<TITLE>07. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 But one day, as God always has it, there come a little ruddy, knotty looking guy, that had had some experience. His pappy give him some cakes, and told him to go out to the army, to see his brethren. He's too ruddy, and young to be in the army.
The Bible said he was ruddy, which means a little bitty drawed-up sort of a fellow. And his name was David. And here he appeared over on the hill, and Goliath made his boast at the wrong time. There was a man of God in camp.
So he might not have had his collar on backwards, or--or something. He might not have had a Ph.D. or D.D., but he knowed from experience about God. And he had his little sheepskin coat on; he didn't have no armour and sword. But he just walked up there, and Goliath come out, and made his big blow, "The days of miracles is past; there's no such a thing."

L-30 David said, "Do you mean to tell me, that you men who are trained, would stand there, and let that big bully, uncircumcised Philistine, defy the armies of the Living God?" Why, the courage of that little, knotty looking fellow. And that got around to the king. He said, "I'll go fight him."
Oh, they thought, "That boy's silly. He has no schooling; he has no education; he don't know what a sword means. He don't know what an armour means. He hasn't got a Ph.D., or D.D., either one. So what in the world could he do?"
So it come to the king; the bishop. So he said, "I admire your courage, but I don't believe you can do it."
He said, "Look, king..."
King said, "Well, if you want to go, I'll give you a education. I'll put a sword in your hand, put my armor on you."

L-31 So David stood wondering. And they give him a bachelor of arts degree, and they give him a D.D., and they took Saul's armour and placed it on him. The poor little fellow was weighted plumb to the ground.
He said, "Take this stuff off of me." That's good for preachers. "Take this stuff off of me. I don't know nothing about how you could say, 'Aaaaamen', and talk about some sort of theology. I don't know nothing about it. I've never been trained to it. But there's one thing I do know, that back yonder on the backside of the hill, I was herding my daddy's sheep, and a bear run in and got one, and I took this little old slingshot, and knocked him down with it. And a lion come in and got one. And I knocked him down; he rose up, and I took a sword and killed him. And the God that delivered me out of their paws, how much more will He deliver me out of that uncircumcised Philistine?" Saul found out that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. He said, "I know nothing about that. But let me go with something I've had some experience with." Blessed be the Name of the Lord.
What the ministry needs tonight, is not so many B.A.'s or D.D.'s, but it's an experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, that puts life into the man, and gives him faith in a Living God, that changes not--an experience.

L-32 Moses was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptian. And he had had forty years of teaching under his mother, and he could even teach the masters of Egypt. But it taken God just forty years to get that all beat out of him on the backside of the desert.
And one day while he was herding Jethro's sheep, running from Egypt, running from the task, and thought he'd just go back to work, and let it all go, because he'd tried in himself without having any experience. Teaching's all right, but the letter killeth. The Spirit giveth Life. And in the presence of that burning bush, he knowed more about God in five minutes, than he'd been taught in forty years.
What was it? It was an experience. He just didn't have a letter to read, or the laws to read, or the books to read, he had an experience, that God still lived. The God of Abraham was just as live in that day, in that foreign land, as He was when He talked to Abraham or Adam.


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