Good morning, church. Welcome. When you preach the Bible, the whole Bible and nothing about the Bible. So help me, God, you You cover all sorts of parts of the Bible you’ve never heard of. Today is one of those parts. Very obscure moment in your Bible on obscured passage. You’ve never heard of the story of David and Goliath. You’ve never heard of this story before, but that’s fine. I will try to unpack and talk you through that section of the Bible with you, if that’s all right. But just all seriously, um, today will be good. I am, uh I’m looking forward to this, but let’s let’s pray. Well, let’s get in. This should be It should be encouraging to me, at least. Let’s pray. Lord, I thank you for today. I thank you for thank you, Jesus for your church and what you’re doing in your church and how you’re leading and growing and building your church. Ask that you just really give us wisdom as we look at your word. Today I prayed. You just really instruct us as a congregation, I prayed You just really help our collective spirits to being printed by this Chapter 17. The first Samuel, I ask that you were just really instruct our soul. Um, in all these topics we’re looking at today, I thank you that whatever is worthwhile, you will redeem and you’ll drive it home to the heart, to your church. Whatever is worthless. Separate. Just help it toe run off their mind. And they would not focus on Lord, we commit this time to you in Jesus name. Amen. All right, so this matters. This matters in all seriousness to our lives. This story does matter of David and life if you’re Christian or not, if you’ve been around Christianity a long time or this is like a nostalgic, you know, felt bored Sunday school memory. We’re going thio as a young boy, young girl, or if this is, uh, some completely foreign story to you. Um, if some of you might think it’s a legend, a myth tale, a fable. But for most. But this story happened, you could go to this place and go to this valley and see where the armies were in camps on either side of this valley one. But regardless of before we get to the story, I familiarity sets you up for disadvantage. You tend to overlook things. You’ve heard it before. Like I know where he’s going. Jesus, manger. No room in the end, you just kind of you go on autopilot. So I’m gonna try toe, not summarize the way I normally would do It passes before we jump into it. I’m gonna just try toe share this story with you this morning with some fresh eyes, and I’m gonna attempt to make it add some color to it and make it fun for you. Aziz, we learn what God is teaching the church. But I know it’s a familiar to many of you, but I think we can We can work through that. I’m going to get this summer because it can kind of take the tension that the story builds. It takes the wonder and the shocking on the story. It just kind of e think it’ll be good. I so first Samuel 17 as we look at this, eso won. This is setting in a place you can go to your YouTube it and look at videos with this valley that we’re talking about. In the first three verses of first Samuel, 17 but on one hill about as tall as those oak trees. Branches is, uh, one part of this mountain little little Foothill range, and the other side of the valley is another as tall as those oak trees that you drive out of when you leave the parking lot. There’s these two mountain ravine mountain ravine foothill things where the Army’s encamped and there’s a strategic location that they’re on. It’s a very fertile valley in a very agricultural based economy that just there’s a lot of water flowing in this area with that creek, and they’re just natural water rainfall they had. But geography wise, there’s a very strategic location because it was like a choke point for trade. Trade would go in and out of this v…