Facing The Giant Of Your Life - 1

Introduction

Mark 4:9-11, New King James Version

9 And He said to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
10 But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable.
11 And He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables,

1. Anytime we read the Bible we see a very clear picture of ourselves

2. But then we read, “But God…”

• Ephesians 2:4-5

Philistines invaded the Israelite’s territory (vs. 1)

• Luke 22:2-3
• Acts 5:3

The enemy sends in the best; The Champion! (vs. 4-7)

• Height
• Weight
• Spear’s head weight
• One bearing a shield went before him

What is the shield of a believer?

• –Psalm 3:3
• –Psalm 5:12
• –Psalm 18:35
• –Psalm 28:7
• –Ephesians 6:16

Goliath’s character

• Pride (vs. 8-9)
• Proverbs 21:4
• Proverbs 11:2
• Proverbs 16:18

No fear of God (10)

• Psalm 36:1
• Proverbs 8:13
• Proverbs 16:6
• Luke 23:40

Goliath described in the New Testament

• Romans 3:14-18

Fear of Saul and all of Israel (vs. 11)

• The enemy’s tactics
• Strike fear in the heart
• Ephesians 6:12

Why was Saul afraid?

• I Samuel 9:2
• I Samuel 14:52
• I Samuel 16:14

A Forty-day attack

• Numbers 32:13
• Genesis 7:12
• Mark 1:13