When it's a champion you're looking for, it's Goliath.

That you'd like to have on your team. The Philistines must have been thrilled. Goliath was huge.

She was mighty. He was heavily armored. By all appearances Israel didn't stand a chance against him.

But today on Truth For Life we'll discover how weakness can triumph over strength in God's economy.

Alistair Begg is teaching a message titled The One Between.

For Samuel chapter 17 and verse 1. Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle and they were gathered at Sokah, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Sokah and Azakah in Ephesus Damim.

Saul and the men of Israel were gathered and encamped in the Valley of Ila and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines.

The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side with a valley between them.

In the camp from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

He had a helmet of bronze on his head and he was armed with a coat of mail. And the weight of the coat was 5,000 shekels of bronze.

And he had bronze armor on his legs and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.

The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam and his spear's head weighed 600 shekels of iron and his shield bearer went before him.

He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel. Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine and are you not servants of Saul?

Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me then we will be your servants.

But if I prevail against him and kill him then you shall be our servants and serve us.

And the Philistines said, I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man that we may fight together.

When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine they were dismayed and greatly afraid. Amen.

Well we are now clearly beyond the halfway mark in our studies in For Samuel.

If we know very little about For Samuel we probably know this chapter. It is one of the great stories.

Not only of the Bible but it is a great story in itself. It is the record of a dramatic encounter between a giant and a shepherd boy.

And even just as stated in those terms immediately perks up some of the ears of people and not least of all some of the little people.

Some of us, depending on our background, may come to this as essentially a blank slate.

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