<TITLE>16. Par 161-170</TITLE>L-161 Moses realized it, and he knowed enough then... God took him back in the back in the wilderness to learn him some human weaknesses. He took him back to learn him what it was all about. So well did he learn. Oh, my, did he ever get a lesson. God must've had a time with him back there. You know, Moses had a temper; and God give him the wife by name of Zipporah; she had one too. So I imagine everything wasn't so pleasing back on the backside of the desert for a while when both of their tempers got out of control at the same time.
I suppose his intellectual conception of how psychology ought to control a person didn't do much good, because when he was on his road down to Egypt, I see Zipporah still had a temper. She cut the foreskin of her son off and throwed it before Moses, said, "You're a bloody husband to me."
God was so angry with him He looked for him in the end, if He could've found him He'd have slayed him. I guess there was a little things God had to teach him back there (See?) that he was a human. All of his wisdom of Egypt, all of his powers of intellectual, God could not use a one of them.

L-164 You come, say, "Now, Lord, I've been schooled for forty years now. I'm--I'm an intellectual student. I can quote that Bible with my eyes closed." God can't use a bit of that. See? No.
"Oh, I belong to the biggest church there is in the country. I--I'm the... I'm this, Lord. Oh, I'm a Pentecostal. I... Glory to God. I just received the Holy Ghost the other night. Hallelujah. You're going to make me to do so-and-so." God can't use a bit of that. No. Whenever you get licked and realize you're licked, and then come on back and humble yourself. Get weak, find out you're human. And there's none of your intellectuals can do to... Human weaknesses will never be used of God; God by the human weaknesses pours Himself into you, then He uses Himself. You just become an instrument. Certainly. You've got to get yourself out of the way.

L-167 Moses, oh, he learned, he learned human weaknesses real good. He learned it so well, till when God called him, he had seven weaknesses that he could argue against God's call. Did you ever study in the first part of Exodus, the seven weaknesses? I--I got them wrote out here; I want you to listen to them:
The first weakness he had was the lack of a message.
Second weakness he had was the lack of authority.
The third weakness he had was a lack of eloquence.
The fourth was adaption.
The fifth one was success.
And the sixth one was exception.

L-168 Now, you compare yours with his and see if you can come up with that, see if you can get as weak as he was. "Lord, I--I ain't no good. I can't speak. I--I--I slew an Egyptian. I can't go back. Oh, everything. They won't receive me. I got no message. I got... I can't speak. And I'm--I'm slow in speech." And see how he was? He was nothing. Brother, he'd been cured. Yeah, God could use him then after he was cured. See? Yeah, that's...
He can use us after we get cured to find that "My Ph.D. and LL.D. and double L.D.," or whatever it might be, "all my degrees is nothing." God can't use them.

L-170 "Well, I'm Assembly of God. I'm a Oneness. I'm a Baptist. I'm a Presbyterian." God can't use a bit of that. Quicker you get away from it, well, the better off you--you'll--you'll yield yourself to God.
Like the prophet was, said, "I'm a man of unclean lips and among unclean people." And the Angel went and got a--a tongs, and went up to the altar, and got a coal of fire, and touched his lips. Then he cried out, "Lord, here am I; send me." Yeah, after he'd realized that he... Yet being a prophet, he had unclean lips.
Soon as we can realize that we are--we are nothing, that you're nothing, you're dust of the earth. God cannot use you. Yes, your experi... All your weaknesses wouldn't match Moses. He had six different weaknesses here, and he'd learned human weakness.


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