<TITLE>08. Par 64-68</TITLE>L-64 Well now, if we could just know that same thing, that our great Leader, the Holy Spirit, God has sent Him, and He's our Leader. And no matter what the world says, and how much they laugh at you and make fun of you, we follow our Leader. God sent the Holy Spirit to be our Leader. See? "A little while and the world seeth Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." So our great Leader is with us, the Holy Spirit. Now, we must follow this Leader and do just as He says do. And this Leader will never take us from the path, He'll keep us right in the path of the Scripture all the time. But He'll never go to one side for something, and this side for something. He'll stay right straight in the road of the Scriptures.

L-65 And Moses had a course that he was to take Israel, and follow then right across the Red Sea, right across Jordan, right into the promised land, right out through the wilderness. It wasn't Moses got out of line. It wasn't God out of line. It was the people out of line that caused the trouble. So let us think of these things now. (Pardon me.)
Moses, this anointed leader... Finally, when he had showed to the people by signs and wonders, that God alone could do... He performed these signs and wonders before the elders of Israel, and before Israel, until they were satisfied that this Moses was the anointed one that was to take them out of this country to that goodly land that they had been promised. Then when they seen these great things that Moses did in the Name of God, they were willing to follow him. And he taken them out, and led them through the Red Sea, crossed over as on dry land, and into the wilderness journey, which means the time of testings.

L-67 When a fellow receives Christ as his Saviour, everything is on the housetop. But before this man can come into the baptism of the Holy Spirit, this person, he must first have a sanctifying process. He must have a testing time in his life. All of you had it. He had this testing time. "Every son that cometh to God, is first scourged, chastened, chastised. And if we cannot stand chastisement, then it shows we're not children of God; we are bastards, and not children of God," the Bible said. But if we can stand the chastisement, knowing that "all things work together for good to them that love God," then we are sons and daughters of God; then He seals us with the Holy Spirit until the day of our redemption. See, that's the chastisement, the strain, the thing we go through. And Israel, as a historical type, had to take this chastisement.

L-68 Now, when they were down in Egypt, and God sent Moses and he stretched forth the rod, and fleas and lice come on the ground... He stretched forth towards the sun, and it went down. He stretched it over the waters, and they turned to blood. Why, Israel was over in Canaan's--over in--in Goshen, just having a glorious time; the sun never went down; the plagues never struck them; why, they were just having a glorious time, just like you did when you first got saved.
Everything, the birds sang different, and everybody was sweet. And, oh, my, how everything just was dandy when you first got saved. Then come the trying time, the chastening, sanctifying time, sanctifying yourself from things of the world, "laying aside the weights that does so easily beset you." You, a man, had to stop your smoking, stop your drinking, stop your going to the pool room, your all night card parties. All those things, you had to sanctify yourself from them by the faith in the Blood of Jesus Christ: sanctifying yourself. You women had to let your hair grow out, lengthen your dresses, and act like different than what you was: sanctifying time. Many times they'd rebel and go back; well, that's not a child of God. See? A child of God looks straight to Calvary and knows that it's for his good.


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