<TITLE>05. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 And many times when the devil has our people bound under superstition that Divine healing is some kind of a totem pole, or something that was back in an age gone by, Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And the pitiful part, some of the best trained scholars we have is afraid to tackle the job, some of our bishops and great scholarly men, because the only thing they know is the Word; they've never had a real experience with God. And David knowed what he was talking about. He wasn't so well-trained, but he knew Who he had trusted.
That's what's the matter today. Is men who is scholarly, great denominations behind them, but they're afraid to take that stand. Sometimes God has to get down and get some little ignorant, illiterate bunch of preachers, that hardly know their abc's to stand for what they know to be the truth. For they've had experience. No matter how well you're trained, if you are not experienced...
You wouldn't want a doctor to operate on you that never had an experience, you was his first patient, certainly not. We need Christians who's got experience, who knows how to trust God.

L-20 And David when he went up, they brought him before Saul. And Saul said, "Why, you couldn't fight that man. Why, you're nothing but a little ruddy kid." And said, "You're just a youth and he's a warrior from his youth."
He said, "But Saul, there's just one thing you don't know. I've had an experience. Back on the backside of the desert one day, I was brought to a showdown. A lion run in and got one of my sheep; I knocked him down with a slingshot, and he rose up against me, and I killed him. And a bear got a kid and I killed him. And the God that delivered me out of the paws of the lion and the bear will deliver me out of the spear of that uncircumcised Philistine." He knew what he was talking about. He didn't have much training, but he knew the God of heaven. He didn't need any training. You don't need it if you know God. And he conquered the Philistine because God was with him. What? He had an experience. Therefore, he had faith, because he knowed what God had done, God could do again. And the crisis was on and God would act.

L-21 Oh, don't you see it? God's obligated to act every time. He's got to in order to be God, if you just won't doubt Him. He must act in order to stay God. See, we get smarter. The generations makes us smarter. We've learned the intelligence of our fathers. But God was infinite to begin with; He don't get any smarter. What He did the first time, He has to do every time because He was perfect to begin with. And His actions, and His motives, and His power, and all that He was was perfect to start with: don't need any schooling.

L-22 Now, notice again. It was Moses that had been down in Egypt and had all the scholarship and was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, which seemingly was far above our wisdom today. And he was taught in all of it till he could teach their teachers. If there ever was a man that was qualified by education it was Moses. He was a military man. He knowed all the ways to fight and all the answers, but he went at it wrong and he failed God. But one day back on the backside of the desert... The only thing he knowed about God was what his mama had taught him. That's the letter, that's his education. But one day on the backside of the desert, he was herding his father-in-law's sheep, and he met God in a burning bush, a supernatural... And in five minutes in the Presence of that supernatural Being he was better equipped than all the wisdom that Egypt could've give him. Five minutes before he was a running coward, but after that experience of being in the Presence and knowing that the God of the Hebrews lived, he acted different from then on.


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