<TITLE>20. Par 247-263</TITLE>L-247 But one day, back on the backside of the desert, he come to an Absolute. He come to a place where he met Something that was real. There was a bush on Fire. He didn't want to take the leaves and go down to the laboratory, to see the reason they didn't burn. He just set down by It. "Take off your shoes, Moses."

L-248 "I'll go down and ask my pastor, 'What about This?'" He didn't have time to do that.

L-249 He must take off his shoes. And when he heard in There, there was the Word of the living God, that was in that bush. "I AM THAT I AM. I remember My promise that I made with Abraham. I remember My covenant, and I'm come down to deliver them."

L-250   Now, then, he had an Absolute. He was tied to that as long as he lived, and it took him to Heaven. He was tied to that Absolute, no matter what any of the theologians said. He didn't need anybody to explain It to him. He knowed It. He had met God, and the Voice, that big Pillar of Fire that led him through the wilderness, and plumb on to the promised land. That Pillar of Fire in there, had a Voice in It, and that Voice was the Voice of God that vindicated the Word. Amen.
I hope you're not asleep now. Notice.

L-251 That Pillar of Fire spoke the Word, and vindicate It, to make It show he's quoted the Scripture. "I am the God that made the promise to Abraham. I'm the One. That's what's the matter with Israel. That's what's the matter down there. I remember My promise, and I've come down to see that it's done."

L-252   God only uses man, to work with. He doesn't use organizations. He doesn't use machinery. He could have done it. But, He chose a man. That's right. He could chose the stars, the wind, or anything, to preach the Gospel. But, He chose man. He does not change Himself. He always the same.

L-253 He chose Blood for salvation. Education or nothing else will ever take Its place. Blood is God's appropriate way for salvation. That's true.
And now, I want you to notice, He can't change.

L-254 When He talked to Moses, He said, "Moses, I'm sending you down there. But, before you go, I want to prove to you that I am God." Said, "What you got in your hand there?"
Said, "A stick."

L-255 Said, "Throw it down." And it turned into a serpent. He picked it up again. It come back, a stick.

L-256 Oh, when Moses come to the place where the impersonators raised up, trying to impersonate! When he threw his rod down, and said, "Here, Pharaoh, I'll show you what God told me to do. I'll throw this rod down, and watch it turn to a serpent." It did.

L-257 Pharaoh said, "I've got them guys, too. My denomination can produce that." So, they come over and got some impersonators.

L-258 What did Moses do? He stood right there. Why? He had met God. He knowed that was God. He had done his part. It's God's time to move then. He stayed right there.

L-259   The Bible said the same thing will repeat in the last days, "For as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses." It's true. See?

L-260 But he stood there. And then he saw the hand of God come down, and that snake gobbled up the rest of them. Did you ever notice what become of them sticks? They were in the belly of this one stick. Moses led the children of Israel through the wilderness, with that same stick, with all them snakes inside of it, I guess.

L-261 Why? You know why? When Moses met this burning bush, you know, and that burning bush claimed, proved to be God. That Light, that Pillar of Fire, that proved to be God. And I believe that God come in Moses, because, watch him in his creative power. Moses shined then with the Fire.

L-262 You know where I'm going now, don't you? Certainly, like Pentecost.

L-263   Notice, Moses had the Fire. The Fire was in Moses. Because, whatever Moses said, it wasn't Moses. It was God speaking. And he performed his sign, because the Pillar of Fire left the bush and come on Moses. Amen.


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