Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG021704A
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00:16 >>WE'RE GOING THROUGH OUR SERIES DEALING WITH THE SHEPHERD KING, 00:19 AND TODAY IS PRESENTATION #3 - THE TITLE BEING GINORMOUS FAITH . 00:25 YOU CAN PROBABLY GATHER WHAT OUR SUBJECT IS BASED ON THE TITLE. 00:29 BACK IN 2006 A BOY NAMED JAKE OLIVER WAS WALKING HOME FROM 00:34 SCHOOL ACROSS A FIELD IN BRISTOL, ENGLAND, TALKING ON HIS 00:38 CELL PHONE AND A MUGGER JUMPED OUT OF THE BUSH AND SAID, 'GIVE 00:42 ME YOUR CELL PHONE OR I'M GOING TO BEAT YOU UP.' HE PICKED THE 00:47 WRONG PERSON TO MUG. EVEN THOUGH JAKE WAS A FOOT 00:51 SHORTER, HE WASN'T READY TO SURRENDER HIS CELL PHONE. 00:55 HE SAID, 'I WORKED LONG, HARD - DOING A LOT OF JOBS TO PAY FOR 00:59 THAT PHONE AND I HATED THE IDEA OF GIVING IT AWAY.' 01:02 SO, WHEN HE RESISTED, THE THIEF SWUNG AT HIM. 01:05 JAKE SAID, 'I SIDE-STEPPED HIS PUNCH AND DELIVERED A RIGHT HAND 01:08 TO HIS FACE. IT BROKE HIS NOSE. THERE WAS A LOT OF 01:12 BLOOD EVERYWHERE. HE HELD HIS NOSE AND HE RAN 01:14 AWAY.' THE THUG DID NOT KNOW THAT JAKE HAD RECENTLY WON THE 01:18 WORLD KARATE AND KICK-BOXING ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIP FOR HIS 01:22 AGE, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS ABOUT A FOOT SHORTER THAN HIS ATTACKER. 01:30 NO WORD HAD EVER BEEN HEARD FROM THE ATTACKER AGAIN. 01:35 JUST ONE OF THE MANY LITTLE DAVID AND GOLIATH STORIES. 01:39 THE STORY OF DAVID AND GOLIATH IS SO FAMOUS, IT'S BECOME A 01:41 METAPHOR FOR WHENEVER SOME SMALL INDIVIDUAL OR COMPANY HAS TO GO 01:47 UP AGAINST SOME MONOLITH OR A LARGE PERSON, AND IT IS A 01:54 FASCINATING STORY AND IT IS, ACTUALLY, A TRUE STORY. 01:57 THIS IS ONE OF THE GREAT STORIES OF HISTORY AS WELL AS SCRIPTURE, 02:03 AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO THE FIRST 02:06 BOOK - MOST OF OUR TIME'LL BE SPENT IN 1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 17. 02:12 AND, WITH THE HELP OF GOD, WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH THIS CHAPTER 02:15 TODAY, WHERE YOU FIND THIS WONDERFUL ACCOUNT. 02:19 1 SAMUEL 17:1, "NOW THE PHILISTINES GATHERED THEIR 02:22 ARMIES TOGETHER TO BATTLE, AND WERE GATHERED AT SOCHOH," - THE 02:26 WORD 'SOCHOH' MEANS 'FORTRESS' - "WHICH BELONGS TO JUDAH; THEY 02:30 ENCAMPED BETWEEN SOCHOH AND AZEKAH, IN EPHES DAMMIM. 02:34 AND SAUL AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL WERE GATHERED TOGETHER, AND THEY 02:37 ENCAMPED IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH," - 'ELAH' MEANS 'OAK' - MUST HAVE 02:40 BEEN SOME OAKS IN THE AREA - "AND DREW UP IN BATTLE ARRAY 02:44 AGAINST THE PHILISTINES. THE PHILISTINES STOOD ON A 02:47 MOUNTAIN ON ONE SIDE, AND ISRAEL STOOD ON A MOUNTAIN ON THE OTHER 02:51 SIDE, WITH A VALLEY BETWEEN THEM." 02:55 - NOW ELAH IS A VALLEY ABOUT 20 MILES FROM BETHLEHEM AND IT'S A 02:59 MAIN PASSAGE BETWEEN THE AREA OF JUDEA AND THE AREA OF THE 03:06 PHILISTINES. YOU'VE GOT A PICTURE THERE ON 03:08 YOUR SCREEN - YOU CAN EVEN GO TO GOOGLE EARTH AND STILL SEE 03:10 WHERE THAT VALLEY IS TODAY. THE VALLEY CREATES A GREAT 03:13 NATURAL AMPHITHEATER, WITH A CREEK RUNNING BETWEEN IT. 03:17 AND - SEE, IT SEEMS LIKE THE FORCES WERE ENGAGED FOR A LONG 03:22 TIME AND THEY WERE FIGHTING OVER TERRITORY. 03:24 THE PHILISTINES WERE TRYING TO TAKE SOME TERRITORY THAT 03:27 BELONGED TO ISRAEL. THEY OFTEN FOUGHT OVER THEIR BORDERS. 03:31 YOU'LL OFTEN HEAR THE PHILISTINES REFERRED TO BY THE 03:34 ISRAELITES AS 'THE UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINES' - THAT'S BECAUSE, 03:38 ON THEIR OTHER BORDER, THEY OFTEN HAD PEOPLE LIKE THE 03:41 EDOMITES, OR THE AMMONITES, OR THE MOABITES, THAT WERE ALL 03:46 RELATED, ANCIENTLY, TO ISRAEL AND ABRAHAM AND PRACTICED 03:50 CIRCUMCISION, BUT THEY SAW THAT THE PHILISTINES WERE ESPECIALLY 03:54 VILE PAGANS AND THERE WERE A LOT OF PAGAN RITUALS AND THEY HAD A 03:58 FISH GOD - AND THE THINGS THAT THEY WOULD GO THROUGH THAT WERE 04:01 VERY DEGRADING. AND SO THEY WERE JUST THEIR 04:04 MORTAL ENEMIES FOR MANY YEARS. YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT THE - DURING 04:09 THE TIME OF JUDGES AND SAMSON AND SAMUEL AND SAUL 04:13 FIGHTING THE PHILISTINES. THEY WERE SOUTH OF ISRAEL, 04:18 PRINCIPALLY MORE TOWARDS THE COAST. 04:20 AND SOME HAVE DRAWN A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE WORD 'PHILISTINE' 04:25 AND 'PALESTINE' BECAUSE IT WAS ONCE AN ANCIENT LAND OF THE 04:29 PHILISTINES. AND SO, HERE'S THIS BIG BATTLE 04:33 WITH THEIR MORTAL ENEMY AND THEY'RE HAVING A STAND-OFF 04:37 BECAUSE EACH IS TRYING TO ENGAGE THE OTHER TO INITIATE ATTACK 04:40 BECAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS IN THE ADVANTAGE IF YOU 04:44 HAVE THE HIGH GROUND. YOU NOTICE, THEY'RE BOTH ON 04:46 MOUNTAINS - THEY'VE GOT A VALLEY BETWEEN THEM. 04:48 THEY'RE BASICALLY SAYING, 'COME ON. 04:50 YOU WANNA COME FIGHT US, YOU'VE GOT TO COME UP THE HILL. 04:53 WE'LL HAVE THE ADVANTAGE.' THEY SAID, 'NO, YOU COME FIGHT US. 04:54 YOU'VE GOT TO COME UP THE HILL.' AND SO THEY'RE HAVING 04:56 SKIRMISHES, BUT THEY'RE HAVING A BATTLE STAND-OFF. 05:00 SO THIS GREAT CONTROVERSY TAKES PLACE AND THEN, IN THE MIDST OF 05:04 THIS SCENE, OUT MARCHES THE ARCH VILLAIN. 05:10 IT SAYS, IN VERSE 4, "AND A CHAMPION WENT OUT FROM THE CAMP 05:13 OF THE PHILISTINES, NAMED GOLIATH, FROM GATH, WHOSE HEIGHT 05:19 WAS SIX CUBITS AND A SPAN." - NOW, THERE'S SOME QUESTION 05:25 ABOUT HOW BIG HE WAS - HOW TALL IS THAT? 05:30 YOU CAN ACTUALLY READ IN THE SECOND BIBLE COMMENTARY, PAGE 05:34 1018, THE PHILISTINES PROPOSED THEIR OWN MANNER OF WARFARE IN 05:38 SELECTING A MAN OF GREAT SIZE AND STRENGTH WHOSE HEIGHT IS 05:42 ABOUT TWELVE FEET. NOW, I'VE GOT TO TALK 05:45 TO YOU A MOMENT ABOUT GIANTS. YOU KNOW, HISTORIANS DISAGREE 05:51 WITH A LOT OF THINGS IN THE BIBLE. 05:53 ONE THING THEY DON'T DISAGREE WITH IS THAT THERE WERE GIANTS 05:58 IN ANCIENT TIME. OF COURSE, WHAT DO 06:00 YOU CONSIDER A GIANT? YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN 06:04 DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 3, VERSE 11, "FOR ONLY OG KING OF BASHAN 06:08 REMAINED OF THE REMNANT OF THE GIANTS. 06:10 INDEED HIS BEDSTEAD WAS AN IRON BEDSTEAD. 06:14 (IS IT NOT IN RABBAH OF THE PEOPLE OF AMMON?)" 06:15 - THEY EVEN KEPT HIS BEDSTEAD AS A MEMORIAL - "NINE CUBITS" - 06:22 HOW TALL WAS GOLIATH? >>TWELVE. 06:24 >>HE'S SIX CUBITS. NOW, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT FEET, I'M TALKING 06:27 ABOUT CUBITS. HIS BEDSTEAD WAS NINE CUBITS. THAT MEANS HIS 06:29 BEDSTEAD WAS BY THE COMMON SMALL STANDARD, 13.5. NOW YOU'LL 06:34 NOTICE, EVEN IN THE BIBLE IT SAYS, "ACCORDING TO THE STANDARD 06:37 CUBIT." THAT'S BECAUSE THERE WERE DIFFERENT CUBITS. 06:39 HERE YOU'VE GOT JUST A LITTLE PICTURE OF SOME OF THE ANCIENT 06:42 GIANTS. THE FIRST ONE THERE WOULD HAVE 06:44 BEEN OG, THE KING OF BASHAN, ABOUT 11 FEET 10 INCHES - THAT 06:49 IS, IF YOU'RE USING THE STANDARD MEASUREMENT. AND THEN YOU'D HAVE 06:52 GOLIATH THERE, AND THEN YOU'D HAVE THE AVERAGE JEWISH MAN. 06:56 THIS IS A FRIEND, ERIC GINGOLD - KAREN AND I, WE WERE SCUBA 07:01 DIVING ON A BOAT IN AUSTRALIA AND WE MET THIS YOUNG MAN - HE 07:07 USED TO, ACTUALLY, PLAY BALL FOR THE CHICAGO BULLS. 07:10 HE IS, NOT JOKING, THE TALLEST JEW IN THE WORLD. 07:14 HE'S 7 FEET, 2 INCHES TALL AND I WAS LOOKING AT PICTURES OF HIM 07:18 ONLINE AND I SAW A PICTURE OF ME WITH HIM. 07:22 THAT'S ME ON THE LEFT - AND KAREN, I THINK, TOOK THE PICTURE 07:25 BUT THIS OTHER GAL COMMENTED. SHE MUST HAVE E-MAILED IT TO HER 07:27 OR SOMETHING, BUT ANYWAY, YEAH - I FELT - AND IT WAS SO FUNNY 07:31 BECAUSE HE COULD NOT SLEEP IN THE BEDS ON THE BOAT. 07:34 HE HAD TO SLEEP ON DECK. AND WHEN WE WENT OUT - NICEST GUY - 07:37 PLAYED CHESS - VERY BRIGHT. AND AS WE - WHEN WE WENT OUT 07:40 DIVING, WE'D ALL GO OUT, WE'D TAKE A TANK AND WE'D GO DIVING. 07:43 HE HAD TO HAVE A SPECIALLY MADE WETSUIT - HE'S 7 FEET, 2 INCHES, 07:47 AND HE WOULD BE OUT OF AIR IN ABOUT TEN MINUTES. 07:52 WE'D GO OUT FOR AN HOUR WITH OUR TANKS AND HE'D GET OUT THERE - 07:55 HE'D BREATHE THROUGH - HE'D GO - (MAKES EXAGGERATED BREATHING 07:57 NOISES) - AND HE'D JUST TAKE ALL THE AIR OUT OF HIS - HE WAS JUST 08:00 SO BIG. (LAUGHTER) SOME OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF ANDRE THE GIANT. 08:06 THEY SAID AT HIS PEAK HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE - HE WAS AN ACTOR 08:09 AND A PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER AND HE WAS LIKE 7 FEET, 4. 08:12 BUT, IF YOU LOOK DOWN THROUGH HISTORY, THERE HAVE BEEN A 08:16 NUMBER OF GIANTS THAT ARE MUCH TALLER. 08:18 READING IN ADAM CLARK'S COMMENTARY, PLINY SAYS THE 08:23 LARGEST MAN - HE WAS A HISTORIAN DURING THE TIME OF THE CAESARS - 08:27 HE SAID, THE TALLEST MAN THAT HAD BEEN SEEN IN OUR DAYS WAS 08:30 ONE NAMED GABBARA, WHO WAS, IN THE DAYS OF CLAUDIUS, THE LATE 08:33 EMPEROR, BROUGHT OUT OF ARABIA. HE WAS 9 FEET, 9 INCHES - TALLER 08:38 THAN GOLIATH, BY SOME STANDARDS. JOSEPHUS MENTIONS A JEW NAMED 08:42 ELEAZER, WHOM VITALIUS SENT TO ROME, WHO WAS SEVEN CUBITS, 08:47 OR 10 FEET, 2 INCHES HIGH. BEKANUS SAW A MAN NEAR 10 FEET 08:53 AND A WOMAN THAT WAS FULL 10 FEET, 2 INCHES. 08:57 NOT TO MENTION ANY MORE, THE NAME OF JOHN MIDDLETON, AN 09:00 ENGLISHMAN BORN NEAR HALE, AND DURING THE REIGN OF JAMES THE 09:04 1ST, HE WAS MORE THAN 9 FEET, 3 INCHES HIGH. 09:07 AND SO, THERE - YOU KNOW, EVERYONE KNOWS THERE HAVE BEEN 09:10 GIANTS THROUGH HISTORY, BUT DEPENDING ON WHAT CUBIT YOU USE 09:16 - AND I THINK WE'VE GOT A PICTURE HERE THAT MAY ILLUSTRATE 09:18 THAT. THIS IS A PICTURE OF SOME OF THE CUBITS. THEY VARIED. 09:23 YOU HAD THE HEBREW SHORT CUBIT, WHICH WAS ABOUT 18 INCHES - 09:25 17.5, THE EGYPTIAN CUBIT, THE COMMON CUBIT, THE BABYLONIAN 09:29 ROYAL CUBIT - NOW YOU'RE GETTING UP TO 19 INCHES - THE HEBREW 09:33 LONG CUBIT, THE EGYPTIAN ROYAL CUBIT, AND, IF YOU WENT BY THE 09:36 EGYPTIAN ROYAL CUBIT, THEN GOLIATH WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT 12 09:40 FEET, OR 11' 11", WHICH IS WHAT THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY SAYS. 09:44 SO HE WAS BIG. THIS MAN WAS A VIRTUAL MONSTER. 09:50 YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS IN NUMBERS 13:33 - WHEN THE 09:54 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT INTO THE PROMISED LAND TO SEARCH IT OUT, 09:57 TEN OF THE SPIES CAME BACK FRIGHTENED. WHY? 10:00 IT SAYS, 'WE SAW THERE THE CHILDREN OF ANAK, THE 10:04 DESCENDANTS FROM THE GIANTS; WE WERE LIKE GRASSHOPPERS IN OUR 10:08 OWN SIGHT, SO WERE WE IN THEIR SIGHT.' DEUTERONOMY 3:11 - OH, I 10:15 MENTIONED OG KING OF BASHAN. AND THEN IT GOES ON AND IT 10:18 ITEMIZES SOME OF THE GEAR THAT GOLIATH IS WEARING. 10:22 IT SAYS HE HAD A BRONZE HELMET THAT WAS ON HIS HEAD AND HE WAS 10:26 ARMED WITH A COAT OF MAIL - THAT'S THE SCALES THAT PROTECT 10:29 FROM ARROWS AND SO FORTH - AND IT WAS FIVE THOUSAND SHEKELS OF 10:34 BRONZE. THAT'S 150 POUNDS. YOU EVER WEAR A COAT THAT WEIGHS 10:39 150 POUNDS? NOW I CAN LIFT 150 POUNDS BUT I SURE WOULDN'T WANT 10:43 TO HAVE TO GO INTO BATTLE WEARING THAT. IN ORDER FOR THAT 10:47 NOT TO IMPEDE HIM, HE MUST HAVE BEEN VERY STRONG. 10:50 SO CAN YOU IMAGINE PUTTING ON A COAT OF 150 POUNDS AND SAY, 'OH, 10:53 YEAH, BARELY NOTICE.' YOU'D HAVE TO BE A GIANT. 10:57 "NOW THE STAFF OF HIS SPEAR WAS LIKE A WEAVER'S BEAM," - LIKE A 11:01 LITTLE TELEPHONE POLE - "AND HIS IRON SPEARHEAD WEIGHT SIX 11:05 HUNDRED SHEKELS; AND A SHIELD-BEARER WENT BEFORE HIM." 11:08 - HIS SPEAR WAS 18 POUNDS. NOW, I'VE GOT WEIGHTS I USE 11:12 - I HAVE A COUPLE OF 25-POUND WEIGHTS THAT I LIFT, YOU KNOW, 11:16 JUST IN THE BEDROOM THERE AND THEY'RE HEAVY IF YOU 11:19 DO IT A FEW TIMES. I CAN'T IMAGINE TRYING TO HOLD 11:21 UP A SPEAR THAT HAD AN 18-POUND HEAD ON IT. 11:24 YOU'D HAVE TO BE A MASSIVE GUY. THEY HAD, PROBABLY, A BUNCH OF 11:28 ATTENDANTS THERE IN GATH THAT SPENT THEIR TIME 11:31 WORKING ON HIS ARMOR. I MEAN, YOU COULDN'T JUST 11:33 BUY THAT OFF THE SHELF. IF YOU WERE - IF YOU 11:37 WERE A GIANT LIKE THAT. AND SO THE BIBLE IS GOING ON 11:40 TO TELL US THAT THIS MAN WAS A WONDER. 11:43 HE'S CALLED THE CHAMPION OF THE PHILISTINES. 11:46 HE'S A VIRTUAL MOUNTAIN. HE'S A HUGE GLADIATOR. 11:51 AND HE COMES OUT NOW, AND YOU GO ON TO THE GREAT CHALLENGE - THIS 11:55 IS IN VERSE 8 - HE COMES MARCHING DOWN INTO THE VALLEY 11:59 AND BECAUSE OF THE HILLS ON EACH SIDE AND THE AIR IS CLEAR THERE, 12:04 EVERYONE COULD HEAR. AND HE STOOD AND HE CRIED OUT 12:07 TO THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL - NOW, BECAUSE THE PHILISTINES - WHEN 12:10 THEY WEREN'T AT WAR, THEY WOULD TRADE TOGETHER AND THEY KIND 12:13 OF UNDERSTOOD HOW TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE. 12:16 YOU KNOW, YOU GO TO EUROPE AND IF YOU'RE IN SWITZERLAND THEY 12:18 SPEAK FRENCH AND THEY SPEAK ITALIAN AND THEY SPEAK GERMAN 12:21 AND THEY SPEAK SWISS. AND WHEN YOU'RE IN EUROPE 12:24 EVERYBODY SPEAKS TWO OR THREE LANGUAGES. 12:27 IF SOMEBODY SPEAKS THREE LANGUAGES THEY'RE CALLED 12:30 TRILINGUAL. IF YOU SPEAK TWO LANGUAGES 12:33 YOU'RE BILINGUAL. IF YOU SPEAK ONE 12:34 LANGUAGE YOU'RE AMERICAN. (LAUGHTER) THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY. 12:37 BUT THEY SPOKE, YOU KNOW, EACH OTHER'S LANGUAGES BECAUSE THEY - 12:41 LET'S FACE IT, DID SAMSON KNOW HOW TO SPEAK PHILISTINE? 12:44 BUT WHEN HE WAS WITH DELILAH DID HE NEED A TRANSLATOR? 12:46 SO THEY KNEW HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER BECAUSE THEY 12:49 SPENT A LOT OF TIME TRADING WHEN THEY WEREN'T FIGHTING. 12:52 AND EVEN THE PHILISTINES HAD GARRISONS AMONG THE ISRAELITES. 12:56 AND SO, HE COMES OUT AND HE CRIES OUT IN THE LANGUAGE OF 12:59 ISRAEL - AND HE ISSUES AN INTERESTING CHALLENGE: 13:03 "WHY HAVE YOU COME OUT TO LINE UP FOR BATTLE? 13:05 AM I NOT A PHILISTINE, AND YOU THE SERVANTS OF SAUL? 13:08 CHOOSE A MAN FOR YOURSELVES," - ONE PERSON - "AND LET HIM COME 13:12 DOWN TO ME. IF HE IS ABLE TO FIGHT WITH ME AND KILL ME, THEN 13:16 WE WILL BE YOUR SERVANTS. BUT IF I PREVAIL AGAINST HIM AND KILL 13:19 HIM, THEN YOU SHALL BE OUR SERVANTS" - 'WHY DO WE HAVE TO 13:21 HAVE ALL THIS WASTE OF WAR AND KILL ALL THESE PEOPLE?' HE SAID, 13:24 'YOU JUST SEND OUT YOUR BEST MAN TO FIGHT ME - WE'LL FIGHT TO THE 13:27 DEATH - WHOEVER WINS THE OTHERS AGREE, OKAY, WE WILL PAY TAXES 13:33 TO YOU.' - IT DIDN'T MEAN THEY'D ALL BE THEIR SLAVES, IT 13:35 MEANT WHEN ONE COUNTRY OVERPOWERED ANOTHER COUNTRY 13:37 THEY, THEN, WOULD PAY TRIBUTE TO THEM AND THEY WOULD BE SUPERIOR. 13:44 AND HE SAID, 'IF HE IS ABLE TO FIGHT ME, GREAT.' THAT TAKES 13:47 SOME COURAGE TO COME OUT AND SAY I'M WILLING TO FIGHT TO THE 13:49 DEATH. BUT IF YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, NINE TO 13:50 TWELVE FEET TALL, IT MIGHT BE EASIER. AND THEN HE WENT ON TO 13:54 DEFY THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL. HE SAID, "I DEFY" - I DARE - 13:59 "...GIVE ME A MAN, THAT WE MAY FIGHT TOGETHER." 14:03 SO HERE COMES THIS ONE MAN WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION, 14:06 MARCHING INTO THE VALLEY AND HE ISSUES THIS CHALLENGE AND 14:09 SAYING, 'I DARE YOU TO SEND ME A MAN. 14:10 YOU'VE GOT A MILLION PEOPLE, SEND ME ONE SOLDIER THAT YOU CAN 14:14 FIGHT - THAT CAN FIGHT WITH ME.' NOW WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN THE MOST 14:18 LIKELY TO GO? >>THE KING. 14:21 >>KING SAUL, THE BIBLE SAYS, IS A HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE 14:23 EVERYONE ELSE. OF COURSE, A FEW YEARS HAVE GONE 14:25 BY, SAUL MAY HAVE BEEN 50 YEARS OLD AT THIS TIME AND YOU'RE NOT 14:29 QUITE AS FAST, SO THEY MAY NOT HAVE EXPECTED THAT. 14:32 AND THEN THERE'S JONATHAN, HE'D GONE WITH HIS ARMOR BEARER - 14:35 JONATHAN AND HIS ARMOR BEARER KILLED 20 PHILISTINES. 14:39 AND SO, MAYBE JONATHAN. HE MUST HAVE BEEN TALL AND 14:41 STATELY, BUT NOT NEAR AS TALL AS GOLIATH. 14:46 NOW, HOW OFTEN - HOW MANY TIMES DID HE DO THIS? 14:51 HOW MANY TIMES DID GOLIATH ISSUE THIS CHALLENGE? 14:53 >>EVERY DAY. >>EVERY DAY FOR HOW LONG? 14:55 >>FORTY DAYS. >>FORTY DAYS - TWICE A DAY. 14:59 EIGHTY TIMES. THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS HERE. VERSE 16 - I'M JUST 15:03 JUMPING AHEAD - "AND THE PHILISTINE DREW NEAR AND 15:05 PRESENTED HIMSELF FORTY DAYS, MORNING AND EVENING." 15:11 NOW, DOES ANYONE COME OUT OF THE HEBREW CAMP TO FIGHT HIM? 15:15 HE ISSUES HIS GREAT CHALLENGE AND THE BIBLE GOES ON TO SAY - 15:18 AND THE NEXT ONE IS NOT ONLY IS THERE GREAT CHALLENGES - GREAT 15:21 COWARDICE FROM ALL THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL, THERE WAS NOT A MAN. 15:26 WHEN SAUL AND ISRAEL HEARD THESE WORDS OF THE PHILISTINE, THEY 15:29 WERE DISMAYED AND GREATLY AFRAID. 15:33 NOW THIS IS REALLY SAD BECAUSE WHY DID ISRAEL INITIALLY WANT A 15:36 KING? DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN THEY SAID 15:40 THEY DIDN'T WANT SAMUEL ANYMORE? AND THIS IS IN CHAPTER 15:42 8 OF 1 SAMUEL, VERSE 19. THEY SAID, 'NO, WE WANT A KING 15:46 OVER US THAT WE CAN BE LIKE THE OTHER NATIONS, THAT OUR KING MAY 15:50 JUDGE US AND GO OUT BEFORE US AND FIGHT OUR BATTLES. 15:54 SO, EVERY TIME GOLIATH CAME MARCHING DOWN AND HE STARTED TO 15:57 MOCK THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND CURSE THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND TAUNT AND 16:01 MAKE FUN OF AND - I'M SURE THAT THE SOLDIERS ON THE FRONT LINES 16:05 SAID THINGS THAT WE CAN'T REPEAT IN CHURCH AND, THANKFULLY, 16:07 THEY'RE NOT IN THE BIBLE, BUT WE GET THE IDEA. 16:10 BUT HE WAS DEFYING GOD, USING GOD'S NAME IN VAIN - HE WAS 16:15 BLASPHEMING AND THE SOLDIERS OF ISRAEL KIND OF JUST TOOK IT. 16:21 YOU EVER FELT INTIMIDATED? YOU EVER FELT LIKE THE 16:24 ENEMY INTIMIDATES YOU? AND IT GOES ON MORNING AND 16:28 EVENING, DAY AFTER DAY, AND YOU JUST FEEL LIKE YOU'RE OPPRESSED? 16:34 AND THIS IS WHAT WAS HAPPENING. IF DAVID, IN THIS STORY, IS A 16:37 TYPE OF CHRIST, THEN WHO WOULD GOLIATH BE? 16:40 HE IS THE ARCH-OPPOSITE. HE IS THE DEVIL. 16:43 AND SO THIS STORY OF DAVID AND GOLIATH IS NOT JUST A WONDERFUL 16:46 STORY TO INSPIRE CHILDREN, BUT IT'S REALLY FOR EVERY BELIEVER 16:50 BECAUSE WE HAVE ALL BEEN TAUNTED BY THE DEVIL. 16:55 WE HAVE ALL BEEN ABUSED AND WE'VE FELT LIKE WE HAVE BEEN 16:58 VICTIMS AND THAT WE'RE - BEEN ENSLAVED BY THE ENEMY. 17:03 AND DON'T MISS IT, THIS IS ABOUT - THEY SAID, 'WE BEAT YOU, 17:06 YOU'RE OUR SLAVES.' THIS IS ABOUT WHO IS GOING TO SERVE WHO. 17:11 WHICH GOD IS GOING TO BE SUPREME. 17:12 IT'S NOT JUST A BATTLE BETWEEN ARMIES, IT'S A BATTLE BETWEEN 17:15 GODS. AND YOU'LL NOTICE THAT DAVID IS DEFENDING GOD AND 17:19 GOLIATH CURSES BY HIS GODS. IT'S A BATTLE ABOUT WHICH 17:23 GOD IS THE REAL GOD. THE PHILISTINES 17:25 HAD SEVERAL GODS. AND SO HE WENT ON AND DOES THIS 17:28 EIGHTY TIMES AND THEY HAD TO SIT THERE AND HEAR THIS CHALLENGE. 17:32 AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL ARE SO AFRAID AND THE KING, WHO USED TO 17:36 HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD, BUT WHAT'S HAPPENED TO SAUL? 17:38 DO YOU REMEMBER THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER? 17:40 THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD LEFT SAUL AND THE DISTRESSING, DEPRESSING 17:45 SPIRIT CAME AND TORMENTED HIM. BUT THE SPIRIT OF THE 17:49 LORD FILLED DAVID. NOW SAUL HAS LOST THE HOLY 17:53 SPIRIT AND, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THOSE ATTRIBUTES WAS COURAGE - 17:56 AND HE HAS LOST HIS COURAGE. HE'S LOST HIS BACKBONE - AND 18:00 WHEN THE KING LOSES COURAGE, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE CAPTAIN 18:03 OF A TEAM LOSES COURAGE? IT AFFECTS THE FORCES. 18:07 AND SO SAUL IS OBVIOUSLY SCARED AND THIS IS - FRIGHTENS THE 18:10 PEOPLE - MAYBE JONATHAN SAID, 'DAD, LET ME GO FIGHT HIM.' HE 18:13 SAID, 'NO, YOU'RE THE CROWN PRINCE, I CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE 18:15 YOU.' I KIND OF THINK JONATHAN WAS WILLING, BUT THERE WAS 18:20 NOBODY THAT SAUL WAS PREPARED TO SEND OUT. 18:23 AND SO, ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE'S A CHANGE. 18:28 NOW YOU HAVE THE GREAT CONTRAST. GO TO VERSE 12 - "NOW DAVID" 18:33 - YOU'VE GONE FROM THE BATTLE SCENE ON THE FRONT LINES, AND 18:39 NOW YOU GO TO THE FIELDS AND THE MEADOWS. 18:42 YOU'VE GONE FROM THE GIANT AND NOW YOU GO TO A YOUNG BOY - HE'S 18:45 NOT A YOUNG BOY, HE'S A YOUNG MAN - "NOW DAVID WAS THE SON OF 18:49 THAT EPHRATHITE OF BETHLEHEM JUDAH," - NOW THE REASON IT SAYS 18:52 'EPHRATHITE' IS BECAUSE THE WORD 'BETHLEHEM' MEANS 'HOUSE OF 18:55 BREAD' - THERE ARE TWO, MAYBE THREE BETHLEHEMS THAT WERE IN 18:59 THE PROMISED LAND. RACHEL DIED IN BETHLEHEM EPHRATHA. 19:04 THAT'S WHERE DAVID LIVED, THAT'S WHERE JESSE LIVED - NOT TO BE 19:07 CONFUSED WITH THE OTHER BETHLEHEM. 19:09 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY THERE ARE, BUT THERE'S SEVERAL PORTLANDS IN 19:11 AMERICA - YOU'VE GOT PORTLAND, OREGON AND PORTLAND, MAINE - 19:13 YOU'VE GOT SEVERAL FARMINGTONS - IT'S A NORMAL NAME, FARMING TOWN 19:16 - WE'VE GOT A LOT OF THOSE IN NORTH AMERICA. 19:18 AND SO, THERE WERE A FEW BETHLEHEMS. 19:20 AND SO, IT CALLS HIM JESSE THE EPHRATHITE OF BETHLEHEM JUDAH, 19:25 NOT FAR FROM JERUSALEM, "WHOSE NAME WAS JESSE, AND WHO HAD 19:29 EIGHT SONS. AND THE MAN WAS OLD, ADVANCED 19:32 IN YEARS, IN THE DAYS OF SAUL." - I'VE TOLD YOU NOW, JESSE WAS 19:36 BORN BEFORE SAMSON AND HE LIVED LONG AFTER SAMSON, AND 19:41 SO HE'S UP THERE IN AGE. AND IT SAYS, "THE THREE OLDEST 19:46 SONS OF JESSE HAD GONE TO FOLLOW SAUL TO THE BATTLE. 19:49 THE NAMES OF HIS THREE SONS WHO WENT TO THE BATTLE WERE ELIAB 19:52 THE FIRSTBORN, NEXT TO HIM ABINADAB, AND THE THIRD 19:54 SHAMMAH. DAVID WAS THE YOUNGEST. 19:57 AND THE THREE OLDEST FOLLOWED SAUL. 19:59 BUT DAVID OCCASIONALLY WENT AND RETURNED FROM SAUL TO FEED HIS 20:03 FATHER'S SHEEP AT BETHLEHEM." SO THE REASON THAT THE WRITER 20:06 INCLUDES THIS IS THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER - WHERE'S DAVID? 20:09 HE'S IN THE PALACE PLAYING THE HARP. BUT HE COULDN'T DO THAT 20:12 FULL TIME, THEY WERE AN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 20:14 DAVID NEEDED TO GO HOME EVERY NOW AND THEN TO HELP WITH THE 20:17 CROPS AND TO HELP WITH THE SHEEP AND THE SHEARING AND SO FORTH. 20:20 AND SO, SAUL, AT ONE POINT, HE WASN'T HAVING ANY DEPRESSION 20:24 PROBLEMS, DAVID SAID, 'YOU DON'T NEED MY MUSIC RIGHT NOW, CAN I 20:27 GO HOME AND HELP THE FAMILY FARM? 20:29 SO THE BIBLE'S CLARIFYING HOW DID DAVID GET BACK TO BETHLEHEM. 20:33 IT SAYS HE OCCASIONALLY WENT AND RETURNED FROM SAUL TO FEED HIS 20:37 FATHER'S SHEEP. DAVID WAS HAPPY OUT THERE. EVEN THOUGH HE HAD 20:40 BEEN TOLD YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE NEXT KING, HE WAS GLAD TO GET 20:43 OUT OF THE PALACE AND ALL THE PROBLEMS IN THE PALACE. 20:46 BUT HE WAS ALSO WORRIED BECAUSE HE KNEW THERE WAS A WAR AND HIS 20:49 BROTHERS WERE ENGAGED IN THE BATTLE AT THIS POINT. 20:53 SO NOW YOU HAVE GREAT CONSTERNATION. 20:56 AND YOU CAN READ WHERE JESSE, HE BEGINS TO WORRY ABOUT HIS SONS 21:00 THAT ARE ON THE FRONT LINES AND HE DECIDES TO SEND DAVID. 21:04 AND IT SAYS, "AND THE PHILISTINE DREW NEAR AND PRESENTED HIMSELF 21:09 FORTY DAYS," - JESSE SAYS TO HIS SON - I'M IN VERSE 17 - 1 SAMUEL 21:14 CHAPTER 17, VERSE 17, "THEN JESSE SAID TO HIS SON DAVID, 21:18 TAKE NOW FOR YOUR BROTHERS AN EPHAH OF THIS DRIED GRAIN AND 21:22 THESE TEN LOAVES AND RUN TO YOUR BROTHERS AT THE CAMP. 21:26 AND CARRY THESE TEN CHEESES TO THE CAPTAIN OF THEIR THOUSANDS, 21:30 AND SEE HOW YOUR BROTHERS FARE, AND BRING BACK NEWS OF THEM.'" - 21:33 SENT FROM THE FATHER - DAVID IS SENT TO THE FRONT LINES FOR THIS 21:37 BATTLE. JESUS WAS SENT FROM THE FATHER, 21:39 WITH BREAD, TO THE FRONT LINES. YOU REMEMBER WHAT JACOB DID? 21:44 HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT HIS SONS - HE SENDS JOSEPH - FROM THE 21:46 FATHER TO HIS SONS TO SEEK THEIR WELFARE. 21:50 AND SO DAVID IS SENT FROM THE FATHER AND IT GOES ON TO SAY 22:00 DAVID ARRIVES WITH HIS SUPPLIES AND THEY WERE DRAWN UP IN BATTLE 22:05 ARRAY - VERSE 22, "AND DAVID LEFT HIS SUPPLIES IN THE HAND OF 22:08 THE SUPPLY KEEPER, RAN TO THE ARMY, AND CAME AND GREETED HIS 22:12 BROTHERS." - HE COMES DOWN TO THE FRONT LINES. 22:14 HE'S THERE ON THE TMZ - "THEN AS HE TALKED WITH THEM," - IT MAYBE 22:20 WAS TIME FOR THE MORNING TAUNT, THE PHILISTINE, GOLIATH, COMES 22:25 OUT BY NAME. HE COMES "FROM THE ARMIES OF THE PHILISTINES; AND 22:29 HE SPOKE ACCORDING TO THE SAME WORDS." - HE MADE HIS THREATS - 22:32 HIS CHALLENGE AGAIN - EXCEPT NOW SOMETHING'S VERY DIFFERENT - 22:35 DAVID, FOR THE FIRST TIME, HEARS IT. 22:37 FOR FORTY DAYS DAVID'S BEEN BACK WITH THE SHEEP. 22:41 AND AT THE END OF THESE FORTY DAYS, DAVID HEARS THE TAUNTING. 22:46 DID JESUS HAVE A BATTLE, AT THE END OF FORTY DAYS, WITH THE 22:51 DEVIL? OKAY, JUST THINK ABOUT THAT. 22:56 AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL FLED - I DON'T THINK DAVID FLED. 23:01 THEY WERE "DREADFULLY AFRAID. SO THE MEN OF ISRAEL SAID, 'HAVE 23:06 YOU SEEN THIS MAN WHO HAS COME UP? 23:08 SURELY HE HAS COME UP TO DEFY ISRAEL; AND IT SHALL BE THAT THE 23:12 MAN WHO KILLS HIM THE KING WILL ENRICH WITH GREAT RICHES, WILL 23:15 GIVE HIM HIS DAUGHTER, AND GIVE HIS FATHER'S HOUSE EXEMPTION 23:18 FROM TAXES IN ISRAEL.' THEN DAVID SPOKE TO THE MEN WHO STOOD 23:22 BY HIM, SAYING, 'WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR THE MAN WHO KILLS THIS 23:24 PHILISTINE AND TAKES AWAY THE REPROACH FROM ISRAEL? 23:27 FOR WHO IS THIS UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINE, THAT HE SHOULD DEFY 23:31 THE ARMIES OF THE LIVING GOD?'" - NOT JUST DEFY THE ARMY, IT'S 23:34 DEFYING GOD, IS THE WAY DAVID SAW IT. HE IS OUTRAGED. 23:39 THIS IS THE GREAT CONSTERNATION. HE IS UPSET. 23:42 HE THINKS THIS IS AN OUTRAGE THAT NOBODY HAS TAKEN UP THIS 23:45 CHALLENGE. 'LOOK, GOD'S WITH US. 23:47 GOD'S NOT WITH THEM. WHY - WHY IS IT TAKING 23:49 SO LONG TO FIND SOMEBODY? AND HE'S MAKING SUCH A STIR. 23:55 HE SAYS TO ANOTHER ONE, 'WHAT IS GOING TO BE DONE?' 23:57 DAVID, IN HIS MIND, HE'S ALREADY THOUGHT, 'WELL, IF NO ONE WILL 23:59 FIGHT THEM, I'LL FIGHT THEM. WHAT IS THE REWARD? 24:02 HE'S NOT REALLY INTERESTED IN A REWARD, HE'S JUST CURIOUS. 24:05 THEY SAID, 'OH, SO SHALL IT BE DONE FOR THE MAN WHO KILLS HIM.' 24:08 YOU KNOW, SOLDIERS TALK AND THEY'RE SAYING, 'WOW, THE KING'S 24:10 GOING TO MAKE HIM RICH. YOU GET TO MARRY THE KING'S 24:11 DAUGHTER' - THAT TURNED OUT NOT TO BE SUCH A GOOD THING, BUT 24:15 THAT WAS PART OF THE FRINGE BENEFITS - AND ALL THESE 24:18 SOLDIERS GATHER AROUND DAVID. HE'S STARTING TO ROLL UP 24:21 HIS SLEEVES AND HE'S - HE'S BEGINNING TO TAKE OUT HIS SLING 24:24 AND LOOSEN UP THE LEATHER AND HE'S MAKING A FUSS AND THE 24:28 CROWD'S GATHERING AND ELIAB, HIS OLDEST BROTHER, HEARS THIS, WHEN 24:31 HE SPOKE TO THE MEN, AND HE BECOMES ANGRY. 24:34 NOW, YOU WONDER WHY ELIAB BECOMES ANGRY. 24:38 WAS IT BECAUSE DAVID'S COURAGE MADE HIS COWARDICE STAND OUT? 24:45 COWARDICE IS ALWAYS RESENTFUL OF COURAGE AND ELIAB, HIS OLDER 24:50 BROTHER, HEARD WHEN HE SPOKE THIS AND ELIAB'S ANGER WAS 24:53 AROUSED AGAINST DAVID AND HE SAID, "WHY DID YOU 24:55 COME DOWN HERE?" - YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED WITH 24:57 THE STUFF - "AND WITH WHOM HAVE YOU LEFT THOSE FEW SHEEP 25:00 IN THE WILDERNESS?" - THE BEARS ARE GOING TO PICK 25:02 THEM OFF ONE BY ONE - WHY'D YOU LEAVE THEM? 25:04 - "I KNOW YOUR PRIDE" - YOU'RE JUST CURIOUS AND YOU'RE 25:06 INSOLENT, YOU'VE COME DOWN TO SEE THE BATTLE.' NOW, DID 25:12 DAVID'S BROTHERS KNOW THAT HE HAD BEEN ANOINTED KING? 25:16 BUT THEY DIDN'T REALLY BELIEVE. DID JESUS HAVE PROBLEMS WITH HIS 25:20 BROTHERS BELIEVING THAT HE WAS THE MESSIAH? 25:24 DAVID'S BROTHERS DID NOT BELIEVE AT FIRST. 25:29 JESUS' BROTHERS DID NOT BELIEVE AT FIRST BUT, YOU KNOW, JESUS' 25:31 BROTHERS LATER CAME AROUND. DAVID'S BROTHERS LATER BECAME 25:35 PART OF HIS ARMY AND THEY HAD TO TAKE ORDERS FROM 25:38 THEIR YOUNGER BROTHER. THAT WOULD BE TOUGH, HUH? 25:41 BUT THEY EVENTUALLY REALIZED GOD HAS CALLED HIM. 25:45 SO ELIAB'S GIVING HIM A HARD TIME AND HE SAID, 'YOU COME DOWN 25:50 HERE; YOU'RE JUST CURIOUS. I KNOW YOU. 25:53 YOU ALWAYS WANT TO BE IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERYTHING.' AND DAVID 25:55 SAID, 'WHAT HAVE I DONE? I'M JUST ASKING. 25:58 I JUST BROUGHT THE FOOD.' AND THEN HE ASKS THIS GREAT 26:02 QUESTION: "IS THERE NOT A CAUSE?" 26:06 HE SAYS, 'ISN'T THERE A REASON TO BE OUTRAGED? 26:09 DON'T YOU CARE THAT WE'RE BEING TAUNTED BY THE ENEMY DAY AFTER 26:13 DAY? DO YOU WANT TO BE THEIR SLAVES? 26:17 ISN'T ANYBODY PREPARING TO FIGHT? 26:19 IS ANYONE TALKING ABOUT GETTING READY TO FIGHT? 26:21 WE'RE JUST RUNNING?' - HE SAW THE MEN 26:23 RUNNING FROM FEAR. "IS THERE NOT A CAUSE?" 26:27 GOD'S GIVEN US A CAUSE, AMEN? >>AMEN. 26:30 >>CHRISTIANITY, WE HAVE A MESSAGE - WE HAVE A FIGHT THAT 26:32 WE ARE TO BE ARMED FOR. THEN HE TURNED 26:36 FROM HIS BROTHERS. HE SAID, 'I'M NOT GOING TO LET 26:37 YOU DISCOURAGE ME.' THEN HE TALKS TO ANOTHER SOLDIER AND HE 26:39 SAYS THE SAME THING - AND THEY ANSWERED HIM THE SAME WAY. 26:42 AND THERE'S A BIGGER AND BIGGER GROUP COMING AROUND BECAUSE, FOR 26:45 THE FIRST TIME, SOMEBODY HAS HAD THE AUDACITY TO SAY, 'OH REALLY? 26:49 THERE'S A REWARD? THEY LOOK LIKE THEY'RE READY TO FIGHT. HE'S 26:53 ISSUED A CHALLENGE. SOMEONE'S GOT TO TAKE HIM UP. I DON'T SEE 26:55 ANYBODY. FORTY DAYS HE'S BEEN DOING THIS TWICE A DAY? NOBODY'S 26:59 WILLING TO FIGHT?' AND IT CREATES A STIR THAT THERE'S THIS 27:04 WHIPPERSNAPPER FROM BETHLEHEM - DOESN'T EVEN HAVE ARMOR - WHO 27:09 SAYS, 'I'LL FIGHT THE GIANT' AND HE'S ALREADY ASKING ABOUT THE 27:12 REWARD. AND FINALLY, THE WORDS THAT HE SPOKE AND THE STIR THAT 27:20 HE MADE, IT REACHES THE KING. AND DAVID SAYS TO SAUL - THIS IS 27:25 NOW - WE'VE GONE FROM THE GREAT CONTRAST, TO THE GREAT 27:27 CONSTERNATION, NOW THE GREAT COURAGE. THEY BRING HIM TO THE 27:30 KING AND IN VERSE 32 DAVID SAYS TO SAUL, "LET NO MAN'S HEART 27:35 FAIL BECAUSE OF HIM; YOUR SERVANT WILL GO AND FIGHT WITH 27:38 THIS PHILISTINE." HE HAS THIS GREAT CONFIDENCE. NOW, YOU KNOW, 27:42 SAUL SAYS, 'WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO' - NOW SAUL 27:46 KNOWS DAVID - NOW, HE DOESN'T KNOW HIM WELL, BUT, YOU KNOW, HE 27:48 KNOWS HE WAS IN THE COURT AND HE WAS PLAYING FOR HIM AND HE SAYS, 27:53 'DON'T LET YOUR HEART FAIL' - AND SAUL SAYS, IN VERSE 33, "YOU 27:56 ARE NOT ABLE TO GO AGAINST THIS PHILISTINE TO FIGHT WITH HIM; 28:00 FOR YOU ARE A YOUTH, AND HE A MAN OF WAR FROM HIS YOUTH." 28:05 BUT THEN DAVID NOW BEGINS TO EXHIBIT GREAT CONFIDENCE AND HE 28:08 USES EVIDENCE FOR HIS FAITH. DAVID HAD GREAT FAITH. 28:12 HIS FAITH IS NOT IN HIM, HIS FAITH IS IN GOD. 28:15 BUT HE HAS EVIDENCE FOR HIS FAITH. 28:17 "BUT DAVID SAID TO SAUL, 'YOUR SERVANT USED TO KEEP HIS 28:20 FATHER'S SHEEP, AND WHEN A LION OR A BEAR'" - THERE WERE LIONS 28:26 AND BEARS BACK IN THAT COUNTRY BEFORE THEY WERE ALL RENDERED 28:29 EXTINCT - "'CAME AND TOOK A LAMB OUT OF THE FLOCK, I WENT 28:34 OUT AFTER IT AND STRUCK IT," - HE DIDN'T USE A SLING. 28:40 HE EITHER USED HIS HANDS - THE WAY THE HEBREW IS, HE USED HIS 28:43 HANDS OR A STICK - OR USED A CLUB - "AND WHEN IT AROSE 28:47 AGAINST ME" - HE STRUCK IT AND IT AROSE AND TURNED - WHEN HE 28:50 KNOCKED THE CALF OUT OF ITS MOUTH - OR THE KID OUT OF ITS 28:53 MOUTH - "I CAUGHT IT BY ITS BEARD, AND STRUCK AND KILLED 28:57 IT." WELL, THAT'S KIND OF LIKE WHEN 29:00 SAMSON - IT SAYS HE TOOK THE LION - THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD 29:03 CAME ON AND HE TORE IT LIKE A KID - LIKE A GOAT. 29:07 NOW, YOU MIGHT THINK, 'OH, THIS IS JUST ONE OF THEM BIBLE 29:10 STORIES' BUT, ACTUALLY, IT DOES HAPPEN. 29:17 OCTOBER 2008 - JIM WEST WAS OUT WALKING IN THE WOODS OF BRITISH 29:22 COLOMBIA, CANADA WHEN HE HEARD A NOISE BEHIND HIM. 29:24 BEFORE HE KNEW WHAT HAPPENED, HE WAS BEING ATTACKED BY A 29:26 FULL-GROWN BLACK BEAR. KNOCKED TO THE GROUND, THE 29:29 45-YEAR-OLD MAN LAY ON HIS STOMACH TRYING TO PROTECT 29:31 HIMSELF AS THE BEAR CLAWED AND BIT HIM ABOUT THE HEAD AND BACK. 29:36 EVENTUALLY, HE WRESTLED FREE AND HE STRUGGLED TO HIS FEET. 29:38 THE BEAR BACKED OFF FOR A MOMENT. 29:41 HE GRABBED A LARGE STICK AND WHEN THE BEAR APPROACHED AGAIN, 29:43 HE CLOBBERED IT ON THE HEAD. SEEING THAT THE BEAR WAS DAZED - 29:48 HE WAS AFRAID TO STOP SO HE KEPT SWINGING. 29:51 SOON THE BEAR STAGGERED AND COLLAPSED, BLEEDING FROM ITS 29:53 NOSE, AND DIED. CONSERVATION OFFICIALS FOUND THE 29:57 BEAR AND VERIFIED THE STORY, NOT TO MENTION, DOCTORS GAVE HIM 30:00 SIXTY-SIX STITCHES TO PROVE HIS CLOSE ENCOUNTER. 30:04 SO CAN A MAN KILL A BEAR WITH A STICK? 30:08 IT HAPPENED IN 2008 UP IN CANADA. 30:11 BUT DAVID DIDN'T EVEN GET ANY STITCHES, THAT WE KNOW OF. 30:14 AND SO HE BEGINS TO TELL SAUL, 'YOUR SERVANT WENT OUT AND I 30:19 FOUGHT A LION AND I FOUGHT A BEAR AND THE LORD DELIVERED ME 30:26 FROM THE LION AND THE BEAR'. 30:28 AND IT SAYS, "YOUR SERVANT" - VERSE 36 - "'HAS KILLED BOTH 30:30 LION AND BEAR; AND THIS UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINE" - HE'S 30:33 A LITTLE BIGGER, BUT HE'LL "BE LIKE ONE OF THEM, SEEING HE HAS 30:37 DEFIED THE ARMIES OF THE LIVING GOD.' MOREOVER DAVID SAID, 'THE 30:41 LORD, WHO DELIVERED ME FROM THE PAW OF THE LION AND FROM THE PAW 30:45 OF THE BEAR, HE WILL DELIVER ME FROM THIS PHILISTINE.' AND SAUL 30:49 SAID TO DAVID, 'GO, AND THE LORD BE WITH YOU.'" YOU KNOW, DAVID 30:55 WAS BASICALLY SAYING, 'I CAN LOOK BACK AND SEE THE EVIDENCE 30:58 OF HOW GOD HAS BLESSED IN THE PAST AND GIVEN ME VICTORY. 31:02 AND, BASED ON PAST EVIDENCE OF GOD HELPING ME WITH THOSE 31:06 THINGS, I BELIEVE HE CAN HELP ME WITH THIS. 31:08 ISN'T THAT HOW FAITH SHOULD WORK? DO YOU HAVE EVIDENCE OF 31:11 ANSWERED PRAYERS IN YOUR LIFE? HOW MANY TIMES HAS THE LORD 31:16 RESCUED YOU AND PROVIDED FOR YOU? 31:19 THE FACT YOU'RE HERE MEANS HE'S BEEN PROVIDING FOR YOU. 31:22 HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HAD SOME TRIAL AND YOU PRAYED AND YOU 31:24 START GOING THROUGH SOME DEEP VALLEY THAT GIANT'S BEEN 31:27 TAKING ADVANTAGE OF YOU AND THE LORD GAVE YOU AN ANSWER AND THE 31:29 LORD GAVE YOU AN OUT AND HE OVERCAME YOUR PROBLEMS? 31:31 WE FORGET, DON'T WE, THE MIRACLES OF GOD. 31:35 IF WE MAKE A BOOK AND JUST WRITE DOWN THE RECORD - DAVID 31:38 REMEMBERED THE THINGS THAT GOD HAD DONE TO DELIVER HIM AND, 31:42 BASED ON THE EVIDENCE OF WHAT GOD HAD HELPED HIM WITH IN THE 31:45 PAST, HE BELIEVED HE WOULD HELP HIM IN THE FUTURE - THAT'S 31:48 FAITH. FAITH IS BASED ON PAST EVIDENCE. 31:52 AND HE SAID, 'I HAVE FAITH IN GOD.' THAT THAT SAME GOD THAT 31:54 HAD WORKED A MIRACLE - BECAUSE IT'S A MIRACLE WHEN YOU GET 31:57 SAVED FROM A LION OR A BEAR - A MAN WITHOUT, YOU KNOW, 32:00 ARTILLERY. THAT SAME GOD, I BELIEVE, 32:03 CAN WORK A MIRACLE. AND SAUL, HE SAID, 'LOOK, THIS 32:08 HAS GONE ON LONG ENOUGH, OKAY? WE'VE GOT TO SEND SOMEBODY.' AND 32:12 WHO KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS THINKING. SAUL MIGHT HAVE BEEN 32:15 THINKING, 'WELL, IF WE SEND OUT OUR BEST SOLDIER AND THEY KILL 32:18 HIM, IT'S GOING TO LOOK BAD. IF WE SEND OUT A BOY AND THEY 32:23 KILL HIM, WE LOSE, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO FEEL BAD ABOUT IT. 32:26 IT'S KIND OF LIKE, 'WELL, I DIDN'T WANT TO WIN ANYWAY.'' AND 32:33 SO, FOR WHATEVER REASON, HE SAID, 'SURE, WE'LL SEND YOU 32:35 OUT.' AND HE SAYS, 'THE LORD BE WITH YOU.' BUT, YOU KNOW, I 32:40 DON'T WANT TO RUSH PAST THAT POINT THAT KING SAUL SAID, 'YOU 32:44 GO FIGHT AND THE LORD BE WITH YOU' BECAUSE IT IS - JESUS SAID 32:48 TO US, 'GO AND I WILL BE WITH YOU.' ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 32:53 'GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND I'LL BE WITH YOU.' 32:56 SO THEN - IT COULD BE DAVID WAS ALSO INSPIRED. 33:00 DID DAVID KNOW THE STORY ABOUT JONATHAN KILLING THE 33:02 PHILISTINES? HE WAS MAYBE INSPIRED TO THAT. 33:05 DAVID, NO DOUBT, HEARD THE STORIES ABOUT SAMSON - MAYBE 33:08 THAT'S WHY HE TOOK OFF AFTER THE BEAR AND THE LION. 33:12 SO DAVID HEARD THESE THINGS AND IT INSPIRED HIS FAITH. 33:15 DAVID, HEARING THE WORD, INSPIRED HIM. 33:18 HE THEN HAD HIS OWN EXPERIENCE IN VICTORY BECAUSE HE HAD HEARD 33:20 THE STORIES FROM JESSE ABOUT SAMSON AND JONATHAN. 33:25 HE BELIEVED IT AND HE LIVED IT OUT IN HIS LIFE. 33:29 SO THEN SAUL SAYS, 'GO AND THE LORD BE WITH YOU.' JESUS SAYS TO 33:32 US, 'GO AND I'LL BE WITH YOU.' NOW, GOING TO ANOTHER "C", 33:36 THEY MAKE THE MISTAKE OF TRYING TO USE CARNAL CLOTHING TO FIGHT 33:39 A SPIRITUAL BATTLE. SAUL SAYS TO DAVID, 'HERE, YOU 33:44 PUT ON MY ARMOR' - I'M IN VERSE 38 - HE "CLOTHED DAVID WITH 33:48 HIS ARMOR, AND HE PUT A BRONZE HELMET ON HIS HEAD; HE ALSO 33:52 CLOTHED HIM WITH A COAT OF MAIL." 33:54 AND DAVID MIGHT HAVE BEEN THINKING, 'LOOK, IF YOUR ARMOR 33:57 IS SO GOOD, HOW COME YOU'RE NOT WEARING IT?' 33:59 (LAUGHTER) AND HE PUT ON HIS SWORD TO HIS ARMOR AND HE TRIED 34:05 TO WALK - NOW, ASSUMING THIS WAS SAUL'S ARMOR AND SAUL'S A HEAD 34:08 AND SHOULDERS TALLER THAN EVERYBODY ELSE, AND DAVID, 34:10 EVIDENTLY WASN'T THAT TALL BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THAT 34:14 SAMUEL WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE HEIGHT AND STATURE OF ELIAB BUT 34:17 NOT WITH DAVID, WHICH MEANS HE'S NOT EVEN AS TALL AS ELIAB. 34:22 YOU EVER SEEN, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE GIRL PUT ON HER MOM'S 34:25 DRESS AND HER HAT AND HER HIGH HEELED SHOES AND TRY TO WALK 34:28 AROUND? IT'S KIND OF CUTE AND THEY GET 34:30 TWO STEPS AND THEY FALL ON THEIR FACE. 34:32 HERE DAVID PUTS ON SAUL'S ARMOR, YOU KNOW, HE SAYS HE TRIED TO 34:36 WALK - FORGET ABOUT FIGHTING, HE CAN'T EVEN WALK IN IT. 34:41 AND HIS HEAD'S PROBABLY STICKING OUT - HE'S LOOKING EYE LEVEL 34:43 THROUGH THE NECK HOLE OF SAUL'S ARMOR, YOU KNOW, AND HE'S GOT 34:46 THIS HELMET KIND OF OFF, DRIFTING TO THE PORT SIDE AND 34:50 HE'S DRAGGING HIS SWORD AND HE'S GOING, 'LOOK, NOTHING 34:52 DISRESPECTFUL, BUT THIS IS NOT GOING TO WORK. 34:55 AND MAYBE SAUL WAS THINKING, 'IF I PUT MY ARMOR OUT IT'LL LOOK 34:58 LIKE AT LEAST THE KING IS COMING OUT TO FIGHT.' HE'S TRYING TO 35:03 GET SOME - 'AND IF HE WINS WEARING MY ARMOR' - SAUL IS 35:06 THINKING - 'THEN I GET SOME CREDIT. 35:07 IT'LL BE THE ARMOR THAT WON THE BATTLE.' YOU SEE, I THINK THAT'S 35:10 VALID. I THINK THAT SAUL - ONE REASON 35:14 THAT GOD DID NOT LET DAVID WEAR SAUL'S ARMOR IS BECAUSE IF DAVID 35:17 HAD WON WEARING SAUL'S ARMOR, GUESS WHAT WOULD HAVE 35:19 GOTTEN THE CREDIT? SAUL'S ARMOR. 35:21 BUT DAVID DOESN'T GO OUT WITH ANYTHING BUT TRUSTING THE LORD. 35:25 YOU'LL SEE WHAT I'M SAYING IN JUST A MOMENT. 35:27 SO HE PUTS ON THIS CARNAL CLOTHING AND, FINALLY, DAVID 35:31 SAID, 'I CANNOT WALK WITH THESE. I'VE NOT TESTED IT.' HE DOESN'T 35:36 WANT TO OFFEND THE KING. 'I HAVEN'T PROVEN IT.' AND DAVID 35:40 TOOK THEM OFF - DIDN'T WANT TO BE RUDE TO THE KING, BUT 35:44 HE ALSO DIDN'T WANT TO DIE. AND DAVID HAD ANOTHER 35:47 KIND OF ARMOR, DIDN'T HE? HE HAD THE ARMOR OF GOD ON. 35:52 SO NOW YOU GO TO CAREFUL COLLECTION THIS IS IN VERSE 40 35:58 SO HE STARTS HEADING OFF TOWARDS THE FRONT LINES. 36:01 HE TAKES HIS STAFF IN HIS HAND, DON'T MISS THAT, AND HE CHOSE 36:05 FOR HIMSELF FIVE SMOOTH STONES FROM THE BOOK - FROM THE BROOK - 36:10 FROM THE BOOK (LAUGHTER) THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL A FREUDIAN SLIP 36:14 BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I MEANT. WHAT DO THOSE STONES REPRESENT? 36:20 HE THAT HEARS THESE WORDS OF MINE IS BUILDING ON THE - ROCK. 36:25 AND WHAT IS IT THAT BRINGS DOWN THAT IDOL - THE FALSE GODS - IN 36:29 DANIEL CHAPTER 2? A GREAT STONE. 36:34 SO HE TAKES FIVE STONES FROM THE CREEK AND - CAN YOU JUST PICTURE 36:38 THIS, YOU KNOW? YOU'VE GOT THE ARMIES - ONE 36:40 MOUNTAIN - OTHER ARMY, OTHER MOUNTAIN - BIG VALLEY BETWEEN. 36:46 WORD IS NOW SPREADING THROUGH THE ISRAELI CAMP THAT 'WE FOUND 36:50 SOMEONE TO FIGHT!' 'WHO IS IT?' 'IT'S A SHEPHERD BOY.' AND 36:55 THERE'S ALWAYS A GAMBLER IN THE GROUP WHO SAYS, 'ALRIGHT, I'LL 36:57 GIVE YOU ODDS - FIFTY TO ONE - FIFTY TO ONE HE'S NOT GOING TO 37:02 MAKE IT.' AND SO THEY'RE ALL TAKING UP THEIR BETS AND THEY'RE 37:06 PROBABLY ALL BETTING AGAINST DAVID. 37:08 AND THEY SEE HIM GO DOWN AND HE CALMLY STOPS AND HE'S SIFTING 37:12 THROUGH THE ROCKS IN THE BROOK AND HE'S CAREFULLY SELECTING 37:14 ROCKS OF A CERTAIN SIZE, A CERTAIN SHAPE, AND - WHAT YOU 37:18 MAY NOT KNOW - OF A CERTAIN DENSITY. 37:21 NOW IF YOU GO TO THAT PART OF THE COUNTRY, THEY'VE GOT THESE 37:24 ROCKS, THEY'RE SPECIAL SLINGING STONES IN THE VALLEY THAT HAVE A 37:29 HIGH PERCENTAGE OF, LIKE A BELIUM, AND IT MAKES THEM VERY 37:37 HEAVY. YEAH, IT'S BARIUM SULFATE, WHICH 37:40 HAS A MASS DENSITY OF 4.2 GRAMS. WHEN YOU THROW ONE OF THOSE 37:46 - YOU KNOW, THE REASON THAT BULLETS HURT SO MUCH IS THEY'RE 37:49 MADE OF LEAD - LEAD IS VERY HEAVY - IT INCREASES 37:51 THE STOPPING VELOCITY. AND IF YOU GOT HIT BY ONE OF 37:56 THESE STONES, IT COULD REALLY HURT, TO PUT IT MILDLY. 38:01 MATTER OF FACT, MAYBE THIS WOULD BE A TIME FOR ME TO - YOU KNOW, 38:06 WE'VE GOT SOME PROPS HERE - THIS IS A SLING. 38:10 THE WAY THAT A SLING WORKS - YOU TAKE A BASKETBALL - A LITTLE 38:15 BASKETBALL - WHEN YOU THROW WITH YOUR ARM - HOW FAST CAN A 38:22 PITCHER THROW? A HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR. 38:25 YOU EVER BEEN HIT BY A PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PITCH? 38:29 HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER SEEN WHAT HAPPENS TO PROFESSIONALS THAT 38:32 GET HIT SOMETIMES? IT REALLY HURTS. 38:35 SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS. 38:38 SOME OF THEM HAVE BROKEN BONES BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN HIT BY A 38:40 FAST BALL THROWN BY AN ARM. THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE USING THE 38:44 CENTRIFUGAL FORCE OF THE ARM THROWING. 38:46 SO, WHEN YOU HAVE A SLING - AND SLINGS COULD BE LONGER THAN THIS 38:49 ONE - YOU'VE GREATLY INCREASED THAT. 38:54 WHAT THEY DO IS THEY TAKE ONE OF THESE STONES - AND A GOOD 38:58 SLINGER - YOU CAN READ IN THE BIBLE, THERE WERE MEN IN 39:02 BETHLEHEM - I'VE NOT TRIED THIS YET - I'VE NOT PROVED IT 39:06 (LAUGHTER) - YOU BETTER - THOSE IN THE FRONT ROW 39:11 (LAUGHTER) >>RUN. 39:14 >>BUT THE IDEA IS - AND I THINK YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO - AND THEN 39:19 YOU (LAUGHTER) - WELL, DON'T SEND ME AGAINST GOLIATH 39:23 (LAUGHTER) - OH YOU DON'T - I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO GO ROUND AND 39:28 ROUND? NO, NO, YOU REALLY DON'T. ACTUALLY, YOU CAN SEE EXAMPLES 39:32 OF PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO SLING. NOW, THE KIDS THAT WEREN'T 39:36 PAYING ATTENTION A MINUTE AGO, I'VE GOT THEIR ATTENTION NOW. 39:39 BUT YOU'LL HAVE THIS ONE - OFTEN HAS A PIECE OF LEATHER THAT TIES 39:42 AROUND THE FINGER SO ACTUALLY IT'S SOLID, AND THEN YOU PINCH 39:46 THE OTHER SIDE AND YOU LET IT GO. 39:52 WE MADE THOSE OUT OF SMALL STUFF SO THAT NOBODY WOULD GET HURT. 39:54 BUT I WANTED YOU TO VISUALIZE - THIS IS ALL HE HAD. 39:56 THIS AND HE HAD WHAT ELSE IN HIS HAND? 39:58 >>STAFF. >>A STAFF. 39:59 THEY WERE BIGGER THAN THAT BECAUSE THEY COULD USE IT FOR 40:01 WALLOPING A WOLF OR SOMETHING. SO HE STOPS AND HE STARTS 40:05 FISHING THROUGH THE BROOK AND HE PICKS FIVE - WHY FIVE? 40:10 PASTORS LOVE TO TELL THE STORY 'BECAUSE GOLIATH HAD FOUR 40:12 BROTHERS AND AFTER HE KILLED GOLIATH HE WAS GOING TO KILL THE 40:14 FOUR BROTHERS.' AND IT SOUNDS GOOD - PROBABLY NOT WHY. 40:18 I THINK HE TOOK FIVE STONES BECAUSE, I MEAN, AND EVEN A 40:21 COWBOY WANTS A SIX SHOOTER - IN CASE YOU MISS WITH THE FIRST 40:24 ONE, RIGHT? AND, NOT ONLY THAT, BUT 40:27 WHAT DOES FIVE REPRESENT? THE JEWS CALLED THE LAW THE 40:32 PENTATEUCH, BECAUSE THERE'S FIVE BOOKS. 40:36 YOU REMEMBER IN THE STORY OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS HE SAID, 40:39 'FOR I HAVE FIVE BROTHERS IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE' - FIVE WAS OFTEN 40:43 A SYMBOL FOR THE WORD OF GOD - BECAUSE OF THE FIVE BOOKS OF 40:46 MOSES. SO, AGAIN, IT'S A SYMBOL FOR THE WORD. 40:48 HE TAKES THESE FIVE STONES, HE PUTS THEM IN HIS SHEPHERD'S 40:51 POUCH AS HE PREPARES TO GO OUT TO BATTLE. 40:55 AND, YOU KNOW, CAN YOU IMAGINE THE LOOK ON GOLIATH'S FACE? 41:00 THERE'S A STIR AND THEY SEE A YOUNG BOY COMING DOWN AND THEY 41:03 THINK THAT HE'S COMING TO FIGHT. AND, FINALLY, GOLIATH REALIZES 41:10 HE'S NOT COMING TO TALK - HE THOUGHT HE WAS A MESSENGER - HE 41:14 SEES A STICK, HE SEES THE FIRE IN HIS EYE, HE'S GOT 41:16 A SLING IN HIS HAND. HE SAYS, 'HE'S COMING TO FIGHT 41:18 WITH ME.' NOW YOU HAVE - POINT 11 - GREAT CURSING . 41:24 GOLIATH THINKS THAT HE'S GOING TO INTIMIDATE DAVID WITH THE 41:28 SAME KIND OF WORDS THAT HE'S USED BEFORE. 41:30 AND IT SAYS HERE THAT WHEN THE PHILISTINE LOOKED ABOUT AND HE 41:39 SAW DAVID - HE THOUGHT DAVID WAS LEADING SOMEONE ELSE. 41:42 HE LOOKED OUT AND HE SAID, 'YOU COMING ALONE? 41:44 YOU?' HE "...LOOKED ABOUT AND SAW DAVID HE DISDAINED HIM, FOR 41:49 HE WAS ONLY A YOUTH, RUDDY AND" - WORST OF ALL HE WAS - 41:52 "GOOD LOOKING." HE WAS CUTE - 'I'M GOING TO KILL HIM.' 41:56 AND SO THE PHILISTINE BEGINS TO CURSE AND HE SAID TO 42:00 DAVID, "'AM I A DOG THAT YOU COME TO ME WITH STICKS?' 42:05 AND THE PHILISTINE CURSED DAVID BY HIS GODS." 42:07 HE BEGAN TO STOMP AND TO WRITHE AND TO CARRY ON. 42:12 1 SAMUEL 17:45, "THEN DAVID SAID TO THE PHILISTINE, 'YOU COME TO 42:16 ME'" - AND THIS WAS OUR SCRIPTURE READING - "YOU COME TO 42:18 ME WITH A SWORD, WITH A SPEAR, AND WITH A JAVELIN. 42:22 BUT I COME TO YOU IN THE NAME OF THE LORD OF HOSTS," - NOW DID 42:25 DAVID HAVE A COUPLE OF WEAPONS? HE HAD A SLING. 42:28 HE HAD A STICK, BUT HE DIDN'T SEE THAT HE WAS GOING INTO THE 42:32 BATTLE. HE WASN'T TRUSTING THOSE THINGS. 42:33 IF HE HAD TO THROW THOSE ASIDE, GOD WILL HELP HIM KILL GOLIATH 42:37 WITH HIS BARE HANDS. HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW GOD 42:40 WAS GOING TO DO IT. SOMETIMES WHEN YOU GO OFF AND 42:43 YOU MAKE A DECISION, 'I'M GOING TO DO GOD'S WILL. 42:45 I'M GOING TO FIGHT THE GIANT' - YOU MAY NOT EVEN KNOW HOW. 42:48 IF YOU KNOW THAT SOMETHING IS GOD'S WILL, THEN YOU NEED TO GO 42:52 FORWARD AND FIGHT. NOW, WHO IS THE 42:56 GIANT THAT WE FIGHT? SATAN. 43:00 AND WHAT IS IT THAT WE'RE FIGHTING AGAINST? 43:03 SIN AND TEMPTATION. ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 43:06 WE'RE FIGHTING AGAINST EVIL - NOT JUST IN THE WORLD, IT'S IN 43:08 US - AND IT'S A BATTLE AND WE'VE ALL BEEN INTIMIDATED BY THE 43:12 GIANT. HE COMES OUT DAY AFTER DAY - 43:14 FORTY DAYS - FORTY REPRESENTS A GENERATION - IT'S A TIME - IT'S 43:17 TALKING ABOUT AN AGE - JUST OVER AND OVER HE COMES AND HE TAUNTS 43:21 AND HE - HE PERSECUTES AND HE TRIES. 43:26 AND WE THINK, 'ONE OF THESE DAYS - ONE OF THESE DAYS - ONE OF 43:29 THESE DAYS - I DON'T KNOW HOW I'M GOING TO DO IT - I DON'T 43:31 KNOW HOW I'M GOING TO FIGHT - I DON'T KNOW HOW I'M GOING TO 43:33 RESIST' - YOU KNOW, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. 43:36 IF YOU GO IN THE NAME OF THE LORD AND SAY, 'I'M GOING TO GO 43:37 FORWARD AND TRUST THAT GOD WILL PROVIDE A WAY OF ESCAPE.' 43:41 DOESN'T THE BIBLE TELL US IN 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10, 'THE 43:44 LORD WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE TEMPTED ABOVE WHAT YOU'RE ABLE 43:47 BUT WILL WITH EVERY TEMPTATION PROVIDE A WAY OF ESCAPE THAT 43:50 YOU'RE ABLE TO BEAR IT'? AND SO YOU MAY NOT KNOW WHAT 43:53 YOUR WEAPON'S GOING TO BE, BUT YOU GO FORWARD AND YOU DO IT 43:58 IN THE NAME OF THE LORD AND TRUSTING IN HIS WORD. 44:01 SO HE MAKES THIS GREAT CONFESSION. 44:03 "THIS DAY" - VERSE 46 - "THE LORD WILL DELIVER YOU INTO MY 44:07 HAND, AND I WILL STRIKE YOU AND TAKE YOUR HEAD FROM YOU." 44:12 - NOW GOLIATH HAD JUST SAID, 'I'M GOING TO TAKE YOUR HEAD 44:13 FROM YOU AND FEED YOU TO THE BEASTS OF CARRION.' AND DAVID, 44:18 BOY, TALK ABOUT THE BOLDNESS, HE DOESN'T BACK DOWN AT ALL. 44:22 HE IS ABSOLUTELY COURAGEOUS AND AUDACIOUS. 44:24 HE SAID, 'NO YOU'RE NOT.' I MEAN, ALL THE OTHER SOLDIERS - 44:28 YOU GET A GIANT MAD BEFORE YOU FIGHT HIM, IT'S KIND OF SCARY. 44:31 HE STARTS STOMPING AROUND - THE GROUND IS SHAKING - AND DAVID IS 44:34 FEARLESS. HE SAYS, 'NO, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO KILL ME. 44:36 I'M GOING TO KILL YOU. FURTHERMORE, I'M GOING 44:38 TO CUT OFF YOUR HEAD. ONCE YOU'RE DOWN I'M GOING TO 44:40 MAKE SURE YOU DON'T GET BACK UP AGAIN. 44:42 AND WE'RE GOING TO FEED YOUR BODIES AND THE CAMP OF THE 44:45 PHILISTINES TO THE BIRDS OF THE AIR.' YOU KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE 44:48 SAYS IN THE GREAT JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED? 44:50 IT TALKS ABOUT THE FEAST OF THE BIRDS. 44:52 AND HERE - THIS IS ALL ALLUDING TO THE THEMES IN THE BIBLE OF 44:56 THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY. WHY? IT SAYS THAT ALL THE EARTH MAY 45:04 KNOW THAT THERE IS A GOD IN ISRAEL. 45:07 DAVID SAYS IT LOUD AND CLEAR SO EVERYBODY THERE - SO THESE 45:10 ARMIES MAY KNOW - SO ALL THE EARTH'LL KNOW - HE KNEW THAT 45:14 THIS STORY THAT GOD'S SPIRIT WAS THERE WAS GOING TO GO BEYOND 45:19 WHAT WAS HAPPENING ON THAT BATTLEFIELD 3,000 YEARS AGO - 45:22 ABOUT 1,000 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST'S TOOK PLACE. 45:25 DID THIS STORY GO INTO ALL THE EARTH? 45:28 THERE ARE PEOPLE IN EVERY RELIGION OF THE WORLD THAT KNOW 45:30 THE EXPRESSION 'DAVID AND GOLIATH' - THAT HAVE HEARD THIS 45:32 STORY. BUT IT REALLY HAPPENED. CAN YOU IMAGINE? 45:36 BOY, I CAN'T WAIT TO GET TO HEAVEN AND SEE THAT. 45:40 SO DAVID GOES FORTH TO MEET THE GIANT. 45:42 HE SAYS, "THEN ALL THIS ASSEMBLY SHALL KNOW THAT THE LORD DOES 45:45 NOT SAVE WITH SWORD AND SPEAR; FOR THE BATTLE IS THE LORD'S, 45:50 AND HE WILL GIVE YOU INTO OUR HANDS." TOTAL FAITH. 45:54 VERSE 48, "SO IT WAS, WHEN THE PHILISTINE AROSE AND CAME AND 45:59 DREW NEAR TO MEET DAVID, THAT DAVID HURRIED AND RAN TOWARD THE 46:03 ARMY TO MEET THE PHILISTINE." - I MEAN, CAN YOU PICTURE THAT? 46:07 HERE'S THIS MASSIVE ARMY - THEY GOT THE GIANT OUT THERE - DAVID, 46:11 BY HIMSELF - A SHEPHERD - IS RUNNING TOWARDS AN ARMY. 46:15 WHAT A PICTURE OF COURAGE AND TRUST IN GOD. 46:18 HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW HE WAS GOING TO DO IT, BUT HE WAS GOING TO GO 46:21 THROUGH AND MOW THEM ALL DOWN, IF HE NEEDED TO. AND HE RAN. 46:26 IF I WAS GOING TO FIGHT A GIANT, I PROBABLY WOULDN'T RUN. 46:29 AND AS HE RUNS, HE PUT HIS HAND IN THE BAG AND HE TAKES OUT A 46:34 STONE AND HE SLUNG IT AND HE STRUCK THE PHILISTINE IN THE 46:38 FOREHEAD SO THAT THE STONE SANK INTO HIS FOREHEAD. 46:41 I READ THAT IF A GOOD SLINGER WITH THE RIGHT STONE AND A GOOD 46:46 SLING, HE COULD FIRE A SHELL AND IT COULD HAVE THE STOPPING 46:50 VELOCITY OF A 0.45 CALIBER. AND SO THE STONE, IT GOES ON TO 46:55 TELL US, IT DOESN'T HIT HIM ON THE HEAD AND BOUNCE OFF, IT HIT 46:58 PRETTY HARD WHERE IT ACTUALLY PENETRATED - PROBABLY CRACKED 47:01 HIS SKULL, SANK INTO HIS FOREHEAD, AND HE 47:04 FELL ON HIS FACE. YOU CAN READ IN PATRIARCHS AND 47:09 PROPHETS HIS LEGS BEGAN TO SHAKE, HE PUT HIS HAND UP TO HIS 47:14 FACE, HE STUMBLED AND HE FELL ON HIS FACE INGLORIOUSLY. 47:18 YOU'VE HEARD THE EXPRESSION 'THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER THEY 47:22 FALL' - THE OLD - ALL THE EARTH SHOOK WITH A THUD AND THE WHOLE 47:27 PHILISTINE ARMY SUDDENLY DID THE WAVE. AND DAVID DIDN'T WAIT. 47:35 DAVID PREVAILED, IT SAYS, OVER THE PHILISTINE WITH A SLING AND 47:38 A STONE AND HE STRUCK THE PHILISTINE AND HE KILLED HIM. 47:42 BUT THERE WAS NO SWORD IN DAVID'S HAND. 47:43 NOW, THE ARMOR BEARER WHO HAD BEEN ACCOMPANYING GOLIATH, WHEN 47:48 HE SAW GOLIATH GO DOWN AND DAVID RUNNING FORWARD, HE DID A 47:50 RETREAT. HE DIDN'T RESCUE HIS ARMOR. 47:54 AND SO, DAVID WENT AND HE STOOD OVER THE PHILISTINE, HE TOOK HIS 47:57 SWORD - HE SAID, 'YOU MIND IF I BORROW THIS?' 47:59 (LAUGHTER) HE TOOK HIS SWORD - NOW, I NEED TO ALSO EXPLAIN, IF 48:05 YOU READ HERE, IT TELLS YOU THAT PART OF WHAT THE PHILISTINES 48:08 DID, WHEN THEY OPPRESSED THE ISRAELITES, THE PHILISTINES 48:12 CONTROLLED THE IRON THAT CAME INTO THAT PART OF THE COUNTRY. 48:15 THEY WOULD NOT ALLOW THE ISRAELITES TO HAVE ANY IRON 48:18 WEAPONS. MATTER OF FACT, WHEN THE 48:20 ISRAELITES NEEDED TO SHARPEN THEIR IRON FARM IMPLEMENTS, THEY 48:24 HAD TO GO TO THE PHILISTINES TO GET THEM SHARPENED. 48:26 YOU REMEMBER READING THAT? SO THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT HAD A 48:29 SWORD THAT WAS MADE OF IRON WAS THE - SAUL AND JONATHAN - YOU'LL 48:35 READ ABOUT THIS LATER - BUT THE SWORD OF GOLIATH, IT WAS A 48:39 MASTERPIECE AND IT TOOK BOTH OF HIS HANDS TO EVEN LIFT IT. 48:44 AND SO DAVID TAKES THE SWORD OF THE GIANT AND, WITH IT - IT'S 48:49 BEEN SHARPENED AND READY FOR FORTY DAYS - HE CUT OFF THE 48:52 GIANT'S HEAD. WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TELL US 48:55 THAT HAPPENS TO THE SERPENT? THERE'S A WAR BETWEEN THE SEED 49:02 OF THE WOMAN - CHRIST - AND THE SERPENT - THE DEVIL. 49:06 AND THE SERPENT BITES ON THE HEEL OF THE CHURCH, BUT HIS HEAD 49:11 GETS CRUSHED IN THE END. SO DAVID, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE CAN 49:16 GET WOUNDED IN THEIR ARM AND THEIR LEG - THEY GO HOME AND 49:18 HEAL - THEY'LL COME BACK AND FIGHT YOU AGAIN. 49:20 BUT IF YOU TAKE AWAY THEIR HEAD, THEY'RE NOT COMING BACK. 49:24 SO HE WAS GOING TO MAKE SURE AND HE CUT OFF HIS HEAD WITH IT. 49:28 AND WHEN THE PHILISTINES SAW THEIR CHAMPION WAS DEAD, THEY 49:31 FLED. NOW THE MEN OF ISRAEL - CAN YOU 49:34 IMAGINE THE LOOK ON THE SOLDERS' FACES? 49:36 THEY'VE BEEN ALL MAKING BETS AND PASSING OUT MONEY - DAVID'S 49:38 GOING TO LOSE - AND THEY COULDN'T GET ANYONE TO TAKE 49:39 THEIR BETS - ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY SEE THE GIANT STUMBLE AND 49:42 GO DOWN. THEY SEE DAVID GET ON TOP OF HIM 49:44 AND HACK OFF HIS HEAD - THAT'S KIND OF GRISLY - AND THEN HE 49:49 HOLDS UP GOLIATH'S HEAD AND THEY SEE THE ARMY OF THE PHILISTINES 49:52 MELTING BACK - ALL OF A SUDDEN THE WHOLE ATTITUDE OF THE ARMY 49:57 CHANGES BECAUSE OF DAVID'S VICTORY. 49:59 THEY ALL LET OUT A BIG CHEER AND THEY START TO CHARGE. 50:02 WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THEIR COURAGE? 50:04 THEY WERE A LITTLE ASHAMED THAT THEY'D BEEN AFRAID. 50:07 NOW THE WHOLE ARMY BUYS INTO THE VICTORY OF DAVID AND IT BECOMES 50:12 THEIR VICTORY. WHAT GIVES US COURAGE 50:15 TO BE VICTORIOUS? THE VICTORY - DID 50:19 JESUS DEFEAT THE DEVIL? >>AMEN. 50:20 >>DID JESUS HAVE A BATTLE WITH SATAN AFTER FORTY DAYS? 50:24 DID HE WIN? WHAT DID HE USE TO WIN? 50:28 >>THE WORD OF GOD. >>THE WORD OF GOD. THAT'S THE 50:30 ROCK. THAT'S THE STONE. THAT DOESN'T CHANGE. AND WHAT ELSE 50:35 DID HE USE? A SWORD - WHAT IS A SWORD A SYMBOL OF? 50:40 'THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK AND POWERFUL' - HEBREWS 4 - 'SHARPER 50:43 THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD.' AND IT SAYS DAVID TOOK THE HEAD OF 50:46 THE PHILISTINE AND BROUGHT IT TO JERUSALEM. 50:49 NOW, WHERE DID DAVID LIVE? I WANT TO FINISH THIS CHAPTER. 50:52 >>BETHLEHEM. >>DAVID LIVES IN BETHLEHEM. 50:55 WHO LIVES IN JERUSALEM? >>KING SAUL. 50:58 >>KING SAUL LIVES IN GIBEAH - THAT'S THE OTHER DIRECTION. 51:03 WHY IS DAVID TAKING GOLIATH'S HEAD TO THE CITY OF THE 51:06 JEBUSITES? THE JEBUSITES STILL HAD NOT BEEN CONQUERED BY ISRAEL 51:12 - NOT UNTIL DAVID BECAME KING WERE THEY CONQUERED. 51:15 DAVID BRINGS THE HEAD - HE SAYS, 'SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 51:17 PHILISTINES? HE SAID, 'YOU GUYS HAVE A CHANCE 51:19 TO LEAVE.' SEVERAL TIMES HE TOLD THEM TO LEAVE. 51:21 THEY SAID, 'THE WEAKEST PEOPLE IN ISRAEL CAN'T' - HE SAYS 'THE 51:24 BLIND AND THE LAME IN OUR CITY CAN DEFEAT YOU. 51:27 YOU CAN'T GET IN THE CITY.' DAVID BRINGS THE HEAD OF GOLIATH 51:30 TO JERUSALEM AND IT WAS SORT OF A WARNING. 51:34 LATER THAT BECOMES THE CAPITAL CITY FOR DAVID. 51:37 BY THE WAY, JESUS BECOMES KING OF THE NEW JERUSALEM AND DAVID 51:41 MAKES HIS CAPITAL IN JERUSALEM. AND I'VE JUST GOT TO EXPLAIN AT 51:46 THE END HERE - AND HE PUT HIS ARMOR IN HIS TENT; AND WHEN SAUL 51:50 SAW DAVID GOING OUT AGAINST THE PHILISTINE HE SAID TO ABNER, THE 51:54 COMMANDER OF THE ARMY, 'ABNER?' - ABNER WAS ALSO THE UNCLE 51:58 OF SAUL - 'WHOSE SON IS THIS YOUTH?' 52:01 HE MIGHT BE THINKING, 'DOES HE HAVE DEMENTIA? 52:03 HE WAS THE MUSICIAN. DON'T YOU KNOW HIM? 52:05 YOU SAID YOU LOVED HIM EARLIER.' HE DOESN'T ASK WHO HE IS, HE 52:08 SAYS WHO'S SON IS HE? WHY, BECAUSE WHOEVER BEAT THE 52:11 GIANT, THEIR FAMILY BECOMES TAX FREE IN ISRAEL NOW. 52:15 THEY GET SPECIAL PRIVILEGES. HE SAYS, 'WHOSE SON IS THIS?' 52:20 ABNER SAYS, 'AS YOUR SOUL LIVES, O KING, I DON'T KNOW.' SO THE 52:23 KING BEGINS TO INQUIRE OF THE YOUNG MAN - WHOSE SON THE YOUNG 52:28 MAN IS. AND THEY FINALLY FOUND OUT HE'S THE SON OF JESSE. 52:31 "THEN, AS DAVID RETURNED FROM THE SLAUGHTER OF THE PHILISTINE, 52:33 ABNER TOOK HIM AND BROUGHT HIM BEFORE SAUL WITH THE HEAD OF THE 52:37 PHILISTINE IN HIS HAND." - SEE WHAT HE'S DONE? 52:39 HE'S GONE TO JERUSALEM, HE'S SHOWN THEM AND HE COMES BACK - 52:42 "AND SAUL SAID TO HIM, 'WHOSE SON ARE YOU, YOUNG MAN?' 52:46 AND DAVID ANSWERED, 'I AM THE SON OF YOUR SERVANT JESSE THE 52:48 BETHLEHEMITE." AND JESUS WOULD COME FROM THE 52:53 STEM OF JESSE THE BETHLEHEMITE. SO THIS IS A STORY NOT JUST 52:58 ABOUT DAVID, FRIENDS, THIS IS A STORY ABOUT JESUS. 53:01 IT'S A STORY ABOUT HOW TO FIGHT GIANTS. 53:03 HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE YOU'RE IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH AND YOU'RE 53:07 BEING INTIMIDATED BY THE ENEMY? WE NEED TO HAVE THAT 53:09 FAITH AND THAT COURAGE. IT'S NOT REALLY ABOUT 53:11 US, IT'S ABOUT THE LORD. AND JESUS CAME TO SET US FREE 53:16 AND IF HE CAN GIVE DAVID THE VICTORY, HE CAN 53:18 GIVE US THE VICTORY. AMEN? 53:20 >>AMEN. >>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS 53:23 EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING YOU READ IN THE BIBLE. 53:25 WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE 53:29 CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. TO GET BIBLICAL STRAIGHTFORWARD 53:33 ANSWERS CALL IN TO BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE - A LIVE NATIONWIDE CALL-IN 53:37 RADIO PROGRAM WHERE YOU CAN TALK TO PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR AND ASK 53:41 HIM YOUR MOST DIFFICULT BIBLE QUESTIONS. 53:43 FOR TIMES AND STATIONS IN YOUR AREA, OR TO LISTEN TO ANSWERS 53:47 ONLINE, VISIT BAL.AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 53:53 >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES VISIT AFBOOKSTORE.COM . 53:59 (MUSIC) 54:12 >>FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS JEEPNEYS HAVE BEEN THE VIRTUAL 54:15 KING OF THE ROAD, HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES. 54:17 THESE UNIQUE VEHICLES THAT ARE FESTIVE WITH COLORFUL STICKERS, 54:21 LIGHTS, AND CHROME HAVE GROWN INTO THE CHIEF SOURCE OF 54:23 TRANSPORTATION IN THE COUNTRY. LET'S GO! THESE ICONIC 54:32 FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE MILITARY VEHICLES, MADE BY THE WILLYS 54:34 COMPANY, WERE KNOWN AS 'JEEPS' BECAUSE IT STOOD FOR GENERAL 54:38 PURPOSE, BUT IT ALSO CAME FROM A CHARACTER IN A POPEYE CARTOON 54:44 THAT WAS KNOWN AS 'EUGENE THE JEEP' HE WAS AN IMAGINARY DOG 54:47 THAT COULD CRAWL ACROSS THE CEILINGS AND THE WALLS - AND 54:50 THESE JEEPS COULD GO ANYWHERE. WHEN THE AMERICANS LEFT THE 54:53 PHILIPPINES FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II, IT WAS JUST CHEAPER FOR THEM 54:56 TO LEAVE THESE THOUSANDS OF MILITARY VEHICLES BEHIND RATHER 54:59 THAN TO TRANSPORT THEM BACK TO THE STATES. 55:02 THE CREATIVE FILIPINO PEOPLE MODIFIED THESE MILITARY VEHICLES 55:06 BY EXTENDING THE FRAME ABOUT SIX FEET. 55:08 THEY ADDED A COUPLE OF OPPOSING BENCHES THAT ARE DESIGNED TO 55:11 CARRY ABOUT 18 PEOPLE, THEY PUT A CAB OVER IT TO PREVENT THE 55:15 WATER FROM COMING IN, BUT I'VE SEEN WHAT LOOKS LIKE ABOUT 20 TO 55:19 25 PEOPLE HANGING OFF EVERY POSSIBLE EDGE AND LEDGE OF A 55:22 JEEPNEY - JUMPING OFF AND JUMPING ON AS IT 55:25 GOES THROUGH CONGESTED MANILLA TRAFFIC. 55:30 EVERY JEEPNEY IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. 55:31 SOME ARE JUST HELD TOGETHER WITH PATCHES OF BALING WIRE AND 55:35 BUBBLE GUM AND A LITTLE BIT OF DUCT TAPE; SOME ARE A LITTLE 55:37 MORE ORNATE AND MODERN - THEY'VE GOT CHROME AND STAINLESS STEEL - 55:41 AND THERE'S GOOD REASON THAT THE CEILINGS ARE PADDED. 55:47 WHEN ONE OF THE LOCAL FILIPINOS WANTS A RIDE ON A JEEPNEY, THEY 55:50 JUST FLAG THEM DOWN, THEY SHOUT, THEY TAP ON THE HOOD, AND THEN 55:52 THEY JUMP ON BOARD - THEY MAY NOT EVEN SLOW DOWN WHEN THEY DO 55:55 THIS - THEN THEY PAY ABOUT EIGHT PESOS, WHICH IS THE EQUIVALENT 55:59 OF 16 CENTS FOR US - IT'S, BY FAR THE MOST ECONOMICAL WAY TO 56:03 GET AROUND IN THE COUNTRY. 56:10 SOME JEEPNEYS ARE EVEN EQUIPPED WITH THEIR OWN EMERGENCY PRIVY. 56:15 ONE LITTLE DOWNSIDE TO THIS JEEPNEYS IS, BECAUSE THE CABS 56:18 ARE OPEN LIKE THIS, THEY'RE NOT AIR-CONDITIONED, IT GETS PRETTY 56:21 HOT IN THE SUMMERTIME AND ALL OF THE FUMES FROM THE STREET COME 56:24 IN, WHICH CAN MAKE IT AN EXHAUSTING EXPERIENCE - WHEW. 56:29 PART OF THE DOWNSIDE OF THE JEEPNEY IS THEY DON'T HAVE ALL 56:31 OF THE MODERN SAFETY FEATURES - NO SEAT BELTS - YOU HAVE TO TAKE 56:34 ADVANTAGE OF THE PADDING IF YOU HIT A HARD BUMP AND, IF YOU'RE 56:38 IN A SERIOUS ACCIDENT, THERE'S NO AIRBAGS OTHER THAN THE 56:41 FRIENDS THAT MIGHT BE SITTING AROUND YOU. 56:43 AND THAT'S THE UPSIDE OF THE JEEPNEY, BECAUSE YOU'RE UP CLOSE 56:46 AND PERSONAL WITH EVERYBODY, YOU MAKE SOME NEW FRIENDS. 56:49 RIDING ON A JEEPNEY REQUIRES TEAMWORK. 56:52 IF YOU BUY SOMETHING FROM ONE OF THE VENDORS, YOU ALL SORT OF 56:54 PASS IT BACK TO EACH OTHER AND WHEN PASSENGERS GET ON BOARD, 56:57 YOU JUST PASS YOUR MONEY UP FRONT. THANKS A LOT! 57:10 FRIENDS, IT'S SAFE TO SAY THERE ARE NO TWO JEEPNEYS THAT ARE 57:13 EXACTLY THE SAME - THEY'RE ALL UNIQUE AND DISTINCT - AND SO ARE 57:17 YOU. HAVE YOU EVER FELT THAT YOU GET 57:19 LOST IN THE MASS OF HUMANITY AND GOD DOESN'T NOTICE YOU? 57:23 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT HE KNOWS YOUR NAME. 57:25 THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE NUMBERED AND HE HEARS YOUR 57:28 PRAYERS. MORE THAN THAT, THE LORD WANTS TO TAKE YOU TO HIS 57:31 KINGDOM - YOU JUST HAVE TO GET ON BOARD. (MUSIC) 57:47 >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 57:51 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 57:54 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 57:58 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF 58:01 REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM' IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 58:05 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. 58:08 ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S 58:11 WORD. GO DEEPER. VISIT 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. 58:18 (MUSIC) |
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