<TITLE>17. Par 157-165</TITLE>L-157 He didn't lean to his understanding. He just took what was in his hand, and started beating Philistines. And after he had beat down a thousand of them, he still had the jaw bone in his hand. Amen.

L-158   I don't care what man's theology says, don't lean to that. Lean to the Word of God, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." Certainly, he believed it.

L-159 What if David would have listened to Sams-... Saul's theology? There stood Goliath out there with his big boast, and all everybody scared; Saul, head and shoulders above all the army. Goliath said, "Somebody come out and fight me. There is no need of--of all of us dying. If I kill you, then you all serve us. And if you kill me, why, we'll serve you," 'cause he had the edge on him. That's the way the devil likes to do, when he has got his whole seminary out, and all of them, when he's coming along, see.

L-160 Little old David walking around there, a piece of sheep skin on him; ruddy, stoop-shouldered, a little bitty guy about a hundred pounds, a hundred and ten. He said, "Do you mean to tell me that the armies of the living God, that's circumcised to a covenant, will stand there and let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the living God?"

L-161   Saul said, "Come here, boy." He said, "I admire your courage, but the days of miracles is passed. We don't have no such a thing as that, see. And let me tell you something, what fellowship card can you show, see? You don't even got an armor. You ain't got nothing but a slingshot in your hand. See? You haven't got a Ph.D. or LL.D. How you going to do this? Why, that man is a warrior. Why, he's--he's a D.D., double L, Ph.D., LL.Q. Why, he has got so many degrees, he could plaster a wall with them. And who are you? A sheepherder."

L-162 He said, "But I want to tell you something." He said, "You know what?" Said, "I was herding my father's sheep out there, and," said, "a lion come in and grabbed one of them, and run out. And you know, I took this little slingshot and went after him, and knocked him down. I took the--the lamb out of his mouth, and he rose up against me when I did. I just took the knife and killed him." Said, "I went on back. And here come a bear in, after that sheep, and grabbed him and run out. I slew him, too." He said, "Now the God... Not my Ph.D., not my own understanding. I can't tell you how I do it. I don't know how it's done. But the God," amen, "the God that delivered me out of the paw of the bear and the lion, how much more will He deliver me out of the hand of that uncircumcised Philistine!"

L-163   A bishop, Saul, said, "You know, I believe you got a calling, boy. I'll tell you, if you'd come over here, I'll learn you how to duel, see. And I'll tell you, I'm--I'm the doctor, so you put on my armor. I want to dress you up." David stood there, and they give him a Ph.D., an LL.D., and all that, and--and the poor little fellow couldn't even move. He didn't know how.

L-164 He said, "I never proved this. That ecclesiastical vest don't fit me. Take this thing off. Let me go with what God helped me with." That was faith in the power of God. And he--he didn't lean to his own understanding. He didn't lean to what somebody else said. He leaned to faith. Because, he knowed if God had saved him from the bear's paw, how much more would He save him from that Philistine!

L-165 Well, if God loved you well enough to bring you up out of sin and to fill you with the Holy Ghost, what's the matter with you poor spineless weaklings around the country, won't He much more deliver you from your affliction when He promised He would do it? God's Word said so. He'll do it. Sure, He delivered him out of the hand.


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