<TITLE>12. Par 118-128</TITLE>L-118   "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. No matter how many scoffers said, 'You're not! You can't be! It's impossible! Get next to yourself! You're crazy!' He said he grew stronger and stronger, all the time." That's what genuine faith does. It don't know no doubt. But if you don't know that, you'll give up right quick.

L-119 "So, well, Abraham, I--I think you would--you would make a very good witness."

L-120 "The Word didn't say when I was going to have the baby, the first month, but It said we would have the baby."

L-121   All right, let's call another witness right quick. Isaiah, the prophet, let's ask him something.

L-122 "Why," he said, "the Lord spoke to me one day, in prophecy. I was a--a prophet. Everybody knowed that what I said, the Lord honored, and they all believed me as a prophet. And one day there come something rashel, and It said, 'A virgin shall conceive.' Well, now, that was unusual."

L-123 And it's usually in that unusual thing that God works. See, it's too strange. Like Joseph, he--he wanted to believe Mary, but it was so unusual, you see, too unusual.

L-124 So he said, "When I made that prophecy, everybody believed me. So every young girl got ready, that was unmarried, got ready to--to have a virgin-born Child. Day after day, year after year, passed on, and then they begin to believe that I was a false prophet. But I know it was the same God that had always made these promises, so I stayed right with it. And it was some eight hundred years later, before the baby come, but a virgin did conceive. His Words come to pass."

L-125   Quickly, let's call another witness. Let's call Moses. "Moses, you were born..."

L-126 All prophets are predestinated, we know that. "Gifts and callings, without repentance." "Jeremiah," God said, "before you was even conceived in your mother's wombs, I knew you and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations." Jesus Christ was the woman's "seed," from the garden of Eden. John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, Isaiah saw him, said, "He's the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the Lord.'" See, gifts and callings ain't laying hands on one another. It's what God does. Born, from birth, see, those gifts are right in you when you are born. Notice.

L-127   Moses, borned to be a prophet. And here he was out in the wilderness, after forty years of getting rid--rid of his education that he had got down from Egypt. And yet God appeared to him, and spoke in a sign, and in a voice; a Pillar of Fire, and a voice that was very Scriptural. "And said this, 'I am with you, Moses. You will be My mouth.'" And Moses said, "I complained. I--I didn't think that my mouth was worthy. 'I--I stammer a little. My--my--my speech is not good.' And God said to me, 'Who made the mouth of man? And, if you can't believe that, I know Aaron can speak well, your brother. You be God, and let him be your prophet; let him perform, and you speak the Word. And I'll be in your mouth and speak the Word.' Now, that's a pretty good set-up, so away I went.

L-128 "And everybody laughed at me, because I was right then eighty years old. I had white beard hanging way down like this. And I had my wife sitting on a mule, and the little Gershom on her side, and I was going down to Egypt. And my eyes set towards Heaven, and this old crooked stick in my hand. I was going down to take over; a one-man invasion." And the thing of it was, he did it. That's right. He did it with a crooked stick, where he couldn't do it with an army. But, God said so, that settles it.


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