How to win the Battle

“Here! Alright, you’re going to take them on? Wear my armor!” He tries it on but it only makes him cumbersome. It inhibits his maneuverability. His speed and agility are impeded. He makes himself an easy target.

The sermons in listed in the sidebar were made to give to the unsaved. But they’re also made to give you ammunition of a specific kind. Once David brought Goliath down he chopped off his head with his own sword. You bring them down with the stone, you decapitate them with their own sword.

The Philistine is powerful, the Philistine is aggressive, the Philistine is confident, the Philistine is haughty, and God's people shake in their boots unable to defend their land from the invasion.

How can God protect Britain when the royal forces will allow a ship in the Royal Navy, her majesty’s vessel, to have a Satanist practicing his religion?

1 Samuel 17, Goliath’s challenge.

Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.

Saul and the men of Israel were gathered and camped in the valley of Elah, and drew up in battle array to encounter the Philistines. The Philistines stood on the mountain on one side while Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between them. Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath…

Today it’s near Kiriath Gat, a settlement of Russian Jews.

Unfortunately this is such a wonderful story for little children, we relegate it to that. When my children were little in Israel I used to tell them this bedtime story at least once a week. They’d want to hear it again and again and they used to sing in Galilee, “David melech Yisra’el, chai chai v’kayam David melech Yisra’el, chai chai v’kayam”.

They told us there was a revival and they told us to laugh. While the armies of the Philistines assembled to march against this nation they were laughing.

He takes his sling and his stick and off he goes. “Who left you with those few sheep? Why are you asking questions? You came to see the battle, you came to watch us lose again!” No, I’m tired of watching you lose; I want to see somebody win. So the story goes on.

“I know your insolence!” I know your cowardice and hypocrisy. David says let me at them. Being a shepherd boy was a boring way to earn a living. He broke up the monotony by composing hymns, old songs.

What was the first opposition little David, not yet king but king-to-be, little David faced? Was it the Philistine? No. Was it Goliath? No. It was his worthless, loser brethren.