<TITLE>12. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 Shamgar. Many of you never read it, just about one paragraph in the Bible: little sentence is all that's wrote about him. I think he was about the 13th judge of Israel: Shamgar.
In them days the Philistines would come in, when judges judged Israel. And the Philistines would come in about the time Israel got all their crops growed, everything put in the barn, everything all right. The Philistines would come right up the road and take it away from them, and their families would go hungry, and take it away. Man said anything, they'd kill him, go right on in, kill the women, ravish the girls, and so forth, take the food, go on back over in their own country, and live luxuriously (yeah) all the rest of the winter. If they let them live over there, they'd starve, practically.
Well, perhaps year after year these Philistines had visit. Poor little old Shamgar, he--he was standing out there one day, and about got his wheat all laid up, all threshed out, standing in the barn. And he heard something coming up the road. He'd just been looking, probably, at his wife, her sleeves out; his little girl, thin, peaked face from starvation. He was concerned about them.

L-41 And now, the first thing you know, coming up the road here was stomping. Looked out. What was coming to pass? There come up six hundred armored Philistines, coming up to take his whole summer's store away, take his food for the winter.
He knowed his wife would be starved out through the winter, his children might die. They would die from malnutrition. And he knowed there'd be something happen. He was concerned about his family.
Now, there's one thing that's got to be done to take care of this situation. He studied a minute. "Wait a minute. I am not a soldier. I know nothing how to use a sword or anything, and there's six hundred against me. How would I ever do it? I'm standing here with a pair of farmer's clothes on (like overalls, or something). And they're all well-trained warriors, great big helmets on, and breast plates and things, trained like one big army."
He stood there. He was concerned about his family. But after while he become convinced (Amen.) that he had a right. He was a Jew. He was circumcised. He was in the covenant with God through the promise that He give Abraham. Then he had a right that God would protect him from his enemies. The Spirit come upon him. He grabbed an ox goad; that's a little old thing they punch the ox along with. He took that ox goad and jumped out the door, and slew six hundred Philistines. What was it? He was convinced. Amen.

L-42 If this group of people here tonight could get that much convinced that the God that could make a woman here speak in tongues, and a man tell something like to foretell, or tell forth, and the power of God sweep in and take sinners and make Christians out of them... If we could be absolutely convinced that was God, there would be... sickness. There would be a revival strike Chicago. With this many people they'd have us all in jail before daylight, 'cause it'd burn this place up with the Gospel and testimony of the power of the resurrection. You'd be so concerned.
We've got to be convinced that this is God's Word. Don't take what some organization said about it; take what's THUS SAITH THE LORD. They could be wrong. This can't be wrong. And if that's contrary to this, then that's wrong and this is right. This Bible I'm pointing to, that's what's right.


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