<TITLE>05. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 So this soldier who put the rag around His eyes and hit Him on the head, he was just having some fun along among those soldiers. Many people like to say--to puff their chest out and say, "Oh, there's no such a thing as divine healing. Let me challenge them to heal this one."
Some fellow told me not long ago... First he made a statement on the radio, just behind me, my broadcast. Then he said, "If they can prove one healing, I'll give a thousand dollars."
A doctor was listening in. This was at Jonesboro, Arkansas. A doctor was listening in; he called me up. He said, "Brother Branham, why don't you get this certain fellow that had been paralyzed, and this preacher who had cancer on his neck; they are my patients. I can witness to him that they were healed by the power of God." I gathered up a load, and we went over to this minister's house. He told me, "Well," he said, "I tell you; you have to go over to Texas."
And then I said, "You want me to take them over there? I'll put that thousand dollars in mission work."
And he said, "Well, you take the little girl and go over there, and if you take a knife and cut her arm and then heal it before us, and we'll believe you."
I said, "You need mental healing, any man would want to cut a child's arm to see if he could heal it. Not even mentally right." They don't know it. What is it? It's because they like to brag and blow about something that they don't know what they're talking about. Just exactly.

L-17 That's the way Goliath was. Oh, how he liked to brag. He said, "I'll make you a proposition. You let some of your men... Chose you out one, and come over and fight me. If I whip him, then you all serve us. If he whips me, we'll serve you." Oh, how Satan can make it so reasonable looking. That's the intellectuals. "We will have no bloodshed; just let one of us die. One man die, the rest of us live." Sure, he had the upper hand. And everybody was scared to death.
And if there was one man in the whole nation of Israel, that would been equipped physically to fight the giant, was Saul. He was head and shoulders above his entire army. And he was well trained. He knowed all the maneuvering: how to handle the spear, or to--how to hold his shield to knock a lick off. Not only that, but he was a trainer of men: The largest man in the nation, the best trained man in the nation, but one of the biggest cowards in the nation. And that's the way it is today. It doesn't take the educated and the trained, but he had never put God to a test.

L-18 But one day, from way back on the backside of the desert come a little ruddy looking, drawed up knot, Jesse's son, David, a little sheepskin coat on him, was packing a slingshot in his hand. That giant made his brag at the wrong time. David looked over and said, "Do you mean to tell me that you'll let that uncircumcised Philistine stand up there and defy the armies of the living God? Could you imagine the littlest man on the ground taking up his challenge? The biggest man, and the best trained man, and the more equipped man to fight the man, was cowardly. Brother, it doesn't lay in training; it lays in experience.

L-19 And David was brought up before Saul. Saul said, "Why, that man is a military man. He's been a warrior from his youth and you're nothing but a youth."
But he was talking to a man that had experience. He said, "Sir, when I was taking care of my daddy's sheep, out behind the mountains, one day there was a lion come in, and he grabbed one of my sheep, and he run off with him. I took my slingshot and knocked him down, and I went after my lamb. And when I picked the lamb out of his mouth, he rose up against me, and I slew him." And he said, "A bear come in and got one. And I knocked him down." He said, "And the God that delivered me out of the paws of the lion, and out of the mouth of the bear, how much more will He deliver me out of the hands of that uncircumcised Philistine." He didn't know any theology, but he knowed God. He had an experience.


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