<TITLE>11. Par -</TITLE>L-16-4 And the people could not say that Samuel's prophecy wasn't perfect. They answered and said, "Samuel, all that you have spoke in the Name of the Lord, the Lord has brought it to pass just as you said. There is not one flaw. You never did come to us and beg us for our money. You have supported yourself. You've never asked us to do any great outstanding thing for you. You've trusted in your God, and He has delivered you from all things. And your words are true; everything you spoke in the Name of the Lord has been just as you said; but still we want a king."

L-16-5 Can you see the discrepancy? Can you--you see the--the cunningness of the devil can work on a human being? Instead of yielding himself, or herself, to the Holy Spirit and listen to what THUS SAITH THE LORD is for a pure life, a undefiled character, for a different life, a peculiar people, a holy nation, a odd acting people, they had rather coincide with the world, and act like the world, and go to some church that says, "That's all right; just act like that and go on."
Can you see what it is? They say, "There's no such a thing as healing. Oh, the baptism of the Holy Spirit was a framework to the church." In other words, then God taken men, took the Holy Spirit out of the church and let the denomination build it up. Never, never. There's no such a thing. The Holy Spirit, the Word of Truth, was to guide you until Jesus comes. But that's the way it--it went.

L-17-2 Saul come into power. He grea--he got a great following. Oh, he had beautiful armors; he had singers; he had shields; and he had spears. Oh, he outshined all the rest of the nations. And he brought them into a democracy that was beyond anything that anybody had ever heard of.
And that's exactly what our denominations and churches has done today. We have the biggest church buildings in the world. We have the prettiest dressed people in the world. We have the highest scholarships that can be brought. Like Saul's trained men who could take that spear, and they could move it and maneuver it, till nations feared them. They were a trained people and all.
But one day, there come a time that there was a challenger come out. And it so excited the--the whole Israelite army till they stood trembling in their shoes. Goliath made them a challenge: "If your God is what you say he is, you are the best trained." And he challenged them. And they didn't know what to do. Their fine polished armors wouldn't work. Their spears wouldn't work. There was something they hadn't heard of before was taking place.

L-17-4 And with all reverence, and godly respects, and honor, and dignity, and love, and Christian fellowship, I say this: I read the other day in a African paper where that our son of Kish, our challenger of evangelism, when a Mohammedan challenged him: Billy Graham... Said, "If your god is God, let Him heal the sick like He said He'd do." And the son of Kish, with the rest of the army, quietened themselves and left the country defeated. It's a disgrace. Our God is God.
We have our good churches; we have our fine evangelism; we have our paid singers; we have the best choirs, the highest spires in the country; we have the finest men, some of the most money. We have the intellectual; we have theology down to the point; we can preach it; we can tell it; we can evangelize, and bring people in, and make millions each year of converts into the church. Our paid singers, our intellectual evangelism doesn't know how to meet a challenge like that. They know nothing of it. They know nothing of His healing power, of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, of a power that can take a shadow of a man dying with a cancer and set him free. They know nothing of it. They haven't been trained in that field, as Saul and his man-made group was.


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