Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.
Speaker 2: I was telling my friend that I wanted to preach
Speaker 2: a series on David and the Psalms. I said, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna call it bars and battles, and he goes, I
Speaker 2: didn't know David was in prison. I said, no, man
Speaker 2: like bars, like bars, like hip hop bars, music measures
Speaker 2: of music, four beats bars And you didn't get it,
Speaker 2: So I said, I kind of ruined the punchline. But
Speaker 2: I do want to set up one thing before I
Speaker 2: go to my scripture today, and that is I want
Speaker 2: to solve the debate of who is the greatest rapper
Speaker 2: of all time. Of course I'm qualified to speak to
Speaker 2: this subject, having grown up in Monk's Corner, South Carolina,
Speaker 2: the epicenter of hip hop and the greatest rapper of
Speaker 2: all time. Please withhold, suspend your judgment and throw stuff
Speaker 2: at the stage when I tell you this, But the
Speaker 2: greatest rapper of all time is not Biggie. Did I
Speaker 2: just break your heart already? The greatest rapper of all
Speaker 2: time is not Tupac. Sorry Poc. If you're watching from Cuba,
Speaker 2: Thacs thacks now, jay Z.
Speaker 1: Not Kanye, you seem to be in full agreement, not
Speaker 1: eminem now j Cole.
Speaker 2: I know that North Carolina pride makes you want to
Speaker 2: I know, not Kendrick. I love Kendrick. I love Kendrick Cleaners.
Speaker 2: But the greatest rapper of all time, of course, is
Speaker 2: King d King.
Speaker 1: David.
Speaker 2: His songs, his bars have been topping the charts for
Speaker 2: three thousand years.
Speaker 1: That's pretty strong.
Speaker 2: And I know what you think about the psalms, how
Speaker 2: comforting they are and how cute they are, But I
Speaker 2: want to show you that the psalms are more.
Speaker 1: Like hip hop than they are like Hallmark.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look today at Psalm fifty nine, and
Speaker 2: I'm really excited to share this with you. This series
Speaker 2: is going to help us get real with God. And
Speaker 2: this series is going to help us get past the
Speaker 2: nice things that we think we need to say to
Speaker 2: God to convince him that we're doing better than we are,
Speaker 2: even though he knows the full condition and intents of
Speaker 2: our hearts and show us how that some of the
Speaker 2: greatest bars come from some of the greatest battles. Of course,
Speaker 2: through the scriptures, we get a portrait of David, who
Speaker 2: is a victorious warrior and a giant slayer and a
Speaker 2: great king, the most beloved king that Israel ever knew.
Speaker 2: But we also have the benefit of reading not only
Speaker 2: what was written about him, but what was written by him.
Speaker 2: And so when you see that little book close to
Speaker 2: the middle of your Bible called Psalms, it is over
Speaker 2: half attributed to King David. And so we not only
Speaker 2: see what was going on in his life, but we
Speaker 2: see what was going on in his soul. And we
Speaker 2: all have things that people see that we go through.
Speaker 2: And then we have that other part, the stuff that
Speaker 2: we don't say, the enemies that we don't talk about
Speaker 2: in our e group because they're sitting next to us
Speaker 2: and they're called our spouse. Okay, let's go to Psalm
Speaker 2: fifty nine. Please look at this with me before I
Speaker 2: say too much. It's only week one. Pace yourself verdict.
Speaker 2: You are my strength.
Speaker 1: Verse nine. I watch for you.
Speaker 2: You God are my fortress, my God on whom I
Speaker 2: can rely in that nice Come on in that great
Speaker 2: don't you want to screenshot that and put it on
Speaker 2: your wallpaper and.
Speaker 1: Set it as your background.
Speaker 2: Put it in a cursive font, a pink cursive font,
Speaker 2: and croche it on a pillow and put a coffee
Speaker 2: mug behind it, and a bald eagle and.
Speaker 1: A rock climber and a hot air balloon.
Speaker 2: Make a motivational poster out of Psalm fifty nine. You
Speaker 2: are my strength. I can see this on Pinterest. Oh Lord,
Speaker 2: you are my strength. I watch for you. You God
Speaker 2: are my fortress, my God on whom I can rely.
Speaker 1: Don't you love the psalms? Raise your hand if you.
Speaker 2: Love that, to know that God is her strength and
Speaker 2: your fortress and you can rely on him.
Speaker 1: David goes on to.
Speaker 2: Say, God will go before me. How many are grateful
Speaker 2: that God has prepared the path before you and you
Speaker 2: don't know what's there, but He knows what's there. That's
Speaker 2: the only way sometimes that you can go forward is
Speaker 2: to know that God has already been there. You will
Speaker 2: go before me and will let me gloat over those
Speaker 2: who slander me. Whoh took a little turn, there, took
Speaker 2: a little turn. The bald eagle just flew off the
Speaker 2: poster and the hot air balloon just popped and now gloating.
Speaker 2: But do not kill them, Lord, our shield or my
Speaker 2: people will forget.
Speaker 1: Oh that's an he's coming back to, coming back to
Speaker 1: that holy place. In your might.
Speaker 2: Uproot them and bring them down. For the sins of
Speaker 2: their mouths, for the words of their lips. Let them
Speaker 2: be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies
Speaker 2: they utter. Consume them in your wrath, Consume them till
Speaker 2: they are no more. And now I'm confused because this
Speaker 2: started as a devotion and it turned into a disc track.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is David or if this
Speaker 2: is Drake.
Speaker 1: I'm so confused. I'm so confused. Help me, help me,
Speaker 1: help me understand.
Speaker 2: Then it will be known to the ends of the
Speaker 2: earth that God rules over Jacob. They return at evening,
Speaker 2: snarling like dogs and prowl about the city. They wander
Speaker 2: about for food and howl if not satisfied.
Speaker 1: But I will sing of your strength in the morning.
Speaker 2: I will sing of your love, for you are my fortress,
Speaker 2: my refuge of trouble. I want to let you know
Speaker 2: today that you have the upper hand turn to somebody
Speaker 2: and let them know I have.
Speaker 1: The upper hand. Come on, let's get started.
Speaker 2: Spirit of God, speak to our hearts today in such
Speaker 2: a powerful way that we will never forget this encounter
Speaker 2: with you. Show us who you are and who we are,
Speaker 2: and make up the difference in our lives for all
Speaker 2: that we are not. Be something God right now that
Speaker 2: we don't even know that we need speak something that
Speaker 2: we don't even know.
Speaker 1: We need to hear, deposit.
Speaker 2: Something that we didn't even know we were walking around
Speaker 2: with out. Speak to our souls and we give you
Speaker 2: praise in advance in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Amen. So the question I have is.
Speaker 2: What could David have been going through at this point
Speaker 2: in his life that would cause him to experience such
Speaker 2: a range of emotions.
Speaker 1: You saw it for yourself. It was a psalm sandwich.
Speaker 1: You saw it where he was talking about.
Speaker 2: The strength of God and the struggles of his life
Speaker 2: all in the same sum Now. I knew that David
Speaker 2: had range of motion because I saw him kill Goliath,
Speaker 2: and I knew that he had range of motion and
Speaker 2: the ability to take down giants. But what surprises me
Speaker 2: is his range of emotion that he experienced within himself,
Speaker 2: and I want to talk to you from three points
Speaker 2: today to help set up this series. And I usually
Speaker 2: don't show you the whole thing. I don't show my
Speaker 2: hand at the beginning of the sermon, but I'm going
Speaker 2: to give you all three points. I want to talk
Speaker 2: about the wars, the weapons, and the way the wars,
Speaker 2: the weapons, and the way.
Speaker 1: The Scripture declares.
Speaker 2: That I am more than a conqueror through Him who
Speaker 2: loves me. If that's the case, then why are there
Speaker 2: times where I do not feel his love? The scripture
Speaker 2: declares that God is my defender and that he will arise.
Speaker 2: No weapon formed against me will prosper. Why is it
Speaker 2: then that I feel under siege? It is into this
Speaker 2: tension that we must reconcile these lines that David wrote
Speaker 2: with the life that David lived. And so I want
Speaker 2: to take you over today to a scene in David's life.
Speaker 2: And you know, some of the psalms that are written,
Speaker 2: we don't really know what was going on at the
Speaker 2: time they were written, or what situations they refer to.
Speaker 2: But David's talking about all kinds of enemies and all
Speaker 2: kinds of battles, and the Bible says that this was
Speaker 2: written at a time, a particular time in his life
Speaker 2: that is recorded in scripture in First Samuel nineteen. Now
Speaker 2: please understand once again that God is not your refuge
Speaker 2: from trouble, but He is your refuge in trouble. That understanding,
Speaker 2: loan would answer many of our questions about the operative
Speaker 2: nature of faith. That God is not my refuge from trouble,
Speaker 2: but God is my refuge in trouble. Some of the
Speaker 2: times in your life that you think you're in trouble,
Speaker 2: you're not.
Speaker 1: You're in training.
Speaker 2: What you see as trouble, God sees as training. And
Speaker 2: I'm going to try not to holler and scream today,
Speaker 2: just teach you a little bit.
Speaker 1: But go over to.
Speaker 2: First Samuel nineteen because when David wrote Psalm fifty nine,
Speaker 2: or at least the period of time he's referencing here,
Speaker 2: is a very successful time in his life. On one hand,
Speaker 2: I mean, he's been anointed to be king, and he
Speaker 2: got a pretty cool opportunity in front of all of
Speaker 2: his brothers to be singled out as the chosen one
Speaker 2: who is going to replace King Saul. He is called
Speaker 2: a man after God's own heart, and he's got oil
Speaker 2: on his head, which represents the way that God is
Speaker 2: going to use him the influence God has given him.
Speaker 2: And God didn't speak it to him like Joseph in
Speaker 2: a dream. God spoke it to him in front of
Speaker 2: his whole family. So when God spoke to Joseph and
Speaker 2: said I'm gonna make you great, Joseph had to try
Speaker 2: to convince people. But when David was spoken of, he
Speaker 2: was spoken of in front of his brothers, So everybody
Speaker 2: knows he's a little special. If they didn't know it
Speaker 2: when he was anointed, they certainly knew it after he
Speaker 2: got done with Goliath.
Speaker 1: How many of you.
Speaker 2: Have never heard a good Bible sermon about David and Goliath?
Speaker 1: I need to see if you never heard.
Speaker 2: This story about David and Goliath, well, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to I'm not going to go into it now because
Speaker 2: spoiler alert, Goliath goes down. By the way, for every
Speaker 2: Goliath in your life, spoiler.
Speaker 1: Alert, he goes down.
Speaker 2: He might be bigger, he might be loud, he might
Speaker 2: be defiant. You might have never seen a paddle like
Speaker 2: this before, but Goliath goes down.
Speaker 1: Heck, can I show you something?
Speaker 2: When David stood before Goliath before he hit him with
Speaker 2: a stone, he spit a few bars.
Speaker 1: Can I show you? Can I show you?
Speaker 2: Because you didn't know that David was the original battle rapper.
Speaker 1: You always saw him in your mind.
Speaker 2: You saw him with a harp and a lamb in
Speaker 2: his lap, and he's stroking a lamb with one hand
Speaker 2: and strumming a harp with the other hand. But before
Speaker 2: David was ever strumming a harp or stroking a sheep,
Speaker 2: he walked up to Goliath, and.
Speaker 1: Watch this.
Speaker 2: He looks at Goliath and begins to declare what God
Speaker 2: is going to do. Now, here's a principle, right your
Speaker 2: bars before your battle. Don't wait until things turn out
Speaker 2: positively in your life to give God glory.
Speaker 1: Don't wait until.
Speaker 2: Seized part in your standing on dry ground to declare
Speaker 2: that God is able to slit him. Don't wait until
Speaker 2: everything is perfect in your life to enjoy the presence
Speaker 2: of God.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 2: Don't wait until you don't have any hang ups to
Speaker 2: say to God.
Speaker 1: Here, am I send me? Use me?
Speaker 2: God is looking for somebody who will shout before the
Speaker 2: first brick falls, who will blow a trumpet while you're
Speaker 2: still looking at enemies in an occupied territory. So David
Speaker 2: stands up to Goliath, and I know you know all
Speaker 2: this already, but just in case nobody ever heard it,
Speaker 2: he goes up. He goes up to Goliath, and he
Speaker 2: grabs the mic, and he tells, Goliath, you come against
Speaker 2: me with sword and spear and javelin, But I come
Speaker 2: against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the
Speaker 2: God of the armies of Israel, whom you have to fight.
Speaker 2: Next verse this state, the Lord will deliver you into
Speaker 2: my hands, and I'll strike you down and cut off
Speaker 2: your head this very day.
Speaker 1: Can't you hear a beat behind us?
Speaker 2: This very day, I will give the carcasses of the
Speaker 2: Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and
Speaker 2: the whole world will know.
Speaker 1: That there is a God in it.
Speaker 2: He's and David's. David's confidence is not only something that
Speaker 2: he speaks of, but it's something that he walks in.
Speaker 2: He has the kind of confidence to declare victory before battle.
Speaker 2: So when I praise God, I'm not praising God for
Speaker 2: outcomes that I'm currently experiencing. I am praising God for
Speaker 2: promises that are still to come. Can I preach a
Speaker 2: little bit today? I want to talk about the worst
Speaker 2: that David fought because he's doing great.
Speaker 1: He's annointed to be king. He kills Goliath, he cuts
Speaker 1: off his head.
Speaker 2: He goes to Sau's temp Casault told him he was
Speaker 2: just a little boy, and he tried to tell Saul
Speaker 2: that he had the winning hand, and Saul said, you
Speaker 2: don't have a sword. And David said, not now, but after,
Speaker 2: or I get done using what's in my hand to
Speaker 2: knock him down and take what's in his hand. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna cut off his head with what he came against
Speaker 2: me holding, and I'll take his sword and I'll cut
Speaker 2: off his head. And he stood at Sau's tent with
Speaker 2: Goliath's head. And if that wasn't proof enough, when he
Speaker 2: went back into the city, watch this.
Speaker 1: When David went back into the city.
Speaker 2: A whole group of women started following David into the streets,
Speaker 2: singing about his great victory. David is an anointed future king.
Speaker 2: He's a warrior. His music career is taking off. He's
Speaker 2: released a mixtape. He's being called to the palace to
Speaker 2: play the harp for Saul.
Speaker 1: Gasaw's going crazy.
Speaker 2: He just held Goliath's hand and now the women are
Speaker 2: lying in the streets shaking tambourines.
Speaker 1: You want to see this, I promise you.
Speaker 2: In First Samuel eighteen, you think I make this stuff up.
Speaker 2: This stuff is in the Bible. You thought the Bible
Speaker 2: was boring. The Bible's not boring. Douch you nehbver say
Speaker 2: you're boring. Read the Bible. The Bible is awesome. David
Speaker 2: is rising in power, and he's proving he's proving the
Speaker 2: presence of God, not through what just he says, but through.
Speaker 1: What he does.
Speaker 2: And the women are lying in the streets, and they
Speaker 2: got this little song they're singing to Saul. They're shaken
Speaker 2: timbrels and liars and eight o waits, And as they
Speaker 2: dance verse seven, they sang, Saul is slain his thousands
Speaker 2: and David is tens of thousands.
Speaker 1: Well, Saul didn't like that song very much, and.
Speaker 2: So Saul shut that song down, and he actually wanted.
Speaker 1: To kill David.
Speaker 2: And so this brings us to First Samuel chapter nineteen,
Speaker 2: which is the historical context of Psalm fifty nine. And
Speaker 2: in Psalm fifty nine we see David calling on God
Speaker 2: to be his strength. But in First Samuel nineteen we
Speaker 2: see into his struggle. Okay, let's look into his struggle
Speaker 2: in order to understand his strength. So important that we
Speaker 2: understand his struggle, or we will understand his strength. As
Speaker 2: one great theologian has said, the presence of God is
Speaker 2: not the absence of trouble. If I could get one
Speaker 2: thing across to you in this series, it is that
Speaker 2: your greatest testimonies will come from your greatest tests. Your
Speaker 2: greatest bars will come from your greatest battles. Maybe we
Speaker 2: assumed that David killed Goliath and went to the beach. Now,
Speaker 2: so the Bible says that David, continuing to serve Saul,
Speaker 2: would go out look at verse eight, and he would
Speaker 2: fight against the Philistines. In fact, it says, let me
Speaker 2: read this from the new King James version, and there
Speaker 2: was war again, because it never stops, because you don't
Speaker 2: kill Goliath, get the gold medal, and go home and
Speaker 2: stare at his head for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: Every time I heard Goliath preached as a little boy,
Speaker 2: it ended when he fell down. But you know what
Speaker 2: the Bible says was the reward for David's victory.
Speaker 1: More battles.
Speaker 2: Before you post, I know that some of you are
Speaker 2: about to get engaged. And before you post, the engagement
Speaker 2: pictures swipe left with eight different pictures, so everybody will
Speaker 2: omge down in the comments section and literally just died.
Speaker 1: And so happy to you.
Speaker 2: But before before you post that, make sure you are
Speaker 2: prepared because the reward for engagement, I mean, just ask
Speaker 2: Colley about.
Speaker 1: The reward for engagement.
Speaker 2: She will tell you that the process of becoming one
Speaker 2: is much grittier.
Speaker 1: Than the prospect of walking the aisle.
Speaker 2: So David kills Goliath. Guess what you get to fight again?
Speaker 2: You get the promotion. Guess what you get to manage people?
Speaker 2: Guess what people suck? You get the house, you get
Speaker 2: to clean it. I just love preaching the Bible like
Speaker 2: it really goes, because if we stop when Goliath goes down,
Speaker 2: we missed the whole point.
Speaker 1: He killed Goliath, and Saul said, now I got something
Speaker 1: bigger for you to do. You really want God to
Speaker 1: answer your prayer?
Speaker 2: And war broke out again, and war broke out again,
Speaker 2: and Saul needed somebody to fight.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing he did.
Speaker 2: He sent somebody that he didn't even like to fight
Speaker 2: a battle for him that he needed him to fight.
Speaker 2: And people will sometimes use you for what you can
Speaker 2: do for them while secretly hating the threat that you
Speaker 2: represent to them.
Speaker 1: And sometimes.
Speaker 2: Everything that appears to be a gift is not a gift.
Speaker 2: And Saul wanted to kill David. One of the ways
Speaker 2: he tried to kill him was he let him marry
Speaker 2: his daughter. He said, I'll give you my daughter if
Speaker 2: you go kill one hundred Philistines. David said, no problem,
Speaker 2: I'll kill two hundred because he had hustle and heart
Speaker 2: and ambition like that, and he came back, the Bible says,
Speaker 2: with two hundred Philistine foreskins. In case you did not
Speaker 2: drop your kids off at e kids, I will bypass
Speaker 2: the exact meaning of the text. Just let it be
Speaker 2: known that Saul's intention in giving David the gift was.
Speaker 1: Not to bless him.
Speaker 2: And some of the things in your life that appear
Speaker 2: to be battles are really gifts.
Speaker 1: And some of the things in your.
Speaker 2: Life that appear to be gifts are really curses. So
Speaker 2: David is out fighting the Philistines, and we all have
Speaker 2: Philistines that we must fight in our lives. We all
Speaker 2: have Goliath, not just one, but many. When we kill Goliath,
Speaker 2: here comes another and another, because.
Speaker 1: Goliath has brothers, and.
Speaker 2: In the midst of fighting the Philistines, because that's hard enough.
Speaker 2: It's hard enough to fight the external battles.
Speaker 1: But I didn't really want to talk.
Speaker 2: To you about the external battles because it seems that
Speaker 2: David had no problem fighting the Philistines. That's what he did.
Speaker 2: David was a killer. Give him a Philistine, he'll knock
Speaker 2: him down. Give him a rock, Give him five rocks,
Speaker 2: he'll only use one. You can keep the other four.
Speaker 2: Because David knew how to fight Philistines. And I'm ana
Speaker 2: proved to you over the course of the series that
Speaker 2: the biggest battles David never ever fought didn't stand in
Speaker 2: front of him. They lived within him. Because while he
Speaker 2: is fighting the battles without, there's another battle that is
Speaker 2: being waged within. Once more, war broke out, and David
Speaker 2: went out and fought the Philistines, and he did good.
Speaker 2: He struck them with a mighty blow and they fled
Speaker 2: from him. He sent them scattering running for cover. But
Speaker 2: verse nine says that while that battle was being won,
Speaker 2: another battle was being waged.
Speaker 1: On one hand, David is coming up.
Speaker 2: And as he comes up into a greater position, as
Speaker 2: he comes up into a season of greater usefulness to God.
Speaker 2: A distressing spirit from God has come upon Saul. On
Speaker 2: one hand, David is being blessed, and on one hand,
Speaker 2: David is in a battle. And the battle is happening
Speaker 2: because God's hand has been taken off of Saul and
Speaker 2: put on David. Now, David has the unique task of
Speaker 2: trying to serve someone who is threatened by his potential.
Speaker 1: That's tough.
Speaker 2: Not only that, but Saul is distressed. He knows that
Speaker 2: he's slipping, but he cannot do anything to catch himself.
Speaker 2: And because of this, he's acting crazy. He's doing things
Speaker 2: trying to you know how you do when you sense
Speaker 2: that you're losing control, and so you try to fix stuff.
Speaker 1: But everything you try to do to.
Speaker 2: Fix it and frustration only makes it worse. And you
Speaker 2: would do better to just leave it alone, but you can't,
Speaker 2: and so you try to control people, and then you
Speaker 2: sabotage yourself by creating the very result that you dread,
Speaker 2: by trying to take matters into your own hand. That's Saul,
Speaker 2: and he's going so crazy in his mind that the
Speaker 2: only way that he can get the voices in his
Speaker 2: mind to stop is if there's music play.
Speaker 1: Now, we don't do that.
Speaker 2: We don't occupy ourselves with anything to try to keep
Speaker 2: ourselves from having to be with ourselves.
Speaker 1: And David is in.
Speaker 2: The position that Saul's dysfunction has created, over in the corner,
Speaker 2: playing a harp for the king. Because David's kind of weird,
Speaker 2: because on one hand he can whip you with a slingshot,
Speaker 2: but on the other hand he can touch the strings and.
Speaker 1: Make you cry.
Speaker 2: And so he is the embodiment of both a warrior
Speaker 2: and a worshiper. And now his gift has brought him
Speaker 2: into a position that has created for him an opportunity
Speaker 2: in the form of opposition. And as the hand of
Speaker 2: God is leaving the life of Saul, and as the
Speaker 2: hand of God, the anointing of God is raising David up.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that Saul sat in his house with
Speaker 1: his spear in his hand.
Speaker 2: It's kind of creepy, Big old Saul.
Speaker 1: Sulkan in the corner with a spear in his hand,
Speaker 1: and watch what David had to do.
Speaker 2: David had to sit over there behind a harp, strumming
Speaker 2: a harp while Saul held a spear, and David was
Speaker 2: playing music with his hand. Verse ten then Saul sought
Speaker 2: to pin David to the wall with the spear, but
Speaker 2: he David slipped away from Saul's presence and he drove
Speaker 2: the spear into the wall. Let me ask you a question,
Speaker 2: who is Saul fighting? Because on the surface, it looks
Speaker 2: like he's fighting David. But I wonder how many times
Speaker 2: in my life I thought I was fighting someone, and
Speaker 2: I thought.
Speaker 1: I was fighting something.
Speaker 2: But the real fight, the real war, the real battle,
Speaker 2: was not the battle with them, It was the battle within.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 2: I want to preach about David, but before I preach
Speaker 2: about David, I.
Speaker 1: Need to confess to you.
Speaker 2: There have been times in my life where I have
Speaker 2: been Saul. I've been fighting the wrong battles. I've been
Speaker 2: trying to kill what God was trying to use. I've
Speaker 2: been exploding at people and freaking out on people, and
Speaker 2: in a bad.
Speaker 1: Mood with people.
Speaker 2: And if they would just know, if I would just
Speaker 2: if I would bless the Lord, if I could get
Speaker 2: myself right, if I could get my mind right, if
Speaker 2: I could get my eyes fixed, if I could get
Speaker 2: it together. Let's see, Saul, Saul is a walking, talking
Speaker 2: civil war, and he is taking out what is happening
Speaker 2: within himself on the closest available target. Parents do it
Speaker 2: all the time to their children. It's not that you
Speaker 2: don't love them. You love them more than you love yourself.
Speaker 2: But you don't love yourself, and so you cannot give
Speaker 2: them the love for them that you have.
Speaker 1: If there is not a.
Speaker 2: Love from God that flows to you, you are not
Speaker 2: fighting them. Stop yelling at your wife. And by the way,
Speaker 2: let me preach to myself. Stop with the road rage.
Speaker 2: It's not about the prius. There is something going wrong
Speaker 2: in your heartfverdict when a prius can make you freak
Speaker 2: out and speed up to eighty three. I am fighting myself.
Speaker 2: I am fighting myself. And when I am at war
Speaker 2: within myself, and when I am a wretched man, and
Speaker 2: when I am when I am when I am fighting
Speaker 2: with what Paul costs the weapons of this world, when
Speaker 2: I am fighting within myself and fighting against the very
Speaker 2: things that God is trying to use in my life,
Speaker 2: and slinging spears at David, the very one that God
Speaker 2: sent to fight my battles. I wonder, are you trying
Speaker 2: to kill something that God is trying to use in
Speaker 2: your life. I want to preach about David, but before
Speaker 2: I can get there, because I.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie to you. I want to be
Speaker 1: David so bad. I want to be a man.
Speaker 3: After God's on her. I want to kill Goliath. I
Speaker 3: think it'd be cool to kill Goliath. I want to
Speaker 3: say tambourines. I want to I want.
Speaker 1: To be David.
Speaker 4: But sometimes I'm sold, some times I'm saw. Sometimes I'm
Speaker 4: fighting against what I should be fighting for. So now
Speaker 4: David has a choice to make, and so do you.
Speaker 4: And this is the decision that we see again and
Speaker 4: again in a series. This is just the syllabus, This
Speaker 4: is not the class.
Speaker 1: Is that.
Speaker 2: You have to decide which weapons to use when and Saul,
Speaker 2: in his attempt to spear David misses and hits the wall.
Speaker 2: I noticed a contrast, it said, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you could put it back up for me, where it
Speaker 2: says that Saul was sitting in his house with his
Speaker 2: hand on the spear, and David had his hand on
Speaker 2: the harp, he had his hand on the liar, he
Speaker 2: had his hand on the string instrument.
Speaker 1: Because I was thinking.
Speaker 2: That, you know, if this is a game of rock
Speaker 2: paper scissors, which one do you want spear.
Speaker 1: Javelin or harp.
Speaker 2: You choose, Come on, turn to your neighbor, rock, paper, scissors, spear.
Speaker 1: I want the spear.
Speaker 2: And when Saul misses, David has a decision because the
Speaker 2: Bible says that.
Speaker 1: His spear stuck into the wall.
Speaker 2: And now, so here's the decision that I have to make.
Speaker 2: Do I take my hand off the harp and grab
Speaker 2: the spear and throw it back. Because if there's one
Speaker 2: thing we know about David, he doesn't miss. Ask Eliath
Speaker 2: about David's aim. If you're gonna throw a spirit, David,
Speaker 2: you better lock it in because if he throws it back,
Speaker 2: I assure you it will not end up in the wall.
Speaker 1: He will off your head.
Speaker 2: So before you throw a spirit, David, take aim. You
Speaker 2: will not get a second chance. But David does what
Speaker 2: must have been the hardest thing he ever did. Nothing.
Speaker 2: Do you know how hard it is when you have
Speaker 2: a reputation for killing giants to not fight back when
Speaker 2: you have the opportunity.
Speaker 1: Do you know how hard it is when you have the.
Speaker 2: Opportunity to manipulate a situation and control a situation and
Speaker 2: to try to get people to do what you want.
Speaker 2: And they said this about me and I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: it back. Oh God, I wish you could see some
Speaker 2: of the replies I write the people on Facebook that
Speaker 2: I never publish.
Speaker 5: They are poetic. Throw it back. I can hit you
Speaker 5: with this. I do words.
Speaker 1: I can talk.
Speaker 2: I can't fix a car, I can't bake a cake.
Speaker 1: But I can talk.
Speaker 2: And David can throw and he doesn't. He does something weird.
Speaker 2: He ducks. David ducks.
Speaker 1: David. Let's do it ducks because he has no other choice. Really,
Speaker 1: the harp is not a portable instrument, so he can't
Speaker 1: sidestep the harp or the spear.
Speaker 2: You see it behind harp, And the hand of Saul
Speaker 2: is on the sphere and the hand of David is
Speaker 2: on the harp. And I want to know who has
Speaker 2: the upper hand, who has the winning hand, because if
Speaker 2: the hand of Saul is on the spear and the
Speaker 2: hand of David is on the harp, it seems to
Speaker 2: me that spear beats strings. So I got one hand
Speaker 2: on the sphere and one hand on the strings.
Speaker 1: And I know Saul.
Speaker 2: Didn't miss David if he was at close range sitting
Speaker 2: down behind the harp. So how could the one with
Speaker 2: the spear lose to the one with the How could
Speaker 2: Saul have his hand on the spear and David have
Speaker 2: his hand on the harp and David get out. There
Speaker 2: must have been another hand in the room that it
Speaker 2: is not mentioned in the text. How many know that
Speaker 2: the hand of God.
Speaker 1: Is on your life?
Speaker 2: The hand of God was on David. The hand of
Speaker 2: God grabbed the sphere of Saul and said.
Speaker 1: Not him, not now, the.
Speaker 2: Weapon for to gets me shall behave.
Speaker 1: I feel like creature.
Speaker 2: Keep your hand on the harp, and God will put his.
Speaker 1: Hand on the sphere.
Speaker 2: He won't let it kill you. He will not suffer
Speaker 2: your foot to be moved. The Lord who it is
Speaker 2: keep with me. He will not slaugh, bird nor sleep
Speaker 2: if you keep your hand on the hearth. See I
Speaker 2: thought that David had an instrument and Saul had a weapon.
Speaker 2: But maybe worship is a weapon, Maybe Tad, maybe David.
Speaker 2: If I keep my hand on the harp, if I
Speaker 2: let God fight my battles, I cannot be defeated.
Speaker 1: Are there any worship person in the house.
Speaker 2: How about back here, any worship person?
Speaker 1: No, he'll fight my paw.
Speaker 2: Sha.
Speaker 1: Well that's just emotional. No is survival because if you
Speaker 1: don't learn how to duck.
Speaker 2: If you don't learn how to say God, the weapons
Speaker 2: of our warfare are not cardinal.
Speaker 1: I don't throw spears back. I got the winning hand.
Speaker 1: And when I.
Speaker 2: Clap my hands, my praise confuses the enemy.
Speaker 1: My praise, my praise.
Speaker 2: When I lift my hands in worship, the hand of
Speaker 2: God is on you. And David knew that the same
Speaker 2: hand that had plucked him from the sheep field, and
Speaker 2: the same hand that had delivered him.
Speaker 1: From lions and bears and goliaths, and.
Speaker 2: The same hand that held the flask that poured the oil,
Speaker 2: the hand of God is on my life. And Saul
Speaker 2: cannot kill what God has crowned.
Speaker 1: So the way I fight is this. I don't fight
Speaker 1: for victory. That's the way the world fights. I fight
Speaker 1: from victory. My worship is my weapon.
Speaker 2: I don't have to prove myself to people in situations.
Speaker 2: If I take this spear in my hand, throw it back.
Speaker 2: There's somebody in here who's got a spear in the
Speaker 2: wall right next to your head, and you are trying
Speaker 2: to decide right now whether to do it your way
Speaker 2: or God's way. Can I give you a little piece
Speaker 2: of advice, Dug David.
Speaker 6: Don and let God have his way.
Speaker 1: How did David keep his hand on the harp?
Speaker 2: And how do you keep your heart at peace with
Speaker 2: spears flying at your head? David knew that if I
Speaker 2: can win the battle within my soul, God will fight
Speaker 2: my battle with Saul.
Speaker 1: That's where the real battle is. The war is within,
Speaker 1: and so are the weapons.
Speaker 2: And over the course of this series, are you coming back,
Speaker 2: By the way, if you come back, I want to
Speaker 2: show you, over the course of the next four hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy three weeks or however long it takes us
Speaker 2: to complete this series, how to do what David learned
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: How to live in.
Speaker 2: A place where you constantly feel it were within yourself.
Speaker 2: Learn how to speak to yourself what God has spoken,
Speaker 2: instead of letting yourself tell yourself.
Speaker 1: What you fear. You can't fight fear with fear. And
Speaker 1: so when David says, when.
Speaker 2: David says, God, you are my strength, I'm so glad
Speaker 2: for Psalm fifty nine because for Samuel nineteen gives me.
Speaker 2: The picture of what David did is that with Saul's
Speaker 2: spears flying at him.
Speaker 1: David was able to keep his hand on the harp.
Speaker 2: It's a picture of being able to remain in a
Speaker 2: place of trust and surrender in a time of turbulence
Speaker 2: and trial and frustration. It's a picture. It says that
Speaker 2: Saul's hand was on the spear. That's me trying to control.
Speaker 2: David's hand stayed on the harp, and he played his hand.
Speaker 2: He knew that if I keep my hand on the harp,
Speaker 2: I cannot be defeated. If I keep my hand, if
Speaker 2: I keep my heart at.
Speaker 1: Peace, it will not matter what spears fly my way.
Speaker 1: He said, God, you are my strength. Can we read
Speaker 1: the Psalm again? Look at this. I'm fifty nine, verse nine.
Speaker 1: I watch for you.
Speaker 2: Now that's interesting because David seems to be saying, I
Speaker 2: wasn't watching Saul. I wasn't watching the spears. I was
Speaker 2: watching the one whose hand. How many believed the hand
Speaker 2: of God is on your life? Now we know this,
Speaker 2: We know this from our side of the cross, that
Speaker 2: the victory has already been won by our King, our
Speaker 2: greater David Jesus Christ. We know that David was not
Speaker 2: the last king to come out of Bethlehem. We know
Speaker 2: that he was a king who was pointing to a
Speaker 2: king of kings. We know that the spirit of Him
Speaker 2: who raised Christ is from the dead, and we've already
Speaker 2: got the victory. We don't fight for it, we fight
Speaker 2: from it. And the hand of God is on your line.
Speaker 1: And you say, well, I'm not David, but you are.
Speaker 2: Because David's name literally means beloved. And the same love
Speaker 2: that crowned David has crowned you. And Saul cannot.
Speaker 1: Kill what God has already crowned, and perfect love cast
Speaker 1: out fear.
Speaker 2: So so here's what David did. He said, I watched
Speaker 2: for you, and a lot of stuff coming in my head.
Speaker 1: I got battles.
Speaker 7: And problems, brokenness ninety nine problems, and Bathsheba is one.
Speaker 7: We'll get to that lights. But he said, bring it home.
Speaker 1: Ford. You are my fortress. Next verse my God on
Speaker 1: whom I can rely.
Speaker 2: But but watch this verse eleven, verse eleven, do not
Speaker 2: kill them Lord our.
Speaker 1: Shield. Wait a minute, David did have a weapon.
Speaker 2: David did have a weapon, because when Saul's spears started flying,
Speaker 2: David God behind his shield. Come on, I need you
Speaker 2: to receive this because you got some stuff flying at you.
Speaker 1: You got some doubts in your soul. Come on, but
Speaker 1: stay behind your seal. Come on, duct David, hit behind.
Speaker 2: Your seal, Paul said, it's the shield of faith.
Speaker 1: We're with you. Shall quitch the fierys are of the wicked.
Speaker 2: I gotta seal there is anybody sealed it by the
Speaker 2: power of God. And if I stay behind my shield,
Speaker 2: soul cannot kill what God is crowding.
Speaker 1: I got the winning and I might not look like much.
Speaker 2: I might just be a shepherd boy, but I got
Speaker 2: the winning and and God is my shield.
Speaker 1: Father.
Speaker 2: I thank you for your awesome presence in this place.
Speaker 2: I thank you for your awesome power within us. Everyone
Speaker 2: stand to your feet and lift your hands. This is
Speaker 2: a worship moment. After all has been said and done,
Speaker 2: with spears, flying, storms, raging doubts, the sailing winds blowing
Speaker 2: in the midst of all of it, you have a shield,
Speaker 2: say a lot them, shielded by the power of God. Father,
Speaker 2: we declare victory in this place, not because of battles
Speaker 2: that have been won, but because of battles that are
Speaker 2: already in progress. Father, I thank you for the ways
Speaker 2: that you are working in our life today. I thank
Speaker 2: you for hiding us. I thank you for the shield
Speaker 2: that you have been. I thank you for the promise
Speaker 2: that you have given God.
Speaker 1: I thank you you in this moment.
Speaker 2: Then, no matter what soul throws, with our hands lifted
Speaker 2: up and our hearts full of praise, come on, bless
Speaker 2: the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me,
Speaker 2: I will bless so Lord had all times hands his praise.
Speaker 1: Stop continuing see in my.
Speaker 7: Mouth, mom back to find the Lord with me.
Speaker 1: Let us say, solt.
Speaker 4: Is now so.
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