Text: “And the Philistine (Goliath) said to David,
Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the
beasts of the field. Then said David to
the Philistine, Thou comest to me with sword, and with a spear, and with a
shield: but I come to thee in the Name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the
armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite
thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host
of the Philistines this day unto the fowls 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 all this assembly shall know that the
Lord saveth not with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will
give you into our hands.”
1 Samuel 17:44-47.
Good morning, Divinely
empowered Christian! From the first days
of our Christian enlightenment and Spiritual quickening, we have been taught of
the Lord the fact that this great Spiritual Battle in which we are engaged, is
not OUR Battle, but ‘…the Battle is not yours but the
Lords.’ Christian children are
taught the lesson in words of well-known hymns and choruses: ‘…The arm of flesh
will fail you, ye dare not trust your own…’
Thus, we are confident that He that has Divinely called us to
participate in His great Spiritual Battle, will at all times grant us the
eventual victory, for ‘…the Battle is not ours but the Lords.’ Hallelujah! Victory in the Cross of Christ
Jesus!
“Ye shall not need to fight in
this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the Salvation of the Lord
with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out
against them: for the Lord will be with you.
And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all
Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the Lord, worshipping the
Lord.” (2 Chronicles 20:17-18)
As redeemed sinners, living in
an increasingly apostate and openly reprobate world, faced with increasing
sickness of sin and Sodomy all around us - it is often difficult not to grow
personally weary.
Everything Christian and
wholesome is put down - especially in a Satanic inspired multi-media - and all
things perverted and lewd, are promoted - especially those practicing it - and
our children are indoctrinated to think that this is ’normal practice’. Today, in this 21st Century, it is
fast becoming just like it was in ’…the days of Noah…’ What a fearful vengeance our Holy Lord must
bring upon such gross and vile sin! Oh
the depth of fear and dread that is on its way!
Nations, REPENT!
“But as the days of Noah were,
so shall also the coming of the Son of man (Jesus) be. For as in the days that were before the flood
they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day
that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took
them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” (Matthew 24:37-39)
The GOOD NEWS concerning all
this ‘doom and gloom’ is that, those of us who are indeed genuine, Spirit-born
Christians, can and will endure all the gross evil that comes upon this fallen
and condemned world. How? Because we are
‘Divinely empowered Christians’!
Hallelujah! We are granted the
strength of Almighty Jehovah God!
“The Lord is my light and my
Salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord
is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my
foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my
heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be
confident.” (Psalm 27:1-3)
Verse 4. “Pull me out of the net that they have laid
privily (secretly) for me. Israel’s king Saul,
and all of his army were being slyly manoeuvred by the Philistines to fight a
battle by proxy - I.e. their champion, the giant Goliath of Gath, would fight
for a Philistine victory; any man in Israel would fight Goliath to decide the
outcome. This was ’the net’ into which
the feet of the young shepherd boy, David, were placed. However, as our selected Bible text for today
teaches us, young David trusted the Lord God to ’pull him out of the net…’:
“Then said David to the
Philistine, Thou comest to me with sword, and with a spear, and with a shield:
but I come to thee in the Name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of
Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day
will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take
thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the
Philistines this day unto the fowls 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 all this assembly shall know that the
Lord saveth not with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will
give you into our hands.” (1 Samuel
17:45-47)
Verse 4. “…For Thou art my strength. Omnipotence cuts the net which
policy weaves. When we poor, puny things
are in the net, God in not. In the old
fable the mouse set free the lion; here the Lion liberates the mouse.” (C.H. Spurgeon, Treasury of David, page 148)
Thought: “Those that resolve to follow God’s direction
may in faith pray for it. That his enemies being very crafty, as well as very
spiteful, God would frustrate and baffle their designs against him: "Pull
me out of the net that they have laid privily for me, and keep me from the
sin, the trouble, the death, they aim to entrap me in.’’ In this prayer he
gives glory to God by a repeated profession of his confidence in him and
dependence on him.” (Matthew Henry
1662-1714, Bible Commentary)
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