David Didn’t Ask His Brothers | A Hidden Lesson Before Goliath | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:45 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John gift of podcast. As you would have checked out in the last couple of episodes or if you're new today, I just want to let you know that this week we are learning some lessons, powerful lessons that we can incurgate in our life from the Life of David from for Samuel chapter seventeen. I really recommend you to go back and listen to these because these are powerful truths that will help you and just pray that the Lord will give you the grace to inculcate them in your life as well.

1:13 Speaker 2: So today I'm going to share something that really caught my attention. I really want to share this with you because I believe that when I looked at this, this was something that really made me feel like, oh my gosh, why didn't I see this before? So this is what I wanted to understand. That this is a moment when David is going to greet his brothers and give them, you know, all of the goodies that his dad has sent him to get the report back to his dad on how his brothers are doing. And he's the thing I wanted to understand.

1:43 Speaker 2: When you look at verse twenty two onwards, I'm reading from the Nalty version, it says that David left his things with the keeper of supplies and hurried out to the ranks to greet his brothers. And verse twenty three, as he was talking with them, who is them? The brothers? Right? Is talking to the brothers, and that is when Colleith comes and taunts. Okay, and then David heard him about his usual taunt to the Army of Israel. Understand that Colleith has been taunting them and for the last forty days and here is a moment when this is business as usual, right, colleth coming and taunting.

2:21 Speaker 2: And here's the thing I want you to understand. That everybody started running and they are saying, have you seen this giant? The men asked, he comes in day and day out to defile Israel and the king has offered a huge dar to anyone who kills him. Okay. Now, verse twenty six is what caught my attention. David asked the soldiers standing nearby, what will a man get for killing is this philistine and ending his defiance of Israel? Okay? And if you see later on as well, he goes and talks to the other army men, the people around on what is the reward and so on and so forth, and to a point where in verse twenty eight is oldest brother come her years and talking to the men, and he gets hangry.

3:09 Speaker 2: So what really got my attention here is that David right was talking to his brothers who were also in the army, by the way, right, he was talking to them who were also in the army. And then that's when this disruption comes with Coliath coming and daunting. But you see, to get the information David did not go and talk to his brothers again and to ask for information. He didn't ask them what is the reward for the one who kills this man who's defiling Israel. He is inn't ask his brothers. He asked the others.

3:46 Speaker 2: Are you getting what I'm saying? This is so important, guys, because even though his brothers were the ones he was associated with. I mean, of course they were, you know, relatives, right, the siblings. He's not asking his brothers about the reward. He's not asking the brothers about the situation. What is he doing? He's asking others about it? Right. In fact, not only that he goes and asks, even if you see verse thirteen says he walked over to some others and ask the same question and receive the same answer.

4:19 Speaker 2: So I want you to understand he went around talking to different people about this situation with Goliath, but he didn't talk to his brothers about it, even though his brothers were also in the army. Right, what I wanted to understand is you've got to know whom to talk to about certain things. They can be your own family, they can be your own close ones, they can be your own siblings, they can be your own sometimes even parans or spouse in some sad cases. Or it can be your own kit and kin, your close ones, your own close friends.

4:54 Speaker 2: But the problem is that they don't see the calling God has placed in you. Because you see, like I said in verse twenty eight, his own brother belittle diim, his own brother. They're not believe in him. His own brother was against him. His own brother discouraged him. His own brother did not stand and support and say, hey, he'll be your cheerleader, David, come on, you've got to call you. Let's do this. He didn't do it. His own brother was against So I wanted to understand this. David knew the hostility that he grew up with, so he did not go and share or talk to his brothers about it.

5:31 Speaker 2: He talked to people who were neutral. He talked to other people about this. So what I wanted to understand is sometimes you should know that even if somebody is close to you, if they are not for you, or if they will discourage or stop you from your calling, you should not share things with them. You should know what to talk to whom about what, because you see, sometimes we have this thing, Oh, how can I hide this from family? But what if your own family is against what God has placed in you? What if your own family does not stand with what God has put in you?

6:04 Speaker 2: What if your own family there's not see the real calling that God has given you. You can't allow them to choke your calling. You should not. If David listened to his brothers, he would have just left in the in the back round. If he had allowed Iliev's words to define him, he would have left with discouragement. But he did not. Why he went around talking to other people. He went around talking to other men, other army men, and while he was talking, the news went to King Saul about David. Okay, so this is the lesson I want to share with each one of us that we need to be careful on how we keep boundaries with people, even if it's our own close ones, and learn to share what needs to.

6:58 Speaker 1: Be shared with the right people.

7:00 Speaker 2: Right because he shared, he asked this reward system with other people who would not come in this guy. They would not bother like this guy wants to try. He's not my I don't even know who he is. If he wants to risk his life, be foolish. I don't care. So they were people who were neutral, so he didn't bother about them at all, right, and they also did not bother about him, whereas Iliev was not like that. David's brothers always you know, we're against David in the even in the previous chapter. You see in chapter sixteen that David was even forgotten when King I mean Prophet Samuel wanted to annoy the next king, and Jesse had to line up all the sons.

7:39 Speaker 2: He forgot David. That's how David was treated. But yeah, David knew that he if he talked to his brothers about this, they're going to talk him out of this. That's why he spoke to other people instead of speaking to his own brothers. So today, that's a challenge I want to leave with you that, even if you're close with certain people, David was talking to his brothers, but when he came to a decision about his destiny, he did not talk to his brothers. He went and spoke to somebody else who would not stop him from what God had put in him.

8:16 Speaker 2: So that's a challenge I want to leave with you, guys. I hope this is a blessing and I will catch up with you very soon tomorrow God bless you.

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