<TITLE>11. Par 38-40</TITLE>L-38 Oh, my. I feel religious right now. I really do. Look. You know the thing... Shamgar looked down there and he seen it. And he thought, "Oh, if I was a soldier now, perhaps, maybe I could fight. But I'm not a soldier; I'm a farmer. I can't... And I haven't got no sword. So what could I do?" He looked around and said, "Well, honey..." His poor, little wife, holding her hands up like this to cry and her elbows all out, and he looked at his little, pale-faced children crying, starve again, that winter.
That's the way it is. Every time get a good meeting started somewhere, here some old hypocrite will come in, and say, "Days of miracles is past; might as well stop this." For... That's the devil. That's right. About time you get the Church going good, somebody slip in, and say, "Now, that's just all enthusiasm. That's just worked up. That's fanaticism." That--that's the way they do it, same old robbers, old Philistines, coming right back. That's exactly right.
Little Shamgar looked. And you know what? I say this to you holiness people: His righteous indignation got up. You know what I mean, yes.
You know, I seen a little sign one time. I was walking into a football stadium to have a meeting. There's a little sign up over the door, said, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog." That's right. Brother, if you let the devil run over you, he will just show you what size he is. But you get a little grit yourself, claim your God-given privileges in Jesus Christ, and you'll rejoice. That's right. Yes, sir.

L-39 Old Shamgar stood there and his righteous indignation got up, and here they was, tromp, tromp, big, heavy armor. What did he do? He said, "I am a--I am an Israelite. I'm--been circumcised. (In other words, received the Holy Ghost) I'm not a warrior. I'm not a fighter. And there's nothing I can do. Only I know one thing, that God's with me. That's all I know." And he reached up on the mantel and got an old ox goad, a little old stick with a piece of brass on the end of it, you punch the--the dirt off the plow or beat a ox to the gate with it. He jumped out there under the power of the Holy Ghost, knowing that he knowed he had the right, and slew six hundred Philistines. Hallelujah.
That's right, brother. He was God's witness. If God had led Moses, if God had led the rest of them, he was an Israelite just the same as they were. That's right. And mister, you setting in the wheelchair, you on the cot, you here, or back yonder wherever you are, if you're borned of the Spirit of God, you got just as much right to rise from that chair and wheel cart tonight, as any other man has. You're borned again. Get a little grit about you. Stand up. And Jesus Christ standing here in His Word, proving what He is, showing signs, wonders, miracles of His resurrection, what more do we want? Amen.
Oh, I love Him. Don't think I'm excited; I'm not. I know right where I am. Yes, sir. I just feel good. Notice, here he was and he slew those Philistines. Sure, he knew where he was standing. He knew all about it. He knowed what he--knowed what he could do. He knowed what God had promised. And so he wasn't afraid.

L-40 Little did Joshua scare, when he crossed the river there, and seen God open up the river. He was a witness that God could open up the river. And God said, "March around that wall now on the seventh day, let out a big shout and blow the trumpets and the gates are going to fall over." Why, just... Joshua didn't--wasn't scared, for he was God's witness. He'd seen the river open up before, and he knowed what God could do. So he just marched around and... No walls ever fell like that before. Don't make any difference whether they fell or not. He was a witness that God could keep His Word. Amen.


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