So much of our battle will be a war of words when the enemy takes just enough of a fact and starts twisting that thing around.

We're in this war of words.

It sounds true to us.

You may be seated.

I can't wait to tell you we're in a turn.

Turn with me in your Old Testament's, please, to 1 Samuel chapter 17. First Samuel chapter 17. Do you see a little

caption before you get to that very first verse of 1st Samuel chapter 17? What do you see

right there in that little caption? Oh, David and Goliath.

I've got to tell you something about David and Goliath. I told you earlier that I was raised in church.

I do not remember not having the name of Jesus as a familiar sound in my life.

Being raised in church was a beautiful thing for me because we had all manner of thing

going on, and I do mean all manner of thing, because I still also, behind the front door

of my home was loved by many people and cherished by many people, but I was also abused and I was also misused,

unbeknownst to several others.

Is anybody getting what I'm tracking in?

So while all this is going on and while all this madness is taking place, and I grow up in this kind of madness,

also with a lot of beautiful things

happening in this free-for-all that was my young life, being abused by an authority figure

in my life, and yet being taken to church every single time the door is open, and thinking to

myself, well, there is the hypocrisy element that could really trip you up and break you down right here.

Or maybe you could just believe it.

And I don't know how to explain.

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