<TITLE>10. Par 100-112</TITLE>L-100 And in the wilderness, when many of them come out, dancing in the Spirit, when Miriam beat the tambourine; eating manna out of Heaven; listened at Moses sing in the Spirit; watching the miracles and signs go forth. But when it come to a showdown, to believe the whole Word of God, all the promise, they failed.

L-101   Only two of them believed it, that was Joshua and Caleb. And they brought back the evidence that the land was good.

L-102 But, the circumstances was, that's what was what hindered them. Because, they said, "We're not able to take that land, because their cities are walled, their--their--their delegates there. Not their delegates, but their--their people are a great giants. Why, we look like grasshoppers, up aside of them."

L-103 Joshua and Caleb said, "We are more than able to take it." Why? God had give it to them, no matter how big the giants was. The obstacle meant nothing to them. God had said so! And God proved it by them. And they did go over and take the land, as God said they would do it. He proved it to them.

L-104   Now, when they come up in the month of April, when the waters was flying down out of the mountains, over the snowdrifts, and so forth, and looked like that God was a poor general, to lead His army right up to a place, He had them pinned off from the promised land. And the very time He taken them over, was going to take them over, it was the worst month in the year. The month that the Jordan was overflowing its banks, run plumb out into the fields. Why, if they was going to take them over, it would be in the summertime, when they could wade across. But He waited till the waters got deep. He likes to show that He's God. He likes to prove His Word, regardless.

L-105 Don't care whether the doctor said, "You're dying with cancer." That's all the man knows. Maybe the waters are deep for some of you, tonight. But, remember, God made the promise. God keeps His Word, and God proves His Word. It's the Truth.

L-106 He waited till the waters got muddy, until they got deep and over their heads, and so forth, and then He opened up the way. He went before them and made the way.

L-107 How they going to get in, the Jericho, when it was all closed over? Joshua was wondering. He knowed God had led him that far, the next step belongs to God.

L-108   One day, when he was out walking around, viewing the walls, he seen a Man standing with His sword drawed. And he pulled his sword and went to meet the Man, he said, "Who are You for? Are You with us or are You for our enemy?"

L-109 He said, "I am the Captain of the hosts of the Lord." And He told him what to do. How is he going to blow a trumpet and a wall fall down, that they could run a chariot race across it? What would have anything to do with a trumpet?

L-110 God uses such simple methods. It's so, the simplicity of it, what makes it God to me. We're always trying to find some great something, is going to do something, and God... some great organization is going to take the whole thing and clear it all out. When, God takes a simple person, just one man that He can hold in His hands, and He'll prove every Word that He said, by It. Takes such simple little methods!

L-111 "Sound a trumpet." Not dig out the wall, but, "Just sound a trumpet, and the walls will fall down. The blast of the trumpet will knock the walls down." How foolish to the carnal mind! But God proved His Word was true, for the walls fell down, one on top the other. They went straight up and they took the city.

L-112   Oh, God likes to prove Hisself to be God! Joshua knowed that. One day, and when he was standing there, one of the greatest paradoxes that ever happened, outside of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. When the enemy... He had routed them, and the different armies was in the mountains. He had them routed, and the sun was going down. Oh, my, what a time it was for General Joshua!


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