<TITLE>20. Par 211-218</TITLE>L-211 Why, David was the poorest excuse there was on the field to go fight the giant. He... Why, he--he was nothing but a boy. And the Bible said he was ruddy, a little old scrawny-looking fellow, probably stoop-shouldered, piece of sheepskin wrapped around him. He didn't have none of these big intellectual degrees and well trained. He knowed nothing about a sword. He knowed nothing about all this training that Saul...
Saul was the best they could've had, Bishop Saul. Certainly, he was head and shoulders above the rest of the army. Why, he was--he was the one ought to have went and fought him, but he was scared.

L-213 And today we know we need a revival. We know we need a stirring amongst the people. It'll not take a Doctor of Divinity. It'll take a weaks (Hallelujah.) that'll take the Word of God in the power of the resurrection of Christ and slay this thing. It'll bring Christ to the country in the--let them see that He still can open the eyes of the blind, heal the sick, raise the dead, and He's God, Conqueror. Amen. We need a David, untrained in the theological schools; we need a man who knows nothing about that, some little plow boy or something, some little guy with his stoop shoulders, not much to look at, will come walking down the road with the power of God.

L-214 Mother was dying. She said, "Billy, I've trusted and believed you. You've been my spiritual strength; you've guided me to God."
I said, "Mama, when I was a boy... Our background, 'course, Irish, we kind of lean a little Catholic." I said, "The church said that--that they--they was a body of people; they had it all; everything they did was all right. I couldn't believe that, because the Lutherans said, 'We're a body of people; we got it all.' The Baptists said, 'We're the body; we got it all.' There's too many; there's about nine hundred different organizations." I said, "Mama, I couldn't put no trust in that. Which one of them is right?"

L-216 Come to find out, I say this humbly and sweetly, but I believe none of them's right. That's right. I go back to the Word of God, I seen what It done back there. (And then, God, let us all go back there.) And with the weakness of no support of organization, no support of denominations, no support of the ecclesiastical setup, but in simplicity and the power of the Holy Spirit that fell on Pentecost, with the same message that Peter had on the day of Pentecost, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins"... You won't be harnessed up like a bunch of these theologians with your collar turned around and a Bachelor of Arts degrees, but, brother, you'll have something in your hand. And long as the Spirit of God will get into that Word, It'll conquer and bring back them lost sheep that's gone astray. Amen. Confess our weaknesses. Throw off your Doctor of Divinity. Throw off your know-it-all, your membership. Strip yourself before God, spiritually speaking, and call yourself unworthy. Then God can go to using you. Just don't say it from your mouth, bring it from your heart.

L-218 Jacob... David, they had to strip themself. He was the weakest amongst the whole crowd. Think of the, maybe, ten thousand or a hundred thousand soldiers on the hill, all of them trained, every one of them with a Ph.D., every one of them with spears; they were soldiers. Each one of them was Corporal So-and-so, Private So-and-so (even to Privates), General So-and-so, Lieutenant So-and-so. "Great four-star General Saul, Bishop, yes, your Honor, Sir." Every one of them standing there, trained men.
And the enemy standing on the hill, said, "You bunch of cowards."


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