The Son Of David - The Giant Killer - Part 5

Q: What does the Bible say about God's mercy toward Israel?

The Bible reveals that God's mercy is evident in His enduring patience with Israel, who sinned despite having received revelation. In the sermon, it is noted that the Bible portrays the Israelites as a people who, despite their persistent transgressions, were recipients of God's mercy. God saved them and upheld them not for their worthiness, but for His own name’s sake, demonstrating His exceeding riches of grace. This mercy is emphasized as God's willingness to endure their sin for generations, making His power known, as seen throughout the narratives of Israel's history. God's grace and mercy are foundational to understanding the character of God as a patient and forgiving Savior.

Q: Why is Jesus referred to as the Son of David?

Jesus is called the Son of David because He fulfills the messianic prophecies that indicate the Messiah would come from David's lineage. The term 'Son of David' signifies Jesus' rightful claim to the throne of Israel as the expected Messiah. In the sermon, David is highlighted as a type of Christ, a deliverer who foreshadows the greater deliverance provided by Jesus. Jesus, being born of the line of David, completes the prophecies concerning the Messiah who would save His people. His identity as the Son of David emphasizes not only His royal lineage but also His role as the perfect Savior, defeating sin and death, mirroring David’s victory over Goliath—a display of God’s power in delivering His people.

Q: How does the story of David and Goliath relate to the concept of salvation?

The story of David and Goliath illustrates that salvation is accomplished through God’s power, not human strength, with David symbolizing Christ's victory over sin. In the sermon, the narrative of David fighting Goliath is presented as an allegory of Christ’s redemptive work for His people. Just as David faced the giant on behalf of Israel, so Christ confronted the 'giants' of sin and death on behalf of humanity. The emphasis is on God's deliverance through unexpected means—a youth defeating a mighty giant with simple tools, signifying that salvation is by grace alone through faith. The sermon underscores this theme by asserting that salvation is not achieved by human effort but rather through the divine power of Christ, who alone prevails over all adversaries.

Q: What does the Bible teach about man’s inability to save himself?

The Bible teaches that apart from God's grace, man is unable to save himself due to the bondage of sin. In the sermon, it is emphasized that like Saul, mankind ultimately reaches a point of desperation, recognizing their inability to overcome sin and spiritual foes. This aligns with the Reformed perspective that salvation is solely the work of God and that human efforts are inadequate. Man, in his natural state, is portrayed as helpless against the overwhelming odds of sin and death, paralleling Saul’s reliance on David for deliverance. The assurance is given that God does not depend on man’s flawed attempts at righteousness; instead, He saves by His grace, illustrating the necessity of looking to Christ alone for salvation. This theological stance captures the essence of total depravity and the need for divine intervention.

Now you can be turning to 1 Samuel
17. 1 Samuel 17. Children of Israel. We're a very sorry lot. From
the very beginning. They weren't one whit different
from the rest of the people throughout the world. Not one whit difference. If anything, yeah, that's a picture
of us, Terry. All the trials and tribulations
and sins and transgressions of the children of Israel speaks
of us. If anything, the children of Israel were worse than the
people of the world because they had more light and they sinned
against light. They sinned against revelation.
The only difference between the Israelites and the people of
the world was electing grace. By the grace of God, they were
who they were, and we are who we are. God saved these people. He upheld them. He preserved
them. He sustained them. He suffered
so long, or that is, He put up with them for so many years,
as He does with us, to make His mighty power to be known. that
he might show the exceeding riches of his grace and his glory. For
his name's sake, it says so many times, doesn't it? That God,
he said, I didn't save you for your sake. You're a sorry bunch. You don't deserve saving, he
said. But I saved you for my name's
sake. And he saved them not because
they were greater than all the nation, but because they were
less, and that way God would give more glory. to make his
mighty power to be known, to show forth the exceeding riches
of his grace, that all the world, what God did to Israel throughout
their sojourning, and what he does to us, is so that all the
world may know that there is a God in Israel. That God is
God, and he's in Israel. Now the fact that God put up
with this nation for so long, the nation of Israel, is mercy. It's marvelous mercy. But that
God would, the psalm says, what is man that thou art mindful
of him? When you think on the Israelites, you think, what in
the world, why would God put up with, why would God even think
on such a sorry outfit of sin? dancing naked around a calf,
why would He allow them to go on any further? But then it goes
on to say, but you would visit Him? The fact that God put up
with this nation is mercy, but that God would raise up a man
with the caliber of David in their midst, unlike the rest
of His brethren. Right in the midst of those perverse
days, and the people, and in the midst of his brethren. You
know, David's brothers, they were a sorry lot. Evidently,
his brothers were a sorry bunch. Eliab and the rest of them, they
rejected David, didn't they? But David was a man of unusual. He was head and shoulders above
his peers as a type of Christ. And after so long a time of sin,
of degradation, of misery, almost at the point of destruction,
that is, the Israelites, at the hands of the enemy. Here, you
know, we have this story of them, one on the one side of a mountain
and the Philistines on the other, and this valley between them,
and it looks like there's no place to go. They're going to
be destroyed, being defied by this giant and these mighty hosts. The king of Israel came. He didn't
look like much, you know. Nobody believed him when he came.
But the Deliverer, one mighty to save, came, just a youth,
but mighty, the King David, the beloved one. And so it was in
the coming of David's son, David's greater son. After so long a
time of sin and degradation and misery, the Scripture says, when
sin abounded Grace did much more about it. God sent David, the
son of David, in mercy, sent his son, made of a woman, made
under the law. Why? To redeem them, to be their
deliverer, them that were under the law, that is, confronted
with this mighty giant that they could not get by. He was going
to kill them, slay them. Christ slew the giant called
the Laws, didn't He? And sin, he faced our sin for,
slew our sin, put him away. And Satan, his mighty adversary,
slew him too. By making, the Hebrew says, by
making the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering. Perfectly
revealing, that is, our captain. David was the perfect man for
the job. He was the right man at the right
time, just in the nick of time. Christ, the Son of David, is
the perfect man for the job, isn't He? The perfect man. And
He's the right man, the righteous man, at the right time. The song
says, Just when I needed Him most. Jesus is near to comfort
and cheer just when I need it the most. Now let's look, we're
going to look at how both these men, the David and the son of
David, how they defeated their foes and saved their people here
in 1 Samuel 17. I'm going to finish this up,
I hope. Now you remember, let me refresh your memory. How that's
all. So represents the natural man.
Right. It represents the natural man. Now Saul recognized he was in
a heap of trouble. He was facing a seemingly inner
insurmountable odds and undefeatable foe. He was in trouble. This much he knew. He was in
trouble, and he could not overcome his trouble. And he heard about
this David fellow. The news had spread around the
camp that some boy down here is making some brash claims.
There's a boy down here, just a youth. He doesn't look like
much to me, but he's saying, Who is this Philistine? This
uncircumcised Philistine. Well, I'll go out there and fight
this dog. I'll take him. He's defying the
armies of God." And Saul got wind of this. He heard about
the bold claims of this youth. And so he called for David out
of curiosity and out of desperation. This is a picture of mankind,
Barbara. Mankind, most of us, most men and women, reach a point
of desperation, some point of desperation in their life. Whether
it be sickness, sorrow, deprivation, troubles, whatever it may be,
we finally reach the end of our rope and we realize, hey, I can't
do it myself. And then we hear about somebody
named Jesus, right? And so naturally, Well, here's
the claim. Well, if you send ten dollars,
he'll give you a hundred. Or if you'll just believe him,
he'll just cure all your trouble. Sounds good to me. What's his
name again? Jesus. Jesus? Isn't that the way it goes? That's
the way it goes. So they call upon him. Saul,
if you look carefully, Saul didn't want this man reigning over him.
He just wanted to get him out of this mess he was in, didn't
he? He didn't want this man. He only wanted him to get him
out of his troubles. Saul wanted the victory, but not the vicar. Vicar means a representative,
a substitute. Saul wanted the victory, but not a vicar. You
remember when David finally, they came into town after the
whole thing? I'm getting ahead of myself,
but they ascribed to David his ten thousands and Saul a thousand.
Saul got angry. He didn't want a vicar. He didn't
want a man reigning and ruling over him. He just wanted somebody
to get him out of this temporary mess. Isn't that mankind? Isn't
it? So, this is what he did. You
know, he never asked for David. He didn't ask David to come help
him. He called David out of curiosity. Out of curiosity. And David came
down there and he heard some miraculous stories about killing
a lion, a bear, and so Saul said, well, let's try this out, too.
Yeah, go. Sure. Fight for me. Go get them. Didn't he? Go get them. And then he tried to make him
the way he wanted him. Look at verse 38. We'll begin
there. So he tried to help old David out. He didn't want David
getting all the credit, all the glory, so he tried to dress David
in his clothes and make him out to be the warrior he wanted him
to be. This is such a picture of modern religion. And Saul
armed David with his armor and put on him a helmet of brass
upon his head. Also, he armed him with a coat
of mail. Do you have a center reference
there? Does it say that Saul clothed David with his clothes? Isn't that what man does with
this Jesus? Hmm? Sure it is. Make him look
like a man, just a mere man. He's just a mere mortal man.
Arm him with his armor, brass helmet, coat of mail. And he
gave David his sword, verse 39. He girded his sword upon his
armor. What Saul did here was he decided to make David his
personal Savior. That's what he was doing. I've
decided, David, to make you my personal savior, and later on
I might make you a little lord. If you get us out of this mess,
I'll make you lord. I'll make you ruler over part
of my kingdom. Isn't that what he was doing
here? Dress you up like me. And so it is with man. Man gets
in a mess, gets in troubles, wants, sickness, sadness, and
so forth. Here's some Jesus. Here's that
if he'll do this and do that, if you'll make him Lord, if you'll
let him save him, all will be well. So thinking that this Jesus
is just like him, just a man, and he thinks Jesus needs his
help, too. He needs fleshly help. He makes him out like he thinks
he ought to be. He makes up some God, little
God of his imagination. He gives him a helmet. Men do
call him Lord, don't they? They give him a little crown.
But it's a mock crown. It's no different, Terry, than
the one the soldiers put on his head, that crown of thorns. It's
a mock crown. It's a brass crown. Kings never wore brass crowns.
They wore gold. Brass is man-made and beaten
and formed. A brass, a mock crown. Men call
him Lord, Lord, but their hearts are far from him, don't they?
They gave him a coat of mail, a coat of metal. That's a handmade
substance. Metal is something man fabricates,
and that's the righteousness. That's a man-made righteousness
that men attribute to Christ, the righteousness of a man. And
then they girded on him their sword. They gird Jesus with their
sword, their carnal weapons. They think he needs help, Stan.
They think Jesus needs help. And the ones, the things that
man uses against this world, you know, to win people to Jesus,
They use psychology, they use gimmickry, they use trickery,
they use emotional tactics, emotional appeals, fleshly entertainments,
briberies and so forth. And they got their little Jesus
boy using their own worldly techniques, don't they Henry? Using their
own worldly techniques to try and win the world over to their
side. And to try to defeat a devil
who is their closest ally. Trying to defeat someone, like
Joe Terrell said, the people that are leading the search for
the Antichrist are the spirit of Antichrist. The devil is leading
the search for the Antichrist. Let's find him! Come on, boys! And he's right
in front of them, don't know it, and they're following him
like pied piper. It's true. And they got this little Jesus
dressed just like they want him to be dressed. And so it says
here, David girded, Saul girded David with his sword. That's
the proper translation. And David said, he is saved to
go. He refused to go. Verse 39, he
refused to go. He had not proved this. He hadn't
used this. He never had before, never will. And David said to Saul, I can't
go with these. I've not proved them. And David
put them off. They would put them off. Now
listen. Christ doesn't come when we call him. David didn't come down there
to save the Israelites because Saul called for him. No. David's
daddy sent him down there. If you'll look back, look back
at verse 32. Saul didn't ask him to do anything.
Saul, out of curiosity, wanted to hear the story. And David
said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him. Thy servant
will go and fight. And then down in verse 37, David
said, Moreover, 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. I will. I shall. I'm going. Saul didn't ask him anything,
did he? He didn't ask for permission either. He came on a mission,
sent by his father, with a job to do, and he was going to do
it. Whether he got the approbation of his brothers, whether he got
the permission of the king, or no matter the foe, he was going.
He set his face steadfastly to defend the faith, and he went. And Christ doesn't come when
men call him. He comes, and then they call
on him. He comes to them. And he doesn't go with what we
give him, either. Saul didn't ask for David. David
was sent by his father, and Christ was sent by the Father to his
people. The Scripture says, to a people that sought him not. Right? Saul didn't ask David
to represent him. Never did. Only after David said,
I'm going, Saul said, we'll go. And we don't make Christ our
Lord. They say, make him Lord. We don't make him Lord. God's
already made him Lord. Someday everybody's going to
cry, yeah, you're Lord, but it's going to be too late. God said
he's Lord. Someday everybody's going to
see him as Lord. They say, yeah, you're Lord, but it's too late,
man. It's too late. And God sent Christ, sent him
saying, go, save my people from their sins. And he didn't do
it with our silly trappings. He didn't do it with the weapons
of carnality. He said in 2 Corinthians 10,
4, the weapons of our warfare, that is, his warfare, are not
carnal, but mighty to the pulling down of strongholds or strong
ones. Spiritual. He said, if my kingdom
were of this world, my servants would fight with swords, but
it's not. It's a spiritual kingdom, and he's fighting spiritual forces.
God said this. God said, you thought. Isn't
it? He said, thou thoughtest that
I was altogether such one as thyself, needing the helps of
the flesh, the help of man, no eyes but your eyes, no hands
but your feet, no feet but your feet. That's not right. He said,
I'll prove these things. I'll set them in order before
you. He doesn't need man and man's metal. He's not wanting
anything. He has everything. He's not trying
to do anything. He does all things according
to the counsel of his own will. Right? And he said in Isaiah
1, I don't go with these. Like you said here in verse 39
of 1 Samuel 17, I'm not going with these. Remember in Isaiah
1 where he said your new moons, your Sabbath days, your feast
days, your prayer, when you raise your hands in your silly prayer
meetings and call on me, I'm not away with these things. Put
them, and he puts them off of them. Just like David said. I
don't want, I'll not go, get out of my face. Get these things,
these silly trappings off of me. I'm going in the name of
my God." God's not worshipped with men's hands and men aren't
saved by silly worldly techniques, are they, trappings? But by the
power of God, by my might and by my Spirit, He saves. So, verse
40, David, here it is, here's the beautiful part. So David
put these silly things, this man's armor off of him and took
his staff in his hand and chose him five smooth stones, that's
his shepherd's staff that is. He took a shepherd's staff in
his hand, a stick, and chose him five smooth stones out of
a brook, that is a river, and put them in a shepherd's bag. which he already had with him,
even in a script, that is, a little container, little wallet, in
a bag. And his sling was in his hand,
and he drew near to the flintstone. Five smooth stones out of a brook
in a bag in a script with a sling and with a staff. What's this
talking about? Five smooth stones. Well, I believe
I've heard read everything there is on this and many, many good
things. But here's something that'll
work. Five smooth stones. I believe, perhaps, that these
five smooth stones represent these stones. Now, you know,
there's no one stone, no two stones alike. Every stone is
different. I believe these five stones of different size and
character, I believe they represent all of the attributes of God,
or some of the attributes of God and of Christ. They're smooth. Five smooth stones, or rather
five attributes of God which are all smooth. What is this
smoothness? I believe the smoothness can
represent His, anybody tell me? His holiness. Holy. All of the
attributes, all of the characteristics of God are holy ones, right?
His love is holy love. His justice is holy justice,
right? His mercy is holy mercy. And
I believe these five stones are just these things here, or this
will work anyway. First of all, I believe it's
justice. One of these stones is justice,
the justice of God in Christ. He's holy and he's just, the
Scripture says. A just God, the Scripture says,
and the Savior. But he's just, he's holy, he's
wholly just. The scripture says, shall not
the judge of all the earth do right? Everything that God does,
everything that Christ did was, first of all and foremost, just,
right. That is absolutely equitous,
truth, truth, true and just and holy is his name. Everything
he does is just and righteous, right? Secondly, I believe his
goodness is one of those smooth stones, one of those holy things.
He said to Moses on that mount, I'll make my goodness pass before
you. I'm going to show you my goodness.
Everything about our God, everything about his Christ, his person,
his work, his characteristics, everything about him. Charles,
everything about him is good. He's a good God. I don't mean in the sense of
holiness or perfection. I mean, I mean, it's good. It's
the best. It's good. It's better. It's
best. Everything about God is great. He's good. Everything he does
is good. Everything. Didn't he say in
Romans 8, 28, all things work together for one Good! Why? God can't do anything but good
things. None good but God. Anything good that's ever done
comes from God, right? It's His goodness. And thirdly,
I think one of these stones is His mercy. And once again, I
said all these things are smooth stone. Holy justice, holy goodness,
holy mercy. He said, I'm merciful, I'm full
of mercy, saith the Lord, and will not keep my anger forever.
He's merciful. but only as far as His holiness
is honored. He's love. Love. That's another stone. Love is
of God, 1 John says, and God is love. All true love comes
from God and God is love. That is one of His characteristics. But it's a holy love. He hates
iniquity. He hates unrighteousness. He
hates sin. He loves holiness. He loves holy
things. He loves holy people. Got to have this one. Grace. Mercy. Love. Grace. The Lord
is merciful, yes, and gracious. Full of grace. That is gracious. Full of grace.
Full of mercy. Slow to anger and plenteous in
mercy. So I believe those things can
apply here. Five smooth stones. Look at it. It says it got them
out of a brook. Out of a brook. Where do these
five attributes come from? Well, Revelation 22 says, John
said this, He showed me a river of the water of life, clear as
crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and out of the
Lamb. All these glorious and holy attributes
are found in and issued forth from God and from the Lamb, from
Him and Him only. They aren't found anywhere else
but in him, in him, in Christ. And look at it, it says he put
them in a shepherd's bag, a shepherd's bag. That's an earthen vessel,
right? All of the attributes, all the
characteristics of God are in Christ in an earthen vessel,
in a man, in a body, in a body. And then it says he put them,
this was a body he had, a bag he had. God had Christ prepared
before the foundation of the world. He had it with Him all
along. He had the Son with Him all along, had Him reserved.
Then it said He was even in a script, that is, a purse, a wallet, within
a bag. What's that? It's the heart of
Christ. That's the very inner being of
His being, the heart of Christ. In the heart of Christ were all
of these glorious attributes, even in a script. his inner and
outermost qualities. And then it says he had a sling
in his hand. The sling was in his hand. That's the power of
God in the hands of a man. Christ said, All power is given
unto me in heaven and earth. Got it in my hands. God gave
it to me. All power to sling out, to show
forth justice, holiness, goodness, love, mercy, and grace. I can
bestow it upon whom I will. I can throw it where I want.
I'll be gracious to him, I will be gracious. I'll be merciful
to him, I'll make my goodness pass before you, Terry Kinsley.
I'll proclaim the name of the Lord to you." Slings in his hand,
he aims it where he will. Now, look at verse 41 through
44 with me, let's read. And the Philistine came, so David
came, he had this bag of stones and a sling in his hand and this
staff in his hand. I think I failed to mention that,
this staff in his hand. That's the shepherd's crook,
right? That's staff. Christ is the good shepherd.
He leads, he's always led and always has been the good shepherd
and leads his people along. The staff, the rod throughout
the scriptures is always referred to as the Word of God. He leads
us by his Word. And the staff of life, what's
that? That's bread, right? Christ by
his Word By his word, leads his people, guides it, defends his
people, defeats his foes with his staff in his hand. Okay,
let's read a little bit. So the Philistine came on and
drew near unto David. And there was a man that walked
out in front of him and bore the shield before him. And when
the Philistine looked about, he looked around and saw David,
he disdained him. For he was but a youth, and ruddy,
and of a fair countenance. And the Philistine said unto
David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And
the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine
said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh unto the
fowls of the air and to the beasts of the This reminds me a little bit
of the dialogue between Christ and Satan. Anything ring a bell
with you there? Huh? Satan came tempting Christ. You remember reading back there
where it said that Goliath was bothering the people forty days
and forty nights? Even so, Satan came tempting
Christ forty days and forty nights. And Satan said this to Christ. He disdained him. When Christ,
when he came tempting Christ, he disdained him. He saw him
as nothing but a mere mortal man, didn't he, Nancy? If thou
be the Son of God, you don't look like much to me, Satan said. I don't know what form Satan
appeared in, but you could bet it was some mighty serpentile
form or whatever. If you be the Son of God, you
little Jew, Cause these stones to be made into bread. Satan disdained Christ for what
he was. Then look at verse 45. Then said
David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and with
a spear and with a shield, but I come to thee in the name of
the Lord of hosts, the God the armies of Israel whom thou hast
defied. It is written, Satan, thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God." The Lord thy God. And you remember
when Satan entered Judas and Judas came to Christ with that
band of soldiers in the garden? Huh? What did Christ say? Comest
thou as against a thief with sticks and swords and spears? And then what did he say? I am,"
and they fell back as dead men. I come to you in the name of
God. I am that I am. I'm God. Coming out with a sword
against God? You see the marvelous correlation
here? Somebody shout. I am. And this day, he said,
this day, verse 46, will the Lord deliver thee into my hands. And I'll smite thee, and take
your head from you. And I'll give your carcass, the
carcass of the host of the Philistines this day, unto the fowls of the
air, unto the wild beasts of the earth." I might put them
in pigs. That all the earth may know that God's in Israel. This day, David said, will the
Lord shut thee up. You're a big talker, Goliath.
you're soon to be shut up. And so is Satan. And on that
day, I was reading a psalm the other day. I forget which one
it is. I'm going to preach on it soon. In that day, it says,
it says about five times through the psalm, in that day, in that
day, in that day, what day? This is the day. What day? The
day Christ hung on that cross and said, She's finished. In that day, 1958 years ago,
on Golgotha's cross, all things were delivered into the hands
of the Son of God. Even the head of all principalities
and powers and the rulers of darkness were brought unto His
feet. the head, Satan himself, the
woman's seed, and that day crushed the head of the serpent. God
put all things under his feet, that all the earth might know
God's in Israel. The centurion looked back after
hearing Christ and seeing him bow his head and said, God was here, like Jacob said,
and I knew it not. All this assembly shall know,
that is, these Israelites shall know, that the Lord saveth not
with sword and spear, for the battle is the Lord's, and he'll
give you into our hands. God's people will know where
salvation comes from, won't they? They won't attribute it to anything
else. Not the works of the flesh, not the will of man. Salvation,
God's people know this above all things, don't they? Salvation
is where? Of the Lord. Of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And David, look at this. Here
it is. So David got his sling. And it came to pass, when the
ephlistine arose to meet him, that David came and drew nigh
to meet David. And David hurried, steadfastly,
hurried and ran at that guy, set his face toward that big
giant, and ran to meet that fellow for the joy that was set before
him. to redeem, to deliver his people from this ghastly giant.
And David put his hand in his bag and took thence a stone,
one stone, one stone. One little word shall fail him,
Martin Luther said. One little word, one little stone,
one smooth stone. And it says he took thence a
stone and slung it. and smoked the Philistine in
his head, in his forehead. And the stone sunk into his forehead,
and he fell on his face to the earth." Christ used one stone
in our deliverance. Remember I gave you five? He
used one stone. You want to guess which one it
was? It's the top stone. I gave it last, but it's first. It's chief cornerstone of salvation. Jerusalem cried it. Remember
Zerubbabel who rebuilt the temple in Israel? He started it out
laying the cornerstone, and then he laid the topmost stone. And
what did he cry? Somebody cried out. What did he say? Grace unto
it. Grace. It's grace from start
to finish. Salvation is by grace, you say. By grace, you say. And that's
the stone David slung, the son of David. Listen to this. Self-righteous souls on works
rely and boast their moral dignity. But if I sing a song of praise,
each note shall echo grace, free grace. T'was grace that quickened
me when dead. T'was grace my soul to Christ
Jesus led. Grace brought me a sense of my
pardoned sin, and grace subdued my lust within. Grace reconciled
to every loss and sweetens every painful cross. Grace defends
my soul when danger is near, and by grace alone I'll persevere. When from this world my soul
removes to mansions of delight and love, I'll cast my crown
before His throne and shout, Free grace alone. Not grace and
works. Grace. So verse 50, so David prevailed. It doesn't say he did the best
he can. Now it's up to the rest of them. It said he prevailed
over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone. and smoked
the flisting and slew him, but there was no sword in his hand.
No sword in his hand. Christ said when he was hanging
on that cross, it's finished. The scripture says he shall,
John, it says he shall see the travail of his soul and be what?
Satisfied. Why? Because he's done. He's
done. Christ travailed on the cross
and prevailed upon our sins. He travailed and prevailed. Christ
did. Verse 51, Therefore David ran
after he saw that giant fall. He ran and stood upon the flesh
thing. Stood on top of his dead body. Does that sound familiar? He
stood on that philistine and took the giant sword out of his
sheath, took his own sword and drew it out of the sheath thereof,
and cut his head off, and held that head up, stood on it, and
turned around to his brethren. What need ye for fear in my heart? Go get them, boys. Boy, all things are now put under
Christ's feet, even Satan. They say he's alive and well
on planet Earth. No, he's not, Stan. He's as good
as dead. He's on a chain. He's on a chain. He's under Christ's feet, too.
He's under his thumb. And he said here, the men of
Israel, when the Philistines saw their champion was dead,
they fled. And the men of Israel and of
Judah arose and shouted. Ah boy, and pursued the Philistines
until they came to the valley and to the gates of Econ. And
the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way, even unto
Gath. And the children of Israel returned
after chasing the Philistine. They spoiled their tents, and
David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem.
Brought it to Jerusalem. Do you notice there one more
thing I want you to notice? It says David took his sword
and cut his head off. the giant's own sword and cut
his head off. Well, what was it that Satan
used? What was it that Satan thought
he could use to bring down God and God's people? A man, right? Satan, in trying
to bring down God from his throne and trying to destroy God's work,
used a man. A man. Man is Satan's tool in
his hand to try to usurp God, to try to bring down God from
his glory. What did God use to cut the head
off of Satan? A man. He used his own sword. He used his own sword. That which Satan sought to use
to destroy God, God used break Satan's power to cut his head
off. Now look at chapter eighteen
with me, verse six through nine. And here's when David came riding
back into Israel triumphant. And it came to pass as they came
back into Israel, when David was returned from the slaughter
of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel
singing and dancing to meet King Saul with Tablets with joy and
with instruments of music. And the women answered one another
as they played, and said, Saul has slain his thousand, and David
his ten thousands. And Saul, who represents the
natural man here, was angry. And surely he must have been
thinking, I'll not have this man reign over me. and a saying,
Displeased Saul. Ah, but it pleased David's obedient
servants, didn't it? Those who really saw David in
all his glory and those who really see Christ in all his power and
his beauty, sinners who see him as their only hope, as their
only Savior, as their Lord, their captain of their salvation. They rejoice and they sing of
his glory ten times. Ten times. Tenfold. But yet the
natural man doesn't like it. And he says, what can he have
more but the kingdom? I've got news for you, Saul.
He's going to get it, buddy. He ought to be bowing. But Saul
eyed David from that day forward. Even so, the natural man will
not have pride, but sinners will, buddy, when you see yourself
When you see yourself facing the valley of the shadow of death
and that giant of despair, giant of death, that giant of your
sin, that giant of the law, that giant of self, all those giants,
those Philistine giants pursuing you, boy, when you see Christ
as your only hope, as your substitute, as your vicar who shall give
you the victory, you'll cry unto Him, the Savior. Jesus, thou
son of David, have mercy, save me for your name's sake. All righty, I had another song
written down here I want to sing. Let's turn to number 512. Jeanette,
why don't you come up here and play this for me? 512. I tell you, every single verse
is a sermon in these old types, and I worry about giving you
too much material, but what could you leave out? And I'm sure we
left out a whole lot, a whole, whole lot. We didn't scratch
the surface, but, oh, I tell you, I love these old stories.
Let's sing this. Stand with me. You know this? Stand with me and let's sing
a couple verses. Someday the silver cord will
break And I no more, as now, shall sing But, oh, the joy when
I shall wake Within the palace of the King And I shall see Him
face to face And tell the story saved by grace, And I shall see
Him face to face, And tell the story saved by grace." I believe
we'll be rehearsing this story. The Son of David saving us. Last
verse. Someday till then I'll watch
that flame My lamp all trimmed and burning bright That when
my Savior hurts again My soul to Him may take its flight And
I shall see Him face to face and tell the story saved by grace. And I shall see Him face to face
and tell the story saved by grace.

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What does the Bible say about God's mercy toward Israel?

Why is Jesus referred to as the Son of David?

How does the story of David and Goliath relate to the concept of salvation?

What does the Bible teach about man’s inability to save himself?

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The Son Of David - The Giant Killer - Part 5

What does the Bible say about God's mercy toward Israel?

Why is Jesus referred to as the Son of David?

How does the story of David and Goliath relate to the concept of salvation?

What does the Bible teach about man’s inability to save himself?

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