David and Goliath: Lesson Seven

The battle is the LORD's.

David told Goliath that all this assembly would know the LORD does not save with sword and spear.

1 Samuel 17:47 (KJV): And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.

He wanted all the earth to know there is a God in Israel.

1 Samuel 17:46 (KJV): This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

David was not fighting for his own name. The glory belongs to God.

Psalms 115:1 (KJV): Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.