<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 He was talking to a man that was full of fighting theology, but he never had put God to the test. That's the way it is today. It doesn't take education. It doesn't take a lot of thinking. It takes a humble heart who's been dedicated to the power of the resurrection of Christ and filled with the Holy Ghost, that knows what they're talking about. He said, "Your servant will go fight him, and the God..."
You see, the first thing; there was a need; there was a crisis. And if there ever was a crisis, it's now.
"Oh," he said, "I'll go fight him."

L-21 And of course, Saul couldn't let him go like that; he knowed too much about modern theology. He said, "Come out here and pick up my sword. Let's see how you handle it." And he put his armor on him. And when this great big armor of a man, head and shoulders above every man in his army, got on a little bitty knotty runt, you could imagine how his little legs bowed together and his eyes stuck out and the helmet down over his ears.
He said, "Take this thing off of me." Like a man, feel a calling of God, and he has to go away and spend twenty years of his life learning Greek. You don't want to know Greek; you want to know Christ, is what you need to know. Huh. He said, "Take the thing off. I've never proved it. I don't know what this theology will do for me. Let me go with this, what I know about. That's what the church needs tonight, is not a school to educate you, to get a lot of stuff in you, don't belong there. You need faith and an experience in a resurrected Jesus Christ to set your soul afire to call those things which are not, as though they were. That's what the world needs tonight, or what the church needs: not the world, the church. You can't blame the world, but you can the church that's already had an experience of passing from death unto life.

L-22 Now, Saul found out that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. It just don't work. You don't need to know theology; you need a little kneeology to know God.
And he took that little old slingshot; that's all he had. That's all he knowed about, but he knowed God had used that thing for another purpose to save something. How much more would he use it now to save the whole army of Israel? And, brother, I don't know about your schoolings, and your great big seminaries, but I know one thing, as a sinner one day in a little old coal shed I found Jesus Christ as the power in His resurrection that saved my life.

L-23 When Dr. Roy Davis, that ordained me in the Missionary Baptist Church. And when the angel of the Lord come to me and told me I was to take this message around the world, he said, "Billy, you need some rest. You'd better go home."
I said, "Dr. Davis, that Angel stood there and told me that."
He said, 'You, with a grammar school education, is going to pray for kings and potentates?"
I said, "That's what He said, and that's what I believe." I said, "If that's the attitude of the Baptist Church, I give up my fellowship card."
I... He said, "Who do you think would listen to you?"
I said, "I don't know. It's not my business to ask that. It's my businesss to do what He said do. It's His business to send somebody to listen at it."


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