May 21
You are your own worst enemy.
Underneath and behind the giants of fear, rejection, comfort, addiction, and anger lies the giant of self. Louie Giglio inspires us in this message as we learn how just like Goliath must fall, self must fall.
Scripture References
1.In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.2.One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3.and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4.Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5.The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”6.So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent him to David. 7.When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. 8.Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. 9.But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house.10.David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a military campaign? Why didn’t you go home?”11.Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents,11:11 Or staying at Sukkoth and my commander Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!”12.Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13.At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home.14.In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15.In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”16.So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. 17.When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David’s army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.18.Joab sent David a full account of the battle. 19.He instructed the messenger: “When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle, 20.the king’s anger may flare up, and he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall? 21.Who killed Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth11:21 Also known as Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon)? Didn’t a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then say to him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.’ ”22.The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say. 23.The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance of the city gate. 24.Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”25.David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.’ Say this to encourage Joab.”26.When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. 27.After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the Lord.
34.Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35.For whoever wants to save their life8:35 The Greek word means either life or soul; also in verses 36 and 37. will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36.What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37.Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 38.If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
15.Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father2:15 Or world, the Father’s love is not in them. 16.For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17.The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.