Sunday Highlights: Giant Killers
Praise the Lord Saints of the most high God. I praise God for his goodness and his mercy! Thanking Him always for his grace and just for being a mighty good God! Can I get an amen to that! It gives me great pleasure to bring you the Sunday Highlights for Sunday morning service on February 21, 2010. I must say that it was a high time in the Lord. The Spirit of God met us there again! If you were not there, I can only hope you can feel the anointing from the message as I try to give you the highlights of the service. God showed up and reminded us in praise and worship that we are more than conquerors through him that gives us strength. He is an awesome God and I thank him for allowing us to be there in his presence to witness his goodness. Just thinking about it makes me want to give him praise! We were reminder on Sunday morning by Elder Derry Haygood that we do not have to be over powered by the enemy. We are Giant killers. His text came from II Samuel 21:15-22 and a powerful message it was. Please allow me to expound on the highlights.
When we hear the term Giant we may think of a huge castle and a gigantic man at the top of a beanstalk. Some may think of Shakil O’Neal and others may think of Goliath the giant in the bible that David was faced with. There has been a controversy about how tall Goliath was the bible says 3 liters and some interpret that to be 7fl tall, while others other’s say 9 ft tall. Which ever the case, if you have someone standing over you who is ad least 7 ft with a really big sword, I believe we are safe to say that it is a giant. In II Samuel 21: 15-22 during David’s reign it was not unfamiliar for the giants to taunt Israel. David went down in Persia to fight the Philistine giant. David being up in age could have let anyone of his soldiers fight for him but the fact that he himself decided to fight for his kingdom proved that he was a good leader. David’s will was good but he found himself deceived. He thought he could bear the fatigues of war like before, but this time he waxed faint. His body could not keep up with his mind. The giant saw this and began to say to himself, I’m going to slay him. (vs 17) Abishai came to David’s relief, God knew that such a champion could not be left faint. Abishais courage gave David, extra strength and David killed the giant.
Even the strongest saint faints and gets weary. Our will is good but our strength sometimes fails us. We must remember that even when our strength fails us, God will send help that will give us the strength to defeat the giants.
There were 3 giants that were killed by David’s servants
1. Ishbibenob was slain by Abishai/David
2. Sippai was slain by Sibbecai
3. Lahmi the brother of the famous Goliath was slain by Elhanan
In verse 20, it speaks of another kind of giant different from the rest. This giant was no ordinary giant he had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. This giant had a defect. In modern day medicine there is a term called “polydactyl’s.” It is a congenital physical anomaly in humans having supernumerary fingers or toes. It’s the result of defects or damage to a developing fetus. Something was wrong with its origin. So it came from something or somewhere that was defected and damaged, perverted or twisted.
All of the rest of the giants had names but for this particular one, a name was not given. Only the attributes of this giant was given. You will not always know the name of your enemy, but you can recognize them by their attributes. The attributes will reveal what is concealed. He was a huge giant full of hatred and vengeance. I have decided to give him a name. Let’s name him “The Bazaar”. Bazaar, meaning weird, grotesque and unusual. He suffered from the Frankenstein Syndrome. This giant came for one purpose only! To kill Israel.
As you look at the world today you see the Bazaar showing himself, Same sex marriages, preachers fornicating, people committing adultery and on drugs, fathers and mother’s molesting their children. We see Bazaar behavior all around us. The giant will attack your joy; he wants to steal your peace. It’s not your car he wants, or your house, it’s the peace you have because of your car, your house or your children. We must realize that whatever our joy is tied to, that is what the enemy will attack. This is why our joy should be found in Jesus. When the devil unleashes this kind of enemy, it means you are close to your victory.
This giant was sent especially to kill. He was the chosen champion. When we are faced with this kind of enemy we don’t have time to be cute or passive. We have a giant within us. We all live on planet earth…. How do you know? Well just imagine the earth when the earth is God’s foot stool. This great big God is the God that we serve. The God who is with in us. Think of the biggest thing you can imagine and know that he is larger than that.
God is the same yesterday, today and forever so, size does not matter to him. God uses the simple things of this world to confound the wise. (I Corinthians).
When I was young I had a bully in school who would mess with me. He would push me around, take my lunch money and he even slammed my hand in the locker. I would take his abuse day after day, until I got sick and tired of his mess. One day when we were outside at recess. We played a game called dodge ball and it was my turn to throw the ball. When I threw the ball I aimed it right at him and hit him hard with the ball. He pushed me so hard that I slid from one side to the other on the grass. My pants were torn and I had grass stains all over my clothes…. But it wasn’t over. All I could remember is the fact that he had pushed me for the last time. I got up and punched him over and over again so much until he just laid there; I even dared him to get up. He had pushed me for the last time. I went after him in hot pursuit, I had made up my mind that you have pushed me for the last time and that today… you would get yours. This is the way we must be when the enemy presents us with giants in or lives, grotesques, weird giants must be taken down… We are more than conquerors with Christ. We will win. He gave us the ability to be giant killers! We do not have to take the enemies mess! We do not have to be bullied by the enemy we can win this battle.
Recap:
First Point: The Attributes – Know the attributes of your enemy.
Second Point: He has a Purpose- Know the purpose of the enemy. To kill, steal and destroy. He is not playing and neither should you.
Third Point: When he unleashes you are close to the victory- Know that when you are faced with a grotesques, weird, and Bazaar situations, this means that your victory is close at hand.
I began to imagine when I hit my bully, how every time he came to taunt me and flaunt at me! It probably made my punch more powerful. That’s what we must to do in the spiritual. We must come face to face with the bizarre and say I’ve come in the name of the Lord, (Like David & Jonathan) and you have taunted me for the last time. Then reach in your memory bank and think about the prior victories that God has already given you. Take confidence and , rare your head back and watch the Lord win your battle. Go for IT!
As I close there was another descendant of David who was a giant killer, he came a few generations later but he took on the greatest enemy, death itself and won. So because Jesus conquered he took that same power and gave it to us and now according to Romans, he made me more! More than any problem that comes my way, more, than any giant that I face, I am more than a conqueror in Jesus Christ. We have an example in our savior. We Are Giant Killers!
© 2010, Elder Alvia Cabbler. All rights reserved. A part of Shekinah Glory Outreach Ministries International
