<TITLE>16. Par 58-61</TITLE>L-58 Why, his brother looked around, said, "Now, I know you'd come up here, you little snicklefritz, to get into something. You got mischief in your heart. You get back over home to your daddy's sheep. We're the ones standing in this ecclesiastical affair over here. We got it all under control. (Yeah, it looks like you got it under control all right.) Oh, we got it all under control. You get back."
But some man run along, said, "Saul, there's a man out here, a little old scrawny-looking boy. He--he said he'd fight that Philistine."
"Why," he said, "bring him up here."
And they brought him up there. And he said, "Now, I'll tell you, son, I admire your courage. But if you can get you a degree, a Bachelor of Art, and you can get a D.D., and so forth, I believe you might... You can try it."

L-59 And he went and unharnessed his ownself, and put his big armor on David. But he found out that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. Hallelujah. No, sir.
David said, "I don't know nothing about them kind of things. But there's one thing I do know: I got a slingshot in my hand." That's all he had, a slingshot: two strings and a piece of leather. He said, "But the Lord God of Israel let me take and kill a lion with this, and he killed a bear with it. I took the lion out of the... out... I took the--the sheep out of the lion's mouth. When he rose up against me, I slew him." And he said, "If God was with me there... I've trusted this sling. I've proved it. I know it's all right. And if God will let me do that, how much more will He help me to slay that uncircumcised Philistine." Mmmmm. Quite a boast for a little scrawny-looking guy like that, wasn't it?
Why, Saul said, "Now, wait a minute. You just can't go. The association won't receive you like that, you know. So we got to watch this."

L-60 So he unharnessed his great big armor and stuck it on him. Then poor little David was almost bowlegged; he couldn't hold that big thing up.
That's what the matter with a lot of fellows today, brethren. You're so harnessed up with all kinds of degrees till you can't even preach the old fashion Gospel any more, and... [Congregation applauds--Ed.] That's right. That's right. So harnessed up, denominational minded and everything like that... "The board won't let me do it."
What do I care about the board? What's the board of heaven say about it? Preach the Gospel. "These signs shall follow them that believe." Yes, sir. Jesus, the Son of God, has raised from the dead and He's alive today proving Himself among men. Nothing about the board...
David said, "Take this thing off of me. I just can't stand it no longer. It kinda gets on my nerves anyhow." So he reached down there, and picked up this little slingshot, packed up his little old shepherd's coat. That's what you want to do, brother. He said, "I'm... I--I proved this."

L-61 And there's one thing I can say about this old-time religion. I've proved it, brother. I know it's real. I know what I speak of, for I've trusted in it when the doctor said, "You got three more minutes to live." Amen.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, by His amazing grace saved me. I know what I'm talking about. That's the reason I'm not ashamed to preach Divine healing and the power of the resurrection of the Lord, because I've trusted it down to the end of the road. I know what it will do. I know what real genuine heartfelt faith will do in God's Word. It'll produce everything God said it would do. That's right.
I don't know nothing about how to say, "Amen," like a... you do, and bow and all your fancy dressings and so. I know nothing about that. But there's one thing I do know, that Jesus Christ is raised from the dead, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And the Holy Ghost is just as free today as it was the day It fell on the day of Pentecost. It's the same Gospel, but just unharness yourself and walk out in the open. That's right.


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