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Toy Stories - Ken | Protector vs Tyrant

Southland Christian Church

Southland Christian Church

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8531 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

1 Samuel 17 | Join us as Scott unpacks God's intention for manhood in a sermon on being a protector versus tyrant. 

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0:00.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, fellas, there's a biblical phrase for what you need to do today, okay? And it goes like this. Brace yourself like a man. Okay? The King James version of that is gird up your loins. Okay, so that's what we're going to do today. And if you're like, does that mean what I think it means? It means exactly what you think it means. So just brace yourself for today.

0:21.6

There's this age-old argument that men have had, and it goes something like this, like,

0:26.4

who would win in a fight between, and it would go something like the best boxer in the world

0:31.1

versus the best wrestler in the world, or who would win in a fight between Bruce Lee and Chuck

0:36.4

Norris? And the argument is just endless and it inspired all kinds of things,

0:40.9

like video games from the 80s and 90s, like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter.

0:45.6

Basically every John Claude Van Dam movie was inspired by that idea,

0:51.4

but it really all got put to bed, to be honest with you. In 1993, when UFC 1 happened in

0:58.4

Denver, Colorado. It was an eight-man tournament, and every man in the tournament represented a

1:04.7

different martial art. So you had everything from karate to kickboxers, to traditional boxers, to

1:10.6

even a sumo wrestler

1:12.2

was in the tournament. But there was also this little known martial art named Brazilian

1:17.2

Jiu-Jitsu that really nobody had heard of at the time that was represented by this young

1:22.7

170-pound Ken doll-looking man named Hoys Gracie.

1:28.3

Hoise Gracey entered this tournament, not just with the weight of his family and his family name,

1:34.3

but the entire martial art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu on his shoulders as he entered the tournament.

1:40.3

It was something called representative warfare.

1:43.3

It's an ancient practice. He was not the tournament. It was something called representative warfare. It's an ancient practice. He was not

1:47.3

the favorite. The favorite was a much more seasoned fighter named Ken Shamrock, and he was absolutely

1:53.5

terrifying. And so it shocked everybody when hoist won, not one, not two, but three fights in the same evening, winning the tournament

2:03.6

and defeating none other than Ken Shamrock by choking him out. It was the ultimate David and

2:09.6

Goliath story. Now, if you got your Bibles open and I hope you do to that very famous passage

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