<TITLE>18. Par 75-79</TITLE>L-75 David was concerned. Why? He was convinced that God was God. He was convinced that a God that could take him and that slingshot and kill a lion, could also take that boasting, uncircumcised Philistine under control. Can't you see that, friends? A God that can fill a man with the Holy Ghost, can't He heal a man or a woman? That tries to defy a Christian... Oh, certainly He can. A hungry heart that wants to know God, the God that defied the devil and drove him out of my life, and put Christ in there, can't He do it for that man too? Sure.
The God that can take the desires of the world away from you, can't He also take the desires of the world away from the next man? Sure He can. See, the thing of it is, you've got to be convinced, and then you can be concerned after you do it.

L-76 Over in Judges we find the third judge. Many of you never did read it. His name is Shamgar. Little bitty one verse wrote of him at the bottom of the pages of the--the Bible, in my Scofield Bible here... And Shamgar, he was a--an Israelite. And during the time of the judges, the Philistines had let all of the Israelites raise up their crops. And what would they do? They'd come over, march in after they'd worked all summer, take their crop away from them, go right on back.

L-77 One day little Shamgar out there, he was standing, got his barn, got his threshing all done, had his wheat laying up. And he... Probably his little wife, kinda ragged, his little kids, you know, pale cheeks. Had to live very slim, because the year before the Philistines got everything. They just had to glean around and get what they could. And there they was in that condition.
And about the time Shamgar got everything set in order for the winter, he heard a noise. He looked out the window. What coming? Here come six hundred Philistines, all in armor: spears, swords hanging on their sides, helmets about a inch thick of brass, great big, covered over like this with metal, and coats of mail, as they call it. Here they was: tromp, tromp, tromp, mar--march right on up. What? Take away what he had. That's it. You know what? Shamgar, I could just imagine, looked back at his family, looked out there at them Philistines. Then he looked up towards heaven.
He thought, "I am a Jew. I'm in the covenant. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, my father, is my God. I'm circumcised. I'm not a fighter; I don't know nothing about a sword. But I'm concerned about my family. I'm convinced that You're God."

L-78 Hallelujah. That's it. Not holler, "Hey, Mr. Philistine, wait till I get my Bachelor of Art, you know, my Ph. D. I'll learn how to duel." No, he ain't got time for that. Just know that He's God; that's all.
He said, "I know that He's God. I'm convinced that He's God. I know that I'm a Jew. I know I'm in the covenant. I know I'm circumcised." Oh, my.
Today we're circumcised by a greater circumcision than that. We're circumcised by the Holy Ghost, when the world's all cut off of you. Are you in the covenant? Are you a Christian? Are you filled with the Holy Ghost? Are you circumcised by the Holy Ghost? Then, brother, every promise in the Bible belongs to you. Amen.

L-79 God's got grace there to make you women get your hair long; got grace in there to make you men see that she does it. He's got grace in there for all these things; got grace in there for your healing. That's right. He's God. If it isn't, what are we playing about? What are we carrying on about? We're a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal, and become a salt that's lost its savour. Certainly.


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