"Giants, Keep On Coming 2010"

1 Chronicles 18:13b & 2 Samuel 21:15-22

13 July 2010

Requested Speaker

U.S. Army Chaplain (MAJ) Ken Harris

Philippians Community Church

Jacksonville, Florida

BIG IDEA: God promises victory everywhere we go; but no one will go through this life with only one giant to face.

REFERENCES: (Sheryl lost her only child – Keith); 2 Chronicles 20:20 (Jehoshaphat’s prays when he learns that Moabites . . . Ammonites, and Meun-ites are planning an attack against him and Israel); 1 Chronicles 18:13 (NIV) The LORD gave David victory everywhere he went; 2 Samuel 21:18-22;1 Samuel 17 (The familiar story of David killing Goliath); 1 Chronicles 20:5 (NIV) In another battle with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver’s rod; 1 Chronicles 20:6 (NIV) In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha; Exodus 27:20 - "Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning”; Job 37:5 (NIV) God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. Job 40:9 (NIV) Do you have an arm like God’s, and can your voice thunder like his? Mark 4:35-41 ESV (Jesus calms a Storm); Romans 10:17 KJV So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God; Isaiah 40:31 (But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint); 1 Samuel 13:14 (“a man after God’s own heart); 1 Cor. 10:12 (Let he who think he stand take heed, lest he falls…); Ephesians 6:10-18 NIV ( full armor of God); Ephesians 6:12 (For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.); Job 14:1 (Man born of a woman …); Luke 4:1-13 (Temptation of Jesus); Psalm 18:2-3 (The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; In whom I will trust…); Isaiah 54:17 (No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shall condemn…); Ephesians 5:32 - This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

I. ANNOUNCE THE PERICOPE: 1 Chronicles 18:13b (ESV) The LORD gave David victory

everywhere he went.

&

2 SAMUEL 21:15-22 (ESV)

II. READ THE PERICOPE: 1 Chronicles 18:13b (ESV) & 2 SAMUEL 21:15-22 (ESV)

III. READ THE TEXT: 2 SAMUEL 21:19a (And there was again a battle…)

1 Chronicles 18:13b (NIV) The LORD gave David victory

everywhere he went

IV. PURPOSE: To motivate the hearers to affirm to others that God promises victory everywhere we go; but no one will go through this life with only one giant to face.

V. SERMONIC THEME: “Giants, Keep on coming”

INTRODUCTION:

The Good Book reminds us all in Job 37:5 that God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

In fact, it was Elder Job, himself, that asked the questions of his critics by saying in Job 40:9 (NIV) do you have an arm like God’s, and can your VOICE THUNDER like his?

David, our Psalmist, said (in Psalm 18:2a): The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; In whom I will trust…);

I submit to you, this evening, that God promises victory everywhere we go; but no one will go through this life with only one giant to face.

God never said this life would be EASY! But, He did say that we would be winners. Winners never quit and quitters never win.

For don’t you remember, It was Isaiah that said in Isaiah 54:17 - No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shall condemn …;

In other words, my brothers and my sisters, we’re in a fix fight – Our heavenly referee has already declared us winners by Spiritual Knock-Out.

******* TAKE 5 BEATS *******

MOVE 1: All we have to do is go through the various ROUNDS of the Kingdom Fight!

a. I can’t tell you how many rounds your trial will last. But, Somebody said that “Every Round Goes higher and higher!”

b. The fight is fixed!

c. We need to have the attitude that Regardless of how dismal, miserable, and disheartening the circumstance in our lives is - God promises victory everywhere we go!

d. Now, it’s TRUE, I don’t know why God allow certain things to occur in our lives.