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Have been meticulously going through the valley of giants picking apart some of our long-standing enemies of God and Giants and kept us from doing and get in the place that God has to be that's all I can say about that. I know that for my own self and my own battles that you're certainly not certain battles, but almost every battle small or large is had to been fought in the trenches of prayer and worship Dover coming to just have any kind of success any kind of Life The Kingdom Life that is. And sober today ties it all up. We're going to talk about the Battle today and then we're going to discuss the the wonderful incredible story and 1st Samuel 17 about David knocking Goliath right here crawling up on him doing just disembodiment. It's a great move. They should make a really good true movie. They've made some but I haven't seen anything like the store yet. So but this morning I just thank you for being here and I hope you enjoyed worship. Yeah, really? Enjoy worship. Because that's where it starts. That's so important in your life couple things several of us went to a conferences this last Monday and Tuesday. We took some of our department has people that are just That is here right now and just that are serving in various capacities and was really awesome to be a part of something larger than us to be a part of a group of people that have the same heart the same mind kind of there just after Jesus there after an expansion of the Gospel there the group of people that have they got the word from the Lord like us to go you you've been commissioned to go and so I'm going to be talking about that in the next couple weeks. It was really interested Marlin I got Prayed over and it was it was interested in and would never had that in a sense. We got issues here. I can't have that ring. Is it sound ringgit to you? Yeah, so but I'm going to talk about that next week. It was really important to us to to be a part of

to be Affirmed You know even Paul in the New Testament he went back to Jerusalem to Peter and some of that leaders to see if he has been doing something that's in vain, you know is anything I'm doing matter. Am I on the right path? If I just been laboring in vain is my life that I've been spending the last several years it does. Is it adding up? Is it do I have anything to measure against to reflect off that? Yes. We're on the right path and I could tell you right now and we came away from there. We are in the right place at the right time. Okay as a group of people and I'm and it was just a friend to us through and through that God has called us to this place is this journey into this assignment and I'm so I'm really thankful for that. This sounds really loud to me. Is it loud? I'll just move on. So if you got your notes and handouts, we're going to tie this up today.

Yes, Martha wants to say something. Yes.

If you're going to raise your hand and you going to say you want to say something notes inserts. Yes. Yes, they're made. It's the best I've ever done with inserts. Trust me. I have banged my head on my office desk trying to figure out how to anyways me and computer. Sometimes get along most of time now, right so I figured it out. So hopefully we'll have this more often and I want you to kind of follow along we got those binders back there you to clip them in and just kind of and save them throughout the year as we can look back and just see how God spoke to you. Anyways, great story and 1st Samuel King. David wasn't a king yet. He just a young man. He was and we talked about last week some of the bill that he showed it a young age, but they noticed him to bring it before Saul and we talked about that how the ability that when he was a skillful player. He was he was a man of worship young person already had just this inclination to play before the Lord in the warship matter fact, the Bible says he was the greatest singer in the most popular singer in all of Israel and I laughed about that all week because I thought we'd rather be king or the most popular singer. You know what I thought that's kind of a you know, I don't know who this is. It's kind of a toss-up. I guess I think sometimes he love to be king and sometimes I'm like, you know what I just want to be a singer today leave the other stuff alone. I don't want to deal with that right now. So anyways, but he was he was a man of worshiping and he was a man of great Valerie had great courage. He was a skillful person of prayer and worship is skillful Warrior, you know, the Old Testament described him and his friends as men who would be in in raid when it comes to battle that none can compare to him, you know where that store they slew several Giants and name four of them and they took him down those guys were just bad men and he could saying Write a message to amazing to me, right so gifted so he just it was a valiant person a man of Valor and and very skilled and battling and he had a good presents to himself and what that means and it and I and I discussed this with you, but he had a Godly presence in the present time. He wasn't relevant. Let me tell you something this week. We got challenge like where this Theology of you got to be relevant come from you need to be annoying to be powerful. You need to be filled with God. You need to be filled with God to bring a good Godly presents to what ever seen or whatever life that you're living and whatever job that you're at. You need to bring a good Godly presents to that situation and into your family, right?

Right. All right. Let's get with you here. Okay, so And he was in the heat. He was proving in the speech that means easy to be a giant slayer. He would he monitor he he he valued every word that he spoke. The Bible says if we control our trunk or tongue Rebel 2 to control that he says we can be perfect. David had was prudent speed that he was able to control his tongue in the Bible says the life and death are in the tongue and those who eat of it will love it, you know, so it's whatever you choose life or death of whatever you speak but he chose his words prudently. He he chose his words wisely, I guess and was Prudence Peach and and monitored watching. It was perfect that way but we also know that David has some huge failures later on in life. Correct. So like we all do in a sense, but they're The Greatest Story how it starts up the battles this In this in this is the end. We're going to start with the end. It says the David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone without a sword in his hand. He struck down the Philistine and he killed him. That's amazing with no sword in his hand. He's struck down the Philistine and he killed him now. For some reason. I didn't bring my rock today Miss Marla. I don't think I asked you to remind me details my pastor when we he went to Israel. And then later on I went the second time. We went to the valley of elah there in and we're able to pick up the stones. I picked up like five right I had to because it says use five smooth Stones. So when I was there, I'm looking I got five Stones put them in my pocket pack them away my luggage. Got home and they were gone. They went through my luggage and it was all duct tape of caution tape, right? They had pillage all my luggage and they took my rocks. I was so devastated. I was just those that was the one thing I wanted from Israel where my stones but the good thing is my pastor the previous year or two before brought him back. They didn't they didn't steal them out of your luggage. Thank goodness, but he got them to me. And if so, I have carried these I really they're they're out where I can see him everyday in my little cabinet on top of my little Keepsake jar have two of them up there that I keep the Memento sometimes I'll grab my my father in the name of Jesus. This is going to fall the something to touch something to remind me that this actually happen. This was a factual event of some kind of incredible story, but I got something I can touch them there and that place was I've been there but was gifted to me of the saying Lord in Jesus name. I'm going to carry this with me and I'm going to head there just up there where I can see him. I level everyday or I can keep my eye on them. I just want to remember. This to remember wasn't with the sword. It wasn't with the stored as what the Lord has provided for David. So real quick. When I set up the stage running to read the whole story, but the Philistine Army had called out Israel to draw the battle. They said they battled there in the Israelites. They gathered and saw was the king at that time. They gathered in the valley of elah, and it said that they were the Philistines were on one mountain and the Israelites one the other Mound and they were in the Philistines. The said the giant would come out July 3rd and taunt them and defy the armies of Israel. And if I saw day after day it said it went on for 40 days it went on for 40 days. That's exhausting. And yet but Israelites this realize the people of Israel kind of just withdrew and fear and and and just they could not muster themselves to go forth and battle and saw you think would have been on his shoulder since he was the king and also says it's always a foot taller and everybody he was probably the most qualified incense and sizes of the battle to go and face the Glide himself, but himself even like no I can't do that either so they were waiting patiently to see what would happen in in in in with all the taunting and all the terrorizing of the Giant and in the Define and just the the verbal assault write the verbal assault that took place for 40 days 40 days this battle in Rage. This is taunting enraged. And so when I was reading through it just studying some things in this first won the battle in the valley is about this. It's about control. It's kind of interesting cuz if you look on a map in the story in history says this that if they would have lost that Valley the Philistines would have gained control of the foothills of Judah. They've been approaching on their place. Sometimes even in the valley and I'm going to tell you this the the answer we face. The common sense. It's never on a Mountaintop. It's never when things are really good. It can change real quick, but it's always been some Valley and some really difficult dark place. And it's about this it's about control. It's about controlling and in a beginning to improve Chon your territory to approach and and to make way in a sense of kind of start building up and getting closer to you because they're what they had that they did not stop then like I said, they had to they would have gained access and control of the foothills of Judah. Andrea you can just keep going to that means praise. It's always about control. It's always about stealing something from you that you can not able to stand in honor and worship. God always. always

and sometimes but not all the sometimes all the time and every battle that I've ever faced and every line that I've drawn it's either. I'm either going to control them or it's going to control me. And there's many times throughout those 40 days or when we're age when we hear this taunting whether we have the courage to muster up that courage to be a man or woman of Valor to be able to say, you know what I've had enough. I'm going to move forward, right? So it's about control it's it really is it's about things that will control us either relationships or money and different things whatever that giant is to you that maybe you have to face it has a way of controlling but that bout that battle it's always in the valley and it's always about control always.

Next reptile of is this said the Philistines occupied one here, and I said, this is our lights on the another and you know, you kind of just you size people up. I don't know about you you ever been in a fight where you're like now if I could take this guy, sometimes you don't have an option right? It's just you have to do it and it's not it's not as fun as the movies portray to be. It's all fun until somebody Pops in the nose. Right, I did that. Once for fun. We got the water hose and made a square in the front yard. I got gloves on and it was all good to my nose got popped at Mike. I'm done that was it for that. I didn't like that at all. But we sometimes we had the standoff between us and our giant we looking and we sizemeup and decide if we want engage or not all the time at tonsils and devices challenge in our faith in our trust in God. There's been many times where I have just size this up and decided Not today. I'm not going there today. I'm not I'm not going to I'm challenged by this.

Whatever this may be that you deal with and I really believe as I speak. You're going to know these last 3 weeks. You're going to know what somebody's Giants are in your life that you have got to defeat the God is equipping you to take down. Weatherby intimidation where your terrorized by certain things are just over run something is cast a Shadow of Your Life of what could have been love, so maybe so many regrets those things needed to come down in Jesus name. We're not to live under the shadow of regret. We're not doing yeah, we all make mistakes. We make mistakes David made some huge mistakes big mistakes were going to talk about that, but somehow he was able to embrace the grace and move Beyond his failures. And sometimes even our own failures cast a large Shadow over us and they become Giants and it paralyzes it. It it it it stops US. But you're forgiven. I want you to I want this to work for you today. You are forgiven if you ask. Hear me you're forgiven. You're forgiven.

You're forgiven.

You're forgiven.

The reward and you have to understand. Do you have to have this in your mindset? The reward is worth the battle. The outcome is it's worth it. It's worth the blood in the gut. It's worth the bruises in the wound. It's worth the hard words from maybe account or your pastor from the Lord save us. You need to quit doing that. It's it's worth the battle. I have probably two or three instances in my life where they were so major.

I just I knew that if I didn't win this I would never move forward. I would never move forward that my family would suffer the consequences if I didn't change. My family would deal with it. My kids would deal with it. If I didn't clean it up. If I didn't stop hear what I'm saying generational things. I knew it was on me. I knew it was on me and my wife to say, you know, why did enough's enough we're praying against this we're standing against this and we know that the reward on the other side. It's worth it. We wasn't sure exactly what that reward was, but it was worth it. It was worth it just to say I'm going to battle I'm sizing this up and then and I have no idea exactly how I'm going to fight, but I'm going forward and I'm leaning into it in Jesus name. Number to trust God for the outcome.

Love the scripture here. It says whenever the Israelites saw the man they all fled from him and great fear. Sometimes were defeated by fear before we even engaged. Sometimes that fear can grip us because I'm talking deep deep pain sometimes emotional things that maybe happened to us or situations we've got into and we're so fearful. We can't even we really can't even go to draw a rock and put it in a sling where defeated because we were already defeated by just the mirror fear. What word defeated by fear grabs? Is that why you can't put your Buchanan put a half step forward. I want to put your best foot forward. You can't even put a foot forward because you're Paralyzed by fear.

They were terrified they were they never went out to battle because they were grip they were already defeated by fear.

And fear is powerful. I don't know about you, but I've been gripped by the forward. It is paralyzing and I think sometimes it's spiritual aspect that also where the Demonic in that in The Darkside can come in to show its face and grip you in a way where you're just Your your trauma by your special if you've ever had night terrors, you know, it gives a kid that's kind of new here that way at night terrors. I had night terrors as a kid. I meant I remember waking up is running down the hallway or running. I would go to my father's work at the high school 7 8 years old and I remember just waking up out of a dead sleep and running screaming. being terrified night terrors. Those are real. My parents didn't know how to play them understand and pray they just like well, I kind of grew out of it will guess what I seen my son start having them. I'm like Man, we got the oil in the grease or whatever we had to do and we got in his bed, huh? And we start praying the name of Jesus. This is not passing down to him. I started understand is a spiritual thing. It was it would rip you even the young age that fear. Then you become sensitive to it. And you just has a way of closing you off and shutting you down when I see my son start to struggle with that and waking up with sweats and screaming and and totally terrified. We said no way in Jesus name and we went after a prayer. and it left it left. So whenever there's the last I saw they fled from him and great fear. I'm going to ask you just if you have a problem with fear just beginning to start praying and asking God for courage and and and Faith overcome that because the reward is worth was with it. Right? So the next scripture says David ask the man standing near him because David came he was a young man as we heard David say the thing that was here. He was on a lunch run. His dad is sent him Jesse. It's ending with lunch and and was some supplies. I said go find your brothers then he said and tell him to see how they're doing. He said bring something from them so I can be sure that they're okay. He was mining minding the sheep and Shepherd in the few sheets. He had out in the desert, but he was on the lunch run really just to go see how his brothers were doing sit by his father to go see and David showed up to the ranks in sting. All this going on. I said who is this guy glass would come out I defy is where I defy the armies of saw, you know, I can't he would curse them in the name of the Philistine gods. And David asked him standing near Issa and he asked him is what will be done for the man who kills the Philistine removes this disgraced from Israel. Because what what does he knows he knows because what's what's going to be done? What's going to happen to the guy that the Beats this guy right and don't remove the disgrace. to remove the disgrace You know what? The space is just another word for Shane ridiculed. You've been a humiliated you've been embarrassed you had maybe just as it's different than guilt, but just this shame. Shameful something of something that maybe that you've done or been a part of it just of the maybe even the way you just do yourself. But just to remove a disgrace to remove the shame.

Just to go forward what will be done for the two kills his Philistine and removes this disgrace the shame because they wouldn't go forward. They would not go forward and fight the battle. So David asks, what's going to be done and they told him this. We got this the promise of a new prosperity. right and the promise of new relationships and the promise of freedom these are things that are promise to you. If you put your foot forward and move Beyond fear and go on and and begin to kind of just drop of plant a plan and how to deal with this giant to take it down and there's a promise of prosperity of new relationships in the promise of Freedom. Cuz you know, what the king told him. He said this the king will give great wealth to the man who killed him. He's going to Rich this life. He will also give him his daughter. Hello. In marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel. Now ya got an Amen on that one when I was 23. I'm like give me the babe when I'm 53. Give me the tax-free living, right?

23 give me the babe. I got one.

53 Yeah, I just got our taxes back. The water promise from the King and if he worth week he was going to do that. What's God going to do for us? He wants to prosper you because if you live in the shame and live in disgrace and you live in fear, that's not prosperous living. I'm not talking about money. I'm talking about I want you to prosper as your soul is prospering. I want you to be healthy. I want to be able to breathe deep and lay on your pillow at night saying you know what? I'm okay, I feel free. I want you to live in Freedom and that's why we had this new relationship, you know, what 5 years ago or 3 years ago 2 years ago 1 year ago. Some of you we don't even know each other and look now. We don't even know each other that's worth in Applause. I think.

God put me up and he put you up and put you in the family. Once the forge new relationships with you some of our old relationships have to become acquaintances.

But there's a promise is a promise of a prosperous heart and a prosperous soul and a prosperous mind because you're not going to be late and heavy laden with guilt with shame and disgrace because you didn't go to battle.

You didn't go to battle. And you know and here's the deal.

In the taxes my goodness.

Go back to the house. It's not just about taxes and it's not a money thing, but there's other ways that were taxed in our lives that we can afford to give.

We're taxi emotionally because of suffering were taxed physically because maybe some choices we made or just some something but we're taxed in other ways would heaviness The Weeknd afford to give is exhausting and let it cost your body that cost your well-being.

There's a declaration from the Lord says a man if you put your foot forward if you begin to move forward, I'm going to bring a prosperous to a prosperity to your heart your mind and your soul you're going to have new friendships new friendships. And you're going to be you're not going to be taxed like you were before and neither is your family. I didn't want to send some my life to transfer down to my kids. I don't want the bad choices that I make made the transfer down to my children. I decided no more than I decided young age to kind of just set ourselves apart in a sense even from our own families little bit too just to find out who we were called to be. I think it is. We had wonderful people speaking into our lives helping mold and shape and we've seen things break off our families. huge things break up our families and turn Turn a totally different way.

There was a story that I should have read a detail a little bit more but they get this conference this guy at our president who was our senior pastor Glenn Burris share the story of the surrett surrett family. That was part of the assassination assassination of President Lincoln a lady will some of her family and they live for years and shame because of that disgrace in the late 1800s. There were always marked by that but that's the family. They're related to the people to help house. The murderer is John Wilkes Booth to help the murders that they killed assassinated. Our president was some years later somebody in that family became born-again.

They gave the hearts to the Lord. And as years went by that family begin to walk in Ministry, and now one of the great great to send it to that family pastors Seacoast his sons in it, and then there's like 11 campuses of 20 30,000 people it turn the whole thing around. Turned it all around. wonderful incredible story But just that one decision that family member said since you know what I'm not dealing with the same anymore in this disgrace and God washed it all the way in and it and they said there's over been a lineage of 20-something people from the family been Ministry doing the things and purposes of God.

That's a powerful.

Could be you.

Could be you. Taking a step forward say no more. I'm just going to be removed. He promises to move a disgrace. And the shame from our lives. Amen. the battle Boy, that's always fun. That's always tough.

It's painful. That's why we do Freedom groups. Lot of your getting delivered in and there's freedom and there's battle raging right now, when we go to conference you're confronted with certain issues name that you need to let go they hit every point. I think in our lives that could bring destruction. Weatherby greed on office in poverty perversion self-righteousness, you know that they hit everything in a sense for us to just be able to find Freedom to break free and into battle those issues not everybody is all bruised up and beat down because of sin in a sense, but they're still were they walk away with some incredible encounter with the Lord that they're just simply their love and he's going to make them it's not their righteousness. It's there. It's God's righteousness. His Blessing on their life.

Give all the freedom. We got probably 60 70 people going. We got the bus, you know what to go in Antioch and we're hoping the next semester to to have that conference here. That's our plan. You know, I shouldn't so that's that stays in the house that stays here. Alright, so the battle and here's the one of the key deals. You need to win the small battles when no one's looking. You have to win the small battles. We have to win the small battles I-91 some small battles, and I thought they were giants but really they weren't. I thought man. I thought that was tough. You mean the giant hasn't even showed up on the scene yet? When it did I thought this is a lot worse than what I struggle with last time, but you have to win the battles when nobody's looking. You have to that's personal your integrity your worship at home your your devotions at home in and just surrendered life at home and at your workplace, those are small battles, but they might seem insignificant but you've got to win those who don't think you can't win those battles and come out and faces giant because it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. You have to win those small battles in the desert and usually when you're alone, I tell you what some wonderful things happen in the desert. When nobody's looking and I'mma tell you something everybody is going to be in the desert. You're not exempt. Everyone's going to have a dry place and a dark time everybody. Everybody but I'm going to tell you you can win those small battles. You can win them. I love the story says that David when he kind of gave his application to solve when they was looking for somebody to send for word. He said David said the saw your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a liner bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock. He said I went after it struck it and and rescue the sheep from its mouth when it turned on me. I love this. I seized it by its here Struck it and killed it. And David said your servant has killed both The Lion and the bear this uncircumcised. Philistine would be like one of them because he has defied the armies of the Living God. I love that tough language the Lord who rescued me from the Paw the line in the Paw. The bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine. It's all said to him go in the Lord be with you go the way I do with you. David was confident because he won the small battles. He better not tough Place protecting his father. She said when it turned on me, I grabbed it by his hair and I struck it down. I look at stuff. You have to win those small battles. Next Raptors that since audrius saw dress that hillbilly Okies coming out of me. Saul dress David in his own tuna key put a coat of armor, so we got him prepared to go for battle, right? He put it a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. David fasten on his sword over the tunic and try walking around because he was not used to them he tried because I cannot go on these he said this all because I'm not used to them so we took them off. And I think it's interesting. Sometimes we we battle our Giants. In ways in ways that the world says to maybe we get out of debt. I was here this commercials, you know, you consolidate all your debt ratio debt with other dad.

I know sometimes it might work best Dave Ramsey on Michael Hill say

There's certain things even relationships will try to fix one relationship by maybe getting in another that's not good. They can is really the same you get the same results. You put on a coat of arm and him is Emma. It's kind of interesting is he just speak and I couldn't walk in at so we had to go with with what he had and I love this. Sometimes you have to divide defy traditions.

Maybe your family the same way. You got to do it this way and that way the guy say no. I got a different way because here's what they would do. You have the mountains you had the Philistines on one side and you had the Israelites on the other side David come down as a chant Goliath came down as that. He was the champion. He was the best of the best. And it would stand as custom was they would send their best guy and it was fight and he didn't be quiet even said whoever wins they will serve us or I we will serve you the whole the whole armies wouldn't fight. A lot of times. They would just send the best it mice in their top 10 David did this with some other people they have lined up 12 people on each side and they would wrestle and they were fighting whoever would win. They would be Lord over or ruler rule over them. The losers the winners would win and they would rule over the losers. So the whole Army might not even a battle David giant come out. He goes down the champ in his Define is really to find God is Define the people and in so he was one in there were expecting this same way. It's kind of like Civil War year. Did you know when they when they come out they line up each other and you always thinking why would they do that? That's what they were doing. No good thing about us and our you know, when the when are revolutionary war came they came over to fight that way. Would I hide in trees and doing all kinds of stuff would like no more, right? That's what David did.

He tried to sue team up and put his armor on him. Cuz that was the tradition. That was the way to do it. And David said I magnify magnify that I'm not doing it that way. And sometimes you have to be that kind of just I'm going to find another way that God has a waste of David took his staff in his hand shows five food smooth Stones. I'm sorry. Put the stabbings and chose five smooth stones in from the stream put them in the pouch of the shepherd's bag. And with this thing in his hand. He approached the philistine. He went with what God has equipped him with and what he has success with but he broke and he defied tradition. And I'm always looking for people that are kind of non-traditional. I love tradition. I love hymns. I love certain things of the church, but there's always that young group coming up. It's going to Buck and kick and and do things a little bit different. And I've always told people the vision is set for this church, but you can challenge the process. I will listen sometimes somebody hasn't that's a good idea. We can still get there but not to compromise a vision what God is calling to do the mission. Right, but even for you to get to your life, maybe you've had bad advice you've heard certain ways to approach things and you've been equipped a certain way and God saying, you know what maybe I need to do it my way for a sin for a season. Maybe you need to get growth tracks go to Freedom groups in small groups and begin to pray develop your Worship in your prayer life and read your Bible and become a Godly person and and start living riding and found the Lord to just begin to prosper your heart.

But he defied tradition.

Love that she says all those gathered here will know that is not by sword or spear that the Lord saved he goes for the battle is the Lord's and he will give all of you into our hands. That's what David said because everybody around here. That's watching. And trust me when you come to face the giant everybody's watching. Everybody because it it's usually a full plate of everybody lot of those small battles. Sometimes are not visible. But a lot of times when you're facing the giant everybody's watching. urinary know all eyes on you And David declared this he said the people are going to know that it's not by sword or spear that the Lord saves it's not by human endeavor or arm of the flesh. It is the Battle of the battle is the Lord's and he will give all of you talk about all those giants the Philistines in that area is going to give all of you into our hands.

I love that. So it's in the name of Jesus and we're going to just dwell on that for a second. The simple lesson is simple. It's in the name of Jesus. It's it's in the name of Jesus that we move forward. He says it he'll know that in the name of the Lord the Lord's army. It's the name of Jesus. That's the name has been given to us to to to be saved it to end wage. This battle is the name that's written over our lives. It's a name that provides shelter in a refuge for us. It's the name that brings freedom to our lives and we're Bound by death and hell and sin is the name of the breaks down the curses of of Life over us. It's the name that calls us out. And puts us in a good place with family and it gives us purpose Eternal and to making an eternal impact and everything we do.

Jesus said this is Matthew. He said this then Jesus came to them and said all authority in heaven and on Earth has been given to me. It's 2818. Jesus declared this he told him all the Thor has been given to me and then he sent them out to go to Japan fill the Great Commission to go in and teach what he did seen the baptize people, but it's in the name of Jesus. You can speak the name of Jesus you can declare and live with him and Covenant like this and have an authority his authority and to make ways for you that you can almost never imagine.

Then he said this to them. He says I will give you the Keys of the Kingdom after Peter understood who he was because I will give you the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven whatever you bind on Earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on Earth will be loosed in heaven. Jesus said that I have all authority and guess what? I'm giving you the keys.

I'm giving you the keys you want to stay bound up. You can stay bound up. If you want to be loosened, if you want to be free if you want things to break up and dissolve in your life. You have the keys because he is has the authority and he's gave you the keys to do this. You just need to put it in the lock and unlock some doors and move forward over some things through some things. And get Beyond mm and Loud Jesus to heal you.

Send the name of Jesus. When do I know the battle is been one? I can look back and I know and I have some measuring some ideas some how some points right now that I've won but I feel like God has brought me through. And I know when I felt and I know that I'm have to deal with that again. Right is graceful. YouTube small battles in the large ones come and then he knows when he if I have failed he's going to bring you back around again. He's not going to kick me to the side. That's why I don't give up if you fall get up come to church. It's wait for God to keep his hand on you. He's never going to give up on you. He's not going to quit on you. He loves you.

How do you know how do I know when the battle is been one mile of this Vivid scripture as soon as David returned from killing the Philistine Admiral took him and brought him before saw with David still holding the Philistines in

can I get more graphic and winning a picture than that? when you got the head of that thing in your hand and you're just walking around like

you have one. You have disarmed it you have dismembered it. You have a severed. It's foul mouth. You have severed the taunting you have severed the terrorizing of this that is terrorized you for years. In the Bible says that David took it and he put it gave it to saw but he took Goliath Weaponry his sword and he put it in his tent. When you have dysentery when you have just meant we need have taken that wait-listed and you can do this in the name of Jesus and its the Lords battle. Sometimes you're going to keep the weapons you disarm it the weapons that used to to fight you to remember. I remember how it came about me came up came at me like this. I'll never forget this, but I know how to win now. I know how to win. I know how to win. So the first thing is this will you've disarm the giant remove the disgrace? You don't feel your shame anymore? You don't feel the embarrassment the ridicule. And maybe some failure this some life circumstance. We feel like busy times and he whispers Giants whisper, they plottin they whisper one of the name someone was Giants or Whispers plotters and Whispers. There was plotting against you but you hear The Whispers in the night like while you're this mess and you have failed at that and you're no good anymore. You're whatever we've all heard him.

And it's number 2 is this you have Grace for your road of suffering? Because some people walk around this afternoon. some people have physical things some people have issues things that are going on that are real life, but there's a Grace that God can give you You're not you might be overpowered overrun, but there's a Grace. There's a Grace. There's there's I believe there's a Grace cuz we're not exempt from difficult times. We're not exempt from a loss of a loved one. We're not exempt sometimes from certain things happen. We just found out last night or yesterday that the surano family lost their daughter to that battle for heart 10 years old. race for the road of suffering Grace

It's Not lording Over You it's not casting the shadow over you there's Grace too sure you up and to give you strength for that Journey on that road. Paul out

How do we know this was Paul said man, I got this issue in my life. Nobody knows what it is. He said I got a thorny said I've asked Jesus to remove it three times. Is it is plaguing me? And it might have been some people think he had a physical ailment or something something in his life. It wasn't sin. I'mma tell you right now. It wasn't sin.

But he had this issue somehow that just crippled him and handicapped him. Paul said because I've asked Jesus three times to take this away from me and you know what Jesus told him. He said this he said to me probably cuz my grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in your weakness. Sometimes when were in the when you meet people that have had difficult times or walking through so really wrote of suffering. There's just like it was extra portion of grace and the power of the Lord Jesus. and their weakness

You know I look for when I want to get pray for I want to get paid for by somebody to his Walker Road suffering and an survive. and lived well

But they have an extra portion. They got some kind of power and authority that we don't understand sometimes don't think you don't understand.

It's a depth of the grace of God on that Journey.

the grace of God Last one is this you face it and overcome. Sometimes you're going to be confronted with this giant one more time. And you and you know when you over, you know, you've won. When you know you drove by that donut shop and you didn't go get a donut You've Won.

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to be other things that's Donuts.

When you go over time when you faced it in your overcome, and I love this. We're going to close this stuff cuz I think it's fitting to end with King David who slew Goliath became a king that had huge moral failures. You know David after he killed the king, you know, he he became a he was anointed king, but then he could become a great leader. But he had this huge moral failure where he was out on his rooftop singing probably because he's the most popular singer in Israel. I'm seeing Bathsheba bathing.

his tune changed Right he fell. then he sent her husband to the front lines to be killed Uriah. And you still stayed key. How can you move on be on that? What is and we'd done that can't even compare to that. The shame to bring shame and disgrace to us. What have we done? That's even comparable. David even and it's a Grace that just amazes me that he was able to move from that shadow the cast over and make costing costume of Sonic costumes in turmoil in the kingdom is what he went through was just unbelievable. But somehow he found the heart of God and God still declared him your man after my own heart. He was able to move from the Shadow from his difficulty this moral failure to move past.

I love this is now when he was dying. He was old and vanston years and although they covered him with clothes. He could not get warm, right. So if they did they go there for his servant said to him let a young woman be soft for my Lord the king and let her wait on the king and being his service. Let her lie in your arms that my Lord the king may be warm. They found this beautiful young woman to be in the service of the king in his old age. And we also want you to delay app on him. to be warm what?

We want you to lay upon him to be warm so he would stay warm. says this was a saw for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel and found abishag the Summa night and brought her to the King and I love this the young woman was very beautiful and she was of service to the king in attending him, but the king knew her not

He knew her not the other versions or get pretty explicit. You didn't hook up with her. Russell how how Encouraging is this the fitting for the end of a story of a great man and a great king that the end of his life was confronted. Once again in a sense of this may be opportunity to fail to Morley fell but he said he knew or not he chose not to that's when you know, you've won. No matter you don't have to be old they can happen at any time but when it presents itself again opportunity and you know, and it's not and you choose not to you know that you've won that battle.

And everybody said yeah right by the we bless you today. We honor you today.

Or we bless you today.

everything that we have Who sang the song this morning Father declaring more than every giant will fall?

gorgeous in your word Garden identifying our enemies father seeing what you say about us the one with the potential and abilities and we have to be to be a factor for 20.

And then how to fight.

I asked God that every person here today more than this that has been with us in these 3 weeks, but if you time Giants of his difficulties facing you that in the name of Jesus. You will be empowered by the grace of God. powered by the grace of God to silence the pond terrorizing and that would just cast a shadow over your life.

Which Blows Its take a few minutes to search your heart that there's anything today is the day today is the day.

Times of my life. I look back when I know the Lord was dealing with me and I'm like, nope. Not today. I'm not dealing with that today. Guess what it never went away. It never went away until I got back around again to Desert King fig around again, Matt God and deep wave the killer whale in the Safeway. Place to release some things in my life.

The burden was lifted so I can say it was lifted and never dealt with again. Never tormented by the game because I do I loosen it. I let it go. It was pounding me. The ones I use those keys once I use the three that you gave me and it was confront us a game. I'm going to take this from you right now.

I'm done with this.

Green graceful way is able to evacuate these things in your life and feel that. shame and disgrace of pain and hurt to fill with

new relationships The burden of that is no longer there.

So this morning as we close up, we have these people up here to pray and if you need prayer by anything today is a day. Play today today's the day. Hey, man, today's the day the father. We honor you today. You don't know Jesus. You need to ask him in your heart. Simply the door or come into my heart is sometimes you're sitting in a chair. And you feel this is like overwhelming heart beating in your in your chest. It's with the Holy Spirit is dealing with you. So it's not just saying Hey, I want you to surrender today. I'm letting you know that I'm here. I'm here. I'm here to accept you today, and I'm here to put your life in a new.

Father we thank you for that gift of love that gift of Grace to us.

Gift of love in the gift of a store to buy you going to the Cross all authority was given to you Lord for forgiveness God and killing Lord. Gibson County first floor we ask for forgiveness or he has to search our heart.

We have prayer if anybody needs prayer Knoxville this time, we're going to receive our offering.

Close tonight of worship. I love including.

Are offering it alter time the time where we come before the Lord no hearts and just the opportunity to get prayed for an opportunity to give an opportunity to bless the Lord with what of your substance New York oil in his life, right?

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