<TITLE>17. Par 69-73</TITLE>L-69 Now, let's take another fellow. There was a man by--by the name of Moses, was on the backside of the desert--just as full of doctrine as he could be. He knowed all the--the ins-and-outs of all things; he could even teach the Egyptians, the smartest people in the world. He could teach them some theology.
But one day out there, he--he saw something on fire, and it kindly attracted him. That's what it needs today, is a church on fire to attract some of these Moseses around here somewhere, to attract some of these sinners. It takes fire to give an attraction.
You let a--a--a scream go up the street, "a fire," real... everybody'd jump in their car and try to follow it. There's something attractive about a fire. What we need tonight is the Holy Ghost and fire. That'll attract the believer that sees something.

L-70 I remember an old friend of mine named Ben Pemberman. Oh, he's quite a fellow. Over in St. Louis he had a tent meeting going on down there and nobody would attend it. So he run down the street there a little piece, right in the middle of the aisle, down there going, "Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!" And up the street he went throwing his hat as hard as he could. Had a tent up there and everybody begin to run to see what was the matter with this crazy guy. He run up there and jumped up the pole and come right down (just a clown, like), come right down and jumped up in the pulpit, hollered, "Holy Ghost and fire!" and then started preaching just as hard as he could. That's... See, something... Attract the attention. And the best thing to attract a wayward man is Holy Ghost and fire. That's the way God did it.

L-71 Now, Moses didn't think he could do it. He tried it on his own doctrinal standpoints and it didn't work. But God, one day spoke to him and said, "Take off your shoes, Moses. I know you're a prince in Egypt, but you're nothing in my sight. Get off your shoes. You're on holy ground. Get all--rid of all that stuff you got in you." And he heard a sound. He said, "I'm going to send you down to deliver My people." Now, it wasn't uncertain.
Now, how did Moses know that wasn't uncertain? What if he'd said, "Who is this talking to me? What is it?" Because the voice that's talked to him was exactly with the Scripture. That's how you know whether it's a certain sound or not--or an uncertain sound. If the Scripture... If the voice talking to you isn't Scriptural, then don't listen to it. See? But if it's Scriptural, hear it, 'cause it's God's voice. See? He said, "I have heard the cries of My people, and I have seen their tasks, their suffering and their taskmasters, what they done, and I have remembered My promise and My covenant." See?
Moses said, "That's exactly the Scripture." Now, that's what you want to do: hear what kind of a sound it's got. See whether it's a Scriptural sound. If it's Scriptural sound, then it's a certain sound, because God's promises is true. If the Bible...

L-72 If you hear some little scholar come out of the seminary and say, "Aw, there's no such thing as Divine healing; that's all worked up." Listen, brother, that's a tinkling brass and a sounding symbol. Don't you listen to that. Yes, sir.
But when you hear Him say, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever," that's a--that's a certain sound. That--that's exactly, "I'm the Lord, heals all thy diseases," that's a certain sound. See? Now, you listen to the certain sound, not the uncertain. Now...

L-73 And Moses went down and delivered the children, because he had a certain sound. The Hebrew children heard a certain sound, no doubt, that night in the prayer meeting. "Our God's able to deliver us. Nevertheless, we won't take nothing else but His Word. We're standing just exactly true to It. No matter what happens, we're go..." It was a certain sound. That's right. They know what they was talking about.


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