<TITLE>15. Par 153-158</TITLE>L-153 We know he was strong and well trained, so he took upon himself, seeing the need of the day... Oh, may God let this sink home. Seeing the need of the day, Moses with his intellectual powers and his ability that he had to do it with... He was a smart man. He was the coming Pharaoh. He had psychology. He had--he had power. He had physical strength. He had--he had everything. So he said, "I'm well equipped. I know all of it. And if there's a man in the land that's able to do it, I am. So I'm the man of the hour, so I'll step out." And he went out to accomplish a work that was right and in the will of God, and he offered his natural abilities. And God refused it. He couldn't use one thing Moses had.
He couldn't use it then, nor He--neither can He use it now. God cannot use our natural abilities. We've got to get ourselves and our abilities out of the way and surrender to the will and power of God.

L-155 Say, "Well, brother, I can preach." He can't use that as long as you can preach. "That's all right. I can do this. I can do that." You can't do nothing. Well, then God can't use it. But if you'll yield yourself to God and let Him do it...
You say, "Well, Brother Branham, I know. I'm a teacher." Well, as long as you're the teacher, why, He won't get very far. But the Holy Spirit is our Teacher. Sure It is. God sent the Holy Spirit to be Tutor over the Church.
Some people go to school for years and years and years. What do they do? Read articles out of the "Upper Room," and so... (Oh, that's good.) You take the "National Sunday School Lesson." I have nothing against that. That's Words of God, and things, but it's put together with intellectuals. It's got to come by the power and the resurrection of Christ, and you cannot depend on your natural abilities.

L-158 So Moses, this young, fine strong giant, intellectual man, he set out to do a good work; but God simply, absolutely could not use it. He could not use his natural abilities.
And we cannot... It isn't today, that we cannot... God cannot use our natural abilities.
But there's one thing Moses had that I admire; he had sense enough to know that he was licked. We haven't. That's all. "We'll make a new denomination. We'll get somebody else with a healing gift or something," the Pentecostals. You see? See? We--we just don't know enough to realize that we're licked. The Pentecostal church, the Assemblies of God, the United, the rest of them seem like they haven't got the ability to know that they're licked. Hallelujah. Oh, I wish I could make this stick. They are licked. The church organization is licked, just the same as this United States is licked, trembling and fearing, and bombs hanging yonder for them; they know they've danced away and gaited their life to hell. And they're licked. The Spirit's went out of them. You'd have to comb trees to get young men to the army; they seen what happened in the other one. We're licked. The church is licked. They know that.


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