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 will draw our extended view of this verse to a conclusion. We have been so blessed with a variety of manners in which the Lord shows forth Himself in the victory that only He could accomplish. This was in the personal battles of His people, as well as His nation as a whole. There was conflict after conflict that only the Hand of God could bring forth in the Victory and the salvation of those who counted on Him and sought for His glory to be established. 
This is true in the daily walk of each Christian. It is with more and more intensity that we look to the Lord in order to get through each day. Every moment provides the greater realization that without the Lord we would be lost. Truly, there is nothing that we can do as we so often find ourselves in the place of those people who were completely surrounded by forces of seemingly overwhelming odds. We are so often in need of that encouragement from the Spirit of the Lord which causes us to turn to Jehovah and cry out in complete earnestness that unless He does the work, all is lost!
Jesus, Himself, forever encourages all of us with the glorious reality that is proclaimed in Matt 19:26. Whenever we think that there is no hope, no way out, no possible victory that could be won, read this passage! Memorize it for those times of desperate struggle when no relief and no respite seem to be within our reach. Our God will do what even we deem impossible. There is nothing beyond the scope of His Omnipotence and His Omnipresence and His Omniscience.
Matt 19:26, And looking upon them Jesus said to them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
This reality carries us through the most personal of battles. It is sometimes easier to look at the big issues across the world and in our country and in our communities, knowing that God is the God of the impossible. We can expect that He will turn the hearts of anyone in power to work as He did with Pharaoh and with Nebuchadnezzar. 
However, when there are those issues with spouses and with children and with parents and with siblings and especially with ourselves, we tend to forget this reality. We often look at things with that discouraged and downtrodden demeanor which indicates abject failure and no hope that anything will change. We put these tremendous personal conflicts into the category that all is lost and no one knows just how horrible and awful the pain and the anguish is that fills our minds, deadens our bodies, and destroys our spirits.
These are the intense battles and conflicts in which we need to have this passage imprinted into the very muscle tissue of our heart and mind. This is when we need to have the Holy Spirit bring to the forefront of our discouraged and downtrodden spirit the fact that it is Jesus, Himself Who proclaimed the truth! …"With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."    
Another area of this extreme conflict is the battle with ourselves and our interests in opposition to the Lord. We have those issues and those stands that we take which we want to try to defend against the hard work of God to put it all to death for the life of Christ to be established in us. This death to self is very much a harsh battle within the scope and imagination of our being the center of our universe. 
We find ourselves reading the scriptures and not realizing that much of what the Lord had to say to the Pharisees and Scribes could very well be aimed at our hearts and our minds. We hold onto those things which we think would elevate us over others. We do not sin like they do, we do not act out so irrationally like them, we have a better grasp of the spiritual truths than so and so. We think that we are so much more mature in our religiosity than this or that group. This all further indicates that there are so many vast and varied areas that need the Hand of God in all the victory of the death and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 
Truly, it can all come to the place that Jesus defined in Mark 12:28-31. Whenever we find ourselves comparing us to them, or how much better off we are than that neighbor or friend or family member, we need to hear the Word of the Lord. We need to recognize that whenever we are elevating ourselves in any form or fashion over another, we are setting ourselves into that battle which only the Lord will win. We will be brought to our knees in humbleness and contriteness before Him and before others. 
Mark 12:28-31, And one of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, "What commandment is the foremost of all?" Jesus answered, "The foremost is, 'Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' "The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." 
The ultimate truth of this life that we have been given in Jesus Christ is that we are now brought into a relationship with God that was utterly impossible in the every scale and measure. It is only because of the tremendous and awesome work of God that anyone of us is saved. There is nothing, absolutely nothing that we could have ever done to bring this about in any form or fashion. God has done the impossible in that He has made the gift of salvation so freely available to anyone who will call upon the name of Jesus Christ to be Savior and Lord.
The Apostle Paul, in Rom 5:1-11, gives a most concise description of what is now true of us as we have been brought into life everlasting by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Most especially take to heart that this redemption process was set into place even while we were still sinners and at enmity with God. We are the daily recipients of the grace and the mercy and the love of God accomplished by the eternal victory of Jesus over all sin and death. Accordingly, as we face every struggle on this earth, we need to learn to do so in the full measure of why and how everything is working to the glory of God in such as we are as the living witness of The Lord’s victorious work.
Rom 5:1-11, Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Then, in Rom 8:18-30, the Apostle continues to detail just how mighty is this continuing work of God to bring us into conformity with what is now spiritually true of us. We, daily, moment by moment, experience the joy and the power and the peace and the refuge and the shelter of the Love of God being our sustaining energy to face each day. There is no hesitation! There is no cowering! There is no defeat in Jesus Christ! 
We may become tired and stressed and losing our sight of Who He is and all that He has done. However, it matters not in the whole scope of how God is establishing His Church as His testimony of Sovereignty on this earth, right now, today!
Rom 8:18-30, For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one also hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it. And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren; and whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. 
We are helped through each and every situation, trial, circumstance, addiction, craving, dilemma, and seemingly hopeless battle against the attacks of this age through the Omnipotence, the Omniscience, and the Omnipresence of the very Spirit of God within us. Nothing that we face on this earth is ever faced alone any longer. That is why we can confidently join together with the Apostle Paul in the declaration of the 31st verse of this 8th Chapter.
Rom 8:31, What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 
This is the stand that Jonathan took in our morning’s passage. This is the heart of what we face in our every conflict on this earth. Be it the battle to maintain our marriage, or our family structure, or our children’s growth into Christ, or our financial obligations, or our health, or our emotional stress, or the terrors of the night and of our imaginations, we know that If God is for us, who is against us? He has it all well in hand in the victory that has already been accomplished by Jesus Our Christ and Our Lord!
Again, joining with the encouragement to his readers in 1 Cor 2:4-13, we hear the Apostle Paul once more forcefully proclaiming the truth that we are not alone in the midst of the conflict. Yes, there are those residual battles which take place within us and around us, but they are not to our defeat. They are but the whimpering final gasps of an enemy in the dying moans and groans of utter defeat and annihilation. 
1 Cor 2:4-13, And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages to our glory; the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; but just as it is written, "Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him." For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. 
We know Who holds us well in hand. We are the ones to whom the great mystery of the ages has been revealed, even though only darkly as if in a mirror. We know the truth as it is being revealed to us by the very indwelling Holy Spirit of God. Accordingly, we stand forever in the glory of Jesus Christ, by the power and the wisdom and the revelation of who we now are in the glory of God’s manifest plan of the redemption of those who belong to Him.
As the Apostle John details it so succinctly in 1 John 5:1-5, there is a confident assurance that indwells those who know the Christ, the resurrected Son of God. There is a love that flows forth from the heart of God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, into this creation via the recipients of His redemption, His Beloved Church. We show the great victory of God to this whole creation, because we are redeemed by Jesus and we stand forever in His victory!
1 John 5:1-5, Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world — our faith. And who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? So be it and amen!

This morning’s benediction is Ps 19:9. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether. Amen.