<TITLE>11. Par 115-128</TITLE>L-115 Now, remember, Noah had a message from God, "It was going to rain." Well, there never... See, the world set up straight in them days. See? They never had rain. But Noah said, "It's going to rain." The water was on the earth, not in the skies. They could take an instrument and prove there was no water there. But Noah said, "It's going to happen, anyhow." See? And it rained. That was a paradox, see, something that could not be explained. But God shook the earth around, just in condition so it would rain. So, you see, it was a paradox for Noah to do that.

L-116   Also, it was a paradox when Israel stood on one side of the hill, and Goliath on the other side of the hill. They had a great challenger over there. He was a great scientist. He--he knew all the ins-and-outs. And when the enemy thinks he's got you to the wall, that's when he likes to bark the loudest.

L-117 I remember, I first started out in this ministry, oh, that pastor, Davis, said to me. He said, "Billy, what in the world did you eat that night for supper?" See? He couldn't understand it.

L-118 I got a group of ministers together with me. They said, "What's the matter with you? You think that that..."
I said, "I don't care."

L-119 "In the day of this scientific age that we're living in, and you mean to tell me that God..."

L-120 I said, "I don't care what you say. That Man, that Angel of the Lord, has never told me anything wrong." I said, "If He sends me out there, there'll be somebody that'll listen to it. If the Baptist church don't want to, then here is my fellowship card." That's all. I knew God said so, and that settled it. Right.
Said, "You can't do it."

L-121   That's that giant standing yonder, saying, "If you'll come over here, send one of your men and fight me, then we won't have no bloodshed." Oh, my, how easy! How they like to bark when they got it like that. Said, "You let one of your greatest men..." Course, Saul was head and shoulders above his army, and he knowed better than to go out and meet that fellow on his grounds.

L-122 He said, "Now, we won't kill anybody. We'll just let--let two of us; one of us die. Just one man die instead of the whole armies here die." He had a--a psychological point. And you notice he said...

L-123 And Israel was scared to death. They wouldn't want to meet the challenge.

L-124   But one day a little, old ruddy fellow come up, piece of sheepskin wrapped around his shoulders, bent down, his hair in his face, come up there to bring his brothers some raisin cakes, that the father sent him up there. His name was David; little bitty, old scrawny fellow stand around there.

L-125 But, you know, there had been, a few days before that, a prophet had anointed him.

L-126 They wanted to put it upon his bigger brother's head, 'cause he looked better, you know, that make impression to the--the people he's going to stand before. He looks like a king.

L-127 Oh, that's what the world has still got, their eyes full of Hollywood. Ought to be full of Christ. See? That's the reason it's so hard to get the program over to the people, the Message. They want to be Hollywood. Hollywood shines. Well, it's shining. Now, I live...

L-128   I'm a--I'm a prospector. You know, fool's gold shines brighter than real gold. Anything glitters, everything glitters is not gold. After all, gold doesn't glitter. It glows.


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