1 Sam 17:45, 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 morning, we have the classic account of the triumph of David over the giant, Goliath. The obvious aspects of this historical recounting have been chronicled in so many accounts of literature and film and lore. It has been used in teachings about the overcoming of tremendous odds, that size does not matter when facing obstacles, good triumphing over evil, etc, etc, etc. 
	The readily apparent elements of this account have been used, preached about, stretched, idolized, imitated, demeaned, mocked, glamorized, and eulogized about in so many varied and sundry arenas, films, stories, poems, and chronicles to the point that even in reading it this morning, there may have been some with the reaction of complete reserve. Having heard about this episode over and over again, we may tend to just let it slide through to the next chapter of our reading. 
	Even as I prepared for this morning, there was that hesitation within my mind as to what else could be brought out of the reading. Yet, over and over again I was led to this morning’s passage. There is that subsurface focal aspect of this stand for Jehovah that fills our hearts and our minds. We have spent many hours on the truth of this passage in other studies. So many various sermons have been preached about David slaying Goliath. Still, even when trying to circumvent this account in some measure, there was that prompting to read it again, and again, and again.
	My spirit was set upon the reality that God has ever brought forth, yet which continually needs to be proclaimed and set at the forefront of our attention and our consideration. This statement by that young shepherd boy stands the test of eternity in the fact that all trust and credit and honor and credibility and reliability is set into the knowledge that God will be the One Who gives the victory, then, today, tomorrow, and forevermore! This is something that we can not just carelessly disregard as a trite story that we have heard over and over and over again. 
	We need to ask the Holy Spirit to bring it into the depths of our beings, again and again and again, no matter how many times we may have dealt with it. The vast reality that God is the One Who gave David the victory over Goliath, that God is the One Who has always been the Victory of His people, that God will now and forever be the Victorious and Triumphant Lord God Almighty to those who trust in Him is never trite! It never grows old with repetition and continual recounting in word, in song, in praise, and in adoration. His Victory will never dim nor grow redundant and or less glorious.
	Rather, with each recounting of the goodness and the mercy and the power and the awesome salvation that God brings forth, we find ourselves ever more in awe of Him and His wondrous and His miraculous working power to save and to redeem and to conquer! God is triumphant! God is Omnipotent! God is Omnipresent! God is Omniscient! God is Our Savior! God is Our Lord! God is Our Victory! God is Our Everything!
	Accordingly, let us spend this morning in the acknowledgment and the adoration and the glorification as well as the encouragement that God will do everything that is necessary in our every battle in order to bring forth His victory in the salvation of His People. This will be through the Omnipotence of His Hand in operation in the plans and the purposes that He has put forth for those who trust in Him. We will rejoice together as we read of the accounts of His Glory and His Majesty in the manner of how He has proved Himself over and over and over and over, again and again and again as the Savior of His People!
	We will begin with the passage in Lev 26:6-9, in which Jehovah made known to The Children of Israel the promise of what would be in place if they, if we will honor and obey Him. That promise is just as true today as it was in the day that it was pronounced upon those Israelites.
	Lev 26:6-9, '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. 
	Notice the fact that because of the Lord, in obedience to Him and in reverence of Him, He will provide everything necessary for us to live in peace, without fear and without anguish. This does not mean that everything will be roses and cream and idyllic. There is that aspect in which we will be confronted by those who are the enemies of the Lord. But note that we are not to be afraid, nor tremble nor ever fret or worry about any of it. The Lord will use us to bring forth His Victory and His deliverance as is needed to face every adversary. 
	Unlike the Israelites in this morning’s reading, who quaked and shivered in dire fear and dread of the giant who was tainting and reviling them, we are to be as that shepherd boy, David. He simply trusted that the Lord would go before Him to deliver the people from the enemies against whom they were arrayed. 
So it is in our lives. We will have those gigantic obstacles, those battles of such outrageous proportion in our eyes. But they are never too big or too difficult as we stand in our faith and trust in the Lord! He will do everything necessary to see us through as the people unto whom the Lord means everything. We represent the Lord and that is never a cowering or a timid depiction as the redeemed of Jehovah! It is always to be filled with that complete confidence and assurance that God will see us through it all for His glory!  
	Next please turn to Deut 1:29-31 as the Lord reiterates this reality of not letting fear and cowering dominate our thoughts and our concerns as we go forward in Christ Jesus. God is the One Who is actually fighting the battle and going before us into the field of conflict. He presents to us the truth that He will be the One Who makes sure that we are cared for and brought forth victoriously as His very own children. Just as He consistently and so victoriously went before His people throughout their release from captivity and then in their sojourn in the wilderness, so He will always carry us safely and securely in the security of His arms.
	Deut 1:29-31, Then I said to you, 'Do not be shocked, nor fear them. 'The Lord your God who goes before you will Himself fight on your behalf, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have walked, until you came to this place.' 
	Next, please consider the encouragement that we receive later in this Book of Deuteronomy, verses 35-39, where God made the definitive proclamation to His people of the fact of His overriding and abiding power in action on the behalf of those whom He has chosen unto Himself. He wants His people to rest in the security of His protection and His victory over all the forces that could ever be arrayed against the witness and the testimony of Jehovah. 
	Deut 4:35-39, "To you it was shown that you might know that the Lord, He is God; there is no other besides Him. Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power, driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today. Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other. 
	There is no one but Yahweh Who can save and protect and conquer every fear and every concern and every need of every one of His people! He has made Himself so known that we are without any excuse if we choose to cower in anxiety and in doubt and in trepidation. Just as God proved Himself to David over and over again with His protection from the lions and the bears and from Goliath, so are we fully partakers of that same provision! This is as we but remember and encourage ourselves with the fact that we belong to the One Who holds the whole universe together by the power of His might and His design in operation.
	One of the kings of the Old Testament who learned this truth was King Asa. Please refer to 2 Chron 14:11-13, wherein King Asa and the army of Judah faced the overwhelming forces of the Ethiopians, more than a million strong. This vast army had been devastating nations before it arrived in the land of the people of the Lord. When it seemed to be such a lost cause for Asa and his meager army, the king called to the Lord and set his trust in Jehovah to be the victory. It was another example of the power and the might and the seemingly numerical dominance of the giant army, which was then routed and destroyed the by the Hand of God in full display to save His people.
	2 Chron 14:11-13, Then Asa called to the Lord his God, and said, "Lord, there is no one besides Thee to help in the battle between the powerful and those who have no strength; so help us, O Lord our God, for we trust in Thee, and in Thy name have come against this multitude. O Lord, Thou art our God; let not man prevail against Thee." So the Lord routed the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled. And Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar; and so many Ethiopians fell that they could not recover, for they were shattered before the Lord, and before His army. And they carried away very much plunder. 
	Next we look to the Psalmist who describes over and over again the triumphant power of the Lord over every enemy, including that of even our own failure in sin and disobedience. All that filth and that treachery which resides in the depths of our beings is dealt with by God Who so loves us that He cleanses us from within. He gives us those hearts and those minds and those spirits which find true and eternal life in Him. He is our Confidence to face every foe and every battle with the assurance that Our God reigns forever Supremely and Gloriously.
	In Psalms 9:1-10, we hear thanksgiving being offered from a life that is witness to the awesome power of God on display. There is nothing that God cannot do in the course of His work of salvation in those whom He so loves unto Himself.
	Ps 9:1-10, I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart; I will tell of all Thy wonders. I will be glad and exult in Thee; I will sing praise to Thy name, O Most High. When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish before Thee. For Thou hast maintained my just cause; Thou dost sit on the throne judging righteously. Thou hast rebuked the nations; Thou hast destroyed the wicked; Thou hast blotted out their name forever and ever. The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins, And Thou hast uprooted the cities; The very memory of them has perished. But the Lord abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment, And He will judge the world in righteousness; He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity. The Lord also will be a stronghold for the oppressed, A stronghold in times of trouble, And those who know Thy name will put their trust in Thee; For Thou, O Lord, hast not forsaken those who seek Thee. 
	The Psalmist continues this refrain of praise unto the Lord as in Ps 17:7-9. Ps 17:7-9, Wondrously show Thy lovingkindness, O Savior of those who take refuge at Thy right hand From those who rise up against them. Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Thy wings, From the wicked who despoil me, My deadly enemies, who surround me. 
	Ps 33:13-19 details how God looks down from His Heavenly throne upon those who are in such need of His salvation. The Lord does not just see the need, but He responds with all understanding! He brings forth what is needed when it is needed and in the manner in which His victorious work will be effectively productive in the lives of His own.
	Ps 33:13-19, The Lord looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men; From His dwelling place He looks out On all the inhabitants of the earth, He who fashions the hearts of them all, He who understands all their works. The king is not saved by a mighty army; A warrior is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a false hope for victory; Nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength. Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who hope for His lovingkindness, To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine. 
	In Ps 71:5-8 is laid before us the understanding as to the fact that our lives have been ordained by God all the days of our walk on this earth. It matters not how old we are or how rich or how popular. Every thing in our lives runs the course that God has set for us. He knows us and has His Hand upon our lives to protect and to keep us even before we are brought into that place of our recognition of Who He is and how much we need Him. He is our praise every day of our walk on this earth from birth through unto our earthly death.
	Ps 71:5-8, For Thou art my hope; O Lord God, Thou art my confidence from my youth. By Thee I have been sustained from my birth; Thou art He who took me from my mother's womb; My praise is continually of Thee. I have become a marvel to many; For Thou art my strong refuge. My mouth is filled with Thy praise, And with Thy glory all day long. 
	The Prophet Isaiah, in Isa 37:18-20, brings forth the full reason for the victorious work of the Lord in our lives as His people. As detailed, when the King of Assyria was besieging Judah, there is an ultimate truth at the heart of each of these wondrous victories of the Lord on the behalf of those who belong to Him. It is so that all will know that there is only One True Living Lord God Almighty Who rules and overrules according to His plan and His purposes to His Glory Alone.
	Isa 37:18-20, "Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands, and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them. "And now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that Thou alone, Lord, art God."
	This reality is as well emphasized by the Prophet Ezekiel, in Ezek 28:20-33. There will be no doubt in all the earth and throughout all the history of humanity Who is to receive all the glory and the praise and the adoration for all the great deliverances He has wrought on the behalf of those whom He has so loved.
	Ezek 28:20-23, And the word of the Lord came to me saying, "Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, prophesy against her, and say, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, And I shall be glorified in your midst. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I execute judgments in her, And I shall manifest My holiness in her. "For I shall send pestilence to her And blood to her streets, And the wounded will fall in her midst By the sword upon her on every side; Then they will know that I am the Lord. 
	This then brings us to our conclusion of this morning with the great proclamation from the Apostle Paul, in Rom 8:31-39. This is the definitive declaration of the power of God on High toward those who have so called upon Him. He, Himself, is our bedrock assurance that we have nothing to fear in all the realm of creation. There is nothing and there is no one and no power greater and more awesome than The Lord God Almighty and His work of salvation in Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God. 
	Rom 8:31-39, What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, "For Thy sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered." But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. So be it!
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. Amen.

This morning’s benediction is Isa 40:4+5. "Let every valley be lifted up, And every mountain and hill be made low; And let the rough ground become a plain, And the rugged terrain a broad valley; Then the glory of the Lord will be revealed, And all flesh will see it together; For the mouth of the Lord has spoken." Amen.