David never spoke Goliath's name or title, treating words as weapons with life-and-death power. The speaker connects this to Proverbs 18:21 and Isaiah 54:17, arguing that David's verbal confidence in God's deliverance neutralized the giant's threats before the stone ever flew.
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Good morning. I just wanted to come real quick and talk about— continue the lesson on being a king, that you're the king. And we're talking about King David, and today we're going to talk about coming up to the battle with Goliath. And the one thing I want— I want to take a little different angle, a little different approach than maybe you've heard before, but The words that you speak have power. And it says in Proverbs 18:21, death and life is in the power of the tongue, and those that love it will eat of its fruit, or something. I'm paraphrasing the exact quote, but it's 18:21, and it's death and life's in the power of the tongue. And it— what I hear that saying is, you know, life and death, you speak what you— the words that you say have power. And so when we look at what David— with that in mind, when we look at what David said to Goliath, I mean, all the way through it, he never called Goliath by his name. He never gave— he never gave that power. And you look at some of the— you know, if you look at, you know, some of the, um, like professional athletes, you know, and you talk about the best in the world like Michael Jordan, when people used to play against Michael Jordan You know, I mean, they— there was a— there was an, um, just a power that came when you knew you were playing against him, or LeBron James, you know, that kind of thing. When people start going against them, it's, it's not just the team they're playing for, but it's him. And so David never— David called this guy a Philistine, or the uncircumcised Philistine. He never called him by his name. And so that's, that's the first point. But the second point I want to, I want to touch on is when the battle was actually about to start, when David went and got his stones, and his 5 smooth stones, and his, you know, I think he said his staff, he grabbed his staff. But when Goliath saw him, Goliath cursed him and then said, look, I'm gonna take, I'm gonna feed your body to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field. And he pretty much said, look, I'm gonna kill you. You're coming out here, I'm gonna kill you, and the birds and the beasts are going to feed. We're just going to leave your body here to rot. So David could have— if David would have tried to not say anything and then go and do his thing, I think he could have been defeated or would have been defeated. But instead of— he, he powered— he went up, he went above that. And I want to concentrate on Isaiah 54:17. It says, no weapon formed against you shall prosper. And every tongue that rises against you, you shall condemn. And this is the heritage of the Lord of hosts. That scripture, I use that scripture a lot. Whenever somebody says something against me, you'll hear me, I bind that up in Jesus' name. I mean, I know people think I'm a freak, but I don't let words come against me. If I don't accept that, you know, you have people speaking words over you all the time. If somebody says something that doesn't feel right, or I mean, you can go ahead and and just condemn it, because that's what you're supposed to do. Isaiah 54:17 said, no weapon formed against you. Now, that doesn't mean the weapon that's formed against you is not going to hit you or, you know, initially kind of set you back. It says it's not going to prosper. It's not going to do what it was, it was planned on doing. So, you know, you're not going to— it's not going to be without a battle, but you— it's not going to work if you can. But you got to condemn it. You got to use your words to condemn it. So what I want to show you is how David condemned him and said, you know, you come to me with a sword and a spear and a shield, but I come to you in the name of the Lord. And so what he did is he put the battle on God's shoulders. He said, look, I don't know how it's going to happen. I mean, he didn't say it, but he just pretty much said, look, God's going to deliver you into my hand. And so with that knowledge and with that confidence, He just struck off into battle. And he said, the other thing he said was, I'm gonna cut your head off. And he had a sling and a rod. I mean, he didn't have no sword. So he knew he was gonna, I mean, he was gonna use the giant's own sword against him, and he did exactly that. So I just really, what I want you to think about, and we're gonna continue to talk about this probably this week, is the power of your words. That I don't think you probably realize how powerful words are. You know, you heard that little nursery rhyme, sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me. That's a lie from the pit of hell. Words have incredible power. Words are very, very powerful, and we're gonna find out just how powerful this week. But anyway, I wanna segue out of the King David I mean, we could talk about that for a long time, but I kind of want to give you little nuggets to help you with your life. We already know you're king, and we showed you an example of a king and how he used his, his power. So we'll come back to King David, I'm sure, but I just want to— now I want to segue into the— into your words, and we'll look at that tomorrow. But I want to thank you. I want you to think about that. I want you to think about the words that you're speaking today. And how they're either life or death. So I, um, I think I'm gonna stop there, and I'll talk at you next tomorrow. Thanks.
