The second Goliath

September 22nd

wayne’s text

preaching/ the preparation

mindset- get it together: based on works (read enough, pray enough, get it together enough)

done with the presentation

a year of no control, a year of silence; preaching based on faith

while debating the yes or no about preaching, mirror- heard “remember David”

First thoughts about David

won battle after battle

then, during war, he rested

2 Samuel 11: 1-13

English Standard Version Chapter 11

David and Bathsheba

11 iIn the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. 5 And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”

6 So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going. 8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king. 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. 10 When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?” 11 Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.” 12 Then David said to Uriah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

I believe God used david to kill goliath as a young boy because He knew he’d face an even greater giant as a man; his flesh.

David had defeated the enemies on the battlefield (his mind) but had not yet faced the enemy after his heart (his flesh).

enemy didn’t come by sword this time but by everything that pleased his flesh

December 19th, 2021 I decided I was done with church

stopped preaching, stopped teaching

Not done with God, but done with the church

I had built my foundation on knowledge of what the word says but not revelation of Who the word is

knowledge and ability will take you so far, you CAN NOT walk this out to the finish without an intimate relationship with God

Battlefield vs rooftop

tangled into a web he could not undo- He forgot that God was aware and had yet to change His mind about the call on his life

** The final wrestle is coming- a final time: lie, stealing, needle, pill, affair, etc., but

Paul affirms in Ephesians: the battle you’re wresting against is not physical- it feels physical but it’s spiritual

Our opponent is never people although that is what the enemy may use’ it’s sin- that is what you’re opposition is

David’s enemy was not Bathsheba…o be careful little eyes what you see...

Ephesians 6:10-18

The Whole Armor of God

. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God,

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (Eph 6:10–18). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

Matthew 16:13-19

Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (Mt 16:13–19). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

But who do you say that I am, God is getting personal; he’s not interested in who they say he is

the Holy Spirit is the only one who can truly reveal who God is to you, Jeremy’s mom knows him, his brother knows him; but they don’t know him like I know him..relationship

Some read this one exert, the gates of hell will not prevail, but first, there is acknowledgement of who God is

not because of our ability or power or strength but because of the cross, hell does not win,

not our strategy, on the cross, Jesus..I get them if I go, then, I go; Jesus said yes to Isaiah 6:8 way before we did

Crisis/ trauma unit- one shot

grieved that night, that’s all the time you need…they are not watching an online sermon or clapping to your breakdown of the word or even how posed you make christianity to be

golden gate bridge after graduation

Kevin nile

Kevin nile’s everyday

God is not going to welcome me by my sermons, bible studies or even how many women we have attend a retreat, based on the kevin nile’s I can get off a bridge

can’t speak Jesus unless the door is opened

only shot is presence

talk my way into or out of anything- except ticket in banks county

talk to solicitor? yes

Judge in the center

right hand of him stood the solicitor

heard my case and went before me

Jesus, advocate, right hand going before me

not asking you to give up anything, you can not do it on your own but for so long

God I can not stop but the bible tells me you can

I could not go on...Regina: God told me to tell you, Jesus is fighting for you