<TITLE>17. Par 62-65</TITLE>L-62 There he was. He took his little old sheep coat and put it on, picked up his slingshot, felt better, you know, kinda get free. All bound down, traditional, that's what's the matter with the church today.
Here he goes, runs down there and picks him up five little stones.
Goliath said, "Do you mean to tell me that that's the best you got?"
Well, brother, it's more than a match for you. I'll say that. You just don't know what's wrapped around that little old sheepskin coat there. That's right.

L-63 Picked up these five stones, places one in there... Why, this great big boasting infidel walked out there and cursed him in the name of his idol, cursed David. "Why," said, "I'll take you on the end of my spear," which it was like a weaver's needle, longer than one of them middle tent poles. And he said, "I'll take you on the end of this spear..." Little old boy weighed about one hundred and ten pounds, kind of scrawny, draw--drawed in, little old fellow, maybe didn't get too much to eat back on the backside of the desert, but he stayed with God. It's the main thing.
"Picked him up on..." Said, "I'll pick you up on the end of this, and I'll hold you up and let the birds eat your flesh this day."
Watch what David said. David said, "You come to me as a Philistine with an armor, and with a spear, and in the names of your god," but said, "I come to you in the Name of the Lord God of Israel. This day I'll cut your head off, and I'll give your flesh to the birds."

L-64 Why? What was in his hand? A slingshot. But God was with him. That's the main thing. Whether you got a bachelor's degree, or a degree of art, or whatever you got, if you got Christ in you, what difference does it make? Whether you know your ABC's, or whatever you do know, as long as you know Jesus Christ in the power of His resurrection, that's what you have to know.
There he stood. Why, he said what he would do. And here he went. When they begin to draw near, that Philistine raging mad, with his great big armor on like that, and his spear hanging out to catch little old David... Little David went and took that sling now (only thing he had in his hand), put a rock in it, like that, wrapped it around his fingers. Look, brethren, he had f-a-i-t-h, five, in J-E-S-U-S, five more.
Here he come with a rock. When he let the rock go, God directed it right in the middle of the helmet, where the helmet should've been on that old Goliath, and he fell. And David jumped up on him and pulled his own sword out, and chopped his head off. And the rest of them took courage and cut the Israelite--or cut the Philistine army plumb out of the country.
I'm telling you, what we need today is another David, who will stand on the Word of God, and preach the unadulterated Gospel of Jesus Christ, and make a few preachers take courage and go to cutting down until we get all this boasting and atheotic, communistic element out of our nation, and our place (Amen.), and out of our churches. Oh, that's true, my friends.

L-65 One time a man, one man single-handed... A big bunch of Philistines run up on him. His name was Samson. He looked all around. He didn't have nothing, but he picked up the jawbone of a mule. And the Spirit of God come upon him, and he beat down a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a mule. Why? The Spirit of God was on him. That's what made him do it. Yes, sir.
There was an old fellow one time over in the Book of Judges; his name was Shamgar. Did you ever read of him? Many people very seldom ever think of Shamgar. He's over in the Book of Judges. That's when every man done according to his own will and his own thoughts. And little Shamgar and all the rest of the Israelites when they'd get their--their food into the storehouse, here come the Philistines and take it away.


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