<TITLE>04. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 Here's a young man setting here in a wheelchair. God only knows the man as far I know; his friends know him; his people know him. Here's another man sitting in a wheelchair, a lady laying in a cot, a man setting here with crutches, holding--supporting himself. If those people could only receive faith, then that faith... If they couldn't even move one bit better then they could when they come in here, there could be not ten thousand doctors tell them that they wasn't going to be well. See? It something you have, you possess it.

L-16 And now, usually experience accompanies faith. And that's the reason that, usually, it takes a person that's acquainted with Christ, has the forgiveness of their sins, to know that He has forgiven you; you'll have an experience when you are borned again, that Christ forgave you and you know it. Therefore, with that experience, it's easy then for you to believe God for anything that He promised.

L-17 Now, notice. It's not always the trained man. Here, let's take some examples for instance. Israel had been called out in battle against the Philistines. And the Philistines, just as the--as it would be today, they had the great challenger named Goliath. Oh, he was a mighty man. His fingers were fourteen inches long and his spear was the size of a weavers needle, probably from here to the wall. And he made a proposition with Israel.
He... That's the way the enemy will do it. If he can see he's got the upper hand, he will always proposition with you. But when he's in the corner, he's a coward. For the devil is defeated. He's nothing but a bluff. If this Bible is the truth, which it is, Christ stripped him of every legal authority He had at Calvary. He paid the full price for sin and all of its attributes.

L-18 But now, this Philistine come out. He said, "Let's not have a great bloodshed. Let's not have any trouble. Let's just you choose you a man and we'll choose us a man, and let's meet and let us come out here and fight. If I whip your man, then you all serve us; if he whips me then we'll serve you." Sure. Who would tackle that great, big giant? If there was any man in the whole Israelite army that would been physically able, would've been Saul. Saul was the king. And the Bible said that he was head and shoulders above any man in his army. Not only that, but he was a well-trained man. He knew all the military maneuvers. He'd been schooled since a boy of knowing how to handle a spear or a sword. But he was afraid because the giant had him bluffed.
But you know, God's always got somebody that's not scared. Way back on the backside of the desert, herding his pappy's sheep was a little, old, ruddy, stoop-shouldered boy that knowed something about God. He wasn't a trained fighter. But when he heard that giant make that expression, he said, "Do you mean to tell me that you'll stand here and let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the Living God? If you all are scared, let me go fight him," the most unequipped man there was in the group.


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