<TITLE>06. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 So one day while Goliath was making his big boast, there was a little old drawed, up knotty looking fellow, with a little sheepskin coat on. And his pappy had give him some raisins and to make some raisins pies, and had been sent him up in the army to meet his brothers. His name was David. And about the time David arrived in the camp, Goliath come out and made his boast again, "Why don't some of you come out and fight me?" He said it at the wrong time. There happened to be a little knotty looking fellow that maybe didn't have much education, but he knew God. He didn't have the training Saul had, but he knowed a God that Saul knowed nothing about. And he said to the men of Israel, "Do you mean to tell me that you'll stand and let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the living God? I'll go fight him." Oh, my. A little bitty drawed over, knotty looking thing, the Bible said he was ruddy, just a little old boy about seventeen, eighteen years old, kinda, maybe stooped in his shoulders from hard work. "I will go fight him." Why, he could have took one finger and wrapped it around his waist. But he had courage, for he knew he was right.

L-16 And when a man knows you're right, nothing can move you. A man don't look like Moses did, this way and that way. A true servant of God never has to look this way or that way. He don't care, the frown of a enemy or the pleasing applaud of some man. He enjoys the fellowship of the Lord God Who sent him, if he knows where he's standing. He don't care whether his enemies like it or whether his friends smile on him. That doesn't make a bit of difference to a true servant of Christ. He's got a job to do, and he don't have to look and see. "What do you think about it? Is this pleasing you?" He looks that way and enjoys the Presence of the living God. That's the trouble today; we have to see if our denomination believes it. God have mercy. If I ever get to that place, I'll fold the Bible and leave the field. You want to please God, got a commission.

L-17 David said he put his brothers to shame. His brothers said, "Oh, we know your mischief; you're trying to do something, trying to show off." So the news got around to Saul. Saul said, "Bring that little stripling here." Said, "What do you mean, boy, making such a remark as that? You're nothing but a youth, and he's been a warrior from his youth. Why, you don't even have a chance."
David said, "Sir, just let me go." See, he knowed that God had promised to bless Israel. When God promises, He will stick with His promise. God promised to heal His children; He's got to stay with that promise. God promised to send us the Holy Ghost; He's got to stay with that promise. Don't be scared. No matter what the other world says, what the neighbor says; what did God say?

L-18 And Saul believed it from a intellectual stand, but David had an experience. Saul said, "But before you can do this, you'll have to get a college education. You'll--you better put on my degrees; I will give you my degree." So he put his armor on him and his helmet on him. Could you imagine? A man head and shoulders above all of his army, putting a helmet on a little bitty guy that wasn't over about this high? It went over head, ears, shoulders and all, I guess. And his great big wide shoulders... What did David look like standing there all dressed up like that and his knees bowed together? He said, "Take this stuff off of me. I don't know nothing about it."
Saul found out that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. "I don't know nothing about your Ph.D.s and so forth," he said. "But let me go with what I've had an experience with."
Amen. I feel real religious, honest I do. You may think I'm acting silly, but if you felt the same way I did, you'd maybe act that way too. I feel like David when he danced before the ark of the Lord, and his wife laughed at him. Said, "You didn't like that, watch this."
God said, "He's a man after my own heart." He knowed what he was talking about.


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