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David wasn't afraid of Goliath because he recognized that God was on their side.

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This young teenager trusted in God.

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Why?

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What was different about David than King Saul?

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What was different about David than his older brothers?

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What was different about David than every other Israelite soldier?

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In this episode we're going to look at the life of David from the Old Testament of the

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Bible.

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And what's really cool about the Bible is it has guidance for us as we interact with

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youth today or as we navigate life as a youth.

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The Bible has great examples of young people doing extraordinary things.

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So the example we're going to look at today is from the Old Testament book of 1 Samuel

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chapter 17.

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And this is the famous biblical story of young David defeating the Philistine giant named

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Goliath.

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But I want to focus on a different aspect of this story and look at David and his identity

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and the courageous stand he took.

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Not against Goliath, but the stand he first took against his brothers, the Israelite army

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and King Saul.

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And now we know that young David was a teenager, he was the youngest son of Jesse, he had seven

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older brothers, and at this time in his life he was not a part of the Israelite army.

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Probably because of his age as a teenager, but also his duties at home.

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And the Israelites were in the valley of Elah fighting against the Philistine army.

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And the Philistines had a scary champion named Goliath, who was a giant, he was about nine

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feet tall, his armor weighed about 200 pounds, and this guy was a scary enemy.

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For 40 days, Goliath challenged the Israelite army, and not a single person went out to

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fight Goliath.

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For 40 days.

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Now David's father Jesse, his three oldest sons, Jesse's three oldest sons, David's older

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brothers, were a part of the Israelite army.

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They were in the valley of Elah, they were a part of the army fighting the Philistines.

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So Jesse sent David to the battlefield to check on his brothers and to bring them food.

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And so David went.

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He found someone else to watch his sheep, which was his duty at home, and he went with

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the supplies given to him by his father to check on his brothers.

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And what I love about this story is talk about God's timing.

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So right when David rolls into camp, Goliath is out there challenging the Israelites again,

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right, that he's been doing for 40 days.

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And that's right when David rolled into camp.

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So we heard Goliath challenging the Israelites.

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And right away, David starts asking questions.

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And he walks into camp and the men of the Israelite army, King Saul, are terrified.

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They've been terrified for over a month, they're terrified.

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So let's read David's response in 1 Samuel 17, verses 26 and 27.

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Goes like this.

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And David said to the men who stood by him, what shall be done for the man who kills the

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Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel?

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For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living

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God?

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And the people answered him in the same way.

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So shall be done to the man who kills him.

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Who should defy the armies of the living God is what young teenager David said to the Israelite

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army.

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So before David fought Goliath and stood up to this nine foot tall giant, he first had

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to speak boldly to the Israelite army, to his older brothers, and to the king of Israel,

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King Saul.

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And that did not go well.

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If you keep reading, one of David's brothers had a huge issue with David being there and

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David asking that question, like, hey, what happens if somebody defeats Goliath?

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His brother started attacking David's heart.

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Started attacking David's heart and saying, you're just here for yourself.

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You're just here for your own glory.

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Why are you even here?

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Who's watching your sheep?

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Someone who was tearing him apart, someone in his own family.

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But David didn't let that bother him.

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He brushed it off.

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You see, David was the only person there who understood something.

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He was the only person in that whole camp who remembered who was on the Israelites side.

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He said, who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living

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God?

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And David remembered that while, yes, the Philistines had a giant, the Israelites had

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something better.

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The Israelites had the living God, the creator of the universe, who's a lot bigger than a

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nine foot tall giant.

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David understood maybe better than anyone, certainly better than anyone in the Valley

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of Elah that day.

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He understood the fear of the Lord.

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David wasn't afraid of Goliath.

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as he recognized that God was on their side.

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This young teenager trusted in God.

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Why?

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What was different about David than King Saul?

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What was different about David than his older brothers?

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What was different about David

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than every other Israelite soldier that day?

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Two things.

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One, David was walking closely with the Lord.

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He knew his creator.

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He spent time with his creator.

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Read the Psalms.

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The majority of the Psalms were written by David.

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They show of an intimacy that he had with God.

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He had trusted in God before.

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This wasn't the first time.

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God had delivered him from bears and from lions.

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He trusted in God.

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He was walking closely with him.

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And because of that relationship,

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he wasn't worried about this new challenge.

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And maybe he was.

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Maybe he was a little worried about the giant Goliath,

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but he knew what he had to do.

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He had to take a stand

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because he knew that his God was bigger than Goliath

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and that Goliath was insulting his God.

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He was walking closely with the Lord.

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And reason number two is David knew his own identity.

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He knew that he was a child of God.

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He knew who he belonged to

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and that he can have confidence in not himself,

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but in God, have confidence in how God saw him.

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And God saw him as his beloved child.

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And so David knew his identity,

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his identity was grounded in that,

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in being a child of God.

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And like I discussed a little bit in the previous episode,

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identity is something that's important.

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We're all gonna have to figure it out

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and come to an understanding at some point

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of who we truly are.

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And for some people, it takes a while.

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For others, it doesn't.

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David had it figured out pretty early on.

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But the youth and young people in Generation Z

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are trying to figure out their identity,

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trying to answer that question of who am I?

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And if you're a youth in Generation Z, here it is.

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Your identity is this.

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You are a child of God.

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You are a child of the creator of the universe.

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And that's it.

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And yeah, you're gonna try to navigate your future

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as you finish high school

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and you're gonna figure out a career path

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and what you wanna do with your life

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and who you're gonna be.

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And you should be asking yourself those questions

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and striving for what's next.

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And you should be setting goals.

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But all of that should operate under the context

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of who you are first.

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And who you are first is a child of the living God.

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And if you understand that,

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then it doesn't matter so much who you are

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because if you put your identity in your career

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or you put your identity in being an athlete

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or you put your identity in something else,

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what happens if that thing goes away?

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It'll feel like a part of you died.

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It'll be a hard thing to navigate.

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But if your identity is first grounded

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in being a child of God,

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then it doesn't matter as much what you're doing

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because the who is more important.

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Who you are is more important than what you do.

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So remember that.

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You are a child of God.

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If you know a youth in Generation Z,

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give them that message today.

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Maybe tell them for the first time

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or remind them of their identity in being a child of God.

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And encourage them to operate under that knowledge

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of who I am, who they are as a child of the living God.

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And remind them of how their God sees them,

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how their God views them, how their God values them.

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And here's the cool thing.

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Just like David did,

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young people today can accomplish extraordinary things.

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They can.

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And if you're a young person today

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and you've been told otherwise, that's not true.

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You can do extraordinary things.

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Paul tells Timothy in 1 Timothy 4,

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don't let people look down on you because you are young.

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Paul saw something in young Timothy who was leading a church

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that maybe other people around him didn't see.

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God can use young people in extraordinary ways

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if they're walking closely with the Lord

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and if they know who they are and how God sees them.

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You see, age doesn't matter.

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Put God on the throne of your life,

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trust him, and allow him to lead you

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and watch what happens.

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Remember who you are as a child of the living God,

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just like David did.

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And don't be afraid to boldly take a stand

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when you feel led.

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Because maybe the people around you,

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even the older people around you, are missing something.

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Maybe they're missing the importance of the situation.

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And David caught something that other people didn't.

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And he was willing to boldly take a stand

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because of his relationship with the Lord

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and because he knew who he was.

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Remember that today.

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You are God's child.

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He loves you, he cares about you,

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and he wants to know you and he wants to use you

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to do extraordinary things, just like David did.

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Next episode we're gonna look at another example like we did with with King David this morning.

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We'll look at another biblical example and talk about how we can use that example to help the youth in our lives

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or if we are a youth to navigate life today, just like someone in the Bible did.