1 00:00:00,460 --> 00:00:05,160 Morning everybody. It is my pleasure to introduce 2 00:00:05,170 --> 00:00:08,600 to you Rob Lodge, who's gonna be sharing the message with us 3 00:00:08,610 --> 00:00:12,650 today at this is Rob second time up here on the pulpit at Forest. 4 00:00:12,660 --> 00:00:15,830 You sharing a message with us. And I've had the pleasure of 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:18,840 getting to know Rob a little bit better over the last few months. 6 00:00:19,070 --> 00:00:21,560 I'm meeting with him every Thursday with Pastor John. 7 00:00:21,630 --> 00:00:24,640 And it's just so awesome to see the excitement that he has for 8 00:00:24,650 --> 00:00:28,540 the Word of God and just how he's taken on this new challenge 9 00:00:28,550 --> 00:00:31,880 of preaching with gusto and and an excitement for what he's 10 00:00:31,890 --> 00:00:34,950 discovering and learning. I'm excited to hear what he has 11 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,210 for us today and what what he's taken from from First Samuel 17. 12 00:00:38,220 --> 00:00:40,270 So I'm just gonna invite you up, Rob, and I'll pray for you 13 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:50,990 before you get started. Now, we thank you for Rob, thank 14 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,300 you for his willingness. To serve your church. 15 00:00:53,310 --> 00:00:57,010 In this way to be faithful to listening to what it is that 16 00:00:57,020 --> 00:00:59,060 you're speaking to him and and to. 17 00:00:59,070 --> 00:01:01,660 Us through your word. And to share that with us and 18 00:01:01,670 --> 00:01:04,700 Solo, we pray this morning with the words that come from his 19 00:01:04,709 --> 00:01:06,620 lips and the meditations of our heart. 20 00:01:06,630 --> 00:01:09,100 Be pleasing to you in Jesus name, Amen. 21 00:01:09,550 --> 00:01:10,880 Amen. Thank you, Jacob. 22 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:15,510 Morning everyone. They let me back up. 23 00:01:18,180 --> 00:01:25,050 Let's see. So if you've been reading along 24 00:01:25,060 --> 00:01:27,590 with Samuel, the book of Samuel this week, then you will have 25 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,610 read, we're going to be talking about a little bit this morning, 26 00:01:29,620 --> 00:01:33,050 David and Goliath. But I wonder what you think of 27 00:01:33,060 --> 00:01:34,610 with the David and Goliath story. 28 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:38,350 Some of it just got shared at the children's message, which is 29 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:40,550 completely right. It's often thought of with us 30 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,940 facing our giants, the tough times. 31 00:01:44,630 --> 00:01:46,970 Maybe you look at it from the Philistines point of view where 32 00:01:46,980 --> 00:01:49,420 they're trusting in this big physical force that's Goliath, 33 00:01:49,430 --> 00:01:52,500 and when it's gone they have nothing and they run away. 34 00:01:52,510 --> 00:01:56,690 So there's lots of lots of things in this story. 35 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,010 It's kind of got this mythological background to like 36 00:02:01,060 --> 00:02:04,200 I shared last time, I didn't grow up in church, but I still 37 00:02:04,210 --> 00:02:06,230 remember being told the David and Goliath story, right? 38 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,350 It was still one of those stories that gets told as a as a 39 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,380 means to help and to face the giants. 40 00:02:12,390 --> 00:02:15,930 But we're gonna look at it a little bit, maybe differently, 41 00:02:15,940 --> 00:02:19,750 but look at what I think I've found it really means. 42 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:23,390 And it means so much more. And, and even that I'm just 43 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,690 touching on some of this. There's so much in it that I 44 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:28,860 couldn't believe. So before we do, let's, let's, 45 00:02:29,390 --> 00:02:33,800 we'll pray. Lord, thank you for your word. 46 00:02:33,810 --> 00:02:36,080 Thank you for your spirit being with us here this morning. 47 00:02:36,090 --> 00:02:39,410 And we pray that it ministers to each one of us as we hear your 48 00:02:39,420 --> 00:02:43,250 words and it goes deep into our hearts, Lord, and we experience 49 00:02:43,260 --> 00:02:45,750 some more of you. Pray this in your name. 50 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:50,130 Amen. So 1717, you can turn there. 51 00:02:50,260 --> 00:02:52,790 It's the longest chapter in the book. 52 00:02:52,860 --> 00:02:55,590 Thanks, John. But we're not we're not going to 53 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:57,150 read it all, but I am going to go through it all. 54 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,330 So I'm going to go through fairly quickly, but I'll be 55 00:03:00,340 --> 00:03:04,430 reading certain verses of it. So the first half will do that 56 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,290 in the first half, like we're going to have an intermission. 57 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:10,070 There's no ice cream. We're not going to, but it is 58 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,980 roughly the first step. So we set the scene first. 59 00:03:13,650 --> 00:03:17,360 That starts the chapter, starts with the scene of the 60 00:03:17,370 --> 00:03:19,700 Philistines and the Israelites facing off. 61 00:03:19,710 --> 00:03:22,860 They're at the Valley of Ella. This is not the greatest 62 00:03:22,870 --> 00:03:25,040 picture, but that's a flat where the value is. 63 00:03:25,050 --> 00:03:27,790 That's a flat spot. Philistines on one side is the 64 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,100 lights are on the other. And there's a reason they're on 65 00:03:30,110 --> 00:03:32,960 this standoff. No one wants to take the low 66 00:03:32,970 --> 00:03:36,290 ground first. So they, they, whoever does is 67 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:37,660 going to have the most casualties, right? 68 00:03:37,670 --> 00:03:40,920 So they are watching each other, facing off. 69 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,550 There's a tactical moment here that needs to be resolved. 70 00:03:45,940 --> 00:03:50,830 So we meet Goliath as part of that, trying to resolve the 71 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,690 situation, which is called representative or champion 72 00:03:54,700 --> 00:03:56,930 warfare. Not totally unheard of. 73 00:03:56,940 --> 00:04:00,750 So one person has put forward, neither side wants to lose a ton 74 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,190 of casualties. Let's put our best guy forward 75 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,830 and if we will resolve our issue with that. 76 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:09,050 So it's not unheard of. This isn't a unique story. 77 00:04:09,060 --> 00:04:12,170 We've now of course, the Philistines want that and we'll 78 00:04:12,180 --> 00:04:14,990 talk about the size of Goliath in a second, but of course they 79 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,850 want that. So in this as we get in verse 80 00:04:18,860 --> 00:04:22,830 411, it describes really explicitly describes Goliath and 81 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:25,230 the size of him. It's not this, right? 82 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,530 So this is what I talk about the mythological size of Goliath. 83 00:04:28,580 --> 00:04:30,270 This is what I remember as a kid. 84 00:04:30,340 --> 00:04:32,910 He's not that big, but I'll just show you. 85 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,210 I've left my tape measure either you're going to help me out this 86 00:04:35,220 --> 00:04:39,160 in my coat pocket next to your mom and then you can come up the 87 00:04:39,170 --> 00:04:41,680 reality of his size doesn't need to be exaggerated. 88 00:04:41,690 --> 00:04:45,040 This is Robert Wadlow. He was the tallest man recorded. 89 00:04:45,110 --> 00:04:49,150 So obviously he probably sees recent memory and I, I decided 90 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,710 to bring a tape because I, you keep going that way and then 91 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:55,360 we're going to see we stay this way. 92 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:56,820 Hang on, hang on. Slow down, slow. 93 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,150 All right, let's try about there and see if we can get this to 94 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:07,410 stand up. So that is 9 feet. 95 00:05:08,630 --> 00:05:11,400 So when I looked up pictures of Robert Wadlow, there's a lot of 96 00:05:11,410 --> 00:05:13,700 fakes. So suddenly at this moment, I'm 97 00:05:13,710 --> 00:05:16,340 like, hang on, let's get a tape out and real and see what is 98 00:05:16,350 --> 00:05:18,140 actually the size. These are these are real 99 00:05:18,150 --> 00:05:20,380 pictures. So he was this big. 100 00:05:20,710 --> 00:05:23,140 Goliath was about half a foot taller. 101 00:05:23,290 --> 00:05:25,180 So my reason for showing. Thanks season. 102 00:05:25,190 --> 00:05:29,040 You're good. So it's huge, right? 103 00:05:29,050 --> 00:05:31,160 Like it's massive. You don't need to make it like 104 00:05:31,170 --> 00:05:33,140 the kids stories. This guy was a monster. 105 00:05:33,150 --> 00:05:38,100 It's it's huge, but it's real. It's not this mythological story 106 00:05:38,150 --> 00:05:39,780 where people can't grow to that size. 107 00:05:39,790 --> 00:05:41,580 They do. And just a couple of things I 108 00:05:41,590 --> 00:05:44,600 found out when looking at this guy, Robert Wadlow, it came with 109 00:05:44,610 --> 00:05:47,020 super strength. Like I didn't realize that as I 110 00:05:47,110 --> 00:05:51,000 picked up pictures when he was he turned 6 foot when he was 8, 111 00:05:52,300 --> 00:05:56,190 when he was, when he, I know when he was when he was 9, he 112 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,550 could carry his dad was about, well, he was 5 foot eleven. 113 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,150 I'm not quite there. I'm under 5 or 10. 114 00:06:00,220 --> 00:06:02,710 He could carry his dad up the stairs of his house. 115 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,110 So it came with this strength. He was still growing. 116 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,890 The only reason Robert died actually was he got an infection 117 00:06:08,940 --> 00:06:10,720 in his foot and it turned septic and he died. 118 00:06:10,730 --> 00:06:14,280 But so I never knew any of that. It did come with this, with this 119 00:06:14,290 --> 00:06:19,050 strength. So anyway, Goliath was roughly 120 00:06:19,060 --> 00:06:24,100 that size, a little taller, big guy and a a warrior, their 121 00:06:24,110 --> 00:06:26,630 champion. So he comes out each day. 122 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,730 Let's read this bit versus 8 to 11. 123 00:06:29,740 --> 00:06:32,930 We're gonna read. Goliath stood and shouted to the 124 00:06:32,940 --> 00:06:36,010 ranks of Israel. Why do you come out and line up 125 00:06:36,020 --> 00:06:37,990 for battle? Am I not a Philistine and are 126 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,260 you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come 127 00:06:41,270 --> 00:06:43,510 down to me. If he is able to fight and kill 128 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:44,990 me, we will become your subjects. 129 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,910 But if I overcome in and kill him, you will become our 130 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,330 subjects and serve us. Then the Philistine said this 131 00:06:51,340 --> 00:06:55,470 day I defy the armies of Israel. Give me a man and let us fight 132 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,680 each other. On hearing the Philistines 133 00:06:57,690 --> 00:07:00,960 words, Saul and the Israelites were dismayed and terrified. 134 00:07:02,850 --> 00:07:06,240 So this is what's happening each day in in this standoff. 135 00:07:06,330 --> 00:07:09,340 He walks out into the valley and does this right. 136 00:07:09,510 --> 00:07:12,080 We then get to meet David in this story. 137 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,730 It explains his role. So his role at this point is 138 00:07:16,740 --> 00:07:20,950 he's a shepherd for his dad, Jesse, and he's going back and 139 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,670 forth to Saul. He's been picked by Saul. 140 00:07:23,980 --> 00:07:27,030 If you've been reading this this week, like yours should be, then 141 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,730 you know some of this. He's been picked to go and play 142 00:07:30,740 --> 00:07:32,780 music for soul as well. So he's going back and forth. 143 00:07:32,790 --> 00:07:35,070 Whether he's doing that at the battle lines or not, I don't 144 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:37,350 know. But this is basically his role 145 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:42,410 at the moment. So 40 days is explained that 146 00:07:42,420 --> 00:07:46,030 Goliath is doing this thing, coming out and defying Israel, 147 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,370 defying their God, defining them as people. 148 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,330 For 40 days we go back to David and where his father sends him 149 00:07:52,340 --> 00:07:54,630 to the front with supplies for his brothers. 150 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,510 So the history there is people fighting for the king. 151 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,690 At that point, they didn't get supplies, so they had to bring 152 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:03,240 their own. So it makes complete sense that 153 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,510 here we are just over a month. They need some more food. 154 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:11,340 So David gets sent by his dad. Take this food to your brothers 155 00:08:12,420 --> 00:08:15,410 then explains that David ran to the to the battle lines. 156 00:08:15,420 --> 00:08:18,990 Now whenever it talks about David moving in this, he's 157 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,350 running like every time it talks about he's running. 158 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,810 We'll see that in other times here, but so he ran to the 159 00:08:24,860 --> 00:08:28,880 battle lines and then ran to the frontline to see his brothers. 160 00:08:28,890 --> 00:08:32,220 So he put the supplies with the supply keeper and then ran to 161 00:08:32,230 --> 00:08:35,730 see his brothers. And he gets to see he went early 162 00:08:35,740 --> 00:08:37,659 in the morning. So Glife was doing this twice a 163 00:08:37,669 --> 00:08:38,980 day. He was doing this in the morning 164 00:08:38,990 --> 00:08:41,570 and in the evening. David shows up early in the 165 00:08:41,580 --> 00:08:45,150 morning and he gets to see this Goliath walk out. 166 00:08:45,810 --> 00:08:50,460 Defy everybody. Um, and David has something to 167 00:08:50,470 --> 00:08:52,610 say about this. And this is where we hear 168 00:08:52,980 --> 00:08:55,410 David's voice for the first time in the Bible. 169 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,870 We are on verse 26. Let's read this, it's a good 170 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,150 one. David asked the men standing 171 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:02,970 near him. What will be done for the man 172 00:09:02,980 --> 00:09:05,450 who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from 173 00:09:05,460 --> 00:09:07,790 Israel? Who is this uncircumcised 174 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:11,120 Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? 175 00:09:12,510 --> 00:09:16,890 So David clearly sees Goliath in a different way than everyone 176 00:09:16,900 --> 00:09:19,770 else has so far. He's got this very matter of 177 00:09:19,780 --> 00:09:23,140 fact way of stating that. And it will see it again with 178 00:09:23,150 --> 00:09:26,570 the way he talks. He's not after the reward. 179 00:09:26,580 --> 00:09:28,690 He talks about what will the man get? 180 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:33,600 Who, who defeats this guy? But he's not saying he wants 181 00:09:33,610 --> 00:09:35,550 that reward. He's he's he's kind of almost 182 00:09:35,560 --> 00:09:37,430 mocking them. He's not meaning to. 183 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,250 He's just got this matter of fact way of saying, who is this? 184 00:09:40,260 --> 00:09:45,100 Why hasn't this been dealt with? This is not OK, but no one's 185 00:09:45,170 --> 00:09:47,220 dealing with it. But he doesn't see the threat 186 00:09:47,230 --> 00:09:51,160 the same way as the others are. You know, he says he's defined 187 00:09:51,170 --> 00:09:55,550 the army of the living God. So at this moment, David's 188 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:58,300 there. He's his eldest brother, Eliab. 189 00:09:58,610 --> 00:10:02,310 Here's David and roast him. Let's look at that verse 28. 190 00:10:04,350 --> 00:10:07,530 When Eliab, David's oldest brother, heard him speaking with 191 00:10:07,540 --> 00:10:10,860 the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, Why have you come 192 00:10:10,870 --> 00:10:12,900 down here? With whom did you leave those 193 00:10:12,910 --> 00:10:16,440 few sheep in the wilderness? Those few sheep is mocking like 194 00:10:16,830 --> 00:10:19,950 sarcasm. Go and look at those few sheep. 195 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,270 You're not needing. You're no one. 196 00:10:22,530 --> 00:10:24,420 With whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? 197 00:10:24,430 --> 00:10:27,410 I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is. 198 00:10:27,420 --> 00:10:30,480 You come down only to watch the battle conceited. 199 00:10:30,550 --> 00:10:32,360 I'm not good with words. Like to look that one up. 200 00:10:32,410 --> 00:10:38,040 It basically means smug, right? It's but his his arrogance or 201 00:10:38,050 --> 00:10:40,390 his perceived arrogance by Eliab. 202 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:43,090 It's that same matter of fact where you talks. 203 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:49,250 It's he sees his matter of factors as arrogance and not for 204 00:10:49,260 --> 00:10:51,930 what it is. Not this blatant trust in 205 00:10:51,940 --> 00:10:53,670 guarding that they don't see it that way. 206 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:55,110 His brother doesn't see it that way. 207 00:10:57,750 --> 00:11:03,180 So David is speaking with the guys in that area. 208 00:11:03,250 --> 00:11:06,280 They go and report to Saw what has happened and this is verse 209 00:11:06,290 --> 00:11:08,500 32. Now when he gets taken up to 210 00:11:09,180 --> 00:11:12,750 Saw, verse 32, David said to Saul, let no one lose heart on 211 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,000 account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight 212 00:11:15,010 --> 00:11:18,590 him. So clearly thinks this is a 213 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,200 joke. He's a boy. 214 00:11:20,210 --> 00:11:22,650 He tells him that you're a youth, what can you do? 215 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,540 And then again, in this same matter of fact way, David tells 216 00:11:27,550 --> 00:11:30,690 him what he's done, but not what he's done, but what he's done 217 00:11:30,700 --> 00:11:35,160 with God by him where he has fought off lion and bear, not to 218 00:11:35,170 --> 00:11:38,060 brag, not in this great guy who goes and kills lions and bears. 219 00:11:38,130 --> 00:11:40,740 And he summarizes that with verse 37. 220 00:11:40,830 --> 00:11:44,420 The Lord who rescued me from the power of the lion and the power 221 00:11:44,430 --> 00:11:47,320 of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine. 222 00:11:47,550 --> 00:11:52,540 It's just the fact he's just saying the fact this is God save 223 00:11:52,550 --> 00:11:53,660 me from that will save me from that. 224 00:11:53,670 --> 00:11:57,380 Don't worry about it. It's it's so blatantly just this 225 00:11:57,390 --> 00:11:58,760 is how it is. Don't worry about it. 226 00:11:58,770 --> 00:12:01,280 So Saul agrees. He has to. 227 00:12:01,290 --> 00:12:03,630 He's gonna have a choice, right? No one else has come forward. 228 00:12:03,700 --> 00:12:05,580 If anything, Saul should have been the one. 229 00:12:05,590 --> 00:12:08,290 That's it, said previously. Saul is what, a head above 230 00:12:08,300 --> 00:12:09,870 everybody else. So he's obviously a big guy 231 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,720 himself, not big enough for Goliath. 232 00:12:13,610 --> 00:12:17,440 So David at this point, you know his brothers roasted him. 233 00:12:17,490 --> 00:12:19,600 Saul is not. No one is on his side. 234 00:12:19,610 --> 00:12:22,360 No ones saying good for you David, let's go do it. 235 00:12:22,370 --> 00:12:29,840 No one but David is clearly resolute in not allowing God to 236 00:12:29,850 --> 00:12:31,460 be dishonoured, let's put it that way. 237 00:12:32,450 --> 00:12:36,000 So Soul gives him his armor, he won't wear it, tries it on. 238 00:12:36,010 --> 00:12:37,780 I'm not used to this, doesn't wear it. 239 00:12:38,170 --> 00:12:40,640 So his staff in his hand, he gets his goes against his five 240 00:12:40,650 --> 00:12:43,720 smooth stones. There's nothing in the Bible by 241 00:12:43,730 --> 00:12:45,500 mistake. Every word in the Bible is for a 242 00:12:45,510 --> 00:12:47,660 reason. Even the smooth bit stones. 243 00:12:47,750 --> 00:12:50,430 I found this out. Smooth stones fly better. 244 00:12:50,470 --> 00:12:55,760 They're more accurate. So Goliath sees David, and this 245 00:12:55,770 --> 00:13:01,470 is a good one too. Verse 42 He looked David over 246 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:05,090 and saw that he was little more than a boy, glowing with health 247 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:07,310 and handsome, and he despised him. 248 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,360 We're not talking about Dave being a good looking guy, he is 249 00:13:10,370 --> 00:13:14,960 talking about him being a baby faced young youth with no battle 250 00:13:14,970 --> 00:13:20,080 scars. Goliath is insulted by being 251 00:13:20,090 --> 00:13:25,670 approached by this kid, where Goliath clearly is gonna win. 252 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:28,870 In his mind, he's not gonna get much glory from defeating this 253 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,990 kid. So it's not on about him being 254 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,820 handsome. It's on about him being, you 255 00:13:33,830 --> 00:13:36,830 know, clean face, baby face. He's not a warrior. 256 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:37,970 He's not a fighter. What are you? 257 00:13:37,980 --> 00:13:39,310 What are you putting in front of me here? 258 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,930 So then David goes back at him with verse 45. 259 00:13:44,980 --> 00:13:48,430 David said to the Philistine, You come against me with sword 260 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,040 and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of 261 00:13:51,050 --> 00:13:54,850 the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you 262 00:13:54,860 --> 00:13:58,130 have defied this day. The Lord will deliver you into 263 00:13:58,140 --> 00:14:00,800 my hands, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. 264 00:14:03,010 --> 00:14:08,560 Pretty pointed. So he says All we'll know, 265 00:14:08,610 --> 00:14:09,620 right? All we'll know. 266 00:14:12,650 --> 00:14:17,740 And then David we hear runs for the Oh no, let's read first 48 267 00:14:17,750 --> 00:14:20,450 as well. As the Philistine moved closer 268 00:14:20,460 --> 00:14:23,220 to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet 269 00:14:23,230 --> 00:14:24,020 him. He's running again. 270 00:14:24,060 --> 00:14:25,400 This is the third time we've seen him running. 271 00:14:25,410 --> 00:14:27,090 Whenever he's in movement, he's running. 272 00:14:27,420 --> 00:14:29,140 Got nothing to say about that. He just runs a lot. 273 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,060 He doesn't hesitate. Let's, let's go. 274 00:14:32,070 --> 00:14:33,210 We'll give that. Let me give that. 275 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,730 SO there's this. We're like 3/4 through the 276 00:14:37,740 --> 00:14:41,370 chapter at least and then it's all been leading up to this 277 00:14:41,380 --> 00:14:45,350 battle and it's over and adverse like it's it's quick as the 278 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:46,590 first time we've close to attack him. 279 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,020 David ran quickly toward the battle line to me and reaching 280 00:14:49,030 --> 00:14:51,970 into his bag and taking out a stone he slung. 281 00:14:51,980 --> 00:14:53,990 It struck the Philistine in the forehead. 282 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,820 The stone sank into his Ford and he fell face down on the ground. 283 00:14:57,590 --> 00:14:58,970 Now. Yeah, now you can show it. 284 00:14:58,980 --> 00:15:00,500 So this is a slingshot. Watch this. 285 00:15:01,150 --> 00:15:05,250 It's not a real head because you get in slow motion too. 286 00:15:09,250 --> 00:15:13,970 So that's a shepherd's sling. So that's what probably David 287 00:15:13,980 --> 00:15:16,610 would have been using. Those things can fly like they 288 00:15:16,620 --> 00:15:18,610 can fire us down 150 mile an hour. 289 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,190 It's insane. Anyway, there's lots of that 290 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:22,180 online. You can look at that later. 291 00:15:23,730 --> 00:15:26,270 There's all sorts of competitions not killing, 292 00:15:26,330 --> 00:15:34,040 they're just targets, targets. Um, so the point that it's over 293 00:15:34,050 --> 00:15:35,840 in a flash, it's over in one verse. 294 00:15:36,540 --> 00:15:39,850 If any of you been watching The House of David, I I haven't 295 00:15:39,860 --> 00:15:43,710 really, but I did watch the two episodes on David and Goliath 296 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,090 just to see if there was anything in there and I was kind 297 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:48,940 of disappointed. It's very, I get it, it's 298 00:15:48,950 --> 00:15:52,190 Hollywood stuff. But the whole moment where David 299 00:15:52,260 --> 00:15:59,210 approaches Goliath is made into this long drawn out slow motion. 300 00:15:59,250 --> 00:16:02,090 Goliath manages to get away 3 Spears at David while he's 301 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:04,220 running towards him. David dives out the way in slow 302 00:16:04,230 --> 00:16:07,200 motion of course, and then he gets hit by 1, he gets knocked 303 00:16:07,210 --> 00:16:08,980 out. And then this whole tense 304 00:16:08,990 --> 00:16:12,990 moment, is he going to can't get up in time to get like like none 305 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,490 of that happened? None. 306 00:16:14,620 --> 00:16:16,390 That's not the point of the story. 307 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,690 The story was that it was 1 stone out of the five is all he 308 00:16:19,700 --> 00:16:25,210 needed right? It was quick and then he goes 309 00:16:25,220 --> 00:16:26,950 and cuts off his head. We'll talk about that later. 310 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,420 And then Israel surged forward, and because of David's victory, 311 00:16:32,890 --> 00:16:36,020 they pursued the Philistines. Bearing in mind Goliath had said 312 00:16:36,030 --> 00:16:38,560 they would be their servants. Clearly not. 313 00:16:38,650 --> 00:16:41,080 That was a lie. So they decided to run away 314 00:16:41,090 --> 00:16:42,290 instead. They weren't going to be the 315 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:45,560 Israelites servants. Israel surged forward, 316 00:16:46,110 --> 00:16:50,860 slaughtered them and plundered the camp, and that's basically 317 00:16:50,870 --> 00:16:53,300 the whole chapter of David was taking us all. 318 00:16:53,310 --> 00:16:57,670 After that, all this had happened, so we're kind of gonna 319 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:02,140 go back through that. That's the summary of the story. 320 00:17:02,190 --> 00:17:04,050 First half, however, pretend you've had your ice cream. 321 00:17:06,650 --> 00:17:08,260 So look at it. This there's gonna look at it 322 00:17:08,270 --> 00:17:11,040 slightly different way. Let's just hear these few facts. 323 00:17:11,050 --> 00:17:12,819 And who would you say I'm talking about? 324 00:17:12,910 --> 00:17:15,530 I know you'll get it, but they're born in Bethlehem. 325 00:17:16,930 --> 00:17:17,960 Came. Sorry I gotta drink. 326 00:17:17,970 --> 00:17:23,410 I have sore throat this morning. Came from obscurity, lowly and 327 00:17:23,420 --> 00:17:27,670 profession. Rejected by mankind, despised by 328 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,090 his brothers. Weaken the eyes of Israel's 329 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:35,390 shepherd, sent by his father on a mission and defeated the enemy 330 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,300 with his own weapon. You've just heard the story, so 331 00:17:38,310 --> 00:17:40,030 you know we're talking about David, but we're talking about 332 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:42,870 Christ. The parallels are just 333 00:17:42,940 --> 00:17:45,510 incredible. And we're gonna walk through 334 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:46,960 some of them. Like there's too many. 335 00:17:47,020 --> 00:17:49,020 It's, it's crazy. And I've listened to some stuff 336 00:17:49,030 --> 00:17:52,430 and like, my goodness, we'll do a bit as much as we can here, 337 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:56,980 but I'll try and roughly go through the story as we do some 338 00:17:56,990 --> 00:17:58,500 of that. But I might jump around a little 339 00:17:58,510 --> 00:18:00,730 bit. So the first thing is the 340 00:18:00,740 --> 00:18:04,680 Goliath being like serpent. Like we've got a picture of his 341 00:18:04,690 --> 00:18:06,720 armor. It describes his armor and it 342 00:18:06,730 --> 00:18:11,820 was scales. So it, it was, you know, again, 343 00:18:11,830 --> 00:18:13,270 that's not a mistake. There's not. 344 00:18:13,930 --> 00:18:16,300 It was serpent like it was for a reason. 345 00:18:16,310 --> 00:18:19,950 The the devil, that Satan the enemy, is often described in the 346 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:25,750 Bible as being the serpent. The couple of scriptures there 347 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:28,550 that define that. There are more you can search, 348 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:31,530 and there's more. The snake was more crafty than 349 00:18:31,540 --> 00:18:33,740 any of the wild animals. You will crawl on your belly and 350 00:18:33,750 --> 00:18:35,690 you will eat the dust. The days of your life. 351 00:18:35,780 --> 00:18:41,400 He will crush your head. Well, isn't that what happened? 352 00:18:41,410 --> 00:18:43,070 Right? That's exactly what happened. 353 00:18:43,730 --> 00:18:46,200 This was talking about Christ, but this is what David did. 354 00:18:46,210 --> 00:18:50,210 He crushed his head and Goliath fell face down, belly on the 355 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,530 ground with his face in the dust. 356 00:18:56,270 --> 00:18:57,880 Verse 12, They're born in Bethlehem. 357 00:18:57,930 --> 00:18:59,900 You know the parallel there. They were both born in 358 00:18:59,910 --> 00:19:02,070 Bethlehem. We say shepherd. 359 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,370 David was a shepherd. Jesus was the Good Shepherd, the 360 00:19:04,380 --> 00:19:09,140 shepherd of men, but the Good Shepherd Goliath taunted verse 361 00:19:09,150 --> 00:19:12,850 16 the hat the and harassed the people of God for 40 days. 362 00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:15,200 Again, it's not mistake 40 days is there? 363 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,830 Jesus was tested in the wilderness for 40 days. 364 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:27,270 The result? The end of that 40 days of trial 365 00:19:28,590 --> 00:19:30,960 ended with a battle with David and Goliath. 366 00:19:31,210 --> 00:19:34,680 Jesus 40 days of trial ended with a battle with him and 367 00:19:34,690 --> 00:19:38,710 Satan. They were both sent by their 368 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,730 father. David was sent with bread. 369 00:19:40,740 --> 00:19:42,780 We didn't talk about that. We said with bread and cheese, 370 00:19:43,010 --> 00:19:46,740 but he was sent with bread. Christ came, was sent by His 371 00:19:46,750 --> 00:19:52,250 Father as the bread of life, despised and rejected by men and 372 00:19:52,260 --> 00:19:54,680 their brothers. We've Isaiah 53. 373 00:19:56,100 --> 00:20:00,260 He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in 374 00:20:00,270 --> 00:20:01,730 His appearance that we should desire Him. 375 00:20:01,740 --> 00:20:04,710 He was despised and rejected by mankind. 376 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:08,070 A man of suffering, familiar with pain, like one from whom 377 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,090 people hide their faces. He was despised and we held him 378 00:20:11,100 --> 00:20:16,650 in low esteem. Again, talking about either one 379 00:20:16,660 --> 00:20:19,030 of them right? Like it's the same story. 380 00:20:19,100 --> 00:20:21,710 Not by sword or spear. The Lord saves is what David 381 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,410 said. And don't we know that about 382 00:20:24,420 --> 00:20:25,950 Christ? The Zealots, when Christ came 383 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:29,710 and they wanted him as a leader, they wanted they wanted to take 384 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,870 up arms and fight the Romans. But when Jesus came, no, this is 385 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,730 not how it is. We're not fighting evil with 386 00:20:35,740 --> 00:20:45,260 sword and spear. So the cutting off the head bit 387 00:20:45,270 --> 00:20:49,260 Goliath sword, Goliath sword glyphs own sword that he 388 00:20:49,270 --> 00:20:53,240 intended to defeat David with which at every anticipation he 389 00:20:53,250 --> 00:20:56,930 was going to kill David was used as the final blow against 390 00:20:56,940 --> 00:20:59,020 Goliath. Now we can assume he was already 391 00:20:59,030 --> 00:21:01,220 dead with a stone in his forehead. 392 00:21:01,370 --> 00:21:03,710 But David said this is what he was going to do. 393 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:09,060 And that's what he did, right? He cut off his head so the 394 00:21:09,070 --> 00:21:13,400 enemy's weapon was used to defeat him himself. 395 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:20,610 Jesus did the same thing. He used Satan's weapon against 396 00:21:20,620 --> 00:21:26,000 him to defeat him, saying his weapon was death and Christ 397 00:21:26,010 --> 00:21:30,560 defeated it, right? He used death against him. 398 00:21:30,570 --> 00:21:36,610 Satan destroyed Adam by using this tree in the garden, and 399 00:21:36,620 --> 00:21:41,130 Christ came back and used a tree, the cross, to defeat 400 00:21:41,170 --> 00:21:43,760 death. It's not a stretch. 401 00:21:43,770 --> 00:21:46,000 This isn't trying to make it fit right. 402 00:21:46,070 --> 00:21:49,320 It all goes together. It's the same story. 403 00:21:49,390 --> 00:21:52,540 And then of course, we've got this, what I mentioned at the 404 00:21:52,550 --> 00:21:56,080 beginning of this representative Warp warfare, this Champion 405 00:21:56,490 --> 00:22:02,630 Warfare 1 for the fate of all, one champion for the fate of 406 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,000 all. What if Goliath had won? 407 00:22:05,940 --> 00:22:08,390 What if, you know, then the Philistines, the Israelites 408 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,730 would be the Philistines slaves. So the whole of Israel was 409 00:22:12,740 --> 00:22:15,140 dependent on the victory over Goliath. 410 00:22:16,030 --> 00:22:20,460 David was there Victor for the whole nation. 411 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,190 Christ is our victor for the whole nation of believers. 412 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,890 Us. He's already being our victor. 413 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:38,730 So the interesting thing I've got out of this, as well as all 414 00:22:38,740 --> 00:22:42,470 that is we have the whole story. So we can see this story and we 415 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,860 know the ending. You can watch House of David and 416 00:22:44,870 --> 00:22:47,330 it can be all tense of slow motion, but you know the ending, 417 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,450 you know what's going to happen. The thing I feel I've really 418 00:22:51,460 --> 00:22:53,580 been spoken to this is, well, Satan didn't. 419 00:22:54,190 --> 00:22:58,290 He's not omniscient or knowing. He's not all knowing Goddess. 420 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:04,570 So when Goliath was put in front of the Israelite army, Satan was 421 00:23:04,580 --> 00:23:06,740 expecting victory. He wanted victory. 422 00:23:06,750 --> 00:23:09,580 He wanted to hurt God's people. He wanted to win that battle, 423 00:23:12,030 --> 00:23:15,920 but we know the ending, right? But little did see and know that 424 00:23:15,930 --> 00:23:19,070 this whole story, not only was he going to lose in the way he 425 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,760 did from a boy David, but this whole story was mapped out by 426 00:23:22,770 --> 00:23:26,080 God to show the victory to come. It's not a made-up story that 427 00:23:26,090 --> 00:23:29,560 was put in there to fit later. This is 1000 years before 428 00:23:29,570 --> 00:23:31,710 Christ. Already recorded, already 429 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:36,010 written down, already true. And then we can look at it and 430 00:23:36,020 --> 00:23:39,280 overlay it with the story of Christ victory and see the same 431 00:23:39,290 --> 00:23:42,400 thing. It's the same thing got David 432 00:23:42,410 --> 00:23:43,850 was called the priestly king right? 433 00:23:43,860 --> 00:23:49,490 Like this is this is the story. This is what the story of David 434 00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:56,200 and Goliath is, so I'm not taking away the kids message bit 435 00:23:56,210 --> 00:23:58,300 it's course. We can use it to defeat our 436 00:23:58,310 --> 00:23:59,680 giants and all those good things. 437 00:24:00,110 --> 00:24:03,750 It is that, but it's not to be seen as the bravery of David. 438 00:24:04,500 --> 00:24:07,510 David didn't talk that way. Like I said, it came across to 439 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,070 his brother, this arrogance that way. 440 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:12,280 It wasn't his bravery. It's nothing to do with his 441 00:24:12,290 --> 00:24:13,670 bravery. It was his faith. 442 00:24:13,940 --> 00:24:18,450 It was his faith and wanting to see God honoured, but more so 443 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:21,990 not wanting to allow God to be dishonoured, right? 444 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,850 He saw this dishonouring of God and like, no, this is not going 445 00:24:24,860 --> 00:24:27,530 to happen. God, what do you want me to do? 446 00:24:28,340 --> 00:24:30,570 He didn't go around criticizing anyone else for not doing 447 00:24:30,580 --> 00:24:31,810 anything. It was like, oh, what do I gotta 448 00:24:31,820 --> 00:24:35,960 do? So God's adequacy isn't the 449 00:24:35,970 --> 00:24:39,340 right strong enough word, but God's adequately adequacy was 450 00:24:39,350 --> 00:24:43,060 seen in David's weakness. It wasn't David's bravery, it 451 00:24:43,070 --> 00:24:52,430 was God's work. So then Goliath in this story, 452 00:24:54,750 --> 00:24:56,620 did I say good? I've I don't know if I did. 453 00:24:56,630 --> 00:24:58,880 Glyphs name is called the exposer. 454 00:24:58,890 --> 00:25:00,250 The real meaning is the exposure. 455 00:25:00,260 --> 00:25:01,750 Did I already say that? Thanks, Jacob. 456 00:25:02,910 --> 00:25:05,320 So that's what Goliath means. It's the exposure. 457 00:25:05,330 --> 00:25:07,360 So that's what he was doing. He was, you know, exposing 458 00:25:07,370 --> 00:25:09,350 Israel's weakness for those for those days. 459 00:25:10,340 --> 00:25:14,090 So the glyph in this story is not our personal problems like 460 00:25:14,100 --> 00:25:15,970 debt, fear, worry, those sort of things. 461 00:25:15,980 --> 00:25:19,970 It's it's not, it's sin, it's Satan, it's death. 462 00:25:19,980 --> 00:25:22,270 It's the things we don't have control over. 463 00:25:23,810 --> 00:25:26,820 It doesn't mean all those other things are true that we get to, 464 00:25:26,830 --> 00:25:29,480 you know, use God. But it's about the things that 465 00:25:29,490 --> 00:25:32,860 we can't defeat on our own. And we need a champion. 466 00:25:32,990 --> 00:25:36,720 We need Christ. We can't do it, so we need 467 00:25:36,730 --> 00:25:39,900 Christ. The Israelites couldn't do it, 468 00:25:39,950 --> 00:25:44,530 so God sent David. We can't do it, so we get 469 00:25:44,540 --> 00:25:46,340 Christ. He's already done it. 470 00:25:48,620 --> 00:25:51,670 So we're not David fighting our Goliaths with the Israelites on 471 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,200 the sidelines cheering them on, right? 472 00:25:54,490 --> 00:26:00,280 It's who we are in this story. We're watching our king. 473 00:26:02,170 --> 00:26:05,380 We've already had the victory. It's already been done. 474 00:26:06,770 --> 00:26:08,820 We don't have to cheer him on anymore. 475 00:26:08,830 --> 00:26:16,520 Such we It's done, it's done. Crisis paved the way for us to 476 00:26:16,530 --> 00:26:22,300 go into the world and we get to in that last one of the last 477 00:26:22,310 --> 00:26:25,580 verses we read 52 where they go in slaughter and plunder and we 478 00:26:25,590 --> 00:26:26,820 don't get to slaughter and plunder. 479 00:26:26,830 --> 00:26:29,790 Don't use those words as you go out and talk to non believers. 480 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:34,240 We're coming in slower, but we do get to follow and share his 481 00:26:34,250 --> 00:26:37,360 victory, right? That's what it's about. 482 00:26:37,370 --> 00:26:39,360 We get to see the victory and follow it. 483 00:26:39,650 --> 00:26:43,470 So then what does that mean? What does that mean? 484 00:26:43,530 --> 00:26:46,530 So living in victory, no condemnation. 485 00:26:46,540 --> 00:26:50,810 Romans 81 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who 486 00:26:50,820 --> 00:26:54,500 are in Christ Jesus. So we don't fight for victory, 487 00:26:54,510 --> 00:26:56,100 we're saying that we fight from it. 488 00:26:56,290 --> 00:26:59,050 It's very, very different. We're not. 489 00:26:59,060 --> 00:27:02,220 We do have battles, we do have these things going on, but it's 490 00:27:02,230 --> 00:27:05,390 already been won, so we've nothing to lose. 491 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,910 It's already done. The worldly problems that I 492 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,750 mentioned, we don't have to be David. 493 00:27:13,820 --> 00:27:16,440 We look at them that that battle has already been won. 494 00:27:16,450 --> 00:27:21,010 This is already done. When we fret or worry or fear, 495 00:27:21,140 --> 00:27:25,770 really we're taking out of God's hands and not diminishing, you 496 00:27:25,780 --> 00:27:28,470 know, we all three and worrying fear, that's what we do. 497 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,990 But when we do that is us taking it out of God's hands. 498 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,910 It's already done. We can we can give it to him. 499 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:40,200 We give it all, everything to him and then we leave it with 500 00:27:40,210 --> 00:27:41,810 him. So when we look back at these 501 00:27:41,820 --> 00:27:43,960 situations, and you know, I shared a bit when I was up last 502 00:27:43,970 --> 00:27:46,830 time, my situation a couple years ago, when we look back at 503 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,190 our desperate moments, when we look back at our challenging 504 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,780 moments, we don't look back and see that our courage or bravery 505 00:27:52,790 --> 00:27:56,250 was born out of us, do we? We see it was him, it was him 506 00:27:56,260 --> 00:28:01,240 that gave us the solution. So that's why we need to look at 507 00:28:01,250 --> 00:28:03,030 that when we look at things, when we're in it. 508 00:28:03,330 --> 00:28:05,840 It's his victory that's already been done. 509 00:28:06,820 --> 00:28:12,510 We can let go. The victory is in how He acted, 510 00:28:13,170 --> 00:28:16,630 not how we act. So what does that do to we? 511 00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:18,870 We live with our eyes fixed on the things of heaven. 512 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,250 Gives us a different perspective on all things. 513 00:28:22,340 --> 00:28:25,400 We just get to call on His victory at all times. 514 00:28:26,770 --> 00:28:30,400 Simple, right? It is. 515 00:28:30,410 --> 00:28:33,460 We make it more complicated, but it is His victory is done. 516 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:37,790 So I'll finish with the next scripture. 517 00:28:38,670 --> 00:28:41,300 Death has been swallowed up in victory. 518 00:28:41,310 --> 00:28:44,000 Where O death is your victory? Where O death is your sting? 519 00:28:44,490 --> 00:28:47,940 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 520 00:28:47,950 --> 00:28:52,230 But thanks be to God, He gives us the victory through our Lord 521 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,380 Jesus Christ. Amen.