<TITLE>11. Par 86-91</TITLE>L-86 Think of it. How great God is and what simplicity He works in. Surely if the uneducated can understand it, the educated should. If the slaves in the slime pits of Egypt could understand that that was a prophet from God and the hour was at hand, how much more ought the Pharaoh's palace to know it. But that's the kind that doesn't know it. That's the kind that misses it always.
And that Moses stood looking through those windows at those children of Israel passing by... To Israel... To Pharaoh they were slaves and dogs; to Moses they were the elect of God. The Bible said that Moses chose, made his own choosing, to suffer the reproach of Christ, esteeming it greater riches than the pleasures of sin, for he had recompense unto the reward.

L-88 Moses knew that them wasn't mud daubers; them were a people with a promise. Himself, he knew who he was. He couldn't tell them; they've got to recognize it themselves. He knew himself what his work was to--to be done. He knew that God had raised him up for this purpose, but he couldn't tell them. And as long as they were blind to it, he never did reveal himself openly until they recognized it. Then they seen that sign, and they knowed it.
He said, "I'll give Israel a sign. Take this stick; turn it into a snake. If they won't listen to that, then put your hand in your bosom, pull it out; heal yourself of leprosy, then they'll believe it. And then if they won't hear it, take waters out of the Nile down there, pour it upon the dry land, and all the waters will become blood." That was a national sign. The people will believe it when... Them that's ready to receive it will believe it when they see the sign of God moving. But the nation has to have something different. So He give it all a sign.

L-90 God used a man, a humble man, a prophet to be a sign of the end of that national condition down there. God, send us another one; raise us up another one. And if the people of God would go to praying for such, He'd raise him up. It's the people's got to get that burden. They've got to wake up. They've got to realize. They've got to know what day we're living in and what the situation is around us before they ever wake up. You go right on living just like you always did: "Got to build a new home next year. I got to get a better car than the Joneses. I got to do this..." Oh, so much on this, when you realize, no matter... That's all right, but you must realize, brother, that all this stuff will perish. Jesus, said, "Don't fear him who can kill the body (Russia's atomic bomb)... Don't fear him who could turn this body into volcanic dust in a few minutes, but fear Him who can turn the body that way and cast the soul into hell." That's it.

L-91 As I was speaking to a doctor out at the hospital when my mother was there... He was talking about how great science was to work on different matters of the body, and put medicine in it, and see why it would kill a certain germ, and save the germ of life. I said, "That's wonderful. That's just dandy." I listened at him for a while, but I said, "Doctor, that's good. I appreciate that. That's so fine; I--I certainly am thankful to God for that. But look, you're spending all your life on trying to find something on a creation, but why not some time thinking about Who created it. Who made it? Who's the designer of it? God is the Designer of it. How much greater is the Creator than the creation that He made? Why do we put so much emphasis upon the creation when we don't think about the Creator Who made heavens and earth and made the body and life, and can destroy it any time He desires, because it's His."


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