<TITLE>05. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 David yet, maybe had never seen an army before. But he knowed one thing, that back over in the fields by the green pastures, and down by the still waters, he'd come personally in contact with the Living God. And he had faith in that God Who had talked to him, because he had had an experience of seeing God's great power.
Now, here's what I'm trying to say. When you see God's great power demonstrated, it ought to rise in you an unadulterated faith to take God at His Word and believe, that what God has said, God will do. If He's God at all, He keeps His Word.
So Saul, as many people today, many church members, well trained in theology, doctors of divinity, but has never had an experience of putting faith to a real challenge. And there's many fine trained ministers today in the pulpits and out in the schools--great doctors and so forth who are well trained, better trained than many of the men who's making challenges, but they've never had an experience to see the real true God move. They only know it from the way of training.

L-18 And Saul well represents that today, or the church represents Saul. If any man ought to be able to go out and challenge the devil, against his evils, is a man who's a great school teacher of the Bible, a man who knows all the Greek words, who knows all the great doctrines of the Bible. But they're afraid; be... They'll talk against it as Saul did, he said, "You're not able to go against this, you little ruddy fellow. This man is trained and a warrior from his youth. And you're nothing but a youth." And he said, "Come here, and I'll give you some of my theology."
So he put his armor and his degree upon the little David, but he'd come to find out, that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. So he said, "Take the thing off of me, and let me go just the way I met God."
That's the way we want to go. Not with some great seminary teaching, but with the experience that we've had when God filled our life with the Holy Spirit and changed us from sinners unto Christians. Let us go with that type of faith, somebody who's had an experience, that might not be a great trained group today that has that experience. It may be the little ruddy mission down on the corner. It might not be those who are great men, and under the great cathedrals, and the chapels, and the chimes a ringing. It may be a little old housewife who couldn't hardly sign her name to a paper, but she's had an experience that God keeps His Word.

L-19 Might be a little old boy that couldn't read a text out of a Bible, but He's had an experience, that he's met God and been borned again by the Holy Spirit, and he's able to challenge the devil in the midst of the darkest to a showdown on His Word. Certainly.
If men like that, and women like that, that make the challenge, that get something from God. Many time they'll set in the meeting and say, "This is Dr. So-and-so. He's been ill for some time." And then see a little old unconcerned, maybe colored woman, who maybe didn't even know her ABC's, be healed of a cancer, setting by him.
God wants men to believe it. "If thou shalt say in thy heart, and believe that it's being done, you shall have what you say."


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