<TITLE>18. Par 58-62</TITLE>L-58 And I'm convinced today that I'm trying my best to do what I think God wants done, is to chop up this Laodicean church age. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Stood alone with God, but I've tried to carry my commission. I haven't crossed them up. I've tried to tell both sides, and try to pull from every way, not join up with any of them, 'cause I'm convinced, and I'm concerned. I see it right here in the Bible. I'd be daresn't to read it to you, but I--I know it. You ought to know it yourself.

L-59 Now, notice, being convinced, and then be concerned. And Moses was concerned when he heard the voice of God speak to him, and he knowed it was Scriptural. When a man's standing there looking at this burning bush, and hear a supernatural voice calling him, and commissioning him, staying it right here with the Scripture, he was thoroughly convinced.
And when we see God promise anything, and see it take place like this, and say, "Well, maybe it was so. I don't know now. Maybe the Trinity is right. Maybe the Oneness, maybe the Methodists is right." You're not convinced yet. That's right. You're not convinced. You have to be convinced, then you're concerned. The next day he was on his way in action, going down to Egypt to take over.

L-60 The Hebrew children in Babylon, they--they were convinced that God was able to deliver them. Now, listen real close. They were convinced that God was able to deliver them, and then they took their stand. Now, do you see what I'm trying to get you to do? They knowed that He'd made a promise for them not to bow to an image, that He was "the Lord thy God," and they could not bow to an image. They were convinced that that was God's Word. They were convinced that He was able, like Abraham, to keep what He had promised. And then if they were convinced on God's Word, God was concerned about it.

L-61 You know what I mean? Get back to the Word. Take that prescription I told you the other night. If you're convinced that that's God's Word, if you're convinced and know He's able to do it again, He's able to bring us another Azusa Street, if you're convinced that it's right about His Word, then God's concerned about His Word being fulfilled. But we're not convinced yet. That's right. We're not. If we would, there'd be something take place.
You say... Here--here--here's your target. You've got your gun, but the hammer's down. Pull, pull, pull; but the hammer's down. Be convinced, pull the hammer back, and then touch it. Something takes place. There's fire falls. See, we're not convinced yet.

L-62 When they got convinced that He was able to stand by His Word, and He lived, and He would confirm His Word, then they were concerned. The same as now, if we are convinced He keeps His Word... If we're convinced that God keeps His Word, God's concerned to perform His Word in us if we're concerned about it.
Martha was convinced when she run out there, and said, "Lord, if Thou was only here my brother would not died." Watch. After He had turned her down, she was like the little Greek woman: persistent. We're not persistent enough, because we're not convinced enough.
(Thank you for your patience, but just wait just a little bit longer, till I finish.)
She was convinced. No matter what He done, and what anybody else said about Him, she was convinced that the Scripture had properly identified Him to be the Son of God. And if He was the Son of God, God working through men...
If that woman back in the Bible, the Shunammite, could receive her baby because God was--perfectly identified that man to be a prophet, Elijah; and if He was in His prophet, what about His Son? And His Son was the God-prophet. So then she was convinced that that was right. Maybe when she was making the biscuits and frying the eggs, she was thinking about that when her sister tried to rebuke her.


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