<TITLE>16. Par 110-118</TITLE>L-110 Oh, he run like a coward with all of his education. All of his theology, he failed. All of his great things, he failed. But one day in a burning bush God met him. When God come to him in this burning bush, watch him, with a stick in his hand, his wife on a mule, with little Gershom setting on her hip, on his road to Egypt. What was he? Going down to take over. He was--had perseverance; he was very persistent.
"Moses, do you think you at eighty years old, and with a crooked stick in your hand, dry as it can be..." A crooked stick, a one man invasion, going down to Egypt like one man going over to Russia to take over... We only need... God only needs one man. That's only... He only needs one man completely in His hand. One man, that's all He needs. He can shake Russia to pieces with that one man.

L-112 He took Noah, or Moses, pardon me... He took Moses while he was running this a-way, settled down to a nice life, lovely young girl, married her, had a baby, falling heir to his father-in-law's sheep, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He had everything made, had a nice home, place, comfortable living out there, and hunt every once in a while with his crossbow, maybe, and kill a deer, and plenty of berries, and plenty of sheep, and wool and trade, the caravans come through. Why, he had it made, nothing he had to worry about. But one day, one day the burden of the people of... His people that was burdened was done left his mind. They were down in Egypt. He had failed, so God can do something else about it. But one day when God met him in a burning bush, you talk about perseverance, here he goes.
"Where's your army?"
"I don't need any. My army is an unseen army." Like it was at Dothan one morning with the prophet... "My army is an unseen army." Here he goes; the only thing you can see is an old crooked stick, leading this mule behind, and the whiskers a-blowing. "Praise God." His eyes set towards heaven, going down to take over.
Sometimes faith makes you act ridiculous to the carnal mind. But if it's God's Word, it's got to come to pass. Be perseverant, see God make it come to pass.

L-115 He went down; he was very persistent. Walked up in the front of Pharaoh, looked like he was going to fail. He said, "I'll show you whether I'm sent of God or not." He throwed down the stick on the floor like that, as if to say, and the--turned into a serpent. He and Aaron... And he just called over two astrologers, or two devil-possessed men like we're got in the last days, imitating to the very elect, if possible. That's right. Come down, throwed their sticks down, turned the same thing. Now, Moses knowed this one thing, that the God that sent him was able to take care of him. Now, he didn't know what to act next.

L-116 You get to a place you don't know what to do, and people say, "He never got healed. Why, there's the thing still there." If God placed that in your heart, you stand still. You just keep right on testifying to the glory of God. Keep on.
Moses said, "I know God sent me." What happened? The serpent blowed three or four time, this big, perhaps a python or something, raised over and swallowed up the others. Did you ever think what become of them other sticks? They only picked up the one. He'd eat the rest of them up. They wasn't no more. That's the way God will do one of these days by His power. Yes.

L-118 Moses was perseverant. Then the first thing you know, He sent him out, and said, "Do this, Pharaoh." And he said, "If you don't, we're going to do so-and-so." And he called on God, and He sent flies, fleas, everything else upon the earth. What was he? He was determined. God told him, "Bring them children back to this mountain, back here." He knowed he had the will of God; he knowed he had the vision before him. He knowed that heavens and earth would pass away, but that vision could not fail. So he went down there, persistent.


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