Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Quick choices are often motivated by emotion.

Today, you'll find encouragement to pray and think first, as the study of Second Samuel

highlights the disastrous decision King David made in a moment of weakness.

If you'll turn to Second Samuel chapter 11, 2nd Samuel

chapter 11, and tonight we're coming to one of the two passages that most people think about

when they think about David, one's the Goliath and the other is Beth Sheba. So I want us to read the first five

verses and I want to give you a little background and then I want to talk about a moment of weakness.

So I want you to get a pencil and a piece of paper and a good-sized piece of paper tonight

because I believe the Lord will say something to you if you allow him that will make a difference

in your life and may protect you from some

difficulty a heartache, a hardship of trial, misfortune embarrassment, something every father ought to

be able to share with their sons and daughters, at least to some degree. So a moment of weakness.

Chapter 11, verse 1, it came to pass after the year was expired at the time when kings go forth to battle

that david sent joab that's his commanding general now and his servants with him and all

israel and they destroy the children of ammon and besiege rabba but david tarried still at jerusalem

and it came to pass in an evening tide,

now that was a little late on in the afternoon,

that David arose from off his bed,

walked upon the roof of the king's house,

and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself.

And the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and inquired after the

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