There is more to a victory than just a dead giant - Audio

In our familiar story, Goliath challenges the army of Israel. For forty days his voice struck fear in the Saul’s army. He not only controlled the battle field, but he controlled God’s people by his very presence. How many times have we been controlled by the enemy just by him speaking to us? We all have known fear in our lives. There are times when we are worried about our situation and fear controls us. Actually fear and faith are the same thing. The definition is: the belief that something that has not happened, will or can happen. The definition is the same; the difference is what we believe. If we believe we will be defeated, we will. When we step forward and have faith in God, we have His power behind us. We have to have faith that God will fight our battles for us. David had faith; Saul had fear. God wants us to be victorious; God wants us to overcome. David had an understanding. The Philistines had crossed over into Judah. Judah is translated praise. Israel was facing an enemy that has come in and occupied their praise. The enemy had come in to take their praise. Saul was scared and was showing no leadership. He agreed to send David to face the giant. He tried to outfit David with his armour, but David refused. We cannot go into battle with the equipment that the world thinks we need. David goes out to fight with a sling and five stones. Goliath mocked David, but he was not phased. David knew that his faith and confidence was in God. God guided the stone to exactly where it needed to hit to be effective. That is a great story that David could sling the stone and bring down the giant. But that is not where the story ends. When the giant hit the ground, David went in and finished the job. Goliath might have gotten back up, but David went in and finished the job. David defeated Goliath and made sure that he would never have to face him again. Sometimes we can come to the presence of God and thing that dead giants are victories. The challenge was that if Goliath was defeated, that the Philistines would serve them. If Israel had allowed the Philistines to serve them, they would have been defeated from within. We can knock down Giants, but if we allow their families to live in our house we will be lost. We cannot get a victory and allow sin to remain in our lives. We cannot allow it to serve us. What we allow us to serve us, will grow up with our children and grandchildren. It doesn’t matter if we knock the giant down. We have to finish the job.