<TITLE>14. Par 47-49</TITLE>L-47 As I started to speak this morning--when I was interrupted by having to leave--Moses, he was a great military man, we're told by historians. And he tried within himself, knowing he was called to the ministry. Now, brethren, this is a lesson for us all. He knowed he had a call in the ministry. We know that ourselves, but let's watch what we do with it. Moses knowed, his mother had taught him, that he was to be the deliverer. He was borned a proper child, and how he was nurtured by his mother, and brought up right under Pharaoh's doorstep, and really had his foot on the throne. He knew that he was to be God's deliverer, but he tried to do it in his own system.
And we know we're ministers, that God called us, but let's not try to do it by seeing how many we get in our organization. If we do, we're going to make the same mistake they made. Let's follow the Spirit. Let's go with God.

L-48 Moses had maybe never heard the voice of God, but he knowed by intellectual, he knowed by a feeling inside of him, that he was the deliverer. But he tried to do it and failed, so he said, "Maybe I made a mistake."
There might be preachers setting out here the same way, that thought you made a mistake, when you found your failure. You just never waited long enough. The Bible said, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength... mount up with wings like an eagle."
Moses thought that maybe he'd missed his calling. But one day when God spoke to him face to face, and he heard the Word of God, my Angel spoke to him, and it co--coincides with the Word... When he saw that the voice that spoke to him was the same thing the Word had promised, then he had faith, and he was certain that he was going down there; he was certain Israel was going to come out from under the bondage, because God made the promise. It was a Scriptural promise. And the voice spoke to Moses and said, "I have heard the cries of my people, and I've remembered my covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I am sending you down to deliver them."

L-49 You know when a man really follows God's Word, sometimes he acts silly to the world. Could you imagine an old man building on an ark, standing there building an ark. It was silly to the world. And as I said, an old man now, here, eighty years old... It looked like if God was going to use him, He'd have used him when he was a little curly-headed boy, or when he was just at his best in his education.
Take forty years to knock that out of him, so He could use him. Taken forty years to take out of him what Pharaoh and his education had put in him.
Taken three years for God to take it out of Paul, down in Arabia: to get him back to God. Got him back to the Word, of all--out of all the great (as good as it was), the theology he learnt by Gamaliel.
And as fine as his theology was, that he--Moses learned from Pharaoh, yet, taken God forty years to get it all out of him.


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