Soaring now and still to conquer,
Jesus, the ruler of all, Thrones and their scepters all shall
carry, Crowns from their splendor shall fall. Yet shall the army
now lead us, Faithful and true to the land, Finding thy vengeance
eternal, Rest when their warfare is at. Not to the strong is the
battle, Not to the swift is the race, Yet to the true and the
faithful, Victory is promised through grace. I know you love these types like
I do. We love them and we're amazed
by them, aren't we? But we need to take care that
we're not more amazed by the type than we are of the Lord
Himself. We need to go away from here
not thinking, wasn't that an amazing story? But rather, isn't
our Lord's grace and mercy amazing? But the Spirit of God, He controls
that. I can't do anything about that.
He has to make it perfectual always. God's Word is so significant. Every word, every line, every
jot, every tittle has deep meaning. Most of it is hidden. All of
the symbols, everything in it, every word, every phrase, if
time would allow it, we could see wonderful things. like Goliath's
weapons, the weapons of that great giant, that represent Satan's
armor and all that he has at his disposal. Mighty, mighty,
but not all-powerful. Only our Lord's weapons are.
David's provisions for his brethren, we look just briefly at ephah,
parched corn, and cheeses, things like that, have meaning. I want you to turn first of all
to Psalm 89. Psalm 89. We don't have time to look into
every line and every phrase. Psalm 89. We could have read
for our scripture reading numerous scriptures. All through the Psalms,
Isaiah would speak of the conquering king. wrote this under inspiration
of the Holy Spirit. He's not speaking of himself,
like Isaiah in Isaiah 53. He wasn't writing of himself.
He knew that. He was writing of the Christ.
And this, Psalm 89, is just glorious. Look at beginning with verse
18. The Lord is our defense. The
Holy One of Israel is our King. Then thou spakest in vision to
thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty. I have exalted one chosen out
of the people. I have found David, or rather
the Christ, my servant. With my holy oil have I anointed
him, with whom my hand shall be established. Mine arm also
shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not exact upon
him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. I will beat down
his foes before his face and plague them that hate him." So
what a scripture that is of our Lord
Jesus Christ. David was born and raised and
lived for this cause. We saw that. And that's what
Christ said of Himself. For this cause came out in the
Lord. Why? The title of this message is
The King Who Came to Fight. The first thing that David did,
right after he's anointed, is he comes and face to face fights
against Israel's great foe and adversary. That's the first thing
David did before he ascended the throne. He came, well he
was keeping the sheep. He came to feed and see about
his brethren. But he came and what he saw was
a fierce foe facing them. And that's the first thing he
did, wasn't it? Faced this man head on and brought him down. And didn't our Lord Jesus cry
the first thing on becoming a 30-year-old man in his ministry, the first
thing he did? was led by the Spirit of God
into the wilderness to be tempted forty days and forty nights,
and he faced Satan head on, right there. Tempted at all points
like as we are, yet without sin. The first of, the beginning of
Satan's downfall. So this is the captain. That's
why the scripture calls him the captain of our salvation. That's
why the Lord said, I've laid help on one that's mighty. Our
salvation, our health, it all depends on the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, David, as we saw, his name
means loving, or loved, or beloved, or both. A lovely man, a loving
man, a beloved man. The next chapter we're going
to see that all Israel loved David, except a few of them. But they all loved David. And
our Lord is called the Beloved in you. The Beloved of the Father,
and He's Beloved of His people. David was unknown. He was hidden. He was hidden, except to a few
servants. They knew who he was. One that
was mighty, he said. Man of war. They knew him. But he was hidden to the naked
eye, hidden from view. And all the while, what he was
doing while he was hidden, keeping his father's sheep. That's what
we saw of our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ said in John 10, He said,
I am the good shepherd. Didn't He? I know my sheep. I have come, the good shepherd
has come to lay down his life for the sheep. He said, other
sheep I have which are not of this fold, to them also I must
bring. Must leave the ninety and nine
like David went out after that one lamb. That's Christ. That's
why He came. David was anointed before he
ascended. David was anointed in the midst
of his brethren. That's why Eliab, the oldest
son, Eliab, yes, that's why he was jealous and envious. And
weren't the Pharisees? Weren't the Pharisees for envy?
Didn't they deliver up Christ as Scripture said? But he was
anointed and he became a servant before he became king. Servant. David loved his brethren. He
was a servant to them. Though they despised and rejected
him, they didn't receive him, but they went. They went. And greater love hath no man
than our Lord Jesus Christ. David was the giant slayer. This
is why he came. This was his great chief work,
was to bring this adversary down. and to tell everyone there's
a God in Israel. I want you to look at verses
29 and 30. David said, is there not a cause? In verse 30, he turned. Can you
see him doing that? He's turning to everyone around
him. And he says, is there not a cause? He looks around him and he saw
that there was no man able to rise to the occasion. He looked
around and he said, is there not a cause? Doesn't someone
need to face this fellow? No man. Look at Isaiah 59. This is glorious. Is there not a cause? He turned
from one to another and kept saying this one thing. And that's
what our Lord said, for this cause came out of the world.
This is the cause Christ came. Look at Isaiah 59 verse 16. And he saw that there was no
man, and he wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore,
his arm brought salvation unto him, and his righteousness it
sustained him. But he put on righteousness as
a breastplate, and helmet of salvation upon his head, and
put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with
zeal as a cloak. And according to their deeds,
accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversary, recompense
to his enemy. To the islands he will repay
recompense. So shall they fear the name of
the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the
sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of
the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. Read on. And the
Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to them that turn from transgression
in Jacob, saith the Lord. As for me, this is my covenant
with them. In the very next chapter, 1 Samuel
18, he makes a covenant with Jonathan. As for me, this is
my covenant with them, saith the Lord, my spirit that is upon
thee, and my words which I put in thy mouth shall not depart
out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out
of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth
and forever. This is God's Word, isn't it?
And it speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ. So here comes David,
chosen by and sent by the Father for this cause. Now remember,
look at verse 9, of the giant's, the adversary's own admission.
He said in verse 9, if the man you send If he's able to fight
with me and kill me, then will we be your servants. But if I
prevail against him and kill him, then shall ye be our server
and serve us." And that's true. No truer words have been spoken.
Because there are two heads, two covenant heads. Adam, the
first Adam. The first man is of the earth,
earth-dead. And he was no match for Satan,
was he? Satan brought him down and our whole posterity, his
whole posterity, our whole human race was brought down through
a woman, mind you. But Adam willingly took part. At the second Adam, the Lord
from glory came. In Adam all died. By one man's
sin, by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners, even
so. By the obedience of one shall
many be made righteous. In Adam all died, but here's
the good news, in Christ all made alive. By one man, one man. David defeating this one great
giant was a victory for Israel. And our Lord's description says,
when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down at the right
hand of the majesty of God. He obtained the victory. When
he obtained eternal redemption for us, he went into the Holy
of Holies and sat down like David went back to Jerusalem holding
the head of that giant. And look at verse 32. Here comes
David. And David said to Saul, so that
all could hear, let no man's heart fail because of this adversary. Thy servant will go and fight
with this Philistine. And he goes on to say, David's
not coming to make this victory possible. He's not coming to
enlist people in his army. He's coming to bring that giant
down. And there's no ifs, ands, buts,
or maybes in what David says, is there? He said, I will and
He shall. That's why the preaching of any
other Christ is another Jesus. And that's why the preaching
of a gospel that merely makes salvation possible, that Jesus
has done what He could and now it's up to you, is no good news
at all. And the ones that preach that
don't know the Lord Jesus Christ. When Saul said, you're not able
to do this, you're but a youth, and a lie of his brother, he
didn't know him, they didn't know David, did they? Some of
the servants knew him. And when they heard David come,
sister, they said, yay, victory is certain this day. Did his
father know what David did to that lion and that bear? Did
anyone know what he did? Someone surely knew what he did.
David was such a humble and meek man, he didn't tell anyone until
now. And yet, someone surely knew that. These servants knew
that. They called him a valiant man. They called him a man of
war. Well, he never fought a battle
yet. In the next chapter, it says
that the people said of David that you fought the battles of
Israel All this time and we didn't know it. So here he came. Here he came. And David said, let no man's
heart fail because of him. Then didn't our Lord Jesus Christ
come? Isn't one of the first things
he said to his disciples? Fear not. Let no man's heart
fail because of the adversary. Let not your heart be troubled.
Didn't he say that? Didn't he say, all things are
delivered into my hands of my Father? Didn't he say that? All
authority is given unto me in heaven and earth. Be of good
cheer. Didn't he say that? In the world you shall have tribulation.
Many adversaries, many foes. Much tribulation. But he said,
be of good cheer. I have overcome the world. I have. Done. Like a lion said. David said, like Eliab, when
Eliab was his name, Jehaziel said to Jehoshaphat and the children
of Israel there in Chronicles, he said, the battle is not yours,
it's mine. You won't fight this battle,
the Lord will. So Christ came. Christ didn't come to make salvation
possible, He came to obtain salvation. Save his people. That's what
his name means. Savior. So David tells his story. Don't you love this? Verses 34-37. He said, I went out after thy
servant. See how humble he is? And you
know, these things are... This is a real story. David was
a real man. And by the grace of God, can
and does make men and women valiant and mighty and strong and courageous. Read Hebrews 11. The Lord commends
those people that fought with Eli and Daniel and so on and
so forth. Martyrs and Sampsons and so forth.
But that wasn't in their own strength. That wasn't the strength
of the flesh. That was the Lord working through
them. I can do all things through Christ
that strengthens me. And this is a real story. It
is an example of how the Lord can make us courageous to fight
in this battle. But that's not the purpose of
the story. That's not why it was written.
It was written not that any flesh should glory in His presence,
but to the glory The praise of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why this was written.
And this story of David, amazing isn't it? This really happened. David went out after most of
the writers think it was two separate incidents. A lion came
and got a lamb and a bear at another time came and got a lamb
and he killed them both. That's okay. And they represent
the foe as well. Satan is a roaring lion, seeketh
whom he may devour. And if our Lord doesn't lay hold
on him... And David did this. Who did he
rescue? Who did David go out after? He
said, I went after one lamb. He said, I went after one lamb.
You think when that happened, one of his servants came to him?
Maybe he saw it himself, but had one of the helpers, keepers
saw it and came running to him and said, David, the lion has
come and got one of your lambs. David's not going to let one
little lamb go. Well, what's one little lamb?
David's reputation as a shepherd is at stake, you see. David's
power and his might is at stake. And if our Lord, if our Lord
Jesus Christ loses one single little lamb that He laid down
His life for, His reputation is taken, His power, His might,
His blood is not effectual. The Spirit of God is not effectual.
If anyone for whom Christ died perishes, then Christ did not
give them eternal life. But He said, I give unto them
eternal life and they shall never perish. You have My word on them.
Didn't He say that? His glory is at stake. That's
why Christ is called not only the Good Shepherd, not only the
Chief Shepherd, Shepherd over Shepherd, but He's the Great
Shepherd. Why is He great? Because Christ
said, those that thou gavest me I have kept and none is lost. And He's going to present every
one of them, little lambs, you know, all of His sheep or little
lambs to him, little children, and they're all black. But he
says, no, they're come to him. But he's going to present them
to the Father when it's all over and say, behold, I and the children
that thou givest me, none lost, all here, all present and accounted
for, to the praise of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. You
see why any other gospel is blasphemy and reproach upon the Lord Jesus
Christ and is not the gospel. Okay? I need a shepherd that's
going to keep me. And that's what Psalm 121 says,
He that keepeth Israel. He doesn't slumber. He doesn't
sleep. And if a lion or a bear It doesn't
matter who the foe is. Comes against one of his lambs,
he's not going to sleep. The man will not rest until he
finishes this thing. He's going after it. And that's
good news to me. David himself said he was a sheep. The very last verse of Psalm
119, he said, I've gone astray, seek thy sheep. Did the Lord? He sure did. He sure did. That's the good news of the gospel.
Christ is the good news. So, and David said in no uncertain
terms, verse 37, the Lord that delivered me out of the paw of
the lion, out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out
of the hand of this Philistine. He will. Now go on down. So Saul armed him with his armor. and put a helmet on his head
and a coat of mail and David girded his sword. Now, listen,
those of you who have never heard this, those of you... No type in the Scriptures is
perfect. No type is perfect. No one man or one story can adequately
represent the Lord Jesus Christ. These are stories of men. Our
Lord is infinitely greater than a man. David, you know, here is just
a man. And the Lord endued him with
great power like Samson and so on. And our Lord, our Lord Jesus
Christ, how He defeated the foe was by His own death. David didn't
die here, did he? But our Lord had to die. And
that's how he defeated Satan. And we'll learn more about that
in a minute. But David put these things off. But this is a picture
of how that man would try to help Jesus out, you know, with
all of his fleshly gimmicks and armor and things like that, that
man supposedly uses. You know, the Lord uses us, He
uses anything, but no, He won't. No, he won't. The weapons of
our warfare are not karma, but mighty and spiritual through
the pulling down of strongholds. What strongholds? Satan himself.
What's the weapon that God used? Not fleshly gimmicks and tactics
and fleshly armor and this and that and the other that man comes
up with. See, Saul tried to arm David
with his armor. Saul didn't defeat anybody. He
was defeated himself. Saul represents natural man.
David didn't need any help. And David didn't need man's armor. He came armed with the Spirit
of God. That's what he said in his sermon to all Israel. The
Lord doesn't fight with sword and shield, spear and shield,
but in the name of the Lord of Hosts by His Spirit. The weapons
of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to the pulling down
of strongholds. And the weapon, the power, the
might of our Lord is one thing. You know what it is? You know what it is? You have
it in your lap. It's the sword of the Spirit. And our Lord Jesus Christ came,
Scripture says, a sharp Two-edged sword came out of his mouth.
And when he faced Satan the first time, what did he use upon Satan? Scripture. Didn't he? And put him in his place. Our Lord's name is The Word. And that's how he defeated. One little word, Martin Luther
said, one little word shall fail him. Get thee behind me, Satan. One time he said that to me,
get thee behind me, Satan. And he did, like a dog. Alright, look what he came with. And all this is symbolic. David
took his staff in his hand, a shepherd's staff, and he chose five smooth
stones out of the brook, out of the river, and he put them
in a shepherd's bag which he had, it's a scrip, a vessel,
scrip. And his sling was in his hand.
And he drew near to the Philistine. All of this is significant. And
everything represents Christ and His Word. But the shepherd
himself, David is the shepherd. Christ is our shepherd. Though
I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no
evil, thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they come
from Me. Christ came, the staff, He is
the staff. His Word. Stones, five smooth
stones from a brook. These were stones which God provided. He's not going to use the armor
that man provides. He's going to use what God provides.
Five smooth stones. What are they? Well, they're...
Nobody knows. I've heard many. Conjecture could be the attributes
of God. Holiness, justice, righteousness,
omnipotence, omniscience. Any one of which will fulfill
that giant. Five books of Moses. You can
name many things, okay? Five smooth stones. Look at this.
Psalm 110. Any five scriptures will bring
him down. But look at this. This is marvelous. Psalm 110.
Psalm 110. You know, David, he's a sweet
psalmist, and he wrote these psalms, and we're not sure about
some of them when he wrote them. We only can guess. He might have
wrote them before Goliath. He might have wrote them after. But look at Psalm 110, and this
is quoted in the New Testament. The Lord said unto my Lord, sit
thou at my right hand till I make thine. enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of
thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of thine
enemies. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power and the beauties of holiness from the
womb of the morning thou hast to do of thy youth." Who is this
youth? The Lord has sworn, read on,
and will not repent. Thou art a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand shall
strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge
among the heathen. He'll fill the place with a dead
body. He'll wound the heads over many
a country and drink of the brook and the wagon. Therefore shall
he lift up the head, that is, lift off the head and lift up
our head. Now David, he had this sling
in his hand. You know those five smooth stones,
the sling in his hand? It could be a preacher. A preacher
in the hand of the Lord with a word from the Lord. It wasn't a sling and it wasn't
a stone. You know who it was? It was the hand of the Lord. David knew how to sling that
thing. He slung it before. He knew how to do it. And our
Lord, my, my. Anything or anyone in His hand,
He's going to use them mightily. Mightily. Alright, read on. The
blistering came on. Verse 41. Drew near unto David,
the man bearing a shield went before him. He's not so brave after all,
is he? Huh? He's got to have a little
fella in front of him. There's a, there's a, I think
it's Isaiah that talks about, yeah, Isaiah 14, where Satan
fell like Lucifer, and it says, is this the man we were all afraid
of? One of these days, our Lord's going to leave him captive for
all to see, and all of heaven is going to rejoice. Oh, it's
just so much trouble. He's nothing in the hands of
our Lord. Well, the Philistine looked about,
verse 42, and saw David and disdained him. Now, first, his brethren
despised him and rejected him. And then Saul said, remember
what Saul said? You're not able. You don't know David, do you?
And then there's Philistine, who represents the adversary.
Satan is a real adversary. And the Scripture speaks of men
who speak evil of dignities that don't know what they're talking
about. Is that in Jude? I think it's Jude. Speak evil
of dignity, meaning these Preachers, so-called, these false prophets
that speak so much of the devil and what they're going to do
with the devil and what they say of the devil and all that, when
all the while they are pawns in his game. While all the while
they're doing what he, they're in his captivity. They had no
match for him. One time there were seven sons
of a man named Seba, supposedly prophets. And they tried to cast
out demons out of one man. And it says they tear these sons
and stripped them naked and threw them out. And the devil said
to those sons, Jesus we know and Paul we know, but who are
you? And this is why the scripture
says even Michael the archangel wouldn't contend with the devil
about the body of Moses, but said the Lord rebuked these things.
Satan is a very real adversary. Brethren, the reason we enjoy
so much peace and prosperity and calm right now. The reason you're able to sit
in this pew right now without enemies all around us. David
and Israel had enemies constantly. Their lives were constantly in
danger. The reason you and I sit here
calm and at peace in warm clothing with a warm building is because
Jesus Christ holds back everything. That's why. It's not the United
States government. It's Jesus Christ, the Governor
of the Universe. Oh, we owe Him, don't we? That's
why we're here, to render praise and thank. Thank You, Lord, for
this peace and prosperity that we now enjoy. Thank You, Lord.
Oh, Lord, protect us. Continue, please, Lord, to protect
us and our children. Don't take your hand off the
enemy. If America only knew. If America
only knew that the reason that this country enjoys this present
peace is because of the elect, say, the churches, say, they'd
be joining up with them. Philistine, and I don't know
why Satan, how Satan, he's not omniscient. Satan doesn't know
everything, or he wouldn't have done battle with the Lord Jesus
Christ, would he? If he'd have really known the
Lord's power, I think he himself is deceived.
Why? Because the Lord Jesus Christ
controls him. His heart is in the hands of
the Lord, isn't it? Well, this Philistine saw David,
and he disdained his youth, but a youth and ruddy, or that is,
red of countenance, fairer countenance, goodly to look to. And the Philistine
said, am I a dog? Didn't you notice what David
called him twice? You hear that, Mike, what he
called him twice? This uncircumcised Philistine. He kept pointing
that out to him. This uncircumcised Philistine
is coming down. That's what David kept saying
for everyone to hear. What's that? That's a dog! He's
calling him a dog! Did Goliath hear that? Yes! Our Lord one time said, you go
tell, speaking of Herod, tell that fox. Called him a fox, didn't
he? Tell him I'll meet him in Jerusalem. Wouldn't you love that? Set his
face like a flint. This is no weak Jesus. This is
no weak man, this David here. Our Lord is no weak man, neither
is His men. They're not weak. David said in verse 44, the Philistine
said today, you come to me, I'll give your flesh to the fowl there
in the beast of the field. David said, you come to me, I'll
give your flesh to the fowl. I love this, don't you? We're
going to see who gives who to what. You know, men today, these little
peanut preachers give more power to Satan than they do to Jesus
Christ. Don't they? Than they do to God. Satan's
having his way, isn't he, Rick? That's what they say. Satan's
having his way. But God can't do anything unless men cooperate.
It's the other way around. This is a battle, people. This
is a battle here. This is no fairy tale. Israel's
welfare depended on David being a man. He said, isn't there anybody? He said, I'm here for this cause.
So he came. They didn't need some mealy-mouthed
little fella. He's little all right, but he's
a giant. Mighty. The Spirit of God upon
him. David came. He said, You come
to me, verse 45, with a spear and a shield. I come to thee
in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel,
whom thou hast defied. You see who David is fighting
for? You see whose defense David is for? Whose glory and honor
David is right now defending? Not so much Israel. It's the
God of Israel. And brethren, this is what all
of God's people are in defense of. It's what all God's preachers
are in defense of. His glory, His honor, His name
is at stake here. The effectualness of Christ's
blood and death and God's choice of a people and God's will and
purpose and God's Word and God's covenant, the effectuality of
it is our salvation. And every true preacher, call
him a champion if you will, set for the defense of the gospel
will not come down one inch on them, won't budge an inch. Like
Martin Luther said, here I stand, I can do no other. We're not
going to give an inch here on these points. Why? God's glory
is at stake. Our salvation is at stake. This
is no little war of words. You know that? It's not a war
of words. It's not a question of semantics.
That's why you're shouting, preacher. All Israel heard David saying
this. This uncircumcised Philistine
is coming down! Didn't they? Someone just read Isaiah. Lift
up your voice with strength. Tell the people. Isaiah 4, Behold
your God, He will come. That's what this world needs
to hear. They need to hear a preacher preaching power and tell them
all flesh is grass. No man is a match for anything
or anyone. But God sent His Son, the Son
of God, And He must win the battle, and
I'm here to tell you, and that's what every preacher is here to
tell you. He won. He won. Tell them, cry out to them, their
warfare is accomplished. Who accomplished it? Jesus Christ. That's it. There's nothing left
to be done. He did it all. I'm not going
to give an inch. It's not an edge. And anybody
who preaches anything else is not preaching the gospel God
didn't send. This is a real battle here. David ain't playing games. I'm
not either. So you angry? Our Lord was angry
when He came, didn't He? He said, I didn't come to bring
peace on earth. I came to bring a sword. Daryl, our Lord, came
with a sword. What did He come to do? He came
to fight our battles for us. It's not Him and us. It's Him!
This was no laughing matter. This was no little, you know,
feigning thing. This was no fake battle. This
was real. David went and hit the hand of
this man. Went rushing into his face. He ran! And if he doesn't bring this
fellow down, don't you know, they were all
scared, they were all afraid, every man's heart was failing.
They thought, we're going to be captive servants, they're
going to take everything we have. And here David comes. No, no,
they're not going to take anything. David said, they're not going
to take anything. We're not going to lose one hoof of hair. That's
what Moses said, that not one hoof or hair be left behind.
Mac, that's what he said. David said, let no man's heart
fail him. Be of good cheer, I'm here in
the name of the Lord. And that's what our Lord Jesus
Christ said. And I can't get enough of hearing that. I can't
get enough of saying it. This is my hope. This is my salvation. This is God's glory. This is
Christ's glory. His honor is at stake. That when
Jesus Christ came to save His people, He saved them. And that's good news to this
old helpless sinner whose heart fails Him. Anything anyone scare
you? Not to. Because you're no match
for anything or anyone. But he that trusteth in the Lord
shall renew his strength. His strength is perfect in our
weakness, he said. Look at what he said, verse 46.
This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand, and I will
smite thee, and take thine head from thee. And I'll give the
carcasses of the host of the Philistine, this day, and the
fowls of the air, and the wild beasts of the earth. Have you
ever read that before? Revelation 19, go over there with me. Revelation
19. Let's see that. He said, I'm going to give...
Goliath said, I'm going to give your carcasses to the fowls there. David said, no, I'm going to
give yours. Read it. Revelation 19 with me. This is
wonderful. Revelation 19. It says, now here's
a description of the Lord Jesus Christ. All of these pictures
of Jesus are graven images, an idolatry. Anybody that has them
doesn't know it. I've asked our people this many
times. When you think of the Lord Jesus Christ, what image
comes to mind? No image. No image. Right? You don't think of it. If it were, you'd maybe be a
lamb. But no image. That's a good thing. Because
our Lord said, don't make any graven images. There's a reason
why there's no physical description of Jesus Christ in the Scripture.
There's a reason why. They'd have painted a picture,
like people do, and people would worship Him. No. Here's a description. Verse 11, I saw heaven open,
and behold, a white horse. And he that sat upon him was
called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge
and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire.
And on his head were many crowns. He had a name written that no
man knew but he himself. He was clothed with a vesture,
dipped in blood, that is, ruddy. And his name is called the Word
of God. And the armies which were in
heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen,
white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth the
sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nation. And
he shall rule them with a rod of iron. And he treaded the winepress
of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. Isn't that what
Isaiah 63 says? Who is this that cometh? Saul
asked, who is this ruddy youth? Isaiah says the same thing. Who
is this that cometh from Bosworth with garments dyed red? I, the
Lord, mighty to save. I've trodden the winepress of
God alone. He goes on to say, verse 16,
he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King
of kings and Lord of lords. And I saw an angel standing in
the sun and he cried with a loud voice, say to all the fowls that
fly in the midst of heaven, come and gather yourselves together
under the supper of the great God that ye may eat the flesh
of kings and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men,
and the flesh of horses, and them that sit on them, and the
flesh of all men, free of bond, both small and great." And he
goes on to talk about a beast and an angel grabbing that beast
and jerking him out and throwing him in the fire. Who is that?
Jesus Christ. So this giant, David in prophecy
said, I'm going to have your carcass, your head, And he said in verse 47 in our
text, All this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not
with sword and spear, for the battle is the Lord, and he will
give you into our hand. And he came to battle. When Philistine
arose 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 his bag and took fence of stone and put it in that sling. and that stone, just like our
Lord said in Genesis 3.15. He's going to bruise his head. All the way back in the garden
where Satan... Alright, this is what I want to show us here
too. When our Lord, when David threw that stone, it sunk in
his forehead and it killed him immediately, and he fell on his
face to the earth. Why did he fall backward, Mike? He had to fall on his face at
the feet of David, his conqueror, didn't he? Every knee shall bow
at every tongue confess, even Satan himself. He fell on his
face before his conqueror. And David prevailed over the
Philistine with a sling, with a stone, and smote the Philistine
and slew him. There's no sword in his hand.
There really isn't. So David ran. He's always running. He's on foot. He brought those
provisions on foot. He carried them all, Robin. He
carried them all single-handedly. Carried all those loaves and
all that by himself. David ran and stood upon the
Philistine, his foot on his neck, and he drew the giant's own sword
out of his sheath and cut off his head. Now what does that represent?
Well, there are many ideas about this. Here's what
I think he meant. Satan in the garden used a woman to try to bring down God's king. Did he? He used a woman. And in the prophecy concerning
the woman, it says that sorrow will pierce her through. So our Lord came made of a woman. Satan used a woman, okay, to
deceive and to try to bring down God's kingdom. So what does God
use? A woman. A man born of a woman. The seed
of a woman. A sword, as it were, to cut His
very head off. The very one that God that Satan,
the very thing that Satan used to try to bring down God's kingdom,
is what God used to bring down Satan's kingdom. By the sword of the Spirit, the
seed of the woman came. A man of a woman made under the
law to redeem them under the law. By the sword of the Spirit. He took the head, verse 52 on,
he took the head, it says, and verse 54, and brought it to Jerusalem. He put his armor in his tent.
By the way, when they saw that their Philistine champion was
dead, the enemies fled, and the men of Israel, they ran. They were cowards before then.
But when they saw that David was victorious, David single-handedly
gave them all the courage they needed. And we can do all things through
Christ. When we see that the battle is
not ours but the Lord's and He won. And everything we do is
effectual. Thanks be unto God who always
causes us to try through Jesus Christ. David took the head of
the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem for all to see.
Gruesome, isn't it? No, not to the people. It's wonderful. One side of blood they were used
to. And he took the armor of that
giant and put it in his tent. Why did he do that? Later on,
you remember? Later on, he's going to get that
sword back out. It doesn't matter. He's going to get that sword
back out for all to see. You remember this? There's none
like it in the hands of David. And he gets it back out, John,
and he says, now let's go. A couple more battles to pass. And when Saul saw David, and
I love this, go forth against the Philistines, said unto Abner,
the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this you? You remember
when our Lord came riding into Jerusalem on a coat, the fold
of an ass, and all Israel said, who is this? If you think he was ready before
David, He's ready now. His garments are dyed with blood.
The enemy. Our Lord, His garments were dyed. As I said, our Lord defeated
Satan by His own death. When Christ died, that was the
death of death. That was the death of sin. The sting of death is sin. And
our Lord was made sin. He had to die that we might live.
But He didn't stay dead. If He had stayed dead, then there
was no victory over sin. He didn't accomplish it. But
He arose victorious, didn't He? But our Lord had to die. Satan,
in his ignorance, thinking, he conquered Christ by having Judas
betray Him when the Lord had Judas betray Him. Satan thinking,
stirring up the people to kill the Son of God, Jesus of Nazareth,
thinking that he is having victory over him when it was the Lord
that bruised him. And by doing that, by killing
the Son of God, he was made sin and by this one sacrifice, He
put away sin forever. He freed all of his people. The penalty was paid for all
the sin. And Satan, the accuser of the
brethren, though it doesn't matter how much he accuses them, they
all say, Christ died. Christ died. Christ died. Yeah, but what? But God. It's
God that justifies. Who can lay anything to the charge
of God's will? It's God that justifies it. Who is He that
condemns it? Christ died. Christ died. By His death, Christ
brought down the power of darkness. The death of death. So he came into Jerusalem and
Abner took him before Saul with the head of the flesh in his
hand. And Saul said unto him, Whose
son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of Jesse of Bethlehem. He doesn't mention his name.
He says, I'm the Son. That's what our Lord kept calling
Himself to. The Son. The Son. That the Son
shall make you free. I am come, I am, am come that
they might have life. All right, stand with me. Our Lord and our God, we tried
to do Thy Son justice tonight. We've tried to honor and glorify
Him as best as we can, as much as lies within us, as much as
a weak, feeble, son of Adam can
do. And yet, the battle is not ours,
but the Lord. The weapons of our warfare are
not a man's mouth or words or comments, but the Spirit of God
with the Word of God. O Lord, take these words, take
Your Word, one little word, and pierce the hard heart. Open blind eyes, deaf ears, Glorify
Thy Son, O Lord, before us. Show forth Christ, we pray. This was our aim. This was our
goal. This is what we wanted to do.
We wanted to come and worship Your Son. He's worthy. O Lord,
make us to realize, make us to realize just a little bit of
how much we owe. to our present reigning and ruling
and victorious Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It's in his name
we pray. Amen. You're dismissed.