<TITLE>06. Par 48-61</TITLE>L-48 And when the enemy knows that he has got the upper hand on you, he likes to brag. So he said, "Let's not have so much blood shed." Said, "Saul, let some of your man come over here and fight me. And if I kill him, well, then, you serve us. But if he kills me, we'll serve you." See, when the enemy has got that upper hand!

L-49   And every soldier was just so shaky that he--he could hardly hold his armor up. And Saul, the most able of all of them, head and shoulders above his army, he wouldn't dare touch him, and yet supposed to be the anointed of the Lord.

L-50 But there come from the wilderness, a little stoop-shouldered, ruddy-looking fellow, that had a slingshot in his hand. And that giant made his brag before the wrong man. And David said, "Do you mean to tell me that you will let that uncircumcised Philistine stand there and defy the armies of the living God? Do you mean to tell me that you'll do such a thing as that?"

L-51 Now his brothers said, "Now you're naughty. You get back out there at the sheep, where you belong."

L-52 And the news come to Saul. Saul said, "Bring the lad here, let me look at him."

L-53   And when he come up, a little stooped, ruddy-looking fellow standing there, probably hair hanging down in his eyes. And he said, "Well, you, you can't fight that man." Said, "You're nothing but a little fellow, a little--little ruddy man, and in your youth. And he has been a warrior since his youth." He said, "You can't fight him. I admire your courage, but the... it's too great."

L-54 And what happened? He said, "Let me see if you could use my armor." So he put his armor on him, give him his shield.

L-55 Well, poor little David couldn't stand up. He--he--he said he--he didn't know nothing about it. He found out that Saul's ecclesiastical vest didn't fit a man of God.

L-56 So he said, "I'll send him away and give him a schooling, a Ph.D., LL.D., and so forth, and see what he can do about it."

L-57 He said, "I don't know nothing about these things. Take them off of me. I--I don't know nothing about this.

L-58 "But here is one thing I do know. I was herding my father's sheep, and a lion come in and got one of them. And I went after him, 'cause my father had give me charge to watch those sheep." Amen. And any good shepherd is a watcher of the sheep. And he said, "I don't have nothing but this slingshot in my hand, but I knocked him down; and when he rose up against me, I slew him. And a bear come in and got one. I run after him and took it out of his mouth; and when he rose up, I killed him." And said, "How much more will God of Israel, God of Heaven, deliver that uncircumcised Philistine into my hand!"

L-59   That little fellow was perseverant because he knowed what he was talking about. He knowed Who he had believed, and was fully persuaded He was able to keep that which he had committed to Him against the day. Now he had just a slingshot, that's all he had. He said, "I'll go fight the Philistine." Because, the reason he was so perseverant, he knowed if God, under the care of a sheep, had helped him deliver the sheep back to his father, how much more a man.

L-60 Now think of that, all ministers. And we feel that way about you sheep, tonight. The devil has come and smote you with a disease. That's right. He has took you out from the good health. I--I don't have no Ph.D. I don't have no LL.D. I don't even have a grammar school education. But I know what I do have. I'm coming after you, tonight, to bring you back to the shady green pastures and the still waters. That's what we're here on the platform for, tonight, is to come get you, snatch you out of the hand of the lion out there, bring you back. Be patient, listen close and watch, try to find what we're trying to do, is try to help you.

L-61 Now, David was very persistent, because that he knew Who he had believed, and he knowed he was able to commit; what he committed to Him, He was able to keep it.


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