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0:00It's a scripture. This is the day that
0:02the Lord has made.
0:04You know, I will rejoice and and be glad
0:06in it.
0:07You know, and
0:08that became a song.
0:10You know, learned that as a kid. This is
0:13the day. This is the day that the Lord
0:16has made. You know, and singing that
0:18song, right? Then when I was little, I
0:21learned it a different way. Este es el
0:23dia. Este es el dia que hizo Jehova.
0:26Come on, everybody.
0:28All right.
0:30Well, we truly thank the Lord.
0:32Uh we know that everybody's not here
0:33because there are some that are at uh
0:36general conference.
0:38Like uh Pastor Mother tonight and some
0:40others.
0:42Uh keep them in prayer.
0:46These fonts are very tiny.
0:51The announcements, [music]
0:53uh we encourage all who are available
0:55to join
0:57in the sanctuary every Tuesday 5:30 p.m.
1:01for corporate prayer.
1:04I was feeling a little bit out of it
1:05yesterday because
1:07I didn't come to uh corporate prayer. My
1:09first one I didn't come to, but
1:12I was at the prison speaking.
1:15So, you can't be everywhere at once.
1:18You know,
1:19got to go where the Lord tells you to go
1:20and where you're going to be used,
1:21right?
1:23Youth and Hyphen
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2:10Revival coming up. Everybody say
2:12revival.
2:14With Reverend White.
2:17Right? One of our own.
2:19Coming home.
2:21We're excited for revival
2:23services with Reverend Xavier White
2:26happening October 18th through the 20th
2:30and the 25th and 26th.
2:32So, mark those down.
2:34Invite someone. Very important. Invite
2:37someone to be your guest and come
2:40expecting a dynamic move of God.
2:45Come expecting.
2:49You never know if the Lord's going to
2:50move on your guest or to move on you,
2:53but there's going to be a move of the
2:54Lord.
2:55You know,
2:57and
2:58uh right now we want to go to the Lord
3:00in prayer
3:02for all of our needs.
3:04Uh we do have an urgent prayer from
3:06sister Sherry Spiegel
3:08for Miguel Gonzalez.
3:11Uh if anybody else has a prayer request,
3:16put your hand up so
3:18you know, the Lord knows.
3:20The Lord can meet that need in Jesus'
3:22name.
3:24You know, miracles done in the name of
3:26Jesus. Healing done in the name of
3:28Jesus. All over this house, all over our
3:31hearts, our minds.
3:33We just want to be healed.
3:35Cuz when you get healed, that's when you
3:37start getting that joy.
3:39So, if you don't have that joy, you're
3:41just sitting there like
3:46Put it up in prayer
3:48that the Lord brings that joy back.
3:49Whatever needs to be healed, that it
3:51gets healed so that you can have that
3:54joy again.
3:55So that you can say, "You know what?
3:57This is the day
3:59that the Lord has made."
4:01So if you wouldn't mind standing,
4:02please,
4:04as we go to as we go to the Lord in
4:06prayer.
4:08Lord Jesus, we thank you right now,
4:10Father.
4:40Heal here tonight, Lord,
4:41in your precious name, Jesus.
4:43We thank you, Lord.
4:45Amen. Amen.
4:48Amen.
4:49Now, we have a
4:51Brother Steve lead us in a song of
4:53worship.
5:15>> Who is [music] this king of glory?
5:17[singing]
5:21Beautiful and matchless
5:23[singing and music]
5:24one.
5:28Who is this king so holy?
5:34Every knee will bow at his throne.
5:40Jesus,
5:42[singing] the
5:43lamb of Oh,
5:47Savior [music and singing]
5:49and King,
5:53>> [music]
5:54>> You alone
5:56are worthy of our praise forever. You
6:01alone
6:03are seated on the [singing] throne of
6:05heaven. Glorify.
6:09Glorify
6:12[singing] You alone.
6:20Who is this King [music and singing] of
6:22mercy?
6:26Wonderful and full [singing and music]
6:28of grace.
6:33Who [music] is this King so [singing]
6:35worthy?
6:38Nations [music]
6:39fear and kingdoms [singing] praise.
6:44>> [music]
6:45>> Jesus,
6:47[singing] the Lamb of God,
6:51Savior
6:52>> [music and singing]
6:54>> and King.
6:58You [music]
6:59alone
7:01are worthy [singing] of our praise
7:03forever. You
7:06alone
7:08are seated on the throne [music] of
7:10heaven. Glorify.
7:13>> [singing]
7:14>> Glorify
7:16[music]
7:17You alone.
7:24You alone
7:27are worthy of our praise [music]
7:29forever. You
7:32alone
7:33are seated on [music] the throne of
7:36heaven. Glorify. [singing]
7:40Glorify
7:43You alone. alone.
7:50You are the king that saves [music]
7:54us.
7:56You're powerful [singing] and full of
8:00love.
8:03You [music] are the king that gave
8:06[singing]
8:07us
8:09life with every [singing] drop of blood.
8:16Jesus,
8:18the
8:19lamb [singing] of
8:20God.
8:22Savior [music]
8:24and king.
8:32You alone
8:35are worthy of all praise [music]
8:37forever. [singing]
8:39You alone
8:42are seated [music] on the throne of
8:44heaven. Glorified.
8:48Glorified,
8:51>> [music]
8:51>> you alone.
8:58You
8:59alone
9:00>> [music]
9:01>> are worthy of all praise forever. You
9:05>> [music]
9:06>> alone
9:08are seated on the throne of heaven.
9:11Glorified. [music]
9:14Glorified,
9:18you alone.
9:23You alone
9:31Glorified.
9:36You
9:37are
9:42>> [singing]
9:45>> Hallelujah.
9:59He alone is worthy of our praise.
10:05One of the lines in that song said,
10:08"You're worthy of our praise forever."
10:10And it reminded me of the scripture,
10:15"His mercy endures forever."
10:18And if His mercy endures forever,
10:21we should be able to praise Him forever.
10:28I want to thank Brother Albus for this
10:29opportunity to
10:32come speak this evening.
10:35I don't take it lightly. In fact,
10:38for some reason this evening I'm a
10:39little bit nervous,
10:41more so than normal.
10:43Um
10:47what I have to share
10:49isn't anything new.
10:51It's nothing special. I'm not going to
10:54um
10:56deliver something that you haven't heard
10:58before, but it's just a simple
11:01reminder. I want to encourage someone
11:03this evening.
11:06I want to thank also Brother Dylan for
11:09all that he invested in all the
11:11ministers here
11:12at Apostolic Life.
11:14We are very blessed
11:16to have a man like Brother Dylan that
11:19will take time
11:21to invest in in us
11:24to
11:27pull us to the side and critique when we
11:28need that critique. Because
11:32if no one tells us
11:34the things that we need to fix, we'll
11:35come up here and
11:38not be as good as what we could be. So,
11:40brother Dylan, I do appreciate that.
11:42I also want to give honor to my wife.
11:47She is my rock.
11:49No pun intended, but I do lean on her a
11:51lot.
11:54And I appreciate you.
11:58You can be seated. I'm going to start
12:00with a story this evening.
12:02Um
12:05If I say the name Billy Graham, most
12:07people know who I'm talking about.
12:09They know the crusades. They know the
12:11stadiums.
12:13They know the simple invitation that he
12:15gave.
12:17Come to Jesus.
12:19For decades, he stood in front of many
12:20many many people, millions.
12:23Presidents even asked for him.
12:26Crowds waited to hear his voice.
12:28If there was
12:30a public preacher
12:33that
12:35I excuse me, a public picture of a
12:37strong preacher in America,
12:39most Christians would think of Billy
12:42Graham.
12:45Then life changed.
12:47Age caught up with him.
12:49His health changed. Parkinson's-like
12:51symptoms,
12:53fractures,
12:55failing eyesight,
12:57and weariness settled in.
13:00By the time he wrote his last book,
13:01Nearing Home, he said it plainly.
13:05He truthfully did not like growing
13:07older.
13:09He had trouble getting up from a chair.
13:11He needed help putting on his shoes.
13:14The man that crossed many oceans to
13:17preach the gospel
13:19now seldom left his home in North
13:21Carolina.
13:23That did not mean that God was finished
13:25with him.
13:26His son Franklin
13:29stood beside him at the podium when he
13:30could no longer stand.
13:35A team carried what he could no longer
13:36carry.
13:39The gospel kept going.
13:41The light did not go out because the man
13:44who first held it grew faint.
13:55Here is what family
13:57and that team understood.
13:59He was not less called because he needed
14:01help.
14:05He was not less useful because someone
14:08else had to walk him to the microphone.
14:12His strength changed, his value didn't.
14:18Hold that picture.
14:21Because when we come to 2 Samuel later,
14:25we will meet a David that we normally
14:27don't preach about.
14:30You see, we know the young David. We
14:31know the shepherd boy.
14:33We know the giant killer.
14:36But 2 Samuel 21 introduces us to a David
14:41who needs someone else to step in.
14:43You see, the story we know. Most of us
14:46know the story. Even people who have
14:49hardly read the Bible,
14:51they know the names.
14:53David
14:54and Goliath.
14:56We know about the valley.
14:58We know about the
14:59Philistine champion.
15:01We know about the frightened army.
15:05We know about the shepherd.
15:07We know about the sling.
15:09And we know
15:10about the stone.
15:13But listen to what David has to say in 1
15:15Samuel 17.
15:26>> And David said unto Saul, "Thy servant
15:28kept his father's sheep, and there came
15:30a lion and a bear, and took a lamb out
15:33of the flock.
15:39And I went out after him, and smote him,
15:41and delivered it out of his mouth. And
15:43when he arose against me, I caught him
15:45by his beard, and smote him, and slew
15:48him.
15:53The servant Thy servant slew both the
15:55lion and the bear,
15:56and this uncircumcised Philistine shall
15:59be as one of them, seeing that he has
16:01defied the armies of the living God."
16:05David said, moreover, "The Lord that
16:07delivered me out of the paw of the lion,
16:09and out of the paw of the bear, he will
16:11deliver me out of the hand of this
16:13Philistine." And Saul said unto David,
16:16"Go, and the Lord be with thee."
16:21Verse 45 says, "Then David said to the
16:24Philistine,
16:25Thou comest to me with a sword and a
16:27spear,
16:29and with a shield, but I come to thee in
16:31the name of the Lord of host, the God of
16:34the armies of Israel, whom thou hast
16:37defied.
16:39This day the Lord will deliver unto thee
16:41in my hand, and I will smite thee, and
16:44take thine head from thee, and I will
16:45give the carcasses of the host of the
16:47Philistines this day unto the fowls of
16:50the air, and the wild beast of the
16:53earth, that all the earth may know that
16:55there is a God in Israel.
16:59And all this assembly shall know that
17:00the Lord saveth not with a sword and
17:03spear, for the battle is the Lord's, and
17:06he will give you into our hands."
17:10For the dealing with you, pray.
17:31>> Thank you.
17:33In verse 47, David declares that the
17:36battle is the Lord's and he will give
17:38you into our hands.
17:41We love that story. We preach that
17:43story. We teach our children that story.
17:48But the Bible does not end the story of
17:50Israelite Israel's battles
17:53with the warriors of Gath
17:55in 1 Samuel 17.
17:57Tonight, for just a few moments,
18:02I want to talk about the giants after
18:05Goliath. The giants after Goliath.
18:13You see, Goliath fell.
18:15But Goliath was not the last
18:17overwhelming enemy that Israel would
18:20face.
18:22David eventually became king. He fought
18:24many battles. He experienced great
18:26victories.
18:29He experienced painful failures.
18:32In a later biblical account, the
18:34Philistines come again.
18:36And in 2 Samuel
18:38chapter 21 verse 15, it says,
18:44"Moreover, the Philistines had yet war
18:46again with Israel.
18:48And David went down
18:50and his his servants with him and fought
18:53against the Philistines, and David waxed
18:56faint.
18:59And Ishbi-Benob,
19:02which was the sons of the giant, the
19:04weight of the whole spear weighed 300
19:07shekels of brass in weight.
19:10He being girded with a new sword thought
19:13to have
19:14slain David.
19:17But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah,
19:19succored him and smote the Philistine
19:21and killed him.
19:23Then the men of David sware unto him,
19:25saying, Thou shalt go no more out with
19:28this to battle, that thou quench not the
19:31light of Israel.
19:35You see,
19:37there were some words in there that
19:39sometimes I think we overlook about
19:41David.
19:42It says, David waxed faint.
19:45He became exhausted.
19:48And this isn't the picture that we
19:49normally care carry about David. We
19:52always talk about the giant killer.
19:59But the passage continues in 2 Samuel
20:0121:18, and it says, And it came to pass
20:04after this, there was a battle with the
20:06Philistines at Gob, and Sibbechai, the
20:09Hushathite, slew Saph, which was one of
20:12the sons
20:13of the giant. There was another battle.
20:17There was another warrior.
20:19Then another servant steps forward.
20:23Then another battle at Gath. Verse 20
20:25says,
20:27And there was yet a battle in Gath,
20:30where there was a man of great stature,
20:32who he had on every hand six fingers, on
20:36every foot six toes, four and 20
20:40in number.
20:42And he also was born to the giant.
20:46Verse 21 states, And when he defied
20:49Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shammah,
20:52the brother of David, slew him.
20:56Then in verse 22 we read, These four
20:58were born to the giant in Gath and fell
21:01by the hand of David and the hand
21:05of his servants.
21:07You see, the Hebrew expression here
21:09points to the descendants of Rapha, the
21:11giant clan that was in Gath. So, there
21:14was giants that lived
21:17in Gath.
21:19So, something powerful has happened.
21:21Goliath wasn't the only giant that
21:24Israel would have to face.
21:28But, David
21:30was no longer the only one standing. You
21:32see in 1 Samuel
21:34we read of a terrified army.
21:37An army who would not go
21:40to meet Goliath in the field.
21:43But, something happened between 1 Samuel
21:45and 2 Samuel to where
21:49David's men
21:50learned something.
21:55You see another one victory
21:58does not mean there will not be another
22:00battle.
22:02Some of us have built the expectation
22:04that
22:05if God gives us one great victory, we
22:07should never struggle again.
22:13Scripture never promises that.
22:15You can experience
22:17a breakthrough
22:19and still face another season of
22:20pressure pressure.
22:22You can receive an answered prayer and
22:25later
22:26have another prayer that needs
22:27answering.
22:31You can overcome one temptation and yet
22:34face another.
22:35You can
22:37survive one difficult season
22:40and face another.
22:43You can walk through grief
22:46and still have difficult days later.
22:51Goliath fell
22:53and Israel
22:55still faced battles.
22:57You see that doesn't erase what God did
22:59in 1 Samuel.
23:01It just simply meant the story wasn't
23:02over.
23:04Jesus said in John 16:33,
23:07"These things I have spoken unto you
23:11that in me you may have peace.
23:14In the world you shall have tribulation,
23:16but be
23:17of good cheer. I have overcome the
23:20world."
23:21Jesus did not
23:24promise the absence of trouble.
23:26He simply promised that trouble would
23:29not have the final word.
23:31Another battle does not mean yesterday's
23:35victory was false.
23:37Another trial does not mean that God has
23:39abandoned you.
23:41Today's struggle doesn't erase
23:44yesterday's faithfulness.
23:47Sometimes I've asked myself the
23:49question, "Why am I fighting again?"
23:54Only
23:55to remember the question I should be
23:57asking myself was,
24:00"Who was faithful before me?"
24:03You see, the God David trusted in 1
24:05Samuel
24:07was still the God in 2 Samuel.
24:10David's circumstances may have changed.
24:12David's strength may have changed. The
24:15battles may have changed, but God didn't
24:18change.
24:19Hebrews says, "Jesus Christ the same
24:22yesterday, today, and forever."
24:25You see, our confidence cannot
24:28rest
24:30in not having battles, in the absence of
24:32battles. Our confidence has to rest in
24:35the faithfulness of God.
24:38David grew tired.
24:39We grow tired, but God never grows
24:42tired.
24:45Remember, David waxed faint. He got
24:49tired.
24:50This is David, the shepherd, the
24:52psalmist, the warrior, the king,
24:54the man who stood in front of Goliath?
24:57And scripture says David became
24:59exhausted.
25:02I'm thankful the Bible tells us that
25:04because sometimes
25:07us church people
25:10we unintentionally create the impression
25:12that strong faith means we're never
25:14tired.
25:15That we're never discouraged.
25:17That we're never overwhelmed.
25:19That we're never in need of help.
25:22That's not biblical.
25:25Moses needed Aaron and Hur to hold up
25:27his hands.
25:29The Bible tells us Elijah became
25:30exhausted.
25:32Paul spoke openly about weakness.
25:35Even Jesus
25:37in his humanity
25:39sat beside Jacob's well because
25:42he was weary
25:44from the journey.
25:46John 4:6 says, "Jesus therefore being
25:49weary with his journey
25:52sat thus on the well."
25:55You see, being tired does not
25:57automatically mean that you're
25:59faithless.
26:01Sometimes you're tired because you've
26:02been carrying responsibility.
26:04Sometimes you're tired because you've
26:06been fighting.
26:08Sometimes you're tired because life
26:10well, it's been heavy.
26:13And sometimes you're tired just because
26:15we're human.
26:17David reaches a moment where the man who
26:19once rescued Israel needs someone to
26:21rescue him.
26:27Ish-bosheth
26:28intends to kill David. But Abishai
26:31comes.
26:34David does not have to recreate
26:37First Samuel.
26:39He doesn't have to reach into a bag and
26:41produce another stone.
26:43He doesn't have to prove that he's still
26:45the young shepherd in the valley.
26:48Abishai comes.
26:50Sometimes
26:52the answer that sends into your life is
26:55another person.
26:57Sometimes God sends a brother
27:00or a sister.
27:02Sometimes God sends your pastor.
27:05Sometimes God sends another believer.
27:09Sometimes God sends someone who simply
27:11says,
27:13"You don't have to carry this
27:16by yourself."
27:19Afterward, David's men tell him, "Thou
27:21shalt not go out with us into battle
27:23that thou quench not the light of
27:25Israel."
27:31They understood something.
27:33David still mattered when David couldn't
27:36fight.
27:40Our limitations do not make us
27:42worthless. Our weakness does not erase
27:45our value.
27:46Needing help does not mean that God is
27:49finished with you.
27:50Maybe we can't do everything we once
27:52did. I can tell you I can't do
27:55everything I once did.
27:57But that does not mean that God has
27:59stopped using us.
28:02Sometimes
28:04we need to remember
28:06the correct response to a tired saint
28:09saint is not try harder.
28:12Sometimes it's, "Let me stand beside
28:15you.
28:16Let me pray with you.
28:18Let me help carry this."
28:20David needed a Abishai.
28:23There's no shame in that.
28:25You do not have to be David somebody's
28:28David every single day.
28:31Sometimes you need an Abishai.
28:35And sometimes
28:37God calls you
28:39to be Abishai.
28:41You see, David was not the only one
28:43standing.
28:45Years earlier, one young man stepped
28:47toward Goliath while an army watched.
28:50But now the scene has been reversed.
28:54Ishbi-Benob comes,
28:56Abishai stands.
28:58Saph comes, Sibbechai stands. Another
29:01warrior,
29:03Elhanan stands. The warrior at Gath
29:06defies Israel, Jonathan stands.
29:10David is not the only one standing.
29:14Now we The Bible doesn't tell us that
29:16David personally trained every one of
29:18these
29:19men to fight giants.
29:22But they were David's men. They did
29:25fight beside him. They did serve beside
29:28him.
29:29And something
29:31is different from Samuel 17, 1 Samuel.
29:36David's servants now in 2 Samuel are
29:39stepping forward, too.
29:41And I think there's a word in that for
29:43us tonight because Christianity was
29:46never supposed to be
29:47and is never intended to be a spectator
29:50sport.
29:54Church is not one person praying while
29:55everyone watches.
29:57It's not one person believing while
30:00everyone else watches. It's not one
30:02person carrying every burden while
30:04everyone watches. God wants a church
30:07full of believers who know how to stand.
30:10Brother Robin shouldn't be the only one
30:12who knows how to pray.
30:15Brother Tipton and his team shouldn't be
30:17the only ones that know how to worship.
30:20Sister Brittany shouldn't be the only
30:22one teaching our children
30:24about Jesus.
30:27Those that gather on Tuesday night
30:29should not be the only people praying
30:31for the sick.
30:34We are the church.
30:37Every one of us has a place. Every one
30:40of us can and pray. Every one of us can
30:42encourage. We can serve.
30:45We can stand beside someone.
30:48Most people know David.
30:50Far fewer know Sibbecai.
30:53Most people know Goliath.
30:56Far fewer know Ishbi-Benob.
30:59But God knew their names. God saw their
31:01faithfulness.
31:03We don't have to be faithful to be
31:04famous.
31:07We don't need a platform to pray.
31:09We don't need a microphone to encourage
31:11someone.
31:13You don't need a title to be useful to
31:16God.
31:18We simply
31:19need to remember what God has already
31:21done.
31:24Because that's the answer why David was
31:27able to stand in front of Goliath in 1
31:29Samuel.
31:30Because before Goliath, there had been a
31:32lion. Before Goliath, there had been a
31:34bear.
31:35David remembered.
31:39Because he said to Saul, "Thy servant
31:40kept his father's sheep. And there came
31:43a lion and a bear and a lamb
31:45and took a lamb out of the flock. And I
31:47went after him and smote him and
31:49delivered it out of his mouth.
31:52The ser- The servant slew both the lion
31:55and the bear. But David said,
31:59"Moreover, the Lord that delivered me
32:02out of the paw of the lion, out of the
32:04paw of the bear, he will deliver me out
32:07of the hand of the Philistine."
32:10David's confident
32:11was not that he killed the lion.
32:14His confidence was the Lord delivered
32:17me.
32:18David remembered what God had done.
32:21We need that same kind of memory.
32:27Sometimes fear grows because our memory
32:30becomes selective.
32:35We remember the disappointment.
32:38We remember the hurt.
32:41We remember the unanswered questions.
32:45We remembered when everything went
32:46wrong.
32:49But do we remember what God has done?
32:52Do you remember the prayer that he
32:54answered?
32:55Do we remember the door that he opened
32:57for us?
33:00Do we remember
33:01where he found us?
33:04What he forgave us from?
33:06What he restored unto us?
33:10What he carried us through?
33:14How about the peace that he gives us?
33:18Psalm 78:4 says, "We will not hide them
33:21from our children, showing the
33:23generation to come the praises of the
33:25Lord and his strength and his wonderful
33:28works that he has done."
33:30Then verse seven tells us why.
33:32That they may set their hope in God
33:35and not forget
33:37the works of God
33:39but keep his commandments.
33:43You see, our testimony was never
33:45supposed to
33:46end
33:48with us.
33:51Us as parents, we need to tell our
33:52children what God has done.
33:54Grandparents, you need to tell your
33:56grandchildren.
33:58Older saints,
33:59tell young believers.
34:02Do not pretend that you were always
34:04strong.
34:05Tell them the truth.
34:08I was afraid, too.
34:10I had questions.
34:12I cried.
34:15I did not always know what God was
34:17doing.
34:18But God kept me.
34:22That prayer took longer than I expected.
34:26But God was faithful.
34:29I stumbled.
34:31But God was faithful.
34:34I didn't know how I was going to make
34:35it.
34:37But God was faithful.
34:41Some of our young
34:43kids need to hear us older folks say,
34:46"I've seen God be faithful before time
34:50and time again."
34:52You see, our faithfulness may come
34:54because someone else's courage.
34:58David had no idea in 1 Samuel 17
35:03how many generations
35:06would hear his story.
35:09And this day we still
35:11tell the story of David and Goliath.
35:17Think about that.
35:18All these generations later
35:21we're still telling the story.
35:23You see, he was simply being faithful in
35:25the moment.
35:27He did not walk
35:30into that valley trying to be famous.
35:36We need to be faithful.
35:38Who will be telling your story
35:40generations to come?
35:44We need to worship when life is
35:45difficult.
35:48We need to forgive.
35:50We need to serve.
35:53We need to live
35:56what we believe.
35:59Jesus said in Matthew 5:16, "Let your
36:02light so shine before men that they may
36:06see your good works and glorify your
36:08Father which is in heaven."
36:11Notice where the glory goes.
36:15To our Father in heaven.
36:17This is what Christian influence should
36:19do.
36:20Our life should cause someone else to
36:23think more highly of Jesus.
36:26Our children are watching.
36:29Young believers are watching.
36:32People around you
36:34are watching.
36:36They may never tell you,
36:38but one day, when they're standing in
36:40their own difficult place,
36:42they may remember how you walked through
36:45yours.
36:46Your faithfulness today
36:49may become someone's courage tomorrow.
36:54You see, David is not the final
36:56champion.
36:58Because if we
37:00stop right here, we can accidentally
37:02turn Christianity into
37:05David was brave, go be brave.
37:08But that's not the gospel.
37:10David became tired. He needed Abishag.
37:14David
37:16eventually died.
37:18David was a great king,
37:20but he was not the final king.
37:23Jesus is repeatedly [clears throat]
37:25identified in the New Testament as the
37:28son of David.
37:30David defeated Goliath.
37:34Jesus confronted enemies far greater.
37:37Our deepest problem is sin.
37:41Our greatest enemy includes death and
37:42the devil.
37:44And we can never defeat those enemies by
37:46ourself.
37:48We cannot pray enough to erase our sin.
37:51We cannot behave well enough to redeem
37:53ourself. We cannot become strong enough
37:55to conquer death. We need a savior.
38:00And Jesus came to be that. Colossians
38:032:15 says,
38:05"Having spoiled principalities and
38:07powers, he made a show of them openly,
38:09triumphing triumphant"
38:12that word over them.
38:15Christ disarmed the powers. And in
38:16Hebrews, he says, "For as much then as
38:19the children are partakers of flesh and
38:21blood, he himself likewise took part the
38:24same, that through death he may destroy
38:26them that had power of death, that is
38:30the devil.
38:32And deliver them who through fear of
38:34death were all their lifetime subject to
38:37bondage. You see, Jesus entered a battle
38:40that we could never win for ourself.
38:43He bore our sin, he died, he was buried,
38:47we know he rose on the third day. That
38:49is where we get our confidence. We're
38:51not saved because we came brave.
38:54We're saved because Jesus saves.
38:57We're not redeemed because we finally
38:59became strong enough. We're redeemed
39:01because of what Christ has done for us.
39:05We're not fighting to earn salvation.
39:09You're not fighting to make Jesus king.
39:11He's already king.
39:13The resurrection is not something that
39:15we are hoping might happen, it's already
39:18happened. The tomb is empty.
39:21That does not mean that Christians never
39:23suffer.
39:30It does not mean that every circumstance
39:31becomes easy.
39:33But it does mean suffering does not have
39:35the final word.
39:37Death does not have the final word. The
39:40devil does not have the final word.
39:43Jesus does.
39:45We can still have hope.
39:49There are tired people
39:51in the church.
39:54You love God,
39:55but you're tired. You believe,
39:58but you're tired. You have prayed,
40:02but you're still tired.
40:04You have remained faithful,
40:07but you're still tired.
40:09Our hope is not in the ability to stay
40:12strong forever. Our hope is in Jesus.
40:17David needed someone him and maybe today
40:20one of us needs someone beside us.
40:23There's nothing unspiritual about saying
40:26pray for me.
40:28There's nothing shameful about saying
40:31I need help.
40:33Galatians 6:2 says, "Bear you one
40:35another's burdens
40:37and so fulfill the law of Christ."
40:41Sometimes you're David. Sometimes you're
40:44Abishai.
40:45Sometimes you need someone to stand with
40:47you.
40:48And sometimes you're the person that God
40:51sends to stand next to someone.
40:55That is what the church is. We rejoice
40:58together.
40:59We mourn together. We pray together. We
41:02worship together.
41:04We carry one another's burdens together.
41:08So tonight I want to ask you, what is in
41:10front of you?
41:13Not every problem is a Goliath.
41:15The Bible does not teach us to call
41:17every inconvenience a giant.
41:21But every believer will face places
41:25where faith is required.
41:29Maybe temptation keeps returning.
41:31Maybe fear has controlled our thinking.
41:34Maybe that bitterness is growing.
41:38Maybe grief has us exhausted.
41:41Maybe forgiveness has become difficult.
41:47Maybe you know something God has already
41:49told you to do.
41:52And you've been too afraid to obey it.
41:55Maybe prayer has slowly disappeared from
41:57your life.
41:59Maybe you've been trying to carry
42:01something alone.
42:03Maybe someone in your family desperately
42:05needs to see a genuine Christian
42:09living life in front of them.
42:13Whatever is before you, remember you do
42:16not have to become a David.
42:18You have Jesus. You do not need a
42:21legendary moment. You need faithful
42:23obedience.
42:24We pray today, we forgive today, we
42:26repent today, we ask for help today, we
42:29open our Bible today, we take the next
42:31step today.
42:32Sometimes faith looks dramatic.
42:36And sometimes faith looks like getting
42:38up tomorrow and being faithful one more
42:40day.
42:42Sometimes faith happens on a
42:43battlefield.
42:45Sometimes faith happens at the kitchen
42:47table with an open Bible.
42:50Sometimes faith says,
42:52"I forgive you."
42:55Sometimes faith walks away from
42:56temptation.
42:58Sometimes faith asks another believer
43:01for prayer.
43:03Sometimes faith worships through the
43:06tears.
43:07Sometimes faith simply says,
43:10"Jesus,
43:11I still trust you."
43:14You see, we've seen God be faithful
43:15before.
43:17So, when faith fear starts talking, we
43:19need a memory. We have seen God save,
43:22we've seen him restore, we've seen him
43:23deliver.
43:25We've seen lives transformed.
43:27We've seen prodigals come home.
43:30We've seen prayers answered.
43:32And we've seen peace
43:34enter impossible situations.
43:37And even when circumstances did not turn
43:39out the way we hoped.
43:44We have watched God carry people through
43:46things they thought they could never
43:49survive.
43:52We've seen God be faithful.
43:55So, when fear says you're not going to
43:56make it,
43:58remember,
44:00I've seen God be faithful before.
44:03When fear says this time's different,
44:05remember,
44:06God has not changed.
44:08When the enemy whispers you are
44:09finished, remember Jesus is still Lord.
44:14When your strength says I cannot,
44:16remember that your hope was never
44:17supposed to rest in your own strength.
44:20Our confidence is in Christ.
44:25I want us to be the kind of church where
44:26strong people help tired people.
44:29Where older saints tell younger saints
44:31what God has done.
44:33When parents model faith in front of
44:35their children.
44:37Where young people learn they can live
44:39holy in an unholy culture.
44:42When somebody walking through grief
44:44doesn't have to alone.
44:49Where people
44:51don't have to pretend to be strong
44:54in order to belong.
44:59Where testimony produces courage. Where
45:01someone can say,
45:03"I don't know how to carry this." And
45:06another believer will say,
45:08"I'll stand beside you and help carry
45:09it."
45:11I want us to be a church where God is
45:12bigger than the name on the platform.
45:15Bigger than the pastor, bigger than the
45:17preacher, bigger than the worship
45:18leader,
45:19bigger than any personality,
45:22because this story was not ultimately
45:25about David.
45:28It was about David's God.
45:31And Christianity is not about us.
45:35It's about
45:37Jesus.
45:40Let me close with another picture from
45:42ordinary life.
45:46Imagine an older mother
45:49sitting at a kitchen table.
45:55And in this image,
45:59I I Sister Bartlett.
46:03Her Bible has worn pages.
46:07There are notes in the margin.
46:10Names written beside scriptures, Brother
46:12Mark.
46:15Some names have dates beside them.
46:18Some prayers have check marks.
46:22Some do not.
46:25She has prayed for children,
46:28grandchildren,
46:30marriages,
46:32sickness,
46:35financial needs,
46:37a prodigal.
46:40I'm sure there were prayers that God
46:41answered quickly.
46:44And Mark, there were prayers that took
46:46years to be answered.
46:51There were things I'm sure she asked God
46:53to do that did not happen the way she
46:55wanted.
46:57I'm sure there were nights that she
46:58cried at that same table.
47:02There were mornings she wondered how she
47:03was going to keep going.
47:06But she kept opening that Bible.
47:10She kept praying. She kept believing.
47:14Years later,
47:16when someone's grandchildren was going
47:18through the hardest of times in their
47:19life,
47:22maybe they sat at that same table.
47:26Maybe they opened that old Bible.
47:29And there, beside a verse,
47:32they find their own name written.
47:36Suddenly, they realize something.
47:40Someone had been praying for them long
47:42before they needed they knew they were
47:44going to need those prayers.
47:48Maybe she never preached a sermon.
47:51Maybe she never stood beside or behind a
47:53pulpit.
47:56Thousands of people may never know her
47:58name.
48:00But her faith stood in a place someone
48:03else would eventually need.
48:10That is what we need to understand
48:11tonight. You may be thinking your
48:13faithfulness is small.
48:15Your prayers,
48:17they may feel small.
48:19Your obedience may feel ordinary.
48:23But somebody
48:24may one day stand where you're standing
48:27right now.
48:29And when they saw that you
48:32and what they saw in you may help them
48:34believe that God can carry them, too.
48:38David stood once.
48:40Later, Abishai stood.
48:43Sibbecai stood. Elhanan stood. Jonathan
48:47stood.
48:48And someone is going to stand after us.
48:50The question
48:52is whether they will know from watching
48:55our lives
48:56if God is faithful.
48:59Would you stand with me?
49:03Before anyone moves, I want you to think
49:05for a moment.
49:08Don't think about the person beside you.
49:11Don't think about who you believe needs
49:14this message.
49:17Ask God one simple question.
49:20Lord,
49:21what are you saying to me?
49:24Maybe there is something standing in
49:26front of you right now.
49:28Maybe no one else knows about it.
49:32Maybe you walked into church smiling.
49:34You shook hands. You worshipped.
49:37You look fine.
49:39But inside, you're tired.
49:42You've been trying to be strong for
49:43everyone.
49:44Trying to hold your family together.
49:47Trying to keep believing. Trying to keep
49:49praying. Trying to keep serving.
49:54And somewhere inside your heart [music]
49:56you've been saying, "God,
49:58I don't know how much longer I can carry
49:59this."
50:02You need to know David went wax faint.
50:05David got tired, and God did not throw
50:08David away.
50:10God sent Abishai.
50:13Maybe tonight's not about you finding
50:15enough strength to keep pretending.
50:19Maybe tonight is about letting someone
50:21stand beside you.
50:24Maybe your response needs to be, "God, I
50:26need you."
50:28There is no shame in that prayer.
50:31Maybe tonight you're not David. Maybe
50:33you're Abishai.
50:35Maybe someone close to you is tired,
50:38and God's been dealing with your heart
50:39about them.
50:41They don't need a lecture. They don't
50:43need you to tell them what they should
50:44have done.
50:46They simply need someone to show up.
50:48Someone to pray. Someone to call.
50:50Someone to tell them that you're not
50:52carrying this alone.
50:54Maybe God's calling you to be someone's
50:56Abishai.
50:58Maybe you're facing something bigger
51:00than you. Fear, temptation, bitterness,
51:02grief, a family struggle, a private
51:05struggle.
51:07Something that you prayed about until
51:08you almost do not know what else to say.
51:12Remember David said, "The Lord that
51:14delivered me, he will deliver me."
51:18We have a history with God. We've seen
51:20him be faithful.
51:27I don't want us rushing in this moment
51:29because somewhere in this room is
51:30[music] a tired David. Somewhere in this
51:32room is an Abishai God wants to use.
51:36There's someone that's facing something
51:38they can't defeat.
51:42There's plenty of us who our children
51:44are watching.
51:46There's someone in this room
51:48>> [music]
51:48>> that an older saint whose testimony
51:49needs to be heard by another generation.
51:54So, I want to open this altar tonight.
51:56Not because you failed, not because
51:59you're weak, not because someone's
52:00judging you, because God is speaking.
52:04Come because you want to respond,
52:06because you're tired, because someone
52:08else is tired and you want to pray with
52:10them.
52:11Come because you need courage,
52:14because you need repentance.
52:16Come because you just want to tell God I
52:18still trust you.
52:20Remember, you're not proving how strong
52:22you are.
52:24You're coming to this altar to respond
52:26because he is strong.
52:28Not because you have all the [music]
52:30answers, but because he is faithful.
52:39>> There is no problem too big. [singing]
52:43God cannot solve it.
52:48>> [music]
52:49>> There is [singing] no mountain too tall.
52:53He cannot [music] move
52:56it.
53:00And there is no [singing] storm too dark
53:05that God cannot calm [singing]
53:07it.
53:11There is no sorrow too deep. He cannot
53:16soothe [music and singing]
53:18it.
53:20And if he carried [music]
53:23the weight of the [singing] world
53:26upon his shoulder,

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