Giants Still Fall | Jentezen Franklin

Together, we're inspiring people to live for Jesus. If you're looking for more in life, to live with purpose and peace, to make a difference for your family and those in need around the world, Jesus is the answer. And our mission is to simply point you to Him. You're watching Kingdom Connection with Judson Franklin. I want you to look with me in 2 Samuel chapter 21, when the Philistines were at war again with Israel, David and his servants went with him down and fought against the Philistines. Listen, and David grew faint. Now he's not the young David that slew a bear and slew a lion and fought Goliath. He is now an older man and he still has the heart of a lion, but physically he is out on the battlefield and he's fighting a giant. He's fighting a giant. And I want to tell you about that giant. Then Ishmael, who was one of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose bronze spear was 300 shekels, who was bearing a new sword, thought he would kill David. And he would have. The Bible, the next text proves it. It was so close that all the men gasped for breath when they saw what was about to happen to their hero, the light of Israel, David. The next verse says an Abishai, the son of Zira, came to his aid 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. We're taking the keys to your truck. You're not, you are 98 years old. I'm just making this up, but this is literally what they're saying. They're saying you're too, you can't get out there like a young man. And you are, you can go with us no more to battle, lest the, lest you quench the lamp of Israel. I love that when he was about to be taken out, David is the only giant killer in, in the history of Israel.

But in that moment, a young man rose and ran and killed the giant that was about to kill David. I love that mental picture of a new generation of giant killers running out. Watch this. And you, and verse 18, now it happened afterward that there was another, again, a battle and the Philistines at God. This is where many of the giants were from a place called God, Gob and Sabachi, the Hishite killed Seth, who was one of the sons of the giant. So here's a, here's a second, here's a second giant killer. Now this there, it started with one giant killer, David. Now here's another one. And the other one said, well, if he can do it, I can do it. I'm going to go kill me a giant. And again, there they were at war at God with the Philistines and Elhanan, the son of somebody from Oregon, it looks like, amen. The Bethlehemite, well, you can't pronounce them either. So let's just skip it. I ain't preaching on him, amen. The Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath. Isn't that cool? Isn't this a cool story? So here we have in a row, three new giant killers, and now they're taking out Goliath's brothers. He had four brothers who were giants. They killed the brother of Goliath whose spear was like a weaver's beam. Notice the details. Yet again, there was war at Gath. This is where a lot of giants came from, where there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, 24 in number. Can you imagine a man with six fingers and six toes, 666 all over the place?

You can't even play, this little piggy went to the market and it turned out right. Everything's messed up. stuff. He says, wow, 24 in number. He also was born to the giant. When he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shema, David's brother, in other words, he was the nephew of David. He ran out and slew him, killed him. These four were born to the giant in Gath and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. I won't preach long this morning, but I do, I do believe I have a message for you today. The Bible has a lot to say about giants. It's very interesting. The book of Amos chapter two, it talks about the Amorites who many believe were giants. And many theologians believe because the scripture says they were as tall as cedars and strong as Oaks. And then in Deuteronomy chapter two, the Bible describes giants from the Imans, a tribe or a group of people who produced giants. The scripture said, it says in that same chapter of Deuteronomy to the Zamzumans produced a lion of giants. These are particular areas where these people were, and there was something going on there that caused giants to be in those territories. And then in Genesis six and verse four, we have the Nephilims, according to the scriptures, they were giants. And there's been a lot of talk about that online and stuff about this, this race of giants and where they came from and, and how in the world, if the Bible says they were there and they were giants, they were giants. In Deuteronomy chapter three, it talks about the King of Bashan, whose name was Og, and it says that he had a bed that was 13 and a half feet long. We know that Goliath of Gath was nine and a half feet, give or take a little, nine and a half feet tall, according to what we know and see in scriptures. Still, there are giants today that have

spiritually, that have territories in the unseen world. I'm not getting weird or strange, but you can go into some cities and you can know the history, though there's been a giant principality. The Bible said, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but principalities and powers in high places. And they're giant spirits. You go to Vegas, there's a giant spirit. You go to New York, you go to LA, you go, you go to Atlanta. There, there are absolutely principalities and powers that are giants. There are certain characteristics about giants that all of them had these things in common. Number one, giants are big. They are large, extra large. They are massive. And that is designed to bring intimidation. They were large in the Bible. Every one of them, a 13 foot bed, that is a large person. They occupy big space. Secondly, giants are loud. The Bible tells the story in second Samuel about Goliath and how that every morning and every evening, twice every day for 40 days, he would get up and with his mouth loudly defy the army of Israel and blaspheme God and say, send me a man to fight. And if I win, you serve us. If he wins, we will serve that our people will serve you. And he did this morning and evening. He did it day after day. And the Bible said with a loud voice, this giant would scream these threats of intimidation, the chatter, the loudness. Satan is the accuser of the brethren. The Bible said that, that, that, that every morning Israel would wake up to the voice of that giant. And this is how the enemy does it. He finds a little inroad. You get a problem in your life. And the first thing you hear when you wake up, he'll, he'll be chattering and talking trash. And it's going to be awful today. It's going to get worse. Things are going to be terrible. And every night when

he would go, they would go to bed. They would hear Goliath walk out into that Valley where the army of Israel was on the other side. And they would hear his voice laughing and mocking and making fun. I'm going to feed you. I'm going to do this to your family. I'm going to kill your children. I'm gonna attack, I'm gonna burn your houses down, your farms down. And they would hear it every morning, every night, waking up to the voices of defeat. And some of you are listening to me today and you're facing spiritual giants. And that voice is loud and it's saying, you're not gonna ever break that addiction. You're never gonna get free. You're never gonna see a happy family. You're never gonna see the blessing of God. And you hear it every morning and you hear it every evening when you go to bed. And you may be facing a health problem. You may be facing a financial crisis. You may be facing something with one of your children and it feels so overwhelming. It's a giant and it's come suddenly and it's come to kill, steal and destroy. But I want you to know that the enemy's voice is loud and it's intimidating. But you have to remember something about God. He is a God who knows how to deal with giants. God has not given us a spirit of fear. Do you believe that?

He has not given us a spirit of fear. Listen to this. Giants are big, giants are loud and giants have powerful weapons. It's amazing. Every time the scripture paints a picture in different places in the Bible of a giant, it goes into details of what weapons they have. It talks about Goliath and he had a shield of brass. It talks about his armament and how that he had a coat of nails. It talks about how he had a spear and he had a shield that another man, an armor bearer had to carry for him. He had a massive sword, the scripture said. But I've come to remind you this morning that Isaiah 54 and 17 said, no weapon, no weapon. Formed against you shall prosper. Every tongue that rises up thou shalt condemn for this is the heritage of the Lord and our righteousness is of him, saith the Lord. No weapon, I don't care how big it is. I don't care how mighty it is. You've forgotten who is mighty and who is strong and who is able. It's not you, but it's the God in you. And he says, don't be afraid of that. You see, the Bible said in Ephesians six, our weapons are not carnal, but they are mighty through God

to the pulling down of strongholds. So when the giants begin to emerge and when the giants come with great fear and panic and anxiety, 2 Timothy 1 and seven says, God has not given us a spirit of fear, but a power and of love and of a sound mind. Even when I'm looking at something that can kill me, I can have a sound mind. I can have a spirit of faith that overcomes the spirit of fear. And I say, I walk by faith, not by what I see. It didn't matter how tall David was. It didn't matter because he's not fighting on his own. The one inside of him is the giant slayer. And it's not man against giant. It's the giant in him against the giant out there. I'm telling you that we have supernatural help and that help is in the Lord. I love the fact that God never used giants in the kingdom of God. There's not one giant in this Bible that God raised up. I know that Saul was a head and shoulders above every other man, but the Bible said on the day that he should be fighting Goliath, he was afraid and trembling in his tent. But here comes this little guy named David and he doesn't look like he's been working out in the gym necessarily, but you gotta watch those little wiry guys, amen.

He knew how to handle a line. He got one in a choke out one time. He killed a bear and he said, I'll take you, you come to me with a sword and a shield, but I come in the name of the Lord most high. He had a name and he knew how to use that name. Just like those giants came from certain territories. It's so amazing that giant killers in the Bible came from the same specific certain areas where the atmosphere of that city and that place created giant killers. It was something about these certain, can I call them spiritual hot spots, that it was, it's more than coincidence that four came out of Bethlehem. David and then three others came out of Bethlehem and every time you read of giant killers in the Bible after that point, they're coming out of just a few places where the atmosphere was right to produce giant killers. But if you want to know about Bethlehem and how and why the atmosphere was right for producing giant killers, read the book of Ruth. It's four chapters, but it's about and centered on the city of Bethlehem. Naomi takes Ruth, a Moabite, and goes back to Bethlehem. She's a type of a backslider and she comes back to the house of bread and she brings a Moabite girl, which means the Jews would have nothing to do with her normally, but notice the atmosphere of this city called Bethlehem. The Bible said that when Ruth went out into the field to get the free food that was left over, they were to leave the corners unharvested so that the poor people could put enough food in her bag to have a meal. And she was by happenchance, the Bible said, in a man's field by the name of Boaz. And she's picking it up and Boaz sees her. She doesn't know that he's watching and he turns to the reapers in Ruth chapter 2. Now listen to the language of Bethlehem, and I'm making a point here, what we say and speak in our homes to one another and to our families, the language of Bethlehem is pretty powerful and unusual. Notice what was

said in in Ruth chapter 2. He says to the reapers, the Lord be with you. Now I've never gone just out in the community, and this is an employer talking to his employees right here. The Lord be with you. Isn't that encouraging? The Lord be with you. The Lord be. And notice how they reply. The Lord bless you. There's something about us speaking and how we talk to one another and believe in one another and encourage one another that produces an atmosphere that causes giant killers to come up. We have too much negativity. We have too much going on in our lives. We need to start saying, the Lord be with you. The Lord bless you. Well guess what? There was one more, there was one more giant killer that would come out of Bethlehem. Micah chapter 5 puts it like this in a prophecy. Thousands of years before Christ was born in Bethlehem, but thou Bethlehem Ephrathah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, say you're not a giant, it doesn't look like nothing good can come out of there, yet out of thee shall come forth unto me. That is to be ruler in Israel who's going forth, have been from old from everlasting. Something's going to be born in Bethlehem. Matthew chapter 2 and the Bible says clearly that that in the genealogy of Jesus, here's how it goes. So Boaz married Ruth and produced a child named Obed. You never heard of him, but Obed had a wife and they had a son and his name was Jesse. You might have heard him, but don't don't panic if you haven't. Because Jesse and his wife had a son and his name was David. And from the house of David was the ultimate giant killer born out of Bethlehem. Because when he went to the cross, when he shed his blood on that cross, he cut, it's called the place of the skull, he cut the devil's head off. The body's still wiggling, but he has defeated, he defeated the giant of sin, he He defeated the giant of death. He defeated the giant of addiction. He defeated the giant of being lost in your sins. When He rose from the dead, death, hell, and the grave were conquered by the giant killer named Jesus. He says, and whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, I'll come running to you. I'll save you.

And if you've got a giant of addiction, I'll give you the grace to take it down. And if you've got a past, I'll conquer it. My blood is more powerful. And I'll use you for my glory. I'll make you famous in praise for what God has brought you through to where you are and where you will be. You will not believe it. And people will talk about the change that has happened in you. You'll become famous in the kingdom. He'll bless you. He'll be with you. And He'll use you for His glory. Stand to your feet, please, all over the room. Every head bowed, every eye closed. Right where you're standing, if you would say, Pastor Jensen, it's me. I need to get right with God this morning. I want to be washed. I want to be cleansed. I want the giant of shame, the giant of condemnation, the giant of guilt. I want it to come down. And it can this morning. This morning. You can leave here knowing I don't have to fear. I don't have to be afraid. I have a name. Just like David had a name. And it defeats the giant, the name of Jesus. Pastor, pray for me. I need to get right with God this morning. And if that's you, boldly lift your hand right where you're standing. I'm going to pray for you. Hands all over this room. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Up in the balcony, raise them high and unashamed. High and unashamed. Every one of you that have your hand raised, slip out of the seat where you're standing. I know I'm old school. And I don't know that anybody will do this when I'm dead and gone. But I'm going to do it as long as I'm alive. Because I believe when you step out a miracle, you're moving in the direction of a miracle.

They alter. Come, come, come. If you raise that hand, come. Chains will break as you come. Come on. I see giant killers walking down the aisle. I see giant killers. I see people God's going to bless. I see people God's going to be with. I see people God's going to make famous for the change and the glory. You won't be remembered as a Moabite. You'll be remembered in the lineage of Jesus Christ. Come now. This is your moment. This is your honor call. This is your change. This is when things forever change for you. Come. Come. God bless you, son. Come on. God bless you, ma'am. Come on. God bless you, ma'am. Come on. God bless you, sir. Takes a man to do that. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Anyone else? Anyone else? God bless you. Anyone else? Anyone else? Bless you. Pray this prayer, everybody. Lift your hands. He said if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth, you shall be saved. You shall be cleansed. You shall be restored. So right now, pray. Lord Jesus, I receive you as my Savior, as my Lord. I thank you that you never stop loving me. And you want me to know that you are with me. That you have blessed me.

There will be the old me and the new me because of Calvary. And Lord, I'll give you all the praise in Jesus' name. Now let's shout a praise of triumph unto God.