<TITLE>10. Par 34-36</TITLE>L-34 So this little fellow had just worked hard all summer long. And he'd got his wheat laid up and his barley in the barn. He was standing there looking, and he heard a noise coming down the road, "tromp, tromp, tromp." And he looked and here come six hundred Philistines, all armed with spears. Well, he was a farmer. He didn't know nothing about fighting. And he looked down at his little wife standing there, perhaps, and her little pale cheeks, the tears running down, saying, "Shamgar, what will we do this winter?" He seen his little girl with the naked arms, her little skirt wore out, maybe leaning against the wall, crying. What was it? The Philistines coming right over to take out what he had. That's the way the devil does it.
You know what? Shamgar begin to think, "You know, I'm not a fighter, but I am a son of Abraham; I'm of the tribe and the lineage; and I'm circumcised. I know that my God still lives. And there's a crisis at hand." And the Spirit of the Lord come upon him, and he jumped out there in the middle of the road with a ox goad in his hand. Now, that's a stick with a little knob on it where they can punch the ox and make him plow. And he jumped out there with this ox goad in his hand and beat down six hundred Philistines. Why? Because he knowed that he was a Israelite. He had a right. He had a right to his God given rights. He was circumcised.

L-35 And any man here that's been circumcised by the Spirit of God, that's borned again... Any of you people that's sick, the devil's a bluff: he'll rob you; he'll pale your cheeks; he'll do everything he can; but you don't have to stand for it no longer. You say, "I'm not a preacher," but you're a Christian. He didn't know how to fight. He said, "I don't know nothing about faith." Step out anyhow. Yes, sir.
I was going into a--a base--or football stadium one day, and I seen a little thing hanging on the wall that always struck me. It said this: "It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog."
That's what does it. If you're a big dog and just a coward, you'll get whipped any time. But you could be a little puppy and a lot of grit; you could put the enemy running any time. It's the size of the God of heaven that's in the heart, and He's a big God and a good One, covers all space and time.
Sure, what the church needs tonight is another getting back to God. Mmm.

L-36 All right. It must have been Philip when he was on his road back with Nathanael. And as he come back, he could tell Nathanael the things that had been done, because he had seen Jesus: when He told Peter, "Your name is Simon. Your father's name is Jonas. And from this on I'm going to call you Cephas."
It was after that Philip had had this experience that he could tell Nathanael along the road, "I wouldn't be a bit surprised but when you walk up in His Presence, that He'll tell you who you are, where you come from, all about you." See, he'd had an experience that Jesus could do that.


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