<TITLE>09. Par 37-40</TITLE>L-37 When they were going to choose a man to take Saul's place, God told the prophet, "Take this horn of oil and go up and anoint one of Jesse's boys." So Jesse in the carnal way brought out his oldest son--great, big, wide shoulders, handsome-looking man. Said, "This is him, boy, he will be pretty king. I'll tell you, he will look nice with a crown setting on his head. What a wonderful fellow he will be with all of these scarlet robes. He's so big and handsome. What a nice looking fellow he will be with the... That's the one the Lord's chose." Samuel got his cruse of oil and run forth to anoint what the people thought was right. God said. "I've refused him."
"Well," said, "we got another one just a few inches shorter than he is, we'll try him."
God said, "I've refused him too." So he said... went through all the sons till he got to the last one. He said, "Have they got another one?"
Said, "Oh, yes. I got a little old, scrubby-looking fellow out yonder. He's kind of a fellow stays to himself out there on the back side of the desert." Said, "Oh, God wouldn't put a crown on something like that." (That little mission down yonder, you know.) Said, "He wouldn't put a crown on nothing like that."
The prophet said, "Go, get him."

L-38 So, I imagine they sang some hymns till they went and got little old David and brought him in, a ruddy little fellow, you know, just a little, bitty, old, dried-up looking fellow. They brought him in, and as soon as--as they brought him, I can imagine Jesse saying, "Well, that--that wouldn't work." And all the rest of them saying, "That wouldn't work."
But the Holy Ghost spoke to the prophet, said, "I've chose him. For man looketh on the outward appearance, but God looketh on the heart."
No matter whether you're in a cathedral, that don't have nothing to do with it; if you got a mission or a prayer meeting in your house. God looks to the honest heart. Amen. That may be old fashion sassafras, but it'll sure stick with your ribs. It's good with you, certainly will. Yes, sir. God looketh on the heart, not the outward appearance.

L-39 So notice. When the man come for justification, he come to the waters of separation. Then, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God," the waters of separation.
The man living in adultery, the woman that's not living right, the boy and girls that's not living right, they come to the courts, and there through the preaching of the Word, it separates them. The Holy Spirit says, "That's wrong. Don't do that": Separation.
Then, through that they're washed by the waters of the Word. Hearing the Word they receive intellectual faith: intellectual faith. Now, that's just about as far as half the church gets, or more, intellectual faith. Say, "Oh, yeah, I believe that." But wait. There's more to it yet before redemption is completed. Have to go through something else.

L-40 Remember, you're in the courts now. But the next thing is to enter into the fellowship with the believers on the common ground of fellowship. And before they could enter through after the waters of separation had separated them from their sin, then they had to go through the public testimony of seven stripes of blood, showing that death went before them to pay the way.
And, every believer, after hearing the Word, has to come to the recognition of the Lord Jesus Christ, death going before them to bring them into the fellowship. Then inside, coming through the sprinkled blood at the door. Remember, it was seven stripes. The seven stripes spoke of the seven ages, seven church ages, that also... Seven is God's perfect number. No other way of redemption only through the Blood through the seven years, six thousand years even to the Millennium. Nothing but the Blood will be recognized any time. A public testimony to the Blood comes Life. And they had to enter through every age through the Blood. And after entering the Blood, they come into fellowship. What a beautiful thing here.


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