Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and

Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

All right, guys, this week I'm taking you on a journey to Golgotha.

So up to this point, we have explored the life of Abraham, how God called him to offer his son,

Isaac as a sacrifice, how Abraham was prepared to obey, but was halted by an angel of God,

the angel of God, and how God then provided a mature male lamb caught in the thorn

bush as a substitutionary offering. And then we fast forwarded about a thousand years to the reign of

King Saul. Saul turned from God, so God turned from him. David, a teenage shepherd boy, was then

anointed by the prophet Samuel to be the next king of Israel. And then David found himself in Saul's

house as a servant charged with calming him down when he was being attacked by demonic spirits.

Then we have the Israelite and Philistine armies squaring off for battle, and the Philistine champion,

a giant named Goliath, challenges the Israelites for 40 days to send out a champion from

their ranks to fight him. Nobody stepped up until David caught wind of this, and he volunteered for the fight,

and Saul said, go and the Lord be with you.

So then David goes to the battlefield.

He's armed with only five stones in a sling, so let's pick up the narrative back in 1st Samuel 17, starting in verse 42.

And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him,

for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance. And the Philistine said to David,

am I a dog that you come with me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

The Philistine said to David, come to me and I will give your flesh to the birds of the

air and to the beasts of the field. Then David said to the Philistine, you come to me with a sword

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