The Clash of Heroes | Pastor Paul McGee

Familiar book, perhaps one of the most familiar stories world

over a scripture of David and Goliath, the first Samuel

1 Samuel 17 · chapter mention

chapter 17. And I've picked this up and put

this down a gazillion times this week of of study in a particular

verse I talked to my daughter about some of the finer points

in a trip that we had the other day.

Took her to about two hours away for a song practice for overflow

rally, a praise singing. Took my portable office and I

found me a Sunday school room in that church for four and

eight-year olds and felt like that fit me and went in the room

and turned it into a study area for a couple of hours while they

were practicing and then touched it and messed with it again last

night. So I want to minister here this

evening. If we turn to chapter 17, I'm

going to read it just two verses out of this very long chapter 2

verses, verse #50 and verse #51 Somebody's already unhappy about

this. I know it.

I'm just, so it's just pitiful. It's just I have that impact on

people. Sometimes I get behind a pulpit.

They just start crying because they say we're going to have to

endure something here. First Samuel 17 verse #15 Bible

says So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with

a stone, and smoked the Philistine, and slew him.

But there was no sword in the hand of David.

Therefore David ran and stood upon the Philistine, and took

his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew

him, and cut off his head therewith.

And when the Philistines right saw their champion was dead,

they fled a little while. Tonight, help the Holy Ghost.

I need God's help every time I want to minister this.

The clash, the clash of heroes. The clash of heroes.

We ask the Lord to help us in the next few moments.

Father, I need you tonight. God, we're so thankful for your

word. It's forever settled in heaven.

The grass may wither and the flower may stay, but the word of

God will stand forever. There's not one job or two of

your word that will not come to pass.

God before the end, the Lord Jesus.

God, I pray, O Lord, minister to us through tonight.

God, God equip our minds, Lord Jesus to understand our hearts

to accept God, what the Spirit would say in this place to see

that will not fail to thank you, praise you for the lovely name

of Jesus Christ that I pray Amen and Amen and the church say

Amen. You may be good to see different

ones of you that wasn't able to be here this morning, be here

tonight, so and so forth. The clash of heroes, whenever I

mention heroes for sure in this modern day world, that word

alone may produce a variety of ideas just at the mention of it.

Some may think from a standard of a hero to more so of a

superhero, particularly today's world.

They might be drawn to the superheroes in the Marvel world

such as Spider Man and Iron Man, or Captain America, Thor, Hulk,

Black Widow. Others may have more of a draw

to those of the DC world, with Superman and Batman and Wonder

Woman and the Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman.

But for the Philistines in biblical times, for them it was

their Goliath. Our text calls him the champion.

Out of the 56 Bible translations that I checked, little over 64%

of the time he is referenced as the champion.

However, there are some other translations, about 20 percent.

27% of the time he is labeled as the hero.

The hero, and we may be at on this side of the fence, on

David's side of the fence, to look at Goliath and describe

Goliath more so as a villain. But what we must understand is

this. But to his people, he was their

hero. As their hero, then, Goliath

embodied the values that the Philistines held dear.

He served as their role model. He inspired his people.

Goliath gave the Philistines hope.

He was their reminder on their side of the battle that

challenges can be overcome and that one person can indeed make

a difference. The Philistines then, him being

their hero, Goliath, they could identify with him.

He was one of theirs. They admired him and wish to

develop qualities that he had and that they adored in him.

He was the face, if you will, of the Philistines.

Their identity and their hope were sewn up in Goliath's

identity. And like any hero, Goliath was

central to the stories that the Philistines told about

themselves. No doubt they could include

their hero in their stories. They were, according to history,

warlike warriors, towering strong men, a force to be

reckoned with, which are all the things that could likewise

describe Goliath. And in this setting, if Goliath

won, the Philistines won. If Goliath won, the people, if

you will, won. They lived vicariously through

him, and even in this moment, literally through him.

Here he defined and sustained the Philistine community because

he was their hero. As a matter of fact, shortly

after the Israelites enter into the Promised Land, the

Philistine people became one of Israel's fierces and principal

rivals from the time of the judges all the way up forward,

even to the time that we're Speaking of tonight.

It was during the heir of the judges that the Bible says

Shamdar killed 600 Philistines in the time of sins and the

Bible says that the Philistines oppressed Israel for 40 years,

therefore encompassing all the years that Samson was a judge of

Israel when Samuel served as a prophet and a judge.

The Bible tells us that the Israelites were defeated by the

Philistines on several occasions.

They overcome the Ebenezer Shiloh that the Israelites had

was defeated. The Ark of the Covenant was

captured in a battle and passed between the towns and the cities

of the Philistines. The Bible even says that as Saul

was Israel's first king that he was involved in several bouts of

battle with them. The Philistines during his

reign. And so until the time of our

text, there have been at least 2 centuries, 200 years of conflict

between Israel and Philista, the Philistine people, where they

typically dominated, where they typically controlled key areas,

where they typically were the ones that were oppressing God's

people. And so for this reason, the

skirmishes that Israel had with the Philistines have come to

stand as a a symbolism for the spiritual and physical struggles

that God's people face and still yet face today.

Sometimes, and you'll understand and identify with this, but

sometimes we face adversities and temptations.

We, we deal with foes of conflict that afflict our soul

and afflict our life. And many times they compete for

the same ground that God wants to have in our life.

And The thing is, those foes of conflict doesn't want us to have

them in God. And so they come along and they,

they decimate our secure places and they steal away our hope.

And they're very relentless in doing all of this.

They, they dominate, dominate us, they oppress us and it seems

sometimes we are in need of help for finding a refrain and, and

we dread sometimes their presence and their appearance

because we know when they show up, the sparks are going to fly

upward and a fight is going to ensue.

But the Bible gives us direction.

The God Bible gives us guidance, examples on how to fight and

what to do when we are overwhelmed by the opposition or

in a position of war. The Bible says you have to ride

with me for a little bit here tonight.

First Kings 22 and verse 31. The Bible says that the king of

Syria commanded his 30 and 2 captains that had rule over his

chariot, saying fight neither was small nor great save only

with the king Israel. They needed in this particular

battle to bring down the king. He says if you want to

destabilize the opposition, if you want to cause confusion, if

you want to cause disorder, then you got to fight against the

military leader, you got to fight against the central figure

of authority that they have. You could fight just another

soldier and you could fight another man.

You could even fight the army, but it's not going to have the

same impact as fighting the king.

You can fight a private, you can fight a general, you can fight a

Lieutenant, but if you can fight the commander in chief, the

commander in chief, that that one that is their symbol of

strength, that one that they consider the most powerful man

in their land. If you can take him down, then

those that follow him, those that look to him will probably

lose their fight. They'll lose their resistance to

carry on. On another occasion, the Bible

speaks of Saul and it speaks of Jonathan that they were

warriors. And the Bible says in Second

Samuel 119, that they, they had fell in battle, they had been

slain. And the, the, the lament is

this. The beauty of Israel is slain

upon the high places. How are the mighty fallen?

They were the chief ornaments, the Bible says, And the glory of

Israel, their strength, and the use of their sword and bow,

excelled all the others in Israel.

They were respected. Saul himself is spoken as being

heads and shoulders among others.

He was esteemed above the masses.

But these mighty too individuals fell.

They were taken down. They were the mighty ones.

They were the ones of excellent power.

Amen. And Israel, after this, withdrew

into a time of grief and limitation.

These people were considered, if we can, heroes by their people.

They embodied their people's values.

They embodied their people's beliefs.

And they were the ones that was the target to be brought down.

The Bible tells us in the New Testament, in Mark chapter #3

and verse 27, Jesus speaking, he says no man can enter into a

strong man's house and spoil his goods, except he will first bind

the strong man, then he will spoil his house.

Jesus is saying to win victory over the house and it's goods,

the strong man of the house must be addressed.

The strong missed man of the house must be contended with.

He's telling us if we deal with the strong man first, then that

opens access to the house. That opens access, then to

everything that's in the house. Can I tell you tonight that

heroes come in all types? Sometimes a hero is a king.

Sometimes a hero is a strong man.

Sometimes a hero is a ideology in the world.

Sometimes a hero is a idol or a belief or a habit or influence

that opposes God's purpose for your life.

In the Greek times, a hero was a demigod.

It was part mortal and part God. But the heroes we face today, I

would like to say, follow that concept and that idea very

closely because most strongholds in our lives, they have a mortal

side, but they also have a spiritual side to them.

Or the apostle Paul would have never said we wrestle not

against flesh and blood, but against principalities and

powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against

spiritual wickedness in high place.

Paul wasn't refuting that we don't face real people or things

in nature, but he was also saying there is something

invisible, a controversy that is invisible that we also face.

Notice the scripture in Ephesians as he goes to those

things of principalities, powers, rulers.

You know what Paul's telling us that the adversary has a rank

and a hierarchy. A man in his world, he has a

rank and a hierarchy in his world.

There's principalities, people that in his world that are

principal rulers or chieftains. These this is a well marshalled

order organized army with rank. If I can say this, that in his

rank, among his rank are heroes, someone say Amen.

Notably, in verse 51 of our text, the word champion is often

translated as mighty man, warrior or hero.

And this of course highlights Goliath strength, his valor, his

warrior status. It underscores then that he can

intimidate and that the crux of the battle here for the

Philistines lies upon Goliaths shoulders.

Verse 9 tells us here in this chapter that if Goliath wins,

the Israelites will be their servants.

The Bible says in verse 10 that he defied the armies of Israel,

and David rightly interpret this later in verse 45, basically

saying if you're defying the armies of Israel, the Lord our

God is the God of Israel. And so if you're defying the

army, you're the people, then you're defying God.

Amen. The Israelites were dismayed.

The Scripture says the Israelites were greatly afraid

of the Philistines. Hero for 40 days.

You know the story, but I'm going to tell it as though no

one knows it. 40 days This hero taunted Israel.

For 40 days the army of Israel and the army of the Philistines

engaged in bouts of fighting the Israelites against the

Philistines. Verse #19 Now Saul and they and

all the men were in the valley of Allah fighting with the

Philistines. Please note this tonight the

Israelite army fought against the Philistine army, but it's

not until there is a change in the story that there's any

fighting against the hero of the Philistine army.

There's fighting going on, there's some combat going on,

but nobody is addressing the hero.

It's important to note they're in a ray on mountaintops army

against army for 40 days. They at different times in the

day would leave their mountaintops to go forth to the

valley to fight army against army.

But again, no one is addressing the hero.

Look at verse #20 the Bible says he, Speaking of David, came to

the French as the host was going forth to the fight and shouted

for the battle. They are once again army to army

coming together for a fight. Verse 21 For Israel and the

Philistines have put the battle in a ray army against harmony.

Verse 24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man,

the man being referred to is Goliath.

The man being referred to is the Philistine hero.

When they saw the hero, they fled from him and were sore

afraid. What are you saying in

Scripture? Goliath says give me a man, give

me a worthy opponent that I can fight against.

There was no man, it would seem like, enlisted in Israel's army.

That was a worthy opponent for Goliath.

The men of Israel fled and they feared and they had been

challenged to provide such a person.

But it seems in Scripture they look high and low within their

ranks, but they found no body. And then all of a sudden, on a

certain day, unlikely individual accepted the challenge.

The Bible says that he was a shepherd.

The Bible says that he was one of them, though he didn't go

forth into the battle with Armory, Amen or armor like the

others. In essence, he became Israel's

hero. He did what they wanted.

Hey man, but what they couldn't do and what they didn't do if I

can, David embodied the desires of the Israelite army, wanting

to fight and wanting to defeat the other side.

Now note Goliath choose he defeat he he challenged choose a

man. He talked to them and said in

verse 8, give me a man and he says, listen what he says.

He says give me a man and I realized he asked that such a

man. He says that he would come down

to me. Let this man come down to me.

I know what that meant for this situation.

I know that meant that Goliath wants someone to leave the

mountaintop and come to the valley and fight with him.

But the David, watch me here. The David versus Goliath story

is more than just a sweet little story that we have in our Sunday

school class about overcoming a giants and overcoming obstacles.

Someone say ma'am, this story just stay with me for a little

bit. This story answers the question

about what people should do whenever the opposition

challenges them. And the opposition has a hero.

The opposition has a Chieftain, the opposition has a strong man,

the opposition has a king. It answers the nagging approach

for all of humanity that when there isn't a man among you to

meet the confrontation, then the only solution is, is that you

need a hero to defeat a hero. They couldn't find it in the

army, so to speak, but they finally found someone that held

their values, that held, if you will, the things that they

revered and respected. And the Bible says in verse 51,

the last phrase when the Philistines, and this is the

version that I was reading it from, when the Philistines then

saw that their hero was dead, they ran.

Here's the difference. David didn't go to fight the

Philistines, he went to fight the Philistine singular.

There been a lot of fighting going on Israelites between

Philistines, but on this day, a hero arose among Israel to

confront the hero. On this day, David showed up on

the ground and he's about ready to address the very one that

embodies all of the beliefs, all of the values of the I'm not,

I'm not fighting any private. I'm going all the way to the top

and I'm here to address the hero.

Someone say Amen. He grappled with the hero

whenever he went on the battleground.

He spoke. He spoke to their hero.

He didn't dress the army. He spoke to their hero.

He charged not the army. He charged their hero.

He didn't chase a foot soldier. He chased their hero.

He didn't attack someone here over on the flange.

No, he attacked the one that embodied their values, that

inspired their successes. I'm here for the hero.

You understand that Whenever David released that stone,

whenever David stood upon Goliath, whenever David did all

of these things, David touched what identified the Philistine

nation. He got to the root of the matter

and David brought the hero down. Please note the scripture and

the way the scripture states this is critical important that

sometimes we overlook. In verse 49 it says he Speaking

of Goliath. The hero fell upon his face to

the earth. Falling on your face is a

forward fall. Falling on his face.

The hero fell on his face to the earth.

Stay with me here. This in part proves that this

was more than a natural fight on the battlefield.

This was a spiritual fight. For that matter, even the

Philistines hero, the Bible says, cursed David by Goliath's

gods. This is more than a physical

battle. This is a spiritual battle.

They serve the gods of Dagon and Ashtaroth and Baozi Baba.

He cursed David by his gods. And you'll notice in verse 45

then when David, the hero of the nation of Israel comes on the

scene, what does he do? He defends the God of Israel and

says, I don't come to you in shield or sword, but I come to

you in the name. What's he saying?

I realize Goliath, this just isn't man to man, that this

isn't just champion to champion, hero to hero.

There's something spiritual going on this battlefield right

now. Let me tell you something

tonight. We have played around sometimes

as the Army of God, fooling around just with the army, the

opposition. And all that's got us is 40 days

on mountain tops. We need a hero to rise among us

to address the hero of the Pope. We need a clash of heroes.

How do I know? Why do you say this is

spiritual? Let's go back in time to First

Samuel chapter #5 and let me read a few verses of Scripture

here. The Bible says, and the

Philistines took the ark of God during the battle of Israel and

brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.

That is a Philistine city. When the Philistines took the

Ark of God, they brought it into the House of Dagon, one of their

gods, and said it by Dagon. And when Bay of Ashdod arose

early on the Morrow, be hoped Dagon was fallen upon his face.

She, the hero, always embodies the values and the belief

systems of the people. When Goliath stood there, he

embodied those belief systems of Dagon and Astora and bells

above. And if it were like the Greeks,

it was more than a mortal. There was some type of God

factor that was there. And this God, this Dagon fell

upon its face in the presence of the ark of the Lord.

And they took Dagon. They set him back up in his

place again. And what does verse 4 tell us?

And when they arose early on the moral morning, behold, Dagon was

falling upon his face to the ground before the ark of the

Lord, and the head of Dagon, and both palms, as his hands were

cut off from the threshold, only the stuff of Dagon was left to

him. In our story, it indicates that

Goliath fell on his face to the earth, and not coincidentally,

one of their own gods, Dagon had fallen on the ground on its face

in the presence of the Lord. And they said it back up and it

fell on its face in the same direction.

And it also talks about its head being separated from its body.

You know what's happening whenever David stands upon

Goliath? Here's Goliath, the Philistine

hero, representing their values, their beliefs, their God.

But in that battle, hey, man, which was the Lord's, the

scripture says he fell on his face 1st, and then he would

eventually lose his head. This hero that the Bible says

towered above the people now lays under David's feet.

The hero who symbolized Dagon received a Dagon defeat, and

when the Philistine saw that their hero had been contended

with, they fled. There's some of us tonight that

deal with the same opposition over and over.

We go to the valley to fight for about and we retreat back to the

mountaintop because the hero of the poise, the opposing side,

presents itself and it's a formidable foe and none of us

believe that we can overcome it. So we're regulated to little

battles with no true victory. But according to the scripture,

what turned the tide of the opposition in this story is when

the hero was dealt with, all of the masses, all of the

conflicting voices against us. I'm telling you tonight, we'll

let up whenever the hero is handled.

Whenever the hero is dealt with, it requires attacking what they

exalt. It requires attacking what they

lift up. When this happens, Scripture

says when they seen it, they fled.

We got to confront and dismantle the heroes.

Those things that we maybe even exalt or our adversaries exalt

in high esteem, that's opposing God.

We got to say and deal with the hero.

And when we do that, that action will lead to another victory and

another significant victory. But hear me right.

Well, tonight, you cannot bring the battle to a conclusion until

the hero is dealt with. But everybody knows it takes a

hero to defeat a hero. Everybody doing all right.

Ours comes from an unlikely place.

A virgin birth. He was the son of a Carpenter.

His family was familiar to those of his time.

There wasn't anything spectacular about him.

Isaiah called him a tender plant and a root that was out of dry

ground. He said, Speaking of him.

He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there

is no beauty that we should desire him.

He was also a shepherd who showed up for the 'cause he bore

witness to God as David did as well.

When they asked for a man, and none could be found.

The Word which was God became flesh and dwelt among us

according to He was born of a woman.

Goliath wanted someone to come down and Jesus in John says that

he was the one that Jesus came down from heaven as the bread of

life. In other places in First Samuel

17 when the word champion or hero is used, it means this.

In other places outside of our text, it means this Ishab bin

Nayeem, which means the man between the Champions and the

heroes. They're they're representing the

people in a single combat. They're standing between two

armies representing one side. And the outcome of the war is

decided by the outcome of the personal combat.

And so the purpose of a hero is to avoid full scale war at all

costs. Can I tell you the ceiling that

our hero also was the man between Timothy said there is

one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus he was

strong according to scripture between heaven and earth upon a

cross because Satan and the world Amen Understand the impact

of trying to dethrone heroes. Can I tell you what happened in

David and Goliath really set us up for New Testament scripture.

They saw that a hero was feed it and it brought mayhem to a

nation and so through the mind of our adversary.

He says when their hero shows up in Bethlehem's Manger from the

very word go, I'm going to try to kill, I'm going to try to

slaughter I'm going to try to remove the man that is between

I'm going to try to bring down because I know the success in

the throning heroes. The Bible says they thought they

were successful. They hung him on the tree

between a Sinner and a sentence in her.

Amen. He was the hero, the man in

between. And they killed our hero.

And those who believe that reeled in doubt.

They reeled in disbelief. But unlike other heroes, our

hero didn't remain dead. Amen.

Someone say man in a figurative sense, our hero is the David

that has his feet on the chest or the head of the opposing

force. The Bible all the way in Genesis

315 said there will be a seed that is born of a woman that's

going to have it's heel bruised, but it's going to crush the head

of the opposition, the head of the Prince and the power of the

air. The opposing someone say Amen

because he Satan pictures Goliath very well.

He meets both criteria. He fell and the opposing hero

dealt with him in the area of his head.

The Bible says that Jesus LED captivity, Captain, when David

stood upon Goliath. Do you get this?

And this is a picture for us, and we sing about it.

But when David stood on Goliath, their enemy was under his feet.

And the way that David dealt with the hero's head was a

decisive sign that the battle was over.

They saw the stone, they sing the fall.

But it was represented all around that whenever a man took

care of the head in the war, that the battle was for sure

over. Whenever David defeated Goliath,

this wasn't just a tactical victory, but it was the fall of

a very mighty and fearsome enemy.

It was a clash of heroes, if you will.

It marked a turning point in Israel's struggle with the

Philistines. What are you saying?

I'm saying before this moment in time, the Philistines usually

had the upper hand before this point in time.

It was the Philistines controlling the key areas before

this moment in time. It's them that we're normally

always winning. But whenever David addressed the

hero and you read in your scripture, he drove them from

this place to that place, we start to see the Philistine army

weaken. They're not winning battles like

they used to, Israel's winning battles.

They're not controlling key places like they used to.

Israel's controlling those places.

What changed? Somebody dealt with the hero.

What changed? Somebody didn't just fight

against the army. They went against the power, the

principality, the ruler. We will endure days on mountain

tops in a continuous fight unless we allow the hero to

arise on this side, to address the hero on that side.

There are somethings or certain sins in our life.

They're not tucking their tail and running until the hero's

dealt with. See, they put confidence in

their hero. They live their life through

their hero. It's their Golden Boy.

But when it doesn't exist anymore, all of their frame of

thinking and confidence just totally disseminates and it just

falls apart because the hero's been dealt with.

Someone say, man, there's victories now after this

Philistine power is shattered, they're driving them back to the

five cities that they first inhabited.

All the all the alliances are broken.

The same way that David brought victory to Israel, your savior,

your hero has brought victory to you.

He stood over a defeat of Goliath.

The Lord stands. He stands over a defeated grave.

He he stands over a defeated foe.

It's vanquished. He has crushed the serpent's

head, so to speak. Our victory is found in him.

The tides have have turned. The battle can be won because

our enemy hero is conquered by another hero.

So tonight, what is it going to be?

Fight your battle or allow the Lord to come in and fight with

you and through you Stand with me tonight.

When they saw that their hero, when the Philistine saw that

their hero, their champion was dead, they fled.

Changes everything because at first when the Philistine things

and heirs or lights are fighting the battle and they seen the

Philistine hero Goliath, Israel fled.

But when they saw that that hero was dead, the Philistines fled.

We bow our heads tonight. Somebody needs to see some of

their adversaries, some of their opposing foe, to flee from them.

It's not in your armor. No, no, no, no.

It's going to come from an unlikely source.

It'll be a shepherd. It'll be where no one else could

fit the bill. But this one comes along and

he's a part of them. So it would seem the hero of

heroes to clash and overtake another hero.

Listen tonight, there's reasons why that we talk about.

You got to bind the strong man or you got to pray against

forces of evil and darkness and things like that.

This is a hocus pocus or hooky pookie, none of that.

This is biblical because we're not just in a natural battle,

we're in a spiritual battle. Ladies and gentlemen, the enemy

of your soul would like nothing more but to somehow undercut you

and devise a plan to get you back on the road that you just

came from. Amen.

To come to know the Lord. He would like to have you at a

stalemate and a standoff and not being able to do anything and

feeling crippled in your walking relationship with God.

But we got to say, God, would you address the hero tonight?

Would you address the hero that's embodying everything,

whatever it may be tonight? You know what it may be in your

own life. It may be a system of beliefs.

It may be some ideologies. It may be a idol, something that

stands between you and God. Pastor McGee, I just can't seem

to ever get over that. I can't ever get that out of my

life. You need a clash of heroes

tonight. You need the one that was born

in Bethlehem's Manger to address the serpent, to address, if you

will, the adversary. You need you.

Hirobo Shia. I don't care if it's been 40

days or 40 years. Whenever the hero stands on the

head of the hero, game over. When the hero stands on the

adversary, game over. It's a decisive win.

Somebody tonight needs to say, go on, David, go on, God, go on.

I'm tired of fighting. My hands are weary.

My mental anguish is overwhelming.

I need a hero to come against a hero that's.

In my life, these altars are open right now.

If somebody with a tenacity would just step to the side and

say I don't have the willpower to fight, I don't have the

ability. I've tried to do it for 40 days.

I've tried to do it for five years, but it seems like I'm

always defeated. It seems like I'm always

retreating. There's a hero among us tonight.

There's a hero among us tonight. Hallelujah.

Nothing will prosper against him.

He's the creator of the universe.

He's the giver of life. He can handle the opposition.

Come on, Sir. Come on, ma'am.

Come on. Young person there needs to stop

fighting the army. The hero has to be addressed.

That thing that embodies everything that's against you

must be dealt with. It's got to be dealt with,

It's got to be dealt with, It's got to be dealt with.

We're on the Morrow. It's going to defy you again on

the Morrow. It's going to challenge you

again on the Morrow. It's going to make a mark of you

again. You need a hero to fight against

that hero in your life. Going to take a hero to defeat a

hero going to take a. That's the solution.

A hero to defeat a hero, You have enough armor to do it.

You have enough wherewithal to do it.

But God is able. God is able to address those

things in your life. God is able to address those

things taunting you. It's when heroes clash that

victories are secured. Armies flee with their tail

tucked between their legs When heroes clash.

Hell Abaha. Some trust in horses and others

in Chariots. But we will remember the name of

the Lord our God. I love Oshaya.

Someone needs to take, someone needs to take that adversary.

You need to lay it on the altar tonight and say, God, there's

something right here that's embodying all of the beliefs,

all of the gods. Good Lord, this is more than

something natural. Some of the things that I've

dealt with, I've tried to deal with a natural way, but my way

of just dealing with it in a natural way don't count.

This thing needs to fall on its face.

This thing needs to fall on its face.

This thing's it's head needs to be dealt with.

We're in a spiritual battle tonight.

We're in a spiritual land. We are spiritual people.

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.

They're mighty through God. They pull down strongholds,

principalities, all of the hierarchy and the rank of the

organization. You'll be dealt with by a hero.

A hero. If you remove the man that's in

between, then there's nothing separating you.

If you remove the man, the hero on your side, in between,

there's nothing that separates you from your antagonist.

You want to keep the man that's in between right there.

He's fighting for you. Someone claim that right now in

the spirit God is fighting for me.

You need to picture whatever it is of the opposing force that's

as a hero and a foe and you need to address tonight.

This God is fighting for me. Honda Robo Hoshaya.

I feel the Holy Ghost and chains are going to start breaking here

tonight. I feel the Holy Ghost, some

chains are going to start. Somebody's somebody through the

Holy Ghost. Hey, man, God's helping them to

position their feet. Hey, man, upon something that

they've been under the toll of for some time.

But heroes are clashing here tonight.

Heroes are. We've not just come here on

another Sunday night to do a little battle army against

Harmony. The hero has showed up.

Hallelujah.