<TITLE>05. Par 48-60</TITLE>L-48 Saul, this coming to the general, Saul, and he put his armor upon him, and it wouldn't fit him. He found out that his ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God. And the thing didn't. He didn't know what to do. "This, I've never proved this. I know nothing about these, Bachelor of Art, and so forth. Take the thing off of me and let me go in the way that God give me deliverance. Let me go with a slingshot."

L-49   "Why," they said, "he is a warrior from his youth, and you're nothing but a youth."

L-50 He said, "I am more than a match for him. Let me go." And no matter how big the giant looked, and how unreal it seemed to be, David was persistent that that uncircumcised Philistine wasn't going to defy the armies of the living God that he represented.

L-51 Oh, if we had more David's in this army, if we had more man who would stand and be persistent, perseverant in the Faith that was once delivered to the saints!

L-52   Samson, another man very perseverant. He was born a Nazarite birth.

L-53 A Nazarite means "separated to the Word." What a nice thing it would be tonight if all Christians would be Nazarites to the Lord; separated not to creeds, but to the Word. Christ is that Word. Separated to the Word!

L-54   He had seven locks of hair that hung down his back, which was the sign that he was separated.

L-55 And then one day he was met out on the--the plains, without anything in his hand to fight with, by a thousand Philistines. Those Philistines were man like a brass wall; great heavy helmets over their heads, great armors up in front of them, and shields, bucklers, and so forth, on, to dodge any bullet; probably the helmet being an inch thick, upon their heads.

L-56 Samson had nothing, but he still could feel that the promise that God made him was still hanging on his head. He could still feel the anointing, in other words. He knowed that God was with him, for he felt them locks hanging down around his shoulders. He grabbed what was in his... could find, and it was a jaw bone of a mule. And he stood with that in his hand, and was persistent that it wouldn't be the jaw bone or his own arm, but it would be the power of the Lord. And the power of the Lord came upon him, and he beat, with that jaw bone, a thousand Philistines.

L-57   How did he do it? That old, brittle, desert-soaked, jaw bone, you'd hit it against a rock, it would fly to pieces; and upon the helmets that was on those Philistines, which hung down, and big leaves stuck up on the sides as it went over the shoulders, inch thick, and brass. He stood with this jaw bone and beat down a thousand. It said, "The Spirit of the Lord came upon him." He was persistent.

L-58 One day, a lion run out after him and he had nothing in his hand. But the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, his locks still hung on his shoulder, he rent the lion with his hands. He was very persistent, because he knowed that God's promise was with him. He was able to achieve anything, for God's promise was with him, to deliver.

L-59   John was so sure! John the Baptist, when he was born, he knowed he was to be the one, after he got old enough to understand, about nine years old. His father was a priest. Usually they follow the line of the father. But he didn't go down to the schools and seminaries, for he knew his job was too important. He was to announce the Messiah. We know that the Angel had said so.

L-60   He knew that he was represented in the Scripture, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the Lord!'" He knew also that Malachi, four hundred years before, had said, "Behold, I send My messenger before My face." After being into the wilderness, where, he got his schooling from God, not from some theological seminary as his father come from.


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