The Bigger The Giant The Greater The Victory

Not just once or twice but, over and over and over again! It doesn’t matter how young you are or how old you are—the Christian’s life is a race; it is a struggle with one battle after the other. And the thing about it these battles they will wear you out. David in our text was now up in age, he was a member of the Seasoned Saints ministry and he was weary, he was faint and exhausted—he was tired of fighting. He was just like us, I don’t know about you but I get tired sometimes, with struggling and fighting with the trials of this life. David was tired and exhausted; even though he had gotten old he still stood up to the giants. Although we may get tired sometimes we can’t give up, we still have to stand up to the giants of life. But I’ll remind you once again, that the bigger the giant the greater the victory. There are three things that we need before we leave this earth, and that is first and foremost a relationship with Jesus Christ, and then we need money (I know it’s the root of evil) I understand that. But try to live in this world without a dollar in you pocket and see how far you get. And you need a friend; even if it’s just one friend you still need a friend. It’s just good to have a friend to help us do better. Look at the text; David was ready to fight; you and I know that he has experience in fighting with Giants.

Here is a seventy eight year-old man, ready to try and do, what he used to do once again. But he fainted, he didn’t run, but he was old and feeble—his strength failed him, but he still stood his ground. Thank God almighty, as I continue to look at his text. I see David had some supporters; he had some friends that were ready, willing and able to assist him in fighting those giants. Did you know that it is important to God that we support one another? He wants us to be unified and willing to carry the load, when we see that there’s a load that needs to be carried.

David had some support, look at verse 17 they (his friends, his servants) said “no more fighting on the front lines for you, unless the lamp of Israel goes out.” Moses had some support, as great a man as he was—God used him to deliver the Israelites out of Egypt, God used Him to divide the Red Sea, but as a great man as Moses was—he still needed some human help, he still needed a little help from his friends. In Exodus 17, Moses sent Joshua to fight the Amalekites, while he stood on top of a hill to raise the staff of God—as long as Moses raised up his hands, the Israelites was winning, but when he got tired and let down his hands—the Amalekites started. However, Aaron and Hur stand him down on a rock, Aaron stood on one side and Hur stood on the other side and they held up Moses, and Israelites overcame the Amalekites, the enemy was defeated. We need great friends to help us in dealing with the giants of life. But we also need some faith in the battle.

It was David’s faith that helped him fight giants, when he stood up against Goliath he was the only one in Israel that had enough faith. Saul was the king, but he didn’t have the faith; I guess his faithlessness rubbed off on the rest of the Israelites because they wanted to run away from one giant. But don’t get mad with them this morning, because some of us want to run away from our giants too. Some of us have a giant that is standing at the gate, and he’s probably bigger and the worse of them all—and that’s the giant of unbelief. And particular giant has a twin brother by the name of Doubt, and together like to curse you out and discourage you.