<TITLE>06. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 They went on back down, and the Spirit departed from Saul. He'd backslid and went so far away from God until the Spirit had left him, and a evil spirit took His place, come on Saul. And Saul was all moody and in a bad humor, and--and kicking things around, all out of sorts like some people gets on Monday morning. So they--he was out of sorts all the time. Did you know that's a evil spirit? That's exactly.
So they didn't... The doctors couldn't do him any good. They had a lot of doctors down there, but they couldn't help that, because it was a spiritual condition. So one of the men had passed around and seen a few places, they said, "Well, we know where there's a Divine healer at."
"Why, who would that be?"
Said, "Jesse's got a son back out there, he..." Yeah, he's a Divine healer. Sure he was. He healed by music. Amen. That's what he did. He had a gift of casting out evil spirits. The Holy Ghost hadn't come in those days, so he cast them out by music, playing the words of the Lord. "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside still waters." And it disturbed the evil spirits so much that they left Saul.

L-20 Shame on you people don't believe in string music. No wonder, evil spirits never like it. They have to get away. David cast out devils by playing on his string instrument. That's what the Scripture says. That's right. And when David would begin to play, the evil spirit would leave Saul. Is that right? So this little boy was borned in the world for a purpose. You believe that?
And he knowed God was with him. Sure he did. Because he'd able to... He was a crack shot; he was a woodsman. And he had a little slingshot out there. And an old lion got a... And bear one day, run in and grabbed a little sheep and started out with it, and David took his sling, and knocked the lion down, and took the sheep out of his mouth. And when the lion rose up, come to himself and rose up, David just caught him by the beard and give his hunting knife to him, and that ended it. So he knowed God was with him. He killed the bear also. And he knew God was with him.
And now, the next thing he did, played and cast out devils. If that ain't a Spirit filled man, I never seen one. He might be little and ruddy, but he was a Spirit filled man. God was with him.

L-21 And then the first thing you know there broke out a war, and the Philistines come over and said, "Well, we're just going to have war with Israel." And Saul got all of his people. Sent that little old ruddy boy back over on the hillside there to watch his daddy's sheep. And so, then he sent the big warriors out to fight the battle, said, "That little old fellow can't fight. So we put him back out there with the sheep. So we'll just send these great big men out there to do the job."
So he sent all of his boys out and give them the sword and so forth, and their spears. And they were trained warriors. They went out there with all their Ph.D's and everything to fight the battle. The enemy's always there to challenge them.

L-22 So there come a big fellow out, Goliath, nine foot three inches tall, great big fellow. Walked out, said, "I'll make you a proposition. Why all these men die?" Said, "Send me a man over here and let me fight him. And if he kills me, we'll be your servants. If I kill him, why, you'll be our servants." Sure, the enemy, when he's got the edge on you, he likes to boast and carry on like that. Oh, he gives a big boast.
So every one of them, all them big degrees, they was shivering; they was scared of that fellow 'cause he was a--a big man. So he boasted like that for forty days. Did you ever notice, forty is a--is the number of temptation? Certainly is. Moses in the mountain for forty days, come back and was tempted. Jesus went into the wilderness forty days and was tempted: forty days of temptation. Rained forty days, and so forth, forty is God's number of temptation.


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