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Familiar book, perhaps one of 
the most familiar stories world 

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over a scripture of David and 
Goliath, the first Samuel 

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chapter 17. 
And I've picked this up and put 

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this down a gazillion times this
week of of study in a particular

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verse I talked to my daughter 
about some of the finer points 

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in a trip that we had the other 
day. 

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Took her to about two hours away
for a song practice for overflow

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rally, a praise singing. 
Took my portable office and I 

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found me a Sunday school room in
that church for four and 

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eight-year olds and felt like 
that fit me and went in the room

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and turned it into a study area 
for a couple of hours while they

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were practicing and then touched
it and messed with it again last

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night. 
So I want to minister here this 

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evening. 
If we turn to chapter 17, I'm 

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going to read it just two verses
out of this very long chapter 2 

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verses, verse #50 and verse #51 
Somebody's already unhappy about

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this. 
I know it. 

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I'm just, so it's just pitiful. 
It's just I have that impact on 

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people. 
Sometimes I get behind a pulpit.

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They just start crying because 
they say we're going to have to 

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endure something here. 
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says So David prevailed over the
Philistine with a sling and with

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a stone, and smoked the 
Philistine, and slew him. 

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But there was no sword in the 
hand of David. 

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Therefore David ran and stood 
upon the Philistine, and took 

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his sword, and drew it out of 
the sheath thereof, and slew 

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him, and cut off his head 
therewith. 

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And when the Philistines right 
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they fled a little while. 
Tonight, help the Holy Ghost. 

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I need God's help every time I 
want to minister this. 

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The clash, the clash of heroes. 
The clash of heroes. 

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We ask the Lord to help us in 
the next few moments. 

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Father, I need you tonight. 
God, we're so thankful for your 

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word. 
It's forever settled in heaven. 

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The grass may wither and the 
flower may stay, but the word of

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God will stand forever. 
There's not one job or two of 

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your word that will not come to 
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God before the end, the Lord 
Jesus. 

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God, I pray, O Lord, minister to
us through tonight. 

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God, God equip our minds, Lord 
Jesus to understand our hearts 

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to accept God, what the Spirit 
would say in this place to see 

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that will not fail to thank you,
praise you for the lovely name 

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of Jesus Christ that I pray Amen
and Amen and the church say 

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Amen. 
You may be good to see different

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ones of you that wasn't able to 
be here this morning, be here 

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tonight, so and so forth. 
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mention heroes for sure in this 
modern day world, that word 

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alone may produce a variety of 
ideas just at the mention of it.

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Some may think from a standard 
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superhero, particularly today's 
world. 

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They might be drawn to the 
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such as Spider Man and Iron Man,
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Black Widow. 
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to those of the DC world, with 
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Woman and the Flash, Green 
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But for the Philistines in 
biblical times, for them it was 

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their Goliath. 
Our text calls him the champion.

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Out of the 56 Bible translations
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of the time he is referenced as 
the champion. 

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However, there are some other 
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27% of the time he is labeled as
the hero. 

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The hero, and we may be at on 
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David's side of the fence, to 
look at Goliath and describe 

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Goliath more so as a villain. 
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this. 
But to his people, he was their 

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hero. 
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embodied the values that the 
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He served as their role model. 
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Goliath gave the Philistines 
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challenges can be overcome and 
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a difference. 
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their hero, Goliath, they could 
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He was one of theirs. 
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develop qualities that he had 
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He was the face, if you will, of
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Their identity and their hope 
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identity. 
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central to the stories that the 
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themselves. 
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their hero in their stories. 
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warlike warriors, towering 
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reckoned with, which are all the
things that could likewise 

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describe Goliath. 
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won, the Philistines won. 
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you will, won. 
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him, and even in this moment, 
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Here he defined and sustained 
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he was their hero. 
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after the Israelites enter into 
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Philistine people became one of 
Israel's fierces and principal 

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rivals from the time of the 
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even to the time that we're 
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It was during the heir of the 
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Shamdar killed 600 Philistines 
in the time of sins and the 

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Bible says that the Philistines 
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therefore encompassing all the 
years that Samson was a judge of

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Israel when Samuel served as a 
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The Bible tells us that the 
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Philistines on several 
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They overcome the Ebenezer 
Shiloh that the Israelites had 

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was defeated. 
The Ark of the Covenant was 

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captured in a battle and passed 
between the towns and the cities

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of the Philistines. 
The Bible even says that as Saul

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was Israel's first king that he 
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battle with them. 
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reign. 
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text, there have been at least 2
centuries, 200 years of conflict

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between Israel and Philista, the
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typically dominated, where they 
typically controlled key areas, 

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where they typically were the 
ones that were oppressing God's 

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people. 
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skirmishes that Israel had with 
the Philistines have come to 

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stand as a a symbolism for the 
spiritual and physical struggles

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that God's people face and still
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Sometimes, and you'll understand
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sometimes we face adversities 
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We, we deal with foes of 
conflict that afflict our soul 

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and afflict our life. 
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the same ground that God wants 
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And The thing is, those foes of 
conflict doesn't want us to have

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them in God. 
And so they come along and they,

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they decimate our secure places 
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And they're very relentless in 
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They, they dominate, dominate 
us, they oppress us and it seems

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sometimes we are in need of help
for finding a refrain and, and 

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we dread sometimes their 
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because we know when they show 
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upward and a fight is going to 
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But the Bible gives us 
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The God Bible gives us guidance,
examples on how to fight and 

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what to do when we are 
overwhelmed by the opposition or

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in a position of war. 
The Bible says you have to ride 

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with me for a little bit here 
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First Kings 22 and verse 31. 
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Syria commanded his 30 and 2 
captains that had rule over his 

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chariot, saying fight neither 
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with the king Israel. 
They needed in this particular 

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battle to bring down the king. 
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destabilize the opposition, if 
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you want to cause disorder, then
you got to fight against the 

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military leader, you got to 
fight against the central figure

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of authority that they have. 
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soldier and you could fight 
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You could even fight the army, 
but it's not going to have the 

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same impact as fighting the 
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You can fight a private, you can
fight a general, you can fight a

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Lieutenant, but if you can fight
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commander in chief, that that 
one that is their symbol of 

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strength, that one that they 
consider the most powerful man 

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in their land. 
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those that follow him, those 
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lose their fight. 
They'll lose their resistance to

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carry on. 
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speaks of Saul and it speaks of 
Jonathan that they were 

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warriors. 
And the Bible says in Second 

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Samuel 119, that they, they had 
fell in battle, they had been 

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slain. 
And the, the, the lament is 

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this. 
The beauty of Israel is slain 

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upon the high places. 
How are the mighty fallen? 

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They were the chief ornaments, 
the Bible says, And the glory of

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Israel, their strength, and the 
use of their sword and bow, 

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excelled all the others in 
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They were respected. 
Saul himself is spoken as being 

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heads and shoulders among 
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He was esteemed above the 
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But these mighty too individuals
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They were taken down. 
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They were the ones of excellent 
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Amen. 
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into a time of grief and 
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These people were considered, if
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They embodied their people's 
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They embodied their people's 
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And they were the ones that was 
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The Bible tells us in the New 
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and verse 27, Jesus speaking, he
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strong man's house and spoil his
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the strong man, then he will 
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Jesus is saying to win victory 
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the strong man of the house must
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The strong missed man of the 
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He's telling us if we deal with 
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opens access to the house. 
That opens access, then to 

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everything that's in the house. 
Can I tell you tonight that 

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heroes come in all types? 
Sometimes a hero is a king. 

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Sometimes a hero is a strong 
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Sometimes a hero is a ideology 
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Sometimes a hero is a idol or a 
belief or a habit or influence 

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that opposes God's purpose for 
your life. 

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In the Greek times, a hero was a
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It was part mortal and part God.
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would like to say, follow that 
concept and that idea very 

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closely because most strongholds
in our lives, they have a mortal

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side, but they also have a 
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Or the apostle Paul would have 
never said we wrestle not 

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against flesh and blood, but 
against principalities and 

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powers, against the rulers of 
darkness of this world, against 

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spiritual wickedness in high 
place. 

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Paul wasn't refuting that we 
don't face real people or things

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in nature, but he was also 
saying there is something 

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invisible, a controversy that is
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Notice the scripture in 
Ephesians as he goes to those 

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things of principalities, 
powers, rulers. 

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You know what Paul's telling us 
that the adversary has a rank 

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and a hierarchy. 
A man in his world, he has a 

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rank and a hierarchy in his 
world. 

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There's principalities, people 
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principal rulers or chieftains. 
These this is a well marshalled 

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order organized army with rank. 
If I can say this, that in his 

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rank, among his rank are heroes,
someone say Amen. 

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Notably, in verse 51 of our 
text, the word champion is often

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translated as mighty man, 
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And this of course highlights 
Goliath strength, his valor, his

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warrior status. 
It underscores then that he can 

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intimidate and that the crux of 
the battle here for the 

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Philistines lies upon Goliaths 
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Verse 9 tells us here in this 
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the Israelites will be their 
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The Bible says in verse 10 that 
he defied the armies of Israel, 

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and David rightly interpret this
later in verse 45, basically 

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saying if you're defying the 
armies of Israel, the Lord our 

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God is the God of Israel. 
And so if you're defying the 

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army, you're the people, then 
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The Scripture says the 
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of the Philistines. 
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You know the story, but I'm 
going to tell it as though no 

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one knows it. 40 days This hero 
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For 40 days the army of Israel 
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engaged in bouts of fighting the
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Philistines. 
Verse #19 Now Saul and they and 

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all the men were in the valley 
of Allah fighting with the 

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Philistines. 
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Israelite army fought against 
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not until there is a change in 
the story that there's any 

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fighting against the hero of the
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There's fighting going on, 
there's some combat going on, 

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but nobody is addressing the 
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It's important to note they're 
in a ray on mountaintops army 

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against army for 40 days. 
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day would leave their 
mountaintops to go forth to the 

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valley to fight army against 
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But again, no one is addressing 
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Look at verse #20 the Bible says
he, Speaking of David, came to 

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the French as the host was going
forth to the fight and shouted 

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for the battle. 
They are once again army to army

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coming together for a fight. 
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Philistines have put the battle 
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Verse 24 And all the men of 
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the man being referred to is 
Goliath. 

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The man being referred to is the
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When they saw the hero, they 
fled from him and were sore 

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afraid. 
What are you saying in 

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Scripture? 
Goliath says give me a man, give

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me a worthy opponent that I can 
fight against. 

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There was no man, it would seem 
like, enlisted in Israel's army.

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That was a worthy opponent for 
Goliath. 

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The men of Israel fled and they 
feared and they had been 

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challenged to provide such a 
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But it seems in Scripture they 
look high and low within their 

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ranks, but they found no body. 
And then all of a sudden, on a 

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certain day, unlikely individual
accepted the challenge. 

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The Bible says that he was a 
shepherd. 

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The Bible says that he was one 
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forth into the battle with 
Armory, Amen or armor like the 

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others. 
In essence, he became Israel's 

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hero. 
He did what they wanted. 

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Hey man, but what they couldn't 
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can, David embodied the desires 
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to fight and wanting to defeat 
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Now note Goliath choose he 
defeat he he challenged choose a

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man. 
He talked to them and said in 

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verse 8, give me a man and he 
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He says give me a man and I 
realized he asked that such a 

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man. 
He says that he would come down 

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to me. 
Let this man come down to me. 

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I know what that meant for this 
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I know that meant that Goliath 
wants someone to leave the 

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mountaintop and come to the 
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But the David, watch me here. 
The David versus Goliath story 

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is more than just a sweet little
story that we have in our Sunday

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school class about overcoming a 
giants and overcoming obstacles.

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Someone say ma'am, this story 
just stay with me for a little 

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bit. 
This story answers the question 

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about what people should do 
whenever the opposition 

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challenges them. 
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The opposition has a Chieftain, 
the opposition has a strong man,

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the opposition has a king. 
It answers the nagging approach 

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for all of humanity that when 
there isn't a man among you to 

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meet the confrontation, then the
only solution is, is that you 

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need a hero to defeat a hero. 
They couldn't find it in the 

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army, so to speak, but they 
finally found someone that held 

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their values, that held, if you 
will, the things that they 

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revered and respected. 
And the Bible says in verse 51, 

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the last phrase when the 
Philistines, and this is the 

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version that I was reading it 
from, when the Philistines then 

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saw that their hero was dead, 
they ran. 

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Here's the difference. 
David didn't go to fight the 

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Philistines, he went to fight 
the Philistine singular. 

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There been a lot of fighting 
going on Israelites between 

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Philistines, but on this day, a 
hero arose among Israel to 

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confront the hero. 
On this day, David showed up on 

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the ground and he's about ready 
to address the very one that 

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embodies all of the beliefs, all
of the values of the I'm not, 

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I'm not fighting any private. 
I'm going all the way to the top

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and I'm here to address the 
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Someone say Amen. 
He grappled with the hero 

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whenever he went on the 
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He spoke. 
He spoke to their hero. 

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He didn't dress the army. 
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He charged not the army. 
He charged their hero. 

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He didn't chase a foot soldier. 
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He didn't attack someone here 
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No, he attacked the one that 
embodied their values, that 

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inspired their successes. 
I'm here for the hero. 

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You understand that Whenever 
David released that stone, 

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whenever David stood upon 
Goliath, whenever David did all 

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of these things, David touched 
what identified the Philistine 

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nation. 
He got to the root of the matter

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and David brought the hero down.
Please note the scripture and 

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the way the scripture states 
this is critical important that 

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sometimes we overlook. 
In verse 49 it says he Speaking 

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of Goliath. 
The hero fell upon his face to 

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the earth. 
Falling on your face is a 

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forward fall. 
Falling on his face. 

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The hero fell on his face to the
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Stay with me here. 
This in part proves that this 

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was more than a natural fight on
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This was a spiritual fight. 
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Philistines hero, the Bible 
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gods. 
This is more than a physical 

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battle. 
This is a spiritual battle. 

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They serve the gods of Dagon and
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He cursed David by his gods. 
And you'll notice in verse 45 

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then when David, the hero of the
nation of Israel comes on the 

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scene, what does he do? 
He defends the God of Israel and

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says, I don't come to you in 
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you in the name. 
What's he saying? 

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I realize Goliath, this just 
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isn't just champion to champion,
hero to hero. 

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There's something spiritual 
going on this battlefield right 

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now. 
Let me tell you something 

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tonight. 
We have played around sometimes 

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as the Army of God, fooling 
around just with the army, the 

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opposition. 
And all that's got us is 40 days

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on mountain tops. 
We need a hero to rise among us 

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to address the hero of the Pope.
We need a clash of heroes. 

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How do I know? 
Why do you say this is 

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spiritual? 
Let's go back in time to First 

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Samuel chapter #5 and let me 
read a few verses of Scripture 

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here. 
The Bible says, and the 

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Philistines took the ark of God 
during the battle of Israel and 

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brought it from Ebenezer unto 
Ashdod. 

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That is a Philistine city. 
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Ark of God, they brought it into
the House of Dagon, one of their

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gods, and said it by Dagon. 
And when Bay of Ashdod arose 

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early on the Morrow, be hoped 
Dagon was fallen upon his face. 

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She, the hero, always embodies 
the values and the belief 

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systems of the people. 
When Goliath stood there, he 

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embodied those belief systems of
Dagon and Astora and bells 

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above. 
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it was more than a mortal. 
There was some type of God 

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factor that was there. 
And this God, this Dagon fell 

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upon its face in the presence of
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And they took Dagon. 
They set him back up in his 

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place again. 
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And when they arose early on the
moral morning, behold, Dagon was

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falling upon his face to the 
ground before the ark of the 

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Lord, and the head of Dagon, and
both palms, as his hands were 

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cut off from the threshold, only
the stuff of Dagon was left to 

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him. 
In our story, it indicates that 

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Goliath fell on his face to the 
earth, and not coincidentally, 

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one of their own gods, Dagon had
fallen on the ground on its face

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in the presence of the Lord. 
And they said it back up and it 

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fell on its face in the same 
direction. 

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And it also talks about its head
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You know what's happening 
whenever David stands upon 

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Goliath? 
Here's Goliath, the Philistine 

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hero, representing their values,
their beliefs, their God. 

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But in that battle, hey, man, 
which was the Lord's, the 

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scripture says he fell on his 
face 1st, and then he would 

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eventually lose his head. 
This hero that the Bible says 

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towered above the people now 
lays under David's feet. 

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The hero who symbolized Dagon 
received a Dagon defeat, and 

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when the Philistine saw that 
their hero had been contended 

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with, they fled. 
There's some of us tonight that 

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deal with the same opposition 
over and over. 

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We go to the valley to fight for
about and we retreat back to the

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mountaintop because the hero of 
the poise, the opposing side, 

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presents itself and it's a 
formidable foe and none of us 

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believe that we can overcome it.
So we're regulated to little 

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battles with no true victory. 
But according to the scripture, 

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what turned the tide of the 
opposition in this story is when

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the hero was dealt with, all of 
the masses, all of the 

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conflicting voices against us. 
I'm telling you tonight, we'll 

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let up whenever the hero is 
handled. 

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Whenever the hero is dealt with,
it requires attacking what they 

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exalt. 
It requires attacking what they 

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lift up. 
When this happens, Scripture 

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says when they seen it, they 
fled. 

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We got to confront and dismantle
the heroes. 

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Those things that we maybe even 
exalt or our adversaries exalt 

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in high esteem, that's opposing 
God. 

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We got to say and deal with the 
hero. 

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And when we do that, that action
will lead to another victory and

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another significant victory. 
But hear me right. 

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Well, tonight, you cannot bring 
the battle to a conclusion until

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the hero is dealt with. 
But everybody knows it takes a 

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hero to defeat a hero. 
Everybody doing all right. 

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Ours comes from an unlikely 
place. 

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A virgin birth. 
He was the son of a Carpenter. 

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His family was familiar to those
of his time. 

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There wasn't anything 
spectacular about him. 

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Isaiah called him a tender plant
and a root that was out of dry 

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ground. 
He said, Speaking of him. 

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He hath no form nor comeliness, 
and when we shall see him, there

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is no beauty that we should 
desire him. 

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He was also a shepherd who 
showed up for the 'cause he bore

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witness to God as David did as 
well. 

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When they asked for a man, and 
none could be found. 

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The Word which was God became 
flesh and dwelt among us 

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according to He was born of a 
woman. 

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Goliath wanted someone to come 
down and Jesus in John says that

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he was the one that Jesus came 
down from heaven as the bread of

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life. 
In other places in First Samuel 

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17 when the word champion or 
hero is used, it means this. 

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In other places outside of our 
text, it means this Ishab bin 

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Nayeem, which means the man 
between the Champions and the 

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heroes. 
They're they're representing the

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people in a single combat. 
They're standing between two 

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armies representing one side. 
And the outcome of the war is 

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decided by the outcome of the 
personal combat. 

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And so the purpose of a hero is 
to avoid full scale war at all 

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costs. 
Can I tell you the ceiling that 

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our hero also was the man 
between Timothy said there is 

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one mediator between God and 
men, the man Christ Jesus he was

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strong according to scripture 
between heaven and earth upon a 

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cross because Satan and the 
world Amen Understand the impact

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of trying to dethrone heroes. 
Can I tell you what happened in 

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David and Goliath really set us 
up for New Testament scripture. 

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They saw that a hero was feed it
and it brought mayhem to a 

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nation and so through the mind 
of our adversary. 

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He says when their hero shows up
in Bethlehem's Manger from the 

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very word go, I'm going to try 
to kill, I'm going to try to 

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slaughter I'm going to try to 
remove the man that is between 

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I'm going to try to bring down 
because I know the success in 

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the throning heroes. 
The Bible says they thought they

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were successful. 
They hung him on the tree 

450
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,720
between a Sinner and a sentence 
in her. 

451
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,640
Amen. 
He was the hero, the man in 

452
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,480
between. 
And they killed our hero. 

453
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,320
And those who believe that 
reeled in doubt. 

454
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,680
They reeled in disbelief. 
But unlike other heroes, our 

455
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,240
hero didn't remain dead. 
Amen. 

456
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:38,080
Someone say man in a figurative 
sense, our hero is the David 

457
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,440
that has his feet on the chest 
or the head of the opposing 

458
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,680
force. 
The Bible all the way in Genesis

459
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,600
315 said there will be a seed 
that is born of a woman that's 

460
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,360
going to have it's heel bruised,
but it's going to crush the head

461
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,080
of the opposition, the head of 
the Prince and the power of the 

462
00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:03,320
air. 
The opposing someone say Amen 

463
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,040
because he Satan pictures 
Goliath very well. 

464
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:18,560
He meets both criteria. 
He fell and the opposing hero 

465
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,680
dealt with him in the area of 
his head. 

466
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,720
The Bible says that Jesus LED 
captivity, Captain, when David 

467
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:30,200
stood upon Goliath. 
Do you get this? 

468
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,640
And this is a picture for us, 
and we sing about it. 

469
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,600
But when David stood on Goliath,
their enemy was under his feet. 

470
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:47,320
And the way that David dealt 
with the hero's head was a 

471
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,200
decisive sign that the battle 
was over. 

472
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,520
They saw the stone, they sing 
the fall. 

473
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,480
But it was represented all 
around that whenever a man took 

474
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:01,440
care of the head in the war, 
that the battle was for sure 

475
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,600
over. 
Whenever David defeated Goliath,

476
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,440
this wasn't just a tactical 
victory, but it was the fall of 

477
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,920
a very mighty and fearsome 
enemy. 

478
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,199
It was a clash of heroes, if you
will. 

479
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,719
It marked a turning point in 
Israel's struggle with the 

480
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,080
Philistines. 
What are you saying? 

481
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,920
I'm saying before this moment in
time, the Philistines usually 

482
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,679
had the upper hand before this 
point in time. 

483
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,760
It was the Philistines 
controlling the key areas before

484
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,320
this moment in time. 
It's them that we're normally 

485
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,960
always winning. 
But whenever David addressed the

486
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,840
hero and you read in your 
scripture, he drove them from 

487
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,600
this place to that place, we 
start to see the Philistine army

488
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,000
weaken. 
They're not winning battles like

489
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,320
they used to, Israel's winning 
battles. 

490
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,360
They're not controlling key 
places like they used to. 

491
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,239
Israel's controlling those 
places. 

492
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,199
What changed? 
Somebody dealt with the hero. 

493
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,760
What changed? 
Somebody didn't just fight 

494
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,560
against the army. 
They went against the power, the

495
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:08,960
principality, the ruler. 
We will endure days on mountain 

496
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:16,080
tops in a continuous fight 
unless we allow the hero to 

497
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,440
arise on this side, to address 
the hero on that side. 

498
00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:25,160
There are somethings or certain 
sins in our life. 

499
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,400
They're not tucking their tail 
and running until the hero's 

500
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,280
dealt with. 
See, they put confidence in 

501
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,080
their hero. 
They live their life through 

502
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,920
their hero. 
It's their Golden Boy. 

503
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,520
But when it doesn't exist 
anymore, all of their frame of 

504
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,800
thinking and confidence just 
totally disseminates and it just

505
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,160
falls apart because the hero's 
been dealt with. 

506
00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:05,000
Someone say, man, there's 
victories now after this 

507
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:10,000
Philistine power is shattered, 
they're driving them back to the

508
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,200
five cities that they first 
inhabited. 

509
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,760
All the all the alliances are 
broken. 

510
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:21,600
The same way that David brought 
victory to Israel, your savior, 

511
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,720
your hero has brought victory to
you. 

512
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,320
He stood over a defeat of 
Goliath. 

513
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,800
The Lord stands. 
He stands over a defeated grave.

514
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,800
He he stands over a defeated 
foe. 

515
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,720
It's vanquished. 
He has crushed the serpent's 

516
00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:44,240
head, so to speak. 
Our victory is found in him. 

517
00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:49,760
The tides have have turned. 
The battle can be won because 

518
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:54,040
our enemy hero is conquered by 
another hero. 

519
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:57,960
So tonight, what is it going to 
be? 

520
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:05,320
Fight your battle or allow the 
Lord to come in and fight with 

521
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:11,640
you and through you Stand with 
me tonight. 

522
00:37:18,030 --> 00:37:21,590
When they saw that their hero, 
when the Philistine saw that 

523
00:37:21,590 --> 00:37:25,750
their hero, their champion was 
dead, they fled. 

524
00:37:27,070 --> 00:37:31,560
Changes everything because at 
first when the Philistine things

525
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,000
and heirs or lights are fighting
the battle and they seen the 

526
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,760
Philistine hero Goliath, Israel 
fled. 

527
00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:44,040
But when they saw that that hero
was dead, the Philistines fled. 

528
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:50,320
We bow our heads tonight. 
Somebody needs to see some of 

529
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:58,360
their adversaries, some of their
opposing foe, to flee from them.

530
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,000
It's not in your armor. 
No, no, no, no. 

531
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,600
It's going to come from an 
unlikely source. 

532
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,600
It'll be a shepherd. 
It'll be where no one else could

533
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,960
fit the bill. 
But this one comes along and 

534
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,640
he's a part of them. 
So it would seem the hero of 

535
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,840
heroes to clash and overtake 
another hero. 

536
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,840
Listen tonight, there's reasons 
why that we talk about. 

537
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,080
You got to bind the strong man 
or you got to pray against 

538
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,400
forces of evil and darkness and 
things like that. 

539
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,480
This is a hocus pocus or hooky 
pookie, none of that. 

540
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:37,000
This is biblical because we're 
not just in a natural battle, 

541
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,920
we're in a spiritual battle. 
Ladies and gentlemen, the enemy 

542
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:44,240
of your soul would like nothing 
more but to somehow undercut you

543
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,280
and devise a plan to get you 
back on the road that you just 

544
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:49,680
came from. 
Amen. 

545
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,240
To come to know the Lord. 
He would like to have you at a 

546
00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:56,720
stalemate and a standoff and not
being able to do anything and 

547
00:38:56,720 --> 00:39:00,080
feeling crippled in your walking
relationship with God. 

548
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,480
But we got to say, God, would 
you address the hero tonight? 

549
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,520
Would you address the hero 
that's embodying everything, 

550
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,280
whatever it may be tonight? 
You know what it may be in your 

551
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,920
own life. 
It may be a system of beliefs. 

552
00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:17,200
It may be some ideologies. 
It may be a idol, something that

553
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,320
stands between you and God. 
Pastor McGee, I just can't seem 

554
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,880
to ever get over that. 
I can't ever get that out of my 

555
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,600
life. 
You need a clash of heroes 

556
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,760
tonight. 
You need the one that was born 

557
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:31,120
in Bethlehem's Manger to address
the serpent, to address, if you 

558
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,280
will, the adversary. 
You need you. 

559
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,240
Hirobo Shia. 
I don't care if it's been 40 

560
00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:40,560
days or 40 years. 
Whenever the hero stands on the 

561
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,680
head of the hero, game over. 
When the hero stands on the 

562
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,480
adversary, game over. 
It's a decisive win. 

563
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:54,640
Somebody tonight needs to say, 
go on, David, go on, God, go on.

564
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,880
I'm tired of fighting. 
My hands are weary. 

565
00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:00,480
My mental anguish is 
overwhelming. 

566
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:05,000
I need a hero to come against a 
hero that's. 

567
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:09,800
In my life, these altars are 
open right now. 

568
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:14,240
If somebody with a tenacity 
would just step to the side and 

569
00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:17,320
say I don't have the willpower 
to fight, I don't have the 

570
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,240
ability. 
I've tried to do it for 40 days.

571
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,920
I've tried to do it for five 
years, but it seems like I'm 

572
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,600
always defeated. 
It seems like I'm always 

573
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,600
retreating. 
There's a hero among us tonight.

574
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,000
There's a hero among us tonight.
Hallelujah. 

575
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:34,960
Nothing will prosper against 
him. 

576
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,520
He's the creator of the 
universe. 

577
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:42,640
He's the giver of life. 
He can handle the opposition. 

578
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,720
Come on, Sir. 
Come on, ma'am. 

579
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,880
Come on. 
Young person there needs to stop

580
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,800
fighting the army. 
The hero has to be addressed. 

581
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,200
That thing that embodies 
everything that's against you 

582
00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:03,640
must be dealt with. 
It's got to be dealt with, 

583
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:27,760
It's got to be dealt with, It's 
got to be dealt with. 

584
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,920
We're on the Morrow. 
It's going to defy you again on 

585
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,200
the Morrow. 
It's going to challenge you 

586
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,880
again on the Morrow. 
It's going to make a mark of you

587
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,520
again. 
You need a hero to fight against

588
00:41:43,520 --> 00:42:06,720
that hero in your life. 
Going to take a hero to defeat a

589
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:10,400
hero going to take a. 
That's the solution. 

590
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:16,160
A hero to defeat a hero, You 
have enough armor to do it. 

591
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,960
You have enough wherewithal to 
do it. 

592
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:26,000
But God is able. 
God is able to address those 

593
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:30,160
things in your life. 
God is able to address those 

594
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:36,720
things taunting you. 
It's when heroes clash that 

595
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:41,000
victories are secured. 
Armies flee with their tail 

596
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,080
tucked between their legs When 
heroes clash. 

597
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,840
Hell Abaha. 
Some trust in horses and others 

598
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,080
in Chariots. 
But we will remember the name of

599
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:55,920
the Lord our God. 
I love Oshaya. 

600
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,320
Someone needs to take, someone 
needs to take that adversary. 

601
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,840
You need to lay it on the altar 
tonight and say, God, there's 

602
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,920
something right here that's 
embodying all of the beliefs, 

603
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,360
all of the gods. 
Good Lord, this is more than 

604
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,280
something natural. 
Some of the things that I've 

605
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,400
dealt with, I've tried to deal 
with a natural way, but my way 

606
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,680
of just dealing with it in a 
natural way don't count. 

607
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,880
This thing needs to fall on its 
face. 

608
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,080
This thing needs to fall on its 
face. 

609
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,680
This thing's it's head needs to 
be dealt with. 

610
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:24,880
We're in a spiritual battle 
tonight. 

611
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,760
We're in a spiritual land. 
We are spiritual people. 

612
00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:34,040
The weapons of our warfare are 
not carnal. 

613
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:36,880
They're mighty through God. 
They pull down strongholds, 

614
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,880
principalities, all of the 
hierarchy and the rank of the 

615
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:43,680
organization. 
You'll be dealt with by a hero. 

616
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:52,680
A hero. 
If you remove the man that's in 

617
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,120
between, then there's nothing 
separating you. 

618
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,760
If you remove the man, the hero 
on your side, in between, 

619
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,520
there's nothing that separates 
you from your antagonist. 

620
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,120
You want to keep the man that's 
in between right there. 

621
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:13,520
He's fighting for you. 
Someone claim that right now in 

622
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:17,360
the spirit God is fighting for 
me. 

623
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,760
You need to picture whatever it 
is of the opposing force that's 

624
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,760
as a hero and a foe and you need
to address tonight. 

625
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:33,840
This God is fighting for me. 
Honda Robo Hoshaya. 

626
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,080
I feel the Holy Ghost and chains
are going to start breaking here

627
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,280
tonight. 
I feel the Holy Ghost, some 

628
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,320
chains are going to start. 
Somebody's somebody through the 

629
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,520
Holy Ghost. 
Hey, man, God's helping them to 

630
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,640
position their feet. 
Hey, man, upon something that 

631
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,480
they've been under the toll of 
for some time. 

632
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,760
But heroes are clashing here 
tonight. 

633
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,280
Heroes are. 
We've not just come here on 

634
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,400
another Sunday night to do a 
little battle army against 

635
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,400
Harmony. 
The hero has showed up. 

636
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:06,000
Hallelujah.