1 Sam 14:6, Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, "Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the Lord will work for us, for the Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few." 
This morning, we are presented with the faithful trust in the Lord that was present in Jonathan, the son of Saul. There is that reality of the history of how the Lord went before His people from of old. There is also that truth that we can trust God now as our fore-fathers trusted Him and as our children, and grandchildren, and great grandchildren, etc. can trust Him. 
God goes before His people with all majesty and glory and grace and power in His unwavering and unchangeable faithfulness. This was in place in the ages from before time began and it will remain the source of our assurance and confidence that God has everything well in His hands throughout all the eternity yet before us.
Accordingly, let us look to a number of times in the history of our ancestry in which the Lord proved Himself as the One in Whom His people can wholeheartedly and uncompromisingly trust to prove Himself mighty and victorious. This is the course of our walk and the reason that we can so fully rely on the awesome and glorious and magnificent Omnipotence of Our Lord God Almighty!
We will begin back in the Book of Genesis, Gen 18:11-14. This was the point where God made a great promise to Abraham and Sarah. They were both so very old and beyond the age of parentage, however nothing is impossible with God, as they soon realized. 
Gen 18:11-14, Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was past childbearing. And Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" And the Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, when I am so old?' "Is anything too difficult for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son."
The reality for Sarah in her understandable physical reaction was such that none of us can blame her. Her womb had been closed for over 90 years. She had long before given up any idea that she could bear a child of her own. She had tried to assuage her motherly instincts and the desire of her husband to have an heir through her maid servant, Hagar. She had done everything she could possibly do to make things work with her limited human abilities. Now she overheard that she would yet have a son. To Sarah that was actually human folly to consider and to accept. The reality, however, was that it was The Lord Who made this pledge and delivered to the two of them a son in whom the promise of an innumerable heritage was forth coming. 
Next we find The Lord, through Moses, in Lev 26:1-13, encouraging that promised people, the Children of Israel, in the same reality. They were to hold true to Jehovah Who had performed so many miraculous feats to this point in their walk before Him. They were on the verge of entering into the Promised Land. The Lord was setting before them the reality of how their lives would manifest the glory of God as He would continue to go before them. They were His people and He was their God.

Lev 26:1-13, You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the Lord your God. 'You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the Lord. 'If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. 'Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land. 'I shall also grant peace in the land, so that you may lie down with no one making you tremble. I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through your land. 'But you will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword; five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. 'So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you. 'And you will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new. 'Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you. 'I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. 'I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you should not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect. 
	Notice the full breadth of the promises of the Omnipotent working of God on the behalf of His people. It follows from the full sustenance of the food and shelter to the protection from not only the enemies of the other nations, but also the harmful beasts that would cause them to fear. There is a peace and a safety and well being that is the necessity of every person to know in order to fully appreciate and find satisfaction and rest in the course of our walk on this earth. It is all laid out before the people by the only One Who can make that promise a reality. 
	The numbers of the foes who will flee before a mere handful of the Lord’s people was due to the fact that it would be the Lord Who would instill a deep seated fear into the hearts and minds of those nations arrayed futilely against His people, as long as they continued to be His people. They needed to follow those guidelines which were the course of loving obedience to Yahweh as The only True and Living and Almighty Lord God Jehovah. They were to show their love for Him in the same manner that He was showing His Love toward them, with all their hearts, all their strength, all their souls, and all their minds. 
As He loves us so richly and fully and unfathomably deeply, so are we to love Him in the whole manner of our walk on this earth. This will manifest everything that is needed in the fulfillment of our lives even here, right now, not just when we get to heaven.
	The distinction is further between those who remain steadfast to the Lord as His people, in opposition to those who are not of the nation of God as detailed by Moses in Deut 32:30-33. This is still the heart of our walk with God today. There is that reality in place wherein we have no fear of this world because we know Who goes before us, as do they.
Deut 32:30-33, "How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the Lord had given them up? "Indeed their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves judge this. "For their vine is from the vine of Sodom, And from the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of poison, Their clusters, bitter. "Their wine is the venom of serpents, And the deadly poison of cobras. 
There is a tremendous difference in place within the very essence of the minions of this age. It is a distinction that we need to hold to with all our being and with all our hearts. We dare not dabble in the supposed delights of this world power because that will draw our hearts and our minds away from God. We will soon find ourselves kneeling before the idols of this age and bitterly impaired by the poison of the vicious serpents surrounding us. 
As so boldly proclaimed by Joshua to the Nation of God in Josh 23:6-11, there is a responsibility that we need to hold firmly in our beings. We ask the Lord to build up His guard in our hearts and minds and to guide our every step throughout our sojourn. We know that, left to our own devices, we would fail utterly and miserably. 
Therefore we cherish the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit and we ask, with the every fiber of our being, that it is no longer our will, but His will that we want to see done on earth as it is in Heaven. He is the One Who fights for us as long as He is the desire and the heartbeat of our lives.
Josh 23:6-11, Be very firm, then, to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you may not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left, in order that you may not associate with these nations, these which remain among you, or mention the name of their gods, or make anyone swear by them, or serve them, or bow down to them. But you are to cling to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day. For the Lord has driven out great and strong nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day. One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the Lord your God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you. So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the Lord your God.
We have dealt with the fact in a number of previous considerations, that the Lord fights the battles for us. We are called to stand firm in the Lord with Him as our shield and our bulwark. The battle belongs to the Lord, as we used to sing in the early days of our fellowship. He is the One Who goes before His people. 
He does not need our help. However, He does require our obedience. We move as He directs and we stand firm in the truth that His is the Victory. All the assaults and the slings and the arrows that are heaved upon us are the dying projectiles of an utterly defeated foe. Jesus has done all that is necessary to establish His Glorious triumph over sin and death for those whose hearts are staid in Him.
Again and again, we have that chorus recounted from the depths of our beings of not my will, but Thine be done. Nothing of me but all of Thee. We are the willing slaves of the Lord of all creation, not because we are the vanquished foe, but because He has so loved us unto Himself through His death and His resurrection. 
Gideon was one who saw the victory of the Lord over the gathered and countless forces of the Midianites. They were innumerable in their vast encampments, yet the Lord chose to winnow Gideon’s army down to only 300 men to go against the overwhelming forces arrayed against Israel. We read of this entire winnowing process in Judg 7:4-7.
Judg 7:4-7, Then the Lord said to Gideon, "The people are still too many; bring them down to the water and I will test them for you there. Therefore it shall be that he of whom I say to you, 'This one shall go with you,' he shall go with you; but everyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall not go with you,' he shall not go." So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, "You shall separate everyone who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, as well as everyone who kneels to drink." Now the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men; but all the rest of the people kneeled to drink water. And the Lord said to Gideon, "I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped and will give the Midianites into your hands; so let all the other people go, each man to his home." 
When Gideon set aside his qualms about the upcoming fight and simply obeyed the Lord, it was a slaughter of unparalleled proportion. The 300 Israelites simply shattered their earthenware vessels, held their torches aloft, blew the ram’s horns and shouted before the Midianites. God had set such fear in the hearts of that enemy that they started killing each other and running amok within the encampment. They were utterly defeated by the work of God that was set into their minds and their imaginations, fueled by the sight and sound of the soldiers of the Lord as they followed the commandment of God through Gideon.
There is another with whom we will conclude this morning. It is the shepherd boy, David, as he was facing the Philistine giant, Goliath, as recounted in 1 Sam 17:45-47. This vile warrior of the enemy of the people of God had been relentlessly taunting the very name of Jehovah in deriding and disparaging the gathered forces of the Israelites. 
1 Sam 17:45-47, Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted. This day the Lord will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the Lord does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the Lord's and He will give you into our hands." 
The main reality that David knew going into this battle against the giant was the truth that …the Lord does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the Lord's and He will give you into our hands. The Lord was going before this shepherd boy with only a sling and a few stones against this seasoned and violent and vicious and blasphemous giant of the Philistines. Yet there was no terror in David as there was throughout the ranks of the Israelite army. There was that confident assurance that God was going before him into this battle. David knew that it was the Lord Who would be victorious in order to show all those assembled soldiers on both sides of the conflict that The Lord was the One Who would win the battle.
This is the main core reality that needs to be a settled foundational rock upon which we stand. It is not our battle to fight! It is the Lord’s as He so directs. As the foes of this age with all those giants surround us, we need to realize that no giant, formed by the pressures and the deceits and the stresses of this age are mightier than God. As much as we might feel overwhelmed and outclassed and chastised and emotionally and physically drained and unable to hold up under the pressure, The Lord is Our strength and He is our victory through it all! There is nothing of this world, seen or unseen that can stand against the mighty and awesome and absolutely triumphant Hand of Jehovah, Yahweh, The Lord God Sovereign and Majestic in the Splendor of His Glorious Victory! So be it! 
Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, "Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the Lord will work for us, for the Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few." Amen.

This morning’s benediction is Mic 7:7. But as for me, I will watch expectantly for the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. Amen.