<TITLE>08. Par 57-64</TITLE>L-57   Three thousand years ago, a man could meet God most anywhere. It was a common thing for a man to meet God. But why don't they meet Him today? There is more people, thousands times thousands and millions of more people than there was three thousand years ago, and yet God is some ancient something that was talked about, some ancient history. They don't meet God, in person, like they did many years ago, as I said, three thousand, some three thousand years ago. They don't. It's not common for man to meet God. If a man talks about it, he is considered a crazy person, somebody that's lost their mind. It's so uncommon to them!

L-58   In the case of Abraham and in his camp, why, it was almost a every day occasion that Abraham met God. He talked to Him. Not only that, but when they went down into Gerar, to sojourn; we find out, down there, that God was in the camp with Abimelech, a Philistine. It was a very common thing. They lived in the camp of His Presence.
Today, they live in their own camp, and they haven't got nothing to do with God's camp. They want nothing to do with it, because it's fanatically to the world. It's fanatically to them. But, remember, when God fixed the first camp for people, He fortified them with His Word. He always does. But, today, in their camps, they don't do it. That's the reason you don't hear so much about God. Now, I believe that the--that the camp...

L-59   As Moses, how He met Moses in the wilderness. Moses had a camp out there where he was feeding his father's-law sheep, Jethro, on the backside of the desert. And one day, to this old eighty-year-old sheepherder, he seen a Light, a Pillar of Fire in a bush, burning. And he met God; a man that was running from God.
The next day. Sometimes meeting God makes you do things unusual. Moses was very unusual, the next day. He had his wife setting astraddle of a mule, with a baby on her hip; and his long beard down, with a crooked stick in his hand, going down to Egypt, to take the nation over. If that was a ridiculous sight!
"Where you going, Moses?"
"Going to Egypt."
"What for?"

L-60 "To take it over!" He had met God. A one-man invasion. It seemed awful strange. But, the thing of it was, he done it, because he had met God. Just like one person going to take Russia over; that's all you need, one person in the will of God. Moses was in the will of God. And a crooked stick he had in his hand, not a sword; a stick. The unusual things, God does.

L-61   But, remember, Moses had to get out of the camp that he had been living in, to do this, because he had been down there with a whole army and couldn't do it. With all the armies of Egypt, he couldn't do it. But one day God invited him into His camp.
He said, "Who are You?"

L-62 He said, "I AM THAT I AM." Not, "I was, or will be." Present tense, "I AM! I'm the God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Jacob. I've heard the people's cry, and I remember My promise, and this is the time for this to be fulfilled. I'm sending you down, Moses, with this stick that's in your hand."

L-63   What was it? He, now, the people thought he was crazy. But what had he done? Got out of his own camp. Pharaoh educated him forty years in the school camp, and he failed. And it taken God another forty years to get it out of him. All of his education and all of his theology that he had been taught, it taken forty years to get it out of him. And then God used him a forty years.

L-64 God has an awful time preparing His man. But, you see, He never could get Mos-... a hold of Moses, till Moses got out of his own man-made camp, from the military way of doing it, and the natural way of doing it, unto the supernatural way of doing it. Then, when he got in that camp, God could use him.


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