<TITLE>17. Par 173-185</TITLE>L-173 Now, look at the difference between that Moses meeting God, and Moses looking upon the...?... like today. Said, "Say, we need so-and-so. We need a revival in the land. I'll tell you what I'm going to do; I'm going back and study till I get my Bachelor of Art. Uh-huh. I'm going back and study till I can get ordained as a LL.D.. I'm going to study literature. I'm going to do all this; then I'll go out and I'll be the man of the hour. I'll smother all these guys down that started off out here. (Oh, brother.) I'll get me a three-million-dollar building. I'll get me a dozen Cadillacs. And..." Oh, brother. You might--you might as well not start, 'cause you're licked to begin with. You see? But the trouble of it is, they don't know it.

L-174 They think you have to have curly hair and wear tuxedo suits and say "aaaaamen" so beautiful, and all like this, and be a prince. That's a woman's puppet. God wants men, godly men, men that can shake.
But today we want Hollywood. We want something that--that's desirable to the eye. We want something that can speak so intellectually that he can let us sleep for five minutes while he--on Sunday morning.
God wants separators who will send her forth like a blaze of lightning, condemn sin to the roots (That's right.), dig it out.
But we are... We want our intellectual pastors. Most the people wants a whispering pastor, somebody say, "Yes, dearie."
God wants thunderbolts. Yes, sir. Pat them on the back, and them short hair, and makeup on, and everything else, and wearing clothes that they was poured into, and all like that, and don't say a word about it...
A great man called me on into his office here (or not his office), his field office, here a little--not long ago, said, "I want to lay hands on you that you'll stop that."
I said, "Don't you do it. Don't you do it. No, sir."
When you stop that, you stop the Message. You stop God when you do that. Yes, sir. We don't want none of that.

L-181 Did God feel sorry for Moses with all of his weaknesses, said, "Poor little Moses, some--something sure has happened to you; you fell from your degree. Oh, my. Here, yeah, you was a great man, an intellectual, and there wasn't nothing going to stop you. Brother, you had all your Ph.D.'s and LL.D.'s, and everything else, and now here you come confessing that you are nothing, you can't do a thing. You're--you're just so weak." No. God wasn't sorry for him. God never took pity on him. God had him cured then of all that stuff. He wasn't sorry for him.
But we find out, if you're putting it down, Exodus 4:14, "The anger of God was kindled against him." God wasn't sorry for him 'cause he was weak.

L-183 You say, "O Lord, I just feel so bad. I don't believe I could do it." God don't feel sorry for you: feels like kicking you around a little bit. See, see? Sure. God don't feel sorry for you; He--He gets angry with you. You're just getting in shape then to where He can use you. Yeah.
Moses getting cured up, God could use him. He had the cure; he was away from human abilities then. He didn't have nothing he could rely upon then, 'cause he--he was ready then for the service.

L-185 God said, "Forty years out here I've had you and Zipporah fussing and carrying around out here in this wilderness, whether you could find out there's human weakness or not, where you're standing up there as a big prince, 'Hello, Doctor Moses. Good morning, Reverend, Sir. Yes, sir. Moses, you're the coming prince. All... We all think of you.' Now, you're out here in the desert with a bunch of sheep and a high-tempered wife." See? That fixed him up. Yes, sir. Moses in an awful shape, and He said, "Now, I can use you, when you realize that you're nothing. Now, come on up here by this burning bush; I want to send you down yonder." Oh, my.
God, give us some more of that kind; give us some more weaklings. That's what we need: some weaklings. Sure.


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