<TITLE>17. Par 70-74</TITLE>L-70 Little David one time... See? First thing, you've got to be convinced. Then the next thing, you're concerned after you're convinced. Now, Jacob knew ('fore I go to David)--Jacob knew that the God that had separated him from his brother, the God that had sent him over into another country, and had been with him, and blessed him, and give him the--oh, all he had, and had made him a promise that He'd take care of him, multiply him if he'd go back to his own country, he knew if he could only get in contact with that God, then he would be concerned. So he did. All right.

L-71 Now, David, one day come up to bring some fig cakes, and some raisin pie his father had fixed up, Jesse had sent up by David. He was a little boy, and his brothers was in a war up there with Israel. The Philistines had backed them up, and had them on the side of a hill and the Philistines on the other side. And little old David come up with his little shepherd coat on, and slingshot rolled up in his pocket or somewhere, and--and walked up there, and he heard a big old roar come out of--of a giant over there, challenging the armies of the living God.
Well, that just kinda got next to David. See? Now, David walked up to Saul, and he told Saul... After the news got around what he said, he'd go fight him. He went up to Saul. And Saul said, "Why, you're nothing but a boy. And you're just a little ruddy boy, and he is many times your size, and has been a warrior since his youth. How could you ever fight a man like that?"

L-72 Now, watch. David first was convinced. Amen. He was convinced; then he was concerned about his brothers. If they were too yellow to fight him, he would. Amen.
There you are. That's the kind of Christians. If the rest of them won't do it, let's us do it. Amen. Let's... If I have to stand alone, stand there, call out, right and wrong; say it out there. Say it, no matter what anybody says about you. Stand on God's Word and say it's right. Stay with it. Oh, what a time.
David was convinced. He knowed God was real. So Saul might've said something like this: "Son, I admire your courage. But you--you're not a match for that man." See, they were looking at the outside.

L-73 But David was convinced. He said, "Listen. One day," he said, "your servant here was herding his father's sheep." And said, "A lion come in, and got one of the lambs, took off with it." And said, "Your servant went after him, and I knocked him down with a slingshot. Now, he jumped up at me and I got him by the beard and slew him."
He said, "Then one day another animal, a bear, come in and got one and took off, and I--I killed him. I'm convinced that the God that could deliver me out of the paws of the lion, out of the paws of the bear, how much more will He deliver me out of that boasting, uncircumcised Philistine out there?" Yes, sir.
"How much more will He do it? I'm convinced that it's right, and my brothers hasn't got the courage to fight. That's right. But I'm concerned about the armies of the living God. I'm concerned to see them back up on these issues." Amen.

L-74 Did I say something? All right. Yes, sir. I'm concerned that they back up on the issue of God, saying that Jesus Christ is not the same yesterday, today, and forever. I'm concerned about them backing up, and saying holiness don't belong into the church, there's no such a thing as sanctification of the Spirit. I'm concerned about them saying the days of miracles is past. What's the matter with them? What's the matter? We're concerned.
If they're afraid to do it, we've had an experience out here. We met the devil. That's right. And the God that could defeat the devil in my life, and pour into me the baptism of the Holy Ghost, can--can slay that uncircumcised devil out there, that's trying to defy the armies of the living God. Amen.


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