Dutch Sheets: The Power of Returning to Covenant

Dutch Sheets: The Power of Returning to Covenant
Dutch speaks at Hope Fellowship, Brandon, MS on 12/10/2022
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And this group is not small anymore.
It is a growing remnant.
And there are probably more in other countries
than here in America.
And in fact, the "Give Him 15"
which is read by and listened to
by quite a few people in this country,
but not nearly as many people here has listened to it,
now, wait a minute,
pretty much everything I write and pray about is,
it's regarding America.
But there are more people in other nations
that read it and listen to it every day
than do here in America!
There are several hundred thousand here,
there are several million around the world!
And many of the,
several of the countries where this takes place,
they don't watch it.
They translate it into their language and just read it.
And we say, "Why do you do that?"
"Because the principles," they said, "are the same,
and also because we know if America falls,
it's all over for all of us."
I know during the election cycle in 2020,
there were five, six million Chinese every day
reading and praying the "Give Him 15's" with us.
And when we asked them why,
and we know this for a fact
because we talked to the people who translated it
and disseminated it into China, the underground church.
And they said, "Because if America falls
there's no hope for the rest of us."
There is a growing army around the world.
But now at this time,
so when they came to David, it was like,
"Here's your army, David."
I mean, just literally a bunch of misfits.
When I put myself in his position,
he's living in a cave, [2 Samuel 23]
his soldiers now that are following him are this,
this crew of bitter, angry, poor,
discontented people,
I think, what must he have thought?
He's been anointed to be king.
How hard would it be to hold onto that word?
So now Saul is pursuing him
because Saul is demonized by now
and he wants to kill David.
So David goes and inquires of a prophet,
and the prophet says something interesting to David.
He says, "First thing you need to know
is you need you need to go back to Judah."
Judah was David's tribe and inheritance.
Going back to Judah would picture going back to his roots.
Going back to covenant.
See, when he fought Goliath a few chapters before this,
the first two verses of the chapter
are just geographical pictures of the region
where Goliath had challenged them
and where the battlefield was located.
And for 30, 40 years of my life,
I read over those two verses just to get to the good stuff.
The giants and the challenge and the fighting
and David running to the enemy and cutting the head off.
But some of that geography's important.
And the first two verses tell us
Goliath was doing this in Judah,
which is David's tribe,
David's inheritance, David's land.
Goliath was trying to take his land.
From the very beginning of the chapter
God is establishing that
"if you believe what I said
"to your great, great, great grandfather,
"this battle's over.
"Because this giant can say he's taking it back or he's taking it,
but I've already promised it and given it to Judah.
And you're part of Judah.
So if you'll lay hold of that promise
and stand on that, it's over."
Even the weapon that David used, the sling,
actually the concept of the sling
comes from the word "Judah".
Because "Judah" does not mean praise as most people think.
"Judah" means to extend the hand.
And the reason it became a word for praise
is because what do we do when we praise?
We extend the hand.
But since it means extend the hand,
it also, because see, Hebrew is a picture language.
It paints a picture and you apply that picture
to different contexts and circumstances,
then you discern from that what it means.
So in a worship service,
Judah extending the hand means praise.
But on the battlefield,
the word "Judah" means one who throws a stone!
Why, because
when you throw the stone, you extend the hand.
So David has decided years before this,
"What weapon am I going to be proficient with?"
He's out on the mountainside watching the sheep.
Maybe he's got a bow, probably has a spear,
maybe he's got some stones.
But this is the way I see it.
David begins to meditate on his inheritance, his lineage,
his covenant through Judah.
And he says, "Wait a minute,
I'm from the tribe that throws stones.
I know what I should become proficient at."
The sling.
But the prophetic picture that God wants us to see from that
is in order to overcome his enemies,
he tapped into his spiritual DNA.
His roots.
"This is who God has made me.
This is what God has given me.
This is my land.
You're standing on my property
that God said belonged to my tribe.