Luke Whitehouse - In the Shadow of the Messiah - Class 1 - Goliath

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   Just a brief note before we begin. The first minute of this session wasn't captured in the recording, so I'll just summarize it here. We opened in 1 Samuel 17, noting that the account of David and Goliath were shown and presented a giant's head that is cut off. Now, the detail of this is absolutely deliberate.

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   It echoes that ancient curse, that ancient blessing in Genesis 3.15, where we note there that the seed of the woman would crush the head of the seed of the serpent. Now, this, of course, is pointing toward God's ultimate victory over sin that was accomplished in his son. So when we witness Goliath's head being dispatched, dismembered, severed from his body, we are seeing more than history.

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   1 Samuel 17 functions as an exposition of that promise in parabolic form. And the scene, of course, is going to point forward to the true victory in the son of God, the seed of the woman. So with that context in place, let's now return to the recording.

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   Exposition of Genesis 3.15 in parabolic form, a literal event as a parable of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, what I would like us to notice in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15, right at the heart of the story of Messiah, Yahweh, the God of Israel, is going to place a very special word.

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   It's the word enmity. A hatred. A sworn hatred between two opposing seeds. That being the seed of the woman. And the other being, of course, the seed of the serpent. And it's not until we come to the New Testament in Romans chapter 8 and verse 7, in which the apostle Paul is going to diagnose for us the issue of Genesis 3.15.

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   He is going to tell us exactly what that enmity is, what the nemesis is, what the hatred is. And he tells us, brothers and sisters and friends, that the enmity is the carnal mind. And the carnal mind, as we might know, is the animal man. It's that natural mind with all of its appetites and all of its passions and all of its temptations.

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   That, friends, brothers and sisters, is the enmity. And we're told in Ephesians 2 and verse 15 that the Lord Jesus Christ abolished the enmity in his flesh. He absolutely crucified the carnal mind. The enemy of Genesis 3.15. Now, friends, what we're going to see is this is going to be played out in the story of David and Goliath.

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   We're going to see this played out in the greatest foe of Israel. Now, you know that word enemy or enmity in Genesis 3.15? You know that word now, don't you? Nod your head. Now, that same word, it's not a popular word. It's actually quite a rare Hebrew word. It's going to appear in Ezekiel chapter 25, verse 25.

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   Where in that particular verse, Yahweh is going to describe who the greatest enemy of Israel was in the Old Testament Scriptures. The enmity of their flesh. And who might you think that enemy is going to be? Who would you like it to be? It's the Philistines. The Philistines is the enmity of Israel as the carnal mind is the enmity of the spirit.

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    That's what we're going to see. And what we're going to see is when David dispatched the head of Goliath, effectively what's being played out is the doctrine of what we now know to be the atonement. It's the story of the atonement in 1 Samuel 17. Are we there, by the way, in the 17th chapter of the first book of Samuel?

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    There's one little thing I'd like to share with you before we enter the drama between these two opposing forces. If we were to look at Judges chapter 3, and we were to look at the first four verses, it tells us then, it displays for us that when Israel came into the land, Yahweh put a nation in that land to teach them how to war.

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    What nation might you think was placed specifically by God to instruct Israel how to battle the flesh? Who do you think it's going to be? Who would you like it to be? It's the Philistines. God put the enmity in Israel to teach them how to war. And when we come to 1 Samuel 17, those armies now, the seed of the woman and the seed of the servant, are opposing one another.

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    There's a standoff. In other words, Israel could not defeat the Philistines. They couldn't do it. They couldn't destroy the enmity of their flesh. And we know that because if you have a look at verse 47. Can you see in verse 47, it says there that all of the assembly was present. Everyone came to this spectacle.

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    And everybody saw Goliath. And nobody, friends, nobody could do what Christ did typified in David. There is not one man, one woman on this earth throughout history who could defeat the enmity within. David could do it in the natural, but Christ defeated it in the spiritual. We're seeing the shadow of one greater.

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    Would you agree with me on that one? We're seeing the shadow of the true beloved, the beloved of the father. So let's pick it up then in verse 1 of 1 Samuel chapter 17. It says there that the Philistines pitched in the place known as Shoko. Shoko or Shukka, whatever dialect you talk will go with either.

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    Now the word Shoko in the Hebrew has the idea of the hedge of thorns. So the seed of the serpent is located in the hedge of thorns. And Israel, who's going to be the seed of the woman, Israel are going to find victory in verse 2 in the valley of Elah. And the valley of Elah literally means the place of the tree.

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    So the setting that's played out here is the hedge of thorns and the place of the tree. Now where might your minds go to when I say to you the place of thorns and the place of the tree? What do you think? I can hear whispering. Well we might go back to Genesis chapter 3 where we see the curse of the Garden of Eden.

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    In which sprouting out that curse came thorns from the place in which Eve sinned, the place of the tree. But my mind goes right into the future, projected right to the Lord Jesus Christ. Because what was thrust upon his crimson brow? A crown of thorns. And where was he nailed? He was nailed upon a tree.

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    Right here in the opening verse of 1 Samuel chapter 17. We are projected right there to the crucifixion. It's the language of the crucifixion. And then in verse 4, then it says that the champion appeared. Even his name sounds menacing, doesn't it? Goliath of Gath. Here he is in verse 4. And the objective of this giant, his sole purpose, his mission was to defy Yahweh the God of Israel.

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    That's all he wanted to do was defy the God of Israel. Now the name Goliath, his name means to uncover nakedness. That's exactly what he does. That's what the carnal mind does. The curse of Eden. They thought themselves naked. And that's what the thinking of the serpent exposes. It exposes flesh in all of its vulnerability.

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    And Goliath was the champion of flesh. And you look in verse 4 of 1 Samuel 17. Not only does his name means to uncover nakedness, but you'll also notice this man was a rather tall man. He was a man of height, it says in verse 4. And if you look at the word height, that word is translated as haughtiness and pride.

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    This man is in the height of pride and the loftiness of his own haughtiness. This man is the warrior for sin. No doubt about it, he's the manifestation of sin, is he not? Goliath, the champion of Gath. Here he is, the champion. Now that word champion, can you see that in verse 4?

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    The word means, it's a strange one if you were to look at it in your lexicon or your online Bible. It literally means the man in between. The man in between. Or the man of the between. Because here this champion, this giant of sin. He is the one man that stands between defeat and victory.

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    This is not taking place in the valley of Elah, friends. This is taking place in an amphitheater. This is the arena of flesh and righteousness. Truth and error. Life and death. And all of the assembly is watching ardently to see what happens next. Nobody can defeat the man of the between. Because he stands between life and death.

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    And the fact that Goliath is still standing. Well that tells you and I and Israel of old. That this man is undefeated. Nobody can defeat the man of Gath. He wields the power of death. And we're going to see David typified in the one spoken in Hebrew 2 verse 14. Where it says Christ is the one who destroyed the man who conquers death.

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    He'll be destroyed by the one who conquers death. Now, verse 3. I don't know why I'm whispering. But in verse 3, you'll notice he's a Philistine. Now if you were to look at the Philistine and the name Philistine. It has the root to wallow in dust. Now you remind me who was sentenced to the dust of the earth.

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    Can we remember? The serpent. And who else was sentenced to the dust of the earth? Man himself. And Adam was cursed to the dust of earth. And what we're seeing here in this giant, before Israel, before the assembly, was man and his defiled nature. Sin is personified in Goliath. And does not that make sense?

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    Doesn't it make sense that a man is the manifestation of sin? Wasn't it Adam himself who became the author of sin? Isn't sin and flesh and the carnal mind identified with mankind? It makes sense that Goliath is identified with the mind of the carnal thinking. He's the author of it. Now, mind me, what day was man created on?

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    These are all really straightforward questions. And there's no need to put your hand up. You tell me. Rhymes with ricks. He was created, wasn't he, on day six. Now, have a look at this. In verse four, Goliath was six cubits and a span. That's about nine foot. He has six pieces of armor.

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    And he has a shield, or a spear rather, wearing 600 shekels. So he's got six cubits and a span. He's got six pieces of armor and a spear weighing 600 shekels. That's six. Six. Six.

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    Revelation chapter 13 and verse 18 tells us that that is the number of man himself. How many times do you think the name Goliath appears in 1 Samuel 17? How many times do you think? Six times. And if you look at verse five to six, you'll notice that head to foot, Goliath is fettered in brass.

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    Now, we only have to look at the law of Moses to know that brass is identified with human nature. The law of Moses exists explicit in brass being identified with human nature. If you were to look at Ezekiel chapter 16 and verse 36, the King James Version renders the word brass as filthiness.

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    And Goliath was not only a man of sin, he was a man of brass, he was brazen-necked, and he was filthy. He was a man of pride. He was a man of haughtiness. And you'll also notice in verse five he's wearing a coat of mail. Now, you might have another translation for that phrase, coat of mail.

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    Do you know what it means? It means that Goliath was wearing a coat of scales. Now, you tell me, apart from a fish, what other creature in the divine record would wear a coat of scales? A serpent. A serpent. And if you look at verse five, he has a helmet of brass upon his head.

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    And if you know a little bit of Hebrew, you would know that the word brass has the same root to the word serpent. In fact, they are spelt almost identically in the Hebrew. Brass and serpents. If you were a Hebrew linguist who was unfortunate to be dyslexic, every time you'd read the word brass, you'd read the word serpent.

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    And every time you'd read the word serpent, you would read the word brass. So let's pretend, shall we? In verse five, he has a helmet of what on his head? Not brass. He's got the head of the serpent. And he's wearing a coat of scales that happens to be brass. Ah, where else in the Bible might we find a brazen serpent lifted up?

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    Well, this was the conversation between Nicodemus, was it not? And the Lord Jesus Christ in the third chapter of the Gospel of John, in which Christ said to that Pharisee, as Moses lifted up that serpent, that brazen serpent, so you shall see the son of who? The son of man. And there Christ has identified himself, not just with man, Christ has identified himself with the serpent.

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    So when we look at Goliath, head above everybody, what we're looking at, friends, is the victory of the Lord Jesus Christ. The enmity was destroyed in the crushing of the head. You know, in verse nine, Goliath mocks the ecclesia, doesn't he? He mocks the assembly. And he basically, unbeknown to Goliath, he gives an exposition of Romans chapter six.

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    Because what Goliath says, he says, I want you to choose a man. Choose a man. And if I defeat him, you are slaves to sin. But if he defeats me, we are subjected to you. That's Romans chapter six. And right there, in the middle of this episode, right in the flames of Goliath's fury, steps up a shepherd.

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    A man from Bethlehem. Of the tribe of Judah. A son of Jesse. Whose name is the beloved. Brothers and sisters and friends, David is going to show what typified Christ. Now, let's go to the background of David. Because although this is the first time all Israel have been introduced to this shepherd, this is not the first time the narrative has proclaimed him.

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    We're going to see him now in the 16th chapter. The previous chapter, where Samuel is going to anoint that young boy. So let's just go to 1 Samuel chapter 16.

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    And we look at verse 13. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the midst of his brethren. And the spirit of Yahweh came upon the beloved. Now, where else in the Bible do we find the spirit of Yahweh descending from heaven only to land upon a Messiah who was the beloved?

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    Where else in the Bible might we find an echo from heaven crying out, this is my David. This is the baptism of the Lord Jesus Christ. And they were all witness to it. The spirit of Yahweh came upon that Messiah and the cloud cried, this is my David. Now, we might know in the Gospel of Mark, it gives us these episodes that are so sudden, so immediate.

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    Because in Mark's Gospel, in chapter 1 and verse 10 to 11, once Jesus had been anointed in his baptism, and the spirit of God came upon him, in which Acts 10 verse 38 proclaims to us that that was his anointing. His baptism was his anointing. Verse 12 tells us that the spirit then immediately took the Lord Jesus Christ somewhere.

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    Can anyone remember where it was? Took him where? Do you remember? Took him to the wilderness. Now, where might you think David is? In 1 Samuel chapter 17 and verse 28. Where was David before he took on the Goliath? I think it's a rhetorical question, because I think you know the answer the way I'm asking the question.

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    The answer is, in verse 28, David too was in the wilderness, just after he was anointed. And so too, centuries later, in fact a millennia later, so the Lord Jesus Christ was going to tread the same path as David, his forefather. He was anointed. He goes to the wilderness. And how long was Jesus in the wilderness for?

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    Forty days and forty nights, says Mark 1 and verse 13. And how many days did Goliath tempt Israel before the Messiah arrived upon the scene? It's forty days and forty nights in verse 16. Oh, this is the same story told twice in two different ways, is it not? And humor me with this one.

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    How many times in 1 Samuel 17 might you think the word Philistine appears? Forty times. It's emphasizing us to go to the Gospels, isn't it? To carry the story to the Lord Jesus Christ. And once the Lord Jesus Christ had been tempted of Satan, in that wilderness, the Father then sent him into his mission to help his brethren overcome sin in the flesh.

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    Now here's the question. who sent David into the battlefield in verse 17 of 1 Samuel chapter 17? Who do you think is going to send David into battle? His who? His father. The Father sent the beloved to help his brethren overcome the enemy. This is Jesus' story, isn't it? In the shadow of him called David.

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    David's father. And if you look at verse 22 to verse 24, it says there that David was with his brethren and then they hear the voice of the champion called Goliath. And you'll notice Israel, it's very typical of Israel, they all run in fear and they're fearful and they're terrified of death. Terrified of death.

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    Now in verse 48, you'll notice that David hasted and ran in zeal. You'll notice a trait of David here, that he is not intimidated by the giant. On the contrary, he's excited. Now we may have some sort of blurry vision of the Lord Jesus Christ and what he would be like. And we can muse and contemplate on what it would have been like to spend time with the Lord Jesus Christ.

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    And we can think of Isaiah 53, a man sorrowful, acquainted with grief. But I'm telling you, brothers and sisters and friends, in the Lord Jesus Christ's ministry, he was electric. The crowds couldn't get enough of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was filled with the Spirit. The enthusiasm poured from him. The way he would articulate the word of God.

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    The way he confounded the Pharisees but spoke to those who needed it. Brothers and sisters, young people and friends, the Lord Jesus Christ was glorious to be with. He was excited for the truth, deeply and profoundly zealous for the word of God. Now in England, we struggle with that. We like to frown.

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    And I've noticed in Canada, you love to smile. But we in the UK, I think, need to smile a bit more. Because when the Lord Jesus Christ was in his ministry, brothers and sisters and friends, the Lord Jesus Christ smiled at the work that he was doing. I do my father's business, he says.

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    And it was the father who sent him to work. And Christ here, typified in David, was not intimidated. And he's being ridiculed here by his brethren. Ridiculed by them. The mind of Christ and his character was so different from you and I. And what's fascinating about David is that he is more aggressive than the giant, isn't he?

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    He's far more aggressive than the giant of Gath. So we come to verse 40 of 1 Samuel chapter 17. You'll notice there that he goes to the brook.

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    He goes to the brook and he picks up five smooth stones. Now we may ask the question, well why is he taking five smooth stones? And you can read many commentators on it. There were four brothers of Goliath. So we have one stone for each brother. You could go to the wounds of Christ.

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    Many suggest Jesus had five wounds. We can be a lot simpler than that. How many books were in the Pentateuch? The clue's in the name, isn't it? Five. And the law of Moses was written in what? It was written in stone. When the Lord Jesus Christ was tempted by the diabolos in Matthew chapter 4 and the first 11 verses, Christ referred to what book in the scriptures?

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    The book of Deuteronomy, which happens to be what book in the Bible? The fifth book. And the word of God, all of the books, represent one authoritative source. And Christ is the stone everywhere. He's the stone in the law of Moses. The altar was made out of unhewn stone. He's the prophets, the stone of Nebuchadnezzar's image.

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    He's right there in the Psalms, the chief cornerstone that was to be rejected. The stones, brothers and sisters and friends, is of the Lord Jesus Christ. The cornerstone, the son of David. And you'll remember this one. It's an episode in the Gospel of John in the 8th chapter in the 11th verse where we see a woman caught in adultery.

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    And you'll remember this one. That poor sister was caught in adultery and she's surrounded by the Jewish elders. And what might you think they were holding in their hands? They were holding stones. They were ready to stone this sister. And Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Judah, the Messiah of Israel, walks in that little congregation.

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    He looks at those men and what does he say to them? He says, he who is without sin, he cast the first stone. You know, in that little congregation on that fateful day, who had the authority to cast the first stone? Well, a man who just so happens to be the son of David.

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    only the son of David had the authority to cast that first stone and he just so happens to be the son of God. And what stone is going to be used to slay Goliath? Out of the five, it's the first stone that is cast. And Goliath in verse 7 of 1 Samuel 17, verse 7, the weapon Goliath chose, well, he had a staff on his spear.

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    Now, can you see the word staff there? It's an interesting word, that word staff. It's the same Hebrew word for the word tree. Goliath took a tree into the battlefield and wielded onto that tree was a spear and David took into the battlefield a stone. So where does your mind go to when I say a tree, a spear, and a stone?

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    Well, my mind goes to a man crucified upon a tree, pierced by a spear, and was resurrected by the rolling away of a stone. David and Goliath literally took into the battle of the carnal mind the very symbols that would become death and resurrection. And David comes now to meet the enmity, to meet the sworn nemesis of Israel in the valley.

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    And as David in the psalm says, Psalm 23, yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil thou art with me. So let's go to the story now of Jesus Christ in the gospel of Luke and its 22nd chapter.

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    Luke chapter 22. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, and here is now the beloved as he arrives into battle. This is the events before he entered into the garden of Gethsemane. And you'll see in verse 6, Jesus now turns to his disciples and he said unto them, verse 36, then he said unto them, but now he that hath a purse, let him take it and likewise his grip.

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    Now what an anticlimactic question to say to the disciples. You know, every word now mattered, didn't it? Jesus is about to be betrayed, and every word was such importance, and Jesus chooses to phrase, write my disciples, he who hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his grip. Now you tell me, in 1 Samuel 17 and verse 40, what might you think David took with him into the battle against Goliath?

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    I'll give you two guesses, and they're both right, because it tells us in verse 40 that David took a shepherd's bag and his grip. It's the same. It's almost as though Jesus is recalling a rather famous story into the minds of those faithful followers. He's reminding them of when his forefather went to battle King Sin, and he's telling them now, where I go, I must go alone.

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    He's preparing them for combat. And, well, what's also fairly interesting is if we were to look at 1 Samuel 13 and verse 22, and there's no need to turn there, but only two swords were in Israel. Can you imagine that, by the way? You're about to fight the Philistines, and you've only got two swords.

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    And it's true. There were only two swords in Israel. Now, who might you think acquired those swords? Who do you might think owned those two swords? Well, one would be for the king called Saul, and the other one would be for whom? His son, Jonathan. Two swords, and that's it. How many swords do you think are going to be offered to Jesus?

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    In verse 38, Peter says, behold, here are two swords. swords. And we know what happened to David in 1 Samuel 17 verse 39. David refused the sword of Saul, didn't he? He didn't approve those swords, and Jesus, in like manner, looked at the swords of Peter and said, it is enough because Jesus was going to use a sword mightier than the sword of Saul.

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    He was going to display and wield in the garden, Ephesians chapter 6, and Hebrews chapter 4. He had with him the sword of the spirit, mightier than any two-edged sword. That's the sword the Lord Jesus Christ was going to use to dismember the Goliath of carnality. And then we're told in John chapter 18 and verse 1 that Jesus went forth with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden.

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    So here's a question, where else in the Bible might we find another Messiah, who happens to be a Bethlehemite, the shepherd, the son of Jesse, who took with him a scrip and a bag, refused two swords, and crossed over a brook to take five smooth stones. Who else crossed a brook in 1 Samuel chapter 17 and verse 40?

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    Well, it was David. And it seems to me that on the final night of Jesus Christ, he was treading the same path as his forefather, treading in the same steps as David, crossing a brook. And it was in the garden that Jesus was going to have his greatest test. And as David separated from the ranks of Israel, Jesus now, in the garden, he's all alone.

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    He is all alone in the garden. Remind me what the name of the garden was called. Gethsemane. And gethsemane is the word that means an oil press. I'd like us to focus on the first part of the word Gethsemane. It's the word Geth. And it's the same word as Gath.

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    Who else came from Gath? Goliath? The son of David enters into Gath, Semene, the wine press. For that's what Gath means, the wine press. Gath, Semene, means the pressing of oil, but it's the same word, the wine press. And in the garden, Jesus Christ was going to have a struggle in the fight of survival where carnality in its instinct for survival was going to attack the son of God.

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    And what was the struggle with Christ in the garden? Well, it was the cup. And what was poured into the cup? Wine. And what does Gath mean? Well, Gath means the wine press. Jesus was going to say in Matthew 26 and verse 36, let this cup pass from me. It was the crushing of the grape and the pouring out of his blood.

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    And that was the struggle of Christ. And he bellowed on his knees, crying in tears, take this cup from me. Not my will, but thine be done, was the struggle. And we're told in 1 Samuel 17 verse 1 that Goliath, he pitched in the place known as Ephes Damien, Ephes Damien, or Ephes Damien, wherever you're from, it's the same.

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    And that place where you see in verse 1 of 1 Samuel 17, Goliath coming from Ephes Damien, do you know what it means? It means the boundary of blood drops. Goliath came from the very place, not just Gath, he came from the place, pitched himself in the very location that means the boundary of blood drops.

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    And what was to fall from the head of Jesus Christ in that garden? He was going to sweat what? Blood drops. Luke's gospel says he sweated great drops of blood. And in 1 Samuel 17 and verse 42, Goliath looked at that young boy, called the beloved, and he despised him. The word we've got is the word disdained him, if you're reading from a King James version.

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    But that word is used in Isaiah 53 and verse 3, where we see the suffering servant, a man, despised and rejected. no doubt about it. No doubt about it. In the mind of the Lord Jesus Christ that night, as he fought the instinct of survival, as he took on the mind of the serpent, Goliath rang in his ears that night as terror seized the Son of God.

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    And the enormity of Goliath, the scale, the scope, the size of Goliath, we're seeing displayed in 1 Samuel 17, is symbolic of what Messiah endured that night. He fought the giant, and he endured, and he defeated him. Do you remember what Goliath said to David, how he mocked him? He says in 1 Samuel 17 verse 43, he looked at David and he said, am I a dog?

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    Am I a dog that you cometh to me with sticks, staves? Can anyone remember what Jesus said to the mob that took him in Luke chapter 22 and verse 52? He looked at Judas, and he looked at those behind him, and he says to them, cometh to me with sticks? Cometh to me with staves?

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    How peculiar that Jesus Christ, of all the things to quote, of all the people to quote, he happens to quote Goliath. Now why might you think on that poignant profound moment in the life of Jesus, why might you think he's quoting Goliath of sin? Why do you think? Shall I tell you? Would you like to know?

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    because he's identifying himself with Goliath. He's identifying himself with the enemy, with the enmity, and he says to them, you want him? Come claim him. I'm Goliath. Take me. Cometh to me with sticks. Cometh to me with staves. And that's exactly what Jesus was. On the external, he was Adam, wasn't he? He was Adam, he was flesh, he was man.

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    But on the inward, on the inward, he was the beloved. He was the roaring lion of Judah. That's who Jesus Christ was. How many sons did Jesse have?

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    Rhymes with rate. He had eight sons. And David was the what of all the brothers? He was the he was the eighth son of Jesse. The eighth son. And if you were to look at Genesis chapter 17 and verse 12, you would identify that the number eight is symbolic of circumcision. For a child was circumcised on the eighth day.

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    Goliath was literally going to be circumcised. David was going to circumcise flesh. And how many weapons do you think David took into the battlefield? How many do you think?

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    Eight. He took eight weapons, did David. And what did David call this Philistine? In verse 26 and verse 36, he called him the uncircumcised Philistine. As a man of flesh, was Goliath, and the seed of the woman is going to circumcise him. He's going to circumcise sin in the flesh. And Goliath, in verse 43, of 1 Samuel 17, he looks at this young shepherd and he cursed him by his gods.

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    The ironic thing is he was godless, wasn't he? Really. But he cursed him by his gods. What was the chief god of the Philistines? The god called Dagon. You see, David knew how the story was going to end. He knew how the story was going to end. Because we've read of Dagon before, haven't we?

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    And if I'm correct, the fall of Dagon was going to be rather similar to the fall of Goliath. Because you remember what happened in 1 Samuel 5, the Philistines woke up and there was the ark of Yahweh and there was Dagon who was on the floor and what was missing? His head! He lost his head!

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    And what's going to happen in 1 Samuel 17? Goliath is going to fall and he's going to lose what? He's going to lose his head! And Jesus is going to do the same in Genesis 3 verse 15. He's going to go into the garden and he's going to do what? He's going to crush what?

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    The mind of sin. It's the same story. Weaved over and over again to remind us what sin really is. It is a godless serpent. That's what it was. And Jesus showed us it. So we've got to go to the fall of Goliath, haven't we? How's our energy levels? We all good? Got a thumbs up?

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    Okay. So the next two hours what we'll do is... I'm British, this is what we do. Where are we? Are we still in 1 Samuel 17? I think we might be in the Gospel of Luke, but if we're in 1 Samuel 17, let's have a little turn there. And we'll look at the 49th verse.

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    David now, he's going to sling that stone. And he looks at the giant and he says, I come to you on behalf of Yahweh, the God of armies, and this day, this day, he says, I will deliver you into his hands. And David in verse 49, he gets the stone, the word of God, and he slings it.

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    And bullseye, isn't it, really? He slings it and bang, smack, as quick as lightning, it sinks into the forehead of the giant. He applied what I would suggest is Judges chapter 20 verse 16, where it says in Judges 20 verse 16 that one would sling a stone a hair breadth and not miss.

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    Do you know what the word miss is in the Bible? Do you know what the Hebrew word for miss? It's the same word for sin.

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    A man would sling a stone a hair breadth and not sin. For to sin is to miss the mark. And David is typifying Jesus who never missed the mark, never sinned, and hit the mind of sin square on without a hair's breath. Absolute divine word of God thrown at the mind of sin.

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     Now look at verse 50 of 1 Samuel chapter 17. It says there that David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone and smote the Philistine and slew him. Now just a few things I'd like us to consider here. David prevailed, the word prevailed there that you see in verse 50 is the same word that means strengthened.

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     what I'm suggesting is happening here in verse 50 that David overcame his fear. He prevailed mentally over the Philistine and then with a sling and a stone he smoked the Philistine, he effectively wounded him, he struck him in the mind, in the head. but the giant was not dead. He wasn't dead with the stone because then he slew him and he slew him by decapitating him and beheading him in verse 51 with the sword of Goliath.

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     So what we see here is a three pronged attack, three phases. David prevailed over fear, he got the stone and smote the head and wounded him incapacitated him and then, in verse 51, he slew him and beheaded him. He overcame fear, he incapacitated him and then beheaded him. Three phases. Now would you agree with me on that?

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     Three phases. How many prayers did Jesus utter in the garden of Gethsemane? How many prayers was it? Three times. And in those three phases, Jesus goes from intensifying struggle, he then goes to pleading, and then he finds resolve. Well, I'm going to suggest to you that in the garden, Jesus in his first prayer overcame fear and prevailed over the carnal mind.

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     In the second prayer, he smote the carnal mind and wounded it. And then in the third prayer, Jesus Christ slew the mind of carnality. It was three special prayers where the spirit got stronger and the flesh got weaker. God So when David prevails, that you see here, where he overcame fear, the battle of will had already been won.

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     David looked at Goliath and he knew he could defeat him. And the battle of will had already been won. And when Jesus came into that garden, he had faced the adversity of carnal instinct for survival. Now Mark's gospel tells us in chapter 14 and verse 33 that Jesus Christ was alarmed in terror.

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     There was a moment in Gethsemane where Jesus felt the sudden attack of fear. The apostle Paul tells us of this. He gives an entire exposition on Gethsemane. He felt the strike of fear in alarm and in terror. And it tells us he was an excessive concern. And we know this because Matthew 26 and verse 38 Jesus says my soul grieves unto death.

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     So Jesus gives that first prayer where he prevails in his father's will. And he overcomes in that first prayer. But then he gives the second prayer. And David then smites Goliath with the stone and it sinks into his forehead. And may I suggest to you that when that stone penetrated the head of Goliath his head I'm no medic but I would suggest that his head would have bled copiously.

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     As that stone hit him in the head. Now Luke 22 and verse 44 in the garden we find in the second prayer of Jesus that he's in agony. It's the word that's used. He's in agony. The word agony comes from the Greek agon and it means a contest a fight. He's in combat.

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     It carries the idea of active combat towards victory. And we know what happened in the second prayer. Luke 22 tells us that Jesus sweated great drops of blood. Now where might you think Jesus sweated great drops of blood from? Well the first question is where was the agony? The agony was where? It was in the mind.

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     And can you remember the first curse of Adam? Or one of the curses of Adam? In the sweat of thy brow. So the question is when Goliath was smitten in the head by the stone where might you think Jesus had bled great drops of blood? May I make the suggestion that those drops fell from his brow?

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     extreme excruciating stress where the sweat glands rupture and that can only come from the mind. Only come from the mind. Extreme anxiety. And then Jesus gives the second prayer in which the stone which is the word of God smites the source of defiance and the head is shattered and incapacitated. Remember what the serpent said thou shalt not surely die.

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     And here in the second prayer self preservation is breached. He's nearly there brothers and sisters but the carnal mind is not yet dead. There needs to be the fatal blow. The giant has fallen but he's not yet found demise because we know what happens. David gets the sword of Goliath and he slays Goliath's head with his own sword and dismembers the carnal mind.

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     You could say of David that he sees the weapon of death to destroy him that had the power over death. How many times do you think the word head is used in 1 Samuel 17? I'll give you a clue. Six. Six times because Jesus dealt with sin in its own arena. He had to deal with sin in its own arena.

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     This is the atonement. 2 Corinthians 5 tells us in verse 21 he was made to be sin but knew no sin. If friends you strip the nature of Christ away from him you take away his victory. What did he condemn if he didn't have human nature? There was no condemnation. He had to slay it within its own arena and he was bearing the body of Adam.

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     And then in the third time or the third prayer what's remarkable about the third prayer? Can you remember? There's no struggle. In the third prayer in Matthew 26 and verse 46 Jesus rises up. It's unbelievable. He rises up and he goes to his disciples and he wipes himself down. He goes right, rise up.

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     Time is at hand. Unbelievable. He has slain the giant of carnality. And what you find with Jesus Christ in that third prayer is a man, the son of God, who has nothing but calmness, clarity, and resolve. He is as sharp as a razor and the struggle has been defeated. Brothers and sisters and friends, Jesus prevailed.

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     Jesus smote and Jesus slew and it was all done through prayer. All of it was done through prayer. You know what Goliath did when the stones smote him in the head? It says that Goliath fell upon his face to the earth. You remember that? It's specific. He fell upon his face to the earth.

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     What might you think is described of Jesus when he prayed in the garden? In Mark chapter 14 and verse 35, it says that Jesus fell with his face to the earth. It's almost as though Jesus was choreographing his prayer as the fall of Goliath. And just to make the point even clearer,

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     how far did Jesus pray from his disciples? It's very specific in its unspecificness, isn't it? Because when we look at the law of Moses, we've got actual cubits of how long things were and the width of things. But when we come to the prayer of Jesus, we're given something so exquisitely specific in its unspecificness.

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     Can anyone remember the phrase? He prayed a stone's throw. What a remarkable phrase to use when you see the son of David smiting the mind of sin in the battle of will over the giant of death.

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     This is, brothers and sisters, the atonement all done in prayer and David severed that head and Jesus Christ, I'm proposing to you and I'm strongly suggesting it, that in the garden he crushed the head of the serpent. It had to be the garden because where did the serpent first arise? In a garden.

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     rather poetic that it found its death in a garden, isn't it? By a stone he subdued the carnal mind in the place known as Gathsemane decapitating the struggle for resolve. What was the last thing Jesus needed on the way to his crucifixion? What was the last thing he needed?

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     A struggle. He did not need a struggle on the way to his crucifixion. Jesus needed absolute resolve. He didn't want strife. And he took the spoils of his victory which was in Gethsemane and he marched them to the place of the tree where he buried it. His road to the crucifixion is his victory march.

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     He'd crushed the serpent in the garden. He was then going to bury it in Jerusalem to fulfill all scriptures to crucify the flesh and he did it with clarity and resolve and in calmness. Mind fixed on the joy that was set before him. That's where he went. Oh and by the way there was a very specific place where Jesus went to to take the head of the serpent to bury it.

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     We're actually given the name of the place in Jerusalem. might you remember where he was? It was called Golgotha which in the Hebrew in all of its irony saturated in biblical irony isn't it? It's known as the place of the what? The place of the skull. The mind of the serpent was buried with the body of death and you know as far as I'm aware there's only one other time in all of the Bible that I can find were a man in victory buried ahead in Jerusalem.

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     Who was that? In 1 Samuel chapter 17 and verse 54. It happens to be his forefather David. David in his victory parade in his ceremony took the head of Goliath and ran with it to Jerusalem and buried it. Might I suggest and it is a suggestion if you disagree with me we shall remain in fellowship but might I suggest that Golgotha was the place where Goliath's head was buried.

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     Why wouldn't it be? Why wouldn't it be? We're not told in 1 Samuel 17 where Goliath died. It's rather unfortunate because you want to know where he dies. We actually find out and there's no need to turn there. We find out in 1 Samuel chapter 21 and verse 9 and if you've got a decent memory it might trigger a memory because we find out in the 21st chapter of 1 Samuel that Goliath died in the valley of Elah.

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     Can anyone remember what the valley of Elah means? Place of the tree. tree. How wonderful that Goliath found his death at the place of the tree. And the Goliath of sin was crucified on a tree. And David's victory, well it inspired his servants did it not to overwhelm the Philistines. David became the captain of their salvation.

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     As we close a chapter of the 17th chapter of the first book of Samuel. There's one more thing I want to say because I can see your eyes attiring. One more thing.

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     Did we know and this is something we are going to find out that David was a prophet? We're told in Acts chapter 9 Acts chapter 2 in verse 29 to 30 that David indeed was a prophet. And the apostle Peter has no need to turn there. It's good that you're turning there. There's no need.

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     The apostle Peter tells us that David understood that the purpose of Yahweh was working through him. And I want to leave you with this. If we were to look at Hebrews chapter 2, Hebrews chapter 2 quotes Psalm 8. And Hebrews chapter 2 is all about the kingdom of God. Which tells us that Psalm 8, which is the psalm of Goliath, is all about the kingdom of God.

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     So Goliath and David's victory isn't just talking about the defeat of carnality with Jesus Christ. It's speaking about things even greater than what Jesus accomplished on that wonderful day. That's what it's talking about. Prophesying of greater things. And David understood this. He really did. You remember what happened. David strides into the battlefield and he goes before the king of Israel and he says in the 32nd verse, he says, you know that man over there, that giant?

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     He says, I'll fight him. I'll take him on. And Saul says, how can you do it? He's a man of war and you're just a youth. And David's response was, well, I slew a lion and a bear and likewise I will slay the Philistine. Now when I say a lion and a bear, the clue's on the screen.

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     Where might we go to? Daniel chapter seven, the national enemies that oppose Israel in which we have a lion that represents Babylon. And a bear that represents Persia. But unless I'm mistaken, there are two other nations. There's the nations of Greece and Rome. And unfortunately, we don't see David slaying a leopard or a great and terrifying beast in chapter 17.

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     So we have to go to the second book of Daniel in which we're given metals of those empires, of those nations. the nation of Greece was the metal brass, and the nation of Rome was what was Goliath wearing? In 1 Samuel chapter 17, he was wearing iron and brass after which David slew a lion and a bear.

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     We're seeing the road map of Bible prophecy. David indeed saw greater things. And just to finish off with this question, what brought down Goliath? A smooth stone. And what brought down Nebuchadnezzar's image? A stone made without hands. friends, we're not just seeing Goliath, we're seeing the kingdom of man. And friends and brothers and sisters, the Messiah of Israel has arrived.

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     Thank you.