<TITLE>08. Par 32-36</TITLE>L-32 Now, look at Moses. Moses, this great old sheepherder now, he was already eighty years old. He was forty before he took his stand for God. And then he herded sheep out there. And I guess he was forty years in the desert, and he was getting to be an old man, perhaps gray whiskers, and long flowing gray hair. And here he was, not in church; he was under Mount Horeb. And God never come down through a sermon, but in a burning bush (See?): an unexpected time, an unexpected place, and in an unexpected way. Why, he thought God would meet him out there with his stick in his hand, or sword, or whatever he killed the Egyptian with.
But God met him not even in church: under the mountain. God met him not in the hymns, but in a burning bush. And not when he was a young man, but when he was an old man, God called him after he was eighty years old. Think of it. So sometimes we think because we're thirty-five or forty, whatever you are... You're never too old. You've got a soul that's got to live forever.

L-33 So just remember, it's always that way: that, God the unchangeable God in a unexpected time, in a unexpected way, in an unexpected place.
Let's take Jacob. Jacob was running. He got caught between two fires. Now, he was going home, and Laban, his father-in-law, was coming this a-way after him, because his wife had stole their gods. And then he finds out Esau's coming this way after him--his brother, who he had cheated. Now, that was quite an unexpected time for God to visit him. But he was... Here come Laban this way, and here come Laban coming this a-way, and Esau this a-way.
But Jacob crossed the little brook, and then he got down to business. And maybe for the first time in his life he got a hold of something that was real. And he was able to hold on until the blessing come.

L-34 That would be a great lesson for all of us. When you once get a hold of something that's real, hold to it. Don't turn it loose. No matter how many times the sun passes over, or whatever takes place, how many hungry pains comes, whatevermore, hold onto it until you are blessed of it, till you have the promise of it. Hold on.
He put his wife, and all, away from him, and separated himself, and held on because he was caught between two fires. And God met him in an unexpected way, in a unexpected time, in a unexpected place. That's where God met him.

L-35 Isaiah the prophet, a young fellow, had leaned upon the good king's arm, and he was a good man. And he'd had things easy. But one day the king died. And Isaiah the prophet went down to the altar in the house of God. And while he was praying there, he was caught between his own sins and the vision. And he screamed out, "Woe is me," when he seen the Angels with wings over their faces, wings over their feet, and flying, crying, "Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord." He cried, "Woe is me, for I'm a man of unclean lips." He was caught in an unexpected time, an unexpected place.
He thought, "I'll go down and say my prayers, and get up and go on, because people believe I'm a good preacher, or pastor, or something another." But he was caught there. Not only was he caught in this condition with the vision, but he was caught with unclean lips in the house of the living God.
Oh, brother, if that would search out through this city tonight, and tomorrow morning, of ministers who would stand and tell you that there is no such a thing as Divine healing, and there's no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Spirit, there'd be some more crying out "Woe is me, with unclean lips." It is true. Yes, very much so.

L-36 The Hebrew children, now, they were caught in quite a predicament too. They were caught in an unexpected place where they met God (for God to come to them, in a fiery furnace), unexpected time, an unexpected way. But God is the inchangeable--unchangeable God, and He does things that way; unexpectable place, unexpectable time, and so forth.


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