<TITLE>15. Par 63-67</TITLE>L-63 Every son that comes to God must be tested, tried. In the Old Testament a son was born in a family, but he had to be tutored and raise up and tried. And then he was placed as a son, or adoption--placed into the body, or in... Then when he was placed, once placed, then his name was just as good on the check as his father's was. He was heir of all things. That's where God is bringing His church, giving them a testing.
There laid the Red Sea right in the path of duty. What could they do? Now, it looked like that all nature was crying for them. There was Pharaoh's army a-coming, the chariots. Here was the mountains on either side. The Red Sea had them trapped. Looked like it was a... looked like nature would have screamed, with that great army of two and a half million people down there in that valley--helpless, no swords, nothing to fight with. So what happened? There was emergency on, and Moses selected a certain rock and went in behind it and called a conference. I like that. "What must I do, Lord?"

L-64 Wouldn't if be good it all the churches would call a conference right now? When we see the way things are going, if we couldn't call a conference, and realize and go back and find out what kind of a church God had at the beginning? Call a conference and reason it out together on with another? See what the first church did, what kind of a spirit was in them, and what kind of signs followed them, what kind of ministry they had, what kind of a people they were? Wouldn't it be wonderful if we'd do that? It would be a wonderful thing!
Moses did that. He crawled over behind a rock somewhere, and said, "Lord, what can I do? Here's these people. I'm straight in the line of duty. I did exactly what You told me to do. And here I come right up against this.

L-65 Maybe you're sitting here tonight, an old mother, who's raising a bunch of children. Raise them up as much as Susanna Wesley. She had seventeen children, yet she could find three hours a day to pray and lead them to God. That's the reason she had a Charles and a John. Nowadays we push a button, wash the dishes; push a button, wash the clothes; and haven't got time for nothing. See, something wrong somewhere. Now, oh how the devil can do the people.

L-66 Notice, but now they had this conference, and Moses consulted God. He waited there until he got orders--like Adam did. He waited till there was orders what to do. Moses waited until he got orders like he did up there. What... "How am I going to deliver them? What can I do?"
"Go down and tell them, I AM sent you." That was it.
Now, here he's straight in the line of order again, right in the line of duty, and the enemy comes up. Maybe he's come upon you, maybe on you, maybe on you, you, you... all around here. Heart trouble, diseases, afflictions in your body, what can you do? Have you prayed up? Is everything all right? Then let's have a conference. Amen! Let's find out what to do.

L-67 You say, "Brother Branham, I've tried to get the Holy Ghost. I've sought God, I've sought God, and I can't get the Holy Ghost."
Let's have a conference then and find out what's wrong. The Holy Spirit's a revealer of the secrets of the heart. The Bible said so. Let's find out what's wrong. Let's see what's the reason you don't receive the Holy Ghost. Find out what's wrong. Let's have a conference.
Moses had a conference, and he waited until he got orders. I'm against a lot of this here super-duper divine healing they have in the land today. You might not like me after this remark, but I'm going to say it anyhow. They got so much super-duper stuff. "Oh, divine healing, everybody, only thing you have to do is--Hallelujah--is have the hands laid on you. Oh, glory to God!" That's not so. Repent, and get right with God! That's what we need--more repentance.


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