<TITLE>09. Par 90-99</TITLE>L-90 He said, "In this case, neither, but that the works of God might be made known." See, it happened to the boy so that Jesus could be glorified. Sometimes sickness is not a curse, it's a blessing, that we can stick our faith out there and call those things which are not, as though they were. God said so, and He'll prove it's so if you'll just not weaken under the test.

L-91 He could prove Job, one time, that he wouldn't curse Him to His face. Look at the trial that Job went through. But down in the very jaws of death, he yet said, "The Lord gave, the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord!" He certainly believed it. God proved His Word to Job. He proved it to Abraham. He proved it so.

L-92   Also He proved it by Moses. And when Moses, when the difficulty was so against him, Moses had it in his mind, that perhaps, to be a deliverer, that his mother had probably told him he was born a proper child. She--she was his tutor that raised him up in Pharaoh's palace, no doubt had told him, "Son, we have prayed that we'd be delivered, and we believe that you are that child that God will use to deliver." And then when he...

L-93 See, he come up and was to be the--the son of Pharaoh's daughter, and we find out that he was to be heir to the throne. Why, no doubt it was in their mind then, that he would become the next Pharaoh, "And that's how he would deliver the people, by being the next Pharaoh." But God had a... If that would have been so, then he would have done it through a material, through a--a--a act of politics. But God doesn't always work like that.

L-94   God has His own ways to work, and He said He would "bring them out." He told Abraham, "After four hundred years," He would "bring them out, with a mighty hand," He would "show signs and wonders." So he couldn't do it like that, so Abra-... We find out that Abraham believed God, and here is Moses now believing God.

L-95 And Moses looked out of the same window that Pharaoh did, he saw the same people. That Pharaoh looked out upon them, as, "A cursed people, a people that had nothing but a bunch of fanaticism, for a God, and some desert God somewhere that they knowed nothing about; some unseen post that they pray to, that there wasn't nothing to it. They're a bunch of fanatics. And they were a bunch of slaves. And their God letting them be slaves, proved that He wasn't God."

L-96   And right in the midst of the whole thing, He was raising up the very man. God does things in such peculiar ways, right up under them. Not a theologian, not a teacher, not a priest, not one of their holy men; but just an ordinary man, born for the job. And God called him to be His prophet, and sent him down there. And nothing in his hand but a crooked stick, to face an army, mechanized units that had conquered the whole world. But with that stick in his hand, as God told him to hold that stick in his hand and he would deliver Israel, and he went down and did it because God promised it. How is he going to do it? "I will be with you."

L-97 He said, "Show me Your glory, Lord. I'm slow of speech. I can't talk right. And I..." He had a million excuses.

L-98 But He said, "I'll be with you." And that's all it took. He went, taking God's Word. No matter how dangerous the task seemed, Moses continued to believe God. And God proved His Word, through Moses, to be the truth. Because, regardless of what took place, Moses stayed right with the Word. In the time of the journey...

L-99   God told them, down in Egypt, also, that He would deliver them, "Into a promised land, a good land, full of milk and honey." And it was absolutely there. They didn't know it was there, but He said, "It's there, and I have given it to you. It's already yours, just go claim it!"


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