<TITLE>17. Par 54-57</TITLE>L-54 Samson was met on the... out on the field with a thousand Philistines. He looked. He had nothing in his hand. He was a little bitty, curly-headed shrimp, about like that, seven little locks hanging down his back. And here come a thousand Philistines swarming around him.
He looked. He wasn't a dueler. He had no Bachelor of Art, or no Ph.D., or LL.D. to know how to take care of the situation. But he felt back here, he still had the promise. Then he was convinced. He wasn't trained, he was convinced that God was with him, 'cause he had the evidence hanging right around him.
O God. I wish I could do something. Wish I could--had it in a bucket and I could pour down everybody's neck, and say, "Fill it up. Here it is. Fill it up."

L-55 Convinced and then concerned about his people. Moses, a runaway prophet, he'd lost all hopes. "Oh, Israel will never be delivered. That was something mama told me." But he tried to do it in himself. That's what the church is trying to do, trying to make all the Oneness to be Trinity, Trinity be Oneness, Church of God be So-and-so, and Methodists be Baptists. You'll never do it. What are you doing? It's just a--it's psychology, a change of mind. What is in the whole bunch, where you see God in the whole thing?
That's the reason. That's the reason. They're not convinced either. They're convinced they're a denomination, but they're not convinced God's with them, or they wouldn't be acting the way they would. They say they do, but their words, their actions speaks louder than words. By their fruits you know them, whether their confession is right or not. Saying they believe God, that He's a great God, He's the same God, and deny His Word? Oh, my, say it was for another day? Nonsense.

L-56 Moses, he needed to be convinced. He'd had no experience, yet he was--he was a great man. He was a warrior. He thought by that training he had... He slew the Egyptian, kicked some dirt over him, said, "I'll do it." And the first little trial comes along, "Days of miracles must be past." Out in the wilderness he went.
But one day God caught that runaway prophet. He saw a bush burning. He stare--stood and watched it awhile, it didn't burn down. Walked up close to it, said, "That's a strange bush. I wonder what kind of chemicals has been spread on those leaves, just keeps burning."
And a Voice said, "Moses, take off your shoes."
"Yes, Lord." Here he come.
He said, "What'd you lose interest for? I've heard the groans of My people. What'd you run from them for? Why'd you shirk your post of duty? I've heard the groans of My people. I remember My Word that I promised Abraham their father."

L-57 We need another Moses. Moses was thoroughly convinced. He was so convinced till the next day he set his wife on a mule, and a young'un on her hip, and here he went down to Egypt for a one-man invasion. You know, when you're convinced it makes you act funny to the world. But when you're convinced, you're convinced. Say, "Where you going, Moses?"
"Going down to take over." And he did it. Why? He was convinced that that was God.
That's what's the trouble with us Pentecostals. This blessing that we got, we wonder sometimes. That's right, folks. I'm just not trying to talk through my teeth now. That's right. Our actions prove it.
Stop Moses; say, "Moses, wait just a minute. I believe you were wrong, sir. I'm a doctor of divinity."
"Get out of my way." He was thoroughly convinced. And when he got convinced, then he was concerned about carrying out what God wanted done.


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