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"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to you, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer."
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"Fathers Need A Giant Sized Faith"
(1 Samuel 17:1, 4-11, 19-23, 32-49)
*INTRODUCTION:*
A Sunday School teacher was telling the class the story of David and Goliath.
He really got into it and told it with lots of gestures and movements and sound effects.
He finished by telling how little David killed the giant Goliath with a rock from his sling.
At the end of the story he asked the class what lesson they had learned.
One of the little boys popped up and said: /"Duck!"/
/ /Goliath should have ducked.
The story of David and Goliath is probably the best known story from the Old Testament.
Kids love it because it has the lure and power of a hero.
The underdog; the quiet misunderstood kid; the one without any respect; wins over insurmountable odds.
Preachers love David and Goliath because it's so easy to moralize about; making Goliath symbolize the problems of the world and David our faith.
I like it because it's a really great adventure and faith story about a teenager living out his faith and coming to the rescue of a whole nation.
For some reason, teenagers don't get a whole lot of good press.
But here they do.
Not only that, but I think David and his confrontation with Goliath can teach us some things about being good fathers.
We all know the story.
Israel is at war with the Philistines.
Saul and the Israelite army lined up on one side of the Elah River and the Philistine army lined up on the other.
On the first day as they began sizing each other up.
They all rattled their swords and shields and spears.
They stomped and pounded the earth.
Each one trying to out yell the other.
Kind of like the pep rallies and marching bands at a college or high school football game.
They were trying to psyche each other out and pump themselves up.
The Israelites and the Philistines faced off.
But then the Philistines sent out their secret weapon.
They'd come equipped with a ringer.
As the two armies lined up, the ranks of the Philistines split and out came Goliath of Gath.
The Israelites saw Goliath and their hearts sank.
Their jaws dropped open in shock, their eyes popped out and the color drained out of the faces like the old cartoon characters.
You could hear the collective gulp of fear from the Israelite army.
They sometimes did sort of a strange but noble thing back then when they fought.
Each side chose a warrior and they faced off like the American Gladiators, in head to head competition.
In this case, who ever won the battle, won the war.
No wonder the Philistines chose Goliath, right?
Goliath.
The name struck fear into the hearts of the Israelites.
When they saw him towering over them like the big bad wolf, the Israelites became all huff and no puff.
That was when the Philistines really starting hooting and taunting.
They could see that the Israelites were scared.
Shoot, they could hear their knees knocking.
And ours would be, too.
Goliath looked like a Sherman Tank.
He was over nine and a half feet tall and weighed over four hundred pounds.
He wore a bronze helmet.
His coat of mail weighed a 110 pounds.
His spear was the size of a small tree, the spearhead, alone, weighed over 13 pounds.
This was one bad dude.
He was King Kong and the Terminator rolled into one, only with an attitude.
He made Shaquille O'Neil look like a little boy.
No wonder the Israelites were shaking in their shoes.
Every morning for forty days, the Philistines came out and challenged the Israelites.
/"Where's YOUR champion?
Where's YOUR warrior?"/
And then they'd laugh.
The Israelites sat in their tents and shivered in fear.
They remind me of a poem I heard on the old Dick Van Dyke show.
The poem was entitled "FEET:" by Scoutmaster Allen.
A Poem glorifying the pedal extremities.
You need feet to stand up straight with,
You need feet to kick your friends,
You need feet to keep your socks on,
And stop your legs from fraying at the ends.
You need feet to stand on tippy-toe,
Or to dance the hootchie-koo.
Yes, the whole world needs feet for something,
And I need feet to run away from you.
/ /That's exactly how the Israelites felt every time they saw Goliath.
Then one day this young man, David, showed up to bring his brothers bread and cheese.
He heard all the commotion from Goliath.
He heard the taunts and jeers, so he went to King Saul and said, /"I'll fight him."/
Saul and his entourage just laughed.
But David insisted.
So they decked him out in the kings armor.
But he couldn't move.
He looked like a goofball and felt even goofier.
He shucked the armor, took his staff, went down to the stream, fished around for a bit and came up with five smooth stones.
It was there that David called on his secret weapon; one that no one else seemed to think of.
While on his knees in wadi, fishing for stones, David sent his secret weapon on ahead.
David prayed for God to prepare the way.
Then he went and confronted the Philistine warrior, Goliath.
It was Gumby verses Godzilla.
It was like MacCauley Culkin challenging Michael Jordan to a game of basketball for the NBA championship.
Goliath was both amused and offended.
There was Goliath decked out in all the armor of war, grim and forboding.
There was David with his shepherds staff, a sling, a couple of smooth stones and a truckload of faith.
Goliath cursed David for his audacity.
David simply said, /"You come to me with sword and spear and javelin; but I come to you in the name of God.
This very day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down."
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/ /Goliath growled and said, /"You impudent little snot, I'll sock your face so far down into your oxfords that they'll call you puss in boots," /and he charged.
David whipped out his sling, loaded a stone, wound up and with a flick of his wrist brought Goliath tumbling to the ground.
The ground shook like L.A. in and earthquake.
And so did the Philistines.
They watched as David stepped forward and decapitated Goliath with his Goliath's own sword.
That's a great story of faith over might.
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