<TITLE>11. Par -</TITLE>L-18-1 Remember one time I had a meeting. There was a farmer got saved and filled with the Holy Ghost. And he only had nothing but his experience and a truck; but he hauled so many to the meeting, he got thirty more filled with the Holy Ghost before...?... Why? He was convinced. And when he was convinced, he was concerned. Little daughter got healed. We had sick people every night, a truck full of them, bringing from everywhere. Thirty got the Holy Ghost. See, he was convinced that it was right, so he was concerned about somebody else. And we're--if we're convinced that Jesus is coming soon, we'll be concerned about our lost ones. We'll be doing all we can to get the Gospel out.

L-18-2 Jacob stayed all night one night, wrestling that wrestling Prince. He wrestled all night. He had been dodging Esau here and there. He's scared to death of him. And he heard Esau was coming; he put his wife across the brook, went over on the other side and knelt down; and you know, God come down and got ahold of Jacob, and they wrestled all night. So he--he wasn't completely convinced to start with, but time God got through with him, he was convinced.
Yes, he stayed and held on until he was convinced that it was God. Brother, he wasn't scared of Esau then. Crossed the river, and he was weak and limping; the worse time that he could be in, look like. He is--he was the weakest he ever was. He'd been crippled and everything, but Esau said to him, "Will uh--you uh--let me send an army along to help you?"
He said, "I don't even need the help." Why? He was convinced that the God that he had ahold of could take care of him. Hallelujah. If people would just do that.

L-18-5 You can be convinced that the God that takes ahold of you, shapes your heart, makes you a new creature in Christ Jesus. Let sickness, death or anything else come along, you're convinced that He can take that care as before. Amen. I like that.
Shamgar, the little fellow we talked about the other night, he was concerned about his family. Yes, he knowed they were hungry. And the Philistines came up, a thousand of them, I believe, six hundred and something; I believe there was six hundred of them come up the road, armed men. He was concerned about his family, 'cause they'd starve to death that winter. But he stayed there thinking and studying. What could he do? He stayed there until he was convinced that God keeps His promise.

L-19-1 Now, look what he could've thought: "Now, here my father Abraham, of whom I bear in my body the mark of circumcision, because that I believe Abraham was a man of God, he was convinced. He left his home; he left everything he had to serve God. And upon the mount that day, when he offered up the ram instead of Isaac, God told Abraham, 'Because you did this, your seed shall possess the gate of the enemy. (That's right.) Your seed, Abraham, I promise you; I swear by it. (Hallelujah. Oh, my. Now, I feel religious). I swear by it. Abraham, your seed shall possess the gate of his enemy.'"

L-19-2 Now, Shamgar could say, "I am the seed of Abraham. Amen." And if Shamgar could think that, being the natural seed of Abraham, what about tonight if we are the royal seed of Abraham? Glory. Whew. You think I'm crazy; maybe I am. Leave me alone. I feel better this way than I did when I had the other mind. Royal seed of Abraham, the Church is the royal promised seed. And if the natural seed could take that much courage, what ought the royal seed to do with the--with the Presence of the Holy Ghost just anointing around us, showing Himself? Whew. Glory.
Sure. Shamgar said, "I'm a seed of Abraham." And as he begin to think of it: "God told Abraham (I believe it.) that his seed shall possess enemies' gates, and there they are marching through my gate." Just reached up and got a ox goad...


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