<TITLE>07. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 And he said, "Why, you can't fight that giant."
He said, "Just take all these degrees off of me and this--all these church papers and everything. Let me get free once." Said, "Let me tell you something. Back yonder when I was herding my daddy's sheep; there was a bear come in one day and grabbed one. And I picked up my slingshot and knocked him down. And I took the kid and brought it back. And a lion come in and grabbed one and run out. I knocked him down too. And when I got to him he raised up against me, and I killed him." He said, "The God that delivered me out of the paw of the bear and the lion, how much more will he deliver me out of the hands of that uncircumcised Philistine who's defying the armies of the living God."
See, he had faith because he had experience. Men and women who's never knowed God, no more than just to read about Him, they don't have much experience; they don't know what to do. But a man that's ever met God and had an experience, that settles it.

L-20 David said, "If He did that to save a lamb's life, how much more His people's life?"
And he said, "How you going to do it?"
Said, "I'm going to take this little slingshot." And he picked up five rocks, put them in five fingers, the slingshot, you know what it is, we boys used to sling them.
And when he started to meet him, and the old giant laughed at him, which said, "Boy, you haven't even got an education. You don't even speak good grammar. How are you going to do it?" But what did he have? He had five stones, J-e-s-u-s, wrapped in his arms of f-a-i-t-h. Something had to take place. He had an experience with faith in Jesus. God directed the stone just right, and down went the giant. And the rest of them took courage.
A few years ago when the churches, Full Gospel churches, said, "The days of miracles is about sowed up," but somebody stepped out one day. Now, we've all took courage, and we've fought the enemy to the wall, cut and slicing. It's time for David to act again, a man with faith.

L-21 It was Abraham, called from the city of Ur, the land of the Chaldeans, the Gentile, down in the valley of Shinar. Just an ordinary man, but God spoke to him when he was seventy-five years old, and his wife, Sarah, sixty-five, been married since they were--she was about eighteen, no children. And God told Abraham they were going to have a baby. And Abraham believed God. And he called anything contrary to what God had said as though it was not, believing that God was able to keep His promise.
Could you just imagine? An old man seventy-five years old and an old women sixty-five years old, think of it now, going down to the doctor and say, "Doc, we want to get a room ready at the hospital; my wife's going to have a baby."
"What? About twenty-five years past menopause?"
"Yep, she's going to have a baby. We just been downtown and got all the birdeye we could get a hold of and all the pins and the booties and everything. We're going to have the baby."
"How do you know, sir?"
"God said so. That settles it. God said so."
"Why," they'd say, "the poor old fellow's just kind of off at his head. There's something wrong with him." And every man that's ever stood for God has been considered a neurotic or something wrong with him. It is something wrong. He's changed his position from a dying sinner to a everlasting living saint, calling those things which were not as though they were, 'cause God said so.


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