<TITLE>16. Par 106-113</TITLE>L-106   That give him that great victory one, day when he seen Israel all backed up. See, Israel had been hearing all the creeds and everything. They had all, they all went to church. They had all been circumcised. They all went to the priest and got their blessings before they went to battle. But when it come down to the showdown, of the Supernatural, they were, every one, cowards, because they seen something was in opposition. And they didn't have the audacity, they--they didn't have what we would call today, the--the street word, they didn't have the--the--the "go get it." There was something lacking. They could not go out there and face that giant. Why? But they was all blessed by the priest. They had the holy blessings upon them, and they had knelt and probably been anointed with the holy waters, and whatever it was, and there they was all standing out there. But when the opposition was so great, they didn't have it. There stood Saul, the general overseer or the bishop, standing out there, head and shoulders above his army.

L-107   And he made a challenge, Goliath did, and said, "If I kill him, then you'll serve us. But if he kills me, then we'll serve you." But the opposition was too great. He had fourteen-inch fingers, that'd be twenty-eight inches across his hand. Look what a hand he had! His--his needle, weavers needle, like his spear he had. And think how big his head would be, be about like a tub. And there would be a--a helmet, an inch or two thick, of brass, hanging over his head. Look at the armor, pieces of armor like one of these jalousie windows, where he could breath and move himself, that's the way the armors worked. With the great coat of mail hanging on him, may have weighed a hundred pounds, or two hundred pounds, of brass, hanging over his chest. With a--with a needle, spear in his hand, maybe thirty-five-feet long.

L-108 What the enemy can do when he thinks he's got the odds on you! What he thinks he can do, how he'll make the boast! "The days of miracles is past. You can't get by with such a thing as that."

L-109   But there come up a little ruddy-looking fellow that hadn't had no theological experience, but he had an experience that God still remained God. God keeps His Word. And here he come up. And Saul said, "Wait, I'll--I'll give you a bachelor of art."

L-110 He put his helmet on him, and it went, sunk him down. He didn't know nothing about that. Said, "I don't know nothing about them kind of things." Said, "I don't know. But I know one thing, that are you afraid to go fight that giant? And you stand here and call yourself the Church of the living God, and let that uncircumcised unbeliever stand out there and make such boast as that?" Said, "I'll go fight him!"

L-111 Oh, we need man like that today, man who's had an experience!

L-112   What did he do, what did little David of Bethlehem do? He went out there to fight the giant. The giant cursed him in the name of his gods, gods, plural, cussed him in the name of his giants, or his gods, and went out there and said, "Today I'll take you by my spear and I'll hang your carcass up there in the tree and let the birds eat it."

L-113 He said, "You meet me as a Philistine, in the name of a Philistine, with an armor and a spear, but I meet you in the Name of the Lord God of Israel." What was it? The Word! The Word, "I'll meet you with the Word." Said, "Today I'll cut your head from your shoulders." That giant laughed and took after him. And David didn't back up, he took after him, too. There's only one little place, and God directed his rock.


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