In The Land Of The Giants 2nd Corinthians 10:3, 10:5 10:1, 10:7

In the late 1960’s there was a TV show called Land of the Giants. Seven people from earth found their spaceship caught in a time warp of some kind and ended up on a planet where everything was twelve times larger than it was on earth. Each week and each episode they battled giant cats, mean children, and military soldiers that tried to bring them to a demise.

This series was a little strange to me but it raised some interesting and curious questions. The first question that I have is what would we do if everything and everyone in our lives was a giant accept for us?

What would we do if everything that surrounded us was so gigantic and over whelming to the point that we seemed helpless in all of our efforts? What would we do if all of our problems were so huge, enormous, massive gargantuan, and colossal. What if our problems were just so titanic, oversize, and extremely large what would we do.    

The truth of the matter is that there are some of us that live in a land of giants. There are things that are bigger than us, which seems to stand between us and being where God wants us to be.

If you remember in the Old Testament, God sent His people, Israel, to a place called The Promised Land.

It was a great place to live, but also it was inhabited by giants in whom they would have to face and defeat. And New Galilean we also live in a land of giants, and if we are to be where God wants us to be, and go where he wants us to go, and do as he want us to do, we will have to face some giants.

One of the giants that we are going to have to face is Warfare, and we must all face the fact that spiritual warfare is a necessity. God never varnishes, or paint over the fact that there is going to be warfare for His children. God has never made it seem like this journey would be a bed of roses.

In fact, he told Moses in Exodus 3:16-17 that there would be blessings and enemies in the Promised Land. There will be warfare. He promised Joshua, in Joshua 1:1-7 that the Land would be theirs, but told him that he would have to be strong and courageous to face its challenges that going to come with the land.

There will be warfare. He promised Gideon (Judges 6:15-16) that he would save Israel, but in the saving process he would have to face the Midianites. There will be warfare. He anointed David in 1st Samuel to be king as a youth, as he was a lad of a boy, but still he had to deal David had Goliath and Saul. There will be warfare.

Our Savior was no less forthcoming with His disciples and with us when Jesus said in John 15:18-20. If the world hates you, you need to know that the world hated me before it hated you. Now if you were of the world, the world would love its own. But you are not of the world, because I chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. And remember the Words said, A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

You might be going through this morning, know that it is a form of warfare. You might not have a dime in your pocket; it’s a form of warfare. Things might not look the brightest, be the happiest, feel the perkiest or the see the sunniest, know that it is a form of warfare.

In other words, you may have some battles, some encounters, some scuffles and some confrontations. Yes you may have some let downs, some conflicts and some struggles. You may have some issues, some disputes, and some up rises in your life but there is great joy and blessing in following Christ, but also know this, that in following Jesus there will also be battles to fight.

We need to know the nature of this warfare

The nature of the warfare that we have to fight, teaches us that we are to be engaged in offensive warfare. We are not called to hold the fort against the giants of life. Unfortunately, that is the plan many Christians seem to have. They want to circle the wagons at the church building and hide and hold off the devil until Jesus comes back. That is not God’s plan.

When Goliath challenged Israel, Saul hid in his tent and just hope everything would work out. When the Midianites were destroying Israel, Gideon was hiding in a wine press. They had adopted the philosophy of that theologian, Charlie Brown when He told Lucy, "I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time." We aren’t called to run for cover and hide and be scared, and we are not to carry the burden on our shoulders.