<TITLE>15. Par 136-145</TITLE>L-136 Saul had a army trained. Saul had a great intellectual army. They--they didn't want Samuel; as I preached here some time ago, somewhere. They had that great army. Oh, sure. Samuel, and Samuel told them; he brought them up before they elected this king. God was their King.
And God's our King. Why do we want anything else besides God? Why would a Christian want anything else to lead him but the Holy Spirit? I don't know. I can't understand it.
And Samuel called them up. He said, "I want to tell you something." Said, "Have I ever said anything to you in the Name of the Lord, but what come to pass?"
"No."
"Did I ever take any of your money? Did I ever beg you for money?"
"No, you haven't begged us for any money. And what you said, the Lord brought it to pass. We know that."
He said, "Then why are you rejecting God and want a king? You want to act like the world."
And that's what Pentecost is doing today. It wants to make intellectual giants. It wants to take the power out of the church. It wants to make a denomination grow, bring more members in. That's nonsense. And when you bind a man to a creed, when you do that, you take the Holy Spirit away from him; He'll have to give somewhere. The Holy Spirit will move on; the man can't on account of his creed. Now, he said...

L-143 And then, of course, Saul trained his army. Oh, my. He had them Israelites just knowing every which way to knock a spear off, or to do anything. But one day there come a challenger, old Goliath. And, brother, it taken more than an intellectual training then. It took a man that knowed something about supernatural. But God had such a man. Thank the Lord for that. God's always got somebody. He always has. He had a man He could put His hands on: a little bitty old ruddy fellow out there, wasn't very much, but he come up there, and he said, "You mean to tell me that you'll let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the army?" And there was old Saul, head and shoulders above all of them. All of his intellectual training didn't do any good.

L-145 Now, the churches has done that. They got away from the Holy Spirit. They got away from the power of God. They got away from the leading of the Spirit. And we've got... We got sons of--of Kish too. We just had one of our great giants the other day over here in Africa was challenged by a Mohammedan on the Scripture. What happened? He took water like the other son of Kish; no disregards to our brother.
But they had a man who knowed that God could deliver. They brought that little old David up there, and he said, "I don't know nothing about your spears, and your intellectual training. But I know one thing. I know one thing. I went out after a sheep that was took by the enemy; God let me bring him back." He said, "How much more will He make me, let me bring back this uncircumcised Philistine."
What we need today is men and women who wants a reality  (Hallelujah.), not a creed; a reality. That's what the world needs today, not creeds and fashions; we need realities in God. The world don't want it. The world don't want it. They won't--don't want to accept it. But the church has to have it. God wants you to have it. He's the God of realities. Yes, sir.


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