<TITLE>04. Par 36-47</TITLE>L-36 Now sometimes, in the path of duty, God calls His man to do things that's absolutely ridiculous to the natural mind. He causes them to do something that's altogether becomes a laughingstock. For instance, what if Moses had have failed, as a young man of forty years old, a military man; and the throne, his foot upon it, all the armies of Egypt under his control? And to fail doing that, and here he goes down to Egypt, the next morning, after meeting this Angel in the bush, with nothing in his hand but an old crooked stick from off the desert, with his wife sitting on a mule, and Gershom on her hip, the white beard hanging way down on his waistline, perhaps. He was eighty years old. His bald head shining to the sun, and a stick in his hand, his eyes set towards the sky, and a smile across his lips.
Somebody might have said, "Moses, where you going?"
Said, "I'm going down to Egypt, to take over."

L-37   When he couldn't do it with an army, how is he going to do it with a crooked stick? "Oh, man, you've lost your mind. You're--you're out of your head."

L-38 It was a one-man invasion. But the thing of it was, he did it, because that it was a Word of the Lord. And Moses was determined, no matter what his odds was. God was with him, and He is worth more than all the odds.

L-39 If men and women could only think that tonight, that the Word of the Lord is Truth! There is nothing else. All Eternity hinges on the Word. "Not one Word," Jesus said, "will fail. Heavens and earth will, but It won't."

L-40   Moses went down. And he was very persistent when he threw down his rod, and it turned into a serpent.

L-41 Then he found impersonators. That still lingers along the path of God, someone to try to impersonate something. And the impersonators come up to make a show out of it, threw down their rods.

L-42 Moses knowed Who he had talked to. He knowed Who he had believed, and he was persuaded that He was able to keep that which he committed to Him against the hour. Moses stood still. Then the serpent of Moses eat up the serpent of the magicians.

L-43 And we are taught that that same thing will repeat again, maybe not in the same manner, but it'll repeat again in the last days. "For as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so will they resist the Truth."

L-44 Moses was persistent, for he had an achievement, with THUS SAITH THE LORD behind it, "I'll be with you."

L-45   David, standing before Saul, one day. And he heard a Goliath come out over on the hill, a great giant that had fourteen-inch fingers. And a great spear in his hand, the size of a weaver's needle, probably twenty or thirty feet, big spear on the end of it, or, tip, brass. Just imagine what that man's head would have been, it'd a-been the size of a tub, with a big two-inch-thick helmet over the top of it, and brass, all covered up. And he was making a challenge against the armies of God! And he said it in the presence of David.

L-46 And David was a little, ruddy man, little fellow, probably stoop-shouldered. The Bible said he was "ruddy," a little fellow. Never had no training in--in dueling, with spears and things. But he had been keeping sheep out on the backside of the desert, and a lion come in and got one of his lambs, and he went after him and slew him with a slingshot. We find a bear did, tried the same thing, and David overcome him.

L-47   And then David said, "Will you stand and let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the living God?" He shamed his brothers; while they said he was naughty, he had come out to see the battle. Yet there was Something in David, that he knew that he was more than a conqueror. So he said, "If you're afraid to fight him, I'll go fight him."


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