<TITLE>09. Par 28-30</TITLE>L-28 Listen. Listen to the Scriptures. God told Samuel one time, said, "Go up and anoint one of Jesse's sons to be king."
Jesse thought the same thing that our modern thinker believes today. He sent his great big son out there, a six-footer, you know, with his black, shiny hair. Said, "My, what... He will look like a real king," great big husky fellow, fine looking fellow. And said, "Look what he will look with a robe on him, a big gold crown setting on the side of his head."
And Samuel got the oil, and the Lord said, "But I've refused him." That's right. No matter how six foot he was and how striking he looked, God said, "I've refused him."
So he brought the next biggest one down and showed him. God said, "I refused him too." And he went on till he showed the sixth one. Then he said, "You... Have you got another one?"
Said, "Yeah. I got a little old scrawny, ruddy-looking fellow out yonder in the sheep pen, out yonder somewhere, taking care of the sheep, but I'm sure he'd never make a king."
"Well, go get him."
And as soon as David came forth, a little ruddy fellow, stooped shoulders, perhaps, with a little sheep coat around him, Samuel run and poured the oil on him, he said, "This is the king." That's God's choice. Amen. Man looks on the outside, but God looks on the heart.
Sometimes you get a great big church with a lot of crosses, and statues around it, and plush seats, and a ten thousand dollar organ in it, that don't attract God. Sometimes there's more salvation in a little mission down on the corner, than you can poke into the place. That's right. Man looks to the outside, but God looks at the heart. Always remember that.

L-29 Now, Abraham, called, out of the land of Chaldea, God met him down there. Probably a little old fellow, seventy-five years old when God called him. Probably a little bitty fellow, long whiskers, bald-headed, and stooped shoulders, but God found grace. Abraham had found grace in the sight of God, and God called him by election. Amen.
Through what? Someone that would follow him, would listen to Him. And he had a wife sixty-five years old. He told Abraham said, "Now, separate yourself from among your people." That's the best thing to do: come out from among it, get away from it.
Someone said, "Well, I still go to the pool room. I think maybe I could win some of the boys." Stay out of the pool room. Stay off the devil's ground. That's right.
You'll never do it that way. Separate yourself and show your color. Be a Christian. Act like it. Live like it. Talk like it. People will believe it.
Notice. Jesus said, "If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men to Me." Lift Him up in your life, in your living, what you do.

L-30 Then God called Abraham and he separated himself from his people to go into a strange land. Isn't it strange, when God calls a man, he calls him from among his associates to dwell among strange people, speaking strange languages? Kind of strange how God does that, isn't it? But He still does it.
Come out. You don't talk like the old crowd no more. You come over into a crowd... out there where you got whooping and a hollering and carrying on for the devil, you're shouting and praising the Lord in this other crowd. You have to go amongst a strange people, separate yourself from the crowd you once associated with.


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