Dealing with Giants

• Paris Ragan
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• November 24, 2017

“And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant. And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him. These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.” (II Samuel 21:18-22)

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a new series entitled, “Dealing with Giants.” This topic arose from our text above where we see that giants still had to be dealt with during the reign of King David. King David was a man who God said was “after his own heart.” David was anointed to be king over Israel while he was still a teenager tending his father’s sheep, and he provides for us a perfect example of God’s amazing grace.

Samuel had found himself in a state of mourning over King Saul, but God instructed Samuel to stop mourning and to fill his horn with oil. God had rejected Saul from reigning over the kingdom of Israel, and told Samuel to go to Jesse the Bethlehemite for He had provided a king among Jesse’s sons. After David was anointed by Samuel, David went right back out to the fields and tended his father’s sheep. There was still a great a deal of work that God had to do in the life of David before he would be ready to rule as the king of Israel. There was a bear and a lion that David would have to encounter and defeat before he was able to face the giant of the Philistines.

Most of us know the story of David and Goliath: how David was given divine strength which came from the Lord and enabled him to kill the great enemy of the children of Israel. But even after David had spent nearly 40 years on the throne as the king of Israel, there were still giants in the land that David and his men would have to encounter and destroy. This also applies to our lives—even after the Goliath in our lives is destroyed, there are still giants in the land. We are going to begin looking at the biblical approach of dealing with the giants of the sin nature, the world, the flesh, the powers of darkness, and the Devil himself.

Next week, we will begin by looking at David’s defeat of Goliath, which will set the standard for how we approach every other giant in our lives.

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