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It's perhaps the most familiar story in all of Scripture, the epic clash between David

and Goliath.

But there's the third character that we often leave out, King Saul. In today's episode, we'll continue through Paul's sermon

series on the life of David, and today Paul juxtaposes the personal identities of David and Saul,

and reveals how they radically affect the way that they face the opposition of the

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with this message on David and Goliath.

Well, why all these stories in the Bible?

Why all their gritty personal detail?

Why take time to tell us that when David got to the site, his older brother mistreated him?

Why tell us that David was bringing bread and cheese?

Why tell us how much the spear of this giant weighed?

What is God trying to communicate to us with all of the detail, the rich, intimate,

personal, gritty detail of a passage like this? You see, God wants us to know that his work,

his plan, his covenant is real. It's for a real world, and you get real world

details. It's for real people. And if you course your way through this passage, these people

should be familiar to us. They're like

us. We know what family squabbles are like. We know what fear is like. We know what danger is like.

We know how sometimes we wonder what our reward will be. All of these details are in this

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