<TITLE>31. Par -</TITLE>L-50-4 Satan said, "I'll meet you (Goliath); I'll show you what I can do. You're hungry; if you are the Son of God, I challenge you. You say you're the Son of God; I'll challenge you. If you're the Son of God, turn these stones into bread. Eat, you're hungry. And if you are the Son of God, you have power to do it."
He said, "But it's written: 'Man shall not live by bread alone.'" Oh, that's the way the Chief Captain did it.
Took Him up on top of the pinnacle of the temple; and said, "If you cast yourself down," said, "you know, it's also written..."
He said, "Yeah." said, "It's written again: 'Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'" See what He called Himself? The Lord thy God. See? Yeah. "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." It's written again like that. See?

L-51-2 Oh, my. What did He do? He defeated him with the Word of God. The tactic of the devil is to get you to disbelieve God's Word, and the Chief Captain said take God's Word and do it. "In My Name they shall cast out devils."

L-51-3 Oh. Satan, their chief captain, oh, yeah, you know, some of these denominations try to get you believe he's got a forked hoof, you know, and a split tail, and all that stuff. Don't you believe it. Huh-uh. He ain't that way. No, sir, Brother; he's a slicker. Don't you believe he's got that. They just do that to scare you away; that's not the devil. The devil don't have a hoof to begin with. I doubt it very much. He's just a--is a spirit; the devil is a spirit. He don't have forked hoofs and things like they try to picture him. No, no. But he's wise. Brother, he's a real wise man, educated to the spot (always has been) in worldly wisdom. Oh, yeah. He's beautiful. Organized his army with worldly wisdom, till, brother, don't you try to--try to speak your words. You better know what you're talking about when you meet one of these guys saying, "The days of miracles is past."

L-51-4 Now, he ain't got--he ain't got a split hoof. He's--oh, he's--he's right out of the seminary; He's polished, brother; I mean he's smart: Ph.D., L.L.D., Q.U.S.D., and all the rest of it. See? All in there just as smart as he can be. Wise? Sure he is, the serpent, "sneakingest" of all of them. Hair slicked down, brother, I mean dressed and not a wrinkle in the coat, smart, just as wise and shrewd as he can be. That's right. Don't you fool with him unless you know what you're talking about. That's right. Oh, but we know his old--his old tactics. We know what he's trying to do: get us to disbelieve God's Word. And he hasn't got forked hoofs. No, no. No.
Now, we find out that if he hasn't got forked hoofs, then he must be something else. He's a slicker; he's wisdom, educated, organized. Brother, he's got his army so...

L-52-2 Look. One time over in Switzerland (I just can't find a place to stop, folks.) there's a--there over in Switzerland, there come that German army--the aliens coming in. Why, it looked like a brick wall, every man trained, every spear setting out like this, eight or ten feet in front. And they come up to the poor little Swiss up there. What'd they have? They were armed with the--with the blades out of their sickles, sticks, and rocks. And there they stood; they backed them up. Right across the hill was their homes. Here the Swiss army went out to meet them. They hadn't done nothing to them. They just come in and take their land.


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