Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, June 9th.

Privilege and opportunity at the beginning of your life don't always guarantee a strong finish.

Let's learn to identify common pitfalls to true success to keep you from getting knocked off track.

If you'll turn the first Samuel and Saul was one of those men who had a tremendously promising beginning,

but who ended up with a tragic end.

Now here is a man who has the responsibility of being the first king in the nation of Israel.

Secondly, he has the privilege of having the support of the people.

In fact, after one of the battles, the people wanted to kill, the few people who were in opposition to Saul.

They said, now where are these folks who don't want Saul to be king?

They want to take care of him and Saul said, no.

Nobody is going to be put to death today because the Lord has brought this salvation.

So I want us to begin tonight in the 13th chapter.

And if you'll notice the last verse of chapter 12 verse 25 says,

but if you shall do wickedly, you shall be consumed both you and your king.

We said last week that here is a man who was standing at the pinnacle as the king of the nation of Israel,

everything going for him, but here is a man who tumbled all the way to the pits and ended up not in the pinnacle place of king,

but in the poverty, in the lowest area of his life, the lowest time of his life,

ending up like many people end up today.

We're talking about a man who knew God.

Saul believed in God, Saul trusted God.

So here is a man who believed God, who honored God, who served God, who obeyed God.

But something happened in his life and what I want us to do is I want us to trace the events in the life of Saul.

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