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Derek Grier | Renewing The Mind Part 4 | December 18, 2021
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- - Hi, I'm Derek Grier, welcome to "Live Big".
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- Today we're gonna continue with the fourth teaching
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- in my Renewing The Mind series
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- and learn about a key principle
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- that can change your life
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- and overcome any obstacle.
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- Let's dig in.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ You were made to think big, think big, live big ♪
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- ♪ Your tomorrow can be bigger ♪
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- ♪ Just grow let the word overflow ♪
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- ♪ Live a life bigger than yourself ♪
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- ♪ You're created for greatness ♪
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- ♪ Live a life bigger than yourself ♪
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- ♪ "Live Big"! ♪
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- We're gonna be in 1 Samuel 17:1.
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- "Now the Philistines gathered
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- their armies together to battle."
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- So here we have Israel's nemesis, their arch enemy,
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- this would be Beyonce's Becky, if you will,
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- (Congregation laughs)
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- assemble in battle array.
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- Tension was in the air
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- and it was about to go down.
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- And in verse three,
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- "The Philistines stood on a mountain on one side,
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- and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side,
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- with a valley, nothing but space between them."
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- And everyone was waiting for who would make the first move."
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- It was kind of a military stalemate
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- because you could lose as many people
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- trying to go up the ridge,
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- as you might defeat on the other side of the ridge.
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- So it was a very, very serious
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- and critical moment.
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- And the Bible says in verse four, "A champion".
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- Now this time in history,
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- they practice something called trial by battle ordeal.
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- And what would happen
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- is typically when armies were equally matched,
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- and the issue was when armies are pretty equally matched,
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- a whole lot of people are gonna die.
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- So they kind of came up with a way
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- to kind of eliminate some of the casualties.
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- So what they would do is both armies
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- would send their best soldiers
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- and their strongest soldiers to represent their army
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- into a battle to the death.
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- And whoever won that battle was accepted
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- as the judgment of the gods
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- and the people on the losers side would surrender.
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- I'm so grateful that God's loser friendly.
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- I wanted to know if y'all caught that.
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- User, loser, okay, okay. (Congregation laughs)
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- "And a champion..."
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- This is a proxy warrior,
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- and we've talked about this,
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- maybe it was a few years ago
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- when we were in this verse of scripture,
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- Jesus was our proxy.
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- Jesus was the one who stood for us on the cross,
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- bore our sin and our punishment.
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- Ultimately what happened with David and Goliath
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- was Jesus defeating the devil.
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- So we know that in the New Testament,
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- and we have talked about that in the past,
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- but here we have Goliath coming up again,
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- as the proxy war representing the fiercest
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- that the Philistines offer.
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- "And he went out of the camp of the Philistines
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- and his name was Goliath."
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- He was an actual historical guy,
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- "Whose height was six cubits and a span."
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- Now we all know the story.
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- This guy was bigger than everybody else.
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- He had better armor than anyone else.
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- He had a longer and sharper
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- and heavier spear than anyone else.
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- From a human standpoint, Goliath was a human tank.
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- Goliath was no one to mess with or play with.
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- And he brought tremendous fear to the people of God,
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- as he would come down day after day
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- and taunt and just mock the people of God, verse eight.
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- "Then this giant stood
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- and cried out to the enemies of Israel
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- and said to them,
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- 'Why have you come out to line up for battle?'"
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- In other words, he's saying,
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- if you're feeling froggy, why don't you leap?
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- Y'all coming out every day
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- and nobody's coming out here to meet me.
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- And there's nothing but space
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- and opportunity between us.
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- Don't you guys have a man.
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- So this is a mocking tone.
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- It's embarrassing to the people of God.
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- Then he goes on, he says, "Am I not a Philistine?"
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- He's trying to prod them and poke them.
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- "And you the servants of Saul?
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- Choose a man yourselves
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- and let him come down to me."
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- Don't you guys have at least one man,
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- brave enough, bold enough,
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- to come deal with this issue.
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- Now in the book of Revelation,
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- remember John wept because there was no man
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- to open the seals,
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- but then the lamb of God,
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- the lion of the tribe of Judah, he stood up
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- and then all of the relief came
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- and thank God that Adam is...
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- Listen, Adam lived in a perfect environment.
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- I mean, he went to the best schools.
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- I mean, there was no crime.
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- He still failed, still failed.
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- But Jesus, the perfect Lamb of God, finally came
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- and he was able to do what Adam couldn't do.
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- He opened the seals.
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- So here he's like, don't you have one man.
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- And this points again to Jesus,
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- the one man that would come to redeem all of us.
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- And so here what we have, it's a complete deadlock
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- and nobody moved.
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- And then Goliath, he gets emboldened
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- as the Israelites shiver
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- and cower at his voice.
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- And he begins to go a little bit too far,
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- as he starts talking about God
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- and he starts bringing God into the conflict.
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- He says, "I defy the armies of Israel this day;
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- give me a man."
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- I was a little ahead of myself,
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- and we'll see this in a couple of verses,
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- how he began to talk about their God.
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- But in 1 Samuel 9:2,
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- we find that Saul, the King of Israel at this time,
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- was actually head and shoulders taller
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- than every other Israelite.
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- So Saul or King Saul was the obvious match for Goliath,
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- but here's the deal.
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- It doesn't matter what we look like on the outside,
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- it's what's going on on the inside
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- that makes all the difference.
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- (Congregation applauding)
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- You know it was great to look the part
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- and I appreciate that
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- but when push comes to shove,
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- you better be able to act the part.
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- And he may have had a crown in his head,
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- but he didn't have a roar in his heart.
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- And Saul was as afraid as everyone else
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- and we're about to see that.
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- And Goliath said,
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- "Give me a man that we may fight together."
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- Again, do you have at least one person in your army
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- that will trust your God?
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- This was embarrassing.
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- And then "When King Saul
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- and all the Israelites heard the words of the Philistines,
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- they were dismayed
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- and greatly afraid."
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- Israel lost her confidence.
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- Now for those of us who don't know the story,
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- Saul started off as a great king,
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- but soon he became more concerned
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- about the opinions of people than the directions of his God.
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- And if salt loses its saltiness,
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- what's the point of having it stay on the table?
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- So God began to raise up a new king,
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- King David to take Saul's place.
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- And if you keep punking out of situations,
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- if you keep backing out of situations
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- that God has called you to,
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- eventually he will raise up someone else.
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- Now he will love you to your death.
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- And he'll weep with you when you weep,
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- but a job needed to get done.
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- And God was like, well, if you won't listen to me,
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- I will find someone else.
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- And I'm grateful for the things that God has done
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- in this ministry over the years
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- but I understand something.
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- If I don't listen to him, (chuckles)
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- God can find someone else that will.
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- So "When Saul and all the Israelites
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- heard these words of the Philistines,
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- they were dismayed
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- and greatly afraid".
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- Israel lost her confidence,
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- and the only thing worse than losing your confidence
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- is losing your faith.
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- But God always has a remnant.
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- There was a young boy that God had been working on
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- and nobody knew except the brothers of this young boy,
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- nobody knew about this young boy,
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- but God had begun a work.
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- Let's skip to verse 25, 2 Samuel 17.
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- "So the men of Israel said,
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- 'Have you seen this man?'"
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- Now he's saying this in front of David,
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- by the way, "That God had been working on."
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- A man that spent time with his sheep, worshiping his God,
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- he began to prophesy.
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- He hear the voice of God, the word of God,
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- he began to shift this mentality,
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- shift away the way he thought.
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- And he hears and he sees
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- and actually hears what's going on.
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- And so the men of Israel said
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- and David's hearing, "Have you seen this man
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- who has come up?"
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- Now, everyone was focused on how bad Goliath was.
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- They forgot how good God had been,
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- how faithful God had been. (Congregation applauding)
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- And it's so easy in life
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- to focus on the problem in front of you,
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- how big it is,
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- and forget about all the things
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- that God had already brought you through.
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- How God had kept you,
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- how God has preserved you,
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- how God had maintained you.
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- How soon we forget.
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- ♪♪♪
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- You're tuned in to the "Live Big" broadcast.
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- Don't go anywhere.
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- More teaching is coming right after the break.
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- ♪♪♪
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- - Question,
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- how do you get God to stop for you
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- and give special attention to your situation?
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- What does it take to stand out in the crowd
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- and get God-sized results?
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- Find the answers to these questions
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- and more in Derek Grier's latest book, "When God stops".
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- who show us how to dream, think
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- and live the type of life that God not only notices,
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- but one that he rewards.
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- Not only that,
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- ♪♪♪
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- - "And it shall be that the man who kills him,
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- the king will enrich with great riches,
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- will give him his daughter
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- and give his father's house exemption from taxes in Israel."
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- How many of y'all would like some tax exemption.
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- (Congregation applauding) Yes!
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- So David was promised by Saul money, a princess bride
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- and no taxes.
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- This is important.
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- Because sometimes we get too spiritual
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- when it comes to these points.
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- If caring about rewards was wrong,
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- God would not constantly offer them.
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- (Congregation applauding)
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- Jesus said, "Don't worry
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- about treasure on earth that corrupts
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- but be concerned about treasure in heaven."
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- Hebrews 10 says it this way.
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- "Do not cast away your confidence,
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- for it shall be rewarded."
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- Now what we do, I don't know why we do it,
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- we try to act like we're better than the Bible.
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- We try to act like we're better than God's instructions.
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- We act like we're better than God who knows how...
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- He created us and He wired us a certain way
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- and He wired us to live
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- and lean toward rewards and benefits.
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- I know it can be selfish
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- and people can do awful things.
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- But the Bible says, "Do not cast away your confidence,
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- which has great reward."
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- I do not just live to try to survive another day.
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- I live my life with my reward in front of me.
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- And the moment you stop living for your reward
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- is probably the moment you're gonna stop living for God.
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- You are not God.
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- God did not need any reward.
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- He didn't need any motivation to be Himself.
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- He's always absolutely who He is.
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- He needed nothing around Him
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- but Him to be God.
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- But the Bible says that God created us
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- a little lower than angels.
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- Meaning, the last I checked, we are not God.
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- We are not in that same class.
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- And with that said,
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- God wired us to live lives based on hope and expectation.
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- Did I lose you?
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- (Congregation applauding)
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- The moment you begin to lose your hope in your reward
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- is probably the moment you begin to backslide.
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- You see, you can lose confidence in your God
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- and his reward if you want to
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- but I know what side of the bread my bread is buttered on.
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- And here's the thing.
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- The greatest reward God can give me is Himself.
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- The greatest reward He can give me is His presence.
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- And I know that y'all are deep, I know it,
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- but I still operate just a little bit afraid of God.
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- I know that you're more advanced, more sophisticated
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- and those verses in the Bible you have taken out.
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- But my Bible says,
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- "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."
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- (Congregation applauding)
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- And I am afraid to ever lose the presence of God in my life.
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- And I live with my reward on my mind.
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- I recognize, and I know that this might sound
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- a little weird to you,
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- but I cannot make it on my own.
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- Yeah, I might survive, I might live,
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- but I can not do anything
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- of any significant value without God living
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- and moving in my life
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- and I understand that.
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- And not only I as a human understand that,
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- Jesus understood that.
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- Let's take a look at that, Hebrews 11:12.
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- It says, "Looking unto..."
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- Y'all are quiet this morning,
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- but we were gonna get there.
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- "Looking unto Jesus..."
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- Or better put, learn this from Jesus.
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- How many of y'all wanna learn something from Jesus?
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- Who was the author...
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- Now what does an author do?
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- An author creates something or writes something
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- that hadn't been written before.
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- If it had been written before it's plagiarism.
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- Jesus doesn't plagiarize.
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- That's why your plan doesn't look like the next person plan.
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- Your purpose is not exactly the same
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- as another person's purpose.
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- "Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher."
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- So what He starts, He finishes of our faith, watch this,
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- "Who for the joy..."
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- Or reward...
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- The reward that was set before Him
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- is why he went through what he went through.
- 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:22.616
- And if you don't think, this is what the Bible says,
- 00:17:22.682 --> 00:17:25.652
- "They that come to God must believe that He is
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- and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."
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- You gotta believe two things.
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- Not just that God is,
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- but that he rewards.
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- And if you do not believe He's a rewarder,
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- you're probably gonna stop obeying
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- and listening to Him.
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- You hear what I'm saying?
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- (Congregation applauding) Okay, stay with me.
- 00:17:49.543 --> 00:17:50.510
- "Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith,
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- who for the joy that was set before Him,"
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- because He saw the reward on the other side,
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- He endured the cross, watch this, "Despising the shame".
- 00:18:02.289 --> 00:18:08.695
- Now, most people can take a little bit of pain for God,
- 00:18:08.762 --> 00:18:12.065
- a little bit of discomfort for God
- 00:18:12.065 --> 00:18:14.601
- but very few of us can take embarrassment.
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- I just said something.
- 00:18:19.906 --> 00:18:21.274
- We can take a lot of things,
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- but as creatures of pride
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- embarrassment's typically not one of them.
- 00:18:30.016 --> 00:18:34.054
- But when Jesus compared the temporary shame
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- against the cross as eternal value for you and me,
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- the Bible says He despised it or literally laughed at it.
- 00:18:45.866 --> 00:18:49.469
- So as brutal as the cross was,
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- Jesus was snickering on the inside.
- 00:18:52.239 --> 00:18:55.175
- As painful as the cross was,
- 00:18:55.175 --> 00:18:58.512
- on the inside He saw the benefit of what He was doing
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- so He endured. (Congregation applauding)
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- The reason we quit is we forget the benefits.
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- We forget the reward.
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- Do you understand what I'm saying?
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- (Congregation applauding)
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- The moment you think,
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- it doesn't matter, God's not watching
- 00:19:18.031 --> 00:19:20.567
- and you know what?
- 00:19:20.567 --> 00:19:22.202
- The wicked prosper
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- and we're just left through our own devices,
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- you are on your way down.
- 00:19:25.405 --> 00:19:29.809
- Jesus despised the shame.
- 00:19:29.876 --> 00:19:34.881
- He said, as painful
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- and awful as this is,
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- everyone in this room was worth it to Him.
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- And as brutal, again, as the cross was,
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- having you, just one of us,
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- just one was enough to make Jesus even do it again.
- 00:19:50.897 --> 00:19:56.603
- 1 Samuel 17:28," Now Eliab, David's brother,
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- heard when he spoke to the men..."
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- And this is his brother now.
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- He was one of the soldiers.
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- His daddy had to send a couple of boys to fight.
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- And Eliab is there with the other man,
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- who's cowering as a Goliath comes every morning
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- to make his pronouncements.
- 00:20:17.524 --> 00:20:19.926
- "And Eliab's anger was aroused against David."
- 00:20:19.926 --> 00:20:26.032
- You see, when you really, really begin
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- to put your faith in God,
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- really begin to trust God,
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- your brothers and sisters
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- are not always gonna to understand it,
- 00:20:32.539 --> 00:20:35.842
- but David wouldn't let a little criticism stop him.
- 00:20:35.909 --> 00:20:41.348
- And then Eliab, his oldest brother, really dug in here.
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- He said, "Why did you come down here?"
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- So the first thing he attacks is David's self esteem.
- 00:20:49.589 --> 00:20:53.860
- "Who do you think you are?"
- 00:20:53.860 --> 00:20:57.731
- And then he continues.
- 00:20:57.731 --> 00:20:59.566
- "And with whom have you left
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- those few sheep in the wilderness?"
- 00:21:01.801 --> 00:21:06.606
- So he attacks his accomplishment.
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- He attacks his sense of self
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- and is like, you have no right being down here.
- 00:21:12.412 --> 00:21:15.348
- You're just a little guy.
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- You're of no significance.
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- And he's trying to diminish David
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- and David's own mind.
- 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:24.891
- And then he goes on
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- and next he's about to attack his motives.
- 00:21:26.593 --> 00:21:29.896
- "I know your pride..."
- 00:21:29.963 --> 00:21:32.365
- And sometimes when you're trying to do the right thing,
- 00:21:32.365 --> 00:21:34.334
- everyone doesn't quite understand.
- 00:21:34.334 --> 00:21:36.736
- "And the insolence of your heart..."
- 00:21:36.736 --> 00:21:39.205
- You know when Samuel came and anointed you,
- 00:21:39.205 --> 00:21:41.574
- it went to your head
- 00:21:41.574 --> 00:21:42.676
- and it's just arrogance
- 00:21:42.676 --> 00:21:44.944
- and reckless pride,
- 00:21:44.944 --> 00:21:46.479
- "For you came down here simply to see the battle."
- 00:21:46.479 --> 00:21:50.784
- So he's basically saying,
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- David, you're talking all this trash
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- to try to excite something,
- 00:21:53.620 --> 00:21:54.888
- to get somebody to do something,
- 00:21:54.888 --> 00:21:56.489
- to stir something up
- 00:21:56.489 --> 00:21:57.724
- so you can watch it as your entertainment.
- 00:21:57.724 --> 00:21:59.959
- And David, your motives are wrong.
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- You are wrong, you have no right.
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- And really, his brother was embarrassed
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- because he himself wouldn't fight.
- 00:22:06.333 --> 00:22:10.103
- But some of the most poisonous people come
- 00:22:10.170 --> 00:22:15.742
- disguised as your family
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- and your friends. (Congregation applauding)
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- ♪♪♪
- 00:22:24.417 --> 00:22:28.154
- Having the right attitude about your problems in life
- 00:22:32.225 --> 00:22:34.294
- is really the first step toward victory.
- 00:22:34.294 --> 00:22:35.962
- Remember you plus God is a majority
- 00:22:35.962 --> 00:22:39.833
- and always more than enough to overcome any obstacles.
- 00:22:39.833 --> 00:22:43.803
- So be strong
- 00:22:43.803 --> 00:22:44.938
- and when life roars, roar back.
- 00:22:44.938 --> 00:22:47.807
- I'd like to pray with you.
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- Father, David faced Goliath
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- because he believed his God was bigger than his giant.
- 00:22:52.812 --> 00:22:56.349
- My prayer today is that all who tuned in to this broadcast
- 00:22:56.349 --> 00:22:59.819
- begin to see a God that's bigger than whatever giant
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- they're facing in their life,
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- whatever problem, whatever circumstance,
- 00:23:04.257 --> 00:23:06.092
- whatever situation they're facing in their lives.
- 00:23:06.092 --> 00:23:08.661
- Father infuse them with confidence
- 00:23:08.661 --> 00:23:10.797
- and faith based on the word of God
- 00:23:10.797 --> 00:23:13.099
- and all of your promises.
- 00:23:13.099 --> 00:23:14.634
- And we give all the honor for what you do in each life today
- 00:23:14.634 --> 00:23:18.471
- because of this prayer in Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
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