Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful

that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hi friends, welcome back to a year of the Bible. My name is Beth, and I'm here again with my co-host

Alexa. Hey, Alexa.

Hey, everyone. Today we will be discussing both 1st Samuel 17, 41 through 50 and 1st Corinthians 1, 11 through 31,

and how these two passages connect to each other and point us to Christ. So Beth, how about you begin that discussion? Yeah, so I think there are two main things that we want to talk about today.

The first is that it is in God's nature to work in ways that are contrary to human wisdom and normal human conventions.

So this is said very plainly by Paul in the First Corinthians passage that we read, and it is illustrated by the story of David and Goliath.

So while most rulers would raise up their best fighter to go against the Philistinian

giant, God chooses to use a young man and a small shepherd boy with a sling and a stone.

He's been working in these unconventional ways throughout the biblical story.

He chose to build his people, the nation of Israel, from an elderly couple with

no children. He rescued his people from slavery through the blood of a lamb. And then there are two

stories which we didn't cover in this study that I think also reflect this aspect of God's nature.

So the first is the Battle of Jericho when Joshua leads the people first into the promised land.

The way that God has them win that battle is to first walk around the walls of the city seven times every day for a week and then seven times on the final day.

And then at the end, after they walk around the city, the walls fall and the people of Israel are able to overtake Jericho.

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