abraham should possess the gates of the enemy. Sure. He's duty bound to do it by the Blood of His own Son laying on the mercy seat tonight. Oh, if we could get away from this earthbound ideas, and look up yonder, see who made the promise, the very God of creation. Yes.

L-47 Joshua also, after he'd had a trial at Kadesh, come back and ninety percent of the ministers said, "We can't take it."
Joshua said, "We're more than able to take it," him and Caleb. And he was--the only two out of the two and a half million people that went over. What did he do? He come down to Jordan, holding him out of the promised land. But he possessed the gate of the enemy. Why? Because He took God at His Word. He'd had a trial, and he believed it. He knowed God kept His Word. So he possessed the gate of the enemy.
I could go on and on, but I'm overtime. All these great warriors, every one of them, they done great things, they--they--great miracles, and wandered about in sheepskins, and deserts, and was destitute, and some sawed asunder, and all different things. As Hebrews 11 says, all these great warriors all come down to die. Every one of them come down to die.


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