Just about everyone has heard of the giant name Goliath.

Today in our study of first Samuel we'll learn that for forty days no one in the

Israelite army wanted to go up against this enormous thillistine soldier in

battle. God however used an unlikely young shepherd as his chosen champion.

The message is titled The One Between. This is Truth for Life.

Phinalis Gerbeg is teaching from the opening verses in chapter 17.

So not only is he described for us so that we can get a picture of him but

then he speaks for us and we have the record of what he said. Verse 8 he

taunts and challenges Israel. He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel.

Why have you come out to draw up for battle? That was a very good question wasn't it?

Why have you actually come out here to draw up for battle? That was the question

that some of the soldiers in the in the camp of Israel must have been asking

themselves. You know every morning we get up put the shoes on and everything

and then out we come and we just stand there. Why have you come out here? If

you're not planning on fighting why do you even show up? You know just

in passing. If we're very clear that the story is not about finding ourselves in

the story as David he was the hero and we want to be the hero too. Said in

that aside if we want to find ourselves anywhere then I think the church can

find itself as a rather neutralized bunch of soldiers standing around holding

weapons and the world is going why don't you guys fight? Why don't you actually

say something? Why don't you do something? Don't you have a man? Don't you have

someone? And that's exactly what is happening to them and then he says am I not a

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