Welcome to the In Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, September 16th.

What do a rock, a penny, a tree, and a fishing boat have in common?

Well, we will find out as the series on the

ways of God continues.

Turn if you wheel to First Samuel for a moment and I want you notice something here.

First Samuel, the 16th and 17 chapters is a story that most of us know really well but there are people for

example who have not listened or some other part of the world and you'll

recall that here's an incident that's going on. On one side of the valley

here are the

list things. On this side of the valley there are the armies of God. I mean this is

Saul who is the king at that point and here there's this valley and on the other side of the Palestinians they

have this man called Goliath he's probably about nine feet tall somewhere thereabouts

and he has this javelin and a big sword and what he's doing he's

taunting the people of God and saying send me somebody out here to fight with me

and ever who wins the arrest surrendered to him.

And so this young shepherd boy, David, he comes on the scene.

And you recall what his brother said when he showed up, they said,

what are you doing here?

Why don't you go back to your few sheep,

which is just that extra cut?

What are you doing here?

Why don't you go home?

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