<TITLE>12. Par 43-45</TITLE>L-43 Here was Moses, knowed he was a prophet of the Lord, but he hadn't had that experience yet, something to make him persistent. He run away because he found out his military act didn't work. And then he went out into the wilderness: was there till he was an old man, eighty years old, whiskers hanging down low, and perhaps his bald head done turned brown from the sun shining down, from herding Jethro's sheep.
And was out there one morning, and he heard, and looked up on the hill, and there was a bush on fire. He turned aside to see this bush. And when he was there, he heard a voice say, "Take off your shoes."
Now, what if Moses said, "I'll just take off my hat?" That don't work. That's the reason the Bible... I believe that every Word of It's got to be fulfilled. "Take off your shoes," and he took off his shoes.
He said, "I'm the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I've heard the groans of My people. I remember My promise to Abraham. (Amen. How glad I am He's remembering it again today, that He'd pour out His Spirit.) I remember My promise, and I'm going to send you down to deliver them."
And he made all kinds of excuses, but He said, "Surely I'll be with you." You know sometimes then, when there's something like that happens, you get very persistent...?...

L-44 And Moses was very persistent. He didn't wait till he formed an army. You know, sometimes when you get persistent and hear the Voice of God, it makes you do things ridiculous to the carnal mind. You act strange, funny. You're an odd person. Look how ridiculous Moses act. The next day we find him with his wife setting straddled a mule, with Gershom on her hip, and an old man with whiskers hanging down like this, and the beard a blowing, and a little eighty year old man with a crooked stick in his hand, going down the road, "Hallelujah. Hallelujah."
"Where you going, Moses?"
"Going down to Egypt, to take over": One-man invasion. Why? He'd heard God.
Say, "Moses, wait a minute. The sun got too hot. There's something wrong with you. Your--your mental conditions is not right, Moses. Go back."
Try to stop him. You couldn't do it. God had told him he was going to take it over, and he did it. Might act funny, but he knowed what he was doing. He had the mind of God. He knowed the will of God. He knowed what he was doing, and away he went. And any man that can get in that condition, know exactly what God's called him to do, something's going to happen. Yes, sir.
I don't care who it is, how sick you are, or what all about it, you've got to believe it. And then you become perseverant. There's nothing going to stop you. That's right.

L-45 Little David standing there on the ground that day, he looked over there, and there was that big old Goliath standing over there: fourteen-inch fingers, and weaver's needle spear in his hand. And there was Saul, head and shoulders above the whole army.
Old Goliath... You know, that's the way the enemy does, when he gets you in a place that wants to kind of rub it on a little bit. He said, "Let's not have no bloodshed." Said, "Let--let one of your men come out and fight me, and--and if he kills me my--my nation will serve you. And if I kill him, then your nation serve me." See how they want to do it, 'cause he thought he had it.


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