<TITLE>04. Par 11-15</TITLE>L-11 And so when the giant made his challenge, David knew another thing, what was right and wrong. Sometimes we who go to church doesn't seem to hardly have the spiritual intelligence to know the difference. If we do, we don't act any different. But he knew what was right and what was wrong. He knew it was wrong for that Philistine to defy the armies of the living God. So he said these words: "Do you mean to tell me, that you'll let that uncircumcised Philistine stand there and defy the armies of the living God?" What a rebuke to a trained army.
What a rebuke it is today for some little wash woman, maybe that doesn't know her abc's, but can stand in the face of a well trained clergyman who's saying the days of miracles are past, and defy his words by saying, "I was once crippled or sick, and now I'm healed." She might not know all the ins and out of theology, but she knows God. After all, that's what's required.

L-12 And there, this little ruddy David, just a youth with his little sheep coat wrapped around him, walked up into the face of those fellows and made them ashamed of theirselves. He said, "You stand there, the trained army of the living God, and let that Philistine defy the armies of God." Said, "I'll go fight him myself."
Oh, I love that courageous spirit in David. And Saul tried to educate him and put him on a ecclesiastical jacket, but it didn't fit him. He said, "Take this thing off of me. I don't know how to say 'amen' the way you do. And neither do I know your theology. Let me go with that what I've had experience by."

L-13 Oh, a fellow said to me sometime ago; he said, "Brother Branham, your preaching is in vain, for there's no such a thing as Divine healing."
I said, "This is one thing, brother, you just haven't been where we've walked. That's all. For you're just too late to tell us now; we've already found it and witnessed it around the world, the great revival of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to bring forth signs and wonders to fulfill the Word of God in these last days."

L-14 And this little fellow took these old degrees off of him, walked out there, and he said, "Looky here, here's why I'm going out. I know Who I have believed." Saul knowed nothing about that, though he went to church every Sabbath. And he might've done all the religious things that the rest of them done. But he had never had an experience.
And what happened? David said, "When I was tending my fathers sheep, out there when I walked down to the green pastures and by the still waters, I learned of a God Who made the heavens and earth. And I was responsible for my papa's few sheep, and a bear run in and grabbed one and I slew him. And a lion run in and grabbed a kid and took off, and I knocked him down with my slingshot. And when he raised up, I grabbed him by the beard and slew him." He said, "The God that delivered the bear and the lion, how much more will he deliver that uncircumcised Philistine into my hands." Certainly, he knew what he was talking about. He had faith in God. He'd had an experience to see what God would do; therefore he knowed that experience would carry him on to victory.

L-15 Oh, years later when he become the King of Israel, no doubt that he'd become king, for such a warrior as that. When he become king, he had an idea: "Let me build the house of the Lord."
And when the prophet Nathan that night took him out and was talking to him, the Lord appeared to Nathan. He said, "Go, tell my servant David: I know he was just a little ruddy thing; I know he's wearing a sheep coat; but I took him away from that sheep coat and made him a ruler over My people and give him a name like the great men in this earth." How God seen that sincerity of faith to believe Him upon an experience, that He was the living God.


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