The Bigger The Giant The Greater The Victory

They are people that will do their best to destroy your destiny and wreak your future and sometimes they come hand and hand with the giants, in fact, giants begets giants. But I want to remind us today that no matter what, the bigger the giant the greater the victory. Here in battle number thirteen, David was definitely in the September of his life, he was in retirement age at seventy eight, you would think that life would give him a break and allow him to retire peacefully, but the truth is as long as the devil is the world, as long as he is your rival he’s not about to take a vacation.

When the devil tried to tempt Jesus in the wilderness—the Bible says, “When the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season” another version of the Bible says that, “…he left Him until the next opportunity came.” The devil is an opportunist, and he doesn’t play by the rules; you would think that David would have been able at least to relax after a long and fruitful life, but our text tells us that this was not so because Goliath wasn’t the last giant, and as big as he might have been was not the largest giant David had to face.

How many of you are dealing with a giant in your life right now? Well, our normal reaction to giants in our lives is to get discourage (that’s actually normal). Our normal reaction to giants is to feel hopeless under its shadow, and the feeling of giving up stays constantly on our mind, especially when the giant is larger than the one before, when you’re confronted with a nine foot nine situation or circumstance that you know you can’t handle—that’s when the devil taps you on the shoulder and whispers in your ear and says now is the time for you to go ahead and give up. Without giving much thought on the subject, we concluded that David’s battle with giants ended right there with his defeat of the giant Goliath.

But our text tells us that Goliath had a few relatives, he had some descendants and they were giants too. After all these years…he even became king of Israel and giants kept on coming. Time and circumstances have changed, and now David is a mature and seasoned warrior no longer responsible for watching sheep in the pasture…. and giants kept on coming. Isn’t that something, he still had struggle and battle with giants! Seems like he should have the luxury of retirement, if he had not dealt with the giant Goliath those many years ago Israel would have long been a defeated nation—seem like to me he would have been able to rest on that great victory alone and not have to fight anymore.

But that’s not what this text says, it says “war broke out again” it’s like de ja vu –I’ve been through this before and here I am going through again. Can I tell you something? No one goes through this lifetime with only one giant. It takes only one giant to stop you if you look at life in flesh, and not spiritually. I often wonder how David felt about it? Because David was always in some kind of battle, some of us are like that aren’t we? Always fighting some kind battle, not so much in the physical sense of the word—but spiritually & emotionally we’re always fighting some kind of battle. And a lot of the battles we are fighting are not little battles but they are gigantic circumstances and situations. The lost of a loved one, the lost of job, a broken marriage, a wayward child, health problems and they’re all gigantic in nature.