DPC Sermons 2013 (pdf) - Deal Pentecostal Church

But Paul and Barnabas didn't back down. Standing their ground they said, ―It was required that God's
Word be spoken first of all to you, the Jews. But seeing that you want no part of it—you've made it quite
clear that you have no taste or inclination for eternal life—the door is open to all the outsiders. And we're
on our way through it, following orders, doing what God commanded when he said, ―I've set you up as light
to all nations. You'll proclaim salvation to the four winds and seven seas!‖ Acts13:46-47
Like Paul & Barnabas, let’s continue to love God, believe Him and live for Him as
we proclaim God’s Salvation to the world and so complete the work He has set out
for us.
Sunday January 20 th 2013 Ps.92 1Sam.17
Legal Insider Information!
In business Insider Information is the knowledge about a publicly traded company that could
be used to an investor's advantage. It is illegal when the material information has not been
made public and has been traded on. This is because the information gives those having
this knowledge an unfair advantage.
Christians have been given information about the Kingdom of God that is not known to
the general public and this gives us a legitimate ―unfair‖ advantage over others. Although
this information is not secret, unBelievers cannot utilise it because it is only discerned
through the Holy Spirit: This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in
words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the
Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and
cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 1Cor.2:13-14 Believers have this
―legal‖ Insider Information on God‘s business! Sadly too many Christians are not using it and
so are spiritually bankrupt. As we re-look at the story of David & Goliath, let us use the
information to our advantage.
The phrase ―David & Goliath‖ is now part of our language and used for describing a
situation in which a small person or organization defeats a much larger one in a surprising
way. In the Bible narrative, David, a mere teenager, is so disturbed by the blasphemous
taunts of the enormous soldier Goliath that he offers to take him on single-handed in
order to defend the Name of God as much as to defend his county. Goliath measured ―six
cubits and a span‖. A cubit is taken as the measurement from the elbow to the finger-tip
(18inches) and a span is the measurement from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little
finger (9inches) making Goliath 9ft 9inches tall. Although many people dismiss this size as
an exaggeration, it is not unrealistic when we have several people alive today who are over
8feet tall. In recent history the tallest person was Robert Wadlow who measured 8ft
11.1inches (2.72 m). He was from the USA and lived from 1918 – 1940. The smallest
recorded person is Chandra Dangi who is only 21.5inches (54.6 cm). He was born in
Nepal in 1939 and is still alive in 2013.
The principles outlined below from the David & Goliath story will help us today
and inspire us to overcome every difficulty that we face that opposes God.
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to
demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the
knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2Cor.5:4-5
1 We must have had an encounter with God. Before David fought Goliath, he was
anointed as the new King. Anointing represents the Holy Spirit‘s empowerment: So Samuel