<TITLE>11. Par 45-49</TITLE>L-45 When Moses got that experience of that burning bush... Persistent, why, one little error, and he run out of Egypt. And notice, out of the will of God he went down there and killed one man, and it was held against him. And then God went down with him and killed the whole nation, and it was a glory. That was the difference.
Now. Moses... Sometimes when you meet God it makes you act funny. You really do. Now, Moses was once... When he went out to deliver the children he was a young warrior and strong. But we find out when he got to be about eighty years old, his whiskers hanging way down, and perhaps his bald head blistered nearly in the sun... And when he... The next morning after he'd met God in this burning bush, we find him with Zipporah setting straddle of a mule, with her young'un on her hip--leading this donkey with a crooked stick in his hand, the whiskers blowing, his eyes set, just laughing and praising God. Somebody said, "Where are you going, Moses?"
"I'm going down to Egypt to take over."

L-46 What was it? A one-man invasion. But what? He was persistent because he had met God, and he knowed God said, "Surely I'll be with you." And he did it. He took it over. Why? He could be persistent because God said, "I'll be with you." Didn't make any difference what the obstacle. When he got there, the first thing he met was somebody to try to impersonate the work that he was doing for God: same thing. That's what you always...
As I said the other night here, or some other meeting, you always meet three classes, that's believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. And so, you find them everywhere. So here come these magicians up to try to impersonate with their super-sensory perception, and they throwed down these serpents to try to... or sticks, to make them serpents.
Moses had done all he could do. That's what God commissioned him to do, so he just stood still. Hallelujah. When you've done all you can do, then it's up to God to do the rest. Then Moses' serpent come around and eat up theirs. Now, you that believe in super-sensory perception, what happened to them sticks? Amen. That's it. He was persistent.

L-47 Little old David one day, the littlest and the most insignificant one standing there... Saul, the general, head and shoulders above all of his army, great big fellow, he challenged Goliath, or met his challenge, rather. Well, now, David, a little ruddy fellow, little, stoop-shouldered, with a little sheepskin vest on here, had a slingshot. But he was persistent that he could fight that giant. What made the spunk in that little fellow? He had something in him.

L-48 I was going down in... I believe it was Georgia, somewhere down there. Was having (with Rufus Mosely and them, many of you knew him.)... And I was having a meeting down there in a football stadium. And I seen a little sign that always encouraged me. It said, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but it's the size of the fight in the dog." So that's the way it is. You don't have to have a Ph.D., L.L. double L.D., Q.S.T., or whatever it is. Only thing you have to have is a good old Christian spunk, with an understanding that God sent you.

L-49 Like I was saying this morning of Hudson Taylor, when a man told him--a young Chinese boy said, "Mr. Taylor, I have just received Christ. It's burning in my heart. Now, I'll have to have four years to get my--my B.A., and my doctor's degree, and so forth."
Mr. Taylor said, "Don't wait till the candle's half-burnt before you try to show your light." Said, "Go do it now."
I thought, "Amen." That's right. Don't wait around this, that, or the other. Great big schools of theology, they're all right. They was in days gone by. But brother, what we need today is not a school of theology; we need some lit candles.


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