2 Samuel 21:15-22 (CLICK HERE FOR BIBLE VERSES)
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 2 Samuel 21:15-22. As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first. See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below. Let’s go!
2 Samuel 21:15-22 (NIV)
15 Once again there was a battle between the Philistines and Israel. David went down with his men to fight against the Philistines, and he became exhausted.
16 And Ishbi-Benob, one of the descendants of Rapha, whose bronze spearhead weighed three hundred shekels and who was armed with a new [sword], said he would kill David.
17 But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to David’s rescue; he struck the Philistine down and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, saying, “Never again will you go out with us to battle, so that the lamp of Israel will not be extinguished.”
18 In the course of time, there was another battle with the Philistines, at Gob. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, one of the descendants of Rapha.
19 In another battle with the Philistines at Gob, Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver’s rod.
20 In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot–twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha.
21 When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of Shimeah, David’s brother, killed him.
22 These four were descendants of Rapha in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his men.
On verses 15-22: For decades David was known as Israel’s giant killer. He was the only one who could defeat the Philistine giant Goliath. Yet in a battle against the Philistines decades later, David is almost killed by a giant of a man called Ishbi-Benob (v15-16).
From that time forward, David would no longer go out to fight with Israel’s armies. Yet in David’s place a number of David’s men would rise up and become giant killers in their own right. These brave warriors would defeat various descendants of Rapha, men who were known for being much larger, like giants.
So Abishai kills Ishbi-Benob (v17). Sibbecai the Hushathite kills Saph (v18). Elhanan kills another giant man named Goliath (v19). Jonathan, David’s nephew, kills an unnamed giant with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot (v20-21).
What can we learn from this? Before David, no Israelite dared to face a giant. But when David faced and killed Goliath, it gave David’s men the faith and the courage to fight and kill giants too.
Likewise, before Jesus, no one could conquer man’s two giant problems: sin and death. But because Jesus faced and defeated these two giants through his death on the cross and his resurrection from the grave, we have the ability as sons and daughters of God in Christ to defeat giants too.
Is there a giant problem in your path today? A secret struggle you cannot shake? An uncertainty in your future? A crisis in your home? Remember this: Just as Jesus Christ killed giants, you and I were made to be giant killers as well.
If Christ could defeat our two most gigantic problems, then there is no problem too big that you cannot conquer in Christ Jesus.
Christ’s victory has paved the way so that you and I can be giant killers too, conquering every giant problem that is in our way. For the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives in Christian.
Lord Jesus, You are the ultimate giant killer. Thank You that You live in me, and therefore I have the DNA of a giant killer in me too. I proclaim that nothing is too difficult for me and that giants will fall at my feet in Jesus’ name, AMEN!
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