<TITLE>09. Par 92-98</TITLE>L-92 And that's the way we've got to be. If God says so, that settles it.

L-93   Noah was very perseverant after he had heard from God. When he heard the Word of God tell him to build an ark, he built it. No matter what anyone else said about it, and how anyone else thought about it, Noah was persistent. They might said, "Well, that old man, that rain story," and so forth, "the old fellow has just stayed up there in the sun too long. There is something wrong with him." That didn't stop him at all. He didn't hear a word of it. He just only heard that God said, "it's going to rain; build an ark," and he was persistent in doing it.

L-94   Now, Moses was very persistent; first, a running coward. He had been educated, and, oh, he could even teach the Egyptians wisdom. He was so smart, and yet he failed on the job. It took forty years to put the education in him, that Pharaoh give him; it took God forty years to take it out of him, before He could use him out in the wilderness. And sometimes we have to get emptied up before you can be filled up. And now he had been a failure. And he had run out and married this beautiful Ethiopian girl, and was--and had settled down and had a son, Gershom, and going to fall heir to Jethro's sheep and everything. He had long forgot the feeling of the people.

L-95   But one day, while he was on the backside of the desert, traveling down a familiar old path, he saw a bush burning. Now, he never tried to examine the bush, and said, "I believe I'll go over and take off a few leaves, and take it down to the laboratory and see what's the matter, that they don't burn up. And had been burning there for an hour, but they--they don't seem to, tree be consumed." If he'd have thought that, It'd have never talked to him. But he drew up with this in his heart, that he would go to find out. And a Voice said, "Take off your shoes, for you're on holy ground."

L-96   I want you to notice. One day he is a running coward, and the next day he is a--a radical, the next day; when he had left Egypt, when he had the whole army in his hands, to deliver the people. And, you know, when you hear the Voice of God, It makes you act funny, do things funny, odd and peculiar. Now just think, he is eighty years old now, probably a beard hanging down to his waist, maybe his bald head shining, hair around his neck. And here he is on his road down to Egypt, with his wife sitting astraddle of a little mule, and the baby on her hip; a crooked stick in his hand, eyes up, just praising God. What an odd-looking sight!
"Where you going, Moses?"
"We're going down to Egypt, to take over."

L-97 A one-man invasion! You couldn't stop him. He was persistent. Why? He had heard the Voice of God, that was enough to make him persistent. An old man, eighty years old, was going to take over the nation, and he done it. He had heard the Voice of God. How is he going to take over, with that stick in his hand? A trained army, a million men standing there, more than a million men, had conquered the world in that day; and here goes an old man, eighty years old, wife sitting on a mule, and a stick in his hand, going down to take the nation over. Why, people would have thought he was crazy.

L-98   You know, when you hear the Voice of God, and hear the Word of God, you are kind of crazy to the world. But if you hear the Voice, you know what you're doing.


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