David and Goliath - Bruce Roebuck

West, even Shaw, he told us about the fact that the lord

loves Warriors. And I do too.

I know it's a few years ago, my heroes were always those kind of

men, who are confident tough and gritty old to the kind of people

that I like and so very briefly this evening, I want to study

with you an old Story one, that means so much to you and I, and

from it very quickly glean, some lessons, I hope will help us and

the Book of 1st, Samuel chapter 17 and verse 12, the Bible

begins like this and say, it's now.

David was the son of a son of that.

Here for theit of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse and

he had eight Sons. The man went among men for an

old man of the days of soul and the three eldest sons of Jesse

went and followed salt to the battle and the names of the

three sons that went to battle were a lie of the firstborn and

next unto him, a been a Deb and the third shaima, the three

eldest sons of Jesse as the scripture evidently points out

here, had gone was Saul to fight against the Philistines and

ancient enemy of the children of Israel forty days had now passed

in Jessie, begin. Think now an old man.

Perhaps worried about his children, he began to wonder how

they were how things were going for them.

And so he called the youngest David and he told him to go to

leave the sheep with the keeper and to take with him some

subsidence for his Brethren verse 17.

The scripture says, and Jesse said, to David taken out for thy

Brethren and he fought this parched corn and these 10 Loaves

and run to the camp to thy Brethren and carry these 10

Cheese's under the captain of the thousand.

And look how they fare and take their place.

Jan, so quick is opposed. He makes his way to the Bible

field and begins to hunt up his brothers and look for the m.

And when he finds them, he begins to talk to them and see

how they're doing. Jesse had said some things very

specific, first of all, see how they fare look them over.

Make sure everything is, all right, and take their pledge.

Make sure that if you speak with them you find out that

everything really is, okay. And so that's what he begins to

do. But while he's doing that, the

Bible tells us that he heard just These men have been hearing

for the last 40 days, both morning and evening of

philistine, Down Yonder in the Bible.

As the custom was for the people of that day and age.

Often were they went out to battle, they would find the

Little Valley with a hillside on either side of it and one Army

would get on one side and another Army on the other side

and they would set their armies and array and they would fight a

battle. Well, that's exactly what the

Israelites expected to do until they got there.

The Bible tells us if they're came down a man, Man, by the

name of Goliath. In verse 8, the scripture says

of him and he stood and cried into the armies of Israel and

said unto them. Why are you come out to set your

battle in Array? I'm not, I have Philistine.

And you service to Saul choose you a man for you and let him

come down to me. And if he be able to fight with

me and to kill me, then we be your servants.

But if I Prevail against him and kill him, then shall you be our

servants and serve us? And the Philistine said I defy

the armies of Israel. This day give me.

And that we may fight together. When Saul and all Israel, heard

those words, the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly

afraid, it's amazing to me. The Bible tells us what kind of

man, he was. He gives us those old

measurements of qubits and span and when you do the math, he was

over nine feet tall. The Bible tells us that his coat

of mail that he wore in the battle Wade and our current

numbers today around 150 pounds. Now that's a load to pack around

if you don't believe that. That when you get home you go

out to you feed cheddar suppose all y'all have one of those pick

up three bags of fee and you'll find out what 150 pounds is like

the Bible tells us that the tip of is feared weighed so much.

And in our numbers it was about 18 pounds.

Think about that 18 pounds. This was a monster of a man.

Now, the Bible tells us that David looked on watching and

seeing what would happened that day and I supposed like all

children with child like that. Admiration, he looked up to the

older brothers and I suppose David thought.

You just wait. You wait till alive gets down

there. You'll take care of you.

But alive didn't step up. You wait for a minute dad.

When he comes, that's the end of, you know, been a dad, shaima

shama. He's the one.

He'll take care of you. I suppose that David looked up

with childlike. Admiration thinking surely would

have my brother will take care of this.

You know, that's the way a little brothers.

Are I've got two boys separated by 15 years difference.

We one time. Are you eating supper?

And my daughter Caitlin, my oldest daughter overtaken with a

misguided moment of emotion reached over and grabbed groans

hand. She said I love you and Ron said

I love Sam. Well, that's the way little

brothers are and I expect that's what David was doing.

He was waiting. He was looking up, surely, they

will come, but they did, and not only that, as David begins to

talk to the rest of these cowards who had fled back to

their 10, he found out something very amazing as well.

There have been somewhat of an incentive for these children of

Israel as a matter of fact, in verse 24, Scripture says and all

the men of Israel when they saw the man fled from him and were

sore. Afraid.

And the men of Israel said, have you seen this man?

That has come up. Sure did it.

If I Israel has he come up and it shall be that the man who

killed the man, the king will enrich him with great riches and

will give his daughter and make his father's house, free, and

Israel, David was amazed the Bible says, in verse 26 and

David speak to the men that stood by him saying, what should

be done to the man that killed this Philistine and takes away.

The reproach from Israel for who is this uncircumcised

philistine? Steam that he should defy the

armies of the Living God and the people answered him after the

same manner saying, so shall it be done for him, that killeth

him. And so, David begins to speak to

every man around him and I suppose he's looking for a man

who would step out there and take the life as he turns 21.

Now, what will be done. Well, the Kings going to enrich

him and make his father's house free, and give his daughter to

wife yet. That man would not go out to the

next man. Now, what's going to happen to

the man that killed was this uncircumcised Philistine.

Well, Come on Reggie Hammond. Give his daughter to wife and

make this house free. It is related vein, David

searches for a man who would kill the Philistine.

None would go finally alive but his embarrassment who had been

standing there watching all of this.

He came to David, I suppose he snatched him up by his arm,

begin to drag him off and began, to chew him out.

In verse 28, the scripture says, and Allied the eldest brother

when he heard heard, when he spake unto them and lives.

Anger was kindled against Dave. And he said, why can't his now

down? Hither and we're them has.

Now left those few sheep on the Wilderness.

I Do by Pride of the notice of thine heart with our come down,

the town might have see, the Bible, I suppose.

David was used to this, he'd been chewed out by other older

brothers. Now that's where it works to,

with older and younger brothers. You know, sometimes the older

brother gets a little big for his britches and he kind of

steps into that parental role. David knew what it was like to

be chewed out and you remember what he said when he looked up

and alive. He said, what about now bond is

there not a Cause Said David's in Wonder stand at the

something. These other man did not.

There was a reason that Goliath had to die.

There was a reason that this Philistine had to be destroyed

and that was the fact that there was a reproach on Israel, these

were not coming every day men, these Ruiz relax.

These were not Gentiles. These were Israelites, they

serve the almighty God Of Heaven.

Their God was not like the Pagan Idols of the Philistines or any

other land know, their God. Punished his enemies with every

Manner of pestilence. You can imagine it was their God

who led them out of the land of Egypt and parted the Red Sea

before them. It was their God who fed them in

the wilderness with man, I'm with dub.

It was their God who parted the Waters of the Jordan when they

crossed over into this land of promise and it was their God who

had marched before them has. Granted them Victory after

Victory. And now in David's horror, it

was their God who was being disrespected.

And now, these cowards stood, By mouthy Philistine standing down

there in the battlefield intimidating, every one of them.

And here's what David understood.

This is a reproach and it has something has to be done.

They would not go. Well, he stirs such a stink, the

Bible tells us that finally, the king hears about.

Now, Saul knew David David had already been before Saul and it

played his heart before him and soothe his troubled mind.

And the Bible tells us this and when the words were heard, which

day, It's fake they were Hearst them before Saul and he sent for

him and David said to Saul at no man's heart fail because of him

that I serve him going fight this Philistine and Saul said to

David are not able to go against this Philistine to file with him

for our buddy Youth and he a man of war from as use and David

said, unto Saul died serving kept his father.

She and there came a lion and a bear and took out took a lamb

out of the flock and I went after him and smote him and

delivered it out of his mouth. And when he arose against me, I

called him by his beard and smote him and slew him.

And I served in Slough, both The Lion and the bear and this

uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them.

Seeing it defied, the armies of the Living.

God David said, moreover, the Lord that delivered me out of

the Paul the line and out of all the bear.

He will deliver me out of the hand of this philistine.

It's all said unto David go and the Lord be with thee.

Yes David understood. He understood that God just as

God had blessed him and cared for him.

He knew that God would continue to do that.

He had an abiding confidence and Abiding Faith.

In God. The Bible tells us that Saul

began to persuade him. Listen you're going to go and

fight at least take my armor if you ever thought about this?

David's a young man show He said last night, he was a teenager

saw a grown man. The Bible tells us it is

coronation was Head and Shoulders above everyone else.

He was a big man himself kind of makes me wonder, why this big

man didn't March down there to face their big man.

We start to see something of the crumbling character of Saul, and

so he tells him take my armor so they begin to put the armor on

David and they begin to lace it up and take that to build the

lake sale and reduce it down to a schmedium.

I'm sure. And by the time they get it all

cinched up, I'm sure. David looked like a terrapin

huerto sack and he said, I can't take this, I'm not prove this

armor, I can't have this and so off, he goes, the Bible tells us

he began to make his way down that Hillside.

And as he went along that Hillside, he began together some

Stones. You know what he took with you?

Do you remember what he took with him?

He had to Shepherds bag carried his possibles in there.

You know, he had his staff in one.

Hand and his sling that slang is amazing thing.

Now the, when I was a little boy my dad made me one of them.

That's not like you, we think about a slingshot piece of

leather whole about. So so wide with a string or a

piece of leather tied on one side and on the other side and

the way we did is you tie one piece of string around your

wrist and you'd hold the other piece of string and you'd put a

rock in there or whatever's handy and you take that and you

Wind that up and you would send it.

Oh, Mase it's Force. You kids are out of school.

That's an amazing arts and crafts project for you this

summer. Now, I never was as good as

David, I got to where I could hit paint cans and Stray Cats.

Although me and my neighbor, we did manage to hit a power

transformer on a power pole and knocked out electricity, 27 of

the neighbors down the road from us and mama was so proud, but

David was a master David knew what he was doing.

The Bible tells us what he made his way down there.

And finally met fit Goliath, they God begins to insult him.

The scripture says And the Philistine, Senator David?

Am I a dog without coming to me with staves and the Philistine

cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine said to David

come to me and I will give thy flesh and the fowls of the air

and the beasts of the field. I love David.

Listen to what David said. Now comes to me with a sword

with the spirit, with The Shield.

But I come to the end of the name, of the Lord of hosts, the

god of the armies of Israel. Whom thou Hast defied this day,

will the Lord deliver the into my hand?

And I will smite thee and take the head from thee and I will

give the carcasses of Host of the Philistines.

This they do the fowls of the air out of the wild beasts of

the earth that all the Earth. May know that there is a God in

Israel. And that all this will simply

may know that the Lord saves with not with sword.

And spear for the battle is the Lord's and he will give it into

your hands in my mind's eye. I can see David as he begins to

head toward Goliath. First two steps are measured,

but then his strides begin to grow until ultimately David is

racing toward him at full strength.

The scripture tells us, he takes one of those smooth stones, and

puts it in that swing. And as he begins to make ready,

too. Fire his shot.

I suppose had to the sudden stop David took the momentum.

He had built up. It began the soles of his feet

and travel through his body until awesomely the shot was

fired. The Bible tells us that it found

its Mark in Goliath's forehead and pointedly says it's sucking

and Goliath fell before him dead.

There was no sword and David saying.

And so David ran to him, the scripture tells us they took

Goliath's sword. The cut Goliath's head off.

And in my wild imagination, I can only imagine what it must

have been like, when David reached down and grabbed those

nappy oily, curls of that, Philistine and hoist his his

head before the Israelites. And they begin to understand our

God. Save is not with sword and

spear. The Bible tells us the

Philistines were put to flight very quickly.

I want to notice with you a couple of lessons here, that I

think that you and I should glean from this and that we We

should check a with first of all, David points out.

The fact that there is a cause must be defended, there is a

cause today, there always has been Israel.

Here was being humiliated, her lands were being threatened and

the Army was too afraid to do anything about it.

David asked the most appropriate question when he said, is there

not a cause. And so I say today Brethren, he

is there not a cause in which you and I are engaged.

Is there not a cause it's worth our work, our effort and our

defense, the Bible teaches. Us in Romans chapter 1 and verse

Romans 1 · chapter mention

16. The Apostle said, for I am not

ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto

salvation to everyone that believeth to the Jew first and

also to the Greek. Yes.

Today, that is a Cause worth defending.

The Apostle. Defined it in First Corinthians,

1 Corinthians 15:1–4

15 verses 1 through 4 as being the very fact of the life, the

death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

And that's a story. The world needs to hear.

That's a Cause worth defending today.

And more critics today, assail the story of Christ and the

scripture itself, and that's the cause we please.

It's the one that makes the difference for a man.

Literally the difference between Heaven or Hell?

The difference between saved being saved and being lost

forever? Thus the scripture says in 2nd,

Corinthians 4 and verse 3. But if our gospel be hid, it is

hid to them that are lost in whom the God of this world has

blinded the minds of them which believe not lest the light of

the Glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God should

shine. Unto them?

Yes, are closed. Today is work defending.

Our calls today is worth declaring.

But secondly, to we defend the church.

The church today is worth defense.

This glorious Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

The Bible teaches us in Acts chapter 2 and verse 47 praising,

Acts 2 · chapter mention

God, and having favor with all the people and the Lord added to

the church daily. Such as should be saved

yesterday. My friends.

The church is the cause we plead.

She's worth working for she's worth laboring.

For their critics today. Both inside the kingdom and

outside the kingdom, who wants to look down on the church.

And you want to downplay the church and the importance of the

church she's worth defending today.

Now, I realize today, it's only a grammatical thing, but it

absolutely gets under my hide. When I see somebody spell out

the Church of Christ and they put a little see on Church.

As if 2D emphasized, the importance of the church,

listen, friends. That's the Kingdom of Heaven on

Earth. And if men are going to be saved

today, they're going to be members of that Kingdom.

And we need. Not be valued.

No, I understand the principle, you know, we want to emphasize

Christ in the name Church of Christ.

Well that's good and that's important.

Man, won't be safe without the church.

You can't be saved with Christ and without the church, it

doesn't work that way. Now, I understand it's a

grammatical issue, but there's an underlying theme in there to

my friends and don't be fooled by Wiley.

Folks who simply want to say tell you that it's merely a

matter of advertising. Yes.

The Kingdom of Heaven is a Cause worth fighting for, but

secondly, I want you to notice today that David had Faith, you

know what drove him. Down in that Valley, faith,

faith. He believed in God and you

believe in God protecting power. I've often thought about David,

you know, we don't have very many bear at home.

You don't have very many mountain lions either, at least

not these kind. And so I've been reduced to

hunting wild hog every once in a while.

You'll catch an old wild Sal 200, 250 pounds, or so, who

don't understand that. This is really just a I'm just

going to catch you and tie you up and catch you my dogs and

we're going to turn you loose and go on our merry way.

She don't understand that. And so, when I get ahold of her,

she's trying to eat me alive. And almost every time I think, I

hope David didn't feel this way. But I'm scared to death.

The only thing that really keeps me from turning loose is number

one, the abiding fear of being mauled.

Number two having to tell my wife meet me at the emergency

room, I've done something stupid.

Well isn't that a way for David? David had faith and David said,

just as God delivered me from The Lion and from the bear, he

will deliver me from this Philistine.

Let me ask you today. Where is your faith?

Glad you David's Faith. Led him to a valley of victory

of valley of Victory. Where's your faith?

LED you do, you have faith enough today to live the truth?

You have faith enough to live the truth in front of friends

and in front of critics I've got to hurry on very quickly.

You know, we've been talking to these young men.

They did an amazing job this morning I think I didn't see a

dud and a bunch. They really did good and you

know here and like all the young people's meetings that you will

go to peep they're going to pet and Ponte.

You have good. You did you mama's going to

flutter around you? And your daddy's going to March

around with pride and all the Brethren.

Going to tell you the greatest thing since sliced bread and you

all did very well. But it's one thing to preach the

truth where the fans are. And it's another thing to preach

the truth with the critics alter its own, don't you understand

today? It's going to take some Faith.

Some confidence of what you're preaching is the truth of God's

Divine will and I pray, you'll do that very thing.

Just as I do for all our preachers you have faith in

after enough today. To confront are and false

teaching yes, false teachers still are among us today just as

they were in the first century. And you know what?

It's going to take to confront them.

Faith confidence in God's word. That is true, right?

And unchanging, it's going to take Faith, he have faith enough

today to preach the truth and to live the truth in your everyday

life. You're going to have friends and

neighbors. You're going to have workmates

today, who don't agree with what you do, what you stand for, how

you live, What You Preach, what you practice and you, you are,

they just don't like it. You know what?

It's going to take to live it out before them.

And to change their mind, it's going to take Faith.

You're going to have to be convinced that what you're doing

is absolutely right. So I ask you again today.

Where is your faith? LED you as your faith?

That you today to be the best Christian that you can be.

Here's what the Lord said in Revelation 2 and verse 10.

He ran out of those things, which Thou shalt suffer behold.

The devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be

tried. And ye shall have tribulation

ten days, be thou faithful unto death.

And I'll give you a Crown of Life.

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