<TITLE>04. Par 32-42</TITLE>L-32 Wish I had enough voice to preach to you some night. But I--I get off of that. Now, identified by its characteristics.

L-33   We find a good example here in the time of Israel, come into the promised land. And God had called them according to His promise. He told Abraham that, he would, "His seed would be in this strange nation, for four hundred years, and then He would deliver him with a great mighty hand. And they'd go to a land, then, was promised, was flowing with milk and honey." And then when the time of the promise drew nigh, there come a--a Pharaoh who didn't recognize Joseph's great ministry that he had among them.

L-34 And, this, God raised up a prophet named Moses. And the man was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. No doubt but what he was a great, smart, intellectual man, for he could teach the Egyptians wisdom. Looked like a properly fit--fitted man for deliverance.

L-35 But, you see, what we call deliverance, and what God calls deliverance, is some difference.

L-36 Now watch this man with all of his ethics. He knowed he was born to deliver the children of Israel. Yet, with all of his education, that's all he knowed about, and knowing that he was called of God to do the job, he had all of his... He had his Bachelor of Art, and his Ph.D., and LL. D., and so forth. And he went out to deliver Israel, and was a total failure.

L-37 Now notice, looked like, him being with his foot on the throne in Egypt, to become the Pharaoh, that he could have delivered the children of Israel after he become Pharaoh, because he was next in line for the--for the throne. But, you see, that, in doing it that way, wouldn't identified God's characteristic in delivering His people.

L-38 He said He would deliver them. He would "deliver them with a mighty hand," not Moses with a mighty army, but God with a mighty hand.

L-39   We find that this prophet run away and was in the wilderness for forty years. It taken Pharaoh forty years to drill an education into him, and took God forty years to drill it out of him. So we find, one day, that he, on the backside of the desert, meet the Lord God in a burning bush, in the form of a Pillar of Fire laying in a bush. And he was asked to take off his shoes, that, the ground he was standing on was holy. Now look at this fine, cultured, educated man, that had been, watch the changing of his characteristics after he met God. He done the most...

L-40 Sometimes God does things in such a simple way, and such a foolish way, to the carnal way of thinking. Notice a man who had been a total failure; with all Egyptian armies and everything around him to do the will of God, with all of his education, at the age of forty years old, in his prime. Here he is, eighty years old, the next morning, with his wife sitting straddle of a mule, with a young'n on her hip, and a stick in his hand, going down to Egypt, to take over. You talk about a ridiculous sight! But that was displaying the characteristics of God, because He had a man who would believe His Word. That's all. The thing of it was, could you imagine a one-man invasion going to Egypt, where, an army had failed? But what was it? His characteristic, his tactics was changed. He was going in the Name of the Lord, "I AM THAT I AM." The thing of it was, he took over. He did, because he was going in the Power of the Lord.

L-41   On his road, leading Israel out to the promised land, he come in contact with his brother, his denominational brother, Moab. Now, Moab, by no means, where heathens. That was Lot's daughter's children. One of their children had--had sprung Moab.

L-42 Now, up there, I want you to notice these two nations, in contrast. Here was Egypt, a little, scattered about, no nation to go to, no executives or no king, or nothing, or any dignitaries among them, just a people on their road to a promised land. And here they had to go through the land of Moab. It was right in the line of promise.


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