<TITLE>11. Par 32-34</TITLE>L-32 Now, we're going to read out of the Book of I Chronicles the 17th chapter and the 7th verse. Long ago this come to me, and I've got it marked here what--what happened. And I never did try to preach on this. I said to Brother Wood, that came with me tonight over to the meeting; I said, "Tonight I'm going to talk to the people, just a good heart to heart talk." Tomorrow night we're in the Lane Tech, where we have plenty of room, can bring the people up easy and so forth, for prayer service and so forth. Now, in the 7th verse we read this.
 Now therefore... thou... say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD... I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep...

L-33 When I read that, I--my heart just poured out of me. "David, I took you from the sheepcote." And you know why it meant so much to me? This is it. When I was reading that, I thought, "Ten years ago..." Now, I'm--I... You all my... We're home folks, aren't we? We can say that. You see? You... In a little--our little group like this we can speak to one another just like we would knowed one another for years, and we do.
I thought, "Ten years ago I was walking a line for forty cents an hour, because I didn't even have the education to get out and get a job that would pay more: thirty miles a day through the wilderness, home once a week, for forty cents an hour. And I was known around Jeffersonville, Indiana. And today, by the grace of God, still with no education, I guess I know ten million people or more, around the world." Who did that?
I was talking to the wife; she said, "Billy, I remember seeing you come in out of them thickets, ragged and tore, and weighed about a hundred and ten, fifteen pounds, your face swathy, your clothes tore off of you from patrolling down through those lines and things."
I'd go downtown. My father drinked awful heavy, and the name wasn't too good in Jeffersonville. But I thought, "That can't be that way." And I thought, "Today when I come home, I have to slip out in the wilderness somewhere to hide to get just a little bit of rest from dear, loving, sweet people." I love people, and I wanted their fellowship. And what happened? I couldn't do it; there's no way for me to do it. There's nothing could happen, but Jesus Christ stooped down. I have no more education than I had then. I never did have a personality. I--I have nothing in the world that I could contribute it to, only the love of God that stooped down.

L-34 And David had been a little shepherd; He said, "I took you from the sheepcote out yonder. Who was you, David? I took you from the sheepcote, from following your father's sheep, and made you a great name," like man of great of the earth.
And I thought of that, about sheep and shepherd. Why did He choose David? David was always talking about still waters and green pastures. He was the psalmist that wrote songs and played on his harp to the glory of God. And he must have been something about David tending sheep; he must have been a real sheepherder. Did you notice one time there was a bear run in and got one of his sheep, and he killed that bear. And a lion run in and got one and he caught that beard--lion by the beard and took a knife and killed that lion. See, it was sacrificing for his sheep. And if he was willing to lay down his life for the sheep, he was a type of the good Shepherd. He was the Son of David, you know, the real Shepherd, the King Shepherd over all.
Did you ever notice in the Bible, just thinking the other day, when a prophet speaks, he says, "THUS SAITH THE LORD." But when Jesus spoke He never said that. He said, "But I say unto you." Then call Him a prophet. He was Emmanuel. Never said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD," He was the Lord. "I say unto you."


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