Sermon: 1 Samuel 17

Preached November 9, 2025.

Well today is November 9^th, and you know what that means? In homes all around the world, the age-old and very important debate is taking place. When is too early to start listening to Christmas music?

It’s far above my paygrade to settle the matter here this morning, but what cannot be debated, no matter who here disagrees with me, is this: O, come o, come Immanuel is one of the greatest Christmas hymns ever written.

The lyrics, the minor key, the Old Testament references, the lament, all together contain what must have been the heart of a faithful saint, waiting for the promise of Genesis 3:15 to be fulfilled.

God promised that a seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent, and in one sense you can sum up the rest of the Old Testament as a search for that seed.

The sorrows of sin compounded over the generations as corruption spread throughout the earth. But those who trusted in the word of God, waited for its fulfillment.

And every so often there was this refrain from sorrow when it seemed like he arrived, and the promised rest had come.

This was, for example, the case with the birth of Noah in Genesis 5.

When he was born, his parents gave him that name which means “rest” and they said this “Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed, this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.^”

As time revealed, Noah wasn’t in fact the deliverer. He walked by faith in many ways, trusting God about the coming flood and the need to construct an ark. But after the flood, we see that the curse continues in the earth.

Throughout the generations we see many more examples of this: sorrowful labour under the curse of God and moments of hope when a suspected saviour appears on the scene. Think of Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Esther, Samson and many others.

Which brings us to our passage today, where that hope is sparked as another suspected saviour, David, comes on the scene.

Let’s read vv. 1-11

Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. And they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines. And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them. And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders. The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. And his shield-bearer went before him. He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. 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.” And the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.” When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

In these first 11 verses the stage is being set for the battle between David and Goliath. But it’s important to notice a couple things in this section that shine light on the true message of this chapter.

The scene being described is taking place on Israel’s southwest border.

God’s people have been occupying this land since the days of the conquest under the leadership of Joshua. When God first promised it to them, it was described as a land “flowing with milk and honey”. This is of course, a reference meant to call the garden of Eden to mind where rivers of delight flowed and needs were supplied in abundance.

Many in the nation would have thought that once they reached this promised land and established themselves there, their troubles would be over. But even here, even now, there knocks on the door of their borders a reminder that darkness and threat still persist.

Milk and honey flow within their camp, but enemies and opponents are just on the horizon.

So the Philistines set up for battle and in verse 4 the prime protagonist shows up- the champion Goliath.

Now you may have heard references to this battle used to illustrate all kinds of modern-day face-offs. This story- we’re told- is about the underdog surprisingly defeating the presumed winner.

It’s a story about courage and resilience; it’s a story about a novel strategy that somehow leads to victory; it’s a story where the little guy sticks it to the big guy. The nerd fighting the school bully; The small startup overtaking the giant tech company; the colonies of New England defeating the empire of old England; the minority of conservative Canadians turning back the liberal tidal wave. Even while I was watching game 7 of the world series, I saw in the crowd (and maybe you saw it too), a sign that read “David won, didn’t he?”

This story is meant to be the theme song of your hero narrative. It’s the story of the underdog- or so we think.

The lesson that is often wrestled out of the hands of this chapter against its will, is that no matter how big the opponent is, the little guys always has a chance of winning.

And with enough grit and determination, enough belief in himself and refusal to quit, he can do it.

That sounds inspiring, doesn’t it? The only problem is that it’s exactly the opposite of what this chapter aims to communicate.

This chapter isn’t about an unlikely victory, but- specifically in this first section- about an unbeatable enemy.

The author takes pains to drive that fact home. Here stands a man that is 100% unbeatable. Not 99%. Not beatable with a bit of ingenuity. 100% unbeatable.

That’s the point he’s making by describing Goliath in such vivid detail. Over 9 feet tall, his helmet of bronze, his 120-pound coat of armour, his javelin, his spear whose head alone is 15 pounds, and a shield so large that a second person is needed just to carry it!

If you stand him up next to an ancient Israelite whose average height is 5 to 5 and a half feet, you tell me what message you’re supposed to get.

The average man in the Israelite army is 40% smaller than Goliath.

Now, I ‘m 6 feet tall. Do you know what the size of someone 40% shorter than me would be? She’d be around the height of Inez, Pastor Peter’s daughter.

Now listen, I’ve never wrestled with Inez before. But if I did, I wouldn’t for one second be concerned that she’d somehow flip me into a full nelson and force me to tap out.

Even the thought of that is ridiculous.

And that’s the point!

The author is making it absolutely clear that Israel has no chance of beating Goliath.

And both he and the Israelites know it. That’s why in verse 10 he “defies” (lit. taunts, trolls) the army of Israel.

He’s a grown man, challenging little children to a fight.

And because he knows of his complete dominance as a warrior, he tilts the scales in his favour. In verse 9 he dares them to “choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.”

He’s challenging to a dual. One man from among the thousands of Israelites is to face-off mono-e-mono with Goliath.

And the army of the winner is the winner of the battle.

This is representative combat. The victory or defeat of all the people depends on the outcome of the one soldier that fights on their behalf.

And the stakes couldn’t be higher.

In verse 10 Goliath says “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.”

This is ultimate. The losers become perpetual slaves and the winners live in triumph and peace.

To lose, is to lose life as they’ve known it. It is, in a real sense, to die.

And to win, is in some way to regain life like it was in the garden of Eden-

where the creation that surrounds your borders, no longer seeks to oppose or overtake you, but becomes your servant and caters to your every need.

Friend, can you think of any enemy and any battle in your life today that this description and these stakes would fit?

One who, like a champion has proven his dominance over and over, against opponent after opponent?

One who, gaining victory over would mean life and peace?

One to whom defeat would mean death?

Can you think of one like that?

May I suggest?

How about sin?

If what’s really being pictured here is the ancient battle of humanity over the enslaving forces of sin, how are you doing in that battle?

Would you still consider yourself to be the hero of this story?

Or maybe, like is intended by the author you would instead locate yourself in verse 11

“When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.”

You see, this passage of scripture isn’t meant to be inspirational and motivational.

It’s supposed to, at least at this point in the narrative, drain all hope.

This enemy is far more powerful than any of the Israelites have the strength to overcome.

This is, in fact, an unbeatable enemy.

All of the thousands of Israels soldiers stood there looking defeat straight in the face, and could do nothing about it.

Even their great king Saul, who stood head and shoulders above the rest of them according to chapter 10, was trembling in fear.

The leader they begged for and trusted in, when it mattered most, failed them.

If deliverance was to come, it wouldn’t be from them. They would need someone else to save them.

If you’re here this morning and you’re not a Christian, what is your solution to the sin in your life? What’s your remedy for the lust and the lying and the anger and the pride in your heart?

Do you understand those things to be unbeatable enemies living right there within the border of your heart?

Do you feel the threat that they pose to enslave you and kill you?

Do you feel the futility of behaviour modification while the enemy still lives within your borders?

Well, let’s go on. 

In this next section- verses 12 to 37- we’re introduced to an unlikely saviour.

Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years. The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul, but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem. For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening. And Jesse said to David his son, “Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers. Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See if your brothers are well, and bring some token from them.” Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry. And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army. And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers. As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him. All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid. And the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father’s house free in Israel.” And David said to the men who stood by him, “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?” And the people answered him in the same way, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.” Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.” And David said, “What have I done now? Was it not but a word?” And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people answered him again as before. When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him. And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.” But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock, I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him. Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.” And David said, “The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!”

Here we’re introduced to David, the son of Jesse.

It would seem odd that he would appear at this point in the narrative.

In the preceding verses we are brought to a crisis moment where all of Israels army has proven inadequate to take on Goliath.

It would be at this point that we’d expect them to look over their shoulder and see behind them and mammoth of a man, clothed in armour ready to fight on their side and defeat Goliath on their behalf.

This would be the kind of saviour we would envision.

Instead, we get David.

An unlikely saviour for a couple reasons.

First, David was a boy. You see that there in verse 14.

His three oldest brothers followed Saul into battle, probably because they were of military age, which in ancient Israel was 20.

David had 4 other brothers who weren’t drafted probably because they were under that cutoff age.

And David was the youngest of all.

This probably puts him somewhere in his early teens.

Not one that any of us would put our hopes of military conquest in.

Second, David wasn’t a warrior. He was a shepherd and an errand boy.

While his brothers were off to battle, his responsibility was to care for his father’s sheep and bring supplies to his brothers at the front lines.

Later in the chapter he’s described as ruddy and handsome in appearance.

David sounds like he belongs on the front cover of ‘farmers digest’ more than on the front lines of battle.

There was nothing outwardly that commended David as the hope of Israel.

And that’s the point.

Look with me just one chapter earlier to 1^st Samuel 16:6

What we’re going to read here is the secret assignment that God sent Samuel the prophet on to find the next king of Israel.

God sent him to the house of Jesse and told him that among his sons would be the one he’s to anoint to replace Saul as king.

Jesse brought his sons before Samuel one by one, so that he might discern which one God wanted him to anoint.

Starting in verse 6, then:

⁶ When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him.” ⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” ⁸ Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.” ⁹ Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.” ¹⁰ And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen these.” ¹¹ Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.” ¹² And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him, for this is he.” ¹³ Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward.

David, the youngest of his brothers. So insignificant that he wasn’t even considered as part of the conversation.

What David had, though, that the rest lacked, was a heart after God. God is not impressed by outward appearance. God looks at the heart.

Israel, when they looked for a king, desired someone like Saul- tall, strong, wealthy. When Samuel, here, was assessing Jesse’s sons, he thought surely it would be the firstborn Eliab.

But God. God looks at the heart.

Well this raises the question, doesn’t it? What do you look at? What is it that impresses you?

In an age when so much of society revolves around amassing followers and gaining influence, who do you find your heart drawn to?

Is it the powerful businessman with the nice cars and the lavish lifestyle? Is it the strong athlete or rich celebrity? Is it the eloquent atheist or secular therapist?

In a decadent society like ours, where problems are historically few and life is relatively easy, we may fail to heed the words of Proverbs 4 “guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.”

Have you given ground in the contest for your heart?

Have you allowed yourself to be impressed and enticed by the worldly wiseman?

What do they have to offer you that’s of any lasting value? What about when life gets real? When sickness is in your family or eternity is at your doorstep? When sin is overcoming you?

What do the faithless have for you then?

Israel is here learning the folly of esteeming people on the basis of their outward appearance.

When it came down to it and the battle was raging, where was Saul? Where was Eliab? They were cowering in fear wondering who would deliver them.

But here’s David, the young man with a pure heart. He’s the one that the Lord anoints. He’s the one that the LORD fills with his Spirit.

And isn’t that just like God?

He uses the least likely; the least impressive; the weakest to put to shame the strong.

Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1 “God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are.”

WHY? He goes on

“so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.”

God chose David to stand up to Goliath, not ultimately because of what was in David, but because of what God PUT in David- His Spirit.

Endued with the life of God in his soul, David could do what was humanly impossible.

So, plot twist, the unlikely Saviour that we discover here is in fact not David, but God.

And the reason why it’s unlikely is because this battle happens at a time of faithlessness and rebellion in the nation of Israel.

They had so little trust in God, so little satisfaction with Him as their King that they demanded a human king like the pagan nations that surrounded them.

This is how they got their hero Saul who’s trembling and greatly afraid over there in the corner.

They have no claim on divine assistance in this battle. They’ve turned their backs on God.

Yet still, God mercifully comes to the rescue through His instrument, David.

So in fact, the unlikely saviour in the story of David and Goliath, isn’t David. It’s David’s God.

Do you see what David asks in verse 26?

“And David said to the men who stood by him, “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?”^”

These are the first recorded words of David in the entire Bible.

What it’s also the first of, is this is the first time in this entire battle that God is mentioned.

Prior to this, the soldiers are called “servants of Saul”. Prior to this, David’s older brothers “followed Saul” into battle.

But when David shows up, God shows up.

As David assesses the scene, full of God’s spirit and mindful of His covenant promises, he understands the nature of the battle very differently.

Goliath is an uncircumcised Philistine! In other words, he hasn’t received the mark of the covenant. He hasn’t received the promises we have from our God.

Who is this unbelieving pagan that dare threaten the armies of the true and living God?!

Standing among the thousands of his fearful kinsman, David stood alone as one who trusted in God.

See, this isn’t a battle between David and Goliath.

This is a battle between the army of the living God and the army of the pagan God.

This is a battle between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent.

And David offer’s his own life for this battle.

Verse 32 “Let no man’s heart fail because of Goliath. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

And if his trust in God would be vindicated in battle, the reward would be great.

Verse 25, the king will enrich the man who kills Goliath and will give him his daughter in marriage and make his father’s house free.

David is fighting to vindicate the name of the living God; he’s fighting for a bride; and he’s fighting for the freedom and blessing of his people.

That sound familiar at all?

Well now we get to the battle.

Here stands an unbeatable enemy and an unlikely saviour which leads us to this last section, beginning in verse 38, where we see an unprecedented showdown.

“Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail, and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” So David put them off. Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd’s pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine. And the Philistine moved forward and came near to David, with his shield-bearer in front of him.”

After trying in vain to suit up in Saul’s armour, David resorts to the weapons he’s accustomed to: a staff, some stones and a sling.

This scene could not look more ridiculous and hopeless.

On the one side there’s a giant of a man; a champion with years of uninterrupted victory in battle, covered in armour from head to toe, carrying a spear, javelin and shield.

And opposed to him is a teenage shepherd, with zero armour, a wooden staff and a slingshot.

If you were Goliath, you’d say exactly what he said in verse 44

“And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance. And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?”

Sticks and stones are what you use to shoo away stray dogs!

Not to fight the mightiest warrior your army has ever seen!

“And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.”

So in verse 44 Goliath gives him one last chance to think twice

The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.”

If there’s any doubt in David’s mind, now’s the time to say so.

But verse 45

Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and 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.

Do you see the contrast that David’s making here?

Goliath’s strength is physical- sword, spear and javelin.

David’s strength is spiritual- the name of the LORD of hosts

David knew in his heart, the truth of Proverbs 18:10

“The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe”

But why?

Because the name of the LORD isn’t merely His name, it represents all that He is!

In Exodus 33 when Moses asked God to see His glory, what did God do?

He told him His name!

“¹⁸ Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” ¹⁹ And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy”

This is what David was declaring to Goliath.

With you is weapons, but with me is the unfailingly good, gracious and merciful God. The I AM. The captain of the armies of angels and of Israel.

With you is bronze armour, but with me is the one who created bronze and who can pierce your amour with the breath of His mouth.

You have defied His name and He will not stand for it.

He will not allow His glory to be trampled on.

He will not allow anyone to make His promise a lie.

So he goes on in verse 46

This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hand.”

Do you hear the rebuke to Israel in these words?

It is, of course a rebuke to Goliath, but listen to those last words.

that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear.

Which assembly? The assembly of Israelites over David’s shoulder.

That’s who this whole battle is ultimately meant to address.

They had forgotten who their God was.

They had turned their back on God and taken matters in to their own hands.

The nation was in a state of hard heartedness, being led by a king that God rejected.

They had put their trust in chariots and military strength, and look where that got them.

When they were on the brink of being conquered and enslaved, God sends a saviour, with a pure heart and full of His Spirit, to fight on their behalf and deliver them victory without them even lifting a finger.

The battle is the LORD’s, and He will give it into their hands.

Brothers and sisters. Have you forgotten this?

You are a CHRISTian. Jesus Christ, the LORD of heavens army is the captain of your salvation and the author of your life.

He has called you to himself, that you might trust and be satisfied in the King that He is.

Like Israel, the people that surround us every day are trusting in false gods.

But not you. You have the living God. The LORD of David’s battle is the Lord of yours.

In a moment, He can do more than all your worrying, all your trusting in false securities, all your anxiousness and fear.

Look to Him. Read the promises He has made you in His word, and cling to them. Pray to Him and call on Him to intervene. He will do it.

And we see that clearly, here.

Verse 48

When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine. And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David.

With trust in nothing but His promise keeping God, David dethroned the champion.

David’s confidence was vindicated, and the Lord delivered Goliath into his hand.

Verse 51

Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it.

With the very sword that goliath intended to kill him, David cuts off his head as a sign of complete and utter victory.

And with the victory, David gained immediate renown among the people. The shepherd boy from the backwoods was now the revered warrior

Look a bit further at chapter 18 verse 6

6 As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments. 7 And the women sang to one another as they celebrated,

                  “Saul has struck down his thousands,

      and David his ten thousands.”

This David would go on to become King of the nation and gain such fame among the people that the little town of Bethlehem from which he hailed, would come to be known as the city of David.

Peace was again within the borders of Israel. David was the fearless leader of his people.

But like Noah before him, he won in the public battle with faith and conviction, but when the serpent re-appeared in a more subtle form, he lost in the hidden battles of his heart.

He beat Goliath, but lost to Bathsheba. David was conquered by grave sin. He committed adultery and murder. His family disintegrated and the people’s hope of being led back to Eden by David were gone.

That is, until many centuries later, when another shepherd from Bethlehem would come.

Listen to Luke chapter 2

¹⁰ And the angel said to [the shepherds], “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. ¹¹ For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

See, David’s story like all the great men and women before and since him was simply an introduction to the ultimate story of the true shepherd of Israel and the giant of sin.

Jesus taught us that in Luke 24 where he says

These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures

See, if we understand the scriptures correctly, we see that it all- including the battle between David and Goliath- points to Jesus.

He’s the one who was sent by His Father into the battle that we had no hope of winning.

He’s the one whose brothers rejected him and cast doubt on his motives.

He’s the one who offered up his life to fight on our behalf and win a victory for us that we didn’t raise a finger to accomplish.

He’s the one who not only risked death, but tastes death so that we might have life.

He’s the one who when He was reviled, continued entrusting Himself to God.

He’s the one who used the enemy’s own weapon to defeat him.

What do you think the cross was? That was Satan’s attempt to destroy our warrior and end our hope once and for all.

Satan intended the cross for Jesus’ destruction, but God used it as a means for Christ’s ultimate victory.

It’s by Him that God brought victory for His people over Satan, sin and death.

Oh friends, It’s Him. It’s Him.

It’s him to whom David points our hearts.

It’s Him in whom all the promises of God are yes and amen.

He is the seed of the woman who crushed the head of the serpent.

He is our eternal chorus of rejoicing.