<TITLE>08. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 I was speaking the other night and said, "As Israel..." Not... They didn't know where they were going. They just had a promised land. But before they got to this promised land a great warrior named Joshua (which means Jehovah, Saviour) went over into the promised land and brought back the evidence that the land was there, just the way God promised it. They had the evidence with them. Then he could be perseverant. That's the reason he hushed Israel in their argument. They said, "We can't take it. Oh, we--we must go back. We must do this..."
He said, "We're more than able to take it." Why? He was looking what God said. And he had the evidence.

L-26 When Jesus come on the scene, He promised us a land. "In My Father's house are many mansions." And there's life beyond death. And He crossed Jordan, what we call Jordan, death. He crossed over into the other land and brought back the evidence.
On the third day He rose again. He eat, drank, and He said, "Feel me; I'm not a spirit; I'm flesh and bones." And He said, "I'm going to give you a Earnest of this, but wait up there for ten days."
They got perseverant after that too, because they had the--the power, the evidence of the resurrection in them. That's the reason they loved not their lives unto death, because they could be perseverant, they had the evidence. They--they had achieved something through Jesus Christ's death.
Does He mean that to you this afternoon? Can you be perseverant in saying, "I believe it. No matter what happens, it's still mine because I'm risen with Him already in resurrection. I look back, and see the life that I once lived I don't live no more." What's the matter? That shows you died with Him and you're risen with Him. And you have the earnest, the first payment, on your Eternal resurrection.

L-27 Yes, Moses failed. But one day... You know, Moses had never heard the voice of God. He'd just been told by his mama and the teachers of that day, such-and-such was coming, God was going to send a deliverer. His mother said, "Son, I believe you're that person." Moses didn't know for sure. He couldn't understand. Therefore, the first little mistake come up, the first little flaw, the little threat, he ran to the wilderness.
But one day, while he was herding sheep, he found a burning bush. And from that burning bush came a voice, and it said, "Surely, I'll be with you." He was perseverant. Why? He had faith. "I'll be with you."
"I--I'm a man of slow speech."
He said, "Who makes man deaf, or dumb, or to speak?"
"Uh, they won't believe me."
"I'll be with you."
Then he was perseverant. When he went in there before Pharaoh and he seen some of them people trying to...
(Am I doing something wrong here, I guess. I walk too much. That's... Thank you. Sorry, brother. I guess I deafen you too. If you'd run that down a little bit, I--it'd be better, perhaps. I... )

L-28 Down there in Egypt, Moses come into conflict. And so... A man has to know what he's talking about if you're going to be perseverant. So he run into conflict. He run into some impersonators that was trying to do the same thing he did. And they did it, in a measure. But that didn't stop him. He was perseverant. Because he seen mockers of the right thing... He just continued right on, because that he knew that God sent him. And what the outcome in, that's up to God.
When Israel cried, he was perseverant. "We're pressing on." When they wanted to go back, he said, "We're pressing on." He was perseverant. Yes, he was persistent. Persistent, my, what that means to us today. Men of all ages who's got faith in God is persistent.


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