1 Samuel chapter 17, we'll be
looking today at verses 31 down through verse 58. This is probably
one of the more well-known stories in all the Scripture, but it's
probably one of the... it's not understood by a lot
of people. They understand the history part
of it, and everybody refers to this, even in the world, you
know, when the little guy goes up against the big guy, they
say David's fighting Goliath. a ball game or whatever it may
be. And that's all they get from the story. They don't see how
that it pictures Christ. And if you don't see that, first
and foremost, you've missed it. You've just missed it. Because
all the Scriptures speak of Him. Remember when our Lord was walking
with the disciples on the road to Emmaus, and their hearts were
heavy, and He showed them from Moses, and then the Psalms, and
then all the prophets, how they spoke of Him. And it's all about Him. But this
really happened. This is not just some fairy tale. David was a real man. He was
a real man, chosen of God, set apart by God, and was the first
king of Israel. He's probably spoken of more
in all the Scripture than any other man, probably more than
Abraham, because our Lord sits upon the throne of David. He
comes to the line of David. All this was set apart. to bring
him into this world. And he rules and he reigns now
as king. As king. So the day will come,
beginning verse 31, we looked last week, Calvin, Goliath said,
send me a man. We have the Philistines on this
one mountain, the Israelites on the other. The Israelites
are a picture of all God's elect, chosen people. And Goliath comes
out for 40 days and he says, send me a man. Send me a man
to fight against me. Send me a representative. There's
no use for both these armies to fight. I'll fight for us,
and you send me somebody that will stand against me." And nobody
could. Nobody was able. And nobody is
able. The flesh is not able. The flesh
is no match for sin. The flesh is no match for the
world. And the flesh is no match for Satan. I know religion, they
have no understanding of nothing, really. And they say, oh, we're
going to take on Satan. They're so foolish. So foolish. But here he stands, and he taunts
them for forty days. But can you imagine how the children
of Israel felt? And I see here how God is bringing
His people, He brings them to a point. And they stand there,
and the longer He taunts them, the lower they feel. What are
we to do? Is there not anybody who can
fight this man? Is there not anybody who can
conquer him? And then all of a sudden, and it just so happens,
here comes David. The only one who knows who he
is is his brothers, nobody else. He's been watching sheep, his
father's sheep. And his father sends him on purpose
to check on his brothers. And now he comes. And when he
comes, he sees this giant. standing there in all of his
armor, just bragging and just boasting, and David said, he's
defying the armies of God. He's saying, in essence, where
is your God? Your God is nothing. Is that
not what he says? Is that not what the world says?
And they asked David one day, they said, well, where is your
God? He said, our God's in the heavens.
He does whatever he pleases. But David knew, and he said,
is there not a cause? He knew that God's honor and
God's glory was at stake. And he said, this man stands
and he defies the armies of Israel. In essence, he was saying that
it is impossible. In essence, that giant was saying
it is impossible. It is impossible for anybody
to stand against me. That's what he was saying. He
didn't know God. Does that not sound familiar?
And when the world stands today, and you know what they do, and
it's the world, wherever you find the world, whether you find
it dressed in religion, whether you find it dressed in a brothel,
whether you find it in the White House, I don't care where you
find it, it's of Satan. He's the God of this world. And
the world hates God, and they hate the people of God. And they
stand and defy our God. And David said, is there not
a cause? Is there not a cause? I believe it made David upset. The zeal of thine house, our
Lord said, hath eaten him up. The first thing he did when he
came into Jerusalem, you know what he did? He went to the temple.
And he took a whip. And he drove out those money
changers. And I don't think he's laughing about it. Do you? I
don't believe he was. He said, you've made my father's
house a den of thieves. God's honor, God's glory, God's
majesty is at stake. And here he is defying them.
And David said, is there not a cause? And they hear what David
says. And in verses 31 through 39,
we see David here with King Saul. It says in verse 31, and when
the words were heard, which David spake, they rehearsed them before
Saul, and Saul sent for David. And David said to Saul, Let no
man's heart fail because of him, because of the giant. Thy servant
will go and fight this Philistine. Word got back to Saul what David
was asking, that somebody's concern for his honor and glory, nobody
else was. He was. He says, I'll fight this
man. Now, don't you remember, he's
just a young man. Some say he's maybe in his teens,
some maybe in his early 20s. It really doesn't matter. But
this shows that his strength and his ability rest in God. It says the Spirit of God rest
upon David, came upon David. And he said, I'll go and fight
this Philistine. Look what Saul said. Saul said to David, thou
art not able to go against this Philistine, to fight with him.
And why did he give this reason why he was not able? Thou art
but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. I can picture
he probably even looked something about like Jeffrey. He's not
a man of war. He's not a man that had been
in the military for 30 or 40 years. He said, you can't go. You're just not able. You can't
take him on. What makes you think that you
can take him on? That's what he's saying. You're
but a youth, and he's a man of war from his youth. And watch
what David said. How's David going to convince
this king? And what I see here, David has
to have Saul's permission to go. David just didn't just come
up into the battle and say, OK, I'll go take him on. The law
has to be satisfied. God's law has to be honored.
Saul gives him, we're going to see, Saul gives him permission
to go. Watch this. And Saul said to
David, I mean, verse 34, And David said unto Saul, thy servant,
notice that he always keeps referring to himself, he's God's servant. thy servant kept his father's
sheep." He was not ashamed to be a sheep herder. He wasn't
ashamed of it. And there came a lion and a bear
and took a lamb out of the flock. And I went after him, and smote
him, and delivered it out of the mouth. And when he rose against
me, I caught him by the beard, and smote him, and slew him.
Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised
Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the
armies of the living God." How many in here this morning would
like to take on a lion or a bear? Now what I picture here, it says
that when the lion came, it grabbed that lamb and David, however
he did it, maybe with his staff or whatever, he hit that lion
and took that lamb. You know what the lion did then?
It turned on David. And it says here that David grabbed
it by the beard. You ever seen a lion's beard?
You ever seen that big mange around his head? He grabbed,
when you grab something by the mange, I mean that, he's not
standing out here somewhere shooting at him with his sling. He's grabbing
him by his bare hands. And he said, God delivered me,
not from the mouth of the lion, but from the pawl of the lion.
You ever seen a lion's pawl? I looked on the internet and
it showed a lion and a tiger fighting. And that lion would
take its or that tiger would take its paw and just hit that
other one in the face. It would stand on its hind feet
just like a man and just take its paws. That's what David was
against. And he said, God delivered me
from the paw of the lion and the bear. God did it. Unless David had been put in
this situation, he'd have never told it. I don't think he ever
told it to his daddy, probably never told it to his brothers,
never bragged about it. But God delivered him. You know
what? You know where he was at? He was out there with them sheep.
And why would David do that? Why would David take on a lion
and a bear if he loved the sheep? He loved the sheep. He did it
to protect the sheep. David not only delivered the
lamb, he didn't just deliver him and drive him off. He said,
I killed him. There's a difference. He didn't
just run him off for him to come back. He killed him. And we're
going to see, you know what he does to Goliath? He doesn't just
wound him. He kills him. He didn't just leave him laying
on the battlefield. He killed him. You know what he did to
him? We're going to see he takes his head off. He kills him. And
David said, Kingsong, I was watching my father's sheep, and there
was a lion and a bear came, and God delivered them two animals
into my hands. I can tell you this, if I had
to choose which one to take on, I'd rather take a man on any
day than a lion and a bear. But you know what God was doing
to David? Now David's over here by himself. Nobody's watching,
nobody's around. It's just him and God and those
sheep. God is preparing him. God is
teaching him. God is training him to do what?
Lead his people. Teaching them. And listen, God
will send lions and bears in your life. And he will teach
you to trust him. And God will deliver them into
your hands. You know why? There'll come a
day you'll have to stand against a giant. And God will bring it
back to your memory, and God says, I delivered them into your
hands. Our God's able. He's able. He's able. He's able. And He
did. David knew it. He knew it. He said, this John ain't anything. We'll take care of him. And he
did it because he loved the sheep. David was no ordinary shepherd.
Matthew Henry said, the lion and the bear were enemies only
to me and to my sheep. And it was in defense of my own
interest that I attacked them. But this Philistine is an enemy
of God and Israel, and he defies the armies of the living God.
And it is for his honor, his honor, that I will go fight him. He says, those that honor me,
I'll honor him. You know what honors God? You
know what honors God more than anything else? Faith. Faith honors
God. Faith believes God. David's not
trusting in his own strength. He's trusting in God. God delivered
him. Verse 37, again, and David said,
Moreover, the Lord that delivered me out of the lion and out of
the paw of the bear He will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And what's this? And Saul said
unto David, go and the Lord be with you. And they say he had
to give him permission. And he did. He said, you go then. But look what Saul did. And this
is what the world will always do. They try to dress him in
his own armor. Now, this was probably not Saul's
own personal army, but I mean, armor, but armor that was in
Someone else's, someone else's armor. It said then, verse 38,
and Saul armed David with his armor and put a helmet of brass
upon his head, and he armed him with a coat of mail. He's dressing
him just like the giant. He says, well, you wear these.
And David girded his sword upon his armor. And he has said, or
some said he believed, he started to go with this armor. For he
had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot
go with these. For I have not proved them, and
David put them off." All this is, is this armor is a picture
of depending upon the arm of the flesh. Arming yourself with
the flesh, and said, you can go, but let's arm you with the
flesh. You need to depend upon these things. And David said,
I can't. How did he fight the lion and
the bear? He didn't have on this armor. He didn't have on any
of those things. He was just a shepherd. And when
our Lord came to this earth, dressed in human flesh, outwardly
he looked weak. There was nothing about him that
we would desire him, but he was sent of God, and he was God's
shepherd. Remember what David said in Psalms
23? The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me
to lie down in green pastures. He is the shepherd. He is the
shepherd. And God had told him this. He
said, I have not proved him. And David put them off. And listen,
the world would love for us to dress in their armor and to be
like them. Isn't that right? And there's
that temptation because it looks impressive to the world. They've
said, I've not proved it. It's not by our strength. It's
not by our mind. God is teaching us here in this
story that it's the Lord Jesus Christ, that it's His battle.
And we don't fight in the arm of the flesh. The weapons of
our warfare are not carnal. They're not carnal. They're mighty
through God to the pulling down of strongholds. How does God
defeat the enemy? How has he always defeated the
enemy? With the gospel. It pleased God through the foolishness
of preaching to save them which believe. Take unto yourself the
sword of the Spirit, the shield of faith, wherewith you shall
be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. When
the enemy comes against you, how do you stand against him?" The shield of faith, as it is
written, as it is written. This word is a two-edged sword. This is the Word of God. The
Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. Out of his mouth goes
a sharp two-edged sword. His Word. And David put those
off. Now watch this. How did he go?
Verse 40. He took his staff in his hand,
that shepherd's staff, that little stick with a crook, that staff,
as he led God's sheep. He took his staff in his hand.
He chose him five smooth stone out of the brook. He put them
in a shepherd's bag, which he had even in a script, and his
sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the philistine.
I don't know why he chose five smooth stones, and everybody
tries to say what they meant. I don't know. Some believe that
David, I mean, Goliath had four brothers, and he meant to take
on all four, all five of them. I can see that. But there was
a reason, and he picked them out. He chose out of that brook
five smooth stones. And with one of those stones,
he's going to defeat the giant. Wherefore, as by one offering,
he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. One offering.
One sacrifice. Who is the stone? Christ is the
stone. He said, Upon this I will build
my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Five is the number for grace. He stood in the grace of God,
in the strength of grace. He stood in Christ. But he picked
this up, and this is what he's going to take on this job with
us. This is what he's going to use. He's our representative. He's representing all of Israel.
In verse 41, the Philistine came on and drew near to David, and
the man that bare his shield went before him. And when the
Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him. He said,
what in the world have you done? You sent this right here to come
fight me? What a joke. Is this all you've
got? Don't even waste my time. That's
what he's saying. He disdained him. And he doesn't
have armor. You picture him, he coming out
with a shepherd's He's got a staff in his hand, he's got a sling
in his hand, and he's got a little bag, a shepherd's bag hanging
over his side. That's all he's got that he could
see. That he could see. Despise not
the day of small things. Why does God always work this
way? This is how God always works. This is not how God sometimes
works. This is how God always works. Why? That no flesh should glory
in His sight. Did you hear that? That no flesh.
God chose the foolish things of the world. The foolish things
of the world. To confound the wise that no
flesh, no flesh ever glory in His sight. God won't share His
glory with anybody. None. Who gets the victory? God does. What did He tell the
king a few weeks ago when they didn't know what to do? He said,
the battle's not yours, the battle's mine. God does it in such a way. He
always does it in such a way that He gets all the glory. He saves sinners in such a way
that He gets all the glory. He set it up that way. To the
world, the preaching of the gospel is foolishness. So they've got
to get gimmicks and gadgets and put on plays and they've got
to use all these things to trick people into making a decision.
Why? They don't believe in the power
of God. And I'll tell you this morning,
I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ because it is the power
of God under salvation. Why would God take a man who's
nothing but a sinner, who's a nothing and a nobody, and God speak through
that sinner and save another sinner? That God get all the
glory, that no-flesh glory in His sight. And God teaches us
that over and over and over again. You know why? Because we keep
forgetting it. That's right. We'll run put on
some other armor every time. That's right, we try to figure
it out. I'm going to show you that it's
not you, it's Him. And God's not only going to prove
to Goliath, He's going to prove to everybody else. David said
that this assembly and this whole world may know that there is
a God in Israel. You remember what Elijah prayed
when he stood on Mount Carmel? Now Elijah, one preacher, one
prophet, He's standing before about 850 false preachers, and
he's been a mocking them. And he goes out, and he builds
his altar, and he prays. It's only just a few words, but
the main thing was, God, that these people may know that you're
God. And the fire fell. I tell you this much, God will
defend. Yes, he will. He will, and he
does. In verse 43, and the Philistine
said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the
fowls of the air and to the beasts of the field. And said David
to the Philistine, Thou comest 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 Lord of what? The Lord of
hosts. You remember when the servant
asked Elisha that day, and he was scared to death. He looked
out, and their whole town was just surrounded by the enemy.
And the servant come to Elisha, and he said, Do you not see the
enemy? And Elisha prayed, and he said,
God opened his eyes. And God opened his eyes, and
the whole hills were full of chariots of fire. You know what
he said? There's more of us than there
are of them. You know who that is? That's
the Lord of Hosts. His angels encamp round about
the end of the period. His angels are ministering spirits,
sends forth the minister to them who are the heirs of salvation.
The Lord of Hosts He is the God of the armies of
Israel whom thou hast defied. You come to me with a sword and
a spear. I come to you in the name of
God, the authority of Almighty God. This day, this day will
the Lord deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee and
take thine head from off thee. And I will give the carcasses
of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the
air and to the wild beast of the earth, and all the earth,
and all the earth may know, may may know what? That there is
a God in Israel. Everybody who is jealous for
God's honor and God's glory, their main concern is that this
world may know that there is a God in Israel. Isn't it? He's God. I didn't write this verse down,
but I think I can find it. In Revelation chapter 19, I want
to show you this, where David said he'd give their flesh to
the fowls of the air. Revelation 19 verse 21. So much that when the Lord comes
back, who is King of kings and Lord of lords, and said, verse
21 of Revelation 19, and the remnant were slain with a sword
of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of
his mouth, and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. He said, this is what I'm going
to do to you. Not only to you, but to your whole army. How could
he do that? How can he stand? The Spirit
of God was upon him. He's not only just David. He's
the Lord Jesus Christ. I remember one day, I think it
was Herod I sent news to Christ. I said, you better quit preaching
or something. You know what our Lord said?
You go tell that fox I'm going to be preaching today and tomorrow
doing miracles. You just go tell him. He's God. They couldn't touch him. to his
hour was come. But do you see this picture?
Here our Lord is going to do battle with his enemy. And he's doing it alone. He didn't
have anybody else going with him. And listen. In Isaiah, chapter 63, verse
1, Who is he that cometh from Edom with dyed garments from
Bosra? This that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in
the greatness of his strength, I that speak in righteousness,
mighty to save. Wherefore art thou red in thine
apparel, and thy garments like him that treadest in the wine-pant?
I have fraudened the wine-press alone, and the people there was
none with me. For I will tread them in mine
anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be
sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiments.
For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my
redeeming has come. And I looked, and there was none
to help. And I wondered that there was
none to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought
salvation to me, and my fury it upheld me. And I will tread
down the people in my anger, and make them drunk in my fury,
and I will bring down their strength to the earth." Verse 47, and
David said, "...and that this assembly may know." that the
Lord saveth not with sword and with spear, for the battle is
the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands." And he did. And he does. And he does. The battle is not yours. The
battle is his. He's able, and he does. But what's this? Verse 48, we
have the battle. And it came to pass when the
Philistine arose and came and drew nigh to meet David, that
David hastened and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
As we looked at a couple of weeks ago, when our Lord went in to
Gethsemane, he who took the battlefield first, he knew what he was doing. He wasn't afraid. Remember, when
they came to take him, he said, whom did you come to seek? They
said, Jesus of Nazareth. He said, I'm he. But he said,
if you've come to take me, you've got to let these go. He is our
representative, standing in our place. And he ran toward Goliath. And David put his hand in his
bag. and took thence a stone, and sling it, and smote the Philistine
in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead, and he
fell upon his face to the earth." And you read that verse, and
you can read ten different commentaries, and you'll get ten different
opinions. Some say that when David was running, Goliath throwed
his head back in life, and his helmet fell off. Some believe
that when he throwed the stone, it went through his eye hole.
No, I believe it hit him right there. I believe it was just
like a missile. You know what a sling is. There's
two little pieces of string, got a piece of leather in the
middle, and you put the rock in it, and you take it between your
fingers, and you sling it, and you let it go. And David reached
in his bag one of those five stones, and he picked out one,
put it in the sling, and throwed it, and hit that giant right
square between the eyes. That's where God sent it. And
that giant falls on his face before David and has to worship
him. Do you see the picture? But you
imagine what everybody's thinking. Can you imagine what Israel's
thinking? Can you imagine what the Philistines are thinking? This is our champion. He fought
the battle alone. Alone. But the battle's not over. Now,
if it had just hit him and he falls on his face, they'd have
said, oh, he's just knocked out. That's not the end of the story.
Verse 51, Therefore David ran and stood upon the Philistine,
and took his sword. David has no sword. And he drew
it out of the sheath thereof. and slew him, and cut off his
head therewith. And when the Philistines saw
their champion was dead, they fled." Now, this is the part
of the story they leave out of the Sunday school class. Isn't
it? They don't talk about it, and
you say, that's just too gory. But David takes that giant's
own sword. He pulls it out of the sheath.
And he cuts his head off, because when he cut his head off, there
was no doubt to everybody else, he's dead now. We're going to see, it seems
like, we're going to read on the next few verses, it just
keeps mentioning, every time it mentions David from here on
out, you know what he's got? He's got that head in his hand.
He's carrying that head around. And they didn't just stop with
the Philistine with Goliath. When they defeated him, they
started running after the rest of them. And then you picture this. This
was a bloody, gory mess. That's right. Well, we don't
want to talk about that part of it. But he destroyed him with
his own weapon. Listen. We were, all of our lifetime,
listen. For as much then as the children
are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself took part of
the same through death. He might destroy him that had
the power of death, that is, the devil. How did he destroy
Satan, who had the power of death, through death? He took his own
sword, his own sword, and cut his head off with it. That's what our Lord did. He
had the power of death. And we were all of our lifetime
subject to bondage. And when our Lord died, he conquered
him and took his head off. What did he say? The seed of
the woman shall bruise the head of the serpent. And he'll bruise
Christ's heel by making him suffer. He is humanity. But he bruised
his head. His authority. his kingdom. And when the Philistines saw
their champion was dead, they fled. You know what? You take
off somebody's head, you shut up their mouth. He ain't talking
now. He's not defying our God now.
Who took his head off? God took his head off. David
didn't need a sword. He had a sling, but he used his
own sword. And we're going to see in a few
chapters, David goes to the temple one day and he asked the priest,
he said, is there any weapon here? He said, Goliath sword.
David said, there's none like that. He laid it up as a testimony
for God. Who was it? Haman that plotted
to kill Mordecai, wanted to have him hanged in the very same gallows
that he built. to hang Mordecai on, Haman was
hanged on. There's a lesson there. Our God's able. Don't you be
afraid. Don't you be afraid. Verse 52, And among Israel and
Judah arose and shouted, Well, when God brings you to
the end of yourself, and you're confused and don't know what's
going to happen, don't know if you're going to live or die,
and God sends you the Lord Jesus Christ, He says, did you see
what He did? They're not afraid anymore. It
says, Thou rose and shouted and pursued the Philistines until
Thou came to the valley and to the gates of Ekron, And the wounded
of the Philistines fell down by the way of the Shema, even
to Gath and to Achron. And the children of Israel returned
from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents."
It says that when our Lord died, he led captivity captive, and
he gave gifts unto men. And David, here it is, and David
took the head of the Philistines and brought it to Jerusalem,
and put his armor in his tent. But see, Jerusalem, David eventually
takes over Jerusalem, he conquers Jerusalem, sets up his throne
in Jerusalem, but the Jebusites are there now. Can you imagine
what they think when here comes David carrying the head of this
giant? No question about what he did. No question about it. And when Saul saw David go forth
against the Philistines, he said to Abner, the captain of the
host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner says, As I so
liveth, O king, I cannot tell. And the king said, Inquire thou
whose son the stripling is. And David returned from the slaughter
of the Philistines. and Amner took him and brought
him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. He comes back to the king, that
puppet king Saul, and he stands before him. This is the same
one who said, You can't fight this man, and David is standing
here. clutching that head. I picture
him got it by the hair of the head. He said, here he is. He's dead. What does that say
to us this morning? Our enemy is dead. We don't have anything to be
afraid of, Danny. One of your worst fears, I know what it is,
it's death. Isn't it? We fear the unknown. But our
Lord took away the sting of death. We don't have anything to be
afraid of. The world tries to intimidate. Satan tries to intimidate. And even sin, even self, that's
my worst enemy. And I'm no match for it. But
he conquered it. He conquered it. Sin shall not have dominion over
you. Why? You're not under the law,
you're under grace. We're not trying to keep the
law. We're not trying to do our best. We're not trying to muster
up our faith. Most of the time, if we'd be
honest, we have to say, Lord, help thou mine unbelief. I wished
I could believe. We was talking the other day.
It's believing that God is able. The three Hebrew children are
getting ready to be cast in the fiery furnace. They said, if
you don't bow to our gods, we're going to kill you. And they turned
the furnace up seven times hotter. And they said, if our God wants
to deliver us, He's able. But if He don't deliver us, we're
still not bowing to your God. You see what I'm saying? Oh,
that's intimidating. Well, we're going to turn it
up as hot as it can get. God enable us, God help us to
believe Him and know that He's able. These things were written
for our admonition. This is not just recorded, it's
history. Danny, this was written for me
and you right today, to encourage us to look to our Lord. He's
our champion. And God brings us, and He keeps
bringing us to things that we cannot handle. He keeps bringing
us to those things, keeps leading us that way to teach us that
we cannot handle it. But He can. And he does in his
own time. They may taunt you for 40 days. That could represent years. Paul
said God gave him a thorn in the flesh and he prayed that
God would remove it. You say, well, what was that
thorn in the flesh? Paul said it was a messenger of Satan to buffet him. You know what
God said? My grace is sufficient. And it is. And Paul said, I will
glory in mine infirmities. Now that's a big statement. I
glory in mine infirmities that the power of Christ may rest
upon me. And the Spirit of God dwells
in every believer. That's right. He's the earnest
of the Spirit. Until the redemption of the purchased
possession, you're His. You're His, Israel. You're His
elect. And they will not a hair fall
from your head. The very hair of your head are
numbered. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.
Does he take care of them? He'll take care of you.