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