<TITLE>09. Par 40-44</TITLE>L-40 David was the smallest of the whole army, and he wasn't even in the army. He'd not affiliated with them yet, so he--he was kind of an offspring, an off-scour. And he wasn't a trained man. He hadn't been in the seminary yet, and he didn't have the ecclesiastical jackets that the rest of them had. But... And when they tried one on him, it didn't fit him.
And I think it's about the same thing today. When we get Saul's ecclesiastical jacket on us, and telling us the days of miracles is past, there's no such thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost, it doesn't fit a man of God. Right. God's people believes in a paradox, believes in God.

L-41 And this little fellow stood there, shoulders drooped, a little piece of sheepskin around him, no great armor, and so forth, on. So he said, "You mean to tell me you'll let that uncircumcised Philistine, that unbeliever say there's no such a thing, and defy the armies of the living God?" Said, "I'll go fight him."
It was a paradox when a little boy challenged a giant with fourteen inch fingers. A man with no sword or no shield, as they could see, challenged a man that had a spear like a weaver's needle, about thirty-foot long. It was a paradox.
What did he do? He said, "You meet me as a Philistine in the name of a Philistine. You meet me with an armor, and with a spear, and in a trained college. But I meet you in the Name of the Lord God of Israel." That's it. And a little ruddy child, boy, probably sixteen or eighteen years old, with a slingshot, slew that big boasting giant: paradox, because he trusted God. Certainly.

L-42 Moses, after being a well-trained man, a military man, knowing what he was talking about; he knowed how to hold an army. He knowed how to fight and had tried his weapons, but it didn't work. It was a paradox. After talking to God in the form of fire on a bush, that took a dry stick off the desert and went down and took over a army: took over a nation with a dry stick: Took over an army took over a nation at the age of eighty years old with nothing but a stick in his hand. Hallelujah.
What was it? It wasn't Moses, nor the stick. It was the God of creation in that, was what was a doing it: God, in this old dry stick. "Take this stick in your hand and go down there," as I said the other night, a one-man invasion.
Now, where Moses got in trouble in the flesh and killed one man, it always hung on him. But he went down there in the Spirit, and slew the whole nation. It was a glory. Sure. He was following the commandments of the Lord. That's what does it.

L-43 I've often thought how ridiculous that might've looked to the carnal mind: an old man, whiskers hanging down over his bosom, probably his bald head shining through the sun, hairs drooping down, pulling a little donkey behind him, his wife setting on there with a young'un setting on her hip, this old stick, his eyes looking out towards the skies, walking down through there. "Where are you going, Moses?"
"Going down to Egypt to take over."
The thing of it is: he done it, because he could go in the Name of the Lord. God only needs one man in His hand. He can do the rest of it. He's tried to find men. Sometime He can get a man in his hand. And he went down and took over a whole nation with a stick in his hand.

L-44 Now, you just tell me if that's regular, the regular routine, for a man to take a stick in his hand and go over and take over Russia. If God sent him, he will do it, 'cause the God that sent him will be with him. Jesus said, "As the Father sent Me, so send I you." And when He... The Father that sent Him was in Him. And when God sends any man, Christ goes in him. Sure. "As the Father sent Me..." The Father that sent Him went with Him. And the Christ that sends the man goes with the man. See? There's just paradoxes everywhere. Now. A dry stick... But he went down and took it over: how ridiculous, seems strange.


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