David & Goliath | Facing Giants with Faith (Ep. 8)

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The world is loud, truth feels confusing, and life has a way of making us forget what matters most.
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But through scripture, honest conversation, and real stories of faith, remember who the king is exists for one purpose: to point back to Jesus.
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This is more than a podcast, it's a reminder.
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The king is still on the throne.
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And with Mark Berry and with Donnie Prince.
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Once again, uh this is the podcast where we open God's Word and we talk about it honestly.
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We talk about the stories, the application, and how to apply it to real life.
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And I hope you're following right along with us.
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I hope you've got your Bible ready to dive in today and read along with us.
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Today we're diving into one of the most famous stories in all of Scripture.
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You've probably heard the story.
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If you've not heard the story, you've heard of the story.
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This is something you learn when you're really young in church, and this is the story of David and Goliath.
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And if we're if we're honest, I think most people, even if they are not Christians, have heard of this story.
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They've heard it talked about in scenarios where people talk about uh going up against a challenge.
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And so we use this story when we're talking, and we want to dive into the actual story, what really happened, who is David, and how did he accomplish what he accomplished?
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In my opinion, it's about fear and faith and identity and trusting God when everybody else is terrified, or when you're terrified.
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So I want to read a verse right before we get started, and I talk about fear because this in this story, you know, it would be really easy for David to just let fear overcome him, but overcome him.
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But in Isaiah 41, 10, it says, Fear not, for I am with you.
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I will strengthen you and help you.
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And what stands out to me about this verse is God says, I will strengthen you and help you.
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Notice God doesn't say uh you have to figure it out, you're on your own, be strong enough, handle it yourself.
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All too often we try to rely on ourselves.
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So listen to the podcast, dive into the Bible with us.
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Donnie and Mark, how are y'all doing?
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Doing great.
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Doing great.
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Good to be here.
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Excited to be here today, Chad.
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Mark.
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I'm excited.
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What is what is something before we go into the scripture, what's something that stands out to you about the the culture of this story?
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People talking about it and using it as an example.
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Well, you know, one thing, you know, to talk about a little bit before we before we actually read this story today is that, and you know, we we want to encourage people like we talk about every episode, you know, to uh to read the Bible, right?
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The Bible is such a valuable tool, and you know, it's not gonna read itself, right?
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So you got to decide, we all have to decide if it's something we want we want to do or not, right?
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And so, you know, this is a story.
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This is a story that we're gonna read today about you know about uh David and Goliath, but in chapter 16 of uh 1 Samuel, to give you just a little backstory, Samuel goes to the house of Jesse and anoints David to be the king, the next king of Israel.
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At this point in the story in the book of Samuel, Saul was chosen to be the first king.
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And the people wanted a king.
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That you know, God was their king, but they, you know, it says in there, they wanted to be like all the other nations.
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They wanted a king.
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So God said, Old Tamil says, hey, they rejected me.
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You know, they want their own king.
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Well, I'm gonna give them one.
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So he gave them Saul.
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Well, that doesn't work out so well.
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And Saul ends up losing the kingdom, and David is gonna be the next king.
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God is gonna anoint, he anoints David as king in 1 Samuel, and in 1 Samuel 16, it says, So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the spirit of the Lord came powerfully on David.
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Right, you know, so it's interesting to know that when David's getting ready to fight his battle, he's just been anointed, and right after he's anointed of the Lord, he has to face Goliath.
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And so, you know, our reading the Bible and our, you know, our Bible study and what we do in our prayer life prepares us to face our giants, you know, and I think that's a very important part of this story we're going about to read, you know, today.
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You know, giants to me can be related in today's life.
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Oh, yeah, whether 100% back in the day where David was slaying bears and lions that were coming to to you know take care of, you know, go after his flock of sheep that he was tending.
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You know, I I equated a lot of this um early on as you know David being ready.
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In order to be ready, he had to be committed.
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You know, to be committed, he had to be plugged into the word of God.
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And yes, like Donnie was saying, he he was anointed by Samuel.
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But even prior to that, you know, his mother was a big influence on on him before she passed away, and he w was at an early age when she passed away, but but she I think was a big influence on him to help him try to figure out you know what his purpose was.
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So I'm excited about Donnie reading the story and and uh diving into this and and uh there's a whole lot more to a whole lot more to come.
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So much to the story.
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If you had to fight one of the animals, what would you fight?
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I wouldn't want to fight the lion, the bear, or the giant.
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Well, let me tell you, Mark, Mark is a expert hunter.
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I mean, Mark understood.
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I did not know that.
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Oh man, Mark, Mark is an expert hunter.
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I mean, he he is an expert hunter.
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He he led hunting expeditions, so he knows he knows exactly what David was up against fighting the lion and the bear.
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So this is a great question to ask Mark.
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He he is a a total expert in the hunting field.
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What do you think about that, Mark?
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Well, the only the only difference was it wasn't hand-to-hand combat.
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Well, that's true.
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You didn't take it, you didn't go out there with a sling.
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If you've got a rifle or a a rifle or a bow in your hand, you've got a little bit of an advantage, but uh nevertheless, I mean you're on you're in their backyard and you're you're uh using a lot of instincts.
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And again, for me, back in the day out in Idaho and and uh bordering Montana, I was only as good as the people that I've surrounded myself with to help with those uh guided trips.
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But uh but uh yeah, it's big difference when you when you're doing it on foot and just with a knife, right?
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You know, Mark's being modest here.
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Let me just tell you, Mark, Mark, Mark is being very modest here.
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I mean, I've seen a I've seen a mounted mountain line that Mark you know hunted.
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And and you know, these animals are ferocious.
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I mean, you know, they they're definitely not something that you know I could do unless uh maybe if I went with Mark, maybe, you know, I could do it.
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But I but I'm just saying, you know, he really does understand a lot about that.
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And and when you see these uh like you know, when I've seen this this this mountain line, you know, that that Mark has mounted, you know, it uh you realize how dangerous a situation you know that David was used to being in, right?
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You know, he he's he's prepared.
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What would you say, Mark?
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I mean, you know, you've done this sort of thing.
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I you know, I I tried in reading this story, I tried to put myself in David's shoes and had a really hard time doing it in the respect that you know going hand-to-hand hand hand-to-paw combat with a bear or hand-to-paw combat with a lion, with a knife or a sling and uh a stone.
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Um that's a different world.
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I mean that's just that's that's really incomprehensible for me to I can't imagine that.
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What's the biggest thing you you hunted, uh Mark?
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I would say um as far as a predator would go would be a mountain lion.
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We also did uh we guided hunts for elk and deer and bear.
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Um but um you know it's this is a lot different setup, a lot different situation that we're gonna read about today.
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And uh I hope the the listening or viewing audience uh can can read their Bible as you said earlier and follow along and and then uh experience and try to put themselves uh in the moment that that David was in.
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It's uh it's a it's an it's a gr and it's a story like you said earlier, Chad.
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We've we've all either heard about it or uh at an early age.
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I can remember back in you know vacation bible school, maybe first grade, hearing about David and Goliath and and David slaying the the the giant.
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And you know, even back then that was pretty impressive.
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Of course, at six or seven years old I didn't really realize how big a giant was, but uh even adults look giant to me, right?
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So but but now that this has been put into perspective uh as to how tall this giant was.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Well I'm ready, Donnie.
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Where where are we at?
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Well we're in uh we're in first Samuel chapter seventeen.
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Goliath challenges the Israelites.
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The Philistines now mustered their army for battle and camped between Soko and Judah and Eska and Ethens Demun Saul countered by gathering his Israelite troops near the valley of Eli.
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So the Philistines and the Israelites faced each other on opposite hills with a valley between them.
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Then Goliath, a Philistine champion from Gath, came out of the Philistine ranks to face the forces of Israel.
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He was over nine feet tall.
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He wore a bronze helmet, and his bronze coat of mail weighed a hundred and twenty five pounds.
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He also wore bronze leg armor, and he carried a bronze javelin on his shoulder.
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The shaft of his spear was as heavy and thick as a weaver's beam, tipped with an iron spearhead that weighed fifteen pounds.
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His armor bearer walked ahead of him, carrying a shield.
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Goliath stood and shouted a taunt across to the Israelites.
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Why are you all coming out to fight?
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he called.
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I am the Philistine champion, but you are only the servants of Saul.
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Choose one man to come down here and fight me.
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If he kills me, then we will be your slaves, but if I kill him, you will be our slaves.
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I defy the armies of Israel today.
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Send me a man who will fight me.
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When Saul and the Israelites heard this, they were terrified and deeply shaken.
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Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephraimite from Bethlehem in the land of Judah.
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Jesse was an old man at that time, and he had eight sons.
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Jesse's three oldest sons, Iliab, Abinad, and Sheme, had already joined Saul's army to fight the Philistines.
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David was the youngest son.
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David's three oldest brothers stayed with Saul's army, but David went back and forth so he could help his father with the sheep in Bethlehem.
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For forty days, every morning and evening the Philistine champions strutted in front of the Israelite army.
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One day Jesse said to David, Take this basket of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread and carry them quickly to your brothers, and give these ten cups of cheese to their captain.
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See how your brothers are getting along and bring back a report on how they are doing.
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David's brothers were with Saul and the Israelite army at the valley of Eli fighting against the Philistines.
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So David left the sheep with another shepherd and set out early the next morning with the gifts, as Jesse had directed him.
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He arrived at the camp just as the Israelite army was leaving for the battlefield with shouts and battle cries.
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Soon the Israelite and Philistine forces stood facing each other army against army.
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David left his things with the keeper of supplies and hurried out to the ranks to greet his brothers.
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As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, came out from the Philistine ranks.
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Then David heard him shout his usual taunt to the army of Israel.
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As soon as the Israelite army saw him, they began to run away in fright.
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Have you seen the giant?
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The men asked.
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He comes out each day to defy Israel.
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The king has offered a huge reward to anyone who kills him.
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He will give that man one of his daughters for a wife, and the man's entire family will be exempted from paying taxes.
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David asked a soldier standing nearby, what will a man get for killing this Philistine and ending this defiance of Israel?
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Who is this pagan Philistine anyway that he is allowed to defy the armies of the living God?
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And these men gave David the same reply.
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They said, Yes, that is a reward for killing him.
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But when David's oldest brother Iliab heard David talking to the men, he was angry.
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What are you doing around here anyway?
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he demanded.
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What about those few sheep you're supposed to be taken care of?
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I know about your pride and deceit.
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You just want to see the battle.
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What have I done now?
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David replied.
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I was only asking a question.
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He walked over to some others and asked them the same thing and received the same answer.
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Then David's question was reported to King Saul and the king sent for him.
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Don't worry about this Philistine, David told Saul.
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I'll go fight him.
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Don't be ridiculous, Saul replied.
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There's no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win.
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You're only a boy and he's been a man of war since his youth.
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But David persisted.
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I've been taking care of my father's sheeps and goats, he said.
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When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock, I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth.
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If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death.
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I have done this to both lions and bears, and I'll do it to this pagan Philistine too, for he has defied the armies of the living God.
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The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine.
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Saul finally consented.
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All right, go ahead, he said, and may the Lord be with you.
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Then Saul gave David his own armor, a bronze helmet and a coat of mail.
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David put it on, strapped the sword over it, and took a step or two to see what it was like, for he had never worn such things before.
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I can't go in these, he protested to Saul.
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I'm not used to them.
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So David took them off.
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He picked up five smooth stones from a stream and put them into his shepherd's bag.
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Then armed only with his shepherd's staff and sling, he started across the valley to fight the Philistine.
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Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer ahead of him, sneering in contempt at this ruddy faced boy.
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Am I a dog?
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he roared at David, that you come at me with a stick and he cursed David by the names of his gods.
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Come over here and I'll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals, Goliath yelled.
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David replied to the Philistine, You come to me with sword, spear and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of heaven's armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
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Today the Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head, and then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel, and everyone assembled here will know that the Lord rescues his people, but not with a sword and spear.
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This is the Lord's battle, and he will give you to us.
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As Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran out to meet him, reaching into his shepherd's bag and taking out a stone.
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He hurled it with his sling and hit the Philistine in the forehead.
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The stone sank in, and Goliath stumbled and fell face down on the ground.
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So David triumphed over the Philistine with only a sling and a stone, for he had no sword.
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Then David ran over and pulled Goliath's sword from its sheath.
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David used it to kill him and cut off his head.
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Let me tell you, David won't plan.
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David was ready.
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He won't plan.
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You know, and Mark, I know you love to research things, you know, and and and and I've just I've been looking forward all week to hear what you gotta say about this because this is some story.
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Well, you know, and just kind of doing some background checking, Goliath was was the bab was had like four other brothers, from what I'm understanding.
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And he was the baby.
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Wow.
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So at ten feet tall, he was the baby of of the family of other giants.
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Um but and to think back in those days there were giants, and and you know, only four or five of them and from the same family is is kind of miraculous, but uh what just continued to reach into my heart about this story was a number of things.
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But you know, David he grew up as a sheepherder and a as a and a as a musician.
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Uh he was the youngest.
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Uh he had older brothers, his father Jesse basically ruled or fathered David with a heavy hand, and and basically his job was was just to go out into the into the and take care of the sheep and the goats and and he stayed alone a lot of times, you know, and I'm sure he did a lot of uh you know self-reflection and and and question a lot of things.
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I mean, you know, when you're on your own and by yourself, uh you know we I have a tendency to really try to analyze, sometimes overanalyze the situation.
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But when he got dialed in to God and he his commitment was so dedicated that you know he would ward off and and and kill these bears and lions.
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And you know, don't we all have bears and lions in our life every day?
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And they're they come about in a lot of different shapes and sizes, right?
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But the moral to that Story for me was David was a hundred percent committed to God and was and and really had no fear.
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I mean he he was fearless in the way he went about um conducting his his daily life.
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Even though he had a father that was hard on him, he had brothers that were older and didn't really you know kind of all just treated him like a outcast to me, it seemed like but um God gave him the strength and the power to conquer those demons and and God's glory was and is was his divine divine power.
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Um and he stayed in the glory of God and and prepared David for the battle uh of his life.
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He didn't hesitate.
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You know, when he got to those front lines, I mean, you know, God was working when Jesse told him to go and take this food, right?
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God was working through Jesse when when he he sent him to the front lines to take food to his brothers.
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Jesse had no clue that David was gonna pursue that opportunity to slay a giant.
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I mean, that's so basically alone and relying on the glory of God, and you know, Samuel anointed him prior to all of this, so David knew that God was with him, right?
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David knew.
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And then he faces a ten-foot giant in the in the battle of his life.
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And what fired him up even more is you said, Donna, he was fired up.
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Yeah, well, so when to me, when Goliath starts to denounce David's God and and and to to say, nobody can conquer me.
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I defy all of you, even your God.
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Well, that really fired David up even more.
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So he slays this giant with a stone and a slink.
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Um, and then King Saul rewards it, you know, giving him various entitlements.
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But you know, later David will become king of the United Israel of Judah and Judah.
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And at the at the age of 30, and he ruled, I think, for about seven years.
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But at the time he slay Goliath, he was a young boy.
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Um what an incredible story, commitment, and and and devotion.
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And and he did it without a shadow of a doubt.
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He followed God's calling and and he just did the impossible.
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Well, but then again, nothing's impossible with God on your side, right?
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That's right.
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Amen.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, that's good.
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I um when you read through this, I've read this story many times, and you always find something, or I always find something that I can apply to my life.
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And you know, we've we've heard the the back and forth of this applies to this and this applies to this in your life, but I I as I was going through this, I I was trying to take some notes on on what real life application could I could I put into my own life.
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And so just working through it, um, sometimes everybody else around you all they see is fear.
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They see fear.
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And we we as believers and as followers of Christ are supposed to see opportunity to go to God, opportunity to glorify God and praise God and trust him and have faith.
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And sometimes we don't do that.
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Everybody around us is afraid, or they're talking about some situation, or our family, we're going through a hard time, and we're like, oh, woe is me.
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And God gives us that moment, and maybe we're supposed to turn that around and say, No, this is my opportunity.
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Say, God, I trust you.
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I have complete faith in you.
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I I know this is a huge thing, but you've put this in front of me, and so I'm gonna walk right through it.
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And I I look back at how they were terrified, and for for uh 40 days, they listened to this fear.
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They listened to Goliath coming out, shouting out, and oh, we we can't fight that guy, he's huge.
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And apparently what Mark just said, he's got a family this huge.
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Like, I didn't even know that that part, how many brothers he had.
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I'm not we are not gonna mess with that guy.
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We kill him, his his brothers are gonna come after us.
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But they heard this for 40 days, this intimidation, and all of a sudden David comes in and he doesn't, he doesn't even the fear doesn't even phase him, which is crazy to me.
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He didn't have a thought.
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There's nothing in the Bible that says he stopped for a moment.
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He said, You're afraid of the giant?
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And so one of the things that I got out of this is that if we let our faith get quieter, fear will get louder.
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That fear in our head, and Satan wants that.
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He wants to use that little thing that's a stumbling block and and use it to get fear, and then that fear grows.
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But we can't let that happen.
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We've got to our faith has to be louder than that.
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I mean, and I I honestly wish I could say that that I have I have had moments like that, like David had, but I don't know that I can look back and say I've had any where I wasn't a little bit hesitant and like, oh, this is this is hard.
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But David, he didn't he didn't stop at all, which is amazing to me.
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And then another thing that I got out of this is that David uh David was faithful not just in front of everybody, he didn't care that he was in front of everybody, but he was also faithful in private before he was faithful in public.
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And I think that's huge in our life, you know, what you're doing in private long before you get um on any kind of pedestal or platform, or even in front of your family or in front of anybody, God expects you in the quiet, in the private, to have that faith, that um giant killing faith, I guess you could call it.
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But a lot of people don't want the the sheep herder, the sheep-filled obedience first.
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They just want to have that, you know, that moment.
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And so we've got to have that obedience and that kind of faith all the time.
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And I think we can think about what kind of season we're in right now, or what kind of seasons we've walked through that have prepared us for that.
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And we we're supposed to look back and say, Well, my faith it wavered in that.
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So how can I grow?
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How can I use this season to get closer to God and have more faith?
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Because when I look at David, you're talking about he is young here.
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It is unbelievable that he had that amount of faith and no fear.
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And I wish I could I wish I could see inside his mind when they said, Hey, this giant that all of us are afraid of is out there shouting, and all of a sudden he says, Oh, I'm not worried about that.
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I can't even imagine just facing that.
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Uh, he was criticized, so his brothers criticized him.
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Um, and I think there's some application there that we can we can think even in those moments, there are going to be people, some people close to us, because uh uh who was it?
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Uh Ilyah Eliab uh confronted David and he was questioning him, he was even mocking him, and David didn't let that deter him, even though his family is criticizing him.
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So there's something important.
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And then the last thing is that Saul tried to put his armor on David, and David instantly he another thing, he could have said, Yes, I need this, but that fear, he had no fear.
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He's like, No, I can't use this, these don't fit me.
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I think he said I'm not comfortable in these.
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And so the application for me there is that you do not have to fight somebody else's way.
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God, you are enough, and God will give you the faith and the strength if you will trust him.
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Sometimes I think we rely on other people more than we rely on God.
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And I think that's a huge point here.
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David did not look to any person.
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He even told Saul when he tried to give him his armor, he said, No, I don't want it.
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God is enough for me.
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And so there's so many great things that every time I read this, I get out of this.
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It's a great, great story, but it's not just a story, it's a great truth, something that really happened.
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It's wonderful.
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You know, uh uh you know, Chad, Mark and I played a lot of sports.
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You know, we play we played a lot of stuff together and you know, over the years, different things, you know, all different kinds of sports.
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And uh, you know, Mark is a hunter.
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I mean, Mark is a and Mark is a tremendous fisherman.
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I mean, he's very accomplished at hunting and fishing, and you know, we've played a lot of sports together and that sort of thing.
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And you know, if you're gonna go play a ball game, and I'm not a hunter or a fisher, because I can't really speak this, but if you go play a ball game, you you better be practicing before the game starts.
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Okay, you know, you better have prepared, you you need to have analyzed your opponent, you you need to be putting in the work and the effort, you know, to be prepared.
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But when the time comes when, like we've talked about, when your moment comes to face your giant or the opportunity, you know, to do something, and I and I'm not a hunterman, hunter or fisherman, but I know that someone like Mark, who who is who is skilled at that, is gonna prepare, they're gonna, you know, they're gonna they're they're gonna know their prey, right?
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They're gonna they're gonna check the you know the water and the temperature and you know they're gonna understand the the giant, the obstacle, you know, the the what they're what they're going to achieve.
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And I think that's just so important for us to realize about the Bible, right?
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You know, that when we read the Bible and we pray, and and the idea that David was alone a lot.
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You know, I think about I like to be alone personally.
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I that's I like to be quiet.
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That's something I've always really enjoyed doing.
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And I think in our world today, you know, that that's sadly missing for a lot of people.
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You know, I I walked by a young lady today on my way into the Y, and she had on her headphones, you know, and I said hello, and she didn't hear me because, you know, she she was and she, you know, I'm not judging her or anything.
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She might have been listening to a Christian podcast, so I don't want to know what she was doing.
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But you know, I didn't get to commune with her because, you know, she was kind of isolated in that in that moment, right?
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But I just am curious to know what y'all think about that, you know, how this applies, how the preparation of our faith, our prayer life, our studying the Bible, our being involved with other Christian believers prepare us for the giants that we're gonna face, you know.
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And Mark, I know you've you've you know, you've been in that world all, you know, for as long as I've known you, you know, you've hunted and fished, and so how how does that preparing to do that and reading the Bible relate to to this story of David and Goliath?
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Well, you're exactly right, Donnie.
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I mean, the key word for me is preparation.
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Yeah.
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In order to execute a task or a goal or a situation, maybe that um you're put in that uh is gonna require some some guidance, right?
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And so preparation in anything to me is important, whether you're hunting or fishing, or you're you're you're just going out for a a jog or you're riding a mountain bike through the you know, through the mountains, and and you've got to sometimes you know plan for the plan for the worst and hope for the best.
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So by executing a lot of different thought processes, you prepare yourself for what life throws at you.
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But in in in this particular case, I mean I wrote this down and and you know, most people thought Goliath was too big for David.
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Well, David figured he was too big to miss.
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Sometimes the obstacle, you know, that's that's before before us or before me is is too big to to to miss, or it's too big to to not recognize.
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And what David did was run straight at it.
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Ran straight at it, right, Chad?
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And and and equipped and was prepared with a number of things, but uh the main thing was he had God, you know, he had God on his side.
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And uh so if we have God in our life and God in our hearts, and we have the Holy Spirit leading us and guiding us, um, you know, on a not just a daily basis, but a but a minute by minute basis, um He's gonna provide us what we need with His love and His grace, uh He's going to provide us what we need regardless of the challenge.
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And so that that was another thing that I was able to pull out of this out of this story that was so inspirational.
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Yeah, I love the the fact that you said David ran he ran at the giant.
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That's another that's another uh show there that he he he had his fear, I don't know how his fear level was so low, he just like I'm going, I'm I don't care, I'm going, God's with me.
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Lord, you lead me on.
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But I also like the fact that you said prep preparation because when I was talking earlier, um I hope listeners uh out there, you don't you don't think that faith is um reckless.
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It's not reckless.
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Because even though we don't know what we're gonna do, or we don't know uh we don't know that we have any control in a situation, that's the whole purpose of having faith in a God who is in order.
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He does everything decently in order, he he knows exactly what's gonna happen, he knows the situation, and David knew that.
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I think David, right then in that moment, was not focused on the giant, he was focused on the task, but his focus was on God, you lead me in this situation, God, you are telling me what to do.
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I'm gonna trust you.
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And then all of that preparation, all of the stuff he had done before, it just it was instinct almost.
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Just instinct.
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Like Mark, I'm sure in in hunting, you've practiced shots so many times, it starts to become instinct after a while as to when you're gonna pull the trigger, what you're supposed to do.
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It starts to become part of you.
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And I think there's a lot of application there when we think of our own life and our own faith, how if we are to be prepared for a quote unquote giant, um, whether that be well, it can be anything, it can be an illness, it can be uh finance, it can be uh a loved one struggling, it can be you struggling with something.
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But if we're to be focused on how do we overcome that giant when when it when something happens and we're not expecting it, we've got to have the same faith daily and prepare by making sure that we have this relationship with Jesus Christ and that we are in his word, that is how he communicates with us, that is how we learn lessons, that is how we understand what we're supposed to do in life.
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That's God talking to us.
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We've got to be in the word, and then we've got to be connected and in prayer.
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And the Bible also also talks about uh it talks about being in meditation or meditating day and night constantly, and that means you are constantly in communication with God.
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It doesn't mean you have to stop every two minutes and close your eyes and say a prayer, but you can talk to God throughout the day.
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You can ride in your car and talk to God, you can have this relationship with God, and I think a lot of uh culture, today's culture um says we go to church on Sunday, and that's when we pray to God, and that's when we read a Bible, and then we go to work on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, then we come back on Sunday.
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But that's not a relationship.
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That's just going to see your folks on Sunday and talking to God for a few minutes.
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That is not a relationship.
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So we've got to turn that around.
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I love the fact that you said David ran towards the giant.
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It shows all of these things.
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He was prepared because he had done it before, his instinct kicked in because he had done it before.
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He had been practicing what he was preaching all of these years, and it just came in, and God looked over him and he just trusted God fully.
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So I think that's a big one.
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I like that, Mark.
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Well, and and I'll add to that and just say, you know, he had had other experiences with other battles and other giants, so to speak, with bears and lions, and and he had a club and I mean he had no fear.
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Yeah.
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I mean, he was he was totally ready to go.
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And I want to clarify something real quick.
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Oh, sorry, Donnie.
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No, no, you go ahead, Chad.
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So I just want to clarify something for the listeners out there.
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We're not, we are not saying, and we don't believe, that faith comes with no fear.
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It is not, you will fear sometimes.
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That you will fear.
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But the the bad thing is when your fear takes over and overcomes your ability to have faith.
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So fear, fear is you're gonna be afraid sometimes.
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There's no it's not a sin to be afraid, it is a sin to completely let it take over and you stop talking to God and stop that and be so focused on what the devil's put in front of you.
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So you will fear.
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It doesn't mean faith doesn't mean you're not gonna have any fear.
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That is a hundred percent true.
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That is exactly right.
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You know, and you know, I'm thinking about as you said that, and y'all are talking about that.
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You know, sometimes we can use fear as a tool.
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You know, that fear, that excitement, you know, that adrenaline, right, that gets us, you know, that gets us jacked up and ready to do something.
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You know, we can we can use that as a tool sometimes to fight through things that are that are really, really hard.
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You know, and uh, you know, we talked about before, I mean, I've grow I've grown up in the sports world.
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You know, I I you know, uh you know, on a football field, when when guys are coming at you, you better have your head on a swivel because it happens fast.
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And if you flinch, you know, like if you try and do that or shoot a jump shot or you're trying to hit a golf ball or or you're trying to hit a baseball, if you flinch, you know, that opportunity can't can't pass you by.
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So you have to be the way you prepare for that, or like Mark, you know, hunt you know, hunting.
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I mean, I I haven't done a lot of hunting, but you know, I would imagine when that opportunity to take that shot comes, you you have to be ready.
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You you you have to be able to, you know, to respond, and if you flinch, you might miss your opportunity, right?
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That's a good idea.
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I love how David, like we talked about, he was prepared.
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David was anointed by the Lord.
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And let me tell you, David, God chose David because God knew David was praying out there in that shepherd field by himself.
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There ain't nothing happening, God don't know.
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God might he David might have been out there by himself, but he was preparing to be the next king.
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God saw that in David and he anointed him.
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And you know, there's a there's a great blessing for for us pro making our time with God, like Chad was saying just now.
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Marcus said, there's a tremendous blessing in so many ways when we make spending time with Jesus an important part of our life, you know, with God.
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And so, you know, I've just I just think about that and I'm kind of curious to to what y'all think about the idea that when David doesn't flinch, exactly right.
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You know, he showed no fear, like Mark with Chad been talking about.
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But you know, when when uh when David goes to faith Goliath, he talks to it.
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He talks to him.
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He says, hey, he says, you know, you're out here defying uh the the God in the armies of Israel.
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He said, let me tell you, the battle here belongs to the Lord.
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He doesn't say I'm you know, he doesn't say, oh me, my, you know, I'm this and that.
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You know, I'm David and I've done all this other stuff.
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He says, Hey, the God that delivered me from the lion and the bear will deliver me this day.
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You know, David gave God the credit when he faced his giant, and you know, he was prepared.
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So what do you to me having that background and you know, sometimes we got to speak to our giant.
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It might be an addiction, it might be a financial problem, it might be a personal problem, you know, and and and look, we can't we can't solve this.
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I mean, it you know, if you'd have been betting on this, you know, everybody got all this online betting now, David wouldn't have got good odds.
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Okay, he wouldn't have got good odds.
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And we when he didn't when he went out there with a sling and a stone, his his odds would have gone down right there on the screen if you were watching it.
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You know, but but he did.
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He said, hey, he said, this battle belongs to the Lord.
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He said, the Lord's gonna turn you over to my hands.
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And how do y'all feel about that as far as when we're facing our giants?
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We need to realize we can't do it on our own.
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Maybe God's trying to say, hey, look, I'm gonna show you who's I'm gonna show you I'm in charge.
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You can't possibly do this.
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But if you let me.
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Do it, there's no telling what might happen.
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How do y'all how do y'all feel about how that applies to this story?
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Uh, I think I think what what you just said, Donnie, is exactly the reason David, before he even approached the situation, because he had been prepared, he knew all of this, all of the the things he had gone through, and he knows God so well because he spends time with him.
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David knew whose battle this was.
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He knew it wasn't the people's battle, he knew it wasn't Goliath's battle, he knew that God was in charge of this battle and was going to oversee it, and what God wanted to happen was gonna happen.
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:45.039
Like you said, he said, You come at me with a sword and a spear, I come to you in the name of the Lord.
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And the Bi you know, the Bible talks about hiding God's word where, in not in our head, in our heart, because whatever you put in your heart, whatever you take in so deeply that it penetrates your heart, it becomes part of you.
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And if you think about that, that is an amazing thing that you can take God's word, his living word, what he is saying, and you can put it in your heart.
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And at any time, if you've got it inside you, you can use it.
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You can use it against your battles, against your giants, against your enemies, against Satan himself, and you can speak that.
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And I think David knew that.
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He knew that speaking was going to give him more power, God's power within him to defeat this giant.
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And I knew I know that David, he knew where his confidence was.
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He knew his confidence wasn't in himself.
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All of his confidence, a hundred percent of it, was in God.
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And I think a good a good question to your point, Donnie, would be uh what changes when we stop fighting battles in and of our own strength?
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And we use God, we use his word, we use what we have inside of us.
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And like you said, if we don't have that, like if if we don't have that, if we're not doing that daily, if we don't have that word and read it and get it inside of us, we are we have less power.
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We don't have as much of God's power because we don't have his word inside us, and we can't use that word.
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You've got to have that in your heart to be able to use it.
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And I think that confidence without um confidence without God, it almost takes on pride.
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You know what I mean?
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Like thinking I can get over this without God.
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Well, that's kind of prideful for you to think that.
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All of your strength and all of your uh your strength to fight a battle should come from God.
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So confidence in God, that is what becomes faith.
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That is what real faith is all about.
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That's that's my take on that.
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Well, and you're exactly right, Chad, and this is this is just another another example, and we've talked about some already on other shows, but this is just another example how God chooses to lift up average people.
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Whether you're average or broken or at the top of your game, or you're or you're you know, i i to accomplish the impossible.
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When God anoints you, and when God lays his hand on you, regardless of where you come from, no one's exempt, right?
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We're not exempt, our listening audience is not exempt, it doesn't matter what you've done in your past, it's where you are today.
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And if you put your faith and your trust in God, he's not going to let you down.
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And you know, David was average, right?
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I mean, he was a boy, I mean he was a sheep herder, and his brothers treated him like a a slave, basically.
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His father, Jesse, ruled him with a heavy hand, his mother passed away when he was at an early age.
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I mean, he's out there, like you said, Todd, he's out there in the field tending his flock and just talking to God.
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And we don't have to be out in a field to talk to God.
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Like Chad said, we can be in our car, or we can be on our boat, or we can be in the comforts of our own bedroom, you know.
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God says, Go in go in silence, shut the door, and and I will be with you.
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So this is just another example, and the Bible's full of these examples, right?
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And full of these stories where God's God chooses to lift up average people.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And yeah, I was just thinking while you were talking, Mark, you were um I was thinking about your hunting experiences, and then it hit me.
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I didn't we didn't even talk about this, I didn't think about it, but he picks up um he picks up five stones, right?
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Five stones.
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And then I was thinking, well, if he had somebody might ask, well, if he had all of that faith, why did he pick up five stones?
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Because he has he's preparing for the for the for the same reason when Mark goes out and hunt, Mark, even if you are a hundred percent confident you are an amazing shot.
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Do you only take one bullet?
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No, I'm not Barney Fife, right?
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I'm not gonna I'm not just gonna carry one bullet.
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And then you think about he picked up the five stones and and we learn that Goliath had brothers.
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So he's he's prepared.
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He is prepared for whatever happens.
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I mean so he doesn't know who's gonna come out from the back ranks uh to challenge him again.
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Uh but I have no doubt that he would have slayed anybody else that that came to confront his God.
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Yep.
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So much stuff.
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There's so good.
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I think that, you know, like what Mark just said, right?
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David viewed it as that Goliath came to confront his God, right?
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I mean, David's not out there, I mean, he's confident because he's ready, he's prepared, right?
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He's prepared for whatever happens.
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You know, David is ready to go.
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He has spent his time alone with the Lord.
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And I think about as y'all were talking, you know, um, you know, situations like sometimes if you if you're riding on a boat like out in the water, you know, particularly if you just do yourself and just one other person or something, and the weather's really nice, and you and you're looking at the river or whatever, you know, and you just you know you see the the reflection of the light shining on the water, you know.
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There are times, you know, going for a walk by yourself and you you really take time to notice the trees or or playing golf.
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You know, if you're not i I I like to play by myself a lot, you know, and when I'm out there by myself, I find that it's a really great time to pray, you know.
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That God, you know, He there are there are situations where we can be out in our just daily walk, right?
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We don't have to be, you know, and we can be praying like like Chad was describing, we can be praying without ceasing.
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And that's a wonderful benefit for us to prepare for for the challenges that we're gonna come.
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Because hey, we all gonna have giants.
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I got some right now.
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I'm sure you guys do too.
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I got some giants.
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Yep, you know, and and I and and and you know, one thing we like to talk about on the show and is that we like to talk about how these these stories apply to to real life, you know, and and we're you know, we're three guys, you know, we're all parents.
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Mark and I, we're we're grandparents.
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I mean, you know, and I want what's best for my children, and I want what's best for my grandchildren.
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And, you know, for them to realize how important it is to read the Bible and to pray and to make time, you know, for God to be an active, intimate part of our lives is such a big deal.
00:51:59.519 --> 00:52:12.880
And how how would y'all say we maybe there's some young people out here listening today, they're trying to find their way, or older people or whatever, and you know, and they're really looking, they're looking for you know something to help them face their giants.
00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:20.880
You know, how how would to me this is such a beautiful story, you know, that I wish every young person could hear.
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And I I guess I say, you know, particularly young men, I'm a young I'm a man, right?
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You know, so for these young men, you know, what a role model David is because he was prepared and he used that experience, that preparation when he faced his giant.
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How would y'all say, you know, because y'all have boys, you know, how how would y'all say this applies or can be used as a to show young men and women the importance of a relationship with with Jesus?
00:52:54.159 --> 00:53:02.719
Fear is such a prevalent thing now, and fear doesn't come in the form of ooh, you're gonna be afraid.
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Now fear comes in the form of all kinds of things, and like you like you've talked about before, Donnie, and you've asked me questions about social media and how that you know affects my kids, and that's that is a big part of it that feeds into fears about everything, and young people are so susceptible to this.
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I mean, my boys, we've had conversations about well, I just uh everything's so expensive, Dad.
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I see y'all, you and mom having to buy this and buy that.
00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:41.119
I don't know how so they finance, there's a fear, and then they see um they see their grandmother who right now is going through pancreatic cancer.
00:53:41.199 --> 00:53:42.559
Well, there's another fear, health.
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And then they see the people on social media talking about all their illnesses.
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Then you talk about you talk about marriage.
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Um I I I do a lot of weddings um as far as officiating and being a pastor at weddings, and that my boys see people that are getting divorced.
00:53:58.639 --> 00:53:59.920
Well, there's another fear right there.
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Oh, people are getting divorced.
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Look, people online, I see them all the time.
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My kids would say something like this.
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I see them all the time, and they're they're getting divorced, their families are falling apart.
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So this fear constantly being instilled in our kids.
00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:23.039
And like when when you and Mark were talking a few episodes ago, you talked about how when you were young, you concentrated on uh you concentrated on being real with people.
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You rode your bike places, you played with your friends, you did things other than just nowadays everybody's on their phone, they're on their devices, and that can be a good tool, but it is predominantly being used as a bad tool.
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And that tool is instilling so much fear in our young people.
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Um, I think it's really easy to be overcome with that and and taken, taken over by all of that fear.
00:54:51.760 --> 00:54:53.760
Fear of failure, that's a really big one.
00:54:53.840 --> 00:55:08.480
I have had conversation after conversation uh with my son, who is he works with me, and he just it it's almost impossible now to say, hey, you can do this and you should do this, and here's how you should do it.
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But what if it don't work?
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That's what I hear.
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What if that don't work?
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This fear of failure.
00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:15.519
Well, I just and I'm you try to instill it.
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And it I think all of this goes to speak um to the fact that we have got to get our younger generation uh out of the phones and into the word more.
00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:32.960
That is the honestly, that is the only hope.
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You can you can pull them away from their phone and you can send them to a class or something.
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That does take their take their attention off of it.
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But until you replace it with something that is real and that is effective and that they can bury inside their heart and that is living, I I think that's one of the only the only fixes, in my opinion.
00:55:55.760 --> 00:56:15.039
And all those, though you're exactly right, you know, fear is is a is a biggie and you've got like you said, Chad, you've got insecurity, you've got peer pressure, you've got your just natural inabilities to be able to accomplish goals, health issues, pressure, failures from the past.
00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:20.960
However, and I wrote down the word outlet.
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If you have an outlet where you can let it go towards, you know, take it out of one bucket and go put it in another bucket, that outlet should be or could be, should be Jesus Christ.
00:56:42.480 --> 00:57:02.880
And my personal experience has been once I have let go quit trying to control it and put it in that outlet in God's bucket and watch Him take care of it, it's like the light switch turned on.
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I'll give you an example of fear.
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I had the opportunity to take flying lessons back when I was about 30 years old.
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And uh I flew great, had an instructor sitting right beside me, and I had no fear because I knew he could always take over at any time, right?
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I mean he was he was my co-pilot, he was my he was my my safety net, so to speak.
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But there came a time when he looks at me and says, Okay, you're ready to go by yourself, solo and to this day I can remember the anxiety and the fear and the what ifs, and what what if this happens, what if this happens.
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I took off and I got up there, and I certainly prayed out loud and said, Lord, it's if this situation's meant to be, it's up to me.
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It's really not up to me, it's really up to you.
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You know, you've heard the song Jesus Take the Wheel, right?
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Well, keep me in the air.
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Keep me in the air.
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Keep me in the air.
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Keep me in your prayers.
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There you go.
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And so I had a part of the saving grace about that solo flight, and I've only done it once.
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I had closed airspace after that with 911, 911, was highway I-95 was almost a straight line between point A and point B where I was headed.
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So I knew if I had to, instead of looking at all the instruments, my backup was just follow I-95.
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I could look down and see it.
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So I knew it was going to take me straight to my next destination.
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But then you gotta land it and you gotta take back off and fly back.
00:58:58.559 --> 00:59:07.679
That was a that was a that was an emotional flight because it was full of anxiety, it was full of fear, it was full of comfort.
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Like Donnie said, you look down, you look at the trees, and you look at everybody below you, and there's there's some serenity there.
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But at the same time, you knew that it was up to you to perform, to practice, to execute, be prepared in order to be able to enjoy a different experience.
00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:33.679
Well, that's what we're talking about.
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Be prepared in God's word to be able to experience and be prepared to experience afterlife with God.
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And so it's there's so many things in life, you know, that relates to all the things that we're talking about.
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And I hope that you know everyone can relate to at least one thing that they've been through in their life that uh they say, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been there, I've done that, and or I've experienced that, and and this is what helped me get through.
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Doesn't mean you're not going to make mistakes again.
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We all make mistakes.
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We're human, right?
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We sin and and we ask for forgiveness and we mean it.
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And uh and go to the next giant, you know, slay the next giant.
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So Amen.
01:00:24.559 --> 01:00:29.280
This has been a great uh This has been a great study.
01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:34.079
Yeah, that when you said that, a verse instantly came to my mind.
01:00:34.320 --> 01:00:38.719
Um uh Romans, it's in Romans 10.
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It says, Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
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Because everything we're talking about, it goes back to the Bible, it goes back to the scripture.
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Yeah, that's good.
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Absolutely.
01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:57.519
So remember, the point of David and Goliath isn't you be brave, be brave enough.
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The deeper point is God is bigger, he's bigger than your problems, he's bigger than all your issues, you've just got to look to him.
01:01:06.480 --> 01:01:11.280
David was not fearless, he just believed God was greater.
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He he believed so deeply that he just fear did not overtake him, it didn't overcome him.
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So, whatever giant somebody listening is facing right now, fear, marriage, all the things that I listed and Mark listed and Donnie listed, remember the same God who stood with David is the same God who still stands with his people today, and the battle belongs to him.
01:01:40.079 --> 01:01:42.239
Donnie, would you close us out in prayer?
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Sure.
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Dear Lord, we want to thank you for this day and the opportunity to uh to be together and to uh read and discuss your word, and Lord, you know, I pray for all the people who may be watching or listening out there, or we all have giants.
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And when we defeat this one, there's gonna be another one coming behind it.
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And help us to remember that the key to peace in these situations and courage and being able to do what we need to do when the situation arises is to be prepared ahead of time by having a deep personal relationship with your son Jesus Christ.
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And I pray that for everyone who's watching, and I ask these things in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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