<TITLE>09. Par 97-105</TITLE>L-97   Now, remember, Job, he broke him out in boils, killed his children, took everything he's had. His health was gone. Even his comforters came, and they couldn't do nothing but just accuse him of being a secret sinner. And old Job got in such a place until he got so distressed.

L-98 You have to get in distress, first. You have to get to a time we're at the end of the road.

L-99 Job got into the end of the road, when he said, "Cursed be the day that I was born. May the sun not even shine, and may the moon not shine by the night, may the name never be called." And in that distress, then Jesus came along. He looked down, and he said, "I see a man. A flower die, and it rises again in the spring. If a tree blows down, it comes up again through the scent of water." He seen all botany life living again, but said, "A man layeth down, he giveth up the ghost, where is he?" You knowed he was an old man. He said, "His sons come to mourn over him, and he perceive it not. Oh, that Thou would hide me in the grave and keep me in the secret place, till Thy wrath be passed. Appoint me a time and set me a time. We went..." And going on like that, talking. He was at the end, of his distress, "What would happen? The leaves live, come back in the tree, the flowers come back again, everything else come up, but a man layeth down and giveth up the ghost!" He was in distress. He didn't know what could happen to him, and him at that age.

L-100   When he did, then Jesus came along. God pointed his head towards the sky, and he saw Jesus coming in the last days.

L-101 That darkest of hour when his wife said, "Curse God and die the death," yet he said, "Woman, thou speakest like a foolish woman. The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord." Even his wife turned him down. His church turned him down. Everybody turned him down.

L-102 In the dark hour, where he didn't know where he was going from there, Jesus came along. Then he screamed out, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He'll stand upon the earth. And though after the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, Whom I shall see for myself." In his darkest hour, then Jesus come along. Yes, sir.

L-103   Moses, for Moses, the darkest hour come for him in Israel. He was right in the line of duty; met God up there in a bush, and said, "I AM THE I AM." He went down and fought through all kind of impersonations of Jannes and Jambres, trying to impersonate his work. All this, he had stood true to God. He finally got Israel to believe. And here he comes out of Egypt, going up to the--to the promised land, where God said, "You'll worship Me on this mountain." That was the Word of God. Moses knowed he had to go to that mountain. Amen. God said so! No Pharaoh can kill him. No Devil can kill him. Nothing can kill him. He is coming to that mountain. Amen! Hallelujah! I feel religious. He is going to that mountain.

L-104 So are we on our road to Glory! Nothing is going to stop us. No, sir. God is going to vindicate His Word. I don't care what takes place, He is going to do it, anyhow.

L-105   He is on his road, right in the path of duty. Here he is, hemmed in between the mountains. He listens and hears a roar behind him. What is it? Pharaoh's chariots, by the thousands, coming; armored, and spears and things, to ride them down and trample them down. There is the Red Sea, had him cut off. What did he do? He got in di-... He got in distress. The people all screaming, "Oh, we're in for it now. Pharaoh will kill us, his swords will be run through us. Our babies will die here in the wilderness."
Moses cried out, "O God!"


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