WrittenFromUtopia
Puritan Board Graduate
In Church this past Lord's Day, we discussed David and touched on his dealings with the Philistine named Goliath. Something that I always heard growing up was that the *main point* of this story is to show us something to the effect of "small people can do big things and defeat the biggest enemy with God's help."
Now, while I do believe this is true to a certain extent, we discussed something that I never really thought about until recently, especially having made the typological connection between David and Christ.
Most of the time, I have read this story and thought of myself as David, going out and doing battle with the enemy with confidence, knowing God is on my side. However, I have now seen the deeper and true meaning of this passage and would like to share (althought I'm sure many on this board are aware of this, I just think it is amazing and worth talking about or looking at for reflection).
We are not David, but we are the cheering Israelites on the sidelines. We are the people of Israel watching our King, Jesus Christ, go before us and *crush* the enemy with ease. With the final blow to our biggest enemy, Christ has paved the way for us to go into all the nations with the sword of the gospel and fulfill the Great Commission, with Christ having gone before us and also reigning as our King.
45 Then David said to the Philistine, "œYou come to me with a sword and with a spear and with 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 defied.
46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
47 and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hand."
50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David.
51 Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
52 And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron.
53 And the people of Israel came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.
Now, while I do believe this is true to a certain extent, we discussed something that I never really thought about until recently, especially having made the typological connection between David and Christ.
Most of the time, I have read this story and thought of myself as David, going out and doing battle with the enemy with confidence, knowing God is on my side. However, I have now seen the deeper and true meaning of this passage and would like to share (althought I'm sure many on this board are aware of this, I just think it is amazing and worth talking about or looking at for reflection).
We are not David, but we are the cheering Israelites on the sidelines. We are the people of Israel watching our King, Jesus Christ, go before us and *crush* the enemy with ease. With the final blow to our biggest enemy, Christ has paved the way for us to go into all the nations with the sword of the gospel and fulfill the Great Commission, with Christ having gone before us and also reigning as our King.
45 Then David said to the Philistine, "œYou come to me with a sword and with a spear and with 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 defied.
46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
47 and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hand."
50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David.
51 Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
52 And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron.
53 And the people of Israel came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.