WEBVTT - Who You Talking To? (Robert Madu) 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.360 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.080 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.600 gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:14.720 Enjoy the message. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.320 I know we were singing it, but I want to know, 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.080 do you really believe it? Do you believe that God 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:25.880 can make away? 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:29.840 Here's what I love about God. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.120 If he didn't have to give you a preview or 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:37.800 a blues clue that he's about to make away, he 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:39.920 can just do it. For those of you who are saying, 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.120 I tell it doesn't look like he's about to make away, 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.760 it doesn't have to look like. When God wants to 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.160 make away, he will split a red seat, he will 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:53.120 bring a wall down, whatever it is, He's able to 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.480 do it. And I got a feeling he's gonna do 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.880 something incredible today. Do you believe that? On across every location, 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:02.880 would you give somebody a high five next to you 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.760 and tell them I'm glad I'm next to you today. 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.560 Come on, make sure they got some faith. High five Somebody. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:13.720 Say I'm glad I'm next to you today. Hey man, Amen, 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:15.959 Hey remain standing. I want to do something. I want 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.720 to do something. As was mentioned, I am not a 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.120 guest here at Elevation. I'm a part of the family, 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.759 but doctor myself in bring your greetings from the great 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.880 country of Texas with my wife and I passed an 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.520 amazing church social Dallas. And I don't take it lightly 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.560 and I don't take it for granted, the opportunity to 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:37.920 be here today. And I know what some of y'all 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.720 are thinking, like, that's Stephen look different now I'm not. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.640 I'm not Pastor Stephen. I know some of y'all are disappointed. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:49.080 And I tried. I did extra bench press today just 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.120 to come in and U Pastor Steven or the team 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:56.000 are out Elevation Nights. God is doing incredible things, incredible 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:02.240 things literally around the world. And here's what I'm hoping. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:03.960 First of all, I hope you're praying for the team 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.440 as they're out ministering, that God would use them mightily, 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.720 that they're gonna come back refresh. But not only that, 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.680 I pray you never take for granted the gift that 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.720 God has given you. If you needed any evidence, Elevation Nights, 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.440 so let you know Pastor Steven and the team, they 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.919 could go anywhere. Come on, somebody anywhere. So I pray 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.200 you never take for granted that gift God has given 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.960 you in Pastor Stephen, in Pastor Holly, and I always 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.919 want to give honor to them. They have been a 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.600 blessing to my life, to our church. I know they've 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.799 been a blessing to you and the Capital C Church. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:35.560 So come on, can we let them know, just in 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.000 case they're watching, we love you. Come on, y'all can 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:43.520 do better than that. What. Thank you for your leadership, 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:47.280 thank you for your sacrifice, thank you for your yes. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:50.800 So we don't have fun today? Are you all ready 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.280 for the Wordma? Stayding and I'm gonna jump straight into it. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.200 I hope you feel like hearing it like I feel 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.040 like preaching it. Come on, if you got a Bible, 0:02:59.080 --> 0:02:59.840 would you wave it in the air? 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:00.520 I could just do. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.720 Care how many about a paper Bible? I see paper bibles? Okay, 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:09.080 it's for real, save people. Come all, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.200 Even if your Bible is glowing you good. I want 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:16.760 you to go with me to a familiar passage of scripture. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.919 Can we thank God for this worship team. Y'all are amazing, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.560 so good. Thank you so much for meeting us into 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.280 God's presence. We're gonna jump into a familiar passage of scripture. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:33.359 If this text was an eighteen episode Netflix series, we're 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.680 jumping straight into episode seventeen. We're skipping all the other ones, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.040 and you're gonna see why in a moment. But first, Samuel, 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.000 chapter number seventeen, and I want to look at versus 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:47.520 forty one through forty seven. When you're ready to read it, 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.720 say yeah, if you need some time to find it, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.320 say hold up. I heard them hold up, So I'm 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:58.080 wait for you, wait for somebody on you fan waiting 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:02.120 to find it. First Samuel, up to number seventeen. You're 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.280 gonna start in verse number forty one. Thank you so much, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:14.920 And it says, meanwhile, the Philistine Meanwhile, it was a 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:20.360 mean while, because for forty days, this giant has been 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:26.280 verbally assaulting and attacking the children of Israel. He hadn't 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:30.000 thrown a punch yet, but the threat of what he 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:35.000 was about to do had them paralyzed in fear. Sometimes 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.680 the enemy doesn't even do anything, but the threat of 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:44.400 what could happen can lead many of us stuck in fear, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.200 he says. Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:52.080 front of him, kept coming closer to David. You looked 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.360 David over and saw that he was little more than 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:59.040 a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him. 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.120 That bless me. So he's a hater. But he's still 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:06.360 got to admit, Yo, you healthy and you hanswer. I 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:10.640 don't like you like I admit you look good, he 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.080 says to David. Am I a dog that you come 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.160 at me with sticks? The Philistine cursed David by his gods. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.359 Come here, he said, and I'll give your flesh to 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:26.520 the birds and the wild animals. David said to the Philistine, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:33.000 you come against me with sword and spear and javelin. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.919 But I come against you in the name of the 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:41.800 Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:46.640 you have defied. This day, somebody say, this day, this day, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.040 the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I'll 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.200 strike you down and cut off your head. This very 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.559 day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.240 to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.960 world will know there is a God in Israel. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:07.159 All those gathered here will know it is not by. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.000 Sword or spear that the Lord saves, for the battle 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.560 is the Lord's, and he will give all of you 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.320 into our hands. Can you say a man? Can you 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.360 say a man? If that don't make a shout, I 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:25.760 don't know what else. Really, look at what David is 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:31.000 saying before he starts fighting. I'm gonna preach today, not long, 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:35.200 probably about three and a half hours, using this as 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:35.920 a title. 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:38.320 Who you talking to? 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:47.520 Who you now? Who are you talking to? Who you 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.440 talking to? You gotta help me pre this. Look at 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.240 the person next to you one last time, say neighbor, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:56.839 I got a question? Who are you talking to? Come on, 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.400 find another neighbor. Find another neighbor, because that neighborhood stuck up. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:04.120 Come on, say other neighbor. You my second option, But 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.240 I gotta ask who you're talking to. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.280 If you believe God's gonna speak today, would you give 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:11.040 us some praise? 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.080 Father? 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.240 Have your way speak today? Amen? You can sit out, 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:27.400 you can sit down. You talking to. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:30.800 Elevation fam. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:36.320 Before I really jump into this text today, I want 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.160 to do something that I have never done in all 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.040 my years of coming to elevation. Don't get nervous. I 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.560 talked to past Steve, but we're good. Were good. But 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.560 there's someone who is here today who I want to 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.320 come out just for a moment and share a few 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.400 words with you. And the reason I want them to 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.600 come out is because this person is, in my opinion, 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:03.160 one of the most influential and greatest communicators of our lifetime. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.840 And I'm putting them on the spot. You're gonna know 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.840 exactly who they are as soon as they come out. Okay, don't, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.280 don't pass out, But can we just welcome them before 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:15.720 they even come out? I just want them to share. 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:21.480 Just for them, they can welcome across every location. Come on, y'all, 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:22.800 would you make them feel welcome? 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:47.640 Come on, y'all? Can you see you? Yep, ephil I'm 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:48.600 blind and somebody can. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:54.880 You'll see him. Make sure you get a good look 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.559 at yourself. And some of y'all, are you played too much? 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.319 I saw some of you. It's not like who is it? 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:07.559 You had you have already. But please don't let the 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:12.680 comedy mitigate the weight of what I said in my introduction, 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.959 my fake introduction. I said, I want to bring out 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:24.480 someone who is the greatest and most influential communicator. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.360 Then I brought out a mirror and asked you, can. 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:32.480 You see you? Because I want to ask you, who 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:38.400 talks to you more than you, Who influences you more 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.120 than you, Who tells you where to go and where 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.079 not to go, what to wear and what not to wear, 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.079 what to post and what not to post more than you. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:55.600 You are an influential communicator. You are a powerful communicator. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.679 As a matter of fact, you are not just the 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.000 greatest communicator that you have ever heard, You're the greatest 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:07.040 communicator that you are always hearing. There's always a voice 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:13.719 on the inside talking to you about you, who who 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.920 you talking to? I'm fully aware that as I'm preaching today, 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:24.080 although I'm preaching the infallible, incorruptible, everlasting, eternal Word of God, 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.280 and I do everything in my power to preach it 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.480 with clarity and precision, however, I'm aware that the most 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.760 important thing is not necessarily what I'm saying to you. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.199 It's what you are saying to you about what I'm 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:38.080 saying to you. That's the important voice today. What are 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.400 you saying about what I'm saying? I could be saying 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.000 God's gonna use you, and then that voice says who 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.160 your trauma and your baggage, not you. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.079 I could be saying things like, oh, you're suffering. It's 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:51.120 not for nothing. 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.800 God is able to use that suffering to shape you 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.760 into the image of Christ. But then you can say 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.360 to you, no, I shouldn't be going through this anyway, 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:04.520 and God, this is your fault. This suffering means nothing. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.280 I could be saying to you that God is gonna 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:08.800 open up a door this year. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.160 And then you'll say to you, well, he should have 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.360 done it in January. We and I'm told. But now. 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.679 I want to know what are you saying to you? 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:19.800 Who you talking to? 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.160 Because that voice is critical. It is the internal narrative 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.800 that is navigating your life right now. It is the 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:31.240 story that you are perpetually telling yourself. Who are you 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.679 talking to? Some of you would slap a person if 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.480 they talk to you the way you talk to you. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.640 I want to know what is the conversation that you 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.760 are having in your head right now? Who are you 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:50.920 talking to? Because that voice is the one that matters. 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.920 Is it that negative voice that wants to shoot down 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.520 everything God wants to do to you? By the way, 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:02.000 where does that come from the devil? It's a demon maybe, 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.040 But have you ever noticed, at least for me, the 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.719 devil never sounds like the devil in my head. I 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.640 have never in my life heard a voice saying you however, 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.240 it don't sound like that. Have you ever known that 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.600 the enemy always sounds like you in your head? 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.319 And that is the voice that you are. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:26.160 A warrior against, that you are waging war against every day. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.480 Who are you talking to? 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.640 For some of us, it's the voice of somebody else 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.640 that planted a seed in our mind, and we have 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.120 been watering that seed over the years, rehearsing it over 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.400 and over and over again, and it's become a stronghold 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:48.079 in our minds. Who are you talking to? Reminds me 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.760 of a fighter. I'll never forget watching this fighter who 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.360 won this fight, powerful fighter, and he won the championship 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.320 and they were interviewing him after he won, and after 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.320 one he was excited about winning the fight. This sudden 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.480 he looks in the camera and he says in the camera, 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.080 he goes, see dad, see I'm not a loser. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.280 I am somebody. And the interviewer was looking at him like, 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:13.720 who are you talking too? 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.640 But he had a moment where he blacked out, and 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.360 you delve into a store, you find out that he 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.080 was verbally and physically abused by his father. In every 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.240 fight that he had, he would put the image of 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.400 his father on his opponent, and that's how he would 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:32.640 win the fight. And he was fighting and won a victory. 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:38.079 But the bigger fight was the internal conversation that's happening 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.520 in his head. Ladies and gentlemen, I am realizing that 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.480 most of the fights have little to do with the 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:50.280 external confrontation, but everything to do with the internal conversations 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.760 that you are having with yourself. I just want to 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.360 talk to you today and ask you who are you 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.280 talking to. I want you to elbow somebody next to 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.280 you and say, I think this is for you. 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:02.199 I think this is for you. 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:07.839 Now elbaum, tell them they need this for you. Brings 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.080 me to my text today. My text today in First 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:15.960 Samuel chapter number seventeen. I shouldn't even read the text, 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.760 let's be honest, because come on, y'all, it's David and Goliath. 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.080 I think when I was reading some of y'all like, 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:22.240 are you for real? This is what I got out 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:27.640 of bed for First Samuel chapter seventeen. Everybody knows the 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.800 story of David and Goliath. Come on, I've been raised 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.680 in church, and I've heard some people jack up some 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.880 Bible stories. I mean, I've heard them jack up a 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.160 lot of Bible stories. I remember one dude, he was 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:38.600 new to the faith. He came to me, tears in 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.400 his eyes. He's like, hey, Pastor, let's mess up how 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.920 they did Joseph. They threw him in that pit. I 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.720 was like, yeah, He's like, but he came back. I said, 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.360 he sure did. He's like, yeah, he came back because 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.360 he got married to Mary and then they gave birth 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:54.440 to Jesus. I knew that. I ain't correct him. I 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.480 was like, God, God can turn it around. I can 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:03.840 turn it out. People can Jacob John Jumps and Bible stores, 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.320 but don't nobody Jacob David and Goliath. 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.480 Come on, you know that story. I don't care if 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:11.680 you ain't been the church at a minute. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.960 Everybody knows the story of David and Goliath, and ladies 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.280 and gentlemen. Perhaps that's the problem, because it is our 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.760 familiarity with this text that robs us of the revelation 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.640 that is in this text. And all this week I 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.600 was saying, Holy Spirit, help me see it in a 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.440 different way, help me see it. 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.440 And the more I looked at it, I realized is 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.040 not about the fight. It has little to. 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.720 Do with the fight in the valley against Goliath, y'all. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.280 That is the shortest part of the text. The fight 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.640 is not that long. I mean, we can really put 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.280 this fight in four phrases. He hit them with a rock, 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.240 he fell, I'm dead, he cut up his head. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:56.440 Hooray. That's the fight, right that. That is the entire fight. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.680 Why in the world, then are there fifty eight in. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:01.880 Onest Samuel seventeen. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.480 What in the world takes up all that space of 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.160 fifty eight versus? Is all that? 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:12.240 All that talking, All these conversations are happening before the confrontation. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.680 There are so many conversations. 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.640 Don't forget when we come up against Goliath the first 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:21.560 time we see him, he's not fighting. He's talking for 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.760 forty days. He's just showed up, just talking. It's not 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.560 like he showed up for forty days cutting off heads. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.680 I can understand if you'd be scared, then no, this 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.440 dude is just running his mouth and talking. And there's 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.200 something about them entertaining this conversation that calls them to 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.000 be paralyzed in fear. It is the conversation, not necessarily 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.200 the confrontation. Some of us are losing the fight not 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.560 when we get in the valley, but before the valley, 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.520 because the enemy has already convinced you that you don't 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.040 have what it takes for the fight. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.040 Who are you talking to? 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:52.760 Oh? 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.320 This is why I love David. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:58.720 Because when David was ostracized and alienated out with those sheep, 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.040 he went out there by himsel. He was out there 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.960 talking to God. He was out there saying, the Lord 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.480 is my shepherd. I shall not want he makes me 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.680 lie down in Green Castris. That's why he had confidence 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.639 because of who he was talking to out fair. I 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.480 want to know who you're talking to. What is the 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.879 conversation you are having with yourself? And so here's what 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:23.440 I want to do today, and I'm gonna get you 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:28.399 the brunch. I just want us for a moment to 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:34.760 look at five critical conversations that David had before he 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:39.800 ever got to the fight. These five critical conversations. If 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.480 David messes up in any of them, he never gets 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.880 to fight his battle in the valley. If he loses 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:50.240 the fight with these five conversations that preceded the confrontation. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.040 Y'all good, Can we talk about him? 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.560 Yeah? The first conversation, I want to look at it. 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:04.119 It's what I call the Uber Eats conversation. Yeah, the 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.600 Uber East conversation happens between David and his father Jesse, 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.680 and Jesse comes to him in First Samuel seventeen, says, Hey, Dave, 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.520 I need you to go to the battlefield and bring 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:21.480 your brother some cheeses and bring them some bread. Just 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.359 make an Uber Eats delivery. This is what I need 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.439 you to do, which doesn't seem like a big thing, 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.520 but it is a major thing. It seems like a 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.760 small thing, but it's a big thing. I've learned in 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.640 life that the small things are actually the big things. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:37.520 And sometimes you can't tell which small thing is actually 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:39.119 a big thing. That's why you have to be careful 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.040 how you do the small thing. It was just a 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.159 small thing to go deliver the cheese and the bread. 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.159 And it doesn't seem like his dad asked a big 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.920 deal of him until you read First Samuel chapter sixteen, 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:50.000 and remember what happened. 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:51.040 Don't forget. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.960 David has already been anointed to be the next king 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.760 and first Samuel chapter sixteen. You remember what happened to 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.520 prophet Samuel. He comes into town, he's looking for the 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.400 next king, and here comes Jesse with all of his sons, 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.760 all seven of them lined up. He did not even 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.200 deem David worthy to be brought before the prophet. 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.120 And here he is looking at all these sons saying, Nope, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:12.560 that ain't it. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:14.200 Nope, that ain't it. Nope, that in And then it 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.600 has to ask a crazy question to a father, do you. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:17.560 Got any other kids? 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.280 And he's like, oh, yeah, my bad, I forgot Yeah, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.000 I do have another one, but he's out in the field. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:25.480 He's out in the. 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:27.600 Field, and I love what Samuel does. He says, go 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.040 get him. In the most gangst move, he says, we 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.200 will not sit down until he comes in the room. 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:40.680 He makes all them brothers stand in their rejection. How long? 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:43.840 How long do they have to wait for David to 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.280 get in the room, like okay, hurry up? And then 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:52.000 here comes David. Hey, hey guys, oh hey, Samuel, did 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:53.560 I didn't know the prophet was coming in? Is there? 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:53.680 So? 0:19:53.760 --> 0:20:00.080 What's what's what's coming on? Samuel goes, you're in and 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.800 anoints him in front of his brothers. This is a 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:10.240 destiny moment. Can you imagine being David after being castigated 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.520 and ostracizing. Now you've been anointed as the next king 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.840 in front of your brothers. But in the next chapter, 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.119 your father calls you. I wonder if David thought, Oh, 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:22.520 I bet he gonna apologize for not invited me to 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:29.560 the coronation. No, he's telling you go take lunch to 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.800 your brothers. And David doesn't do what some of us 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:37.600 would have done. Gone, who you're talking to? I'm the 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:38.120 next king? 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:39.440 You want me to drop charcuterie. 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.400 No, I don't know. I'm sorry. Maybe maybe you didn't 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:47.560 see it. Y'all didn't invite me. I'm the next king. 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:48.040 I don't. 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:49.320 But he doesn't. 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:50.320 He doesn't do that. 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:55.040 He doesn't do that. He pulls a Chick fil A 0:20:55.359 --> 0:21:01.920 and says, my pleasure, my pleasure, my pleasure. If my 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:04.720 father wants me to do something, my pleasure. If my 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:08.080 father hasn't assiment for me, my pleasure, ifn't has to 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:13.240 be glorious. Whatever my father asked of me, my pleasure. 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:17.800 So he passes the test in this conversation because David 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:23.080 is showing us a heart of humility, a heart of humility. 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:26.640 David did not think it beneath him to go deliver 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.480 food to his brothers. You know why some of us 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:32.280 never knocked down our goliath, because we can never knock 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:38.439 down the giant of pride. You too special, you too 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.640 wonderful to go deliver lunch to somebody else. And that's 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.120 why you'll never step into the effulgence of your destiny, 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.760 because pride will shut doors that God is trying to open. 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.720 But when you have a heart of humility, the heavens 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:54.800 open up over somebody that is humble enough to say. 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:57.920 Whatever my father wants, I'll go do it. 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:01.400 I know I'm the next king. But if my father 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:06.399 has requested something of me, my pleasure, where have we 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:10.520 seen this before? Oh Jesus, who thought it not robbery 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:14.280 to come from heaven down to earth. And he came 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:17.480 to the humans he created, and they rejected him, and 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:21.600 yet with humility he came to serve. Can I tell 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:25.879 you pride is what's blocking the door for you. You 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:27.879 don't get the past to test because you haven't had 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:32.040 a heart of humility. Can I fix somebody's marriage? Just 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:32.520 real quick? 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:34.240 Three seconds? You're ready. 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:34.879 Here's the problem. 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:38.679 Pride. That's a problem. 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:42.400 Too much pride to say I'm sorry, too much pride 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.760 to say I was wrong, too much pride to go 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.960 to count. The pride is what blocks. But David has 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:50.240 a heart of humility, and he gets to the battle 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:53.879 and watch the timing, the sovereign timing of God. Just 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:56.600 at the moment that David delivers the lunch I'm talking about, 0:22:56.640 --> 0:23:00.560 right after he takes the picture to send to him 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:06.800