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It was One shot to the head with a stone and a slingshot. David had the confidence of the Lord to help him win the battle that no one stood on the battle line to do.
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Let's talk about let's talk about money. Let's talk about sex. Let's talk about drugs. Let's talk about you. Let's talk about me. Let's talk about let's talk about we talk about you let's talk about me, let's talk about us. Let's talk about the let's talk about wealth. Let's talk about green let's talk being broke living in poverty. Let's talk about black. Let's talk about why let's talk about how we still fight for rights. Let's talk of a missed six games and drugs and let's talk about God. Let's talk about love. Let's discuss our feelings. Hey, welcome to blessed to be as I'm your cousin in Christ, one trill a bat, and this is bougie Bible studies. If you are new here, I'd like to welcome you to the number one best Bible study class that you will ever come across. And if you are not new here, you already know how we get down over here and blessed to be as as we dive into the Bible every week and read a chapter as we get the inside story, the back end story on what took place in the ancient times that is preached around the world today. Don't be afraid, there is no judgment here you can be from any background or any religion that you choose to that is your business. I simply just allow God to use me to read the stories in the Bible because I want to get closer to God. And this is my way of sharing him with the world. As I created this platform, started this Bible study class to share the stories of the Bible with my people, like you and that you can share with people like me, today's class, we are class 34. Today's episode is First Samuel 17, David and Goliath, you can read out of any Version Bible you choose to that showbusiness, you can simply listen and choose to just hear the story and follow along that way. But I simply do acts that you just allow God to use you to resonate with the Holy Spirit to allow Jesus to come into your life to do some type of change that can result in a better living situation for tomorrow. And it doesn't have to be just physical form. It can be mentally, and it can be emotionally and it just could be all that that God does, because he's just a great guy and he's for all of us, right? No judgement. Go ahead and grab your Bibles. Again. You can read out any version you choose to. I want to get this story going. I'm really excited. I read it once but I'm ready to dive a bit to it again and get more insight into David and Goliath. If you are ready, I am ready to let's go First Samuel 17 verse one. Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled as Ahsoka and Judah they pitch camp at E FF is damn in between Soca and Zika saw and Israelites assemble and camped in the valley of Isla and drew up their battle lines to meet the Philistines. The Philistines occupied one hill and the Israelites another with the valley between them. A champion named Goliath who was from Gath came out of the Philistines camp. His weight was six cubits in a span. He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing 5000 shekels on his legs. He wore bronze greys and a bronze. Jacqueline was slugged on his back. His spare shaft was like a weaver's rod, and it's iron point weighed 600 shekels his shield bear went ahead of him. Goliath stood and shout it to the ranks of the Israel. Why do you come out in line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine? And are you not the servants of Saul, choose a man and have him come down to me. If he is able to fight and kill me we will become your subjects. But if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us. Then the Philistines said this day I defy the armies of Israel. Give me a man and let us fight each other. On hearing the Philistines words saw in all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified. Now David was the son of an fri named Jesse who was from Bethlehem and Judah. Jesse had a son in a sauce time he was very old Jesse's three oldest son have follow Saul to the war. The first one was ileap, the second Abinadab and the third Shama David was the youngest, the three oldest bylo saw, but David went back and forth from saw to attend to his father's sheep at Bethel hair for 40 days. The Philistines came or every morning and evening and took his stand. Now Jesse said to his son, David, take this FYI of roasted grain and these 10 loaves of bread for your brothers and Harry to their camp. Take a look on these 10 cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are in bring back some assurance from them they are with saw and all the men of Israel in the valley of Isla fighting against the Philistines early in the morning and David left the flock in the care of a shepherd he loaded up and set out is Jesse directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to his battle positions shouting the war cry, Israel and the Philistines were drawn up their lines facing each other. David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were. As he was talking with them. Goliath the Philistine champion from GAF stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance and ever heard it. Whenever the Israelites saw the man they all fled from him in great fear. Now, the Israelites had been saying, Do you see how this man keep coming out, he comes out to defy Israel. The King will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel. David asks the man standing near him what will be done for the man who kills the Philistines and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine? The he should defy the armies of the living God? They repeated to him what they haven't said and told him this is what will be done for the man who kills him. When ileap David's oldest brother heard him speaking with the man he burned with anger at him and eggs. Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave these few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are, and how wicked your heart is, you came down only to watch the battle. Now what have I done, said David, can I even speak He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter? And the man answered him as before, what David said was overheard and reported to saw and saw set for him. David said to saw, let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine, your servant will go and fight him. Saw replied, You are not able to go against this Philistine and fight him. You are only a young man, and he has been a worrier from his youth. But David said to Saul, your servant has been keeping his father's sheep when a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock. I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from his mouth. And when it turned on me, I seized it by its hair struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear. this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them because he has the fight the armies of the living God, the Lord who rescued me from the part of the lion and the part of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine saw said today that a go and the Lord be with you. There saw dress David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head, David fasten on his sword over the tunic and try walking around because he was not used to them. I cannot go in ease. He said to Saul, because I am not used to them. So he took them off. Then he took his staff and his hand chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd's bag, and with his sling in his hand, approach the Philistine. Meanwhile, the Philistine with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy glowing with health and handsome and he despised him. He said to David, am I a dog that you come at me with sticks, and a Philistine curse David with his gods. Come here, he said, and I'll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals. David said to the Philistine, you come against me with sward and spear and javelin, but I come against you and the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel whom you have defied this day, the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day, I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals and the whole world would know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here would know that it is not by sward or spear that the Lord save for the battle is the Lord's and he will give all of you into our hands as the Philistine moves closer to attack him David Rancic piglets hurt the battle line to me him reaching into his bag and taken out of stone he sluggy back and struck the Philistine on a forehead. The stones sank into his forehead and he fell facedown on the ground. So David triumph over the Philistine with the sling in the stone. Without a sward in his hand, he struck down a Philistine and killed him. David ran and stood overhand he took hold of the Philistines swore and joy from the show. After he killed him he cut off his head with the sward when a Philistine saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. Then the man of Israel and Judah search Ford with a shout and persuaded the Philistines to the interest of get into the gates of Akron. They're dead. We're scrolling along the Shahram road to get an accurate when the Israelites returned from chasing the Philistines. They plundered their camp, David took the Philistines head and brought it to Jerusalem. He put the Philistines weapon in his own tent, as saw watch David going out to meet the Philistines he said to Abner, commander of the army, Abner, whose son is that young man, Abner replied, As surely as you live, your Majesty. I don't know. The King said find out whose son this young man is. As soon as David returned from killing a Philistine. Abner took him and brought him before saw with David still holding the Philistines head Whose son are you young man saw axe him. David said I am the son of Your servant, Jesse of Bethlehem. And that is the end of March have. Why goodness, okay, so boom, like, let's bring it down. Okay, what an interest the story now I've heard a story about David and Goliath. A lot of times I never heard it in debt like I did right now as I read through it. And this was my second time reading through it. The first time I read through it was just before I actually read this, and I got a little teary eyed because I'm going to break it down and tell you why. So boom, David and Goliath. Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war, the Philistines gathered their forces, and Israelite gathered their forces. And the Philistines was on one side of the camp. And the Israelites was one another side of the camp with the valley in between them. I'm gonna just summarizing now a champion Goliath from the Philistines. He was obviously very huge, and he was big. And he was somewhat like the Philistines protector, and he will come out and he was shouting at them, and he would yell at them. Like, why do you come out in line up for battle? Don't you guys serve us? Like what makes you guys think that you guys can line up to battle us? Basically, he's like, choose a man, any man. If he come out, and he fight me, and he killed me, we as the Philistines, we will serve you. But on another hand, if y'all choose a man to come out here and fight me and kill me, and I kill him, you guys will always serve us. So upon hearing these words, hung Goliath. Of course, the Israelites didn't have anybody as big as him, and they didn't have no bodies to really fight Goliath to take on this proposition that he had for them. They didn't want to go for it. So he jumps into the story of knowing who David is. Now, David was the son of Jesse, who was a servant of saw saw was the leader of the Israelites who was going into battle. And Jesse was the servant of Saul. And David was the son of Jesse. So Jesse had his sons he had about eight sons, but his three eldest sons follow Saul into the war. That was ileap Abinadab. And Shama. Now, I could be butchering these names. I'm sure I am no judgment, because I don't know these folks named like that, but I'm trying my best. So he had these three sons go off into battle with Saul. And David was the youngest and he will go back and forth attended to sheep and also you know, working what he doing on his back end because he was young, he didn't go into war with his brothers. So one day Jesse loaded up a bunch of stuff, and he had David go to deliver this stuff to his other sons who was off and war was saw now in the midst of this David key goes over and he sees the battle battle line happening. He sees that the Israelites is lining up on one side and the Philistines lining up on on another side like the war is soon to begin. So loaded up and set out as he asked his daddy directed Jesse directly so when he reached a camp army, he was going to his battles position shouting the war cry, Israel in the Philistines were true. on all their lines facing each other David notices. So David left his things with the keeper of the supplies and ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were. As he was talking with them. Goliath came out and Goliath decided to give his daily speech whoo ha ha Johnny to get one young man to come fight me because I'm ready to slay. And if any of y'all man, anybody one person, come find me and kill me. We'll be servants to you guys. If I defeat your man, obviously, you guys will be servants to us. Now, David, here's this is so the Israelites, they start talking amongst each other. And they say, for now, the airlines has been said, Do you see how this man keep coming out? Do you see how Goliath keep coming out, he comes out to defy Israel, like he comes out to make us look really, really bad. Now the king will give great wealth to the man who kills him, he will also give him his daughter in marriage, and he will exempt his family from taxes in Israel. So David, he starts to ask me like, you know, what would happen for the man who kills this Philistine who keeps acting like he being in bulk because he defined Israel, what will be done so the man starts to tail, David? Well, the king will basically give great wealth to the man who kills him and he will also give him his daughter marriage. And he was in his family from the Texas and stuff. So as David is talking to this, talking to the man, he's one of his older brothers ileap. He hears David he see David and now he gets so upset with David because he like what are you doing over here? So it says when iLab Davis Oh, his brother heard him speaking with the man he burned. We're angry at him and acts. Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are, David, and how wicked your heart is. David,
Unknown:you came down only to watch the battle. David is like, well, I
Juantrell Lovette:calm down, calm down. I actually came down to check up on y'all because Papa said to come bring you guys see supplies. And I came to check up on you guys to see how you guys were doing. But in the midst of all it is, who is this Goliath guy keep the fight in Israel. He liked now what have I done? Can I speak He then turned away from his brother, he lived boy girl by showbusiness and he turned to someone else about the same manner about Goliath. And in a man answered him as before, like yes, if you if somebody will kill this man, the king will give great well, he will give his merit his daughter in marriage, and he will exempt his family from the Texas So David, so what David said was overheard and reported to Saul and then saw set for David. So David said to saw let no one loose heart on account of this Philistine Your servant me will go and fight him. So I looked at him and said, You gotta be joking, right? I mean, you're not able to go against this Philistine and fight him. You are only a young man. And he has been a worrier since your age, basically. But David said to Saul, listen, I've been keeping my father sheet and now when a lion or a bear came and carried off my sheet, guess what? I went after that bear or that lion, and I got my sheet back from them. That's right, exactly. So when the bear in Atlanta came and attacked me I gave great force and I laid the lion and a bear to rest to get my sheet back. I might be little, I might be young, but I got what it takes to go out here and fight this man good life. So So I was like, You seem pretty confident go ahead and do what you do. May the good Lord be with you? So I saw he started to dress David up in his Tunick and all his stores and all his shackles and all those things so that he could go into battle but David is like, I'm just saying how I get down you know, I'm saying I don't wear all this stuff. Like I fight crazy, but I don't need all this battle here. I don't need this. I don't need that. I'm gonna take all this off because it's not working for me. I'm not used to having all these shackles on me to fight I'm good. You know, I like a lightweight. So he grabbed his sling. He took them off and then he took his staff in his hand. He chose five smooth stones from the street and he put them in his pouch and his shepherd's back and we hit sling as his and his hand as he approached the Philistine. Meanwhile, the Philistine with his shoe and Fred have kept coming closest to David. He looked at David over it saw that he was just a little boy now They probably brought him great laughs probably like you guys send his little bitty kid to come fight me, huh? So he started despising David started cussing them out, like Yeah, right. Get him out of here. And he said to David, and my dog that you come at me with sticks. Like boy Come here. I'll give you a flesh to the birds in a wild animals. David looked at him and said, Oh yeah, you come against me with so sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel whom you have defied. David basically was like, you may look at me as if I'm not competitive, or I'm not worthy to go against you. Because I may look younger than you, I don't have all the fighting gear, you have one, nor do I possess the skills that you may carry, because you have been in battle, since you were probably my age, but you come against me with scores and spears, I come against you with the Lord Almighty. Now, if that ain't D, I don't know what it is. Because I don't know life. It seems to attack you in many, many ways. And as long as you fight back life with the Lord Almighty, you're going to come out a winner for sure, like 100%, I see that and I see that this transpired in the story. This day, the Lord would deliver you into my hands and I'll strike you down and cut off your head this very day, I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals. He took a deep and the whole world would know that there is a God in Israel. Now David didn't show up to the fight. He didn't even probably show up to fight. At the end of the day he was sent to go check up on his brothers him taken on this battle. He felt real confident he knew that he could take on this person. Confidence is a thin line between confidence and conceded. And if you notice in the story when his brother was gotten out with him, he said I know you I know how conceited you are. I know how wicked you are. You came down here to watch the battle today. That wasn't conceded. He didn't come to be in the battle. He just so happened so find an opportunity to say well, since none of you guys are stepping up, I guess I'll step up because I have the confidence to do so. Now that spoke value to me here you have a group of armies, the whole group, the people there, there's a big group and when Goliath is calling out their best man or any man to come and fight him and nobody stood it said, Okay, let me be the one they all got scared of Goliath and they all bowed down. They all basically ran David, not even a person of the army. He come and he say none of your stuff enough. So I guess I'll take on a job because who is this person to defy the armies of Israel, even the littlest person in the room you should not judge them. They hold the biggest package data here held the biggest package so he was like all those gathered here will know that it is not by sward or spared at the Lord's saves for the battle is the Lord's and he will give all of you into our hands as a Philistine. Goliath started moving closer to its head David David quickly ran because he was smaller and quicker and littler and plus he didn't have all those shackles on him. He quickly ran ran past him reached into his bed, taken out a stone slugging on his slingshot and swung in and hit Goliath right up in the forehead. Now that stone sunk right up in Goliath forehead into his brain, killing him making him fall flat on his face. I mean, took him out one smooth pebble rock and yeah, he was laid out flat. Now when the Philistines seen that, yeah, they got spooked and they got scared as David went over to Goliath triumph over his body, grabbed his spear his or killed him and then took off his hair like he stated, now what a battle because it wasn't even a battle between the entire armies. At that point, nobody was fighting but Goliath and David, nobody stood in the middle to fight but David and Goliath as soon as David was able to pass Goliath out Goliath and meet him at the battle line past him right on up juke them chip chip chip, took out his stone, took out his slingshot and copy them right up in the forehead thing that sunk right up into the Goliath head and he fell flat on the ground killed this man that didn't even have to fight. This was a one on one battle David using the Lord and Goliath wanting to use his war that man didn't even get a chance to use this word now. So boom, David triumphed over Goliath. Now everybody happy to Israel's happy they get the run the Philistines back out the gates back out the gaff gates and when the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran than a man of the Israel in a Judas search for with a shout and persuaded the Philistines to the entrance of the gas into the gates of ecrime. And so David took the Philistines head and brought it to Jerusalem. He put the Philistines weapon in his own 10 NF saw watch David going out to meet the Philistines, he said to the commander Abner hope son is that Abner? Like, I don't know. Have Your Majesty, I don't have a clue whose son that is. And so saw obviously was like, bring the kids to me. I want to know whose son this is. So when David came back, still holding Goliath head, this man was walking around with Goliath head. That's victory, because he actually told him what he was gonna do he say he probably laughing he's like, Look, you got the scores and stuff and all of this and all this good stuff. And you go and you fight against scores and spirits, but I fight against you know you with the Lord, but I'm going to cut your head off, I'm going to, I'm going to kill you. I'm gonna cut your head off, fella. When David came back into the camp, or whatever saw basically approached him was like, you know, Whose son are you? And at that point, David, let him know, I'm the son of Your servant, Jesse. And the story cuts off. Now what an exciting story. Have you ever been in battle where the Lord has defeated your enemy for you? It could be anything. It could be your finances, it can be your health, it can be your family trauma, it can be childhood trauma, it can be relationship problems, it can be your marriage, it can be anything, have you ever been in battle, and God actually came through and won for you. We have so many people today who are afraid to talk to God and reach out to God because they scared that they are not worthy enough. There's a lot of people who lack the confidence to have a one on one with God, you are not conceded. When you walk in relationship with God, you are no better than anybody else to have a relationship with God, but you are a child of God, and you begin to win in life when you establish that relationship with God. And there's nobody who can tell you how to grasp that relationship. The relationship comes from a true authenticity of you wanting to connect with your Creator, David was connected to his creator, the Lord Almighty. And even though he was the youngest one out of his brothers, he was the one who slayed the lion. No, nobody stepped up into battle to give this man his opportunity to find somebody who was in Israel, who was already a part of the war. How did David come? Who was only supposed to go check up on his brothers, he literally placed himself in the middle of this war and say, You know what, I'll do it. I'll put this man to rest, I'll kill him. I don't even think it was so much about what he could receive as a gift. I think it was the fact that Goliath was trying to defy Israel and tried to condemn them and try to make them less of and David was just not that he was confident because he felt like he was more of even though he was the son of a servant, David, he was the boldest out of them. Like the whole thing. I'm pretty anxious to see how I touch him more stories about David and things like that, because I didn't get an beginning understanding of Samuel. And again, as the Bible is taking me in and out of chapters, but just reading certain stories, it kind of gives me insights on my life on where it's at today, how a lot of people will look at me before talking to me or anything like that. And it would think that I'm conceited, but in overall, I'm just confident, I'm confident in my walk with God, I'm confident that I'm nothing without God, I'm confident that I know that I need God. And there's nothing more sufficient that I will need more than God and the relationship with God. So if that makes me conceited to somebody else, all I do is I just pray that they received this same confidence to walk in relationship with God to visit a church and not just visit a church because it's culturist. They are because it's a thing to do. But visit a church to get that connection with our Creator, to hear the words of the Bible to allow these stories to actually resonate to where they give you some type of understanding. Now, David was the youngest of his brothers is kind of different for me. I'm the oldest of my siblings, and I'm the only girl my mom had five kids and wrestling pays to one of my little brothers. He passed away last year in 2021 over gun violence and to have to bury my brother the way that I had to bury him very unexpectedly. Being the only girl not really having somebody to lean with and talk to not having that sister bond with no body and things like that. I feel like life it really puts us in situations to bring out the confidence in us. I didn't think I had the confidence to plan my brother's funeral and lay him to rest properly. But when I leaned in relied on God wholeheartedly, he allowed me to walk that process very smoothly to lay my brother to rest As he returned to the creator, the reason why I say that is because I'm speaking on a confidence that David had David had a confidence that his brothers didn't have the people in war didn't have. And I'm sure David didn't go there to have this confidence are to take on this battle. But the fact that he had so much confidence in the Lord and his relationship with the Lord gave him that confidence needed to take on this Goliath that says a lot to me. It lets me look at my life and my situations and say, you know, the reason why I'm able to go another day or wake up another day to receive the Daily Bread is the confidence that I look into walking with God and just having that relationship with God. I mean, it's just super important. And I speak on that, because that's just what I'm here for. Like, seriously, I'm here to be in relationship with the Creator so that I can just do his work and whatever work that is, we never know, just like David, he didn't know that he will be doing and the Lord's work and helping Israel fight off the Philistines the way that he that he did, but it all worked out for the greater and I'm blessed. I'm blessed to be here and be having this podcast with you guys. So yes, you guys, go ahead and check out any episode before this, send this message to somebody that you feel can benefit from it. Go ahead and check us out on social media and just stay connected. You just never know where we're going with this. Because I'm not going to give it up. I may disappear every now and then. But this is my baby. And this is something that God gives me the confidence to do when I'm able to talk to him and read the stories and they just get better and better every time. So until next time, you guys, I'm your cousin and Christ. Huanchaco Lovett and this is bougie Bible studies blessed to be s also known as blessed to be strict because we allow God to strip everything of us. That's not like him. Until next time, you guys i'll talk to you bye