1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. 8 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 2: First Samuel, chapter seventeen, verse fifty. Just one scripture today 9 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 2: that I want to share with you. 10 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: But it's a good one. 11 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 2: It says in One Samuel seventeen, verse fifty, So David 12 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 2: triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, 13 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 2: without a sword in his hand. He struck down the 14 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:52,959 Speaker 2: Philistine and killed him. 15 00:00:53,280 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 3: There's power in the mighty name of Jesus. Every war 16 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 3: he wages, he will win. 17 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 2: So David triumphed over the Philistine, and I'm not backing 18 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 2: down from any giant with a sling and. 19 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: A stone, without a sword in his hand. 20 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 2: He struck down the Philistine and killed him. Would you 21 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 2: look at your neighbor and sing my sermon title, Tell 22 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 2: him I know how this storys Come on, tell your 23 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 2: other neighbor the safet one. 24 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: Tell them I know how this story. Father. We thank 25 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: you for your word. 26 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 2: The power of it, and that he who began a 27 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 2: good work is faithful to complete it. 28 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. 29 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 2: Amen, you may take your seat, God bless you. 30 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: I know how this story ends. 31 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 2: Because Holly and I have a rule in our marriage 32 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 2: that when she's telling me a story, if it's a 33 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 2: negative story, then I need her to tell me the 34 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 2: ending before she gives me the details, because sometimes she 35 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 2: tells expanded stories. 36 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: You like, I said that that was real. 37 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 2: PC, How I said that that was really cautious. How 38 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 2: I said that she tells She tells stories and puts 39 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 2: in all the deleted scenes it's the director's cut. But 40 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: sometimes I just need to know when she says today 41 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 2: was a terrible day, I need to know how this ends. 42 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: You know, Oh, how how was your day? Oh? And 43 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:33,519 Speaker 1: then she starts with breakfast. 44 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 2: But I need to know, like, well, how much does 45 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 2: it cost at the end of it, Like, you know, 46 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 2: is it seven thousand dollars or do we both have 47 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 2: to go to the kids' school this time or just 48 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 2: one of us. I need to know how this ends, 49 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 2: or I'll just get lost in the middle. It's different 50 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 2: when you know how it ends. If you tell me 51 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,399 Speaker 2: how it ends, you know, don't worry, it's not that bad. 52 00:02:58,440 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 2: We got it all worked out well. Then I can 53 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 2: find follow you on all of the twists. But I 54 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 2: just need to know how it ends. I need to 55 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 2: know that this is going to be all right. I 56 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 2: need to know that it's not fatal. I need to 57 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 2: know that they didn't quit. You just had a bad meeting. 58 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 2: Because she'll be telling me something about something at the office, 59 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 2: and she'll she'll want to put it. You know, she 60 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 2: has good storytelling technique, and she's a great storyteller, but 61 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 2: that works against us in marital communication because I'm not 62 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 2: looking for suspense and drama. 63 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 1: I just need the bottom line. 64 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 2: She's be like, oh, I had a meeting with so 65 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 2: and so today it went terrible, And I'm thinking, like, 66 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 2: we are they moving back to Nebraska where their famili's from. 67 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: Do we have to replace them on staff? 68 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 2: But just tell me how it ends, and then you 69 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 2: can get me all the details. Then you can tell 70 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 2: me that eggs were on sale when you went back 71 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 2: home on the way to the thing, and then the 72 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 2: thing with the thing, and then the car cut off, 73 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 2: but then it cut back on and it's not in 74 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 2: the shop. Just tell me how it ends, and then 75 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 2: I can listen to the story. I want to show 76 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 2: you something real quick. This is a picture from our 77 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 2: summer vacation a few weeks ago. 78 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: Just a picture of some family time that we had. Yeah. 79 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: See that's how it ended. I don't know. Can they 80 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: see it at the campuses? Yeah, that's how it ended. 81 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 2: That's how it ended, with Graham smilet, with everybody breathing, 82 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 2: with Elijah making some questionable sign with his hand. 83 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: Notice there is only one or. 84 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 2: There were two when we set out and embarked on 85 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 2: this family adventure. 86 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: But it ends like this. 87 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 2: Thankfully for me, as I've already mentioned, I have a 88 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 2: great wife who when she saw us struggling on the kayak, 89 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 2: because contrary to my knowledge, sand bars are temporary. 90 00:04:58,080 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: They don't just stay there. 91 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 2: The sandbar that is there one minute might be gone 92 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 2: in thirty minutes. There's this thing called the tides. You 93 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 2: think I would know this stuff. You would think you 94 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 2: would drag the kayak further than just the very edge 95 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 2: of the sandbar before you walked all the way out 96 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 2: to the middle of it to have a family memory. 97 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 2: But thank God for my wife because when she saw 98 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 2: us struggling, when the tide came in. 99 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: How many notes? 100 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 2: When God gives you a great wife? When she sees 101 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 2: you struggling, she picks up the iPhone and records it. 102 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 2: So check out this video she took real quick from 103 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:33,799 Speaker 2: the shore. 104 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: All right, here's the boys paddleled to this sandbar. 105 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 2: But the tiling is coming in minutes away from floating, 106 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 2: no minutes, and they're not even they don't know when 107 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 2: they're honey, who worried about it? 108 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: Oh there's Graham. 109 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 2: He's running every. 110 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 1: Floating Yep, that's Graham running. How could I love you 111 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: like that? 112 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 4: You're stuck? 113 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: So, you know, Graham said it best. 114 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 2: He said when we got back and we were telling 115 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 2: everybody what had happened, he said. 116 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 1: That could have ended a whole. 117 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 2: Lot different, you know, because you obviously have the leisure 118 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 2: of laughter because you know how it ends. I mean, well, hey, pastor, 119 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 2: I mean it's pretty funny. Actually the monoculars. You're dry 120 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 2: now you're not dead, because it's different when you know 121 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 2: how it ends. But if the man on the jet 122 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 2: ski hadn't come by, it could. 123 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: Have ended This is what Graham said. 124 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 2: It could have ended a whole lot different. Or if 125 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 2: he wouldn't have had southern hospitality to go get my 126 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 2: kayak and. 127 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: Bring it back to me with his jet ski. It 128 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: could have ended. Look at somebody say, it could have 129 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 1: ended a whole lot different. How many know there's some 130 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: things in your life that could have ended a whole 131 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: lot different. 132 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 2: That drunk driver swerved right into your lane, but some 133 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 2: kind of angel'll just pull that car back over. It 134 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 2: could have ended a whole lot different. Come on, you 135 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 2: know I'm right about it. If you had got stopped 136 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 2: by the police at the wrong time when you were 137 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 2: in college, it could have ended a. 138 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: Whole lot different. Some of us. 139 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 2: It's not that we never did anything wrong. We just 140 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 2: didn't get caught. If we would have been at the 141 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 2: wrong place at the wrong time, it could have ended 142 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 2: a whole lot different. 143 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: Polisher Halo. 144 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 2: If you want, I'm gonna turn to the heathen section. 145 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 2: This where the heathens sit it could have ended. Come on, 146 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 2: stand up and testify if it could have ended if 147 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 2: it had not been for the Lord on my side, 148 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 2: you better give him praise right now before he pulls 149 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 2: up your search history. 150 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: It could have ended all whole You know I'm right. 151 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:34,719 Speaker 2: Tell somebody you know that preacher is right. So it's 152 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 2: funny now. And when I read David and Goliath as 153 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 2: my text, there's some Bible nerds sitting out there, maybe 154 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:45,199 Speaker 2: watching online, going like. 155 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 4: A really, David and Goliath, all the stories in the Bible, 156 00:08:53,520 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 4: you want to pick this one. Oh boy, already know 157 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 4: this one. 158 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: David kills Goliath. The lie. It goes down every time 159 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: you read it. 160 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 4: I already know about the sling shot in the stone. 161 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 4: He had five smooth stones, buddy old ne no one. 162 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 4: The giant king had a big heavy helmet, Jesse. He 163 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:31,680 Speaker 4: called David, said take this bread down to your brother's 164 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,439 Speaker 4: jack on them. And Baby got down there and golith 165 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 4: was shoone and David heard it, and Baby said you 166 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 4: want no smoke, and day the grab his sleigh and 167 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 4: it threw a stone at the giant, and the giant 168 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 4: went down. 169 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: I already know how this story ends. 170 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 2: So since you already know how it ends, let me 171 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 2: suggest something to you. David never read first Samuel seventeen, 172 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 2: verse fifty. 173 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: It's different when you know how it ends, so we 174 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: can shout. 175 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 2: But David was shaking, shaking in his sandals, holding his slang, trembling, 176 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 2: wondering how this ends, wondering will this jet ski get 177 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 2: my kayak? Wondering preaching to somebody today. And you have 178 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 2: not read for Samuel seventeen fifty yet about this situation 179 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 2: in your life, and you are still looking at a 180 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 2: giant that is bigger than you. And since we know 181 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 2: how David's story ends, I want to spend just a 182 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 2: few moments today thinking about how it could have ended, 183 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 2: because it could have ended whole. 184 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:03,719 Speaker 1: Lot different. 185 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 2: Had I had I gone to that one school and 186 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 2: married that other girl. How many No, it could have 187 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 2: ended a whole lot worse for Holly. 188 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 1: She could have missed the whole buffet. But now think 189 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 1: about it. 190 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 2: If David makes some different decisions, the story ends a 191 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 2: whole lot different. And see, God is writing your story 192 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 2: right now, for your family, right now, for this season 193 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 2: of your life, right now. And although we know that 194 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 2: Goliath goes down, David has to do it in the 195 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:52,319 Speaker 2: face of uncertainty. And yet, no matter how many sermons 196 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 2: you hear about David defeating Goliath, you must recognize that 197 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 2: there were three things that David had to face before 198 00:11:59,160 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 2: he even. 199 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: Ever got to Goliath. 200 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 2: And if any of these three things had gone differently, 201 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 2: It could have been a whole lot different. If David 202 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 2: had been a typical teenager when his father came in said, 203 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 2: you know, he's only seventeen when he kills Goliath. And 204 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:25,559 Speaker 2: if he had had a response to Jesse's instruction when 205 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 2: Jesse said, I want you to run these snacks down 206 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 2: to your brothers. 207 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: If David had rolled his eyes, you know, God, Dad 208 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: seriously like a future king. Dad. 209 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 2: Samuel has already annointed David. He already knows he has 210 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 2: a great future. 211 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 1: But now if. 212 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 2: David refuses to be faithful in his present because he's 213 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:59,079 Speaker 2: too focused on his future, this story ends a lot different. 214 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: How many you heard this story of David and Goliath 215 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: raise your hand? Yeah? No, Because it's even a sports analogy. 216 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: People use it in the NBA, the NFL. It's an 217 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: archetypal story. 218 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 2: It's so famous, is so wonderful, it's so fun to preach. 219 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:16,319 Speaker 2: I bet I've preached it fifty times, at least fifty times. 220 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 1: In this one church. 221 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 2: But watch how the story could have gone. It could 222 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 2: have been a whole lot different. Jesse wakes David up 223 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 2: one morning, he says, I got a task for you. 224 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 2: I want you to run this cheese and bread down 225 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 2: to your brothers on the battle lines. They're in the 226 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 2: Valley of Ela fighting with Saul. David wakes up slowly. 227 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 2: David rolls his eyes. David checks his phone. David post 228 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 2: on his Instagram story the fake account, the one that 229 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 2: Jesse doesn't follow, and David puts that on Instagram. 230 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: God, my dad makes me sick. This is ridiculous. God 231 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: hate my parents. I hate my life. 232 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 2: David goes to the battle line, but he gets there 233 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 2: forty five minutes late. He gets there after Goliath came 234 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 2: out to shout his usual defiance. 235 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: He didn't know Goliath was on the battle line. You 236 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: don't know what day God wants to use you. 237 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 2: You don't know what converse is going to turn things around. 238 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 2: You don't know what moment is going to be holy. 239 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 2: You don't know when a bush is going to burst 240 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 2: into flames and spontaneously combust with the presence of God 241 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 2: and the direction for the next step of your life. 242 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 2: You don't know this. But if you don't show up, 243 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 2: watch this and do the ordinary with a good attitude, 244 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 2: it could have ended a whole lot different. Do you 245 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 2: really think they would have taught us this Bible story 246 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 2: in Bible School in Sunday School. If the story went 247 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 2: like this, Jesse woke up David, David got up, David 248 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 2: went down to the battle lines with the bad attitude, 249 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 2: dropped off the food, threw it at his brothers, and 250 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 2: went back home. And yet it could have ended like that. 251 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 2: That could have been the very end of the story. 252 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 2: It could have ended a whole. It could have ended 253 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 2: with David. It could have ended with this David feeling 254 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 2: slighted because he was asked to do something that he 255 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 2: deemed in significant. You know who I am, Dad, Really, 256 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 2: you're asking me to be a delivery boy to take 257 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 2: this food down to my brothers. 258 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: You're serious, right now, God Dad? 259 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 5: Okay, Oh okay, Oh go. 260 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 2: But I'm not gonna run to the battle lines, and 261 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna have my eyes open for up. 262 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 5: To Oh okay, i'll go, but I don't have to 263 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 5: like it. Okay, I'll go to church, but I'm not 264 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 5: lifting my hands. That's what the weird people do. 265 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 2: Oh okay, i'll go, but we're leaving early. That parking 266 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 2: lot gets crazy and I want to be at the 267 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 2: restaurant before the Methodist church. 268 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: Lesson. 269 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 2: Oh Okay, could have been a hole, come on, work 270 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 2: with me with a value. It could have been Ah, 271 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 2: you don't even have to buy a vow, just say it. 272 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 2: It could have been a whole lot different. I'm David. 273 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 2: I'm not door dash what you think. I am uber eats, 274 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 2: I'm not dropping nothing off. My name is David. Say 275 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 2: my name David King, David Crown, David Samuel. 276 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: Put the oil on my had David. 277 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 2: It could have been a whole lot different if David 278 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 2: had tripped over the ordinary. So here's what I'm learning 279 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 2: is that opportunity presents itself as ordinary. There is not 280 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 2: going to be you know, I want to kill my goliath. 281 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: I want to breakthrough in my life. I want to whatever. 282 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 4: You know. 283 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,920 Speaker 2: We use goliath to mean anything, by the way, in church, 284 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 2: if you're new here, Goliath could mean anything. It could 285 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 2: mean we want a good parking space. It could mean 286 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 2: we want a healing in our body. It could mean 287 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 2: we want to stop beating so many chips. Goliath can 288 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 2: mean almost anything. In this particular instance, it means anything 289 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 2: that opposes the purpose of God. He was standing against 290 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 2: the people of God, opposed the purpose of God, defying 291 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 2: the armies, of the Living God. That's what Goliath was 292 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:08,640 Speaker 2: and it usually won't be physical. But before David ever 293 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 2: got to the real battle, he had to face the ordinary. 294 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 2: There's not going to be one conversation with your kids 295 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 2: that is going to change their life. It is going 296 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 2: to be picking them up and dropping them off and 297 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 2: trying to get them to say more than three words 298 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 2: to you at a time. 299 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 1: That is going to change their life. 300 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 2: Is three words on top of three words on top 301 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 2: of three words on top of three words on top 302 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 2: of three words. You are not going to take your 303 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 2: son on one trip to Ireland and reenact Braveheart or 304 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,439 Speaker 2: Scotland or wherever that overrated movie happen, and he's going 305 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 2: to come. 306 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: Back shouting freedom and he's a warrior now. 307 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 2: For Jesus Christ, it's not going to be one trip 308 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 2: when he turned sixteen. It's going to be many trips. 309 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,679 Speaker 2: It's going to be many, back and forth, back and forth. 310 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 2: And David went back and forth and back and forth 311 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 2: and back and forth. 312 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: See, we know how the story ends. David didn't. 313 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 2: He didn't even know there was a giant in the 314 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 2: Valley of elaw Not when he sets out that day, 315 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 2: and if he refuses to do the ordinary. It could 316 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 2: have been a whole lot different. What a boring story 317 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 2: this would have been. David's dad said, go, David went, 318 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 2: did it with a bad attitude, came home, slept for 319 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 2: eight hours. Could have been a whole lot different if 320 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:36,120 Speaker 2: David had been typical. So then he gets there right, 321 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 2: he does the ordinary. In fact, the Bible says this 322 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 2: is amazing. He ran to the battle lines. He left 323 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 2: his things with the keeper of supplies. He's very responsible. 324 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,959 Speaker 2: He runs to the battle lines. So he's there in 325 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 2: position with the attitude to see the opportunity. 326 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: And when he hears Goliath shouting. 327 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 2: See if Dad goes down like most of us go 328 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 2: around and just gets through his day, he's not gonna 329 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 2: be in the frame of mind to seize the opportunity. 330 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 2: And even when he gets there and gives the brothers 331 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 2: the food that he brought for them, one of his 332 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 2: brothers has such a bad attitude with him that the 333 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 2: second thing that David had to deal with before he 334 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:26,199 Speaker 2: even got to the real opponent, was of fence. Now 335 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,640 Speaker 2: I want to show you this. It's very powerful. How 336 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 2: some of us are fighting the wrong battle. We are 337 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 2: fighting a preliminary battle and missing the real one because 338 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 2: when David gets there, he's like, what's up, guys? You know, 339 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 2: David is that dude. He's like, hey, guys, what did 340 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 2: I miss? And they're like, it's not then new man. 341 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 2: This dude is nine foot two. He keeps coming out 342 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 2: every day and keeps saying the same thing. He keeps 343 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,959 Speaker 2: telling us, send your best man, I'll kill him and 344 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,640 Speaker 2: you will be our slaves. But we can't do anything 345 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 2: with him because I mean, look at him, Look how 346 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:03,640 Speaker 2: big he is. 347 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: And David's like, look how big he is. One country 348 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: preacher said this. 349 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 2: He said the rest of the army saw Goliath and 350 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 2: said he's too big to kill. David looked at Goliath 351 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 2: and said he's too big to miss. 352 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: I wonder what's your perspective today. I'm preaching for fifteen people. 353 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 2: God said, this challenge in front of you is an 354 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,360 Speaker 2: indication of the power within you. Yeah. 355 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. David's like, so what do I get if I 356 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,640 Speaker 1: kill him? It's like, well, Saul said, like at first 357 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: he was like, does anybody want to fight him? 358 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 2: But it's been forty days now, and so Saul keeps 359 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,880 Speaker 2: opping the ante like the airlines do when they got 360 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 2: to overbook flight. You know, we need two volunteers, from 361 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,400 Speaker 2: the kindness of your heart to give up your seat. 362 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 2: We need two volunteers. We'll give you two hundred dollars. 363 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 2: We're gonna need you two volunteers. We'll give you five 364 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 2: hundred dollar. We need two volunteers. We'll give you a 365 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 2: thousand dollars voucher for travel. The more desperate they get, 366 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 2: the more the reward becomes. Now you can only use 367 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 2: thee thousand dollars every seventeen Thanksgiving on this voucher, and 368 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 2: blackout dates apply. But now Saul has gotten so desperate 369 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 2: he got to the point where he says, look, I'll 370 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 2: give you my daughter in marriage the hot one, and 371 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 2: you don't have to pay taxes. So David's like, for real, 372 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 2: Now somebody verified this. Now here's the difference. Here's the difference. 373 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 2: It could have been a whole lot different. But David 374 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,639 Speaker 2: hadn't been out there forty days, and he hadn't gotten 375 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 2: used to the dysfunction, and he hadn't got used to 376 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 2: standing there defeated in a dead block, and so he 377 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 2: comes up and to them, Goliath just sounds normal. But 378 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 2: to David it sounds different. Wait a minute, he's not 379 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 2: supposed to talk like that. You know, you can get 380 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 2: comfortable in your dysfunction when you've been in it long enough, 381 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 2: when all your sick friends are lying around in five 382 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 2: covered colonnades, it can. 383 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: Be easy for you to start making excuses. And David 384 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 1: was like, hold on, So he said, what about God? 385 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: And I get what if A kill him? 386 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,400 Speaker 2: I love this though, because this is what always happens 387 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 2: when God is trying to do something in your life. 388 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 2: The enemy will always present another enemy that is not 389 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 2: the real enemy, to keep you distracted from fighting the 390 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 2: one that you're called to defeat. In David's case, it 391 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 2: was his brother, his big brother. His name kind of 392 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 2: sounds like Goliath, but it's not Eliab. 393 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 1: He was tall. 394 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 2: For a minute, Samuel thought he was supposed to be 395 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,879 Speaker 2: the king Becausaul was tall. And he saw in Samuel 396 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 2: saw in Eliab what he had seen in Saul, which 397 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 2: is height, not heart. And God said, don't look at 398 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 2: his height, look at his heart. Stop judging your situation externally. 399 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 2: It's what's inside the counts. It's what's inside the counts. 400 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 2: And a live starts judging David's motives. He's like, look 401 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 2: at this. In verse twenty eight, he goes, why have 402 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 2: you come down here? And with whom did you leave 403 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 2: those few sheep? Now, all of these things David had 404 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 2: taken care of. He's a very responsible young man. But really, 405 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 2: what's happening here is I believe the enemy is trying 406 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 2: to trigger David to get him to fight the wrong person. 407 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 2: Because watch, if he stands here and argues with his brother, 408 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:52,160 Speaker 2: he will never even see his enemy. 409 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: This might be the whole sermon for somebody. Now just 410 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 1: look straight ahead. 411 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 2: If you're married, sometimes you're fighting against what you're supposed 412 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 2: to be fighting for, and you have to call a 413 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 2: time out. Sometimes you have to sometimes be like, wait 414 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 2: a minute, you're not my enemy. Wait a minute, you're 415 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 2: you're You're not who I'm supposed to be fighting. And 416 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 2: if David gets caught up fighting Eliab, he never sees Goliath. 417 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 2: If he gets distracted, some of us are defeated simply 418 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 2: because we're distracted. 419 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: Now you know how the story ends, but think about 420 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: how it could have ended. 421 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 2: David for the next two hours defends himself to Elia. 422 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 2: I was the other day checking on some Instagram post 423 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 2: seeing if they were touching people's lives. You know, I 424 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 2: would like to say that I always do it with 425 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 2: a pure heart, But sometimes I'll scroll to look for 426 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 2: people who say mean things to me, and that's a dysfunction. 427 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 2: And I'm not saved all the way yet I am saved. 428 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 2: I was saying a big saved. This is the part 429 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 2: that's in progress. Sometimes I'd just like to imagine the response. 430 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 2: I could say, you know what the Spear of the 431 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 2: Lord told me the other day. First of all, it's 432 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 2: one out of three hundred people who say something negative. 433 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,880 Speaker 1: That's number one. Number two. 434 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 2: If you would invest a fraction of the energy into 435 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 2: blessing people that you put into defending yourself, you would 436 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 2: be Mother Teresa, you would be Saint Paul. You could 437 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 2: change the world if you would stop trying to defend yourself. 438 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 2: And I'm coming right for you because some of us 439 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,239 Speaker 2: trip over an offense, and so we never defeat the 440 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 2: real opponent, because we stand and argue with Eliab and 441 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 2: we never even get to Goliah. 442 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: You that's so powerful. 443 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 2: It could have had a whole different ending. It could 444 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 2: have been a whole lot different. And I bet in Jackie, 445 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,679 Speaker 2: you wouldn't have taught me that Bible story in Sunday School. 446 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 2: If David had stood there and argued with Eliab, now 447 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 2: here's the thing that's practical about this. Some of you 448 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 2: are fighting Eliab today, and because you're fighting Eliab, Goliath 449 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 2: continues to go unchallenged in your life. You know you're 450 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 2: fighting Eliab if you're still blaming people. 451 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: David did this move that. 452 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 2: I want to learn how to do when I realize 453 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 2: I'm fighting the wrong enemy, when I realize I'm fighting 454 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,679 Speaker 2: something outside when I really need to be dealing with 455 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 2: something inside. When I realize I'm trying to control how 456 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 2: other people are versus trying to have self control the 457 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 2: fruit of the. 458 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 1: Spirit for myself. This is a word today. This is 459 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: a word today. 460 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 2: It said that David did something very strategic, and this 461 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 2: is like the turning point of the story. It said 462 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 2: in verse thirty that when Eliab was going back and 463 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,360 Speaker 2: forth in David, David hit him real quick with an insult, 464 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 2: just to let him know I'm not a punk. And 465 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,400 Speaker 2: then after he said what he had to say, watch 466 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:09,920 Speaker 2: what he did. David turned and asks somebody else. 467 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 1: And watch this. 468 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 2: When he turns away from Eliab. It positions him to 469 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 2: face Goliath. So whoever is for, you'll never even get 470 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 2: to Goliath. You will never even get to the insecurity 471 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 2: that is causing the issue if you keep blaming the 472 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,440 Speaker 2: people who are bringing it out for you to look at. 473 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,399 Speaker 2: Eliab wasn't the giant. Eliab wasn't the enemy. Eliab was 474 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,959 Speaker 2: his brother that he was supposed to fight for. So 475 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 2: now we've watched David two different alternate endings. If he 476 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 2: argues with Eliab, then he misses Goliath. If he doesn't 477 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 2: obey his father in a simple thing, then he misses Goliath. 478 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 2: It Graham was so prophetic. He said it could have 479 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 2: ended oh lot different. I was so mad at my 480 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 2: mom for forgiving my dad. I didn't think he deserved it. 481 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 2: What would that funeral have been like if she had 482 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 2: listened to me rather than listening to God, If we 483 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,360 Speaker 2: weren't even on speaking terms when he died, it could 484 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 2: have ended up. And I only bring it up because 485 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 2: every story in this room is still being written and 486 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,479 Speaker 2: sometimes you think you know how it ends. But what 487 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 2: if it's not over yet? What if it's not over yet? 488 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 2: I'm gonna preach it through that little facade that you 489 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 2: have right Now, what if it's not over yet. What 490 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 2: if you've wasted a lot of time. But what if 491 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 2: God really is able to redeem the years that the 492 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 2: locusts have eaten. What if it's not over yet. I'm 493 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 2: just posing a question. What if it's not over yet? 494 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 2: What if your best days are not behind you? What 495 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 2: if the devil is a liar? What if everything that 496 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 2: you have been through can serve a greater purpose. What 497 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 2: if a generational curse was being broken through your battle? 498 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 2: What if God brought you to the Valley of Elah 499 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 2: because he's the God of a turnaround, the God. 500 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: Of a second chance, the God. 501 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 2: Of a new beginning, and the God of a new Indeed. 502 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 1: Mary and Martha said, I know how this story is. 503 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 2: But one thing they didn't know is that Jesus doesn't 504 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 2: provide resurrection. He is resurrection. So if he's on the scene, 505 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 2: watch this. When David showed up, he said, I come 506 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 2: against you in the name of the Lord. 507 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: Now, one more thing I gotta show you, y'all. Calm down. 508 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 2: It's a Bible study, not a football game. There's not 509 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 2: a basketball game. There's nothing to be excited about in here. 510 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 2: It's not like the blood of Jesus is enough for you. 511 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 2: It's not like depression is defeated. It's not like the 512 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 2: devil has to back up when. 513 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 1: You call on the name of your God. 514 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 2: It's not like worship can push back darkness. 515 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 1: It's not like praise can break shade. 516 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 2: No'all sit down, because now he has to go through Saul, 517 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 2: the one that should have been celebrating him, the one 518 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 2: that should have been supporting him. 519 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 1: David kills Goliath. 520 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 2: Stop being so boring when you read the Bible. The 521 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 2: Bibles boring or bored, read it better. This thing could 522 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 2: have had so many endings. It could have ended when 523 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 2: David had a bad attitude toward the ordinary. It could 524 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 2: have ended when David was fighting against who he was 525 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 2: supposed to be fighting for. 526 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: He could have got offended. It could have ended with ordinary. 527 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 1: It could have ended with the fence. And it could have. 528 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 2: Ended with only do you know only the spirit of 529 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 2: lack and limitation? Do you know only what Saul said 530 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 2: to David. David was like showing Saul his resume. He's like, 531 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 2: I'm pretty good at beating stuff that's bigger than me. 532 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 2: I beat a lion one time, I beat a beer 533 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 2: put me in coach and Saul said, you're only a boy. 534 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 2: I wonder what you're only in your own mind. Remember, 535 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 2: Saul wasn't the enemy. Saul was supposed to be a friend. 536 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 2: You ever had something inside of you turn. 537 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 1: On you, You're only I had it. This week. 538 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 2: I was thinking that I'm just a preacher because I 539 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,800 Speaker 2: was thinking how really influencing culture is done. 540 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: Through rappers and fashion and others. 541 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 2: And I was thinking about changing a generation, and I 542 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 2: felt discouraged about it, like I'm only a preacher. But 543 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 2: there's this one verse that always comes up when I 544 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 2: think that way. And God told Jeremiah one time, he said, 545 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 2: do not say I am only. 546 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: Well, I was thinking about that. 547 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 2: I know this isn't exactly what the text means, but 548 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 2: I was thinking, how God's name is I am. So 549 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 2: when you say I am only, and you're supposed to 550 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 2: take God's name, you mess up the name that he 551 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 2: gave you by diminishing it in your own sight. 552 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 1: I am only. Do not say I am only. Do 553 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: not say I am only. I'm only a boy. 554 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 2: But David said, no, no, no, I've never faced this 555 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 2: giant before. 556 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: Get ready to shout. But I brought the same god 557 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 1: to this. 558 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 2: Valley that I brought to the last valley, because the 559 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 2: only reason I'm preaching it is because you're standing in 560 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 2: front of something. Right now, You've never seen this before, 561 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 2: But David said, here's the common pattern I've noticed. 562 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: Okay, I dropped the lion, I dropped the bear. 563 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 2: It only stands to reason that if the lion didn't 564 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 2: stand a chance, if the bear didn't stand a chance 565 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 2: because they opposed my father's business, if this giant opposes 566 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 2: the purpose of God, I predict and upset victory over 567 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 2: everything in your life that is thicker than you that 568 00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 2: opposes the purpose of God. 569 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 1: Then you come on. 570 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 2: He's the god of a turnaround. 571 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: So I know. Somebody said, I know how this story 572 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:21,239 Speaker 1: ends because I know who wrote it. I know who 573 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:21,759 Speaker 1: wrote it. 574 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:26,360 Speaker 2: He is the author and the prefector of my faith. 575 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 2: She looked at me last week and on our date night, 576 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 2: and this movie was gonna have a nice ending. But 577 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,719 Speaker 2: then she remembered that the writer of this particular. 578 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 1: Movie is noted for everybody dying in the end. And 579 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 1: she looked at me, Now, I want you to get 580 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:45,800 Speaker 1: this when I say it. 581 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 2: Okay, she said, it can't be over I just remembered 582 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:57,880 Speaker 2: who wrote it. Come on, you know it's a word 583 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,439 Speaker 2: for you. You know there's some things because we tell 584 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 2: our selves these stories. But if God wrote it, it's 585 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 2: not over till we win. It's not over until the 586 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:14,640 Speaker 2: light over comes the darkness. Come on, my Robie, come on, Caston, 587 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,719 Speaker 2: Come on, Balaton. 588 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:26,480 Speaker 1: It's not over. It could have been a. 589 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 2: Whole different story, and I want to suggest that maybe 590 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,359 Speaker 2: it still can be, because I. 591 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,440 Speaker 1: Know in church we talk a lot about new beginnings. 592 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:40,800 Speaker 1: What about new endings? 593 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,040 Speaker 2: What about putting two more periods behind that one that 594 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,200 Speaker 2: you thought ended the sentence and making it an ellipses? 595 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:55,840 Speaker 2: What about new endings? What about to be continued? What 596 00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 2: about the third day? What about Sunday morning? What about Jesus? 597 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,120 Speaker 2: I know how the story ends, so when I see 598 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,360 Speaker 2: him on the cross, I'm not worried. 599 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:07,920 Speaker 1: The disciples didn't know that. 600 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,239 Speaker 2: This is the challenge to know how the story ends, 601 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,000 Speaker 2: even when you don't know how it's gonna get. There 602 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 2: might not be a straight line, it might not be perfect, 603 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,600 Speaker 2: it might not look like somebody else's situation. You get 604 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,399 Speaker 2: in the worst trouble of your life trying to wear 605 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:28,320 Speaker 2: Saul's armor, trying to fight like everybody else fights. 606 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 1: Yours might be messier. 607 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,360 Speaker 2: Can I say something for somebody that God put. 608 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:32,720 Speaker 1: On my heart? 609 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:39,759 Speaker 2: Yours might look laughable. I'm only high school educated. Good 610 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,200 Speaker 2: God's gonna get that much more glory because you didn't 611 00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:43,520 Speaker 2: have a college degree. 612 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,960 Speaker 1: Now when people look at you, they're gonna have to know. 613 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,400 Speaker 1: It had to be God. I know your GPA. 614 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 2: It had to be God, God's purpose advances. I know 615 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:58,520 Speaker 2: your GPA. You weren't smart enough, good enough, pretty enough. 616 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,920 Speaker 2: You didn't pray enough, do the right things. It could 617 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,440 Speaker 2: have been a whole different story, but the grace of 618 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,439 Speaker 2: God stepped in just in the nick of time. 619 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,520 Speaker 1: Spoiler alert, Goliath goes down. 620 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:32,640 Speaker 2: Plot twist. Goliath goes down and guess what, that's not 621 00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,600 Speaker 2: how the story ends. I'm sorry. 622 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,320 Speaker 1: I know it looks great on the flannel graph. David's 623 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:42,279 Speaker 1: awfully cute with a. 624 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,759 Speaker 2: Slingshot, especially especially when it's one that you pull back, 625 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 2: you know, like it's a spitball, like it's God's like 626 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 2: it's a spirit spiritual spitball. 627 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:52,040 Speaker 1: Boom. 628 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 2: You know, I know it's the it's the cartoon version, 629 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,479 Speaker 2: here's the grown up version. You're ready David never read 630 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:02,080 Speaker 2: for Samuel seventeen fifty Most of us never read for 631 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 2: Samuel seventeen fifty one. All apologies to all the children's 632 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,040 Speaker 2: Bible teachers, but you don't really know how the story 633 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,239 Speaker 2: ended because David, when he hit Goliath with the rock 634 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:20,719 Speaker 2: is stunned him. But then David had something else that 635 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:24,240 Speaker 2: he had to do, in the spirit of Mortal Kombat, 636 00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:34,920 Speaker 2: look at your neighbor and say, finish him. The Bible 637 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,239 Speaker 2: says that after he knocked him down, because some of 638 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 2: us are content just to stun our enemy. Do you 639 00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,720 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Just to come into church, feel 640 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,719 Speaker 2: good for a few hours, get a little word, go home, 641 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,520 Speaker 2: forget about it. Go right back into the same stuff, 642 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,440 Speaker 2: go right back into the same cycle, go right back 643 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,040 Speaker 2: into the same death block, go right back into the 644 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,160 Speaker 2: same pretending, go right back into. 645 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,520 Speaker 1: The same image. But David said something. He said something. 646 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:00,680 Speaker 1: He says something. He said. 647 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:07,959 Speaker 2: I didn't just come down here to bring cheese and bread. See, 648 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:12,319 Speaker 2: I always thought that David was the delivery boy. But 649 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:17,719 Speaker 2: it turns out that the way the story is, David 650 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:19,439 Speaker 2: wasn't the delivery boy. 651 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:26,880 Speaker 1: Goliath was. So now I'm gonna preach us home, you're ready. 652 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,360 Speaker 2: What did Goliath have that David needed that David didn't 653 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:32,359 Speaker 2: know that he would need. 654 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 1: It's right in verse fifty. 655 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,680 Speaker 2: It's right in verse fifty is said he came to 656 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,480 Speaker 2: the battle without. 657 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:40,320 Speaker 1: A sword in his hand. 658 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,680 Speaker 2: Spoiler alert, he left with one who was carrying it 659 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,600 Speaker 2: his enemy. I declare, Come on, y'all, I'm trying to 660 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:53,399 Speaker 2: be good, but I declare, I know how this story is. 661 00:39:55,080 --> 00:40:01,319 Speaker 2: Goliath has got your sword. Goliath has got your and 662 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,480 Speaker 2: if you want to see the victory, you're going to 663 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,200 Speaker 2: have to defeat what's standing in front of you. 664 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,479 Speaker 1: But you don't have to do it on your own. 665 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:20,760 Speaker 2: Come on, let's start something out all over the whole Church, University, City, Blakeney. 666 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,680 Speaker 1: I'm on every single warrior, every. 667 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:28,040 Speaker 2: Single worshiper, to declare, I know how this story is. 668 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,399 Speaker 2: Tell the person next to you, I know how your 669 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:33,279 Speaker 2: story is. 670 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:38,080 Speaker 1: Tell them your story. It's with glory. 671 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,359 Speaker 2: God's gonna get the glory out of every situation in 672 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:42,920 Speaker 2: your life. 673 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:55,239 Speaker 1: I know how it is. 674 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:00,920 Speaker 2: Some jet ski is gonna bring need the kayak. I 675 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:07,879 Speaker 2: don't know who God's got in the water, but even now, somehow, 676 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,960 Speaker 2: the sister said to Jesus, God will give you what 677 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:12,359 Speaker 2: you want. 678 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:22,560 Speaker 1: So David stands over the giant. I always read it. 679 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,680 Speaker 2: As being the final sequence in the battle, that after 680 00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:28,000 Speaker 2: he knocked him down, he looked at the verse. 681 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,320 Speaker 1: He took the sword from the scabbard. 682 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:37,239 Speaker 2: Anybody ever said scabbard in the last ten years, he 683 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,760 Speaker 2: took the sword. Little things like that keep me preaching, 684 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:47,840 Speaker 2: you know. And after he killed him, he's already dead. 685 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,279 Speaker 2: He cut off his head. Why'd he do it for 686 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:59,839 Speaker 2: a trophy? Because this wouldn't be his last giant Now, 687 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,040 Speaker 2: I always thought that the story was over when David 688 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,799 Speaker 2: cut off his head. How much more savage can you be? 689 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,520 Speaker 2: The head is off the giants now. But that's not 690 00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,360 Speaker 2: how the story ends. See, we only think we know 691 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,960 Speaker 2: how it ends. You tell your story. You're like and 692 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,200 Speaker 2: then I got a divorce. That's not the end of 693 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,879 Speaker 2: your story. That's not the last time you can love 694 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:29,480 Speaker 2: or be loved. That's not the end of your story. 695 00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,000 Speaker 2: You know, they were doing pretty good and then they 696 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,360 Speaker 2: did this. That's not the end of the story. That's 697 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:46,160 Speaker 2: just character development. It can't be over because I know 698 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,000 Speaker 2: who wrote it. I said, it can't be over because 699 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:54,520 Speaker 2: I know who wrote it. It's not the end of 700 00:42:54,560 --> 00:43:00,359 Speaker 2: my story. I know how this story ends. Oh, I'm 701 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,799 Speaker 2: leaving this battlefield. I'm not leaving him the hand. I'm 702 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,560 Speaker 2: leaving with the sword. I'm leaving with a lesson. I'm 703 00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,719 Speaker 2: leaving with a testimony. I'm leaving with a brighter day 704 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,200 Speaker 2: on my mind. I'm leaving with a new praise in 705 00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,319 Speaker 2: my spirit. I'm leaving with the prophecy. I'm leaving with 706 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:20,520 Speaker 2: a word from God. You know what's so crazy is 707 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,440 Speaker 2: that the whole point of the story has nothing to 708 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:23,759 Speaker 2: do with David to begin with. 709 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:29,239 Speaker 1: It says that after Goliath died that all of the Philistines. 710 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:30,920 Speaker 2: Do you see it, When they saw that their hero 711 00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:35,319 Speaker 2: was dead, they turned and ran. Your story is not 712 00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:40,319 Speaker 2: even about you. What you're going through right now might 713 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,320 Speaker 2: not even be about you. You know how many people 714 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,640 Speaker 2: I've seen come out of grief and released their greatest 715 00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:47,720 Speaker 2: gift from their greatest grief. 716 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:52,920 Speaker 1: Goliath has got your sword. Goliath has got your sword. 717 00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,160 Speaker 2: You're gonna be sitting across from somebody who needs it 718 00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,719 Speaker 2: in five years and telling them I've been right there 719 00:43:58,719 --> 00:43:59,360 Speaker 2: in the battle. 720 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:00,919 Speaker 1: But here's what I've found out. 721 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,600 Speaker 2: The sword that came to kill you is gonna be 722 00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:10,160 Speaker 2: the one that God uses to deliver you, and he 723 00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,080 Speaker 2: killed Goliath. 724 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:16,240 Speaker 1: With his own sword. Your giant has got your sword. 725 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,919 Speaker 2: But that's not how the story ends, cuts off his hand, 726 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,680 Speaker 2: sends the sword to the temple at Knob, which was 727 00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,919 Speaker 2: where a Hemelect was the superintendent. 728 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:35,240 Speaker 1: A little while later, David goes back to Saul's palace. 729 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:42,160 Speaker 2: Saul starts going absolutely crazy, trying to kill David. David 730 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:46,960 Speaker 2: has to run from Saul. Remember now, Goliath was not 731 00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:52,400 Speaker 2: the last giant that David would face. You don't want 732 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,320 Speaker 2: to stay stuck in just one victory of your life, 733 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:56,640 Speaker 2: The Bible says. 734 00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:01,520 Speaker 1: He leads us from glory to glory, from strength to strength. 735 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,400 Speaker 1: Stand up. I'm trying to close. I'm trying so hard. 736 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:06,120 Speaker 1: Don't leave, but. 737 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,439 Speaker 2: Stand up and clap your hands. If you know this 738 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,480 Speaker 2: is not my last one. This is not my last victory. 739 00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:12,759 Speaker 2: I come against. 740 00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,239 Speaker 1: Midlife crisis in the name of the Lord. There's more 741 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,880 Speaker 1: for you to do. You have a legacy to pass on. 742 00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,760 Speaker 2: You're gonna make a bigger difference in your future days. 743 00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:29,959 Speaker 1: Your latter days shall be greater. Zan No this story 744 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:39,120 Speaker 1: your soun so okay, hang on a second. 745 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,080 Speaker 2: So David runs down to the temple right he's running 746 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,920 Speaker 2: from Saw. He's already killed Goliath, and he has to 747 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:47,960 Speaker 2: leave so quickly that he doesn't have a sword. 748 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,880 Speaker 1: He runs to the temple attendant. He says, hey, man, 749 00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:53,200 Speaker 1: I need a weapon. 750 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,399 Speaker 2: How many of you need a weapon to fight something 751 00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,799 Speaker 2: in your life today? You need a strategy, you need 752 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,200 Speaker 2: an insight. Come on, you need a breakthrough you to 753 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:05,200 Speaker 2: turn on? All right, David said to a Himlek, don't 754 00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,840 Speaker 2: you have a spear or a sword here? I haven't 755 00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,440 Speaker 2: brought my sword or any other weapon because the king's 756 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:18,960 Speaker 2: business was urgent. Priest said, man, I'm sorry, David, I 757 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:23,719 Speaker 2: mean I got one sword. It's the sword of Goliath, 758 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:29,080 Speaker 2: the Philistine, at least it used to be until you 759 00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:33,960 Speaker 2: killed him. But now, the very weapon that you took 760 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:39,799 Speaker 2: from your enemy, the very strength you gained from the 761 00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:44,560 Speaker 2: thing you survived, the sword of Goliath, the word that 762 00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:46,879 Speaker 2: God spoke over your life. How many no, his word 763 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,920 Speaker 2: is a sword is sharper than any double edged sword 764 00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:54,879 Speaker 2: he Brews four to twelve. The sword of Goliath, who 765 00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,920 Speaker 2: you killed in the valley of elaw is here is 766 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:02,000 Speaker 2: wrapped in a cloth. The Ephi, if you want it, 767 00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,919 Speaker 2: take it. There is no sword here but that one. 768 00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,560 Speaker 2: And David said, there is none like it. 769 00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:13,719 Speaker 1: Give it to me. He started with a sling, he 770 00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:14,880 Speaker 1: ended with a sword. 771 00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:20,160 Speaker 2: And the difference was the enemy that he was willing 772 00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:21,400 Speaker 2: to confront. 773 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:26,239 Speaker 4: And I know. 774 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,600 Speaker 1: How this Oh. 775 00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,359 Speaker 2: Now, I don't know exactly how long this story's going 776 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,479 Speaker 2: to take, and I don't know all the details of. 777 00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:41,880 Speaker 3: It, but I know how this story is. 778 00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,280 Speaker 2: We got the drop on David. We read verse fifty. 779 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,880 Speaker 2: We got the drop on David. We've been to the 780 00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,040 Speaker 2: empty tomb. We got the drop on David. We know 781 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:56,080 Speaker 2: how this story is is. I know that the sufferings 782 00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,200 Speaker 2: of this present time are not worthy. 783 00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,440 Speaker 1: Do you hear me preaching to you right there in 784 00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,440 Speaker 1: your living room? Do you hear me preaching to you 785 00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,400 Speaker 1: right there in your kitchen? You hear me preaching to you. 786 00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,080 Speaker 2: You're in a hospital room with a loved one right now, 787 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,640 Speaker 2: with the God of all healing, Jehovah Rufica is in 788 00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:13,880 Speaker 2: the hospital. 789 00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:17,359 Speaker 1: Room with you. I know how this story I love. 790 00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:26,719 Speaker 2: I know no weapon that is formed against me south rossword. Now, 791 00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,520 Speaker 2: the Bible doesn't say that the weapon won't be formed. 792 00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,640 Speaker 2: It just says that it won't work. So watch this. 793 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:38,160 Speaker 2: The weapon was formed by my enemy. Isaiah fifty four 794 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,759 Speaker 2: seventeen is on the screen right now. The weapon was 795 00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,840 Speaker 2: formed by the hand of my enemy. What you're going 796 00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,280 Speaker 2: through it might not have been from the hand of God. 797 00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:51,680 Speaker 2: But you got to read verse sixteen to understand verse seventeen. 798 00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:56,000 Speaker 2: Because verse sixteen, God says, behold, I have created the 799 00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,160 Speaker 2: blacksmith who made the weapon. 800 00:48:58,520 --> 00:48:59,920 Speaker 1: So God said. 801 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,360 Speaker 2: The enemy might have formed the weapon, but I formed 802 00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:07,359 Speaker 2: the enemy. And there is nothing that an enemy can 803 00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:08,279 Speaker 2: bring against you. 804 00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:18,800 Speaker 1: Come on, there is nothing. Get your. 805 00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:29,319 Speaker 2: Get your hands, get a fake. Yes, come on, Goliath. 806 00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:31,880 Speaker 1: You come against me with the decent. 807 00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:38,000 Speaker 2: You come against me with anxiety. But sup in the name, 808 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,520 Speaker 2: thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of 809 00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,560 Speaker 2: you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of 810 00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,520 Speaker 2: you that this ministry is possible. 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