Spiritual Weapons to Defeat the Enemy: Overcoming the Wiles, Devices, and Deceptions of the Devil by Rick Renner

Author:Rick Renner [Renner, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781606838259
Amazon: 1606838253
Goodreads: 17689057
Published: 2012-11-29T20:29:57+00:00

CUTTING OFF THE GIANT’S HEAD

the devil attacks, intent on his goal of irreparably damaging people’s faith and confi dence.

Th e Flesh Counts for Nothing

Let’s read on in First Samuel 17 to see what happened next:

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons…. And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul. But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem….

And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him [to take food to his brothers]; and he came to the trench….

And as he talked with them [his brothers], behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.

1 Samuel 17:12,14,15,20,23

Notice that verse 23 says, “…And David heard them.”

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is was David’s fi rst encounter with the foreboding giant, and something in Goliath’s words incited anger in David’s soul.

What a shock it was for this young shepherd to hear a pagan 59

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Philistine insulting the God of Israel and to realize that no one was doing anything about it! In fact, the Israelites weren’t just sitting around doing nothing about Goliath. Verse 24 says they actually ran in terror: “And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fl ed from him, and were sore afraid.”

But young David wasn’t afraid of this Philistine giant —

he was annoyed by Goliath’s verbal arrogance!

And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to that man that killeth the Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

1 Samuel 17:26

Immediately David’s elder brother took off ense at David’s confi dence and reprimanded his younger brother for acting too boldly.

And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those sheep in the wilderness?

I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightiest see the battle.

1 Samuel 17:28

Quite often when young men and women of God step out to challenge the foe, they are accused of acting too boldly. Th eir

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elder leaders may be correct in pointing out the vast diff erence between spiritual boldness and rude arrogance. Nevertheless, there is a true boldness that the Holy Spirit gives to surrendered vessels.

David was one such yielded vessel. He was so surrendered to God’s power working through him that a Holy Spirit-inspired confi dence rose up within him. At that point, David simply could not hold back his righteous anger!

David was stunned by his elder brother’s hostile reaction and the fear that possessed the huge Israelite soldiers surrounding him.

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