Title: True Sword Victory (1 Samuel 17:45-49)
What have you been fighting over last week? Yesterday I went to a children's competition. Here, we competed who is good. I've been fighting parking lot construction last week. Yesterday, while supervising the work, I would visit one house and another, come to church and supervise the work, then come to church again and give orders, and then go to church again.
In today's text, there is a boy who wants to fight a great battle. David is now fighting Goliath. It is an opponent of power. No, it's a non-competitive opponent. He is now fighting the battle with everything he has. If you win, you give a hero, if you lose, you give life, that is, you die. Now it's one of the two. He is fighting a serious swordsmanship. But this changed David's life. There are times in our lives when we have to bet the game of life. If you look at it like a swordsmanship movie, you will have practice swords, wooden swords, and bamboo swords in your swordsmanship training, but there will come a time when you will have to fight with a true sword.
What should we bet on? We have to wager a serious battle in fulfilling our mission for the Lord. Why is David fighting Goliath in the text? We risk our lives to fight for God's people, Israel. God says that the one who wins in this battle will be rewarded. In Revelation chapters 2 and 3, 7 churches in Asia Minor appear. But there, in every church, the words to overcome are found six times. "To him who overcomes I will give of the tree of life to eat." “I will give you the hidden manna, and I will give you a white stone.” "I will give you authority over all nations." “They shall be clothed in white robes, and his name shall not be obscured from the book of life.” “I will make them a pillar in the temple of God.” “I will make you sit with me on my throne.” So, folks! Don't even think of failure or defeat in your dreams. I hope that God will give me victory and march forward.
So, how do you get to victory in a real sword fight? Let's find out the secret of victory that David shows in the text.
David relied on the power of God to fight. You must have strength to win. A person must have strength while living in the world. We cannot live in the world without power. That is why a person strives to gain strength. Walking on the road is strength, and sitting is strength. Eating is power and seeing is power. So when we talk about seeing, we say sight. If you don't have the strength, you get as much disability as if you do not have the strength. Why don't your eyes get blurry when you're tired from working a lot?
This means that your eyesight is weakened due to lack of strength. So when a person stops breathing and therefore loses strength, he can't see anything. It is a fact that even seeing can only be seen with power. And, a person's love for a person can only be done with power. Suppose you become a patient and lie in a hospital bed. Then it is difficult to have perfect love. Also, worshiping God and praying to God is possible when we are healthy and have strength.
However, it has several powers. Physical power, knowledge power, and material power are economic power, wisdom power, and moral power. By the way, these strengths are needed for victory, but for true victory, there must be a positive alpha power on top of these forces. That is the power that comes from God from above. David relied on the power of God to move forward. If you rely only on my own strength, you will have no choice but to lose. We need God's help. The righteous in the Bible did not use what was on the earth as their strength. If we look at {Psalm} as a whole, it says, 'You must not rely on the power of the world.' He says, 'Do not depend on horses or on armies, nor on men.' It says, 'We must rely only on Jehovah God'.
God's power is omnipotent. Folks, the power of God is limitless. Greater than omnipotence, omnipotence. There is nothing God cannot do. I assure you, I would not have believed in God if His power was not finite and omnipotent. But the power of our God is infinite and omnipotent. For me, I am proud and proud of this position of serving and serving God. It's my everything. Almighty God is more precious than my life. God considers me more precious than the world, but I can't even compare my life to God. Dear saints, do you really believe that God is your strength? God is truly the true God who gives us joy and works out salvation. Please believe that the power of God is our strength.
A couple made a lot of money by working hard in their church life and earning money in the world. Then people started to gather around. After that, there was no place the couple did not go. When they said, 'Where is someone's wedding?' or 'In a house there was a portrait', they went there, and as they lived like that, it became a maintenance in the area where they lived. But a problem arose. As this couple went about this way, it started to happen that they could not keep the Sunday. Why is it that if you do well in your religious life and do not participate in the first Sunday worship service, your heart is pounding and you are afraid? However, once you fall for it once or twice, it will eventually become dull and casual. This couple did. Later, it became common to run to the event hall without attending church services, just in case something happened. Even so, the money kept increasing, and they said, 'God has blessed them,' but in fact, it was not so good for other people to crouch down on them.
Dear saints, did God leave these couples alone or did He discipline them? For a while, I thought I could do anything with the power of money, and I lived like that. But one day, suddenly, his body became strange. So I hurriedly went to the hospital and got a comprehensive diagnosis and found that I had diabetes. Guys, it's a very strange thing to be sick. Although the expression is a bit strange, when a person becomes lowly, there is no disease, but when he becomes a noble person in the world, disease often comes. When you are humble, you can eat well and sleep well, but when it starts to become precious, the food doesn't taste good and you can't sleep well. If you only look for luxury and dedicate yourself to comfort, that's what happens. In the end, who do you think this person went to? I went to the doctor and tried all the folk remedies, but there was no improvement in the disease, so I realized a lot later, and eventually went to God and knelt down.
Guys, why are people so stupid? Even though we know that Almighty God is the only way to live, we do not usually live as we know. You must see the coffin to shed tears. Of course, it's good to realize later, but how wise would your life be if you were a little wise and depended on God faithfully from the beginning? Ladies and gentlemen, one of the most important things in the Christian life is 'always remembering that only God, who has infinite power and is Almighty, is my strength.' The power that a person has, it blows away when blown away. Believe in it, stay away from God, don't taste the rod of love, and I pray that you will not change your heart, trusting and relying only on Almighty God as before.
-Amen-