1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 I don't want you to suffocate on me. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,800 All right, you're gonna breathe in, breathe out, 3 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:05,400 and you just say, God is good. 4 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:06,240 Okay, ready? 5 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:07,680 All right, one, two, three. 6 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,680 Breathe in, breathe out, and God is good. 7 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:13,400 All right, sometimes you gotta remind ourselves of that. 8 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,520 You know, there's so much that happens in life, 9 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:17,320 and we just gotta take some time to step back 10 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:19,560 and just say, you know, God's just good, 11 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:20,600 and I just need to breathe, 12 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,720 and He'll always take care of me. 13 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:24,880 I'm excited for our message. 14 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,760 Go ahead and turn with me to 1 Samuel 13, 15 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,880 1 Samuel chapter 17, sorry, 16 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,400 1 Samuel chapter 17, teak me on your toes. 17 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,280 All right, we're in our David series, 18 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:37,720 and what I love about David is, 19 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:39,000 it's like an action movie, man. 20 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,120 If anyone ever tells you the Bible is boring, 21 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:42,680 they're just not reading it the right way. 22 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,960 But I was not, not something that we just hear, 23 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,080 that a monotone preacher says, we just listen to, 24 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:48,600 it comes alive, it's real, 25 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,240 and we see these are real people with real stories. 26 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,680 And what I love about David is his life is crazy. 27 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:56,840 There's so many up, downs, turnarounds, 28 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,400 that he doesn't expect all the things that are going on. 29 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,560 And I'm excited that we get to go through it 30 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,240 and really highlight how God worked in his life. 31 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:06,400 They're exciting stories, 32 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,400 but what I think is, it's not as even more exciting 33 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,600 is the applications for us today. 34 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:12,960 We're in a past description, a book of the Bible, 35 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:14,320 that was written thousands of years ago, 36 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:17,320 yet we can still find application and hope from it today, 37 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:18,880 and that's amazing to me. 38 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,480 Now, we covered last week was Saul 39 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,280 and him being chosen as king, but he disobeyed, 40 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:25,960 he failed miserably, 41 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:27,960 and then we have David anointed as king. 42 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:30,920 And tonight we really get to see David's first full, 43 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:32,800 our first full interaction with David, 44 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,360 and what that is is where he faces Goliath. 45 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:37,040 And that's what I want us to get excited for. 46 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,760 I want us to love this, but before we dive into it, 47 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:40,880 let's make sure we get a point 48 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,520 that Pastor Ben brought to us last week. 49 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,360 It's 1st of January 16th, seven. 50 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,000 It says, but the Lord said unto Samuel, 51 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,200 look not on his countenance, 52 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,120 on the height of his stature, 53 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:54,040 because I refused him. 54 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,640 For Lord seeeth not as man seeeth, 55 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,440 for man looketh on the outward appearance, 56 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:01,960 but the Lord looketh on the heart. 57 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:03,840 You know, David wasn't the guy you expect. 58 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,160 When we hear David, we jump to the very end of David's life, 59 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:07,480 or maybe the middle of David's life, 60 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,720 when he was right on top of everything. 61 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,840 But that's not how he started out. 62 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:13,960 He was the man that God used though, 63 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:15,960 because God was looking on his inside, 64 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,440 inwardly at his heart rather than his outward countenance. 65 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,160 And David really wasn't who you would expect. 66 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,240 He was, a lot of times, what we would call the underdog. 67 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:26,400 But I wanna challenge that a little bit. 68 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,200 I wanna challenge that with a story. 69 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,160 A long time ago, when I was like, it's not that long ago, 70 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:33,520 when I was in third grade, 71 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,480 okay, this will be a surprise to my youth group, 72 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:37,200 that I actually played sports. 73 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,680 I'm not the most sporty person in the world 74 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,080 the youth group can attest to that. 75 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,920 I like sports, I'm just not good at them. 76 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:46,400 I like watching, I even don't mind playing. 77 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:47,840 It's just, it's not gonna be a good outcome. 78 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:48,880 I'm not gonna do great. 79 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,320 But we had this thing at the Christian school I was with, 80 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,760 and it was for, it was intramural. 81 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:55,520 That means we played amongst each other. 82 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:57,120 And what we do is we take all the kids, 83 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,280 third through sixth, we split them up into teams. 84 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,200 And I had a team when I was in third grade, 85 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,640 and it was, for lack of a better word, it was really sad. 86 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:06,760 It was a really sad team. 87 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:08,440 I think I have a picture up there. 88 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:09,960 All right, this is me, all right. 89 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:11,720 I'm the small little kid right here, 90 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:13,440 making the weird face, not a lot has changed. 91 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:14,680 But this was our team. 92 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,360 And I actually had my mom go through a yearbook 93 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,000 and actually find this for me. 94 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,480 Because I remembered it, I remember taking the picture 95 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,600 because I felt so awkward, and I look so awkward in it. 96 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:27,600 But I remember we were called the mean green fighting machines. 97 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:29,880 And man, we didn't know how to play basketball at all. 98 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:31,800 Like there were some different teams with these guys 99 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,160 who were tall, even they were like in third grade 100 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:35,000 and they were tall. 101 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,840 And I remember thinking, I was like, 102 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,160 man guys, we're really not good at this. 103 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:40,480 Like we're not ready. 104 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:42,160 We're totally inexperienced. 105 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,640 And we played hard, we fought hard. 106 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:46,040 I remember there was this one time, 107 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:47,320 this is like a legendary experience. 108 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:48,920 Cause I don't do a lot of incredible 109 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:50,120 and sporty athletic things. 110 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:51,160 I remember this time in third grade, 111 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,800 the one athletic thing I did was we were all playing basketball, 112 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:56,280 we were playing the like the red team. 113 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:57,240 And that was the big team. 114 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,040 They were crushing us like really badly. 115 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:00,920 And they somehow put me in. 116 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:02,400 Usually I wasn't put in, I just sat on the bench 117 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:03,320 and I was kind of happy with that. 118 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:04,800 But I got put in and I was playing. 119 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:05,960 I was like, I don't know what to do. 120 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:07,320 And then someone passed me the ball 121 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:08,520 and I freaked out even more. 122 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:09,720 I was like, I still don't know what to do. 123 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:10,920 What am I supposed to do with the ball? 124 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:12,320 I don't know, I know we talked about this, 125 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:13,960 practice, I don't know what the next step is. 126 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:15,720 But there was this girl in front of me. 127 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,400 And she is a really nice girl. 128 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,200 I know her today, but she was really scary. 129 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:21,560 And she was like in sixth grade when I was in third grade, 130 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,440 she was tall, she was like powering over me. 131 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,480 And I knew I got to get the ball to my teammates 132 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:27,320 and knew that at least. 133 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:28,640 It's like, how do I do it? 134 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:30,000 And it was really cool. 135 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,960 All I could think of doing, I was like, okay, 136 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:33,560 I'm blocked, this girl is bigger than me, 137 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:34,480 I'm a small little thing, 138 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:35,680 I'm not gonna be able to do anything. 139 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,800 So I got the ball and I just like threw it right under her 140 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,640 legs and I was like, you're all like, oh cool. 141 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:42,480 He threw it under the leg. 142 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:43,400 No, it was like really cool for me. 143 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,440 I was like hyped up, I was looking at the crowd saying, 144 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:46,720 this is me, look what I just did. 145 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,560 I like passed the ball right under her legs 146 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:50,760 and I felt really cool about it. 147 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,560 And I remember I like, as soon as I did it, 148 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,000 I turned around to my mom and I was like, 149 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,360 look mom, I did something athletic, like it happened. 150 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:57,520 I actually threw the ball under. 151 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:58,960 Now I didn't like keep going. 152 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:00,640 What happened is the other team like took the ball 153 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:02,000 and then made a shot later on. 154 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,320 So it didn't really help anything, 155 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:04,720 but I felt really cool. 156 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:08,200 And I remember we played so, so hard. 157 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,920 And in each one of us, we were fine for it. 158 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,080 And we got to the playoffs, 159 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:14,400 which everyone got to the playoffs. 160 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,200 And we played the game so hard. 161 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:17,880 And you know what happened? 162 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,680 We lost so badly, just really badly. 163 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:21,600 Like there was no chance. 164 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,200 I don't think we won a single game. 165 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,560 I don't think we came close to winning the single game. 166 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:28,400 And what I remember thinking while we were doing that, 167 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,080 I was like, man, we are the underdogs. 168 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,800 Like we are literally the underdogs and we lost. 169 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:37,000 And we love a good underdog story 170 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,360 because the part we love it is that 171 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:39,960 they're the least likely to do it. 172 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,280 And then they somehow turn around and end up doing it. 173 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:45,200 But that doesn't usually happen. 174 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,160 It does, there's plenty of stories for that. 175 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,400 But the story tonight, we oftentimes call it 176 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:52,720 an underdog story. 177 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,240 And I believe if we look with just our human circumstances, 178 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,600 what was going on then, I believe it would be. 179 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:59,440 But I think if we really think about it today, 180 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,960 it's not a real underdog story. 181 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,640 Because an underdog is someone who is unlikely to win. 182 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:07,320 But when David came up to face Goliath, 183 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,720 there was no question if he was gonna win. 184 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,320 And that's not because David is up here 185 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,080 and David is better than Goliath necessarily. 186 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:14,520 What it was is David went out 187 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,200 and he was confident in his God. 188 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,040 There was no doubt in his mind 189 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,000 that when he went before this Goliath, 190 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,840 now that's not to say he wasn't scared, 191 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:24,680 that's not to say he wasn't nervous. 192 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,080 But this man had resolved that not that he could do it, 193 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,560 that he had a God who could. 194 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,120 And that gives us our main point today. 195 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:37,080 David displayed courage in the midst of a giant problem, 196 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,800 pun intended, because of his faith and trust 197 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,440 in the sovereignty of God. 198 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:44,960 This is a story about the power of God 199 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,120 that is true no matter the situation. 200 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,280 What I want us to dive into 201 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:51,720 and look at is two different viewpoints. 202 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,760 We have a wrong viewpoint and a right viewpoint. 203 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:56,640 The first one starts right out the gate 204 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,920 with the fear of man. 205 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:01,120 Now what is the fear of man? 206 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:02,640 The fear of man, the best way to find it 207 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:06,520 is that you're putting others, putting men above God. 208 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,120 That you're focused on what men can do. 209 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,320 You're focused on gain approval for men. 210 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:12,480 You're sometimes focused on getting protection from men. 211 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,440 That you're all about others. 212 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:16,800 And the idea is that you're making God small 213 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,400 and you're making everything that's happened in your life, 214 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:19,440 the people around you, 215 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,120 you're making them the biggest priority. 216 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,320 That you're focused on the fear of men. 217 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:25,320 It's not necessarily a scare, 218 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,120 but it's even this reverence idea 219 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,640 that you're putting men before God. 220 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:32,600 And that's a lot. 221 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:33,880 That happens a lot. 222 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,720 That our ideas, our mindset is about men 223 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,160 and focusing on what pleases men, 224 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:40,080 what gives me approval, 225 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:41,880 what keeps me protected. 226 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:42,880 And what we see in Israel 227 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,280 is they were at this moment completely man centered. 228 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,960 They were all about themselves 229 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:50,240 from the point of choosing to king, 230 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:51,600 even up into this battle. 231 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:52,920 Now let's look at the context 232 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:54,200 where we go into this battle. 233 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:55,360 Okay, a lot of you know this story, 234 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,000 but I wanna give some more details 235 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,680 to round it out a little bit. 236 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,800 We have the setting and we have the Philistines, 237 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:02,040 which is a foreign army. 238 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,560 They were coming and invading Israelite territory. 239 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:05,920 They were in the place that says in 240 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,120 verse one through three of Saka'a. 241 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:09,640 And I believe I got a picture up there 242 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:11,360 of the valley that they were at. 243 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,080 We have the Israelite camp and we have the Philistine camp. 244 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,360 So what was happening, Philistines were invading 245 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,240 and their goal was to get to Saka'a, to get to Azika. 246 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,080 And what their ultimate goal was to get to Judah. 247 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:23,120 Because if they got Judah, man, 248 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:26,280 they had a big portion of what made Israel Israel. 249 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:27,400 That was their goal. 250 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,320 But they were at a standstill right now. 251 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:30,280 They were on top of the hill 252 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:31,360 and this is a satellite view, 253 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,400 so it doesn't look as big, but it is. 254 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:34,800 We have a Philistine hill. 255 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:36,880 We have the valley of Elah separating. 256 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,600 And then we have the Israelites camping. 257 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:41,400 They were both on two different sides. 258 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:42,960 And it was this standoff. 259 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:44,600 Because neither one wanted to move. 260 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,040 Because it was literally gonna be an uphill battle, right? 261 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:48,640 If the Philistines went down their hill 262 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:49,800 and tried to go up to Israelite camp, 263 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:50,760 they were gonna get slaughtered. 264 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:52,160 It would have been very easy. 265 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:53,760 The same way for the Israelites. 266 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:54,800 So they're all standing there and saying, 267 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:55,880 hey, you move first. 268 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:57,160 No, you move first. 269 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:58,000 All right, we're not going anywhere. 270 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:58,840 We're gonna stay here. 271 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:00,600 And they stayed for a while. 272 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:01,800 And they had this idea. 273 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,800 A lot of times when there was this standstill, 274 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:04,720 when they were deadlocked, 275 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,640 they would have the idea of single combat. 276 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:07,600 That's how this came out. 277 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:09,480 They said, all right, no one's moving anywhere. 278 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:11,320 We got a nice little arena right in the middle there 279 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:12,320 in the valley of Eila. 280 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:13,560 Just send out your champion. 281 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:15,040 Send out your best person. 282 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,160 The Philistines kind of initiated this. 283 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,600 And they go, and they send out, as we know, Goliath. 284 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,320 And what we see is that Goliath 285 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,440 had this intimidating presence. 286 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,680 Scripture is very clear and very careful 287 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:28,720 to explain what Goliath was like. 288 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,840 Look with me in 1 Samuel 17, verse four. 289 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:33,520 I wanna get this description of Goliath. 290 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:35,000 And see how the Scripture shows us 291 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,200 that this man was intimidating. 292 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,280 And there went out a champion 293 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,360 out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, 294 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,720 whose height was six cubits and a span. 295 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:47,840 And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, 296 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,040 and he was armed with a coat of mail, 297 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:54,000 and the weight was a coat, was 5,000 shekels of brass. 298 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,800 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs 299 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:59,120 and a target of brass between his shoulders. 300 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,960 And the staff of the spear was like a weaver's beam, 301 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,840 and a spearhead weighed 600 shekels of iron. 302 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:07,160 And one bearing of shield went before him. 303 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,120 All right, let's take this apart a little bit. 304 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:10,600 Okay, we have verse four. 305 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:12,600 We see that this guy is a champion. 306 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,680 Okay, he's not just some random guy that pulled out. 307 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:18,480 This is a guy who was a famed warrior. 308 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:20,640 He faced so many people, so many armies, 309 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:22,440 so many single combat, I would assume, 310 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:23,720 and destroyed all of them. 311 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:24,760 There was no doubt. 312 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,260 This guy was a warrior, 313 00:10:26,260 --> 00:10:28,040 and he would destroy anyone that's standing his path, 314 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:29,400 and he was confident of it too. 315 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:33,160 And what we all know is that Goliath was huge. 316 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,880 Okay, I wanna make sure we see how big Goliath was. 317 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:37,280 Okay, all right, let me give one of my teens 318 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:38,800 Anna, come here for a second. 319 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:40,240 Yeah, I know, you're the first person I saw. 320 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:42,600 All right, so grab this for me, okay? 321 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,480 All right, I'll switch with you. 322 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,160 You stop it when it's nine feet, okay? 323 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:48,000 Ready? 324 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,200 Keep going, oh, you want me to move. 325 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,320 Okay, I got you, all right. 326 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:53,320 Good, we're there? 327 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,800 All right, so we got nine feet, about nine feet and nine inches. 328 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:58,920 All right, thank you, Anna, beautiful. 329 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:00,880 Okay, all right, this is pretty long. 330 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:03,080 Sorry for my sad little thing here. 331 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:04,680 Here, Anna, come here, hold it for me. 332 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:06,920 Make it long, you're awesome, okay? 333 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,280 All right, so we got this, okay? 334 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:11,720 This is tall, this doesn't look super tall, 335 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:12,840 but this is pretty tall. 336 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:14,440 Okay, this is taller than all of you, 337 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,440 this is taller than anyone could be today. 338 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,480 I think, who's the tallest person in here? 339 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:19,920 Who we think? 340 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:21,840 See, Dave, would it be you? 341 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:23,560 Dave, stand up for us, okay? 342 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:25,520 If you don't mind, all right? 343 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:26,800 Okay, we're gonna put this by Dave. 344 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,680 Okay, now Dave's pretty tall, okay? 345 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,000 All right, let's see. 346 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:33,800 Okay. 347 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:34,640 Six, four and a half. 348 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,800 Let's see, all right, this is very scientific 349 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:38,080 what I'm doing right here, okay? 350 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:40,560 All right, see, that's pretty tall. 351 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:43,400 Dave's a tall guy, like, he's being me, okay? 352 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:44,920 But Goliath is way up here. 353 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:46,840 Thank you, Dave, you're awesome, okay? 354 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:48,960 All right, so what I want you to see 355 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,360 is this Goliath is no like small guy. 356 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,160 He was a giant, he was a tall giant too. 357 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:58,480 And he was intimidating by the standards, 358 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,240 but he didn't just have height, he also had armor. 359 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,120 He had, let's see if I, I bet I'm gonna trip over that later. 360 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,480 All right, but he also had armor. 361 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,320 He had a helmet of bronze that was probably 362 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,360 about 30 pounds of weight. 363 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,160 Imagine having to have 30 pounds of weight on your head, 364 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,600 all right, and then you have this scale of armor 365 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,120 that's about 125 pounds. 366 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:23,320 Then you have bronze shin guards that are right at your legs. 367 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,760 You have this other breastplate that's between your shoulders. 368 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,800 Then you have a spear, and just the spear head itself 369 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,360 is about 15 pounds. 370 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,000 And then you have this giant shield 371 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,240 that he can't even hold, 372 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:35,480 which means it's pretty heavy, 373 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:36,640 that he says, hey, shield bearer, 374 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,080 you're gonna come out with me and hold the shield for me. 375 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,800 This guy is strong, he's buff, he's powerful, 376 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,240 and there's, I wanna picture this for it. 377 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,000 I think I gotta picture up there of Goliath, right? 378 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,640 This guy was ready for war. 379 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,840 If this guy walked into the back right now and said, 380 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,760 hey, I challenged one person to come and fight me, okay? 381 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:58,840 We're not gonna wanna fight the guy. 382 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:00,280 So then I was like, man, it was like, 383 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:01,400 just go and fight the guy. 384 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:03,440 Come on, stop being wimps, you know? 385 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,080 Yeah, I would've been scared, if I'm gonna be honest. 386 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,440 Like, if I go up to Goliath like, hey, man, I can take you, 387 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,120 it's gonna be like two seconds, 388 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:12,240 and then I don't know what's gonna happen, 389 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:13,680 but it's gonna be great, right? 390 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:17,760 Goliath was this powerful, powerful guy, 391 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:20,920 and it's even scarier when that powerful guy wants you dead 392 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:22,360 and one of these Israelites gone. 393 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:23,880 And now Goliath continues, 394 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:25,240 and we got a description of him, 395 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:26,520 and he starts to speak, 396 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:28,720 and he's basically saying, who's ready to rumble, man? 397 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,080 All right, verse eight, choose a man. 398 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,080 Choose someone to come out and fight me. 399 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,400 And Goliath says, he gives the terms of the battle. 400 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:38,560 He says, if you kill me, all right, 401 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:41,600 then the Philistines will be your slaves, okay? 402 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,400 But if I kill you, and this is what Goliath is banking on, 403 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,480 if I can kill you, Israelite, 404 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:48,840 then all the Israelites, you're right under us. 405 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:51,840 And Goliath was confident. 406 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:53,360 We see in verse 10, he says, 407 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,680 and the Philistines said, I defy the armies of Israel this day. 408 00:13:56,680 --> 00:13:58,720 Give me a man that we may fight together. 409 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,600 Goliath's like, come on, give me somebody. 410 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,240 Who's going to fight me? 411 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,240 And what we see later on in verse 16 412 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:06,800 is that he's there for 40 days. 413 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:08,320 This isn't like a one-time thing. 414 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,480 He leaves, and then he comes back, 415 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:11,520 and he leaves and comes back. 416 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,360 It's probably about the same time of the day. 417 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:14,480 They know what's gonna happen. 418 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:15,840 Everyone's waiting for it. 419 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,560 But what is the people's reaction? 420 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:19,760 Well, it's verse 11. 421 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,080 When Saul and all of Israel heard those words 422 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:26,800 to the Philistines, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. 423 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,080 They're like, nope, nope, no, we're not doing that. 424 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:30,920 We're gonna go hide in our camp, 425 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:33,840 or we're just gonna hope this problem disappears. 426 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,040 This is what we call the fear of man. 427 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,080 They literally made this man out to be bigger than God. 428 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,760 They're like, he's like nine foot and nine inches. 429 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:42,600 Do you not understand that? 430 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,680 Like, how are we supposed to take him down? 431 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,520 What they've done is they've made man so big 432 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,280 and that God was put aside. 433 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,240 And what we see is that their leader, 434 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,240 Saul, was so cowardly in this. 435 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:59,480 It says, Saul and all of Israel heard those words, 436 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,840 and they were dismayed and greatly afraid. 437 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,720 Saul, we see in 1 Samuel 9, 438 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,120 was supposed to be that tall and strong person. 439 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:08,960 I believe that he was older right now, 440 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:10,280 but he would have still been the person 441 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,520 that everyone's looking to, saying, go fight him. 442 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,400 You're our king, man, go lead. 443 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,640 Saul says, no, I'm not gonna do that. 444 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:18,480 I'm gonna go hide, 445 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,040 and we're just gonna hope this problem disappears. 446 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:22,640 Now, meanwhile, the narrative shifts, 447 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:25,200 and it introduces us back again to David. 448 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,000 And it describes who David is again. 449 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,320 It says, it's the youngest son of Jesse, verse 12, 450 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,920 and that three of Jesse's sons go to bow, 451 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:33,400 three of his oldest. 452 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,040 And David's job was to go 453 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,400 and to deliver that food to his brothers. 454 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,080 And David arrives around the time 455 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:41,200 that Goliath is coming out. 456 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:42,800 He brings the food, and he actually says, 457 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,760 he darts, and he says, hey, guy, who's with the food, 458 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:47,000 you stay there, I'm gonna go check out who this guy is 459 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,360 that's yelling and making this ruckus. 460 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,360 And David goes in verse 23 and witnesses it. 461 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,760 And men are truly fleeing and hiding, 462 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:57,400 and they're saying, just, 463 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,320 we don't wanna deal with this giant problem. 464 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,760 What was happening is they kept trying to put the problem up 465 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:04,480 and it was getting bigger and bigger, 466 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,040 and Goliath was getting closer and closer and more confident. 467 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:08,520 Because think about how Goliath's feeling. 468 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,280 He's like, man, it's not long, they're scared. 469 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:12,120 We almost got him. 470 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:12,960 They're in the palm of our hand, 471 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,040 their own leader is hiding in his tent. 472 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:16,400 We got this. 473 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,680 And the problem is getting bigger and bigger. 474 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:19,800 You know what happens in our life? 475 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:21,960 We just keep ignoring problems, 476 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,080 just hoping it'll go away and never does. 477 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:25,600 You know what I hope goes away? 478 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:26,440 Dishes. 479 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:27,280 You know what doesn't go away? 480 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:28,120 Dishes. 481 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:28,960 You know what multiplies? 482 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:29,800 Dishes, right? 483 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,360 It starts growing and growing and growing. 484 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:32,560 Just because you ignore it, 485 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:33,600 say it's not a problem, 486 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:35,280 doesn't make it not a problem, right? 487 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:36,960 Goliath is still there, 488 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:38,760 and he says, I'm not going anywhere. 489 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:40,320 Someone's gonna have to take me down. 490 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:41,400 We're at a stalemate, 491 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:42,600 and the only way to get past this, 492 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,880 either you become our slaves or you kill me. 493 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,240 And the people said, we can't kill you. 494 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:48,800 So what do we do? 495 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,040 And it's interesting in verse 10 496 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,040 where he says that he's defying. 497 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,680 That word define is that he is mocking the people. 498 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,360 He's saying you are nothing, you armies, 499 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:00,960 you small armies of Israel. 500 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:02,000 He was mocking God. 501 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,040 He was trying to get them riled up. 502 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,560 And what we see with Saul's cowardly reaction 503 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:08,880 is first he ran and hid, 504 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,720 and then he says, I'll give him a reward 505 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:12,600 to someone else who does it. 506 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:14,040 So it's not about me anymore. 507 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:14,880 So I'm looking at me, 508 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:15,720 because you know people are asking, 509 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:17,680 hey Saul, Goliath's out there, 510 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:18,800 you should do something about it. 511 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:20,880 He says, I'll make you a reward. 512 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:22,440 Instead of me taking the problem, 513 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:23,880 I'll make you a reward. 514 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,120 And we see that in verse 25. 515 00:17:27,120 --> 00:17:29,000 Verse 25, Saul says, 516 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,480 are more so the people say when David asked them, 517 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:33,320 is in the middle of Israel said, 518 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,240 have you seen this man that has come up? 519 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,880 Surely to defy Israel as he come up. 520 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:40,200 And this shall be about the man who killed them. 521 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:41,880 The king will enrich him with great riches. 522 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:43,640 Number one, he gets a lot of riches. 523 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,040 Gets a lot of money from this. 524 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,160 And then we'll give him his daughter. 525 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:49,680 So he gets a wife out of it, 526 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:51,680 and we'll make his father's house free in Israel. 527 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,840 And now he gets free taxes on top of it. 528 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:55,200 And this is like the average, 529 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:56,720 appealing to the average young man. 530 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:57,920 Okay, imagine being a young man here, 531 00:17:57,920 --> 00:17:59,120 and they're just like, I get riches, 532 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:01,360 I get a wife, and I don't have to pay taxes. 533 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:02,800 Man, that's a pretty sweet deal. 534 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:04,520 But no one's taken up on this, 535 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,520 because they're like, I'm gonna die if I go out there. 536 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:09,120 And Saul's strategy is saying, 537 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:10,480 I'm not going out there, you do it. 538 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:11,880 And it's this cowardice, 539 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:15,600 this idea of making man so big. 540 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:16,840 That Goliath was so big. 541 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,680 They knew there was no possible way to defeat him. 542 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,840 And the problem is that they made God so small. 543 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:25,760 The problem is that they didn't even consider God 544 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:27,080 in any of this. 545 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,520 The chosen people, these Israelites, 546 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:30,880 who have been led by God through everything, 547 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,080 who have defeated much bigger than Goliath, 548 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:34,720 who have been led out of slavery, 549 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,280 they know that there's a God who does amazing things, 550 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:38,840 but they don't even once think about it. 551 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,560 Saul doesn't even once lead them to think about it. 552 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:45,120 They don't even think about God much less pray. 553 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:47,280 It was all about man, it was all about their fear, 554 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,680 it was all about their focus, it was all about their trust, 555 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:51,520 and this problem and how they could get out of it 556 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,360 by themselves, and why there was fears, 557 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:56,160 they knew they couldn't get out of it by themselves. 558 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,000 But David was set apart. 559 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,360 The question is why? 560 00:19:00,360 --> 00:19:02,840 Well, that gives us to our second point. 561 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:04,440 It's the fear of God. 562 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,960 That's the complete opposite of the fear of man. 563 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:08,760 Fear of man says, man is so big, 564 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:10,160 and that's what I'm focused on. 565 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,320 The fear of God says, God is the biggest, 566 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,120 the greatest, the most powerful. 567 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:17,920 It's this reverence, this awe, this intense respect, 568 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,280 this truly trembling before God, 569 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,080 because you see how holy and powerful he is. 570 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:24,200 And why was David like this? 571 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:26,880 Well, I think when we go back to 1st January 167, 572 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:31,280 where it says that man looks on the outward appearance, 573 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:32,240 but God looked in the heart. 574 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,720 God saw David's inward character. 575 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:36,840 We see that very clearly in verse 26. 576 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,040 Let's look at it. 577 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:39,920 And David spake to the man that stood by him, 578 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:41,520 saying, what shall be done to the man 579 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,080 that killeth this Philistine, 580 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,640 and takeeth away the reproach from Israel? 581 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,320 For who is this uncircumcised Philistine 582 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,280 that he should defy the armies of the living God? 583 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,080 David points out something very interesting. 584 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,160 He says, who's gonna take away this reproach? 585 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:56,960 Because right now Israel is not looking too great. 586 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,400 You're looking like wimps, okay? 587 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,440 You have this great big God, 588 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,320 and you're not even kind of talking to him, 589 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:03,880 and now there's shame placed upon you, 590 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,040 and we look weak, we look faithless, 591 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,640 and this uncircumcised Philistine, 592 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,480 this guy over here is just some guy, 593 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,120 is nothing compared to our God, right? 594 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:15,240 We have Goliath who seems so big, 595 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,360 but he is but a small dwarf 596 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:19,280 compared to the almighty God who is alive 597 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,400 and leading our army. 598 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,280 David was different than all others. 599 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,720 Why? Because he remembered his God, 600 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,160 he respected his God, 601 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,880 and he trembled before the real God, right? 602 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,560 We had brother Dave who was awesome and stood up for me, 603 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:35,240 and we saw that Goliath is taller than brother Dave, 604 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:36,360 and that Goliath is pretty tall. 605 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:39,080 He's this long, but God, man, 606 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:40,840 if I pulled that whole tape measure, 607 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:42,440 I'm never gonna get to the length of God. 608 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:43,920 As we learned this morning, 609 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,320 God is the one who formed everything, right? 610 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:47,920 God is above this. 611 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,320 He's above time, space, matter, 612 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,320 because that's how amazing our God is. 613 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,720 But our circumstances so often seem so big, 614 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,600 and we're like, but do you see what I'm looking at? 615 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:57,440 No, the weird question is, 616 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,160 do you see who my God is who's above everything? 617 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,160 And that's what David was focused on. 618 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,640 He's saying, this guy is coming out, 619 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:05,520 he's just some guy, 620 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,480 and he's spitting on the name of our God, 621 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,960 and you're just gonna sit back and do nothing? 622 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,040 Who's the character of a man who sought God? 623 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:14,920 And the people around him still didn't see God, 624 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:16,400 and they definitely still didn't listen to David. 625 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,400 We see that with David's outward appearance. 626 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,360 David has three big critiques that come from people. 627 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:23,280 That I think is very applicable. 628 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,560 We see the first and we'll hit these kind of fast, 629 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,120 but we see first in verses 28 through 30. 630 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:30,120 Let's look at it, let's read it. 631 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:34,280 In Eliab, his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men, 632 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,640 and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, 633 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,200 and he said, why came a style down hither? 634 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,120 And with whom has thou left those few sheep 635 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:42,360 in the wilderness? 636 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:45,400 I know thy pride in the naughtiness of thine heart. 637 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,760 For thou art come down, thy might see the battle. 638 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,280 What's so interesting is that David's oldest brother 639 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,640 is saying, dude, why are you here? 640 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,400 Like, this isn't any place for me, you're just a shepherd. 641 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:58,240 Don't you have sheep? 642 00:21:58,240 --> 00:21:59,160 You're supposed to be taken care of. 643 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:00,560 Who'd you leave them with? 644 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,880 And think about where Eliab's at, right? 645 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,400 Because he's first a scared, 646 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,400 he's feeling so little right now, right? 647 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,160 He's supposed to be a strong, manly warrior, 648 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:11,600 but he's like, man, I'm scared of Goliath. 649 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:12,880 So first that's one thing. 650 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,840 He's like, David, you're not some big, big hot shot, okay? 651 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,200 You're not as great as you think, right? 652 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,680 We're fine, we don't need you here, David. 653 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,480 But if you think even going back to our last message, 654 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,480 that Eliab's probably very upset right now with David, 655 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:28,960 because Eliab's the oldest, 656 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,120 and he was supposed to be the king when Samuel came. 657 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:32,560 Like, it was supposed to be him. 658 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:34,280 He's the one feeling really good about this 659 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,400 when Samuel comes, like, oh, this guy's annoying people. 660 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:37,720 I might be able to be the king. 661 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:38,800 This is gonna be great. 662 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,280 And then he gets past, he's like, 663 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,360 well, maybe it's the next oldest, the next oldest. 664 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:46,880 And it ends up just being the youngest, right? 665 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,440 It ends up just being David. 666 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:54,880 And the critique here is, David, you're just a shepherd. 667 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:56,800 What are you doing trying to be here with us men? 668 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,320 Find this battle? 669 00:22:58,320 --> 00:22:59,160 You're just a shepherd. 670 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:00,120 Go back to the sheep. 671 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:02,640 This is no place for you. 672 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,280 That's one, he's just a shepherd. 673 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:09,280 And then Saul looks at him and sees in verse 33, 674 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,400 he has a reaction to this. 675 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,840 Because David says, hey, I'll be the guy. 676 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:14,760 I'll go. 677 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:15,920 I will fight this Philistine. 678 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,200 Imagine how bold you have to be. 679 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,760 Now, David is probably about maybe 15 or so. 680 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,440 And if he was at average height 681 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,320 of a normal Israelite male during that time, 682 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:26,280 he was probably five, five. 683 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:27,440 Okay, that shifts a little bit. 684 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:28,880 There's no direct, direct evidence. 685 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:30,960 But he's like a normal guy. 686 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,800 But he's this young guy who comes to this camp 687 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,560 and he says, I can take him. 688 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:36,720 And Eliab says, no, you can't. 689 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,560 And Saul says, no, you can't. 690 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,640 You can't do this. 691 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,160 And we see in verse 13 what his direct response is to David. 692 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,560 Saul says to David, thou art not able to go 693 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,160 against this Philistine to fight him. 694 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:49,920 For thou art but a youth. 695 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,560 And he a man of war from his youth. 696 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:57,080 Like, David, you're not on the same level with this guy. 697 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:58,360 You're like 15. 698 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:00,160 This guy has killed people. 699 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,720 This guy is a warrior, has been trained from this. 700 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:03,560 Right? 701 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,040 Imagine if we invited, 702 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,640 because I have these direct connections, right? 703 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,400 If I invited Michael Jordan, okay? 704 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,240 I think Pastor Ben used Michael Jordan this morning. 705 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:14,080 We'll use it again. 706 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:14,920 All right? 707 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:16,200 If we invited Michael Jordan, okay? 708 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,040 To come play. 709 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:18,760 Okay, we used it as a youth event, right? 710 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,200 Okay, people would come for that. 711 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,800 Okay, but the twist is that Michael Jordan 712 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,960 who has been preparing you was practicing, 713 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:25,920 if you like Michael Jordan now, 714 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,800 you can't just negate that he practiced hard. 715 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:29,880 The guy was experienced. 716 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,400 He's been practicing from his youth. 717 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,360 He was ready to go at any time, right? 718 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:34,280 Probably still is. 719 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,360 And I say, all right, our youth event, 720 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:38,800 we're not only having Michael Jordan come, 721 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,680 but I'm gonna play Michael Jordan, all right? 722 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,040 And we're gonna have this whole event 723 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,200 where I get to just go four quarters with Michael Jordan. 724 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:47,760 And if you're listening right now, you're like, 725 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:48,600 no, you're not. 726 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,160 You're not gonna make that with Michael Jordan, right? 727 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:52,480 He's gonna crush you like 10 seconds. 728 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,280 You just told us a story about you playing basketball. 729 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:55,760 Like it's not gonna work, right? 730 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,480 You're an inexperienced guy. 731 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,640 What are you gonna do with Michael Jordan? 732 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:00,920 And this is what's happening now. 733 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,440 So I was looking and saying, 734 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,200 you're not gonna do this, David. 735 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,880 Like you're 15, you're a youth, 736 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:07,720 and you're just a shepherd, 737 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,000 as your brother already said, 738 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,760 how are you gonna go and do this? 739 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,440 I love David's response. 740 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,720 Because it's just so like, you get Saul, 741 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:18,200 he calls Saul out a little bit and look at verse 35. 742 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:19,600 Well, actually verse 34. 743 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:20,880 And David said unto Saul, 744 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,920 thou servant kept his father sheep, 745 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,400 and there came a lion and a bear 746 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,120 and took a lamb out of the flock. 747 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:28,400 And I went out after him and smote him 748 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,160 and delivered it out of his mouth. 749 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:31,240 And when he rose against me, 750 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,680 I caught him by his beard and smote him and slew him. 751 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,440 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear. 752 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,760 This uncircumcised philistine shall be as one of them, 753 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,960 seen hath defied the armies of the living God. 754 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:44,800 Did you catch that? 755 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,000 Like he killed a lion and a bear. 756 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,120 Anyone else killed a lion and a bear? 757 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:49,680 Like, I mean, this guy's 15. 758 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,800 And not only did he kill a lion and a bear, 759 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,240 he went up to the lion, 760 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,040 said, I want that lamb back, please. 761 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:56,800 I'm gonna take it out of your mouth, K. Lam, you go. 762 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,560 Now I'm grabbing the lion by the beard, 763 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,240 and then I'm just killing him. 764 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,000 It's like, man, I would not have chased down a lion 765 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:04,160 much less try to save the lamb. 766 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,240 If I was a shepherd, if I was gonna be honest, 767 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,520 and a lion came into the fold, 768 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,680 it'd be like, go ahead, lion, you take it, man, 769 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,720 that's yours, and I'm gonna be gone. 770 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,280 But David has this courage. 771 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:14,480 He says, no, I'm standing up for it, 772 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:15,800 I can fight back against this lion, 773 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,360 not just some nobody. 774 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:20,360 What's interesting is that he's saying, 775 00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:23,360 just because I'm a youth doesn't mean I'm useless. 776 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:27,320 Or just because I'm young doesn't mean I don't matter. 777 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,120 David shows by this past experience 778 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:32,120 that he knew what he was doing. 779 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:34,080 There was some experience here. 780 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,560 He went after and fought lions and bears. 781 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,480 And what he says, very interesting there, in verse 37, 782 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,680 David said, moreover, the Lord delivered me 783 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,920 out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear. 784 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,800 Man, he's gonna deliver me out of this Philistine. 785 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,520 And Saul said to David, go and Lord be with thee. 786 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,600 He says, why would this be any different? 787 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,160 I have a great God, I have a powerful God, 788 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,800 I have a sovereign God who's above all, 789 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:58,400 who got me out of the lion's mouth, 790 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,800 who let me conquer a lion, get the lamb out of the lion's mouth, 791 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:02,920 let me conquer a bear. 792 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,120 What's different about this Goliath? 793 00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:07,880 He's just a man, he's nothing compared to the God. 794 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,480 And Saul's still skeptical, right? 795 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,960 He says, okay, Lord be with thee, 796 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,800 but put on some armor, and maybe that'll help. 797 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,320 And David says, no, I'm not gonna use that, 798 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,400 it's clunky, I haven't tested with it before. 799 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,640 I'm gonna grab my staff, I'm gonna grab my five stones 800 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:25,360 and my sling, and I'm going out. 801 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:26,480 And this is where the face off comes. 802 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:27,520 This is where it gets exciting. 803 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:28,920 Okay, we see this in verse 41. 804 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,920 David approaches, and he's getting, imagine this, 805 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,760 we saw that picture of the Valley of Elo, okay, 806 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,880 picture this, use your imagination, right? 807 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,760 Now we have this small David guy coming out, 808 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,520 okay, he's not super, super tall, 809 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,360 like his normal average looking guy. 810 00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:45,800 And he have Goliath, and Goliath sees this 811 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,440 and has reaction, and Goliath doesn't mince his words either. 812 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:50,960 We see this in verse 42. 813 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,680 And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, 814 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,440 he disdained him. 815 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,280 For he was but a youth and ruddy and a fair countenance. 816 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,440 And the Philistine said to David, am I a dog 817 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,840 without comes to me with staves? 818 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,920 And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 819 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,520 The Philistine said to David, come to me 820 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,880 and I will give thy flesh into the fowls of the air 821 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,400 and to the beasts of the field. 822 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,960 Goliath's looking at him and says, this is a guy, 823 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,360 this is the best you got, this is, okay, 824 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:21,600 I'm going to destroy him, and then I'm gonna leave 825 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:22,840 his body out here and we're not gonna give him 826 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,040 a proper burial or anything. 827 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,560 And back in those times, that would have been 828 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,280 a really big insult, right? 829 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,240 To just leave your body out there with no respect, 830 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,000 no care, whatever, just leave it out there to rot. 831 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:32,840 That's what Goliath is saying. 832 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,680 I'm not only gonna kill you, I'm gonna disrespect you, 833 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,520 and I'm gonna disrespect your gods on top of that, 834 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,680 then I'm gonna go and slave your people. 835 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,160 You got nothing, David. 836 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,380 And he's feeling so big and powerful, 837 00:28:42,380 --> 00:28:45,880 and what we see is that he's looking at this David guy, 838 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,680 he's saying, that's just a nobody. 839 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,640 Where'd you come from? 840 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:51,800 Who's this guy? 841 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:52,840 Give me a real challenge. 842 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,880 And I know Goliath is thinking and is proud, 843 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,480 he's a champion, and he wants someone 844 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:57,760 that's gonna give him a challenge. 845 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,360 And he says, David, you don't have any challenge, 846 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:01,480 what are you gonna do? 847 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,880 What we see through all this is that according to E-Lab, 848 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,000 David's brother, David is just a shepherd. 849 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,680 According to Saul, David is just a youth. 850 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,820 According to Goliath, David is just a nobody. 851 00:29:14,820 --> 00:29:16,760 You know, we live in a world where people 852 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,520 are so quick to judge and discount, 853 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:24,020 but it's so easy, just be like, oh, you're just that. 854 00:29:24,020 --> 00:29:26,240 You just have that job, you're just a teacher, 855 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,920 you're just a teen, you're just a third grader. 856 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,240 You're just a nobody. 857 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:32,160 What power do you have? 858 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,480 What influence do you have? 859 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,320 What are you gonna do with your life? 860 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:40,000 But what's amazing is that, you know, 861 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,960 something's, I am just a nobody, 862 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,560 but I'm a nobody that Jesus loved and cared for 863 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,640 and wants to use mightily. 864 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,520 What changes is when you let yourself be set apart 865 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,020 and be used by God, you're not only just this, right? 866 00:29:53,020 --> 00:29:55,660 You are seen, cared for, and used by the mighty, 867 00:29:55,660 --> 00:29:57,400 loving God overall. 868 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,860 What you see is that when you no longer just try 869 00:29:59,860 --> 00:30:02,320 to define yourself and allow God to define you instead, 870 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,840 you see that he shapes us into something amazing. 871 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,680 You know that you have the God of angel armies on your side 872 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,440 more so that you're on his side, right? 873 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,800 That he's the greater one. 874 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,000 We see as these people are so quick to discount, David, 875 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,080 and say, you have no value because you don't look 876 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,240 like you're supposed to. 877 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:23,400 You're a youth, you're a shepherd, you're a nobody. 878 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,520 But God's in the business of using a lot of nobody 879 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,320 to do great things because God changes our identity 880 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,040 when we are saved and we believe on him. 881 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,760 And everyone here has an identity 882 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,280 and everyone here who's believed in Christ 883 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,160 knows that God doesn't see you as a nobody, 884 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,120 he sees you as somebody that he can shape 885 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:38,520 and grow into his image. 886 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,800 Whether you're the youngest here, probably over here, 887 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,600 or whether you're the oldest, God sees you 888 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:45,600 and you can do great things, but it's not by your power, 889 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:46,800 it's by him. 890 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,560 It's by God defining you. 891 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:49,960 Okay, so let's step back, let's see. 892 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:51,160 Here with that next slide. 893 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,480 We got David and Goliath. 894 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:54,880 Let's compare these, okay? 895 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,960 David we have as an Israelite shepherd, 896 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,100 Goliath is a Philistine warrior. 897 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:01,520 David is a teenager. 898 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,580 Goliath is a nine foot champion. 899 00:31:04,580 --> 00:31:06,440 David has no armor going out. 900 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,560 Goliath has all sorts of armor and a heavy armor. 901 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:10,600 Like nothing was gonna appear. 902 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,680 So he was trying to get out every possible scenario, right? 903 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,280 He was ready for if an archer came, 904 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:17,800 he was ready for if an infantry man came, 905 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,520 he said, nobody's gonna stop me. 906 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,840 I got the armor, I got a shield bearer right here. 907 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:23,720 I'm not even alone, I have a guy that can take 908 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,280 a blow for me if I want him to. 909 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,440 David comes and he carries out a staff 910 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,200 and five stones and a sling, 911 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,840 and what Goliath has is a sword, spear, and javelin. 912 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,040 Let's take a pause, okay? 913 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:36,480 Because sometimes we're like, 914 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,160 oh, David, you didn't really bring a lot there, okay? 915 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:39,240 This is not a sling shot. 916 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:40,440 This is the random thing I found in the youth room, 917 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:41,760 but it'll work, all right? 918 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,440 But this sling shot here would have been 919 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,480 kind of similar to this in some ways of that. 920 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,120 He would get a rock as he got from the book that was nearby 921 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,280 and he was a professional with the sling shot. 922 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,960 Like it wasn't just some random guy 923 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:55,920 with the random sling shot. 924 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,360 Like if you gave me a sling shot, I'm not gonna hit anything. 925 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,280 This guy could target anything he needed to. 926 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,720 He knew how to use it. 927 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,760 Those things would fly and they would penetrate 928 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:06,600 and they would hurt. 929 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:07,880 And what he would do is he put the rock 930 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,040 and he'd get it in at the perfect measure 931 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:12,960 and then he would just start twirling, twirling, 932 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,560 twirling, twirling, twirling, twirling, 933 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,160 and it makes that really cool noise where it's like, 934 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,000 whisping and then he'd let it go and that rock would fly. 935 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,640 And it would hit usually what he wanted to 936 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,440 because he's not, again, just some guy. 937 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,600 He's a guy that's been using, he's a guy that's experienced, 938 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,840 too, so just wanna add that little idea there 939 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,560 that this sling was a powerful weapon, right? 940 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,960 But still, Goliath, you got a sword, 941 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,260 you got a spear, you have a javelin. 942 00:32:37,260 --> 00:32:39,360 But we see that David was defending 943 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,280 the armies of the living God 944 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,960 and Goliath was defying. 945 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:45,680 No, it really sets David apart here 946 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,960 because you look at this and look at these stats, right? 947 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,520 If Goliath seems bigger, he is bigger than David. 948 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,880 But what set David apart was this very last point, 949 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,000 that David was relying on the power of God 950 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,560 and that Goliath was relying on his own strength 951 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:04,560 and own ability, that David had this upward trust 952 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:10,160 in his God, in his great God who was above all. 953 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,360 We see that David was above, 954 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:13,960 not because he was some great guy, 955 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,440 but because he had a God who was above 956 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:16,640 who was strengthening him. 957 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,160 And I hope that you're getting this point, 958 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,320 I've said it a few times and I wanna keep saying it, 959 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,520 is that it's all God working here. 960 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:27,360 And it's that David who had upward trust in his God. 961 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,200 David feared God over man. 962 00:33:31,060 --> 00:33:33,400 We see this in verse 45. 963 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:34,960 Then David said to the Philistine, 964 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,240 thou comest to me with the sword, 965 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,000 in with the spear and with the shield. 966 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,240 But I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, 967 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:47,680 the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. 968 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,960 This day the Lord will deliver thee into my hand 969 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:54,080 and I will smite thee and take thy head from thee. 970 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,720 And I will give the carcasses of the hosts 971 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,760 of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air 972 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,200 and to the wild beasts of the earth, 973 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,800 that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. 974 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,000 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord 975 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,120 will save us not with the sword and spear, 976 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,280 for the battle is the Lord's and he will give you 977 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:13,840 into our hands. 978 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,520 David's looking at Goliath saying, 979 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,280 yep, you have a sword and you have a shield 980 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,760 and you have a few other weapons, great job, it's good. 981 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,760 I come in the name of the living God who is above all. 982 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,240 I come in the name of the Lord of hosts 983 00:34:27,240 --> 00:34:29,040 who's above, has heavenly armies 984 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,840 and has this army of Israel that he's given victory 985 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,000 after victory. 986 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,920 Goliath, you are the underdog, you are truly outmatched. 987 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,720 There's no way you're gonna win. 988 00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:39,720 That's what he's saying. 989 00:34:39,720 --> 00:34:41,120 Because Goliath is talking this really big game 990 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,720 but all that David needs to say is, yeah, I have God 991 00:34:44,720 --> 00:34:47,480 who I trust in who gives me strength. 992 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:48,840 And he challenges Goliath. 993 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,160 I mean, think about this. 994 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,040 This is a 15 year old boy talking to this champion 995 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:54,320 and he's not backing down 996 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,920 because he had confidence in someone that was greater. 997 00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,800 And he says, the Lord will win in verse 46. 998 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,840 And he says, I will kill you 999 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,440 and then I will cut off your head 1000 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,240 and I will leave you here to rot. 1001 00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:07,680 That's a little insulting. 1002 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:08,960 But right for David, 1003 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,000 because he's making the challenge, 1004 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,480 he's making the point, he's confident. 1005 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,000 He's not backing down here. 1006 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,880 He's not just intimidated because Goliath was a bully. 1007 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:17,480 Like Goliath wanted everything possible 1008 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,400 to be able to crush David down. 1009 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,160 But we see that David's not backing down 1010 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,000 because he knew his God wasn't going to back down. 1011 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,000 He knew his God, the God was above all. 1012 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,680 And the finale closes. 1013 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:29,520 The finale comes. 1014 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,440 David runs closer, puts the stone in a sling 1015 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,440 that he's got, he's prepared. 1016 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,160 He goes and he twirls it and he twirls it 1017 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,000 and he twirls it. 1018 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:38,840 And you know what happens? 1019 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:39,720 It flies. 1020 00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:41,560 And it hits him like right in the place 1021 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:42,800 that needed to hit Goliath. 1022 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,000 You know, I don't know if that immediately killed Goliath 1023 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:45,840 or not. 1024 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:46,760 I don't know if that just knocked him out. 1025 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,080 I know it did some damage though 1026 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,120 because it's just knocked down this big guy. 1027 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,120 And I love that because it's just a small little rock. 1028 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,120 That's all God needed. 1029 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:56,080 Because God was above all. 1030 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,120 There was no question if it was going to hit or not. 1031 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:00,320 God had it all under control. 1032 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,240 It flies, knocks Goliath down and David runs over immediately. 1033 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:05,600 He says, oh, I don't have a sword, 1034 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,200 but I'll use Goliath's sword and then chops off his head. 1035 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,800 And I was kind of like, oh, okay. 1036 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,920 But he's making this point. 1037 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,840 He's saying, you know, this guy was nothing. 1038 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,840 Where's Goliath's talk now? 1039 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,320 Where's his power now? 1040 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:21,600 What is he doing now? 1041 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,920 You know, David properly feared God alone. 1042 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:28,960 His faith gave the courage to step forward 1043 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,080 and proclaim God's name. 1044 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,360 These Philistines, they book it out and they're gone. 1045 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,880 They're like, we've just lost our biggest guy. 1046 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,040 I don't know what this guy did, 1047 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,200 but he can slow slingshots and hit people. 1048 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:39,040 We're running. 1049 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,040 And there's like, say, we won. 1050 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:41,880 We won. 1051 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,200 And they run and they go right after the Philistines. 1052 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,480 And David is rewarded plentifully for that, 1053 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,200 bountifully for that. 1054 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:52,280 But let's bring this to us. 1055 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,280 Okay, so what does this mean for us now? 1056 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,360 Because all of you, when I was telling that story, 1057 00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,920 you know the story of David and Goliath. 1058 00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:02,040 But you also know that you're not an Israel. 1059 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,680 You also know that you're not David 1060 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,680 and you also know that you're not facing the Goliath. 1061 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,600 What I believe is a legitimate application 1062 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:13,320 is that we do have giant problems in our lives. 1063 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,120 There are things that are hard. 1064 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:16,040 There are things that are scary. 1065 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:17,920 There are things that are intimidating. 1066 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:20,760 And it's just, you can think for a moment, 1067 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,400 you can think of something that's scary. 1068 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:24,800 Maybe you're manlier than me, 1069 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,040 but there are things that are scary in life. 1070 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,800 It could be an emotional problem, it could be a physical problem, 1071 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,560 it could be financial, it could be relational, 1072 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,920 it could be spiritual, it could be mental, 1073 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,360 it could be worry, it could be depression, 1074 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,080 it could be enemies, it could be addiction, 1075 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,280 it could be stress, there are things that are hard. 1076 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:43,920 And what happens is, is that our thoughts 1077 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,720 become so filled with them, 1078 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:47,640 and that's the only thing we can focus on. 1079 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,560 And then we say, I don't wanna deal with that problem, 1080 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,800 so I'm either just gonna try to hide from it, 1081 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:53,560 or I'm trying to get others to deal with it, 1082 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:54,560 as Saul was doing. 1083 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:58,080 He don't want anything to do with this. 1084 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,840 And hard challenges are not something 1085 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:03,560 we necessarily wanna face, but they're there. 1086 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,840 And it's a lot easier to try to hide from them, 1087 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,320 but we peek our head right out and their problems 1088 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,320 are still there and they're growing, and we're scared. 1089 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,240 Like, how are we supposed to deal with this? 1090 00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:16,840 You know, this typical devotional application. 1091 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,920 And this, I'll read it to you. 1092 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,680 If you look at the typical everyday David and Goliath story, 1093 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:26,440 what they'll say is sometimes God puts a Goliath in your life 1094 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,560 for you to find the David within you. 1095 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,400 And what this is saying is that you have a giant, 1096 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:32,760 and you need to defeat it. 1097 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:37,000 Search within you, and Goliath stands no match. 1098 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,880 I don't like that, because what that's saying is, 1099 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,320 is that I have to find the power within me, 1100 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,240 and if I can do it and get big enough, and strong enough, 1101 00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:50,760 and courageous enough, then I can face my giant. 1102 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,880 False, if you go out and try to face all your giants, 1103 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,280 by yourself, you will get squashed like a bug. 1104 00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,440 And you will feel discouraged, you will feel hopeless, 1105 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,160 and you will say, why am I failing even more now? 1106 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,040 If David ran out and faced Goliath saying, 1107 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,920 look how amazing I am, I am going to be king, 1108 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:09,440 it's all you have, nothing, I got this. 1109 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,960 David would have been squashed and killed. 1110 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,440 I have no doubt. 1111 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,360 Why? Because that's focusing on the fear of man 1112 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:16,720 and what I can do. 1113 00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:19,360 Let me be very clear, you can do nothing 1114 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,720 whether fight a giant or a liver religious life 1115 00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:23,040 without God. 1116 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,800 Saying I can be David, I can muster up the strength, 1117 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,600 and I can fight my giants, misses the point entirely. 1118 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,040 Because that leaves us feeling like we have to do it all, 1119 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:35,100 and we can't. 1120 00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:36,800 If you go out after this and say, 1121 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,180 David beat his giant, and so can I, 1122 00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:41,200 you're gonna fail and be discouraged 1123 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:42,760 and back to square one. 1124 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,240 You say, I just need to defeat this giant, 1125 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:47,480 this one giant, and everything will be okay. 1126 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,880 What we see actually in David's life is he defeated 1127 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,880 that giant and everything was not okay. 1128 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,680 He faced more and more giants afterwards. 1129 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:55,960 And there was tension, there was heartbreak 1130 00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,400 in David's life as will show. 1131 00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,520 But you'll see when David faced those different giants 1132 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:03,040 in his life, what caused the difference 1133 00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,800 was when he was trusting in his God to get him through. 1134 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,360 What got him through, what gave him victory. 1135 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:09,640 We'll look at verse 47. 1136 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:12,760 And all this assembly shall know 1137 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,960 that the Lord saveeth not with sword and spear, 1138 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,120 for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you 1139 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:19,180 into our hands. 1140 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,400 What's really important about that, 1141 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,920 that we have to pick out is the battle is the Lord's. 1142 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,400 And I'm not saying that this removes us our responsibility, 1143 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,120 I'm not saying it's a bad thing to try to aspire to be, 1144 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,320 have David like qualities. 1145 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,480 What I am saying is don't leave out the main point, 1146 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,480 that the battle is the Lord's. 1147 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:40,880 And it's the Lord who gives us strength. 1148 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,480 This battle with Goliath, the Lord brought the victory. 1149 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,680 David won the victory because God brought it to him. 1150 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,440 You know, I believe this story has a beautiful connection 1151 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,200 to the gospel really. 1152 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,160 Because instead of placing myself as David, 1153 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,200 let me place the son of David there, place Christ there. 1154 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,400 Say what Christ did is he defeated the biggest giant possible, 1155 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,360 the giant of sin and death. 1156 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,640 If I was gonna be anybody, I was on the side of the giant. 1157 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:06,920 I was the sinful person. 1158 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,760 There was this giant that was keeping away 1159 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:10,960 from having any peace in my life whatsoever. 1160 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:12,840 And the only one who could defeat it, 1161 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,560 the only one who wanted to defeat it, 1162 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,400 the only one who cared enough about me to defeat it 1163 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,120 was Christ. 1164 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:19,840 And Christ courageously came, 1165 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,080 having faith in his father's sovereignty 1166 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,440 and died on the cross for you and me. 1167 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,840 And what I see is that Goliath has been defeated, 1168 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,520 both in David's story and in our life, 1169 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,040 of the sin and death that seems so insurmountable. 1170 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:36,200 But Christ defeated it. 1171 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,560 We see in 1 Corinthians 15, 55 to 57. 1172 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:43,960 Oh death, where is your victory? 1173 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:46,520 Oh death, where is your sting? 1174 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:47,920 The sting of death is sin. 1175 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,480 The power of sin is the law. 1176 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:50,880 But thanks be to God, 1177 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,840 who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1178 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,120 Victory in Jesus, my savior forever, 1179 00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:01,360 who bought me and sought me with his redeeming blood. 1180 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,640 I find victory because of him. 1181 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:04,960 And these giants that I face, 1182 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:06,880 they are nothing because I serve a great God 1183 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,560 who's bigger than all of those. 1184 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,920 That's what we focus on. 1185 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,120 The battle belongs to the Lord. 1186 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:16,960 And the war has already been won. 1187 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,320 You have battles in your life. 1188 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,280 But never forget that the Lord won the war. 1189 00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:22,480 You have victory. 1190 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,400 Nothing can ever take that victory away from you 1191 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,760 when you believe on Christ and believe in him. 1192 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,160 And you know, I don't always feel as though the war is won. 1193 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:30,800 What about the battle right here, my house? 1194 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:32,480 Like it's hard. 1195 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:33,320 What we gotta make sure we do 1196 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,840 is we don't focus on the fear of man 1197 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:39,240 that we start fearing God and make God big, 1198 00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:41,200 make God greater. 1199 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,320 You know, our job as pastors 1200 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,560 is not to just give you motivational help, right? 1201 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,560 That's not the big goal. 1202 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,560 Our job is not to just give you necessarily a pep talk 1203 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,400 so everyone feels more necessarily encouraged. 1204 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:52,840 I want you to feel encouraged when you leave, of course. 1205 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:53,960 But that's not my end goal. 1206 00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:57,760 My goal, what I want you to believe with is Christ. 1207 00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,040 See that Christ is the only way, 1208 00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:00,600 and I believe you have giants that seem right 1209 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,800 at your doorstep that are intimidating, 1210 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,360 that are insulting, that are insurmountable. 1211 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,200 And I can't give you a five step program 1212 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,520 based on the five stones. 1213 00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,680 I can't do that, but what I can do is point you to Christ 1214 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,320 and hope and help to stand before the giant 1215 00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:19,120 because it is nothing before my God, the God. 1216 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:20,920 So what I encourage you to do, 1217 00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:22,320 what I encourage myself to do, 1218 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,000 instead of trying to hide from my problems, 1219 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,480 instead of trying to fight them on my own, 1220 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,520 give your giants to the one, the one, the God. 1221 00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:31,920 The battle is his. 1222 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,400 He will give you all you need 1223 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,200 because he already conquers the giants of sin and death. 1224 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:37,760 And all I need to do is, we learned this morning, 1225 00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:40,240 is have faith, have faith in him 1226 00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:41,160 and know that he is working, 1227 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,640 that he will carry me through. 1228 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:45,320 And if you're unsaved here tonight, 1229 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:46,680 you haven't believed in what Christ has done. 1230 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,720 If you haven't believed in what Jesus has done on the cross, 1231 00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:51,480 how he came down and lived a perfect life, 1232 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,160 was killed on a cross, 1233 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:55,440 that you could have everlasting life. 1234 00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,920 And then rose again from the dead, conquering sin and death. 1235 00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:02,840 So I can have peace forevermore, just surrender. 1236 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:04,760 Know that he defeats those giants of sin and death 1237 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:05,800 that are just looming. 1238 00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:08,920 That I can have joy in hoping him. 1239 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:10,360 You know, this is a great story. 1240 00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:11,720 It's got great action. 1241 00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:12,560 It's got a great guy. 1242 00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:14,400 Dave is a pretty great guy. 1243 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,040 But it's got a greater God, D God, 1244 00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,200 who's greater than us, greater than our giants. 1245 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,480 And I know that the battle is the Lord's. 1246 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:24,760 So I want you to say with me, okay? 1247 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,040 I want you to say the battle is Lord's. 1248 00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:26,960 Ready? Go. 1249 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,160 All right, let's pray. 1250 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:31,480 All right.