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The Giant Slayer. (The life of king David part 2) #86
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.
Hello everyone, welcome to Over-Opinionated. We're getting back into the life of King David, looking at Samuel, chapter 17, and we're going to be going through a series of King David. I want to read to you guys our daily readings, the podcast daily readings. We'll start off with the Lord's Prayer Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those that trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for divine is thy kingdom, thy power and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Speaker 1:And most of the time I read the Apostles' Creed, but actually we're going to read the Nicene Creed today. I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible. Maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible, and then one, lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of the father before all worlds, god of God, light of light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the father by whom all things were made, whom, for us men and for our salvation, came from heaven and was incarnated by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary and was made man and was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and he was buried, and on the third day he rose again, according to the scriptures, and ascended into heaven and he sits at the right hand of the Father. He shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end. And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life. I believe in the holy spirit, the lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the father and the son, who, with the father and the son together, is worshiped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets, and I believe in the one holy catholic and apostolic church. I acknowledge one baptisms for the remission of sins and I look for the resurrection of the dead and for the life of the world and for the life of the world to come, amen. The one holy and apostolic Catholic Church just means universal as always, means universal as always. So when we left off with King David, samuel anointed King David to be the future king of Israel. Before that, we see Saul betraying the Lord and compromising in fear of his men, not killing all of the Lord's enemies.
Speaker 1:So now we're going to go to David and Goliath, the famous, one of the most famous Bible stories there is. It's very common, you know, people will say that's a real David and Goliath story and it comes from here. It comes from 1 Samuel, chapter 17. And we're going to read through this a little bit. I want to talk to you a little bit about how massive Goliath was. It's a little bit debated how tall he actually was. But no matter how tall he was, he was, for his day, a huge man. Even today he would be a huge man. He'd be taller than me, even by the lowest estimates and I'm at 5'11" and the lowest estimates that I see have him at 6'9". A massive, massive person. And remember, people didn't used to be as tall as they are today. People are a lot taller today than they used to be.
Speaker 1:We're going to be reading out of the New International Version and we're going to get started. 1 Samuel, chapter 1, verse 1. Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at soka and judea. They pitched temps at year first dam between soko and alakai forgive me for the mispronouncing of words. Also, before we get just before we get too far ahead.
Speaker 1:I'm recovering from COVID and that is why I wasn't here last week, which kind of works out still, because we only do free episodes a month normally. I have thought, maybe let's shorten that down and go to about a 30 minute episode and try 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 30 minutes an episode, um, but uh, so my voice is not the greatest. Covid really hit me pretty hard with my breathing and with my sinuses and thank you for bearing with me as we go along. I'm and as always, I'm just not great at pronouncing words. I try, um, some of these words are very hard to pronounce and I'm not good at pronouncing normal English words. So thank you for bearing with me and I appreciate it. And if you know, if you're looking for a podcast that properly pronunciates every word, you've looked at the wrong place and you're going to have to go somewhere else, because that's not me. If you're looking for a podcast that will try to dive into God's Word and give Him honor and grow us all in the faith, then you've came to the right place.
Speaker 1:Verse 2, saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in the valley of Er and drew up the battle lines to meet the Philistines. The Philistines occupied one of the hills and the Israelites another. With the valley. Between them, a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Phil. Between them, a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was about six cubits and a span. A cubit is from your fingertip, your middle fingertip, all the way to your elbow, so it has different lengths and sizes.
Speaker 1:Let's just go ahead. I want to read you all an article. This is from GoliathsSpearcom and they have recreated the Spear of Goliath. It's the same people that are head of the Creation Museum, but it's this awesome spear. I want to read you about it and how tall Goliath may have been. Here's an article Just how tall was Goliath? This is a question that seems to have a lot of different answers. Like any math problem, there is really one correct answer. That answer may never be known for sure this side of eternity, however.
Speaker 1:However, we are taking a biblical, literalist view. A biblical literate is one who takes what the bible says as literal as possible. For example, in genesis 1 we read that god created and everything in the morning was the first and that was the first day. Therefore, a day equals 20, equals 24 hours. Yeah, I have some problem with that Because I used to be a hardcore six-day creationist and I'm not anymore. And if you are, that's okay.
Speaker 1:I do appreciate the people at the Creation Museum and at the Ark Encounter because they're trying to win souls to the Lord. But I say, sometimes I think they get their priorities a little out of place because they become so dogmatic that they have to defend the six-day creation to defend the gospel, and I don't think the two go hand in hand. I'm not a scientist. I personally believe I'm an old earth creationist right now and maybe I changed my mind. I've changed it before, but it seems to me that the earth is old Now. I hope that doesn't make you mad. I hope you don't say I'm a heretic and stop listening to me. But if you think the earth is young or if you think the earth is old, to me it doesn't matter that much, because Jesus still made the world and Jesus still died for the sins of the world. So I don't like arguing about it. It's just nothing to me If the world is old or if the world is young. I care much more about winning souls from death and into life with the gospel of Jesus, but I'm going to keep reading this article.
Speaker 1:When we read Genesis 6, we read about a man named Noah who built an ark according to God's directions. The ark provided protection for Noah, his family and two of each animal from the flood. That was not just a local flood or a regional one, but one that covered the earth. Some people have a hard time believing that an animal could actually talk. That certainly isn't anything that any of us have experienced on a daily basis. However, according to Numbers 22-28, there was a man named Baal who had a donkey who talked. In Luke 23-46, we read that Jesus died. He didn't put himself in some type 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 back to life after three days.
Speaker 1:When the Bible says in 1 Samuel 17, verse 4,. When the Bible says in 1 Samuel 17, verse 4, there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath. His weight was six cubits in span. He actually was that tall. There is some debate about Goliath's height due to textual variance in ancient manuscripts. Most English Bible translations follow the Masoretic text as listed in the height at six cubits in the span. Most Jews and Protestants considered the Meseretic checks to have the afforded date of Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. It was written sometime between the 17th and 16th century AD and based on these miraculous preserved oral traditions and the best available manuscripts of the original Hebrew text. That being said, how tall is Goliath?
Speaker 1:To answer the question, we need to know something about the unit of measurement mentioned. What is a cubit and what is a span? Again, not everyone agrees on the leaf of either. A cubit is considered the leaf of a man's arm, from his elbow to the tip of his fingers. Okay, whose arms are we going to use? It would be easy to see that depending on the man, the leaf would be different. Even at that, there were some standards generally that were two lengths that were common. There was a short cubit at 18 and a long cubit at 20.
Speaker 1:For making of his spear, we tried to always go with the most conservative weight and measurements, knowing that people are going to have a hard time believing this thing was as big as it is. The truth is, it may have been even bigger. We went to the shortest 18 cubits. So what is a span? A span is the distance between the tip of the little finger and the foam when you have fully extended your hand. But your hand may not be as big as mine, or mine might be a lot smaller than yours. So then, whose hand do we use? We've chosen the most conservative measurement of six inches. So where does this leave us? If Goliath was six cubits in the span we have, 16 times 18 equals 108, or 12, or 12 equals 9 plus 6 equals 9, and 9 and 6. Now if you want to go to go with the longer cube, it 6 times 20 equals 120. Divided by 12 equals 10.6.
Speaker 1:No matter how you measure Goliath, he's one big guy. His size alone made him very intimidating. Then add an estimated total of 200 pounds of armor and weaponry. He wore a scale of over 125 pound shekels, 500 shekels, 5,000 shekels, including heavy brass greaves and a helmet and all of his weapons he was a force to deal with. And the text actually I'm going to interrupt the article the text, actually the Masoretic and the Septuagint text actually agree on his armor. So we know that this guy is huge. At the lowest estimates we have him about 6'9". At the highest well, maybe not the very highest, but the highest estimates that most people would believe in they would have him at 9 foot. So 9 foot to 6'9, now that's a big. You know that's a gap. This guy was tall. He was huge, absolutely huge.
Speaker 1:I'm going to read you just a little bit about how big this spear is. It's truly amazing. All right, and they have a diagram. They have this spear. This is a conservative estimate. It's 12 foot and 7 inches. The head of the spear, being made of iron iron tip, was 33 pounds and 12 ounces. Okay, I'm sorry, forgive me, the spear overall was 33 pounds and 12 ounces. The head of the spear was about 16 pounds with a 10 feet long shaft and there was a counterweight at the bottom of it to keep it smooth, sailing in the air, which was about six point was. It was about six pounds, 1.2 ounces. That is a huge spear 12 feet, 7 inches, 33 pounds and 12 ounces. This guy was big. He was.
Speaker 1:You're talking about somebody that would make an NFL football player look small. Forgive me for that side detour. I just wanted to give you a picture of how big Goliath is. We don't even know how much he weighed, but he was from 6'7". I mean how much he weighed, but he was from 6'7". I mean he was from anywhere from 6'9 to 9' tall and covered, um, covered in very heavy armor, being able to move very well, being very intimidating. I get this guy might have been 400, 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's not a small dude at all. And remember, david is a small guy. He's not regarded as being of big stature, he's not regarded of any great. If you looked at him you'd just overlook him. That's part of why God picked him. God would use David, the shepherd teenage boy, to slay a huge and mighty giant. We can keep reading Verse 4,.
Speaker 1:A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat, a scale of armor of bronze weighing 5,000 shekels. We talked about that. 5,000 shekels was about what I think it said around. Was it 200 pounds? It was very heavy, very, very heavy can't remember if it's 200 pounds or 125 pounds, but a lot of weight, um. On his legs he wore bronze greaves and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. His spear was like a waving rod and it's iron pointed. Weight um 600 shekels. His shield bear went ahead of him. So we'll just keep moving along. Because we already talked about how big he was, I'm not trying to take up too much of a program on that. I just want to give you guys a picture of how large this guy is.
Speaker 1:Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me. If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your servants, but if I overcome and kill him, you will become our servants. So this is kind of a practice they had in more ancient times, that instead of all of us going and dying, let's just select our two champions and whoever wins wins. Be a lot less deaf. But he's saying whoever loses becomes the other people's slaves. Then the Philistines said this day I defile the armies of Israel, give me a man and let us fight each other. On hearing the Philistines' words, I and all of Israel were dismayed and terrified. So they were terrified about how huge he was.
Speaker 1:And here he insults God constantly and even the king of Israel just lets it go. Tell me, tell me, how pathetic is that that the king of Israel would let them insult God, that the armies of Israel wouldn't go charge in there and kill him insulting God? Now, I'm not saying that you should go Old Testament on somebody for insulting God, but I want you to remember how David talks to Goliath when he's being insulting and mocking his God. Don't let someone casually mock God. Okay, I'm not saying get violent, don't do that. But you'll stand up for your political candidate if someone talks bad about him. Oh, don't talk bad about my favorite political candidate, don't talk bad about my favorite sports team. But if someone talks bad about God, do you ever say anything? Do you ever say do not talk about my Lord that way. Do you ever defend God? I think you should. I'm not saying make a huge conflict or quarrel. You could at least say hey, listen, I don't appreciate you saying that God is an amazing God. Here's why. Okay, and it might be. You don't hang around with that person, but you should defend God because he's done everything he can to save you.
Speaker 1:Verse 12. Now David was the son of a heretic. Oh gosh was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons and in Saul's time he was very old. Jesse's three oldest sons had to follow Saul to war. The first one was Elab, the second 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's sheep at Bethlehem For forty days.
Speaker 1:The Philistines came forward every morning and evening and took his stand. Now Jesse said to David Take this Ephraim and roast the grain and the ten loaves of bread to your brothers and hurry to the camp. Take these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit, see how your brothers are and come back for some assurance from them. They are with Saul and all the men of Israel are in the valley of El fighting against the Philistines. Philistines Early in the morning, david left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out as Jesse had directed.
Speaker 1:Let's go back and look at verse 20. Early in the morning, david left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was about to go to the battle positions shot into war cry. I just want to dive into this. So David left his flock to attend something that his father and the Lord wanted him to do.
Speaker 1:Sometimes a shepherd, or, as a pastor, is often called a shepherd, sometimes a pastor has to leave his flock in a trusted man to fill his role. They didn't leave the flock unattended. They left it to a trusted man, someone that could rise up and help the flock. Sometimes our pastors have to go do something else and someone needs to be there to attend the flock a lay pastor, an assistant pastor, a deacon, and if that's the role you're called in, that's a very important role, because when David went back to the flock, he expected his sheep to be cared for. He expected his sheep to be loved. Okay, so as a pastor goes out into the world to fulfill a calling that God might have put on his heart, he will leave his sheep behind and put them in the hands of someone that he trusts that would give them the good work of God. Okay, so you want to be like David, to be able to leave your sheep with someone you can trust. And if you are that person you can trust, don't think that you are doing something insignificant because that shepherd was watching over David's flock, because he was fighting the Lord's battle. That's very important. David didn't have to worry what about my sheep? He knew and put his trust in someone worthy. And if you are doing that, you can give a burden of relief to your pastor. Okay, that is great If you can fill in on a Wednesday night and give your pastor a little bit of a break as he deals with his family or his work career. That is a great and honorable thing. Okay, we'll keep going. Verse 21. That's a great and honorable thing. Okay, we'll keep going. Verse 21.
Speaker 1:Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing each other. David left his things with the keeper of supplies. He ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were. As he was talking with, the Philistine, champion from Gath stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defense, and David heard it. Whenever the Israel saw the men, they all fled from him in great fear.
Speaker 1:Now the Israelites had been saying do you see how this man keeps coming out. He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel. David asked the men standing near him what will be done for the man who kills the Philistine and removes his disgrace from Israel. Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that should defy the armies of the Lord? That's what I like.
Speaker 1:Right there, david's saying who the heck are you, you uncircumcised Philistine, to deny the living God and the armies of God? The circumcision was a sign of the covenant of Abraham that God had between his people and Abraham. Now we don't have that anymore. Paul says that you don't have to be circumcised today, but it was a sign of the covenant. But we do want to have circumcision of our hearts that we are united in Christ with God. It should offend you, it should make you mad if someone is being hateful toward God, if someone is being a jerk. I'm not calling for you to be violent. Obviously it's not a Christian's job. I'm not calling for you to be ugly, but stand up for the Lord, your God. You can do the same thing the way David did standing up for God. Now, david was a warrior and his nation was at war. That's a little different. Obviously, no violence, don't be insulting, but stand up for God because he stands up for you. Verse 27,.
Speaker 1:They repeated to him what he had been saying and told this is what he will be done for the man who kills him. When Alibim, david's oldest brother, heard him speaking with the man, he burned with anger at him and asked why have you come down here and why did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know you are conceited and how you are wicked. Your heart is you came down only to watch the battle. See, david's brother is just being a jerk and he's saying you just came down to watch the battle. You're leaving your sheep. You've got the naysayers that are talking bad about you, about trying to fulfill your calling. That God's put on your heart.
Speaker 1:You know, if I was David I would have 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, I might be the shepherd, but watch me, watch. I'm going to defend God. You're not doing anything. I'm sure that popped through David's head. You're not doing anything.
Speaker 1:I'm sure that popped through David's head and I wonder, impartially, if that's what he was. If David's older brother was thinking, man, my little brother's going to come out here and here, I am afraid I wonder if he was taking that out on him. I don't know. Whatever it was, it was a negative word that you just have to shake off, a negative word that's not from the Lord. A discouraging word can come from a place you really love, like your older brother, sister, family member, co-worker, friends or family. I'm sure that hurt David to hear that Instead of David, I love you, how are you doing? I'm so glad you're here to be so accusable. Your words have so much meaning and impact us. But this is how David's respond. Now, what have I done? Said David, can I even speak? I? I just hear a younger sibling. When I hear that.
Speaker 1:He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter to the men. To the men answered him, as before. What David said was overheard and reported to Saul and Saul sent for him. And David said to Saul Let no one lose his heart on account of this, philistine, your servant will go and fight him. Saul replied you are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him. You are only a young man and he has been a warrior since his youth. You're a young man. David Goliath has been a warrior since he was young. You can't do this.
Speaker 1:Another negative comment. Now I'm not saying that we shouldn't listen to our elders or we shouldn't listen to those above us in spiritual authority, but Saul shouldn't have said this. He didn't have that right really. And you've got to know when to divide someone's horrible negative comment versus a wise word of advice with love. There's a difference. You have to be able to divide between 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 between that. Because if you, if you on the other side of this, if someone gives you a wise word and you just totally reject that, that's not good either, okay. But a wise word normally does not put you down intentionally to hurt you. It will lift you up to help you. There's a difference there. Verse 34,.
Speaker 1:But David said to Saul your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock. I went after it and struck it and rescued the sheep from his mouth. When it turned to me, I seized it by its it and struck it and rescued the sheep from his mouth. When it turned to me, I seized it by its hair and struck it and killed it. So David's saying I have experience guarding the sheep. His old flock gave him experience to do what God was calling him elsewhere and he had someone else being able to attend the flock.
Speaker 1:Verse 36, your servant has killed both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them because he has defiled the armies of the living God. The Lord, who rescues me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear, will rescue me from the hand of the Philistine. Saul said to David Go, the Lord be with you.
Speaker 1:Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put on a coat of armor on him and a bronze hammer. David fastened on the sword over his tunic and tried walking around because he was not used to them. I cannot go in these, he said to Saul because I'm not used to them. So he took them off. And see, sometimes you've got to take off what someone else puts on you, even if they think it's a good. Now that doesn't mean be disrespectful to your authority or elders we talked about that. But sometimes you have to take off old, old restraints to do what God wants you to do. God wants you to do.
Speaker 1:Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in his pouch in his hand his shepherd's bag and with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine. Meanwhile the Philistine, with his shield bear in front of him, kept coming closer to David. He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy, growing with, healthy and handsome, and he despised him, he hated him. He said to David Am I a dog that you come with me or sticks? And philistine cursed david by his gods. Come here, he said, and I'll give you your flesh to the birds and the wild animals. So he's cursing god again. I could just sense that david has this righteous anger and you can be angry without sinning. He just has a righteous anger.
Speaker 1:Who are you to defy God? David said to the Philistine you come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defeated. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands and I will strike you down, cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcass of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. And right now I'm going to read you the Bible verse of the day 1 Samuel 17, verse 47. And you'll see why. All those gathered will know that it is not by sword nor spear that the Lord saves, for the battle is the Lord's. He will give all of you into our hands. That's a good, strong verse. Let's read it again. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spirit that the Lord saves, for the battle is the Lord's and he will give all of you into our hands. So God can give you the enemies into your hands. But thankfully, now we live in the New Testament, the new covenant, and God can turn the hearts of our enemies into a flesh, stone, into flesh. They are no longer our enemies because they are one of us. That's how we should look at it. Verse 48,.
Speaker 1:As the Philistines moved closer to attack him, david ran quickly toward the battle lines to meet him, reaching into his bag and taking out a stone. He slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead and he fell to the ground. So David triumphed over the Philistine without a sling and a stone, without a sword in his hand, and struck the Philistine and killed him. So David took a sling and killed him.
Speaker 1:I don't guarantee you this isn't the first time David used that slingshot, being a shepherd fending 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 when and where he would use it, but he did use it. He prepared. We have to stay prepared and listen. A slingshot it's not's not. You know you get this mind.
Speaker 1:In sunday school it was like a dennis the menace pulling back the slingshot it was. You need please look up a slingshot. Um, there's a famous video from a few years ago of a middle eastern using an ancient sling and 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 and defeated his enemy. David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine's sword and drew it from the shaft. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw their hero was dead, they turned and ran. So imagine just going and picking up this giant's sword, this huge sword, being able to barely, probably lift it up, probably just barely put it up, cutting off the head of the enemy of God and showing the Philistines they have been defeated.
Speaker 1:Then the men of Israel and Judah swung forward with a shout and praise and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath, into the gate of Akram, and their dead were sewn along the sarcoph road to Gath and Akram. When the Israelites returned from chasing the Philistines, they plundered the camp. I want to reread that one verse, okay, so bear with me. Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekram, and to their dead where sown along the shaft of the road to Gath and Ekram. Then the Israelites returned from chasing the Philistines. They plundered their camps. David took the Philistines' head and brought it to Jerusalem, he put the Philistines' weapon at his feet.
Speaker 1:As Saul watched David go out to meet the Philistines, he said to Ambrin, the commander of the army Ambrin, whose son is that man? Amber replied surely, as you live, your master, I don't know. The king said find out whose son this young man is. As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, amber took him and brought him before Saul, with David still holding the Philistine's head. Son whose son are you, young man? Saul asked. David said I am the son of your servant, jesse of Bethlehem. What an amazing story.
Speaker 1:Now we're only going to get to one chapter because I went into more detail and I'm not going to do one chapter every day. Probably I might do two or three chapters, but I want to just leave this short. Now some people think of this. You can think of this story in two different ways, and they both work that David is a picture of Jesus fighting our battles, or that King David, god, is using him to fight the battles. Either way you look at this, it works.
Speaker 1:God used David, he prepared him in the sheep fields and when he had to leave, he gave David a shepherd he could trust to leave his sheep and he defeated his enemy to leave his sheep. And he defeated his enemy and gave him and catapulted him to where he would eventually become king of Israel. We haven't got there yet, but because David stood up for the Lord and had a heart for the Lord. He had a heart for the Lord, he was tired of the insults of the enemy and he went and conquered him, and I believe you can conquer them today, not through violence or war. It was a different time, okay, and Israel was a legitimate nation at war with a legitimate enemy.
Speaker 1:Okay, your enemy is Satan. Your enemy is those who hate God, but we fight them with love, we fight them with prayer and we evangelize, and one day, many of your enemies will no longer be your enemies. I pray that and try to remember. Sometimes you have to take off what someone else has put on you to defeat the giant. Now, I believe this story happened with all my heart. I believe that it literally happened, but there are symbolisms that we can apply for. Today. I'm really enjoying this series with King David. I'm going to try to be back here next week. Guys, god bless you all. God loves you. I hope you have a great day and we will see you back here soon.
