<TITLE>16. Par 146-156</TITLE>L-146 Why, understanding would sure prove that they could not do it. Any military man like he was, or Moses, could not have leaned on their own understanding. But their understanding, they leaned not on. But they knowed that God said, "I have given you that land. Go take it!"

L-147   Lean not to your own understanding. If you lean on your own understanding today when you are sick, maybe sitting in a wheel chair, dying with cancer, heart trouble, and the doctor says you're going to die, if you lean to that understanding, you'll die. But don't lean to that understanding. Certainly not.

L-148 What about at the walls of Jericho, that they say they could run a chariot race around the top of them, them great big walls? God said, "Go up there and march around it so many times, and sound a trumpet and all of you let out a shout, and the wall is going to fall down." Well, that was absolutely would be silly to the carnal mind. But Joshua, knowing how thick those walls was, 'cause he had built plenty of walls down in Egypt. He knowed the cement that was in them, how tight they were, to hold them chariot races on top, and even houses built on top of it. But he didn't lean to his own understanding. He believed what God said was the truth, and obeyed His Word, and the walls fell down. Leaning not to his own understanding.

L-149   What if he was fighting that battle, and, as I was preaching on Sunday, and then the sun was going down, the enemy was routed. That night they would get together and they would come with another force, kill plenty of his man. Now what if he would have said, "I need some daylight. I've got to have some more sunlight. Well, now wait a minute. God set this order, and the sun turns so the world turns. Now let's see, if I would say for the sun to stop... Maybe if the world stops now, then it'd loses its gravitation, I'll fall"?

L-150 He didn't listen to his understanding. Only thing he said, was, "Sun, stand still; and, moon, you stay where you are," and it obeyed him. He didn't lean to his own understanding. But he leaned to the promise of God, "I have given you that land; go get it."

L-151   He has give you the promise of the Holy Ghost. You can get It in this convention. You can get It now.

L-152 Don't lean to, "You know, I'm tired. I tell you, I eat too much supper. I--I--I'd hate for John to see me doing this." Oh, for goodness sake! You're leaning to your own understanding.

L-153 "The promise is unto you, and your children's children, to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."

L-154 "The doctor said I'm going to die. He examined me, and said I had this cancer, I had this, or whatever it was. I've got to die." Don't lean to that understanding. God is the Lord thy God Who heals all thy diseases. So don't lean to that understanding, no man's understanding. Lean to God's understanding.

L-155   What of Samson, out in the field, when the Philistines, a thousand man run up on him? And there he was standing there, a little bitty, curly-headed shrimp, about that high. He didn't; well, he wasn't a swordsman, 'cause he didn't know; he had no training, military training. He was just a little old curly-headed sissy, like, with seven locks hanging down, mama's boy, standing out there, and here come a thousand Philistines. Well, he didn't have nothing in his hand. He looked down, and he found an old bleached out, white jaw bone of a mule, and he picked it up.

L-156 Now said, "Let's see, now, I won't do much with this, because them helmets on their head is... Them Philistines, all them soldiers, they've all got spears. They've all got coats of mail. And their helmets weigh about fifteen pounds apiece, great big man, all out. Well, if I'd ever hit with this old brittle jaw bone of the mule, upon one of them helmets, why, it would burst to pieces. That's it"?


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