# Here am I

Key Passage: Exodus 3:1-6
Date: June 7, 2024

In Exodus chapter 3, in verse one, I want to read down through verse six, and then we’ll pray. Our Bible says: “Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. And he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.”

And Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.” And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called him out of the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses,” and he said, “Here am I.” And he said, “Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.”

Moreover, he said, “I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

We have a tendency, if we’re not careful, to think you have just read a passage of scripture or something that happened almost 4,000 years ago, and that took place some 10,000 miles away from Smyrna, Tennessee. What in the world does that have to do with me here today in this auditorium? We have a tendency to read the Bible historically. That’s good history. That’s good literature.

I have a little problem related to some of these Old Testament classics. Now, one of the Old Testament biblical classics, for instance, Noah’s Ark—what has that got to do with me? This has something to do with maybe Daniel in the lions’ den. How do I apply that to my life? What about the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace? What about David fighting Goliath? And what about the opening of the Red Sea? And what about the falling of the walls of Jericho? Those are biblical classics.

I want to remind you of a passage in 1 Corinthians 10:6, and it’s repeated with the exception of one word in verse 11 of that chapter: “The things that happened to those people in the Old Testament happened unto them for ensamples.” And the Bible says, “The Lord put that in there for me.” And this passage is a passage that has something to do with me and with you. And I’m going to, again, think through it and see how I can apply and learn something from this that will be helpful to me here this morning.

Now, we know the background; I won’t go into the background of Moses taking care of the sheep of his father-in-law. We don’t know how many sheep they are; it doesn’t matter. That’s not the point of the story. We don’t know a lot about Moses, even though we have a good number of verses in the Bible about him, but basically Moses is not the point of the story here. The point is that the bush caught on fire, and it was Almighty God who had come down to meet with a human being and talk to him about something that He had for him to do.

In the first verse, it says Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro. Now, I don’t know how much he’s getting paid. We know that his wife obviously is back home with Jethro, her father, and whatever kids are involved at that time are being taken care of. They are probably getting some kind of house rent; maybe getting the food supplied. We don’t know what his salary is, don’t know, but we know he’s alone. And the scripture says, and the first thing we learn is in verse one, it says that he came to the backside of the desert. Don’t know if you’ve ever been on the backside, but it is a place that is very, very still and quiet.

Now we don’t have any airplanes, no big jet planes taking off over top of the area. We don’t have any train tracks running through that area with train noises. There are no superhighways with tractor-trailers and cars zipping up and down the highway making those kind of noises. We don’t have any children’s playgrounds here. There are no televisions blaring. We don’t have any cell phones, no radios, nothing going on. Sheep don’t make any noise. So the first thing we see is it is very, very still, very quiet. Here in Tennessee, we have a little expression that we all understand. We say, you know, it was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop. That’s quiet. That’s really quiet. That’s the setting now. It is very still.

Now, I think in that kind of a setting, Moses hadn’t seen his wife for maybe two or three, four weeks, maybe two or three, four months. It may have been a year. He’s been out there a long time. He’s very lonely by himself. And it is quiet and still, and there’s a lonely quietness. And the Bible says, the second thing about it, he came to the mountain of God. Now, I don’t know how that mountain got named the Mountain of God. But I think it is because it’s mountains out Mount Sinai where God came down and gave Moses the law. This would happen a little bit later. But somehow that mountain got labeled the mountain or the place of God.

Now that’s an interesting little phrase. We have come from the living rooms with our televisions. We put aside the cell phones, and we got off the highway and away from the airplane, away from the trains, and with all of the children’s playgrounds and all that sort of thing. And we’ve come into a place, and we’ve had prayer. We’ve sung some songs. We’ve prayed. We’ve quieted ourselves down. And we have a similar situation here. And also, this is a place that is called the House of God. Somewhere in the past, I think Brother Bill Dylan, you probably stood here in this pulpit and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, we gathered here today in the sight of God and in the face of this company to dedicate this building to God.” What does that mean? That means we’re not going to have any rock and roll bands coming in here, flashing lights, and we’re not going to have any bingo going on in here. We’re not going to have beer parties in here. I’m not going to have a lot of dancing in here. None of that stuff. This is God’s place. We didn’t come here for entertainment. We didn’t come here to have a big time. We came here to meet with God. So verse one is very, very applicable here. We have come and quieted ourselves down in a place called the place of God. That’s verse one.

Now in verse two it says, “And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush.” Now I want you to think about Moses. We’ve got in our mind that these people like Moses and Joshua and Abraham and Isaac and maybe David and maybe Elijah and Elisha—some of these fellows—they’re about 10 feet tall. They got a big halo around their head, and they got this glassy look in their eyes. And they walk along, you know, with this saintly walk, you know, and they don’t know anything about us down here in the ditches of life. We get the… These are kind of super, super giants, you know? I want you to know that Moses had two legs and two arms. He had five toes on each foot, and he had five fingers on each hand. He had two eyes. And he had loneliness, and he had concern. He had lions and tigers out there waiting for him to kind of goof off a little bit, knowing that they were going to come in there and tear up one of his little sheep. He was going to try to explain to Jethro. And he was a human being just like—he had feelings, is what I’m saying. He’s one of us, okay? So don’t go excusing ourselves by saying, “Yeah, but that’s different.” It’s not different. God put it in there. It’s for us today, here, this morning.

Now, I want you to know every time an angel shows up in the Bible, the first words that come out of his mouth is, “Fear not.” Now, don’t be afraid. You want to know how Moses felt? What we need to do is learn to put ourselves into the story and become a part. When you read Daniel in the lions’ den, I dare you to get in there with him. Okay? See what it would feel like knowing that those lions are over there and they’re actual lions, and if something doesn’t hold them back, they’re going to come tearing at you with claws and teeth and all the rest of it. Now, if you read about the Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, get in that fiery furnace and see what you think—if you wonder if God really going to keep me from burning up. In this story, if you’ll be Moses and put yourself in his shoes, and he’s lonely, and he’s, you know, he’s thinking about, “Wonder about the kids. I wonder about my wife.” He’s got all kinds of things going on that goes on with things like that with that situation. And suddenly this angel shows up.

Now, if you’d like to know how that would feel, let’s suppose that while I’m preaching to you that suddenly right here, a great big eight, maybe nine, 10-foot angel will just suddenly show up right here about 10,000-watt candle power and just boom, suddenly there’s an angel shining brilliantly in your ear. I wonder what would happen. I know the first thing that would happen: I’d stop preaching. And I know the second thing would happen: I’d stop breathing. And I have an idea you would, too. You talk about sensational. Man alive, you talk about a grabber. Okay, it’s no different with Moses. Suddenly, boom. There is an angel with a light shining brilliantly at 10,000 watts or more. And suddenly, you know, I mean, just get a hold of that. And the scripture says that the angel caused the bush to burn and burn and burn and burn and burn, but it didn’t burn up.

Now, if you’ll think for a few minutes, no smoke was going up in this bush. It was just a tremendous glow of the presence of God. And it just kind of dominated. Nothing else mattered. At that point, everything was put aside. And the Bible says as the bush glowed and glowed and glowed, but it wasn’t consumed. Now, I begin to meditate on that, and I’ve got something out of that for me. I don’t know if you can see it for you. But when a bush catches on fire, it’s symbolic. We have an expression here in Tennessee. We say, “That old boy really caught on fire for God.” Really? What did they mean by that? Man, he got stirred. We might use the word revived. Have you ever had that happen to you? Has God ever become so real to you? The presence of God came up, and you got such an experience with God that your heart just filled up, and you’ve never forgotten it.

I’ve had several, several times in my life. We had a time when we had a revival meeting scheduled. We only had about 125 people coming to our church at that time. And we got together, and our men began to pray, and we had prayer meetings two weeks, day and night. We had everybody would take an hour, and they would come every day at that same hour for two weeks, day and night. And we prayed continuously, all day and all night for two solid weeks, and the men began to pray, “Oh, Lord, give us 200 souls.” You only got 125 people, and they’re praying for 200 souls. We get there and kick off the revival meeting, and the Lord gave us 234 people that God said, “I’ve baptized 25 adult couples at the same time.” And then came back later and baptized 45 more adults out of that meeting. I mean, it doubled our church. And you talk about an experience now. And that was a full time. In Louisville, Kentucky, we had a time up there when the Lord came down and met with us. And we started having over 100 people come forward every Sunday for two solid years. Average over 100. I baptized over 50 a Sunday, every Sunday for two solid years. I mean, you talk about God being real.

I don’t know if you have some experiences. Now, I wish that would go on all the time. I mean, I don’t always feel God’s presence; sometimes I get all upset and I get burdened. I have all kinds of problems, and I’m sure you do too. But to think about this: Here is God coming on the scene now, this is this, and the burning and the burning. And I found out something: when I catch on fire and burn, it doesn’t burn up my energy. I can be tired and weary at my age; I get a little tired once in a while, and I can get in the pulpit, and when I start preaching, it builds energy instead of drains me. When I get through, I’m hyper. Man, I’m ready. I could climb a mountain. I could go up Mount Everest, right up the top. I can get in front of all those people lined up trying to get up the top of there, if you’ve been reading the news. When we get through preaching, we go out to the car, and I start around the car, and Mary said, “Oh, no, Tom, no, no, you’re going to drive. You’re so hyper, you’ll have a wreck and kill us. Let me drive.” It doesn’t burn up your energy.

You know, I’ve been in revival meetings all over the world. I’ve been in 54 countries in every state, all 50 states. And I’ve run into people everywhere I go, “Well, preacher, I’d like to come to the meeting, but, you know, I’m so tired.” And I tell him, “Man, if you’ll come, we’ll take care of that.” You know, you build energy when you get involved in this. That’s what this is. And then I found out something else: it doesn’t burn up your time. You say, “Man, I’m so busy.” I’ll tell you, if you’ll take time out for God, the Bible promises you that if you will invest time in God, He will give you more time than you will need. You’ll be able to get more of your stuff done. What happens is we say, “God, I don’t have time for you. I’ve got my stuff I’ve got to take care of.” You need to read the First Commandment: “Thou shalt have no other gods,” nothing more important than God. And if you have that attitude, you have a problem, and it’s not with God; it’s your stuff, things. The Bible says, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.”

And so it doesn’t burn up your time. If you’ll give God his time, He says, “I want you to not forsake the assembling of yourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another, so much the more as ye see the day approaching” (Hebrews 10:25). He said, “Take time out for Sunday school. Take time out for church. Take time out Sunday night and Wednesday night. Come to the Bible conferences and come to the missionary conference. Give time to me.” And if you do, I’ll promise you, you’ll get your stuff done a lot better than you would if you steal from God and make it yourself. We’re selfish, and we look out for us. And as a result, we put God in second place.

It doesn’t burn up your money. I’m going to promise you if you’ll believe the Bible and put your tithe in the offering plate on Sunday in the house of God, and if you’ll give to missions over and above that, let God lead you in giving over and above the basics of the tithe, I promise you that God will do what He said and open up the windows of heaven and pour out blessings that you’ll not be able to receive. You will have more money than you need. And you’ll be able to get all the bills paid up and keep them paid up if you’ll just obey the Bible. But if you’ve got your own plan and you say, “Well, here’s the way I look at it,” okay, go ahead and live in humanism. But if you go back to the biblical concept and do what God says, you’ll find it’s wonderful.

So this is what I see. The bush burned and burned and burned and burned. And I wish I could keep on fire all the time. I do catch on fire once in a while. And it never burns up energy. It doesn’t burn up my time, and it doesn’t burn up my money. And I guess we can name a half a dozen other things if we had the time.

Well, it says that the bush is burning in verse three. Now Moses said, “I will now turn aside, and I’m going to see why this bush is marked.” Now get the picture, if you will. Here’s 25, 30, 40, 50 sheep over here. And when a person is working for somebody else taking care of sheep, this is what we call a secular responsibility. This is a secular job. He has to have money. He’s got a wife and kids, and he’s working for it; he’s got a responsibility. And I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to have one ounce of respect for Moses unless he gives 100% of attention to these sheep. There’s a lion laying down there behind that tree, and he’s just waiting for his chance. There’s a tiger behind that rock, and he’s watching and hoping that he’ll have a chance to get one of those little sheep and drag it out there. And so Moses, this is your responsibility. If I work out here for somebody as a Christian, and I’m going to work for a man in this community, and he’s going to pay me eight hours’ wages, I owe it to him to give him eight hours’ labor. Do you agree with that? I’ve got Christian about this thing, okay?

So Moses, there is, and that’s important, but all of a sudden here is God. God has come down from heaven, set the bush on fire. And now here Moses stands between the secular and the spiritual. And I wonder what you’re going to do about it. Over here, the grass needs cutting. I can’t go to church. My car has got a battery in it; I can’t get to Sunday school. I’ve got hay down in the field; I’ve got to get it up. Okay, secular, secular, secular. What about spiritual?

And the Bible says, and when Moses said, “I will turn aside and I will see what makes that bush burn,” I’m going to give my attention to God. Notice the next little phrase that says, “And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the bush and said…” Now I want to advocate to you that that would not be in your Bible if Moses hadn’t turned aside. He would have never heard anything that God had to say.

And when the Lord put His hand on me back at General Motors, back in 1950, He put His hand on me and said, “Tom, I’ve got something we’ll talk to you about.” And I said, “Well, before you talk, Lord, I want you to know my plan is to be President of General Motors. I’m going to go to their school out in Detroit and I’m going to get my very best I can out there. When I come back, I’m going to become a line foreman, and then I’m going to get a promotion to shop foreman, and then I’m going to get a job… they’re going to move me up to plant superintendent, and then they’re going to move me out to Detroit, and give me an office on the 10th floor, and He gave me 10 secretaries and a $10 million salary.” Now, what is He going to talk to me about, Lord?

And the Lord said to me, “It’s plain of the day. I want you to quit your job. Forget that General Motors thing. Sell your brand new house that you had built and had one year. Take your wife and your little baby. And I want you to go to Bible college. I want you to be a preacher.”

I said, “Lord, you wouldn’t let me pastor the church if I was divorced, would you?” And He told me, “No, I wouldn’t, but why do you ask me?” I said, “If I go home and tell my wife what you’re telling me, I’m going to wind up with a divorce.” And He told me, “I’ll take care of that for you.” And He did. It was no problem at all. Now, when I turned aside and said, “Okay, Lord, I’m ready to do whatever you want me to do,” then the Lord told me what to do. Now, I’m wondering what would have happened if I missed that. I said, “Lord, I’m too busy with my sheep.” Okay. Go ahead and live your life of secularism if you want to, but I had some plans for you. I had something called the will of God for your life. But if you want to have your own will, help yourself, be your own God, and violate all the principles of Scripture and live in secular humanism, but forget about being happy and forget about having success and forget about having good health and forget about all of it because it’ll never be there for you. And you’ll wonder what life’s all about. And when you lay down the dial, you’ll do what almost everybody does: “I wish I could go back and do it over again.”

Moses said, “I’m going to turn aside.” And the Lord said, “When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, then God spoke.” Now, I’m anxious to see what He’s going to say. You know, when God spoke back in the days of creation, the Bible says He just spoke, and creation came into existence. Billions and billions and billions of galaxies and billions and billions of stars in each one of the galaxies and all that, just because God spoke. And when it says, “And God spoke,” I thought about, man, my mind just went crazy. I could picture over on that cloud over there about a hundred big beautiful angels with a hundred big silver drums with drumsticks just ready to beat and make a great, great sound of thunder that would roll through the ages of eternity. And then over on that cloud on that side was about maybe a hundred big beautiful angels, and they had silver trumpets, and they were waiting on the Lord to give them a signal, and they were going to have a blast that you could hear for eternity. And the Lord is going to say, as He points out there, there’s going to be a big drum roll, and He’s going to point over there, and there’s going to be a big blast. And then the Lord is going to call out to Moses. And according to this, He’s saying, “Moses? What do you think?” Or did He say, “Moses, Moses?” Or did He talk in normal terms? “Moses?” I don’t know. It doesn’t tell us.

But I found out something: He said in the Bible that if you get a question in your mind any time you’re reading the Bible, and some question comes up, if you’ll scan through the Bible, you’ll find an answer for that question somewhere. There are no questions that will come into your mind any time in your life that there’s not an answer in the Bible. There’s no problem that you don’t have a solution in the Bible. And there’s no situation not covered. And so I’ve been studying the Bible a long time. So I scanned through the Bible, and I came up on that story of Elijah under the juniper tree. And the Bible says that while he was laying there feeling sorry for himself, wondering if Jezebel was going to be able to fulfill her threat to kill him, suddenly the Bible says there was a huge earthquake. The mountain shook, and the big boulders rolled down from the hill down into the valley, knocking down trees as it came, shaking and vibrating. And then it just says casually, “The Lord was not in the earthquake.” And then the scripture says a huge fire, and the flames were shooting, and the soot rising up into the sky several miles high and blackening out the sun and the moon, and the soot falling for acres and maybe for miles everywhere. And then the Lord says, “The Lord was not in the fire.” And then it says there was a tornado—call it a whirlwind—came through there maybe a half mile wide, maybe 10 miles long, just ripping and tearing everything in sight. And it says, “But the Lord was not in that earthquake or that tornado or that fire.” And then it says, “The Lord spoke.” You remember what it said? The still, small voice.

Now look, let’s hear magic and reasoning for a minute. We’ve gathered away from all the noise. We’re on the backside of the desert. It’s so still you can hear a pin drop. Why would God holler? Why would He beat drums? Why would He blow trumpets? When we sit in church like this and the Lord speaks, He speaks to us in the still, small voice. I’ve been sitting out there where you’re sitting and sitting with my wife. And the preacher said, “Let’s all stand. And I want to sing ‘Just as I Am’ without one plea, that Thy blood was shed for me, O Lamb of God, I come.” And if God has spoken to your heart and you feel a need to slip out of your place, and sometime my wife would start crying and she started pushing, “Tom, Tom, let me, let me out.” And I said, “Where are you going, honey? What’s going on?” She said, “God really spoke to my heart.” Really? Man, I was standing right next to her; I didn’t hear Him. You ever been sitting there and God spoke to your heart? You’re the only one who knows it. He doesn’t make noise. He just… it’s in services like these. It’s in revival meetings and prayer times like these when God speaks and He says, “Look, I’ve got something we’ll talk to you about.”

And if we’re open, “Moses, Moses.” But why do you see it twice? I don’t know, but He always did. Back in the days of Abraham, Genesis 22, “Abraham, Abraham,” “Don’t stick that knife in you, boy. Get that lamb over there. Sacrifice him.” And then Jacob, “Jacob,” Genesis 28, “Climbed up down that ladder.” Why do you do that twice? Samuel, “Samuel, Samuel,” 1 Samuel chapter 3. God was calling a little boy to be a prophet. And then Saul, “Saul, Saul,” on the road to Damascus, “Why are you kicking against the pricks?” Martha, “Martha, Martha,” why are you so upset in the kitchen? Why don’t you do what Mary’s doing? Simon, “Simon, Simon Peter” in the New Testament, Luke 22. How about when the Lord was hanging on the cross? “Eli, Eli!” How about when He talked to Nicodemus? “Verily, verily!” Why do you always duplicate it like that? I’m not sure, but I think it’s because when the Lord is saying, “Tom,” and I say, “Yeah, well, what about Peter, or Sam or Bill?” No, no, no, I’m talking to you, Tom. I’m talking to you. And the Lord, when He speaks to us, He wants to understand it. “Moses, Moses.” I’m not, I don’t want Aaron, and it’s not Jethro I’m talking to, and it’s not Miriam, and it’s not Jacob Bed. It’s you, Moses, you. You got the point? I’ve got to realize this for me, not for them. Do you listen for other people? Boy, I wish they were here. Boy, they need this. Yeah, maybe so.

“Moses, Moses.” And then Moses said, “Here am I.” Now this is the heart of the message: “Here am I.” You’ll find that five or six times in these Old Testament books. “Here am I, Lord.” Abraham, when the Lord said, “Abraham, Abraham,” “Here am I.” And then all through the Bible, “Here am I, Lord.” Isaiah the prophet, “Here am I, Lord, send me.” What does that mean?

Well, I’ll tell you what that means. That means you take an 8.5 by 14 sheet legal size paper. It’s blank on both sides. And the Lord says, “I’d like for you to turn it over the side too and take your pen down on the bottom right-hand corner and sign your name to it and hand it to me, blank.” “What’s you going to put on it, Lord?” “I don’t know yet.” “Where?” “I have no idea.” “When?” “I don’t know.” “How much?” “I don’t know.” “What’s the insurance going to be like?” “I don’t know.” “How much is the salary?” “I don’t know.” “What kind of house will be a little bit?” “I don’t know.”

When the Lord called me to preach, He didn’t answer any of those questions for me. He just said, “Would you sign that paper?” And I did. I signed it and handed it to Him. I had no idea where we’d live. I had no idea what kind of income I’d have. I didn’t know what kind of personage we’d live. I didn’t know what kind of car I’d get to drive. I didn’t know what kind of retirement plan He was going to have. I didn’t know nothing except the Lord has asked me, “Would you trust Me?” And I said yes, and I was so glad I did. That was 69 years ago. I’ve never been sorry I had to go back and do it again. I remember when the Lord was speaking to me, man, the… And somebody hearing the Lord speaking to you, you know, I felt like the Lord. But, man, I was so nervous. I wish I could go back and do it over again. Man, I said, “That’s me, it’s me, that’s me, that’s me you’re talking to.” I know some things now I didn’t know then. “Here am I.” Have you ever done that?

That’s Romans 12:1: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” And that’s 1 Corinthians 15:31: “I die daily.” That’s Galatians 2:20: “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” That’s Romans 6:13: “Yield ye yourselves unto God, as instruments of righteousness.” And then verse after verse, “Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.” Verse after verse after verse after verse saying, “Here am I, sign that paper, hand it to God.” Have you ever done that? Is your life still yours? Or is your life God’s? That’s what this is saying.

“Here am I.” And the Lord, “Moses, you really mean that, don’t you? I’ll tell you what, don’t you do this: I want you to take your shoes off. This is holy ground you stand on.” And I start reading that. I wonder if Moses really means that, “Here am I. I’ll do anything You want me to do. I’ll go anywhere You want me to go. Doesn’t matter about salary, doesn’t matter about pension, doesn’t matter about retirement, doesn’t matter about nothing. I’ll do what You want me to do.” Man, I can’t wait. I know that God must have a big church for him to pastor. He must have a big college for him to be president. He has a big 500-voice choir for him to lead. I, man, he must have an administrative responsibility in some of the Lord’s work. I wonder what the Lord’s going to say. So, “Okay, you really mean that, Moses? You’ll do anything?” “Okay, nothing matters, okay.” “All right, here you are. Here’s what I want you to do: Take your shoes off. Sit down there in the sand and remove your sandals, Moses.” Well, okay, I said I would, so he takes off his sandals. And the Lord said, “I believe I got my man.”

“Moses, I got about two and a half, three million people down in Egypt, and I need somebody to go down there and get them and bring them out from under the wrath of the Pharaoh and bring them into the promised land, the land flowing with milk and honey. But I wasn’t about to ask anybody who wouldn’t be willing to take off their shoes.” Does your Bible say the same thing mine does, that “He that is faithful in the little, nothing things, I’ll make him ruler over many cities”?

And a lot of times in services like this, the Lord says, “I would like for you to get up out of your place at the invitation and go down there and get on your knees and let Me talk to you.” I think, “Man, I don’t know anything like that.” What did everybody think? Okay, you forget about going to Egypt. If I won’t do the little thing, He’s not going to ask me to do anything big. And most of us spend our Christian life in kindergarten rather than going through high school and college and postgraduate work. We don’t know anything about that up there because we cut it off down there with, “I got to do my thing.”

Well, one other thing here: He says, “Moses, the place where you stand on is holy ground.” Now, my question is, what made it holy? It wasn’t real estate value. Back there on the backside of the desert, you could buy all of it you wanted for two or three dollars an acre. What was its value? Well, the same thing that made it holy ground when God said, “Abraham, Abraham,” and “Jacob, Jacob,” and “Samuel, Samuel,” and “Saul, Saul,” and “Martha, Martha,” and “Eli, Eli,” and “Simon, Simon,” and all the rest of it. What we got here is Almighty God coming down to meet with an individual human being and talking to them about something going on in their life. And my point is that none of those places in the Bible were more holy ground than right here this morning for the same reason.

I don’t know if you realize it or not, but God is here this morning. Our Bible says plainly, “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there will I be also.” So God is here. Now, have you heard Him? Have you felt Him? When you come at other times, do you feel Him? When Brother Sisgar preaches, do you sense God here? Do you feel Him? Or is this just another club meeting for you? Where are we spiritually? I think that’s what this passage is all about. I hope you can see in that the things that I see in it, the things I feel in it. This is holy ground.

Original File: Here Am I - Brother Tom Wallace Sunday AM 5-26-19