<TITLE>03. Par 22-36</TITLE>L-22   And now the time was at hand that God had made a promise, to Abraham, four hundred years before that time, that his seed would sojourn in a strange land, and they would be brought out. After forty years, they would be brought out with a mighty hand. He would deliver his people by a mighty hand. And when the time of the promise drew nigh, that's when God put Moses on the scene. Moses, in his absolute failure, had went into the wilderness.

L-23 Now the type here, there is a wonderful type that we sure don't want to miss. See? Typed, God was bringing Israel, His people, out, a nation, a nation out of a nation. A Nation out of a nation, a beautiful type of today, that God is calling His Bride out of a church, Christian Bride out of a Christian church, a Bride Church out of a church, which is called, in the Bible, referred to.

L-24 I've got several notes and Scriptures written down here, on this lesson tonight.

L-25 It's called, sometimes, "The Chosen, the Elected, or the Remnant of the woman's seed." It was called, "the Bride," what God, by His foreknowledge, ordained to be. That is, the Bride comes out of the church. See, the whole thing is a church, but God takes a people out of that church, as a Bride. He said He would. And He did it, notice, or He will do it.

L-26   Notice, see how He did it, and the manner and how He did it. We want to look at this now, as He brought out Israel, how He did it, and the manner that He--He did it.

L-27 Notice when the time of the promised Word was to be fulfilled, God called Moses, by foreordination, and elected him to the job. See? God has always got the person on the mark, at the time. Nothing fails with God. He said it; it can't fail. If it fails, then God fails, 'cause God is the Word.

L-28 Notice, now, the Word had to be manifested. And when the Word had to be manifested, of a promise, God always sends a prophet to manifest that promise, because the Word of the Lord comes to him.

L-29 Moses, foreordained for the purpose, was called to the job. No one else could do it.

L-30   When God has--has called a person for a job to do, there is no one can take its place. There is no one can take your place, your peculiarity.

L-31 How often I have wondered, how I would like to take Oral Roberts' place, how I would like to take Billy Graham's place, somebody like that. Like Billy Graham, go speak to an audience of people, call sinners to the altar; forget it and go home, not have to stand there and wrestle again. I cannot be Billy Graham, but neither can Billy Graham be me. We are both... I cannot be Oral Roberts; Oral Roberts cannot be me.

L-32 You're, each one, set in God's economy, just for its place. One fasts all the time and communes with God, while another one casts out devils because this one is fasting. But it's the whole Body of Christ working together, the unity. When we see these denominational barriers breaking us up, that's what hurts my heart, see, because that's the thing that separates us. We are one.

L-33 There is no big people among us, no great people among us. We are all the same. We're children of God. There is only one great among us, and that's Christ. We must recognize Him. And if we seek honor, one from another, we can't have faith, because we're having faith in one another. We got to have faith in Christ. He is the One among us that we must have faith in, and then faith in what He is doing and has give to us.

L-34   Now, no one could take Moses' place. No matter how much he run, and no matter how much he tried to get away from it, yet God knows what He is doing. He knowed just what He had to take and make out of Moses. These things had to happen. Now, watch, no one could take his place.

L-35 Now watch. God gave him a sign, to prove his calling and claims, when he went down in Egypt.

L-36 Now, God always gives a messenger a sign, and a voice of that sign. And that sign identifies the man, if it's written in the Scripture.


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