<TITLE>07. Par -</TITLE>L-10-4 They say the Pentecostal people... A few years ago there was a bunch of people standing on the corner, not even a--a building they could get into, but did you read "Life" magazine the other day, what they said about them? It's one of the greatest phenomenals this age has ever knowed, is the rising of the Pentecostal church. Certainly. And they produce more converts in one year than all the rest of the churches do put together. That's what "Life" magazine said. Why? They may be mixed up in some things, but, brother, they're gallant. They stand out there toe to toe and call black black and white white. When the revival finally breaks, it'll break among them. You watch and see if it doesn't. It'll get straightened out one of these days.

L-10-5 And David... when Saul put his armor on him and said, "David, if you're going to fight this Goliath--giant," said, "why, you're nothing but a boy, just a youth, and he's been a warrior from his youth. How can you fight him?"
Listen to this little David. You see, he did not say it like this, "Saul, your honor, sir, my father sent me to the--grammar school, college, high school. I have a Ph.D. I--I--I am equipped to do this. I'm a smart man." He never said it like that. He said, "My lord," he said, "when I was herding my father's sheep out yonder, a bear come in and got one, and I killed him. And a lion come in and got one, and I knocked him down, and when he raised up, I slew him." He said, "The God that delivered me from the paws of the bear and the lion can also deliver me out of that hands of that uncircumcised Philistine.": a God-trained man.

L-11-1 There stood Saul with all the training that any man could have to know how to fight. David didn't know nothing about a sword. He didn't know nothing about a shield. Well, Saul went and put his great big armor on him, and little David was standing bowlegged almost. He found out that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God, just mashed him down. And all of their creeds and things won't never match God's equipment yonder.
Oh, how we could go on and on and say many of many different ones, but straight to our text to hurry.

L-11-3 Elijah was getting old, and he knew it wouldn't be long till he'd have to leave the world; and God had found a man that was an honest man, that was a good man; his name was Elisha. Now, if you'll notice, one of them name is Elijah and the other one is Elisha.
Now, he never went down into the forums, and so forth, and went, and found him in the schools of theology and up in the great high schools of those days. What did he do? He went out into the field and found a man plowing with twelve yoke of ox. What? Elisha, the one that was plowing knowed how to appreciate a straight row, and he knew if he turned and looked back, he'd wiggle off the road. And God knowed that a man that knowed how to plow a straight furrow knowed not to put his hands on a plow and even turn to look back. He never waited till he got his education, wiggled along the road. He just killed the ox, and made a sacrifice, and took off with Elijah as soon as that mantle went over him. He was ready, willing. God knowed He could make him able.


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