1 Samuel 17 – tells the end times battle. Paints the picture of Jesus.
Isaiah 22:22; Rev 3:7
The key of David is given the overcomers where we can shut things in the spirit and open things that cant be shut.
Key of David is David. The niches and grooves of his life is made up of many things. David is the prototype of the person that can climb the mountains. Johnny quotes Psalm 110. Sit on my throne while…
HOW TO GO AFTER GIANTS
After David kills Goliath, he cuts off his head and holds it up.
v1 Philistines initiate the battle in JUDAH. Judah means praise. satan’s assault begins by stealing our praise. We MUST be worshippers in spirit and truth.
v2 Saul is the “rejected” king. Saul was told 3 times that he was rejected. He represents the false church or false leadership. compromise and religion are results. There are elements of Saul and David in each of us. Look for things that are like Saul in us and deal ruthlessly with it as Saul was directed.
The primary battle here is for identity.
MY battle will be over me being superior goods not damaged goods. We are just goods. God made things good. Dont look at us as anything bigger. God chooses the inferior goods.
Try to stay in the middle.
v3 Philistines on a mnt on one side. Israel on the other with a valley between them.
Goliath described as “champion”. 6 cubits 9’9″ was his height. Name = splendor. Comes from camp of Philistines. Coat of mail was 125lbs of brass. Spearhead weighed 17lbs. 6 is number of man. 6 is the mark of the beast. this is satan battling david. his disguise is the splendor of man. He has a brass helmet on his head. Brass = unpure metal, lust and harlotry. Coat of mail is covered in brass. jezebel, baal, etc. v6 – brass on his legs too.
Rev 12:3-9 – there is a seven-headed dragon who is the devil. 7 principalities.
Rev 17:1 – 9
9 “Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
There must be a dispossession. And, it must take place BEFORE the church is raptured.
THE BATTLE OF END TIMES IS TO TAKE ON GIANTS – It is impossible in the flesh.
Even goliath’s walk is covered in lust, etc. The weapon that he uses is brass (lust, etc.). goliath carries 7 items of war.
v8
8 Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. 9 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.” 10 And the Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.” 11 When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
As we headhunt, the first mountain we come across is mountain of media. The last is govt.
The first way that the enemy wants to weaken us is in the media. He starts out with his mouth. If we want the head, we need to shut him up – take the media. Apollyon is the dude on the mountain – he has a forked tale. The wrong message and agenda is set here.
Goliath’s display of this mountain”
1) goes after david’s identity (servants of saul). He convinced them that they were this. David says that they are of God.
2) then he says servants of israel. speaking more into their identity.
Hittites work on this mountain. name = fear. Saul and the army’s response were that they were greatly affraid. This is the power of the mountain of media.
v12 NOW DAVID Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse, and who had eight sons. And the man was old, advanced in years, in the days of Saul. David was rejected by men (like Jesus). This is how he grew up. Our own future has nothing to do with people and what we grew up on. It doesnt matter what people think of you now. In Psalm’s, it says that David was conceived in sin. It came from an illicit relationship that Jesse had. David had red hair, unlike his brothers.
GOD looks for a person to stand in the gap. His eyes search to and fro. There is an amazing reward for a friend of God. Intimacy with God is the key. Get close, and you can change the destiny of a nation.
YOU CAN DO ANYTHING WHEN YOU GET CLOSE TO GOD – DONT LET PEOPLE TELL YOU OTHERWISE; NO MATTER WHAT
DAVID MEANS BELOVED
JESSE is son of ruth and boaz.
Remember, Saul was Israel’s giant. He might have been 7 feet (heads and shoulders above israel).
3 The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone to follow Saul to the battle. The names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. 14 David was the youngest. And the three oldest followed Saul. 15 But David occasionally went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
Davd has exited the false church and is taking care of his fathers sheep. Jesus.
v16 And the Philistine drew near and presented himself forty days, morning and evening. Goliath was trying to give them a new identity.
There is a tie here. 40 years in wilderness frozen from giants (we were as grasshoppers). Now, 40 days in land, frozen by a giant (also trying to give them a new identity).
satan looks formidable compared to us. But, he is nothing compared to God.
v17 – David’s dad didnt believe in him. But, it didnt stop his destiny. OWN THIS. It can only stop you if you let it.
David does what needs to be done anyway. And, you destiny doesnt get messed up if you accept a task that is below you. David takes cheese to his brothers. The anointed king takes bread and cheese.
v20 david left the sheep with a keeper – he maintained his faithfulness; faithful in small things, keep your responsibilities
GOLIATH WAS A MOCKING GIANT; and, he hadnt even killed anyone. demonic strategy talks alot, and shows how big he is
23 Then as he talked with them, there was the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines; and he spoke according to the same words. So David heard them.
1) David confronts the mouth.
25 So the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? LOOK AT HOW WE VIEW PRINCIPALITIES AROUND TODAY
26 Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
Who has no covenent with God? No covenant of protection.
He is talking. He is defying the armies of God. Goliath is a usurper.
28 Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was aroused against David, and he said, “Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”
Eliab = “God is father”. Envy and jealousy – he is mad cause he wasnt anointed.
Few sheep
Pride
Insolence – “evil and wicked condition”
to fulfill a call of God, you must deal with big time rejection
29 And David said, “What have I done now? Is there not a cause?”
Assignment brings favor.
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.” More rejection. The Lord is my shepherd.
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..
DAVID’S HUMILITY IS A KEY
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.”
David was about a cause. He doesnt name Goliath. Is there not a cause? The lion cant have the lamb. That is a cause.
When one sheep is lost, who wont go after it and leave the other 99. Luke 15:4-7
Stand up for God, and He will connect power and favor.
And Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you!”
38 So Saul clothed David with his armor, and he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also clothed him with a coat of mail. 39 David fastened his sword to his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, “I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them.” So David took them off.
If David is telling the truth, God very well might be with him. “let’s get him into “my armour”. It just happens to be the same armour as the giant. If they see him, maybe the people will think its me. But, David wasnt 7 foot like Saul. You cant fight with a Babalonish look.
40 Then he took his staff in his hand; and he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag, in a pouch which he had, and his sling was in his hand. And he drew near to the Philistine. 41 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!”
Staff – same old tools but different dimension. Psalm 23. Rod and staff comfort me. Comforter – Holy Spirit. Take the HS with you.
He goes to the low place (brook). He goes to the river. (Spirit is the river).
5 smooth stones – five fold ministry. Each carries a unique anointing for displacing off of a mountain. They are smooth cause they have been in a river for a while. The edges knocked out. Function together without rubbing too hard.
It’s time to fight for the nations.
five fold ministry is to crush satan. equip/empower
ask and you will be given the nations
SLING – releases favor – any of the 5
He cannot believe that God will use the base things to win.
“Am I a dog that you come to me with sticks.” David was hiding his weapon. Goliath thought that the staff was the weapon but that was the comforter.
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.”
You wont get close enough to me to use your lust, harlotry, seduction and all that stuff. I will beat you from back here. David wraps his identity in his assignment. Only fight the Lord’s battles. Dont fight your own.
THE NAME OF THE LORD WAS HIS WEAPON
48 So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. 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. 51 Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it.
And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. 52 Now the men of Israel and Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as the entrance of the valley[a] and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell along the road to Shaaraim, even as far as Gath and Ekron.
Forehead = govt.
He uses little stones to knock off lucifer.
Restoration of true apostles will help restore govt.
satan will bow one way or another
satan’s instrument of death was his own destruction. the cross, haman’s gallows, goliath’s sword
David stood over the philistine.
David fought for the bride of Christ even though it backslid.
Goliath of Gath
Ekron
Gates of hell will not prevail.
54 And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.
55 When Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?”
And Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.”
56 So the king said, “Inquire whose son this young man is.”
57 Then, as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. 58 And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?”
So David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”
God loves nobody and uses nobodys. YOU CANNOT BE LOOKING TO BE A SOMEBODY AND BE USED BY GOD. BE A NOBODY.
Jesse = “i possess; possessor”
we possess our inheritance, 7 nations, 7 mountains. we possess. it doesnt matter if we are rejected. the LORD is my shepherd