42 He looked David over and saw that he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised him. And when David tries to speak an encouraging word, to offer truth instead of lies, they try to shut him up. That the only way the giants can defeat God’s people, is by convincing us that they are just too big, too strong, for us to ever prevail against. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. Looking more closely at the letter, the man found that he had signed it himself. These giants can be money, property, friends, hate, possessions, porn, alcohol, drugs, fear, unbelief, anger, greed, and the list can continue for pages to go. “You alone can’t win against the giant,” Saul told David. Giants become giants by convincing us that they are giants – too big for us to handle. It does not require the newest weapons or the most impenetrable armor. And King Saul, when he discovers what David has been saying, calls him to come and says, “You’re just a boy. I’m going to say something now that will probably make some of you uncomfortable and angry, but I think in light of the giants that we face as a church, needs to be said. But why David? He did so by controlling their minds with doubt and fear. Eugene Peterson tells how he saw a family of birds teaching their young to fly. Show up for the battle ready to fight. 45 David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. Neither did the Philistine army need to be convinced that their champion had fallen. Samuel tells us that David does not use his sword, or Saul’s sword, but rather, he draws out Goliaths own sword, and severs his head so that the whole world will know that it is not by our strength alone that we conquer the giants, but rather it is through God’s loving presence and the unity of his body, that he provides us with all that we need to be giant slayers. Facing the Giants in Your Life Sammy Burgess 1 Samuel 17 Introduction: Joshua J.
Because no matter how loud and angry and hate filled the giants up ahead are, they can never defeat those who find their strength in the truth of God’s word. And what will you do if you retire. Akin to more secular fairy tales like Jack and the Bean Stalk, and Little Red Riding Hood. . When Facing Giants, We are often Inexperienced. When facing our own giants, we must draw our strength from the heart of God. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food." Date: February 17, 2019 . Three sermons outlines are included in this download. No to be giant slayers, all that is required is that we be faithful, that we follow God, be His disciples, and so place ourselves in the heart of God, so that in the words of the prophet Micah, no matter what giants may come our way, all that is required of us to slay them is that we act justly towards one another, and that we love one another, and walk humbly, hand in hand with our loving God. It contained his original application for the job he now held, together with a letter from the agency regretfully turning him down because he was. Goliath was on the brink of victory because he had convinced the Israelites that they could not win, and then God called the giant slayer, David, to come into their midst to say “yes we can.” St. Luke has always been and is a great and strong church, always moving forward. No one had ever won against him.” When going up against the giants of the world, defeat almost always comes from within. I think that David cut off Goliath’s head and took it to Jerusalem to show the people that God had defeated the giants, had separated the head from the heart, and that if we will place ourselves in the heart of God, even those giants that still lay before us will be defeated, because the only power that the giants had over God’s people was all in their heads, the giants and their own. "I make my daily commitment to God. One day I was going to do it and the next day I had decided not to. A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp.