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Hebrews 11- Faith

Benjamin Ng

01 The Faith of Abel

02 The Faith of Enoch

03 The Faith of Noah

05 The Faith of Sarah

08 The Faith of Jacob

09 The Faith of Joseph Part 1

11 The Faith of Moses’ Parents

10 The Faith of Joseph Part 2

13 The Faith of Moses Part 2

14 The Faith of Moses Part 3

12 The Faith of Moses Part 1

15 The Faith of Rahab

16 The Faith of Gideon

07 The Faith of Isaac

17 The Faith of Barak

19 The Faith of Samson

20 The Faith of Jephthah

21 The Faith of David

22 The Faith of Samuel

04 The Faith of Abraham Part 1

06 The Faith of Abraham Part 2

Father in heaven, thank you so much for this time that we can study together.

Thank you Lord for the wonderful week that you gave to each and every 1 of us.

And we're thankful also for the Sabbath hours that we're in, that we can rest from our labors.

And Lord, I just pray that you'd help us to put aside our burdens even now, that we can come and focus upon your word, and to come and hear your voice speak to us.

May you please, Lord, grace us with thy presence.

Please give us your Holy Spirit to lead and teach us and guide us into all truth.

Hebrews Chapter 11 And as usual I have the slides here and as I said we're looking at a famous character in the bible this evening Hebrews 11 32 the bible says and what shall I more say for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and of Barak and of Samson and of Jephthah all of these people we've studied already and then of David also and Samuel and of the prophets.

David he occupies a large space in the Bible in history it's really hard to pick out just 1 individual story and I want to just start with the story that is the most famous of all stories and you can probably guess what it is we find it in all the children's story books as well It is the story of David and Goliath.

We'll focus on that as this is probably the earliest story in the life of the faith of David where we see him exercising great faith, tremendous faith and some would say even probably the greatest faith throughout his whole life.

But before we go to his story, it's found in 2nd Samuel, pardon me, 1st Samuel chapter 17.

Just a little bit of a background leading up to this point where David is about to fight Goliath.

David at this time when he comes and he's standing before Goliath he's already been anointed king secretly by Samuel the prophet and Saul is still king but Samuel had to go to David's town pretending that he was going there to sacrifice and secretly anoint David as the next king of Israel.

God is now making the choice instead of the people but Saul, people are beginning to realize very quickly that Saul is not the leader that they were hoping he would be and so he's impetuous, he's a fiery hot-tempered leader and they can't really trust him.

A rash man, capable of doing anything really, if you cross his path in the wrong way.

And so as a result for Saul, an evil spirit had come upon him and God had rejected him already.

And David now, he's been anointed and we pick it up in 1st Samuel chapter 17 starting there in verse 1.

Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shoko, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shoko and Ezekah in Ephesdamim.

And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together and pitched by the valley of Elah and set the battle in array against the Philistines and the Philistines stood on a mountain on the 1 side and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side and there was a valley between them And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was 6 cubits and a span.

Pardon me, I forgot to change the slide there.

But look, the Philistines, they've come looking for trouble with the Israelites.

They're pitched on 1 side of a mountain and on the other side the Israelites are pitched and out comes Goliath, their champion.

The Bible says that he was 6 cubits and a span.

For reference, I think a basketball hoop is about 10 feet tall.

I'm not sure, maybe I might be mistaken, but he is 1 foot shy of the height of a basketball hoop, you know?

And look, he wasn't just any ordinary giant.

You see, people that normally get that tall, right?

They're really skinny, their bones and their muscles can't hold them up, they're kind of a bit deformed, they're too tall.

Look at what the Bible describes about the armor that he wore and then his shield and sword and different things.

In 1 Samuel 17, continuing in verse 5, and he had a helmet of brass upon his head and he was armed with a coat of mail and the weight of the coat was 5, 000 shekels of brass and he had greaves of brass upon his legs and a target of brass between his shoulders and the staff of his spear like was a weaver's beam and his spear's head weighed 600 shekels of iron and 1 bearing a shield went before him.

In verse 5 there it says that the weight of the coat was how much?

So He was not some skinny person walking around tall and skinny and deformed.

He was built, he was strong, he was a giant.

And that doesn't even include his helmet of brass and the greaves of brass, which is the brass that would cover his legs.

And on top of that it says that his spear's head alone weighed 600 shekels and it sounds a lot but that's about 7 kilograms just the head not the whole spear you got to understand this and 7 kilograms doesn't sound like a lot 15 pounds does not sound like a lot but this is just the tip of the spear the spear's head 15 pounds or 7 kilograms We can understand here now why Saul is probably trembling and the whole army is trembling.

He represents, Goliath represents, the mother of all problems, the trial of all trials, the greatest of all problems that you might ever, ever face in life.

These are the sorts of problems that come into your life just once in a lifetime, ready to crush out your spirit and any hope and joy that we have in our lives.

You know, friends, have you ever experienced such a problem before?

Problems, they come sparsely when you're young, but they seem to increase as you get older and older and older.

It's called the midlife crisis for a reason.

Because many of us maybe have never faced such tremendous problems until we get to that point.

But Goliath, he represents the biggest of all problems that we ever face, ready to crush out your life and your spirit and you feel like giving up on God and tempting to just abandon him altogether.

This was the experience of Saul And he wasn't ready.

An evil spirit had come upon him, you see.

But he comes out, Goliath comes out with a challenge.

If you defeat me, the Philistines and us will be your servants.

But if we defeat you, you will be our servants.

Let's continue reading 1st Samuel 17 verse 10 and the Philistines said I defy the armies of Israel this day Give me a man that we may fight together And when Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid Saul was afraid.

God wasn't with him anymore God had abandoned him you see He was the first king of Israel and it was chosen by man yes but God was with him at the very beginning but it seemed that Saul always seemed to walk in his own will and his own way and he just stopped obeying God.

The last straw was when God asked him to kill all the Malachites, all the women and children, all their cattle and all everything.

And Saul, he went halfway and that was the last straw.

God was testing him to see if he could really trust him because he would be a man that would trust God's word to the very T, even though sometimes it didn't make sense.

We read there back in 1 Samuel 16, verse 14, but the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.

You see, God had rejected him from being king.

David, of course, who was anointed secretly by Samuel while Saul was still yet alive.

So that's why the whole host of Israel is trembling.

God is not with them because God is not with their leader and it just goes to show how important it is when you are a leader and how being the man of the house is such an important position because that is the position of influence through the leader, through the head of the home.

If God is not with the leader of the home the chances are God will not be the leader of anyone in the home and so it was with the children of Israel they were trembling they were afraid because at the time when they're looking at their leader for strength and support he's in his tent scared scared however David has already been secretly anointed king and God is sending him on the way.

He's orchestrating all these events according to his will and according to his best timing as well.

Now David was a son of the Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah whose name was Jesse and he had 8 sons and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

And the 3 eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to battle.

So the 3 older brothers were in the army, and the names of his 3 sons that went to battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab and the third Shammah.

And David was the youngest and the 3 eldest followed Saul.

But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

And the Philistine drew near morning and evening and presented himself 40 days.

And Jesse said unto his son David, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn and 10 loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren, and carry these 10 cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

Look there's some things to note here as we read through this long passage here but David he's the youngest of 8 brothers.

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