<TITLE>08. Par 83-90</TITLE>L-83   "Abraham, that's a good witness. The Word never said when; He said He would. He said, 'I'll give you a child, son, by Sarah.' Not next month; He never said next month. He said He would; not when. They, prayer, 'They shall lay hands on the sick, they shall recover.' That's the idea. 'The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise him up.' 'Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with Power, on High.' Not for one day, two hours, ten days, ten years. 'Until the Power comes!'" A real defense witness, these fellows are! "He never said when we'd have the baby," Abraham said, "but He said we would have it. And all the time the odds was building up against me, I stayed steady. Because, I didn't stagger at unbelief of the people. I held right on."

L-84 "Good, Abraham, sit down. Now let's have another witness, number three witness. Let's bring Moses up, see what he says."

L-85 "Now," he said, "I was a scientist. I had been forty years in the wilderness, after failing on the job. But one day I met God. And that Voice, a Pillar of Fire back in the wilderness, told me, a Scriptural Voice, that the hour was at hand, that He had heard the cries of His people, remembered His promise, and He was going down to deliver them, and He was sending me for the job.

L-86 "I asked Him for a sign. He give me a sign, and He give me another sign; both signs would have voice. He said, 'Then if they won't believe all those signs, just pour water (from the ocean) upon the ground, and it'll turn to blood.' That's it, that's all of it. Pharaoh was finished then, said, 'if, you, they won't believe those signs, those voices.'

L-87   "And, yet, I went down in the line of duty, just as God told me to do. Jehovah, the I AM, told me to go down and do this sign. And I took this sign down before pastor Pharaoh, and I throwed down my rod. And you know what? He tried to make it look shady, like it was some magic trick. And he got some carnal impersonators to go out and mock it, do the same thing. But I knowed it was God's Word, and I had come to take those children out of there. No matter what taken place, I still believed the Word of God, so I held steady with It." Ain't no more!

L-88 Moses, you're a real witness! Don't make any different, try to copy it, and try to something, make it look like it; he held steady. The magicians come up. "See," Pharaoh said, "see, it's some cheap trick. It's Beelzebub, some mental telepathy or something. I've got man here, magicians, can do the same thing; fortunetellers, to mock it, whatever it is." That didn't stop Moses. It was the Word of the Lord, because it was a Scriptural sign following it.

L-89   "Oh, yes," said, "Mr. Unbelief, Mr. Skeptic, and all them, hung around my shoulders. But I stayed right straight with that Word, knowing it was God that said the Word. It's God to take care of it; not them. He told me I was going to take those children to the promised land. He told me I was going to take them out of there, and I was going to come back to this mountain where it happened. I don't know how. Pharaoh threat--threatened my life, and everything happened, but I stayed true to the promise. Finally, God overpowered the enemy, and I brought them through the Red Sea, as on dry ground. God kept His promise, and I come right straight to the mountain where He told me I would come to, the same mountain." See, He had believed that it was God, and he held steady.

L-90 Let's bring witness number four, being that we're in a hurry. Let's bring witness number four, Joshua, who succeeded Moses.


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