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Living Hope SDA Church

Christian Martin

Whose Son Are You?

Many of us know the story and we know the song.

Only a boy named David, but he could pray and sing.

Only a boy named David, only a rippling brook, only a boy named David, but 5 little truths he took to heart.

Before a little boy named David ever fought Goliath, he fought something far more dangerous.

You see, every battle you'll ever fight on the outside begins with the battle on the inside.

And it involves a question that demands an answer.

My message today is entitled, Whose Son Are You?

Our Father in heaven, as we Open your word and examine an old story.

We pray that it would speak to us in a fresh new way.

And for that to happen, Lord, we need the Holy Spirit to draw near, to be with us, to be the 1 who actually speaks to us through your living word.

We thank you Lord for answering our prayer.

When King Saul asked the question, whose son are you?

Can you imagine David standing there before the presence of a king?

You see, David's name means beloved, Beloved.

David was literally saying, I am the beloved of the living God." That's what David was saying.

I am the beloved of the God, the Lord, who exists, the living God.

This well-known story actually reveals so much before David took that sling and turned it round and round and round.

You see, David didn't just walk into a valley with a sling.

I am The Beloved, the Son of the Living God.

And that's why before David ever faced a giant holding a sword, David had to face voices holding lies.

Stay with me here because we're about to see a perspective of this well-known story From an angle that you have probably never thought of it before.

You see, the battle with Goliath was loud.

It was so loud that it caused the men of war on the other side to tremble when they heard the loud voice coming from that giant.

The battle before Goliath, before Goliath was quiet, Very quiet.

The giant came later, but the lies came early because the enemy always attacks identity before he attacks destiny.

And before the enemy, before the enemy seeks to attack your destiny, where God is preparing you for, He's going to attack your identity because that is at the very core of who we are.

And as we discover what the enemy does and what David did, if David is going to stand, if David is going to fight, if David is going to win this battle against this champion of the Philistines he must first overcome the lies sent to silence him and stop him intensely moments before he faced the greatest opponent of his life.

Much greater than lions, much greater than the bears, he wrestled with his own hands.

David was about to encounter lies that would seek to undermine his identity and destroy him before he stood in the presence of the giant.

That's where we find the story of the 5 stones.

But to get the context of this encounter, we have to take a look at the previous chapter.

In chapter 16, we 16, we find a very important insight.

The mention of the stones, if you would come with me first to 1 Samuel 17, verse 40.

You got your Bibles and that's a good thing.

Let's actually begin there because that's the immediate context of our meditation this morning as we look at the word of God.

In 1st Jamil chapter 17 verse 40, this is what we see.

We see David taking a staff in his hand and he chose for himself 5 smooth stones from the brook.

And he put them in a shepherd's bag, in a pouch, which he had, and a sling was in his hand.

What we're going to do this morning is we're going to view these 5 stones.

Regular stones, the Bible says they were smooth stones, and we're going to view each small, smooth stone as a truth.

5 eternal truths that God has taken, polished in us through prayer, through worship, and a secure identity in him.

And the 5 smooth stones that David took for himself in his hands will remind us of the truths that have the power to silence every whisper of the enemy.

Today we are going to be learning things that if you hold on to them, if you apply them in your life, you're going to discover that it can make a significant impact in your life, literally.

Your life from this moment on could turn a whole new direction because the enemy knows that the only power he has in your life is the power of the lie.

And for some of you he's convinced you of his lies a long time ago.

And he still has you under his sway, still has you under his control, because that's what he does with lies.

But as we examine scripture, we're going to discover that these truths that the God has given us have the power to defeat the enemy in our lives.

And the first lie that David has had to face was not shouted to him by a giant, but whispered by his own family.

Come with me now to 1st Samuel chapter 16.

1st Samuel chapter 16 and we're gonna look at verses 10 and 11.

Lie number 1, 1 Samuel 16, verses 10 and 11.

Notice what the Bible says, and thus Jesse, Jesse is the father of David, made 7 of his sons pass before Samuel.

He had 8 sons, 7 brothers, and David 8 sons.

But Jesse took 7 of his sons and made them pass before Samuel.

And Samuel said to Jesse, the Lord has not chosen these, verse 11, and Samuel said to Jesse, are all the young men here?

Oh, then he said, there remains yet the youngest, and there he is keeping the sheep.

You see, David's own father almost forgets about him.

He's brought all his boys, all his sons to show themselves to Jesse.

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