5 Smooth Stones Conclusion Series

Title: 5 Smooth Stones Conclusion.

Theme: To summarize the defeat of the Goliath.

Text: 1 Samuel 17, 2 Corinthians 10:5-6

Introduction

This is an epic battle between two giants. Goliath standing at almost 10 feet tall. Armor weighing 126lbs and a spear head over 15lbs. He was a giant of a man. He was a warrior of warriors. He also had 4 other brothers. This goliath was big, arrogant and boastful.

Then there was David, he was just a young boy. Not old enough to go to war. We find him first on the “back side of the dessert”. He was a shepherd. Truth to be told no one believed in him. His father, the prophet, his brothers, not even King Saul himself. They saw him as a little man with no purpose.

But David was a giant. Maybe not as Goliath or as others would see but David was a giant in the faith. This is what he tells his brothers.

1 Samuel 17:29 And David said, "What have I done now? Is there not a cause?"

There is a distinguishing difference between whom He knew as God. The Lord Jehovah and who Goliath knew. There is a difference. There is a cause and purpose.

There is a difference between God and this world. There is a difference between worship. There is a difference between destinations: heaven or hell.

This is what he tells Saul

1 Samuel 17:32-37 Then David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine." (33) And Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth." (34) But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep his father's sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, (35) I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. (36) Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God." (37) 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." And Saul said to David, "Go, and the Lord be with you!"

This is what he tells Goliath.

1 Samuel 17:41-47 So the Philistine came, and began drawing near to David, and the man who bore the shield went before him. (42) And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was only a youth, ruddy and good-looking. (43) So the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. (44) And the Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!" (45) Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. (46) This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. (47) Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into our hands."

These are powerful words of faith. Not in David’s ability but in God’s power to deliver. David has confidence in God. David had faith in God.

This battle was not David’s battle but the “Battle is the Lords”

So David runs right into the battle. He doesn’t back down but listen to this:

1 Samuel 17:48 So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hastened and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

And he prevailed.

1 Samuel 17:49 Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David.