First, Samuel 17. First, Samuel chapter 17. Hope you brought a Bible because
I'm going to do that verse by verse study through here. We're
going to continue our series, Messages Upon the Son of David.
This is the fourth part. I don't know how long this thing's
going to go on, but I'm enjoying it, enjoying studying it. I hope
you're enjoying hearing it. Tonight, I'm going to look at
the giant killer. This is a very familiar story
to all of us, to adult and child alike. Ninety-nine percent of all people
everywhere have heard this story. I'm certain of that. But I'm
also certain that 99.9 percent of the people don't rightly understand
what this is all about or the true meaning of this story. Most
people only view this story as just that, a story, a miraculous
victory of some underdog against the great and formidable foe. an underdog triumphed over a
much larger and highly favored foe. And most of the preachers
and so forth that I hear, they use this as encouragement to
us not to quit in the face of seemingly insurmountable problems. It's a whole lot. There may be some lessons to
be learned there, yes. The moral of this story, as well
as every other event throughout the Old Testament scripture,
is that our God reigns and that his captain and his savior, our
Christ, is the Lord Jesus Christ, the victorious Lord that we just
sung about. and the leader of God's people
who came to save us from our sins, from sin. This is the story
of the Lord Jesus Christ, how he defeated all of our foes,
the enemies of God's people, and is now seated on the throne
of the universe. And each verse, each verse, there's
quite a few here, 58 verses in this chapter that deal with this
story, and each verse has eternal significance. Each verse,
if we had the eyes to see, each verse would be a story in itself,
a sermon in itself. But we're going to just browse
through this, but we are going to make this a two-part message
right here. There's just too much to cover here. We're going
to deal with the first two-thirds, the first half anyway, and then
deal with the rest next Wednesday night. two-part message. Now,
there's five principal characters here that we need to understand
in this story. There's Saul, King Saul. Now, he represents, as we've
seen before, he represents man or mankind or the natural man,
Saul. Israel. Israel, as always, represents
God's chosen people, God's people, believers, disciples of Christ,
Christians. The Philistines here in this
story represent our sins that pursue us, and it could represent
all the forces of evil that we contend with. Goliath, of course,
is the champion, the leader of those forces, Satan himself. And then David. And who else
is David but the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of David. Now look with
me. At first, Samuel 17, as I said, every verse is so significant.
I hope you'll gather yourself and pay attention, close attention.
First, Samuel 17, verse one. Now, the Philistines gathered
together their armies to battle. And we're gathered together at
Shoko. Which belongeth to Judah. Belonging to Judah. And a pitch
between Shoko and a Zika in Ephesim. Now, let me refresh your memory,
a little bit of history, God's. Dealings with his people. At
first, that one of those three words there belong to Judah.
Philistines were in the land, but it belongs to Judah. You
remember how that God promised the land to Abraham and to his
seed being Christ, but us in Christ promised to us the promised
land. Yet, because in Abraham's ancestors,
you know, the sons of Jacob, Israel, there was a famine. And
you remember how they went back to Egypt to get corn from Joseph? Well, you remember how they all
moved back to Egypt and dwelled there in favor with the Egyptians
and all? But then a wicked Pharaoh came
along and didn't know Joseph and kept them in bondage. OK,
now they're living in Egypt. Well, along came Joshua. Joshua or Moses, Moses came along
to lead them out of Egypt, but Joshua was the one that led them
into the land, into the promised land. Yet they never. And we
read that over there in Joshua chapter one and chapter 11. Yet
they never truly had complete rest. from all of their enemies. Joshua was their savior who led
them into the promised land, defeating all their foes in the
way. But yet there were still enemies throughout the land.
There were still many conquests that were fought, and you see
that always in the book of Judges and so forth, and in the early
parts of 1 Samuel and on. There was never finally rest
from their enemies. There were many enemies throughout
the land, and it gave them constant trouble. It gave the Israelites
constant trouble. It was never rest until David
was enthroned in Jerusalem. Until David was seated on the
throne in Jerusalem, finally, there's a verse over there that
says, finally God gave him rest from all his sin. And the people
who were submissive were under the rule of God. That's Christ. Why? Because David was God's
promised king from the beginning. God said he had provided him
a king. He sought him a king after his
own heart. David was powerful over all of
his enemies, and as long as David was on the throne, there was
peace in Jerusalem. Well, the Scripture says, The earth is
the Lord's, and the fullness thereof, the world and day that
dwell therein. It belongs to the line of the
tribe of Judah. This whole world and everything
in it, this planet, belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ. It's His. It belongs to the line of the
tribe of Judah. However, the Philistines' sin,
iniquity, is in the land. Yet, yet, because He's on the
throne, there's peace with God's people, even though the enemies
are throughout. He's Lord over heaven and earth.
Although the enemy is still in the land, still in the land.
And from the garden of Eden until now, sin, Satan, and the armies
have infiltrated the land. But the earth is still the Lord's.
Stay with me. I'm building up a story here.
Satan is called the God of this world, isn't he? The God of this
world has blinded their minds, Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4. Satan's called the God of this
world, not capital G. Go back and read that sometime.
He's not the capital G or capital O, capital D of this world. He's
the God of this world in the sense that this world owns him
as their God. They serve him and they're submissive
to him. They're his followers. They worship
him. The Lord is God over all the
earth. I don't care if iniquity does
prevail. or abound in the land. I don't care if sins, if the
enemy is in the land, the Lord is still God over all. He's still in charge. He still owns this thing. Now
here's the story of the victory over his enemy. Look at verse
2. And Saul and the men of Israel
were gathered together and pitched by the valley of Elah. And they
set the battle in a ray 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. The people of God, that is Israel,
they were on one side, and the Philistines were on the other
mountain, and there was this valley in between. And this is
a picture of God's people, God's people who dwell on this earth.
With the rest of mankind, we saw with God's people dwell with
mankind here on this earth, but we're locked in a battle with
the forces of evil. Yes, we are. Scriptures are very
clear that we're in this battle. We're in a war, and there's a
valley in between us, the valley of the shadow of death. But we're
not wrestling with flesh and blood, the scripture says, like
this battle. We're wrestling against spiritual
powers. And they war against the flesh. Paul said that. They war, the
spiritual things, war, they lust against the flesh. All right? Now up comes this giant. Look
at it. Verse 4, let's read all the way
down through verse 11. And there went out a champion
out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose
height was six cubits in a span, ten and a half feet tall. And
he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with
a coat of mail or metal, and the weight of the coat was 5,000
shekels of brass, 152 pounds. That's more than I weigh. And
he had greaves of brass upon his legs and a target of brass
between his shoulders, and the staff of his spear was like a
weaver's beam. He had a four-by-four. He carried
a four-by-four, 16 feet long, and the head of that spear weighed
600 shekels, 33 pounds. This is one big guy. Ten and
a half feet tall. His total suit of armor weighed
272 pounds of armor. That means he had to weigh more
than 500 pounds with a four-by-four in his hand. A big man. And he stood, in verse 8, now
picture the story here, or see the picture, he stood and cried
on the one side, evidently they were of close proximity, two
mountains in this valley in between, and he must have been a robust,
bust fellow, they could hear every word he said. He stood
and cried unto the armies of Israel and said unto them, Why
are you come out to set your battle in array? Am not I Philistine,
and you servants to Saul? Choose you a man for you and
let him come down to me." The word champion back there in verse
four means mediator, a mediator, representative. And he's saying
here to them, choose you out a mediator, somebody to come
meet with me. And if he be able to fight with
me and to kill me, then will we be your servant. But if I
prevail against him and kill him, then shall you be our service
and serve us." And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel
this day. Give me a man. He wanted to fight
with a man, that we may fight together. And when Saul and all
Israel heard these words of this Philistine, they were dismayed,
greatly afraid. They were scared plum out of
their wits, as we would be too, facing this fellow. He was a
large, imposing, formidable foe. He was defying God and man, an
impossible enemy, seemingly, an impossible enemy. Who could
stand, what mere mortal man could stand before such a one? as this. This guy represents
Satan. Satan who's called the prince
of the power of the air. The archangel of evil. He's a powerful, imposing, impossible
foe for mortal man. Turn with me. Keep your place
there. Turn to Jude, the book of Jude. Right before Revelation,
the book of Jude, with me. As I quoted to you from Ephesians
6, we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against spiritual wickedness. in high places against
rulers of the darkness of this world, high places. We're not
wrestling, as some of these fellows would have us think, with some
peon, some defeatable foe. He's too much for us. Jude explains
these foolish and filthy talkers here in Jude. Now, you hear all
this that goes on in today's religion, how they talk about
the devil and so forth. You hear it. all their wild claims
concerning what they're going to do with the devil and how
you can... Let's just see what the Word of God says here in
verse 8. He says, These filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise
dominion, that word is think nothing of, dominion, that is
high powers, and speak evil or speak brashly and boastfully
of dignities. Yet even Michael, the archangel,
when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of
Moses. He dares not. He dare not bring
against the devil a railing accusation. But he said the Lord rebuked
today. Even Michael, the archangel, who could wipe this earth out
himself, dare not contend with Satan. But he said the Lord rebuked
thee. But these, verse 10, these foolish,
filthy dreamers, these little pinhead peanuts, preachers, speak
evil of those things they don't know anything about. What they
know naturally, or think they know, the brute beasts and those
things they corrupt, woe unto them, woe unto these fellows. Foolish and filthy dreamers speaking
evil. Back to the text now. And they
talk big, don't they? They talk big about Satan and
demons and so forth. Talk big about these spiritual
giants. Now, I just imagine that Joe,
some of these Israelites in the camp back there were talking
pretty big, you know. He'd get a few men together around the
campfire and a bottle of whatever. And they talk pretty big, don't
they? Yeah, that Goliath, he ain't much. He doesn't show me
anything. But I don't see any of them standing
before him when come daylight. Right? None of them have dared
go out and face this formidable foe. Who can stand before him? Not Saul. It says even Saul. Now Saul stood head and shoulders
above all the people. Saul must have been seven feet
tall and weighed about 300 pounds himself. But he was scared, the
best of men dare not stand up again. Like we talked about Michael,
Abraham, just keep in mind none of them were any match for Satan.
Look at verse 12. Now David. David. Now David. I like that ending and that beginning
there. They were all scared to death.
But David. Now David. was the son of that
epithet of Bethlehem, Judah, whose name was Jesse. And he
had eight sons, Jesse, and the man went among men for an old
man in the days of Saul. Don't ask me what that means.
I looked it up and couldn't find it. There's something right there.
If you can find out, you tell me. Verse 13, And the three eldest
sons, David and the three eldest sons of Jesse, went and followed
Saul to the battle, and the names of these sons that went to the
battle were Eliab, the firstborn, Abinadab, and the third, Shammah.
David was the youngest, and three elders followed Saul. David was
God's chosen champion. We saw that over in chapter 16.
Son of Jesse, he was God's anointed king. He would be the one, the
only one, the only mediator between the children of Israel and this
great giant. The only mediator, the only one
who could stand before this powerful foe, and he's a type of the son
of David, the Lord Jesus Christ, who was born in Bethlehem just
like David. The son of David, God's king,
God's anointed one, his servant he calls him in Isaiah 42, his
elect in whom he's so delighted. Who alone is our mediator, the
one mediator between God and men, the man, the man, Christ
Jesus, the only Savior for sinners. And we're going to see here in
a minute how David, not only was David able, but he was willing
to go and stand before these people. Now here he comes, here
he comes. David was sent by his father
to his brethren. Look at verse 15. David went
and returned from Saul. You remember back in Chapter
16 how that David played on his heart to Saul and all things
were well with Saul. You remember what a picture that
was of the sweet psalmist playing on our hearts. David went and
returned from Saul back to his home to care for the sheep. He was the faithful shepherd,
you see. He never would leave those sheep or any time period
was very long at all. He went back to those two sheep. He went back and returned from
Saul. Christ, for 4,000 years before
Christ came, Christ appeared. He appeared to man. He appeared
to men in the garden, and other times Christ appeared in various
human forms, didn't He? But yet He always returned to
the Father. Back to his sheep, back to his father's throne to
feed his father's sheep, to feed the sheep. Over in Ephesians
3, 15, it talks about the church in earth and in heaven and in
earth. And Christ is a good shepherd
of those sheep there and of these sheep. He's the Lord of the quick
and the dead. He's the Lord overall. He's the
provider and the shepherd always. And until the father's good time,
we saw that in Galatians 4, Sunday. In the fullness of time, when
God sent forth his Son made of a woman, until that time, though
he's keeping a sheep up in heaven, a sheep in heaven. All right,
stay with me. Verse 16, And the Philistine drew near morning
and evening, and presented himself forty days. That's a coincidence,
isn't it? This guy, morning and night,
forty days and forty nights, plagued the people. Forty days
and Jesse said unto David his son. Take now for that brethren. And even of this parched corn. And these ten loaves. And run
to the camp to that brethren and carry these ten cheeses under
the captain of their house. David was sent by his father
and he was sent with some provisions, he was sent with corn, seed,
parched corn, he was sent with bread, he was told to run into
the camp, he was sent with cheeses under the captain, that is the
leader of the people there, cheeses. And look at what he said here
in verse 18, this is the key. And look how thy brethren fare,
and take their pledge. See how they're doing, and take
their pledge. And Saul and they and all the
men of Israel were in the valley of Elah fighting with the Philistines. See how they fare, David, and
take their pledge. And what David found was they
didn't fare too well. They were in bad shape. They
were fighting the Philistines on every hand, fighting with
sin, faced with a giant, an undefeatable foe, the giant of despair. They
were faring very badly. I was sent by the Father. Thirty-four
times he's called the sent one. Christ said, I came down from
heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of the Father which
sent me. I came down to see how my people
fare. And what he found was sin and
misery and death and darkness and poverty and iniquity abounding. And the Father said to Christ,
just like he said to David here, take their pledge. Take their
place. Go down there and take their
place, take their place, take their sins upon yourself, take
their punishment, take their sins in your body upon the tree
and put them away and defeat every foe, crush that giant's
head, crush his head and take these tokens, these tokens of
my love to them and provide everything necessary for their sustenance
while you're there so that they'll lack nothing. What a beautiful
story. Now look at verse 20. Here it
comes. Here comes David to his brethren. And notice they're
not going to receive him. They're not going to take him. Verse 20. And David rose up early
in the morning. David was an obedient son. He
was obedient to every call of his father. The will of his father,
he was obedient. And he got up early to do his
father's will. He was willing to do his father's
will, and he got up early. The sun arose in the morning
to come to his brethren. And he had healing in his wings.
That's right there. Healing in his wings. He came
riding down on a colt full of an ass. He was just. And old David was going to have
salvation. He was going to save these people. He was Obedient
son of Jesse, just like Christ is the obedient son of God who
arose with healing in his wing and came to us with salvation. Verse 20, he rose and left the
sheep with a keeper and took and went as Jesse had commanded
him and came to the trench, right down in the trenches where they
were. As the host was going forth to
the fight and shouted for the battle, there were a lot of shouting,
a lot of A lot of misery, a lot of travail going on, and 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
the carriage and ran into the army and came, and look at this,
and saluted his brethren. Saluted after a long journey.
This was a long journey on the back of a donkey. Yet, after
this long journey, although he was weary, he ran. ran to the task. He was willing. And he saluted his brethren.
Do you have a margin there? It says he asked his brethren
of peace. He asked them of peace. Well,
Christ, for thirty-three and a third weary years that he lived
upon this earth, Christ became a man. For thirty-three years
he walked a life of misery and agony. When it came time to fight
that Seemingly undefeatable foe, to fight that great foe of ours,
he ran to the task. The scripture says he set his
face toward Jerusalem, and under the weight of that cross even.
He said, for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
thought nothing of the shame, the misery, the suffering, had
his mind, his heart, his will set upon doing this thing for
God's people, for God's glory. Christ became a man, but not
for men. The scripture says he is the
only mediator between God and men, right? Men. Just as David did not represent
all men, David did not come necessarily to all men. It says he came to
his brethren, didn't he? He came to his brethren. Christ,
he said, I am the good shepherd and I've come for my sheep. I've
come for my sheep. I've come that they might have
life." He says he gives his life for the sheep, his own. And the
scripture says here he saluted his brethren, that is, asked
his brethren of peace. Well, Christ didn't ask peace.
He didn't ask us to make peace. He made peace by the blood of
his own crop, having reconciled all things to the Father. And the heavenly host founded
it when Christ first came. Glory to God in the highest,
peace on earth, goodwill toward men, men, not man, men. Christ came to his own, but they
received him not. They received him not. Look at
verse 23. And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the
champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies
of the Philistine, and spake according to the same words.
And David heard him. And all the men of Israel, when
they saw the man, old Goliath renewing his taunts before them,
when they saw this man again, they fled from him and were sore
afraid. Now this is great here. And the
men of Israel said to David, David here, this newcomer comes
down, have you seen this man that has come up? You remember when Christ said,
I beheld Satan fall as lightning from heaven. Have you seen him? Yeah, I dealt with him a long
time ago. I want to deal with him finally now. Have you seen
this man that has come up, has raised his wicked head, surely
to defy Israel has he come up? And it shall be that the man
who kills him, the king, look at all these things, whoever
kills this giant, the king will enrich him with great riches
and will give him his daughter. And make his father's house free
in Israel, a free man and all his people. And David spake to
the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man
that killeth this Philistine and taketh away their reproach
from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine
that he should defy the armies of the living God? And the people
answered after this manner, after verse 25, saying, This is what
will be done to the man that kills him. This is what will
be done. Ah boy, it reminds me of what
was Colossians chapter 1. Christ, if you want to turn you
can. Over in Colossians chapter 1
it says in verse 12, that Christ, Colossians 1 verse 12, we give
thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet to be partakers
of the inheritance of the saints in light who have delivered us
from the power of darkness and translated us unto the kingdom
of his dear Son. In whom, this is what Jim preached
on, Ephesians 1-7, in whom we have redemption through his blood,
even the forgiveness of sin. Christ is the image of the invisible
God, the Son of David, the firstborn of every creature. For by him
were all things created that are in heaven, that are in earth,
visible, invisible, whether they be thrones, dominions. He's Christ's
devil. or principalities or powers,
all things were created by him and for him. He is before all
things, ahead of all things. By him all things consist. He
is the head of the church, the body, the church, who is the
beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things
he might have the preeminence. And it pleased the Father to
send him, that in him should all fullness dwell, and have
him made peace through the blood of his cross." by Christ to reconcile
all things unto himself. By him, I say, whether they be
things in earth and heaven, under the earth. You remember Psalm
8? God had put all things under his feet. Psalm 2 gave the heathens
for his inheritance. And over in chapter 2, verse
15, it says, he spoiled principalities and powers and made a show of
them openly, triumphing over them. Triumphing over Satan and all
the enemies of God and making a show of them openly. And what
shall be done to Christ? He's been given a name which
is above every name. And He's been enriched with all
the blessings and honor and privileges of the Son of God himself. Come
on, stay with me. And he's been given the daughter
of Jerusalem. He's been given the heathen.
He's been given God's people as an inheritance. And he's made
his father's house free. He set us free from all the foes. All right, verse 28. He came
to his brethren, and here the alive, the oldest brother, heard
David talking. in the crowd. Verse 28, And Eliab,
his eldest brother, heard when he spoke unto the men, and Eliab's
anger was kindled against David. And he said, Why camest thou
down hither? With whom hast thou left those
few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the naughtiness
of thine heart, little Bubbe. Thou art come down that thou
mightest see the battle. You just want to see what's going
on. You just want to see what's going on. These brethren of his
mocked and despised him, didn't they? They bore false witness
against him, didn't they? Yeah, they did. And he came. He came from the Father. He came
for good, yet they made him out to be evil, didn't they? And that's what they said about
Christ. Scripture says he came of his
own, but his own received him not. They said, you blaspheme. They bore false witness against
him. They brought out witnesses against him. He came for good.
But they said he came for evil, didn't they? Is not this Joseph? Is not this Joseph's son, the
son of the carpenter? What can you do? His brethren
said that to him. And not just Israel. But we did
it. We all did. Isaiah 53 says we
did esteem him, smitten and stricken. We hid, as it were, our faces
from him. All of us by nature. When we were dead in trespasses
and sin, despised the Son of God, didn't we? Until he was
revealed to us as the champion. And in spite of David here, in
spite of all these people that were against him, in spite of
these seemingly insurmountable obstacles, in spite of his brethren, I tell you, this would be enough
to turn back the bravest of men, wouldn't it? The most courageous
of men, John. This has been enough to turn back anybody. I don't
care how resolute he was. This has been enough to turn
back anybody. But David was not to be turned from his mission.
And he boldly proclaimed, in verse 29, I love this, David
said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? Yes, David, there's a cause.
God's glory is at stake. God's people are assailed on
every hand. Iniquity abounds. Israel needs
a Savior, David. And in spite of all the opposition,
in spite of all of this, he set his face to this battle. In spite
of his brethren. I bet they were glad later on
that David didn't turn back. I bet you even Olaib was glad
and said, I played a fool. I didn't know who little brother
was. I thought he was just a man. Oh, he's just my little brother,
a man like me. And for 4,000 years, this earth
dwelled in darkness and sin and misery. God's glory was mocked. God was despised by man and devils. God's chosen few were assailed
on every side. Time for the Son. In the fullness
of time, in God's good time, He sent forth His Son. made of
a woman, made under the law, made of a woman. Thanks be unto
God, Christ set his face like a flint toward Israel. In spite of his brethren, in
spite of us, Joe, thanks be unto God that Christ came anyway. He has to save us in spite of
ourselves. We didn't call for him, did we? Oh no, on the contrary,
when he got here, we killed him. But in spite of us, according
to the will of the Father, he set his face to set us free,
set his face to set us free. They all heard old David talking,
and they heard his boldness, and even Saul heard this, what
went on. And David turned from one unto another and spake after
he was turned. Is there or not a cause? I'd
like to have been there and seen that. Here this red-haired, freckled-faced
boy in the midst of all these gallant giants, you know, and
they've all got their tail between their legs. And here's this young
man in their cause, God's being mocked. We're God's people. What's wrong with you people
in their cause? And they all kind of just hung
their heads, you know, scuffed their feet in the dust. And Saul
heard this verse thirty one, when the words were heard, which
David spake, they rehearsed him before Saul and he sent for it. This is significant, I think.
Paul said over in one place, he said, have they not heard?
Yeah, they've all heard. The sound has gone throughout
the world. All of mankind has heard the claims of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Have they not? Oh, yes, they've
heard throughout the land. And Saul sent for him. The verse
thirty two. There's thirty two, and David
said to Saul, now look at this closely. Let no man's heart fail
because of him. My servant will go and I'll fight
with the Philistine. Be not afraid, I'll go. Turn over to John fourteen. See
if that doesn't ring a bell. As he talked with these men,
Saul in particular, he said, Be not afraid, let not your heart
be troubled, I'll go. This reminds me so much of Christ
talking to the disciples before he went to the cross. They were
fearful, they were afraid, they were thinking like natural men,
and Christ spoke peace to their hearts. Look at John 14, verse
1. He said, Let not your heart be
troubled. You believe in God? Believe in me. I am God. In my Father's house are many
mansions. If it were not so, I would have
told you. I go prepare a place for you. I go to the cross, he said. I
go to the cross so you can go to heaven. I must take your sins
upon me to face God's judgment for you, or you will die under
his wrath eternally. I must go for you. I must face
the foe. There's really three giants that
we face. Sin, Satan, and ourself. And Christ is victorious over
all three. The law is in there, too. The
law of God is an insurmountable foe to us. It's a curse to us.
The law of Christ faced that foe, too, and magnified it, fulfilled
it. Christ said, I must defeat all
your foes or they shall defeat you. They will defeat you. Well, Saul said to David, verse
thirty-three, You're not able to go against this Philistine
to fight with him. You're just a youth. He a man
of war from his youth. You remember Philip in that same
passage? Lord, show us the Father. You remember that? Lord, he was
thinking like a man. He didn't see past his eyes.
He didn't see past Christ's flesh, did he? He might as well have
said, You're just a man. Show us the Father. Show us God. He that hath seen me hath seen
the Father. I am God." They're thinking like a man.
I am the Father. I am that I am. David said unto
Saul, Thy servant. Now listen, Saul. Listen, man. Thy servant kept his father's
sheep. I've been the good shepherd from
the beginning. And there came a lion. Let me tell you a story
here, he said. There came a lion out and a bear. and took one
of my lambs out of the flock. And I went after him. And I smoked
that old boy, that lion, that bear, as if they were one. Delivered
that lamb out of his mouth. When he arose against me, that
bear, I caught him by the beard. Now get a hold of this. Grabbed
that bear by the beard. smote him and slew him, cut his
head off. I slew 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." And David said,
moreover, the Lord delivered me out of the paw of the lion
and out of the paw of the bear, and He'll deliver me out of the
hand of this Philistine. And Christ on the road to Emmaus,
you remember that? When the disciples were talking
and fearful and afraid and so forth, a reason of all things
in themselves. And Christ approached them and
he said, Why are you sad? What's going on here? And haven't
you heard what's going on? See, they thought they thought
that the forces of evil had won, didn't they? They thought that
their Messiah, their leader, was dead and in the grave to
stay and that the forces of evil were winning out. And all was
hopeless and helpless. So Christ proceeded to tell them
from Genesis 1 on through Malachi. He proceeded to tell them of
all of his conquest in the past. He started telling them and reasoning
to them out of the Scriptures all things concerning himself.
Let me tell you a story, boys. He said, I'm the God of old. That's who I am. I'm from all
eternity. Let me tell you what I've done
from the very beginning. You seem to have forgotten what
I've done. You see, I'm the eternal deity.
I'm the God himself. I have all power. I have all
glory. I made several appearances throughout
the Old Testament. Let me tell you about all my
conquests throughout time and eternity. He said it was me who
fought all the battles for the children of Israel. They didn't
fight that. I fought it. I'm the one who
did all things. I'm the head over all things.
I'm the strength of God's people from the very outset. I'm the
rock of Israel." And he proceeded to give them all those types
and so forth and tell them and reminisce with them just like
David did here with Saul and tell them. And assured them that
he must go back to the throne. He must reign, the Scripture
says, till he hath made all his enemies his footstool, even And
that's what Christ said. Have you forgotten? Oh, fools
and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have written.
Don't you know how that Christ must suffer all these things? Must do all these things and
go back and sit on the throne of heaven until even Satan himself
is brought under his feet? Don't you realize that? He said
to his people. He must reign. And having said
all of that, verse thirty-seven, Saul having heard all that, Saul
said unto David, we'll go. Go. Go. Go for us. Who shall go for us? You remember when they said that
back there? Joshua. Who shall go for us? And a cry
came, Joshua, he'll go. And over in Judges chapter one,
John, you like judges so much. The people said, who shall go
for us? After Joshua was gone, they said Judah. He'll go. It's Christ all the way. Who
shall go for us? Moses. He'll speak to God for
us. One mediator. Moses was a type of Christ. Joshua
was a type of Christ. Judah was a type of Christ. There's
always been one mediator between God and men to stand before the
forces of evil for us. He's our rock, our strength,
our fortress, our captain to whom we resort, the son of David.
And he'll go for us. And if you ever see him, As our
only help, our only hope, our only Savior, you'll say like
Saul did here, go, even so, come, go, do, fight, finish, Lord Jesus. Now, next week, like I said,
there's just too much here for one message. Next week, I wanted
to dwell a long time on these five stones that David David
had in his quiver, or in his pouch, and his sling and all
of that, and how he felled this great giant. I was talking to
Donnie Bell on the phone, and he called me right in the middle
of this, and I said, I can't talk long. I've got to get this
giant on the ground. I've got to get him down. I've got David coming up to him,
but I didn't get him down on the ground, in principle anyway,
in spirit. You know the end of the story.
the rest of the story, but there's so much here and I wanted to
dwell on it and how that David didn't use the army of the natural
or didn't use the armory of Saul. He didn't use any of these gimmicks
and tricks and notions and fleshly. See, his kingdom is not of this
world, Christ said. If it was, we'd take up swords
and spear. We'd take up all of these foolish trickery and gimmicks
and all of the fleshly tactics and all. No. His kingdom is not
of this world, but it is a spiritual kingdom. It must be fought spiritually. It must fight with the forces
of evil. OK, I hope you got something
out of that. Stand with me and I'll dismiss
this. Heavenly Father, we thank you
once again for the privilege of Having met together to study
your word, Lord, it's too deep. It's too vast. It's too great
for us to plumb the depths of. It's too deep. It's too high
for us to climb. We can't possibly reach the pinnacle
of it. We only wade ankle deep. Yeah, we just stick our feet
in the water and this vast ocean of fullness. But Lord, we thank
you for the little taste that we do get, the little little
notion of truth that we have, that little bit of faith you've
given us. Lord, we ask you that through these Old Testament types,
through these pictures, that our faith, our wonder, our amazement
at the Lord Jesus Christ may be increased, that we'll see
him truly as our great conqueror and our king who's come to do
all for us, the author and the finisher of our faith. And may
we, like the children of Israel who came to David in that cave,
may we resort to Christ. To whom coming? Those in distress
and poverty, those in need, those in debt, and those that are discouraged. Come to Christ, who is able,
yea, and who is willing to defeat all our foes for us. We thank
you for Christ, for his shed blood and his marvelous works.
In His name we pray, Amen. I appreciate it very much. I mean they're good stores, but
yet they're old. That's all I ever heard when
I was growing up on Sunday June. That's all I remember. And I
was Daniel, and I was Reverend Daniel. But they didn't tell
us that. They didn't tell us that when
I was growing up. He just didn't know what he was
doing. He didn't believe he could do
it, or anything else. He argued with God. He had some holy fountains by
there. He came up there all the time
to reason for me. That's it. That's about all I
got to say.