1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,720 This is City Post Church. We're about three things. 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,160 Build equipped and send all under the Lordship of Jesus 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,240 Christ. A small church plant in Fort 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,400 Worth, TX. Who decided to do things a 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:16,880 little differently? Adoramos Ajesu Cristo I love 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,480 City Post because of the people. It's where I belong. 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,640 We truly preach the Word. I love City Post because of the 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,000 community we've been able to build. 9 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:28,720 To do ministry like Jesus. For light to push back darkness. 10 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:38,420 This is City Post podcast. Amen. 11 00:00:38,460 --> 00:00:42,020 Coming out of high school, I went to one of the most disaster 12 00:00:42,020 --> 00:00:43,660 of a wedding that you could think of. 13 00:00:43,660 --> 00:00:46,100 It was somebody I knew from our old church. 14 00:00:46,100 --> 00:00:49,700 Her older sister was getting married and from start to 15 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:52,720 finish. It was the hottest mess of a 16 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:54,600 wedding. And I mean, it was so bad. 17 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:56,720 The family shows up and I remember sitting in the back of 18 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,920 this little church and they're yelling at each other and the 19 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:03,040 older brother is cousin, his mom and all this stuff. 20 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:06,920 And then the groom shows up and he is blitzed, like he is 21 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,440 wasted. I mean, like, like his friend 22 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,680 had to carry him to the door of the church. 23 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,000 Like that's how bad it was. And I remember like, we're 24 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,880 watching this and, and everybody's panicking and 25 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,200 freaking out. And even the pastor that was 26 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:25,440 marrying them had to hold him up because he's about to fall over. 27 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:30,840 And but after the ceremony we went to a different church. 28 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:33,760 It was a hall. And we're sitting there and the 29 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,400 older brother starts to follow me around. 30 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,240 I'm, I'm, I'm confused. I don't understand why. 31 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,280 And he's, he's following me around with his little buddy. 32 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,360 And because, you know, every bully has like the one, the 33 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,120 friend that's way too short, that just talks and he's just 34 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,920 following me around. And he's like, yeah, man, I bet 35 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,000 you won't say nothing now. And I'm just like, what is going 36 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,960 on? Like, I don't, I have no idea. 37 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:03,760 So the whole entire ceremony, this kid is following me 38 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,160 everywhere. And he's talking under his 39 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,120 breath, but he's doing it so I could hear. 40 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,800 He's like, yeah, this punk won't do none outside this. 41 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,960 And I'm just ignoring him. I was like, I have no idea who 42 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,840 this kid is, but it got to a point where now I'm starting to 43 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,200 like, OK, it's going to go down. Like, like I'm starting to size 44 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:22,960 them up and I'm like, I play football. 45 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:24,920 I wrestled. I was like, man, this guy's like 46 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:27,800 $1.35 wet. I think I could, I could fold 47 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,200 them. You know this ain't too hard. 48 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:31,520 I could do. This and then I'll start looking 49 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,040 outside and then I even like out my my razor. 50 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,920 That's how long ago it was. And I text my friend, hey bro, 51 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:40,920 I'm about to get in a fight. Like you think you'd come up 52 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:41,840 here? And he's like. 53 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:46,280 Bro I get off work at 1:00. I'm I'm there, so I might not 54 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:47,800 fight, but I know people can. All right. 55 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,320 So like, so I start texting up my boys. 56 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:51,840 I'm about to get in a fight with this kid. 57 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,200 I don't know what his deal is. And it got so bad that I 58 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:57,440 remember I was like, OK, I'm about to go outside. 59 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,440 I'm going to hit him. I'm going to go punch this kid 60 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:04,120 because he won't leave me alone. So finally I went to my dad. 61 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,720 I remember my dad was sitting there and I went to my dad and I 62 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,480 was dad. I'm about to go outside and I'm 63 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:09,840 going to get in a fight. With this kid. 64 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,480 And my dad looks at me and he kind of chuckles and he goes. 65 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:18,160 Did you just ask him why? I was like, no, I don't want to 66 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,160 talk to this guy. And as I'm talking to my dad, he 67 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,880 sits right next to me and my dad's like, he's right there. 68 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,760 Just talk to him. And I remember looking at this 69 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,760 kid and he's just like, man, are we good? 70 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:32,480 He's like, man, my boy says, you were talking smack about me. 71 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:34,320 And I was like, I didn't say anything. 72 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:36,640 I just said, like, you shouldn't be cussing at your mom. 73 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,760 And he's like, OK, cool. And then like he dabs me up and 74 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,920 like leaves. And the whole time and my dad 75 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:45,440 just looks down and he just kind of. 76 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:49,480 Cracks up a little bit and I'm just here like what? 77 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:51,320 World what? Happened. 78 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,120 You know, it's funny, when it comes to our battles and our 79 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:58,320 fighting, going to the Father is always the last resort for us. 80 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,280 We always try to handle things ourselves. 81 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,800 We always kind of jump to the worst common scenario. 82 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,840 We start sizing up our situation and our fathers. 83 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,480 Over here, who knows who is wise and is. 84 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,600 Strong and he's just waiting for us to come to him and be like, 85 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,920 Lord, I'm about to go to this battle, like I need your help, 86 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,600 but what we do what? We tend to do in a fight is that 87 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:28,840 we go by ourselves because our pride gets in the way and we 88 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:31,720 think we got this. But what we need to understand 89 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:36,280 is that the enemy is so much stronger than you and I, and 90 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:38,840 that the Lord. Is the only? 91 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:41,080 One who could bring victory in the battle. 92 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:46,280 We don't want to do that. So what we're going to look at 93 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:48,640 the next couple of weeks, we're going to go through a series 94 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,920 called Fight Club where we're going to look at all all these 95 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:53,680 fights that happened in Scripture. 96 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:59,040 And today is round one. And the tale of the take is on 97 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:03,040 one side we have Goliath for the heavyweight championship, 9 foot 98 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:08,240 9 inches, 600 plus pounds. He has a power driver finisher. 99 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:09,520 I don't know, I'm just figuring that up. 100 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,840 Down the other side we have David Shepherd Boy, 5 foot two, 101 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,680 $1.25. His finisher is He'll kick your 102 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:23,880 shins and we have. This battle that's about to go 103 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,320 down. And I think as we see this, 104 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,960 there's something that we could learn when we look at fights in 105 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,800 the scriptures and there's something all of us could learn 106 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,760 about fighting. And the main thing that I want 107 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:40,680 us to take away from today is that you cannot win by yourself. 108 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:46,440 Wasn't meant for that to happen. So we need the Lord to fight for 109 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,520 us. And David understood this. 110 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:50,600 So let's go. I'm going to run through some 111 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,840 things and then I'm going to summarize some things. 112 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:56,320 But y'all just have to keep up because this is a long chapter 113 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,760 and we don't have a lot of time. All right, so here we go. 114 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:04,040 Look at First Samuel chapter 17. So real quickly, the first 3 115 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,800 verses what we see. Let's set the scene here a 116 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,120 little bit. We have the Israelites on one 117 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,680 side. The Philistines show up at their 118 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,360 camp and the Philistines don't show up to battle. 119 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:15,680 The Philistines show up to invade. 120 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:18,760 They're uninvited. They're bullies. 121 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,440 Like they show up and they're like, we're taking your land. 122 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:23,400 Because that's where the Philistines were. 123 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,280 They had about 5 regions in or five sects of the Philistines in 124 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:30,520 the area. They show up and on one side of 125 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,520 the hill you have the Israelite camp. 126 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,560 And on the other side of the hill you have the Philistines 127 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,400 who just showed up. And in the middle there's a 128 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,640 valley, right? Like so it's almost like a pit 129 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:44,600 like like if you think of like a. 130 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,720 Cage like the Octagon, It's all in the center right now and 131 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,600 that's where the battle is going to happen but the philistines 132 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,720 are smart. They know how to intimidate and 133 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,080 what they do is brilliant like we still see this today in 134 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:00,680 fighting. You know like when y'all watch 135 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,160 boxing matches and like the smack talking happens. 136 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,000 There is a strategy behind this and look at verse 4. 137 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:10,560 Let's go ahead and just start from verse 4. 138 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:15,520 I'm going to read verse 4 through through 7 here and this 139 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,680 is a champion named Goliath who was from Gath came out to the 140 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,800 Philistine camp. He was, I mean his height was 6 141 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,680 cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet on his 142 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:33,160 head and he wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing 5000 143 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,720 shekels and on his legs were bronze grieves and bronze 144 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:42,360 javelin was slung on his back. His spear shaft was like a 145 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:46,440 weaver's rod and it's iron point weighed 600 shekels. 146 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,480 His shield bearer went ahead of him. 147 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:54,000 Goliath stood this verse 8. Goliath stood and shouted to the 148 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,520 ranks of Israel. So this is I'm just punking out 149 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,720 the leaders. He goes, why don't you come out 150 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,880 and line up for battle. I am not a Philistine. 151 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,080 Am I not a Philistine? And you are the servants of 152 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,160 Saul. Choose a man and have him come 153 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,280 down to me. If he is able to fight and kill 154 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,800 me, we will become your subjects. 155 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,960 But if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our 156 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,480 subjects and serve us. I like how he threw that in at 157 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:21,240 the end. Right there. 158 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,680 Then the Philistines said, this day I defy the armies of Israel. 159 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:29,120 Give me a man and let us fight each other. 160 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:33,720 On hearing the words, on hearing the Philistines word, Saul and 161 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:38,120 the Israelites were what dismayed and what terrified. 162 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:44,039 How crazy is this? Goliath shows up, got 2 armies 163 00:08:44,039 --> 00:08:46,520 on each side. Goliath shows up, he's like, 164 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,320 send me one person and then we're going to settle this in a 165 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:53,080 duel. Now if I'm Israel, I'm like, 166 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,240 release The Archers, snipe that fool like that, he's done, it's 167 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,960 over. But fear was struck in the 168 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:02,640 hearts of the Israelites. And you know what's interesting 169 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:07,280 about this text is that in first Samuel, they describe Goliath. 170 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:10,600 They give his height light was a giant guys. 171 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,320 Giants existed the the largest the tallest man in the United 172 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,960 States was 8 foot 8 inches. I mean 8 feet 11 inches. 173 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:24,800 Shaquille O'Neal 771 Andre the giant like these guys like these 174 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:28,160 are real people. But the problem with with 175 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:32,440 Goliath, he wasn't just tall, he was large, too strong. 176 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,520 He had a vest that weighed 125 lbs. 177 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:42,120 Some of y'all can't even pick up a 35 LB dumbbell and walk with 178 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:43,400 it. Some of y'all can't even walk 20 179 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,200 feet. Goliath is walking with all 180 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:46,880 this. Weight. 181 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,360 He has a spear where the head of the spear is 15 lbs. 182 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:56,960 That doesn't include the staff. And then he has a javelin on his 183 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:00,600 back and he has all this armor and then he has a shield bearer 184 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:02,400 who we'll talk about here in a little bit. 185 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,200 That's a little bit of an advantage. 186 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:08,240 I mean, this guy is set for battle. 187 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:13,000 He could kill you like that. And they send their their best 188 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,560 fighter. And the Bible says in verse four 189 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:20,120 that he's the champion man. The word champion is not really 190 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,880 used anywhere else in Scripture except here. 191 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,040 The word champion actually means a man in between two. 192 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,480 He means that there's someone who steps in to fight on behalf 193 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,600 of so champion. The word champion does not have 194 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:37,600 anything to do with winning or losing. 195 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:42,800 The word champion has everything to do with you stepping out and 196 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:47,120 representing a people. Now the winning or losing that's 197 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,960 that's a different legacy. But the fact that you're 198 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:54,160 stepping out to fight, he says, send me your champion who's 199 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,680 going to be your boy that's going to take us on. 200 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,160 And then it let's let's keep going down. 201 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:03,440 Now if you look at verse 11. This is interesting because it 202 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:07,800 specifically says that Saul and hearing is Saul and all the 203 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,800 Israelites were dismayed and terrified. 204 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:12,560 Why would? Why did? 205 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:17,160 They call him out. Another fun fact is that if you 206 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,720 look, if you read the, the Hebrew Bible doesn't really go 207 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,040 into detail like this. Like I say, like in the 208 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:25,480 beginning, like God created the trees and the trees were 50 feet 209 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,880 and the circumference was 80. No, like when you read the 210 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,120 Hebrew Bible, there's not that kind of detail. 211 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:35,040 But for some reason, in this story there's this kind of 212 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:40,320 detail. So Saul was dismayed and 213 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,600 terrified. You know why? 214 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,560 Because the Bible says in First Samuel Chapter 9 that Saul was 215 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:49,560 head and shoulders above all the Israelites. 216 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,040 Saul was about 6566. He was tall. 217 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,920 And listen, when you have a big old boy that's coming to fight, 218 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:58,440 you know what you do on your side. 219 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:03,720 You know who you look for the biggest guy you have that's just 220 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,800 just battle one-on-one. And Saul should have been the 221 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:11,000 one that stepped up and took on Goliath. 222 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:15,480 It was his responsibility. He should have been the one. 223 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,280 He was tall you he was heading shows about everybody else. 224 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,760 Why didn't he? Step in, because what we're 225 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:26,240 going to learn today is that fear, This is .1. 226 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:30,040 Fear is the strategy of the enemy for all believers when it 227 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:34,640 comes to fighting. When it comes to fighting our 228 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:39,120 enemy, the enemy inflicts fear in our lives because once he has 229 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,800 fear that takes a hit on our faith. 230 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:46,320 It only takes a little bit of fear to freeze you up. 231 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,960 I love what Mike Tyson says. Everybody's got a plan until you 232 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:56,760 get hit in the in the face. You can have all your plan, you 233 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:59,080 can have all your go get it, you can have your training. 234 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,000 But get popped in the mouth one time and see that thing go away. 235 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:06,120 The same thing happens with us with fear. 236 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,280 The enemy uses fear. The Israelites already lost the 237 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,720 battle. The battle is over. 238 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,440 And the way that the Philistines won the battle, it wasn't by 239 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:19,000 their weaponry, it wasn't through military strategy, it 240 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,360 was through fear. The battle was over. 241 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,240 The Israelites had nothing after this. 242 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,360 They were influenced and the Israelites had a problem because 243 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,360 the Israelites were always looking at the outer appearance 244 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,160 of a person. They always did. 245 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,280 They had this issue. The outward appearance always 246 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:41,720 influenced and feared the men of Israel. 247 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:46,000 Goliath defeated the Israelites on fear alone. 248 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,840 This was a great strategy from the Philistines. 249 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,440 And listen, you see this a lot in boxing. 250 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,520 If I could inflict fear in you before we fight, you're either 251 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:00,120 not going to show up or you're going to show up hesitant and 252 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,360 scared. And it's going to throw off your 253 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,520 whole strategy. So if I could talk smack, if I 254 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:09,080 could get in your head, if I can make you scared, if I could talk 255 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:13,800 about your Mama, whatever it takes, you're going to show up 256 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,760 discombobulated and you're going to lose your your arms are going 257 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,880 to drop. I love UFC. 258 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,400 And if you talk to Conor McGregor, they interviewed him 259 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,480 once and that's he said that's his whole strategy is if he 260 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:32,240 could get into the head of his opponents, it throws him off. 261 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,160 We saw that with Jose Aldo. He knocked him out 13 seconds. 262 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:36,760 Why? Because he spent three months 263 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:40,440 talking trash about this guy. And when the fight came, Jose 264 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,760 Aldo was so mad and so. Ready to go? 265 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,920 He dropped his left and Conor McGregor popped him in the chin, 266 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:49,880 laid him out 13 seconds, fight was over. 267 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:51,640 Why? What happened? 268 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,760 He got into his head, he put fear into his head. 269 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:57,320 It threw him off. Man. 270 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:00,840 The Philistines understood this, and it's. 271 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:06,000 Wild, he says that they were dismayed, they were distressed, 272 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:10,720 they felt fear, which I also think will lead us to our. 273 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:14,880 Second point is that fear and distress create a stagnant life. 274 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,680 Fear and distress, it creates A stagnant life. 275 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,560 So look at if we keep looking at the story, David, the shepherd 276 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:26,600 boy, his son, he's the son of Jesse. 277 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,600 Jesse has eight other sons. The three oldest sons are 278 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,400 actually fighting in the army with Israel. 279 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:38,320 So what Jesse does is Jesse tells David to go check on his 280 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:42,280 brothers. And David goes and he's checking 281 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,880 time to time on his brothers because his dad told him to. 282 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,840 So he's leaving his sheep, right? 283 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,680 Remember, he's a shepherd and he's going and he's checking on 284 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:57,240 the brother, his brothers. And what he sees is so 285 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:01,080 interesting because look at, let's start on verse 16, just to 286 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:02,920 speed things up a little bit, right? 287 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,040 So David went back and forth to Saul's camp. 288 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:11,280 This is verse 15. But look at 16 says For 40 days 289 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:15,480 the Philistines came forward every morning and evening and 290 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:21,200 took this stand. So think about this for 40 days, 291 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:25,520 y'all. For 40 days the armies of Israel 292 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:29,880 went to line up to fight. For 40 days the Philistines came 293 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:34,480 out to fight. 40 days Goliath came up and said, send me your 294 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:35,560 champion. Send me your. 295 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,640 Boy, and if you guys lose, you're going to serve us and I'm 296 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:44,600 going to own you. 40 days this went down, but it gets worse. 297 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:49,360 It wasn't just for 40 days. The Bible says that Goliath did 298 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:52,640 it in the morning and in the evening for 40 days. 299 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:58,200 That's 80 times. And what the enemy does is the 300 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:02,880 enemy doesn't just inflict fear. The enemy continues to show up 301 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,760 and continues to message and continues to tell you and 302 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,079 continues to show you and continues to keep you in your 303 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:12,560 fear. And when you are kept in your 304 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:14,760 fear, your life becomes stagnant. 305 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:19,680 You don't move, you show up, but you don't do anything. 306 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:23,400 How in the world does this message come? 307 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,520 Think about what's the first thing you do when you wake up in 308 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,680 the morning? What's the first thing you do 309 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,680 when you go to bed at night? The enemy shows up. 310 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,240 The messages of fear and doubt. You know what if if you even if 311 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,440 you study the people that suffer with anxiety the most are 312 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,160 usually on their phones the most. 313 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:46,080 There is a correlation between depression and anxiety and with 314 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,320 you comparing your life to everything that you're watching 315 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:50,440 on social media. And some of you're like, well, 316 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,920 Ricky, I'm not on social media. Yeah, but you consume it. 317 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,320 And it keeps on coming. Think about all the stuff that 318 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,400 you're you're putting in your mind, the stuff that you're 319 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,920 allowing to get into your brain and your heart, the stuff that 320 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,240 you're you're allowing to consume you. 321 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:09,440 It's fear. And then you wonder why you 322 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,720 can't move. And the Israelites showed up 323 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:14,880 time and time again. Look at verse 20. 324 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,000 I read this and I'm like, bro, this is crazy to me. 325 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:21,320 Look at verse 20. Early in the morning, David left 326 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:25,120 the flock loaded up and set out as Jesse had directed. 327 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:28,200 He's just following when his dad told him he reached the camp. 328 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:32,840 As the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the 329 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,920 war cry, Israel and the Philistines were drawing up 330 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:41,280 their lines facing each other. David left his things with the 331 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,800 keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his 332 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:48,200 brothers how they were. And look what look, look at the 333 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:49,640 response. This is crazy. 334 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:54,200 Verse 23 And as he was talking to them, Goliath, the champion 335 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,880 came, stepped out from the battle line, shouted as usual, 336 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,360 defiance, and David heard it. And whenever the Israelites saw 337 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:04,480 the man, they all fled. From him and. 338 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:10,040 What fear bro they did this for 40 days. 339 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,960 So just because you show up to the fight doesn't mean that 340 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:18,680 you're effective. And what fear does is that fear 341 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:25,760 keeps you from being Kingdom effective, which meets #3 fear 342 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:31,080 makes you Kingdom ineffective. So when you become Kingdom 343 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:35,600 ineffective, when fear creeps in, all of a sudden your 344 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:40,320 obedience to God takes a hit. And instead of obeying God and 345 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,120 what he's calling you to, you play things safe. 346 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,720 You show up, but you don't show out. 347 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:52,400 You show up and you're like, I'm here thinking that everybody's 348 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:54,360 like, yay. But you do. 349 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:59,360 Absolutely nothing for the Kingdom and what God is calling 350 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:02,040 us to is something so much greater. 351 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,440 And God's like, I need you to obey me. 352 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:06,760 I need you to obey me. Listen, you got to get rid of 353 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,600 your fear and you got to start getting into your faith because 354 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:11,640 I'm calling you to something so much greater. 355 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,920 And if you still, if you're too scared to follow me, you could 356 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:15,520 show. Up. 357 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:17,200 But there's nothing that's going to happen. 358 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,440 The Israelites showed up and did absolutely nothing. 359 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,640 And I just felt like the Spirit told me, like, man, I got to 360 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,520 talk to us for a second. Because fleeing and passivity 361 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:32,080 are the same thing. And when we have men who are 362 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,680 passive and don't decide to do anything and we just sit there 363 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,280 and stare at the TV while your family's, it's just a mess. 364 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:44,120 Listen, you are fleeing. You are bound by fear. 365 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:49,160 And sometimes what scares us is because we don't. 366 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:53,520 Want people to know how much we're struggling, maybe 367 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,640 sometimes what scares us. Is that we do. 368 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,960 Need help and for some weird reason. 369 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,840 We don't ask, we don't run to the Father. 370 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:09,000 We think we could do it. We think we could control it, we 371 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,400 think we can handle it and all, all you're doing is being 372 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:16,040 passive. And being passive is the same 373 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,680 thing as being disobedient to what the Lord called you to. 374 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:24,200 As a man of the house, guys, we have got to operate outside of 375 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,360 our fear. And yes. 376 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:28,440 It is scary. Yes, it's hard. 377 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,480 And listen, we do the same exact things. 378 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,360 And even if we're in ministry, even for the Lord, we stay in 379 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:36,600 our boxes. We don't want to. 380 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,920 Grow. We don't want to move, we don't 381 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,680 want to do new things because we're scared. 382 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:48,000 Fear has crept into our lives. And God is like, no, I'm a 383 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,920 bigger God than this. I'm doing a new thing. 384 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,760 I want you to come to me. I'm not going to tell you 385 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,840 everything what it looks like. I need you to trust me. 386 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:02,000 Stop being scared. But the enemy is like, no, 387 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,880 Ricky, don't. They're going to laugh at you. 388 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,520 It's not going to work. People are going to dog you, 389 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,840 people better. You're going to go viral. 390 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,200 People are going to keep messing with you guys that that's a lie 391 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,880 from the enemy. Listen to what God is calling us 392 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,400 to. And you know how I see that 393 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,720 we're ineffective because Saul was so shook. 394 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,880 He did absolutely nothing to the point where Saul was like, I 395 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,560 want somebody to do it for me. Look what he does in verse 25. 396 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,640 Now the Israelites have been saying, do you see how this man 397 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:37,240 keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. 398 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,760 The king. Look, look, look what Saul 399 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,600 offers. The king will give great wealth 400 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,960 to the man who kills him. He will also give him a daughter 401 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,000 in marriage. And this is the best part right 402 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,400 here. He will be exempt from family. 403 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,760 Him and his family will be exempt from taxes for the rest 404 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,600 of their lives. Sign. 405 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:56,800 Me up. What do I got to? 406 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,880 What do I got to go do right? No taxes. 407 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:06,880 What crazy. So what is Saul offering? 408 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,080 Saul's like? Dude, I, I got to, I'm getting 409 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,720 desperate here. It's been 40 days, man. 410 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:12,920 You have one of my daughters in marriage. 411 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,520 That means that you are in the family. 412 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,400 That means that the throne is yours, man, I will give you 413 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,280 great wealth. I'm going to hook you up. 414 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,200 But also, man, you're not going to pay taxes. 415 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,320 You have a free ride the rest of your life. 416 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:33,320 Sounds pretty good. And then they kept in and then 417 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,160 verse 27 says they kept repeating this. 418 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,920 They repeated to him what they have been saying to and told him 419 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,040 this is what will be done for the man who kills him. 420 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,520 Pretty good. So David is like, wait a second, 421 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,360 David's starting to see there's something wrong here. 422 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,160 How come this guy keeps coming up talking about Israel, the God 423 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,080 of Israel? Nobody's moving. 424 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,800 Saul is not moving. You guys are petrified in your 425 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,360 fear. What is happening? 426 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:04,200 And then just to summarize a little bit, David, he's like, 427 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,880 man, who's this uncircumcised philistine who keeps the. 428 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:08,960 Defining the armies of the living God. 429 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,240 Isn't it funny? David is the only one who brings 430 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,120 the theological lens to the to the picture. 431 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,600 He sees it beyond it. David's the only one that brings 432 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,120 the anointing to the situation. See, the problem is Saul. 433 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:24,840 He lost his anointing a few chapters. 434 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,320 Back when he rebelled against the Lord. 435 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,200 And it says that the presence of the Lord was removed from Saul. 436 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,520 So you know what's interesting? That when the presence of the 437 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,120 Lord is removed from things, fear creeps in. 438 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,600 And many of us are like, no, Ricky, it's the situation, it's 439 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,080 my environment. No, it's your relationship with 440 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:48,040 the Lord that took a hit. That's why you're stagnant in 441 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:49,480 your walk. That's why you're stagnant in 442 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,240 life. And that's why you're unable to 443 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,080 move in fear. And that's why your Kingdom 444 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,640 ineffective. But mostly, look at #4 that's 445 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,680 why. Your faith is shrinking. 446 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:03,320 Fear shrinks faith. Look what Saul says. 447 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,120 So David goes to Saul and he's like, man, listen, I'll take 448 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:08,440 him. I'm going to do this, man. 449 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,920 Like I could do this. And even David's brother 450 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,320 started. Hating on him a little bit 451 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:15,640 because this is his. Older brother, you know, when 452 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,040 like little bro goes to the older brother and like tries to 453 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,520 tell him something and older brother's like, man, I can't let 454 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,600 you show me up. He got kind of mad at him. 455 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,680 David's like, no, like I've done this before. 456 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:33,200 I protect sheep. So David, he goes to Saul, like 457 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,080 he gives this speech and they're like, hey, this guy named David, 458 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,320 he's going to take on this giant Saul. 459 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,800 We need a, We need to move. Like there's been 40. 460 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,960 Days already like this is not going anywhere. 461 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:50,120 Verse 32 David said to Saul, let no one lose heart on account of 462 00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:53,040 the Philistines. Your servant will go and fight 463 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,800 him. Here's David, little shepherd 464 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,840 boy. King Saul, don't lose heart. 465 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,000 Your boys got handled. I'm going to. 466 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,360 I'm going to take care of it. Y'all need a champion? 467 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,200 I got you. And how do we see Saul's faith 468 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:08,360 shrink? Because look what it says in 469 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:11,120 verse 33, Saul replied. You. 470 00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:14,400 Are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him 471 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:20,120 because you are a young man and he has been a warrior from his 472 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:23,960 youth. Saul's concern is not the size 473 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,480 of Goliath. Saul's concern is the 474 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,160 inexperience that David brings to the table. 475 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,760 Saul does not have faith in David. 476 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,480 No worse. Saul does not have faith in the 477 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,040 faith David has. No worse. 478 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,400 Saul does not have faith in the faith David has in the Lord that 479 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:46,160 he serves. Peel the onion back guys. 480 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:51,520 This goes deeper with Saul. His faith is shrunk, man fear 481 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:58,160 has creeped in so hard with Saul that his faith is like, so David 482 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:03,480 has to step in and then what Saul does Well, actually, you 483 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:04,600 know, I think this is pretty cool. 484 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:09,520 David and verse 34 and 35, David gives Saul his strategy for 485 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,440 defeating Goliath. Check this out. 486 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:12,160 This is so. Cool. 487 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,320 And I want. Us to remember this because when 488 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,800 David does defeat good life is going to make a lot of sense. 489 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,640 Look at their verse 34. But David said to Saul, Your 490 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,880 servant has been keeping his father's sheep. 491 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,840 When a lion or a bear came and carried off the sheep from the 492 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:31,360 flock, I went after it, I struck it, and I rescued the sheep from 493 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:33,480 its mouth. Three things. 494 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:39,000 I went after it, I struck it, and I rescued the sheep from its 495 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,600 mouth. And when it turned on me, you 496 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,760 know what I did? I seized it by its hair and I 497 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:51,440 struck it and I killed it. So I went after the enemy and 498 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,040 when the enemy comes after me, I do not run. 499 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,280 When the bear, when the lion, whatever it is, when it think 500 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,720 turns on me, I grab that thing by the hair and it's a mantle. 501 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:08,480 It's. A rug, and I don't know about 502 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,920 y'all, but this is the total opposite of fear. 503 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,280 Because what David is saying is like, man, I don't care. 504 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,000 Like this dude is nothing but a lion and a bear for me. 505 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,600 I've man, I've seen this. This is the same old story. 506 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:26,880 But David, David does something here that we need to understand 507 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,960 because look what he does. Let's keep reading. 508 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,760 Look at verse 36. Your servant has killed both the 509 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,960 lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine 510 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,920 will be like one of them because he has defined the armies of the 511 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,280 living God. This ain't about Israel. 512 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,320 This isn't about you, Saul. This ain't about me. 513 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:49,480 He's disrespecting my Lord. He's disrespecting the God the 514 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,960 the God who created it. David's bringing a theological 515 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,560 lens to this. And then check this out, verse 516 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,840 37. And the Lord who rescued me from 517 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,920 the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from 518 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,480 the hand of the Philistine. Listen, this ain't nothing for 519 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,400 my God, which leads me to the next one. 520 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,960 So I just talked about four things about that fear does to 521 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:11,760 us. But how do we fight fear? 522 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,080 Look at this. The your faithfulness to God 523 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:19,640 will put fear to rest. I love this because as David is 524 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,160 talking about the Philistine, as David is talking about Goliath, 525 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,680 as David is talking about what he's about to go face. 526 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,120 You know what he does? He doesn't talk about his skill 527 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,800 set. He doesn't talk about what his 528 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,760 armor is. He doesn't talk about like, Oh 529 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,120 well, I killed 50 bears last year. 530 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,040 You know what he does? He dresses the one that did it. 531 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,440 And listen, when fear creeps up in our lives and we start 532 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,400 feeling and we start shrinking, what we need to do is we need to 533 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,440 remind. Fear who our God is. 534 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,520 We need to talk, to talk to fear. 535 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,280 Like no, that's not from God. That's not from me. 536 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,840 I get this all the time. Like I'll start getting like 537 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,080 some thoughts or some things where I'll be like, Lord, that's 538 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,520 not from you. That's not from you. 539 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,720 Like man, why am I going to hit on my brother for it? 540 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:10,080 Like that's not from you. Like get out and you've got to 541 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,720 start doing that same thing, faithfulness to God. 542 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,360 When you put your faithfulness to God, start talking about the 543 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,280 faithfulness of the Lord, and that puts your fear to rest. 544 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:24,160 We also see this in Philippians. We talked about anxiety whenever 545 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,200 we have anxious thoughts. What are you supposed to do? 546 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,000 Pray. Exchange them? 547 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,600 Start talking about God and His greatness? 548 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,480 I got to go. So Saul is dressed, David in his 549 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,760 tunic. So Saul gives David all his 550 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,920 armor. He gives David his sword. 551 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,560 And David's like, I can't move like this because David 552 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,560 understands that what I'm about to go do, this fight that we're 553 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,880 about to throw down has nothing to do with my armor. 554 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,560 My hardware has nothing to do with anything. 555 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,360 It has everything to do with the God that's with me. 556 00:30:55,520 --> 00:31:00,800 So I'm going to show up the same way that God has gotten my back 557 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,880 in the past with my sling and my staff. 558 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,240 That's why I took off. That's why I took out the bears. 559 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,720 That's why I took the lion. And that's when we'll take this 560 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,560 Philistine because I'm not going to change. 561 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:18,680 So Fast forward, it's about to go down here comes David tail of 562 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:26,000 the tank, 5 foot 2125 weapons of choice staff slingshot, 5 563 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,240 stones. I love them. 564 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,880 Like why would he pick up five stones and with some of the. 565 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,640 What they were saying is that Goliath has five relatives. 566 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,160 So just in case your boys want to jump in, I got some for them 567 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:42,840 too. Like this shows David like he's 568 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,080 not scared. He's thinking ahead. 569 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,160 He's like, hey, your people want to jump in. 570 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,080 Once I'm done with him, I'm going to take them out as well. 571 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:56,640 I got 5. So Goliath shows up and David 572 00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,720 shows up and I love what happens here. 573 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:08,280 They meet each other. Verse 40 says then he took his 574 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,960 staff in hand, chose 5 some stones from the stream, put them 575 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,960 in his pouch and then he took put them in a shepherd's bag 576 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,280 with his sling in one hand. He approached the Philistine. 577 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:23,720 Look what David does. David does not wait for Goliath 578 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,600 to come and talk his slap his mess. 579 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,440 David's like, all right, I'm going let me go handle this real 580 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,000 fast. David meets him out in the 581 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:38,960 battlefield and Goliath then shows up in verse 41 it says 582 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,640 meanwhile the Philistine was with his what shield bearer 583 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,440 which was in front of him. He kept coming closer to David. 584 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,800 David's waiting Goliath is showing up with all his armor, 585 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,800 but he has a little. Cheat code with him. 586 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,600 It's called the shield Bearer. And I was like, what's a shield 587 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,120 bear? Why does the shield bear show 588 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:00,320 up? Does this guy just hold his 589 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:05,240 shield? So there's a few thoughts behind 590 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:06,560 this. Some people were thinking that 591 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:12,360 Goliath had terrible eyesight. And if you look at people that 592 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,560 are really tall or enormous growth, usually there's 593 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:19,480 something that happens in their pituitary gland that causes them 594 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:23,040 to grow. And one of the side effects is 595 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:24,000 vision. Loss. 596 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,000 So some people were saying that that the shield bearer helped 597 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,960 Goliath with his vision, but honestly, I did more digging. 598 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,840 Shield bearers are crucial to military formations, 599 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,760 particularly those that are involving with Spears and 600 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,360 spikes. Goliath had a javelin and a 601 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,080 spear. This was normal and they would 602 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,240 protect themselves and others around them with their shield. 603 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,200 He wasn't just holding the light shield for him, he was also 604 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:58,680 helping protect Goliath as well. A handicap match that's two on 605 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,960 one. But you know what? 606 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,520 David showed up with somebody too. 607 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,480 Because look at #6 David. Goliath had his shield bearer, 608 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,360 but David had his strength sustainer. 609 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,480 So so Goliath shows up and he has a shield bearer, little 610 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,679 like, little additive. And David's like, that's cool 611 00:34:17,679 --> 00:34:19,960 because I got the one that's going to sustain my strength. 612 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,320 He's the one that's going to sling this rock for me. 613 00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:26,199 He's the one that's going to knock this Goliath out. 614 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,280 It's not going to be me. So David shows up to the 615 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:34,920 battlefield and then the trash talking begins because this is 616 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,320 what Goliath does. Remember when fear, He's going 617 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,280 to try to infuse fear. So look at verse 42. 618 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,880 I got to run all right. He looked David over and saw 619 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,880 that there was little more than a boy glowing with health and 620 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:53,080 handsome, and he despised them. He said to David, Am IA dog, 621 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:54,639 that you come with me with sticks. 622 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,920 And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 623 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:03,320 Goliath was insulted that there was some little kid, but what 624 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:07,640 Goliath said was actually true because Goliath is like am IA 625 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,440 dog and David's like yes, I'm about to shush you. 626 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,480 Away dogs in those times were nuisance. 627 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,320 So it's amazing. Like even what Goliath was 628 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,520 saying, God was showing us. So Goliath begins the 629 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,760 psychological battle. Come here, he said. 630 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,080 And I'll give you I'll give your flesh to the birds and to the 631 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,280 wild animals. Now listen, David was not like 632 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,040 Saul. David was not like the 633 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,080 Israelites. You know what David does? 634 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:41,760 David talks Mag back because the next thing how you want, you 635 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,040 want all you confront. Fear. 636 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:47,120 You confront fear with faith. That's what you do. 637 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:51,840 You confront fear with faith. How do we know that? 638 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,400 Because when David showed up and Goliath starts talking all this 639 00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:00,560 mess and starts to dog him out, look what David said to the 640 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,960 Philistine verse 45. You come against me with the 641 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,080 sword and the spear. I come against you in the name 642 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,720 of the Lord Almighty and God of the armies of Israel, whom you 643 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:12,760 have defiled to this day. I will deliver you into the 644 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,200 hand, into their hands, and I will strike you down. 645 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,640 I'll cut off your head this very day. 646 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,360 I will give your carcasses to the Philistine army, to the 647 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,800 birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that 648 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:30,600 there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will 649 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,920 know that it is not by sword or spear that the God that the Lord 650 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,440 saves for the battle is the Lord's. 651 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:42,480 And He will give you, and He will give all of you into our 652 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:46,760 hands. So David is like, no, no, no, 653 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,640 no, you're not that, that fear ain't going to play with me. 654 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:53,000 So listen, when fear starts to creep into your life, you're 655 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,880 confronted with your faith. When you start becoming scared, 656 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,240 you're like, no, I'm not, I'm no God. 657 00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:02,520 God took care of me. Let I remember when the Lord, I 658 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,440 didn't have anything and he came through. 659 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,040 I was in trouble and God bailed me out. 660 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,080 I was alone and and he made, he brought people into my life. 661 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,480 I didn't have a job and he provided me for me. 662 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,040 Fear, creeps, sin, God's calling you to something. 663 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:24,320 You you reply in faith, you confront it in faith, you fight 664 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,160 it in faith. And then what ends up happening 665 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,760 to Phillip, verse 48? The Philistine moved closer to 666 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,360 attack him. David ran quickly toward the 667 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:36,280 battle line to meet him. David took his bag. 668 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,960 He flung his stone, hit him right in the forehead and he 669 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,640 fell down on the ground. It was funny they never 670 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:50,400 mentioned the shield bearer. He was probably like, we're 671 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,960 moving on too fast. David ran at that guy. 672 00:37:55,200 --> 00:38:01,480 Wow. Out exactly that ground price 673 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:08,000 shook 8.8 earthquake in Russia. I'm joking, all right, so y'all 674 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,320 watch the news, all right, cool. But but there's something that 675 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,960 happens here. So David triumphs verse 50 over 676 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,920 the Philistine with a sling and a stone without a sword in his 677 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,400 hand. He struck down the Philistine 678 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,640 and he killed them. You know, when God's involved in 679 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,880 something, it makes absolutely no sense. 680 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,880 How in the world did you get what happened? 681 00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:34,400 God? But I love verse 51. 682 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,600 This is awesome. Right here, verse 51. 683 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:43,320 David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine 684 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,280 sword. He drew it out of the the. 685 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,000 Sheath probably huge sword after he killed him. 686 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,880 OK, Goliath is already dead. He took. 687 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:57,440 The sword and he chopped off his head with the sword because 688 00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,360 that's how David was trained to kill those who come after his 689 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,720 sheep. Remember he talked about in 690 00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:06,480 verse 34, when they come at me, I grab him by the hair and I 691 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,480 kill him. I love that man. 692 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:14,200 That's so cool. You know, And there there was 693 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:21,560 AUFC fight George Massidov versus Ben Askren UFC 239 and 694 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,960 George Massidov like they, they've been talking smack. 695 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,840 To each other going at it and this fight, George Massidov as 696 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,400 Ben Askren, he's a wrestler as he comes at him, George and you. 697 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,720 And remember we talked about getting in the head, getting in 698 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:36,160 his head. He came at him, he did a flying 699 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:40,960 knee, popped them in the head. One of the fastest knockouts in 700 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:44,920 UFC history. But when people knew about the 701 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,960 fight was after George knocked out Ben Askren. 702 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,720 George got on top of him and socked them in the face three 703 00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:57,000 more times, and then the referee came in and broke it off. 704 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,360 And then in the press conference when they were interviewing 705 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,520 George, he said something that that went viral, like it was on 706 00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,520 people's T-shirts. It was everything the reporter 707 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,720 asked him. George, when he was knocked out, 708 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,440 you hit him a few more times. Was that really necessary? 709 00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:17,360 And he looks at them as he's eating pizza and he goes. 710 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:23,200 It was super necessary because my job as a fighter is to go 711 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:28,320 until the referee pulls me off. David wasn't necessary to cut 712 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:33,800 off his head. It was super necessary because 713 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:37,400 my job as a servant of the Lord is to go until God says no more. 714 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:42,720 And David cut his head off. And then through the rest of the 715 00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:48,080 story, it says that when they saw Goliath fall and David had 716 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,040 his head, the army of the Israelites ran and took the 717 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,200 battlefield and they chased the Philistines away. 718 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,400 And then the rest of the story talks about in verse 54 how 719 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,840 David took the Philistines head and he brought it to Jerusalem 720 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,480 and he put the Philistines weapons in his own tent. 721 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:10,800 But David don't fight with weapons like that. 722 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,760 David has a slingshot and a staff. 723 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,640 Why does it need all the other Philistines weapons? 724 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,160 Why does it need Goliath's head? Because this is the last point 725 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:21,960 right here. Because God will take your 726 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,120 greatest fears and he'll make them trophies. 727 00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:28,360 The stuff that like we're like Crowley, like we're, I'm scared. 728 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,400 Like, Lord, help me. And whenever we put our faith in 729 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,360 God and we shrink our fear, guys, like, remember that thing 730 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,080 you were scared of? Walk around with his head. 731 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,120 Be a testimony to me. You're walking around and you're 732 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,000 showing off. And it's not because of what you 733 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,040 did. It's what God did. 734 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:47,680 So Rick, how do we end this thing? 735 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:53,200 You know, I've, I've heard this sermon done many times and I and 736 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:57,600 I recall in 1996, we are in 95, probably earlier than that, we 737 00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,320 were at a camp called Ridgecrest. 738 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,960 It was like a youth camp and there was a somebody given the 739 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,440 sermon and usually when they talk about the story. 740 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,880 Of David and Goliath, they usually say something like this. 741 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:14,080 Goliath represents your problems and your fears, right? 742 00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,440 And you're David, and David is you. 743 00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:20,960 And your job is to kill your fears. 744 00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,400 So Goliath is your eating disorder. 745 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:24,920 You must kill. I mean, right. 746 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,520 It's like Goliath is like your anxiety and you must kill it 747 00:42:28,720 --> 00:42:30,760 and. Goliath is is like your 748 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,840 heartbreak and you must kill it. And the whole time it's like 749 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,440 this, this message, pump up speech that everybody's getting 750 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,560 riled up upon. And it's like, yeah, we got to 751 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,600 kill our Goliaths in life. And then there's sermons of 752 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,920 like, how do you kill the giants in your life? 753 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,240 And then like in my time, there was like a a come to the altar 754 00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:51,840 song, you know? And it was like like by Al 755 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:57,440 Denson, it was like, will you be the one to answer to the call? 756 00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,560 Will you stand right? And then there's a massive key 757 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:05,360 change and it's like, and I will be the one to answer to the 758 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,920 call. And everybody's at the front and 759 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,720 he's even this massive altar call because we love altar 760 00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:13,200 calls. You want to call? 761 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,520 Come to fight your giants, come to the front. 762 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,480 You want to follow Jesus, come to the front. 763 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,280 And if nobody's moving, you got to keep adding. 764 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:20,840 You want ministry? Come to the front. 765 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:22,840 Y'all want to go to Whataburger after this? 766 00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:24,000 Come to the front. I'm so good. 767 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:30,360 They're like, we gotta get people up here and then you go 768 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,200 to these. Places and it's this massive 769 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:33,800 pump up. Speech of Kill your. 770 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,240 Giants. But then you go home and I love 771 00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:38,280 what Tim Keller says. Tim Keller says I can't. 772 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,040 I ain't scared of nothing. Because when you're in places of 773 00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,720 high faith, it's easy to commit. It's easy to say things. 774 00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:47,040 But the reality hits when you go home. 775 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:50,800 So then you go home, and then you face friends that mock your 776 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:56,000 allegiance to God. You find yourself alone in your 777 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,240 room after you promised that you were going to kill the giant of 778 00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:02,280 pornography. If you tell God like Lord I feel 779 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:03,840 like I shouldn't be in this relationship. 780 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,200 You get home and that girl like gives you like her whole love 781 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,000 story. So instead of will you be the? 782 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,000 One, it's all my life. You're just like. 783 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,160 I'm supposed to break up with you. 784 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:18,960 And we fall and, and it, it begins to pile up on us, and our 785 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,120 temptations easily begin to assault us. 786 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:26,920 And the problem is not as easily fixable as we thought it was 787 00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,680 going to be. And fear creeps in and it begins 788 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,760 to mount. And yes, you could defeat 100 789 00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:36,240 Philistines, but there's always. One that you're not going to be 790 00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:42,680 able to win. And instead of David showing up, 791 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,920 giving you like a pump up, like you could do it, work harder, 792 00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,480 like you could do it, you could beat the the giants. 793 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,560 And I was like, man, you're not, you're not David. 794 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:55,120 We're not David. And he's like, man, I got five 795 00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:56,440 rocks. You're going to miss all five 796 00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:00,240 times. We're actually Israel in the 797 00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:04,160 story. Israel is the one who's scared, 798 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:08,120 who's cowering, who's who's breaking their own promises to 799 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,760 themselves. And what God does is that God 800 00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,080 does not send a cheerleader in David. 801 00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:19,600 God sends a substitute. And God says you can't do it, 802 00:45:20,720 --> 00:45:22,640 but I'm going to send someone who can. 803 00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:26,480 And that's why Jesus is the greater David. 804 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,080 David was from Bethlehem and listen, there was another from 805 00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:36,240 Bethlehem who showed up and stepped in our place to fight 806 00:45:36,240 --> 00:45:39,920 death and all of his cronies and all the Philistines and all the 807 00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:41,680 little deaths that we fight with. 808 00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,320 And instead of David going up to his room like you guys can do 809 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:47,120 it, you guys can do it, you could do it. 810 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:48,880 David's like, I'm going to do it. 811 00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,480 I got this guys. That's what Jesus does. 812 00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,600 And listen, we don't need a pump up speech. 813 00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,520 We don't need some emotional, no, we need a hero. 814 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,200 We need someone that's going to fight for us and listen, that's 815 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,680 someone. His name is Jesus and Jesus came 816 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:08,120 and he killed Goliath. He killed the Goliath in your 817 00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:09,960 life. He killed the Goliath of death. 818 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:13,480 So now we are empowered with the spirit of the. 819 00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,720 Hero. Where we now, whenever we feel 820 00:46:16,720 --> 00:46:20,200 attacked, we can use faith to fight our fear and send it home. 821 00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:24,000 Cut the head off of show it around and point everybody back 822 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,040 to Christ is the one who took it for us. 823 00:46:27,240 --> 00:46:30,600 So listen, how do I win a fight? How do I kill my own giants? 824 00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:32,480 How do I do it? Listen easy. 825 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,720 Don't even step in the ring. You go to the Father, you go to 826 00:46:35,720 --> 00:46:41,360 Christ, you let him do it and he will fight for us and he will 827 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,680 take our giants. He's like, I got you. 828 00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,960 All you have to do is trust me. That's how you fight and that's 829 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,160 how you slay your giants. And that's how you kill the 830 00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,200 Goliaths in your life. It's not you, it's him. 831 00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,320 And the faster you recognize that the. 832 00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:58,720 Easier it's going to be for you. Studies show that those who 833 00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:00,680 fight the hardest have been fought for. 834 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,840 And even when you study history, the Spartans, you know why the 835 00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:13,040 Spartans fought so hard? Because they had a king who went 836 00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,320 ahead in the battlefield. He didn't rule from the back. 837 00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,800 He ruled from the front. And when they saw their king 838 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,560 fighting for them, it took fear away. 839 00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,240 Guys, why do we fight hard? Like what how do how do we 840 00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:26,520 eliminate our sin? How do we not lose heart? 841 00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,600 We have a king who's fighting for us. 842 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:34,360 Hebrews 12. Fix your eyes on Christ, the 843 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,720 often perfector of our faith. Read Hebrews chapter 4 how 844 00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:41,160 Christ came in the flesh and he took flesh and He lived life. 845 00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,960 So that way He knows what we're going through and we could look 846 00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:48,520 to Him because He went first. So don't fight on your own. 847 00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:50,720 Give it to Christ. Let Him fight for you. 848 00:47:50,720 --> 00:47:54,480 And if you lose heart, understand John 1633, don't lose 849 00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:55,960 heart. They hated me first. 850 00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,040 But actually take heart because I've overcome the world and I've 851 00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,000 also overcome your Goliaths. We pray for us. 852 00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:04,560 And born of his.