<TITLE>15. Par 53-55</TITLE>L-53 David said, "I'll go fight him." Oh, my. He was perseverant.
His brothers said, "I know you're naughty. Go on back to your pappy and to them sheep over there on the hill."
But David wouldn't do it, because God had done anchored. He said...
"Why," he said, "that man will throw his spear through you," and what all he will do, and all like this.
He said, "But I was herding my father's sheep, and God helped me to take a--a kid out of a lion's mouth, and a bear," and so forth. And he said, "The God that would take--let--give me deliverance from that lion's paw and that bear's paw, how much more would He give me victory over that uncircumcised Philistine, who's defying, saying, 'The days of miracles is past.'"
That big denominational creed that tries to place God's miracles way back in here, and Divine healing over in the millennium, when you'll be immortal. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. If there ever was God, He's still God. There he was. And you know what happened in the story. Yes.

L-54 John the Baptist, when he came forth... Now, we don't have much record of John. He was a--a priest's son, but he never followed the denomination with his daddy. He didn't do that. He had an important job. He was going to be the one called in history to announce the Messiah. He stayed in the wilderness until he was sure, until God met him. He didn't go down and fool with their creeds and so forth they had, learning to be priests and all that. He went out in the wilderness and lived off of locusts and wild honey. And he never asked anything from anybody. But he stayed there.
And God spoke to him one day and said, "Now, you'll know this Messiah. Now, when He comes, ever who you see the Spirit descending upon and remaining in, that's the One that I've called. He will be the One that'll baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire."

L-55 Now, if John would've went down, and got his seminary experience, everything, come in with a big D.D., you know. Some of the doctors of divinity would say, "John, we understand, according to your birth back there, that you were conceived in your mother when she was old woman and--and so forth. And now, you know no doubt but what you're to be the one to introduce the Messiah. You said you was to be the "voice of one crying in the wilderness." Don't you think that Dr. Jones here is just the guy? Oh, look at him, how he can just..." Oh, see? Why, he might've been persuaded, but John kept away from all that nonsense. He stayed out in the wilderness until he heard from God.
Oh, if people would just get away from all this nonsense, "Days of miracles is past, no such a thing as Divine healing," and get alone somewhere, and stay with God until you hear that voice say, "I'm the Lord Thy God that heals all thy diseases; the same yesterday, today. and forever." That's where you find God.
Now, he was so sure, so persistent, till he said this. He knowed that the Messiah would appear in his generation. He said, "There's One standing among you right now that you don't know." He knowed He was on earth right then, because he was going to introduce Him. Oh, he was persistent. Certainly.


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