<TITLE>10. Par 99-110</TITLE>L-99 And nothing ain't going to stop Moses then, he was on his road! He was very persistent. Even when Pharaoh, he stood before him, and throwed down the stick and it turned into a serpent, and the magicians came and could do the same thing, Moses didn't run out like a coward. He stood there. He knowed God sent him, no matter how many carnal impersonators that the Devil could bring up. He stayed at his post of duty, 'cause he had heard the Voice of God. He just stayed there and watched the serpents crawl, and, after a while, his serpent come over and eat the rest of them up. What happened to them sticks that the serpent eat, where did they go to? Figure that one out. All right.

L-100   David, after he had trusted God, and saw the Lord God being with him, that helped him kill a bear, single-handed, and also a lion. And then he got a courage up, that God was with him. He knew God was with him, because God had done something for him.

L-101 God has done something for you. He saved you, that's the greatest miracle there is.

L-102 Now He is ready to do something else. And the time came that when Goliath made his boast. Why, David said, "You mean to say that--that you'll let that uncircumcised Philistine stand there and defy the armies of the living God? What's the matter with you fellows?"

L-103   Well, Saul was the most able man among them, head and shoulders above his army. And this David was just a little runt, a little bitty fellow, ruddy-looking, kind of a--a boy like, little stoop-shouldered, little sheep herder. And so Saul said, "I admire your courage, son. But, remember, that man is a warrior, from his youth, and you're nothing but a youth."

L-104 He said, "But thy servant was keeping thy servant's sheep, one time, and a bear come in and took one. I went after him, and the Lord delivered him in my hands." Said, "A lion went, and," said, "I knocked him down with my slingshot. And when he got up, to roar against me, I took my knife, and caught him by the beard and killed him." And said, "How much more will the Lord God deliver that uncircumcised Philistine in my hand!" Amen.

L-105 And if God saved your soul from a life of sin, how much more can He take that cancer!

L-106   Notice little old David. Saul said, "I admire your courage, but you're not a fighter. But if you want to go, I'll dress you up," so he took his armor off and put it on him.

L-107 Why, little old David with all that Ph.D. and D.D.D. hung onto him, he, why, he found out that Saul's ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. So he said, "I've never proved this stuff, take it off of me. Let me go the way I want to go, of what I know is right." Oh, my! And here he goes. And he was persistent, that he would take Goliath, and he did. And he slew Goliath.

L-108   I think of his sheep. There David was, such a loyal man to his post of duty. And this lion, which could have killed him easy, come in and took one of the father's sheep, and went out. And he didn't have nothing, really, to fight the lion with, but a little slingshot.

L-109 You boys know. How many times I've had to pay for a window! And a little piece of leather, with a string, you know, and ram this rock around and sling it. And we used to knock these old snake doctors off the fence, and things, and--and throw it with these slingshots.

L-110 That's all David had; wouldn't hardly kill a rabbit. But we find out that David, whatever he had in his hand, it wasn't very much, but he had courage. And he knew that was the father's sheep. And he was--he was sent out, by the father, to take care of these sheep. He was responsible for them. And now he took whatever he had in his hand, and took out to get that sheep, persistently, that he would take it away from that lion.


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