David, Goliath and that Dude Saul

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The David Alliance

Garth Heckman

VERY FAMILIAR STORY -  

*TIED TO MY NOTES TODAY

 

THE BUILD UP and DEMISE OF ISRAEL 

 

THE PEOPLE WANTED A MAN OVER GOD (They wanted a King)… Here is an old quote: when more than one votes… you can assure its the wrong decision.

It wasn’t a King that was truly the problem - 

BUT RATHER following a man, that was the problem. It was the peoples desire to follow a King over a prophet who followed God.

     ***No one voted a prophet in.

        ****People choose a King, God chooses a prophet. 

 

Saul offers false sacrifices

Saul chooses to disobey Gods orders to wipe out the Amakalites 

Saul becomes erratic and tormented by demonic spirits 

Saul now operates out of fear

 *Israel and the army now saw their enemies the way their leader did - IN FEAR.

 

The battle of David and Goliath was never really about David and Goliath. It was the culmination of Israel's spiritual decline under Saul, and the first visible sign that God had already been at work preparing a different kind of leader — one after His own heart.

 

 

 

1 Samuel 17

41 Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer ahead of him, 42 sneering in contempt at this ruddy-faced boy. 43 “Am I a dog,” he roared at David, “that you come at me with a stick?” And he cursed David by the names of his gods. 44 “Come over here, and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals!” Goliath yelled.

45 David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 Today the Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel! 47 And everyone assembled here will know that the Lord rescues his people, but not with sword and spear. This is the Lord’s battle, and he will give you to us!”