While the Queen of England was visiting Canada, a seemingly insignificant incident had taken

place, and yet it reverberated around the world. A man who was standing there as the Queen

coming out of her courage, and seeing that the Queen is about to step in a muddy section,

he valiantly took off his raincoat and laid it on the ground, on the mud, for the queen to step on.

Now, the queen looked at the young man and gave a grateful smile of recognition,

but she decided to take a slight detour to avoid the spot that he has graciously covered with his raincoat.

Now, the press had decided somehow, for some reason, to take notice of the incident, and they blazed the young man's name on so many of the front pages of many newspapers around the globe.

And when I reflected on this, I thought, well, this is not really the greatest of deeds.

Indeed, it's not even the highest of honor that the queen has ever received,

and it has not been the greatest of gesture that

she was ever received and I began to think of the significance of this and the significance

is not the gesture or the honor or whatever it was to the one for whom the act was offered, that made it significant, that made it noteworthy for

the newspapers around the globe to report it. And in honoring of God, listen carefully,

it is not the greatness of our service that matters. It is not the volume of our

activities for God that matters. It is not even the magnitude of our involvement in the work of God

that really matters. But what really matters is the desire

and the willingness to honor God in whatever way he wants us to honor him. In this portrait of a

champion, we're going to see today how David honors God in victory. I want to bring you up to date

very quickly. When we left David.

Saul, King Saul died in a battlefield. And with him his own son, Prince Jonathan. He also died

in the battlefield. And after David mourned both of them, his friend Jonathan and even Saul

who was hunting him down, after he mourned their loss.

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