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back there in the desert forty years, a man with an impediment in his speech. God said to Moses, “Moses, I want you to go down into Egypt and bring my people out of bondage.” That is not our way. The king just looked at him and ordered him out of his presence. “Who is God?” he said, “that I should obey Him?” He soon found out who God was. God us*ed the little things to bring him to his senses, the little fly, the little frog, the little louse. The world looks upon the frog with scorn and contempt, but Moses said, “Oh, there are a good many of them.” We may be very weak in ourselves, but see what a mighty God we have. God likes to take the weak things to confound the mighty. When God wants to thresh the mountains, He does not take a bar of iron, he takes a little worm. The fact is we have got too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God’s strength is worth more than all the world’s strength. There was that giant, whom we are told came out day after day every morning and every evening. Down into the valley came the giant of Gath every morning and he terrified all the army of Saul. The whole army was trembling, they were afraid. When Joshua was weak in himself but strong in the Lord he had no fear of giants, but you see Saul and his army had got their eyes off from God—when we get our eyes off from God, how mighty a giant looks ! Then there came the young stripling up from the country. He heard of this giant and the young boy began to inquire, what does this mean? They told him and he wanted to go right out at once to meet him. / He was the last man we would have chosen, but God’s ways are not our ways. God will have the glory—that is the
point. If God had chosen some great giant then we would have given the giant all the glory. The young strip ling needs no armor of Saul. He just takes a few small smooth stones out of the brook and puts them in his sling. He says, “You have your sword, but I have come in the name of my God.” Yes, he leaned wholly upon the strength of God. Now just look at that. We are to put that little stone into the sling, God directs it, and the work is done, the giant of Gath falls. David was the last one we would have chosen, but he was chosen by' God. What we want to learn is the les son that we are weak and we don’t want anystrength but God’s strength. Look at Jonathan with his small army. “Why,” he says, “the Lord can save by few as well as many.” It is not these great meetings that are going to do the work. It is not by might, not by power, but by the Spirit of God. Let me just impress this upon you; it is weakness that God wants. There were weeping ones in heaven; John wept when the sealed book was brought out and there was not any one who could open the book. God might have looked upon Paul, but Paul was not worthy to open the book. He might have looked upon Enoch, but Enoch was not worthy; He might have looked upon Abraham, but Abraham, though he was the faith of the faithful, was not worthy to open that book. There were Daniel and Elijah and the holy men of the Old Testa ment and not one of them worthy to open the book. Some of the saints of the New Testament had already entered upon their reward, Stephen was there, Stephen who was mar tyred, but Stephen was not able to open the book. And John said he began to cry as he looked around and there was not one worthy to
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