Episode 262: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 228

Episode Summary:

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. (1 Corinthians 1:27-29)

24 Why, I seen a little woman many times that was so bashful they couldn’t talk to an insurance agent that come to the door with their head bowed so timid. After once receiving God, could stand in the midst of a church and give a testimony that’d shake the shingles off of the top of the house almost. She’s been somewhere. She’s… Something’s happened. See? Notice how God calls.

Then sometimes God does things in the most ridiculous way to the human eye. Did you ever think of that how God takes the foolish things and could confound the wise, how He takes the things that you’d say was silly, turn right back around and confound the mighty and wise. Look, friends, since Moses… Just for a moment. Off our subject, but it’s… I can only speak as I feel it.

25 Moses had been trained as a military man and had been brought up with all the—the knowledge of the Egyptians. Pharaoh’s daughter’s son who was a heir to the throne, and then in his knowing also, besides that that he had a Divine call… And when he tried to act upon his education and upon his ability, what happened? W—he slew a Egyptian, looked this a way and that way.

Now, a man of God don’t have to look and see whether anybody is looking or not. A man of God looks this way and that way; not this way and that way. See? So Moses right there give it away. He was to liberate the children of Israel, but he was out of God’s program. And the church is God’s instrument of the earth to liberate the sick and the afflicted, but they’re out of the program by their homemade theology and not the Bible and the Holy Spirit.

26 Now, Moses after God had give him forty years more of teaching. Eighty years old: could you imagine how ridiculous to the carnal mind this would be? Here was Moses in the Presence of the burning bush was better equipped in five minutes in the Presence of God, than eighty years of schooling had give him. Amen. I hope that don’t hurt, but I hope it really sinks in. See?

In the Presence of God five minutes gave him more knowledge of God and better equipped him, than eighty years of schooling. Brother, we don’t need so much theology. We need kneeology today…?… That’s true. Five minutes in the Presence of the burning bush. Eighty years he’d shunned: forty years on the desert running. And five minutes in the Presence of God at the burning bush he was ready to go. There you are.

27 And notice here he comes. An old man eighty years old, whiskers plumb down to his belt line with a stick in his hand, his wife setting straddle of a mule with a kid on each hip, the winds a blowing. Said, “Where you going, Moses?”

“I’m going down to Egypt to take over.” A one-man invasion. Why the carnal mind would said, “Crazy.” Egypt had the whole world whipped down at that time with tens of thousands of horsemens and chariots. Be like one man say, “I’m going to take over Russia.” More…?… But here he goes. Could you imagine? Oh, here comes Moses, them little old thin, wrinkled arms, an old crooked stick in his hand beating the ground, dragging this little mule and his wife, setting on there with a child on each hip, just a singing the praises of God. Some said, “Moses, where you going?”

“Going down to Egypt to take over.” Why? He wasn’t scared. He didn’t learn that by some theology. He didn’t learn that by some book reading, but he had been in the Presence of the burning bush. That was the difference, and the thing of it was, he did it. Not what he said, but he went and done it. He went down and took over, and destroyed Egypt, a one man invasion, but he had been in the Presence of God.

56-1208 – “Abraham”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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