July 20, 2025 • 44 mins
Faith and courage transform an ordinary shepherd boy into the unexpected champion of Israel when everyone else is paralyzed by fear and intimidation. David's righteous indignation at Goliath's mockery of God becomes the catalyst for one of the most famous victories in biblical history.
• Goliath stood between 6'9" and 9' tall, making him a truly intimidating opponent by any standard
• David's brothers and King Saul all discouraged him from confronting Goliath, but David refused to accept their limitations
• David's experience protecting sheep from lions and bears had prepared him precisely for this moment of destiny
• When David removed Saul's armor, he demonstrated that we must stay true to our unique calling rather than copy others
• David's primary motivation wasn't military glory but defending God's honor against Goliath's blasphemous taunts
• The victory wasn't by superior strength or weapons but through faith in God—"the battle is the Lord's"
• Sometimes today's seemingly mundane responsibilities are preparing you for tomorrow's divine appointments
Faith teaches us to see our giants not as obstacles too big to overcome, but as targets too big to miss. When we stand up for God's honor and trust in His strength rather than our own, we'll find that battles we thought impossible become testimonies to His glory.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone, welcome to Over-Opinionated.
We're getting back into thelife of King David, looking at
Samuel, chapter 17, and we'regoing to be going through a
series of King David.
I want to read to you guys ourdaily readings, the podcast
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daily readings.
We'll start off with the Lord'sPrayer Our Father, which art in
heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth as itis in heaven.
Give us this day our dailybread and forgive us our
trespasses, as we forgive thosethat trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from evil, for
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divine is thy kingdom, thy powerand glory forever and ever.
Amen.
And most of the time I read theApostles' Creed, but actually
we're going to read the NiceneCreed today.
I believe in one God, theFather Almighty, maker of heaven
and earth and of all thingsvisible and invisible.
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Maker of heaven and earth andof all things visible and
invisible, and then one, lordJesus Christ, the only begotten
Son of God, begotten of thefather before all worlds, god of
God, light of light, very Godof very God, begotten, not made,
being of one substance with thefather by whom all things were
made, whom, for us men and forour salvation, came from heaven
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and was incarnated by the HolySpirit of the Virgin Mary and
was made man and was crucifiedfor us under Pontius Pilate.
He suffered and he was buried,and on the third day he rose
again, according to thescriptures, and ascended into
heaven and he sits at the righthand of the Father.
He shall come again with gloryto judge the living and the dead
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, whose kingdom shall have noend.
And I believe in the HolySpirit, the Lord, the giver of
life.
I believe in the holy spirit,the lord, the giver of life, who
proceeds from the father andthe son, who, with the father
and the son together, isworshiped and glorified, who
spoke by the prophets, and Ibelieve in the one holy catholic
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and apostolic church.
I acknowledge one baptisms forthe remission of sins and I look
for the resurrection of thedead and for the life of the
world and for the life of theworld to come, amen.
The one holy and apostolicCatholic Church just means
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universal as always, meansuniversal as always.
So when we left off with KingDavid, samuel anointed King
David to be the future king ofIsrael.
Before that, we see Saulbetraying the Lord and
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compromising in fear of his men,not killing all of the Lord's
enemies.
So now we're going to go toDavid and Goliath, the famous,
one of the most famous Biblestories there is.
It's very common, you know,people will say that's a real
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David and Goliath story and itcomes from here.
It comes from 1 Samuel, chapter17.
And we're going to read throughthis a little bit.
I want to talk to you a littlebit about how massive Goliath
was.
It's a little bit debated howtall he actually was.
But no matter how tall he was,he was, for his day, a huge man.
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Even today he would be a hugeman.
He'd be taller than me, even bythe lowest estimates and I'm at
5'11" and the lowest estimatesthat I see have him at 6'9".
A massive, massive person.
And remember, people didn'tused to be as tall as they are
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today.
People are a lot taller todaythan they used to be.
We're going to be reading out ofthe New International Version
and we're going to get started.
1 Samuel, chapter 1, verse 1.
Now the Philistines gatheredtheir forces for war and
assembled at soka and judea.
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They pitched temps at yearfirst dam between soko and
alakai forgive me for themispronouncing of words.
Also, before we get just beforewe get too far ahead.
I'm recovering from COVID andthat is why I wasn't here last
week, which kind of works outstill, because we only do free
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episodes a month normally.
I have thought, maybe let'sshorten that down and go to
about a 30 minute episode andtry to do four a month.
Maybe that'll be good, maybe we, maybe, maybe we'll try to do
that in the future, go to 30minutes an episode, um, but uh,
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so my voice is not the greatest.
Covid really hit me pretty hardwith my breathing and with my
sinuses and thank you forbearing with me as we go along.
I'm and as always, I'm just notgreat at pronouncing words.
I try, um, some of these wordsare very hard to pronounce and
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I'm not good at pronouncingnormal English words.
So thank you for bearing withme and I appreciate it.
And if you know, if you'relooking for a podcast that
properly pronunciates every word, you've looked at the wrong
place and you're going to haveto go somewhere else, because
that's not me.
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If you're looking for a podcastthat will try to dive into
God's Word and give Him honorand grow us all in the faith,
then you've came to the rightplace.
Verse 2, saul and the Israelitesassembled and camped in the
valley of Er and drew up thebattle lines to meet the
Philistines.
The Philistines occupied one ofthe hills and the Israelites
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another.
With the valley.
Between them, a champion namedGoliath, who was from Gath, came
out of the Phil.
Between them, a champion namedGoliath, who was from Gath, came
out of the Philistine camp.
His height was about six cubitsand a span.
A cubit is from your fingertip,your middle fingertip, all the
way to your elbow, so it hasdifferent lengths and sizes.
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Let's just go ahead.
I want to read you all anarticle.
This is from GoliathsSpearcomand they have recreated the
Spear of Goliath.
It's the same people that arehead of the Creation Museum, but
it's this awesome spear.
I want to read you about it andhow tall Goliath may have been.
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Here's an article Just how tallwas Goliath?
This is a question that seemsto have a lot of different
answers.
Like any math problem, there isreally one correct answer.
That answer may never be knownfor sure this side of eternity,
however.
However, we are taking abiblical, literalist view.
A biblical literate is one whotakes what the bible says as
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literal as possible.
For example, in genesis 1 weread that god created and
everything in the morning wasthe first and that was the first
day.
Therefore, a day equals 20,equals 24 hours.
Yeah, I have some problem withthat Because I used to be a
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hardcore six-day creationist andI'm not anymore.
And if you are, that's okay.
I do appreciate the people atthe Creation Museum and at the
Ark Encounter because they'retrying to win souls to the Lord.
But I say, sometimes I thinkthey get their priorities a
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little out of place because theybecome so dogmatic that they
have to defend the six-daycreation to defend the gospel,
and I don't think the two gohand in hand.
I'm not a scientist.
I personally believe I'm an oldearth creationist right now and
maybe I changed my mind.
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I've changed it before, but itseems to me that the earth is
old Now.
I hope that doesn't make youmad.
I hope you don't say I'm aheretic and stop listening to me
.
But if you think the earth isyoung or if you think the earth
is old, to me it doesn't matterthat much, because Jesus still
made the world and Jesus stilldied for the sins of the world.
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So I don't like arguing aboutit.
It's just nothing to me If theworld is old or if the world is
young.
I care much more about winningsouls from death and into life
with the gospel of Jesus, butI'm going to keep reading this
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article.
When we read Genesis 6, we readabout a man named Noah who built
an ark according to God'sdirections.
The ark provided protection forNoah, his family and two of
each animal from the flood.
That was not just a local floodor a regional one, but one that
covered the earth.
Some people have a hard timebelieving that an animal could
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actually talk.
That certainly isn't anythingthat any of us have experienced
on a daily basis.
However, according to Numbers22-28, there was a man named
Baal who had a donkey who talked.
In Luke 23-46, we read thatJesus died.
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He didn't put himself in sometype of coma or pass out from
exhaustion.
He was dead.
He was totally dead.
There was no life in him.
He died and, however, came backto life after three days.
When the Bible says in 1 Samuel17, verse 4,.
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When the Bible says in 1 Samuel17, verse 4, there went out a
champion out of the camp of thePhilistines named Goliath of
Gath.
His weight was six cubits inspan.
He actually was that tall.
There is some debate aboutGoliath's height due to textual
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variance in ancient manuscripts.
Most English Bible translationsfollow the Masoretic text as
listed in the height at sixcubits in the span.
Most Jews and Protestantsconsidered the Meseretic checks
to have the afforded date ofHebrew Bible or Old Testament.
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It was written sometime betweenthe 17th and 16th century AD
and based on these miraculouspreserved oral traditions and
the best available manuscriptsof the original Hebrew text.
That being said, how tall isGoliath?
To answer the question, we needto know something about the unit
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of measurement mentioned.
What is a cubit and what is aspan?
Again, not everyone agrees onthe leaf of either.
A cubit is considered the leafof a man's arm, from his elbow
to the tip of his fingers.
Okay, whose arms are we goingto use?
It would be easy to see thatdepending on the man, the leaf
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would be different.
Even at that, there were somestandards generally that were
two lengths that were common.
There was a short cubit at 18and a long cubit at 20.
For making of his spear, wetried to always go with the most
conservative weight andmeasurements, knowing that
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people are going to have a hardtime believing this thing was as
big as it is.
The truth is, it may have beeneven bigger.
We went to the shortest 18cubits.
So what is a span?
A span is the distance betweenthe tip of the little finger and
the foam when you have fullyextended your hand.
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But your hand may not be as bigas mine, or mine might be a lot
smaller than yours.
So then, whose hand do we use?
We've chosen the mostconservative measurement of six
inches.
So where does this leave us?
If Goliath was six cubits inthe span we have, 16 times 18
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equals 108, or 12, or 12 equals9 plus 6 equals 9, and 9 and 6.
Now if you want to go to gowith the longer cube, it 6 times
20 equals 120.
Divided by 12 equals 10.6.
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No matter how you measureGoliath, he's one big guy.
His size alone made him veryintimidating.
Then add an estimated total of200 pounds of armor and weaponry
.
He wore a scale of over 125pound shekels, 500 shekels,
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5,000 shekels, including heavybrass greaves and a helmet and
all of his weapons he was aforce to deal with.
And the text actually I'm goingto interrupt the article the
text, actually the Masoretic andthe Septuagint text actually
agree on his armor.
So we know that this guy ishuge.
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At the lowest estimates we havehim about 6'9".
At the highest well, maybe notthe very highest, but the
highest estimates that mostpeople would believe in they
would have him at 9 foot.
So 9 foot to 6'9, now that's abig.
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You know that's a gap.
This guy was tall.
He was huge, absolutely huge.
I'm going to read you just alittle bit about how big this
spear is.
It's truly amazing.
All right, and they have adiagram.
They have this spear.
This is a conservative estimate.
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It's 12 foot and 7 inches.
The head of the spear, beingmade of iron iron tip, was 33
pounds and 12 ounces.
Okay, I'm sorry, forgive me,the spear overall was 33 pounds
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and 12 ounces.
The head of the spear was about16 pounds with a 10 feet long
shaft and there was acounterweight at the bottom of
it to keep it smooth, sailing inthe air, which was about six
point was.
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It was about six pounds, 1.2ounces.
That is a huge spear 12 feet, 7inches, 33 pounds and 12 ounces
.
This guy was big.
He was.
You're talking about somebodythat would make an NFL football
player look small.
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Forgive me for that side detour.
I just wanted to give you apicture of how big Goliath is.
We don't even know how much heweighed, but he was from 6'7".
I mean how much he weighed, buthe was from 6'7".
I mean he was from anywherefrom 6'9 to 9' tall and covered,
um, covered in very heavy armor, being able to move very well,
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being very intimidating.
I get this guy might have been400, 500 pounds, maybe not that
much.
I bet he's about 350 at least,and that would be, yeah, 300,
350 of just muscle.
So he's not a small dude, he'snot a small dude at all.
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And remember, david is a smallguy.
He's not regarded as being ofbig stature, he's not regarded
of any great.
If you looked at him you'd justoverlook him.
That's part of why God pickedhim.
God would use David, theshepherd teenage boy, to slay a
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huge and mighty giant.
We can keep reading Verse 4,.
A champion named Goliath, whowas from Gath, came out from the
Philistine camp.
His height was six cubits and aspan.
He had a bronze helmet on hishead and wore a coat, a scale of
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armor of bronze weighing 5,000shekels.
We talked about that.
5,000 shekels was about what Ithink it said around.
Was it 200 pounds?
It was very heavy, very, veryheavy can't remember if it's 200
pounds or 125 pounds, but a lotof weight, um.
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On his legs he wore bronzegreaves and a bronze javelin was
slung on his back.
His spear was like a waving rodand it's iron pointed.
Weight um 600 shekels.
His shield bear went ahead ofhim.
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So we'll just keep moving along.
Because we already talked abouthow big he was, I'm not trying
to take up too much of a programon that.
I just want to give you guys apicture of how large this guy is
.
Goliath stood and shouted to theranks of Israel why do you come
out and line up for battle?
Am I not a Philistine, and areyou not the servants of Saul?
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Choose a man and have him comedown to me.
If he is able to fight and killme, we will become your
servants, but if I overcome andkill him, you will become our
servants.
So this is kind of a practicethey had in more ancient times,
that instead of all of us goingand dying, let's just select our
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two champions and whoever winswins.
Be a lot less deaf.
But he's saying whoever losesbecomes the other people's
slaves.
Then the Philistines said thisday I defile the armies of
Israel, give me a man and let usfight each other.
On hearing the Philistines'words, I and all of Israel were
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dismayed and terrified.
So they were terrified abouthow huge he was.
And here he insults Godconstantly and even the king of
Israel just lets it go.
Tell me, tell me, how patheticis that that the king of Israel
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would let them insult God, thatthe armies of Israel wouldn't go
charge in there and kill himinsulting God?
Now, I'm not saying that youshould go Old Testament on
somebody for insulting God, butI want you to remember how David
talks to Goliath when he'sbeing insulting and mocking his
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God.
Don't let someone casually mockGod.
Okay, I'm not saying getviolent, don't do that.
But you'll stand up for yourpolitical candidate if someone
talks bad about him.
Oh, don't talk bad about myfavorite political candidate,
don't talk bad about my favoritesports team.
But if someone talks bad aboutGod, do you ever say anything?
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Do you ever say do not talkabout my Lord that way.
Do you ever defend God?
I think you should.
I'm not saying make a hugeconflict or quarrel.
You could at least say hey,listen, I don't appreciate you
saying that God is an amazingGod.
Here's why.
Okay, and it might be.
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You don't hang around with thatperson, but you should defend
God because he's done everythinghe can to save you.
Verse 12.
Now David was the son of aheretic.
Oh gosh was from Bethlehem inJudah.
Jesse had eight sons and inSaul's time he was very old.
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Jesse's three oldest sons hadto follow Saul to war.
The first one was Elab, thesecond Abed and the third Shem.
David was the youngest.
The three oldest followed Saul,but David went back and forth
from Saul to tend his father'ssheep at Bethlehem For forty
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days.
The Philistines came forwardevery morning and evening and
took his stand.
Now Jesse said to David Takethis Ephraim and roast the grain
and the ten loaves of bread toyour brothers and hurry to the
camp.
Take these ten cheeses to thecommander of their unit, see how
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your brothers are and come backfor some assurance from them.
They are with Saul and all themen of Israel are in the valley
of El fighting against thePhilistines.
Philistines Early in themorning, david left the flock in
the care of a shepherd, loadedup and set out as Jesse had
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directed.
Let's go back and look at verse20.
Early in the morning, davidleft the flock in the care of a
shepherd, loaded up and set outas Jesse had directed.
He reached the camp as the armywas about to go to the battle
positions shot into war cry.
I just want to dive into this.
So David left his flock toattend something that his father
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and the Lord wanted him to do.
Sometimes a shepherd, or, as apastor, is often called a
shepherd, sometimes a pastor hasto leave his flock in a trusted
man to fill his role.
They didn't leave the flockunattended.
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They left it to a trusted man,someone that could rise up and
help the flock.
Sometimes our pastors have togo do something else and someone
needs to be there to attend theflock a lay pastor, an
assistant pastor, a deacon, andif that's the role you're called
in, that's a very importantrole, because when David went
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back to the flock, he expectedhis sheep to be cared for.
He expected his sheep to beloved.
Okay, so as a pastor goes outinto the world to fulfill a
calling that God might have puton his heart, he will leave his
sheep behind and put them in thehands of someone that he trusts
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that would give them the goodwork of God.
Okay, so you want to be likeDavid, to be able to leave your
sheep with someone you can trust.
And if you are that person youcan trust, don't think that you
are doing somethinginsignificant because that
shepherd was watching overDavid's flock, because he was
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fighting the Lord's battle.
That's very important.
David didn't have to worry whatabout my sheep?
He knew and put his trust insomeone worthy.
And if you are doing that, youcan give a burden of relief to
your pastor.
Okay, that is great If you canfill in on a Wednesday night and
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give your pastor a little bitof a break as he deals with his
family or his work career.
That is a great and honorablething.
Okay, we'll keep going.
Verse 21.
That's a great and honorablething.
Okay, we'll keep going.
Verse 21.
Israel and the Philistines weredrawing up their lines facing
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each other.
David left his things with thekeeper of supplies.
He ran to the battle lines andasked his brothers how they were
.
As he was talking with, thePhilistine, champion from Gath
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stepped out from his lines andshouted his usual defense, and
David heard it.
Whenever the Israel saw the men, they all fled from him in
great fear.
Now the Israelites had beensaying do you see how this man
keeps coming out.
He comes out to defy Israel.
The king will give wealth tothe man who kills him.
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He will also give him hisdaughter in marriage and will
exempt his family from taxes inIsrael.
David asked the men standingnear him what will be done for
the man who kills the Philistineand removes his disgrace from
Israel.
Who is this uncircumcisedPhilistine that should defy the
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armies of the Lord?
That's what I like.
Right there, david's saying whothe heck are you, you
uncircumcised Philistine, todeny the living God and the
armies of God?
The circumcision was a sign ofthe covenant of Abraham that God
had between his people andAbraham.
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Now we don't have that anymore.
Paul says that you don't haveto be circumcised today, but it
was a sign of the covenant.
But we do want to havecircumcision of our hearts that
we are united in Christ with God.
It should offend you, it shouldmake you mad if someone is
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being hateful toward God, ifsomeone is being a jerk.
I'm not calling for you to beviolent.
Obviously it's not aChristian's job.
I'm not calling for you to beugly, but stand up for the Lord,
your God.
You can do the same thing theway David did standing up for
God.
Now, david was a warrior andhis nation was at war.
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That's a little different.
Obviously, no violence, don'tbe insulting, but stand up for
God because he stands up for you.
Verse 27,.
They repeated to him what he hadbeen saying and told this is
what he will be done for the manwho kills him.
When Alibim, david's oldestbrother, heard him speaking with
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the man, he burned with angerat him and asked why have you
come down here and why did youleave those few sheep in the
wilderness?
I know you are conceited andhow you are wicked.
Your heart is you came downonly to watch the battle.
See, david's brother is justbeing a jerk and he's saying you
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just came down to watch thebattle.
You're leaving your sheep.
You've got the naysayers thatare talking bad about you, about
trying to fulfill your calling.
That God's put on your heart.
You know, if I was David I wouldhave said why don't you go?
Stop this Philistine?
He's making fun of our God.
Why are you being a coward?
I might be the youngest, Imight be the shepherd, but watch
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me, watch.
I'm going to defend God.
You're not doing anything.
I'm sure that popped throughDavid's head.
You're not doing anything.
I'm sure that popped throughDavid's head and I wonder,
impartially, if that's what hewas.
If David's older brother wasthinking, man, my little
brother's going to come out hereand here, I am afraid I wonder
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if he was taking that out on him.
I don't know.
Whatever it was, it was anegative word that you just have
to shake off, a negative wordthat's not from the Lord.
A discouraging word can comefrom a place you really love,
like your older brother, sister,family member, co-worker,
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friends or family.
I'm sure that hurt David tohear that Instead of David, I
love you, how are you doing?
I'm so glad you're here to beso accusable.
Your words have so much meaningand impact us.
But this is how David's respond.
Now, what have I done?
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Said David, can I even speak?
I?
I just hear a younger sibling.
When I hear that.
He then turned away to someoneelse and brought up the same
matter to the men.
To the men answered him, asbefore.
What David said was overheardand reported to Saul and Saul
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sent for him.
And David said to Saul Let noone lose his heart on account of
this, philistine, your servantwill go and fight him.
Saul replied you are not ableto go out against this
Philistine and fight him.
You are only a young man and hehas been a warrior since his
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youth.
You're a young man.
David Goliath has been awarrior since he was young.
You can't do this.
Another negative comment.
Now I'm not saying that weshouldn't listen to our elders
or we shouldn't listen to thoseabove us in spiritual authority,
but Saul shouldn't have saidthis.
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He didn't have that rightreally.
And you've got to know when todivide someone's horrible
negative comment versus a wiseword of advice with love.
There's a difference.
You have to be able to dividebetween that.
But the emotion feels the same,so it can be hard, but you have
to divide between that.
But the emotion feels the same,so it can be hard.
But you have to divide betweenthat.
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Because if you, if you on theother side of this, if someone
gives you a wise word and youjust totally reject that, that's
not good either, okay.
But a wise word normally doesnot put you down intentionally
to hurt you.
It will lift you up to help you.
There's a difference there.
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Verse 34,.
But David said to Saul yourservant has been keeping his
father's sheep.
When a lion or a bear came andcarried off a sheep from the
flock.
I went after it and struck itand rescued the sheep from his
mouth.
When it turned to me, I seizedit by its it and struck it and
rescued the sheep from his mouth.
When it turned to me, I seizedit by its hair and struck it and
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killed it.
So David's saying I haveexperience guarding the sheep.
His old flock gave himexperience to do what God was
calling him elsewhere and he hadsomeone else being able to
attend the flock.
Verse 36, your servant haskilled both the lion and the
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bear.
This uncircumcised Philistinewill be like one of them because
he has defiled the armies ofthe living God.
The Lord, who rescues me fromthe paw of the lion and the paw
of the bear, will rescue me fromthe hand of the Philistine.
Saul said to David Go, the Lordbe with you.
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Then Saul dressed David in hisown tunic.
He put on a coat of armor onhim and a bronze hammer.
David fastened on the swordover his tunic and tried walking
around because he was not usedto them.
I cannot go in these, he saidto Saul because I'm not used to
them.
So he took them off.
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And see, sometimes you've gotto take off what someone else
puts on you, even if they thinkit's a good.
Now that doesn't mean bedisrespectful to your authority
or elders we talked about that.
But sometimes you have to takeoff old, old restraints to do
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what God wants you to do.
God wants you to do.
Then he took his staff in hishand, chose five smooth stones
from the stream, put them in hispouch in his hand his
shepherd's bag and with hissling in his hand, approached
the Philistine.
Meanwhile the Philistine, withhis shield bear in front of him,
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kept coming closer to David.
He looked David over and sawthat he was little more than a
boy, growing with, healthy andhandsome, and he despised him,
he hated him.
He said to David Am I a dogthat you come with me or sticks?
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And philistine cursed david byhis gods.
Come here, he said, and I'llgive you your flesh to the birds
and the wild animals.
So he's cursing god again.
I could just sense that davidhas this righteous anger and you
can be angry without sinning.
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He just has a righteous anger.
Who are you to defy God?
David said to the Philistineyou come against me with sword
and spear and javelin, but Icome against you in the name of
the Lord Almighty, the God ofthe armies of Israel, whom you
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have defeated.
This day the Lord will deliveryou into my hands and I will
strike you down, cut off yourhead.
This very day I will give thecarcass of the Philistine army
to the birds and the wildanimals, and the whole world
will know that there is a God inIsrael.
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And right now I'm going to readyou the Bible verse of the day
1 Samuel 17, verse 47.
And you'll see why.
All those gathered will knowthat it is not by sword nor
spear that the Lord saves, forthe battle is the Lord's.
He will give all of you intoour hands.
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That's a good, strong verse.
Let's read it again.
All those gathered here willknow that it is not by sword or
spirit that the Lord saves, forthe battle is the Lord's and he
will give all of you into ourhands.
So God can give you the enemiesinto your hands.
But thankfully, now we live inthe New Testament, the new
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covenant, and God can turn thehearts of our enemies into a
flesh, stone, into flesh.
They are no longer our enemiesbecause they are one of us.
That's how we should look at it.
Verse 48,.
As the Philistines moved closerto attack him, david ran quickly
toward the battle lines to meethim, reaching into his bag and
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taking out a stone.
He slung it and struck thePhilistine on the forehead.
The stone sank into hisforehead and he fell to the
ground.
So David triumphed over thePhilistine without a sling and a
stone, without a sword in hishand, and struck the Philistine
and killed him.
So David took a sling andkilled him.
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I don't guarantee you this isn'tthe first time David used that
slingshot, being a shepherdfending off the lions and the
bear from the sheep.
As God used him and called him,david prepared for what he was
going into, for his calling.
He might not have known whenand where he would use it, but
he did use it.
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He prepared.
We have to stay prepared andlisten.
A slingshot it's not's not.
You know you get this mind.
In sunday school it was like adennis the menace pulling back
the slingshot it was.
You need please look up aslingshot.
Um, there's a famous video froma few years ago of a middle
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eastern using an ancient slingand man, that'll kill you quick.
So, man, that was no pebble.
He was getting hit very hard,very fast, with the rock, but
God guided that rock anddefeated his enemy.
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David ran and stood over him.
He took hold of thePhilistine's sword and drew it
from the shaft.
After he killed him, he cut offhis head with the sword.
When the Philistines saw theirhero was dead, they turned and
ran.
So imagine just going andpicking up this giant's sword,
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this huge sword, being able tobarely, probably lift it up,
probably just barely put it up,cutting off the head of the
enemy of God and showing thePhilistines they have been
defeated.
Then the men of Israel and Judahswung forward with a shout and
praise and pursued thePhilistines to the entrance of
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Gath, into the gate of Akram,and their dead were sewn along
the sarcoph road to Gath andAkram.
When the Israelites returnedfrom chasing the Philistines,
they plundered the camp.
I want to reread that one verse, okay, so bear with me.
Then the men of Israel andJudah charged forward with a
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shout and pursued thePhilistines to the entrance of
Gath and to the gates of Ekram,and to their dead where sown
along the shaft of the road toGath and Ekram.
Then the Israelites returnedfrom chasing the Philistines.
They plundered their camps.
David took the Philistines'head and brought it to Jerusalem
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, he put the Philistines' weaponat his feet.
As Saul watched David go out tomeet the Philistines, he said to
Ambrin, the commander of thearmy Ambrin, whose son is that
man?
Amber replied surely, as youlive, your master, I don't know.
The king said find out whoseson this young man is.
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As soon as David returned fromkilling the Philistine, amber
took him and brought him beforeSaul, with David still holding
the Philistine's head.
Son whose son are you, youngman?
Saul asked.
David said I am the son of yourservant, jesse of Bethlehem.
What an amazing story.
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Now we're only going to get toone chapter because I went into
more detail and I'm not going todo one chapter every day.
Probably I might do two orthree chapters, but I want to
just leave this short.
Now some people think of this.
You can think of this story intwo different ways, and they
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both work that David is apicture of Jesus fighting our
battles, or that King David, god, is using him to fight the
battles.
Either way you look at this, itworks.
God used David, he prepared himin the sheep fields and when he
had to leave, he gave David ashepherd he could trust to leave
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his sheep and he defeated hisenemy to leave his sheep.
And he defeated his enemy andgave him and catapulted him to
where he would eventually becomeking of Israel.
We haven't got there yet, butbecause David stood up for the
Lord and had a heart for theLord.
He had a heart for the Lord, hewas tired of the insults of the
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enemy and he went and conqueredhim, and I believe you can
conquer them today, not throughviolence or war.
It was a different time, okay,and Israel was a legitimate
nation at war with a legitimateenemy.
Okay, your enemy is Satan.
Your enemy is those who hateGod, but we fight them with love
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, we fight them with prayer andwe evangelize, and one day, many
of your enemies will no longerbe your enemies.
I pray that and try to remember.
Sometimes you have to take offwhat someone else has put on you
to defeat the giant.
Now, I believe this storyhappened with all my heart.
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I believe that it literallyhappened, but there are
symbolisms that we can apply for.
Today.
I'm really enjoying this serieswith King David.
I'm going to try to be backhere next week.
Guys, god bless you all.
God loves you.
I hope you have a great day andwe will see you back here soon.
Hello everyone, welcome to Over-Opinionated.
We're getting back into thelife of King David, looking at
Samuel, chapter 17, and we'regoing to be going through a
series of King David.
I want to read to you guys ourdaily readings, the podcast
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daily readings.
We'll start off with the Lord'sPrayer Our Father, which art in
heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth as itis in heaven.
Give us this day our dailybread and forgive us our
trespasses, as we forgive thosethat trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from evil, for
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divine is thy kingdom, thy powerand glory forever and ever.
Amen.
And most of the time I read theApostles' Creed, but actually
we're going to read the NiceneCreed today.
I believe in one God, theFather Almighty, maker of heaven
and earth and of all thingsvisible and invisible.
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Maker of heaven and earth andof all things visible and
invisible, and then one, lordJesus Christ, the only begotten
Son of God, begotten of thefather before all worlds, god of
God, light of light, very Godof very God, begotten, not made,
being of one substance with thefather by whom all things were
made, whom, for us men and forour salvation, came from heaven
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and was incarnated by the HolySpirit of the Virgin Mary and
was made man and was crucifiedfor us under Pontius Pilate.
He suffered and he was buried,and on the third day he rose
again, according to thescriptures, and ascended into
heaven and he sits at the righthand of the Father.
He shall come again with gloryto judge the living and the dead
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, whose kingdom shall have noend.
And I believe in the HolySpirit, the Lord, the giver of
life.
I believe in the holy spirit,the lord, the giver of life, who
proceeds from the father andthe son, who, with the father
and the son together, isworshiped and glorified, who
spoke by the prophets, and Ibelieve in the one holy catholic
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and apostolic church.
I acknowledge one baptisms forthe remission of sins and I look
for the resurrection of thedead and for the life of the
world and for the life of theworld to come, amen.
The one holy and apostolicCatholic Church just means
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universal as always, meansuniversal as always.
So when we left off with KingDavid, samuel anointed King
David to be the future king ofIsrael.
Before that, we see Saulbetraying the Lord and
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compromising in fear of his men,not killing all of the Lord's
enemies.
So now we're going to go toDavid and Goliath, the famous,
one of the most famous Biblestories there is.
It's very common, you know,people will say that's a real
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David and Goliath story and itcomes from here.
It comes from 1 Samuel, chapter17.
And we're going to read throughthis a little bit.
I want to talk to you a littlebit about how massive Goliath
was.
It's a little bit debated howtall he actually was.
But no matter how tall he was,he was, for his day, a huge man.
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Even today he would be a hugeman.
He'd be taller than me, even bythe lowest estimates and I'm at
5'11" and the lowest estimatesthat I see have him at 6'9".
A massive, massive person.
And remember, people didn'tused to be as tall as they are
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today.
People are a lot taller todaythan they used to be.
We're going to be reading out ofthe New International Version
and we're going to get started.
1 Samuel, chapter 1, verse 1.
Now the Philistines gatheredtheir forces for war and
assembled at soka and judea.
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They pitched temps at yearfirst dam between soko and
alakai forgive me for themispronouncing of words.
Also, before we get just beforewe get too far ahead.
I'm recovering from COVID andthat is why I wasn't here last
week, which kind of works outstill, because we only do free
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episodes a month normally.
I have thought, maybe let'sshorten that down and go to
about a 30 minute episode andtry to do four a month.
Maybe that'll be good, maybe we, maybe, maybe we'll try to do
that in the future, go to 30minutes an episode, um, but uh,
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so my voice is not the greatest.
Covid really hit me pretty hardwith my breathing and with my
sinuses and thank you forbearing with me as we go along.
I'm and as always, I'm just notgreat at pronouncing words.
I try, um, some of these wordsare very hard to pronounce and
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I'm not good at pronouncingnormal English words.
So thank you for bearing withme and I appreciate it.
And if you know, if you'relooking for a podcast that
properly pronunciates every word, you've looked at the wrong
place and you're going to haveto go somewhere else, because
that's not me.
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If you're looking for a podcastthat will try to dive into
God's Word and give Him honorand grow us all in the faith,
then you've came to the rightplace.
Verse 2, saul and the Israelitesassembled and camped in the
valley of Er and drew up thebattle lines to meet the
Philistines.
The Philistines occupied one ofthe hills and the Israelites
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another.
With the valley.
Between them, a champion namedGoliath, who was from Gath, came
out of the Phil.
Between them, a champion namedGoliath, who was from Gath, came
out of the Philistine camp.
His height was about six cubitsand a span.
A cubit is from your fingertip,your middle fingertip, all the
way to your elbow, so it hasdifferent lengths and sizes.
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Let's just go ahead.
I want to read you all anarticle.
This is from GoliathsSpearcomand they have recreated the
Spear of Goliath.
It's the same people that arehead of the Creation Museum, but
it's this awesome spear.
I want to read you about it andhow tall Goliath may have been.
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Here's an article Just how tallwas Goliath?
This is a question that seemsto have a lot of different
answers.
Like any math problem, there isreally one correct answer.
That answer may never be knownfor sure this side of eternity,
however.
However, we are taking abiblical, literalist view.
A biblical literate is one whotakes what the bible says as
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literal as possible.
For example, in genesis 1 weread that god created and
everything in the morning wasthe first and that was the first
day.
Therefore, a day equals 20,equals 24 hours.
Yeah, I have some problem withthat Because I used to be a
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hardcore six-day creationist andI'm not anymore.
And if you are, that's okay.
I do appreciate the people atthe Creation Museum and at the
Ark Encounter because they'retrying to win souls to the Lord.
But I say, sometimes I thinkthey get their priorities a
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little out of place because theybecome so dogmatic that they
have to defend the six-daycreation to defend the gospel,
and I don't think the two gohand in hand.
I'm not a scientist.
I personally believe I'm an oldearth creationist right now and
maybe I changed my mind.
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I've changed it before, but itseems to me that the earth is
old Now.
I hope that doesn't make youmad.
I hope you don't say I'm aheretic and stop listening to me
.
But if you think the earth isyoung or if you think the earth
is old, to me it doesn't matterthat much, because Jesus still
made the world and Jesus stilldied for the sins of the world.
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So I don't like arguing aboutit.
It's just nothing to me If theworld is old or if the world is
young.
I care much more about winningsouls from death and into life
with the gospel of Jesus, butI'm going to keep reading this
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article.
When we read Genesis 6, we readabout a man named Noah who built
an ark according to God'sdirections.
The ark provided protection forNoah, his family and two of
each animal from the flood.
That was not just a local floodor a regional one, but one that
covered the earth.
Some people have a hard timebelieving that an animal could
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actually talk.
That certainly isn't anythingthat any of us have experienced
on a daily basis.
However, according to Numbers22-28, there was a man named
Baal who had a donkey who talked.
In Luke 23-46, we read thatJesus died.
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He didn't put himself in sometype of coma or pass out from
exhaustion.
He was dead.
He was totally dead.
There was no life in him.
He died and, however, came backto life after three days.
When the Bible says in 1 Samuel17, verse 4,.
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When the Bible says in 1 Samuel17, verse 4, there went out a
champion out of the camp of thePhilistines named Goliath of
Gath.
His weight was six cubits inspan.
He actually was that tall.
There is some debate aboutGoliath's height due to textual
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variance in ancient manuscripts.
Most English Bible translationsfollow the Masoretic text as
listed in the height at sixcubits in the span.
Most Jews and Protestantsconsidered the Meseretic checks
to have the afforded date ofHebrew Bible or Old Testament.
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It was written sometime betweenthe 17th and 16th century AD
and based on these miraculouspreserved oral traditions and
the best available manuscriptsof the original Hebrew text.
That being said, how tall isGoliath?
To answer the question, we needto know something about the unit
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of measurement mentioned.
What is a cubit and what is aspan?
Again, not everyone agrees onthe leaf of either.
A cubit is considered the leafof a man's arm, from his elbow
to the tip of his fingers.
Okay, whose arms are we goingto use?
It would be easy to see thatdepending on the man, the leaf
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would be different.
Even at that, there were somestandards generally that were
two lengths that were common.
There was a short cubit at 18and a long cubit at 20.
For making of his spear, wetried to always go with the most
conservative weight andmeasurements, knowing that
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people are going to have a hardtime believing this thing was as
big as it is.
The truth is, it may have beeneven bigger.
We went to the shortest 18cubits.
So what is a span?
A span is the distance betweenthe tip of the little finger and
the foam when you have fullyextended your hand.
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But your hand may not be as bigas mine, or mine might be a lot
smaller than yours.
So then, whose hand do we use?
We've chosen the mostconservative measurement of six
inches.
So where does this leave us?
If Goliath was six cubits inthe span we have, 16 times 18
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equals 108, or 12, or 12 equals9 plus 6 equals 9, and 9 and 6.
Now if you want to go to gowith the longer cube, it 6 times
20 equals 120.
Divided by 12 equals 10.6.
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No matter how you measureGoliath, he's one big guy.
His size alone made him veryintimidating.
Then add an estimated total of200 pounds of armor and weaponry
.
He wore a scale of over 125pound shekels, 500 shekels,
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5,000 shekels, including heavybrass greaves and a helmet and
all of his weapons he was aforce to deal with.
And the text actually I'm goingto interrupt the article the
text, actually the Masoretic andthe Septuagint text actually
agree on his armor.
So we know that this guy ishuge.
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At the lowest estimates we havehim about 6'9".
At the highest well, maybe notthe very highest, but the
highest estimates that mostpeople would believe in they
would have him at 9 foot.
So 9 foot to 6'9, now that's abig.
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You know that's a gap.
This guy was tall.
He was huge, absolutely huge.
I'm going to read you just alittle bit about how big this
spear is.
It's truly amazing.
All right, and they have adiagram.
They have this spear.
This is a conservative estimate.
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It's 12 foot and 7 inches.
The head of the spear, beingmade of iron iron tip, was 33
pounds and 12 ounces.
Okay, I'm sorry, forgive me,the spear overall was 33 pounds
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and 12 ounces.
The head of the spear was about16 pounds with a 10 feet long
shaft and there was acounterweight at the bottom of
it to keep it smooth, sailing inthe air, which was about six
point was.
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It was about six pounds, 1.2ounces.
That is a huge spear 12 feet, 7inches, 33 pounds and 12 ounces
.
This guy was big.
He was.
You're talking about somebodythat would make an NFL football
player look small.
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Forgive me for that side detour.
I just wanted to give you apicture of how big Goliath is.
We don't even know how much heweighed, but he was from 6'7".
I mean how much he weighed, buthe was from 6'7".
I mean he was from anywherefrom 6'9 to 9' tall and covered,
um, covered in very heavy armor, being able to move very well,
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being very intimidating.
I get this guy might have been400, 500 pounds, maybe not that
much.
I bet he's about 350 at least,and that would be, yeah, 300,
350 of just muscle.
So he's not a small dude, he'snot a small dude at all.
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And remember, david is a smallguy.
He's not regarded as being ofbig stature, he's not regarded
of any great.
If you looked at him you'd justoverlook him.
That's part of why God pickedhim.
God would use David, theshepherd teenage boy, to slay a
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huge and mighty giant.
We can keep reading Verse 4,.
A champion named Goliath, whowas from Gath, came out from the
Philistine camp.
His height was six cubits and aspan.
He had a bronze helmet on hishead and wore a coat, a scale of
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armor of bronze weighing 5,000shekels.
We talked about that.
5,000 shekels was about what Ithink it said around.
Was it 200 pounds?
It was very heavy, very, veryheavy can't remember if it's 200
pounds or 125 pounds, but a lotof weight, um.
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On his legs he wore bronzegreaves and a bronze javelin was
slung on his back.
His spear was like a waving rodand it's iron pointed.
Weight um 600 shekels.
His shield bear went ahead ofhim.
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So we'll just keep moving along.
Because we already talked abouthow big he was, I'm not trying
to take up too much of a programon that.
I just want to give you guys apicture of how large this guy is
.
Goliath stood and shouted to theranks of Israel why do you come
out and line up for battle?
Am I not a Philistine, and areyou not the servants of Saul?
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Choose a man and have him comedown to me.
If he is able to fight and killme, we will become your
servants, but if I overcome andkill him, you will become our
servants.
So this is kind of a practicethey had in more ancient times,
that instead of all of us goingand dying, let's just select our
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two champions and whoever winswins.
Be a lot less deaf.
But he's saying whoever losesbecomes the other people's
slaves.
Then the Philistines said thisday I defile the armies of
Israel, give me a man and let usfight each other.
On hearing the Philistines'words, I and all of Israel were
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dismayed and terrified.
So they were terrified abouthow huge he was.
And here he insults Godconstantly and even the king of
Israel just lets it go.
Tell me, tell me, how patheticis that that the king of Israel
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would let them insult God, thatthe armies of Israel wouldn't go
charge in there and kill himinsulting God?
Now, I'm not saying that youshould go Old Testament on
somebody for insulting God, butI want you to remember how David
talks to Goliath when he'sbeing insulting and mocking his
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God.
Don't let someone casually mockGod.
Okay, I'm not saying getviolent, don't do that.
But you'll stand up for yourpolitical candidate if someone
talks bad about him.
Oh, don't talk bad about myfavorite political candidate,
don't talk bad about my favoritesports team.
But if someone talks bad aboutGod, do you ever say anything?
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Do you ever say do not talkabout my Lord that way.
Do you ever defend God?
I think you should.
I'm not saying make a hugeconflict or quarrel.
You could at least say hey,listen, I don't appreciate you
saying that God is an amazingGod.
Here's why.
Okay, and it might be.
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You don't hang around with thatperson, but you should defend
God because he's done everythinghe can to save you.
Verse 12.
Now David was the son of aheretic.
Oh gosh was from Bethlehem inJudah.
Jesse had eight sons and inSaul's time he was very old.
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Jesse's three oldest sons hadto follow Saul to war.
The first one was Elab, thesecond Abed and the third Shem.
David was the youngest.
The three oldest followed Saul,but David went back and forth
from Saul to tend his father'ssheep at Bethlehem For forty
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days.
The Philistines came forwardevery morning and evening and
took his stand.
Now Jesse said to David Takethis Ephraim and roast the grain
and the ten loaves of bread toyour brothers and hurry to the
camp.
Take these ten cheeses to thecommander of their unit, see how
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your brothers are and come backfor some assurance from them.
They are with Saul and all themen of Israel are in the valley
of El fighting against thePhilistines.
Philistines Early in themorning, david left the flock in
the care of a shepherd, loadedup and set out as Jesse had
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directed.
Let's go back and look at verse20.
Early in the morning, davidleft the flock in the care of a
shepherd, loaded up and set outas Jesse had directed.
He reached the camp as the armywas about to go to the battle
positions shot into war cry.
I just want to dive into this.
So David left his flock toattend something that his father
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and the Lord wanted him to do.
Sometimes a shepherd, or, as apastor, is often called a
shepherd, sometimes a pastor hasto leave his flock in a trusted
man to fill his role.
They didn't leave the flockunattended.
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They left it to a trusted man,someone that could rise up and
help the flock.
Sometimes our pastors have togo do something else and someone
needs to be there to attend theflock a lay pastor, an
assistant pastor, a deacon, andif that's the role you're called
in, that's a very importantrole, because when David went
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back to the flock, he expectedhis sheep to be cared for.
He expected his sheep to beloved.
Okay, so as a pastor goes outinto the world to fulfill a
calling that God might have puton his heart, he will leave his
sheep behind and put them in thehands of someone that he trusts
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that would give them the goodwork of God.
Okay, so you want to be likeDavid, to be able to leave your
sheep with someone you can trust.
And if you are that person youcan trust, don't think that you
are doing somethinginsignificant because that
shepherd was watching overDavid's flock, because he was
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fighting the Lord's battle.
That's very important.
David didn't have to worry whatabout my sheep?
He knew and put his trust insomeone worthy.
And if you are doing that, youcan give a burden of relief to
your pastor.
Okay, that is great If you canfill in on a Wednesday night and
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give your pastor a little bitof a break as he deals with his
family or his work career.
That is a great and honorablething.
Okay, we'll keep going.
Verse 21.
That's a great and honorablething.
Okay, we'll keep going.
Verse 21.
Israel and the Philistines weredrawing up their lines facing
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each other.
David left his things with thekeeper of supplies.
He ran to the battle lines andasked his brothers how they were
.
As he was talking with, thePhilistine, champion from Gath
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stepped out from his lines andshouted his usual defense, and
David heard it.
Whenever the Israel saw the men, they all fled from him in
great fear.
Now the Israelites had beensaying do you see how this man
keeps coming out.
He comes out to defy Israel.
The king will give wealth tothe man who kills him.
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He will also give him hisdaughter in marriage and will
exempt his family from taxes inIsrael.
David asked the men standingnear him what will be done for
the man who kills the Philistineand removes his disgrace from
Israel.
Who is this uncircumcisedPhilistine that should defy the
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armies of the Lord?
That's what I like.
Right there, david's saying whothe heck are you, you
uncircumcised Philistine, todeny the living God and the
armies of God?
The circumcision was a sign ofthe covenant of Abraham that God
had between his people andAbraham.
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Now we don't have that anymore.
Paul says that you don't haveto be circumcised today, but it
was a sign of the covenant.
But we do want to havecircumcision of our hearts that
we are united in Christ with God.
It should offend you, it shouldmake you mad if someone is
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being hateful toward God, ifsomeone is being a jerk.
I'm not calling for you to beviolent.
Obviously it's not aChristian's job.
I'm not calling for you to beugly, but stand up for the Lord,
your God.
You can do the same thing theway David did standing up for
God.
Now, david was a warrior andhis nation was at war.
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That's a little different.
Obviously, no violence, don'tbe insulting, but stand up for
God because he stands up for you.
Verse 27,.
They repeated to him what he hadbeen saying and told this is
what he will be done for the manwho kills him.
When Alibim, david's oldestbrother, heard him speaking with
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the man, he burned with angerat him and asked why have you
come down here and why did youleave those few sheep in the
wilderness?
I know you are conceited andhow you are wicked.
Your heart is you came downonly to watch the battle.
See, david's brother is justbeing a jerk and he's saying you
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just came down to watch thebattle.
You're leaving your sheep.
You've got the naysayers thatare talking bad about you, about
trying to fulfill your calling.
That God's put on your heart.
You know, if I was David I wouldhave said why don't you go?
Stop this Philistine?
He's making fun of our God.
Why are you being a coward?
I might be the youngest, Imight be the shepherd, but watch
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me, watch.
I'm going to defend God.
You're not doing anything.
I'm sure that popped throughDavid's head.
You're not doing anything.
I'm sure that popped throughDavid's head and I wonder,
impartially, if that's what hewas.
If David's older brother wasthinking, man, my little
brother's going to come out hereand here, I am afraid I wonder
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if he was taking that out on him.
I don't know.
Whatever it was, it was anegative word that you just have
to shake off, a negative wordthat's not from the Lord.
A discouraging word can comefrom a place you really love,
like your older brother, sister,family member, co-worker,
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friends or family.
I'm sure that hurt David tohear that Instead of David, I
love you, how are you doing?
I'm so glad you're here to beso accusable.
Your words have so much meaningand impact us.
But this is how David's respond.
Now, what have I done?
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Said David, can I even speak?
I?
I just hear a younger sibling.
When I hear that.
He then turned away to someoneelse and brought up the same
matter to the men.
To the men answered him, asbefore.
What David said was overheardand reported to Saul and Saul
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sent for him.
And David said to Saul Let noone lose his heart on account of
this, philistine, your servantwill go and fight him.
Saul replied you are not ableto go out against this
Philistine and fight him.
You are only a young man and hehas been a warrior since his
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youth.
You're a young man.
David Goliath has been awarrior since he was young.
You can't do this.
Another negative comment.
Now I'm not saying that weshouldn't listen to our elders
or we shouldn't listen to thoseabove us in spiritual authority,
but Saul shouldn't have saidthis.
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He didn't have that rightreally.
And you've got to know when todivide someone's horrible
negative comment versus a wiseword of advice with love.
There's a difference.
You have to be able to dividebetween that.
But the emotion feels the same,so it can be hard, but you have
to divide between that.
But the emotion feels the same,so it can be hard.
But you have to divide betweenthat.
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Because if you, if you on theother side of this, if someone
gives you a wise word and youjust totally reject that, that's
not good either, okay.
But a wise word normally doesnot put you down intentionally
to hurt you.
It will lift you up to help you.
There's a difference there.
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Verse 34,.
But David said to Saul yourservant has been keeping his
father's sheep.
When a lion or a bear came andcarried off a sheep from the
flock.
I went after it and struck itand rescued the sheep from his
mouth.
When it turned to me, I seizedit by its it and struck it and
rescued the sheep from his mouth.
When it turned to me, I seizedit by its hair and struck it and
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killed it.
So David's saying I haveexperience guarding the sheep.
His old flock gave himexperience to do what God was
calling him elsewhere and he hadsomeone else being able to
attend the flock.
Verse 36, your servant haskilled both the lion and the
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bear.
This uncircumcised Philistinewill be like one of them because
he has defiled the armies ofthe living God.
The Lord, who rescues me fromthe paw of the lion and the paw
of the bear, will rescue me fromthe hand of the Philistine.
Saul said to David Go, the Lordbe with you.
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Then Saul dressed David in hisown tunic.
He put on a coat of armor onhim and a bronze hammer.
David fastened on the swordover his tunic and tried walking
around because he was not usedto them.
I cannot go in these, he saidto Saul because I'm not used to
them.
So he took them off.
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And see, sometimes you've gotto take off what someone else
puts on you, even if they thinkit's a good.
Now that doesn't mean bedisrespectful to your authority
or elders we talked about that.
But sometimes you have to takeoff old, old restraints to do
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what God wants you to do.
God wants you to do.
Then he took his staff in hishand, chose five smooth stones
from the stream, put them in hispouch in his hand his
shepherd's bag and with hissling in his hand, approached
the Philistine.
Meanwhile the Philistine, withhis shield bear in front of him,
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kept coming closer to David.
He looked David over and sawthat he was little more than a
boy, growing with, healthy andhandsome, and he despised him,
he hated him.
He said to David Am I a dogthat you come with me or sticks?
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And philistine cursed david byhis gods.
Come here, he said, and I'llgive you your flesh to the birds
and the wild animals.
So he's cursing god again.
I could just sense that davidhas this righteous anger and you
can be angry without sinning.
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He just has a righteous anger.
Who are you to defy God?
David said to the Philistineyou come against me with sword
and spear and javelin, but Icome against you in the name of
the Lord Almighty, the God ofthe armies of Israel, whom you
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have defeated.
This day the Lord will deliveryou into my hands and I will
strike you down, cut off yourhead.
This very day I will give thecarcass of the Philistine army
to the birds and the wildanimals, and the whole world
will know that there is a God inIsrael.
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And right now I'm going to readyou the Bible verse of the day
1 Samuel 17, verse 47.
And you'll see why.
All those gathered will knowthat it is not by sword nor
spear that the Lord saves, forthe battle is the Lord's.
He will give all of you intoour hands.
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That's a good, strong verse.
Let's read it again.
All those gathered here willknow that it is not by sword or
spirit that the Lord saves, forthe battle is the Lord's and he
will give all of you into ourhands.
So God can give you the enemiesinto your hands.
But thankfully, now we live inthe New Testament, the new
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covenant, and God can turn thehearts of our enemies into a
flesh, stone, into flesh.
They are no longer our enemiesbecause they are one of us.
That's how we should look at it.
Verse 48,.
As the Philistines moved closerto attack him, david ran quickly
toward the battle lines to meethim, reaching into his bag and
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taking out a stone.
He slung it and struck thePhilistine on the forehead.
The stone sank into hisforehead and he fell to the
ground.
So David triumphed over thePhilistine without a sling and a
stone, without a sword in hishand, and struck the Philistine
and killed him.
So David took a sling andkilled him.
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I don't guarantee you this isn'tthe first time David used that
slingshot, being a shepherdfending off the lions and the
bear from the sheep.
As God used him and called him,david prepared for what he was
going into, for his calling.
He might not have known whenand where he would use it, but
he did use it.
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He prepared.
We have to stay prepared andlisten.
A slingshot it's not's not.
You know you get this mind.
In sunday school it was like adennis the menace pulling back
the slingshot it was.
You need please look up aslingshot.
Um, there's a famous video froma few years ago of a middle
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eastern using an ancient slingand man, that'll kill you quick.
So, man, that was no pebble.
He was getting hit very hard,very fast, with the rock, but
God guided that rock anddefeated his enemy.
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David ran and stood over him.
He took hold of thePhilistine's sword and drew it
from the shaft.
After he killed him, he cut offhis head with the sword.
When the Philistines saw theirhero was dead, they turned and
ran.
So imagine just going andpicking up this giant's sword,
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this huge sword, being able tobarely, probably lift it up,
probably just barely put it up,cutting off the head of the
enemy of God and showing thePhilistines they have been
defeated.
Then the men of Israel and Judahswung forward with a shout and
praise and pursued thePhilistines to the entrance of
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Gath, into the gate of Akram,and their dead were sewn along
the sarcoph road to Gath andAkram.
When the Israelites returnedfrom chasing the Philistines,
they plundered the camp.
I want to reread that one verse, okay, so bear with me.
Then the men of Israel andJudah charged forward with a
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shout and pursued thePhilistines to the entrance of
Gath and to the gates of Ekram,and to their dead where sown
along the shaft of the road toGath and Ekram.
Then the Israelites returnedfrom chasing the Philistines.
They plundered their camps.
David took the Philistines'head and brought it to Jerusalem
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, he put the Philistines' weaponat his feet.
As Saul watched David go out tomeet the Philistines, he said to
Ambrin, the commander of thearmy Ambrin, whose son is that
man?
Amber replied surely, as youlive, your master, I don't know.
The king said find out whoseson this young man is.
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As soon as David returned fromkilling the Philistine, amber
took him and brought him beforeSaul, with David still holding
the Philistine's head.
Son whose son are you, youngman?
Saul asked.
David said I am the son of yourservant, jesse of Bethlehem.
What an amazing story.
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Now we're only going to get toone chapter because I went into
more detail and I'm not going todo one chapter every day.
Probably I might do two orthree chapters, but I want to
just leave this short.
Now some people think of this.
You can think of this story intwo different ways, and they
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both work that David is apicture of Jesus fighting our
battles, or that King David, god, is using him to fight the
battles.
Either way you look at this, itworks.
God used David, he prepared himin the sheep fields and when he
had to leave, he gave David ashepherd he could trust to leave
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his sheep and he defeated hisenemy to leave his sheep.
And he defeated his enemy andgave him and catapulted him to
where he would eventually becomeking of Israel.
We haven't got there yet, butbecause David stood up for the
Lord and had a heart for theLord.
He had a heart for the Lord, hewas tired of the insults of the
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enemy and he went and conqueredhim, and I believe you can
conquer them today, not throughviolence or war.
It was a different time, okay,and Israel was a legitimate
nation at war with a legitimateenemy.
Okay, your enemy is Satan.
Your enemy is those who hateGod, but we fight them with love
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, we fight them with prayer andwe evangelize, and one day, many
of your enemies will no longerbe your enemies.
I pray that and try to remember.
Sometimes you have to take offwhat someone else has put on you
to defeat the giant.
Now, I believe this storyhappened with all my heart.
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I believe that it literallyhappened, but there are
symbolisms that we can apply for.
Today.
I'm really enjoying this serieswith King David.
I'm going to try to be backhere next week.
Guys, god bless you all.
God loves you.
I hope you have a great day andwe will see you back here soon.
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