In the book of First Samuel, we read how King Saul's

army, the Jewish army, remained paralyzed by fear as they listened to the

ongoing taunts of a giant named Goliath. But David's reaction was vastly

different from the other soldiers. Today on Truth For Life, we'll examine the

pivotal point in the battle between Israel and the Philistines.

Alistair Begg is teaching from First Samuel chapter 17, where in verses 12 through 20.

Back to the text itself, there we have Jesse, advanced in years and the three

oldest boys who have gone off to join the battle. You'll notice that they were

stationary and David was going back and forth. In verse 15, he went back and forth from

from Saul to feed his father sheep at Bethlehem. And again, I'll just pause for a minute here.

This verse 15 provides an explanation for David's absence, having already been in the

battle. David made an armor bearer in chapter 16. So people say it with the text and say,

wait a minute, he became an armor bearer for Saul in chapter 16. And now we're here in

chapter 17 and apparently nobody knows what's going on. What you've got is you've got in

in 14 to 23, you've got a little glimpse into a future event which is set in such a way as to

enable us to realize that the significance of both his private and his public declaration

is there. Now with this stated, then sorry to have started this movie thing, but this

is the camera that then cuts again to the valley, doesn't it? And David was the youngest of the

three. David went back and forth and then once again it cuts to verse 16 and for 40 days the

Philistine came forward and took his stand morning and evening. So we've got the picture, they're

all there, they're doing nothing. And then we know according to verse 16 that while we've had

this little moment or two in Bethlehem, through all of that time the same stuff has been going on as

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