<TITLE>05. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 But God told Samuel, said, "Get a cruise of oil and go out there, and I'll tell you who to anoint." Well, Jesse come out there, brought his oldest son out, which is a great big six footer or better, said, "That's the one to be king." And he passed by.
Samuel got the oil cruise, and said, "Surely, that's him."
And when he passed by, God said, "That's not him; I've refused him."
My, he said, "Well, this fellow's nearly his size, we'll bring him out. He's a big handsome looking fellow. He'd look good with that crown setting on the side of his head and his new suit on." How you look to stand before the people, that's the way people judges their pastors today. What a shame. Right.
And so when he passed by, Samuel got his cruise of oil and run to pour it on him.
He said, "Don't receive him; I've refused him."
And he kept on bringing them out till he got down to the seventh one, that was it. Samuel said, "Well, is that all you got?"
He said, "That's all I got." Said, "Yes. Oh, I got a little scrub back out there herding sheep somewhere."
Said, "Well, go get him." Said, "We're not going to set down till we go get him."
So they went back there. And I can see them, some of them with a discouraged look on their face and thinking, "Well, surely that wouldn't be the king." So they...
That's the way people think today, "If there's anything such as Divine healing, it wouldn't be in a mess of people like that. Anything like the power of God, it wouldn't be on..."

L-17 I had a woman, a--a news reporter tell me up in Oregon one day; she said, "Well, if there was anything to it, it wouldn't be amongst a bunch of illiterate things like you teach to."
I said, "You don't think so? Go on up to your big church and die then." I said, "If you want to get healed come on down there."
She said, "Be--be--before I get down there and boohoo like them others do..." She said, "That makes shivers run over my back when I hear them do that."
And I said, "You'd freeze if you ever got to heaven, 'cause you're going to hear plenty of it up there." That--that's right. I said, "I tell you one thing," I said, "if you can't..." Just like Naaman, he said, "Isn't the waters just better over here in my country than them old muddy waters of Jordan." And he turned around and started back all puffed up. He didn't want to humble himself.
And he said, "All right, if you want to go on back with your leprosy, go on." So when he got off his high horse and got down there and humbled himself and dipped in the muddy waters where God told him to dip, he got rid of his leprosy. That's right. You got to come God's way, not your way, His way.

L-18 And notice. How I can see David then; here he comes running in with a little shepherd's coat on, made out of sheepskin, perhaps, he runs in, a little old sissy looking boy. The Bible said he was ruddy, and he wasn't nothing but just a little old spindly fellow, kind of a sissy fair look at, little bitty old fellow run in there. And the Holy Ghost come upon the prophet, said, "Pour the oil on his head; I've chose him."
What a disappointment it was to all them people standing there expecting these big men, the big handsome, strong looking fellows to be king. But he poured the oil on little old David's head. And from that day, the Holy Spirit was with David. God was with him. He went back out into the wilderness happy.


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