<TITLE>18. Par 66-69</TITLE>L-66 That's the way the devil will do. Just about the time you get things built up right and you think everything's beginning to move good, then the devil will come in. Just watch that. He will try to come in and tear down what God has given you, steal away. "Sheep stealing dogs," that's what Paul said. That's right. "After my departure, grievous wolves will enter in, not sparing the flock."
You know back home what we do for a sheep killing dog? We turn both barrels of a old shotgun on him. I'll tell you; the best thing for a sheep stealing dog is to turn both barrels here, New and Old both on him. Now, that'll...?... him down; I tell you. When you catch him with the hair in his teeth, that's the evidence. All right. And that's right.
Someone come around and said, "Now...?... you went down to that tent meeting, didn't you?"
"Uh-huh."
"Oh, that guy's psychic."
"Well, that maybe so, but I'm saved." Amen. That's right. God's doing work.
Awhile ago I was looking at a man talking, there where he set on a cot here. He'd been in a cot for I don't know how long. And today he is restored normally, coming into a church to take fellowship. Thanks be to God. Somebody's got courage, whatever is enough courage in you to rise up and meet the situation.

L-67 Shamgar was standing there. He just got all of his wheat all thrashed out. That's the way the devil lets it go. Got his harvest, the hard work all done, had it all laid up in the loft... He was standing there, and just about that time, him and his wife, and his little children perhaps, standing there, he heard a noise. He raised back the side and looked down. You know what happened? There come six hundred Philistines, big old fat, roly-poly, walking along there in their great big armors, tromp, tromp, tromp with their spears, coming up to take away his crop.
He looked down at his poor little old wife standing there, sleeves all out, poor little kids looked pale in the face. The Philistines took all he had the year before. And he seen he'd have to go hungry again; there they come. Worked all summer, all of them, done got it put up, and they knowed. When it was all laid up, so they thought they'd come over and take it. There he was standing there, and he looked at that. You know, I don't mean he got angry, but maybe his righteous indignation got up. Ha, ha.

L-68 You know, that's what ought to happen to you here on these cots and stretchers this afternoon. Just get a little mad at the devil. Say, "You old lying rascal, you're a liar. Christ made me free. I don't have to set like this no more. Get out of here." Toe the line with him, brother. He hasn't got a bit of authority. Jesus stripped him of every legal right he had, when He died at Calvary. The whole question of salvation and healing was settled at Calvary. That's right.

L-69 He looked around; he thought, "Well, I'm--I'm not a soldier; I can't fight. I don't know nothing about fighting. And if I... I ain't got time to get out here and learn how to duel so I can fight these fellows."
But he just got all stirred up. And looked up, laying on the shelf and there laid an ox goad, the Bible said. That's the thing that's got a long stick with a piece of brass on it. They punch the cattle into their stalls. And maybe when they're plowing, they rake the dirt off the end of the plow, an old ox goad.
Now, he didn't have time to train to fight. He was a farmer. He didn't know nothing about fighting, but it was time to fight.
And he said, "One thing I know: I'm an Israelite." Hallelujah. "I'm circumcised. I'm in the covenant. God Jehovah is with me." And as he begin to think on those things, I can see him swing his little old hands.
His wife thought, "What's taking place with my husband?"
Brother, he grabbed that ox goad, and the only thing he could get in his hand was an ox goad. And out that door he went and slew six hundred Philistines, armed. Hallelujah.


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