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It reminds me of a very rich man, who had a daughter who was extremely ugly. He was trying to get her married, so he invited a hundred of the finest looking young men in the county to come to his mansion. He made them this offer - he had filled his swimming pool with alligators and to any of the young men who would be willing to jump into that pool and swim from one side to the other successfully, he would give to them their own mansion, an oil well that would produce millions of dollars of income, forever, and his daughter. Everybody was pretty pumped until they heard about having to marry the daughter. Nobody moved. Five, ten, fifteen minutes went by and you could cut the tension in the air with a knife. All of a sudden, there was a splash and with the speed of lightening, a young man went from one side to the other side of that pool and got out gasping for breath. The millionaire came rushing up to him and said, "Son, that was tremendous. I suppose now you want to marry my daughter?" The young man said, "No way." He said, "Oh well, I suppose you want my mansion." He said, "No, I don't want that either." He said, "Then, I guess you want the oil well." He said, "No sir. I don't even want that." The man said, "Well, what do you want?" The man said, "I just want to know the name of the guy that pushed me in." In this scripture nobody was pushing anybody into this fight. Nobody could be bought, bribed, or bullied into fighting this huge giant until a nineteen year old country boy, a shepherd, a no-name called David, volunteered, went out with just a sling-shot and a stone, killed Goliath and accomplished, perhaps, the greatest upset of any contest in the history of mankind. The truth of the matter is there are going to be times in your life and my life when we will face a threat or a problem or a challenge that is far bigger than we are. It may be a marriage that is failing, a disease or illness or it may be a financial shortfall. Life is full of battles and whether or not you experience the agony of defeat or the thrill of victory in those battles will be determined by how you face that giant. We learn through this unbelievably fantastic magical, but true story that victory in the battles of life is literally, "A Stone's Throw Away", because what David had, we have and what David did, we can do. Like David, we must have... I. Courage To Step Up For The Fight 2
Now as the voice of the Georgia Bulldogs, Larry Munson, would say, "Now get the picture." A giant is facing the entire army of Israel. He is 9' 6" tall. He would make Shack look like a midget. He wore a bronze tee-shirt that weighed 175 pounds. He carried his spear - the head of which weighed 25 pounds. In short, he would make The Hulk look like a punk. When this human tank grumbled to the valley he turned the army of Israel into a track team whose specialty was running backwards. "When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were greatly afraid". (I Samuel 17:24, NASB) What Goliath did was a common occurrence in warfare in the eastern world, because oftentimes the armies would choose representatives to go one-on-one and whoever won the one-on-one contest would give victory to the entire army. Goliath issues this challenge every morning and every evening for forty days. That is the way it is with giants in our lives. They don't come just once and leave; they meet you in the morning when you get up and they go to bed with you every night. If you don't confront them and conquer them they will make your life miserable. Every time Goliath would issue the challenge, Israel's battle line would begin to move - backwards at warp speed. Every day these soldiers were getting great aerobic exercise, but they weren't fighting anybody. It reminds me of a little boy that was playing in the garage during the holidays and he heard his dad telling his uncle about a recent argument that he had with his wife. He said, "Uncle John, I let her know exactly where I stood and I told her how it was going to be around here and the next thing I know she was crawling toward me on her hands and knees." The little boy piped up and said, "Daddy, is that when Mommy told you to get out from underneath the bed and fight like a man? For forty days, not a man could be found. The king wouldn't fight. The generals wouldn't fight. The commanders wouldn't fight. The soldiers wouldn't fight. They were all paralyzed by fear. Then a nineteen year old shepherd boy literally steps up for the fight. "Then David spoke to the men who were standing by him, saying, 'What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should taunt the armies of the living God?' The people answered him in accord with this word, saying, 'Thus it will be done for the man who kills him.'" (I Samuel 17:26-27, NASB) 3
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