God Calls Us to Shake Foundations

As we look around us, we see many things that would confound us, many things we are not able to meet. And we would fall back as those who are not able to start, for the task that lies ahead of us. But no more than in other days, of course, are the powers of darkness stronger. But everyone of other generations who were used of God had their tasks.

We know how way back the people would build a tower, so that they would not be scattered. They wanted to be together for a cause that is fleshly. We see much of unity in the ranks of the devil’s fascism, and the Nazi, etc. Mussolini and Hitler are figuring about getting together so that they might get more in unity.

Here we are, and while we are looking around, the devil is working all over us. I praise God for the sister’s testimony, that the underlying peace that Jesus gives, the world can’t give it, and the world can’t take it away. No matter what comes, the world and all its difficulties can’t take away and can’t touch the peace of God. I don’t care how you are harassed, no matter how we have been oppressed, we have a peace that passeth all understanding.

As those people started to build the tower together, though they got quite far with it, God said, “Let us go down and confound them.” When God felt it was enough, He said, “Let us go down and confound them,” and the very thing they built that tower for, the very thing they feared, came upon them.

In Moses’ day, God needed a man and He got one. He could have done the work by himself, but I believe He wants to prove to the enemy of man’s soul, that He has some that will serve Him. He might say to the enemy, “If you have gotten the victory sometime, here is one who will put you to flight by their lives.”

We see that these Jews were beaten down. No time for education or anything else. These people that were being beaten down were the people that God was leading into the promised land. Not an army or navy, but a people on foot. A bedraggled-looking company, if there ever was one.

But Moses could stand against Pharaoh. The pyramids no doubt were built by these beaten down ones. But as Moses led them out, God was with them. David said, “Though a thousand fall at our right hand and ten thousand at our left, they should not come near us.”

Pharaoh had made up his mind these should go, and then relented. God gave them the victory, and in the morning, the great chariots of Pharaoh were washed on the shores. Who could stand against the armies of the living God? We may think, “Then it must be a glorious thing, if the Lord would deliver our body.” Some say we have eternal life in this body, but they die just the same.

God has proven time after time, if we have stayed true to Him, He will stand true to us. Wouldn’t it be fine if we could march along, and everything would fall before us? But it didn’t for John the Baptist. He had victory. When he had a message, he didn’t backpedal. He warned them, “You are a generation of vipers.” He said, “Don’t tell me anything more, God is able to raise up to Himself of these stones, children of Abraham.” That may seem preposterous to us, but He made Adam of the dust.

They said, “What shall we do?” He told each company what to do. John the Baptist had boldness. Don’t we like to read Acts 3? But there is more to it than that. If we have true boldness in the Lord, it may lead us behind prison bars.

When John the Baptist got before the one who had the wrong woman, that was another matter. He was speaking then to one who had the highest authority. He was imprisoned, and we know how they plotted together to get his head. This time, it doesn’t look like the enemy goes down before John the Baptist, but that he goes down before the enemy.

It is not a call of years to serve the Lord and to live my allotted time, but the call is “Am I serving my generation?” God leads me on to victory. Whether it means life or death, either one will be alright. Whether He gives us victory in the present or later on, that is up to Him. Whether or not we have a great swelling congregation, that is up to Him.

In the Scripture, I have read that the Lord had spoken to Gideon. He is an insufficient one in himself. And who would be more beaten than this company at this time? The enemy wouldn’t let them have anything. Gideon was behind the winepress, undernourished, beating out a little meal. But the angel said, “I have called you.” He said, he was the least one of the family, and the least tribe.

There was a multitude in the valley where Gideon was called to fight. He, finally after the sifting, only had 300 men, and the enemy was as the sands on the seashore. God is reasonable. He wants to reason with us. God said, “Gideon, I know it looks unreasonable, but go down to their camp and see what I will do for you.”

As he got there, the Midianite was telling his dream (Judges 7:13). Gideon would only say, “Well,” and go home. What do you think of that little bit of yeast in that great batch of flour? Gideon was that cake of barley. No matter how many there were, Gideon was able.

As I see the beautiful edifices of the false cults, I say, the devil has everything. And as I begin to look at how small a company we are, I say, “My Lord, what are we?” We would go down in despair or be someone like Carrie Nation who cracked glasses. Sometimes, I feel I would sort of like to do that, but this is fanaticism.

People say as they go to the Christian Scientists, “They are so lighted up, we love to go there.” As we go to church, we see long-looking and weary-looking faces. It is a shame to us that we can sit in some kind of manner, and let the time go by. Those from Christian Science come and see your weary long faces.

As we look to Him, He lightens our burdens. When they crucified Jesus, we would say, “What worse could people do?”

But we see that Jesus had the victory in submission to God. He was willing to let men crucify Him. He could say, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” He went to the bottom of the whole matter, and worse than these that drove the nails in His hands and side was the power in back of it.

Jesus did His most efficient work in the heart of the earth. Jesus went to the foundation of Hell and shook it until it trembled.

We can attack foundations. We may look as the most bedraggled people. But if we have God with us, we can attack foundations of the enemy. We may say we cannot attack science or communism, etc., but we can attack their foundations. We can call on God to forgive them, for they may not know what they are doing.

That is the secret of the whole thing, it is not always time to rest, nor always time to fight. There is a time for all things. Then, as we come into contact with people, we can wrestle through.

I hope you know what I am talking about. It is not hard. Worse than all that is going on on the earth is the foundation underneath. We can go in against it. God allows matters to come before our eyes. The Lord has shown me that as I pray for these, He would help me to pray for those unto the uttermost parts.

We may say, “My brother or mother has the devil in them.” That is a sample. As we come to grips with it, we can loose others that don’t know what is in them. As we go into God about our own lives, if we will see the thing in back of it, and say it is the foundations I am attacking—as we look to God, we will see them tremble.

Let us look to God and see the devil tremble. He is the one to tremble, but you are the one doing it. You should say, “I am the cake of barley. Lord, let me be willing to be thrown into the camp of the enemy.” He wants us to be weapons to thrash the mountain.

I had an occasion recently to pray against Christian Science. Then, yesterday, I met a man in Unity, who said I have such-and-such luck. I said, “What is luck if you go to hell and burn forever?”

It goes to show, if you will be willing to be a cake of barley. Get on your knees, and God will open your eyes. You won’t go in the store and say, “Lord, I take the victory,” you will have it.

He said, “I was a Lutheran, but it wasn’t true.”

I said, “It was right.” He acknowledged Unity was a religion of the head. He was fine, the Lord had opened the way. It was a sample of being a cake of barley in the enemy’s camp.

As they shouted, “The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon!” they were scared of each other. Can’t we see the bottom of things and see hell’s foundations tremble?

Somebody might say, “You are going in the trap of the enemy today.”

But I could say, “Lord, pitch me in that A&P store.”

No, Gideon said, “The Lord is with me, come on, 300.” As we go in the camp of the enemy, we shake. But as we look to God, the devil shakes. We might say these Midianites and Amalekites were terrible. But we have worse than that. Will it cost us our lives? Maybe. Let us say, “Lord, long or short, my life shall be for your glory.” What good is it to live our lives long or short, unless we are pitched in the enemies camp?