David Didn’t Ask His Brothers | A Hidden Lesson Before Goliath | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:45 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:47 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift of podcast. As you would

0:50 Speaker 2: have checked out in the last couple of episodes or

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0:55 Speaker 2: know that this week we are learning some lessons, powerful

0:58 Speaker 2: lessons that we can incurgate in our life from the

1:00 Speaker 2: Life of David from for Samuel chapter seventeen. I really

1:04 Speaker 2: recommend you to go back and listen to these because

1:06 Speaker 2: these are powerful truths that will help you and just

1:08 Speaker 2: pray that the Lord will give you the grace to

1:11 Speaker 2: inculcate them in your life as well. So today I'm

1:14 Speaker 2: going to share something that really caught my attention. I

1:15 Speaker 2: really want to share this with you because I believe

1:18 Speaker 2: that when I looked at this, this was something that

1:20 Speaker 2: really made me feel like, oh my gosh, why didn't

1:23 Speaker 2: I see this before? So this is what I wanted

1:25 Speaker 2: to understand. That this is a moment when David is

1:28 Speaker 2: going to greet his brothers and give them, you know,

1:34 Speaker 2: all of the goodies that his dad has sent him

1:37 Speaker 2: to get the report back to his dad on how

1:40 Speaker 2: his brothers are doing. And he's the thing I wanted

1:42 Speaker 2: to understand. When you look at verse twenty two onwards,

1:45 Speaker 2: I'm reading from the Nalty version, it says that David

1:48 Speaker 2: left his things with the keeper of supplies and hurried

1:51 Speaker 2: out to the ranks to greet his brothers. And verse

1:54 Speaker 2: twenty three, as he was talking with them, who is them?

1:58 Speaker 2: The brothers? Right? Is talking to the brothers, and that

2:03 Speaker 2: is when Colleith comes and taunts. Okay, and then David

2:08 Speaker 2: heard him about his usual taunt to the Army of Israel.

2:11 Speaker 2: Understand that Colleith has been taunting them and for the

2:14 Speaker 2: last forty days and here is a moment when this

2:18 Speaker 2: is business as usual, right, colleth coming and taunting. And

2:22 Speaker 2: here's the thing I want you to understand. That everybody

2:26 Speaker 2: started running and they are saying, have you seen this giant?

2:30 Speaker 2: The men asked, he comes in day and day out

2:33 Speaker 2: to defile Israel and the king has offered a huge

2:37 Speaker 2: dar to anyone who kills him. Okay. Now, verse twenty

2:40 Speaker 2: six is what caught my attention. David asked the soldiers

2:43 Speaker 2: standing nearby, what will a man get for killing is

2:47 Speaker 2: this philistine and ending his defiance of Israel? Okay? And

2:53 Speaker 2: if you see later on as well, he goes and

2:56 Speaker 2: talks to the other army men, the people around on

2:59 Speaker 2: what is the reward and so on and so forth,

3:02 Speaker 2: and to a point where in verse twenty eight is

3:05 Speaker 2: oldest brother come her years and talking to the men,

3:08 Speaker 2: and he gets hangry. So what really got my attention

3:11 Speaker 2: here is that David right was talking to his brothers

3:17 Speaker 2: who were also in the army, by the way, right,

3:19 Speaker 2: he was talking to them who were also in the army.

3:22 Speaker 2: And then that's when this disruption comes with Coliath coming

3:27 Speaker 2: and daunting. But you see, to get the information David

3:30 Speaker 2: did not go and talk to his brothers again and

3:33 Speaker 2: to ask for information. He didn't ask them what is

3:36 Speaker 2: the reward for the one who kills this man who's

3:41 Speaker 2: defiling Israel. He is inn't ask his brothers. He asked

3:46 Speaker 2: the others. Are you getting what I'm saying? This is

3:48 Speaker 2: so important, guys, because even though his brothers were the

3:53 Speaker 2: ones he was associated with. I mean, of course they were,

3:56 Speaker 2: you know, relatives, right, the siblings. He's not asking his

4:00 Speaker 2: brothers about the reward. He's not asking the brothers about

4:04 Speaker 2: the situation. What is he doing? He's asking others about it? Right.

4:11 Speaker 2: In fact, not only that he goes and asks, even

4:13 Speaker 2: if you see verse thirteen says he walked over to

4:16 Speaker 2: some others and ask the same question and receive the

4:18 Speaker 2: same answer. So I want you to understand he went

4:21 Speaker 2: around talking to different people about this situation with Goliath,

4:27 Speaker 2: but he didn't talk to his brothers about it, even

4:29 Speaker 2: though his brothers were also in the army. Right, what

4:33 Speaker 2: I wanted to understand is you've got to know whom

4:35 Speaker 2: to talk to about certain things. They can be your

4:39 Speaker 2: own family, they can be your own close ones, they

4:42 Speaker 2: can be your own siblings, they can be your own

4:45 Speaker 2: sometimes even parans or spouse in some sad cases. Or

4:50 Speaker 2: it can be your own kit and kin, your close ones,

4:53 Speaker 2: your own close friends. But the problem is that they

4:57 Speaker 2: don't see the calling God has placed in you. Because

5:00 Speaker 2: you see, like I said in verse twenty eight, his

5:03 Speaker 2: own brother belittle diim, his own brother. They're not believe

5:06 Speaker 2: in him. His own brother was against him. His own

5:08 Speaker 2: brother discouraged him. His own brother did not stand and

5:13 Speaker 2: support and say, hey, he'll be your cheerleader, David, come on,

5:16 Speaker 2: you've got to call you. Let's do this. He didn't

5:19 Speaker 2: do it. His own brother was against So I wanted

5:22 Speaker 2: to understand this. David knew the hostility that he grew

5:25 Speaker 2: up with, so he did not go and share or

5:29 Speaker 2: talk to his brothers about it. He talked to people

5:33 Speaker 2: who were neutral. He talked to other people about this.

5:36 Speaker 2: So what I wanted to understand is sometimes you should

5:39 Speaker 2: know that even if somebody is close to you, if

5:42 Speaker 2: they are not for you, or if they will discourage

5:44 Speaker 2: or stop you from your calling, you should not share

5:48 Speaker 2: things with them. You should know what to talk to

5:51 Speaker 2: whom about what, because you see, sometimes we have this thing, Oh,

5:55 Speaker 2: how can I hide this from family? But what if

5:58 Speaker 2: your own family is against what God has placed in you?

6:01 Speaker 2: What if your own family does not stand with what

6:03 Speaker 2: God has put in you? What if your own family

6:06 Speaker 2: there's not see the real calling that God has given you.

6:11 Speaker 2: You can't allow them to choke your calling. You should not.

6:15 Speaker 2: If David listened to his brothers, he would have just

6:17 Speaker 2: left in the in the back round. If he had

6:20 Speaker 2: allowed Iliev's words to define him, he would have left

6:26 Speaker 2: with discouragement. But he did not. Why he went around

6:29 Speaker 2: talking to other people. He went around talking to other men,

6:33 Speaker 2: other army men, and while he was talking, the news

6:39 Speaker 2: went to King Saul about David. Okay, so this is

6:43 Speaker 2: the lesson I want to share with each one of

6:46 Speaker 2: us that we need to be careful on how we

6:51 Speaker 2: keep boundaries with people, even if it's our own close ones,

6:56 Speaker 2: and learn to share what needs to.

6:58 Speaker 1: Be shared with the right people.

7:00 Speaker 2: Right because he shared, he asked this reward system with

7:03 Speaker 2: other people who would not come in this guy. They

7:06 Speaker 2: would not bother like this guy wants to try. He's

7:09 Speaker 2: not my I don't even know who he is. If

7:11 Speaker 2: he wants to risk his life, be foolish. I don't care.

7:13 Speaker 2: So they were people who were neutral, so he didn't

7:16 Speaker 2: bother about them at all, right, and they also did

7:19 Speaker 2: not bother about him, whereas Iliev was not like that.

7:22 Speaker 2: David's brothers always you know, we're against David in the

7:28 Speaker 2: even in the previous chapter. You see in chapter sixteen

7:31 Speaker 2: that David was even forgotten when King I mean Prophet

7:35 Speaker 2: Samuel wanted to annoy the next king, and Jesse had

7:38 Speaker 2: to line up all the sons. He forgot David. That's

7:41 Speaker 2: how David was treated. But yeah, David knew that he

7:45 Speaker 2: if he talked to his brothers about this, they're going

7:48 Speaker 2: to talk him out of this. That's why he spoke

7:50 Speaker 2: to other people instead of speaking to his own brothers.

7:54 Speaker 2: So today, that's a challenge I want to leave with

7:56 Speaker 2: you that, even if you're close with certain people, David

8:01 Speaker 2: was talking to his brothers, but when he came to

8:05 Speaker 2: a decision about his destiny, he did not talk to

8:08 Speaker 2: his brothers. He went and spoke to somebody else who

8:12 Speaker 2: would not stop him from what God had put in him.

8:16 Speaker 2: So that's a challenge I want to leave with you, guys.

8:18 Speaker 2: I hope this is a blessing and I will catch

8:20 Speaker 2: up with you very soon tomorrow God bless you.

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