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What or who is your Goliath 1Samuel 17 45-50

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  8. page through the links below. We take a little break this week

  9. from the book of Nehemiah. That's because as I was praying

  10. the Lord put in my heart something a kind of a revelation

  11. about the life of David and about the spiritual warfare.

  12. So you know, sometimes you chase a rabbit hole what you call

  13. chasing as a rabbit hole. I did that so ended up with this

  14. passage. So the first time in chapter 17,

  15. when you look, when you read how many of you are read it at least

  16. 1/2. That's that's good.

  17. Congratulations. Yeah.

  18. When you read through the whole chapter, you see the name of

  19. Goliath only two or three times. I would say three times.

  20. And initially it comes up only two times.

  21. Verse 7, verse 43, one more time somewhere.

  22. So but the name of David comes up 30 plus times, then the whole

  23. story is not Golad anywhere. He is there, but he's called.

  24. He himself calls it. Am I not a Philistine?

  25. He calls himself a Philistine. He doesn't want to have identity

  26. of his own. Am I not Golaya?

  27. Am I not 9 foot tall? Don't have this, this, this,

  28. this armor that I'm wearing? No, no, no.

  29. He identify himself as a Philistine, one who is opposed

  30. to God. The Philistines were opposed to

  31. Israel, the enemies for decades and decades.

  32. They just fought Israel. That's because God told them, I

  33. am going to give you the land of the, you know, all the

  34. Jebusites, The he was all kinds of hides, but seven different

  35. nations. They did not drive them out.

  36. And one of them is the Philistines.

  37. They did not drive them out because they failed to drive

  38. them out. They remain like a thorn in

  39. their side, in their flesh, poking the mall the time for

  40. decades. So sometimes that is

  41. representing Christian life. When you are saved, you are not

  42. 100% delivered. You use certain unconfessed

  43. sins, unconfessed issues. The history remains like a thorn

  44. in your flesh, like the Philistines and keeps goading

  45. you all the time. I am just wondering about this

  46. whole concept. How does it happen?

  47. How does it happen? Because sometimes when we hear

  48. the gospel, it is not the full gospel.

  49. We don't encounter holy God, we only encounter encounter a

  50. merciful God, a gracious God. We talk about mercy and grace,

  51. not about holiness of God. So we see people who are living

  52. together, even though they are believers, they are trying to

  53. meet people, live together, all kinds.

  54. I am coming across every day all the time.

  55. I wonder what kind of salvation they have.

  56. Will not they will be in their in their body and soul if they

  57. are compromising with sin because they are playing with

  58. the holy God. They are playing with the holy

  59. God. And that is the main problem in

  60. the church today, all over the world, not just one church

  61. everywhere, people forget God is holy and that's why there's

  62. defeat in their life. So the name Philistine is used

  63. 25 times in this chapter, 25 times he is reduced to a

  64. Philistine, A nameless entity, a just a Philistine.

  65. And when, when we when you think about it, you know that's not

  66. the story of a Christian. When you come to Christ, when

  67. you come to God, your name should be heard again and again

  68. because you believe in him and you do exploits for him.

  69. But sometimes we leave like Philistine, our name is reduced.

  70. No one hears our name because we compromise sin and devil.

  71. And then these people were living in complete oppression.

  72. Who Israelites? If you go backward sometime in I

  73. think in chapter 13 verse 22, there was a battle between Saul

  74. and his army, the Israelites and the Philistines.

  75. But what does say 1326? On the day of battle, not a

  76. soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear in his

  77. hand. Only Saul and his son Jonathan

  78. had them. Is it a good picture?

  79. Only King Saul and Jonathan have a sword to fight and no one else

  80. has anything. Nothing.

  81. Now this is purposefully the Philistines have oppressed

  82. Israel so that they cannot have any of this armor or ambition or

  83. swords or Spears. No.

  84. Secondly, Philistines were having advanced technology.

  85. They were able to mould, they were able to melt the metals and

  86. cast them into different kinds of things, and they were black

  87. spits. But these people, the

  88. Israelites, had to travel across the border, go into Philistines

  89. area and then they had to have their plows and mattox, you

  90. know, axes and sickles, even the gold, you know the stick with

  91. this pointy thing in the print, you want to poke the bull so it

  92. will turn the right way or the left way.

  93. You have to use the goat. Even that if the needs to be

  94. sharpened, they had to, they had no one to do it in the nation of

  95. Israel. They have to go to Philistine

  96. area. This is a sad story.

  97. And today the church is like that in many parts.

  98. We are not equipped to fight the spiritual enemy, the devil, all

  99. the time. Christ has paid the price.

  100. He struck the head of the enemy, He crushed the Satan, crushed

  101. the devil, crushed that serpent his head and overcome.

  102. But the Church is living as if they have no ammunition, no

  103. armor, no weapons, nothing. Jesus has disarmed, disparities,

  104. powers, rules of darkness. He disarmed so that they will

  105. not have any, no weapons they have.

  106. They have no weapons. He stripped them of the weapons.

  107. That is what Christ has done. But the church is living in

  108. fear. Church is living in fear.

  109. So now what is happening here is I'm not going into the whole

  110. chapter 17 just want to focus on these few verses.

  111. First thing that you see here is I mean David goes against

  112. Goliath and what does he carry with him in verse 4948?

  113. Let's read from 48. As the Philistine moved closer

  114. to attack him, they would ran quickly toward the battle line

  115. to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking

  116. out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the

  117. forehead. The stone sank into his forehead

  118. and he fell face down on the ground.

  119. Everybody say forehead, What is it?

  120. This area, forehead, very important area.

  121. When I started studying this forehead, it just struck me that

  122. the high priest used to wear a golden plate on his turban which

  123. says Holy to the Lord. It will cover his forehead, holy

  124. to the Lord. And when the high priest is

  125. putting on that plate saying holy to the Lord, he is

  126. consecrating himself to represent their sins before God.

  127. He is carrying the sins of the people when he says he's setting

  128. himself apart as a holy to the Lord.

  129. And that is what Jesus did. He became the high priest,

  130. taking our sins on Him. Secondly, the forehead is the

  131. place where the enemy is going. In the book of Ezekiel, before

  132. the judgment came, God said to an Angel, go to Jerusalem and I

  133. put a mark on everybodys forehead who is vexed by the sin

  134. in the city, in Jerusalem. If we are going to be unhappy

  135. with sin that's in the community, in the city, in the

  136. nation, then we, you are going to receive that mark.

  137. You know in the book of Ezekiel it says put a Tau.

  138. Tau is the last letter of Hebrew letter Tau, which is looks like

  139. an X of English letter X. So there is a mark of X put on

  140. their forehead. There is a mark.

  141. And Jeremiah says you people are looking like a brazen, shameless

  142. prostitute because you are putting the mark on your

  143. forehead. What?

  144. What do people see? That's the question is what does

  145. devil see? People may not be able to see,

  146. but devil sees some. Once there was a man who came

  147. into the church and the pastor was able to look at that man and

  148. call him out and say, I see bottles on your face.

  149. You are a drunkard, come out and God want to say, Tiffany, the

  150. point is human beings cannot see what is on your forehead.

  151. God sees and the devil sees. What does the devil see in your

  152. forehead? Does it say set apart, holy to

  153. the Lord? If it is not holy to the Lord,

  154. it's going to be something else, something else, which is not a

  155. very pleasant thing. So we should be set apart for

  156. God. So what is happening here?

  157. When Goliath was coming, he was completely covered with the

  158. armor. He had a helmet that was

  159. weighing certain kilos and then he had a coat of mail, that's

  160. what it is called, coat of mail that is covering his whole chest

  161. and everything, abdomen area and all that, so that no sword can

  162. hit and kill him on the body. What was the weight of coat of

  163. mail? 57 kilos?

  164. How many if that bakota melt on you will you get up from sitting

  165. down when you are you able to stand up?

  166. And this guy had completely covered.

  167. He had Greaves on his shins, TBL bone covering the TBL bone, the

  168. calf muzzle from the front and the back, and he had footwear.

  169. And then he was carrying a javelin and a spear and a spear

  170. was the beam. It was like a wooden beam of a

  171. Weaver, so strong and so big and weighing certain number of

  172. kilos. And the javel, his head was

  173. about 8 kilos. This is a massive guy and his

  174. sword must have weighed certain kilos, maybe 10 kilos or more.

  175. And when he is walking, probably you will feel earthquake under

  176. his feet. He was completely covered and

  177. protected and he's a warrior. And now here is a young boy,

  178. David, who was a shepherd boy basically was keeping taking a

  179. shepherd sheep and he was sent by the father to care for the

  180. brothers just to get a news of them that they are doing well in

  181. the battle. And that battle has been going

  182. on for more than 40 days. Really speaking.

  183. David arrived on the 40th day bringing food for his brothers

  184. and gives it to the quartermaster.

  185. And then he meets the brothers. Hey, everything OK?

  186. Everything OK? And the brothers get angry.

  187. Hey, why did you come here? I know you with your intention.

  188. You want to really come here and to see the battle.

  189. That's why you came here. Who?

  190. Who did you leave the few sheep with?

  191. You're so careless. You're lazy, irresponsible, all

  192. kinds of things. This poor boy was hearing.

  193. He said. What have I done?

  194. What have I done? I haven't done anything wrong.

  195. I just came with food for you guys just to take the news that

  196. you are doing well to the father.

  197. Probably this is again, I'm saying, dude, probably what was

  198. going on in the brother's mind is that anointing that took

  199. place when Samuel came to their city or to their town, to

  200. Bethlehem. And he calls for a sacrifice and

  201. he calls for the elders, calls Jesse and his sons.

  202. And then he, he, he wanted to anoint the next king because

  203. already Saul had disqualified himself by disobedience.

  204. And then he, he looks at the elder one, eldest one.

  205. Wow, he's so handsome, he's so tall, he looks so powerful and

  206. he certainly should be the king. And God said don't look at on

  207. the outside because God looks at the heart, not on the outside

  208. appearance. And he is, I am not selecting

  209. him. The second one, the third one,

  210. seventh one is done. And then he said, do you have

  211. any more sons? I have one more David who takes

  212. care of the sheep. He said hurry up, bring him

  213. until he comes. We are not going to do the

  214. sacrifice. And when he comes, the word uses

  215. his ready face. Face was ready, pinkish with

  216. youth, and he was so beautiful, rounded and the Holy Spirit says

  217. to him, rise up and annoy, but he is the one, because he is a

  218. man after my own heart. And Brother Bashar remembered

  219. that you got anointed, but I was looked at, not God did not favor

  220. me, but he favored you. But you are here with the wrong

  221. intention. You are in the wrong place.

  222. You are in the wrong place. You are not supposed to be here.

  223. But David was in the right place.

  224. He was in the right place because God's anointing is upon

  225. him and the story is going to change.

  226. And then what happens is he ran towards the Philistine, not with

  227. the sword, not with the javelin, not with the spear, but he was

  228. running towards him with just a staff in his hand.

  229. And that guy looks over and says, hey, are you coming to me

  230. with just a staff in your hand? Do you think I'm a dog to chase

  231. me away by a stick? He is a dog.

  232. He's a dog. Whenever I see dog in my dream,

  233. I know it's a devil. He's a dog and some people may.

  234. Please don't be offended. Those of you who love dog and

  235. keep in your home, I'm not talking against you, but

  236. spiritually it is spiritually for me, I have never liked dogs.

  237. Maybe that's my that's how I am wired.

  238. And when I see in my dream a dog, I know something bad is

  239. going to happen. So I pray and even after I

  240. praying that goes something goes wrong and again I have to pray

  241. to fight the consequences. That's how I have learned to

  242. understand what a dog is to me. So here Philistine was a dog and

  243. he was an enemy of God anyway. He was heart was against set

  244. against Yahweh, the Lord of the Israelites.

  245. His heart was set against it. And he says, oh, you're coming

  246. with a stick, You think I'm a dog?

  247. And then he took this, that 5 stones that he had taken, the

  248. pebbles. Yeah, the pebbles that he

  249. gathered from the valley of Elah, there must be a stream

  250. flowing there. And from the stream he picked up

  251. five smooth stones. He only needed one, probably

  252. just about. He must have practiced the sling

  253. multiple times, thousands of times, thousands of times that

  254. he can swing it and hit a target without missing a hair.

  255. Why do I put the Why would I bring the concept of hair before

  256. the story of David? In the book of Judges?

  257. You have 700 Benjamites who were able to sling us a stone and not

  258. miss a hair. You put a hair on the wall and

  259. you give him a sling, he can goes and hits that hair.

  260. Sharp vision. I was just studying this sharp

  261. vision thing again. We are, we only know 6 by 620,

  262. by 20, you know those kind of things.

  263. Some people can have 6 by 5. What somebody will see at 5 feet

  264. distance, they can see at six feet distance.

  265. And if you ask Seema, she can see the aircraft flying in the

  266. air and tell it is Pan Am or whatever it is Jetstar or she

  267. has a sharp eye. And that is the same kind of I

  268. said the demand for the pilots before they are recruited

  269. because they need to have the sharp eyesight.

  270. So here is this man who was able to just took one stone and he

  271. said, you know, what is the secret of David?

  272. David's victory? What is the secret of David's

  273. victory? Ask your neighbor, what is the

  274. secret of David's victory? It is not ability to throw the

  275. stone, is not his ability to any of these things.

  276. He is the secret of David. He is his understanding of God,

  277. who God is. He is the Holy One of Israel,

  278. and God is a God of covenant. He called Abraham, and now he is

  279. a descendant of Abraham, and he has such a great concept of God,

  280. such a wonderful, exalted view of God, and he thinks that that

  281. guy Goliath is defying, challenging the armies of the

  282. living God. All these thousands of soldiers,

  283. they have no such concept. Neither the King Saul has that

  284. concept, nor the Abner, his commander had the concept, nor

  285. the soldier had the concept that they are the army of the living

  286. God. They have forgotten it.

  287. They have forgotten it. But David knows that he is part

  288. of the army of the living God. His God is a living God.

  289. Secondly, David had experienced God's faithfulness in his life.

  290. How did you do it? He's taking as a sheep.

  291. He's always, every time now and then he'll be counting the sheep

  292. probably if he has 50 sheep, 123456049 Where's the one more?

  293. Where's one more? Oh, I see that lion is taking

  294. that one and running after. He goes after it and then stops

  295. it and the lion says, oh, I'm losing my meal.

  296. It turns against Goliath, sorry against David, and David grabs

  297. it by its mane and pulls it and then strikes it and kills his

  298. bare hands once, twice, many times, probably we don't know

  299. how many times. And he has rescued the sheep

  300. from the mouth of the lion and the from the mouth of the bear.

  301. He has done it several times. And he says, I know that my God,

  302. I know that my God who has rescued me from the mouth of the

  303. lion and the bear is going to rescue me from this Philistine.

  304. So the private victory will give you confidence for public

  305. victory. Everybody say private victory

  306. gives confidence for public victory.

  307. Do you? Have you killed a lion and a

  308. bear? What I mean is figuratively.

  309. If you have victories in the past, they will prepare you for

  310. victory in the present. If you have victories in the

  311. past, they will prepare you for victory in the future.

  312. If you are not seeing the power of God in the past, you are not

  313. going to see it now. You are not going to see it now.

  314. It begins from the time you believe in Jesus.

  315. It begins. You will, you will come across a

  316. lion, you will come across a bear, and you will have to

  317. defeat them. And when you defeat them, when

  318. the Goliath comes on the scene, you know he is your definite

  319. target and you are going to triumph over him.

  320. And you have that confidence to say I am going to kill you.

  321. I am going to kill the army of people behind you, everyone of

  322. them. Your flesh will be given as a

  323. foot to the birds of the air. Where does that confidence come

  324. from? Knowing God.

  325. That confidence comes from knowing God.

  326. And when you know your God, then you know your destiny is going

  327. to open up. But many Christians don't want

  328. to know their God. They have no time to study the

  329. scripture. They don't have time to obey

  330. him. They have no time to pursue him.

  331. They have no time to hear his voice.

  332. They have no time for it. They want to do something

  333. religious. What's the use of it?

  334. I heard a joke about it long time ago.

  335. There's a flight that is taking going in the over the Atlantic

  336. and then the pilot says 0. Everything is going good guys,

  337. enjoy your time, everything is fine.

  338. Only to come back after a couple of hours and say, hey, not

  339. everything is good. One engine has failed so people

  340. started becoming uncomfortable in their seats.

  341. You know what next? Don't worry, we have one more

  342. engine that will take us through.

  343. Then after 30 minutes he comes back again and says this, I have

  344. bad news. The second engine also failed.

  345. So all the people started shouting in the aircraft.

  346. What were they shouting? Some are praying loud.

  347. Oh, God have mercy on us. All kinds of things was going on

  348. and somebody shouted do something religious, do

  349. something religious. So 111 man got up, take off his

  350. hat, started taking collecting money from the people.

  351. We are not here to do something religious.

  352. Let's not do something religious.

  353. When you read the Bible, let there be awe in your heart that

  354. says I am handling the word of the living God.

  355. I am hearing His voice in the Scriptures.

  356. And when you approach that word with that kind of a sanctity,

  357. that kind of a high view of the Word of God, He will speak.

  358. It will not go unattended. Call because you have

  359. expectation that He will speak. OK, I have to be quick.

  360. There's so much more to say and then what happened is for it.

  361. Let us come back to the for it again.

  362. King Uzaya. Yeah, it is for it is the right

  363. pronunciation. Do not worry about it.

  364. You have any different difficulty, just check with the

  365. advanced learner, Oxford Advanced Learner Dictionary.

  366. So British pronunciation for it. So King Guzziah, he wanted to

  367. take over the responsibility of a priest.

  368. He wanted to offer fire. The incense.

  369. He takes the golden censor, puts scores of fire on it, puts the

  370. incense and offer it to God. Job of a priest, he wanted to

  371. take it on himself. And the priest come and say, hey

  372. thing, you cannot do these things, don't stop me, I am

  373. going to do it. And then suddenly what happens?

  374. Leprosy broke out on his forehead.

  375. Leprosy broke out instantly. And then the priest look at him

  376. and say leprosy is on your forehead.

  377. Run before we evict you, before we throw you out.

  378. You have become unholy. You have become sinful because

  379. of the leprosy. And he ran away from the temple

  380. of God. Ran away from the temple of God.

  381. He remains secluded. When you read the book of when

  382. Isaiah, you will see 2 kings present.

  383. One is himself. He had made a separate building

  384. for himself, lived there as a leper, but his son took over as

  385. a king. So you have two kings at the

  386. same time during the time until he died.

  387. So this is a judgment of God S the foreign represents.

  388. Either you are in favor with God or you are under judgment of

  389. God. If the favor is not there,

  390. judgment is there. You cannot have any anywhere in

  391. between, nowhere in between. And you know our experience

  392. nowadays, whenever you are praying for people, sometimes we

  393. see this in, in even among the Kiwi people and you know,

  394. African, Chinese, we see Shiva, an Indian deity or devil.

  395. We see him and his strong point is between the brows.

  396. The strong point he, he thinks he has got a third eye.

  397. And we put our finger in that place and say in the name of

  398. Jesus, he's destroying a third eye.

  399. Yeshiva come out now. And he goes, he goes and the

  400. Philistines this guy Goliath had only 1 little space exposed that

  401. was the forehead helmet is there on the sides is covered male of

  402. coat of mail covering his chest. He got everything covering his

  403. hands and then the feet and thighs and the chains and

  404. everything is covered except this area little bit exposed.

  405. And David takes the aim and releases the stone.

  406. He goes and hits him there. How does it happen?

  407. That stone, when you practice it quite well, can go at a speed of

  408. 100 mph. How much?

  409. 100 miles. And that is enough to crack the

  410. bone of the skull. So it sank into the stone, sank

  411. into his forehead between the eyes, and he fell face down.

  412. Everybody say face down. When he fell face down, two

  413. things are there. 1, he is defeated. 2 He is submitting.

  414. Defeat and submission happens in one go.

  415. That's what Jesus did when he crushed the head of serpent on

  416. the cross. By his death he has defeated and

  417. he has put the forces of darkness under submission to the

  418. church. He did it for you, said to your

  419. neighbor. He did it for you.

  420. So the point is we need to know that you're not operating from

  421. fear. You're not operating because

  422. you're going to lose the battle because the battle is already

  423. won. The battle is already won.

  424. Say battle is already won. And when you have, when you are

  425. fighting from that perspective, you're not going to lose.

  426. You're not going to lose. When you fight from that

  427. perspective, you're not going to lose.

  428. And that is what the church has to know.

  429. Every Christian has to know that you are on the winning side, not

  430. on the losing side, not on not only winning side.

  431. It is already won. It is the past tense. 2000 years

  432. ago it's done. So we should have confidence to

  433. tell the devil come out. It's very, very important.

  434. Now the devil also uses the same technique.

  435. He puts a mark on the forehead for those who belong to him.

  436. In the end times there is going to be people who will receive a

  437. mark on their hand or on the forehead.

  438. And devil is doing exactly what God is trying to do.

  439. And God says in the Book of Revelation, we read the Book of

  440. Revelation, He says put a mark on those who belong to me.

  441. So my question is, what is the mark on your forehead?

  442. Does it say you belong to God? Does it say you belong to the

  443. devil? There is no middle ground.

  444. There is no middle ground. We need to be very clear in our

  445. mind. We must receive the mark of God.

  446. When you, when you are a child of God, God has mocked you

  447. already. When you believe in Jesus by

  448. releasing or pouring out His Holy Spirit into you, He mocked

  449. you with His Holy Spirit. That is marking #1 and when you

  450. are faithfully walking with God, He puts a mark on your head so

  451. that they will cannot touch you. They will cannot touch you.

  452. Do you have the mark of God on your for it?

  453. They will cannot touch you. We need to be very sure.

  454. This is the secret of David. I am not going into the battle

  455. and all the fight and all those kind of things, but that is what

  456. it is. Secondly, I start, I decided a

  457. little bit about the stone. The Hebrew word used is eben.

  458. Everybody say eben E BEM eben means stone.

  459. Now this Pebble, was it made by humans?

  460. Have you put the stick in there and rub it on a stone, make it

  461. shiny, round and smooth? To know it's been coming down

  462. from wherever it is flowing down the hill somewhere and the

  463. stream is flowing and is water has been flowing over it for

  464. decades and centuries and it has worn out the big stone into a

  465. Pebble, small Pebble. What I'm trying to say here is

  466. not made by human hands, not made by human hands, but it's

  467. good enough to be a projectile to be used in a sling.

  468. Because David was an experienced person, he could pick the right

  469. kind of a stone that is going to achieve the purpose.

  470. He picked up just 5 stones. Interestingly, there were only

  471. apart from Goliath, there were four more giants during his time

  472. and he killed I think one more or two more and others killed

  473. other, other, other time during the lifetime of Goliath.

  474. All five were killed. He was a forerunner of a giant

  475. Slayer. He became a giant Slayer so that

  476. others could become giant slayers.

  477. The point is faith to conquer is I am looking for that word

  478. contagious. When you see somebody winning,

  479. when you see somebody throwing out the demons, then you get the

  480. confidence that you can do it. We prayed for a young man last

  481. week and another young man also was with with him.

  482. So I told him after some time, OK, put out your hands, I impart

  483. to you power to throw out the devil from the lives of the

  484. people. And now you pray for that guy.

  485. And when he prayed he was manifesting and the devil came

  486. out, the spirit came out, we went to America, then we prayed

  487. for a couple there and prayed for them for deliverance and

  488. they understood the process. I told them, see this process

  489. that we do for with you is two ways.

  490. One to set you free, 2 to train you both in one go.

  491. And now we hear that they were praying for somebody else to

  492. set, set the person free and he was manifesting and that they

  493. were able to cast out the demon. So this is what it is very

  494. important thing is Omega knows how to do this thing in a simple

  495. way. We do not have one more book,

  496. one more volume like this. You have to read this big book

  497. so you can cast out demons. No, it's very simple.

  498. In the name of Jesus. OK, cool.

  499. So we, you can see, you can first you experience it.

  500. We can pray with you. Whatever problem you have.

  501. You may say I do not have any problem.

  502. Let us talk about it very soon. Then let us see if there is a

  503. problem, then come, we are going to help you anytime, all the

  504. time. Rather so the stone is not made

  505. as human hands. That is, much before Daniel saw

  506. a stone that is not cut with human hands, and a small stone

  507. come and hit the golden statue, golden head, silver chest, you

  508. know all different metals, and then fetal mixture of steel and

  509. clay, it come and hit on the feet, and the whole statue was

  510. evaporated, became dust and the wind blew it away, and this

  511. small stone became a big mountain filling the whole

  512. world. The word used is Eben is the

  513. same ebon, same stone, what appeared like a small Pebble in

  514. the hand of king. I mean, David has become a stone

  515. that is not cut with human hands and that came and hit the golden

  516. statue, which has erased every succeeding Kingdom, its impact

  517. because it becomes a Kingdom by itself.

  518. It occupies the whole world. God's Kingdom has come in Jesus

  519. Christ. He is the stone.

  520. Everybody say he is the stone and devil comes to tempt him and

  521. says, hey, you are hungry, you didn't eat for 40 days.

  522. Turn this stone into bread. He is the stone and He is the

  523. bread. Where is the necessity to turn

  524. stone into bread? Am I communicating here?

  525. He is the stone, he is the bread.

  526. There's no need to change. And the same Daniel who saw a

  527. stone uncut his human hands come and strike the statue and

  528. destroy it, was thrown into the lion's den.

  529. And when they threw him into the lion's den, they urged that king

  530. to come and place a stone on the mouth of The Cave thing where

  531. the lions then and seal it with the seal it so that nobody can

  532. save him. Nobody can secretly come in the

  533. middle of the night and save him, as if the lions need many

  534. hours to kill him. Foolish fellows, but they put a

  535. seal on it. And the Jesus Christ of

  536. Nazareth, when he was, when he died on the cross, when he was

  537. put in the tomb, they made sure again on the stone they put a

  538. seal, Roman seal. In the first case they don't

  539. want to leave him. In the second case, they don't

  540. want to come, don't want him to come back to life, or his body

  541. will go missing. When you are committed to this

  542. kind of a work, I am telling you, when you are partaking in

  543. the ministry of God, when you are partaking in the work of

  544. God, you are going to experience, taste some of

  545. Christ's sufferings. And that's what Daniel did.

  546. He not only saw the stone victorious, but he also saw the

  547. stone become a stone to finish him off.

  548. But God brought him out. God brought him out.

  549. If you are a servant of God, if you are a son of God, a daughter

  550. of God, your life is not ending in the hands of devil.

  551. No, he doesn't have a final say. You have the final say and your

  552. say is final on devil because Jesus has said already.

  553. The question of all questions is, do you know who you are?

  554. If you know who you are, you are going to be different.

  555. You are going to be different. So the question again here is

  556. this about the switching. In my mind, we are going to see

  557. in the Book of Revelation chapter 22, verse 4, they will

    Revelation 22:4

  558. see His face and His name will be on their foreheads.

  559. We are going to see Him, Jesus Christ, and we are going to bear

  560. His name on a forehead. Is there something to rejoice?

  561. Is there something to rejoice? Can I hear Hallelujah?

  562. We are the victorious ones and we are going to bear His name on

  563. our heads. When you look at Him, His name

  564. is honored and He has many names.

  565. Who? The lion of tribe of Judah,

  566. Jesus Christ of Nazareth, has many names.

  567. One of the names no one knows except himself.

  568. That name which no one knows, only Jesus knows, that name will

  569. also come on here for it. I tell the whole week.

  570. I had a great time, you know, meditating on the Scripture.

  571. It's just fantastic experience. I am telling you every day I

  572. would tell something new to John.

  573. I said, did you come up with this idea?

  574. I said yeah, as praying. This is what I see.

  575. This is what I understand. I tell you when you, when you

  576. read the Scripture, the Holy Spirit will teach the Scripture

  577. and it is going to be different. You will not be the same.

  578. You will not be the same. Some people are groaning to come

  579. to the Bible study. Oh, these questions are hard.

  580. It is difficult for us to read, difficult for us to understand,

  581. can't answer these questions. I tell you, you approach it

  582. differently. This is the word of the living

  583. God is going to change you, empower you, and when you come

  584. with that attitude, that word will light up.

  585. There will be light coming from the Scriptures will hit you on

  586. your head that your understanding will come.

  587. That is what we want everybody experience the ministry of the

  588. Holy Spirit through the written word is what we are wanting to

  589. happen in the Bible study. I tell you, there's life

  590. transforming power there. It's not tedious, laborious

  591. drudgery. No, that's not what we are

  592. promoting. We are promoting encounter with

  593. the living Word. So you see here, 1 cannot have

  594. revelation without being involved in God's plan.

  595. He had revelation, Dan had revelation of Jesus, Son of Man

  596. and he was thrown into the lion's den and sealed that his

  597. participation in Christ. Same way there will be

  598. tribulation for his namesake. When you are part of it, you are

  599. going to go through it. When you are part of it, you are

  600. going to experience it. And this guy just a briefly I

  601. want to say how world, how world is functioning in the in the

  602. field of boxing. You know, before you have a

  603. boxing match, everybody pays a lot of money.

  604. Millions of dollars is generated. 30 minutes, 15

  605. minutes, 5 minutes, 2 minutes, all the money goes, millions of

  606. dollars just to watch the game. But before the you see the let's

  607. say Mike Tyson is, before he comes into the ring, he's

  608. exercising, he's warming up, doing things, beating in the

  609. air, beating in the air. And you'll hear somebody like

  610. probably you'll remember Muhammad Ali.

  611. I fly like a butterfly. I sting like a bee.

  612. I tell you, this is all nothing before God.

  613. They will will do exactly the same thing.

  614. And they say they go into something called beast mode.

  615. They really become beast. And Mike Tyson, he said I become

  616. someone I don't like. When he's getting ready for the

  617. going into the ring, he's practicing it and he becomes

  618. another man whom he doesn't like.

  619. He is a beast. He was turning into a beast.

  620. He doesn't like it to become like a beast.

  621. And that is the sport you are paying for, to watch the demons

  622. take over the fighters. And it is basically a clash of

  623. demons versus demons. That's what you are paying for.

  624. I'm sorry if I'm putting a pin into your bubble.

  625. That's what it is all about. The point is, that's what the

  626. point is. Same way we have to 1st learn to

  627. fight our lions and our bears. Tell your neighbor we must fight

  628. our lions and our bears before you take on Goliath.

  629. I don't have any. I don't see any lion.

  630. I don't see any bear in my life. Hmm.

  631. Unforgiveness keeps you chained to past wounds.

  632. You are chained, you know one side.

  633. You see David is finishing off lion and the bear and the

  634. Goliath and you have another person, Saul.

  635. He's being taken over by a lion and a beast and a bear because

  636. he starts to fear Davids fame. He starts to fear.

  637. It goes into a kind of a fear mode because David became famous

  638. by killing Goliath. So sometimes we think, ah, we

  639. have finished off a lion and a bear in somebody's life, but he

  640. pops up in somebody else's life. So you think of unforgiveness.

  641. Pride refuses correction and elevates a self over God.

  642. That is, pride yourself is more important than God.

  643. Fear paralyzes faith and distorts trust.

  644. Rebellion actively resist God's authority.

  645. Boastfulness seeks attention, validation from others.

  646. Judgmentalism elevates self by tearing others down.

  647. Anger is like a bear simmering resentment that erupts under

  648. pressure. Bear does not attack you until

  649. it is provoked. It minds its own business even

  650. when it comes face to face. You will stand there for a long

  651. time. You do not do anything.

  652. You stand there for a long time. You turn away and walk and you

  653. take a stone and throw it and you are done with it because you

  654. are provoking it. So sometimes it is like that and

  655. anger is like that. Simmering anger, resentment, it

  656. erupts under pressure. Bitterness, unresolved pain that

  657. poisons joy, lust, quiet indulgence that erodes purity,

  658. greed, subtle craving for more, never satisfied envy, Secret

  659. comparison that breeds discontent, sloth, spiritual

  660. laziness that avoids growth and self pity.

  661. A deceptive comfort that keeps you stuck.

  662. If you have any of these things which you only know in secret in

  663. your heart, you have a lion, you have a bear to deal with, you

  664. need deliverance. I would say you wouldn't need

  665. deliverance. I would say what is deliverance

  666. just to go free? What is not allowing you to live

  667. for God? What's the point in living

  668. another 1020 years with your lion and your bear and mis God?

  669. What's, what's the harm in getting some prayer and say I

  670. want to be set free? I have these problems.

  671. Is there any harm in, oh, I have confessed it 1000 times.

  672. Is there a harm in confessing it 1001 time?

  673. Is there a harm in it? That is what we do.

  674. We encourage everybody to be set free.

  675. We want you to discover who you are.

  676. God has paid a high price by giving His own life for you on

  677. the cross. Why do you want to live with a

  678. lion and a bear? Why do you have to live with a

  679. lion and a bear? Oppressing you, suppressing you,

  680. taking away your joy. You're seeing the children being

  681. dragged away. You're seeing somebody else in

  682. the family being dragged away. Somebody is sick, somebody is

  683. ruining themselves. Why do you want to watch it all

  684. saying no, no, I don't need prayer, I would encourage it.

  685. I myself have gone through deliverance, my wife Sema has

  686. gone through deliverance, our sons have gone through

  687. deliverance, we have gone through deliverance.

  688. Why? We want to be set free 100%.

  689. We don't want devil to put his finger and say this area in your

  690. life is mine. No, you are dethroned, you are

  691. defeated, we throw you out. We are consecrating ourselves to

  692. be holy for God. Every Christian is delivers at

  693. some point or the other. How many years you are a

  694. Christian doesn't mean anything. I will be a Christian this

  695. October, nearly 48 years. I pray to God for anything that

  696. is displeasing to you. Please take it out.

  697. Please take it out. Father God, you are the

  698. gardener. Jesus, your son is the wine.

  699. I have a branch in him. Please prune me.

  700. Take it away. Whatever is displeasing to you,

  701. take it away. Where in the scripture does it

  702. talk about deliverance? Everywhere.

  703. John chapter 15 talks about it. First Samuel 17 talks about it.

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  704. Genesis 315 talks about it. When David threw that stone and

  705. hit Golath on his head and he fell face down, Did he have a

  706. sword to kill him, cut him to pieces?

  707. No, he took the sword of the Goliath.

  708. He he actually stand. He stood upon the body of

  709. Goliath. He's trampled down snakes coffin

  710. all the powers. Anyway you have the power.

  711. Jesus said I'm giving you power to tread up on snakes coffin all

  712. the powers. Anyway, do you use it?

  713. Do you stand up on Goliath and tell him you are defeated?

  714. I am finishing you today. I will draw your own sword from

  715. your thing and I'm going to cut off your head.

  716. I have to tell you, your adrenal will flow into your bloodstream

  717. when you think of all those things and give you the faith,

  718. give you the courage to deal with the devil in your life.

  719. But if you are doing something wrong, sinful before God, you

  720. don't have that courage. You don't have the courage.

  721. Well, simple things can be to stop doing what is wrong.

  722. Let's do things right. Power of God will come upon you.

  723. Your destiny will change. David's private victories over

  724. the lion and the bear prepared him for public victory over

  725. Goliath. We need to begin to experience

  726. the faithfulness of God, power of God in our private life, and

  727. then God will promote you to victory in public.

  728. Saul killed thousands and David killed 10 thousands.

  729. He killed only one guy. He was busy with many other

  730. things. He was busy trying to retrieve

  731. the armor, take it back into the safe place and he was holding

  732. the head of that guy. Normal person's head will weigh

  733. something like 7-8 kilos, 10 kilos.

  734. This Goliath must be 1520 kilos. He was carrying the head of

  735. Goliath in his hand and probably the sword he used another 10

  736. kilos. And how does he carry the mail

  737. of coat and other things that belong to him?

  738. It would have been he would have been running back and forth,

  739. take something, go and hide it, go back again, take something.

  740. And then ultimately he walks with that head before saw.

  741. And then Abner says, hey son, come here.

  742. Whose son are you? Whose son are you?

  743. And he was in the lineage of the Messiah to come.

  744. They did not know it. They did not know it.

  745. And God wants you to be a king. God wants you to be a David.

  746. And when he selected the shepherd boy, what?

  747. One thing that God is telling the whole world forever and ever

  748. is that he doesn't look at your appearance, doesn't look at your

  749. background. He cares nothing about your

  750. thing, but he's looking for all that is whether your heart is

  751. for him. And if your heart is for Him, He

  752. wants to lift you up and make you a king.

  753. Question of all questions is, is God everything for you?

  754. Is he your delight? Is your joy?

  755. Is your purpose for your existence?

  756. Is He your motivator? Is He the one who inspires you

  757. to live your day? Is he the one who gives you

  758. power? If you want your life to change,

  759. surrender yourself to Him 100%. Let us pray.

  760. Thank you Jesus, Rasha basare kanare barani manare

  761. sundarasastakuruni. The Lord says whole Israel had

  762. no idea that God is a living God of Israel.

  763. Only one little boy knew it in this generation.

  764. I am looking for David, says the Lord.

  765. I'm looking for Davids whose heart is sold out to me, whose

  766. heart is completely surrounded. Exalt me to praise my name, to

  767. obey me, to be, to be feasting on my beauty and my glory, to

  768. worship me, to praise me, to obey me.

  769. I'm looking for Davids. If you want to be a David, just

  770. stand where you are. I want to pray for you.

  771. Rahasekarani Marani Sandharanu Samarasaste Kurasarono sharaka

  772. sakte Samakarane Rasta kori Bandabara Sastaroni hora banama

  773. shakare sanama Sandrano ro Jose kare Savastaro horaba Sandra

  774. Vastakaroni. Until Jesus comes again and

  775. breathes with his breath puts the devil to complete

  776. annihilation and death. The war has not not going to

  777. cease. The battle is not over and do

  778. you want to be in this battle? Do you want to be this battle?

  779. And the Lord says, I'm looking for David's father.

  780. I commit your children before your throne.

  781. They are responding to your word and they are on their feet.

  782. And now I pray that you put on the whole armor of God that Paul

  783. talks about in Ephesians chapter 6.

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  784. In the name of Jesus, put that helmet of salvation upon the

  785. head and and our Father righteousness on the chest and

  786. love built of truth on their waist and readiness of peace.

  787. The gospel of shoes. Put the shield of faith in their

  788. left hand and word of the sword of God in their right hand.

  789. And I pray make them victorious in the name of Jesus.

  790. Let them discover the power of the cross in their life.

  791. Let them discover the power of the bread of Jesus.

  792. Let them discover the power of the name of Jesus.

  793. I pray for the revelation now in the name of Jesus, let them know

  794. who they are, children of the mighty living God.

  795. In the name of Jesus my Father, I pray that every lion, every

  796. bear be put to death in their life and every every Goliath

  797. that is good they are going to face.

  798. Let them have victory over Goliath in the name of Jesus, to

  799. the glory of your name. The time is coming.

  800. The Lord says time is coming when all eyes will see when I

  801. put the devil to death. We praise you our Father.

  802. We await your coming back and I pray that you make us like David

  803. in the name of Jesus. I pray that you fill them with

  804. your spirit now start up, start up, start up that anointing,

  805. start that anointing. Start the anointing in them, in

  806. the spirit, soul and body. I pray that you start stir them

  807. up, start them up, start them up.

  808. Oh, I pray for the fire to come from your altar and to a light

  809. up on the head right now. May Angel of God bring fire from

  810. your altar and touch their the forest.

  811. Now put the mark on the forest to the glory of your name.

  812. In Jesus mighty name. We have asked and everybody says

  813. Amen, Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.

  814. If you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, or simply to

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