<TITLE>06. Par 23-28</TITLE>L-23 And so, they had a great challenger by the name of Goliath, which was... Oh, he was like a prehistoric giant. His great fingers were fourteen inches long, the Bible says. And his spear was like a weaver's needle, perhaps long as from here to the wall. Now, what would an ordinary man do with such a man as that in battle, and maybe, many times bigger than a great big man, maybe eight or ten times bigger?
And now, when they seen they had such a man, he made a proposition with them. He walked out. And you know, sin is so treacherous, and unbelief is sin. And unbelief is so treacherous; it plays a lot of innocent tricks on you.

L-24 So he walks out and he said, "We shouldn't have any blood shed." We... "Just so you join church, that's all that's necessary. We shouldn't have any blood shed. Let us make a proposition. You choose you a man out of your army, and let him come fight with me. And if I kill him, then you all serve us. And if he kills me, we'll serve you."
Sure, when they got the odds like that. And every man in Israel's heart fainted, because they thought, maybe he'd be called to go on the challenge. But from the king on down, every one of them was scared.

L-25 So the big giant would come out daily and blow himself, "Why don't you come on over, and let's just settle it?" No one moved. And if there was any man in the group that was able to do it, was Saul, the king. The first thing, he was... The Scripture said he was head and shoulders above his army. Any man in the army, he measured head and shoulders above him. And he was a warrior; he was well trained. He trained men to fight with the spear. Oh, if there's any man that was trained and--and seemingly, humanly speaking, able, it was Saul.

L-26 Just like today, if there's any person that should be trained for Divine healing, and preaching the power of God, should be these seminaries and schools, but usually the biggest cowards we got.
Oh, they should know the Word. They should know God's power. But many of them turn out, knowing no more about God than a Hottentot does about an Egyptian knight. I'm not trying to act smart; I'm just stating a fact. And I'm... I think that the schools and colleges are all right, but you can't stop at that. And many times, that's the reason our pulpits are so weak today, and don't believe God, and don't teach faith for the whole atonement, is because they've been hatched out in such a place as that.

L-27 A seminary preacher always reminded me of a incubator chicken. You know, a little incubator chicken, he was borned all right, but he's just "chirp, chirp, chirp," and ain't got no mammy to go to. That's just reminds me. They'll holler, and carry on, and don't know no more about God, because all they know is the school. I'd like to have a man, if he didn't know the difference between split beans and coffee, and knowed God as a baptism of the Holy Spirit, and filled with His glory and power, than all the education you could churn into a man, and not know God.
That's the reason our pulpits are weak, because we say, "The days of miracle is passed." Look where our mammy is; it's a mechanical incubator, that's hatched out like by the dozens.

L-28 Notice, and Saul was a scared with all of his training. And the best equipped man to do it, but he was afraid to do it. Why? He never had much experience. He knowed that taken more than knowing how to maneuver a spear. And yet, they was the armies of the Living God.
And today our pulpits, and our seminaries, represent the armies of the Living God.


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