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Episode: “The Call”
We consider how David captured the heart of Israel, his selection by Samuel, and the amazing battle with Goliath that catapulted him to renown.
Series: “The Warrior King”
David-like Leadership for Goliath-like times
The Warrior King tells the story of King David’s time but it is also the story of our own time. With challenges larger than Goliath all around us, we need Bible-based leaders now more than ever. In this eight-part series, Dr. Jeffrey Seif speaks to that need. Dramatic re-enactments—shot on location in Israel—complement the teachings in this series.

Note: A newer version of this series is available.

Caption transcript for The Warrior King: “The Call” (1/8)

  • 00:53 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU,
  • 00:56 JEFFREY SEIF HERE,
  • 00:58 AND I AM PLEASED TO WELCOME TO YOU TO A BRAND NEW SERIES THAT WE'VE PRODUCED JUST FOR YOU,
  • 01:05 A WORD FOR THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN,
  • 01:09 A SERIES ENTITLED "THE WARRIOR KING"
  • 01:13 AND A THEME DEVELOPED ALONG THE LINES OF THE NEED FOR
  • 01:16 DAVID-LIKE LEADERSHIP IN THESE GOLIATH-LIKE TIMES.
  • 01:21 OFF WE GO NOW FOR 30 MINUTES OF TV WORTH WATCHING
  • 01:26 AS WE CONSIDER DAVID'S STORY AND NOTE ITS IMPORTANCE FOR A WORLD JUST LIKE OUR VERY OWN.
  • 01:40 (Woman speaking) WE WILL NEVER FORGET THAT DAY.
  • 01:43 OUR HEARTS LEAPED FOR JOY AT THE SIGHT OF HIM.
  • 01:46 DAVID, THE GIANT KILLER HAD RETURNED.
  • 01:49 THE PHILISTINES THOUGHT THAT GOLIATH COULD NEVER BE DEFEATED BUT DAVID HAD PROVEN THEM WRONG.
  • 01:55 WHAT FAITH, HOW BOLD!
  • 01:58 HE WENT TO BATTLE WITH A FEW SMALL STONES AND RETURNED WITH THE SWORD OF A GIANT!
  • 02:03 KING SAUL HAS DONE WELL IN SELECTING HIM.
  • 02:06 OUR ENEMIES HAVE BEEN SLAIN BY THE TENS OF THOUSANDS.
  • 02:10 BECAUSE OF DAVID WE NOW HAVE PEACE WITHIN OUR WALLS.
  • 02:28 THERE WAS ELECTRICITY IN THE AIR IF YOU WILL.
  • 02:31 PEOPLE WERE BRISTLING WITH EXCITEMENT.
  • 02:35 AND WHY IS THAT?
  • 02:37 BECAUSE THERE WAS A SENSE IN ISRAEL THAT THERE WAS A NEW DAY DAWNING.
  • 02:40 AND WHY IS THAT?
  • 02:41 BECAUSE A NEW PERSONALITY WAS EMERGING.
  • 02:45 DAVID WAS BEGINNING TO MAKE HIS MARK ON ISRAELITE HISTORY
  • 02:50 AND PEOPLE HAD A SENSE THAT THEY'D BE THE BETTER FOR IT.
  • 02:54 IT HAD BEEN HUNDREDS OF YEARS SINCE ISRAEL HAD SOMEONE LIKE HIM.
  • 02:59 MOSHE RABANU, MOSES, WAS A RELIGIOUS SORT BUT HE WAS A SPIRITED SOLDIER.
  • 03:05 JOSHUA FIRED UP THE NATIONAL SPIRIT WITH ENTHUSIASM
  • 03:10 AS HE WITH HIS INTREPID BOLD SPIRIT FOLLOWED IN MOSES' FOOTSTEPS.
  • 03:16 BUT AFTER THAT THE WHOLE THING FELL APART.
  • 03:19 FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS THERE WASN'T A NATIONAL HERO
  • 03:24 AND PEOPLE JUST WENT TO THEIR OWN HOMES, THEY WENT THEIR OWN WAY
  • 03:28 AND ISRAELITE LIFE SLIPPED INTO DECAY, DESPAIR AND DISORIENTATION.
  • 03:36 SAUL HELD THE BANNER FOR A SEASON
  • 03:39 AND IT WAS HIS JOB TO TAKE THE SWORD OUT OF THE SHEATH AND FIGHT ISRAEL'S BATTLES
  • 03:45 BUT SAUL WAS INDEPENDENT MINDED AND HE LOST THE JOB.
  • 03:50 GOD SAID, "ENOUGH ALREADY".
  • 03:52 HE PROVED HIMSELF UN-MANAGEABLE, UN-TEACHABLE, COULDN'T WORK WITH HIM,
  • 03:57 MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT THAN WHAT GOD THOUGHT
  • 04:01 AND SO ATTENTION SHIFTED TO THE HOUSE OF JESSE
  • 04:04 WHERE THE LORD ALIGHTED UPON A FELLOW NAMED DAVID.
  • 04:10 THE WORD "DAVID"
  • 04:11 COMES FROM THE WORD
  • 04:12 MEANING "BELOVED"
  • 04:15 AND BELOVED DAVID WORKED HIS WAY INTO THE HEARTS OF ISRAEL AND ISRAEL WAS THE BETTER FOR IT.
  • 04:22 BUT THERE WAS ONE HEART THAT WAS NOT THE LEAST BIT KINDLY DISPOSED TOWARD HIS ARRIVAL.
  • 04:29 WE READ HERE...AND BY HERE I MEAN IN I SAMUEL, CHAPTER 18,
  • 04:34 THAT FOLLOWING A SKIRMISH WITH THE PHILISTINES WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 7
  • 04:42 THAT THE WOMEN CAME OUT WITH TAMBOURINE IN HAND, CELEBRATED, AND THEY SANG AND I QUOTE...
  • 04:51 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 05:00 YOU GO SAUL!
  • 05:02 AND THEN,
  • 05:04 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 05:11 AND LISTEN TO ME, SAUL WAS FIT TO BE TIED.
  • 05:16 I DON'T KNOW IF WOMEN UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH OF AN AFFECT THAT THEY HAVE ON THE MALES OF THE SPECIES IN SO MANY WAYS.
  • 05:22 SAUL WAS SO SENSITIVE TO HOW THE WOMEN PERCEIVED HIM
  • 05:26 AND BEING WRAPPED UP IN HIMSELF AS HE WAS, HE KNEW THAT HE WAS ON THE OUTS WITH GOD.
  • 05:32 AND WHEN HE SAW DAVID'S RISE HE BECAME DAVID'S ENEMY HENCEFORTH AND FOREVERMORE ALL THE WAY TO THE GRAVE.
  • 05:43 DIFFICULTIES NOT WITHSTANDING AGAINST THE BACKDROP
  • 05:46 OF A MONARCH WHO IS FOREVER TRYING TO KILL HIM
  • 05:49 DAVID STILL ROSE AND GREW HIGHER AND HIGHER AND HIGHER.
  • 05:54 AND MY WORD TO YOU IS YOU MAY WELL HAVE A SAUL IN YOUR LIFE
  • 05:57 OR A SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES THAT'S HOLDING YOU BACK THAT'S INDEED ADVERSARIAL.
  • 06:03 EVERY TIME YOU TURN AROUND SOMEONE FOR REASONS OF THEIR OWN
  • 06:06 IS LOOKING TO KNOCK THE LEGS OUT FROM UNDERNEATH YOU.
  • 06:09 DIFFICULTIES NOT WITHSTANDING WHEN WE LOOK AT THE WARRIOR KING
  • 06:13 WE'RE GOING TO SEE A STORY OF A MAN WHO WAS NOT TO BE STOPPED.
  • 06:17 WE'RE GOING TO SEE A STORY OF A MAN WHO OVERCAME ADVERSITY, WHO OVERCAME THE "SAULS" IN HIS LIFE
  • 06:23 AND HE HAD MORE THAN ONE PROBLEM,
  • 06:25 SAUL WAS A PERENNIAL ONE, BUT WHEN SAUL DISSIPATED THERE WERE OTHERS.
  • 06:29 BUT DIFFICULTIES NOT WITHSTANDING AT THE END OF DAVID'S ADMINISTRATION
  • 06:33 ISRAEL WHICH WAS 6,000 MILES WAS THEN 60,000 MILES.
  • 06:39 DAVID LEFT HIS MARK THROUGH SONG AND MANY OF THEM WERE SUNG IN HIS WAKE
  • 06:44 WHERE DAVID UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION TAUGHT PEOPLE
  • 06:47 THAT WITH GOD WE CAN OVERCOME LIFE'S OBSTACLES
  • 06:51 AND GET THE BETTER OF LIFE'S VEXING DILEMMAS.
  • 06:56 AT FIRST OUR LEADERS WERE FEARFUL ABOUT THE PROPHET'S VISIT TO BETHLEHEM.
  • 07:00 BUT FATHER ASSURED US THAT THIS MAN OF GOD, SAMUEL, WAS HERE ON A HOLY MISSION.
  • 07:06 GOD HAD TOLD HIM THAT ONE OF US WOULD BE SELECTED AS ISRAEL'S NEXT KING.
  • 07:12 FATHER WAS SURE THAT IT WOULD BE MY BROTHER ELIAB
  • 07:16 BUT THE PROPHET ASKED TO SEE MY NEXT BROTHER AND THEN THE NEXT.
  • 07:21 HE LOOKED AT ALL MY BROTHERS AND IN EACH CASE SAID "THE LORD HAS NOT CHOSEN THIS MAN".
  • 07:28 FINALLY THE PROPHET SAID TO FATHER, "DO YOU HAVE ANYMORE SONS?"
  • 07:34 FATHER TOLD HIM HE HAD ONE MORE.
  • 07:37 DAVID WAS YOUNG AND HANDSOME AND ACCORDING TO SAMUEL WAS THE ONE GOD HAD CHOSEN TO BE ANOINTED.
  • 07:55 THINGS CHANGED FOREVER THAT DAY FOR MY BROTHER DAVID AND FOR ALL OF ISRAEL.
  • 08:05 I BELIEVE THAT THE NEW TESTAMENT IS A VERY, VERY, VERY JEWISH STORY.
  • 08:09 WELL I'M KIND OF DIFFERENT.
  • 08:10 NOT EVERYBODY SEES IT THAT WAY.
  • 08:12 THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW ACTUALLY IS WRITTEN IN HEBREW FIRST.
  • 08:15 WE ONLY HAVE GREEK TEXT NOW. IT STARTS OFF,
  • 08:18 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 08:31 I THINK IT'S A GREAT STORY.
  • 08:32 JESUS CHRIST...
  • 08:34 YOU KNOW WHEN I GREW UP I THOUGHT HIS FATHER AND MOTHER WERE MR. AND MRS. "CHRIST".
  • 08:38 BUT I WAS MINDED THAT ACTUALLY "CHRIST" ITSELF IS A GREEK TELLING OF THE HEBREW "MASHIACH", "MESSIAH".
  • 08:47 AND THE WORD "MESSIAH" ITSELF COMES FROM A WORD IN HEBREW "ANOINTED ONE".
  • 08:53 AND WHY IS THAT?
  • 08:55 BECAUSE IN THE TORAH THERE WERE INDIVIDUALS THAT WHEN THEY CAME TO OFFICE THEY WERE ANOINTED,
  • 09:02 PROPHETS, PRIESTS AND KINGS AND THEY WERE ANOINTED WITH OIL.
  • 09:06 AND HERE WE ARE IN AN OIL MAKING FACTORY JUST LIKE IT WAS IN BIBLE DAYS.
  • 09:15 AND HERE THE OLIVES ARE PUT IN AND THEY'RE GROUND DOWN.
  • 09:19 THERE'S A NUMBER OF GRINDING DOWN PROCESSES TO GET THE FRUIT OF THE OLIVE,
  • 09:25 TO PUT THE OLIVES UNDER PRESSURE.
  • 09:28 AND YOU KNOW ON ONE LEVEL IT KIND OF WORKS TO MY WAY OF THINKING
  • 09:33 THAT LEADERS GET UNDER THE OLIVE OIL, YOU KNOW,
  • 09:38 THAT WHICH IS PRODUCED THROUGH ALL THIS PRESSURE.
  • 09:40 CAUSE THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS WHEN INDIVIDUALS STEP UP TO LEAD
  • 09:45 THEY STEP UP INTO A WORLD WHERE THERE'S LOTS OF PRESSURES.
  • 09:50 OUR STORY TAKES PLACE TODAY AGAINST THE BACKDROP
  • 09:54 OF DAVID BEING VISITED BY SAMUEL THE PROPHET.
  • 10:00 CAME TO BETHLEHEM AND HE CAME TO THE HOUSE OF JESSE AND HE SAID, "LET ME SEE YOUR BOYS".
  • 10:07 "SOMETHING TELLS ME I'M IN FOR SOMETHING GOOD" SAYS JESSE.
  • 10:11 THOSE BOYS ARE MARCHED ONE AFTER THE OTHER.
  • 10:13 "I'M PLANNING ON ANOINTING ONE" SAYS THE PROPHET...BUT NOTHING.
  • 10:17 FINALLY AFTER COMING UP EMPTY THE PROPHET LOOKS AT DAD
  • 10:20 AND SAYS "DON'T YOU HAVE ANYBODY ELSE?"
  • 10:23 "WELL, COME TO THINK OF IT WE DO."
  • 10:26 "WE HAVE DAVIE, THAT KID, OUT THERE."
  • 10:27 TO ME ITS STRIKING THAT HIS OWN FATHER DIDN'T THINK HIGHLY OF HIM,
  • 10:32 THAT DAVID WAS A LOSER IN HIS FATHER'S EYES SO MUCH SO
  • 10:35 THAT WHEN THE PROPHET CAME TO THE HOUSE AND SAID,
  • 10:39 "LET ME SEE YOUR BOYS"
  • 10:40 DAVID WASN'T EVEN INCLUDED IN THE LIST.
  • 10:42 AND THE FACT THAT DAVID IS DISRESPECTED
  • 10:43 NOT JUST BY THE FATHER BUT BY HIS BROTHERS LATER ON
  • 10:47 WHEN DAVID COMES TO THE ARMY BRINGING FOOD STAPLES.
  • 10:49 TALKING ABOUT TAKING ON GOLIATH, HIS BROTHERS...
  • 10:52 "OH SHUT UP DAVID!"
  • 10:54 "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?"
  • 10:55 "GO TEND TO YOUR LOUSY LITTLE SHEEP."
  • 10:56 THE KIND OF DISRESPECT THAT DAVID HAD IS STRIKING.
  • 10:59 GOD TAKES THIS GUY OUT OF NOWHERE WHO'S A NOBODY
  • 11:03 AND BRINGS HIM SOMEWHERE AND TURNS HIM INTO A SOMEBODY.
  • 11:06 AND LET ME TELL YOU THAT'S ALL ABOUT THE CALL OF GOD.
  • 11:09 THE RABBIS EXPLAIN WHY IT IS THAT DAVID WAS SO MARGINALIZED IN HIS FAMILY SYSTEM.
  • 11:16 THERE ARE VARIOUS ARGUMENTS PUT FORTH,
  • 11:18 ONE OF WHICH IS THAT DAVID HIMSELF WAS BORN OUT OF AN ADULTEROUS RELATIONSHIP
  • 11:23 WHICH WOULD EXPLAIN WHY HIS BROTHERS
  • 11:25 WHO CONSTRUED THEIR COMING INTO THE FAMILY MORE LEGITIMATELY
  • 11:28 WOULD LOOK AT HIM DISPARAGINGLY.
  • 11:30 YOU MIGHT RECALL THE PSALM WHERE DAVID SAYS,
  • 11:35 AND AGAIN SOME RABBIS ATTRIBUTE IT TO JUST THAT.
  • 11:38 OTHERS ARGUE THAT MUCH AS DAVID'S GRANDMOTHER WAS A MOABITESS,
  • 11:42 SO WAS HIS MOTHER OF NON-JEWISH EXTRACT HERSELF.
  • 11:45 THIS COULD EXPLAIN WHY SOME OF THE OTHER BROTHERS MARGINALIZED DAVID.
  • 11:49 THE REASON WHY SOME PUT THAT FORTH IS BECAUSE WHEN DAVID WAS ON THE RUN FROM SAUL
  • 11:53 HE GOES AND LEAVES HIS MOM WITH THE MOABITES AND THAT GIVES CREDENCE TO THAT NOTION.
  • 11:58 IN ANY CASE WE'RE HERE IN THE TEXT WHERE THE PROPHET COMES TO THE HOUSE.
  • 12:06 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 12:09 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 12:11 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 12:16 DAVID, THAT NOBODY GUY, GETS THE OIL.
  • 12:20 WE'RE TOLD,
  • 12:20 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 12:27 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 12:35 AND THEN,
  • 12:36 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 12:44 GOD CALLS ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE.
  • 12:47 WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE APPOINTED AS LEADERS
  • 12:50 AND HERE WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE ANOINTED.
  • 12:52 I SAY THREE CHEERS FOR THE CALL OF GOD!
  • 12:55 IT'S AVAILABLE NOT JUST FOR DAVID AND FOR ME BUT FOR YOU.
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  • 13:46 IT'S JUST SUCH A PRIVILEGE
  • 13:49 TO BE ABLE TO COME
  • 13:51 WHERE OUR LORD WAS BORN
  • 13:53 AND CRUCIFIED AND WAS RISEN.
  • 14:00 HEY, THANKS FOR LETTING ME IN YOUR LIVING ROOM.
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  • 14:40 AN OFFER THAT'S COMING LATER IN THIS PROGRAM IS A BOOK THAT I WROTE SOME TIME AGO,
  • 14:44 NOT LONG AGO CALLED "GUNS AND MOSES".
  • 14:47 IT'S ABOUT THE LEGITIMACY OF THE USE OF FORCE.
  • 14:51 UNPLEASANT AS IT IS SOMETIMES A MAN'S GOT TO DO WHAT A MAN'S GOT TO DO.
  • 14:56 SOMETIMES A BIBLICAL MAN HAS TO STAND UP AND DECIDE WHAT'S WORTH CONTENDING FOR
  • 15:01 AND I BELIEVE IN THAT PERSONALLY.
  • 15:03 AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT THINK THAT'S NOT BIBLICAL,
  • 15:06 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE THINKING THAT AFTER YOU READ "GUNS AND MOSES".
  • 15:10 WELL NEVER MIND MY BOOK, BACK TO GOD'S BOOK NOW AS WE CONSIDER THE STORY OF DAVID AND GOLIATH.
  • 15:17 OH HE FOUGHT HIM AND BROUGHT HIM DOWN;
  • 15:20 GOD WAS WITH HIM IN THE PROCESS
  • 15:21 AND OFF TO THAT STORY WE GO AS WE LOOK AT THE WARRIOR KING DAVID
  • 15:26 AND CONSIDER THE NEED FOR DAVID-LIKE LEADERSHIP IN GOLIATH-LIKE TIMES.
  • 15:33 DAVID ONLY NEEDED ONE SMOOTH STONE BUT HE SELECTED FIVE.
  • 15:43 WAITING FOR HIM WAS THE BIGGEST MAN ANYONE HAD EVER SEEN.
  • 15:47 OVER NINE FEET TALL HIS ARMOR ALONE WEIGHED AS MUCH AS A MAN.
  • 15:51 HIS IRON SPEAR WAS GREATER THAN FIFTEEN POUNDS.
  • 15:55 GOLIATH HAD TAUNTED US UNMERCIFULLY FOR FORTY DAYS!
  • 16:01 THEN ONE DAY THE SHEPHERD BOY, DAVID, THE SON OF JESSE,
  • 16:07 CONFRONTED THE PHILISTINE BEAST WITH HIS SLING AND THAT ONE SINGLE STONE.
  • 16:23 IT WAS A DAY THAT ALL ISRAEL SHALL NEVER FORGET.
  • 16:25 HOW PROUD WE WERE.
  • 16:27 WE WERE SERVING IN THE ARMY OF THE LIVING GOD.
  • 16:37 THE WORD "SEIF" COMES FROM THE GERMAN MEANING "SOAP".
  • 16:43 IT DOESN'T BRING OUT THE MACHISMO SPIRIT IN ME TO BE SURE
  • 16:46 BUT MY PARENTS ARE OF GERMAN-JEWISH EXTRACT.
  • 16:48 THE WORD "SEIF" HAS ANOTHER NAME IN ARABIC, IT MEANS "SWORD".
  • 16:53 I PREFER THAT BUT I CAN'T CLAIM THAT.
  • 16:55 HOWEVER, WHEN I THINK OF THE FAITH THAT I HAVE THROUGH THE MESSIAH, THROUGH THE SCRIPTURE,
  • 17:01 I CAN CLAIM THAT "SWORD" KIND OF VALIANT SPIRIT
  • 17:04 AND THE REASON IS, IS BECAUSE I WANT TO WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DAVID.
  • 17:08 WE ARE CONSIDERING A MAN WHO AGAINST ALL ODDS
  • 17:13 JUMPED INTO THE FRAY AND ACCOMPLISHED GREAT THINGS IN LIFE.
  • 17:19 I BELIEVE BY THE WAY THAT HE NEEDN'T BE AN ANOMALY.
  • 17:22 I THINK ALL OF US CAN DO MUCH THE SAME.
  • 17:25 DAVID DIDN'T HAVE MUCH TO BEGIN WITH.
  • 17:27 HE DIDN'T HAVE A SWORD IN HAND.
  • 17:28 IN FACT DAVID WAS KNOWN FOR A STONE.
  • 17:32 DAVID DIDN'T KILL GOLIATH WITH A STONE AS IS OFTEN SUPPOSED.
  • 17:38 HE STUNNED HIM WITH IT.
  • 17:40 IN FACT, I THINK GOLIATH WAS CAUGHT OFF GUARD IN SO MANY WAYS THAT DAY WASN'T HE?
  • 17:45 HE STUNNED HIM WITH IT, KNOCKED HIM OUT.
  • 17:46 AND IT MAY WELL BE THAT AS GOLIATH WAS COMING TO,
  • 17:51 HE JUST LIVED TO SEE THE INGLORIOUS MOMENT WHEN HE WAS SLAIN BY HIS OWN SWORD.
  • 17:58 DAVID THEN TOOK THE SWORD AS WELL AS THE HEAD AS TROPHIES, AS BOOTIES, AS A PLUNDER OF WAR.
  • 18:03 THERE'S A GREAT STORY THERE, NOT THAT I GLORY IN ANY DEATH,
  • 18:07 BUT I AM REMINDED OF A BASIC BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE...THIS IS BIBLE 101...
  • 18:11 AND THAT IS THAT FAITH CAN, DOES AND WILL MOVE MOUNTAINS.
  • 18:16 IT'S ALL ABOUT US AT ONE LEVEL.
  • 18:18 BY THAT I MEAN...DO WE WANT TO EXERCISE FAITH AND GET ON WITH THE PURSUIT OF THE FUTURE?
  • 18:23 THE WORD "CONFIDENCE" COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD "CON FIDES",
  • 18:28 A CONFLATION OF WORDS MEANING "WITH FAITH".
  • 18:32 WE'RE LOOKING AT A STORY HERE WHERE DAVID LEARNED IT THAT DAY ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
  • 18:36 AND LET ME TELL YOU THAT SO MANY THINGS IN LIFE ARE REALLY LEARNED ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
  • 18:41 IF WE WANT TO HAVE TESTIMONY WITH THE LORD, WELL THAT'S GREAT,
  • 18:45 IT'S GOOD TO HAVE A TESTIMONY.
  • 18:47 BUT IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A TESTIMONY WE GOT TO HAVE A, QUOTE, "TEST" FIRST.
  • 18:50 AND LIFE PRESENTS WITH A LOT OF CHALLENGES BUT CHALLENGES ARE OPPORTUNITIES WITH WORK CLOTHES.
  • 18:55 WE JUST HAVE TO RISE UP AND MEET THEM HEAD ON.
  • 18:57 AND DAVID DID THAT DIDN'T HE?
  • 18:59 OTHERS WERE AFRAID... THEY WERE DAUNTED BY THIS TOWERING GOLIATH.
  • 19:04 BUT DAVID REALLY THOUGHT THAT THE BIGGER THEY WERE THE HARDER THEY FALL
  • 19:06 AND HE JUST JUMPED INTO THE FRAY AND THE REST IS HISTORY.
  • 19:11 IN THE BOOK, SAMUEL, CHAPTER 17
  • 19:15 I WANT YOU TO READ WITH ME HERE. WE'RE TOLD,
  • 19:19 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 19:26 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 19:33 BUT THEN WHAT HE SAYS AS A FOLLOW UP IS JUST EMBLAZONED IN BIBLICAL MEMORY.
  • 19:38 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 19:47 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 19:49 "...THE LORD OF THE ARMIES."
  • 19:51 I WANT YOU TO HEAR ME FOR A SECOND.
  • 19:53 WE LIVE IN PRECARIOUS TIMES
  • 19:58 AND I'M NOT JUST SPEAKING ABOUT WORLD CULTURE AND INDIVIDUAL NATION STATES.
  • 20:03 BUT THE WORLD IS A VERY PRECARIOUS PLACE
  • 20:06 AND VARIOUS NATIONS ARE IN THE THROWS OF DESPAIR IN SO MANY WAYS.
  • 20:10 WHEN I THINK OF HOUSEHOLD UNITS THAT ARE BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS OF ANY SOCIETY
  • 20:15 JUST LIKE THERE'S PILLARS HERE HOLDING UP THIS HOUSE,
  • 20:18 SO TOO THE FAMILY IS A BASIC BUILDING BLOCK.
  • 20:21 THE FAMILY IS BEING ASSAILED, THERE ARE CHALLENGES TODAY.
  • 20:24 WELL WHO IS OR ISN'T PRESIDENT ISN'T AS IMPORTANT.
  • 20:28 WHAT SOCIAL PROGRAMS ARE ON THE TABLE ISN'T AS IMPORTANT.
  • 20:31 WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS THAT WE LIKE DAVID RISE UP WITH FAITH
  • 20:36 BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT FAITH CAN AND WILL PAY DIVIDENDS, FAITH IN JESUS, ISRAEL'S MESSIAH.
  • 20:46 (Jeff speaking) AND NOW...
  • 20:48 FROM THE BEAUTIFUL SANCTUARY OF THE KING OF KINGS PAVILION IN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM
  • 20:54 PAUL WILBUR JOINS US IN SONG.
  • 21:04 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
  • 21:09 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
  • 21:14 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
  • 21:19 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
  • 21:25 ♪LET HIS ENEMIES BE SEVERED♪
  • 21:28 ♪AND LET THE RIGHTEOUS BE GLAD
  • 21:31 ♪YES, LET THEM REJOICE WITH GLADNESS♪
  • 21:35 ♪GOD HAS TRIUMPHED MIGHTILY♪
  • 21:40 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
  • 21:45 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
  • 21:50 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
  • 21:55 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
  • 22:00 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
  • 22:05 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
  • 22:10 ♪RONI RONI BAT ZION♪
  • 22:14 ♪HARIU YISRAEL♪
  • 22:18 ♪SIMCHI V'ALTISI B'CHOL LEV♪
  • 22:21 ♪BAT YERUSHALAYIM♪
  • 22:24 ♪REJOICE, REJOICE♪
  • 22:26 ♪DAUGHTER OF ZION♪
  • 22:28 ♪SHOUT OUT ALOUD ISRAEL♪
  • 22:31 ♪SING, REJOICE WITH ALL YOUR HEART O JERUSALEM♪
  • 22:37 ♪FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IN THE MIDST OF YOU♪
  • 22:41 ♪MIGHTY IS HIS NAME♪
  • 22:45 ♪REJOICING OVER YOU WITH SONGS OF GLADNESS SINGING JOYFULLY♪
  • 22:49 ♪HE WILL SAVE US♪
  • 22:51 ♪REJOICE, REJOICE♪
  • 22:53 ♪DAUGHTER OF ZION♪
  • 22:54 ♪SHOUT OUT ALOUD ISRAEL♪
  • 22:57 ♪SING, REJOICE WITH ALL YOUR HEART O JERUSALEM♪
  • 23:04 ♪RONI RONI BAT ZION♪
  • 23:08 ♪HARIU YISRAEL♪
  • 23:11 ♪SIMCHI V'ALTISI B'CHOL LEV♪
  • 23:14 ♪BAT YERUSHALAYIM♪
  • 23:18 ♪BAT YERUSHALAYIM♪
  • 23:21 ♪BAT YERUSHALAYIM♪ ♪
  • 23:26 HALLELUJAH! (CROWD CHEERS)
  • 23:33 THAT WAS PAUL WILBUR.
  • 23:34 AND IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW THAT INTEGRITY RECORDING ARTIST,
  • 23:38 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT PAUL IS ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED PRAISE AND WORSHIP ARTISTS
  • 23:45 IN CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIANITY TODAY...A MESSIANIC JEW I MIGHT ADD
  • 23:51 AND A LONG STANDING FRIEND OF MINE,
  • 23:53 A FRIEND OF THIS MINISTRY AND NOW TO YOU A NEW FRIEND
  • 23:57 AS PAUL JOINS US ON THIS 8 PART SERIES WHERE WE LOOK AT ANOTHER MESSIANIC JEWISH SONGWRITER, DAVID HIMSELF.
  • 24:09 AND TALK ABOUT JEWISH SONGWRITERS
  • 24:11 OFF WE GO NOW TO ZOLA LEVITT, NOT IN SONG THIS TIME
  • 24:16 BUT AS ZOLA REMINDS US WHEN HE LOOKS AT THE BIBLE BEGINNING WITH DAVID AND GOLIATH
  • 24:21 AND GOING ON FROM THERE THAT WE NEED NOT FEAR WHEN WE'RE WALKING WITH THE LORD.
  • 24:27 (Zola speaking)
  • 24:59 AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED,
  • 25:01 WE ALL KNOW THAT STORY.
  • 25:03 FELLED THE GIANT WITH ONE SMOOTH STONE RIGHT IN THE FOREHEAD,
  • 25:07 TOOK THE MAMMOTH'S OWN SWORD, DECAPITATED HIM AND THE BATTLE WAS THE LORD'S AGAIN.
  • 25:13 YOU KNOW EVEN IN THE GOSPEL THE DISCIPLES LOSE THEIR COURAGE FROM TIME TO TIME.
  • 25:20 THERE'S THE STORY OF THE BOAT IN LUKE, CHAPTER 8...IT SAYS,
  • 25:32 AND ANYWAY THAT STORM COMES UP...THE LORD SPEAKS TO THE WIND AND TO THE STORM
  • 25:36 AND HE TELLS IT "PEACE BE STILL" AND THEY SAY,
  • 25:39 "WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS"
  • 25:41 "THAT HE COULD TALK TO THE STORM"
  • 25:43 "AND IT LISTENS TO HIM?"
  • 25:45 THE LESSON IS WRAPPED UP IN HEBREWS, CHAPTER 13;
  • 25:48 VERSE 5 SAYS JUST THIS...
  • 26:05 THE SERIES SUBTITLE,
  • 26:07 "DAVID-LIKE LEADERSHIP FOR GOLIATH-LIKE TIMES"
  • 26:09 CATCHES ME AS INTERESTING
  • 26:12 AND I HOPE IT CATCHES YOU.
  • 26:15 AND I HOPE IT PROMPTS YOU TO YOUR KNEES
  • 26:19 BECAUSE BY VIRTUE OF YOUR MAKING PEACE WITH YOUR MAKER
  • 26:23 YOU CAN BECOME THAT DAVID-LIKE BIBLICAL LEADER
  • 26:27 AND HAVE RESOURCES TO CONFRONT YOUR GOLIATH-LIKE TIMES.
  • 26:32 WHETHER YOU'RE CONTENDING WITH YOUR OWN NATURE,
  • 26:36 WHETHER YOU'RE CONTENDING WITH CIRCUMSTANCES AROUND YOU
  • 26:39 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE A GOD WHO LOVES YOU,
  • 26:43 WHO HAS A WONDERFUL AND PERFECT PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE
  • 26:47 AND THAT PLAN BEGINS WHEN YOU BEGIN.
  • 26:52 SO AS I CLOSE LET ME REMIND YOU
  • 26:54 THAT IF YOU WALK WITH GOD THERE'S BRAND NEW BEGINNINGS.
  • 26:57 PRAY TO HIM, SEEK HIM, FIND A GOOD CHURCH
  • 27:00 AND AS YOU GO NOW, SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
  • 27:04 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.

Episodes in this series

  1. The Call
  2. David and Saul
  3. Family
  4. Wars
  5. Celebrated Warrior King
  6. A Messianic Proto-type
  7. Israel's Sweet Psalmist
  8. Messiah

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