<TITLE>19. Par 66-69</TITLE>L-66 They pulled him up before the bishop, Saul. He said, "Now, I tell you what you have to do, son. Before you get into the ministry, you'll have to take four years of college training. You'll have to get a Ph.D. and a LL.D." And he said, "After I get all this on you..." And they put it on that poor little fellow-- so bony he couldn't hold it up. That's just about the way we go it.
He said, "Take this stuff off of me." Saul found out right quick that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. His man-made dogmas--he wasn't bowing down to it. No, sir.
He said, "Let me go with what I got confidence in." Said, "Wait a minute, Saul, I want to talk to you. I know this is just a slingshot. I don't know nothing about them old... how you're supposed to stand and say 'Aaaaamen,' and how you're supposed to do all this, and... I don't know nothing about that." Said--said "Listen, I know wha--what I'm talking about." Said, "One day I was herding my father's sheep," (Amen.) and said, "a bear came in and got one, and I went after this slingshot, and I brought him back." He said, "Then a lion come in and got one and took it out, a lamb." Said, "I took this slingshot and went out and knocked him down. When he rose up, I killed him. And I brought the sheep back." Said, "If the God Who delivered that lion into my hands, and that bear into my hands, how much more will He...?... deliver that uncircumcised Philistine into my hands." Amen. He was certain he knowed what he was talking about.

L-67 Listen. It's true: I say my "his and hain't, and tote, an fetch, and carry," and maybe a many man here, and your pastor, might not have any Ph., double L., Q.U.R.S.D., all kinds of stuff, on his name, but we know what we're talking about. Right. We may be called holy-rollers, and a insane, and all excited, and everything, but we know what we're talking about. Amen. Let me tell you. The devil...
I don't care how much they preach against Divine healing, how much they say the days of miracles is past, I'm herding my Father's sheep. A cancer took one and run off. I ain't got no Ph.D., but I got a F-a-i-t-h, so I come after him. I'll bring that lamb back if God will help...?...

L-68 Watch what he done. He picked up five stones, the number of grace, J-e-s-u-s. Put it in his hand, f-a-i-t-h. F-a-i-t-h in J-e-s-u-s. Here he comes. Oh, little sick sheep, you that the devil's packed off somewhere, and say you have to fill a premature grave, I'm coming after you. I'm going to bring you back to the shady green pastures, still waters, eat with the rest of the flock.
Oh, yes, he knowed what he was talking about. He was certain it was God. He was certain. No uncertainty about that. Said, "How much more will God deliver him into my hands?" (Oh, people, forgive me. I thought it was seven-thirty. Give me ten more minutes, will you? I'll watch; I'll set my clock to alarm, if necessary, if you'll just... I got an alarm on here anyhow, but I'm ashamed to set it.) But brother, sister, this is true. If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound...

L-69 Notice, when--let's just take another person right quick--Simeon. It was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost that he wasn't going to see death until he seen the Lord's Christ. He was a man of reputation. He had a Ph.D., double L.D., Q.R.S.T., too. But the Holy Ghost revealed to him. And he wasn't ashamed. He went around telling everybody. An old man over eighty years old: they made fun and said, "The old fellow with one foot in the grave and slipping with the other one, said 'he's going to see the Christ.'" But he had--he was certain. He had a right for his testimony, he said, "For the Holy Ghost revealed it to him." Amen. He stood there, and saw Him too.


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