207: Jason Robinson – The Giant and The Boy

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Welcome to good for selfie and
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I’m Levi and I’m Chris and I’m
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this week.
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We post a new episode of the
start of each week with a short

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intro before.
Hand to kind of set the stage

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for the talk.
You’re about to listen to and

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now let’s talk more about this
week’s talk.

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Hello everyone.
My name is Mike Livermore.

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I’m a disciple of Christ from
Michigan and I’m here to

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introduce the final class of for
that I’ve presented.

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Midwest Bible school for this
podcast.

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So this talk was given by Jason
Robinson this year, 2022 at

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Shrine, and the subject for
Jason’s classes was the tales of

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the Giants.
And this talk was entitled, the

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Giant and the boy, and the whole
premise of Jason’s classes.

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This year was an examination of
the Giants of the Old Testament,

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the anakim, the Nephilim, and
their interactions with the

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people of God, and their role in
scripture, and it was all of

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these.
He’s tremendous lessons of faith

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of how people like Caleb and
David and so forth faced those

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Giants and defeated those
Giants.

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And then the takeaway lesson for
us was okay, well in our lives.

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Now what are our Giants?
And the first couple of classes

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at Jason gave, we’re helping us
identify what the Giants are in

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our lives.
Temptations challenges,

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stumbling blocks, addictions,
conflicts, difficult,

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situations, whatever it is,
whatever your giant is.

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Let’s focus.
On that, identify it and develop

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some tools.
Some takeaway applications, some

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lessons of Faith things to help
us face our Giants in daily

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life.
So by the time, we as listeners

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got to this class, which is
which is class 5 of this series,

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we’ve identified our giant,
you’ve had a few lessons and now

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in this class on David and David
is the boy in the title, we get

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some really, really helpful
applicable lessons for how to

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defeat our Giant in daily life.
So this class was just so so

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relevant and I know we’ve all
Heard lots of classes on David

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and Goliath, you know so many
but this one was so interesting

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to look at the story from the
angle of what can we learn about

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fighting giants from David and
so, I’ll highlight a couple of

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those lessons as an
introduction.

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One was a discussion on armor on
Saul’s armor.

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You know, why did David reject
Saul’s armor and Jason

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presented?
Howl, armor is a defensive

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battle tool.
It’s only useful it Your giant

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is attacking.
You think, if you’re wearing

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armor, you’re accepting that
your giant is going to fight you

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and strike blows at you and
you’re just trying to minimize

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and survive, what your giant is
doing to you.

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And David told approaches, I
don’t need this armor, God will

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defeat this giant.
So the David instead chose to

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attack the giant with five
smooth stones and so Jason goes

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through several examples of what
are smooth Stones what are

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things that we can you do to?
Actively attack are giants in

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you know, by faith face and
defeat are giants as opposed to

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just kind of sitting back
accepting the Giant in our life

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and just putting on that armor
and just getting through it.

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Taking the blows and moving on
which was relevant to what Jason

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asked.
Will we will why didn’t the

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brothers go out to face the
giant?

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They just sat there for 40 days
and we can Mock and condemn,

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David’s Brothers, but what about
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If we just choose to sit back,
And just endure our Giant and

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just take the blows and have our
armor mitigate the damage.

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That’s not really Facing a Giant
by faith and we’re guilty of

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doing the same thing as David’s
Brothers.

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If we don’t go face our Giants
that it was tremendously

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relevant discussion.
Yes, Southern Jason took us

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through some examples of helpful
things for him that have been

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sort of five smooth stones in
his life and then later in the

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class Jason discusses one.
David’s older.

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You know, he’s week, it’s been
Many years he can’t keep the

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fight up, he’s an old man and
his friend abishai has to come

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and like a giant for him and
there were lessons there on

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helping others, helping each
other defeat are various Giants

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and then Jason concluded that
class with the reiteration from

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earlier in the week.
How Giants are meant to fall.

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They may seem scary, but Goliath
fell on his face.

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Giants are big, but God is
greater and Giants are there for

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us to defeat them.
It was a tremendous summarizing

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lesson for what we can learn
from David and facing our

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Giants, and Jason under the
class them.

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By going to Psalm 8, it was a
beautiful ending to the class

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and had a sing A Hymn, it was an
amazing class my favorite from

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the series, but the whole series
of so worthwhile and so

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practical on facing the
difficulties of daily life and

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whatever might ALS, whatever
might weigh on us.

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If you haven’t heard the whole
series, I don’t have the time to

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listen to all six classes and
just this one before you listen,

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take a few minutes and think in
your own life of what is a giant

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I’m facing.
What is something that’s?

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Weighing me down, something in
my way.

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What’s an obstacle that I’m
facing?

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And picture that think about
that, get to know that and think

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of that, as you listen to this
class on the Tails of the

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Giants, it was great.
So here it is from Jason

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Robinson.
Thank you very much.

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And good morning, brothers and
sisters.

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So, let’s review where we’ve
come so far on Monday, we really

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spent some time getting to know
our Giants.

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We then worked on removing any
doubts that you could beat your

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Giants and hopefully convince
ourselves that we would like to

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yesterday.
We spent the day with Caleb and

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we really explored where our
Giants Homeland was.

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We looked at how Giants tend to
come back even though Joshua

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slew all of the Giants in Hebron
Caleb had to come back.

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Few chapters later and do the
same thing again.

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And so we had the homework
yesterday of how can you make

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sure this location stays giant
free for your family and

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brothers and sisters because we
do not want these Giants.

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Rearing their ugly heads again
in our lives.

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And then today, we’re going to
be taking a look at a little bit

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more internally.
So we are basically done getting

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to know our Giants and the
where’s and the whys and the

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how’s and today is going to be a
little bit more focused on.

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Your role in this giant fight
today, we’re going to talk about

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the attacking and defending when
fighting your giant.

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We’re look at weapons.
We’re looking armor.

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Will take a look at the weapons,
your Giants use and we’ll take a

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look at what weapons Giants
layers.

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Use will take a look what armor
your giant uses and what armor

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Giants.
Layers use.

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Today, we really form our battle
plan, start to focus on the role

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to play that we play with our
Giants.

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We’re pretty much done learning
about them and we’re going to

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learn and see where we fit in.
Well last time we ended and we

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spoke about how Joshua cleansed
some areas of giants.

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It says in Joshua 11 verse 22.
There were none of the anakim

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left in the land of the children
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Only in Gaza in gas and in
ashdod there remained.

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So there’s three cities in
particular in which Joshua could

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not drive out the Giants in
ashdod in Gaza and interestingly

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enough in gath these are where
the anakim remained.

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Now, we know that this land
becomes philistia And when the

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Philistines capture this
territory, they apparently

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allowed the Giants to live among
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So when we come to First Samuel
chapter 17, this is our

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backdrop.
The Philistines are clearly

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using their newly integrated
Giants to intimidate the

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children of Israel.
After all.

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It worked so well before.
And we’re going to see many

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similarities between the Battle
of David and Goliath and the

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children of Israel, the edge of
the promised land.

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But these people in philistia
Like the rest of the world.

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New about not only the victories
that Mighty Israelite Nation had

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accomplished.
But unfortunately, they also

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knew of some of their weaknesses
and the Philistines would send

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out a giant.
Because if there’s anything

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Israel is scared of, it was
Giants.

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So, let’s take a look at this
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Little city called gas.
Gas is an interesting place

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before we dive in, to really get
to know more about David and

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Goliath.
It’s crucial that we lay some

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quick rules.
First of all the story of David

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and Goliath might just be the
most well-known story in all of

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scripture to those outside,
maybe even more known than a

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whale who ate Jonah, maybe even
more well-known than all the

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animals who gather together on
an arc during a worldwide flood.

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Maybe even more well-known or
better known than the perfect

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man who died for the world.
Because it’s come to stand for

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the little guy against the big
guy.

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The True Underdog Story, which
we love so much.

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The big and bad and ugly Goliath
being taken down by the shepherd

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kid.
With just a sling.

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But picture David sitting in the
front row right here.

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Is that how he would see the
story?

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He tells Goliath and Saul and
others, it wasn’t him fighting.

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It wasn’t himself fighting
Goliath.

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That was the sole source point
of Deuteronomy.

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That was the whole point of
Caleb.

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It wasn’t these people fighting
the Giants.

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It was our heavenly father.
So instead of this being an

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Underdog Story, the little guy
beating the big guy.

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I’m really sorry to say, it’s
actually just another story

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about God, beating Giants.
If we’ve learned anything so

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far, it’s certainly that we
can’t fight these Giants on her

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own and neither did David.
This is a battle against about a

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little guy against the big guy.
The little guy isn’t David.

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The little guys Goliath.
Against our heavenly father.

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And in order to fight your
Giants, you’re going to need the

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help of your heavenly father.
now, this giant was from gas and

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gas being neighbors with Israel,
it seems Had some influence from

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Israel.
We’re told in first Samuel

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chapter 6 and verse 16, when the
five Lords of the Philistines

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had seen it, they returned to
occur on the same day.

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This is of course when the ark
was captured and it wreaks havoc

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in the land of the Philistines
verse 17 in each of the golden M

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rods, which the Philistines
returned for a trespass,

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offering unto Yahweh.
For ashdod one.

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For Gaza, 14, Ashkelon 14, gath
one, and four ekron one, so they

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knew at least some of the
worship practices of the

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Israelite, God of Yahweh.
We also know from the next

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chapter in verse 14, across the
page that the cities from, which

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the Philistines had taken from
Israel.

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Were restored to Israel from
ekron, even to gas, so gas had

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actually been back and forth
between the Philistines and the

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Israelites for many, many years,
Apparently, when you come to

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First 717, it appears that maybe
they had lost it again.

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And only a few chapters later.
And first, email 21, this is

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actually the place where David
fleas.

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When he flees from Saul.
And so it’s quite curious that

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the city of gath seems to be
close enough to understand a

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little bit about the God of
Israel.

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I mean, after all, the children
of Israel knew a lot about the

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gods of the Philistines, Their
worship practices.

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And so it seems likely that
maybe the Philistines had the

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same.
And so it’s with this history of

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gath that they send out a giant,
and let’s take a look at verse 4

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of 1st, Samuel, 17, and let’s
get to know the armor of Goliath

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of gath.
First, Samuel 17 verse 4, says

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there.
One out a champion out of the

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camp of the Philistines.
Named Goliath of gath, whose

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height was six cubits, and a
span Over 9 feet tall.

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Need a helmet of brass upon his
head and he was armed with a

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coat of mail and the weight of
the coat was 5000 shekels of

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brass.
And he had Greaves of brass upon

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his legs, and a target of grass
between his shoulders.

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And the staff of his spear was
like a Weaver’s beam and his

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Spears head weighed 600 shekels
of iron, and one bearing a

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shield went before him.
So look at the qualifications of

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the armor of the Goliath of gath
this Champion that they send

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out.
Was armored armored and had

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weapons.
The hill.

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Do you feel like our giant has
this much armor?

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Sometimes we I definitely feel
like my giant has this much

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armor.
Let’s use the example of a giant

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being some sort of addiction,
whether it’s alcohol, related,

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drug related, let’s use this as
our giant for this morning’s

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example.
Armor does a substance addiction

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have?
Well, it’s anything that appears

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to my eyes is going to protect
that giant from me.

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Just beating it easily.
That’s the armor that this giant

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can put on.
It could be anything from

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triggers.
There’s places their sites.

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There’s people that just make it
feel like I need to satisfy the

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addiction possibly peer
pressure.

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Maybe I’ve headed this giant
then all of a sudden, I find

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myself hanging out with that
crowd again and somehow the

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giant puts his head back on and
I’m dealing with it again.

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Maybe it’s the way that kind of
rewires our body.

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Maybe it’s stress or anxiety,
right?

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All of these things that the
Giants can put on as their armor

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that can make us.
Look at them and say I am never

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happy that.
That armor.

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Are you kidding?
A coat of mail is 5000 shekels

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of brass.
I can’t penetrate that And so if

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we look at our quick guide, the
first kind of bullet for today

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is, what does your giant use for
armor?

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When you go to battle against it
and you can spend a few minutes,

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kind of contemplating.
This is an interesting and

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tricky question, but are Giants
have armor.

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They’re not standing there
waiting for us, just to pick up

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a stone and sling.
It at them to take a sword and

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lob their head off.
It might even have armor

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bearers, holding shields in
front of them.

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There might be a lot.
You have to break down before

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you can get to your giant.
But in first, Samuel 17 as we

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continue the story, there are a
few people who are just too

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scared of a giant.
Too much armor too big of

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weapons.
Whatever it was they found

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themselves quite content in
their tent.

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Look at verse 12 now, David was
the son of that, F of fights of

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Bethlehem Judah whose name was
Jesse.

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And he had eight sons and the
man went among men for an old

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man in the days of Saul and the
three eldest sons of Jesse went

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and followed salt to battle, and
the names of his three sons

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that, which to the battle were
Ally of the firstborn next, to

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him a bit of dab and the third
Shaman.

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So we have these three boys.
And David was the youngest and

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the three eldest, why they
followed Saul?

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It says they followed their King
into battle like a good soldier

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would But these three brothers
interestingly enough, they would

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have seen and heard everything
that Goliath was saying he

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didn’t do anything about it for
40 days or told.

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It’s awfully easy for us
brothers and sisters to think of

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ourselves as David’s in the
story, isn’t it?

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Gravely approaching our giant
God’s power in our hands and

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charging towards him.
What?

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Actually happens.
Way options, way more often for

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me personally, is that I might
actually be alive.

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I tense just fine.
The Giants are out there, but

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they’re not bothering me really
at this moment.

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I know there are threats to
spirituals spirituality but I

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just don’t feel like engaging
with them.

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I’m aware that they’re, I’m
living in peace, but I don’t

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need to engage in the fight and
this was the message of the

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three older, brothers of David.
And so just be careful as we

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come into these stories, that we
don’t immediately assume that

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we’re like David’s, because
there’s many characters, the

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story who refused to fight the
Giant.

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It says in Hebrews chapter 6 a
couple cool versus for us, just

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to remember on our path says and
we desire that every one of you

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do show the same diligence to
the full Assurance of Hope unto

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the end that ye be not slothful,
but followers of them that who

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through faith and patience
inherit the promises.

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And so to inherit the promises
to have the full Assurance of

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hope it does require us to be
diligent in the truth.

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And it requires us to not be
slothful.

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This is what is being told of us
in Hebrews, unlike These three

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older Sons of Jesse.
But we know the story don’t like

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brothers and sisters.
There’s one more individual.

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Who if you were standing on the
battlefield, you would have

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thought would have stood up the
first day to fight.

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I mean, after all, it’s why you
thought he was chosen to be king

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Assistant for a single 9 verse 2
and he had a son whose name was

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Saul.
A choice young man and a goodly

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and there was none among the
children of Israel.

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A good leader person than he
from his shoulders upward.

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He was higher than any of the
people and you would look around

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and you would say well, who
should fight this really tall

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enemy What about are really tall
King?

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What about it for likes all
brothers and sisters?

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See, I think the nation of
Israel learned a great deal Saul

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during these 40 days.
King Saul is just like that man

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who talks all about the Giants,
he fights.

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He’s got the armor to do it.
He fits the description of the

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perfect giant fighter.
But in actions, maybe you

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noticed that he seems to
actually cower away from a

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fight.
You know brothers sisters, maybe

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our giant actually might be
dealing with people like Saul

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Hypocrites in our Ecclesia.
It seems sometimes.

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It was certainly an another
giant, for David.

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When many opportunities to
remove Saul.

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But refused on more than one
occasion to not kill the Lord’s

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anointed.
And so here’s King Saul who

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everyone would have expected to
fight.

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We’re told in first Samuel
chapter 17, verse 38 and 39 that

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he had armor and not only that,
but he had almost the same.

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Exact armor get a helmet of
bronze coat of mail on a sword.

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And has he puts these on David?
David is starting to look

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himself a little bit like
Goliath and David.

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Thanks, I can’t go to battle
looking like the giant himself.

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Yet, King Saul would often fall
upon his own armor.

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To support him in his fight.
And finally, 1st Samuel, 8

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verses 19, and 20 says
nevertheless, the people refuse

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to obey the voice of Samuel who
said you shouldn’t choose a

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king.
You already have a king.

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His name is Yahweh and said nay
but we will have a king over us.

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That we may be also like all the
nations and that our King May

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judge us and Go out before us
and fight our battles.

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And so you can see the rest of
the nation here.

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It says the three eldest
followed Saul.

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Well, it seems like all the
warriors were following Saul.

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Not fighting the Giant.
Kings Were Meant to lead their

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people to battle.
That’s why David was the one who

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fought the Giant.
He was this true king of Israel.

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Before we do that, we have
another interesting question.

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You see, there’s two types of
armor, there’s the armor of the

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Giant, and there’s the armor of
Saul.

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What is the armor of Saul look
like, do we ever put on that

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armor?
You see Saul put his armor on

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David thinking, that’s how God
is going to help you wearing my

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own armor.
What is Saul’s armor look like

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for us?
He had a helmet of brass.

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He had the coat of mail and he
had a sword. see, he looked in

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all intents and purposes, like
he should have been fighting the

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Giant.
And he puts it on David.

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Finally, a brave soldier in my
ranks who’s going to go fight

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him, you’re going to need this.
But the problem brothers,

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sisters with Saul’s armor, Is
its usefulness.

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Relies on the giant attacking
you.

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Not you attacking the Giant.
And this is house, all probably

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fight all his battles.
Waiting for the Giants to get

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close to him instead of him
running towards the Army and

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charging towards them Saul
assumed on all points.

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That there would be a struggle.
I’m going to need this armor.

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And David knew that there
wouldn’t be a struggle.

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So what does Saul’s armor look
like for us?

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What kind of armor does salt
offer you a tricks you into

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thinking?
It’s all going to need to fight

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your giant.
Let’s break it down.

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We need to fight a giant, we can
check that box.

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We all know we need to fight a
giant but we don’t really want

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to, I can check that box.
I rely on something fairly

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worthless to fight and defend
for my giant.

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That’s what Saul’s armor looks
like now.

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Something worthless is quite
subjective, isn’t it?

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It can mean a lot of different
things, what works for you and

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fighting your Giants?
You could come and say, Jason, I

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tried this really worked and I
can try it and I can come back

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and say I didn’t work for me.
I was probably doing something

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wrong but it just wasn’t working
and it can be very subjective.

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What we find out Works, what
armor we end up using.

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But you keep this armor in your
tent for when you’re going to

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need it.
So let’s consider.

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Now again another Giant For the
sake of an example of Saul’s

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armor, let’s consider the giant
of inappropriate shows or

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movies.
Let’s assume that this is the

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giant that we want to slay at
this point in time.

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What would Saul’s armor be?
For inappropriate shows or

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movies.
Saul’s armor would be something

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like hiding the remote.
I can’t find the remote.

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Can’t work the TV problem.
Solved.

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Maybe setting limits on your
content restrictions.

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That could be Saul’s armor,
right?

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You know what it’s not really
there.

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But I guess if I needed to, I
could always get it again.

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Setting limits on your Wi-Fi,
shut off certain time you see

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the problem with Saul’s armor.
Is it relies on the giant

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attacking you?
Not you attacking the giant.

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There was a reason that David
says I cannot accept this armor.

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First of all, it weighs me down
and makes the battle

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complicated.
It makes it, so there will be a

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battle.
It’s all thought there’s going

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to be a fight.
David says, they’ll be no fight.

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God is going to defeat this
giant.

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So we have to go into battle
with the mindset that God is

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going to beat the Giants for us
not rely on these backup method

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methods.
Not rely on things that may get

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us some sort of accidental
victory, that would you look at

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that?
I beat that giant.

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What are the chances?
So, what does David do?

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I’ll David tries on the armor.
He doesn’t want to use it.

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You can’t.
It’s going to get in the way.

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It’s going to weigh him down.
He’s not even going to need it.

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The giant is never going to get
that close.

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Instead.
It says, in verse 37 says to

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solve the Lord that delivered me
out of the Paw of the lion and

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out of the Paw of the bear, he
will deliver me into the hand of

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philistine and Saul said to
David go and y’all will be with

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thee.
Good luck.

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And Saul armed David with his
armor, and he put a helmet of

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brass upon his head and also
young with the coat of mail and

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David, girded his sword upon his
armor and you say, to go for you

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not proved it.
And David said to Saul, I can’t

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go with these I’m not proved
them and David put them off from

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him.
And he took him verse 40.

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His staff and chose him.
Five smooth stones.

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And he put them in a shepherd’s
bag.

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A sling in his hand and with
these, he drew near the Giant.

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A stick and five rocks.
Saul’s armor Left Behind.

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It’s not going to do any good in
this battle.

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David’s Giant.
He didn’t need to defend himself

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00:27:51,900 –> 00:27:58,800
with those things.
So, what about the five smooth

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00:27:58,800 –> 00:28:02,100
stones?
See, there’s smooth for a

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00:28:02,100 –> 00:28:03,800
reason.
Brothers and sisters.

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00:28:05,600 –> 00:28:11,400
They’ve been through it all.
They’ve been smooth worn down.

439
00:28:11,600 –> 00:28:14,300
All the rough edges have been
chiseled away.

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00:28:15,200 –> 00:28:22,500
They’ve stood the test of time.
These aren’t five new, Sharp

441
00:28:22,700 –> 00:28:28,300
Jagged stones.
These have been in The Rook for

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00:28:28,300 –> 00:28:33,500
a long time.
And I’ve stood against it all.

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00:28:34,200 –> 00:28:38,500
So what five Stones can we bring
into our battle against our

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00:28:38,500 –> 00:28:41,400
giant?
I’d like to share with you.

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00:28:41,900 –> 00:28:47,200
Just five that I thought of ones
that I’ve used in past.

446
00:28:49,500 –> 00:28:53,700
They might not work for you.
They might have the opposite

447
00:28:53,700 –> 00:28:59,000
effect for you, but I don’t use
these every time I don’t use all

448
00:28:59,000 –> 00:29:02,600
of these all the time.
These are just five that I’ve

449
00:29:02,900 –> 00:29:06,600
considered in times past.
So what are five smooth stones

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00:29:06,600 –> 00:29:10,400
at Jason’s used?
Believe it or not.

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00:29:10,800 –> 00:29:17,600
The daily readings is a big one.
Why everyday can’t just read a

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00:29:17,600 –> 00:29:18,500
little bit more?
The next day?

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00:29:19,800 –> 00:29:24,000
I suppose.
But having a daily.

454
00:29:25,400 –> 00:29:28,400
Regiment, where you sit down and
say, we’re going to read the

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00:29:28,400 –> 00:29:32,100
word.
But it does is it puts a

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00:29:32,100 –> 00:29:34,300
priority in everything in your
life?

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00:29:34,300 –> 00:29:39,400
It says, no matter what happens
today, I’m going to make room in

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00:29:39,400 –> 00:29:46,300
my ever so busy life.
Forgotten. see what often can

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00:29:46,300 –> 00:29:52,500
happen is, we can And the long
day think to ourselves.

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00:29:52,600 –> 00:29:55,100
I’m not going to pay attention
if I do the readings, might as

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00:29:55,100 –> 00:30:00,400
well watch something.
But if we make time and we say,

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00:30:00,400 –> 00:30:02,900
you know what, I’m going to
start my day with readings.

463
00:30:02,900 –> 00:30:04,100
I’m going to end my day with
readings.

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00:30:04,100 –> 00:30:07,100
Whatever it is.
You can fit it in for me.

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00:30:07,400 –> 00:30:10,100
Daily readings.
Have helped another thing that

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00:30:10,100 –> 00:30:14,000
helps me and again, this might
not work for everyone seems to

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00:30:14,000 –> 00:30:17,300
be Chris Adelphia music even
hymns for.

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00:30:17,300 –> 00:30:22,900
For me, I’m, I love music.
And the christadelphians music

469
00:30:22,900 –> 00:30:27,600
that we have in our community is
wonderful and just having it on.

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00:30:27,600 –> 00:30:34,500
Occasionally can really kind of,
not only settle, but it really

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00:30:35,000 –> 00:30:37,100
adds perspective.
There’s a lot of things.

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00:30:37,100 –> 00:30:40,000
You can listen to nowadays, an
infinite amount of things.

473
00:30:41,400 –> 00:30:44,300
It’s really good music out.
There would be Chris Adelphia

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00:30:44,300 –> 00:30:47,500
music and you can find it on a
lot of different mediums.

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00:30:48,600 –> 00:30:51,700
Another one that works for me
and I know won’t work for

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00:30:51,700 –> 00:30:54,800
everyone is prophesying current
events.

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00:30:55,100 –> 00:30:57,400
We spoke about it a couple times
this week so far.

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00:30:59,700 –> 00:31:03,200
For me, there’s nothing quite
like, reading in the news.

479
00:31:04,900 –> 00:31:11,400
Russia attacks Ukraine.
Russia meets with Iran.

480
00:31:12,900 –> 00:31:14,400
You read those little things you
go.

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00:31:16,400 –> 00:31:18,800
A giant is Tiny.
I can beat this thing.

482
00:31:19,100 –> 00:31:20,600
The kingdom is coming any day
now.

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00:31:22,600 –> 00:31:27,300
For me, a tells distraction
plans is also something that I

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00:31:27,300 –> 00:31:32,300
can write down on one of my five
smooth stones. as soon as I see

485
00:31:32,300 –> 00:31:37,900
that giant peering over the
valley of elah, Get ready.

486
00:31:39,200 –> 00:31:41,600
I can enact a distraction plan,
whatever it is.

487
00:31:42,200 –> 00:31:45,300
The teens, had some great ideas
on distraction plans.

488
00:31:46,000 –> 00:31:49,200
A quick prayer, a quick reading.
Call a friend.

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00:31:50,200 –> 00:31:53,700
Distraction plans, can be very,
very helpful in defeating

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00:31:53,700 –> 00:31:57,700
Giants.
And last but not least, one of

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00:31:57,700 –> 00:32:03,000
my favorites, but one, I do not
do enough of Is actually

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00:32:03,000 –> 00:32:05,200
occlusal projects, your
Ecclesia.

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00:32:06,800 –> 00:32:10,900
We’ll never ever ever not need
you to help out with projects.

494
00:32:11,800 –> 00:32:14,200
There will always be something
that you can work on it.

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00:32:14,200 –> 00:32:18,100
Your Ecclesia if you’re closes
anything like mine there is

496
00:32:18,200 –> 00:32:23,400
always help that can be done if
you find yourself just

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00:32:23,400 –> 00:32:26,200
volunteering for a committee
here and there then you’re going

498
00:32:26,200 –> 00:32:30,000
to sit down and you’re going to
say my life’s too busy to worry

499
00:32:30,000 –> 00:32:32,400
about these things.
I got this do and I got that

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00:32:32,400 –> 00:32:33,300
doing this.
Going to be done for the

501
00:32:33,300 –> 00:32:35,000
occlusion here, and this is
gonna be done for the occlusion

502
00:32:35,000 –> 00:32:36,000
there.
And I got to take care of these

503
00:32:36,000 –> 00:32:38,700
kids for this family that gives
this family and all of a sudden

504
00:32:38,800 –> 00:32:41,900
you just don’t have time.
To fight these Giants.

505
00:32:44,000 –> 00:32:46,100
That’s a smooth Stone.
You can absolutely use.

506
00:32:47,700 –> 00:32:51,800
Just sheer time limitations can
help.

507
00:32:52,900 –> 00:32:54,800
Some of the things that could
work as course is prayer.

508
00:32:55,900 –> 00:33:01,600
Occlusal friendships and bonds.
Reading any good pieces of work

509
00:33:01,600 –> 00:33:05,800
in our community classes,
spiritual routines, anything

510
00:33:05,800 –> 00:33:11,300
that you think can be a
tried-and-true stone that you

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00:33:11,300 –> 00:33:13,300
can gather together to fight
your giant.

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00:33:14,100 –> 00:33:16,800
Maybe just write it down.
You don’t have to use them all.

513
00:33:17,500 –> 00:33:20,200
In fact, you might only need to
use one.

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00:33:21,900 –> 00:33:25,200
At least you’ll have all five in
case other Giants come your way.

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00:33:28,700 –> 00:33:33,400
And so, we have Goliath.
Who approaches this boy who has

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00:33:33,400 –> 00:33:38,900
nothing, but a staff and a sling
and some rocks.

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00:33:40,300 –> 00:33:44,900
In the battle.
Of the most popular giant

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00:33:44,900 –> 00:33:50,400
begins.
Verse 41, and the Philistine

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00:33:50,400 –> 00:33:57,200
came on and Drew near to David.
Put your Giants in the shoes of

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00:33:57,200 –> 00:34:00,000
Goliath.
And you yourself?

521
00:34:00,900 –> 00:34:06,600
Put on the shoes of David, your
giant draws near and the man

522
00:34:06,600 –> 00:34:11,900
that bear The Shield went before
him bad news, your giant has

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00:34:11,900 –> 00:34:15,699
helped.
This might be a big battle.

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00:34:17,900 –> 00:34:20,300
And he went sorry.
And when the Philistine looked

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00:34:20,300 –> 00:34:23,199
about and saw David, he
disdained him for, he was, but a

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00:34:23,199 –> 00:34:25,699
youth and Ruddy in a fair
countenance.

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00:34:25,699 –> 00:34:27,199
In the Philistine said him to
David.

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00:34:27,400 –> 00:34:31,600
Am I a dog?
if that comes to me with sticks

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00:34:31,800 –> 00:34:37,199
and a Philistine cursed David by
his gods, The Philistine said to

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00:34:37,207 –> 00:34:42,400
David come to me and I will give
thy flesh into the fowls of the

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air and to the beasts of the
field.

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00:34:44,199 –> 00:34:46,600
Then said, David to the
Philistine, you come to me with

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00:34:46,600 –> 00:34:48,699
a sword Spear and with the
shield.

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00:34:50,600 –> 00:34:54,000
Well, Jason would be scared of
all the free those things but I

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00:34:54,000 –> 00:34:57,100
come to thee in the name of
Yahweh of hosts, the god of the

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00:34:57,100 –> 00:35:00,300
armies of Israel.
Whom thou Hast defied this day,

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00:35:00,300 –> 00:35:02,300
will Yahweh deliver thee into
mine hand.

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00:35:02,800 –> 00:35:06,100
Yahweh will deliver thee into my
hand and I will smite thee and

539
00:35:06,100 –> 00:35:08,900
take nine head from the and I
will give the carcasses the host

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00:35:08,900 –> 00:35:10,900
of the Philistines.
I’m not stopping with, just you

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00:35:10,900 –> 00:35:14,200
Goliath this day unto the fowls
of the air, into the wild beasts

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00:35:14,200 –> 00:35:17,500
of the earth and all the Earth.
May know that there is a God in

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00:35:17,500 –> 00:35:20,600
Israel.
And all this assembly.

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00:35:22,400 –> 00:35:25,900
Shall finally know.
That you always saves not with a

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00:35:25,900 –> 00:35:28,800
sword and spear or the battles
yahweh’s.

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And he will give you into our
hands.

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00:35:33,900 –> 00:35:40,100
We see many Echoes, I think To
the Wilderness wanderings at

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00:35:40,100 –> 00:35:44,100
this point in time.
You see, it said in verse 11

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earlier on that, they were
dismayed and greatly afraid.

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Well, I think it’s white people
of gath brought a giant in the

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00:35:54,300 –> 00:35:56,600
first place, they knew Israel’s
history.

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Everyone knew about how the
children of Israel were

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00:36:02,600 –> 00:36:05,600
terrified of the Giants and how
their God LED them around the

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00:36:05,600 –> 00:36:12,000
Wilderness for 40 years.
How many days does Goliath

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00:36:12,100 –> 00:36:16,000
approach before the nation of
Israel and to defy, their God?

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00:36:17,200 –> 00:36:21,500
It’s 40.
Just as long as the children of

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00:36:21,500 –> 00:36:23,300
Israel were scared of Giants
last time.

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00:36:25,200 –> 00:36:28,800
David a youth, he left the
Wilderness.

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00:36:28,900 –> 00:36:32,700
We’re told in verse 28.
To fight Giants.

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That’s Deuteronomy. 8 told us
about the children of Israel

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00:36:36,500 –> 00:36:38,900
Goliath.
Says the words, am I a Caleb?

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00:36:40,400 –> 00:36:43,300
In a literal Hebrew.
Am I a dog?

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00:36:43,300 –> 00:36:47,800
He says Goliath says, I will
give your flesh unto the fowls

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00:36:47,900 –> 00:36:53,500
and to the beasts.
And this is why I think maybe

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00:36:53,500 –> 00:36:57,000
these people of gath new
Israel’s history may be little

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better than Israel.
It Look at Deuteronomy 28, the

567
00:37:00,300 –> 00:37:04,100
blessings and the curses chapter
Deuteronomy 28.

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00:37:04,500 –> 00:37:08,800
Looking at verse 25.
Yahweh shall cause thee to be

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00:37:08,800 –> 00:37:12,800
smitten before thine enemies,
Thou shalt go out one way

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00:37:12,800 –> 00:37:17,200
against them and flees 7 Ways
before them and shall be removed

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00:37:17,200 –> 00:37:18,800
until all the kingdoms of the
earth.

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00:37:18,800 –> 00:37:25,500
And by carcasses shall be meat
unto the fowls of the air, And

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00:37:25,500 –> 00:37:29,400
unto the beasts of the Earth.
And no man shall Fray them away.

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00:37:29,400 –> 00:37:33,800
And so Goliath coincidentally
uses the same words found in as

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00:37:33,800 –> 00:37:39,800
he drew on me, 28, right after
the verse is talking about how

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00:37:39,900 –> 00:37:41,900
they would be smitten before
their enemies.

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00:37:43,500 –> 00:37:46,100
And David uses.
The words, I will give the

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00:37:46,100 –> 00:37:48,700
carcasses of the host of the
Philistines.

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00:37:50,900 –> 00:37:53,000
And he brings his words from
membership or 14.

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00:37:54,100 –> 00:37:56,600
The Familiar chapter, which
we’ve looked at a few times this

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00:37:56,600 –> 00:38:02,600
week so far.
Numbers 14 verse 33, And your

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00:38:02,600 –> 00:38:05,200
children shall wander in the
wilderness, 40 years and

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00:38:05,200 –> 00:38:10,200
barrier, whoredoms until your
carcasses be wasted in the

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00:38:10,200 –> 00:38:13,700
wilderness.
And there’s many Echoes here.

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00:38:15,300 –> 00:38:19,200
To the scary history of Israel
and Giants.

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00:38:21,600 –> 00:38:27,400
But unlike last time.
David went into it, knowing that

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00:38:27,400 –> 00:38:33,600
God could defeat the Giants.
He says that the battle is

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00:38:33,600 –> 00:38:39,400
yahweh’s.
Those words were never spoken by

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00:38:39,408 –> 00:38:41,000
the children of Israel fighting
their Giants.

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00:38:43,100 –> 00:38:44,300
They said, let’s go back to
Egypt.

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00:38:46,100 –> 00:38:47,800
It’s a picture.
The battle with your own giant.

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00:38:47,800 –> 00:38:51,700
The giant approaches.
Temptation takes that first step

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00:38:51,700 –> 00:38:54,400
toward you.
David runs towards it.

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00:38:54,400 –> 00:38:56,400
It wasn’t a second thought.
No call for backup.

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00:38:56,400 –> 00:38:59,400
No flinching, no backing down.
He charges towards it.

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00:39:00,500 –> 00:39:03,400
But not only that, but there’s
an entire Army behind him.

597
00:39:05,000 –> 00:39:11,700
He decides now is a good time to
take them on. so brothers and

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00:39:11,707 –> 00:39:15,400
sisters young people, David
takes down.

599
00:39:16,600 –> 00:39:22,000
Goliath of gath, even though, as
we read, he had many weapons.

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00:39:22,500 –> 00:39:25,100
What weapons do our Giants use,
in particular, we won’t spend

601
00:39:25,100 –> 00:39:29,100
too much time on this but You
better believe your giant has

602
00:39:29,100 –> 00:39:31,500
weapons.
He’s got many of them.

603
00:39:32,300 –> 00:39:34,900
What weapons does he use
substances?

604
00:39:35,200 –> 00:39:37,500
Social interactions with people.
You just can’t seem to get along

605
00:39:37,500 –> 00:39:39,800
with apps on your phone,
websites online.

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00:39:40,600 –> 00:39:45,100
What is it that your giant uses
to attack you day in and day

607
00:39:45,100 –> 00:39:52,200
out?
Let’s move if we will.

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00:39:54,000 –> 00:39:59,700
To the last Giants in Scripture.
We have to scoot forward a

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00:39:59,707 –> 00:40:03,000
little bit here, but if you’ll
come with me to second Samuel,

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00:40:03,000 –> 00:40:09,000
chapter 21, Second statement to
21, we read about the last

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00:40:09,000 –> 00:40:13,700
Giants.
Giants are no longer going to be

612
00:40:13,700 –> 00:40:16,900
a problem as saying 121, they’re
going to be defeated they’re

613
00:40:16,908 –> 00:40:19,400
going to be gone out of the
children of Israel I thought it

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00:40:19,400 –> 00:40:22,600
appropriate.
To conclude our remarks.

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This day with, look at the last
ones, the first one, we like to

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00:40:27,600 –> 00:40:31,600
take a look at his verses 15 to
17 a giant, by the name of ich

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00:40:31,600 –> 00:40:34,100
liebe knob.
Moreover, the Philistines had

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00:40:34,100 –> 00:40:36,300
get War again with Israel.
And David went down in his

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00:40:36,300 –> 00:40:38,500
servants with him and fought
against the Philistines and

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00:40:38,500 –> 00:40:42,600
David, waxed faint and ich liebe
knob, which was of the sons of

621
00:40:42,607 –> 00:40:46,900
the giant, the rephaim, the
weight of whose spear weighed,

622
00:40:46,900 –> 00:40:51,300
300 shekels of brass and wait,
he girded with a new sword Fox

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00:40:51,300 –> 00:40:54,100
to have slain daily but abishai,
the son of zeruiah.

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00:40:54,300 –> 00:40:56,800
Is suckered him and smote the
Philistine and killed him.

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00:40:57,500 –> 00:41:01,000
So we read about this giant, it
should be banaba, second, same

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00:41:01,000 –> 00:41:05,700
with 21, verse 16, David goes
into battle against the

627
00:41:05,700 –> 00:41:09,100
Philistines again as he had done
many many times before but this

628
00:41:09,100 –> 00:41:13,500
new Giant Burgers on his new
sword, whether it was a recent

629
00:41:13,500 –> 00:41:16,500
promotion or he wanted to test
his new Weaponry, whatever it

630
00:41:16,500 –> 00:41:20,300
was he had his eyes set on
David.

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00:41:22,000 –> 00:41:26,000
Israel’s Giants later.
Don’t you hate it when your

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00:41:26,000 –> 00:41:27,800
weapon when your giant gets new
weapons?

633
00:41:28,200 –> 00:41:32,000
Just when you thought you’d
conquered your giant, they come

634
00:41:32,000 –> 00:41:36,300
out with another season.
And man she’s got to know what

635
00:41:36,300 –> 00:41:40,300
happens.
Even the great Giant Slayer,

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00:41:40,300 –> 00:41:46,900
David, though, the end of verse
15 waxes faint, it says he gets

637
00:41:46,900 –> 00:41:51,400
tired.
Look at the principal here.

638
00:41:52,800 –> 00:41:54,800
Because abishai comes to the
rescue.

639
00:41:56,300 –> 00:41:58,400
Fighting giants is exhausting
work.

640
00:41:59,800 –> 00:42:01,400
It’s exhausting work.
What happens.

641
00:42:01,400 –> 00:42:03,700
If you see your brother sister
struggling with their giant, you

642
00:42:03,700 –> 00:42:06,800
help them.
Sometimes we can see other

643
00:42:06,800 –> 00:42:08,900
people carrying the weight of
their Giant and for whatever

644
00:42:08,900 –> 00:42:12,300
reason, we don’t want that.
Wait on us and we just say, man,

645
00:42:12,300 –> 00:42:16,600
it’s bummer for them.
Abishai does not do that.

646
00:42:16,600 –> 00:42:19,500
The giant is gaining.
The giant has the advantage and

647
00:42:19,500 –> 00:42:25,900
it has its eyes on Mighty David.
But before he can Smite weary

648
00:42:25,900 –> 00:42:29,900
David down abishai, the son of
zeruiah wire comes to the rescue

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00:42:29,900 –> 00:42:35,100
of his king and slays a giant.
We may recognize the name,

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00:42:35,100 –> 00:42:37,300
abishai from one other place in
Scripture.

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00:42:38,600 –> 00:42:41,500
First Samuel, 26 abishai
learned, a very important

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00:42:41,500 –> 00:42:44,600
lesson.
In first thing with 26a Vachon,

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00:42:46,700 –> 00:42:52,600
And David together.
They spice all and abishai says

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00:42:52,900 –> 00:42:54,700
come Lord.
Let us kill him.

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00:42:57,700 –> 00:43:00,700
I’ll put a spear through him.
I won’t even have to stab him

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00:43:00,700 –> 00:43:05,500
twice and David says y’all.
We forbid that I should stretch

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00:43:05,500 –> 00:43:08,500
forth thine hand against you
always anointed and what abishai

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00:43:08,500 –> 00:43:16,000
learns that day.
Is that God will take care of

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00:43:16,000 –> 00:43:19,700
you always anointed whether for
good or for evil and I can

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00:43:19,700 –> 00:43:22,800
picture abishai running into the
battle against the giant

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00:43:22,900 –> 00:43:25,200
protecting yahweh’s anointed
themselves and screaming the

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00:43:25,200 –> 00:43:26,900
word.
Yahweh forbid that you should

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00:43:26,900 –> 00:43:28,500
stretch forth your hand against
you always annoyed.

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00:43:30,400 –> 00:43:32,100
Well, it’s David’s turned die.
He’ll die.

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00:43:32,100 –> 00:43:36,700
But not by your hand Giant.
And abishai kills a giant.

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00:43:36,700 –> 00:43:40,900
And then after this David’s men
having been so close to losing

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00:43:40,900 –> 00:43:43,800
their King.
Whom they idolize were told

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00:43:44,200 –> 00:43:48,600
insisted that he never go to
battle again and this is

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00:43:48,600 –> 00:43:52,700
David’s, final battle.
Against ich liebe knob.

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00:43:54,800 –> 00:44:00,000
He see, brothers and sisters.
Giants were the bookends to

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00:44:00,000 –> 00:44:04,300
David’s battles.
The first he fought in first

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00:44:04,300 –> 00:44:08,300
thing was 17 and his last
battle, second Samuel, 21.

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00:44:11,100 –> 00:44:14,200
And people say, thou shalt go no
more with us to battle that

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00:44:14,200 –> 00:44:16,300
they’ll quench.
Not the light of Israel.

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00:44:19,000 –> 00:44:21,100
And the mighty Giant Slayer
himself.

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00:44:23,300 –> 00:44:26,600
In this chapter, you won’t slay
any more Giants.

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00:44:27,600 –> 00:44:29,500
But everyone who works for him
does.

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00:44:32,800 –> 00:44:40,900
We see 43, other Giants.
We cease F in verse 18.

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00:44:42,700 –> 00:44:46,100
We see La me in verse 18, if you
connect it with the equal

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00:44:46,100 –> 00:44:49,900
account in first Chronicles 20,
and we see finally, the twenty

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00:44:49,900 –> 00:44:54,000
four digit giant, whose unnamed,
but slain by David’s death.

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00:44:54,000 –> 00:44:58,400
You and it says, in verse 22,
22, these four were born to the

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00:44:58,400 –> 00:45:01,900
Giants and GAP, the rephaim and
gas and fell by the hand of

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00:45:01,900 –> 00:45:03,800
David.
And by the hand of his servants,

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00:45:03,800 –> 00:45:05,300
David didn’t kill any of those
four.

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00:45:06,700 –> 00:45:11,600
What is examples did?
And brothers and sisters, second

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00:45:11,600 –> 00:45:13,900
saying, the 21 is the end of the
Giants.

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00:45:14,400 –> 00:45:17,200
No more Giants will approach
before the children of Israel,

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00:45:18,300 –> 00:45:22,500
their test of physical Giants is
complete, and it’s so poetic,

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00:45:24,800 –> 00:45:26,900
but the Servants of David are
the ones who handle it.

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00:45:29,000 –> 00:45:31,600
Ever since Genesis chapter 6,
Giants have been roaming the

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00:45:31,600 –> 00:45:35,100
Earth threatening, the followers
of God, what we’ve seen is that

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00:45:35,100 –> 00:45:36,900
while they are tall.
They are feeble.

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00:45:37,200 –> 00:45:40,500
While they are Mighty, they are
meant to fall in first.

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00:45:40,500 –> 00:45:46,100
Samuel 17, story of Goliath says
he fell on his face.

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00:45:48,100 –> 00:45:53,000
Giants are meant to fall.
It wasn’t until after he was

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00:45:53,000 –> 00:45:55,100
dead in his head was removed and
he was referred to as a

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00:45:55,107 –> 00:45:58,500
champion.
That’s what he was.

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00:46:00,500 –> 00:46:04,500
But Giants are meant to fall.
Well, Giants are great and scary

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00:46:04,900 –> 00:46:07,600
and daunting.
Our God is greater in every

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00:46:07,600 –> 00:46:13,100
aspect.
Don’t have time to go through

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00:46:13,100 –> 00:46:16,800
too much more.
We do not have time to go

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00:46:16,800 –> 00:46:21,100
through our note card maybe
tomorrow but I’d like to read

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00:46:21,100 –> 00:46:27,700
for you a song.
Which David’s mind was on his

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00:46:27,700 –> 00:46:35,900
victories with Goliath.
So short Psalm, Psalm 8. and if

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00:46:35,900 –> 00:46:40,100
you ever need a pep talk from
scripture on how to beat your

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00:46:40,100 –> 00:46:44,100
giant, Soul mates.
A perfect one.

708
00:46:47,100 –> 00:46:51,500
Oh Yahweh our Lord.
How excellent is thy name in all

709
00:46:51,500 –> 00:46:55,000
the Earth?
Who has set thy Glory above the

710
00:46:55,000 –> 00:46:58,600
heavens?
Out of the mouths of babes and

711
00:46:58,600 –> 00:47:02,000
sucklings, hasta ordained
strength because of thine

712
00:47:02,000 –> 00:47:04,800
enemies, that thou mightest
still the enemy and the Avenger,

713
00:47:05,400 –> 00:47:10,100
when I consider the heavens, the
work of thy fingers, the moon

714
00:47:10,100 –> 00:47:12,300
and the stars, which thou Hast
ordained.

715
00:47:12,300 –> 00:47:15,100
What is man, that thou art
mindful of him and the son of

716
00:47:15,100 –> 00:47:18,700
man, that that was visited him.
For that was made him a little

717
00:47:18,700 –> 00:47:21,100
lower than the angels and has
crowned him with Glory and

718
00:47:21,100 –> 00:47:23,500
Honor.
That made us him to have

719
00:47:23,500 –> 00:47:26,500
dominion over the works of the
hands of I hands.

720
00:47:26,700 –> 00:47:28,800
That was put all things under
his feet.

721
00:47:30,100 –> 00:47:33,400
All sheep and oxen.
Yeah, and the beasts of the

722
00:47:33,400 –> 00:47:36,800
field, the fowl of the air, and
the efficiency and whatsoever

723
00:47:36,800 –> 00:47:38,600
passes through the paths of the
sea.

724
00:47:40,800 –> 00:47:48,300
Oh, Yahweh our Lord.
How excellent is thy name in all

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00:47:48,300 –> 00:48:04,300
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