<TITLE>09. Par -</TITLE>L-14-2 Now, look at... Let's take Moses. Moses, the--the runaway servant-prophet that God had raised him up and educated him in Pharaoh's palace, and--and Moses went out with his theological training and was... The first man, he slew. Then the first little defect come along, then Moses was scared to death. Why? He had no absolute; he only had his--his mother's testimony of his birth.
He was a strange child; he had his mother's word about it. He had the scrolls that God had (perhaps in paper somewhere they had written, packed along with them), that God was going to visit His children. He knowed that that was the time, like we do now. We know something's fixing to happen.

L-14-4 Now, Moses knowed that was the time, and he knowed that he was chosen for it; but he didn't have an absolute. See? And one day on the back side of the desert, when he'd lost the vision, God appeared to him in a burning bush and said, "Moses, I have seen the afflictions of My people; I've heard their groans and crying of those taskmasters punishing them; and I have remembered My promise. I've come down to deliver them; now, go down to Egypt." Oh, my.
Said... Moses complaining, said, "I don't speak very well; my--my deliverance is not very well; they won't believe me."
He said, "What's in your hand?"
He said, "A stick."
He said, "Throw it down." It turned to a serpent. Said, "Pick it up by the tail." It turned back again to a stick. He was giving him the assurance, a vindication. When God gives an absolute, He gives a vindication to that absolute always.

L-14-7 Then Moses, when he was down there, and he threw down his stick before the magicians and Pharaoh, and the magicians come and threw down their stick too, Moses never run and said, "Oh well, I was wrong, I... Was just a cheap magician trick and maybe I was wrong." But he knowed; he was positive that he met God; and he stood still. Let's say he'd done exactly what God told him to do; so had Job done exactly what God told him to do; Moses had followed His commandments. Then stand still and watch the glory of God.
Moses was tied to his absolute, his commission, and he stood still. And when he did, his serpent swallowed up the rest of the serpents. See? He was tied to that absolute. God said, "When you deliver them children, you'll worship Me again on this mountain."

L-15-2 And how the enemy in every way that he can will try to get you away from that absolute. Right as they started out of Egypt, they got cornered right in the neck of the--of the Red Sea: mountains on either side. Come up through a valley and there's the Red Sea. No way to escape over the hills, no way to escape this way, and Pharaoh's army coming this way. What a place to stand. See how the devil gets you in a place where you don't know what to do? But remember, if you're tied to that absolute, that's got it. Moses knowed that God promised him that "You'll worship on this mountain when you bring them out. And I'll come down by your hand to deliver them and place them over in that other land." He stayed right with it. And God sent a east wind and blowed out the waters out of the bottom of the sea, and they walked across on dry land: an absolute.

L-15-3 How we could go through the Scriptures: Daniel, his absolute; Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, their absolute; David, his absolute. All absolute...
Paul had one too, the one we are reading about. He had a Christ-centered call, and that was his absolute. That's the reason he wasn't afraid of what Agrippa would say. Standing there... And Agrippa was a Jew, as we know. And so when--when he's standing before these kings and things, God had already told him he'd stand there. So he had an absolute. So he told exactly the heavenly vision. He said, "I'm not a--I wasn't dishonorable to it. I was--did not misjudge it; I didn't misbehave myself." But he held to, and was not disobedient; he carried it out to the minute, for it was an absolute. And any Christ-centered life, that's your absolute.


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