<TITLE>07. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 A little old fellow, one time, by the name of Samson, a little curly headed fellow about like that. I see the artist paint his picture sometimes with doors would hardly go across this auditorium here. Why, it wouldn't be no mystery to me to see a man like that pick up the city gates and walk away with it, a man of that size. It wouldn't be no mystery or to slay a lion with his hands, a man of that size. But they got the wrong slant. Samson was a little bitty fellow, a little curly headed fellow, seven little curls hanging down like a little sissy, and he looked he was anything else but what would be a man. But when the Spirit of God came upon him, he could slay a lion or anything. But it taken the Spirit of God.
And one day, when he was all backed up by the side of a hill, and a thousand Philistines was upon him, and he knowed nothing to do, but he picked up an old dry jawbone of a mule, and felt back to see if them seven locks was still there, he waded in with all he had, and slayed that thousand Philistines, with nothing else he had to give them. But he said, "I haven't got nothing but a jaw bone to give you, so I'll give it to you." And he slayed a thousand Philistines. What we need today is some people to get right down to real business with God.

L-20 I was going into a football stadium one time, where I was to have a service. And the sign up over the door, I'll never forget it, says, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog." And that's what we need tonight, is somebody's got enough courage and backbone. No matter if he don't belong to a denomination, if you got a D.D., or what you got, you've got Jesus Christ on your side as long as you preach the uncompromising Word of the living God and stand on the same. God promised that He would back it up and would... That's exactly true.
I remember a little fellow name Shamgar, down there in--in the time of the judges. He didn't have nothing; he wasn't a warrior. He didn't know nothing about fighting. The Philistines would come over and steal everything they got. As soon as they got a little bit built up, some supplies, then the Philistines would come in and rob them, take it away.
That just about the way we do in revival meetings today. We'll go in and get a revival started, and as soon as the evangelist leaves, or the people get scattered out, then in comes the Philistines, and saying, "Now, the days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as that. It's only theo... It's only psychology. It's--it's mental telepathy, or something in that order."

L-21 Oh, my, I can see little old Shamgar standing there and looking down the street, and here come them Philistines marching up. He wasn't a warrior; he knowed nothing about fighting. But one thing he did know, that he was a Jew, and he had a right; he was circumcised and God was with him. So he grabbed this little old ox goad there. That's all he had; he sure give it to six hundred Philistines, and killed every one of them armored man with this ox goad in his hand, because he stepped out on what was right and believed God.
What we need tonight is some more Shamgars. Isn't that right? Somebody who will step out on the Word of God, and say that it's the truth, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] and don't be afraid. God will back up His Word; He's under obligation to.


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