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

Some people begin life with every advantage, yet still and in tragic failure.

Today, we'll meet one of those people in First Samuel, Chapter 9.

If you'll turn to First Samuel, and what I want to talk about this evening is the kind of tragedy that happens in the

lives of people who have a very very delightful beginning in their life and end up the other way so what i

want to talk about the person i want to talk about is saul and there are two facets to his life and i think

it's something that all of us need to examine

in our own life. And then also every father needs to think about in the life of his children.

So chapter 9, verse 1. There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish. It tells all about him.

Verse 2 says, and he had a son whose name was Saul, a choice young man, a goodly, and there was not among the children of Israel, a goodly a person than he.

From his shoulders and upward, he was higher than any of the people.

Now here's what I want you to notice.

I want you to see what can happen to a young man.

I want you to see the kind of man Saul is.

Because one of the most heartbreaking things that I've ever had to witness as a pastor is to see this.

I have seen some young men whom God is called into the ministry. I've seen some young men whom God has

given other vocations to, and they start out

so right. They're promising. They've got everything going for them. And it seems that everything

goes along for a while. And then overnight, it seems, a disintegration process begins to set in.

And as a few years go by, you look back and you ask, what in the world

could have happened to him? How could that ever have taken place in her life? How could a person

that was so promising? How could a person who had so much going for him, so much talent, so much

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