Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, June 30th.

Quick choices are often motivated by emotion and fail to consider the long-term results.

Today, you'll find encouragement to pray and thank 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.

Second Samuel, Chapter 11.

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

think about David, one's a galaive, and the other's a bat's sheep.

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 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 or heartache, a hardship or trial,

misfortune and embarrassment, something every fall 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 the

David sent Joe Ab, that's his commanding general now, and his servants with him and all

Israel and they destroy the children of Eman and Beseech, Rabah, but David tarred still

at Jerusalem.

And it came to pass in an evening tide, and that was a little late on an afternoon, that

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