Sermon Tone Analysis

List out spiritual gifts (Taken from 1 corinthians 12, , ) as a reminder:

Serving

Exhortation

Giving

Leadership

Mercy

Word of wisdom

Word of knowledge

Faith

Gifts of healings

Miracles

Prophecy

Distinguishing between spirits

Tongues

Interpretation of tongues

Apostle

Prophet

Teacher

Miracles

Helps

Administration

Apostle

Evangelist

Pastor

(Intro) Start the sermon off with a brief review of spiritual gifts.

Allow for any comments or questions the students may have after a week of being able to think about it.

(3 min)

(Bridge) “We understand that we have spiritual gifts, the way that we use them/utilize them is based on our heart.”

bring up short verses that back up this statement: (3 min)

“As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.”

“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

(Leading Question) Now ask the question “What does it look like to have a good heart?”

Allow students to answer.

We know that if our answer has anything to do with worldly emotions or thoughts, it's not good because of the natural sin nature.

Therefore we must look at what God’s heart looks like.

I think the best way to do that is to look at someone who has a heart after God’s: (5 min)

“After removing Saul, he made David their king.

God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’”

(Set-up) I want to talk to you about David, you all have probably heard this story before but I want us to look at it in a different way.

There was a huge army of Philistines on the southern ridge of the valley and another huge army of Israelites on the northern ridge of the valley.

Because of this neither army would attack each other.

Therefore:

(Set-up) I want to talk to you about David, you all have probably heard this story before but I want us to look at it in a different way.

There was a huge army of Philistines on the southern ridge of the valley and another huge army of Israelites on the northern ridge of the valley.

Because of this neither army would attack each other.

Therefore:

4 A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp.

His height was six cubits and a span.[a] 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels[b]; 6 on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back.

7 His spear shaft was like a weaver’s rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels.[c]

His shield bearer went ahead of him.

8 Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and line up for battle?

Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul?

Choose a man and have him come down to me. 9 If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us.” 10 Then the Philistine said, “This day I defy the armies of Israel!

Give me a man and let us fight each other.”

11 On hearing the Philistine’s words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified.

Emphasise goliath’s appearance.

You see they would send out challengers to fight in one on one combat to save the lives of many.

The winner of the battle would win for the whole nation.

(7 min)

16 For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand.

(Main point) Little back story on david, he was the youngest in his family and was a shepherd.

He protected the flocks and cared for his father.

His father asked him to take some food to his brothers at camp and he did.

(7-12 min)

20 Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed.

He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry.

21 Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing each other.

22 David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were.

23 As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it.

24 Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from him in great fear.

Now, instead of fleeing David began to ask questions and grow upset that the israelites had allowed this man to disgrace and shame the kingdom of the living God.

He began to become passionate.

Then his brother confronts him and says:

28 When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, “Why have you come down here?

And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness?

I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.”

David loved battles, He was enamored with it.

It was a part of who he was.

So david approached Saul and asked him to allow him to go and fight Goliath.

Saul replied with

Here is where we start to understand why there is this story of an underdog when it comes to david and goliath.

Goliath is this massive warrior as we had heard and had been training for moments like this since he was a boy.

But in reality so had David.

33 Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”

Here is where we start to understand why there is this story of an underdog when it comes to david and goliath.

Goliath is this massive warrior as we had heard and had been training for moments like this since he was a boy.

But in reality so had David.

34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep.

When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth.

When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.

This was great and all well in good.

But if this was all that David had said, his heart would not have been in the right spot.

All the gifts and abilities in the world would not have been any use because his heart would have been in pride.

Instead he continues and says:

36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.

37 The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”

He was doing it for God.

He trusted God.

Saul then agreed and allowed him to go, he gave him armor but, david turned it away.