Defeating The Giants In Your Life | Pr. Michael Yeo | 19-09-2021

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again to our online service so happy to see you my servant today is entitled defeating the giants in your life now we have giants to face in life all of us without any exceptions at one time or another we go to better fields where we will face challenges that we feel will be bigger than we are and sometimes things that we cannot defeat on our own and as we face these giants some of us might freeze not knowing what to do and that's normal others might just try to run away yet there will be those who will just succumb to their circumstances now a giant can come in many shapes and sizes there are emotional giants that us with guilt shame fear discouragement and depression they are also physical giants that hold us back like sickness depleted financial resources and limited opportunities and they are also mental giants that uses self-limiting beliefs to disempower us but one thing is certain our level of faith will determine how we face our giants now in my own life i have faced some huge overwhelming giants one of them was of course my addiction to heroin in my younger days i was completely under its control for 12 long years even though i make countless attempts to stop the habit but i give all glory to god for enabling me to slay this giant in my life now by facing life's battles i have learned at least three things about myself and about god first is i have learned about total surrender what it means to give everything to god and what it means to find god's strength in the midst of my weakness the second thing is i have learned that i grow more confident as i face more giants in my life and thirdly i have learned that our god is a god of miracles he is a god of power and he can come true for us in great ways now what about you today what better views are you in what giants do you need to fight now today we are going to briefly look at first samuel 17 to see how david faced his first battlefield experience now due to time constrained we will not read the entire chapter but just some responses of david in this encounter with goliath now the context of the passage is this israel is again invaded by the philistines and as sometimes happen in ancient warfare a philistine war hero goliath challenges israel to provide a man to meet him in single combat now goliath a giant over nine feet tall is so impressive none in israel dared to respond but david bringing supplies from home for his three brothers was not impressed by goliath at all now in what is undoubtedly one of history's most famous battle young david confident that god will help him kills the giant philistine with his sling now david's victory leads to a route of the philistines so what can we learn from david that can help us to face the giants in our life today now there are four important lessons i wish to highlight here that will help us to fight the goliath in our life and win and number one is this we need to listen first and foremost to the right voice on the battlefield of life we need to listen to the right voice now before his ensuing fight with goliath david had to contend first with a few voices coming to him and some of us here need to hear this the first battle some of us may need to fight before facing our goliath is the battle with the voices in our head which are not from god david heard at least two voices that day that came not from god but from men one was from his eldest brother and in verse 20 we read that so david rose early in the morning left the ship with a keeper and took the things and went as jesse had commanded him and he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight and shouting for the battle and then in verse 22 to 23 and david left his supplies in the hand of the supply keeper ran to the army and came and greeted his brothers and then as he talked with them there was the champion the philistine of goths goliath by name coming up from the armies of the philistines and he spoke according to the same words and so david heard them and in verse 26 it says then david spoke to the man 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 an uncircumcised philistine that he should divide the armies of the living god and in verse 28 and he says now elia his oldest brother heard what he spoke to the man and elapsed anger was aroused against david and he said why did you come down here and with womb 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 and that was the first voice that david heard that day humiliating words from his eldest brother elia and he was telling david this shepherding is for kids war is for men now if david had listened to and had believed in his brother he would have dropped his head in shame and walked off the battlefield never to return and the other voice that david heard that day was from king saul first samuel 17 31-33 he says now when the words which david spoke were heard they reported them to saul and he sent for him and then david said to saul let no man's heart fail because of him your servant will go and fight the philistine 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 and that was the second voice david heard that day that was from man not from god and saul was basically saying david you are just a boy goliath is a gladiator don't fight him and again if david would have listened to the voice of saul he would have gone home but he did not david was listening to a higher voice it was a voice that says this army of israel is not just an ordinary army of men but the army of the living god twice he referred for the first time to the army of saul as the armies of the living god you see this in verse 26 for who is this uncircumcised philistines that he should defy the armies of the living god and in verse 36 again he says your servant has killed both lion and bear and this uncircumcised philistine will be like one of them saying he has defied the armies of the living god now david was listening to the right voice he was also the voice that says as god was faithful to deliver him before he will deliver him again in verse 37 moreover david said the lord who delivered me from the poor of the lion and from the poor of the bear he will deliver me from the hand of this philistine now that day at the battlefield david listen to the right voice what are the voices you are hearing today now in his book by grace alone sinclair ferguson identifies four major fiery darts that satan uses to unsettle and rob believers of their assurance in god the first dot is that it says god is against you he is not really for you how can you believe he is for you when you see the things that are happening in your life and that's the first dot the second dot is this i have accusations i will bring against you because of your sins what can you say in defense nothing and there's a third thought that satan will say you can say you are forgiven but there is a payback day coming a condemnation day how will you defend yourself then and the fourth dot is this given your track record what hope is there that you will persevere to the end what are the voices you are hearing today that you don't have what it takes to fight and win this better well it may be true if you are fighting without recognizing who you are in christ and who your god is but david david knew his position in god's eyes which the army of israel did not and that is why he kept affirming that they are the armies of the living god not the army of saul david also knew his god is faithful and able what are the right voices some of us need to hear today one is this in christ you are a child of god galatians says for you are all sons of god through faith in christ jesus the other thing is that in christ you are loved in colossians 3 12 it says therefore as the elect of god holy and beloved in christ you are forgiven ephesians 1 7 says in him in christ we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace in christ you are work in progress philippians 1 6 being confident of this very thing that he who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of jesus christ in christ you are assured of a victorious outcome in 1st corinthians 15 paul says but thanks be to god who give us the victory through our lord jesus christ in christ you have a future jeremiah 29 for i know the thoughts that i think towards you says the lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and a hope listen to the right voice know who you are in christ trust your god and win your battles the second thing i want to say is that we need to use what god has already given us david didn't wait until he was older to fight goliath he didn't wait till he had more experience he did not wait till he was stronger he used what he had already been given and david was not about to use something he was unfamiliar with now first samuel 17 38-39 so saw cloth david with his armor and he put a bronze helmet on his head and he also clothed him with a coat of mail now 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 this for i have not tested them and so david took them off and in verse 40 he says that then he took his stuff in his hand and he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook and he 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 david is going to face goliath with what he knows he is using the same equipment that he had as a shepherd he grabs his stuff his sling and approaches the philistine also notice this in george's 2016 it tells us about a group of soldiers in israel's army that function like a special force sharpshooter sting now it says this among all these people were 700 slack men who were left-handed and everyone could sling a stone at the hair's breath and not miss and you know what these men were part of the benjaminite clan and that was saul's glenn that means saul knew about them and their skills but none of them were going to step up with a sling and a stone instead david does it now my point here is this there will be some who will not use what god has given them but god wants david to use what he already gave him use what god has already given you to fight your battles among the more memorable insights offered by donna ramsfeld who served as secretary of defense from 1975 to 1977 under jared ford and again from 2001 to 2006 under george bush in his book ramsfeld's rules was this you go to war with the army you have not the army you might wish you have a point there god wants david to step up in faith with what he has given him and in this instance a staff a slingshot and a few stones for ammunition the same is true for us are you avoiding the giants in your life are you telling yourself to wait until you grow more or learn more or get more experience then only you can fight this giant that you are facing perhaps for some of you god wants you to step up in faith right now start where you are use what god has blessed you do what you can and let god work through you and in your circumstances listen to the right voice use what god has already given you and the third point i want to say is this focus on the size of your god not the size of your problem now david never focuses on goliath's size big as it is the tech says goliath is a champion he is over nine feet tall and the average nba players are two feet shorter he had a bronze helmet on his head and he wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing 5 000 shekels which is equivalent to pounds and some of us including me will weigh around 125 pounds and that's just his armor this guy is huge he's intimidating bible says his spear shot was like a reverse rod and its iron point weighed 600 shackles and that's 15 pounds the tip of his spear alone was like a barbell but david does not focus on goliath's size he says i will go out and fight the guy neither does he get up on the battlefield and think wow maybe i really misjudged this maybe i need to back up he doesn't do that and let's see what was goliath's response when david came to him and in first samuel 17 42 to 45 and when the philistine looked about and saw david he disdain him for he was only a youth ready and good looking and so the philistines said to david am i a dog that you come to me with sticks and the philistine cursed david by his gods and the philistines said to david come to me and i will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beast of the field and then david said to the philistine you come to me with a sword with a spear 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 now it is clear that david was not intimidated by goliath's threats why because he's not focused on goliath size his focus on god now i heard a sermon once when the pastor said david did not need to know goliath strength because he already knew god's strength an inspirational writer raymond mchenry notes that in times of uncertainty it is good to know these simple facts about god from isaiah 40. the oceans of the world contain more than 340 quintillion 18 zeroes gallons of water yet god holds them in the hollow of his hands the earth weighs six sextillion which is 21 zeros metric tons yet god say it is but dust on the scales the known universe stretches more than 30 billion light years 216 miles but god measures it by the width of his hand scientists claim that there are at least 100 billion galaxies and each galaxy is made up of about 100 billion stars and to such mind-boggling math isaiah reminds us that god calls each star by name now the point here is this if god can hold the waters of the ocean in the hollow of his hand consider the weight of the earth as but does measure the weave of the universe with the span of his hands and call each star by name surely he can handle the details and dramas of our life god is bigger than your giants you have massive challenges but do you believe your god is bigger do you constantly remind yourself and mentally visualize that god is bigger listen to the right voice use what god has already given you and focus on the size of your god not the size of your problem and finally rely on god's power not your own now david's response to goliath's insult is found in 1st samuel 17 46-47 this day the lord will deliver you into my hand and i will strike you and take your hate 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 and then all these assemblies shall know that the lord does not save with sword and spear for the battle is the lord and he will give you into our hands what was about to happen to goliath illustrates a major theme of the bible like the exodus from egypt the victory over goliath and the deliverance from his threats happened so that the people of israel and ultimately the people of the whole world would know that the lord is god now in verse 48 to 50 it says so it was when the philistine arose and came and drew near to meet david that david hassan and ran towards the army to meet the philistine and then david put his hand into his back 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 and so david prevailed over the philistine with a sling and a stone and struck the philistine and killed him but there was no swords in the hand of david there was no sword in the hand of david it reminds us that saul and his son jonathan had such weapons but david's victory was more extraordinary than any accomplished by saul and jonathan it only proved one thing it was by the might of god not the might of weapons that david defeated goliath rely on god's power not on your own now in ii samuel 22 7 david says in my distress i call upon the lord and cried out to my god and he heard my voice from his temple and my cry entered his ears and second samuel 22 18 he delivered me from my strong enemy from those who hated me for they were too strong for me of course certainly goliath was too strong for david but not too strong for god and then in verse 19 it says they confronted me in the day of my calamity but the lord was my support the lord was david's support it literally meant that the lord was david's staff on whom david lead relied and depended and by womb he was upheld rely on god's power not on your own i read something interesting the other day did you know that when horses have a problem that they can't solve themselves they are not above asking their human friends for help now that's the conclusion of scientists from kobe university in japan now in a study published in the journal animal cognition the researchers found some interesting results of this experiment and that's here's how the experiment work first the researchers they place carrots in a bucket inaccessible to the horses and then a human caretaker would arrive and the researchers observe that the horses displayed certain behaviors that could be interpreted as asking the human for help standing near the human looking at them touching and sometimes even pushing them they did these things more frequently than in a control group where there are no carrots hidden they found that hiding carrots in a bucket that was inaccessible to horses prompted the animals to ask for assistance when human caretakers who were unaware of the hidden food placement came on the scene the horses in the test were lingered near them and looking at them and even nudging them as if to say hello that bucket over there has some carrots in it some help please now what is my point here in sharing this of course we are not horses but perhaps some of us can learn a lesson from them whenever the need arises it's okay to ask for help especially from a superior being and in our case the ultimate in finite superior being is the living god himself so how do you fight your giants and win one listen to the right voice two use what god has already given you three focus on the size of your god not the size of your problem and four rely on god's power not your own now in conclusion let me say this challenges do not shape us the way we respond to challenges shapes us sir edmund hillary was a new zealand mountaineer explorer and philanthropist now as most of us would know on 29 may 1953 hillary and his shepherd guide tenzing nogay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the submit of mouth everest now for those of us who followed him we also know that he actually made several unsuccessful attempts at scaling mao everest before he finally succeeded now it was said that after one failed attempt hillary stood at the base of the giant mountain and he shook his feast at it and he says i will defeat you yet and he said this in defiance he says because you are as big as you are going to get but i am still growing now one pastor described edmund hillary this way every time hillary climbed he failed and every time he failed he learned and every time he learned he grew and tried again and one day one day he did not fail today seated right where you are in your homes or offices what giants are you facing what matters are you in are you facing something overwhelming are you facing something that you feel is bigger than you maybe maybe it's a health issue or is an addiction or it's a relationship issue or is a financial issue or is an emotional issue or it's a work issue or it's something else or maybe it's just everything whatever it is that you may be going through by faith right now i want to declare this to you especially those who are in christ never give up never you are still work in progress you are still growing and giants cannot stop what god wants to do in and through your life ecclesiastes 3 11 the first part says god has made everything beautiful in its time you will experience right where you are the reality of what paul said in philippians 4 13 i can do all things through christ who strengthens me mountains will be conquered giants will fall because god is the wind beneath your wings you will saw above your circumstances ephesians 3 20-21 now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in earth to him be glory in the church by christ jesus to all generations forever and ever amen let's pray and today if you are not a christian yet today is the day you can decide to call out to jesus for help dear lord jesus thank you for your word today we are glad that you are always faithful to your children you are the miracle working god who will help us slay the goliath in our life as we face the challenges that this life brings us help us to always listen to your voice to faithfully utilize the resources you have already given us to focus on the fact that you are bigger than our problems and to rely on your strength to fight our betters by faith we declare the end will be better than the beginning your good purposes will be accomplished through our lives we are on the winning side because we are on your side victory is ours defeat the enemies and through our victories your name jesus will be lifted high above all other names we give you all the glory in jesus name we pray amen thank you god bless you thank you pastor for the word of god i believe and pray that all of us are blessed by it and now church leave up your hand and receive the benediction and my god supply all unit according to his riches in glory by christ jesus now to our god and father 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