<TITLE>15. Par 145-153</TITLE>L-145   God makes you act funny, even if you look like a weather vane standing on top of a building. But as long as it's God doing it, why, all right. What difference does it make? It might take some of the Baptist theological training out of you. But as long as God is doing it, He reveals Hisself in simplicity. That preacher knowed more about God, coming off the top of that house, than learning all the years he went to school. Amen. God reveals Hisself in simplicity, and shows Hisself in power. Amen. Hiding Himself, then showing Himself. Want to see how simple you get; not how smart you can get, but how simple you can get.

L-146   God makes Hisself known in simplicity, not in smartness and shrewdness. That's of the Devil. Follow the training. Where did Cain's children, what happened to his? The Devil's kids, what happened to them? They all become smart educators, scientists, and so forth. Follow Seth's children: humble, peasants, sheep raisers, and so forth. At the end of the world, what happened? At the end of the antediluvian world, what happened? They were all lost. They were religious, too. Certainly, they were. But, you see, God sent Noah, caught the humble, the simple, and taken them up. And Cain's children was destroyed.

L-147   Same thing it is today, that smart, shrewd. See? That's how Satan deceived Eve in the garden of Eden. That's how his children has done, all the way down.

L-148 Look at Moab, that great, fine organization standing up there on top the hill. My, what a great place! Now, no... They worship the same God. Cause, they went and got their bishop, Balaam. He come out there and put up seven altars, seven sacrifices. The same altar, the same sacrifice, everything exactly like Israel done, the little wanderer down there. And then tried to curse their brother, see, to keep him from passing through the land. They didn't want one of them there holy-roller revivals among their people. What happened? God went right on through, anyhow, because they were promised to go to the promised land, and nothing would stop them. God dealt with them. God hiding Himself in simplicity, that's the way He always does, and they usually miss it.

L-149 Moses was a dedicated servant of Christ. And God... At the burning bush, he knowed more about... Moses knowed more about God when he left that burning bush than all the forty years he studied of Him down in Egypt. We know that's right.

L-150   In the days of Ahab, the world had got to such a place, politics had played such a part, as we talked on this morning, until Ahab come on the scene. Now, Ahab was no bad guy. He was just a lukewarm, backslidden Israelite that let his wife lead him around. She was the neck that turned the head.

L-151 And that's the same thing we got right here in this United States now. Certainly. I don't say, our president, so-and-so. He might be a good man. But it's that old system behind it, that's what's a doing it.

L-152   You watch it. You just mark. You think I'm just standing here saying something I don't know what I'm talking about. You remember what I've told you. Yes, sir. I'm getting to be an old man. I haven't got many more days left on the earth. If Jesus tarries long, I'll be gone pretty soon. But this will be taped, and you'll play it over, and you'll find out that it was right. You're living in the shadows. There's no hopes left, at all. Now, remember, me knowing it, an old man as I am, and standing here and knowing that time is fleeting on. And you're--you're done. The nation is done. Everything is done. That's right. And only one thing, "Save yourself from this onward generation," 'cause she's done. That's right.

L-153   Ahab. That day that Jezebel come in, got all the women acting the way she was, and--and I guess the things that she went through, and Ahab let the things. And all the preachers got worldly.


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