 Today we're in chapter 21. We're going to pick up at verse 15 here in 2 Samuel, then we're going to move into chapter 22 and do both of those chapters concluding chapter 21 and and giving a chapter 22 In full and so let's begin reading together here in chapter 21 at verse 15 And I'll read verses 15 through 22 then we'll get into our study Beginning at verse 15 when the Philistines were at war again With Israel David and his servants with him went down and fought against the Philistines and David grew faint Then Ishbi bin Nab who was one of the sons of the giant the weight of whose bronze spear was 300 shekels Which is seven and a half pounds who was bearing a new sword or an innovative weapon thought he could kill David But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and struck the Philistines and killed him Then the men of David swore to him saying you shall go out no more with us to battle lest you quench the lamp of Israel I'll stop there. We'll read the rest as we continue on but what we have here is we have verses in chapter 21 verses 15 through 22 verses that that summarized David's battles against his enemies enemies here that are referred to as The Philistines and so what we have here in these verses verses 15 through 22 is really a an account of the defeat of four giants At the hands of the men of David and so what this does in reality as we look at verses 15 through 22 Is it sets the tone for us as we enter into chapter 22 because in in chapter 21 verses 15 through 22 we have Summarization of David's battles and defeat of the Philistines and then right into chapter 22 when you begin at verse One you see David composing and singing a song to the Lord a song of Praise and so what you have is you have deliverance that results in praise and that's what we're going to be looking at today David and his army have been fighting against the Philistines and and during the battle even as we just saw a moment ago David has grown tired David has grown older and so his strength and his stamina are now failing and during this combat Notice with me. He grew tired and his strength began to fail now That would have been difficult for David because David is a warrior And he's a man who was not expecting to have have his strength and his stamina fail in battle He simply wasn't expecting that David had a fighter's spirit a warrior spirit So he's not used to growing tired in battle That by itself would have humbled him tremendously Now obviously, that's just what happens as you grow older. There's just nothing like growing older to discover humility David was a young man when he defeated Goliath David was a tried and proven warrior through his adult life And now David is growing to the point where people have to rescue him That has to bring within him a sense of humility Because he was a combat veteran and he's not used to And he's not used to do this, but that's the way that it is isn't it in in first Peter chapter 1 verse 24 The Apostle said all flashes as grass and the glory of man as the flower of the grass The grass withers and its flower falls away You see you can spend a lifetime working out developing strength But eventually your strength is going to fail You grow older and you grow weaker. That's just the way it is It's good to maintain your strength. It's good to maintain your health Because it's something that can be profitable in this lifetime God gives you health. You can use it for his glory But we have to have the humility to realize that you're not going to remain strong forever Eventually that strength that you used to take pride in and rely on eventually it does fade And as a young man I was thinking this before this service when I was a young man It you know I was I was one of these guys that athletics came fairly easily to me When I went into the military as part of my Five out of seven days I would run I would run three miles a day I used to do 300 sit-ups consecutive sit-ups a night in less than five minutes every day Uh lifted weights played handball. You name it. That's what I did. I enjoyed it I was part of a part of a division the 82nd airborne division We were known for being able to run and all of that and that's what I did. I enjoyed it It was very easy to do. I I continued doing that for a long time at the age of 40 I was still benching 300 pounds. It wasn't any big thing It's just the way it was because you work out. You can stay strong You don't realize that you're growing older when Marie gave birth to Corinne our firstborn We lived in a little apartment and Marie because she had given birth Couldn't walk up the stairs and I used to pick her up and carry her up the stairs every day and bring her down the stairs Now she picks me up and carries me up the stairs I mean you get older and when you get older you get weaker. That's just the way it is It's a way of the flesh. That's the way of the world. It just happens And so what you used to rely on in the past you can no longer rely on in in the future It just doesn't work that way. You may have been strong and you may have been fast And you may have had all of those attributes. It might have been just so easy for you David was that way David sees Goliath the giant nine foot nine inches tall Huge doesn't even think for a moment just enters into battle Because David was a warrior But now David's growing older because that's the way of all flesh. That's how it works You can work out all day long every day, but eventually you just Get older and tired Man we used to we used to brag about our our chest. It's in 40 44 inch chest now. That's our waist Gravity hits There used to be a saying she has an hourglass shape Well, the sand does shift ladies It goes to the bottom of that glass That's what happens. I mean that's life. That's that's the way it is And so the apostle paul was speaking one time and in first timothy and and he said this in chapter 4 verse 8 He said bodily exercise profits a little but godliness is profitable for all things Having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come The one thing that you benefit from when it's aging it's aging in the lord Because the older you get in jesus the more experience you have with god that you can give to the younger people There's so many who want to remain young forever, but they're failing to realize that's not possible not in the flesh But as you're growing older in the things of god Then you begin to understand that though physical exercise is good because it keeps your heart strong and You're able to do the things that are necessary to be able to be used by god Spiritual exercise being in the word of god being in prayer being in fellowship sharing your faith Those are the kinds of things that make you stronger and as you're getting older You're becoming in the lord wiser and and more usable for the king Because a 25 year old has all that energy, but little experience A 65 year old may not have that energy, but has a tremendous amount of experience and wisdom in the lord So rather than us trying to be profitable in the sense of keeping our bodies In the kind of shape that they may have one time been when we were young We take care of our bodies so that we can continue to be used by the lord But we grow in the things of god In the case of david what david has done is he's simply growing older now And as he's growing older his body is no longer responding as it once used to And so this this this giant Sees that he's vulnerable and he moves into attack him and and what happens according to verse 17 here in second Samuel 21 Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and and struck the philistine and killed him Then the men of david swore to him saying you shall go out No more with us to battle lest you quench the lamp of israel Zeruiah was was david's sister. This made Abishai his nephew And so david's nephew a mighty man a mighty man of valor Sees the giant and goes and attacks and destroys him while david's mighty men see this taking place as his military men And and they immediately surround him and they say to david we cannot afford to lose you You're not coming out to battle with us anymore David it's time for you to no longer fight in the front lines That must have been very difficult But it was wise because they knew that their blessings came from god And that god was blessing david So if an enemy had killed david israel would no longer be blessed and so they say we're not going to allow this Well in verse 18 It happened afterward That there was again a battle with the philistines at gobb Then sebekai the hushai killed saff who was one of the sons of the giant So this happened at gobb which means that sebekai was a gobb stopper. No, I shouldn't have said I'm sorry But gobb was play near a place called geyser And there were a lot of old people there and so So this is just another one of those incidents where a giant was killed verse 19 There was war at gobb with the philistines where al-hanan the son of yariah or a game the bethlemite killed the brother of Goliath the gethite the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam So once again we see another giant killed by one of david's men and then finally in verses 20 through 22 There was war at gath where there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot His name was ral 24 in number And he was also born to the giant So when he defied israel jonathan the son of shimea david's brother killed him These four were born to the giant in gath and fell by the hand of david And by the hand of his servant So all of these men had been defeated which leads us to chapter 22 now chapter 22 is a song of praise In chapter 21 concluded with god's deliverance chapter 22 begins with praise david was somebody who knew how to praise the lord He was somebody who wrote songs to god when when you read the psalms in the old testament you have 150 psalms In the book of psalms 77 of those were written by david David is referred to we'll see this later in our study Next week david is referred to as the sweet psalmist of israel So david was one who sang psalms into the lord composed music to god And he was one who was filled with praise The bible tells us in the new testament book of first sessilonians chapter 5 verse 18 and everything gives thanks And david was one who gave thanks to god and and that's what we see This is somebody who praised the lord He was blessed by god because god was his deliverer He was blessed by god because god had done these things for him and therefore he praises him As it says in psalm 109 verse 30 i will greatly praise the lord with my mouth Yes, i will praise him among the multitude and david was one who praised the lord And he would compose songs to god and that's what we see here in psalm 20 Rather second samuel 22 Second samuel 22 is almost identical with psalm 18 And so what you have here is a song of praise to god a song that is composed out of one whose heart has been delivered So beginning at verse 1 reading to verse 4 david spoke to the lord the words of this song On the day when the lord had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies And from the hand of sol and he said The lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer The god of my strength in whom i will trust my shield and the horn of my salvation My stronghold and my refuge my savior you saved me from violence I will call upon the lord who is worthy to be praised So shall i be saved from my enemies The lord is my rock and my fortress as he speaks what he is saying is that god has various things in his life The lord is my rock my fortress my deliverer. He is my strength and shield. He is my horn of salvation my stronghold He is my refuge and my savior These are all what are called military metaphors Because he's singing how god has protected him in times of war And he loves the lord he loves the lord because god has been faithful to deliver him throughout all of his struggles He is his rock because god gives him stability his fortress because it provides security He is his deliverer because he provides relief his strength because it provides endurance He is a shield because he keeps the enemy's weapons from penetrating his life He's the horn of salvation because he provides victory over the enemy He is his stronghold a stronghold the enemy cannot enter. He's his refuge because it provides security from attacks And he's his savior because he delivers him And this is how he sees god. These are the things that god is to david and by the way These are the things that god is to us God does this on our behalf also you need to understand that you need to take that home with you That you can sing a song of deliverance also because god works in your life in the same kind of way And that's why in verse 4 he says i will call upon the lord who is worthy to be praised You see when i'm under attack i can call upon god because i know god will deliver me You see that with the apostle paul in second timothy 418 paul said the lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me For his heavenly kingdom to him be glory forever and ever amen God will deliver me from every evil work god will preserve me and god will take me to be with him in heaven That's the hope of the believer david had that hope David was able to say this is the god that i worship and i know him very well God is a rock to me. He is a fortress to me. He is my deliverer and my strength He is my shield a horn of salvation a stronghold a refuge god is my savior and i call on him and he answers me and He delivers me As he's speaking about this i want you to notice he goes on in verse 5 to say when the waves of death surrounded me The floods of ungodliness made me afraid The sorrows of shield surrounded me the snares of death confronted me In my distress i called upon the lord and cried out to my god He heard my voice from his temple my cry entered his ears I was in distress. I was in a situation that was critical Without god's help i would surely have died So what did i do over seven says i called upon the lord in this distress notice how he says i called i cried But also and he heard my voice James 5 16 says the effective fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much It's been said prayers that are not felt or seldom heard In the case of david david cried out and david said i needed to be delivered I needed to because i was being surrounded and i was afraid i was going to die You know that's actually sometimes not a bad place to be because when you are in that position There's no one else to call to is there there's no one else to ask for help from And so you call into god and you ask god to deliver you In second corinthians in chapter 1 verses 8 through 10 Paul said it like this He said we do not want you to be ignorant brethren of our trouble which came to us in asia That we were burdened beyond measure above strength so that we disparate even of life Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves That we should not trust in ourselves but in god who raises the dead Who delivered us from so great a death and does deliver us in whom we trust that he will still deliver us In the past god delivered me in the present god delivers me in the future He will deliver me and that's how we as believers live and the reason we do that is because we know our god Is there to do that because he loves us and so what do we do when we're in struggles? Some people take it into their own hands and they fail others are wise they cry out to god They call god they say god i need your help Like bartimaeus a man that we find in the gospel of luke chapter 18 A blind man There on the side of a road and he hears the sound of what i call the christian parade passing by He asks what is going on they say jesus of nazareth is passing by And as he hears that it's jesus it says in luke 18 38 and 39 that that bartimaeus cried out saying Jesus son of david have mercy on me And then those who went before warned him that he should be quiet But he cried out all the more son of david have mercy on me He wasn't about to be quiet and when you're in a situation and you're in need you're not going to be quiet either And david said i cried out i called out to god and as i did so he heard me In the case of bartimaeus as he was crying out to jesus jesus stopped and the whole parade stopped with him And jesus said bring him to me and when bartimaeus came to him he threw away his cloak and everything that he relied on Ran to jesus and jesus said what would you have me to do? Lord that i might receive my sight And the lord jesus christ healed him He cried out. He wasn't about to be told that you shouldn't cry out to god He cried out and god answered and that's what david's talking about here. He said i was surrounded I was in despair. I thought i was going to die And in my distress he said in verse seven i called upon the lord cried out to my god And the result was he heard my voice from his temple. My cry entered his ears There's no call waiting with god. There's no leave a message with god I call the lord and he answers me Well going on the earth shook and trembled The foundation of heaven quaked Foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken because he was angry Smoke went up from his nostrils devouring fire from his mouth Coals were kindled by it He bowed the heavens also and came down with darkness under his feet He rode upon a cherub and flew he was seen upon the wings of the wind He made darkness canopies around him dark waters and thick clouds of the skies From the brightness before him coals of fire were kindled the lord thundered from heaven And the most high uttered his voice He sent out arrows and scattered them lightning bolts and he vanquished them Then the channels of the sea were seen the foundations of the world were uncovered at the rebuke of the lord At the blast of the breath of his nostrils Nature in scripture often is seen as a tool in the hand of god That's because god is the god of nature And god uses nature as he desires and so david uses these illustrations To demonstrate the power of god and how god worked to deliver him He goes on to say in verse 17. He sent from above. He took me. He drew me out of many waters He delivered me from my strong enemy from those who hated me. They were too strong for me They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the lord was my support He also brought me out into a broad place. He delivered me Because he delighted in me. I was closed in. I was overwhelmed. I was over my head. I was drowning my enemies were surrounding me But god was my support god delivered me and god took me out from that which was crushing me and put me into a place That was expansive and he did this and i want you to see this in verse 20 He did this why because he delivered me because he delighted in me That we're delighted gary's the connotation of love. He did this because he loves me If there's anything that we as believers need to come to a strong understanding of It's that god loves us you need to understand that today There are many people who don't believe that god loves them and so they get caught up in religious systems that make them work for salvation Maybe if i work really hard, maybe if i do as much as i can if i make great sacrifices Maybe i'll please the anger of god And maybe god will not so much delight in me, but at least maybe he'll leave me alone and there are people like that There are people in systems like that they try to work hard so that god may somehow accept them But david knew better david said i know that my god delights in me I know that my god loves me there are two things that we need to know one is that god loves us and that two God will forgive us You need to know that today if there's anything you walk out with today. Please understand that god Loves you now. He may not like what you're doing. That's something you need to turn from if it's if it's something he disapproves of obviously But god loves you I've told my children There's nothing you can do That will make me not love you so stop trying so hard. No, there's nothing you can do That will make me stop loving you and that's the truth Why? Because i'm your father And because the father's love is forever And because i love you with all of my heart It's nothing you can do ever that will make me as a father Not love you There are things that they do The way that i did things That a parent will disapprove of They will do things that that have caused me pain The way i caused pain to my mom and my dad That is part of being a sinner But the one thing that that a child can rest in at least my children can rest in Is that they're loved by their father and the one thing that i can rest in as a believer Is that i am loved by my father my father god Loved me so much that he gave his only begotten son He gave jesus christ he demonstrated his love toward me and that while i was yet a sinner christ died for me And so if if my god loves me i can delight in his love because he delights in me And that sets me free when you understand that god loves you The god of the universe that spoke all things into creation That he loves you That he has set his affection on you That he desires only your good Transforms your life Transforms your life. It makes you into a new person David knew the love of god and david also knew the mercy of god I want you to see something verse 21 the lord rewarded me According to my righteousness According to the cleaness of my hands. He has recompensed me For i have kept the ways of the lord and have not wickedly departed from my god For all his judgments were before me And as for his statutes i did not depart from them I was also blameless before him and i kept myself from my iniquity Therefore the lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness According to my cleaness in his eyes. Wait a minute Wait a minute I remember a little hoochie named basheba. I have a young lady in our fellowship. She's a doll. I love her She and her at that time boyfriend who is now her husband went with us to israel a few years ago And she uh went to uh To get a tattoo Well in israel And so she had it placed on her shoulder Hebrew letters So she wanted to show me her tattoo So she walks up to me and says pastor david i got a tattoo. I said really darling. Let me see it So she shows it to me And I said oh my She goes what? I said do you know what they wrote on your back in Hebrew? She says no, I think you're supposed to say I said oh no, honey I said I read Hebrew I hardly read english, but That says hoochie mama She almost fainted she almost died it was so good Hoochie mama So I just got a I just got an email from her husband And he was sharing with me where they're at and their desire to serve the lord and they want to go to hady And and he said you remember us remember is my wife's the one you said is a hoochie mama in israel, right? Well, she had one before her her name was basheba, but this girl here was not a hoochie mama basheba Not only did david commit adultery with and impregnate basheba, but remember with me david also made sure that her husband died And yet look what he's saying here the lord rewarded me according to my righteousness according to the cleanest of my hands I have kept the ways of the lord. I haven't done wickedly I was blameless I kept my now. What are you talking about david? Well, I want you to see the last thing he says Therefore the lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness according to my cleanest now notice in his eyes There's your key david wrote psalm 32 and psalm 51. We've read it. We studied it There's psalms that relate to what happened with him in basheba and and all that that followed that He said that that While he kept silent that that he dried up from within He said I was born. I was conceived in iniquity. I was born in sin. That's what I am And he said god, please do not take your spirit from me Renew unto me a right heart work within me and what happened is he said the lord heard my prayer now Here's your key one god loves you and two god Will forgive you to the point that you can say that god has looked at me with love And that I am walking a right way before god the way david did Why because he says God is the one who worked according to my cleanest in his eyes God is the one who made david acceptable because david Repented David said god be merciful to me That's the second thing you need to understand some people when I minister to them. I see this so often Have failed to come to understand That god loves them and god will wash them 100 clean if any man be in christ He's a new creation. That's what the bible teaches. He says behold all things are become new If we walk in the light as he is in the light We have fellowship one with another and the blood of jesus christ his son Cleanses us from all sin not from some sin But from all sin if we confess our sin He's faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness And the problem I see with many saints today is they are trying to win their salvation through their own efforts Even though they already cast themselves on the lord And they're trying to be good for for for some sake of maybe to try and win some points with god or get some special blessing Listen, there's nothing you can do to make him love you anymore He loves you And he wash away all of your sin all of it every single bit past present and even future All covered by the blood of jesus christ and what we do is we walk in that light We walk in that knowledge and it transforms you I was a drug addict. I was a fornicator. I broke most of the 10 commandments except for one. I never killed anybody And yet God when he finally broke through and said look it It's not by worse of righteousness what you have done, but according to my mercy. I'm saving you You need me When I came to that understanding Then it's taken a while to be honest with you for me to finally shed all those Old ways of thinking like oh, I've got to do something special. You know god God loves you Loves you And god forgives you And god makes you brand new So that without arrogance or pride you can say he delights in me And I have righteousness we have the righteousness of god He made him to be sin Who knew no sin That we might be made the righteousness of god In him second creed things chapter 5 verse 21 God gives us his own righteousness That way when you stand before god He sees you through the righteousness of his son jesus The only way that you could enter in to the kingdom of god is through the standard of perfection Seeing that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of god How am I going to enter in Paul said oh wretched man that I am Who will save me from this body of death? Thanks be to god who gives us the victory through jesus christ It's the lord who does the work It's god who did the work on your behalf We enter into his finished work when jesus was there on the cross. He said it is finished He didn't say this is the beginning for you to try your hardest and be the best that you can be He said it's finished and what you do is you look upon him and you say god be merciful to me I am a sinner and god with his loving kindness Washes you by the blood of jesus christ and renews your spirit and makes you brand new and you can say that god has made me What I am today because of the work of the spirit within us And so that's how he became capable of making that statement He says in verse 26 with the merciful you will show yourself merciful with a blameless man You'll show yourself blameless with the pure you will show yourself pure with the devious You'll show yourself shrewd you will save the humble people But the eyes but your eyes are on the hotty or the proudful That you may bring them down god shows grace to the humble, but god will oppose the proud God sees the condition of your heart. He judges you accordingly And so he's saying to us that the lord will look within you and see that which is motivating you He says in verse 29 You are my lamp, oh lord the lord shall enlighten my darkness For by you I can run against a troop by my god. I can leap over a wall As for god his way is perfect The word of the lord is proven. He is a shield to all who trust in him I am not going to stumble in the dark Because you provide light for me. I can see that wall and I can scale it in you I'm given strength to be victorious against all my enemies even at one time And as I follow you you lead me to victory you protect me in my battles It's like paul said in romans 831 what then shall we say to these things if god is for us who can be against us If god is for us who can be against us God is there fighting alongside of us. God is fighting our battles I was about six years old. I was in school and uh The kids were playing kickball or something there on the In the playground and Ball came rolling to me and some kids said Hey, give us the ball And I took the ball and turned around and I kicked it in the opposite direction So I got him mad for some reason And he ran and he jumped on me And he had me on the ground and he was trying to strangle me. I was six years old And I'm laughing like uh, it was so funny He was he's not happy and I still remember this kid's face because he was so angry I mean his little face is all red and I'm just cracking up I'm thinking I did something very funny and he didn't think so at all But the funny thing that I remember about that Is his face was so angry, but suddenly it stopped being so angry And it got kind of well. I had a look of pain in it And I wasn't doing anything. I was just kind of laying there while he was trying to hurt me laughing And and he's being pulled out. Well, I have an older brother named Frank Who happened to be on the playground at the same time And Frankie my brother had come up and grabbed the kid by the nape of the neck with his finger and thumb And was pinching him and pulled him off of me and the kids And then pushed him and he ran away and left me alone I've never forgotten that because I have a god who does the same thing My god does that the enemy comes knocks me down and I'm go whoa and and and Jesus is oh no, you don't Fix him up and throws him. I really believe that I have a god who delivers me He doesn't let me get pounded like that. He takes care of me and David is saying that saying god takes care of us God is able to be with us. He works in our behalf and he ministers to us and cares in that way and delivers us And that's why I can trust in him god is perfect. He works in my life and his ways are perfect and I can trust his word Now in verse 32 who is god except the lord? There's only one god in other words. Who is a rock except our god? God is my strength and power. He makes my way perfect He makes my feet like the feet of deer And sets me on high places He teaches my hands to make war so that my arms can bend above bronze You have also given me the shield of your salvation Your gentleness has made me great you enlarged my path under me so my feet did not slip I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them neither did I turn back again till they were destroyed I have destroyed them and wounded them so that they could not rise. They have fallen under my feet You have armed me with strength for the battle. You have so dude under me those who rose against me You have also given me the necks of my enemies so that I destroyed those who hated me They looked but there was none to save even to the lord. He didn't answer them I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth I trod them like dirt in the streets and I spread them out. This is a warrior speaking ladies Ladies see this kind of talking. They say well, why didn't David just sit down and visit with his friends and these enemies and why didn't he just kind of talk to them Men think differently. They said no, which is I'll put my my foot on his neck and I busted him up That's men But I want you to see a couple things here What gave him victory and and first we can see it in two different ways and we'll look at it in that way When he's speaking very practically This is actually what took place when he was in combat in physical warfare God surrounded him protected him and he always walked away victorious in the lord God protected him. He took his enemies out and defeated them Even when they were crying for help because they were not with the lord God took care of david and he says I was protected by god but secondly You can see this as a spiritual application in the sense that we have enemies too and the enemies that you have And I have it's called sin. It's called sin Sin is not something you deal with lightly. It's not something like a pet You keep a particular sin you get rid of all the rest, but you keep one or two that you really like And in you play with those sins once in a while you get depressed and so you go drink You get upset about something you go smoke some pot, you know, it's not that way sin isn't that way Oh, my wife gets me obsessed. So I go look at some porn, you know, it's hidden just one sin's one little sin It's not going to do anything. No sin is dealt with Brutally it is killed. It is put to death. You put your foot on it and you have victory over it That's how it's supposed to be. That's what david is talking about. He's saying my enemies are subdued under me Well in a spiritual sense sin is subdued through jesus christ and by faith in him There are two things that you need to know one is he spoke concerning god's word His way is perfect. The word of the lord is proven and two he said god is my strength in verse 33 and my power So how am I going to overcome? By the word of the lord and the strength and power of god By god's word and god's holy spirit The problem people have today is they don't rely on either one And because we don't rely on the word of god, we don't say thus saith the lord And god you have given to me abilities to do this Jesus said that we would receive power after that the spirit of god was upon us And and yet we say oh, I am I'm going to be I'm going to be overcome by this No, I can do all things through christ who strengthens me I can have victory. I can have it. I will have it There's nothing that can overcome me if I stay strong in jesus christ is when I yield myself It's when I get away from the word It's when I get away from brothers and sisters who can pray for me that i'm honest with I can be real with And say you know what keep me in prayer It's when I step away from the things that matter and when I'm isolated that the enemy has a tendency of attacking But david said look it I've got god's word that is proven and I've got god's strength within me and I can overcome my enemies And I believe I believe the same thing because it's true I can't overcome in jesus christ I can't And guess what even when I fail I can be forgiven by jesus christ I can be restored by jesus christ I can be lifted up once again by jesus christ Even as david was lifted up even after he fell with ashiba and all that happened He could be raised back up because he called into god even so I can too and so can you God is my strength and he gives me the ability To subdue my enemies And there's no combat regret involved here at all. I did what I had to do And I did it and the lord controlled me strengthened me and delivered me He says in verse 44 you have also delivered me from the striving of my people You've kept me as the head of the nations People I have not known shall serve me foreigners submit to me as soon as they hear they obey me Foreigners fade away They're frightened and come frightened from their hideouts And so he's saying here god is the one who has exalted me you delivered me You kept me as the head of the nations god has put me in this position I didn't have to try and take it for myself God gave it to me And god gives me the ability to rule Prophetically, there's one who is going to come that the foreigners are also going to be kneeling to and that of course is messiah A relative coming from the line of judah And finally he says the lord lives Blessed be my rock Let god be exalted the rock of my salvation It is god who avenges me and subdues the peoples under me. He delivers me from my enemies You also lift me up above those who rise against me. You have delivered me from the violent man Therefore, I will give thanks to you. Oh lord among the Gentiles and sing praises to your name I am not ashamed to declare to the world what you have done for me. I am open in my beliefs He is the tower of salvation to his king and shows mercy to his anointed to david and his descendants forever more I have fought many battles, but you have given me many victories And because of that I know that god your hand will be on me and not only me but notice verse 51 as we close Not only me to david But also to my descendants The best thing that we can do as parents who love the lord is do our very best to communicate that love to our children Because not only can we be blessed But future generations can be blessed in him too I want to not only be blessed by god But I want my children My wife my children and my grandchildren to be blessed too Psalmist says in Psalm 103 verse 17 the mercy of the lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him And his righteousness to children's children david was delivered And david praised god for it And god is the one who gave him victory Gave him power gave him his word held him up And so naturally david would praise him