Pastor and international Bible teacher, Dr. Michael Youssef, offering a glimpse of what's ahead for this episode of leading the way.

When we don't want to hear the truth, we will criticize and pass the blame.

When the heart is hardened and when the neck is stiffened, no sermon, no preacher, no

friend, no church will be able to get through until you're ready to respond to the convicting

of the spirit of God, until you're ready to be bent by the spirit of God, until you're ready to be broken by the

spirit of God.

You've probably heard about what happened with David and Bathsheba.

In summary, the King of Israel, that's David, sleeps with the wife, that's Bathsheba, of one

of his senior military leaders.

Attempting to hide his indiscretion, David deploys that faithful soldier right to the front

lines of battle, where he's killed.

Hello, welcome to leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef.

Today, a closer look at what led David to dishonor God, to kill a faithful friend.

This story and the consequences you watch him experience may help you avoid sin traps in your own life.

And it's part of Dr. Youssef's series called David, Portrait of a Champion.

So listen along with me as Dr. Michael Youssef begins

this leading the way. The Roman Emperor Arcades and his wife have experienced such

hatred, such bitterness, such anger toward John Chrysostom. John was the bishop of Constantin Ebel at the time.

He probably was one of the godliest man, if not the godliest man, of his time. And the anger was

continuously to bubble in the heart of the emperor until one day he brought together all of his

advisors and he said what can I do to destroy this man and the advisors all got together and they

all came up with different types of ways by which they can destroy John Chrysostom one said banish him

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