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Speaker 1: And now here's your message. Boy.
Speaker 2: One of them, one of them is my close friend
Speaker 2: told Perry.
Speaker 1: You know, Perry looked at me the other day.
Speaker 2: She said, you don't have many friends, she said, and
Speaker 2: the ones you do have, they either fall into sin
Speaker 2: or they die.
Speaker 1: And be careful that anybody won't be my friend. Oh man.
Speaker 1: So and it's what.
Speaker 2: This is the thing, I guess And this is not
Speaker 2: it's mentioned in the notes, but it's not really a
Speaker 2: major point. But I'm gonna make it a major point
Speaker 2: right now. Relationship relationship with the Lord. And I'm not
Speaker 2: going to ask you to show your hands or anything,
Speaker 2: but I'm just gonna lay some things out and then.
Speaker 1: We'll go to the message.
Speaker 2: When you start looking at the Word of God and
Speaker 2: the importance that people placed on their relationship with him,
Speaker 2: it was the primary, most important part of their lives.
Speaker 1: And in our church world we make it convenient for them.
Speaker 1: It wasn't so convenient.
Speaker 2: And I think we do a disservice to the body
Speaker 2: of Christ.
Speaker 1: When we minimize that, we give lip service to it.
Speaker 2: But how serious are we that we get in God's
Speaker 2: presence every day? And I start looking go through scripture,
Speaker 2: and when you see people who who are are convicted
Speaker 2: of sin or of what's going on in their life
Speaker 2: or their ignorance the word of God and turn and
Speaker 2: devote themselves to the Lord. You see an entire nation turn.
Speaker 2: You'll see an entire family turn. You'll see circumstances change supernaturally.
Speaker 2: But it has to do with that relationship. And so
Speaker 2: a Sunday morning relationship with God and then invoking him
Speaker 2: when we have difficulties, that's not gonna get us anywhere.
Speaker 2: It doesn't work that way. God doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2: And I think that's why so many people struggle. I'm
Speaker 2: thinking of a guy in ministry right now.
Speaker 1: Who's who's who's on the verge of.
Speaker 2: Losing his ministry because and part of the reason is
Speaker 2: not all of it, but I would wager the beginning
Speaker 2: of it is.
Speaker 1: The work of the ministry replaced his time with the Lord.
Speaker 2: And if you if if you can't you can't understand that,
Speaker 2: maybe you can, but but it it okay. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do my prayer time and my devotional time, and I'll
Speaker 2: make my my sermon preparation part of that. No, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna pray for the sick.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pray on the way over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we begin to substitute, we begin to switch,
Speaker 2: and then we shortchange ourselves and our relationship with the Lord.
Speaker 2: And then when something goes wrong, or we're confronted with
Speaker 2: a challenge or or or are we're having to go
Speaker 2: pray for somebody, then we got to play catch up. Now,
Speaker 2: if you're honest, I would bet and I hadn't done
Speaker 2: the horses in a long time.
Speaker 1: Rais so that when all of a sudden we have
Speaker 1: a crisis, we.
Speaker 2: Run to God and we're working to get him on
Speaker 2: our side. Lord, I need you to intervene that bad
Speaker 2: report from the doctor. I just I reject that. Father,
Speaker 2: touch me, heal me. Please God, I need your help,
Speaker 2: Please Lord. And then we go get everybody we know
Speaker 2: to pray with us and pray for which is you better?
Speaker 1: But we're not sure. We know what the word says.
Speaker 2: We've heard testimonies, but we're not sure in our own
Speaker 2: relationship that's the problem.
Speaker 1: Because now we got to go.
Speaker 2: We feel like we've got to go try and convince
Speaker 2: God to get on our side in this, and we
Speaker 2: really need to take a long, hard look at the
Speaker 2: priority we have concerning our personal relationship with the Lord.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not and if this sounds condemning, I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to make it that way. It's a pattern that
Speaker 2: I see over I see it all through scripture, and
Speaker 2: I see it in my own life, and I've seen
Speaker 2: it in other people's lives. And you know what, if
Speaker 2: you look at scripture or you look at history in
Speaker 2: your life or other people's lives, you can see that
Speaker 2: that outcome is really kind of like flipping a corn.
Speaker 1: It's really not that great. But when you looking at
Speaker 1: people who have a relationship with the Lord, walk closely
Speaker 1: with the Lord, guard that relationship.
Speaker 2: Then when something presents itself, they don't have to wait,
Speaker 2: let me go find the mind of Christ on this.
Speaker 2: They go, uh no, we're going to do this, Father,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: I think we're going to do that. I reject that.
Speaker 2: I accept that, and there's a confidence and a boldness
Speaker 2: because of the depth of the personal.
Speaker 1: Relationship I'm talking to myself here.
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh, you know what something just recently scared the.
Speaker 1: Mess out of me.
Speaker 2: My oldest daughter called me and said, I need you
Speaker 2: and mom to make the call on this. Okay, should
Speaker 2: I marry so and so or not?
Speaker 1: I tell you what.
Speaker 2: I was afraid to answer, because what that means is
Speaker 2: it's all on me.
Speaker 1: All of it's on me.
Speaker 2: It's one thing with Perry because you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not all on me. It's me and her when
Speaker 2: we got married. But now my daughter over whom I
Speaker 2: have a stewardship before God, says Daddy, I need you
Speaker 2: to make the call.
Speaker 1: I'm scared the crap out of me. Man, that's a
Speaker 1: serious thing.
Speaker 2: There's so many implications spiritually in a marriage.
Speaker 1: It astounds me. And you look at this and I'm
Speaker 1: going I had.
Speaker 2: Let me, let me pray and talk to you mom.
Speaker 2: So he's coming tomorrow to ask for her hand. I've
Speaker 2: already talked to him some things that we're going to
Speaker 2: prison over.
Speaker 1: So we've had that talk.
Speaker 2: Hey, listen, chris is oldest daughter goes on our first
Speaker 2: day tailgate party his front yard.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm furnishing the food.
Speaker 2: Okay. They talk about an uptight, little fellow man. That's
Speaker 2: gonna be fun to watch. Okay, Now that relationship we
Speaker 2: got off a little bit relationship, relationship, relationship, and an
Speaker 2: inner part of with the contrast we're gonna look at
Speaker 2: here is one party had a relationship with God, the
Speaker 2: other did not, and it made all the difference in
Speaker 2: the outcomes, or was a major influence.
Speaker 1: All right, let me give you a little background.
Speaker 2: This is a story about David and Goliath, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna set the scene here. You've got Saul in his
Speaker 2: army and they've gone out to fight with the Philistines.
Speaker 1: The Philistines were from Greece.
Speaker 2: They came coasting down the coastline, invading, pillaging, looting, and
Speaker 2: they settled on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea of Israel,
Speaker 2: and they ran the Israeli's inland and took the best land.
Speaker 2: And so you had this constant struggle now and they
Speaker 2: come and the attack, and they go out and the fight.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, in chapter thirteen, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: read two distinct verses for you. Chapter thirteen nineteen, not
Speaker 2: a blacksmith could be found in the whole land of Israel.
Speaker 1: Because the Philistines.
Speaker 2: Had said otherwise, the Hebrews will make swords or spears
Speaker 2: Verse twenty two. So on the day of the battle,
Speaker 2: not a soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword
Speaker 2: or spear in his hand. Only Saul and his son
Speaker 2: Jonathan had them. That's an earlier battle. That's the battle
Speaker 2: that talking about when Saul would not wait for Samuel
Speaker 2: and offered up to sacrifice and Samuel came in and
Speaker 2: rebuked him. That's when that took place. You can see
Speaker 2: why Saul is nervous. He's losing men, and he's got
Speaker 2: a sword, and Jonathan got a spear, of vice versa,
Speaker 2: and everybody else has got pitchforks, hoes, shovels. It's a
Speaker 2: farmer army against a real army. So Saul was desperate.
Speaker 2: So this is the type of environment that this has
Speaker 2: taking place in.
Speaker 1: But there's something new.
Speaker 2: The Philistines send out or Philistines however you want to
Speaker 2: say it, send out Goliath every morning and every evening,
Speaker 2: and he walks out there and he challenges Israel to
Speaker 2: send out a champion.
Speaker 1: Now this was new to them.
Speaker 2: Prior to that, in the Middle East, they just ran
Speaker 2: at each other and had all out brawl in battle.
Speaker 2: But coming from Greece, they had a different principle in
Speaker 2: this thing. You send out your big guy. We send
Speaker 2: out our big guy. The winner takes all that way.
Speaker 1: You really only get one person has to die. Rest
Speaker 1: of us get. You know, it's not so bad. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like war by proxy. I mean really.
Speaker 2: So he goes out there and he's doing this for
Speaker 2: forty days, so eighty times this guy walks out and
Speaker 2: challenges them, mocks them, makes fun of them.
Speaker 1: So Israel still in the Bronze age. They don't have
Speaker 1: very many weapons.
Speaker 2: What they do have, our inferior Philistines have steel and iron,
Speaker 2: and they got cutting.
Speaker 1: Edge weapons of the day.
Speaker 2: So Israel is sitting there going, man, what are we
Speaker 2: gonna do? What we're gonna deal with this? And they're
Speaker 2: all afraid. They're terribly afraid. So this is the environment
Speaker 2: that we see taking place. And then we see David
Speaker 2: come on the scene in this first Samuel seventeen. Now,
Speaker 2: the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at
Speaker 2: Soko and Judah. They pitched camp at Epes. Damn him,
Speaker 2: I didn't say that, Chris. Between Soko and Azeka, saw
Speaker 2: and the Israelites assembled and camped in the valley of
Speaker 2: Elah and drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines.
Speaker 2: The Philistines, I can go back and forth, occupied one hill,
Speaker 2: the Israelites another, with the valley between them. A champion
Speaker 2: named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the
Speaker 2: Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span
Speaker 2: nine feet nine inches tall. And you in here, no Andrews,
Speaker 2: what six' four so figure somebody more than three feet
Speaker 2: taller than that nine feet nine inches. Tall he had
Speaker 2: a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of,
Speaker 2: scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five. Pounds on his, legs he wore bronze
Speaker 2: grievous and a bronze javelin was slung to his. Back
Speaker 2: his spear chef was like a weaver's, rod and its
Speaker 2: iron point weighed six hundred shekels fifteen. Pounds this the
Speaker 2: point on his spear was fifteen.
Speaker 1: Pounds his shield.
Speaker 2: Barrel went ahead of, him And goliath stood and shouted
Speaker 2: to the ranks Of, israel why do you come out
Speaker 2: and line up for. Battle AM i not A? Philistine
Speaker 2: are you? Not the servants Of. Saul choose a, man
Speaker 2: have him come down to. Me if he's able to
Speaker 2: fight and kill, me we will become your. Subjects but
Speaker 2: IF i overcome him and kill, him you will become
Speaker 2: our subjects and serve. Us then The philistine, said this
Speaker 2: DAY i defy the armies Of.
Speaker 1: Israel give me a. Man let us fight each.
Speaker 2: Other on hearing the word The philistines', Words saul and
Speaker 2: The israelites were dismayed and. Terrified so this is what's
Speaker 2: going on every. Day they've been out there for over a.
Speaker 2: Month So, Jesse david's dad calls him from the fields
Speaker 2: and he, says, hey, listen.
Speaker 1: Here's some. Food take this food to your, brothers.
Speaker 2: Check on, them bring me back news about your brothers
Speaker 2: and about the. Battle So david heads. Out now the
Speaker 2: distance isn't real. Far So david takes off and he
Speaker 2: and he gets there and he and as he r arrives,
Speaker 2: there you, know you got this army here and now
Speaker 2: all dressed up for, war and they're also are. Raided
Speaker 2: they're lined up like they're gonna, fight and The philistines
Speaker 2: on the other side on the other hill there the same,
Speaker 2: way and down in the valley is this, giant and
Speaker 2: he's challenging them every. Day every day he's mocking.
Speaker 1: Them it's been.
Speaker 2: Going on for forty, days eighty. Times this man goes
Speaker 2: out there and issues this.
Speaker 1: Challenge and So david.
Speaker 2: Walks up and he's looking at all this and he's
Speaker 2: listening to the men talk to the, soldiers and they're,
Speaker 2: TALKING i don't. Know if somebody go down, There if
Speaker 2: whoever the man, is goes down there and he kills that,
Speaker 2: Giant saul is gonna give him anything he. Wants while
Speaker 2: he'll even lay marry his. Daughter he'll have his, light
Speaker 2: he'll be, set he'll be, made he'll be he'll be
Speaker 2: just be, incredible he'll be, wealthy he'll be, powerful and
Speaker 2: he'll be part of the royal. Court And david's listening
Speaker 2: to all this, stuff and he's kind of, going you, know.
Speaker 1: What do you?
Speaker 2: Mean verse twenty six of, Seventeen david ask the men
Speaker 2: standing near, him what will be done for the man
Speaker 2: who kills The philistine and removes this disgrace From?
Speaker 1: Israel this is? It twenty SIX. B this is?
Speaker 2: It who is this uncircumcised philistine that he should defy
Speaker 2: the armies of The Living. God goliath is, saying the
Speaker 2: army Of. Saul your. Sauls aren't You saul's? Men why
Speaker 2: don't you send out a? Champion come, on You're saul's.
Speaker 2: People we're here to Challenge. Saul we challenge. You david
Speaker 2: had a whole different, perspective not Challenging. Saul he's not Challenging.
Speaker 2: Israel he's Challenging. God now stop and think about. This
Speaker 2: IF i belong To, god IF i am his, property
Speaker 2: which is A CHRISTIAN i should.
Speaker 1: Be i've been.
Speaker 2: Wholly purchased by the blood Of. Jesus the attack is
Speaker 2: not on. Me the attack is on Who. God we
Speaker 2: don't ever really you hear.
Speaker 1: It you can say it that the register it doesn't. Click.
Speaker 2: Really and if the attack is On, god And david
Speaker 2: says this later, on then whose is the?
Speaker 1: Battle come? On tell Me.
Speaker 2: God so we got to figure out how to where
Speaker 2: we fit in there and keep ourselves out of the
Speaker 2: way So god can.
Speaker 1: Act. SEE i mess it up all the.
Speaker 2: TIME i, MEAN i walk around with my foot in my.
Speaker 2: MOUTH i really hop around BECAUSE i can't.
Speaker 1: WALK i, MEAN I i, WILL i, WILL i will
Speaker 1: get In god's way.
Speaker 2: When i'm Going why DID i do? THAT i say
Speaker 2: that As i'm doing.
Speaker 1: It, boy this is. Stupid why AM i doing? THAT
Speaker 1: i Know i'm gonna regret. This see that's a BATTLE i.
Speaker 2: Have but if I'm god's See david's perspective that.
Speaker 1: He should defy the armies of the Living.
Speaker 2: God So david's brother overhears.
Speaker 1: This he goes. In he, said, hey, idiot what are
Speaker 1: you doing? Here you know punk when you, open don't
Speaker 1: open your. Mouth why are you? Here you've just come here.
Speaker 2: To middle haven't you you coming to look your? Curiosity
Speaker 2: you need to be back at. Home get out of,
Speaker 2: here shoe go, Away give me the. Food get out of,
Speaker 2: Here daddy's. Boy but some of the men had Overheard david, talking, Like, hey.
Speaker 1: This is this uncircumcised philistine defying the armies of the Living.
Speaker 1: God so somebody went and Told. Saul, Well saul, goes.
Speaker 1: Hum so somebody out there really said that.
Speaker 2: He's A, jew he's one of. Ours bring him to.
Speaker 2: Me so then he goes and get it and Takes.
Speaker 2: David So, david all of a sudden he finds himself
Speaker 2: standing in front Of saul, okay And david says in
Speaker 2: verse thirty, Two david said To, saul let no one
Speaker 2: lose heart on account of this. Philistine your servant will
Speaker 2: go and fight.
Speaker 1: Him, Now.
Speaker 2: David is seventeen or eighteen years, old he's still wept
Speaker 2: behind the. Ears but When david was sixteen years, Old
Speaker 2: god Sent samuel to his house to anoint him to
Speaker 2: be king Over. Israel So david knew his. Destiny and this,
Speaker 2: kid he may have been a, kid he may have
Speaker 2: been wet behind the, ears but let me tell you.
Speaker 2: What he was wise enough to keep his mouth shut about.
Speaker 2: That he was also wise enough in his relationship To
Speaker 2: god that he was going to walk into the. Circumstances
Speaker 2: it didn't matter, what because he Knew god had a
Speaker 2: purpose and a plan for his life and a future for.
Speaker 2: Him and he got on his. Face he was finding
Speaker 2: out what it. Was he spent time with The, lord
Speaker 2: and so he could be confident and, bold and he
Speaker 2: could make that statement he.
Speaker 1: Makes let me read that. Again david said To, saul
Speaker 1: let no one lose heart on account of this. Philistine
Speaker 1: your servant on go out and fight.
Speaker 2: Him, Okay, now this is the first. Point this has
Speaker 2: to do with the first, point total surrender to the purposes.
Speaker 1: Of God god for your.
Speaker 2: Life what's his plan for? You david was a, shepherd
Speaker 2: And david.
Speaker 1: Loved. God the word says he was a man After
Speaker 1: god's own.
Speaker 2: Heart But david fully Accepted god's plan for his. Life
Speaker 2: and we can, say, hey, well who wouldn't want to be?
Speaker 2: KING i don't. Know there's a lot of responsibility with.
Speaker 2: That the whole nation turned on the. King which way
Speaker 2: did he go the nation? With and they were judged.
Speaker 2: Accordingly there was a lot of responsibility in. There it's
Speaker 2: kind of Like, daddy the decisions up to, you what
Speaker 2: DO i? Do So david rested in this Because david
Speaker 2: had a relationship With.
Speaker 1: God Seek saul did not.
Speaker 2: Remember the earlier example where they had only one sword
Speaker 2: and one spear And saul was getting out in front
Speaker 2: Of god and did what he was told not to
Speaker 2: do because he.
Speaker 1: Panicked you, know he had no relationship With. God he
Speaker 1: was out of step With.
Speaker 2: God Now i'm a side note, here just just a
Speaker 2: query for a question for you to ask. Yourself do
Speaker 2: you feel out of step With? God if you, Are
Speaker 2: if you, do, stop.
Speaker 1: Find out where he.
Speaker 2: Is reorient, yourself get in, step build that. Relationship strengthen that.
Speaker 2: Relationship if it's, weak strengthen. It if it's, nonexistent make.
Speaker 1: One So david is resting in. This he already knew
Speaker 1: what his future.
Speaker 2: Was, okay and now verse thirty, Three saw, replied you're
Speaker 2: not able to go out against this philistine and fight.
Speaker 1: Him you're only a young, man and he's.
Speaker 2: Been a warrior from his. Youth listen To david's reply
Speaker 2: verse thirty. Four But david said To, saul your servant
Speaker 2: has been keeping his father's.
Speaker 1: Sheep, YEAH i could smell it the.
Speaker 2: Sheeps think when a lion or a bear came and
Speaker 2: carried off a sheep from the.
Speaker 1: Flock listen to.
Speaker 2: THIS i went after, it struck, it and rescued the
Speaker 2: sheep from its.
Speaker 1: Mouth, yeah think about that and put it in.
Speaker 2: Context you get a black. Bear they stand about that,
Speaker 2: high you, know.
Speaker 1: But the paws are. Big if he comes that one
Speaker 1: of your you gonna chase that thing, down hit, it
Speaker 1: take the sheep out of his. MOUTH i don't think.
Speaker 1: So not me.
Speaker 2: Rescue the sheep from its mouth when it turned on.
Speaker 2: ME i seized it by its, hair struck it and
Speaker 2: killed it your servant has killed both the lion and the.
Speaker 2: Bear this uncircumcised philistine will be like one of them
Speaker 2: because he has defied the armies of The Living. God
Speaker 2: The lord who rescued me from the paw of the
Speaker 2: lion and the paw of the, bear will rescue me
Speaker 2: from the hand of this. Philistine saul said To, David
Speaker 2: go and The lord be with.
Speaker 1: You the second point is this.
Speaker 2: Future expectations are based on our past. Experience, now what
Speaker 2: that means is IF i have an experience of walking
Speaker 2: with The, lord and my relationship is, strong And i'm
Speaker 2: close to The, Lord i've drawn close to, him my
Speaker 2: expectation for the future is based on that relationship and
Speaker 2: What god has done for me in the.
Speaker 1: Past david didn't Fear.
Speaker 2: Goliath why because as a younger, kid, child younger, man
Speaker 2: he had gone after a lion had running off with the,
Speaker 2: sheep took the sheep away from it and killed the.
Speaker 2: Lion the same thing with a. Bear he's not having to, go, Well,
Speaker 2: king you, KNOW i Know. GOD i Know god's.
Speaker 1: ABLE i know he's. ABLE i don't know if he.
Speaker 2: Will he's not saying THAT i know he's. Able we
Speaker 2: just got to ask him what his will.
Speaker 1: Is there's none of. That he doesn't, vacillate no doubt
Speaker 1: in His god because of his.
Speaker 2: Relationship so based on his past, experiences his future expectations
Speaker 2: are big and.
Speaker 1: Bigger what are your future? Expectations what are? Mine see
Speaker 1: this thing rest in this relationship Because david could walk
Speaker 1: in confidence.
Speaker 2: In What god has done in the. Past, see he
Speaker 2: didn't have to go Get god on his. Side god
Speaker 2: was there and he knew. It there was a there
Speaker 2: was a guy that WAS i was went to see
Speaker 2: at the hospital one. Time this In, louisiana and so
Speaker 2: he's about to have emergency surgery and the prognosis is not.
Speaker 1: Good this guy was raised in church all his. Life
Speaker 1: So i'm in there he's fixing that. Surgery i'm there
Speaker 1: with the family and the doctors come. In i'll, Leave,
Speaker 1: no you.
Speaker 2: Stay they talk about the surgery, everything we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: It we'll prep. You, now this is.
Speaker 2: Emergency so doctors leave and so he looks at everybody
Speaker 2: SAYS i want everybody, out but don't and, okay this is.
Speaker 2: Awkward so everybody goes out and he, Says i'm. Scared
Speaker 2: pray the prayer of salvation with, mean you got saved
Speaker 2: when you were. Young, yeah you've been in. Church, yeah
Speaker 2: you wore a baptip, yeah, yeah. Baptism well, yeah what's?
Speaker 1: Wrong i'm not. SURE i don't have a. Peace he
Speaker 1: had neglected.
Speaker 2: His relationship with The, lord and now at a point of,
Speaker 2: crisis he has to stop and try and connect With. God,
Speaker 2: man that's the wrong long, time, people, right that's the wrong.
Speaker 1: Time he came out of. Surgery, okay but that's the wrong.
Speaker 1: Time and how many of us in the body Of
Speaker 1: christ lived that?
Speaker 2: Way we coast based on our past. Experience well we
Speaker 2: checked that box, Off we're, Gould we're.
Speaker 1: Good we're. Good not.
Speaker 2: Necessarily, See david lived his life in a way that
Speaker 2: he did not.
Speaker 1: Hesitate but it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Something that was just at that, moment something that rose
Speaker 2: up in him to do.
Speaker 1: This, no it was his entire life and his. Lifestyle, Daniel.
Speaker 2: Daniel is taken away in captivity and he's over. There
Speaker 2: remember he's he's, young he's in his, teens and and
Speaker 2: he makes this. Stand i'm not gonna eat from The king's.
Speaker 2: Table in other, Words i'm not gonna compromise as. Myself
Speaker 2: these are unclean.
Speaker 1: Foods this is stuff cooked in an inappropriate way from
Speaker 1: The jewish, religion from the commandments Of. GOD i refused
Speaker 1: to compromise, myself and they made a. Stand and you
Speaker 1: know the.
Speaker 2: Story right after a certain amount of, time they gauged
Speaker 2: them and they were in better, health, stronger better persona
Speaker 2: than the people who ate from the king's rations and
Speaker 2: the way the king. Ate and so but you see
Speaker 2: at a young age That daniel has made this, stand
Speaker 2: and the next time he needed to make a, stand
Speaker 2: it was, easier and the.
Speaker 1: Next time he could do.
Speaker 2: It why because future expectation is based on past. Experience
Speaker 2: so if my past experience With god is, strong And
Speaker 2: i've got a good relationship there And i've maintained that relationship,
Speaker 2: there my future expectation What god is going to do
Speaker 2: is bold And i'm confident in.
Speaker 1: It but if it's not And i've neglected, that Then
Speaker 1: i'm not.
Speaker 2: See and then When daniel was an old, man the
Speaker 2: king issues in need.
Speaker 1: It you only you got to pray to. Me you
Speaker 1: can't pray to this Other. God don't pray to.
Speaker 2: Him so what the word says Is daniel went to
Speaker 2: his quarters or his room and opened his windows facing
Speaker 2: Towards jerusalem and prayed.
Speaker 1: As was his.
Speaker 2: Custom now that some people estimated he's in his nineties
Speaker 2: at this.
Speaker 1: TIME i don't, know but he's an old.
Speaker 2: Man and so they went to and, said, aha, Gotcha
Speaker 2: King daniel did. It. Well the king's torn up because
Speaker 2: he knows he's got to stand by his decree because
Speaker 2: in those, times the decree of the king could not be,
Speaker 2: revoked not.
Speaker 1: Even by the king. Himself that was the issue With
Speaker 1: esther because he had issued a decree to kill all The.
Speaker 2: Jews so Once haymon is, removed she gets the king
Speaker 2: to issue a second decree that allows The jews to defend.
Speaker 2: Themselves and so that's the way you could counter. It.
Speaker 1: Man she was, sharp and so the king issued that
Speaker 1: nobody attacked The jews because The jews they didn't have
Speaker 1: to take, it they could fight.
Speaker 2: Back, well so this king knows he's got to Allow
Speaker 2: daniel to be casting the lions then and he goes
Speaker 2: out the next, Morning, Oh, Daniel daniel was Your god
Speaker 2: able to deliver. You rest, easy, O. King he sent
Speaker 2: some angels and close.
Speaker 1: The mouths of the.
Speaker 2: Lions that doesn't just occur because this huge faith rose
Speaker 2: up in him at that. Moment that occurred because of
Speaker 2: a lifetime of habits of maintaining a relationship With.
Speaker 1: God see WHAT i mean? Here we need to be
Speaker 1: developing that in our own lives and in the lives
Speaker 1: of our. Children these, Things.
Speaker 2: Okay so his future expectations were based on his past.
Speaker 2: Experience so verse thirty, eight let's look at that thirty
Speaker 2: eight and thirty. Nine Then saul Dressed david in his own.
Speaker 2: Tunic he put a coat of armor on him and
Speaker 2: a bronze helmet on his. Head david fastened on his
Speaker 2: sword over the tunic and tried walking around because he
Speaker 2: wasn't used to. Them now he's putting on a grown man's.
Speaker 2: Armor remember Who saul was taller than anybody else in the, kingdom.
Speaker 2: Bigger so here you got a seventeen eighteen year old
Speaker 2: kid that's got this big man stuff on.
Speaker 1: Him can you see? Him he kind of looked like
Speaker 1: a hobbit trying to.
Speaker 2: Dress and and you, know In strider's armor or.
Speaker 1: Something so he takes him. Off he says he can't use.
Speaker 1: HIM i can't do. THAT i.
Speaker 2: CAN'T i can't it's too. BIG i can't do. That
Speaker 2: but let me tell you the significance of that. One
Speaker 2: and this is the third Point i'll get to that
Speaker 2: here's significance in. This if he had trusted In, saul
Speaker 2: the symbolism of Taking saul's, protection Said, GOD i don't
Speaker 2: need your.
Speaker 1: PROTECTION i got.
Speaker 2: Salt and if you go through the history Of, Israel
Speaker 2: god is constantly disciplining the nation because they made treaties
Speaker 2: with the nations and peoples around. Them When judah is
Speaker 2: in danger of being overrun By, BABYLON i think it
Speaker 2: Was jeremiah goes to the king and he, says, hey
Speaker 2: don't make a pact With egypt Against.
Speaker 1: Babylon Accept babylon's. Rule it'll be.
Speaker 2: Okay god will, Say jerusalem if you do, this but
Speaker 2: if you make a pact With, egypt you're gonna Lose.
Speaker 2: Jerusalem the kings were constantly, okay wait a, minute A
Speaker 2: syria is really, big they're really. Bad let's make a
Speaker 2: pact With egypt so we don't have to do, this
Speaker 2: or make a pact with this country and that other
Speaker 2: country against this. Country instead of Saying, god we need
Speaker 2: your sovereign, protection we need your sovereign direction and blessing
Speaker 2: on what we're.
Speaker 1: Doing, see that's what constantly one of the things main
Speaker 1: things that kept them in. Trouble and, See, david it
Speaker 1: almost does that puts it, on doesn't fit not.
Speaker 2: GOOD i don't want, that you, KNOW i THINK i
Speaker 2: Think I'm i'm Gonna i'm gonna reject.
Speaker 1: That thank you very. Much NOW i got them out
Speaker 1: of order, There, carol that's that's That's i'm gonna make this.
Speaker 1: One number.
Speaker 2: Three separate yourself from the. Unfaithful saul's faith wasn't in The.
Speaker 2: Lord he gave lip service to. It he wanted to
Speaker 2: hear From, god so he had to rely on the.
Speaker 2: Prophet but you know what that relationship, issue it's either
Speaker 2: With god or. Not and who you draw that relationship
Speaker 2: with is going to have a major impact on the
Speaker 2: outcome of what you're. Doing it has a big influence
Speaker 2: on everything that goes.
Speaker 1: On we don't need to be allied with unfaithful. People New.
Speaker 2: Testament what fellowship does light have with? Darkness don't be unequally.
Speaker 2: Yoked those are reasons because what happens is it dilutes
Speaker 2: our relationship with The.
Speaker 1: Lord that's the danger of.
Speaker 2: It it draws us. Away it's what happened With, SAUL
Speaker 2: i Mean, solomon he had all these wives and and
Speaker 2: and and they drew his attention from The lord ind
Speaker 2: he started worshiping with him in There, Gods.
Speaker 1: So withdraw from the.
Speaker 2: Unfaithful listen one of one of my my closest childhood.
Speaker 2: Friend if you look for me AND i wasn't at,
Speaker 2: home you could go to his. House that's Where i'd,
Speaker 2: be and vice. VERSA i, mean we grew up, together
Speaker 2: went through high school. Together you, know it was like
Speaker 2: we were always with each. Other and the last TIME
Speaker 2: i ever did anything with, him we're out on his
Speaker 2: family's houseboat and we were.
Speaker 1: Fishing we're fishing all, night went out in the, lake.
Speaker 2: And you, know we spend a whole weekend out. There
Speaker 2: the storm came. Up y'all ever seen the yoyo's when you?
Speaker 2: Fish you know What i'm talking. About it's a fishing.
Speaker 2: Apparatus it's spring. Loaded you unreeled the line with a
Speaker 2: hook and bait on.
Speaker 1: It and it's on a yo. Yo you just hook
Speaker 1: it to the boat or to a, tree and.
Speaker 2: When a fish bites down on, it, boom the spring
Speaker 2: lets loose and it reels it. In we set a
Speaker 2: bunch of those, out and that's how we were. FISHING
Speaker 2: i was cooking something neat AND i look over at
Speaker 2: my friend and.
Speaker 1: He's doing three different types of drugs at.
Speaker 2: Once and at this TIME i had really begun to
Speaker 2: serve The lord again with my. LIFE i had begun
Speaker 2: to you, KNOW i was in church AND i was
Speaker 2: a small, group and YOU i was really, walking really
Speaker 2: making a big effort and walk with The.
Speaker 1: Lord AND i looked over there that night at, him
Speaker 1: AND i REALIZED i can't fellowship with him. Anymore SO
Speaker 1: i had to break that.
Speaker 2: Relationship i've only spoken with him one time since. Then
Speaker 2: that would have been nineteen seventy nine or, eighty and
Speaker 2: it was at his oldest son's. Funeral with not spoken
Speaker 2: except that one, time and it was very much just
Speaker 2: A i'm so, sorry thank.
Speaker 1: You that was.
Speaker 2: It BUT i knew THAT i couldn't stay in relationship
Speaker 2: there and have a relationship With. God my youngest brother
Speaker 2: had a job in an environment that he had to,
Speaker 2: quit a very lucrative, job because he knew that if
Speaker 2: he stayed in that, environment he couldn't serve The. Lord,
Speaker 2: see we have to be wise about who we associate.
Speaker 1: With who we are in relationship. With i'm not.
Speaker 2: Talking about not, witnessing, ministering fishing for, people getting in people's,
Speaker 2: lives not talking about.
Speaker 1: That i'm talking about people that we build a close relationship,
Speaker 1: with that we build a strong relationship, with that we
Speaker 1: become friends or close friends, with because that will exercise
Speaker 1: an influence on our spiritual life and our walk with The.
Speaker 2: Lord, okay So david had to separate himself From, saul
Speaker 2: and in verse, forty it, says and then he took
Speaker 2: his staff in his, hand chose five smooth stones from the,
Speaker 2: stream put them in the pouch of a shepherd's, bag
Speaker 2: and with his sling in his, hand approached the.
Speaker 1: Philistine this is the fourth. Point go with what is
Speaker 1: in your? Hand how many times do you.
Speaker 2: Go i'm just waiting For god to get this just
Speaker 2: to this point and Then i'll do. IT i just
Speaker 2: Need god to do this one more, thing And i'm.
Speaker 1: Ready how many of you here have ever heard the
Speaker 1: term lay out a. Fleece you know that's an act of,
Speaker 1: unbelief that's not an act of.
Speaker 2: Faith What gideon did was he, said, Okay, god you
Speaker 2: want me to go do?
Speaker 1: That you sure you want me to, go are you? Sure, Okay,
Speaker 1: God i'll do.
Speaker 2: It, Well but First, God i'm gonna put this fleece
Speaker 2: out and then uh AND i probably got the order
Speaker 2: on but uh. Uh so in the Morning i'll come
Speaker 2: out and the fleece will be wet with dew and
Speaker 2: the ground all around be, dry and THEN i know
Speaker 2: what you're.
Speaker 1: Willing i'll do. It so he does. It that's what it.
Speaker 1: Was how about two out of? Three let's reverse. It
Speaker 1: that's not, faith.
Speaker 3: That's.
Speaker 2: Unbelief we hesitate why that relationship is not.
Speaker 1: There our past experiences cause us to be concerned about
Speaker 1: our future, expectations you.
Speaker 2: See and so Now, david, Yeah, KING i can't do, this,
Speaker 2: man this stuff's too, big too. HEAVY i couldn't you,
Speaker 2: KNOW i wouldn't Be i'd be exhausted by the TIME
Speaker 2: i got down the. Hill Now I'm i'm Gonna god's
Speaker 2: given me WHAT i, Need he's given me EVERYTHING i.
Speaker 2: Need i'll take. That i'm, Done i'm. Gone i'll see
Speaker 2: you WHEN i get. Back And he's got All He's
Speaker 2: god is a. Sling you see the images of this
Speaker 2: kind of sling shot right there are two big pieces
Speaker 2: of two long pieces of leather with a little web
Speaker 2: of something or a piece of leather sown in the
Speaker 2: middle of, it and they put a stone in it.
Speaker 1: And they sling it like, this and they shoot it
Speaker 1: from an underhanded throat so that the stones go rising
Speaker 1: as they go. Away and so this is What david.
Speaker 1: Does he gets.
Speaker 2: Five, stones gets them in, there and he's gonna go
Speaker 2: out and confront the uncircumcised.
Speaker 1: Feel este he had enough faith In. GOD i don't
Speaker 1: need this other.
Speaker 2: Stuff god has already equipped me with EVERYTHING i need
Speaker 2: to accomplish What he's sending me to.
Speaker 1: Accomplish god does. It that's the way he, Works.
Speaker 2: Folks this thing about WELL i just need this one more,
Speaker 2: piece or IF i just only had this one more,
Speaker 2: thing or IF i only just had that doesn't. Work
Speaker 2: that's not gonna lead you to. Victory what's gonna lead
Speaker 2: you to victory is going with What god's already put
Speaker 2: inside of.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 2: Folks he made you and created you with everything inside
Speaker 2: you that you need to succeed at the purpose and
Speaker 2: the plan That he has for you in this world
Speaker 2: in this. Life we just got to figure that out
Speaker 2: and understand. That separate from the, unfaithful go with what's
Speaker 2: in your. Hand future expectations are based on past, experience
Speaker 2: total surrender to the purposes and plans.
Speaker 1: Of god for our.
Speaker 2: Lives, See saul was full of fear and. Unbelief that's
Speaker 2: why he's sitting back, there and got all his men out,
Speaker 2: front and, he's you, KNOW i don't know what we're gonna.
Speaker 2: Do you, KNOW i don't know how we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: This and So, david you, Know david just comes. Up,
Speaker 1: Now i'll do.
Speaker 2: This and so he grabs, that he grabs that stone of,
Speaker 2: stones and he goes out to face The. Philistine, meanwhile
Speaker 2: verse forty, one The, philistine with a shield bear in
Speaker 2: front of, him kept coming closer To. David he Looked
Speaker 2: david over and saw that he was little more than a,
Speaker 2: boy glowing with health and, handsome and he despised. Him
Speaker 2: he said To, david AM i a dog that.
Speaker 1: You come at me with? Sticks and The philistine Cursed
Speaker 1: david by his.
Speaker 2: Gods come, Here i'll give your flesh to the birds
Speaker 2: and to the wild. Animals david said to The, philistine
Speaker 2: you come against me with sword and spear and, Javelin
Speaker 2: BUT i come against you in the name of The Lord,
Speaker 2: almighty The god of the armies Of, israel whom you have.
Speaker 2: Defied this, day The lord will deliver you into my,
Speaker 2: hands And i'll strike you down and cut off your.
Speaker 2: Head this very, Day i'll give the carcasses of The
Speaker 2: philistine army of the birds into the wild, animals and
Speaker 2: the whole world will know that there is A god In.
Speaker 2: Israel all those gathered here will know that it is
Speaker 2: not by sword or spear that The lord. Says for
Speaker 2: the battle is The, lord's and he will give all
Speaker 2: of you into our. Hands because of the, relationship because
Speaker 2: he understood that the attack was really Against, god he
Speaker 2: could stand there and say, that because it's The lord's.
Speaker 2: Battle you poor bless your, heart you didn't even know.
Speaker 1: It you're so.
Speaker 2: Stupid you're Attacking god and you think you're just attacking.
Speaker 1: Us oh you.
Speaker 2: Feelistines aren't too, bright are. You he's out there. Alone
Speaker 2: it looks like. It think about the optics of that
Speaker 2: nine feet nine inches, tall nine feet nine inches, tall
Speaker 2: seventeen eighteen year old.
Speaker 1: Kid that doesn't look. Good that poor kid's out there by.
Speaker 2: Himself, no he's. Not he's standing alone With. God he's
Speaker 2: not by. Himself god's, there.
Speaker 1: And he knew it why past, experience why because of his,
Speaker 1: relationship and so we know the.
Speaker 2: Story but it's just too good just to Tell let,
Speaker 2: Me i'm gonna do this.
Speaker 1: Real quickly verse forty.
Speaker 2: Eight as The philistine moved closer to, Attacking david ran
Speaker 2: quickly toward the battle line the, meeting reaching into his
Speaker 2: bag and taking out a. Stone he slung it and
Speaker 2: struck The philistine on the. FOREHEAD i hear the stone
Speaker 2: sank into his forehead and he fell face down on the.
Speaker 2: Ground So david triumphed over The philistine with a sling
Speaker 2: and a, stone without a sword in his. Hand he
Speaker 2: struck down The philistine and killed. Him david ran and
Speaker 2: stood over. Him he took hold of The philistine's sword
Speaker 2: drew it from the. Sheet it must have been all
Speaker 2: he could. Do after he killed, him he cut off his.
Speaker 1: Head with the.
Speaker 2: Sword when The philistines saw that the hero was, dead
Speaker 2: they turned and.
Speaker 1: Ran now what's this? Then and this just like?
Speaker 2: It then the men Of israel And judah surged forward
Speaker 2: with a shout and pursued The philistines to the entrance Of.
Speaker 1: Gath and to the gates Of. Akron they're.
Speaker 2: Dead were strewn along The shahan road To gath In.
Speaker 2: Akron when The israelites returned from chasing The, philistines they
Speaker 2: plundered their. Camp so everything That david said is what.
Speaker 2: Happened those those.
Speaker 1: Five points are, important but they all rest in the.
Speaker 2: Fact that we have a relationship With god and we
Speaker 2: need To we need to guard.
Speaker 1: That that's so. Precious we need to guard our relationship we.
Speaker 1: Got it should be our first.
Speaker 2: Priority in the. Morning i'll be, HONEST i get up
Speaker 2: in the. MORNING i don't do so. GOOD i used
Speaker 2: to be able to say to have had four cups of.
Speaker 2: COFFEE i couldn't even. SMILE i don't drink coffee. Anymore
Speaker 2: so that's WHY i get to the. Office mark looks at, Me,
Speaker 2: hey how are we all?
Speaker 1: Right But i'll tell you.
Speaker 2: This AND i don't mean to embarrass, anybody But i'll
Speaker 2: be upstairs AND i get my cup of, decaf a
Speaker 2: little bit of. CREAM i hate drinking fake, coffee but you,
Speaker 2: know somehow something hot and it kind of tastes similar
Speaker 2: to coffee in the.
Speaker 1: Mornings, okay.
Speaker 2: You stumble around up there and get my fake. Coffee
Speaker 2: turn On Fox. News perry gets up and you hear
Speaker 2: praise and worship music coming.
Speaker 1: On hear it coming up from. Downstairs, MAN i ought
Speaker 1: to be doing that Some. NOW i go out on
Speaker 1: that AND i start. Praying if the weather's nice, Enough,
Speaker 1: mara go out on the front.
Speaker 2: Porch so if you happen to see me on the
Speaker 2: front porch in the, morning if you're driving down WTL,
Speaker 2: o you'll know What i'm.
Speaker 1: Doing, Okay, FATHER i need a good day. Today i'll
Speaker 1: wake up in a little. Bit, Really i'm, sorry But
Speaker 1: i'm getting. There but that relationship is so.
Speaker 2: Critical If i'm not, CAREFUL i will neglect. It and
Speaker 2: my wife and my children depend on me to not neglect.
Speaker 2: It insomuch as WHAT i do here at victory IT
Speaker 2: i have a. STEWARDSHIP i cannot afford to neglect. It
Speaker 2: if it's, NEGLECTED i can't, be as The bible instructs,
Speaker 2: me instant in season and out of.
Speaker 1: SEASON i have to maintain and guard and cherish that
Speaker 1: relationship SO i can be instant in season and out of.
Speaker 1: Season SO i don't have to, Go, oh that's a tough.
Speaker 1: ONE i, go, Oh, Man god's got to really work
Speaker 1: on that. One, NO i can. Go, okay that's what
Speaker 1: we'll do In jesus'.
Speaker 2: Name so these these are the, things and and your
Speaker 2: family depends on. You and and believe it or, not
Speaker 2: the people around you are blessed when you guard and
Speaker 2: maintain your relationship with The lord because you're. There your
Speaker 2: presence brings a blessing with. It israel was saved not
Speaker 2: because of her king or her. Army israel was saved
Speaker 2: because of the relationship that a shepherd had With God.
Speaker 2: Almighty as don't underestimate yourself.
Speaker 1: And who you are In.
Speaker 2: God david had that relationship and he guarded it and
Speaker 2: he cherished. It we need to guard and cherish. Ours
Speaker 2: we need some of us need to compeld one because
Speaker 2: we don't have. One some of us need to take
Speaker 2: ours and dust it off and clean it, up you,
Speaker 2: know kind of shine it up a little, bit.
Speaker 1: Because let me tell, you.
Speaker 2: Are going to encounter encounter moments like. That they are
Speaker 2: going to come times in your life where it's not Like.
Speaker 3: God preachers you, said you, know it'd be victory all
Speaker 3: the time and be you, KNOW i have prosperity AND
Speaker 3: i give, them and you know i'd BE i have,
Speaker 3: healing and you know, what they're gonna come times in
Speaker 3: your life where all that's gonna be.
Speaker 1: Challenged and if.
Speaker 2: You're coasting along on A sunday morning message in A
Speaker 2: wednesday night, class let me tell you you're set up to
Speaker 2: be a great. Victim so we need to dust off our,
Speaker 2: relationships personal relationship with The, lord and we need to
Speaker 2: polish them up and we need to strengthen.
Speaker 1: Them, amen everybody stand. Up, Please i'm gonna pray with
Speaker 1: you if you. Need if you still need, prayer you want.
Speaker 2: Prayer when we're finished, praying there's some of us will
Speaker 2: be here at the. Front you feel free to come
Speaker 2: up here and we'll pray with. You BUT i want
Speaker 2: to pray a prayer for over all of us right. Now,
Speaker 2: father forgive us for neglecting our relationship with.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 2: Father forgive me for depending in my own abilities and
Speaker 2: my own. Intelligence forgive, Me father for depending on The
Speaker 2: council Of men and relying on other, people and WHEN
Speaker 2: i should have been relying on, YOU.
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 2: Sinned forgive, Me. Father that's my prayer as well for
Speaker 2: everyone in this, room in this place, Today Holy, spirit
Speaker 2: let them sense your presence and your love let them
Speaker 2: sense your desire for a, deep strong, relationship a love
Speaker 2: affair with each one of. Them father, says we build
Speaker 2: and look toward the. Future we begin to build right
Speaker 2: now our experiences of, trust of, faith of. Love, father
Speaker 2: that we build those experiences of of, rescue of, provision of,
Speaker 2: faithfulness so that we as we look to the, future
Speaker 2: our futures not. Bleak our futures not in. Question our
Speaker 2: future is not, vague but our future is, strong it's,
Speaker 2: bright and it's.
Speaker 1: Certain give wisdom to every parent here.
Speaker 2: As they make decisions where their children are, concerned as
Speaker 2: they make decisions in their, home because each one of
Speaker 2: those has an impact on their.
Speaker 1: Children let us be good stewards of our. Children, Father.
Speaker 2: Ask your blessings on everyone in, here in their in their,
Speaker 2: jobs and in their, marriagees and in their. Families that
Speaker 2: they're blessed going in and coming, out that they're that
Speaker 2: that they're blessed in the feel and blessed in the. Home,
Speaker 2: father that they're the and not the. Tale that they'll
Speaker 2: lend and not. Borrow, father that they'll lay hands on
Speaker 2: the sick and they'll be. Healed that they'll cast out, Demons,
Speaker 2: father that they'll be mighty testimonies in their lives and
Speaker 2: witnesses for, you, strong, mighty powerful men and women Of
Speaker 2: god In jesus's, Name.
Speaker 1: Amen thank you.
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