1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,320 I've entitled the message, Talking to Your Giants. 2 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:22,840 Now I've shared this story doing children's ministry and camps and vacation Bible schools 3 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:24,880 for 30 years. 4 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,400 I've shared this story. 5 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:34,480 Today's probably the first time that I've actually preached a message from this story 6 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:35,480 to grownups. 7 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:38,800 Look to the person beside you and say, am I a grownup? 8 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,160 I thought I was just kidding. 9 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:44,680 We're going to be looking at the story of David and Goliath. 10 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:46,720 Has anyone ever heard that story before? 11 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,480 Has anyone ever heard it? 12 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:53,920 You know, most of the time when we look at the story of David and Goliath, we talk about 13 00:00:53,920 --> 00:01:02,240 how David is just a young boy, probably 14 to 17 range somewhere in there. 14 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:09,200 We talk about the giant who could not walk under that basketball net without his head 15 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:10,200 hitting it. 16 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,320 It's a pretty tall dude, right? 17 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:14,680 He was like nine feet tall. 18 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,160 We talk about how big the giant is. 19 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:23,680 We talk about how young and how inexperienced of being a warrior that David was. 20 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:28,520 We talk about a sling and a stone. 21 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,680 But today we're going to focus on something different in the story. 22 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,280 We're going to focus on the words. 23 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,520 Everybody say the words. 24 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:45,680 And I really want us to pay attention to it because I believe we can learn something by 25 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,580 looking at the words that were said. 26 00:01:49,580 --> 00:01:51,920 So we're going to start out by reading 1 Samuel 17. 27 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,320 Yeah, I'm going to read like 47 verses. 28 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:56,320 That's a lot of verses. 29 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,400 Look to the person beside you and say that's a lot of verses. 30 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,440 Most people when they talk about David and Goliath, they don't actually read the Bible. 31 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:11,600 They just tell the story, which is what I would do, you know, in front of, I don't know, 32 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:17,320 900 children or in front of 100 children or in front of five children. 33 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:23,040 I just I would tell the story. 34 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,960 How many of you know it's important to hear the word of God? 35 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:31,960 If we're going to have faith, we have to hear the word of God because faith comes by hearing 36 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,480 and hearing by the word. 37 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:40,360 First Samuel 17, starting verse three, the Philistine and Israelite armies faced each 38 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:47,200 other on opposite hills with the valley between them. 39 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:52,960 Then Goliath, a Philistine champion from Gath, came out of the Philistine ranks to face the 40 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:55,200 forces of Israel. 41 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,280 He was over nine feet tall. 42 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:05,140 He wore a bronze helmet and his bronze coat of mail weighed 125 pounds. 43 00:03:05,140 --> 00:03:12,320 He also wore bronze leg armor and carried a bronze javelin on his shoulder. 44 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:19,760 The shaft of his spear was very heavy and thick as a weaver's beam tipped with an iron 45 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:24,240 spearhead that weighed 15 pounds. 46 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:30,000 Now be hard enough to throw something that weighed 15 pounds and the actual shaft of 47 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,400 the spear was more than that. 48 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:38,560 His armor barrier walked ahead of him carrying a shield. 49 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,560 Goliath stood and shouted a taunt across to the Israelites. 50 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,360 Why are you all coming out to fight? 51 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:46,360 He called. 52 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:53,360 I am the Philistine champion, but you are only the servants of Saul. 53 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,040 Choose one man to come down here and fight me. 54 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:01,280 Everybody say words of the giant. 55 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:08,160 If he kills me, then we will be your slaves, but if I kill him, you will be our slaves. 56 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:12,920 I defy the armies of Israel today. 57 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,520 Send me a man who will fight me. 58 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:18,960 Words of the giant. 59 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:23,240 When Saul and the Israelites heard this, they were terrified. 60 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,140 Everybody say terrified. 61 00:04:25,140 --> 00:04:26,960 And deeply shaken. 62 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:29,200 Everybody say deeply shaken. 63 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:39,120 So the giant spoke and everyone was overcome with fear from the words of the giant. 64 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:46,240 Let that settle in because it's going to mean more than just a little bit. 65 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:57,440 When the giant spoke, hundreds, maybe even thousands of men even saw the king who stood 66 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:04,520 a head tall, head above everyone else, the Bible tells us. 67 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:10,560 So he could set his chin on every man's head that's out there. 68 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,840 He was overcome with fear. 69 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:15,920 Now let's talk about David. 70 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:21,200 Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephraite from Bethlehem in the land of 71 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,480 Judah. 72 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:28,040 Jesse was an old man at this time and he had eight sons. 73 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:35,720 Jesse's three oldest sons, Eliab, Abinadab, and Shimea. 74 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:36,720 You said it. 75 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:42,920 That's why I cut out verses one and two. 76 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,600 You tell me how to pronounce the names of those things. 77 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:56,440 Anyway, Jesse's three oldest sons had already joined Saul's army to fight the Philistines. 78 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,640 David was the youngest son. 79 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:04,320 David's three oldest brothers stayed with Saul's army, but David went back and forth 80 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,880 so he could help his father with the sheep in Bethlehem. 81 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:16,320 I want to remind you at this point that David has already been anointed by God by the prophet 82 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:17,720 Samuel. 83 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:23,280 He's already been anointed as the next king of God's people. 84 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:28,560 So keep that in mind. 85 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,680 For 40 days, everybody say 40 days. 86 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,320 A lot of times when we look at this story, we think it might have happened a day or two, 87 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,040 but no, this had gone on for 40 days. 88 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:45,600 They were standing, God's army on one hill, the Philistines on the other hill for 40 days. 89 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:52,320 And Eliath walked out and issued this challenge every morning and evening. 90 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,720 So he did it twice a day. 91 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:59,080 The Philistine champion strutted in front of the Israelite army. 92 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:04,500 I guess if you're nine feet tall, you can do a lot of strutting, right? 93 00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:11,640 One day, Jesse said to David, take this basket of roasted grain and these 10 loaves of bread, 94 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:18,120 share them quickly to your brothers and give these 10 cuts of cheese to their captain. 95 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:24,520 See how your brothers are getting along and bring back a report on how they're doing. 96 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:30,360 David's brothers were with Saul and the Israelite army at the valley of Elah fighting against 97 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,120 the Philistines. 98 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:37,920 No fighting yet, but it was a standoff. 99 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:42,760 So David left his sheep with another shepherd and set out early the next morning with the 100 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:46,640 gifts as Jesse had directed him. 101 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:51,600 He arrived at the camp just as the Israelite army was leaving for the battlefield with 102 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,480 shouts and battle cries. 103 00:07:55,480 --> 00:08:01,880 Soon the Israelite and Philistine forces stood facing each other, army against army. 104 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:06,480 David left his things with the keeper of supplies and hurried out to the ranks to greet his 105 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,800 brothers as he was talking with them. 106 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:15,320 Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath came out from the Philistine ranks. 107 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:21,440 Then David heard him shout his usual taunt to the army of Israel. 108 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:26,160 It's not listed again, but I want to give you the words of the giant again. 109 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:32,840 I'm the Philistine champion, but you're only servants of Saul. 110 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,520 Choose one man to come down here and fight me. 111 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:41,480 If he kills me, then we will be your slaves, but if I kill him, you will be our slaves. 112 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:46,440 I defy the armies of Israel today. 113 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,880 Send me a man who will fight me. 114 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:52,480 David heard this for the first time. 115 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,960 Everybody say first time. 116 00:08:54,960 --> 00:09:00,440 His response was a little bit different. 117 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:05,640 Even though he's the youngest one there hearing it, his response was a little different. 118 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:13,480 Remember, he knew that God had anointed him the king of Israel, and now Israel is being 119 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,200 defied. 120 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:19,440 He's not actively the king yet, but as far as God's concerned, he's been anointed the 121 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:27,640 future king, and now this giant is speaking against his future. 122 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:34,440 As soon as the Israelite army saw him, they began to run away. 123 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:45,360 It says they went out shouting, but now when the giant talks to them, they run away in 124 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,280 fear and fright. 125 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:50,520 Have you seen the giant? 126 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:55,920 The men I asked? 127 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,280 When the giant spoke, they were overcome with fear. 128 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:04,200 They ran away and spoke words of defeat. 129 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:08,120 That was their response when the giant spoke. 130 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:14,880 Look to the person beside you and say, I hope you listen. 131 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,760 Hope you listen. 132 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:19,760 Have you seen the giant? 133 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:20,760 The men ask? 134 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,560 He comes out each day to defy Israel. 135 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:28,240 The king has offered a huge reward to anyone who kills him. 136 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:33,440 He will give that man one of his daughters for a wife, and the man's entire family will 137 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,160 be exempted from paying taxes. 138 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:40,120 It's a nice gift. 139 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:48,480 Who looks at their stub in January and says, I paid a lot of taxes. 140 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,200 So David asks the soldier standing nearby. 141 00:10:52,200 --> 00:11:00,000 Now what will a man get for killing this Philistine and ending his defiance of Israel? 142 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,560 Who is this pagan Philistine? 143 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:06,280 Who is this anyway? 144 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:08,000 He's a pagan. 145 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,340 We're God's people. 146 00:11:11,340 --> 00:11:18,820 He just worships a big stone statue of Dagon. 147 00:11:18,820 --> 00:11:23,200 We have a living God. 148 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:27,280 Who does this pagan Philistine think he is anyway? 149 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:31,200 I mean, why isn't somebody doing something? 150 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,680 Why are we allowing him to defy the armies of the living God? 151 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:36,680 Why is everybody scared? 152 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:39,800 Why is everybody running? 153 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:47,960 You're acting like you don't even have a God. 154 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:51,040 The giant spoke. 155 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,000 David didn't run away in fear. 156 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,600 No David began to speak against the giant. 157 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:05,800 Those are his first words, right? 158 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:07,960 And these men gave David the same reply. 159 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,560 They said, yes, that is the reward for killing him. 160 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:16,780 But when David's oldest brother, Eliab, heard David talking to the men, he was angry. 161 00:12:16,780 --> 00:12:21,440 What are you doing around here anyway? 162 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:25,920 What about those few sheep you're supposed to be taken care of? 163 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:27,840 I know about your pride and deceit. 164 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:31,840 Well, let's get this straight. 165 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:39,720 He knew that he was standing in line one day and the prophet looked at him and looked up 166 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:47,880 to God and said, surely, Eliab is the one who's going to be the king. 167 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,560 But God said, no, he's not the one. 168 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:52,760 Everybody say he's not the one. 169 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:58,880 And he went down from the oldest to finally getting to David, the youngest, and God said 170 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,880 he's the one. 171 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:13,240 Because David saw that God saw that David was a man after his own heart. 172 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:17,480 What about those few sheep you're supposed to be taken care of? 173 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:18,920 I know about your pride and deceit. 174 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:24,800 Well, he's just saying, I know that you were an anointed king and I wasn't. 175 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,480 I'm still mad about it. 176 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,440 You just want to see the battle. 177 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:34,440 What have I done now? 178 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:35,440 David replied. 179 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:39,680 I was only asking a question. 180 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:45,440 He walked over to some others and asked them the same thing and received the same answer. 181 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:54,600 Then David's question was reported to King Saul and the king sent for David. 182 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:56,720 Here's what David said to the king. 183 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:01,480 Everybody say David said this. 184 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:04,400 Don't worry about this, Philistine. 185 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:09,240 David told Saul, I'll go fight him. 186 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:10,240 What does the king say? 187 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,080 Everybody say words. 188 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:17,600 Don't be ridiculous. 189 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:22,720 There's no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win. 190 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:29,760 You're only a boy and he's been a man of war since his youth. 191 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:32,800 David hadn't lost a fight since third grade. 192 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:33,800 I'm sorry. 193 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:40,280 Goliath hadn't lost a fight since the third grade is what I meant to say. 194 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:46,720 He was big as the biggest men when he was just a boy. 195 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:52,040 Don't be ridiculous, David. 196 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:55,920 Don't be persistent. 197 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,880 I've been taking care of my father's sheep and goats. 198 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:06,600 When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock, I go after it with a club 199 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,840 and rescue the lamb from his mouth. 200 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:19,960 If that animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death. 201 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:25,120 I have done this to both lions and bears. 202 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:29,920 And I'll do it to this pagan Philistine too. 203 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:38,000 For he has defied the armies of the living God. 204 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:45,960 The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear, who rescued him? 205 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,280 Who rescued him? 206 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:54,000 The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from 207 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,640 this Philistine. 208 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:08,840 Listen, even when his brother and King Saul spoke against David, he continued to speak 209 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,560 words of victory and faith. 210 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:16,200 He continued. 211 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:19,840 Look to the person beside you and say, remember that. 212 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:21,480 Saul finally consented. 213 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:25,840 I mean, after all, no one else is volunteering to fight. 214 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:30,040 We've been out here 40 days listening to the same threats every day. 215 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:32,320 No one else has stood up. 216 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:36,120 All right, go ahead, he said. 217 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,160 And may the Lord be with you. 218 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:43,520 Then Saul gave David his own armor, a bronze helmet and a coat of mail. 219 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:49,000 David put it on, strapped the sword over it, took a step or two to see what it was like, 220 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,680 for he had never worn such things before. 221 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,440 I can't go in these, he protested. 222 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,880 I'm not used to them. 223 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,000 So David took them off again. 224 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:06,840 He picked up five smooth stones from a string and put them into his shepherd's bag. 225 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:12,840 Then armed with only his shepherd's staff and a sling, he started across the valley 226 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:16,760 to fight the Philistine. 227 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:23,040 Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer ahead of him, sneering in contempt at 228 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,360 this ruddy faced boy. 229 00:17:26,360 --> 00:17:30,840 Am I a dog? 230 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:35,680 That you come at me with a stick? 231 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:40,600 And he cursed David by the names of his gods. 232 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:50,160 Do you think I am a dog? 233 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:54,600 Then he said this to David, everybody say the Giants words. 234 00:17:54,600 --> 00:18:04,200 Come over here and I'll give your flesh to the buzzards and the possums. 235 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,680 That's what he eats dead stuff, right? 236 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:14,080 Come over here and I'll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals, Goliath yelled. 237 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:20,120 The Giant spoke to David. 238 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:22,560 How will David respond? 239 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:28,920 I don't know. 240 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,440 You're a lot bigger than you, you know, now that I'm getting close to you, you're a lot 241 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:39,280 bigger than you look when I was up on the hill. 242 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:41,880 I mean, look at that sword. 243 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,920 It's as tall as I am. 244 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:48,080 I don't know. 245 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:49,680 I better run back. 246 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:57,400 I better run back home to the sheep. 247 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:04,280 This guy is huge. 248 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,640 He didn't even have to use a sword to kill me. 249 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:13,040 How's David going to respond? 250 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:15,680 Tell you one thing, he didn't respond like that. 251 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:21,880 Here's what David said to the Giant who was talking trash to him. 252 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:25,280 I like to call this a trash talking time in the Bible. 253 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:31,600 Here's the first record of trash talking right here. 254 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:39,160 David replied to the Philistine, you come to me with a sword and a spear and a javelin. 255 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:43,160 Notice that he didn't say, but I come at you with a shepherd staff and a sling. 256 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,660 That's not what he said. 257 00:19:45,660 --> 00:19:50,200 You come at me with a sword, a spear and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of 258 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,200 the Lord of Heaven's armies. 259 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:59,600 The God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defiled. 260 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,480 Today everybody say today. 261 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:06,960 Today the Lord will conquer you. 262 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:08,960 God's going to conquer you. 263 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:14,680 And I'll kill you and cut off your head. 264 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:20,240 And then I will give the dead bodies of all those men on the hill behind you. 265 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:25,000 I want to give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and the wild animals. 266 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:30,960 You'll see who gets eaten by the buzzards and possums. 267 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:38,640 Listen, he says, I'm going to do this and here's what's going to happen. 268 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:55,200 The whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. 269 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,200 Just let that sit there. 270 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:03,320 Let it sit there a minute. 271 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:21,280 Do you know that when God's people are victorious, the world knows that there's a God? 272 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:26,120 Everyone assembled here will know that the Lord rescues his people. 273 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:30,120 But not with sword and spear. 274 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:35,920 This is the Lord's battle and he will give you to us. 275 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:43,080 But say David's words. 276 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:50,480 As Goliath moved closer to attack, David ran quickly out to meet him. 277 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,720 Most time we don't get this picture. 278 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,080 I mean, David's running at the giant. 279 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:57,600 He's not running away from the giant. 280 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,280 He's not hiding from the giant. 281 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,040 He's running after the giant. 282 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:03,720 Running to meet him. 283 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,680 Reaching into his shepherd's bag and taking out a stone, he hurled it with his sling, 284 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,480 hit the philistine in the forehead. 285 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,040 The stone sank in. 286 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:15,440 Goliath stumbled and fell face down on the ground. 287 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:23,520 So David triumphed over the philistine with only a sling and a stone for he had no sword. 288 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:30,920 So he took Goliath's sword and chopped Goliath's head off with his own sword. 289 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,880 And then he took his head home with him. 290 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,680 Does anybody want to get a head in life? 291 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:53,000 David just got a head in life. 292 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,960 Who's heard that story? 293 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,920 I'm here today to tell you that your words are important. 294 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:07,840 The words that come out of your mouth are important. 295 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,840 We need to remember that our words are important. 296 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:14,120 I'm not just making this up. 297 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:17,360 This is all in the Bible. 298 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:20,000 Let's look at some verses. 299 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:28,200 Well, here's what David said and then Paul quoted David even in the New Testament. 300 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:35,960 Saint Corinthians 4.13 where Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit says this, 301 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,160 we have the same kind of faith, everybody say faith. 302 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,180 We have the same kind of faith that David had. 303 00:23:43,180 --> 00:23:55,820 And he said, I believed in God so I spoke. 304 00:23:55,820 --> 00:24:02,440 I believed in God so I spoke. 305 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:07,600 See your words are important. 306 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,920 He didn't say I believed in God so I thought about it. 307 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:15,760 He didn't say I believed in God and I meditated on it even though meditating on it is a good 308 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,760 thing. 309 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:26,240 But you can believe God and meditate on what he said and still not see the manifestation 310 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:32,520 of what he said if you don't say it. 311 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:36,040 Jesus said speak to the mountain. 312 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:38,480 He said that. 313 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,880 He said it. 314 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,000 Speak to the mountain. 315 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:51,240 If your faith isn't big enough to move your mouth, it'll never move your mountain. 316 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,360 If your faith in God is not big enough to move your mouth, then you will never defeat 317 00:24:55,360 --> 00:25:01,920 your giant. 318 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:09,920 What we're talking about today will make a huge dramatic difference in your life. 319 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:14,880 It's not just like little religious talk time. 320 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:20,800 This is real. 321 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,680 We can have the same faith that David said. 322 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,640 Same kind of faith he had when he went up against Goliath. 323 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,640 He believed in God so he spoke. 324 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:38,240 When his giant spoke to him, he spoke back. 325 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,740 First Peter 3 10. 326 00:25:40,740 --> 00:25:44,400 If you want to enjoy life, who wants to enjoy their life? 327 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:45,600 It's okay to enjoy your life. 328 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,880 Who wants to enjoy your life? 329 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:54,840 If you want to enjoy your life and see many happy days, it's not talking about Monday, 330 00:25:54,840 --> 00:26:00,640 Tuesday happy days. 331 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,040 Who wants to have some happy days? 332 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,400 Who's had some days that weren't too happy? 333 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,320 Who wants to have some more happy days? 334 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,800 Who wants to enjoy your life? 335 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:17,560 Well, God says if you want to enjoy your life and see many happy days, keep your tongue 336 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,640 from speaking evil. 337 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:26,760 Watch your words. 338 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:31,280 Watch your words. 339 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,240 Let's keep going. 340 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,080 Proverbs 18 21. 341 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:44,480 The tongue can bring life or death. 342 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,200 It doesn't say the tongue can speak life or death. 343 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:54,840 It says the tongue can bring life or death. 344 00:26:54,840 --> 00:27:01,120 When the tongue speaks death, it brings death. 345 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:10,320 When the tongue speaks life, it brings life. 346 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:17,160 Those who love to talk will reap the consequences. 347 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,520 This can be an amen or an oh me. 348 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,160 It's up to you. 349 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:30,080 Because if you're speaking death, the consequences are going to be death and it would be a good 350 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,320 time for an oh me. 351 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:38,000 But if you're speaking life, the consequences are going to be the life of God. 352 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,960 And then the words are amen. 353 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:45,360 Let it be. 354 00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:51,760 Your words bring life and your words bring death. 355 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,720 It's up to you which one. 356 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,240 Proverbs 21 23. 357 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:03,320 Watch your tongue. 358 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,680 And keep your mouth shut. 359 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:14,440 And you will stay out of trouble. 360 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,880 Now let me tell you something. 361 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,480 We all face trouble. 362 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:23,920 Has anyone in the room never faced any kind of trouble? 363 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,000 We face trouble, right? 364 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:35,000 All the trouble that we face is not a result of the words that we have spoken. 365 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,360 But some of it is. 366 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:43,400 Hello? 367 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:49,640 Don't just sit there and say, well, all my trouble, none of it comes from what I've said. 368 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:54,360 Don't just sit there like that because every single one of us have had trouble come to 369 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:59,640 our lives that was brought on by the words that we spoke. 370 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:10,080 And if we would not have spoken those words, that trouble would not have come upon us. 371 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:15,680 So if you're going to speak things to sabotage yourself, it's better to just not speak. 372 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,200 Is that what this says? 373 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,640 Is that what the Bible says? 374 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,400 Some of you backed up on me when I said, is that what the Bible says? 375 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,240 Is that what it says? 376 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:35,720 James 3, 3 through 5, we've alluded to this a lot, but let's actually read it. 377 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:40,920 We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in his mouth. 378 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:46,280 Put a bit in the horse's mouth, you can turn that horse. 379 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:50,840 Unless I'm on the horse's back, I'll have trouble with horses, even those trail horses 380 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,040 that are just supposed to follow the tail in front of them. 381 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:59,640 I know I've told some of you this story, but I was on a trail horse. 382 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,240 We were just following, right? 383 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,200 There's a guy leading us. 384 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:04,760 Horse is just supposed to walk. 385 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:11,400 Well, my horse did not want to walk through the mud puddle. 386 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,720 Every horse in front of me walked right through the mud puddle, but my horse did not want 387 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,160 to get his hooves wet. 388 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,000 So he refused to go. 389 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,520 And there was a bank. 390 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,400 There's a bank going down on one side, bank going up on the other side. 391 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:30,800 We're on a narrow path. 392 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:31,800 There's a mud puddle. 393 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,880 The horse does not want to go through the mud, through the water. 394 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:41,280 So he decides he's going up the hill to go around the mud puddle. 395 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,460 It's pretty steep. 396 00:30:44,460 --> 00:30:51,160 He had a bit in his mouth and I had, I mean, I had the reins in my right hand and I had 397 00:30:51,160 --> 00:31:00,240 his nose on his right shoulder, but he kept running up the hill through a cedar tree. 398 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:06,240 It wasn't too fun. 399 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:12,960 We make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in his mouth. 400 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:22,720 A small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go. 401 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:28,840 Even though the winds are strong, everybody say a rudder compared to the size of a ship, 402 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:30,640 rudder is a very small thing. 403 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:35,040 But that rudder decides the direction. 404 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:40,320 It sets the direction of the ship. 405 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:49,840 The bit in the horse's mouth sets the direction of the horse. 406 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:50,840 Everybody say, wow. 407 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:57,320 I mean, you know, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out, right? 408 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:00,440 It's in the Bible. 409 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:01,920 Why is this in the Bible? 410 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:08,840 Well, it's in the Bible because God is not talking about bits in a horse's mouth or rudders 411 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,400 on a ship. 412 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,200 Everybody stick your tongue out at me. 413 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,360 He's talking about our tongues. 414 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,560 In the same way, everybody say the same way. 415 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:27,800 The tongue is a small thing. 416 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,920 So God saying your tongue is just like a bit in the horse's mouth. 417 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:37,600 It determines where that horse is going to go, the direction that it's going to go, the 418 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:43,840 rudder on this huge ship, even though it's small in comparison to the ship, it sets a 419 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:50,600 course for the ship and where the ship's going to go. 420 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,120 This is a spiritual truth that we need to learn today. 421 00:32:53,120 --> 00:33:04,320 Your tongue sets the direction for your life. 422 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,760 Your tongue sets a direction for your life. 423 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:13,600 Not my tongue, not your husband or wife's tongue, not your kids or your parents tongue. 424 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:18,760 Your tongue sets a direction for your life. 425 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:26,080 And direction sets your destination. 426 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:35,520 If you want to go to New York, you can't go south. 427 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:42,520 Wow. 428 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,040 You'll never make it to New York going south from here. 429 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,040 Never. 430 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:53,200 You'll never make it. 431 00:33:53,200 --> 00:34:11,280 You'll never make it to victory by talking defeat. 432 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:16,840 For those of you who don't know, the church gave me this for my birthday, my birthday. 433 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,600 And this is actual church people sitting in a room saying amen. 434 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,280 So if it gets quiet, I need an amen. 435 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:27,680 All I have to do is hit my amen button. 436 00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:36,000 Many people are held hostage by their words. 437 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,080 Here's the good news. 438 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:44,320 You can be free. 439 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:51,600 I said you could be free. 440 00:34:51,600 --> 00:35:00,440 When you put your words in agreement with what God says, there is power in your words. 441 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:08,680 Because the God who said it is watching over His word to perform it, the Bible says. 442 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:13,440 So if you will begin to say what God says about your life or your direction, you know 443 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:23,040 what, you're aligning yourself on God's side and I want to be on God's side. 444 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:30,800 Speaking in opposition to what God says is actually aligning yourself against God. 445 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,480 You're separating yourself from the source. 446 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:38,760 You're separating yourself from the one who is faithful and the one who is good. 447 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,360 You're separating yourself from Him. 448 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:52,520 If you speak words contrary to the words that He says about you. 449 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,480 Don't want to go too fast because I want you to get it. 450 00:35:55,480 --> 00:36:01,760 I've never been accused of being too fast. 451 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,760 Think about Jesus. 452 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,000 Jesus spoke to create. 453 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,840 Has anybody ever read in Genesis? 454 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:14,000 In the beginning was the word, that's John chapter 1, that one is. 455 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:19,200 In the beginning what God said, let there be light. 456 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,600 You know what, it was dark. 457 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:28,700 God didn't say, boy it sure is dark. 458 00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:32,000 This is a dark place. 459 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,800 It's so dark. 460 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:35,800 It's so much chaos. 461 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,160 There's just so much chaos. 462 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:46,200 Is that what God said? 463 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,160 Nope. 464 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,640 He said light. 465 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:57,520 He said order. 466 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:02,600 He spoke to create. 467 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:08,760 Now you might have heard some different theories. 468 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,640 But they're just theories. 469 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:17,560 And those theories were made up by people who didn't want to be accountable to a holy 470 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:22,640 God. 471 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:26,560 That's another sermon another day. 472 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,600 Theories. 473 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:40,480 Jesus spoke to create. 474 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:46,800 When Jesus was on this earth, we have record of him speaking to trees. 475 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,980 We have record of him speaking to fevers. 476 00:37:49,980 --> 00:38:00,000 We have record of him speaking to storms. 477 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:06,480 He didn't say, it sure is a bad storm. 478 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:07,880 I don't know if we're going to make it or not. 479 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,920 This storm's so bad, I don't know. 480 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,920 We might just drown. 481 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,360 Well that's what the disciples were saying. 482 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,080 That's not what Jesus said. 483 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:30,560 Jesus said peace, be still. 484 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:37,520 Jesus not only spoke to these things, Jesus told us, he told you to speak to mountains 485 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:38,520 and trees. 486 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,920 I don't have the verses up. 487 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,800 I mean I had a whole lot more verses in the sermon and I looked at Jeffrey and I said 488 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:50,000 people don't want to listen to an hour and a half, two hour sermon. 489 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,000 So I got to cut it back. 490 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:58,420 Jesus told you to speak to mountains and trees. 491 00:38:58,420 --> 00:39:01,960 If you're going to be a person of faith, if you're going to please God because it's impossible 492 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:08,360 to please God without faith, if you're going to be a person of faith, you've got to speak 493 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:14,120 to the things that are blocking you from experiencing the life of God and receiving the promises 494 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,120 of God. 495 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:19,960 You've got to speak to those things. 496 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:38,440 A lot of you might say, well that's foolish to speak to some inanimate thing, is it? 497 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:44,920 If you say yes, you just said Jesus was being foolish by speaking to these inanimate things. 498 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,840 I wouldn't go there if I was you. 499 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:55,920 And he told you to speak to mountains and trees. 500 00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:01,600 Not literal mountains or literal trees. 501 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:07,640 Speak to the things that are blocking you from experiencing his life. 502 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:14,400 What is it that's blocking you from experiencing all that God has for you? 503 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:19,160 His love, his life, his peace, his joy, his provision. 504 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,400 What is blocking you? 505 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:34,120 If something's blocking you, you need to speak to it. 506 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:35,360 Here's the deal. 507 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:40,560 Your giants are speaking to you. 508 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,120 They speak to you every day. 509 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:49,360 Your giants speak to you every day. 510 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,920 Every day. 511 00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:52,920 And guess what? 512 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:54,240 You're not the only one. 513 00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:59,800 All of us hear giants speaking to us every day. 514 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,720 Every single one of us. 515 00:41:02,720 --> 00:41:07,800 You might say, well you don't experience that like I do. 516 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:12,680 We all hear giants speaking to us every day. 517 00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:14,800 What are your giants? 518 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:22,320 This is not an all-inclusive list, okay? 519 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,920 Here's the great thing about God. 520 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:32,360 The Holy Spirit will shine light on your giant that's speaking to you, even if I don't mention 521 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,040 it. 522 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:38,760 If you listen. 523 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,840 What are your giants? 524 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,840 I'm just going to list some of them that talk to me. 525 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,520 Fear talks to me sometimes. 526 00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:52,240 Does fear talk to you sometimes? 527 00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:53,240 Am I the only one? 528 00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:58,040 You're looking at me like fear's never talked to me. 529 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:02,640 I'm not talking about it like talks where you can hear it with your ears, but you're 530 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:07,480 going to hear it between your ears. 531 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,720 Lack talks to you. 532 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:13,080 How you going to make it? 533 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:14,080 This don't happen. 534 00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,640 How you going to make it happen? 535 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,920 What you going to do when this happens? 536 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,000 Weakness talks to you. 537 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,640 You don't have the strength or the ability. 538 00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:26,640 You can't do it. 539 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:27,640 I just can't. 540 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,560 I just can't do what I want to do, what I need to do. 541 00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:32,560 I just can't do it. 542 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:38,040 I'm too weak mentally or physically. 543 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:43,640 Doubt speaks to us. 544 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,200 Loneliness. 545 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:47,200 Nobody cares. 546 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:51,560 Nobody understands. 547 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,560 Doubt speaks to us. 548 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:58,000 This is one of the very first ones in Genesis. 549 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,040 The serpent talked to Eve. 550 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:05,960 He said, did God really say? 551 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:13,720 Did God really say? 552 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:15,840 All of us hear this voice. 553 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,880 Did God really say this? 554 00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,760 Did God really say what the preacher said he said? 555 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:27,120 Did God really say that? 556 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:31,960 Most of the time I'm just reading it straight out of the Bible, so God said it. 557 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:39,320 Has anyone's past ever talked to them? 558 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,520 You'll never be good enough. 559 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,000 You remember what you did. 560 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:49,600 You remember what happened. 561 00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,680 If everybody found out this, they'd be done with you. 562 00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:58,600 What about shame? 563 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,600 Shame talked to you. 564 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:07,400 Really messed up this time. 565 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:08,400 What about worried? 566 00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:13,800 Does worry talk to you? 567 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,840 What if this happens? 568 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:24,280 Anytime you hear a what if between your ears, that's worry talking to you. 569 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:28,720 What if this happens? 570 00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:36,040 What are you going to do if this happens? 571 00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:50,920 If we let our minds and our words run with that, what about disease talking to you? 572 00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,760 Anybody ever had disease talk to them? 573 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:58,840 Has anybody ever put your words in agreement with disease? 574 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:06,960 It's like, you know, this time of year, I always get sick. 575 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:16,960 And we're just setting up an expectation to be sick. 576 00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:22,480 That person has on a mask, I'm going to probably get COVID now. 577 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:26,120 Because they came to work with COVID, so they were in a mask, I'm still breathing their 578 00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:27,120 air. 579 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:32,120 So I'll probably get it too. 580 00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:39,400 What about temptation? 581 00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:45,760 Does temptation speak to you? 582 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:54,720 This is what you need to feel better, to have enjoyment. 583 00:45:54,720 --> 00:45:56,720 This is what you need. 584 00:45:56,720 --> 00:46:01,760 Everybody say giants. 585 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,720 Like I said, this isn't an exhaustive list. 586 00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:08,920 That's all I just came up with, because that's what the preacher deals with. 587 00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,920 And I figure that all of us deal with these. 588 00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,720 If you don't, God bless you. 589 00:46:16,720 --> 00:46:23,320 Giants, everybody say giants. 590 00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,080 Here's my question. 591 00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:26,160 This is about to be over. 592 00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:30,840 I don't know how painful it is or whatever, but this is about to be over. 593 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:31,840 Here's my question. 594 00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:39,960 When are you going to start speaking to those giants? 595 00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:47,460 Just like Goliath brought those threats to David, David just didn't agree with those 596 00:46:47,460 --> 00:46:51,320 and put his words in agreement with the threats from the giant. 597 00:46:51,320 --> 00:47:00,600 No, he stood in victory and stood in faith and said what he was going to do. 598 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:04,560 So when are you going to start speaking to your giants? 599 00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:13,160 Here's the deal, every single one of these giants that I just mentioned, God has spoken 600 00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:19,960 to that giant and it's up to you to put your words in agreement with what God said or are 601 00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:23,600 you going to put your words in agreement with what the giants say? 602 00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:27,960 It's up to you. 603 00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:33,080 I would think it would be awesome if you could say, hey Dean, will you speak God's word over 604 00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:34,080 me? 605 00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:39,400 I'll give you a hundred bucks a week if you'll just speak this truth over me as I'm facing 606 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:47,200 my giants, would you just say it for me because the deal would be I would gain victory over 607 00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:56,680 the giants but you wouldn't and you'd be short a hundred dollars. 608 00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:01,240 So when are you going to start speaking? 609 00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:07,360 We're going to rapid fire some things but I'm going to tell you there are a whole lot 610 00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:08,960 more verses in the Bible. 611 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:13,680 I could not exhaust everything that God said about these subjects. 612 00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:19,800 I'm just going to give you an example of how you can speak to the giant when he speaks 613 00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,120 to you. 614 00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:29,120 When fear begins to speak to you, speak to fear, say fear you have to leave because God 615 00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:35,880 has given me power, love and a sound mind and you don't come from God. 616 00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:42,080 So you have to leave right now. 617 00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,600 And you might say, well that's not going to work. 618 00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:46,080 If that's what you say, guess what? 619 00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,520 It's not going to work. 620 00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:53,040 You have to stand in agreement with what God said. 621 00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:57,640 You got to know it, you got to believe it, you got to have confidence in it and you got 622 00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:02,400 to speak it. 623 00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:07,760 You might have to speak to this fear giant, you might have to speak to it more than one 624 00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,180 sentence, more than five sentences. 625 00:49:10,180 --> 00:49:18,720 You might have to speak to him every day. 626 00:49:18,720 --> 00:49:24,860 But if you keep speaking to this giant of fear one of these days, you're going to chop 627 00:49:24,860 --> 00:49:29,640 his head off and he's not going to have power over you anymore. 628 00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:37,040 Lack, how am I going to make it? 629 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,600 Don't know if I'm going to make it or not, don't know what's going to happen. 630 00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,800 Well lack, you have to go. 631 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:56,920 Here's why you have to go, because God is my good shepherd and I will not want. 632 00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:03,200 Lot more verses. 633 00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,240 The names of them. 634 00:50:05,240 --> 00:50:09,680 God, you are El Shaddai. 635 00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:16,520 You are the one who meets all of my needs. 636 00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:20,120 Lack you have to leave because El Shaddai is my God. 637 00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,340 He satisfies me and meets all my needs. 638 00:50:23,340 --> 00:50:24,440 He's more than enough. 639 00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:28,240 My God's more than enough so I'm not going to listen to your lies anymore. 640 00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:33,360 Lack you have to go. 641 00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:49,040 Weakness, weakness, leave my body and mind right now because I am strong in the Lord 642 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:53,640 and in the power of his might. 643 00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,320 I am strong. 644 00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:58,800 The Bible says let the weak say I am strong. 645 00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,420 So weakness leave. 646 00:51:02,420 --> 00:51:05,760 I'm strong in the Lord. 647 00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:07,120 I'm strong in his power. 648 00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,600 I'm strong in his might. 649 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,600 So leave. 650 00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:19,480 You have to speak with authority. 651 00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,480 Loneliness. 652 00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:28,200 Loneliness, you can't bring me down anymore. 653 00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:32,480 You're not going to bring me down anymore because I know God is always with me and I 654 00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:38,240 am never alone. 655 00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:43,560 I have a family of faith who loves me and is with me. 656 00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:50,520 I'm not alone and I'll never be alone. 657 00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:55,600 God will never leave me or turn his back on me. 658 00:51:55,600 --> 00:52:03,560 Doubt, did God really say? 659 00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,840 Doubt you have to leave my mind right now. 660 00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:11,280 Anytime words of doubt from the giant of doubt come between your two ears, just say doubt 661 00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:19,840 you got to leave my mind because I have faith in God and he gives me hope, he gives me joy. 662 00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:24,580 If you're wondering where I put my words in agreement with God if you haven't figured 663 00:52:24,580 --> 00:52:30,320 it out yet, these are the verses that I'm basically quoting. 664 00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:42,920 When your past begins to speak to you, listen here past, you can't hold me captive anymore 665 00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:47,720 because I'm a new creation in Christ. 666 00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:52,720 You have no hold over me anymore. 667 00:52:52,720 --> 00:53:01,620 Everything I've ever said, everything I've ever done, hey Jesus paid for it on the cross. 668 00:53:01,620 --> 00:53:11,960 I'm not being held accountable for it anymore because Jesus took care of it. 669 00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:18,600 I'm new in Christ. 670 00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,240 Shame. 671 00:53:21,240 --> 00:53:23,440 You talk about this one a lot. 672 00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:30,400 It's like I messed up again and God's mad at me and I'm just ashamed because I can't 673 00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,200 do the right thing or say the right thing. 674 00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:39,400 Some of you can get in shame over not speaking to your giants. 675 00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:48,280 Listen, shame you cannot bring guilt and condemnation on me anymore because I'm in Christ and I 676 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,600 am free from all condemnation. 677 00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,880 So I'm not going to receive this condemnation anymore. 678 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:55,880 I'm not going to receive this guilt anymore. 679 00:53:55,880 --> 00:54:11,560 I'm not going to receive this shame anymore because I'm in Christ and I'm free from you. 680 00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:15,880 Person who God sets free is free indeed. 681 00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:19,000 Worry, what if this happens? 682 00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,260 What if that happens? 683 00:54:21,260 --> 00:54:22,640 What if? 684 00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:23,640 What you going to do? 685 00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:24,640 What you going to do? 686 00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:25,640 What you going to do? 687 00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:26,640 What if? 688 00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:34,200 Worry, you have to leave my mind because I release all your anxieties. 689 00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:40,920 Worry, you're just filled with anxiety and I release all your anxieties to Jesus. 690 00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:42,240 They're not going to come on me anymore. 691 00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:45,000 I'm giving them to Jesus. 692 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,080 I cast all my anxiety on Jesus. 693 00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:49,660 He cares for me. 694 00:54:49,660 --> 00:54:53,920 He cares about me. 695 00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:57,120 You're not going to stick anymore. 696 00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:00,120 What happened? 697 00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:11,560 Thought the screen changed but it didn't. 698 00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:13,440 Disease. 699 00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:25,880 I tell you, I don't have a reason why when I went to the emergency room, when I called 700 00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:29,560 Jeffrey and said, could you please take me to the emergency room? 701 00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:33,120 If not, I got to call the ambulance. 702 00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:40,640 About two years ago, some of you might remember that, some of you might not even have heard 703 00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:42,720 of it. 704 00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:46,240 They told me what was wrong. 705 00:55:46,240 --> 00:55:49,600 Had three back surgeries and I got a new bulging disc. 706 00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:54,400 It's hitting a nerve that was causing severe pain. 707 00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,600 Spent the day in the emergency room. 708 00:55:56,600 --> 00:56:01,840 They didn't have a room for me in urgent care so I wound up in the kids' room with planes 709 00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:09,160 painted on the wall and cartoons on the wall and MRI and skins and all kinds of stuff. 710 00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:13,800 I wouldn't have gotten in a room unless I told them, if you don't give me a room, I'm 711 00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:18,080 going to get on the floor because I can't stand or sit anymore and you're just going 712 00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,080 to have to pick me up when you come. 713 00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:26,480 They put me in a room, they did all this stuff, they said I've got a, or I had a bulging disc. 714 00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,040 Well guess what? 715 00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:33,800 Before Jeffrey got there, all of a sudden I started putting my words in agreement with 716 00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:36,360 what God said. 717 00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:39,720 Did the pain leave immediately? 718 00:56:39,720 --> 00:56:43,440 Didn't leave immediately but let me tell you what happened. 719 00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:47,960 By the next morning, that severe pain was gone. 720 00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:54,280 There's been some residual feelings every once in a while that try to creep up. 721 00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:58,000 But if you'd have been around the bus, you'd probably thought I was crazy because I started 722 00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,320 screaming. 723 00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,520 I was saying, you know, pain you gotta leave. 724 00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,000 I mean I was just screaming. 725 00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,640 Pain, pain you gotta leave. 726 00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:10,480 I was still hurting. 727 00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:15,680 But the giant was speaking to me and I was speaking back. 728 00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:19,880 You gotta leave. 729 00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:23,200 I've got a, I've got the plan of God, I've got a fulfilled plan of God. 730 00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:29,400 I didn't miss a Sunday, I was preaching the next Sunday. 731 00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:31,360 I have a purpose. 732 00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:36,040 You gotta leave. 733 00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:40,920 I was supposed to go to a pain management doctor and all this stuff but guess what? 734 00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:43,920 Never did. 735 00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:51,400 Disease, pain, you have to leave my body. 736 00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:57,480 Does everybody know that God is Yahweh? 737 00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:03,120 Or Rafa, do you know that's who He is? 738 00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:04,120 He told us that. 739 00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:06,280 He says, I'm the Lord you're healing. 740 00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,480 That's what God said. 741 00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:10,440 I thank God for nurses. 742 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:12,640 I thank God for doctors. 743 00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:14,880 I do. 744 00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:19,400 They're agents of God. 745 00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:22,200 Because guess what? 746 00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:26,960 Without God, doctors and nurses wouldn't be able to do anything for us. 747 00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:28,640 God is the healer. 748 00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:36,680 He made your body to heal itself. 749 00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:39,920 He made your body to heal itself. 750 00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:44,000 As long as your body is healthy, as long as you're eating the right thing and doing the 751 00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:49,480 right thing, your body is working towards healing. 752 00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:55,880 That's because I am healer made you. 753 00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:57,280 No disease. 754 00:58:57,280 --> 00:58:59,720 Hey, here's what I say every day. 755 00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:01,000 We talk about taking a shot. 756 00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,160 Here's a shot that I take. 757 00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:05,560 I'm in the hands of the Lord. 758 00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:09,400 The most high is my safe resting place. 759 00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:15,200 No evil will come near me and no disease will come near my house. 760 00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:17,080 Straight out of the Bible. 761 00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:24,240 And it says, because you have said, everybody say say, because you have said, I'm in the 762 00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:29,120 hands of the Lord and the most high is my safe resting place. 763 00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:34,680 Because you say that, then no evil will come near you. 764 00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:38,360 No disease will come near your house. 765 00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:40,380 That's what the word says. 766 00:59:40,380 --> 00:59:44,600 You can believe what you want to believe, but that's what the word says. 767 00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:48,040 Disease you have to leave my body because the Lord is my healer. 768 00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:49,040 He is Yahweh. 769 00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:50,040 Raffae. 770 00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:51,680 He is the Lord, my healer. 771 00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:55,360 He sent his word to heal me by the stripes of Jesus. 772 00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:57,360 I made a hole. 773 00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:02,680 Gave you a lot more verses than that. 774 01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:06,560 Temptation. 775 01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:11,080 The thing that easily trips you up, the Bible talks about. 776 01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:15,360 It's not the same thing for all of us. 777 01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:23,200 But each one of us has temptation towards things that will trip us up in our faith. 778 01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:31,560 Well, every single one of us. 779 01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:34,000 And that temptation starts to bear on you. 780 01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:41,080 And trust me, it will bear on you until you start having your words and actions in agreement 781 01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:44,320 with what it's calling you to. 782 01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:46,160 Does anybody know what I'm talking about? 783 01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:50,680 You might not want to admit this in church, but. 784 01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:55,480 Temptations, you can't control me anymore. 785 01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:57,840 You got to speak to it. 786 01:00:57,840 --> 01:00:59,040 Speak to it. 787 01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:00,920 You can't control me anymore. 788 01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:03,920 I've been set free from your power. 789 01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:10,480 I'm dead to you. 790 01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:11,840 Just go ahead and tell your temptation. 791 01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:15,360 I'm dead to you. 792 01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:16,840 I'm alive to God. 793 01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:21,120 I'm dead to sin and alive to God. 794 01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:25,600 I have been set free from your power. 795 01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:40,000 The only power temptation has over you is the power that you allow it to have over you. 796 01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:44,920 When you begin to win the war of words. 797 01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:50,240 You'll begin to win in life. 798 01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:55,680 Who wants to win? 799 01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:58,560 You begin to win the war of words. 800 01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:01,960 You'll begin to win in life. 801 01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:06,240 Last verse, Hebrews 10 23. 802 01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:12,600 Let us hold fast. 803 01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:21,480 Let us hold on with bulldog tenacity. 804 01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:24,600 I've got a grand puppy. 805 01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:28,400 She likes to play tug. 806 01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:31,200 She'll latch on to any toy. 807 01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:33,880 And I can't pull it out of her mouth. 808 01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:39,580 I have to distract her. 809 01:02:39,580 --> 01:02:42,080 She even tempts me with it. 810 01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:45,040 She'll like. 811 01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:48,960 And as soon as I start to pull it, she'll latch back down on it. 812 01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:55,240 I can't take it away from her unless she lets me. 813 01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:59,640 Hold fast to the words. 814 01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:01,880 Everybody say words. 815 01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:05,880 Hold fast to the words of hope. 816 01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:14,880 Hold fast to what you are saying to your giants without wavering. 817 01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:16,480 Here's the deal. 818 01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:22,160 You can't tell fear it has to go and then embrace it five minutes later and start speaking 819 01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:26,000 in fear. 820 01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:29,760 You can't. 821 01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:36,320 You can't say, you know, you can't quote all these verses and then five minutes later, 822 01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:40,000 you can't say, well, that's probably not going to work. 823 01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:43,360 I know the preacher said to do it, but I did it. 824 01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:49,680 But I doubt anything's going to come of it. 825 01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:58,480 Hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering. 826 01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:00,660 Here's why. 827 01:04:00,660 --> 01:04:06,880 If we will continue to believe, if we will continue to have confidence. 828 01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:12,740 And what God has said, if we continue to put our words in agreement with what God has said, 829 01:04:12,740 --> 01:04:13,740 you know what? 830 01:04:13,740 --> 01:04:16,000 God is faithful. 831 01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:18,120 Somebody say God is faithful. 832 01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:20,460 God is faithful. 833 01:04:20,460 --> 01:04:27,400 And if you will continue talking to your giants and words of faith and words of victory, you 834 01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:32,000 will see the head chopped off of that giant. 835 01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:40,000 But if you waver, you won't. 836 01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:44,700 Look to the person beside you and say, hold fast, hold fast. 837 01:04:44,700 --> 01:04:49,400 If you catch yourself not holding fast, just jump back on the holding fast train as quick 838 01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:51,560 as you can. 839 01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:55,100 Stay on the holding fast train. 840 01:04:55,100 --> 01:04:59,680 This online worship experience was brought to you by the Friends and Partners of Eulation 841 01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:26,680 Church.