<TITLE>17. Par 72-76</TITLE>L-72 Oh, how many times could we... Look at Moses following in the line of God's commandments, went down into Egypt. Looked like everything was contrary. He had some impersonators that went with him. He went out with a couple of--of signs to show that he was sent: Throwed down a serpent and so forth like that, and here come the impersonators along and throwed theirs down. What could he do? Nothing. God never told him they was going to do that. He wanted to test Moses. He was the One Who permitted Jannes and Jambres to throw down their serpents--or their rods.
So there stood Moses in the line of duty. Throwed down his rod; it turned into a snake; he said, "Look at that, Pharaoh. That's what my Lord told me to come, do before you."
Pharaoh said, "Come here, Jannes and Jambres." They throwed their rods down; they turned into snakes. Watch what Moses did. Was his face red? No, sir. He still believed God sent him. He stayed with that promise and what happened?

L-73 That's when you're before the--some of your conference meetings. Your face might turn red a little bit. Stay with the Word.
What happened? All at once this big cobra of Moses come around and swallowed them up. God vindicated. After his test, he said, "I want you by this sign to let them children go out yonder. I want you to send them back home where they belong. God come down here--tell--sent me down here to deliver them. I want them to go back."
He throwed that down there. And oh, the test come. Moses, what are you going to do? turn around and walk away and say, "I might have been wrong"? No, sir. Moses stood right there. God commissioned this. Glory.

L-74 God says anything, stay with it. No matter what takes place, stay with it. If they put you out and say, "We won't cooperate, won't do this," stay with it.
Moses stayed right with it. What happened? He possessed the gate of his enemy. Hallelujah. The devil said, "I'll stretch the Dead Sea in front of you." But it opened up. They couldn't keep them in Egypt no longer. He possessed the gate of the enemy. Why? Because he stayed with the commission God give him. The commandments of God, he stayed with God's Word and he possessed the gates of the enemy.

L-75 Joshua, after he'd went through a test... He'd been down and had probably swam across Jordan, him and Caleb, with the spies. When he come back up from the Jordan, he got up to Kadesh-Barnea. And all of them said, "Oh if we start, that'll break our organizations to pieces. We just can't go..."
That spirit don't die. "Oh, we can't have that. If we teach that to our people, what will we do? We'd take pretty near half the deacons in the church out. They're married twice, three times. What will we do? We... Why, if we told our women that they had to wear long hair, you know what they'd do? They'd leave the church. And what would we do? Why, we'd be considered old fashion."

L-76 Jesus was old fashion too. "We can't do that. We can't do that. It's too much for us." You know what a borderline believer gets to. Hebrews the 6th chapter explains that. "He which was once enlightened, been made partakers of the Holy Ghost, then fall away, to renew himself again..." He come to that borderline and refused to go over (That's it.), refused to completely believe, 'cause...
What did Caleb do? What did Joshua do? He said, "We're more than able to take it." Why? They stayed with what God promised.
Why, they said, them others said, "Why, they're giants. They got all walled in; they're and this way. Why, we couldn't touch them in no way."
Joshua said, "We're more than able to do it. Quieten, you people. Shut-up, set down." Amen.


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