Black History Unmasked: Goliath of Gath: Reclaiming the True Story Behind the Giant

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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast. I'm your host,

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Connie Morris, and this is Faith on the Go, where you take the word with you

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on your drive to work, while you're getting ready in the morning,

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or even in those quiet moments before prayer.

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Real life, real word, and real growth, all while you are on the go.

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Before we get into today's word, let's take a moment to center ourselves with a familiar prayer.

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The prayer of Jabez.

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Oh, that you will bless me indeed and enlarge my territory.

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Let your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.

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Father God, we come before you this day asking that you will indeed bless us,

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not just with what we have, but in who we are becoming.

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Enlarge our territory, Lord. Lord, expand our capacity, our mindset,

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and our ability to receive what you have for us.

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Let your hand be upon us, guiding us, covering us, and leading us in every decision we make.

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And Father, keep us from harm, physically, emotionally, and spiritually,

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that we may walk in peace and not in pain.

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And Lord, just as you heard Jabez when he cried out to you, hear us now.

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Your word says that you granted his request, and we believe that you are the same God today.

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So we come boldly before you, knowing that you hear us, knowing that you see

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us, and knowing that you respond to the prayers of your people.

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Have your way in this moment as we sit, listen, and receive your word.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Hello and welcome back to Diary of a Black Woman podcast. I'm your host Connie

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Morris and yes, yes, we are still on our Black History Unmask and it is getting really, really good.

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We're going to hit a part of the Black History Unmask that we never,

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ever took time out to understand.

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And so the theme, like I covered in the introduction, is about nations,

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giants, Canaan, and conflict.

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And so we're going to start out, we start out with nations. We're going to have

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a nice series on the giants in the Bible.

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People don't believe they exist or they don't exist anymore,

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but giants don't just fade away. They're just too big, right?

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And so today's story is going to be about Goliath and the giants of Gath.

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So there's many giants in the Bible, and we're going to get a little introductory

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of those giants, and then we're going to take each of those giants and we're going to study them.

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We know that the giants were part of the Canaan.

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Remember, Noah was cursed Ham, but Noah didn't curse Ham. Noah cursed Canaan, which was Ham's son.

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So Noah cursed his grandson.

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And in that grandson lineage is where the giants are found.

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I like to call them the ites. So anything with an ite on it is a giant. And you see how it works.

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Giants is an ite. And so how much trouble they cause, why they were defeated, who defeated them.

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And what most important in our Black history on masks is what ethnicity are they?

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Because they are shown in European as being of light white skin.

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And actually, the giants are not white, as I always say. And then there's like

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a spiritual side of giants.

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And we all have giants in our land, in our life.

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And we're going to cover some of that. Also, wrote a couple of new series.

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One is that What If? I expanded that. That was still on my heart.

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And another one is Jesus Come. And so when we finish these, it's history,

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Bible and Mass, we're going to jump into some really, really hot topics.

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And so, yes, I do a lot, but I love it. I love it. I love it.

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So let's get started with the story of Goliath and the giants of Gath.

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You know, we understand that some giants don't just stand in front of you.

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They stand over your history. They stand over your identity.

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They stand over your confidence and they stand over your call.

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And for generations, Goliath has been painted as a European monster,

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a medieval knight, a fairy tale creature.

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But we know it's not true. But the Bible never said that.

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The Bible said that he was a man, a warrior, and a giant.

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From a real region with real people tied to Africa, tied to the Near East End,

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tied to the land where Israel fought for survival.

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Today we reclaim that truth. Today we reclaim geography.

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And today we reclaim history. Today we reclaim the narrative.

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Because when you understand where your Goliaths came from, you will understand

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why David's victory mattered, not just for Israel, but for the lineage that leads to Jesus.

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And I remember telling you that David, God tracked David through the whole Bible.

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And so 1 Samuel is pretty much, 1 Samuel 17 is where he shows up on the scene,

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not the first time, but maybe a second time because the first time he was anointed

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as king and the second time he is

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now a young boy who is.

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Chasing giants, literally, right?

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So let's start out at 1 Samuel 17, verses 1 to 3.

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And this is the battlefield that's happening right now. So we're not walking

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in the scene after David defeats the giant. We're not going to go there.

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We're going to walk into the scene and then watch David defeat the giant.

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And then we're going to walk out of the scene. And then we're going to pick

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it up on where these giants come from and why are they called giants.

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And I remember also telling you that the Ethiopian Bible is a great resource

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to understand some things that are not written in the Bible.

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Use it as great reading material, but also maybe as a supplication to reading your Bible.

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So let's walk into the valley together.

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1 Samuel 17 verses 1 to 3, it says, Now the Philistines gathered together their

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armies to battle and were gathered together at Shoko, Shokoho.

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Which belongeth to Judah, and pitches between Sokoho and Azekah and Ephsadamon.

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I might have messed those up, but that's okay. And Saul and the men of Israel

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were gathered together and pitched by the valley of Elah and set the battle

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in array against the Philistines.

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And the Philistines stood on the mountain and on the side, and Israel stood

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on the mountain on the other side, and there was a valley in between them.

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So we see here that Israel stands on a hill, the Philistine stands on the other

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hill, and the valley of Elah lies between them. So this is the natural stage for a showdown.

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Let's go to verses 4 through 7. It says, And there went out a champion out of

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the camp of the Philistine, named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

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And he had a helmet of brass upon his head and he was armed with a coat of mail

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and the weight of a coat was 5,000 shekels of brass.

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It was a heavy coat because he was a big guy and he had greaves of brass upon

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his legs and target of brass between his shoulders. So he was well armed,

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well, well not armed, but well protected.

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Verse 7, and the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam,

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and his spearhead weighed 600 shekels of iron, and one bearing a shield went before him.

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So he was a big guy. He had big equipment.

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We see that Goliath appears, a giant from Gath, stepped forward.

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Over nine feet tall, a bronze helmet, a coat of mail weighing 125 pounds,

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a spear with a tip weighing 15 pounds.

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This is not a myth. This is not a fantasy.

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This is military detail. Let's go to verse Samuel 17 verses 8 through 11.

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And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel and said unto them,

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why are ye come out to set your battle in array?

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Am I a Philistine and ye servant of Saul?

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Choose you a man for you and tell him to come down to me. So he's saying,

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hey, aren't you men of Saul?

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Pick somebody. If ye be able to fight with me and kill me, then will we be your servants?

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But if I prevail against him and kill him, then ye should be our servants and serve us.

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And the Philistines said, I defy.

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The armies of Israel this day, give me a man that we may fight together.

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When Saul and all Israel heard those words of Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

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So we see here, Goliath is the biggest man standing.

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So he's making a lot of noise, right?

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And so Goliath puts a challenge to them. Goliath shouts at Israel, choose a man to fight me.

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He does this twice a day for 40 days.

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Goliath stands there confident, loud, arrogant, the way giants do when they

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think nobody can challenge them.

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But God always has a challenger. Let's talk about this. So David now steps forward.

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Let's go to 1 Samuel 17, 12 through verse 20.

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Now David was the son of that Euphratesite of Bethlehem, Judah,

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whose name was Jesse. We know the genealogy, so we know Jesse is the father of David.

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And he had eight sons, and the man went among men for an old man in the days

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of Saul. So Jesse was bad in his day.

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And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle.

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And the names of his three sons that went to battle were Elab,

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the firstborn, the next unto him, Annabob, and the third, Shammah.

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And David was the youngest of the three eldest who followed Saul.

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But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

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Verse 16, and the Philistine drew near morning and evening and presented himself

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40 days. So this giant was just making a lot of noise.

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He had, he probably did it for breakfast and just before dinner,

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you know, two times a day for the last 40 days.

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And Jesse said unto David, his son, take now thy brethren and ephah of this

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parched corn and these 10 loaves and run to the camp to thy brethren and carry these 10 cheeses

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unto the captain of their thousands, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

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He said, go feed my sons and tell me how they're doing, okay?

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Verse 19, now Saul and they and all the men of Israel went in the valley of

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Elah fighting with the Philistines.

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Verse 20, and David rose up early in the morning and took and left the sheep

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with the keeper and took and went as Jesse had commanded him.

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And he came to the trench as the host was going forth to fight and shout for the battle.

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So David arrives. David is not a soldier. He's just a little kid.

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He's a shepherd boy delivering food to his brothers, but destiny doesn't need

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a title. It just needs obedience.

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So God's timing, when we talked about the God factor, his timing is that I need

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to get David to the field because I know he ain't scared. He's going to go in there and fight.

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So let's read verse 23 and see what happens.

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But before I read verse 23, I want to read a little bit of commentary about

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this Goliath character, okay?

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So, Goliath Agath. Goliath was a Philistine who defied the armies of Israel

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for 40 days and was defeated by David.

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This African Edenic man, remember, was 10 and a half feet tall, a giant.

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Today, there are still giants among the tribes of African Eden.

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The Watusu are an average height of approximately seven and a half feet.

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They are a hematic people who descended from North Africa, resembles Ethiopians.

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All are from the same family line as Goliath.

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Think about that. There's still giants in the land today.

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He says this one is this Goliath, which we don't even hear about his character.

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But when we see him, we always see him in white skin.

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Goliath was a black man. Hello, African Edenic with dark skin.

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And he had a family. So he wasn't the only tall person in his family.

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He came from a family of giants. So we're going to go into that later on in our series.

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So let's look at verse 23.

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As he talked with them, behold, here came up the champion, the Philistine of

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Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines,

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and spake according to the same words, and David heard them.

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So David hears a giant talking smack. Everyone else is fearful,

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but David is hearing disrespect.

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Everyone else sees size, and David sees opportunity.

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He said, this dude is too big not to fall because, you know,

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he's a little guy. So this is a big old target. Think about a little kid coming

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to the field and he's a man of God at a young age, right?

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And that's why we were surprised when him and Bathsheba, when he summoned for Bathsheba.

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So we're not going to go there. We're not going to bring up any negativity right now.

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David is in his prime. He is like, okay, this giant of Gath,

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of the Philistine, he is just too big to miss.

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Let's see what happens in verse 32.

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Hope you got your Bibles. I'm reading from the original African heritage edition.

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You got to get a Bible. You have to pull it out. You have to get it in your

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eyes because David was doing some big things.

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He was doing it for God because he believed God.

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And verse 32, and David said to Saul, let no man's heart fail because of him.

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Thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

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David said, hold on, I'm going to do this. David volunteers,

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you know, and tell Saul, let no man fear him. I will fight him.

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So Saul look at him like, dude, you a little kid. So he doubts him.

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He go, wait a minute. Okay, you're going to do that.

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Let's see how Saul handles David's courage, his bravery, his boldness.

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Verse 38, And Saul armed David with his armor, and he put a helmet on brass

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upon his head. Also, he armed him with a coat of mail.

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And David girded his sword upon his armor, and he assayed to go, for he had not proved it.

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And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these, for I have not proved them.

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And David put them off of him. And he took his staff in his hand and chose five

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smooth stones out of the brook and put them in a shepherd's bag,

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which he said, even in a script.

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And his sling was in his hand and he drew near to the Philistine.

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He says, wait a minute, I can't fight in your armor.

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So he said, I can fight on how I'm trained to fight. So he walks to the brook.

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He picks up five smooth stones.

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He carries a sling and he just started stepping forth. That's powerful, right?

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You know, David knew how to fight because he was a fighter, right?

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He protected his sheep. And we know he says, I killed. Let me read this verse 34.

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And David said to Saul, thy servant kept his father's sheep.

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And there came a lion and a bear and took a lamb out of the flock.

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And I went after him and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth.

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And when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and smote him and slew him.

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The servant slew both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine

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should be as one of them, seeing that he has defied the armies of the living God.

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David said, moreover, the Lord that delivers me out of the paw of the lion,

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out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of the Philistine.

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And Saul said unto David, go, and the Lord will be with you.

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So David, this little incident, not incident, but this little event,

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it took place where the Philistine giant, the Goliath, called out,

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can somebody send me somebody who's going to fight me?

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Come on, send me somebody who's going to fight me.

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And David said, I'll go. And so I said, hold on, put on this equipment.

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David put on the equipment. He says, okay, I can't do this equipment.

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It's not how I fight. I'm going to fight the way I've known how to fight with my bare hands.

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And so next thing you know, he's getting the stones.

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And then verse 17, 41 to 47 says, David runs towards the giant.

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Goliath mocked him and David declares victory.

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David runs toward what everyone else ran from.

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Let's go to 41 through 47. Let's read what happened here. And the Philistine

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came on and drew near unto David and the man that bear the shield went before him.

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And when the Philistines looked about and saw David, he disdained him,

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for he was but a youth and a ruddy and a fair continence.

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And the Philistines said unto David, Am I a dog that you come with me with staves?

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And the Philistines cursed David by his gods.

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And the Philistines said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto

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the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the field.

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Then said David to the Philistine, thou comest to me with a sword and with a

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spear and with a shield. But I come to you.

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I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts and God of armies of Israel, whom thou has defiled.

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This day will the Lord deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee,

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and I will take thy head from thee, and I will give the carcass of the hosts

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of the Philistine this day

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unto the fowls of the air and to the wild beasts and of the earth.

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Listen to him. He's saying, you going to take me?

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David says, no, no, no. I'm going to cut your head off and I'm going to give

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your body to the fowl of the earth.

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And I'm going to keep your head for a trophy. And he says, and if continue,

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it says, and I will give the carcass of the host of the Philistine this day unto the fowls of the air

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and to the wild beasts of the earth that all the earth may know that there is a God.

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In Israel. I'm going to do this to show you who my God is. I'm going to do this

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to show you what I'm working with.

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The last verse 47, and all this assembly should know that the Lord saveth,

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not with a sword and a spear, for this battle is the Lord's and he will give you into our hand.

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And the next thing he said, after he finished that narrative to the giant,

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talking smack with him, David just ran towards the giant.

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He ran towards the giant.

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Let's see what happens. Verse 48, and it came to pass that when the Philistine

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rose and came and drew nigh to meet David, and David hastened.

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He took off running. I love David.

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David is my boy. Meet David, that David hastened and ran towards the army to meet the Philistine.

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Verse 49, and David put his put his hand in the bag, took this a stone and sling

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it and smoked the Philistine in his forehead that the stone

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sunk into his forehead and he fell upon his face to the earth.

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So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone and smoked

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the Philistine and slew him.

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But there was no sword in the hand of David.

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Therefore, David ran. Let's stop right there. So we see that one stone, one shot, one victory.

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David slings a stone, strikes the Goliath in the forehead.

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The giant falls face down so that he gets hit in the head.

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He hits the floor. I mean, he's a big guy, Tim Burr, right? And then it's like

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it's over. And David said, I didn't do it with a sword. Let's see what happens in verse 51.

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Therefore, David ran and stood upon the Philistine and took his sword and drew

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it out of the sheath, therefore and slew him and cut his head off therewith.

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And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.

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I love that. They fled, but look what happens. It gave the other men courage.

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And the men of Israel and the Judah rose and shouted and pursued the Philistines

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until they'll come to the valley and to the gates of Erkron.

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And the wounded of the Philistine fell down by the way of Shariah,

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even unto Gath and unto Erkron, another place.

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They chased him out of town. So we see here in 1 Samuel 1751 that David finishes

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the battle. David stands over Goliath.

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He takes Goliath's own sword and cuts off his head.

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The weapon that was meant to kill David becomes a weapon David uses to win.

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So I want to teach you a little bit about some of these giants.

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We see the story here that the giant was killed by a young kid.

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How cool was that?

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Now, let's talk about it because he was a giant. He was 10 and a half feet.

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The Bible says he was 9 feet, 9 and a half feet.

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Then we got commentary saying he's 10 and a half feet. We're going to say he was a big guy.

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And we saw that the average height of the giants was like 7 and a half feet,

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that they still exist in Africa.

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So there's still some giants in the land.

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But let's talk about the giants. Who were the giants?

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You know, and where is Gath? You know, we understand if you know the story that

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the reason David took those stones, he took five stones.

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Goliath had brothers. So if they were coming at him more than one,

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he was ready for all of them. He had a rock, a stone for each one of them for their forehead.

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But we see that they didn't happen. They ran off.

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So the Bible mentions multiple giant clans, all tied to the real region,

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real nation, and real ethnic groups.

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And so we're going to take a moment and just introduce you to some giants.

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This chapter is about giants. It wasn't really about Goliath,

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but I wanted to show you that giants do fall, especially when you trust in God,

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especially when you have experience in fighting the lion and the bear that David had.

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So when we go to Genesis chapter 6, verse 4, we know that there was giants in

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the land before the flood, right? And they were called Nephilim.

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So Genesis chapter 6, verse 4, And there were giants in the land in those days,

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and also after that, whom the Son of Man came in unto the daughters of men,

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and they bare children to them.

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The same became mighty men, which were of old men of renown.

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When we think about the Nephilim, we hear about that at the same time we hear

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about the story of Noah and the flood.

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And it goes into great detail in the Ethiopian Bible of what these Nephilim

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were. And they were sent, they were sent to be watchers, but yet they end up

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messing with the women of the earth and creating other things that happen.

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And Enoch, the story Enoch gives great detail about what happened when you

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start mingling with earth, when you're sitting on an angelic assignment and

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you're messing with women from the earth, God was not pleased with them.

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But we won't get into that side of the story.

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We're going to stay on the giants, but giants before the flood,

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they were ancient Near Eastern people, not European.

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So I want to give you an idea of what giants were in the land and what ethnicity

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it was because we don't really talk about that, right?

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So the Bible mentioned multiple giant clans all tied to the real regions,

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real nations, and real ethnic people.

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The Nephilim is a giant from the flood and they were not European.

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The Anakon, which is found in Numbers 13, that should sound familiar because

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remember they went out on a,

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trip to take the land, they came back and they saw giants.

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Numbers 13, verse 32 and 33. These are different giants in the land.

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And they brought up an evil report of the land, which they had searched unto

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the children of Israel, saying, The land through which we have gone to search

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it is a land that eateth of the inhabitants.

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Therefore, and all the people that we saw are in it and our man of great statue.

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And there we saw giants, the son of Anak.

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They saw Anak, which come from the giants.

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And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and we were in their sight.

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So they didn't have the attitude of David, where David says,

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hold on, you're disrespecting me.

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I'm coming. I need to take care of this in the name of the Lord.

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But no, Moses sent the spies out And the spy says, they're giants in the land,

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and the giant that they saw in the land was Anakim.

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And they were tall warriors in Canaan connected to African adjacent region,

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and Israel feared them. You see that.

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They couldn't take the land because they feared the giants.

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Let's go to Deuteronomy 2, verses 10 and 11. We're going to talk about another

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set of giants and where they're from.

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Deuteronomy 10, 2, verses 10 and 11. And the.

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Emm's, not the emm's, but the emm's

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dwelt therein in the times past, a people of great and many and tall as the

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anachem's, which were also accounted as giants, as the anachem's,

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but the Moabites called them emm's.

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So we're talking about the emm's and there was giant people near Moab and they

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were influenced by the African trade route. So these were not European.

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And let's go to verse 2, verse 20, 21, another set of giants that we hear in the Bible.

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Remember, these giants are not European. And that's found in Deuteronomy 2, verses 20 and 21.

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These were the Zamzumans. So the Zams were giants here. Let's see verse 20.

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Until the Lord hath gotten rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you,

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and until they all possess the land with the Lord your God hath given them

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beyond Jordan, and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.

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And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying that eyes have seen all the Lord

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your God have done unto these two kings.

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So should the Lord do unto all the kingdoms who is thou pathest.

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So we're talking about the giants and these giants of the Zam giants,

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Zamzumim, they were giants that lived near Ammon. And so they near Eastern ancestry.

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And then we got the refrain and let's go to Joshua 13. Remember,

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these giants are all over the Bible, not just in one chapter.

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They're all over the Bible. Joshua chapter 13, chapter 13, verse 12.

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I always want to pull it from the Bible so you don't think I'm making anything up.

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Verse 12, it says, All the kingdom of Og and Basham were reigneth in Ashtaroth

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and in Andreri, which remain on the remnant of the giants. For these did Moses smite and cast them out.

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Come on now. Moses beat them.

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So these are the giants of Og. King of Basham was one of them.

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His territory bordered African trade routes.

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And then we here, we see, let's look at the giants of Gath. We just saw it wasn't just Goliath of Gath.

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They were titled giants of Gath. Remember, he had a family.

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And so we're going to go to Samuel and verse 21 and verses 15 to 22.

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And we see here, and they came and besieged him at Abel of Bath-Makon,

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and they cast up a bank against the city, and it

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stood in the trench, and all the people that were in Joab battered the wall and thrown it down.

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Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear ye, hear, say I pray you unto

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Job, come near hither, and I may speak with thee.

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And then he came near unto the woman, art thou Joab?

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And he answered I am he then he said unto him hear the words of thy maiden and

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he answered I hear and then she spake saying they won't speak in old times saying

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that they should surely ask counsel at Abel

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and they ended the Let's keep going.

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Thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why wilt thou swallow

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up the inheritance of the Lord?

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And Job answered and said, Fear it be, for it be it from thee that I should swallow up or destroy.

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Verse 21, The matter is not so, but a man of Mount Euphraim, Sheba the son of Bixri

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by name, had lifted up his hand against the king, even against David,

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delivering him only. And I will depart from the city.

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And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head should be thrown to thee over the

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wall. So she said, I'll handle this person.

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I'm going to throw the head over the wall. Verse 22, Then the woman went into

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all the people in her wisdom, and they cut off the head of Sheba the son and

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blew a trumpet, and they tired the city, every man to his tent.

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And Joab returned to Israel. We see here that the Goliath, the people,

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the Goliath people, the Philistine giant, They lived near African and near Eastern influence.

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The warrior clan had exceptional height.

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Descendants of Rapha, 1 Corinthians. And so there's more giants in the Bible.

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I won't spend all this time to go on over each and every giant.

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But there was more giants in Gath. They were real men, real battles, and real history.

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So much so that they were not a strange sight.

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Think about it. We're talking about giants, and we see a giant.

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We got them on camera. We're doing a lot of things that, because we haven't

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seen, it's not familiar to us.

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But during the time, this Bible time, they were familiar to everybody around

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them, right? So there were giants in the land.

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So when God sent the spies, Moses sent the spies over there to say that there

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was giants in the land, I'm quite sure that they weren't the first giant,

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excuse me, that they saw, period, right? And so let's think about that.

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So God sends you to take the land, but you come back and say,

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there's giants in the land. And God looking at you like, no kidding.

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There is giants everywhere in the Bible, right?

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So let's continue about what happens here. And so I want you to understand that

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these are not fairytale monsters. These were human warriors.

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Regions and real ancestry. So they lived in the land.

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So let's go over some geography about this. The Philistine lived along the Mediterranean

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coast, Gaza, Ashokan, Akron, and Gath.

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So those, you can tell that that was surrounding a coast, a Mediterranean coast.

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These were poor cities connected to African trade routes, Egyptian influence,

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sea people migration, and Canaanite culture. And what they call sea people are

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the ones that actually live around the water.

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Gath was a fortified city with mixed ancestry, African-influenced weaponry,

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and warrior clan known for height.

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Goliath did not come from a storybook. He came from a coastline.

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So we see that these giants live near the water, but who wouldn't want to live

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near a waterfront property, right? These giants probably needed to be near water

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because they wanted to go exercise. because they're big people.

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And that's covered the part about the whitewashing of the giants.

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I just want to just say this out loud, right? That European art turned Goliath

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into what a medieval knight, the Philistine into a pale-skinned European,

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and giants into fantasy creatures.

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But the Bible placed them in African-influenced regions, Canaanite territories,

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near Eastern geography.

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Whitewash, remove the African content, the real story, the real people, and the real geography.

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But guess what? We're putting it back in, in our Bible history en masse.

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Now, let me just preach a little bit here. Giants fall, not because you are

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strong, but because God is faithful.

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Goliath stood tall, but David stood obedient.

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The obedience always wins. So your giant may look big.

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Your giant may look loud. Your giant may sound loud. Your giant may look unbeatable.

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But your stone is enough. Your sling is enough.

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Your faith is enough. And your obedience is enough.

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Because when God is behind you, no giant can stand in front of you.

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Let's connect Jesus to this story. Goliath is not in Jesus' lineage. But David is.

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The David victory preserves Israel, preserve the royal line,

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preserve the promise, and most importantly, preserve the path to Christ.

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If David had fallen, the lineage would have fractured, but David stood so Jesus could come.

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I want you to think about, we talked about David before, and yeah,

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he did some bad things, but because of that covenant he had with God,

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and because David opened up that lineage so that Jesus could come.

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You see how when he failed, God talked to him as a son.

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He wasn't allowed to do a lot of things like there was the punishment on him,

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but he did a great thing when he was young. God was tracking David and God is also tracking you.

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Let's pray. Lord, thank you for showing us that faith can overcome the giants in our lives.

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Open our eyes to see the historical truth behind Scripture.

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Restore the African and regional context that has been erased.

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Strengthen our trust in you as we study your word with clarity and courage. In Jesus' name, amen.

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I want you to remember this, giants fall, not because they're strong, God is faithful.

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So as we move forward, we step into the Canaanite wars, the tension between

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judgment, mercy, and God's strategy in taking the promised land.

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Because the Bible is not just a spiritual book, it's also a historical one.

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And history does matter. I'm your host, Connie Morris.

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And this has been the Diary of a Black Woman podcast with Goliath of Gath.

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And there's so much more we're going to cover about these giants. You get a chance.

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I want you to read the whole story of David. First Samuel 17.

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It's a pretty long passage of scripture, but it gives you the understanding.

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Perspective of David and how he defeated the giant is so much different than

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the story of Moses and 12 spies and how they shied back from.

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You know, fighting the giant, except for Joshua and Caleb.

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Caleb said, we believe that God can actually do this and we are well able to

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handle it. Why? Because the faith, yet their faith made them victorious.

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And as we see, we saw Joshua, which we'll get into Joshua Conquering 2 on how

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he used his faith to beat the giants.

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And so I'm gonna close out now because my throat is really dry.

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So this is your host Connie Morris and this has been the Diary of Black Women

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podcast. Thank you. See you in the next episode.

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Before we close today, I don't wanna take for granted that everyone listening

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knows Jesus personally.

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If you have listened to this episode or any other episodes and felt something

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stirring in your heart, maybe you know about God, but you're not sure you truly know him.

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Maybe you grew up in church, walked away, got hurt, became tired,

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and never fully surrendered your life to Jesus.

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I want you to know this. God loves you. He has not forgotten you.

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He is not waiting to shame you.

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He is calling you home.

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The Bible says in Romans 10, 9, if you declare with your mouth,

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Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

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Salvation is not about being perfect. It's about surrendering to the one who is perfect.

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Jesus died for your sins, rose again, and made a way for you to be forgiven, restored, and made new.

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So right where you are, you can pray this prayer with me.

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Lord Jesus, I come to you today with an open heart. I believe you are the son of God.

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I believe you died on the cross for my sins. And I believe that God raised you from the dead. today.

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I confess that I need you. I repent of my sins. I ask you to forgive me,

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cleanse me, and make me brand new.

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Jesus, come into my heart.

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Be my Lord, my Savior, my Redeemer, and my King.

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I surrender my life to you. I give you my past, my present, and my future.

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Teach me how to walk with you. Fill me with your Holy Spirit.

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Lead me in truth, healing, obedience, and love.

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From this day forward, I belong to you. In Jesus' name, amen.

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If you pray that prayer from your heart, I want you to know that heaven has

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heard you. This is not the end.

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This is only the beginning of your walk with Jesus. Find a Bible-believing church,

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begin reading the word of God, pray daily, and ask the Holy Spirit to help you grow.

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God is not looking for perfection from you. He is inviting you into relationship,

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transformation, and eternal life through Jesus Christ.

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And remember, you are loved, you are not forgotten, and God still has a purpose for your life.

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Thank you for listening to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast.

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Until next time, keep walking in truth, faith, and freedom.

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Family, thank you for spending time with me today.

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To every woman listening who has ever felt hidden, overlooked,

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or pushed aside, hear me clearly.

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God has not forgotten you, and neither have I.

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Now let's go before the Lord and close this out with a word from God.

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Because someone out there needs this reminder today.

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Jeremiah 29, 11, verses 11 through 14.

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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you

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and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

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Then when you call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you,

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you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

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I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and bring you back from captivity.

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Father God, we thank you for your word, that it is true, that it is living, that it is for us.

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You said you know the plans you have for us, plans to prosper us and not to

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harm us, plans to give us hope and a future.

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So today we receive that, not just in our minds, but in our hearts.

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When we feel overlooked, remind us you still see us.

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When we feel forgotten, remind us you still have a plan. And when we feel hidden,

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remind us you are still working.

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Your word says that when we call on you, you will listen.

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So we call on you now. Hear us. Strengthen us.

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Guide us. Help us to seek you with our whole heart, not halfway,

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not sometimes, but fully.

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And as we seek you, let us find you in every season, in every place.

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Even the hidden one. Restore what was lost, renew what feels broken,

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and remind us that nothing in our lives is wasted in your hand.

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Lord, we trust you, we believe you, and we stand on your word. In Jesus' name, amen.

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This is Diary of a Black Woman podcast, and I'm your host, Connie Morris,

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and I'll see you on the next episode.