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Introduction
This evening I want to challenge you from David’s life to stand as God’s man against the enemies of today.
Our text is 1 Samuel 17:28-18:4
The story of David facing Goliath is most likely one of the most known stories of the Bible.
It is important story full of great spiritual truth and application.
For our study, as men of God, there is much we can learn from it.
In doing so, my prayer is that each of us will rise up to the challenge of facing the enemy knowing that we have God our side.
Goliath!
What a man!
He was huge, a giant among men.
Note the Holy Spirit’s accurate description of him in verse 4-6.
Six cubits and a span means he stood over nine feet tall.
The tallest man I have ever met was no more than 6’ 5”.
Goliath beat this guy by 2 and half more feet.
Not only was he a giant of a man, he walks out with his head, shoulders, chest, and legs all covered in brass armor.
The man seemed massive and invulnerable.
Verse 7-8 give us weapons of choice.
He was massive.
He was experience.
He seemed invulnerable.
He was arrogant.
Day after day he strutted out challenging God’s people to battle.
Goliath set the terms of the battle.
Each nation would choose their champion.
The two champions would fight to the death.
Whichever champion won, the other’s nation would agree to serve the winner’s nation.
Goliath was their champion.
He stood tall.
He stood prepared.
He stood with confidence.
He was ready and sure that he would win.
However, on the other side, it was a pathetic scene.
On the opposite hill from the Philistine army is God’s army.
However, the scene is not good.
Here is God’s people in which He has a covenant relationship.
A relationship through which God promised He would protect His people.
The place of the battle is on Israeli soil.
It is territory belonging to the tribe of Judah.
So what was God’s people doing?
They were acting as if they were going to fight.
Essentially, they were organizing and delaying.
However, each time Goliath took the field, the scene became more pathetic.
Now wait just a minute!
Who was Israel again?
They were God’s people.
People in a covenant relationship with the God of the universe.
The same true and living God who had on multiple occasions fought for them defending them.
He made the sun stand still for them.
He leveled Jericho before their eyes.
I could go about the things He had done for them proving His faithfulness to them.
Now, what do we see of Israel?
They are running from the battlefield and from one man.
Yes, he was a giant of man.
However, in God’s eyes, this Philistine was nothing.
This scene laid out before bears a close resemblance to spiritual battles we face even today.
There is Goliath with his great stature and his impressive armaments.
Does he not remind you of Satan?
Satan may not strut around with great arrogance, but he portends to be impressive and surely, compared to us, a powerful being.
Satan often stands in our minds are a colossal giant which is far too strong to attack.
Indeed he possess great power.
Note his power as stated by the Holy Spirit in 2 Corinthians 4:4
He is powerful enough to influence men so that the cannot see and know the gospel of Christ.
He utilizes the entertainment of this world, the immorality of men, and the man’s own self reliance to his advantage.
He continually wages war every day against those who stand for God.
On the others side is God’s people.
There stands people who also are in a covenant relationship with God established upon the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
There stands people who have His Spirit indwelling them knowing that they belong to Him.
Yet, just like the Israeli army that day, too many believers, especially men, cower in fear thinking that all is lost and they are helpless to do anything about it.
Yes, it is a shameful admonition.
Yet, we must be honest with ourselves.
There is war raging.
The battle is set.
Everything is planned.
Now, we face the enemy and instead of charging into the fray, we sit on the sidelines praying that someone else will fight Goliath.
One last thing to note about this battle in recorded in 1 Samuel 17. Who was the leader of the Israeli army?
Did they not have king already?
He was there.
His name was Saul.
There is one troubling thing about Saul though.
He had lost his muster.
In other words, his disobedience to God resulted in him forfeiting the Holy Spirit’s anointing.
You might say that he was leader who lost contact with his source of spiritual authority.
Consequently, he was also sitting in his tent helpless and quaking with fear.
That fact is was need leaders who have not lost their contact with God and who recognize they have His power and defense at their disposal.
The battle is real.
Now, there is a part of this story that is good news.
Remember Goliath and his challenge.
He basically said, “Send out a man to be your champion!”
There is another act of symbolism here that is often overlooked.
The battle is a battle of powers.
It is not Satan against people.
Satan already has them.
The real battle is between Satan and God.
It is Satan versus the Lord Jesus Christ.
Which, by the way, is already settled.
There is only one outcome and one clear winner - the Lord Jesus Christ.
He already won the victory.
He conquered the grave, death, and Hell.
Satan’s destiny is everyone’s destiny unless they put their faith and trust in the true victorious Champion.
Now, back to the story.
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