David, God’s Hero, Part 2

Summit Life with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Are you up against a giant today? Maybe you’re facing a scary diagnosis or a financial crisis. Perhaps it’s a rebellious child, or someone you love has walked out of your life. When your problems seem so big, it’s hard not to feel like God has abandoned you. But in this message, Pastor J.D. reminds us that our God is fighting for us, even when we can’t see it. We’re looking at the story of David and Goliath as we continue our overview of the Bible called, The Whole Story.

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0:00.0	Today on Summit Life, an encouraging message from Pastor J.D. Greer.
0:04.1	Real courage doesn't come from not having difficulties or knowing that the way is going to be smooth.
0:08.9	Real courage is knowing that you have a God that is better than life and a God that is larger than death
0:14.0	who constantly stays beside you and says, surely, my goodness and my mercy are going to follow you.
0:34.9	Welcome to Summit Life, the Bible teaching ministry of J.D. Greer. I'm your host, Molly Vidovich.
0:38.4	Today, we're continuing our teaching series called The Whole Story.
0:43.2	If you're just joining us, Pastor Jady has been giving us an overview of the whole Bible,
0:44.9	from Genesis to Revelation.
0:50.5	If you've missed any part of this study, you can find the previous messages at jadie greer.com.
0:52.7	Are you up against a giant today?
0:56.6	Maybe you're facing a scary diagnosis or a financial crisis.
1:02.2	Maybe your kids are rebelling or someone you love has walked out of your life. Whatever it is,
1:08.2	it feels insurmountable. When your problems seem larger than life, it often feels like God has abandoned you. Well, today, Pastor J.D. offers hope that our God is
1:13.3	fighting for us, even when we can't see it. We're looking at the story of David and Goliath.
1:18.7	Let's pick up where we left off yesterday in the book of First Samuel.
1:24.4	First Samuel 17, verse one. Now, the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. 3 and the philistines stood on the mountain on the one side and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side with this big valley between them first 4 and there came out from the camp of the philistines a champion named goliath whose height was six cubits and a span which would have made him in our measurements about nine foot six.
1:45.4	And he stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel. Why have you come out to draw up for battle?
1:50.6	Am I not a Philistine? This is meet the Philistine right here. And are you not just servants of Saul?
1:56.8	Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. And if he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we'll be your servants.
2:03.5	But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants.
2:07.4	Verse 16 says that every morning and every evening, Goliath did this for 40 days.
2:13.0	All right.
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