Alright, let's take our Bibles
and turn now to 1 Samuel. 1 Samuel 17. 1 Samuel 17. This is about an event that happened that all
of us know about. We've all heard this story. This is a story about David and
Goliath. And concerning this story, it's
a story that's absolutely true. No doubt about this happening.
This really happened. But as we've said so many times,
if all we see is just a story that happened a long time ago,
it's just history. Well, what has that got to do
with us today? I need something that I can hold
on to today. I want to know how is this relative
to me today? Because if it's not relative
to me today, I have no comfort in it, I have no joy in it. But
I want us to look at this and I want to go through, there's
58 verses in this chapter. And I'm just going to touch them
as we go, make a couple of comments. I want to begin, though, before
I get into this chapter. I want you to turn with me to
Genesis chapter 3. God made a promise to the devil,
to the serpent. Back in the garden, after man's
fall, God He said, verse 13, the Lord God said unto the woman,
what is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, the serpent
beguiled me and I did eat. Well, the reason the Lord asked
her that is because the Lord had asked Adam. Verse 11, he said, Why were you
afraid? He said, well, we were naked.
And he said, who told you that? Did you eat of the fruit that
I commanded thee that you shouldn't eat? Did you eat of that? Well,
God knew he did. And then Adam said, verse 12,
well, the woman that thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of
the tree, and I ate it. I did eat. It was her fault. Then Eve said, well, the serpent
beguiled me, and I ate because he fooled me, he fooled me. And
the Lord in verse 14, 15 told the devil, the serpent. He said, because thou hast done
this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast
of the field, and upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt
thou eat all the days of thy life. Dirt's gonna be mingled
with everything you eat. You catch a rat, or you catch
something, you're gonna have dirt all over it, and you're
gonna eat. That's how you're gonna do. And I will put enmity
between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed,
and it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
The Lord said, now I'm going to make you a promise. The seed of the woman is going
to crush your head. It's going to bruise your head. In that bruising, you're going
to bruise his heel, but he's going to crush you. You're going
to take your head off. Now this morning, knowing the
truth of the Lord's promise, I'd like for us to consider in
1 Samuel 17 that truth. Set forth in this blessed story
about a man named David, a man after God's own heart, who was
a picture and type of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a man that
this man killed, Goliath, who is a picture of the serpent,
Satan. And if we get in perspective
now, I'm going to tell the story, I'm going to read the story.
But we're going to look at this totally in light of that truth
that the Lord told the two on the road to Emmaus, beginning
with Moses. And all the prophets, He expounded
unto them in all the scriptures those things concerning himself. Now let's just read this. I'll
read a few verses. I'll make a couple of comments
and we'll go on. Verses 1 to 3. 1 Samuel 17. Now the Philistines gathered
together their armies to battle and were gathered together at
Sochoth, which belonged to Judah, and pitched between Sochoth and
Ezekiah in Ephesdamim. And Saul and the men of Israel
were gathered together and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set
the battle in array against the Philistines. And the Philistines
stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain
on the other side, and there was a valley between them. Now
the armies of Israel and Philistines arrayed themselves against each
other, but there was a valley between them. They were divided. Israel is a picture and type
of God's elect, God's people chosen before the foundation
of the world in Christ. And the Philistines are a picture
of the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction. Does the Lord
have the right to make one vessel unto honor and one vessel unto
dishonor? Sure He does. Why? Because He's God. He does
as He will. The Lord has the right. And the
scripture says these two armies. Here's a picture. Now everybody
that's ever been born in this world, Brad fits in one of them. They're either of the Lord or those that are not God's. You
know, reprobates, left to themselves. And the scripture says they were
facing each other but there was a big valley. They're divided. I can tell you for a fact that
God's people don't serve the God of a reprobate. A reprobate
doesn't serve the God of Israel. They don't believe the same gospel. They don't trust the same Lord
Jesus Christ. The Philistines would be those
that are pictured that serve and believe on a Lord Jesus Christ
that died on the cross to save everybody. And paid for everybody's
sins. And all you have to do to make
it effectual is exercise your free will and accept it. God's
people don't serve that Lord Jesus Christ. They serve the
one who laid down his life for the sheep. The one whom they
were chosen. those that were everlastingly
placed in their surety. And the scripture says in verses
4 to 11, there went out a champion out of the camp to the Philistines
named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits in a span,
had a helmet of brass on his head, arm with a coat of mail,
weight of the coat 5,000 shekels of brass, and he had greaves
of brass on his legs, a target of brass between his shoulders,
and the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam. And his spear's head weighed
600 shekels of iron, and one bearing a shield went before
him. And he stood, and he cried unto the armies of Israel and
said unto them, why are you come out to set your battle in array?
Am not I a Philistine, ye servants of Saul? Choose you a man for
you, and let him come down to me. He be able to fight with
me and kill me, then will we be your servants. And if I prevail
against him and kill him, then shall ye be our servants and
serve us. And the Philistines said, I defy
the armies of Israel today. Give me a man that we may fight
together. When Saul and all Israel heard
the words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly
afraid. Now here's the champion of the
Philistines. Goliath, a picture of Satan himself,
the one who fought against, with all of his third of the angels
in heaven, the dragon, who fought against Michael and his angels
in heaven, and the scripture says was cast out. And he had
this attitude. This is what Goliath said. He
said, get you a man. I'm a man. You get a man. And
you bring him and we'll meet in the valley. And we'll settle
this. We're going to settle this. We're
going to find out who really is in control. But was that not
the attitude of Satan? Listen to this. I will ascend
into heaven. I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount
of the congregation in the sides of the north I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds. I will be like the Most High." Now, this champion of the Philistines,
he has never been defeated in battle by a mere mortal. Undefeated, larger, and I'm telling
you all that stuff he had on him, that helmet and those greaves,
that mail, shield, spear. He's more armored, more able
than any natural man can handle. He steps up as a representative
of all that opposes Almighty God and His people and He defies
them. I reprove you, I scorn you. you who claim to be the objects
of God's affection. And he offers this challenge
that he's convinced, just like Satan said, I will, I will, I
will, I will, I will be. I will be. He's convinced that
he can't lose this battle. No way. That he's got the ability
concerning his will, his work, his skills, his might, to handle
it. You bring yourself a man. Let him fight with me. And then our eyes are turned
to view another man. This man's name is Jesse, 12
to 15. Now David was the son of that
Ephrathite of Bethlehem, Judah, whose name was Jesse. He had
eight sons and the man went among men for an old man in the days
of Saul And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed
Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons
that went to the battle were Eliab, the firstborn, next to
him Abinadab, the third Shammah. And David was the youngest, and
the three eldest followed Saul. But David went and returned from
Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. Now here we behold
one who is the son Jesse, but is a picture of our blessed Savior,
the shepherd of the sheep. That's what David did. He turned
from Saul to feed his father's sheep. His father had given him
the responsibility, you take care of the sheep. Now can we
not behold the Lord Jesus Christ, the shepherd of the sheep? And
while David was tending the sheep, watching over them, protecting
them, keeping them obedient to Jesse, his father's command.
The scripture says while he was in Bethlehem, something was happening. Look at verse 16. And the Philistine
drew near morning and evening, presented himself 40 days. Now, 40 days. Our minds cannot be helped but
to be reminded of the 40 days of Satan's temptation of the
Lord Jesus Christ in the wilderness. It was there that he himself
was touched with the feeling of our infirmity. Satan tempted
him, tempted him of the eyes and the flesh, and the Lord was
tempted in all points, like we are. yet without sin. But consider also, in the midst
of this world's trials and temptations, the love and the affection, the
watch care of our Father over us, His children. While this
was going on, in verse 16, at Philistine, He drew near morning
and evening, and morning and evening, tempting God's people,
testing them, trying them, trying to get them. He said, well, bring
it on. Well, let's see what you got. Show me what you got, you
know. Well, here's what happened. Verses
17 to 19, And Jesse said unto David his son, You take now for
thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves,
and you run to the camp of thy brethren, and carry these ten
cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look now how thy
brethren fare, and take their pledge. They and all the men
of Israel were in the Valley of Elah fighting with the Philistines. They weren't in battle yet, but
they were preparing. They were on that mountain. And
here Jesse, David's father, sends David with the necessary provisions
that they're going to need. I want you to take it. You take
this and you take them some corn and some loaves of bread. Take
them some cheese. Our God, my God, Paul says, shall
supply all your need according to His riches and glory by Christ
Jesus. You take what your brethren need. And I want you to go after you
see how they fare, see how their welfare is going. You check and
you see how they're doing and take their pledge. Now here's
a precious thing David was told to do, and how we behold our
precious Lord. Take their pledge. Here's what
Jesse, his daddy, told him. If they be found to be indebted. Soldiers back then, I read, weren't
taken care of by the government. They pretty well had to take
care of themselves. If there was anything that they
needed, they had to pretty well get it. You know, I mean, there
were some things that they might get, but not everything. And
if they had, Jesse told David, he said, look, if they've gone
over there and they've gotten themselves in a pickle, if they've
found themselves now to be indebted and they've had to I promised
something that they had that was precious to them, their life
after the war. I'll go to work for you for five
years, pay this thing off, that's all I got. I promise you, I'll
do this, I'll sign the paper, whatever it is. I've got this
coat right here, this is all I've got. I've got this knife
my dad gave me, I'll let you have that. But I've got to have
something else. He said, if you take their pledge
and if they're found to be indebted, you accept That word pleasure,
that means their exchange, what they have given. Now let me ask
you this, are we not indebted? Have we found ourselves indebted,
debtors to the law of God by sin? What do we owe? What do we owe? Let me ask you,
what do we owe the law because we've broken it? I tell you what
we owe, our life. The wages of sin is death. What have we pledged? Our soul. Our soul. We have pledged our
soul. He said, you go and you take
their pledge and if they have pledged themselves, He said,
you take it and pay it. You make good on it. You make
good. You give me a report. Then he said in verses 20 to
22, David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with
a keeper and took and went as Jesse had commanded him. And
he came to the trench as the host was going forth to the fight
and shouted for the battle. For Israel and the Philistines
had put the battle in array, army against army. And David
left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of a carriage and
ran to the army and came and saluted his brethren. Here David
obediently went. Daddy told him, he said, you
go and you take these provisions and you see how they fare, how
their welfare is doing and you take their pledge. You go and
whatever is needful, And here David goes as a blessed picture
of our precious Savior who willingly, who obediently came into this
world. The Word was God, with God. And the Word was made flesh. And he came and Jesse said, you
go. And then Galatians 4 verses 4
and 5 says, but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent
forth His Son of a woman made under the law to redeem them
that were under the law that we might receive the adoption
of sons. He said, you go and you see how
they are. You stand for them. And then the Scripture says in
verses 23-27, and as He talked, and that's what He's doing. He
said in verse 22, He came and saluted His brethren. Verse 23,
as He talked with them, Behold, there came up the champion, the
Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the
Philistines and spake according to the same words. He got the
same message every day. He comes out there every day
saying the same thing. Give me a man. Give me a man. Bring him on. Let me see him.
Get him out here with me. David heard him. And all the
men of Israel, when they saw the man, they fled from him.
And they were so afraid, and the men of Israel said, Have
you seen this man that has come up? Surely to defy Israel has
he come up, and it shall be that the man who killeth him, the
king, will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his
daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel. And David
spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done
to this man that killeth the Philistine, and taketh away the
reproach of Israel? For who is this uncircumcised
Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?
And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall
it be done to the man that killeth him. What's going to happen to
him? What's he going to get? The man
that kills this Philistine, that crushes his head. What's he going to get? Well,
he's going to be gloriously rewarded. He's going to have great riches. And secondly, the hand of the
king's daughter is going to be won. He's going to have the king's
daughter for his bride. And thirdly, that victor is going
to earn for his father's house freedom in Israel. Boy, we'd
go a long way on this one, couldn't we? If I had a little bit more
time, we'd stay a little bit longer, but I'm gonna stay here
for a second. Oh, the riches that we have in the triumph of
the Lord Jesus Christ. What do we have in Him? We're heirs of God, heirs of
God. joint heirs with Christ. Whoever defeats this man, this
Philistine, he's going to have great riches. And I'll tell you
the second thing he's going to have. He's going to have the
king's daughter for his wife. Oh, having beheld the lamb slain
from the foundation of the world. The father who chose a bride. for the Son. Gave that bride
to Him. And the Lord Jesus Christ betrothed
her to Himself everlastingly. She was always His. He's always
been her husband. She's always been His bride.
And here she was, given to Him. And He's going to have her and
He's going to make her holy. and without blame before the
Father who gave Him the bride in love. And she's going to be
presented that way, spotless, a chaste virgin, justified by
His grace. Oh, what a bride. And I'll tell
you the third thing. Whoever defeats that Philistine
right there is going to have freedom. Freedom. His house is
going to be free. And oh, I'm telling you, that
Philistine and the defeat of that Philistine, picture of Satan
himself, by the shedding of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ
and putting away our sin, putting away our debt to the law, he's
robed us in righteousness and therefore being then free from
sin, we become servants of righteousness. We're free. Free. No debt, no charge, no charge. But oh, he who came, what disrespect
was he given. Look at verses 28 to 31. And Eliab, his eldest brother,
heard when he spake unto the men in Eliab's anger. was kindled
against David. And he said, Why camest thou
down hither? And with whom hast thou left
those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, the naughtiness
of thine heart. Thou art come down that thou
mightest see the battle. And David said, What have I done?
Is there not a cause? Is this not worthy? Is this not
worthy of me coming down? Is the defeat of this Philistine
not worthy? Is there not a cause? His brother
just ran it and railed on him. Let me ask you this. Did not
the Lord Jesus Christ come unto His own? And His own received
Him not? Isaiah 53 says He was despised
and rejected a man, a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief,
and we hid as it were our faces from Him. He was despised and
we esteemed him not. Does not the scriptures reveal
all of us, Ephesians, I'll read this to you, Ephesians chapter
2. Ephesians 2 verses 1 to 3. And you hath he quickened who
were dead in trespasses and sins. where in time past you walked
according to the course of this world, according to the prince
of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the
children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation
in time past in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires
of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children
of wrath, even as others. We all were wrathful toward him.
We all had that same attitude. Eliab, his brother, was just
manifesting The spirit of every man, every woman, God's elect,
born in the mass of humanity with the same attitude. Oh, but though David was oppressed,
though he was doubted by his brethren, his countrymen, he
was sin of God. His meat was to do the will of
the Father. which sent him. And as a type
of Christ, David was found faithful right here as the Lord was found
faithful. David believed God. And he said in verse 32, 36,
David said to Saul, let no man's heart fail because of him. Thy
servant will go and fight with this Philistine. And Saul said
to David, thou art not able to go against this Philistine to
fight with him, for thou art but a youth. He's a man of war,
and David said, unto Saul thy servant kept his father's sheep.
There came a lion, and a bear took a lion out of the flock.
And I went after him, and smote him, and delivered him out of
his mouth. And when he rose against me, I caught him by his beard,
and smote him, and slew him. The servants slew both the lion
and the bear. And this uncircumcised Philistine
shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of
the living God." Oh, having reflected, David, upon the former deliverances
of the Lord, David spoke with no uncertainty of the absolute
assuredness over Goliath. That's what he said in verse
7. The Lord delivered me out of the paw of the lion, the bear,
and He will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
And Saul said, Go, and the Lord be with you. Oh, do we not behold
Him? who the scripture says, who shall
not fail in our deliverance. What it said, Isaiah 42. He shall
not fail nor be discouraged till he have set judgment in the earth.
He's not going to fail. He's not going to become weak.
He's not going to be crushed or discouraged till he has established
justice in this earth. God's law demanded justice. The soul that sinneth is going
to die. And the Lord was made sin. And
God dealt with him on the very basis that he made himself a
curse. He stood before God Almighty
and the law of God demanded justice. And justice was satisfied. Judgment
was spewed out upon God's people that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. He said, God will deliver me
from this Philistine. And look at verse 38-39, and
Saul armed David with his armor. He put a helmet of brass upon
his head, and armed him with a coat of mail. And David girded
his sword upon his armor, and he assayed to go, for he had
not proved it. David said unto Saul, I cannot
go with these, for I have not proved them. And David put them
off. Oh, how we ever behold the continual
thoughts of the carnal heart. Those thoughts that believe that
the battle over sin can be fought with the efforts of the flesh
and accomplished by man's will, man's might, man's ability. And David rejected the armor
of the king because they weren't proven, not to him. God's never
given me deliverance like that. God has never shown Himself.
be faithful in delivering by my best efforts. And he took
them off. Jeremiah 17 5 says, thus saith
the Lord, cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departed from the Lord. Put not your trust
in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. But how was David going to fight? I'm not going in the arm of the
flesh. How did the Lord Jesus, how did
David picture Christ? How did Christ, how was the battle
fought? As the shepherd. As the shepherd
of the sheep. The shepherd who laid down his
life. I laid down my life. The good
shepherd gives his life for the sheep. He said, I'm going to
fight him as a shepherd. Look at verse 40. He took his
staff in his hand, chose him five smooth stones out of the
brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag, which he had, even in a
script. His sling was in his hand, and
he drew near to the Philistine. Now, I want to make this statement. I want to be perfectly clear
here. I've never claimed to be able. I'm not going to claim
to be able to set forth the totality of that verse 40. That's a precious
passage of scripture. And I have, to this day right
here, I have never, I've never read one commentary that I ever
read and I said that bears witness to my heart that that's right.
Because it would just mainly be somebody's thoughts, a guesswork. You know, I've never read, I
don't know, Brad, maybe you have, I haven't. It told me exactly
what was set forth. And so I'm not going to set forth
and claim that I knew, but I would like to just give you a few thoughts.
You know, Robert Hawker, he always says it like this. If you read
Hawker much, he said, I don't want to speak expressly. on this,
but merely to add a thought, just a thought. And so that's
what I'm going to say. I'm not going to say, reveal
something that the Spirit of God has not revealed, but I would
like to set forth a few thoughts that magnify the Lord, and then
we'll just go on from here. I know this, that when David
picked up those five smooth stones, on this I can be sure, they set
forth the glory and the character and the might of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And I know this, as he went forth
to face Goliath, the Lord of glory is who armed and equipped
David. I know this. And as a shepherd,
I know he went forth. He had a staff in his hand and
five smooth stones. And I know this, that as He went
forth to face Goliath, He wasn't going in the arm of the flesh.
He wasn't going with the armor of Saul. And I know this, in
all these things we're more than conquerors through Him that loved
us. I know this, but knowing surely
that David did in the selection of those five smooth stones. I know this, that the Lord of
glory was being set forth. I know that. I know that for
a fact. Because the Lord said that. He
said in all the Scriptures, He's spoken to them in all the Scriptures,
those things concerning Himself. So I know that's a fact. And
I merely want to read Isaiah 28, verse 16. I want to just
read it. Isaiah 28. Just one verse of
Scripture. about Christ the stone. Isaiah 28, verse 16, Therefore
thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation. I lay, I know this, The stone himself, Christ himself,
was a laid foundation. I know that. He was laid. I lay in Zion for a foundation,
a stone. One that is firm, immovable,
blessed. The rock upon whom the church
itself is built. And then he said in verse 16,
a tried stone, that is a tested and proven, proven sufficient
before the foundation of the world. That's what I said, God
saw him, saw the land slain before the foundation of the world and
trusted him. There was a proven, tried, tested stone. And then it says in verse 16
concerning this stone, a precious cornerstone, upon whom the whole
church is laid, one who is able to keep us from falling. He that
believeth shall not make haste. He's not going to be found ashamed.
That's what Romans 9.33 says. So here he says in verse 16,
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for
a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, Precious cornerstone,
surest foundation. He that believeth on him, he's
not going to be ashamed. All I can tell you right now
is David picked up five stones. And I can show you in the book
of Isaiah 28 what God has to say about Christ the stone. So though the depth of my understanding
is as Brother Mark just prayed for us, that we see through a
glass darkly, But we do see. And being able to behold Christ
in His glory as the loving, directing, keeping shepherd is the shepherd
that's going to do battle himself. And those five smooth stones,
I can tell you for a fact, based on the Word of the Lord, to those
two on the road to Emmaus, they are declarations of the character,
the work, the worthiness of the shepherd. Oh, put in a shepherd's
bag. Oh, the joy to behold Him, the
Shepherd Himself. Put Him in a shepherd's bag,
made flesh. And what does the Scripture say
back in 1 Samuel 17? And what did He do? He drew near. He drew near to the Philistine. And then there was a conversation
that took place between David and Goliath. A conversation that's
normally attributed to those two on the field of battle. But now, if we might, by the
grace of God, look past the events only of that day and consider
these words of Goliath and David as being words and attitudes
that took place on the day of our Lord's crucifixion, we, by
the grace of God, behold a marvelous victory on behalf of God's God's
Christ. The first words of Goliath were
the words of anger and defiance against Christ, just like those
words of the crowd on the day of our Lord's crucifixion. Let's
look at verse 41 to 44. The Philistine came on and drew
near to David, and the man that bared the shield went before
him. And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he
disdained him. He was but a youth, ruddy, fair
countenance, And the Philistines said unto David, Am I a dog that
thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistines cursed David
by his gods. And the Philistines said to David,
Come to me, I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, to
the beasts of the field. Now let me ask you this. Do we
not hear the words of the Philistine Satan himself when our Lord on
the day of his crucifixion hanging upon that cross by the determinate
will and counsel of Almighty God. And hear those words of
defiance. They were just nothing but mouthpieces
of Satan. Here's what they said. He saved
others. Himself He cannot save. He can't save. If He be the King
of Israel, let Him come down from the cross and we'll believe
Him. He trusted in God. Let Him deliver Him now if you'll
have Him. I am the Son of God. And then
consider the words of David. Then David spoke. And again,
consider these words from the cross. The attitude. I know the Lord didn't speak
these words. They're not recorded like that. But here's the fulfillment
of what the Lord promised back in Genesis. Here's David. David
being that revelation of the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ
and the promise of God. I'm going to put enmity. between
thee and the woman, thy seed and her seed, and her seed is
going to bruise your head. It's going to take your head
off. It's going to bruise his heel. And David declared, in
verse 45, David said, David of the Philistines, thou comest
to me with a sword, spear, shield, all works of the flesh. all carnal
things of the flesh. That's how you come to me. I
come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the
armies of Israel whom thou hast defied. And this day, this day,
oh and what a day, on the day of his crucifixion, this day
will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand and I will smite thee. And I'll take thine head from
thee, and I will give the carcass of the host of the Philistines
this day unto the fowls of the air, to the wild beasts of the
earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel."
I'm going to bruise your head today. Today, the will of the
Lord is going to be done. And having spoken, the battle
was over in a moment. 48 to 54. It came to pass when the Philistine
rose and came and drew nigh to meet David, David hasted and
ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. And David put his
hand in the bag and took thence a stone and swang it and smote
the Philistine in the forehead that the stone sunk into his
forehead and he fell upon his face to the earth. I thought
to myself, he had five stones in him. He just reached in and
got one. They all stood together. They were all the glory of the
Lord Jesus Christ. They were all His character.
Every one of them. They stood or fell together. And He will not fail. And He
took a stone and He put it in that sling. And David prevailed
over Philistine with a sling and a stone and smoked the Philistine
and slew him. But there was no sword in the
hand of David. Therefore David ran and took
and stood upon the Philistine and took his sword and drew it
out of his sheath, therefore, and slew him and cut off his
head. Therewith, when the Philistines saw their champion was dead,
they fled. And the men of Israel and Judah arose and shouted and
pursued the Philistines until they came to the valley to the
gates of Ekron, and the wounded of the Philistines fell down
by the way of Shearay." even unto Gath and unto Ekron
and the children of Israel returning from chasing after the Philistine.
They spoiled their tents. David took the head of the Philistine,
brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent. Now here's Satan. Here's the
defeat, the crushing of the head, the bruising of the head of Satan
in his own wicked ignorance. Here's where his head was bruised.
This is the amazing thing about the bruising of the head of Satan,
the serpent, in his own ignorance of God's people, he thought by
taking God's creation of Adam, he thought by tempting Adam to
transgress, he would completely destroy the eternal will and
purpose and counsel of Almighty God, and he thought He thought
that his sword of power over God, he thought that his sword,
I'm going to cut you up. The Philistine told David, I'm
going to feed your carcass. I'm going to take you out. He
thought, Satan thought his sword was his ability to overcome God's
will by having Adam fall, fall prey to Satan's temptation. That sword that Satan thought
he had over God's creation, Adam, that sword proved to be the very
foundation upon which the Lord of glory was going to defeat
Satan by Adam's fall. That's what Satan thought was
his sword. He thought it was his strength. I caused God's
creation to fall. That's my sword, that's my power.
And by making Adam, tempting him to fall, that was the very
foundation upon which the Lord of Glory came and redeemed him.
He thought, here's my sword, I'm going to have him crucified.
And he moved and moved into the heart of a man named Judas. He
entered into Judas, I've got him now. And Judas betrayed him
for 30 pieces of silver. Satan said, there's my sword
right there. There's my power right there. I got him. And he
did it. Judas betrayed him for 30 pieces
of silver. And the Lord of glory was crucified. And by taking that sword that
he thought he had, thinking that he was going to defeat the Lord,
taking that sword, and what that sword Satan thought would accomplish,
The Lord took that sword and cut his head off with it. The scriptures declare that the
weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty through
God to the pulling down of strongholds. Truly, the wrath of man shall
praise him, and the remainder of wrath the Lord will restrain.
verses 55 to the end of the chapter. And when Saul saw David go forth
against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the
host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, as I so
liveth, O king, I can't tell. And the king said, inquire thou
whose son the stripling is. And as David returned from the
slaughter of the Philistines, Abner took him and brought him
before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand and
saw said to him, whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the
son of thy servant, Jesse, the Bethlehemite. You know who that
was? I was talking to Saul. That was
the king. David had already been anointed
king, just chapter 16, 1 Samuel 16. 11 to 13, Samuel said unto
Jesse, Here are all thy children. He said, Well, there remaineth
yet the youngest, and behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel
said to Jesse, Send and fetch him. We will not sit down till
he come hither. And he sent and brought him.
And he was ready, with all a beautiful countenance, goodly to look to.
And the Lord said to Samuel, Arise, anoint him. This is he. And Samuel took the horn of oil
and anointed him in the midst of the brethren, and the Spirit
of the Lord came upon David from that day forthwith. So Samuel
rose up and went to Ramah. That was in chapter 16. Saul
asked the one that had defeated the Philistine, the one that
defeated Satan, the one who bruised his head, the one who had his
head in his hand, the one who took Satan's sword and used it
against him to destroy him. Saul said, who is that? And David,
in his humility, waiting on the Lord, said, I'm Jesse's boy. I'm the son of my father. Who
was that? That's the king. Oh, may the
Lord teach us to behold these blessed scriptures in light of
the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. And may we behold Him fresh. who has wrought a mighty victory
over death and hell and the grave and teach us afresh. There is
now, therefore, no condemnation. Our God is victorious for His
glory and our good.