<TITLE>09. Par 33-34</TITLE>L-33 One time the Philistine armies had backed the Israelites up on the bank. They thought... Kinda got away from God. They got a king in there, was backslidden. They begin to teach and get formal, and out in sin and things. Then the Church cools off. The days of miracles was past for them. There wasn't no one... The... All the army backed up, and a big old giant standing over there, by the name of Goliath, saying, "Some of you fellows come out and fight me." He knowed they was all cooled off, wasn't no revival going on, no witness about Him. But God never did leave Hisself without a witness.
Way back on the backside of the desert, He had a little, old ruddy-looking boy, back there. Wasn't very much to look at, I imagine. Here he come walking up to the camp one day, packing a raisin cake in each hand to give to his brothers. That old Goliath made his boast once too often. Yes, sir. He come out and made a boast. And David said, "Do you mean to tell me that you let that uncircumcised Philistine stand there and defy the armies of the living God?" Why? They were scholars and educated, but they didn't have a--there wasn't a witness. David said, "I'm His witness."

L-34 He goes up there to Saul, and he takes him up and said... Saul said, "I'll tell what to do." He dresses him all up in his big, heavy armor, like that, puts a D.D.L.D. (Lat--doctor--Latin), backwards degree and all on him. Come to find out... David said, "Take it off of me. I--I--I don't know nothing about this thing." Come to find out that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. And it don't yet. That's right. That's right. It never fits a man of God, that's got an experience. He don't care about your D.D.'s and L.D.'s. What does that make any difference?
Said, "The thing didn't fit. Take it off. I've never proved it, don't know nothing about it." Don't know about your L.D.'s and D.D.'s and all the other D.'s and whatever you want to call it, don't know nothing about it. He said, "Let me go with what I know about." Amen. That's we know tonight. You don't have to have a great big education to know a whole lot of things. The only thing you have to know is the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Let me go with that. That saved me from sin; it'll heal my sickness. That's all you have to know: know Him in the power of His resurrection. Be His witness. Yes, sir.
Said, "Let me go." And he pulled that old D.D.'s off and handed it back over to the seminary, and picked up his slingshot--what he had proved from God, walked out there and crossed a little branch and picked up five stones in one hand. Wrapped his little, old sling around these five fingers here and dropped the stone into it, here he come. Goliath made a mock at him, and said, "Am I a dog?"
He said, "You meet me as a Philistine, with an armor and spear. But I meet you in the Name of the Lord God of Israel." He knowed where he was standing. He knowed how to meet him.


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