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in Isaiah 55: His thoughts are not our thoughts;

His ways are not our ways. What about David

and Goliath? I mean, why choose a 17-year-old

boy to go out and fight a giant when you had

Saul. King Saul was the tallest man among the

nation of Israel, and he was shaking in his tent,

and a 17-year-old went out and took care of the

giant. And Gideon. Why in the world would

God reduce his army from thousands down to

300 men to go and win the battle? That's very

unusual, but it's the way that God does things,

you see. Coming back to the walls of Jericho,

how many of you would want to march around

a fortified city? I'm talking about walls that

they could shoot arrows down at you from,

walls that you could run two or three chariots

around. Houses were built on these walls. How

many of you would march around that wall

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