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

Privilege and promise at the start of life don't guarantee a faithful finish.

Join us in First Samuel as we learn from Israel's first king and discover how to finish well.

If you'll turn to 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 of 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's going to be put to death today because the Lord hath brought this salvation so I want us to begin tonight in the 13th chapter and if you

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 and we said last week that here is a man who had, who was standing at the

pinnacle as the king of the nation of Israel, everything going for him, but here's the 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's the 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.

So we're going through all the rest of the book of 1st Samuel here, just to trace these events.

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