Our Great Champion (11)
Series: 1 Samuel
Robert Dawson
1 Samuel 17
A rather small man was talking to a rather large football player. This guy was 6' 6'' and 285 lbs. of pure muscle. The man said, ''If I had your size, strength, speed and agility, the first thing I'd do would be to walk deep into the woods and find the biggest bear I could find and wrestle him to the dirt.'' The football player looked at him and said, ''You know there are small bears in the woods too.''
Courage is not directionally proportionate to a person's height or size but to a person's heart. As we shift gears in our study of 1 Samuel and transition from focusing on Saul, the present king, to David, the future king we run across one of the most familiar and exciting stories in all the Bible, the story of David and Goliath. It's the story of a small man (relatively speaking) who challenged the biggest bear, the giant Goliath.
1 Samuel 17 opens with the armies of Israel and the Philistines gathered for battle. 1 Samuel 17.2-8 - 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. 3 The Philistines stood on the mountain on one side while Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between them. 4 Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze. 6 He also had bronze greaves on his legs and a bronze javelin slung between his shoulders. 7 The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and the head of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron; his shield-carrier also walked before him. 8 He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel...
Before we hear Goliath's challenge, I want us to picture the man himself.
- He was a champion, one of their most feared and fearsome warriors Philistia ha ...
Series: 1 Samuel
Robert Dawson
1 Samuel 17
A rather small man was talking to a rather large football player. This guy was 6' 6'' and 285 lbs. of pure muscle. The man said, ''If I had your size, strength, speed and agility, the first thing I'd do would be to walk deep into the woods and find the biggest bear I could find and wrestle him to the dirt.'' The football player looked at him and said, ''You know there are small bears in the woods too.''
Courage is not directionally proportionate to a person's height or size but to a person's heart. As we shift gears in our study of 1 Samuel and transition from focusing on Saul, the present king, to David, the future king we run across one of the most familiar and exciting stories in all the Bible, the story of David and Goliath. It's the story of a small man (relatively speaking) who challenged the biggest bear, the giant Goliath.
1 Samuel 17 opens with the armies of Israel and the Philistines gathered for battle. 1 Samuel 17.2-8 - 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. 3 The Philistines stood on the mountain on one side while Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between them. 4 Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze. 6 He also had bronze greaves on his legs and a bronze javelin slung between his shoulders. 7 The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and the head of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron; his shield-carrier also walked before him. 8 He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel...
Before we hear Goliath's challenge, I want us to picture the man himself.
- He was a champion, one of their most feared and fearsome warriors Philistia ha ...
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