When You Are Facing Giants

This morning I wanna talk to us about this whole topic about facing giants.

When you are facing giants.

I love this picture.

[laughs] We all have giants.

What are giants? Giants are big, big problems.

From time to time, thank God it's from time to time, we all face giants.

Uh, they refer to problems, obstacles, mountains in our life.

Uh, and this is our roadmap.

We're gonna talk about giants, uh, and we'll talk about God is real, giants are real, and how we find principles, uh, as we glean from a very familiar story, David and Goliath, and then the Israelites going into the Promised Land, uh, to draw those principles to help us in this journey.

All right? Uh, giants are real.

For some of us, giants is, uh, uh, a financial problem.

For some of us, we have been scammed, uh, during the COVID years.

Um, for some of us it is a health scare, or a diagnosis by a doctor.

Um, for some of us, it is a relational conflict, a problem at work.

Uh, I- Israel was asked to go to the Promised Land, and God told them ahead in Deuteronomy 9 when Moses recounted this, that you're gonna go to nations that are greater and mightier than yourself, cities that are great and fortified up to heaven.

A people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim.

And we know the, uh, the background of this, are the Nephilim in Genesis 6, uh, where the demonic spirits interacted with the human body of the man and the woman, they produced giants.

There was a king in the Old Testament called the King of Bashan, and it's described that he's almost 13 feet tall.

And God gave the command to the Israelites to destroy them, destroy them.

And when it come to the time of David and Goliath, Goliath was, was about nine foot tall, and it was David and his mighty men that wiped out the remainder of the giants.

So giants are real, and we follow this typology, uh, of how we can conquer giants from the principles from Scripture.

Following God does not mean our problems do not exist.

It means we recognize that they are real.

We take the bull by the horn, so to speak.

So in 1 Samuel 17, uh, we find this battle, all right? Uh, where the Philistines gathered on one side of the mountain, the Israelites gathered on the other side, and there was a valley in between.