<TITLE>11. Par 111-121</TITLE>L-111   Did you ever see a lion, what it looks like? You've seen these in a cage; well, they're--they're kittens. You ought to hear one in the jungle. These fellows around here, they been in cage and captivity; you hear one of them roar, it sounds bad. You ought to hear one out in the jungle, hunting him, and know that he is hunting you, too. Then, oh, my, he's a great fellow! When he roars; the beatles, monkeys, baboons, and jackals, everything stops. He's a king, and they give him room.

L-112 But here David goes with this little slingshot, to bring back that sheep, and he did it.

L-113   Oh, my, how I could take a text on that for a few minutes. Yes, sir. You're the God's sheep, too. Disease has took a hold of you. I ain't got very much, not--not even a slingshot, but I got the Word. I'm coming after you, tonight, to bring you back. I'm coming to rescue you, with the Word of the Lord. I don't know nothing about medicine and cutting on with knives, and things, but This I've proved. I know that This is right, so I'm coming after you sheep, to bring you back to the shady green pastures of God's love again. God, help me with this little slingshot.

L-114   David had it wrapped in--in his fingers, and he had five stones in his hand. What is that? F-a-i-t-h in J-e-s-u-s. And here he comes, and he brought back the sheep.

L-115 Now that's the way we're doing tonight, having faith in Jesus, and persistently we're going to stand on His untouched Word. And we believe that God will keep His Word. If It doesn't, then we're all lost. Every Word of God is punctuated with an "amen," to the believer. That's right. Yes, he was persistent.

L-116   And also Samson, when he met those Philistines, did you ever think of that? Why, Samson, they've got him pictured as a man having shoulders like barn doors. Well, it wouldn't be no--no secret, to find a man like that, could pick up a lion and tear him in two. But Samson was a... Forgive me for this expression, I'll just make it like he was a little curly-headed shrimp, just a little mama's boy, seven little sissy-like curls hanging down. See? What, and you remember, he was a weakling until the Spirit of the Lord come upon him, then he took the lion and tore him to pieces. That's right. First, the Spirit of the Lord upon him, then he knew where he was standing.

L-117   And if the church can only get anointed, anointed with real faith. When that lion roared, I guess Samson shook. But the Spirit of the Lord come upon him. He was persistent, said, "I'm ready to meet you," grabbed that lion, pulled him apart and throwed him over to one side, and walked on.

L-118 They fenced him in, one night. And he picked up the gates of Gaza, put them upon his shoulders, and walked up to the top of the hill with them. My, oh, my, what a man, a little shrimp like that. But, the thing of it was, the Spirit of the Lord was upon him. He was. That's what made the difference.

L-119   Then one day, he was surrounded by a thousand Philistines. And there he was, there wasn't nothing he had, so he picked up the jawbone of a mule, probably been dead for forty years or more, and was real old dry bone. And those Philistines had on helmets, and coats of what they call mail, which is great big laps of steel or brass, and a helmet about an inch thick. And he picked up that jawbone of that mule, and killed a thousand Philistines.

L-120 Did you ever think? Take that old dry jawbone off the desert there, and strike one of those helmets, why, that jawbone would go into a thousand pieces. But he stood there, and through them steel helmets, them with spears, just beat them right and left, till he beat down a thousand. The rest of them run up in the rocks.

L-121 What was it? As long as he could reach back there and feel them seven locks, that was God's covenant. There wasn't nothing going to bother him as long as he had that covenant promise.


<A HREF="P12">Next Page</A>