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David VS Goliath
Introduction:
Open up your Bibles to
PRAY
This is where we are going to camp out tonight.
1 Samuel 17:
The men of Isreal, God’s chosen nation where drawing up the battle-lines.
The men of Isreal had defeated many foes under King Sauls reign and today should be no different.
If you can picture it the two sides where both a side of a mountain, with a valley between them.
It was common in the day for them to size up the opponent and even maybe throw some insults at each other.
But on this day, something was different the Philistines sent out someone that the Israelites had never seen before.
This foe was a giant you may say, from anywhere from 7ft tall to 9ft 9in.
Average dude was 5’10
This dude was crazy strong, his muscles had muscles.
He, this Goliath was built up, training up to destroy anything in his path, and that included the Israelites.
Not only was this guy huge and ripped out of his mind, which is my goal as well, but he was armed from head to toe.
Let me break down his armor for you.
He wore roughly 125 lbs of armor.
HIs spear which was about 26 feet high and head of that spear weigh about 17 lbs of iron.
oh and he had a sword.
THIS DUDE WAS MADE TO DESTROY HIS ENEMY.
He came out, and he looked at that army across the valley and he shouted:
Send someone to fight me, and if you win then we will be your slaves but if, who are we kidding, when I win you will be our slaves.
As shouts from Goliath kept coming for 40 days.
They heard, you cowards come and face me!
I defy you and your God
When we win we will show you whose god is real
You are loser
You failures
You godless nation
Over and over again for 40 days
There were no takers.... Silence fell over the mountain.
He was intimidating, he struck fear into the hearts of the Israelites.
It says in verse 24 that all the men of Isreal would flee when they saw him coming!
They ran away.
One man, one human, one giant made hundreds, thousands of people become greatly dismayed and fearful.
Much like Isreal we also have Goliath’s in our life.
They ran away.
WE ALL HAVE A GOLIATH IN OUR LIFE
Let me break down this dudes armor for you.
This is where I need you to think.
What is that Goliath that is in your life right now?
Maybe it anger, addictions, rejection, fear, comfort, maybe its something else.
And you see like most sin it starts off with us drawing these battle-lines that we say no I am going to fight against this in my life.
This army this sin can’t hold me down.
Then comes this thing this addiction, fear, comfortability, anger, rejection that comes over us, and we can’t seem to shake it.
We want to but we can’t
This giant, this Goliath in our life take a hold of us, it cripples us, it makes us run for the hills as it sinks it teeth into us.
It stings, because no honest person wants to live a life full of rejection, and fear, and anger, and addiction, although we would like to be comfortable.
But comfort is best tool from the enemy.
Quote by P.T. Barnum: Comfort is the enemy of progress.
I like to think that Satan may not attack us directly, but he will make us comfortable and stannic.
Comfort is the enemy of progress.
Here is a truth I want you to wrestle with:
Don’t think for a moment that you are immune to the enemy.
Goliath was this unmovable foe, this blood-thirst, muscle-head, that nobody was going to defeat alone, not a chance in the world.
We all have a Goliath or Goliaths in our life.
And maybe right now you are seeing that Goliath that unmovable force that you know you can’t defeat, and it is just taunting you, screaming at you, calling out your faith and your God!
You know you can’t win, maybe you tried to fight it once before but only became a slave to that sin instead.
You may have remembered a time when
If that story ended here, it would be pretty sad, and pretty disappointing but it doesn’t end here.
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ENTER THE HERO
Im sure that the Philistines thought they had the best hero of all time.
The one who would win and probably already had won many battles for them.
Isreal had a hero as well.
David, he was not king at this time, eventually yes, but not today.
Today David was a Shepard and he was bringing provisions for his brothers.
1 Samuel 17:12-
David arrives on the scene and he is arriving just around the time Goliath is.
You see the army were still gathering and Isreal was giving out the battle-cry, their war cry.
During the middle of the battle-cry here comes Golaith
40 days in and still no challenger.
David hears Goliath shouting and cursing Isreal and God.
This takes David back a little and, he is like, you know what somebody better go down there are shut this punk up.
This dude is nothing to David,
But Goliath is that immovable piece that the nation of Isreal could not move or defeat.
His brothers probably laughed at him as he suggested that he would fight for them.
This is Israels army and it was full of strong fighter, who does David think he is?
But David had something no one else seemed to have, the ability to trust in the one true God.
David was a Shepard boy by trade and he watched them and laid with them, he cared for his sheep.
So much so that when a bear came and grabbed a sheep, David chased the Bear down and killed it!
and he did the same thing to a lion as well.
David was not some weak kid, he was strong and he Had God in his corner.
David even went to King Saul and told him that he was going to fight Goliath, and Saul tried to help.
Saul tried to dress David up in his own fancy armor.
It didn’t work and David chose 5 smooth stones and a sling, and he went to battle with God on his side.
They met in the middle and David had no choice...
GOLIATH MUST FALL
I am sure I haven’t told you anything that you have not heard before.
This is Sunday School class stuff.
We all have giants in our life and those giants will fall but not because of our ability but because of God’s ability.
It doesn’t matter the size of our problem, God is bigger and His might and his power is always greater.
And as David and Goliath would meet on the battlefield this is what happened:
1 Samuel 17:40-5
David was victorious over this giant, this Goliath in his life.
And I am sure that we have all heard that if we were to just try harder we could beat the giants’ in our lives.
I am sure that we have heard, you are all young and you can take on the world!
Don’t let your giants rule your life!
And we get fired up!
We makes promises!
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