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1. What are you afraid of?

ILLUS – Confronted by an unknown fear

2. Fear is a powerful weapon in Satan’s arsenal.
3. Is it possible to conquer our fears? If so, how?
4. During our study we will look at a familiar passage, the epic battle between David and Goliath.
5. But we will not study David’s defeat of Goliath.
6. Rather, we will look at David’s example before he ever put a single stone into his sling to discover important biblical principles to strengthen our hearts when giant fears attack us, to Let Faith Arise.

1 Samuel 17:31-40

Context
1. When we come to 1 Samuel 17, it is important to note that God had rejected Israel’s first king, Saul, because he failed to obey God’s commands through the prophet Samuel.
2. God searched Israel for a new king and found “a man after His own heart,” his name was David.
3. By the time we read 1 Samuel 17, the prophet Samuel had already anointed David as king.
4. But David did not begin his reign immediately because David and Israel needed time for divine preparation.
5. God allowed Saul to remain on the throne to reveal that:
a. Saul was disqualified and rejected as Israel’s king.
b. David was qualified and anointed to be the next king.
6. At this point, the Philistines have barged into Judah, occupied Israel’s land, and added an “intimidation factor” by sending out their champion warrior, Goliath, with a “winner-takes-all” challenge. Here is the challenge:
a. If Goliath defeated Israel’s warrior, then Israel would serve the Philistines.
b. If Israel’s warrior defeated Goliath, then the Philistines would serve Israel.
7. Day and night, for 40 days, Goliath taunted Israel’s army with the challenge. But the army of Israel retreated in fear each time, no one took the challenge.
8. Then David arrived at Israel’s camp, and his heart was stirred when he heard Goliath mock the God of Israel and taunt men of Israel. Something had to be done.

Transition – The first biblical principle for letting faith arise when facing your fear requires a choice, and that choice is:

I. Let Not Your Heart Fail (31-37)

A. God will not fail you (31-32)
1. When David heard Goliath’s taunts and
saw the fear in the hearts of Israel’s soldiers, something stirred within him, a righteous indignation. David asked. . . (26)
a. Who will defend God’s honor?
b. Who will remove this reproach from Israel?
2. David’s words were told to King Saul because it was the first-time words filled with faith had been spoken in Israel’s camp in 40 days. (31)
3. Keep in mind that David was a teenager when he met Saul and declared, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.” (32)
4. Why was David so bold, so confident?
5. David trusted God. David knew that God never fails.
6. Simply put, David had faith in God.
a. Faith was more than just another word in David’s vocabulary.
b. David’s faith was real, living, and active.
7. David viewed life and the trials that life brought through the eyes of faith.
a. David saw the problem, but he also knew the answer, his God.
b. David did not pick a fight but when the challenge came, he answered the call because he knew God was for him and not against him.

Transition – This is how David lived his life. Listen to his last words to Solomon, his son.

1 Chronicles 28:20, Then David said to his son Solomon, “Be strong and courageous, and act; do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you until all the work for the service of the house of the Lord is finished.”

APPL – When trials come, does your heart fail?

ILLUS – Waiting to leave Nairobi after the Kenyan president closed the country.

• Let not your heart fail. God will not fail you.
• Let Faith Arise.

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