<TITLE>18. Par 61-64</TITLE>L-61 One time a runaway prophet in his intellectual conception of what God was, knowing that he was a called man, had all... He could even teach the wisdom of--of Egypt, he could teach their teachers wisdom. But run away, married a beautiful little Ethiopian girl, living out there behind the desert, all settled down, the burden of the people was gone.
That's what's the matter with the churches in the world today. We've lost the burden. There's no more prayer meetings. There's no more... Seems like it's dead. I am not scolding. I'm just making a true statement, brethren. And you all know that. You see it in your churches. We... It's something's happened. There's just no interest no more. Something's wrong. The fire's went out. In the old Roman temple of Vesta when the fires went out, the people went home; business was over. Oh, kindle the fires again, the fire on the altar of our heart. Yes. Oh, get God back in our midst. "Get God back," is our cry.

L-62 Now, Moses done lost the burden of his people. He'd failed with his intellectual conception of the Word. And he's walking around on the backside of the desert one day, and there was a Fire in a bush. That Light that had followed him was in the--was going to follow him was in the bush. He walked up to the side of that bush took off his shoes, and a voice said, "I have seen the affliction of My people." There's somebody still interested. That's God.
He said, "I've seen the affliction of My people. I've heard the groaning, the reasons of the taskmaster, and I'm come down. I remember My promise." Hallelujah. He can't make a promise unless He remembers it. Amen. He always... God eternally remembers His promise. God makes a promise, God always remembers His promise. He said, "I remember My promise to My people, and I've come down to deliver them. And I'm sending you." Amen.
Moses said, "Who am I?"
He said, "You're going."
Said, "But I can't speak."
He said, "Who makes man to be dumb or speak?" Amen. Don't reason with God. Just take His Word.
Let me tell you, one day there He said, "Surely I'll be with you."
He said, "Show me Your glory."
He showed him Divine healing, showed him how to perform a miracle. He was ready to go. Yes, sir.

L-63 Now, look what a difference. One day a defeated intellectual giant on the backside of the desert with a--with a domestic job of feeding his father-in-law's sheep. And the next day we... I tell you; when you meet God, it does something to you. It makes you act crazy to the world. Look at him the next day. He takes his wife, Zipporah, sets her a-straddle of a mule, and a young'n on her hip, and his beard hanging down about like this, and his bald head shining, a crooked stick in his hand, the whiskers blowing, hollering, "Glory to God. Glory to God." Old man eighty years...
"Where you going?"
"Going down to Egypt to take over."
"What?"
"Going down to Egypt to take over." A one-man invasion... Why? He'd met God. And the strange thing of it, he did it. He took over.

L-64 God only wants one man that He can fully get in His complete control (That's right.), one man that'll fully surrender to Him. "I'm going down to take over." What a ridiculous thing. An army, like in them days, had the whole world conquered. A bigger army than it would be today, like going to meet Russia. Had an old crooked stick in his hand.
"What are you going to do it with?"
"This stick and the power of God. Here I go," the whiskers a blowing back and forth, and an old man eighty years old.
Why didn't he do it when he was a young warrior? See, God had to knock all that intellectual out of him. He had to take him on the backside of the desert, and mash him down, and crush him down, and bring him back, and appear to him, and show him what He was, and He was... When he met God he was a changed man. Kind of makes people today act kind of funny too, when they really meet God. But they know where they're standing.


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