Episode #60: David and Goliath

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[00:02:05] We're going to be talking on David and Goliath story. Some of you might have heard that story before.

[00:02:13] Oh yeah. Not sure. Not sure. Not sure how it ends. We'll see.

[00:02:17] The details. Yeah.

[00:02:20] The details. Some kids, uh, kids stuff.

[00:02:24] Yeah. Um, so yeah, we're going to be in first Samuel 17.

[00:02:29] Um, or we might just be talking about David and maybe some of the Psalms as well.

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[00:04:12] They never heard of it. Are you talking about David and Goliath? Yeah. I don't think, I don't think we've heard of this story, so we should probably read it and just, uh,

[00:04:18] figure out what, yeah, was figure out what, uh, how this ending works. Uh, no spoiler alerts allowed in the comments. All right.

[00:04:29] I'm just, I'm saying it. Yeah. Cool. So thanks for joining us.

[00:04:35] This is a Sunday school story, but yet it's like one of the most R rated things you can tell kids.

[00:04:41] Let's just say, oh, he defeated Goliath. And they just stopped at, okay, they knocked him out.

[00:04:46] Now they want, you know, now they want. Yeah.

[00:04:52] I know. Let's, uh, we'll get into the graphic details too.

[00:04:56] Nah. Of this story. That sounds like. Oh man. It's amazing.

[00:05:01] Um, cool. Um, yeah, I don't really know how we want to, I mean, is it a long story?

[00:05:10] Well, I think it goes, I just know chapter 17 is when it starts talking about, uh,

[00:05:17] uh, you know, there's times before this where, uh, you know, David's coming to and from the battleground

[00:05:26] because the Israelites are at war with the Philistines and he's coming to and from the battleground

[00:05:31] to feed his brothers and bring them water and things like that. So he's witnessing the standoff they're having.

[00:05:36] There's like a standoff with two armies facing one another. Um, and then, you know, in those days they would have one man,

[00:05:44] you know, fight for each side. And if they lost and they would become their slaves and vice versa.

[00:05:49] Um, and I don't know how many times that's happened throughout history because in general, those odds are pretty hard to come by where

[00:05:58] now everybody's slaves, but in order to preserve life, um, they would rather live as slaves than have a complete massacre happen.

[00:06:05] But, um, so this is, but this, and I don't think this would have been happening if the Philistines didn't have a juggernaut

[00:06:12] of a candidate to stand there and taunt the armies of Israel and say, okay, we're probably going to win this. So let's go ahead and challenge them to a,

[00:06:22] because they could have fought, they could have had a war, uh, a big battle, but then it was the Philistines that were out there challenging them to this one man duel.

[00:06:32] And, uh, chapter 17 is just where it picks up on David, uh, coming and seeing, you know, that this is, this is happening and why is nothing happening about it?

[00:06:44] And why, why is this man mocking the armies of Israel of the God of Israel? You know? So, yeah.

[00:06:54] Yeah. And this is, uh, this, yeah, this whole story is extremely prophetic for, I mean, it's just so deep.

[00:07:01] There's so many things that we, that, uh, I think even as most churches, there's so many, um,

[00:07:11] there's so much more to the story that's lying underneath that I think, uh, people don't quite see a lot of prophecy being fulfilled pointing towards Jesus.

[00:07:21] Um, so.

[00:07:25] Right.

[00:07:26] That's my favorite part of this whole story.

[00:07:28] Um.

[00:07:30] The fact that David is, uh, King David eventually is in the lineage of Jesus's ancestors.

[00:07:37] Yeah.

[00:07:41] And how all those prophecies line up saying I will bring someone out of the line of David and he will deliver his people.

[00:07:49] Yeah.

[00:07:53] Um, but I noticed, I noticed it's in, it's in verse 20 that it actually starts, uh, that's where, yeah, that's kind of where my eye just went.

[00:08:01] So maybe we should just, uh, we'll start there.

[00:08:04] Um.

[00:08:04] Yeah.

[00:08:05] Yeah.

[00:08:09] So, um, cool.

[00:08:14] 17 verse 20.

[00:08:16] Mm-hmm.

[00:08:17] I'll start.

[00:08:18] I guess I'll start reading.

[00:08:20] All right, man.

[00:08:20] Yeah.

[00:08:21] So, yeah.

[00:08:23] So David rose early in the morning, left the sheep with a keeper and took the things and went as Jesse had commanded him.

[00:08:31] And he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight and shouting for the battle.

[00:08:36] For Israel and the Philistines had drawn up in a, in battle array, army against army.

[00:08:42] And David left his supplies in the hand of the supply keeper, ran to the army and came and greeted his brothers.

[00:08:52] Then as he talked with them, there was the, the champion, the Philistine of gas, Goliath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines.

[00:09:02] And he spoke according to the same words.

[00:09:04] So David heard them and all the men of Israel, when they saw the men, when they saw the man fled from him and were dreadfully afraid.

[00:09:13] So the men of Israel said, have you seen this man who has come up?

[00:09:17] Surely he has come up to defy Israel.

[00:09:19] And it shall be that the man who kills him, the king will enrich with great riches, will give him his daughter and give his father's house exemption from taxes in Israel.

[00:09:33] Then David spoke to the men who stood by him saying, what shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel?

[00:09:43] For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?

[00:09:49] And the people answered him in this manner saying, so shall it be done for the man who kills him.

[00:09:55] Now Eliab, his older brother, heard when he spoke to the men and Eliab's anger was aroused against David.

[00:10:02] And he said, why did you come down here?

[00:10:04] And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness?

[00:10:08] I know your pride in the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.

[00:10:14] And David said, what have I done now?

[00:10:16] Is there not a cause?

[00:10:18] Then he turned from him toward another and said the same thing.

[00:10:21] And these people answered him as the first ones did.

[00:10:23] Now, when the words which David spoke were heard, they reported them to Saul and he sent for him.

[00:10:29] Then David said to Saul, let no man's heart fail because of him.

[00:10:33] Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

[00:10:36] And Saul said to David, you are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him.

[00:10:41] For you are a youth and he a man of war from his youth.

[00:10:46] But David said to Saul, your servant used to keep his father's sheep.

[00:10:49] And when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it and delivered the lamb from its mouth.

[00:10:57] And when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard and struck and killed it.

[00:11:02] Your servant has killed both lion and bear.

[00:11:04] And this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.

[00:11:14] Moreover, David said, the Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, he will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.

[00:11:21] And Saul said to David, go and the Lord be with you.

[00:11:26] Let's stop there.

[00:11:27] Let's just split it up in between there and then we can kind of go into David striking Goliath.

[00:11:38] That's good, dude.

[00:11:39] Yeah.

[00:11:43] What points out to you?

[00:11:48] What do you see first when you read that?

[00:11:51] I see.

[00:11:52] Well, right at that last verse you read, my version says, he rescued me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will rescue me from the paw of this Philistine.

[00:12:03] So he said paw of the Philistine, almost like he's equating him as one of the animals saying he's just like these animals that I killed.

[00:12:11] Mine says paw instead of hand.

[00:12:14] And I'm wondering if that's just, you know, poking fun in me.

[00:12:17] I'm like, look, he's no better than the animals I've just killed, you know, like bear handed basically, you know, said I grabbed them by the jaw or by the beard and then struck it and killed the lion and bears.

[00:12:29] You know, these are plural.

[00:12:31] It's not just I killed a bear once.

[00:12:33] I killed a lion once.

[00:12:35] That's usually a distinction you would make.

[00:12:37] But the fact that he's speaking in plurality here is just saying this is what I do every single day because my sheep are getting attacked by wolves and all these different animals and I'm trained to kill them.

[00:12:50] And I'll do that to this dog.

[00:12:52] Also, he basically putting him as a dog, you know, he says uncircumcised Philistine.

[00:12:56] He's noting how godless and, you know, unset apart this Philistine is and how he's mocking the children of God, you know, and just, you know, challenging them to basically saying, you know, I'll feed your body to the birds, you know, and the animals of this land later on when he's talking to David directly.

[00:13:20] And just overall, you know, when he comes out there, nobody sees him as anything but a shepherd boy.

[00:13:27] And they all kind of resentment him, his brothers, his older brothers resent him because they saw greatness in him.

[00:13:36] I think this is before this is I think this is already after Samuel said he was going to be a king, you know, that God chose him to be a king.

[00:13:45] I'm not sure if that's already come to pass or not, but they already had this resentment against him to be like, how is this going to happen?

[00:13:51] And so they're like, yeah, here you just came down.

[00:13:54] How selfish are you?

[00:13:55] I can see how evil your heart is.

[00:13:57] You just came down to watch the battle.

[00:13:59] And it's like, but he came there to see his brothers and make sure they were doing well.

[00:14:04] And he brought food and water and different things like that.

[00:14:07] You know, he brought his equipment with him, it says, and then left it with the equipment holders with the battalion.

[00:14:14] So he was like bringing all of his gear with him, you know, just he was not coming just empty handed just to say what's going on guys.

[00:14:23] You know, so that's interesting to me.

[00:14:26] Yeah, I love all that.

[00:14:28] And I just, again, I was like, I feel like I just want to, I read this story so differently than how I maybe, how I maybe read it when I was younger.

[00:14:41] It's like, you know, I don't know.

[00:14:44] Once we see David as a, almost like a prophetic character of what Jesus is going to do, like this is a prophecy of Jesus slaying the giant of sin.

[00:14:55] once we see that you know um you know because i think most people are like oh okay you know

[00:15:03] in the story of david and goliath it's like i'm david and i'm gonna i'm gonna god's gonna help me

[00:15:08] defeat all the the giants in my life or the adversities in my life and i think we're

[00:15:15] misinterpreting that as uh as you know the bible is not about you the bible's about jesus it's

[00:15:21] written personally to you but it's it's like when we see these stories we see a lot of

[00:15:27] god teaching the israelites and we see a lot of what god is just teaching us personally about who

[00:15:35] jesus is and about you know yahweh and his character and so um you know i just see a lot of uh like maybe

[00:15:44] i don't know cross references or a lot of mirroring of some of the things like jesus went through like

[00:15:49] people people not expecting like what jesus looked like what jesus came on earth people didn't expect

[00:15:56] him to look like that and he's you know he's defeated death and and sin and um you know when he

[00:16:03] came on earth nobody expected him they thought he was just a carpenter you know um son of a carpenter

[00:16:10] and just like david they were just like this is just a youthful shepherd of the son of jesse like

[00:16:16] who the like who is this you know and so uh i see a lot of uh mirroring with that and um you know

[00:16:24] secondly i hear i hear a lot of the parable of the lost sheep in that story that david is talking about

[00:16:31] where you know where he goes you know he's keeping his father he's keeping his father's sheep and then

[00:16:38] when a lion or bear came and takes one you know sheep out of the flock he goes and he goes and delivers

[00:16:44] it you know and it's it's very it's very much i feel like it's mirroring a lot of the parable of

[00:16:50] the lost sheep jesus was talking about you know and so yeah i really yeah i love that that part or

[00:16:58] it's just something that we can remember is jesus goes to battle for us not like it's not our battle

[00:17:05] you know he's going in our lives he's as soon as a a lion or bear comes and takes one of his

[00:17:14] beloved sheep you know he goes after that lion or bear so um yeah yeah so i i love that that part too

[00:17:24] and i uh i was reading you know david in hebrew actually means beloved

[00:17:33] the name david so um i don't know just interesting little bit yeah because he was he was the most

[00:17:42] beloved king israel ever had yeah so he grew it he grew into that name perfectly yeah and david's

[00:17:54] faith man like just unshakable you know you're like saul's like what are you talking about you

[00:18:02] know you're not gonna be able to do this and he's like well i've been able to

[00:18:07] you know i've been i've been a servant to my father's sheep and i just believe

[00:18:12] you know yahweh's gonna be with me and even saul had faith right there when he says uh

[00:18:19] salsa to david go and the lord be with you you know it's very specific go and

[00:18:27] yahweh be with you

[00:18:29] man you're right it's the the confidence that he has uh you can just see the stark

[00:18:35] contrast between him and the soldiers and even the king saying look we better just like have a

[00:18:41] different deal here this isn't gonna work and uh he's just like what are you talking about i can't

[00:18:46] believe he still draws breath right now he should be yeah somebody should have already killed this

[00:18:51] this philistine and they're all just looking at him like he's crazy he's naive you know these people

[00:18:57] are so self-righteous they think that they know everything and they don't know that god is is

[00:19:02] has been with david since he you know was young you know and uh delivered him from so many things and i

[00:19:08] just think connecting that to our own lives i think how many of us can say i bet david when he was king

[00:19:14] and after he fell and everything and everything was going terrible for him as king you know after he

[00:19:20] was so beloved then he fell from grace and god still said he's a man after my own heart

[00:19:26] um and i think about all the times where i should have lost my life probably with different things

[00:19:33] so many car accidents i've been in where i didn't get a scratch on me um you know just testimony after

[00:19:40] testimony of you know being addicted to alcohol and different substances like that um and just

[00:19:47] really being on death's doorstep uh doing it for so long and just thinking god preserved me

[00:19:53] even though the pain was so much in the moment i didn't think i was going to recover from it

[00:19:57] but i'm sure david and even in his young uh time on the earth had experienced more uh struggle and more

[00:20:08] uh the more need to rely on god than most of these soldiers and most of and even even king saul

[00:20:16] who was also holding something back from god every time he asked him to do something

[00:20:20] and that's why god didn't like saul eventually because he disobeyed him so you gotta imagine

[00:20:27] this young kid has already obeyed god this many times more in his life than these other men combined

[00:20:34] and so there's that's where that jealousy comes from because they can kind of sense that you know

[00:20:38] it's like it's like okay you know and then when he finally seals the deal on this

[00:20:43] then all of a sudden their attitude changes immediately how different is that than our

[00:20:48] modern day you know with politics and and things like that like if somebody screws up they're done

[00:20:54] you know we just we don't give them another chance you know they're they're an addict or something and

[00:21:00] society discards them but you know if somebody uh you know is really successful in something

[00:21:06] then everybody has their own selfishness is like wanting to be a part of that person's life like

[00:21:11] you know maybe i'll get some money out of it or something and things like that so i imagine david

[00:21:15] dealt with all that throughout his life just becoming as famous as he did having to make those

[00:21:20] transitions and just see the heart of this young boy amidst a slew of older men that just you know

[00:21:28] haven't even experienced what he has as far as a walk with god

[00:21:33] yeah some of the things you're saying like i hope this is a you know this is encouraging to some people

[00:21:41] is that you know when we look at david's life you know we see every time david falls he always he

[00:21:51] always turns back to god and he always has godly sorrow um rather than you know poor me he doesn't

[00:21:59] just you know um feel bad for himself he's always he's always uh troubled by the fact that he's hurt

[00:22:08] the lord the lord that loves him and um you know i think repent just yeah just what i was hearing

[00:22:17] from you saying is like it was like man just because when we when we lose a battle doesn't mean

[00:22:22] we have to forfeit the war you know it's something that i i heard maddie montgomery say this this week

[00:22:27] i think uh pastor maddie montgomery say you know it's not you know and i think a lot of people in the

[00:22:35] christian church see somebody fall and they're like oh it's over for you you know you're done

[00:22:41] um i you know i saw that as you know the the mega church that we attended um you know the pastor

[00:22:50] uh had a uh affair and a sex scandal and it's like

[00:22:56] you know just seeing how the church handled it they didn't you know obviously that guy can't be

[00:23:01] pastor anymore but the the fact that they kicked him out of the state and told him to leave and never

[00:23:06] come back um put a sour taste in my mouth about christians and how we handle people who

[00:23:15] struggle with things you know so uh yeah i hope that's encouraging to someone you know um

[00:23:22] yeah i wonder how safe to say it is that as human beings across the earth from the beginning of time

[00:23:32] we've mostly never succeeded in our lives in our daily life we've mostly failed in our lives especially

[00:23:42] as christians because we know what right and wrong is so we understand when we did something wrong and

[00:23:49] we sinned the world can go on for forever and think i'm with a good life and they don't think any

[00:23:57] their consciousness is so seared they think they've never done anything wrong it deserves punishment but

[00:24:02] yeah and i think for the believer we lie to ourselves about our motives too so many people

[00:24:08] you know they know right and wrong but they also lie to themselves that they're they think they're

[00:24:11] doing something oh yeah of course you know yeah but i would venture to say that we fail mostly

[00:24:18] out of yeah you know out of everything it we we lose the battle more times than we win it

[00:24:24] and it's just a fact of life i think um and that's the way god wants it i think honestly

[00:24:31] um the prosperity doctrine does not even skate you know wanting to skim the surface of that theology

[00:24:40] yeah cool so uh you want to you want to read the rest yeah man i'll read i'll read uh

[00:25:01] you can read okay yeah from 38 38 yeah and then you can read to chapter 18

[00:25:16] oh all the way to 18. oh up to you oh yeah that's fine that's fine i just think i think that's just a page

[00:25:26] okay word um so first samuel again uh same chapter 17 verse 38 this is after uh saul said to david go

[00:25:36] may the lord be with you verse 38 uh saul dressed david in his own armor he put a bronze helmet on his

[00:25:44] head and gave him armor plate to wear david buckled his sword on his armor and tried to walk

[00:25:51] but he wasn't used to such equipment david said to saul i can't move wearing these things

[00:25:58] because i'm not used to them so david took them off then he took his stick in his hand and picked

[00:26:04] five smooth stones from the riverbed putting them in his shepherd's bag in his pouch then with his

[00:26:11] sling in his hand he approached the philistine the philistine with his shield bearer ahead of him

[00:26:17] came nearer and nearer to david the philistine looked david up and down and had nothing but scorn

[00:26:24] for what he saw a boy with ready cheeks red hair and good looks the philistine said to david i'm am

[00:26:33] i a dog which is interesting because he said the paw of the philistine so yeah he does think of him as

[00:26:38] a dog but the philistine said they think that they're dogs you know also the philistine said to david

[00:26:45] am i a dog is that is that why you're coming at me with sticks and the philistine cursed david by his

[00:26:53] god then the philistine said to david come here to me so i can give your flesh to the birds in the air

[00:27:00] and the wild animals david answered the philistine you're coming at me with a sword a spear and a

[00:27:09] javelin but i'm coming at you in the name of adonai the lord of heaven's armies the god of the armies

[00:27:16] of israel whom you have challenged today adonai will hand you over to me i will attack you lop off

[00:27:25] your head and give the carcasses of the army of the philistines to the birds in the air and the

[00:27:31] animals in the land then all the land will know that there is a god in israel and everyone assembled

[00:27:38] here will know that adonai does not save by the sword or spear for this is adonai's battle and he

[00:27:45] will hand you over to us when the philistine got up approached and came close to meet david david

[00:27:53] hurried and ran toward the army to meet the philistine david put his hand in his bag took out a

[00:28:00] stone and hurled it with his sling it struck the philistine in his forehead and buried itself in

[00:28:07] his forehead so that he fell face down on the ground thus david did face down

[00:28:17] it struck the philistine in his forehead and buried itself in his forehead so that he fell face down

[00:28:22] on the ground thus david defeated the philistine with a sling and a stone striking the philistine

[00:28:29] and killing him but david had no sword in his hand then david ran and stood over the philistine

[00:28:37] took his sword drew it out of its sheath and finished killing him cutting off his head with it

[00:28:44] when the philistines saw that their hero was dead they fled the men of israel and yehuda got up

[00:28:52] shouting and pursued the philistines all the way to get in the gates of ekron the wounded philistine

[00:29:01] philistines fell down all along the road from sharyim to get and ekron after chasing the philistines

[00:29:09] the army of israel returned and plundered their camp david took the head of the philistine and brought

[00:29:15] it to jerusalem but he put the armor of the philistine in his tent when saul saw david go out to fight the philistine

[00:29:25] he said to abner the army's commander abner whose son is this boy by your life oh king abner replied

[00:29:36] i don't know the king said find out whose son this boy is as david returned from killing the philistine

[00:29:44] abner took him and brought him to saul with the head of the philistine in his hand

[00:29:49] saul asked him young men whose son are you david answered i am the son of your servant yeshai the bed

[00:29:57] lost me awesome dude i love this um it's hard it's hardcore yes yeah i mean gosh um one thing i

[00:30:14] noticed is you know it says in in verse 51 at the end it says and when the philistines saw that their

[00:30:21] champion was dead they fled and my brain just went right to um i think it's james is it james 4 7

[00:30:30] it talks about you know submit to god resist the devil and he will flee from you it's like you know i

[00:30:36] just see that word fled and i think once it's like once the once the philistines saw that their

[00:30:44] that their champion was defeated it was over yeah they knew they knew it was over yeah so it's like

[00:30:53] just as just as jesus has defeated the enemy you know if we submit to god and and and

[00:31:01] follow him he will flee uh from you as well so um yeah amazing yeah i just i love seeing all that and

[00:31:11] then you know once the uh it says once the children of israel returned from chasing the philistines

[00:31:18] they plundered their tents they're like oh we don't need to hide anymore you know yeah

[00:31:23] it's a complete attitude change yeah that's another amazing prophetic uh realization of

[00:31:34] you know the children of israel were just like believers in christ you know once you

[00:31:40] you know we can we can live in this victory that jesus has

[00:31:45] proclaimed you don't need to hide anymore you don't need to be afraid of the enemy or afraid of

[00:31:51] or what the enemy might bring to you

[00:31:54] right yeah yeah i mean the stark contrast of his faith with everyone else's

[00:32:00] yeah and i love the part where it says it says uh uh

[00:32:08] uh

[00:32:08] well let's go back a little bit

[00:32:11] it says uh yeah it says when the philistine got up approached and came close so some i think he's

[00:32:20] like sitting down or something you know he's kind of like okay time to go kill this boy

[00:32:25] uh when the philistine got a approached and came close to meet david

[00:32:31] it says david hurried and ran toward the army to meet the philistine so it means he sprinted

[00:32:37] directly towards goliath you know he didn't wait for goliath to be halfway he didn't wait for him to

[00:32:43] meet him and talk some more crap or anything in his mind it was over with it's like i'm going and he

[00:32:49] just bolted and it's like a switch that he flipped where god was just on his side and the holy spirit

[00:32:55] took over and he just knew what he had to do and he had this muscle memory of him killing the lions

[00:33:01] and the bears and and anything that threatened his sheep he's a lethal person with this sling

[00:33:07] and he picked the stones out specifically for you know you got to imagine their damage their aerodynamic

[00:33:13] uh handling the accuracy that they're going to have um he picked out five stones for some reason it

[00:33:20] was a number five but he only needed one stone to actually hit him directly in the forehead to where

[00:33:27] he falls face down and it's like you know i think somebody said it like this too the israeli army saw

[00:33:33] a target too big to fight but david saw a target too big to miss

[00:33:42] it's a good point and i think uh you know you're you made a good point that it seems like david was

[00:33:48] being prepared for this moment already by having to you know slate by just having to you know slay a

[00:33:54] lion and a bear he's already prepared for this and uh and you know he hasn't had a glamorous life up

[00:34:04] there until this point he's just a shepherd boy you know just tending to his father's sheep so it's like

[00:34:10] i don't know i'm not really sure where i'm going with that but it feels like there's a message in

[00:34:15] there somewhere just just just the fact that he's not he's not seeking glory for himself he's not seeking

[00:34:22] anything but the fact that the honor of god is being mocked and that's his sole mission is to stop

[00:34:31] this from taking place if this person crossed the line and now they deserve to die for threatening

[00:34:38] god's army and he's going to go with the god of heaven's armies on his side to shut this philistine's

[00:34:45] mouth once and for all and make an example out of them that there is a god in israel and that's his

[00:34:52] sole mission was to defend the honor of god's name and god's people and their reputation also

[00:35:01] um whereas everyone else was too afraid and fear took over fear is so fear is so crippling you know so

[00:35:12] uh incapacitating and it's contagious too so they all kind of just lined up

[00:35:17] it was just like follow the leader you know of course saul was like not helping anybody um he he was

[00:35:24] just frozen you know he didn't know what to do and uh david comes in and just already knows hey this

[00:35:31] can't take place any longer and so you know but you're when you're talking about being prepared for

[00:35:38] this moment too i just think about all the things that we've been through in our lives you know on this

[00:35:43] short the short amount of time we've been on earth not too long but how many things do we experience

[00:35:50] uh recently that if we had not experienced things that kind of sharpened our our arrows or you know

[00:35:59] thickened our skin over the years would we have not been able to take it you know like you know we

[00:36:05] don't think about it because it's subconscious but look back and think of all the times where your skin

[00:36:11] was you know uh roughened and you went through all this stuff and then think about some recent times

[00:36:18] quarter maybe that would have crippled you you know to go through that or to to have experienced

[00:36:23] something it would have just completely paralyzed you with fear but you were actually able to pretty

[00:36:29] man you manage it pretty well of course but god's grace you know uh leading the way but it was by his

[00:36:36] grace too that you experienced all of these other hardships in your past that you don't even realize has

[00:36:42] made you into a person and a man of god now they can handle anything you know and that i think that's

[00:36:49] that's where you can say i can do all things through christ who strengthens me it's talking about being

[00:36:55] able to withstand the enemy and withstand evil and fight evil you know it's not talking about oh i can do

[00:37:02] anything if i just ask for christ to help me fly or something you know help me get a million dollars or

[00:37:09] something like that that's not the context you know but that's where that verse actually because i've

[00:37:14] been searching forever where that verse actually makes any sense because it's used out of context so

[00:37:20] many times but that's where it makes sense it's in this story of david where he's he's saying look

[00:37:26] you know i know this god and he's delivered me this many times he's going to deliver me this time also

[00:37:32] and the faith behind that he knew i'm going to do this with his power you know and it was all for

[00:37:39] his glory's sake and all for his name's sake also and so that's the huge difference whereas you have

[00:37:44] the army of israel and especially saul looking for victory so he can look good he can you know continue

[00:37:53] being king and known as the victor of this battle and uh you know all the soldiers are just looking to

[00:38:00] get it over with and do what they're supposed to like their duty and david has a whole another

[00:38:06] outlook on this yeah two things i hear from what you said um it's interesting to me that he

[00:38:17] he so uh you know he chose for himself five five stones from the brook but he only did one and you

[00:38:25] know it's like i don't i don't think like david was i think david was just prepared like i'm sure

[00:38:31] it shocked him that after the first stone he was like oh yeah dang you know this is amazing you know

[00:38:38] i think it wasn't like he he didn't have faith in god i think he was just prepared you know i'm

[00:38:43] prepared to shoot him five times like he's a big guy i'm gonna have to i'm gonna have to send five

[00:38:49] rocks at him to maybe get this guy down and and god just shows his power you know the spirit through

[00:38:56] and his strength and one stone and not only did that stone just hit him but you know it's

[00:39:03] graphic you know it says yeah stone sank into his forehead it didn't just yeah to the ground like we

[00:39:10] yeah maybe we've interpreted it before it's like skull yeah yeah i think that's

[00:39:17] that's incredible too it's like you think of like a 13 year old boy shooting a stone at him it's

[00:39:22] probably not going to hit him too hard but you know the strength of god just completely

[00:39:28] devoured his face essentially yeah crushed his skull in um and it doesn't say this or not but

[00:39:36] you gotta wonder was david reloading a slingshot right after that or was he just confident in the

[00:39:41] fact that this is gonna be it you know or was he prepared to i'm sure he was prepared to reload

[00:39:47] his slingshot but yeah he had done this so many times it was like you know he could see he could

[00:39:53] hit you know he could hit something 50 yards out right in the head or something you know and not

[00:40:00] even have to get close to it you know so but but that's what's so interesting about him running

[00:40:04] towards goliath meaning he closed the gap between him and goliath to the point where he knew i can

[00:40:11] get a kill shot here you know it's almost like a quarterback running and saying i need to get this

[00:40:18] a kill shot here uh over here so that my throw is exactly where i need it to be you know running

[00:40:23] outside the pocket or something or the receiver running this many yards to be able to connect with

[00:40:28] that pass it was like david closing the gap to a certain point where he knew okay now i'm in field goal

[00:40:34] range i can hit this guy and at least break his jaw or something the first time you know um so he didn't

[00:40:43] wait for him to come try to attack him the very uh fact that he uses david goliath's own weapon to kill

[00:40:50] him is interesting you know and you gotta imagine this thing i know and you gotta imagine this thing

[00:40:56] weighs 50 pounds or something probably because this man had armor that weighed this much you know he

[00:41:02] weighed this much body mass wise and all of his armor was so thick and heavy and everything but guess what

[00:41:10] all the armor and the shield bear that he had and everything that he was prepared to it said that

[00:41:15] he wore i think it describes him somewhere in here about how many pounds of chain mail he was wearing

[00:41:22] and all this uh armor he was wearing that no normal man would be able to have on his body because it was

[00:41:28] too big and way too heavy and none of that helped him none of it at all and uh you gotta wonder if he

[00:41:35] was even wearing a helmet you know because i think he was so uh cocky that he probably thought oh i don't

[00:41:43] need i don't need that kind of if he was wearing a helmet it didn't cover his forehead you know so

[00:41:49] god found the exact spot of weakness that he knew okay this prideful philistine you know thought okay

[00:41:57] i'm gonna go hand-to-hand combat with and david was like no we're not doing that it's kind of like the

[00:42:02] the air force being like no we're firing a missile from over here and we're gonna hit you from over

[00:42:06] here we're not gonna even sweat it you know we're using drones to attack people you know no human

[00:42:11] casualties except for you so it's interesting it's it's an aerial weapon that he chooses to use you know

[00:42:18] not a bow or an arrow or anything like that which i'm sure all the other soldiers had they had swords

[00:42:24] they had bows and arrows and different weapons like that spheres and instead he walked out there with

[00:42:29] a stick in his hand so he walks out with his shepherd stick and it's like a picture to me where he's

[00:42:37] like look i'm walking out in the same i'm the same as i was before i got here i'm a shepherd boy

[00:42:43] and i'm coming out as if i'm coming to defend the sheep of israel here and so i think that's an

[00:42:49] interesting visual too and then it gives him another opportunity to mock him and say am i a

[00:42:54] dog you're coming at me with a stick but i think the stick was kind of a decoy it made him even more

[00:43:00] sure okay i'm just gonna go slaughter this young boy he's got a stick and then and it kind of lured

[00:43:06] him into even more of a false sense of security and then when he sprinted at him he didn't know he had

[00:43:11] a slingshot ready to to whip in with adam you know so i think that it's just so uh unbelievable when

[00:43:18] you look at the details you're like god's really just got this guy coming in and doing everything

[00:43:24] perfect you know of course with the leading of god's hand you know and you see god's hand in

[00:43:30] everything that's just taking place you know so wow man and just the yeah just the boldness of david

[00:43:41] like in in verse uh 45 you know he says you come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin

[00:43:51] but i come to you in the name of the lord of hosts the god of the armies of israel like he's

[00:43:57] very specific with who god is and who the god that's with him and um you know many times in the old

[00:44:08] testament we see when people are specific about god and his name the lord of hosts people even

[00:44:13] people who didn't even follow god were like oh man don't mess with that

[00:44:18] god of the jews yeah the god of the jews israel yeah so um that's amazing i i love seeing that um

[00:44:28] and then it's interesting to me that in you know verse 38 saul gives david his armor and we see

[00:44:35] that it doesn't fit david yeah and it's almost like this like prophetic message again of you know

[00:44:46] david can't fight the way that saul was fighting before because it's just not that's not working

[00:44:50] you know saul hasn't been able to defeat anybody really or well it hasn't been able to defeat goliath

[00:44:59] and so it's interesting to me that you know saul's like here you can put all this stuff on

[00:45:05] and i just picture like this little boy like this stuff is so big i can't even move around like this

[00:45:11] isn't gonna work like we gotta we gotta do something new and you know he didn't even need any of that um

[00:45:19] it's kind of like the church saying hey okay you just became a believer now you're gonna need this

[00:45:25] small group you're gonna need all this stuff and this and this and the person is overwhelmed with

[00:45:30] it and they're just like i just want to have somebody minister to me i want to have someone

[00:45:34] disciple me you know like i don't need all this like this doesn't fit me you know this person used

[00:45:40] to be a drug addict in the streets for years and then you're throwing them into into a community of

[00:45:45] people that don't understand where they're coming from but you know david's like look it's like the

[00:45:51] church is trying to put you know the world itself also is trying to put its clothes on you put its

[00:45:57] uh its language on you its way of speaking its perspective on on god's uh plan for the earth and

[00:46:05] how skewed it is and just you know the perception is off you know um and i think this is just a visual

[00:46:12] of david knowing in his heart i know this isn't going to work for me i'm not going to go out there and

[00:46:17] try to be a soldier because i'm not i'm a shepherd boy but i will i will take care of this problem and

[00:46:24] so it kind of like showed everybody up you know that was out there all armored up and ready to fight and

[00:46:31] he came out there and was just like nah i just take care of this right now you know yeah i think god

[00:46:39] honors like our authenticity and uh um you know i guess the diversity of of people that he uses it's

[00:46:50] just like yeah when you were talking i was kind of going in my head about you know thinking about

[00:46:56] finding neverland as a band and if we if we try and be like all the other metal core bands previously

[00:47:05] like you know august burns red or for today you know under oath and things like that if we're

[00:47:10] focused so much on okay how did they reach people through god we're gonna do the same thing i don't

[00:47:18] think it i don't think it will be as this band would be as blessed as as it has been with just me

[00:47:24] and me and you originally just going you know finding everything we want god to use us how he wants us

[00:47:31] to be used yeah and i think that's something that's been very interesting that i can see in

[00:47:35] in our lives as even just in this band is god's you know yeah god's doing something new possibly with

[00:47:43] finding neverland and he's going to use our unique strengths and our unique our uniqueness to we're not

[00:47:49] going to be we're not going to be just like i don't know fit for a king you know god i think yeah

[00:47:55] is blessing us to be finding neverland and in the way that he wants to do it and so uh yeah i just

[00:48:03] i see so many things and and and just that message of saul's clothes just not fitting david like it's like

[00:48:13] it's almost like old religious tactics aren't going to work for you anymore like it's almost it's

[00:48:25] i it's almost kind of how i see that story is it's like saul's like oh let's keep doing how i've been

[00:48:30] doing things and i just feel like god has this message it's just like i'm doing something new

[00:48:35] something that you're not even going to believe it i'm going to kill this this philistine with one stone

[00:48:41] not only am i going to kill him but it's going to sink in his forehead and i'm going to use his

[00:48:47] his own sword to cut his head off like wow yeah who what man could have came up with that story

[00:48:55] no exactly you know like you know this is yeah it's documented history this is documented history

[00:49:03] battles of israel like the united states military will not when you go to west point and these

[00:49:08] different military academies they do not they will not look at the battles of israel in the bible or

[00:49:16] current day wars that they've taken they will not study them because there's not there's nothing to

[00:49:23] glean from it because you can't explain their victories it's god god came through and fought

[00:49:29] for them and caused them to succeed in these wars after have being insurmountably surrounded and so

[00:49:36] there's nothing to glean from the war tactics there so they do not study any wars that israel has ever

[00:49:43] taken place there's nothing to glean from it you can sit here and study world war ii you can study all these

[00:49:48] different strategies from different wars and you can get something out of it but not not israel um

[00:49:54] because it's absolutely just god's battle and he wins it um yeah you know just uh i love this song you

[00:50:03] know david wrote the psalms right so and i just saw this song today um psalm 21 verse 11 he wrote though

[00:50:12] they apply evil against you and devise wicked schemes they cannot succeed um and i think this is just his

[00:50:19] attitude from from burton you know from being young from after date before david and goi um

[00:50:27] um you know but it's not some fairy tale that somebody made up this is actual history of a battle

[00:50:33] that took place and then they were able to you know basically wipe out you know or chase the enemy the

[00:50:40] philistines away and the philistines were always their main enemy like the main threat to israel's

[00:50:46] existence uh in those days and so it's this moment that the tide turned so big for them that they said oh man we

[00:50:55] don't have to worry about this anymore this this people is now scattered um you know we either killed

[00:51:02] them or they became our slaves and we took over you know there's there's no more threat from the

[00:51:07] philistine people anymore and it was all from this one event it was seemingly you know god wants to

[00:51:14] like you said you know we need to be ourselves and god made us this way for a reason like the most

[00:51:20] unlikely ways that god wants to work through people so that he can be glorified to the maximum

[00:51:25] amount he's going to use every character in the bible was somebody ordinary yeah uh you know and

[00:51:32] they did extraordinary things in god's power uh all the disciples were very very ordinary when jesus called

[00:51:41] them and uh they were ordinary until the day that they died but they did extraordinary things with the

[00:51:48] holy spirit so i think you're right man uh yeah it takes you know like with david it takes uh obedience

[00:51:57] and just the willingness to go and willingness to be used by god and that's where god's like okay watch

[00:52:04] me work this stuff and you can't see you can't even see it happening before your eyes but you look back

[00:52:09] on a lot of it and you're like yeah i can't believe i was chosen for this and this and this and this happened

[00:52:14] and now i used to be in this situation but because i you know repented or i became more obedient

[00:52:20] i'm seeing how god's just smoothing the path for us you know not that it's gonna not be rocky still

[00:52:28] it's gonna get a lot worse matter of fact but it's that it's that training that we've been uh we've

[00:52:35] been building up over the years that god's like you you're gonna be able to handle this especially with

[00:52:39] my power you know so he's got everything everything you know somebody said this the other day everything

[00:52:44] that has you all worked up god is already on the other side of it and has it all worked out

[00:52:53] amen dude amen yeah i uh i always i always i never look into this but yeah all right is the philistines

[00:53:07] connected to why we call palestine palestine or what what is that all about it is definitely yeah

[00:53:15] because i don't know which country did it but i think it might have been united nations or something

[00:53:21] along with the actually it was uh the uk because the uk used to own all of that tongue so after they

[00:53:28] were given uh permission to go back to israel after world war ii they needed a place to go

[00:53:33] that they could call their own country and they displaced the people that were in the region there

[00:53:38] and so out of spite the devil through the united kingdom i think decided to name the plot of land

[00:53:48] that was given to the displaced peoples of the area the arabs that were looking there at the time

[00:53:52] uh palestine which is just a modern day translation for uh uh philistines you know or or uh yeah what

[00:54:05] that what that country was called um so yeah it was despite the jewish people um and nobody even knows

[00:54:12] why that was why that how do you how can you even explain that name coming back from way in the past

[00:54:19] it was their mortal enemy it was their mortal enemy and now they're pitted these people that

[00:54:25] they displaced in the first place who don't like them now and then gave them a name that was made up

[00:54:30] and just uh adopted from the philistines their number one moral enemy from the past

[00:54:36] now they're back you know innocence and name only but you can just see the devil sitting here and playing

[00:54:43] 3d chess and saying look i'm gonna make this as glaringly obvious as possible i want to annihilate

[00:54:49] god's people and you know i'm gonna use the resentment from their displacement down there

[00:54:56] and many people many people that were in the region uh assimilated into that culture assimilated into

[00:55:02] israel and to this day it's even more assimilated it's unbelievable you got arabs and jews living side by

[00:55:08] side in jerusalem and there's different neighborhoods and there's a lot of arab neighborhoods it's kind

[00:55:14] of segregated you've got the hasidic jews and you've got the different uh you know then you've

[00:55:19] got arab neighborhoods because they have a certain culture but they all uh they all come together in

[00:55:24] jerusalem for markets and in business and they go all over the the country the country's on the size of

[00:55:30] manhattan island that we have here uh the united states right now so it's not a big you can get from one

[00:55:36] side to the other in like three or four hours but it's interesting that god says you know israel whoever

[00:55:42] blesses you i will bless and whoever curses you i will curse and you know you've got all these arab

[00:55:50] neighborhoods within the state of israel that the ones that bless israel they're flourishing they're rich

[00:55:57] these arab neighborhoods are rich they just have you know everything going for them and then there's one

[00:56:04] one town in israel that hates being in that country sound familiar with this country or how people hate

[00:56:12] being in america but they reap all the benefits of it at the same time and but they can't stand living here

[00:56:18] um that neighborhood is decrepit crime ridden poor and it's just like

[00:56:26] what we what can you derive from this how come every other nation that oppose israel like egypt

[00:56:33] and rome look where they're at today rome used to uh own three quarters of the known earth at the time

[00:56:39] um and then look where they're at now and just tell me that this is not god's making good on his promise

[00:56:45] and then it you know america probably the most prosperous country that we can say in modern

[00:56:51] times to this day uh you know but we're playing with fire uh just like everybody else you know um

[00:56:59] we still have yet to to abandon israel but pretty much every other country in the world doesn't really

[00:57:05] think that much about us and doesn't really uh you know care if they exist or not and uh you can see

[00:57:14] how they're doing you know they're reaping what they sow also with the uh immigrants that came into

[00:57:21] their countries illegally and caused chaos and things like that now they're a crap creep basically

[00:57:27] you know basically you know just because they are so indifferent to everything going on

[00:57:31] they can't even take care of their own people so thank god that america is still a little bit uh

[00:57:37] vigilant on these on these things israel uh it's very strict you know when i went to go visit i

[00:57:44] they pulled me off the plane and wanted to investigate me out of nowhere it was a random like

[00:57:48] oh get that guy yeah yeah wanting to ask me questions and stuff and uh they don't play around they're like

[00:57:54] oh single guy walking by himself because that guy split up from my group and they were like oh he's

[00:57:59] probably on a one-way ticket you know he's gonna do something with this plan yeah yeah dude that's

[00:58:05] the thing they don't mess around yeah but yeah you know when we're talking about you know the

[00:58:10] connections with philistines and palestine and israel and all the things that are happening over there

[00:58:16] it's it's it's just again it's it's nothing new is under the sun we read the bible and you know if

[00:58:25] you're reading the bible you're not surprised by the things that are happening in the in this world

[00:58:28] you're like like oh right i see you know just read the bible and you can look back and be like oh

[00:58:33] okay i can see exactly what's happening and what's going and you know where it's going um and even

[00:58:39] you know i heard i heard tucker carlson say on a podcast he was just like man it blows my mind that

[00:58:46] the people who are not surprised by the things that are happening in the world or they aren't worried

[00:58:52] are christians he's going yeah you know it's bible believing christians you know that are yeah not

[00:58:58] overwhelmed we're not you know it's it's yeah um you know you read the bible and you're just like yeah

[00:59:05] okay that's yep this is the world we live in like this is yeah you know we're not surprised and that's

[00:59:13] why it's so funny when when you can recognize christians who are freaking out and panicking it's like you're not

[00:59:19] reading your bible and you're not spending they don't know you don't know yahweh like you you've got to read

[00:59:25] what yahweh has done his grace and his mercy and just yeah um you know just like with david like

[00:59:33] can we have faith like david and look back on the things that he's already done in our lives and gotten

[00:59:38] us through and uh you know no exactly walk with boldness you know it is easier said than done but

[00:59:47] i think it's something that we can learn from today yeah that's that's the fear that we were talking

[00:59:55] about and you're right dude i heard a pastor say that today too the holy spirit is so gracious dude

[01:00:00] said the exact same thing you just said he said there are believers that are surprised that the world is

[01:00:08] the way it is today they can't believe it and you're like do you know that we're in the end times

[01:00:15] you know you're just like the world you think you're gonna go on eating and drinking and marrying and

[01:00:22] living your life but that was so in the days of noah they were doing the same thing until

[01:00:27] the day that it started to sprinkle and the rain started to come from the sky which they had never

[01:00:31] seen before um and the fear we shouldn't be operating in that fear it's like fear comes from

[01:00:39] the unknown and so you're right it's like if you don't know of course your fear is the only option

[01:00:46] but if you know what's going to happen if you know the truth if you look at the prophets if you look at

[01:00:51] what god has done and his promises that have never been broken um then you should be privy to the exact

[01:00:59] things that are going on and not be surprised by it at all you're right dude yeah yeah it doesn't mean

[01:01:04] we should sit back and just be like okay you know i'll just wait for jesus to come back you know it's

[01:01:08] like we have work for sure that's what they're doing too you know it's like it's like don't i don't want

[01:01:16] yeah like it's like it's like we still have work to do you know we got to spread the gospel around

[01:01:20] but uh you know i think i think it's important to recognize that man get your if you get your nose in

[01:01:27] in in this book like like i just i mean that's just my testimony i started reading the bible and

[01:01:34] i was just like all of a sudden the things i see on cnn doesn't freak me out anymore like i was just

[01:01:40] you know it was like before it was like oh my gosh look what they're doing in public schools like look

[01:01:45] what they're doing with children and then and you know it's it's like yes these are terrible things but

[01:01:49] man it's like not surprised and i mean god's not surprised and god's not overwhelmed by anything so

[01:01:56] um no let's think i think i think it was peter that said in the end times people will be proud

[01:02:06] and scoffers of god and they made a distinction to say that you know scoffers is basically

[01:02:13] more associated with religion than anything else the word scoff and whereas mocked is like a general

[01:02:21] thing for anything but scoffing scoffing is more associated with religion than any other

[01:02:27] thing that that word could be associated with so it's when it says there'll be scoffers of uh men and

[01:02:34] god and men of god and god himself that's what we shouldn't be surprised about is what peter was saying

[01:02:40] you know and so it's like you know you're in the last days yes it's very blatant it's in your face and

[01:02:46] they hate you they don't hate you they hate the god that you serve they you know the spirit the spirit

[01:02:53] in them hates the spirit inside you and that's that's just been you know the whole bible and jesus

[01:03:00] even says they hated you remember they hated me first you know so it's like when trump says hey they're

[01:03:06] not after me uh they're after you and i'm just standing in the weight and i really think that's so

[01:03:13] correlating it's it's just like mind-blowing me i'm like yeah yeah nothing's done to the sun

[01:03:19] let's go let's go all right that's good man all right well out of time already that went by just

[01:03:31] like that i don't even know what happened that felt like 20 minutes time for sake yeah dude this is uh

[01:03:38] amazing story um i love this story so much and i wish i would have looked into it deeper earlier but

[01:03:48] you know our church just there's always yeah our church like our american church just does not dissect

[01:03:54] some of these things properly um you know and a couple verses you know oh this is the main this is

[01:04:01] main theme and that's how i mean like every study bible has a main theme or something you can look at

[01:04:07] the cliff notes on this crap you can go online and say what's the main theme of chapter 17 first samuel

[01:04:12] and i'll just say uh david he kills goliath and uh everybody you know and then they chase the

[01:04:22] philistines and that's that it's almost like it's almost like it's almost like an american culture we're just

[01:04:31] we're even christians we're encouraging people to not look into the bible themselves we'll just show a

[01:04:38] verse and then give a generalization of it and that we don't want the whole truth that sucks yeah it sucks

[01:04:47] yeah we just want to we want the bare bones we're we're lukewarm we don't want to be on fire for god

[01:04:55] you know in those days being on fire and still today i think is relevant being on fire for god

[01:05:02] is completely nominal it's it's just that's base level christianity to be on fire for god

[01:05:09] and so for anybody that says oh man you you think god's gonna actually see you one day and say you

[01:05:15] know what you went a little too hard in the paint for me yeah i you know i i love you and i know you love

[01:05:21] me but you just you didn't have to go you were kind of obsessed with me and yeah i don't i didn't want

[01:05:27] that you think that's really gonna happen no this is a nominal it's nominal for someone to be excited

[01:05:34] about the word of god and what god's doing in our lives and in the world yeah i mean that just sounds

[01:05:40] like the work of the enemy honestly is is uh to discourage zeal you know just yeah apathy yeah

[01:05:48] just like dude chill out like yeah but they don't want the whole truth dude they just want to put notes

[01:05:56] yeah so i encourage you y'all you know everybody's heard of david and goliath even you know unbelievers

[01:06:02] but read read this story look into some of these you know prophetic messages and i mean it's just

[01:06:11] so rich with messages to you as a person messages of uh of how jesus is in our lives of how much

[01:06:23] of what he's defeated this giant of sin you know um you know we have we have this king who we can

[01:06:32] celebrate with you know we don't have to live in our we don't have to be like the children of israel

[01:06:36] and hide in our tents anymore you know we can boldly pursue just like how they when once david killed the

[01:06:46] um goliath you know they ran they arose and shouted and and pursued the philistines as far as the entrance

[01:06:52] of the valley into the gates of ekran it's like it's like man we get you know we have authority now to

[01:07:02] pursue and shout at the end shout back at the enemy as well so yeah we have we just have to take

[01:07:09] we have to take ownership of that authority that's right man um cool awesome thank you guys for tuning

[01:07:20] in uh this is episode number 60 we made it to 60 unbelievable 60th anniversary yeah dude uh really cool

[01:07:30] uh thank you so much uh for listening uh thank you so much uh for listening again we just we talked on

[01:07:34] first samuel 17 the story of david and goliath um i really encourage you guys to listen in or to

[01:07:41] read that story a little deeper than maybe surface level american church christianity has taught so um

[01:07:51] yeah appreciate y'all tuning in um hope you all have a good weekend

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[01:08:07] yeah let's uh i guess we'll finish off yeah we'll finish off with our prayer tonight

[01:08:13] uh is it your turn or my turn i don't remember i think i need to do it okay so yeah

[01:08:22] go for it all right guys all right love you guys uh yeah closing this out

[01:08:31] god i thank you so much for uh bringing us here tonight to be able to discuss your word

[01:08:36] and your plan for our lives lord uh your plan for our lives here on earth and your plan for eternity

[01:08:43] for every single one of us every single soul that's been born or unborn since the beginning of

[01:08:50] time lord you know them by name and you have kept them um just ask lord that you uh spread your

[01:08:58] your name and your uh your majesty and your glory to the ends of the earth and use people like us to do

[01:09:04] it um just give us a obedient heart lord and uh forgiving and um just vigilant and zealous heart for

[01:09:15] your word and what is right and fight evil and falsehoods with truth because nothing can stand

[01:09:22] against truth the darkness cannot stand in the light god and uh let us be the light that shines in the

[01:09:30] darkness and uh illuminates all false uh teachings all false uh gods and idols god help us to lead the

[01:09:40] way in destroying those things in our own lives and so we can help other people rid themselves of this

[01:09:46] slavery to the enemy god and uh just expose evil for what it is and uh know that the battle is yours god

[01:09:55] uh but we are going to be your hands and feet to accomplish those victories god and you uh take great

[01:10:02] pleasure in using us so it's it's amazing and uh we just thank you for this relationship god and i pray

[01:10:10] for everybody who's listening tonight that uh you would come near to them god and you would show them your

[01:10:17] peace which the world cannot give um pray all these things in uh your son's name jesus christ amen amen sweet

[01:10:29] thanks man wow

[01:10:32] cool thank you guys

[01:10:36] you watching jake paul another one

[01:10:39] night well like you heard about that well like where can i watch it though is it gonna be on

[01:10:45] regular tv yeah it's on netflix for free apparently oh i haven't used netflix in years now no okay

[01:10:54] for some reason maybe i can get the account for my sister or something

[01:10:59] huh yeah i think it's on now but i don't know when they'll be fighting but uh yeah it's interesting

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