<TITLE>12. Par 123-137</TITLE>L-123 Brethren, that's as we stand this morning. We are shepherds. We don't need a college education. We don't need a bunch of theology. We need the Father's Word. It may seem simple. And when a bear or a stealer comes in and gets one of the Father's sheeps, and packs it off in some kind of an ism, it's a very small thing that we seem to have. It's laughed at, but it's, oh, so powerful when God is behind it. Go after it; bring it back!

L-124   How David could take that slingshot and knock down a lion! I've hunted lion. My! Set up on a hill here, one day, and, I guess, half a mile away... You've heard them growl around, in these circuses. But you ought to hear a wild one roar once, rocks roll down off the hill where that fellow roared.

L-125 And to see that ferocious animal like that, and this little boy, little stoop-shoulder, ruddy fellow, goes and kills that lion, with a slingshot. That's a paradox.

L-126 It was a paradox when a man, with fourteen-inch fingers, by the name of Goliath, a warrior from his youth, covered over with an armor; how that God took this same little slingshot and brought down that--that giant, because that he was protesting the armies of God. It was a paradox.

L-127 And when we take our stand, today, when man say these things can't happen, don't be fussing with them. That's wrong. Don't fuss with them, but pick up the Sword. Pick up what's... You look what's supposed to be this day, when God gave His promise for today. Pick This up and go, all the Goliaths will fall under It. It's a paradox. What God is doing today is a paradox. How He can, He, only God can do that. All right. The sling!

L-128   It was a Moses who was trained in all the--the wisdom of the Egyptians. He could teach the Egyptians science, and so forth. And it certainly was a paradox, how that God equipped that man. Now look, all of his education, everything he had, it took forty years to educate him, then it took God forty years to get it out of him. See? See? Get the man out of the water before you can get the water out of the man. See? Took Him forty years to take out of him what he had learned. He found out that what he had wouldn't deliver Israel, and that's what he was born for. He didn't have no choice of that; God called him for that. And we find out that it taken forty years to get it out of him.

L-129 And sometime when man really follow the commandments of God, he does things that seems to be kind of, I guess, "mental," to other man.

L-130 Jesus was considered a "madman," but He was doing exactly what the Father told Him to do. He was the Word, manifested. He was called a "madman."

L-131   Look at Moses with this, his wife Zipporah sitting on a mule, and Gershom on her hip; eighty years old, white beard hanging to his waistline, his bald head shining to the skies, with a crooked stick in his hand, going down to Egypt, to take over. Could you imagine that? They say, "Where you going, Moses?"
"Going down to Egypt, to take over."
"How do you know you are?"
"The Lord told me to."

L-132 To take over an army! Not only an army, but a nation. The thing of it is, he did it. That was the paradox. How, with a crooked stick, he brought the judgments of God upon Egypt; and delivered Israel, with a crooked stick, not an army or a sword. It was a paradox.

L-133 If anybody would look at the things that--that's incredible, but yet is true, it's a paradox when they--when they... when they can do it, when you do that.

L-134   Now we find out also, Joshua, here, that we was speaking of, over here in--in Joshua 10:12, Joshua.

L-135 "The sun," we say, they tell us today, "stands still. The world turns around." They say, "If the world stops, it would drop. Gravitation holds it in its spot."

L-136 Now, brethren, what took place? He said for "the sun to stand still."

L-137   My teacher in school, and--and teaching the Bible, said, "He, God, winked at his ignorance." But, anyhow, it stopped. That was the main thing. It stopped.


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